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Course Description
Herbs are used for both culinary and medicinal purposes--and sometimes even spiritual purposes. All About Herbs will cover all the basics so that you are ready to explore all of Herbs' many uses.
Not only will you learn the history and definitions, but you will also be able to:
- List several benefits of cooking with herbs and have a basic understanding of how to prepare herbs and incorporate them into your favorite foods.
- Grasp the main traditions in herbal medicine.
- Understand the benefits of growing herbs at home and how to plan your first herb garden.
- Know how to select the right herbs, the best containers, the ideal fertilizer and the best amount of water to help your container herb garden thrive.
- Know when to harvest your herbs and how to dry them for storage so you can enjoy home-grown herbs all year long.
-How to start a heart-healthy, cold and flu prevention garden using basil, cayenne and garlic.
- How aloe vera and peppermint make wonderful additions to both your herb garden and your medicine cabinet.
- Know the beauty of rosemary, fennel and lavender and how to grow them yourself.
- Understand how these ingredients can add a lovely scent to your garden and delicate ingredients to make your own cosmetic treatments.
-Know about another facet of herbal medicine, aromatherapy, which is based on the power of herbs' fragrances and helps treat both mood and health issues.
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Course Lessons
Lesson 1: The History of HerbsAt the end of Lesson 1, you should have a solid grasp of what defines an herb, as well as a good overview of the history of herbs around the world.
Lesson 2: Culinary HerbsAt the end of Lesson 2, you should be able to list several benefits of cooking with herbs, and have a basic understanding of how to prepare herbs and incorporate them into your favorite foods.
Lesson 3: Medicinal HerbsAt the end of Lesson 3, you will have a solid grasp of the three primary traditions in herbal medicine -- Greco-Roman, Ayurveda, and Chinese herbal medicine. Plus, you'll learn how medicinal herbs are used in the U.S. today.
Lesson 4: Growing Your Own HerbsAt the end of Lesson 4, you should understand the benefits of growing herbs at home and how to plan your first herb garden.
Lesson 5: Container GardeningAt the end of Lesson 5, you should have a good handle on the unique requirements and advantages of growing herbs in containers.
Lesson 6: Harvesting and Drying HerbsAt the end of Lesson 6, you'll know how to handle your bountiful herb garden harvest, including how and when to harvest your herbs and how to dry them for storage, so you can enjoy home-grown herbs all year long.
Lesson 7: Heart-Healthy, Cold and Flu GardenAt the end of Lesson 7, you'll know how to start a heart-healthy, cold and flu prevention garden using basil, cayenne, and garlic. You may also get inspired to create your own healthy herb garden designed around your tastes and climate.
Lesson 8: First Aid GardenAt the end of Lesson 8, you'll understand how aloe vera and peppermint make wonderful additions to both your herb garden and your medicine cabinet.
Lesson 9: Cosmetics GardenAt the end of Lesson 9, you'll know the beauty of rosemary, fennel, and lavender -- and how to grow them yourself.
Lesson 10: AromatherapyAt the end of Lesson 10, you'll know about another facet of herbal medicine, aromatherapy, which is based on the power of herbs' fragrances and helps treat both mood and health issues.
Lesson 11: Making Herbal PreparationsAt the end of Lesson 11, you will know how to prepare herbs in a variety of forms to best treat any of a number of conditions. These methods range from a simple tea, or infusion, to a good old-fashioned poultice.
- Document Your Lifelong Learning Achievements
- Earn an Official Certificate Documenting Course Hours and CEUs
- Verify Your Certificate with a Unique Serial Number Online
- View and Share Your Certificate Online or Download/Print as PDF
- Display Your Certificate on Your Resume and Promote Your Achievements Using Social Media
Learning OutcomesBy successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the history of herbs.
- Identify, describe, and evaluate various uses for culinary herbs and medicinal herbs.
- Summarize the basic techniques for growing your own herbs.
- Summarize the techniques involved in harvesting and drying herbs, and
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
|An Introduction
|Lesson 1: Define Herbs
|Lesson 1 : The History of Herbs
|Culinary Herbs
|Lesson 2: Herbs in Food Preparation
|Lesson 2 : Culinary Herbs
|Lesson 3: Traditions in Herbs
|Lesson 3 : Medicinal Herbs
|Freight Farming
|Lesson 4: Benefits of Herb Gardening
|Lesson 4: Growing Your Own Herbs
|Lesson 5: Benefits of Container Gardening
|Lesson 5: Container Gardening
|Lesson 6: Consideration for Harvesting and Drying Herbs
|Lesson 6: Harvesting & Drying Herbs
|Lesson 7: Uses and the Medicinal Values of Herbs
|Lesson 7: Heart Healthy & Cold & Flu Garden
|Lesson 8: Uses of Aloe Vera and Peppermint
|Lesson 8: First Aid Garden
|Lesson 9: Uses of Rosemary, Fennel and Lavender
|Lesson 9: Cosmetics Garden
|Lesson 10: Treatment in Aromatherapy
|Lesson 10: Aromatherapy
|Final Thoughts
|Lesson 11: Simple Infused Oil Recipe
|Lesson 11: Making Herbal Preparations
|The Final Exam
|Total Points:
Student Testimonials
- "This class was very helpful and extremely well written. I learned a great deal from this class and this instructor. The instructor was encouraging and answered all questions in a timely manner." -- Kelly S.
- "Great introduction to Herbs. Very happy with my experience in this class....The instructor is knowledgeable, quick to respond to inquiries, and to return grades. Again, no negatives on the course." -- Doug T.
