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By Joe Depto (@JoeDepto) Getty Images Once again this season, close wasn't simply good enough for the Columbus Blue Jackets. On Tuesday, the Jackets lost 3-2 in a competitive game against the Minnesota Wild, squandering away a solid performance from CBJ netminder Steve Mason. In addition to coming up short on the offensive side of the ice, Columbus was hit hard with a series of injuries in their own end as well. Defensemen Nikita Nikitin (head) and Adrian Aucoin (lower-body) both left the game early, forcing the Blue Jackets to finish the game with just four defenseman. In the wake of a number of injuries, the Blue Jackets turn to call-ups from Springfield As a result of both Tyutin and Aucoin being injured, David Savard, who has been a healthy scratch in each of the Jackets' games this season, will finally see ice time on Thursday night against the St. Louis Blues but it might not help their NHL odds. Savard won't be the only new face on the Jackets' blue line on thursday, howeve...
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How to Seek God as a Group
- Monday, February 16, 2009
Editor's Note: The following is a report on the practical applications of Alice Fryling's new book, Seeking God Together: An Introduction to Group Spiritual Direction, (IVP Books, 2009).
Many different kinds of groups can help you seek God – from Bible studies and accountability groups, to fellowship circles and missions committees. But a spiritual direction group will help you learn an especially valuable skill when it comes to seeking God: listening.
In a spiritual direction group, you'll discover how to hear what God has to say to you and others as you seek Him together.
Here's how you can seek God through a spiritual direction group:
Set up your group. Find several other believers who are interested in learning more about God through a group that's focused on hearing His direction for their lives. You could ask members of your current small group to meet for about six weeks using a spiritual direction format, or you could start a new group of friends, people from your church, etc. Agree on a time and place to meet, and choose someone to lead the group who will be able to help members take turns talking about their spiritual journeys and listening attentively to others.
Create the right environment. Every group member should feel welcomed, loved, and encouraged. Keep in mind that it takes a lot of courage for people to open up about what God is doing in their lives. Avoid judging members for whatever they say. Make the group a safe place where people feel comfortable being real without fear of condemnation. Also, be sure to keep whatever information group members share confidential.
Follow a simple format. Start the group off in silence or with a short biblical meditation to give people time to quiet their minds from the activities in which they've just been engaged. Choose one or two people to talk about their lives during any particular meeting. Give each person who will be sharing about five or 10 minutes to talk about whatever he or she would like. Then take time to pray silently about what the person has said. Next, have group members ask questions to respond to what the person has expressed. Then close by praying silently for the speaker(s).
Listen more than you talk. Don't dominate the conversation unless you've been chosen to talk about your own life at the current meeting. Be silent as often as possible and pay close attention to what the speaker shares. When you do talk, be careful to simply clarify information and encourage the speaker to share more, instead of giving advice or pat answers to deep questions. Simply listening will be a valuable gift for your fellow group members – especially when they're struggling with challenges. Ask God to give you a contemplative attitude, an open spirit, and a humble perspective to help you listen well. Pray for the discernment you need to know when to speak up and when to remain silent.
Ask life-giving questions. Keep the group on track (away from aimless conversations) and draw the speakers out by asking thoughtful questions that help them consider how God may be working in their lives. Some questions to help speakers get started: "What was life like for you today?", "Can you describe the time today when you felt the most free? When did you feel the least free?", and "What is something you desire in your life these days? Can you talk a bit about your desires for yourself?". Some questions to help speakers notice God in their daily lives: "In the last 24 hours, what gave you joy? Sorrow?", "Who in your life (past or present) has given you a taste of God's love?", "What activities in your life seem to draw you to God? What activities in your life seem to pull you away from God?", "When or where are you most likely to be aware of God's presence? When or where are you least aware of God's presence?", and "In the last day or two, when or where were you most aware of the presence of God in your life?." Some questions to help speakers talk about their spiritual journeys: "How would you describe your relationship with God today?", "What is prayer like for you? What kind of prayer is most appealing to you?", "When do you remember first thinking about God?", "How do you experience temptation in your life?", "What do you do really well? What do you think you are gifted to do?", "What is your soul longing for today?", "How is it for you when you read Scripture?", and "When are you bored with your spiritual journey?". Some questions to help speakers go deeper with what they share: "How is your view of God changing because of this experience?", "What person in your own life acts (or acted) the way you perceive God to be acting in your life right now?", "How would you like God to help you out of this?", "What do you think the Spirit of Jesus might be whispering to your spirit in this situation?", "How are you being changed by this relationship or set of circumstances?", and "How would you most like God to touch your soul, your inner being, at this time in your life?". Some questions to help close the meeting: "How would you like to experience God in the next few weeks?", "Do you sense any invitation from God in this?", "What would you like God's invitation to be?", "How do you hope your relationship with God will change as a result of this time together?", and "What do you see as the first step on this next phase of your spiritual journey?"
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Scientists discover 3D structure of enzyme that helps body fight bacteria
Researchers have discovered the 3D structure of an enzyme that cuts to ribbons the genetic material of viruses and helps body defend against bacteria.
Until now, the research community has lacked a structural model of the human form of this enzyme, known as RNase L, said Alexei Korennykh, an assistant professor of molecular biology and leader of the team that made the discovery.
He said that now that they have the human RNase L structure, we can begin to understand the effects of carcinogenic mutations in the RNase L gene. For example, families with hereditary prostate cancers often carry genetic mutations in the region, or locus, encoding RNase L.
The connection is so strong that the RNase L locus also goes by the name "hereditary prostate cancer 1." The newly found structure reveals the positions of these mutations and explains why some of these mutations could be detrimental, perhaps leading to cancer, Korennykh said. RNase L is also essential for insulin function and has been implicated in obesity.
The enzyme is an important player in the innate immune system, a rapid and broad response to invaders that includes the production of a molecule called interferon. Interferon relays distress signals from infected cells to neighboring healthy cells, thereby activating RNase L to turn on its ability to slice through RNA, a type of genetic material that is similar to DNA. The result is new cells armed for destruction of the foreign RNA.
The 3D structure uncovered by Korennykh and his team consists of two nearly identical subunits called protomers. The initial protomer latches onto one of the four "letters" that make up the RNA code, in particular, the "U," which stands for a component of RNA called uridine. The other protomer "counts" RNA letters starting from the U, skips exactly one letter, then cuts the RNA.
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Donors come in a variety of forms and make work at SFBFS possible. From students to seniors to companies with a big heart, we encourage you to check out one of SFBFS' featured donors every month.
Durst Organic Growers - October 2014
Durst Organic Growers have been growing and distributing produce for over 30 years. Their fourth-generation farm is located in Hungry Hollow at the mouth of the Capay Valley. Customers and produce lovers are familiar with the Durst family name because of the quality of the produce they grow. In addition to growing quality produce, the team at Durst Organic Growers is true stewards of the earth who believe that successful farming requires a delicate care of plants, but more importantly successful care of the soil.
