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Exodus 12
29 And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
30 So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
2.4 Exodus of Israel - (Exodus 12:31-40)
2.5 Ordinance of the Passover - (Exodus 12:42-51)
3.1 The Lamb of God - John 1:29-34
- John 1
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is He of whom I said, 'After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.' 31 I did not know Him; but that He should be revealed to Israel, therefore I came baptizing with water."
32 And John bore witness, saying, "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him.
33 I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'
34 And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God."
3.1.1 Jesus Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us (1 Corinthians 5:7)
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Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Kunal Ghosh Saturday faced four-hour police grilling in connection with the multi-crore Saradha scam, a day after he raised the banner of revolt against the party leadership.
He will again be quizzed Sunday.
Ghosh said a "conspiracy" has been hatched against him.
"A conspiracy has been hatched against me. But who all are behind the conspiracy I can't say. I am ready to face any probe. I've full confidence in the police, the detective department and (chief minister) Mamata Banerjee," Ghosh told media persons after the questioning.
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Ghosh, who got a call Friday night from Bidhanagar deputy commissioner (detective department) Arnab Ghosh, said: "I'll come again tomorrow (Sunday). I am prepared to fully cooperate with police."
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Roy and Pal praised Shikha Mitra, who has been for quite some time using every opportunity to take pot-shots at the leadership including Banerjee for the way the party was being run and has also filed a defamation case against Trinamool heavyweight Partha Chatterjee.
"She has the guts to say the truth," commented Roy.
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Saradha Group boss Sudipta Sen and his aides are now behind bars after the company closed shop in April unable to pay back the depositors, triggering a spate of suicides by agents and investors and protests across the state.
Ghosh headed Saradha's media arm till April, and his name also figured in a letter written to the CBI by Sen April 6 accusing several high profile Trinamool Congress and Congress leaders of complicity in the scam.
Ghosh Saturday said he asked for the CBI probe after facing political attack related to the scam.
Trinamool national general secretary Mukul Roy said the party's disciplinary committee has decided to show-cause Ghosh, Pal and Satabdi Roy for anti-party comments.
Ghosh claimed he was yet to receive any such letter from the party.
"When a respected leader like Mukul Roy has said I will be show-caused, then definitely the party will send me a letter. I will reply once I receive the letter," he said.
Meanwhile, in a crackdown on Shikha Mitra, Trinamool legislature party has decided to write to Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay for making separate seating arrangements for her, as she has been suspended from the party.
The Trinamool had last year announced Shikha's suspension, but the lawmaker has so long claimed she was yet to receive any letter.
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APPOINTMENTS REGISTER FOR DEPUTY POSTMASTERSIn other words, it contains the details of the (Deputy) Postmaster responsible for each Post Town in England and Wales. The register commences with an alphabetical list (by Post Town) of all Deputies who were in office on 5th January 1829 and it then proceeds, chronologically, until June 1849.
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Independent National Electoral Commission is planning a special salary scale for its workers.
National Commissioner of INEC in charge of South-West, Prof. Lai Olurode, said this in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday.
According to him, the commission is seeking special pay for its workers to motivate them and to discourage them from engaging in electoral malpractice.
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How to be a Liberal Roman Catholic
This website is divided into two hubs. This page links to all essays on religion. This page links to all essays on social justice. If you have been to this site before and already know what you are looking for, a very basic site map is available below. If you clicked on a broken link, you have been automatically redirected to this page. You may be able to find your link in the list below:
Essays on religion:
Δ Justice before charity
Δ Did Jesus perform miracles and is faith believing that he did?
Δ Should we do what the Bible says?
Δ Does God exist?
Δ Is there an afterlife?