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Stephan Pastis, the author of the "Pearls Before Swine" strip and the bestselling Timmy Failure book series, collaborated with Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. Stephen Pastis photo: Wikipedia; Cartoon: Stephen Pastis / distributed by Universal Uclick
The UpTake: Ever dream of working with your most admired mentor? Cartoonist Stephan Pastis explains how he ended up partnering with Bill Watterson, the very private creator of "Calvin and Hobbes" who left the cartoon scene 20 years ago.
I t's been a long time since we've seen a cartoon strip from reclusive cartoonist Bill Watterson, creator of the syndicated strip "Calvin and Hobbes." His last strip ran in 1995, so almost 20 years have elapsed to be exact.
But he made a surprise return last week through a secret (but now revealed) three-comic collaboration with Stephan Pastis, the cartoonist behind the "Pearls Before Swine" strip, distributed by Universal Uclick, and the bestselling Timmy Failure books for children. Pastis, a big fan of Watterson who unsuccessfully tried to meet him in person a year ago, told interviewers that he is still in disbelief that he actually ended up working with the legendary cartoonist after they partnered on three comic strips that ran last week.
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On his blog Saturday, Pastis described how he and Watterson never actually met but corresponded back and forth via email, never by phone. "Technology is not his friend," he writes of their interactions involving email attachment, scanners and more.
Here are some takeaways for other entrepreneurs who like Pastis want a chance to work with someone they admire:
After getting an MA in journalism from Syracuse University, Teresa worked as a general assignment newspaper reporter—general on purpose because besides the usual city hall and police articles, there was the chance to fly an F-18 with the Blue Angels and tag along with bounty hunters on a stakeout—all good preparation for covering entrepreneurs.
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Joined: 12/19/07
Originally posted by Bama1267
The release of the NGE sucked, and i guess its understandable if you want to spurt out stuff about Pre-NGE to new players (who it is of no relevance to) but is there much point? Life support? Well its been 2+ years and its starting to look like it could recover :)
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Novice Member
Joined: 1/09/07
Originally posted by saay
Funny thing is I've been hearing about how SWG is about to recover for 2 years too.
The bar for SWG was set by pre-CU standards, and now it's trying to achieve that standard by replacing lost elements with that from pre-CU. The problem is simply though. The core of the game is still not pre-CU, so it'll never achieve that lofty statis it had.
Trying to make the game look pre-CU simply doesn't make it pre-CU.
It makes it an illusion.
Novice Member
Joined: 10/05/06
Originally posted by namelessbob
It may very well be LA's fault for this. $OE may very well be the scape goat
But I guarantee because of these people here in this forum, people that are scattered across nearly every MMO out now, and everywhere between
Nobody and I mean Nobody (LA included) will ever do something this stupid again. And especially if $OE continues to bleed/lose potential subs and eventially goes down/out of business. I mean with this much blowback which company in its right mind would do something like this again. As much as you may hate this forum (to the Fanbois/trolls not directed at namelessbob unless you fit the description of fanboi/troll) and the "ex vets", you better think to thank them under your breath because there is no chance that any game you may play in the future will be "REVAMPED" without the communities knowlege and consent.
Old School
Joined: 1/03/04
Originally posted by namelessbob
I wish people would quit saying Lucas Arts forced the NGE on SOE as if SOE is powerless to do anything.
Jeff Freeman and several other SOE devs admitted that they created the idea of the NGE. Freemans blog talked about how they created this idea and had to campaign for weeks to sell the idea to "the man".
Lucas arts is just as much to blame, but they did not force anything on SOE. Both companies got greedy looking at how successful WoW was doing and decided to screw over their customers in favor of the potential customer. SOE was never happy with any of their subscription rates after WOW, in any of their games.
"It was a tough decision we had to make," he said. "We knew we were going to sacrifice some players . . . [but] as a 'Star Wars' license, we should do a lot better than we have been doing." -John Blakely vice president of development at Sony Online Entertainment
Novice Member
Joined: 11/23/05
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
The fact is both are responsible but only one of the two should have known better: SOE. They should have known what this would have done to the game, since they already had a slew of angry Everquest players that they did this to once before. I know people who still refuse to play an SOE game because of changes made to EQ. When they did it to MY game, they said, ya see what I mean? SOE is known for this. LEC had zero experience with MMO players and, while yes they should have done their own research and not trusted SOE, they expected SOE to know what they were doing. It was up to SOE to say, "we can't do this." Instead, they enthusiastically came up with the idea, pushed for it, and did it. PLUS it was SOE's mismanagement of the game that led to low subs in the first place. It was blowing deadlines before launch, and not fixng the game after it came out. While LEC certainly shares the blame, they mostly are to blame for trusting SOE to do their job.
Originally posted by hipiap
LOL you need to get over it your self ....
I was there in 07 lol get a clue most do go back and try it ...
Dude you really need to get a clue...
Originally posted by GreenHell
Directed at $aay not GreenHell
I have tryed so many free trials its not funny, no mater whats said about the game.. but in the end i went back to wow.. why play a poor wow clone when you can play the real thing and btw i dont care for wow all that much but its not buggy and to its not a poor copy of its self....
I dont tell people not to play swg but i do tell them to try the free trial first 100% of feed back is that they are glad they tryed the trial and didnt buy the game lol...
And i was a tkm can i play that class again ?...