It isn't enough for the team at Durst Organic Growers to maintain their beautiful farm, employ an incredible, friendly and helpful staff and distribute high-quality produce. They also maintain an active role in their community by sharing food, talents and resources with the Capay Valley area and beyond. As owner Jim Durst insists, "Durst Organic Growers is not separate from the community; we are a part of it." Their relationship with Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services (SFBFS) demonstrates that community commitment.
For more than five years Durst Organic Growers has partnered with SFBFS, providing food to those who need it most. In the past three months alone, Durst Organic Growers has donated over 54 tons of fresh produce, all of which has gone directly to feeding families in need. As to be expected, all of the produce donated is of high-quality standards. Heirloom tomatoes, summer fresh melons and sun ripened peppers are a few of the items commonly donated.
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I would figure that one of the easiest things to be in the world of porn would be the Breast Hunter. I mean the porn world and the wannabe porn world are filled with chicks with nice racks (real and fake) willing to show them off for a camera (and a little cash). Taking that into account I can only assume that TheBreastHunter is just not very good at what he does.
The Breast Hunter is a good looking site, I'll give it that. The big banner, the nice menu buttons and the clean interface provide a pleasant user experience. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the content found therein.
Excited about seeing the nice tits in action I headed straight for the video section only to find seven thumbnail pics available, each representing one video. Ok, well maybe they are great videos then since there are so few, right? Wrong! These vids are all amateur solo, hand job and some dick sucking movies and that's it. The girls do have nice tits and they are kind of sweet and innocent (some of them), but the videos just aren't that exciting and I don't think they are exclusive either. The movies are all downloadable in Windows Media format but the quality does vary even among just seven scenes (320x240, 300-696kbps).
I headed next into the picture section where I actually found a more reasonable amount of content available. So far there are 20 girls and while most have but one photo set to their name, others have multiple shoots for a grand total of about 35. Picture quality is very good.
There is a bonus section available, however, it consists of a bunch of feeds, which as we all know are pretty average quality-wise. Actually, the best part of the bonus section (and maybe the whole site) is the games area. The water balloon game was fun and I kicked ass on the mini-putt course.
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'American Reunion' Producer Curses Out Fans on Facebook
Pretty much everyone knows by now that social media can be an incredibly powerful tool when marketing a movie. But producer Chris Moore might want to take a step back after cussing out visitors to the Facebook page for 'American Reunion,' the latest film in the 'American Pie' franchise.
Seems Moore took to Facebook to ask fans there how to get people to see the new movie. But when he got some rather profane suggestions instead of the solid marketing advice for which Facebook denizens are so widely renowned (seriously, dude?), he lashed out:
I been reading your comments, Most of you are so jaded. B—jobs and free beer. F— you. We made a funny heartfelt movie and it delivers. Isn't that enough?
Of course, while the suits at the movie studio may or may not be pleased with Moore's unique way of winning friends and influencing people, the diatribe did go viral, and it rather fits the character for a film series that's featured the lead character doing unspeakable things to baked goods after being told that sex "feels like warm apple pie."
Want to help Moore reach his stated $50 million opening weekend goal? Line up at the theater when 'American Reunion' opens on April 6.


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Nike Air Max 95 – Dark Cinder – Shock Orange
February 6th, 2008 by X | 2 comments
The return of the Nike Air Max 95 is upon us, only instead of the classic Grey/Neon colorway we're now seeing a dope Dark Cinder colorway that seems to have been influenced by the growing "lifestyle" demographic. The shoe uses a clean set of colors ranging from Dark Cinder to Shock Orange and Medium Brown. These are now available at select Nike retailers.
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Enforcement and Assistance in New England
Wet Weather
Over the past year, our enforcement program has taken a number of actions that will result in dramatic improvements to New England's waters. We have tackled some of the most serious environmental problems in the region, and are using a full array of tools – including enforcement actions and stringent permit requirements – to restore water quality. Some of these actions include:
Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) in Maine: The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program regulates the discharge of pollutants from point sources to waters of the United States. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are point sources, as defined by the Clean Water Act, because manure and other pollution that run off farms can contaminate streams, lakes and ponds with excess nutrients and bacteria. In 2006, we expanded our outreach and inspection coverage to New England CAFOs. With aerial surveillance and a ground investigation, state and federal inspectors documented water pollution from a dairy farm in Maine. As a result, the farm submitted necessary information and the State of Maine was able to issue the state's first CAFO NPDES permit.
Boston Harbor/Charles River: On April 27, 2006, the U.S. District Court approved a settlement between the EPA and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) that requires dramatic reductions of combined sewer overflows to the Charles River. This follows the District Court's order of June 30, 2005 that will virtually eliminate combined sewer overflows (CSOs) to Boston beaches. These two actions cap a 20-year cleanup effort that is transforming Boston Harbor – once one of the most polluted harbors in the country – into a model for urban waters.
The 2005 court order addresses a string of beaches along the South Boston peninsula, which are now closed frequently each summer. Boston's combined sewer and storm drainage system overflows during heavy rains as often as 20 times per year. After a previous plan to address this problem was stalled by political opposition, lengthy negotiations produced an agreement to construct a storage tunnel that will prevent these overflows up to the 25-year storm. Construction will be completed by May 2011 at a cost of approximately $245 million.
A unique feature of the agreement is that it also requires the capture of separate storm water runoff (up to a five-year storm event). As a result, these beaches will be virtually free from the effects of urban runoff, making them an outstanding natural resource for the urban population of Boston.
The April 27, 2006 order includes further reductions in storm water discharges to the Charles River, where earlier agreements have already reduced overflow volumes from 1.7 billion gallons in 1988 to roughly 30 million gallons in an average year. The new agreement will require further reductions to less than eight million gallons per year, for a total reduction of more than 99.5% in this widely-used urban river.
Gloucester, Massachusetts: On September 8, 2005, the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts finalized a settlement between EPA and the City of Gloucester that will result in a 99% reduction in the volume of Gloucester's combined sewer overflow discharges. Gloucester's sewage treatment system includes six overflow points that discharge CSOs up to 53 times a year. In a typical year, these discharges total approximately 25 million gallons of mixed sewage and storm water.
Gloucester agreed to implement a long term control plan that will reduce overflows from four of its CSO discharge locations to one or less in a typical year, and reduce overflows from the remaining discharge locations to two or fewer in a typical year. Overflow volumes are expected to be reduced from 25 million gallons to less than 290,000 gallons annually.