Δ Part 1 (Prayer) || Part 2 (What the hell am I supposed to do with my life? || Part 3 (Catholic spirituality resources)
Δ How Jesus and Martin Luther King became messengers of oppression
Δ The Apostle Paul, Freeing the Slaves, Gender Equality, and Women in the Priesthood
Δ How Constantine destroyed Christianity--and how society transforms religion more than religion changes society
Δ There is nothing wrong with gay marriage, gay adoption, or artificial contraception
Δ Amos: A Prophet of Social Justice and Religious Toleration
Δ The historical Jesus
Δ A crash-course introduction to Islam
Essays on social justice:
Δ Run for you lives! It's socialized medicine!
Δ Four social justice issues (summer vacation, the war on drugs, immigration, and Islamophobia)
Δ Torture is responsible for half of American casualties in Iraq (Update: Torture did not contribute to the death of bin Laden)
Δ Does a just war exist?
Δ A comparison: Welfare for the poor, welfare for the rich, and corporate welfare
Δ Income inequality, wealth inequality, and tax cuts
Δ Will our legal system protect you when you need it?
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Palmer Luckey likes to go barefoot. However, when he met the men who would become his business partners in Oculus VR, a company that was recently sold to Facebook for $2 billion, he decided to wear flip-flops. It was an important meeting. This was in the summer of 2012, and he was 19 years old. Luckey was also wearing shorts and a T-shirt, and he was carrying a plastic bin. Inside were a tangle of wires, a small monitor mounted in a frame with a pair of inexpensive glass lenses attached, and a computer. It was a prototype for a head-mounted display, or HMD. The men, Brendan Iribe, Nate Mitchell, and Michael Antonov, were older than Luckey. They were gaming industry veterans who had worked together at Scaleform, a company that Iribe and Antonov founded, then sold. Once Luckey got his equipment working, the men took turns peering into it.
What they saw was a barebones room with a short set of stairs. It appeared in 3D, and they could explore it by turning their heads to the right or left and by looking up or down. As they turned their heads, the picture moved, too. This was not the first head-mounted display for virtual reality, and it was not the best. For one thing, the image wasn't very clear. Users could see the individual pixels on the screen. If they moved their heads quickly, the image blurred. However, sophisticated virtual-reality systems were restricted to university, military, and industrial settings. They cost tens of thousands of dollars. Luckey believed he could sell his HMD to the public for under $500 and he was planning to run a Kickstarter campaign to fund the launch. He already had a name for the device. He called it the Oculus Rift.
Last October, Palmer Luckey traveled to New York from his home in California as a winner in the annual Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards. Luckey was now famous, and his company had received millions in venture capital funding. When he arrived, night had fallen. The cocktail party was being held on the 44th floor of the Hearst Tower, overlooking Central Park and the pixelated lights of midtown. Inside the room were champagne and passed hors d'oeuvres, suits and cocktail dresses, and displays of robots and autonomous UAVs. There was a line to try out the Oculus Rift demo.
Luckey walked in alone. He was wearing jeans, a wrinkled gray shirt, and flip-flops. There are tech celebrities who deliberate over which ripped jeans and hoodie to wear to a formal event. Palmer Luckey is not one of those people. He is not pretentious. Arrogant, perhaps, if you consider it arrogant for a 19-year-old to build something that upends an industry. Mainly, though, he is enthusiastic. He listens well. He is smart. He likes other people to feel smart, too. "Virtual reality is pervasive throughout our culture," Luckey told me. "Since we've had video games, people have dreamed of stepping into games. Movies like Tron and The Matrix and The Lawnmower Man are all based on this idea." But an affordable virtual-reality system wouldn't just benefit gamers. Architects are already using VR to step inside buildings that haven't yet been constructed. Doctors can perform virtual surgery before cutting a patient open. "We're focused on gaming to start because it's very demanding and it's a large market," Luckey said. "If we can make it good enough for gamers, then it's going to be good enough for a lot of other markets."
