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Notes & Outlines
J. Vernon McGee
GENERAL EPISTLES James; 1 and 2 Peter; 1, 2 and 3 John; and Jude are designated as "catholic" epistles in the sense of "universal" because they are not addressed to a particular individual or church, but to the church as a whole. JAMES kjv@WRITER: James The problem of authorship is a major one. Some find at least four men by the name of James in the New Testament. At least three are clearly identified: 1. James, brother of John, son of Zebedee, called by our Lord "son of thunder" kjv@Mark:3:17). He was slain by Herod kjv@Acts:12:1-2). 2. James, son of Alphaeus, called "James the less" kjv@Mark:15:40). He is mentioned in the list of apostles, but very little is known concerning him. 3. James, the Lord's brother kjv@Matthew:13:55; kjv@Mark:6:3), in reality a half-brother according to the flesh. He became head of the church at Jerusalem kjv@Acts:15:13). This James is evidently the writer of this epistle kjv@Galatians:2:9). DATE:
This was the first book of the New Testament to be written. Some have taken the position that James wrote to combat the writings of Paul. It is obvious that this is an erroneous position, since none of Paul's epistles were in existence at the time of this writing. JAMES AND kjv@PAUL: The seeming contradiction between James and Paul can be easily explained when the message of James is considered. James takes the position, as does Paul, that we are justified by faith but that the faith which justifies produces good works. Calvin said, "Faith alone
saves, but the faith that saves is not alone." Justification is shown by works — not justified by, but for, good works. James and Paul present the two aspects of justification by faith. Paul emphasized both phases: Faith — not justified by works: Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us…. kjv@Titus:3:5) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God — not of works, lest any man should boast. kjv@Ephesians:2:8-9) Works — justified for works: …these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they who have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.… kjv@Titus:3:8) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. kjv@Ephesians:2:10) Faith is the root of salvation — works are the fruit of salvation. Faith is the cause of salvation — works are the result of salvation. KEY kjv@VERSES: But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. kjv@James:1:22) But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? kjv@James:2:20) kjv@THEME: Ethics of Christianity, not doctrine The Epistle of James has been compared to the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament. Both emphasize the practical. In both there is the learning experience for the child of God. Justification by faith is demonstrated by works. Justification by faith is poured into the test tube of:
Works — Chapters 1, 2 Words — Chapter 3 Worldliness — Chapter 4 Warning to the rich — Chapter 5 kjv@OUTLINE: I. Verification of genuine faith, Chapters 1 — 3 A. God tests faith by trials, Chapter kjv@1:1-12 (Twofold result: development of patience here, kjv@5:3; reward hereafter, kjv@5:12) B. God does not test faith with evil, Chapter kjv@1:13-21 (Evil comes from within — the flesh, kjv@5:14) C. God tests faith by the Word, not by man's words, Chapter kjv@1:22-27 (Doing, not doctrine, is the final test of faith; knowing is not enough.) D. God tests faith by attitude and action in respect of persons, Chapter kjv@2:1-13 E. God tests faith by good works, Chapter kjv@2:14-26 (Abraham is an illustration of works, kjv@5:21) F. God tests faith by the tongue, Chapter 3 ("What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth.") II. Vacuity and vapidness of worldliness, Chapter 4 (Worldliness is identified with fighting and the spirit of dissension, vv. 1, 2) III. Vexation of the rich; value of the imminent coming of Christ, Chapter 5 (The soon coming of Christ produces patience, vv. 7, 8, and prayer, vv. 13-18)
A. Riches are a care (rich warned), vv. 1-6 B. Coming of Christ is a comfort, vv. 7-12 C. Prayer of the righteous is a power, vv. 13-20 kjv@COMMENT: I. Verification of genuine faith, Chapters 1 — 3 A. God tests faith by trials, Chapter kjv@1:1-12 5:1 — "Servant" is bond slave (he was a half-brother of our Lord, according to the flesh). James does not get familiar with the Lord — notice that he uses the full name, Lord Jesus Christ. "Scattered abroad" (Greek diaspora). The Jews were scattered throughout the Roman Empire in principal cities. "Greeting" is rejoice, a warm word. kjv@5:2 — "Temptations" (KJV) are testings. The joy is the result of trials. There is a purpose in trials, they are not trivial or meaningless. The joy follows (see kjv@Hebrews:12:11). kjv@5:3 — When faith is poured into the test tube of trials, the result is patience. This is proof positive. "Acid of grief tests the coin of belief." See kjv@John:2:23-25 and kjv@6:64-66; kjv@Romans:5:3-5; kjv@Galatians:6:17; kjv@Psalms:131:2. kjv@5:4 — "Perfect" is full maturation. "Entire" is soundness, not crippled. This is the normal Christian. kjv@5:5 — If any lack wisdom in attaining to Christian normality, let him ask of God wisdom in this direction. "Liberally" is simply. "Upbraideth not" — it is "pure, simple, giving of good, without admixture of evil or bitterness" (Vincent). kjv@5:6 — He is to ask without hesitation, with bold faith. "Wave" is surge. kjv@5:7 — This is emphatic.
v. 8 — "Double-minded" is undecided. "Unstable" is confused. kjv@5:9 — "Low degree" is the poor, in contrast to the rich. "Rejoice" is glory or boast. kjv@5:10 — "Made low" is humiliation. Riches will not keep him alive or give him eternal life. kjv@5:11 — As the sun scorching the grass causes it to wither away, so the rich will fade from the earth. kjv@5:12 — The thought here is that there is a reward for the man who endures testing and is approved (tried) afterward. B. God does not test faith with evil, Chapter kjv@1:13-21 5:13 — No man is tempted with evil from God. God is incapable of being tempted with evil, and He Himself tempts no man. kjv@5:14 — A man is tempted with evil when he is trapped and hooked by his own lust (flesh). kjv@5:15 — Desires of the flesh lead to sin, and sin to death. Sin gives birth to death in an unholy union. kjv@5:16 — This is a warning. kjv@5:17 — God never sends evil. He is good and He gives good gifts for He is the Creator. There is no variation, as the laws of creation reveal. "Neither shadow of turning" means that there is no shadow cast by turning, like the dark side of the moon. kjv@5:18 — The Word of God gave birth to a son of God ( kjv@1Peter:1:23). kjv@5:19 — "Wherefore" is know ye. kjv@5:20 — The anger of man is contrary to the will and work of God. kjv@5:21 — "Filthiness" (of the flesh).