Novice Member
Joined: 3/21/06
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
Originally posted by hipiap
[A] I was a day one vet, and quit "for good" around the time of the NGE release. My last experience was a PvP battle that, despite lasting 20 minutes, I won (it was me as Smuggler vs rebel Medic). Like you, I achieved many titles during the hologrind, PvP'd very often, and
I last tuned into SWG out of desperation for a space sim/rpg game back in August '07 and made a few posts about my experiences there on Bloodfin. You may or may not be aware, but Bloodfin is among the top resided servers (and still is) in the game. Basically I swore I was going to commit to a few days at least and give it a fair shake, so I did.
I encounted a few old friends from the "old days" and reminisced with them. The thing I made the most noise about, and felt personally alarmed by, was the general sentiment with these guys that the game was "not yet ready" and would need another year. For a game approaching it's 5th year anniversary, that is completely unacceptable.
I tried a new character and was unimpressed. My old character was the most fun I had in the (new) game, though only the sandbox elements intrigued me. Starports and cantinas were empty for the most part, and without going through BioEngineering, I was really left with few options for play outside of Restuss (which I was, again, rather unimpressed with).
This new game experience crap really doesn't match any of the eloquent -- if not buggy -- beauty that existed with the Pre-9 game. The SWG of old wasn't perfect, but it was a hell of a lot better than this blatantly obvious hackjob. It wasn't any different than the game we had been used to playing already except for the additional button you now have to push to execute specials. That does not a challenging game create. It does, however, work wonderfully at creating a more cumbersome game.
[B] I'll grant there's a lot of hate for SOE and the NGE, and in all honesty, it's very well deserved. SOE has literally led it's players around by the balls and because they control the experience they have every right to do this. People who are having fun with the game (and mind you, many veterans share this origin) tend to not mind the rather ruthless exploitation because the fun outweighs the spite.
Honest to life, it's all fun and games until you yourself get fucked in the ass. Then, and usually only then, does it get personal.
The problem with the veterans of old in this regard is that SOE was way, way too abusive on the old(est) players and it ultimately culminated in the paradigm shift that was NGE. Regardless of anyone's opinions of the NGE, the effects were apparent: it really pissed off a lot of people causing a subscription dip and in many cases pushed people away from the game or even the corporate entity.
The NGE was really just the last straw for many people -- myself included. That said...
[C] The flaming, which of late, is more civil than it used to be, is really just a vent and lamentation for what the game has become. I bet in many cases, a lot of the "vets" flaming the game aren't day one true vets. Not that they have to be, or anything, but the day one guys are generally gone as they were the wiser and ditched this game long before the NGE.
Still outstanding though, is the fact that SOE has done next to nothing to rectify the situation. It's highly unlikely they ever will, either. I think this is perhaps the most horrible part, since all it would take is just one sponsored classic server. And given SOE's disposition with other games, notably EQ2 which has a variety of game modes now, including classic servers, I really don't think this is too much to ask.
-- xpaladin
Hey...OP....how do you like the fact that SOE just announced the coming nerf of Block Chance? How do you think the players who spent millions on block suits and instanc tokens on jewelry feel? All that work, time, and money, made worthless in a heart-beat?
you see, THEY STILL HAVN"T LEARNED ANYTHING FROM NGE. They are still doing it, every couple of months, with these baby NGEs.
People don't want to spend all that time and $$ making their character just right, and have it all gone at a whim. And SOE does this to it's players, over and over and over again. (Glancing blow, anyone?)
I guarantee a lot more people leave SWG because of this nerf...and there aren't that many people left in the game as it is.
Novice Member
Joined: 2/23/06
Originally posted by hipiap
jesus just shut up pls...
a. we will keep on posting bad press and negative feedback about SOE and SWG as long as there are no pre-cu servers, even if this will take the next 10 years, we dont give a shit.
b. its not only about pre-cu and the NGE, its about SOE lying to us over and over again
c. we paid shit loads of money for SWG for years and got the right to bash SOE for as long as we want.
d. whats wrong ? got problems with the population of NGE-swg ? awwww, poor baby.
e. pre-cu ftw.
SOE and NGE-Star Wars Galalaxies:
Novice Member
Joined: 12/19/07
Originally posted by Wharg0ul
Its not an enormous nerf, its something that needed to be done to make things a little more balanced, block suits will still be useful, on par with all the other stats, you cant buy instance tokens anyway and its certainly not made worthless (regardless of the fact that they will have 5 other different stats on that suit anyway). Im not sure how you can compare, altering the ratio to balance something out a bit with the NGE. I doubt anyone will leave over them tinkering with a single statistic that will still be effective.
Hard Core Member
Joined: 8/21/04
Logic be damned!
Congratulations! You are OP #6 to win the "Beating a Dead Horse!" award!
I've probably been lurking for way, way too long.
Novice Member
Joined: 3/20/06
"Denial does not change reality."
Originally posted by saay
It may not be an enormous nerf to you, but it certainly is generating a lot of angst over at the O-boards.
What is more pathetic is the players who are genuinely upset with this change are getting flamed by their fellow players - no sympathy what so ever. They do eat their young over there,
Apprentice Member
Joined: 2/28/07
As a MMORPG customer I'm actually grateful to the SWG fans who haven't 'gotten over it'
Let's say everyone just decided to suck it up after say a month of the NGE release. That would have made SOE think, 'Hey, look! We got away with that garbage, let's see what ELSE we can dump on our customers!'. And other developers would have seen SOW and followed suit.