The first virtual-reality device, the Sensorama, was built in the 1950s. It included a 3D display, fans to create the sensation of wind, stereo speakers, a vibrating chair, and even a module for emitting odors. Head-mounted displays and flight simulators appeared over the following 20 years. Motion-capture gloves and body suits were developed in the 1980s by pioneers including Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist, musician, and writer. (It was Lanier who popularized the term virtual reality.) Today, car designers wear HMDs and motion-capture gloves to test ergonomics and sight lines inside virtual prototypes. And VR systems are common in medical and military settings. "Virtual reality is not even glamorous anymore," Lanier told me recently. "In some applications, it's almost commoditized." But for ordinary people, the dream of virtual reality has been slow to materialize.
Palmer Luckey was home-schooled. This gave him time to break things. As a young teenager, he cannibalized DVD burners for their laser diodes. He used them to build etching equipment. He got into a hobby called portablizing, rebuilding old video-game consoles to produce handheld gaming devices.
His family lived in Long Beach, in Southern California. His father sold cars; his mother stayed home with Palmer and his three younger siblings. Palmer had a workshop in the garage and a part-time job at the U.S. Sailing Center of Long Beach, scrubbing decks, repairing boats, and doing grounds keeping. He raced dinghies. He briefly trained for a job rowing Venice-style gondolas for a company that provides canal tours.
By the time he was 16, Luckey was an adept junkyard engineer, sifting through the detritus of electronics that languished in online auctions and liquidation sites. He launched a Web forum, ModRetro, devoted to portablizing, where he posted under the name PalmerTech. The members described their projects and traded tips on hardware hacks and where to source parts. In those old posts, Luckey comes across as an open-hearted and enthusiastic site manager. He had a passion for the exchange of ideas that forums encourage. He showed a talent for organizing and motivating people, most of whom he'd never met face to face.
Some of the threads are highly technical. Others are charmingly adolescent. A few weeks after the site launched, Luckey was faced with a growing to-do list of functionality problems on the site. He wrote:
Luckey's other emerging passion was virtual reality. In August of 2009, he joined an online forum called MTBS3D. The letters stand for Meant To Be Seen, and the site had been founded by 3D gaming enthusiast Neil Schneider, who also started a nonprofit organization that is now called the Immersive Technology Alliance. Schneider hoped that if MTBS3D were successful, the gaming industry would be motivated to meet the unfilled demand.
This was not a practical thought. At the time, the worldwide community of VR enthusiasts numbered in the low hundreds. "Among the vocal people, there were maybe 150," Schneider says. "And I'm being aggressive with that number." Many of the members were engineers, 3D filmmakers, or software developers. Online, they shared their frustrations over the poor quality of LCD displays and the fact that game developers were turning away from 3D. With Schneider's permission, Luckey started a section of the site devoted to DIY projects. "He was always very enthusiastic, very excited, like a big ball of energy," Schneider says. The forum became a hub for people trying to Frankenstein together HMDs from spare parts.
There is no precise definition of virtual reality. "At the bare minimum," Luckey says, "there's some threshold you cross into a sense of presence, being in a space and forgetting that it is not a real space but a virtual one." In 2011, Luckey got a dream job working as a technician at the Mixed Reality Lab (MxR) at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). There, he had a chance to cross deep into VR territory. On Sept. 25, he posted the following on MTBS3D. [These excerpts are condensed and lightly edited.]
He described the experience in a 1500-word narrative titled "Truly immersive (AKA "Holy crap this is real") VR simulation."
In the distance, Luckey could see a forest and mountains. He felt the wind. He walked most of the length of the bridge, which was rusty and scarred by battle.
Luckey heard someone calling his name, and he sprinted back along the bridge to meet an avatar who had appeared, wearing full desert gear. They shook hands. "So, pretty cool, eh?" the soldier said.
Luckey stayed in the virtual environment for 20 minutes, and then it was time to unplug.
How It Works
The Oculus Rift enables users to explore virtual worlds in stereoscopic 3D. Rift inventor Palmer Luckey sketched the system for POPULAR MECHANICS over lunch at Oculus headquarters in Irvine, Calif.