Chicopee, Massachusetts: Under the terms of a Consent Decree filed in federal court, the City of Chicopee, Massachusetts will upgrade its sewer system to abate pollutant discharges from its combined sewer overflows and pay a fine of $115,000. For many years, the City of Chicopee's sewage system has resulted in discharges of untreated sewage and storm water into the Chicopee and Connecticut rivers. Under the Agreement, the City will take actions to reduce discharges of untreated CSOs that will enhance fishing and recreational opportunities in the two rivers, and also address longstanding problems in some Chicopee neighborhoods that have suffered from sewer backups.
The Consent Decree requires Chicopee to separate sewage collection pipes from the municipal storm water collection system, and to modify sewer structures or provide treatment of sewer discharges in accordance with short-term and long-term schedules – the latter of which extend over a 20 year period. Recognizing the importance and need to complete the sewer upgrades, the City has already begun to implement the first phase of the CSO abatement work, which is expected to cost more than $35 million and reduce the volume of untreated CSO discharges by 56 percent. Under the agreement, the City will develop and implement a long-term plan for addressing the remaining CSO discharges, which will be reviewed and approved by EPA and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
Brockton, Massachusetts: On August 2, 2006, the City of Brockton agreed to invest $86 million to improve its sewage treatment system and pay a civil fine to resolve allegations that the system violated its permitted discharge limits for various pollutants including biological oxygen demand, total suspended solids, phosphorous, total residual chlorine, fecal coliform, and ammonia. The City has also agreed to undertake three Supplemental Environmental Projects that include a post-upgrade water quality assessment of the Salisbury Plain River; contracting for a study to investigate Region-wide alternatives for wastewater treatment; and a pilot program to test for lead in drinking water at the City's public schools.
By agreeing to assess the water quality of the river after it completes construction of the upgrade to its treatment plant, the City will be developing valuable data on the health of the river that will enable regulators to better manage this valuable resource. An investigation of wastewater treatment alternatives for southeastern Massachusetts will address concerns raised by other communities in the area looking for ways to dispose of their wastewater in a manner consistent with the state and federal environmental laws. Developing options such as ground discharges and decentralized treatment units will allow for growth in these communities without harming the environment.
Hartford, Connecticut: On May 11, 2006, the United States filed a consent decree in federal court, which requires Hartford's Metropolitan District Commission ("MDC") to address unpermitted sanitary sewer overflows ("SSOs") into the Connecticut River and its tributaries. Over the past five years, the MDC has discharged approximately 120 million gallons of untreated sewage from eight unpermitted overflow points in Hartford, Newington, Rocky Hill, West Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut. These discharges contain raw sewage that can carry bacteria, viruses and other organisms that can cause life-threatening ailments.
The MDC will completely eliminate discharges from these structural SSO locations over the next 7 to12 years at an estimated cost of $120 million. In addition, the MDC will implement a Capacity, Management, Operation and Maintenance Program; implement a Long-Term Preventative Maintenance Program; and conduct modeling, investigations, and assessments necessary to determine how to best eliminate the structural SSOs and how to reduce extraneous flow entering the MDC's sanitary collection system.


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Greg Laurie Daily Devotion - Feb. 24, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
They Had Been with Jesus
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.
—Acts 4:13
The number of people who claim to be Christians today has never been higher. Yet our moral and spiritual climate has never been lower.
You see, most people don't understand what it really means to be a Christian, to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
The apostles Peter and John were men who were like Jesus. One day, when they went to the temple to pray, they healed a man who had been lame since birth. Then they preached with such boldness that 5,000 people believed that day (see Acts 3–4).
The apostles were arrested and questioned, but those who questioned them—even though they were nonbelievers—could hear the voice of Jesus speaking through Peter and John. They could see Him in their eyes. They could tell that these were followers of Jesus:
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. (Acts 4:13)
It was unmistakable. Even their enemies could see that Jesus Christ had profoundly impacted these men.
Could a statement like that be said of you? Could it be said of you and of me that we have been with Jesus?
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The Eckhart Public Library campus will be closing at 5:00 on Friday, August 29th in observance of Labor Day. The Teen Library will not open.
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September 30, 2013
TT: The Linda Ronstadt challenge
Christopher Lydon recently interviewed Linda Ronstadt, extracting from her a list of thirteen "singers and songs--the personal favorites, the masterpieces, the ones we called 'pop' and 'love songs' that may last as long as Schubert and Brahms." He challenged me on Facebook to come up with a similar list of my own. Here it is, more or less.
This is not, however, a list of my favorite songs, or my favorite singers (though some of both made the list). It's nothing more--or less--than a list of fifteen performances that have particular personal meaning for me. It ranges much more widely than I expected when I first started drawing it up, encompassing everything from a down-home Delta blues to a pair of songs written in languages that I don't speak:
• Black Crow (Joni Mitchell, performed by Diana Krall)
• Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (written and performed by Lucinda Williams)
• Century's End (written and performed by Donald Fagen)
• Crazy Arms (Ralph Mooney-Charles Seals, performed by Ray Price)
• Devil Got My Woman (written and performed by Skip James)
• Dilate (written and performed by Ani DiFranco)
• Doce de Coco (Jacob do Bandolim, performed by Luciana Souza)
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (written and performed by Hank Williams)
• Lonely Town (Leonard Bernstein-Betty Comden-Adolph Green, performed by Frank Sinatra)
• Mama, You Been on My Mind (Bob Dylan, performed by Judy Collins)
• Mamie's Blues (Mamie Desdunes, performed by Jelly Roll Morton)
• La Mer (written and performed by Charles Trenet)
• Skylark (Hoagy Carmichael-Johnny Mercer, performed by Nancy LaMott)
• The Weight (Robbie Robertson, performed by The Band)
• Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb, performed by Glen Campbell)
Were I to draw up a similar list next week, it might well be entirely different. But I doubt it.
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It's Winter in America: The United States Air Force No Longer Needs God
In the early 1980s—during the Cold War–the military wanted Christians, and aggressively pursued them. Recruiting magazines would profile outstanding Airman, Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, many of them Christians.
Christians answered the call in droves. They would enroll in West Point, Annapolis, and Colorado Springs. They would attend college with ROTC scholarships. They would join the ranks of the Rangers and Special Forces and Reconnaissance Marines. They would become infantrymen, tank commanders, fighter pilots, bomber pilots, cargo pilots, and parajumpers. They would ascend the ranks and transform the United States armed forces—the morale of which was in tatters in the wake of Vietnam—into the Cold War force that beat the Communists.
That is not today's military.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the once Christian-friendly military began to push the Christian aside. The staunch conservative Reagan had given way to a more pragmatic Bush, who would give way to the draft-evading social engineer that was Clinton.
A military that, for over two hundred years, refused to send women into combat began contemplating exactly that. A military that, for over two hundred years, had found homosexuality to be incompatible with military service, was forced to enact a "Don't Ask/Don't Tell" policy as a compromise to Clinton's desire to allow to gays openly serve in the military.