By not 'getting over it' MMORPG players are finally drawing a line in the sand and letting developers know that while they may have gotten into a habit of dumping complete trash on MMORPG players, their customers are finally not going to stand for it anymore. It's a line that should have been drawn a long time ago.
SOE shouldn't be allowed to forget that. Ever. And given half a chance, they will.
Advanced Member
Joined: 12/29/03
Whatever you do, do NOT speak ill of Asheron's Call 2...
By not 'getting over it' MMORPG players are finally drawing a line in the sand and letting developers know that while they may have gotten into a habit of dumping complete trash on MMORPG players, their customers are finally not going to stand for it anymore. It's a line that should have been drawn a long time ago."
Yes yes, your "not getting over it" seems to be working wonders...
That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!
Novice Member
Joined: 10/13/07
I recieved the vet trial email back in Sept but didn't log in until mid Octobor on one account and late November on another, which is chapter 7. The last time I was in game prior to that was Nov 2005 shortly after the NGE went live. The NGE didn't seem all that much improved, it still has the disgusting GUI, missing animations and static professions.
Originally posted by saayI'm not even complaining about the nerf, really. It's more of a "here we go again", with SOE making a change that negatively impacts the majority of the player base, that no one wants!
And no, you're right. You can't buy instance tokens. you have to find groups in almost deserted servers that aren't made up entirely of jedi, and farm the damn things off instances who's difficulty was designed around combat mechanics which are about to change once again.
And you have to do these instances over, and over, and over again. While waiting for a lockout timer to expire each time.
It's not because of one nerf that people leave the game, it's because it happens constantly, and people are sick of it.
Apprentice Member
Joined: 2/05/06
Originally posted by SlampigAnd do you guys really think someone won't do an NGE again?
Believe me somewhere at sometime, some game will pull the same stunt. With someone at that game saying "Oh we won't do it like SOE did, this time it will be better!" It will happen, mostly due to people being 'human' and thinking they can make more money off of something. Hell for the most part Ultima Online got NGE'd in 2000 with Trammel. Believe me their are still people screaming that the game should have Classic Servers! And that change was just getting people away from Player Killers and Thief's. Same amount of yelling and screaming from the Player Base. Same posts of "Classic Servers or Rollback!" the same doom posts of "UO will be shut down in (X Amount) of (time here)!"
And that change was just due to EA deciding that the old game just didn't work, and people did stay away before it thanks to UO's rep of slow skill gain. And going out of town had you trying to recall before the 187 clan of Player Killers lead by "ikillnoobz" and his mindless lacky's named after WWF Wrestlers, gangsta rappers, and maybe one of the Tiny Toons, killed you, trapped your ghost, and emoted things over your body that would get you in real life thrown in prison for a damn long time.
The fact is this, games will get changed... Even if it's not an NGE someone at the game will decide that one of the Classes or Skills is too powerful and nerf it, ticking people off. It's happened for years, be it a nerf of a few Classes on a MUD. To nerfing or changing a Weapon in an FPS. Or even changing the game... Hit the Fallout 3 forums and see how the old Fallout fans are screaming about Fallout 3 being more 'Elder Scrolls' like, rather then going with the outdated system that Fallout 1 and 2 had... Hell I've seen people screaming about how BioShock isn't System Shock 2, or how Call of Duty 4 should have been based in World War 2... Cuz ya know the Call of Duty name means it's a World War 2 game...
And dear god it happens to Pen and Paper RPG's as well! I myself just started playing Dungeons and Dragons again. And at the place I play at some of the people that go there HATE the new rules and setting. And almost all of them are just down right screaming about the new rules set coming out, that is planing on making D&D more 'WoW' like.
So the big over all point is, games change. Sometimes it's something small that will tick people off, and sometimes it's something big that will tick more people off. It's going to happen, and really you guys can scream untill your blue in the face, but it was still going to change.
Novice Member
Joined: 1/23/08
I want to know this...
Why do the vets get banned for "flaming" in this very forum and yet an NGE'r can come HERE, flame all of us, repeatedly, and yet nothing happens?
Why are some of the threads supporting the vets (you know, who this forum was designed for...) locked and threads like this one, obvious attempt at starting trouble and CLEARLY flaming us are allowed to continue?
Why is MMORPG targeting the vets to ban and delete? Reminds me of the SOE boards right when the NGE came out. Doesn't seem quite fair now does it?
Novice Member
Joined: 7/11/05
Originally posted by MikeMB
Had EverQuest 2 overwrote EverQuest 1... If Call of Duty 4 obliterates the ability to play previous Call of Duty games..... Evolving a series is only symbolically related, but you're probably correct - this would be SWG 2..
I just wish I could play SWG 1 some more.


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This "supposed" game allows you to play as darth vader...
This is freaking dream come true. Goes all the way to back when I thought he was a bastard.
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The drive to live, the instinctive need that all people have to continue living, is irrational, writes the Torah giant Rabbi Yisrael Salanter. A believing Jew, for whom life after death is a certainty, should not logically fear death. Is not an eternity basking in the Divine radiance preferable to living in this temporal and secular existence?
While this is logical and true, we have been both commanded and naturally programmed to treasure life. We are so powerfully bound to heal and to save lives that this is so even when it requires overriding other commandments. Given this mandate of life, questions of medical treatment and public policy should be simple to answer: Pursue life at all costs.
Reality, however, is more complex than this formulation. What about when there are competing considerations? In such cases, halachic authorities need to weigh the strength of the concerns pulling in both directions and determine which side dominates. Rabbis will often agree, but sometimes they will not. On some of the most complex medical ethics issues of the day, there are different views among the authorities. This is understandable and a situation with which observant Jews are familiar. Our solution is simply to ask our rabbi when and if a question of this nature arises.