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The head-mounted display (HMD), straps on like ski goggles. The user's field of view is entirely taken up by an OLED screen (1) that is divided in half, displaying a unique image for each eye. As in other 3D displays, the images appear to be offset from each other, creating the illusion of depth. To track the movements of the user's head, the system employs a camera (2) that scans the position of 38 infrared LEDs (3) fixed on the headset. The system's computer (4) continually adjusts the onscreen image accordingly. A major challenge for Rift engineers has been to cut motion blur and judder, in which an image seems to stutter as users turn their heads. To address the problem, they are using a screen with a high refresh rate and low persistence—each pixel flashes its image and then instantly turns to black.
I visited the Mixed Reality Lab in February. It is hard to find. There is no signage outside and it is located on an industrial side street in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. I arrived at about 4:30 on a rainy afternoon. Mark Bolas, the lab's director, has an office just inside the front door. The facility is a joint effort between the ICT and USC's School of Cinematic Arts, he explained, developed to train art and engineering students in virtual-reality design. His team also works on a number of military systems. Bolas showed me the warehouse that Luckey had described in his post. A copy of the Wide5 HMD that Luckey wore was hanging there, clipped to a metal stand. Bolas and a business partner started developing the Wide5 in 2005. It has a horizontal field of view of about 150 degrees, and it is studded with light-emitting diodes (LEDs). In the rafters of the room were 80 cameras, which track a user's movements by picking up on those LEDs. (The Oculus Rift works in much the same way, using a single camera.)
When Luckey first showed up at the lab, Bolas says, he "had a passion in his eye that is rare to find." Bolas, too, dreams of developing low-cost virtual-reality systems for consumers. He assigned Luckey to a team already at work on some of these projects. Bolas showed me tabletops littered with several generations of inexpensive, immersive head-mounted displays. They combined foam or 3D-printed head mounts with monitors, smartphones, and tablets. The lenses came from cheap, handheld magnifiers.
Throughout his time at MxR, Luckey continued to tinker on his own head-mounted-display project at home. By the spring of 2012, he was ready to make it public. He wanted to get it into the hands of tinkerers and programmers. Like Schneider several years before, he was hoping the gaming industry would take notice and start designing wide-field-of-view, immersive displays. On April 15, he wrote on MTBS3D:
Things turned out differently. John Carmack, one of the most respected game developers in the world, had joined MTBS3D, and Luckey sent him a prototype. In June, Carmack showed off the Oculus Rift at E3, a gaming convention held in Los Angeles each year. The Rift was a sensation. That summer, Luckey combined forces with Brendan Iribe, Nate Mitchell, Michael Antonov, and Andrew Scott Reisse to form Oculus VR and launch a Kickstarter campaign featuring a slickly produced video. (Carmack eventually joined the company as chief technology officer.) By Sept. 1, the campaign had raised $2,437,429. Many contributors donated small sums to promote the technology and get a T-shirt or poster. But more than 7000 paid at least $300, which entitled them to Rift headsets and access to the software developer's tools needed to write code for the platform. (They also received a copy of the game Doom 3 BFG, optimized for the Rift.) The developer's kits started shipping the following March.
Oculus began showing a new version of the Rift this past winter, under the name Crystal Cove. The resolution was sharp, and the motion blur (technically, "judder") was largely gone. Anticipation built as the Game Developers Conference—the world's biggest gathering of video-game creators—approached in mid-March. It was rumored that Oculus would be releasing a commercial headset before Christmas, and people were speculating about which gaming titles would be Rift-ready by then. Gamers and developers were rooting for Palmer Luckey. He was the garage-hacker kid with a dream and the passion to make VR happen. If the company did make a big announcement at GDC, it would be electrifying.
"You are a f***ing sellout. We had ONE CHANCE AND you f***ed it up." — a Reddit poster, March 26.
On March 25, in a conference call with reporters, Facebook announced that it was buying Oculus VR for $2 billion, including $400 million in cash and the rest in Facebook stock. The gaming-industry rollout would come first, the company said in a Facebook post under CEO Mark Zuckerberg's name. But, the statement said, that was just the beginning. "Imagine enjoying a courtside seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face—just by putting on goggles in your home. This is really a new communication platform."