A military that once openly courted Christians became increasingly hostile to them, first in a passive-aggressive manner, then just plain aggressive. First, it was packaged as a crackdown on "proselytizing". The argument was, "No one is forcing you to recant your faith; you just need to keep it to yourself."
Now, caving to the harassment of the American Humanist Association, the United States Air Force enlistees are no longer required to say, "so help me God" in their enlistment oaths. This is no surprise being that the federal courts have become hostile to the Judeo-Christian bedrock that has served as our basis for law and justice.
Sadly, the military is the one institution for which the sobriety and severity of service and obligation cannot be understated. Whereas our Founders pledged life, fortune, and sacred honor, our military delivered that in blood.
Whereas bureaucrats obsess over policies that cost much and mean little, a military officer must make life and death decisions in combat. At his order, men and women will fight, if necessary, to the death. If a situation becomes sufficiently dire, he may order them to "stand and die", refusing them the option of retreating. If an officer loses men in combat, he never completely returns home.
"So help me God" provides a stunning reminder of the high honor and responsibility of a Soldier, Sailor, Airman, or Marine. "So help me God" implies accountability to an authority greater than any court of Man.
While the military is not, and has never been, a monastery, our military leaders have long understood the importance of the Christian foundation of our society, and the place of the military in upholding those high ideals, even as servicemen at times fall short of them. This is why General George Washington gave thanks to God in victory; this is why Col. Henry Mucci—addressing the Rangers of the 6th Ranger Battalion prior to the Cabanatuan POW rescue mission—insisted, "One more thing, there will be no Atheists on this trip."
To take God out of the oath of enlistment undermines those fundamental ideals and reduces the accountability of servicemen at a time when they need more of it.
The United States is at a critical juncture. Benjamin Franklin, once said, "A Republic, if you can keep it," we are well on our way to giving up that Republic. While Franklin was no evangelical Christian, he, like John Adams, respected the influence of the Christian in matters of law and justice, as well as public discourse.
There are so many aspects of American life that are rooted in Christianity: the work ethic; the equality of persons before the law; free exchange of goods and services; the premise that, no matter your past, you can live a reformed life and gain both property and respect; even charity; all of these are rooted in Christian doctrine.
When a society dismisses God, then the worst becomes possible, as this welcomes an insidious pluralism that invites a new era of barbarism.
A military that dismisses God neither upholds the ideals that made America a great country, nor reflects the values to which Americans should aspire, and in fact openly courts the very elements antithetical to the values and virtues that made American exceptional and won the Cold War.
It's Winter in America.Read More
Morality Has Its Advantages After All
The latest generation to reach adulthood has often been criticized for being lazy, selfish and, in general, lacking any sense of a moral compass. Many of the critics turn to our country's straying from Christian principles as the cause for this, and that very well may be the case. But it goes much deeper than that.
It seems that when critics of Christianity worked valiantly to eradicate all traces of the religion that led our country to be a global super power from public schools, workplaces, and government offices, they inadvertently removed all morality along with it. And it appears that morality actually plays a role beyond the confines of church.
The New York Times recently ran an Op-Ed titled, The Mental Virtues, where author, David Brooks, lays out the moral values necessary to be a person of character in boring old workplaces across the country: love of learning, courage, firmness, humility, autonomy, and generosity.
According to Brooks these characteristics are what separate the everyday heroes from the schlumps who think they don't matter and their choices don't matter either. As the article points out heroes aren't just soldiers on the battle field, but can be anyone who possesses the values and actions of a hero. Intellectual virtues are attainable and needed in every school, office building and government complex.
"In fact, the mind is embedded in human nature, and very often thinking well means pushing against the grain of our nature — against vanity, against laziness, against the desire for certainty, against the desire to avoid painful truths. Good thinking isn't just adopting the right technique. It's a moral enterprise and requires good character, the ability to go against our lesser impulses for the sake of our higher ones."
This 'moral enterprise' sounds eerily like Biblical morality. Wouldn't it be amazing if practical morality was once again taught to children in school? Wouldn't it change the game if employers and teachers measured success based on one's character and morality rather than their performance record?
While Brooks is definitely on to something with his identified moral values, unless they are coupled with the underlying beliefs of Christianity they are not only unattainable, but they become a rigid measuring stick in which no one can ever be good enough. In fact, that sentiment is precisely what led to morality being tossed out the window over the last century. When Christ and grace and mercy were pushed to the back and the rules of Christianity became the focus, their appeal lessoned, leading to the mess we are in now.
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Another Major Shortcoming in the Labor Force: Intangible Skills
The education establishment in the United States—from K-12 to higher education—is in serious trouble on many fronts. Students are graduating high school with scant job prospects, ill-prepared for the demands of the workforce. Even worse, college students are graduating with 6-figures of non-dischargeable student loan debt and little connection between their education and the demands of the workforce. Except for some STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)-based fields, the costs of a college degree are fast-becoming out of touch with the benefits. If the problems stopped here, it would be bad enough.
Now, we have even more bad news: not only are workers not technically-qualified for many of the good jobs, they are lacking basic common-sense skills: communication, basic professionalism, even team orientation. This is reflective not only of a breakdown in our education system, but at the basic building block of society. Historically, these intangible skills are learned in the home.
While Burstein correctly points out the lack in such skills, she is errant in thinking that Common Core will resolve this dilemma. It will not, and in fact will only exacerbate the existing problems in the education system. While the technical skill gap reflects a failure in schools, the intangible skill gap reflects a larger failure in homes.
Critical thinking is not learned solely from reading literature—although that can help—but is also gained from managing complex situations with varying levels of risk. You don't learn that on a smartphone or a video game.
A wise engineering professor once said, "You don't really start learning until you encounter a problem that you cannot solve." He was spot-on: when you have to dig outside your body of knowledge to arrive at an answer, then you begin to really learn. This isn't merely about engineering, it's about life.
In childhood and adolescence, one must learn the rigorous subjects: addition and subtraction, multiplication tables, algebra, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and even chemistry and physics. That necessary body of learning also includes playing team sports, doing odd jobs, learning to prioritize, and working with people. In the process, one learns the complexities of decision-making, as well as responsibility and accountability.
Just as you begin learning when you encounter a problem you cannot solve, you also begin learning when you fail. In homes and schools alike, students often aren't allowed to fail; this deprives them of a very hard reality of life, as failure is an opportunity to learn risk management and responsibility, not to mention integrity.
While schools—to include colleges—can help on these fronts, these are the intangibles that children and teens need to learn at home.
The workforce is, and has always been, fickle and demanding. Employers need workers who will show up on time and ready to contribute, who have interpersonal skills, who can work with a team to solve problems, who will put in the extra time when that becomes necessary, who will take prudent risks and accept responsibility.