For example, when it comes to abortion many American rabbis follow the position of Rav Moshe Feinstein, who was very strict in prohibiting abortions when the mother's physical life is not at risk. Others are more lenient in permitting abortion when there are exceptional circumstances, even though the mother's life is not at risk. As there are divergent opinions, when and if this question arises an observant Jew should ask his or her rabbi for halachic and spiritual guidance.
But there are those in our community who suggest we advocate laws that will not allow that to happen. Though such great poskim as the late Rav Shaul Yisraeli and the recently deceased Rav Eliezer Waldenberg allow abortions in a number of complex situations, and there are rabbis in this country who follow their rulings, there are still Jewish policymakers who suggest that we try to pass laws that would make these abortions illegal.
The dilemma is understandable. According to Rav Feinstein and others, such abortions are contrary to Jewish law. Surely we should oppose them. But according to Rav Waldenberg and others, they are permitted. If so, how can we oppose them? How can we advocate legislating the strict position, thereby removing from our fellow Orthodox Jews who follow the lenient position their right to pursue the religious mandate of life?
Let me be clear: No halachic authority gives blanket permission for abortions. Nevertheless, there are varying guidelines to when an abortion is permitted and some are fairly lenient on the level of a mother's physical or mental pain or risk that would render an abortion allowable. The political dilemma, then, is as follows: Should we set our political agenda according to our own personal halachic positions or try to incorporate those of the broader Orthodox community? I would think the latter.
Certainly we should not let our own agenda be set by conservative Christians. While they may admirably cherish life and spirituality, they still follow a very different approach to many of these issues. On many points, the conservative Christian view would not allow certain procedures that halacha would permit. Were we to advocate this Christian view in such cases, we would be preventing ourselves from following our religion.
Granted, there is a political advantage to aligning ourselves with a group of similar-minded people whose vast numbers dwarf ours. Such political expediency, however, cannot outweigh our religious obligations. Even if we know that the view of our small minority will never be adopted as law, we must still not misrepresent the Jewish tradition with which we have been entrusted. And we certainly cannot campaign against the Torah's position.
Thus, slogans that conservative Christians have coined for their religious-political agenda should not be co-opted by Jews. It gives the impression that we share their exact views, and we do not, or at least we should not. They have a "culture of life" – an elegant term, but since it describes their positions, we cannot adopt it. To do so would be to imply that we agree with them entirely.
Instead, we can speak of a "mandate of life" or some other phrase that is sufficiently different. To conservative Christians – and due to their powerful public relations efforts, the general public – "right to life" means the right of an unborn child to life. To Jews, however, it also means the right of a woman to life and, according to many poskim, the right of a woman to life without undue suffering.
Yes, we all cherish life. But on complex issues with competing concerns of life, we do not necessarily agree with the dominant Christian view.
For example, in July 2001 and again in October 2004, the Rabbinical Council of America and the Orthodox Union sent a letter to President Bush advocating the use of federal funds to support embryonic stem cell research. Many Christians oppose such research because they consider research on embryos to be a desecration of life. Jews, or at least many rabbinic authorities, disagree that embryos are full human life and therefore consider such research to be the pursuit of life rather than its desecration. While the "culture of life" opposes embryonic stem cell research, the "mandate of life" supports it.
We have a rich religious tradition that offers guidance on every issue. Its "mandate of life" has even seeped into Jewish culture and casual interaction. Rabbi David M. Feldman, in his recent book Where There's Life, There's Life, points out that our toast of lechayyim – "to life," neatly summarizes the "Jewish affirmation of life and inspiration to live." (Disclosure: my company, Yashar Books, published Rabbi Feldman's book.)
We must resist the temptation to surrender our heritage in exchange for slogans that represent Christian approaches to the issues of the day, or to lend our political support to causes that do not conform with – and sometimes directly contradict – Jewish law as we practice it as a community. Especially when representing Jews in the public square, it is crucial to let the Torah guide our course and not adopt another religion's attitudes and language.
About the Author: Rabbi Gil Student writes frequently on Jewish issues and serves as editor-in-chief of TorahMusings.com. Rabbi Student previously served as managing editor of OU Press and still maintains a connection to the publisher but did not work on this book in any way.
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During the same month that Toy Story 2 was out in theaters in late 1999, No Cliché's Toy Commander was released on the Sega Dreamcast. What better time to immerse you in a 3D interactive environment full of toys and gadgets that look like playthings but are actually dangerous! You take on the role of young Andrew Guthy, a boy with a vivid imagination who ruled as the commander of the toys in his own home. That is, until an old-time toy named Huggy Bear, Andrew's very first toy, becomes neglected and decides to round up his toy pals and exact vengeance. It's up to you to use your new generation of toys to fight against these mutinous, angry playthings.
Toy Commander can be played as a one-player game or with up to four players in the multi-player cooperative or competitive mode. In one-player mode, you go through 50 missions with multiple objectives. Each room in your house challenges you to a test by one of Huggy Bear's allies. Players will make use of 35 toys as they fight their way through the house; such as a tank, jeep, truck, plane, or helicopter. By completing at least four of these tests per room, you'll get to go against the final boss toy for that room. Also, when a final boss is defeated that toy will become your ally. Each of the first seven play areas contain seven missions and area eight is the final confrontation with Huggy Bear himself!