Within hours, many virtual-reality and gaming enthusiasts turned on Palmer Luckey. Fans were simply outraged that Oculus would sell to a corporate giant. And Facebook wasn't even cool. One poster on Reddit wrote: "I honestly thought Palmer had a chance to be the next Steve Jobs. Now he'll most likely be relegated to a footnote in VR history." Another replied, "He'll be loathed. He is going to go from the man who resurrected VR with his vision, to the hated sellout who killed his own baby."
Kickstarter supporters, in particular, felt betrayed. Those donors had helped launch the company in 2012, but to build the consumer product Oculus VR had decided it needed much more money. It took $16 million from venture capital firms in June 2013, and another $75 million in December 2013. Now, just four months later, those Silicon Valley VCs were cashing out with huge returns—before Oculus ever released a consumer product. Joel Johnson, the editorial director of Gawker Media and a longtime tech journalist, had contributed to the Rift Kickstarter project and publicly hailed the technology. He doesn't accuse Oculus VR of wrongdoing, but, he says, "ultimately, I think this and [the controversy surrounding] the Veronica Mars movie will be the first steps in a movement away from pure crowdfunding."
Luckey spent the early morning hours of March 26 explaining the sale on Reddit and other forums. He argued that the acquisition would provide the capital Oculus needed to hire more engineers and release the best possible product. A couple of days later he texted me, "The big picture will become clear in the long run. I don't blame the criticizers." But he found few supporters that night. Around dawn, he went back to the old neighborhood, the MTBS3D forum where his VR obsession had begun. Some members were worried or angry, while others were hopeful that Facebook would help the technology scale up quickly. The vitriol of the Reddit thread was largely absent. Finally, Luckey logged on to ModRetro, the portablizing site he had begun as a 16-year-old. There, a user named Zero was defending him:
"This is a good thing, even in the long term. Everyone here especially should know that Palmer wouldn't publicly support this if it wasn't." Besides, Zero pointed out, anyone worried that Facebook would now be calling the shots was ignoring the obvious: Luckey had already lost the freedom to do whatever he liked with the Rift. PalmerTech thanked his old friends for their support. Then he wrote:
A few weeks before the Facebook announcement, I met Palmer Luckey for lunch. We were at the Oculus VR headquarters in Irvine, Calif. The company is housed in a dark glass-and-marble office building. It has short escalators, empty lobbies, and skylights. Luckey and I walked to a parking lot next door, and bought hamburgers and fish tacos from a pair of food trucks.
As we ate, I asked whether he would have succeeded in building the Rift if he hadn't found MTBS3D. "Not a chance," he said. "One guy can only go so far. Without Internet communities, you'd just have a few people scattered across the country who were still interested in VR but didn't know where to go with it." That's not a problem any longer. The company shipped about 75,000 of the original developer's kits and plans to sell even more of the DK2s. Gaming companies are hustling to create Rift-ready versions of many titles. Motion-capture gloves, competitive headsets, and other VR peripherals are being announced. And the innovation doesn't stop at gaming. D.J. Roller, one of the world's premier 3D filmmakers, is planning to supply VR capabilities for sporting events, news, and movies through Next3D, a company he cofounded. "Up until now, the most immersive medium on the planet has been a five-story IMAX screen," he says. "Now it's a phone-size head-mounted screen."
Luckey feels certain the Rift will succeed in the video-game market. But he also has expansive ideas of what virtual reality might someday do. "If you look at sci-fi, virtual reality is almost always a plot device that leads to this broken dystopian world. But I think that virtual reality is going to end up being a huge positive for humanity." In the near term, he sees students taking virtual field trips to ancient Rome. People will manipulate data files with their hands. Users will be able to see in the infrared spectrum, bend the laws of physics, and squeeze into impossibly small spaces. Decades from now, he thinks, many people will choose to spend their days in virtual environments, enjoying luxuries they could never afford in the real world.