That begins with parents.Read More
Close, But Not Quite: Tim Elmore, the Plumb Line, and Timeless Values
The moral decline in America is finally gaining notice, and not merely from Christians. Recently, Tim Elmore—writing in The Huffington Post—addressed this very issue. Elmore rightly concludes that absolute truths are necessary. As Elmore put it:
"While the list isn't likely long, we must maintain a universal set of values, ethics and morals among all humanity. But as the pendulum of history swung from black and white to gray, we've become afraid to do so. Have you noticed the drift away from any judgment or evaluation of behavior for fear it's improper? In the name of tolerance, our ability to possess wise judgment evaporates."
As a result, what we have now is a generation of young adults who are not just amoral but also apathetic. Elmore suggests that the only remedy for this is a set of core principles that can be agreed upon by everyone and accepted as truths in any and all circumstances:
"At the risk of oversimplifying, we need a plumb line for our morals today — an outside source that helps us evaluate our shifting morals so they aren't merely reflections of what gives us pleasure, what others think or feel, or even what gets us where we want to go…At the same time, it seems so antiquated to bring up old, stale, traditional values…I simply propose that old doesn't equal irrelevant. Isn't it possible that "old" could mean timeless? Even though our world population now contains over seven billion people, could we say (for instance) that love, honesty and empathy are timeless and universal for all people?"
This is where Elmore, sadly, begins to break down: while love, honesty, and empathy sound wonderful, they are hardly universal for all people.
The Auca Indians of Ecuador, for example, were legendary for their savagery: they killed others—and even themselves—for any or no reason. The first Christian missionaries—among whom were Jim Elliot and Nate Saint—died at the hands of the Aucas in 1956. Thankfully, Christians continued to reach out to them and, today, the once-murderous Aucas are largely Christian.
Nor is "love"–even when accepted in a society—understood the same way in all cultures. The ancient Greeks engaged in pederasty—sexual relations between adult males and boys. In the Middle East, "child brides" are not uncommon.
While Elmore is correct in that we need a plumb line, he incorrectly posits that we can derive it from universal cultural norms. While American society once had an objective plumb line, we have, over the years, buried it as we collectively exchanged the truth of God for the fleeting pleasures of a moral relativism that is giving way to an insidious Nihilism that is evidenced—at the margins—by suicides and mass shootings.
Unfortunately, Christians have created some of the problem here, as Christians often make the mistake of presenting their faith in terms of morality rather than core principles rooted in the person and character of God. On one extreme, Christianity is all rule-based, performance-based morality that leads to frustration as we fall short of the glory; on the other extreme, we have a morality is disengaged from the world and resembles Islamic fatalism rather than proclamations of a loving God who made everything in His wisdom and His time and His goodness, and Who reaches out to a fallen Humanity.
Other Christians, adding insult to injury, have not only bought into relative morality, they also promote it within the church, further muddying the waters: they present lies packaged as truth.
While Elmore was spot-on in his assessment of our young generation, his recommended treatment is short of the glory.
That God sent His Son–who took time to chat with a Samaritan woman, call out tax collectors and "sinners", heal people who were otherwise outcasts, work tirelessly in training and teaching twelve men who would turn the world upside down without firing a shot–into the world, provides a basis for the compassion of Christian morality.
As David said in Psalm 103, "Bless the Lord, and forget not His benefits."
May our nation rediscover that the Lord is good, and His ways are the paths of life.Read More


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Nice stuff, thanks for sharing.
Note that for events handlers there is a trick to avoid checking for null:
public event EventHandler Updated = delegate{}; public void Update() { Updated(this, EventArgs.Empty); }
So from the start you have at least one empty delegate to execute, and a priori even a malicious code can't remove the original empty delegate so you always have one.
You can consider this an application of the "null object" pattern.


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Java virtual machine
A Java virtual machine (JVM) is an abstract computing machine. There are three notions of the JVM: specification, implementation, and instance. An instance of the JVM can execute any executable computer program compiled into Java bytecode. It is the code execution component of the Java platform.
The Java virtual machine is called "virtual" because it is an abstract computer defined by a specification. JVM specification omits implementation details that are not part of the Java virtual machine's specification. For example, the memory layout of run-time data areas, the garbage-collection algorithm used, and any internal optimization of the Java virtual machine instructions (their translation into machine code). The main reason for this omission is to not unnecessarily constrain the creativity of implementors. Any Java application can be run only inside a run-time instance of some concrete implementation of the abstract specification of the Java virtual machine [1]
JVM languages[edit]
JVM Language is any language with functionality that can be expressed in terms of a valid class file which can be hosted by the Java Virtual Machine. A class file contains Java Virtual Machine instructions (or bytecodes ) and a symbol table, as well as other ancillary information. The class file format, the hardware- and operating system- independent binary format used to represent compiled classes and interfaces.[3]Java 7 JVM implements JSR 292: Supporting Dynamically Typed Languages on the Java Platform, a new feature which supports dynamically typed languages in the JVM.This feature is developed within the Da Vinci Machine Project which mission is to extend the JVM so that it supports languages other than Java. [4]
Bytecode verifier[edit]
A basic philosophy of Java is that it is inherently safe from the standpoint that no user program can crash the host machine or otherwise interfere inappropriately with other operations on the host machine, and that it is possible to protect certain methods and data structures belonging to trusted code from access or corruption by untrusted code executing within the same JVM. Furthermore, common programmer errors that often lead to data corruption or unpredictable behavior such as accessing off the end of an array or using an uninitialized pointer are not allowed to occur. Several features of Java combine to provide this safety, including the class model, the garbage-collected heap, and the verifier.
The JVM verifies all bytecode before it is executed. This verification consists primarily of three types of checks:
- Branches are always to valid locations
- Data is always initialized and references are always type-safe
- Access to private or package private data and methods is rigidly controlled
The first two of these checks take place primarily during the verification step that occurs when a class is loaded and made eligible for use. The third is primarily performed dynamically, when data items or methods of a class are first accessed by another class.
The verifier permits only some bytecode sequences in valid programs, e.g. a jump (branch) instruction can only target an instruction within the same method. Furthermore, the verifier ensures that any given instruction operates on a fixed stack location,[5] allowing the JIT compiler to transform stack accesses into fixed register accesses. Because of this, that the JVM is a stack architecture does not imply a speed penalty for emulation on register-based architectures when using a JIT compiler. In the face of the code-verified JVM architecture, it makes no difference to a JIT compiler whether it gets named imaginary registers or imaginary stack positions that must be allocated to the target architecture's registers. In fact, code verification makes the JVM different from a classic stack architecture, of which efficient emulation with a JIT compiler is more complicated and typically carried out by a slower interpreter.