"Superfluity of naughtiness" (KJV) is abundance of wickedness. The implanted Word is a preventative against the sins of the flesh. "Save your souls" — see kjv@Romans:1:16. C. God tests faith by the Word, not by man's words, Chapter kjv@1:22-27 5:22 — "Doers" — see kjv@Matthew:7:21. The Word demands decision and action. To give only a mental assent to it is to rationalize, which leads to self-deception. kjv@5:23 — The Word reveals the natural man in reality. kjv@5:24 — To ignore the Word leads to tragedy. To ignore the x-ray that reveals a cancer leads to death. kjv@5:25 — "Looketh" means to look attentively, penetratingly. To obey the Word leads to blessing and life. kjv@5:26 — "Religious" means to go through the ritual and forms of religion. The tongue is the true index of the reality of religion. Psalm singing on Sunday and filthy stories on Monday identify a heretic. kjv@5:27 — "Pure" is the positive side. "Undefiled" is the negative side. kjv@Positive: "Visit" — contact with the sorrow of the world and problems of people. kjv@Negative: "Unspotted" — contact with the world does not mean to be implicated in the things of the world. D. God tests faith by attitude and action in respect of persons, Chapter kjv@2:1-13 5:1 — "Have" is hold — "Hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons." Don't be a spiritual snob. kjv@5:2 — "Assembly" is synagogue, meaning a coming together. The Jewish Christians evidently used the word "synagogue" even
if they did not meet in an actual synagogue building. "With a gold ring" means not a single ring, but a man loaded down with gold rings, which was an evidence of wealth. "Goodly apparel" (KJV) is fine clothing, contrasted to the clothing of a poor man. kjv@5:3 — This is discrimination made in favor of the rich. kjv@5:4 — "Are ye not then partial in yourselves?" should be, Are ye not divided in your own mind? This means that they revealed a doubt concerning their faith by these actions. kjv@5:5 — Poor by the world's standards, but heirs of the kingdom. kjv@5:6 — James is rough on the rich (see kjv@Proverbs:22). kjv@5:7 — "Worthy" is better honorable. kjv@5:8 — The law is summed up in this statement, even as the Lord Jesus Christ stated. kjv@5:9 — To discriminate between rich and poor is sin, and it makes a person a transgressor of the law. kjv@5:10 — To break the law in one point makes one a lawbreaker. kjv@5:11 — To break one law makes a lawbreaker as if he had broken any other law. kjv@5:12 — "The law of liberty" is the Word of God. kjv@5:13 — The lawbreaker will be judged without mercy, as he showed no mercy in breaking the law. E. God tests faith by good works, Chapter kjv@2:14-26 5:14 — Works follow saving faith. Calvin said, "Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone." kjv@5:15 — This is a practical illustration. kjv@5:16 — Pious clichés and Christian verbiage are not the evidence of saving faith. There must be a vocation to go along with
the vocabulary. kjv@5:17 — James is speaking about saving faith. He is not speaking of the works of the law, but of faith (see kjv@Romans:3:20). kjv@5:18 — Faith is demonstrated to a skeptical world by works. kjv@5:19 — Lip service is not the evidence of saving faith — even the demons believe. kjv@5:20 — Faith without the fruit of faith is empty and futile as far as the world is concerned. kjv@5:21 — Abraham is an illustration of saving faith. By offering his son, he demonstrated his faith. kjv@5:22 — Abraham's faith was made real. kjv@5:23 — Abraham proved he had saving faith. kjv@5:24 — Saving faith can stand the test of life. kjv@5:25 — Rahab is another example of saving faith (see kjv@Hebrews:11:31). kjv@5:26 — Faith without works is like a dead body in a morgue. F. God tests faith by the tongue, Chapter 3 kjv@5:1 — Teachers have a greater responsibility. kjv@5:2 — "Offend" (KJV) is stumble. The tongue is the index to the body. vv. 3, 4 — The horse is controlled by a bit (bridle). A ship is directed by a small helm (rudder). kjv@5:5 — The tongue is a little member, but it needs to be controlled. kjv@5:6 — The uncontrolled tongue is a forest fire, a world of iniquity, and it is set on fire of hell. (See author's booklet, "Tongues on Fire.")
vv. 7, 8 — Beasts can be tamed — but not the tongue. vv. 9, 10 — The tongue is capable of praising God or blaspheming Him. The tongue lifts man above the animal world. Man is not a jibbering ape nor an aping parrot. Man is not a mockingbird. Man can communicate with man and with God. vv. 11, 12 — Man can be two-faced, double-minded, and forkedtongued; that is, he can say good and bad. No fountain gives forth sweet and bitter water, nor does a tree bear figs and olives. kjv@5:13 — The tongue reveals genuine faith. kjv@5:14 — Strife and bitterness are not the fruits of faith. kjv@5:15 — "Knowledge is proud that she has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that she knows no more." kjv@5:16 — An uncontrolled tongue produces envying and strife, which lead to confusion and evil work. kjv@5:17 — True wisdom comes from above and produces fruit: purity, peaceableness, gentleness, etc. "Without partiality" is without doubting. kjv@5:18 — These are the fruits of faith. II. Vacuity and vapidness of worldliness, Chapter 4 kjv@5:1 — "Lusts" is sensual passion. "War in your members" — strife and turmoil are created by conflicts and overweening demands of the members of the body for satisfaction. kjv@5:2 — Selfish desires lead to war. This spirit of strife is worldliness. This is not the Christian approach. The desires should be taken in prayer to the Lord to have them satisfied, denied, or refined. kjv@5:3 — Requests are denied because they are selfish.
v. 4 — This spirit of trying to get more rather than to give more is the spirit of the world and is the enemy of God. God says, "Love not the world." kjv@5:5 — Or, it may be translated, Does the Spirit desire in an envious manner? kjv@5:6 — This is one of many references that show God's hatred of pride and His love of humility. kjv@5:7 — The child of God must first of all be subject to God. Then he is in a position to resist the devil. kjv@5:8 — The door to God is always open. But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. kjv@Psalms:73:28). There must be confession of sin. "Double-minded" — see kjv@James:1:8. kjv@5:9 — Certain conditions call for mourning, not for joy. Sin is never to be treated lightly. vv. 10-12 — This is an exceedingly practical section (see kjv@Matthew:7:1-2). "Who art thou that judgest another?" (v. 12) is Who do you think you are? kjv@5:13 — "Go to now" (KJV) is come now, a phrase for calling attention. James reminds us of the uncertainty of life. kjv@5:14 — Life is like a mist on a mountainside — uncertain, transient, and temporary. kjv@5:15 — Our lives are in the hand of God. kjv@5:16 — Man cannot boast — if he does, it is sin. kjv@5:17 — This is another definition of sin: refusing to do the right
thing. Doing nothing is sin. III. Vexation of the rich; value of the imminent coming of Christ, Chapter 5 A. Riches are a care (rich warned), vv. 1-6 kjv@5:1 — "Go to now" (KJV) is come now. "Howl" is a descriptive Greek word, ol-ol-uz-o. This is strong language. kjv@5:2 — No radical ever spoke more strongly against the rich than does this section. This is clear-cut condemnation of the rich. Money is not evil, but the love of money kjv@Isaiah:5:3 — It is not the making of money, but the accumulation and abuse of riches that is condemned. The condemnation is of the rich with a big bank account in the last days; a big bank balance, when the Lord comes, will be a sin. (See kjv@Ecclesiastes:10:19; kjv@Proverbs:11:4; kjv@Jeremiah:17:11.) kjv@5:4 — Here he condemns the way in which riches are made. kjv@5:5 — God condemns the riotous living of the rich in pleasure and in the satisfying of selfish lusts. kjv@5:6 — God is doing nothing about the injustice of the world now, but He will straighten out everything at His coming. B. Coming of Christ is a comfort, vv. 7-12 kjv@5:7 — The coming of Christ will correct the wrongs of the world (see kjv@Psalms:45:3-7; kjv@Isaiah:11:3-5; kjv@Matthew:6:19-24). Waiting for the fruit to ripen should be the attitude of the child of God. kjv@5:8 — We are to be patient in view of the coming of Christ. kjv@5:9 — Set your house in order; get your affairs straightened out before He comes and straightens them out Himself. kjv@5:10 — The prophets are an example. They suffered.