Luckey does not claim to have invented these visions. "If you want to know about optics and low-persistence OLEDs, I'm a good person to talk to," he said. "For the future of VR, there are smarter people." Jaron Lanier is one of these. He has seen repeated cycles of expectation and disappointment over the past three decades. "Every two or three years there's another wave of interest in VR," he said in a phone interview. "What happens typically is that there is insane speculation that reality will be transcended or something like that." He laughed. "I started that, so I apologize. It's my fault."
Yet this time could be different. The global boom in mobile phones has made display technology inexpensive and lightweight. Ordinary PCs can now run processor-heavy graphics programs. The software and skills to build complex 3D worlds are well-established. These conditions have been in place for several years. They've just been waiting for a catalyst to come along and get the whole thing moving. The Rift, or rather Palmer Luckey himself, may prove to be that catalyst.
Media reports have tended to portray Luckey as a solitary genius. But rarely, if ever, does someone invent anything in isolation. Even as a precocious 16-year-old, Luckey excelled at recruiting people to his passions. He had collaborators on the MTBS3D forums and, especially, at the Mixed Reality Lab. That doesn't diminish his accomplishment. No one else combined Luckey's talent for tinkering and his obsession with making an affordable headset for gaming. Someone had to stay up all night, soldering iron in hand. When he was finishing up one of his prototypes in September 2011, PalmerTech wrote on MTBS3D:
Luckey had to get back upstairs to the office. Our lunch had run long and he was a half-hour late for a meeting. I'd never asked him the most obvious question. Hey, Palmer, what's your favorite game? "Chrono Trigger," he said. "It's awesome." Now there's a game that will never be played on the Rift. It has blocky graphics and the same synthesized, 16-bit music from when it was introduced for Super Nintendo in 1995. The narrative is rich, though. You and your companions travel through time, overcoming danger, misunderstandings, and rejection. (There's a great essay online titled "Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Chrono Trigger.") It's hard to imagine when the founder of a $2 billion peripherals company finds time to play Chrono Trigger. But I hope he does. Because it's Palmer Luckey's kind of game. It isn't about action or richly rendered graphics. It's about building a virtual universe that's actually worth living in.


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Martin Gardner 1914-2010 May 23, 2010Posted by David Speyer in Uncategorized.
Martin Gardner passed away yesterday, on Saturday, May 22. I've never met Gardner, but I grew up with his books and columns, ever since I discovered one of his Mathematical Games volumes in my local library.
Aha! Insight and Aha! Gotcha are my first recommendations for any bright kid who wants to stretch his mind. As an adult, whenever I want something new to think about, I can turn to the volumes of Scientific American columns. Every one is a clear presentation of an intriguing idea or puzzle. Gardner's skeptical books helped teach me how to read and design a scientific study; and the adventures of Dr. Matrix showed how much fun it could be to discard skepticism and play with nonsense. And, if you enjoy Lewis Carroll, but have a feeling that many of the jokes are going over your head, you really owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of the Annotated Alice.
I hope Martin Gardner's friends know how many people he helped and touched. For the rest of us, perhaps we could try to take something we love, and make it as exciting and accessible as Martin Gardner made mathematics for us.
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- 3. Pete L. Clark - May 25, 2010
Douglas Hofstadter, another eminent public intellectual and writer who often adopts a more whimsical/hyperbolic style, was remarkably sober and precise when he wrote (more than 10 years ago) that Gardner was "one of the great intellects produced in this country in this century." That's not a hair more than absolute truth.
I mean, what intellectual — especially, what young intellectual — has not read at least some of Gardner's writings, enjoyed them and been inspired by them? He was in a class by himself.
So to all I recommend especially "The Night Is Large", a collection of essays written over a period of 50 years with commentary and updates written in the late 1990's. What is especially nice about this book is that it gives some indication of the breadth as well as the depth of Gardner's interests: yes, there are lovely articles on mathematics and pseudo-science, but he writes with equal facility and mastery on L. Frank Baum and the Klingon language.