Multiplayer consists of three distinct game types: Deathmatch, Cat and Mouse, and Capture the Flag. Deathmatch is a game where each side tries to destroy as many of the enemy's vehicles as possible. In Cat and Mouse mode, one player is the mouse and the rest are cats and will continue earning points until a cat hits the mouse. As its name suggests, in Capture the Flag you must get a hold of the flag from the enemy camp and take it back to your hangar. Don't forget to defend your own though! The player who plugs in his or her controller first will be the master (or host) of the game.
Each level has power-ups from vehicle repairs to gasoline and weapons. The basic weapon for all vehicles is a machine gun, but its ammunition is limited and therefore you must get the correct power-up to regain power. Special weapons like rockets, bombs, and mines are more effective but their ammunition is limited as well. The power-ups can also be used to increase the range of the bombs and mines. Some of the other features allow you to control your environment. A radar in the upper right-hand side of the screen keeps you informed of what is happening in a wide radius around your vehicle, while gauges onscreen help track your gas / energy level and damage status.
In the options screen, choose between 16 different controller configurations and "reversals" that can affect plane and helicopter altitude. Another option even allows you to change your screen to a 16:9 wide screen mode! And in the Juke the Box section you can choose to listen to all of the music tracks or just one during gameplay, either chronologically or randomly. Saving games is also an option that takes up about 10 blocks on the VMU. And last but not least, the game is compatible with the Jump Pack device for force feedback vibration.
It's all-out war between the neglected old toys and the shiny new ones as you try to regain the title of Toy Commander. But next time, be nice to your toys! ~ Cal Nguyen, All Game Guide


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They include features like:
We consider phones with advanced mobile operating systems like Windows Mobile, Blackberry, iPhone, Symbian, and WebOS to be Smartphones. When I look at the list of features above, I think most people in world would have a hard time distinguishing between what we call Smartphones and the rising tide of super-charged feature phones. At a 30,000 ft level, a published API and development tools that allow you to create rich applications to access databases and remote servers may be the only distinction. Of course that would be a slight againt Java ME that's found on over a billion feature phones. I would venture to guess that 99% of the buying public can't tell the difference and may not even care as long as the price is right.
The big takeaway is that the large chasm that used to exist between feature phones and Smartphones has diminished dramatically. In the coming years, Smartphone OS and hardware manufacturers have no choice but to innovate in a big way in order to put some distance between themselves and the clones attacking them from below or risk becoming commoditized and irrelevant.
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Holy cow, I wrote a book!
The mechanism for keeping track of window hooks was very
different in 16-bit Windows.
The functions involved were SetWindowsHook,
and DefHookProc.
The first two functions still exist today, but the third one has
been replaced with a macro:
// 16-bit prototype
DWORD WINAPI DefHookProc(int nCode, WPARAM wParam,
LPARAM lParam, HHOOK FAR *phk);
// 32-bit macro
#define DefHookProc(nCode, wParam, lParam, phhk)\
CallNextHookEx(*phhk, nCode, wParam, lParam)
Disclaimer: All code below is "reconstructed from memory".
The spirit of the code is intact, but the precise details
may be off.
To install a windows hook in 16-bit Windows, you started by
calling SetWindowsHook:
HHOOK g_hhkPrev;
g_hhkPrev = SetWindowsHook(WH_WHATEVER, MyHookProc);
The return value from SetWindowsHook must be saved
in a global variable, which we gave the somewhat provocative
name g_hhkPrev.
The hook procedure itself went something like this:
// In Win16, hook procedures returned a DWORD, not an LRESULT.
DWORD CALLBACK MyHookProc(int nCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
if (nCode >= 0) { ... }
return DefHookProc(nCode, wParam, lParam, &g_hhkPrev);
And then when you were finished, you removed the hook by
calling UnhookWindowsHook:
UnhookWindowsHook(WH_WHATEVER, MyhookProc);
g_hhkPrev = NULL;
Internally, the chain of hook functions was managed as
a linked list, but instead of using some internal data structure
to keep track of the hooks, the linked list was managed
inside the HHOOK variables themselves.
The internal implementation of SetWindowsHook
was simply this:
// This array is initialized with a bunch
// of "do nothing" hook procedures.
HOOKPROC g_rgHook[NUMHOOKS];
HHOOK WINAPI SetWindowsHook(int nType, HOOKPROC pfnHookProc)
HHOOK hhkPrev = (HHOOK)g_rgHook[nType];
g_rgHook[nType] = pfnHookProc;
return hhkPrev;
Installing a hook merely set your hook procedure as the head of
the hook chain, and it returned the previous head.
Invoking a hook was a simple matter of calling the hook at the
head of the chain:
DWORD CallHook(int nType, int nCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
return g_rgHook[nType](nCode, wParam, lParam);
Each hook procedure did its work and then sent the call
down the hook chain by calling DefHookProc,
passing the HHOOK by address.
DWORD WINAPI DefHookProc(int nCode, WPARAM wParam,
LPARAM lParam, HHOOK FAR *phk)
HOOKPROC pfnNext = (HOOKPROC)*phk;
if (nCode >=0) {
return pfnNext(nCode, wParam, lParam);
... more to come ...
As you can see, it's all blindingly simple:
Invoking a hook calls the first hook procedure,
which then calls DefHookProc, which
knows that a HHOOK
is just a HOOKPROC, and it forwards the call down
the chain by merely calling the next hook procedure directly.
The real magic happens when somebody wants to unhook.