v. 11 — Job is an example of one who suffered. He doesn't seem very patient. Look at the end of his trial kjv@Job:42:1-6). kjv@5:12 — Be the kind of person who needs not to be under an oath to tell the truth. A believer's word should be as good as his bond. C. Prayer of the righteous is a power, vv. 13-20 kjv@5:13 — The afflicted are to pray. The merry are to sing psalms. kjv@5:14 — The sick are to do two things: (1) Call for the elders (officers) to pray; (2) Anoint with oil — anointing can be either ceremonial or medicinal. Here it is medicinal; oil is to be applied as medicine for healing (see kjv@Isaiah:38:21). In effect, James says to call the elders to pray and to call the doctor to apply the medicine. kjv@5:15 — Man is to use every means that God has provided, but it is the prayer of faith that will save the sick. Sins must be forgiven, that means confessed ( kjv@1John:1:9). kjv@5:16 — Confess faults to one another, but confess sins to God. vv. 17, 18 — Elijah was the same sort of human being that we are, and God heard and answered his prayer. He controlled the weather for three years. vv. 19, 20 — I used to hold the view that this referred to a child of God who has gone astray. But now I believe it is an unsaved person who is converted. His sins will be covered (see kjv@Psalms:32:1; kjv@Proverbs:10:12).
Adamson, James. The Epistle of James. Grand Rapids, kjv@Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1976. (For advanced students.) Gaebelein, Frank E. The Practical Epistle of James. Great Neck, New kjv@York: Doniger & Raughley, 1955. Gwinn, Ralph A. The Epistle of James. Grand Rapids, kjv@Michigan: Baker Book House, 1967. (Shield Bible Study Series.) Hiebert, D. Edmond. The Epistle of James. Chicago, kjv@Illinois: Moody Press, 1979. (Highly recommended.) Ironside, H. A. Notes on James and Peter. Loizeaux Brothers, n.d. Neptune, New Jersey:
Johnstone, Robert. Lectures on the Epistle of James. Grand Rapids, kjv@Michigan: Baker Book House, 1871. (Comprehensive.) Kelly, William. The Epistle of James. London, kjv@England: G. Morrish, n.d. King, Guy H. A Belief That Behaves. Fort Washington, kjv@Pennsylvania: Christian Literature Crusade, 1945. (Excellent.) Knowling, R. J. The Epistle of St. James. London, kjv@England: Methusen, 1904. Luck, G. Coleman. James, Faith in Action. Chicago, kjv@Illinois: Moody Press, 1954. (A fine, inexpensive survey.) McGee, J. Vernon. James. Nashville, kjv@Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1991. Neibor, J. Practical Exposition of James. Erie, kjv@Pennsylvania: Our Daily Walk Publishers, 1950. Robertson, A. T. Studies in the Epistle of James. Nashville, kjv@Tennessee: Broadman Press, 1915. (Excellent.) Strauss, Lehman. James, Your Brother. Neptune, New kjv@Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1956. (Very practical.) Tasker, R. V. G. The General Epistle of James. Grand Rapids, kjv@Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1957. (Tyndale Commentary Series.) Zodhiates, Spiro. The Behavior of Belief. Grand Rapids, kjv@Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1970. (Comprehensive.)
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The Colby Art Museum and the arboretum.
Professors are wonderful!Make sure when picking classes though you research them on RatemyProfessor.com
Drug Safety:
Most everyone drinks. If you don't drink you are automatically written off.
it is what it is.
Overall Experience:
Academically speaking, it is the best. I love all my professors. I have found new things that interest me. I'm learning. There is a connection between classes. Even though Colby does not offer my program or offer many career readying programs, the knowledge is vast here. Academically, I would pick it again. Culturally, socially, economically and with regards to a standard of living, I would not pick Colby College if I had to do it over again. I have made friends I know I'll keep for life and have had many amazing experiences. Had Colby's Admissions, when I visited, had a more transparent way of showing what Colby Life is, I would've been able to foresee what the cons of attending Colby were.
Campus Dining:
It could just be me, I'm used to cooking my own meals, knowing what I put in it and going grocery shopping. Also plates, cups and silverware are not always clean which just grosses me out.
Local Atmosphere:
There is not a mall. Only Walmart.
Everything is laid out. There are different options and mixtures.
Off-Campus Housing:
Waterville isn't exactly a fabulous city and is not economically stable to offer good rates.
It's Maine. Research where you are going to be living for the next four years of your life. I'm from a town in New York that is an hour from Canada, the winters in Maine are nothing compared to those however, there will be snow, there is ice and it will reach -12 degrees every once in a while. If you want sun and heat, don't go here.
Having a car is a must.
Campus Strictness:
In real life if you are underage and drinking you get in trouble by law enforcement. If you break something, you get fined and arrested. If you're an ass you get punched. Colby doesn't teach you about real life. Also Hillside is riot-proof. There is a reason for that.
Make sure you have a car with either FRONT WHEEL DRIVE or FOUR WHEEL DRIVE. GET SNOW TIRES. It isn't Boston. It's Maine. There is snow here. Realize that. You will get stuck and have a bad day if you do not have these options. Also buy a shovel and either salt or kitty litter. Keep them in your car. Start up your car when it's cold just for 10 minutes so your battery doesn't died. Keep your area clean. The plow does not help you get out, instead it will trap you into your spot.
The tuition is super high. It increases each year. This upcoming year it will be $59,700. This is not including books, transportation or day to day life. It is a lot of money. (you could buy a house with this.)Financial aid here is done by taking your EFC and subtracting it from the total cost. This amount is what Colby will give from institutional aid.
Campus Housing:
Most buildings are getting renovated. Tour guides are instructed to only show the best dorms and buildings. So, while looking walking remember that. Frat Row dorms are the best and newly renovated. Height and Hillside are seen as the worst on campus. Dorm damage is high here because people break things while drunk so there is little value. Also, there is little strictness. We have CA's which are different from RA's. Community Advisers can not get you in trouble. They are there only to make you feel better and to promote safety and community. They are like a built in best friend. Literally, you can drink with them too. THE BEST PLACES ON COLBY COLLEGE'S CAMPUS ARE:1) THE ART MUSEUM2) COLBY'S ARBORETUM
Greek Life:
There is no Greek life on college. The sport teams and clubs (theater and rugby, I'm talking about you) are the substitute for Greek life. I have heard that there is an "underground fraternity," and that they recruit based on how much your parents make. That could just be a wild rumor though.
On the weekends:* The Jitney (student transportation) is behind schedule. * Parties happen (with tons of drinking)* The school sponsored events are rarely attended. The options you have are 1) drink alcohol, 2) drink alcohol or 3) study in your room/try to sleep/watch netflix or movies.
Guys & Girls:
The majority of students look the same as awful as that sounds. Little variety but at least everyone is skinny and pretty.
Off-Campus Dining:
It's even better if you have a car. Seriously though.
The professors are great. Find an adviser who knows what you want, not what they think you should do. My adviser tried to put me in a bio class and then I switched to a geology class and now I'm a geology minor and love it. Workload is not very hard if you are organized. The career center is good resource as is the writing center.
It's a liberal arts college. Explore your options because its $60,000 a year now. Graduate schools are also expensive and it is coming to the time where a BA is not enough to get a job that is going to pay bills, student loans and get you through Grad school. Admissions was not very difficult as long as you have the grades, SAT score and the resume.