Code verification also ensures that arbitrary bit patterns cannot get used as an address. Memory protection is achieved without the need for a memory management unit (MMU). Thus, JVM is an efficient way to get memory protection on simple architectures that lack an MMU. This is analogous to managed code in Microsoft's .NET Common Language Runtime, and conceptually similar to capability architectures such as the Plessey 250, and IBM System/38.
The original specification for the bytecode verifier used natural language that was incomplete or incorrect in some respects. A number of attempts have been made to specify the JVM as a formal system. By doing this, the security of current JVM implementations can more thoroughly be analyzed, and potential security exploits prevented. It will also be possible to optimize the JVM by skipping unnecessary safety checks, if the application being run is proven to be safe.[6]
Bytecode instructions[edit]
The JVM has instructions for the following groups of tasks:
- Load and store
- Arithmetic
- Type conversion
- Object creation and manipulation
- Operand stack management (push / pop)
- Control transfer (branching)
- Method invocation and return
- Throwing exceptions
- Monitor-based concurrency
The aim is binary compatibility. Each particular host operating system needs its own implementation of the JVM and runtime. These JVMs interpret the bytecode semantically the same way, but the actual implementation may be different. More complex than just emulating bytecode is compatibly and efficiently implementing the Java core API that must be mapped to each host operating system.
The Java virtual machine heap is the area of memory used by the JVM, specifically HotSpot, for dynamic memory allocation.[7] The heap is divided into generations:
- The young generation stores short-lived objects that are created and immediately garbage collected.
- Objects that persist longer are moved to the old generation (also called the tenured generation).
The permanent generation (or permgen) was used for class definitions and associated metadata prior to Java 8. Permanent generation was not part of the heap.[8][9] The permanent generation was removed from Java 8.[10]
Originally there was no permanent generation, and objects and classes were stored together in the same area. But as class unloading occurs much more rarely than objects are collected, moving class structures to a specific area allowed significant performance improvements.[8]
Secure execution of remote code[edit]
A virtual machine architecture allows very fine-grained control over the actions that code within the machine is permitted to take. This is designed to allow safe execution of untrusted code from remote sources, a model used by Java applets. Applets run within a VM incorporated into a user's browser, executing code downloaded from a remote HTTP server. The remote code runs in a restricted sandbox, which is designed to protect the user from misbehaving or malicious code. Publishers can purchase a certificate with which to digitally sign applets as safe, giving them permission to ask the user to break out of the sandbox and access the local file system, clipboard, execute external pieces of software, or network.
C to bytecode compilers[edit]
|This section relies on references to primary sources. (November 2011)
From the viewpoint of a compiler, the Java virtual machine is just another processor with an instruction set, Java bytecode, for which code can be generated. The JVM was originally designed to execute programs written in the Java language. However, the JVM provides an execution environment in the form of a bytecode instruction set and a runtime system that is general enough that it can be used as the target for compilers of other languages.
Because of its close association with the Java language, the JVM performs the strict runtime checks mandated by the Java specification. That requires C to bytecode compilers to provide their own lax machine abstraction, for instance producing compiled code that uses a Java array to represent main memory (so pointers can be compiled to integers), and linking the C library to a centralized Java class that emulates system calls. Most or all of the compilers listed below use a similar approach.
Several C to bytecode compilers exist:
- NestedVM translates C to MIPS machine language first before converting to Java bytecode.
- Cibyl works similarly to NestedVM but targets J2ME devices.
- LLJVM compiles C to LLVM IR, which is then translated to JVM bytecode.
- C2J is also GCC-based, but it produces intermediary Java source code before generating bytecode.[11] Supports the full ANSI C runtime. Available as a Win32 binary or as a Java executable.
- Java Backend for GCC, possibly the oldest project of its kind, was developed at The University of Queensland in 1999.
- Javum is an attempt to port the full GNU environment to the JVM, and includes one of the above compilers packaged with additional utilities.
Compilers targeting Java bytecode have been written for other programming languages, including Ada and COBOL.
Starting with Java Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0, changes to the JVM specification have been developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 924.[12] As of 2006[update], changes to specification to support changes proposed to the class file format (JSR 202)[13] are being done as a maintenance release of JSR 924. The specification for the JVM is published in book form,[14] known as blue book. The preface states:
We intend that this specification should sufficiently document the Java Virtual Machine to make possible compatible clean-room implementations. Oracle provides tests that verify the proper operation of implementations of the Java Virtual Machine.
One of Oracle's JVMs is named HotSpot. Clean-room Java implementations include Kaffe and IBM J9. Oracle retains control over the Java trademark, which it uses to certify implementation suites as fully compatible with Oracle's specification.
See also[edit]
- List of Java virtual machines
- Comparison of Java virtual machines
- Comparison of application virtual machines
- Automated exception handling
- Java performance
- List of JVM languages
- Java processor
- Common Language Runtime
- ^ Inside the Java Virtual Machine by Bill Venners, Chapter 5 http://www.artima.com/insidejvm/ed2/index.html
- ^ 1996, possibly the first new language specifically designed to run on the JVM)
- ^ The Java® Virtual Machine Specification Java SE 7 Edition http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/jvms7.pdf
- ^ New JDK 7 Feature: Support for Dynamically Typed Languages in the Java Virtual Machine http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/dyntypelang-142348.html
- ^ "The Verification process". The Java Virtual Machine Specification. Sun Microsystems. 1999. Retrieved 2009-05-31.
- ^ Stephen N. Freund and John C. Mitchell. 1999. A formal framework for the Java bytecode language and verifier. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA '99), A. Michael Berman (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 147–166. DOI=10.1145/320384.320397 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/320384.320397
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions about Garbage Collection in the Hotspot Java Virtual Machine". Sun Microsystems. 6 February 2003. Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ a b Masamitsu, Jon (28 November 2006). "Presenting the Permanent Generation". Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ Nutter, Charles (11 September 2008). "A First Taste of InvokeDynamic". Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ "JEP 122: Remove the Permanent Generation". Oracle Corporation. 2012-12-04. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
- ^ "C2J Converter FAQ". Tech.novosoft-us.com. Retrieved 2013-01-30.
- ^ JSR 924, specifies changes to the JVM specification starting with J2SE 5.0
- ^ JSR 202, specifies a number of changes to the class file format
- ^ The Java Virtual Machine Specification (the first and second editions are also available online)
- Clarifications and Amendments to the Java Virtual Machine Specification, Second Edition includes list of changes to be made to support J2SE 5.0 and JSR 45
- JSR 45, specifies changes to the class file format to support source-level debugging of languages such as JavaServer Pages (JSP) and SQLJ that are translated to Java
External links[edit]
- The Java Virtual Machine Specification
- Java implementations at DMOZ
- Java Virtual Machine Download Link
- JVM implementation in pure Java


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In Da Lab at UOP – 1st Quarter 09
This is my interpretation of the stresses of the first quarter of dental school. Also it is me making good on my campaign promise – thanks Co2012 for your support! Thanks for those that appear in the video, and I want to emphasize that any harm to a mannequin was unintended and everything is fine. And again, I know exactly how white I am, and singing is not my forte. You know where to find me…
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subo's rant on 784 led to this. never apologise for a good rant, subo. :-)
subo's rant on 784 led to this. never apologise for a good rant, subo. :-)
I could rant and rant and rant about this. just trying having clinical depression while still going to church… finally, i took 3 years out, time to recover.