Recall that the rule for hook procedures is that a negative
hook code should be passed straight to DefHookProc
(or in modern times, CallNextHookEx).
This convention allows the hook system to use negative codes
to manage its own internal bookkeeping.
In this case, we're using -1 as the
"unhook this hook procedure" code.
BOOL WINAPI UnhookWindowsHook(int nType, HOOKPROC pfnHookProc)
return DefHookProc(-1, 0, (LPARAM)pfnHookProc,
(HHOOK FAR*)&g_rgHook[nType]);
DWORD WINAPI DefHookProc(int nCode, WPARAM wParam,
LPARAM lParam, HHOOK FAR *phk)
HOOKPROC pfnNext = (HOOKPROC)*phk;
if (nCode >=0) {
return pfnNext(nCode, wParam, lParam);
switch (nCode) {
case -1: // trying to unhook a node
if (pfnNext == (HOOKPROC)lParam) { // found it
*phk = (HHOOK)pfnNext(-2, 0, 0);
return TRUE;
// else keep looking
return pfnNext(nCode, wParam, lParam);
case -2: // report the next hook procedure
return (DWORD)*phk;
return 0;
And there you have it, the entire window hook system in
two dozen lines of code.
You have to give 16-bit Windows credit for being small.
Let's walk through hook installation, dispatch, and removal to see
how this all works.
Suppose there is one WH_KEYBOARD hook in the system.
Our variables are therefore set up like this:
// In USER
g_rgHook[WH_KEYBOARD] = Hook1;
// In HOOK1.DLL
HHOOK g_hhkPrev1 = DoNothingHookProc;
DWORD CALLBACK Hook1(int nCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
if (nCode >= 0) { ... work ... }
return DefHookProc(nCode, wParam, lParam, &g_hhkPrev1);
Now suppose you want to install a new hook, Hook2.
// In HOOK2.DLL
HHOOK g_hhkPrev2;
g_hhkPrev = SetWindowsHook(WH_KEYBOARD, Hook2);
The SetWindowsHook function just puts your function
in as the new "head" hook function and returns the old one.
// In USER
g_rgHook[WH_KEYBOARD] = Hook2;
// In HOOK2.DLL
HHOOK g_hhkPrev2 = Hook1;
DWORD CALLBACK Hook2(int nCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
if (nCode >= 0) { ... work ... }
return DefHookProc(nCode, wParam, lParam, &g_hhkPrev2);
// In HOOK1.DLL
HHOOK g_hhkPrev1 = DoNothingHookProc;
DWORD CALLBACK Hook1(int nCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
if (nCode >= 0) { ... work ... }
return DefHookProc(nCode, wParam, lParam, &g_hhkPrev1);
Now suppose the window manager decides it's time to fire the
WH_KEYBOARD hook.
It starts with CallHook which calls
g_rgHook[WH_KEYBOARD] that takes us to
That hook function does its work, then calls
DefHookProc(..., &g_hhkPrev2),
which dispatches the hook to g_hhkPrev2 == Hook1.
Similarly, the hook travels through Hook1,
DefHookProc(..., &g_hhkPrev1),
where it finally reaches the DoNothingHookProc
which does nothing and ends the hook chain.
DefHookProc(..., &g_hhkPrev2)
g_hhkPrev2 == Hook1
DefHookProc(..., &g_hhkPrev1)
Now suppose that HOOK1.DLL decides to uninstall its
hook. It therefore calls
UnhookWindowsHook(WH_KEYBOARD, Hook1).
This starts off the hook chain with the internal hook code -1
and &g_rgHook[WH_KEYBOARD] as the first hook pointer.
This activates the case -1 in DefHookProc code
path, which dereferences its phk parameter and obtains
g_rgHook[WH_KEYBOARD] == Hook2.
Since this is not equal to Hook1, the call forwards down
the chain to Hook2.
UnhookWindowsHook(WH_KEYBOARD, Hook1)
case -1
g_rgHook[WH_KEYBOARD] == Hook2
Like a good hook function, Hook2 reacts to the negative
hook code by handing the call directly to
DefHookProc(-1, ..., &g_hhkPrev2).
This time, *phk == g_hhkPrev2 == Hook1,
so the test succeeds and we dispatch the hook down the chain
with a new internal code of -2, which means,
"Tell me what the next hook procedure is".
DefHookProc(-1, ..., &g_hhkPrev2)
*phk == g_hhkPrev2 == Hook1
This dispatch calls Hook1 which (since the notification
code is negative) immediately passes the call to
DefHookProc(-2, ..., &g_hhkPrev1).
This now triggers the case -2 code path, which
just returns *phk == g_hhkPrev1 == DoNothingHookProc.
This value is returned to the DefHookProc(-1, ...)
which stores the result into *phk == g_hhkPrev2;
the result is that you have g_hhkPrev2 = DoNothingHookProc.
Finally, DefHookProc returns TRUE
to indicate that the hook was successfully uninstalled.
This value is then returned out from all the nested function calls
to the original caller of UnhookWindowsHook.
DefHookProc(-2, ..., &g_hhkPrev1)
case -2
*phk == g_hhkPrev1 == DoNothingHookProc
DefHookProc(-1, ...)
*phk == g_hhkPrev2
g_hhkPrev2 = DoNothingHookProc
Observe that at the end of this unhook exercise, we get the desired
// In USER
g_rgHook[WH_KEYBOARD] = Hook2; // unchanged
// In HOOK2.DLL
g_hhkPrev2 = DoNothingHookProc; // updated!