Health & Safety:
Colby Security does not have a lot of power on campus. They will absolutely help you if you need them and call them. All of the staff members are extremely pleasant and nice. Due to the atmosphere and disrespect of (some) students however, security does not have the power that they should. If they see you with a beer, they ask you to pour it out and then let you go. While on campus, you are basically free from the law. We have very high dorm damage fees. Dorm damage fees include cleaning up after parties, sloppy drinkers, and broken emergency items and building parts. In my first year here, (and the year isn't finished) I will have paid $100 or more on dorm damage due to people breaking windows, doors, fire extinguisher protective glass, emergency exit signs, emergency lights, more windows, vomit stains on the hall carpets, vomit in the bathrooms and stairways, broken lights, and fines for broken emergency equipment. (and I had not personally broken anything, this is all from people coming for parties.) People like to drink a lot here and then break things. (They don't tell you this during you very nice walk around campus where every smiles at you and holds the doors.) The first weekend for freshman this year, there were 8 transportation to the local hospital for extreme alcohol poisoning. There weren't even upperclassmen on campus yet. Although no one talks about it at all on campus, there was a gang rape of Colby students to a Colby student. Only one was suspended and the others withdrew, with little punishment. (Ladies, do not go off campus for parties. Especially not alone and do not drink. I was given this advice my first week from a good friend that is currently a Senior.) Theft really doesn't happen on campus because we are generally good people and everyone here generally has wealthy means of getting whatever they want without stealing it. This does not mean you can leave your stuff anywhere because it still happens. FYI-People smoke weed here.
It's great because Colby really does try to promote diversity. We have many clubs that celebrate those from different practices, places and cultures. The Pugh Center hosts amazing and eye opening events and individual clubs like The African Club, The International Club and more put on events that allow all who wish to learn more about the peers and the world that opportunity. I rate it as only "okay" because while you are walking across campus, the vast majority of students are skinny, identify as white, no tattoos, conservative piercings and attire, natural hair color and very clean cut. The majority of Colby students are clear cut perfection of beauty. Take a cookie cutter and volia, you have seen almost all the students of Colby. (I'm not saying that these characteristics are bad, but there is little variety and this causes numerous students to not want to branch out because they want to fit the "Colby type.")There are students of color, however there is an isolation between the two groups. Also International Students and US Students rarely mingle their groups. Most US Colby students only have a couple of International friends.
All the things needed for athletes are here. We have a great Nordic skiing team. We have a ice rink for hockey. Sports teams here are very tight knit. You have most, if not all meals, with your team members and will have a great social life here. (as long as you are open to drinking alcohol, lots of it.) Very few athletes are "Chem-free," however prior to athletic events (in season) at Colby there is a 24 hour rule that you have to be "dry." Rugby is a big sport on campus for both women and men. Both teams almost were cut because of low funds but the whole campus saved them this year. If you aren't an athlete, there are intramural sports and social yet exercise filled activities you can do. However beware, the athletic center is mainly for athletes. If you are an ice skater, do not expect to have much ice time. The hockey coaches control who is on the ice and they often do not change the 1 hour schedule that non-hockey players have to abide by. Also, this goes for anywhere but Colby only has Nordic Skiing for division one sports. That's it. Do not come here expecting more. Also, do not expect to use practices and games and "being busy" as an excuse for not doing work. This is an academic college not a pro-sports gateway college. School spirit is very high for the Mules. However, sporting events act as something people do while drunk on the weekends and then sportsmanship goes out the window and beer cans end up where the opposing team's players are standing.
I work in the ITS department as a student worker. Technology-wise, you need it we have it.
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Many at Colby feel college is a place for students to grow intellectually and socially. Whether it's in class, conversations around the dinner table, a club, or speaking with another student from a different upbringing, Colby students exemplify this maxim. The community here is one of its defining features, and Colby students (and professors and staff, for that matter) love the College. Most cite the friendly and intellectually engaging people and the pristine new facilities, and although academics can be strenuous, the classes and professors are undeniably wonderful. Students work very hard in and out of the classroom, and most are involved in multiple activities outside of classes.
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The director has organized the department into four divisions: Agency Management, Contracts, Material Management, and Systems and Customer Services. Working together, all four divisions provide critical services in support of the department's mission. The Department strives to develop strategic alliances with suppliers and County departments to secure quality goods and services in a timely manner and at a reasonable cost, while ensuring that all purchasing actions are conducted fairly and impartially and in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
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The Agency Management Division provides overall direction, leadership, and managerial oversight to the Department. This includes performing the function of Purchasing Agent for the county Board of Supervisors and the Fairfax County Public School Board. The Agency Management Division also provides internal staff support to the DPSM employees to include all human resources support and fiscal management activities. These activities are intricately interwoven into the overall operation of the department.
A 1981 Board of Supervisors mandate established Small Business Enterprise Program and assigned the director, DPSM, responsibility for increasing the participation of small and minority business community in county procurement activities. An assigned Vendor Relations liaison who has primary responsibility to ensure that small businesses, minority-owned businesses and women-owned businesses are treated fairly and have an opportunity to compete for the county's contract dollars. The Vendor Relations liaison engages in a variety of outreach efforts, including counseling and assistance, which are intended to maximize prime and subcontract opportunities for small, minority-owned businesses and women-owned businesses.
The Vendor Relations liaison has additional responsibility of providing staff support to the Small Business Commission appointed by the Board of Supervisors.
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The Contracts Division provides central purchasing and contract management support for the acquisition of goods and services for Fairfax County departments, Fairfax County Public Schools, and other assigned Boards and Authorities. This service is provided through the competitive bidding process as mandated by the Virginia Public Procurement Act and Fairfax County Purchasing Resolution. The Division staff perform competitive solicitiation, contract award, contract negotiation, and vendor performance resolution services. The Division is divided into four teams of professional contract specialists; each team works in support of assigned program areas.
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The Material Management Division is located at the Central Warehouse, 6800A Industrial Road, Springfield, Virginia. The Division manages the County's storage facility and distribution services for County consigned goods, for the County's electronic voting machines, and supplies and materials for the Office for Children's School Age Child Care Program (SACC). County library books for new and renovated facilities are stored at the warehouse prior to being put into circulation. Central Warehouse staff pick-up, sort, and redistribute Fairfax County Public Library books each day to the 23 library branches. In addition, the Central Warehouse manages County property that is declared excess by a department or surplus by the County and ensures its proper disposal; this includes redistribution, sale, or destruction.
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Systems and Customer Service provides systems management and administration for all county and FCPS users of the mainframe-based County and Schools Procurement System (CASPS) as well as management and technical oversight of the department's Local Area Network (LAN), Internet and Intranet Web sites, Procurement Card Program, office supplies (Office Depot) program, eVA utilization, and electronic commerce initiatives.
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Following the shocking events in Asia over the last ten days, SABMiller has been working to identify how it can best support the relief efforts in those countries affected.
The group's initial response has been to make a donation to support the aid activity which is required on the ground now. It was felt that this is best achieved through the international aid agencies which are already operating across the region, and therefore SABMiller has made a donation of £100,000 (US$188,000) to the Disasters Emergency Committee, which will allocate the funds raised to its member charities, which include Oxfam, the British Red Cross, ActionAid and Save the Children.