That's sad. We should NEVER have to leave church to recover from stuff. Ugh.
hey, cheers.
I got over 'it' 17 years ago…
trouble is 'it' didn't find that I'd got over 'it' until a couple
of years ago
and even now
'it' tries to raise 'it's' ugly head every now and again in the
hope that I will give 'it' house room
and sometimes I do
which gives 'it' a chance to hurt
but those times are shorter now
and I'm almost hoping that 'it'
will give up and lie down
well, pigs fly don't they?
I don't remember Jesus saying that about a bruised reed. Can someone give me the reference please?
Doing anything with depression is difficult. Going to church can feel doubly worse because you feel people should care rather than feeling uncomfortable about it.
I think where I go now they are quite good at understanding how depression affects things. One of the church leaders had bad depression and had to go on anti-depressants and I feel that people th ere DO care if I'm very sad, but often people don't know what to do. I mean I don't know what to do either and I've had my whole life to get used to it so I can't blame them.
What I have is more an ongoing feeling of bereavement though. I don't know if that's atypical or if most people's depression consists largely of that sort of feeling. I guess that's what Freud's 'Mourning and Melancholia' is about – hmm, just thought of that. Will have to read it.
it wasn't Jesus, you're right Tiggy
the reference is Isaiah, 42:3
but that is one of the passages that are generally taken to be prophecies about the messiah.
it is a favourite verse of mine,
Not Jesus, ah maybe some other messiah then? lol
Isn't there the danger on this esteemed site that, if the person to the right was swapped to the usual church graphic, we would be the unfeeling finger-wagger to the left?
Personally….I can't follow that sentence.
Hold on though….it all gets a bit circular. I suppose it depends on what one's criticism of the church is. But I've spent too long arguing about Cuba – my brain is done in.
This can go 2 ways.
Interesting to see that white shirt dude knows how much time God has set aside for olive shirt guy's healing to take.
And that God apparently hasn't passed that info to olive shirt guy.
"You aren't the same as me, therefore you are defective."
Now, that said, it is possible to get hung up on something, ruminate, ruminate, ruminate, and ruminate some more.
And someone may need to supply a "jump start" to climbing out of that rut.
Wouldn't, 'a bunk-up' be a more appropriate metaphor, given that it's climbing out of something? A 'jump start' sounds a bit like shock treatment and could go horribly wrong, but lifting someone up is usually good as long as the person appreciates that not everyone is up to climbing.
Over here, I have no idea what 'a bunk-up' is.
Unless it's where you are sleeping in the 3 level bunks in an Army Barracks
Forrest – it's when someone is climbing up somewhere and you give them a lift up the first bit, like usually with your cupped hands under one foot or sometimes by them standing on your back. I dunno, don't think I've ever had one – probably too heavy. They do it a lot in old war films, like when they're escaping from Colditz etc. I suppose it derives from helping someone into an upper bunk.
I've found a lot of churches with attitudes like this to depression or similar. Come to that I've found some that caused it and then talked at their victims like this.
As an aside, that's why I find 'Testimony time' so difficult: The ones I go to seem to feature people who had problems in the past but everything is alright now, because God dealt with it. This isn't much help to anyone who isn't 'better'. I understand the importance of saying what God is doing, but it always seems to tip in this direction, and stories become ever more dramatic and irrelevant.
I guess there is a happy medium: Anyone know of one?
ummmm, tad too close for comfort that one.
still covering scars from those type of conversations.
isn't it often easier for us to talk….than to listen and just be?
What about the smoldering wick? :-)
Matthew 12:15 Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. Many followed him, and he healed all their sick, 16warning them not to tell who he was. 17This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
18″Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
19He will not quarrel or cry out;
no one will hear his voice in the streets.
20A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory.
21In his name the nations will put their hope."
Jon – Definitely the danger of us all. I'm sure, whether it's towards and individual or an institution, we all have someone we would like to say 'haven't you had long enough to sort yourself out!' to.
Unless, of course, you are all more patient than I am!
Re: #14 "I guess there is a happy medium: Anyone know of one?"
Madam Rue on Thirty-Fourth and Vine?
Forrest – :lol:
I remember when I was training to be a scientist, before I went into the ministry I was part of a small group in our student village who got together for prayer each night at the end of our studies. there was one night when a more Pentecostal person joined us and after we had sung a bit and prayed a bit he admitted he was confused because I have a physical disability caused by brain damage when I was a baby and he could not understand why God had not cured me yet. He was obviously very distressed because he felt that I should be cured. However I have discovered in my pastoral work that the disability is actually a blessing quite often. I think we should all reflect on God's words to Job, "Who is this that darkens counsel without knowledge?" People who expect themselves or others to be healed in their time and not God's are always going to be in for a shock.
The more I look at this, the more I think it likely that the one on the right is preparing to chin the one on the left :lol:
Yeah, give 'im 'eadbutts!
(reference to '80s song – no idea which)
Lol, Forrest I thought you were referring to a drag queen when you said Madame Rue. I used to know a very happy medium called Audrey who worked in our library.
At our Bible study group today people were saying it actually seem to get harder after you become a Christian. One lady said she felt more stuff coming to the surface that she needed to sort out and that you tend to challenge yourself more. Maybe we become more introspective like Augustine who allegedly wrote the first biography apart from stuff like My Campaigns in Germany by J. Caesar.
The group has decided that each week one of us will 'tell our story', but I'm not at all sure I feel up to it or want to. It feels too painful, especially in a group setting at lunchtime, and I'm not sure I want them to know. It's too hard and complicated for me to make sense of myself, let alone having a bunch of other people trying to.
I do have a lot of patience with people not being able to sort themselves out and I'm friends with someone whom everyone in Bath knows to be a 'difficult case' and seems to have given up on. If someone I know is a mess it just means I can relate to them more so I still enjoy their company. :-)
I don't necessarily see brokenness as a problem. Anyone know that song by 'I am Jen', 'Broken in all the right places'?
"Lol, Forrest I thought you were referring to a drag queen when you said Madame Rue. I used to know a very happy medium called Audrey who worked in our library."
Say, how many people know the 'oldies' song that reference is to?