DWORD CALLBACK Hook2(int nCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
if (nCode >= 0) { ... work ... }
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recursive function to perform the work on the "next" node for us.
That's what the negative nCode values are for.
Every time I work through this exercise,
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In just two dozen lines of code, we managed a linked list of
function calls, including a dispatching system as well as
arbitrary deletion from the middle
of the linked list, and all without any memory allocation.
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Anthony Cortes and his father-in-law David Hermann saw a shark they estimated to be 12 to 13 feet feeding on a dead bottlenose dolphin. Cortes was able to film the feeding.
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Female impersonation need say nothing about sexual identity, but it has for a long time been almost an institutionalized aspect of gay male culture.
Although sparse in images documenting the gay community, pre-Stonewall gay male photography blurs the boundaries between art, erotica, and social history.
Given the historic stigma around making, circulating, and possessing overtly homoerotic images, the visual arts have been especially important for providing a socially sanctioned arena for depicting the naked male body and suggesting homoerotic desire.
Independent films that aggressively assert homosexual identity and queer culture, the New Queer Cinema can be seen as the culmination of several developments in American cinema.
Renowned photographer, teacher, critic, editor, and curator, Minor White created some of the most interesting photographs of male nudes of the second half of the twentieth century, but did not exhibit them for fear of scandal.
The first international fashion superstar, Halston dressed and befriended some of America's most glamorous women.
An artistic movement that grew out of Dadaism and flourished in Europe shortly after World War I, Surrealism embraced the idea that art was an expression of the subconscious.
Film, stage, and television actor Paul Winfield was openly gay in his private life, but maintained public silence about his homosexuality.
Coach Mike Rice.
On April 2, 2013, ESPN's "Outside the Lines" broadcast a video in which Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice is shown shoving, manhandling, berating, and throwing balls at players. Although the video was first brought to the attention of Athletic Director Tim Pernetti in November 2012, only when it became public did the university respond appropriately. Following widespread outrage, on April 3, 2013 Rice was fired and an assistant coach resigned. [Later, Pernetti and the interim university counsel also resigned.] Even more egregious than Rice's physical abuse of his players was his verbal abuse, especially his repeated use of homophobic slurs.
In addition to documenting the coach's physical abuse of his players, the video also depicts him referring to players as "f----ts," "f-----g fairies," "p-----s," "sissy b-----s," and "c---s," among other epithets. This language of homophobia and misogyny says a great deal about sports culture. The fact that it did not provoke outrage from other coaches and administrators at Rutgers says a lot about the continuing insensitivity to homophobia of Rutgers University officials even after the consciousness-raising and hand-wringing following the suicide of Tyler Clementi in September 2010.
The most shocking aspect of the entire episode is the failure of Pernetti and Rutgers University President Robert Barchi to fire Rice when they first became aware of the coach's abusive behavior. Instead of firing the coach, they imposed a three-game suspension, a fine, and an obligation to attend anger management classes. In doing so, they sent a message that homophobic speech is not a very big deal, even at a university supposedly newly committed to creating a welcoming and safe environment for glbtq students.
As ESPN's Dana O'Neil observed, "Words matter, and they carry weight with as much heft as a shove."
She added, "Every time a university looks the other way or dishes out a dismissive punishment, it's like sending an abuser back into the home of a domestic violence victim."
The story about Mike Rice's firing is not only a sports story, but also a story about gays in sports and gays on campus.
On April 5, it was announced that Pernetti and the university's interim general counsel had resigned. At a press conference, President Barchi explained that he had not seen the video until it became public. He apologized particularly to the glbtq community and described himself as a champion of the community.
While there have been calls for Barchi's resignation, more important is the need for a fuller explanation of why Rice was not fired earlier. Troy Stevenson, executive director of Garden State Equality, has called for an investigation into why Rice was not fired in November.
A faculty member who engaged in Rice's behavior would have immediately been removed from the classroom. Why, then, was Rice given a slap on the wrist? Clearly, standards of behavior for coaches are different from those expected of faculty members.
Once the video of Rice abusing his players went viral, the university responded quickly and decisively. Obviously, it took public exposure to force the university to do the right thing.
Is this because of the corrosive influence of big-time athletics on universities? (Some have speculated that Pernetti, who was in the midst of negotiating Rutgers's admission to the Big Ten athletic conference when he first learned of complaints about Rice, did not want any distractions that might endanger the negotiations. Did he fail to act in November because he wanted to avoid the questions and publicity that would have followed Rice's dismissal?)
It is likely that Rice's homophobic and misogynistic comments failed to make much of an impression on Pernetti. He may have considered them so commonplace in sports as to hardly merit attention and likely failed to connect them to the homophobic atmosphere that contributed to Tyler Clementi's suicide.
The pervasiveness of homophobia in locker rooms helps explain why it is so difficult for elite glbtq athletes to come out. As we await the appearance of our Jackie Robinson--an openly gay professional athlete in one of the major sports--it is well to consider sympathetically why he hesitates to open the closet door and what burdens he will have to face when he does.
Below is an ESPN report on the video that led to Rice's dismissal.
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While much of the wrestling world is focused on the high school season and college season, the National Wrestling Hall of Fame is commemorating Black History Month with a new exhibit called "Glory Beyond the Sport: Wrestling and the Military," spotlighting Harold Henson. The exhibit will be on display throughout the spring at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. A traveling version of the exhibit will appear at the NCAA Division I Championships in St. Louis and U.S. Nationals in Las Vegas.
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