In addition, as a company with operations in India, we are making a further donation of £50,000 (US$94,000) to Oxfam, specifically in support of its activities in the provision of clean water and sanitation in affected areas in India.
SABMiller will also make available an additional £50,000 to match donations made by company employees using a dedicated service being set up on the Oxfam website.
SABMiller recognises that the private sector plays a critical role in the longer term recovery and rehabilitation of the areas affected and therefore the company intends to explore how it can provide ongoing support in India through specific long term programmes to redevelop the infrastructure which has suffered.
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In the year ended 31 March 2004, the group generated US$1,391million pre-tax profit from a turnover of US$12,645million. SABMiller plc is listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges.
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Calhoun County deputies charged Crystal Vantrica Williams, 20, of Anniston on Thursday with third-degree burglary after a neighbor spotted her breaking into a home Friendship Road in Oxford, said Calhoun County Sheriff Larry Amerson.
Amerson said a resident drove by the house on Friendship Road around 2 p.m. Thursday and noticed two people on the front porch he knew did not live at the residence. The witness drove back past the house and noticed a screen door on the front lawn and an open window. Amerson said the man wrote down the license plate of a car parked in the driveway and called the Sheriff's Office to report a burglary in progress.
Amerson said deputies used the tag number to locate Williams, who had been released from jail on Wednesday. Williams had previously been arrested on additional burglary charges. A second suspect has been identified, but not been arrested, Amerson said.
Amerson said the time of the burglary was unusual, as most burglaries don't take place in the late afternoon.
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A front-page story in Monday's New York Times was headlined, "A Growing Trend: Young, Liberal And Open to Big Government." The story was datelined Missoula, Mont.
Montana? The normally Republican mountain state in the far northwest would seem an unlikely place to harbor pockets of young liberals, but students at the university and young adults there appear more thoughtful than ideological.
A founder of a group encouraging youth in politics said young people believe there's a role for government. "At the same time, this is not a generation of socialists. They are highly entrepreneurial and know that some of what it takes to create an environment where they can do their own exciting creative things is having basic systems that work."
It may also have occurred to young adults in the free and invigorating air of the mountain West that for Americans to hate their own government is not only irrational, it is unpatriotic.
Youthful attitudes in Missoula are reflected nationwide according to the scrupulously nonpartisan Pew Research Center, which found voters ages 18 to 29 lean heavily toward a more activist government. Roughly 6-in-10 (59 percent) say government should do more to solve problems, while only 37 percent say government is doing too much.
A growing progressive wave, viewed with alarm by Republican advisers who study trends, is only the contemporary emergence of an old argument that dates back to President Andrew Jackson's struggles in the 1830s with the national bank.
The Second Bank of the United States was due to have its charter renewed. Jackson opposed a re-charter because a private bank would use the nation's wealth for a tight circle of officers, directors and investors.
After a furious struggle, Jackson withdrew federal funds from the bank and distributed them to state and local banks throughout the country, touching off a more widely distributed pattern of economic growth.
From the Civil War to the turn of the century, railroads tied the country together, a nation experiencing an amazing period of growth, which outstripped the economies of Britain, France and Germany combined.
The Supreme Court protected the emerging giants of industry with rulings such as Lochner vs. New York. The case involved an action of the New York Legislature limiting the workday of bakery employees to 60 hours a week.
That violated the law of contracts, said the court in overturning the regulation. In other words, a worker had the right to agree to be overworked, underpaid, fired at will and to enjoy old age sick and penniless.
Trusts such as U.S. Steel grew to monopolies that strangled normal commerce and inflated the owners with egos larger than the government.
In the coal strike of 1902, President Roosevelt called a White House meeting of government, labor and management. He found labor conciliatory but management arrogant and disrespectful in its refusal to compromise.
TR then appointed a commission, which included former President Grover Cleveland, that succeeded in reaching a compromise that ended the strike.
What the commission couldn't resolve is a fundamental conflict of capitalism, which double-Pulitzer-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. put this way:
"Even 'governing least' is likely to be government for the benefit of the strongest group in the community … This has been the irrepressible conflict of capitalism: the struggle on the part of the business community to dominate the state, and on the part of the rest of society … to check the ambitions of business."
Business again had its place at the head of the table in the 1920s until the unregulated free play of greed produced the inevitable crash. The court continued to protect business, fighting Franklin Roosevelt's attempts to break the grip of Depression.
Finally, Justice Owen Roberts switched sides in 1937 allowing the New Deal to alleviate some of the effects of the Depression, liberal measures that in the post-World War II years created economic boom times.
But the struggle between the interests of society and the interests of business go on. It is a high art of governance to create an equilibrium that allows free enterprise and the middle class each to flourish, an art at which the George W. Bush administration had failed — demonstrated by the Great Recession.
One result of the Bush recession was the spawning of a group of panicky know-nothings, the Tea Party, backed by cynical and self-interested industrialists who created an immovable blockage at the center of a do-nothing Congress.
A wave of pragmatic progressive young politicians would be welcome to remove the blockage and allow government to function normally, but the struggle for dominance, and the art of managing it, will go on.
H. Brandt Ayers is the publisher of The Star and chairman of Consolidated Publishing Co.


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What our museums lack in size, they make up for in creativity, moxie and searching the world for excellent exhibitions that may be just a little too small for some of the behemoths in larger cities.
The Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando and Lake Eustis Museum of Art seem to find many great collections to fill their galleries — and not break their budgets. The Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens finds exhibits that are interesting to a wide variety of aesthetic tastes. In the last couple of years this Winter Park treasure has had Soviet art, landscape paintings, pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs), photography, comic-book art and sculpture. The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at nearby Rollins College has a large permanent collection and brings in many outside exhibitions from Baroque to conceptual/installations.
There are two regional museums in DeLand: the Museum of Florida Art and the Florida Museum for Women Artists, each opening new exhibits soon. The Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach brings in works by internationally acclaimed photographers, including Janelle Lynch. Her "Los Jardines de México" series now on display reveals the subtle beauty and inherent metaphors on some of Mexico City's public gardens, cemeteries and abandoned playgrounds. She will be honored at a reception Friday, March 29, 6-8 p.m. at the museum, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach. Call 386-506-4475 for details.
Not all of our "museums" are actually museums, but they are often quite close in the caliber of their curation and showings: Maitland Art Center, Crealde School of Art in Winter Park, and galleries at Valencia State College, Stetson University and University of Central Florida. Other venues, such as Orlando City Hall's Terrace Gallery and Casselberry's Art House, manage to put on respectable shows, with some nearing museum quality.
The Art House will open its annual Recycled Art Show on Monday, in which each work must be at least 50 percent recycled/found materials. But what I'm really looking forward to seeing there is next week's Florida Four exhibition and sale, featuring four plein air/studio artists who will be showing their paintings and demonstrating their techniques on separate nights: Morgan Samuel Price on Monday; Hodges Soileau on Wednesday; Mary Erickson on Thursday; and Bill Farnsworth on April 5. Each demo begins promptly at 7 p.m. and lasts for about 30 minutes. Early arrival is recommended because it is usually standing-room-only. There's a reception Tuesday, 6:30-9 p.m., at the Casselberry Art House, 127 Quail Pond Circle. Call 407-262-7700 for details.