What someone said to me that I find helpful is that in the broken bread we're all broken but when we feed ourselves we come together. But we're still broken. It's just that some folks put on much better fronts – e.g., a narcissist can be more charming and personable than someone who is in the throes of a depression but both are equally alone.
sometimes it feels as though churches 'identify' your 'status', and work consistantly to maintain it for you
Rocking rev @23 – hey I found that really helpful- it reminded of a book I read where it talked about Jesus as the 'wounded healer,' as even in in his resurrection body he bore the wounds of the crucifixon, and was looking at this as a model for ministry; acknowledging our own brokeness, and allowing us to minister through that to bring comfort and hope to others. Jon, i find a of lot of this here at asbo! And I appreciate it.
I've also had struggles with depression, also had hideous experiences of well meaning people trying to cast demons out of me! I can laugh now, but at the time it was quite counter produtive!
Shudder! We caught some kid from the Christian Union at my university, trying to exorcise our friend who was schizophrenic.
hiya rockingRev, agree 'disability is actually a blessing quite often', am sure your much more of a blessing than you'll ever know
I remember as a scared kid, praying God wouldn't heal me – or do anything weird, as I was dragged around the range of ranting wild healers, – why does healing involve going up the front, and giving away any sense of privacy?
Subo, your comment made me so sad for all he kids who have to go through that. so unfair.
thanks Chris
it makes one value the good stuff though, like Taizé where Bro Roger used to speak about God's love and understanding of us


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I almost bought this for $5 at the dollar store
Oh, shi! ceph-the-rat!
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i don't understand the animal crossing universe's economy at all why are bugs and fish worth more than furniture and clothes and where is the demand for these creatures coming from what was/are tom nook/reese doing with all these critters they're shelling out hundreds of thousands of bells for and why are there no bug or fish villagers is this some animal farm shit where all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others what the fuck kind of game am i playing
For that matter, are the cakes and other food vegan, or do they take cow villagers' milk and chicken villagers' eggs? Is the milk at the Roost soy milk or something, or, again, cow villagers' milk?
The milk at the Roost is crop milk, obviously.
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#so i really do not get that 7th panel #with robin winning gotham high's science fair i guess?
Haha! Nooo, this is a crossover with B:TAS. Scarecrow was poisoning football players at Dick's university with fear toxin in a powder form. He was going to drop it into the football stadium during an important game and infect the entire stadium. Dick had already been infected so was terrified of everything, but he got up his courage to jump from above the stadium to catch the vial of toxin before it broke over the game.
I like your idea, though. It's very Golden Age. XD
Little Bergmite got separated from its herd in a blizzard at night. It uses Flash to chase away the shadows.
Someone validate my opinion…
I hate debating via internet, I don't even really like debating in life unless I am fully prepared or have in depth knowledge but anyways in crossfit land someone posted about this Transgender athlete that is suing crossfit, and it's a bit of a difficult thing to figure out exactly about where she can compete and I am not knowledgable enough about hormones and muscles to really have an opinion
As I both see and understand it, once someone's birth certificate has been changed, they are legally recognized as that sex and by law must be treated as such. If this athlete is legally recognized as female, she should be able to compete with other women. I think your debate partner has a very shallow understanding of how hormones work and standard hormone therapy. (I obviously only have an outsider's understanding of hormone therapy, but it's not that difficult a concept.) There's a huge natural overlap between men and women in hormone profiles, so it's ridiculous to say, "This person has an advantage because they had more testosterone growing up!" I suspect that most athletes have above average levels of testosterone, but regardless they all fall on a range, so one woman is always going to have a higher testosterone to oestrogen ratio than the others. And anyway, the woman in your example is very likely on hormone therapy, so her hormone profile is probably closer to the "standard female" than her competitors'. She may have had an advantage in building muscle initially, but she may be at a disadvantage keeping it. I'm not aware of any studies that have looked into the issue, but you might find something if you look into it.
Also, that guy deliberately misgendering someone is disgusting. WTF.
ugh i want to eat better - I'd save a lot of money, and feel a lot better - but i don't think i have the spoons to do so. it takes too much foresight and it makes a mess of the kitchen, and if i have the spoons to make food I don't have any left to clean up when im done.
What works for me is making one big meal that lasts a week. It takes about two days worth of spoons for me unless I have someone to help with getting groceries. On the first day, decide what you want to make and go buy the ingredients, and then cook on the second day. Things like soups, chili, and casseroles are especially great; because they don't require much actual cooking, they make a ton of food, and you can minimize clean-up by storing them in whatever you used to cook them. If you can't eat the same meal every day, you can modify most meals by adding a topping or using it as a topping (so like adding sour cream to chili or having chili on toast). Vegan and vegetarian recipes also tend to take less prep (most only need to be warmed instead of actually cooked), and they tend to keep better in the fridge so you don't have to mess with freezing and thawing as much.
If you're not already following them, the no-more-ramen blog has great recipes and tips for coping with low spoons. I could also send you a few of my favourite recipes if you're interested?
…particularly in the way that no matter how far we develop and distance ourselves from the wild creatures which lack the wheel and the written word and the industrial war machine, our behavior often mirrors that of far simpler organisms than ourselves. Perhaps there exist certain universal truths…
That's certainly an interesting interpretation, but it's definitely not what's occurring. Your explanation is full of anthropomorphism, assigning critical thinking skills and emotions to animals that are just not capable of that level of complexity. Crabs aren't spiteful, they're purely selfish just like all other solitary species. If the crabs in the bucket pull their escaping conspecifics back into the bucket, it's most likely by accident as the trapped crabs try to use the escaping crab for purchase to make their own escape. They're not thinking, "That other crab is escaping! I'd best pull it back here so we can continue fighting!" They may not even recognize the other crab as a crab in their own blind panic.
As for the similarity between human and animal behaviour, it's most likely due to the limits of evolution. We all share a similar evolutionary history to an extent, and that history dictates what emotions and behaviours we can display. For example, all animals can show aggression under stress; it's something an ancestral species developed that we've all held onto. Recent evolution and environmental factors (including the literal environment, social situations, prior learning, etc.) will influence what emotions and behaviours we actually do display. For example, Bonobos and Chimps share a recent common ancestor, but one species is generally peaceful while the other is extremely violent (this is due to recent evolution). But whether an individual Bonobo or Chimp behaves peacefully or aggressively is also influenced by that individual's learning and the situation (this is due to environmental factors).
Anyway, if you're interested, you should try looking into human evolution and behaviour. It's a pretty new field in biology (separate from anthropology) that investigates how human evolution might explain modern behaviour patterns. It's interesting to look at humans as animals trapped by their evolutionary and personal histories, and it's certainly changed how I see humanity.
Day 28: Gible for cutest Pokemon! Technically, Joltik is cuter, but since I already used them…. Gible is extremely cute, though; it's just a little ball of land-shark doing what land-sharks do. This one wants a hug. Or to eat your face. One of those….
Day 27: Coolest Pokemon. I'm not entirely certain what that means, but I figure Tyranitar is pretty cool.