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"The most outrageously broad, gregarious food-writing anthology." Saveur
Mark Kurlansky is one of our most erudite and entertaining food writers: the bestselling author of Salt and Cod, winner of the prestigious James Beard Award for Excellence in Food Writing. Now in this delightful collection he serves up a true smorgasbord of "choice cuts" by the world's most discerning gourmets and gourmands through the ages-from Plato on the art of cooking to Louis Prima at the pizzeria.
Choice Cuts offers more than two hundred mouth-watering selections, including Brillat-Savarin on chocolate; Waverley Root on truffles; M. F. K. Fish on gingerbread; Pablo Neruda on French fries; Alexandre Dumas on coffee; and a vast variety by Escoffier, Elizabeth David, A. J. Liebling, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Dickens, Balzac, Chekhov, Orwell, and Alice B. Toklas, among others. Filled throughout with recipes, menus, classic photographs, and Kurlansky's own original drawings, Choice Cuts is a must-have for any serious lover of food.
Introduction: Better Than Sex
Chapter One: Gourmets and Gourmands
Chapter Two: Food and Sex
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Release Notes: This release adds minor bug fixes and enhancements.
icctext is a simple command line utility that lets you edit text tags in an ICC profile.
Release Notes: Lut8Type lookup tables in v2 profiles are now saved as Lut8Type rather than Lut16Type.
TYPO3 CMS is a Web Content Management System which features automatic creation of navigational menus, headlines, and other dynamic graphical elements, automatic conversion and scaling of images, the ability to present different templates based on variables such as client browser or country code, support for multiple templates on a site, and a built-in password-protection option. Pages can be timed to be shown on a certain date, be hidden on a certain date or just temporarily hidden. TYPO3 supports search in SQL-databases and redesigning of a website at once is just a matter of creating a single new template.
Release Notes: This is a bugfix release.
BIRQ (Balance IRQs) balances interrupts between CPUs on Linux while under high loads. It is written in C with no external dependencies.
Release Notes: This release fixes potential bugs and adds code static analysis.
rpmorphan finds "orphaned" RPM packages on your system (packages which have no other packages depending on their installation). Console and graphical interfaces are provided. It is clone of the deborphan Debian program, but for RPM packages. It provides also some others RPM tools: rpmusage, rpmdep, and rpmduplicates.
Release Notes: This release adds a new option rpmorphan, "arch", which shows version and architecture details. Rpmorphan now displays disk space freed in the confirm box.
Android Yuriy's NodesUP is a tool for checking the online status of IP addresses or hosts, RDNS, and MX records. It also provides a field where you can test a service running on a port.
Release Notes: This release adds a Wifi button for when you have a known network and you still want to use the 3g network (e.g. Wifi Internet goes down). The logo colors have changed.
pmacct is a small set of passive network monitoring tools to account, filter, classify, aggregate, and export IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. A pluggable and flexible architecture allows storing collected network data in memory tables, RDBMSs (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, BDB), and flat files, and also export via IPFIX, NetFlow, or sFlow protocols to remote collectors. pmacct features fully customizable historical data breakdown, sampling, BGP correlation, tagging, and triggers. Libpcap, ULOG, sFlow v2/v4/v5, NetFlow v1/v5/v7/v8/v9, and IPFIX are supported data capturing methods.
Release Notes: Introduces custom-defined aggregation primitives in libpcap and ULOG daemons; enhances custom-defined aggregation primitives in NetFlow daemon to support variable-length fields. Introduces pro rating of NetFlow/IPFIX flows if historical accounting is enabled. Batching ofBGP sessions has also been introduced, preventing massive synchronization of resource consumption. New primitives mpls_top_label, mpls_bottom_label, and mpls_stack_depth have been implemented. The GTP tunnel handler now supports inspection of GTPv1 in the libpcap daemon. This release also includes a number of bugfixes.
dos2unix includes utilities to convert text files with DOS or Mac line endings to Unix line endings and vice versa. It is an update of Benjamin Lin's implementations.
Release Notes: New translations of the UI messages have been added: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (traditional), Danish, French, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. New translations of the manual: Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Polish, Ukrainian. All the manuals are in UTF-8 format. The Windows version skips symbolic links by default (the same as on Unix).
4DIAC is a framework for distributed industrial automation and control. It aims to provide an open, IEC-61499-compliant basis that lets the user establish a distributed industrial automation and control environment based on the targets' portability, configurability, and interoperability.
Release Notes: This second maintenance release for 4DIAC 1.5 provides a set of bug fixes to 4DIAC-IDE (8).
ISO Master is an easy to use GUI CD image editor for Linux, BSD, and Windows. Basically, you can use this program to extract files from an ISO, add files to an ISO, and create bootable ISOs, all in a graphical user interface. It can open both ISO and NRG files, but can only save as ISO. It is based on bkisofs, a library for reading, modifying, and writing ISO images.
Release Notes: This release fixes Cygwin builds, adds Bengali and Galician translations, updates the Finnish translation, and should work better with bigger-than-normal boot records now.
JStock is stock market software for 26 countries. It provides a stock watchlist, an intraday stock price snapshot, a stock indicator editor, a stock indicator scanner, and portfolio management. Free SMS/email alerts are supported. It integrates seamlessly with Android.
Release Notes: This release fixes ASX and the UK stock history server.
Ctalk adds classes, methods, operator overloading, inheritance, and complex object expressions to otherwise standard C programs. Programs can use only a few Ctalk objects and methods in an otherwise standard C program, but the language can be used to write entire programs also. Ctalk works on most if not all of the systems that support GCC, the GNU C compiler. The package includes the language, class and run-time libraries, example programs, tutorial, and language reference.
Release Notes: This release adds the ability to overload methods with different numbers of arguments, and also many internal updates, especially to improve the language's ability to translate objects between C and Ctalk, as well as improve compatibility with older compilers. It fixes minor bugs and adds minor performance and ease-of-use improvements.
Genson is a lightweight Java library for doing conversion between JSON and Java. It provides full databinding and Java generics support. Genson's main goals are to come with rich features out of the box, great performance and scalability, and easy ways to add new features.
Release Notes: This release adds a full implementation of the JSR 353 Java API for JSON processing included in Java 8.
Clonezilla is a partition or disk cloning tool similar to Symantec Ghost. It saves and restores only blocks in use on the hard drive if the file system is supported. For unsupported file systems, dd is used instead. It has been used to clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.
Release Notes: The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2014/Apr/15). drbl was updated to 2.8.10-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.10.2-drbl1. ntfs-3g was updated to 2014.2.15AR.1-1. parted was updated to 2.3-20. Boot parameter "utc=no" is now working. The created recovery iso of AMD64 arch no longer fails to boot. A FAT crash when running parted was fixed.
BalanceNG is a modern, IPv6 capable software IP load balancing solution. It is small, fast, and easy to use and set up. It offers session persistence, different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random, Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It implements a very fast in-memory IP-to-location database, allowing powerful location-based server load-balancing.
Release Notes: A bug with the generation of session table synchronization packets has been fixed, and the IP packet length now contains the correct value.
webon is a Web content management system. It provides an access log to check who has visited your site. It has a counter that lets anybody know the number of people who have visited your site.
Release Notes: This release separates jQuery files.
"fgallery" is a static photo gallery generator with no frills that has a stylish, minimalist look. It shows your photos, and nothing else. There is no server-side processing, only static generation. The resulting gallery can be uploaded anywhere without additional requirements and works with any modern browser.
Release Notes: Several regressions were fixed (EXIF is now correctly stripped from the thumbnails/previews, image ordering with mixed images with/without EXIF was restored, errors with files without extensions were fixed). Images with built-in profiles are now converted to sRGB by default. A customizable "back" link can be supplied on the command line. The payload size of the gallery was reduced.
Samba is a software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. It is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.
Release Notes: This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.1 release series.
BlueMind is a messaging and collaboration platform. It offers scalable shared messaging, calendars, contacts, and instant messaging with advanced mobility (iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.), and Outlook, Thunderbird, and CalDAV connectivity support. Designed with simplicity as a goal, it uses Web 2.0 technologies with a JavaScript UI, offline Web capability, and a Web-services-oriented pluggable architecture.
Release Notes: This release fixes synchronization of recurring events on some mobiles and tablets and extended the certificate update to the SMTP server.
Kigo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac is a video converter and editor. It supports converting between popular video formats, including FLV, MPEG1, MPEG2, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, MOV, AVI, M2TS, MPEG TS/TP (for HD Video), and M4V with good output quality and high conversion speed. It can also edit videos by clipping, splitting and merging videos, or adding special video effects.
Release Notes: The conversion engine was reconstructed. PCM audio encoding is now supported in customized AVI formats. Downloading of videos from Dailymotion, The Daily Show, Youtube, Rutube, and other sites were fixed. Minor bugs were fixed.
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Father Jamie MacLeod plans to sell the genuine Van Dyck painting after Antiques Roadshow host spotted its worth.PT0M48S http://www.smh.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-302wt 620 349 December 30, 2013
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A painting that hung on the wall of a priest's home for more than a decade after he bought it for £400 ($745) at an antiques shop has been identified as a van Dyck portrait worth a thousand times as much.
The work, previously dismissed as a copy, was valued at £400,000 ($745,000) after its owner had it evaluated on Antiques Roadshow and is the most valuable painting to be identified in the 35-year history of the BBC television program.
A valuable find: Antique Roadshow's Fiona Bruce and Father Jamie MacLeod with the portrait. Photo: BBC/PA
Canon Jamie MacLeod, who took the painting along to a roadshow session in Newstead Abbey, near Nottingham, plans to sell it to buy new church bells.
He bought the portrait from a Cheshire antiques shop - which has since closed - 12 years ago.
The work was identified after the program's host, Fiona Bruce, who was making a show about the artist with expert Philip Mould, saw the painting and wondered whether it was genuine. Mr Mould agreed to take a look at it and after weeks of cleaning and the removal of a top coat of 18th-century paint, the painting was verified by Christopher Brown, one of the world's leading authorities on van Dyck.
Canon MacLeod said: ''It's been an emotional experience and it's such great news.'' Ms Bruce said: ''It's everyone's dream to spot a hidden masterpiece. I'm thrilled that my hunch paid off.''
The Flemish artist became the leading court painter in England under Charles I and his works hang in Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and in other museums and galleries around the world.
The work revealed on the TV program is a portrait of a magistrate of Brussels. It is believed to have been painted as part of the artist's preparation for a 1634 work showing seven magistrates, which was destroyed in a French attack on Brussels in 1695.
''Discoveries of this type are exceptionally rare,'' Mr Mould said.
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Bunge TV
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Culinary Institute
Founded in 1946 to train Veterans returning from the Second World War, the Culinary Institute of America has grown to become one of the most prestigious schools of its kind in the world.
Buffet Table Setting Ideas
Setting up a buffet tables requires considering the environment and time of day, creating a multi-level display and placing the signature items near the front of the line.
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In our never-ending quest to show you how local food is raised and brought to market, we're going to take you on a little tour inside a rabbit farm.
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Interview discussion with Carol Costello on current lack of young talent in the building and service trades.
New York's Most Exclusive Restaurant
Forget Nobu and the Waverly Inn, if you really want to impress a lady friend, take her to the most exclusive restaurant in the city -- a Subway sandwich shop.
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Restaurant Depot
Restaurant Depot showcases the benfits of shopping at their locations.
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NYC Chain Post Calorie Info
Biig fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices.
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Grilling - Stone Hearth Oven Cooking Styles
Using a stone hearth oven, Chef Garton demonstrates how to cook some of his favourite grilled dishes. Steak, Lamb Chops & Mushrooms are grilled to perfection using a Beech wood fired stone hearth oven.
Stone Heart Ovens
Beech Ovens is proud to present a comprehensive stone hearth oven presentation.
Wood Stone Pizza
This video covers rotation of multiple pizzas in a Wood Stone Oven. Similar principles apply in wood-fired pizza oven, gas-fired oven, brick oven etc.
Metro C5
The newest addition to the C5 line is T-Series with Transport Armour™, which delivers Durability, Efficiency, and Intelligence in one complete package, making it the IDEAL solution for mobile applications.
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The Tirana 48 Hour Film Project
Returning in 2014
The 48 Hour Film Project will return to Tirana, probably in November. Filmmakers from all over the country of Albania will compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film will go up against films from around the world for the title "Best 48 Hour Film of 2014".
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In 2012, 16.6% of Fortune 500 company directors were women, according to Catalyst. That's up from 13.6% in 2003. But the upward slope has flatlined for the past seven years.
The most common excuse -- that there aren't enough qualified female candidates -- doesn't rate. As former Ernst & Young CEO Jim Turley, who recently joined the boards of Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) and Emerson Electric (EMR, Fortune 500), says, "Over half of college graduates today are women -- and well over half of the best graduates are women. If we're going after the best talent, we need to put more women on boards."
At the SAIS Global Conference on Women in the Boardroom at Johns Hopkins's School of Advanced International Studies in September, Turley was on one of three panels I moderated. Some good ideas came out of the discussions. Here are three:
Reimagine the talent pool. When Kerry Clark was CEO of Cardinal Health (CAH, Fortune 500) and adding to his board a few years ago, he wanted a woman but couldn't find one in the senior corporate ranks. Bonnie Gwin at search firm Heidrick & Struggles urged Clark to consider candidates who would someday sit at the top of the org chart. She introduced Clark to an IBM (IBM, Fortune 500) general manager named Colleen Arnold, who turned out to be an excellent director, he says. Arnold's rise at IBM has continued apace. She's now an SVP in IBM's global business services unit.
MORE: Most Powerful Women - Full list
View work on boards as career development. While many Fortune 500 CEOs don't allow their executives to serve on outside boards, Marge Magner calls board work "a development opportunity." Magner, on Fortune's MPW list when she was at Citigroup, is now nonexecutive chairman of Gannett (GCI, Fortune 500) as well as a director at Accenture (ACN) and Ally Financia (ALFI)l. Turley, too, thinks CEOs should encourage direct reports to join boards. "Serving on boards hones their skills and makes them better leaders," he says.
Set targets for board composition. Corporate America will never go the way of Norway, which mandates that women occupy 40% of public board seats. But the U.S. can learn from the U.K., where former trade minister Lord Mervyn Davies leads a task force to get more women on boards. Since early 2011, Davies has met with dozens of FTSE 100 CEOs and asked them to aim for at least 25% female representation on boards by 2015 -- and disclose progress along the way. The results so far are impressive: 17.3% of FTSE 100 directors are women, up from 10.5% just three years ago, suggesting that sunlight (and a nudge from a powerful politician) may be the best solution to a persistent problem.
This story is from the October 28, 2013 issue of Fortune.
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Kenyan summer: Emilee Nidiffer's two-month trip lets her make a dent in poverty
Emilee Nidiffer spent her summer helping to make a "big dent" in poverty in the African nation of Kenya while taking part in a special mission trip.
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I bought one of theses wrought iron tree in silver a few years ago and have been searching for another as a gift. These trees sell for two to three times this amount on boutique sites! Everyone loves it! It is so easy to assemble and store. I collect blown glass ornaments and they really shine on this tree. Wish I could buy one for everyone.
The tree is attractive and, obviously, makes no pretense of trying to masquerade as a pine tree! But it looks lovely in my living room, was easy to decorate and shows off my (mainly glass) ornaments beautifully, and there is no mess to clean up. One reviewer said it would be hard to put lights on the tree. I bought 4 strings of tiny LED lights and circled them around all the "branches" and "trunk" and they look beautiful. A few of the "branches" were harder to insert than others but, aside from that, assembly was really easy. All in all.....a terrific purchase.
This is potentially a home-run product. But due to incomplete manufacturing standards, this product is stranded on third base. This tree requires two tapered shims (not provided) to stand straight. Manufacturer should make a serious attempt at producing a precision stand. Or at the very least, they should provide suitable means to level the stand without need for shims.
Received this beuty in time for Christmas but was unable to decorate it due to illness. But assembly was so easy that I put it together to tease for next year. Very nice.
Wish the quality would have been a little better,but I love the tree though.
The pieces didn't assembly well at all. To much paint on threads. After assembled the tree is very wobble, doesn't stand straight at all.
I had seen this tree in several catalogs over the years offered at $XXX. I thought it would be an excellent alternative to dragging an extremely heavy prelit tree up and down from the attic every year. In fact I often made up excuses not to put up a tree just because of the inconvenience. This year I was going to have my first Christmas alone as a retiree and I decided to purchase this tree. I read the reviews as was concerned about the assembly issues mentioned in some - not being a welder! But I decided to take the chance. Boy, am I glad I did. The tree was simple to assemble and lightweight enough in its box to move about the apt. All of the brackets were in place and easy to access. The branches slid easily in and were spaced beautifully to show off my ornaments. I wrapped the center of the tree with a strand of lights to add some evening sparkle. Assembly took less than 15 minutes and then it was on to the best part of decorating a tree - placing the ornaments and remembering the significance of each one in my life. This unique tree is everything I was promised and more. Non-traditional but still a delightful centerpiece of my Christmas decorations. Thank you for offering this tree at such a value.
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Beyond 2015 Interim Synthesis Report of National CSO Deliberations on a post-2015 framework
Since September 2012, Beyond 2015 and the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) have been creating a global civil society position on a post-2015 framework. This is happening through a series of national, regional, and community civil society deliberations that are currently ongoing. So far, civil society deliberations are planned in 40 countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In a review of the deliberations that have taken place so far around the world, we have received reports from 22 countries about community, regional and national deliberations. This report is the synthesis of these outcomes.
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Key Statistics on Alcohol
- Heavy or "at-risk" drinkingAbout 1 in 4 people who drink heavily may have alcohol dependence or alcohol abuse problems
- Alcohol Facts and StatisticsUp-to-date statistics on alcohol consumption
Alcohol's effects on your brain and body depend on the ways you drink–such as how much and how often–as well as your age, gender, and overall health status
- What Is a Standard Drink?You may be drinking more than you realize
- Alcohol's Effects on the BodyImpact on the brain, heart, liver, and other organs
- Moderate and Binge DrinkingSome drinking patterns could put you at risk
- Fetal Alcohol SyndromeAlcohol can seriously harm a growing baby
- Alcohol Use DisordersUnderstanding alcohol abuse and dependence
- Evaluate Your Own DrinkingRethinking Drinking is NIAAA's interactive website which provides self-help tools for assessing and changing risking drinking behavior
How does alcohol affect different groups and people with certain disorders?
Alcohol Policy Information System
NIAAA has compiled a wide variety of U.S. alcohol policies, including taxation, BAC limits, labeling, and more in our Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS).
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Crowne Plaza Superior Room
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4.5-star luxury hotel with an indoor pool in Shanghai (Changning)
With a stay at Crowne Plaza Hotel Shanghai, you'll be centrally located in Shanghai, convenient to Grand Gateway and Jing An Temple.
This 4.5-star hotel is within close proximity of Pacific Department Store and Xujiahui Shopping District.
Make yourself at home in one of the 580 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars. High-speed (wired) Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms feature shower/tub combinations, hair dryers, and bathrobes. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Don't miss out on the many recreational opportunities, including a health club, an indoor pool, and a spa tub. This hotel also features concierge services, babysitting/childcare, and an arcade/game room.
Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, which serves lunch and dinner. Dining is also available at a coffee shop/café, and 24-hour room service is provided. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Featured amenities include a business center, limo/town car service, and currency exchange. Event facilities at this hotel consist of conference/meeting rooms, small meeting rooms, and a ballroom. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available on request), and parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
- General
In addition to an indoor pool, Crowne Plaza Hotel Shanghai provides a health club, a spa tub, and a sauna. Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink.
Business amenities at this 4.5-star property consist of a business center, secretarial services, and limo/town car service. Event facilities include conference/meeting rooms, small meeting rooms, and a ballroom. This luxury hotel also offers a steam room, a rooftop terrace, and a library. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
Crowne Plaza Hotel Shanghai has designated areas for smoking.
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 5
- Parking (surcharge)
- 24-hour front desk
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 580
- ATM/banking
- Babysitting or childcare
- Ballroom(s)
- Number of floors - 27
- Banquet facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Beauty services
- Business center
- Business services
- Coffee shop or café
- Concierge services
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Currency exchange
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Event catering
- Exhibit space
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Health club
- Arcade/game room
- Garden
- Library
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Shopping on site
- Hair salon
- Turkish bath/Hammam in spa
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- Express check-in
- Designated smoking areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Massage - spa treatment room(s)
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Room service (24 hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Sauna
- Secretarial services
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Swimming pool - indoor
- Tour assistance
- Wedding services
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Parking
Parking (surcharge)
- Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Climate control
- Complimentary newspaper
- In-room massage available
- Dining
Yue Palace Chinese - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner.
Piazza Doro - This restaurant serves breakfast only.
Circles Cafe - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Lobby Lounge - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
24-hour room service is available.
- Recreation
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a health club, a sauna, and a steam room.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Table tennis nearby
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Breakfast fee: CNY 149.5 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): CNY 120 (for 24 hours, rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: CNY 20 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: CNY 300 per night
- Additional Details
This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Naming dilemma for Obama: Is it Burma or Myanmar?
|A Buddhist monk buys bird feed as a child chases a pigeon close to Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. President Barack Obama is set to become the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar with Air Force One scheduled to touch down in Yangon on Monday morning. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's landmark visit to Myanmar, known by the U.S. as Burma, brings up an unusual problem of protocol: What does he call it?
If recent practice by visiting U.S. officials is any guide, Obama will sidestep the issue by using neither name Monday when he becomes the first sitting American president to visit the country.
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FREEPRESS wrote on Nov 19, 2012 3:53 AM:
" Has he begun "apology tour" part II or did Michelle want a vacation here? "
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