- 4. Danny Calegari - May 26, 2010
The "Annotated Alice" was my favorite book as a child (there's also the "Annotated Snark"), and I loved it as much for the annotation as for the "main" text.
- 5. Scott Taylor - May 26, 2010
In addition to his columns and the Annotated Alice, I love his introductions to G.K. Chesterton's novels.
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Shannon said the credentials he would bring to the dais include being a Simi Valley business owner since 1987, the past president or chairman of various nonprofits in town, and having chaired the city's planning commission and Neighborhood Council #3.
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Posted 18 November 2011 - 08:57 PM
Posted 19 November 2011 - 08:38 AM
How's the beta with FF7?
Any possibility of a Wild Arms 2 menu fix?
I don't think I got around to trying either of those games. Although I am unfamilar with what issues exist for FF7.
Posted 19 November 2011 - 08:50 AM
Edited by Koitsu, 19 November 2011 - 08:50 AM.
Posted 19 November 2011 - 11:22 AM
Although I am unfamilar with what issues exist for FF7.
I finished FF7 (PAL) 5-6 years ago using PCSXbox and I didn't notice any issues at all.
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Posted 20 November 2011 - 11:56 PM
If it is mine you really need to report stuff like this in the beta thread so that I am aware of the issue.
Posted 21 November 2011 - 03:58 AM
In my experience, FF7 plays better on v11 than v21, but v21 plays better than 1.5R, so it's been getting worse. I just tested it a few days ago. The point is that while netokl's isn't yours, if yours is made from v21, an issue could still arise.
If you're still sending out the beta, I'll go over and ask for it there.
Posted 21 November 2011 - 08:01 PM
Unfortunately as the PSX guys started making it more accurate things started getting slower. And believe it or not.. no Final Fantasy comments at all in the beta test threads.. As far as being done.. I was referring to the 1.5r core and any code "updates" as well as hopefully updated 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 as much as possible without slowdown.
However in regards to testing games and reporting possible issues.. no.. Just keep in mind if it had speed issues in v21 than chances are they are not improved. I think only games that may not be the case is the ones that ran too fast like wipeout.
Posted 22 November 2011 - 07:04 PM
I did mean to say FF7 (NTSC) again instead of FF8, but it's definitely slower in Reloaded during the fights. PCSXBOX v11 (it's the only one I'd made a disc of) plays pretty well during fights, but in Reloaded, I have a lag that's so bad, my characters end up dying before my commands go through or before I can even see them pop up.
I Have been playing FF8 (and 9) for a while recently on the netokl-Reloaded; and there IS some slowdown during battles with 'spectacular' explosions or when using GF's. But thats just animation. No lags in te battle comands etc. Maybe I'm using other settings ?
O sorry misread (again). FF7 I don't know actually
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You have to use a BIN/CUE rip and you have to launch it from the CUE sheet. Took me years to find that out, quite literally.
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I hate it when students text in class.
But I noticed when the V-Tech shooting was happening how cell phones were the news medium as the story broke. My students get why.
So in my introductory journalism class, we take a week and do bureau reporting. It's cell phone reporting.
I divide the class (of about 25) into four groups. They're competing for a prize, and it's timed.
Each group selects two who will be the bureau chiefs. The rest are reporters. I pick a topic for each group that's a "man/woman on the street" interview encounter with people on or just off campus. Topics are drawn from that day's news (or the day before). It's controversial stuff and worthy of heated, passionate comment.
(I know, I know...I should let the students come up with stories, but this is a fairly newsy exercise, and I didn't want it to tank for lack of student attentiveness to the task.)
As the students get their quotes, they text those quotes in to the bureau chiefs. Meantime, the bureau chiefs have divided their duties. One is backgrounding the story and writing up the lower material in the story — putting it in the larger context. (So last fall it was the death of a college-age jogger in San Diego. Localization was safety measures on our own campus near L.A.)
The group has to turn in a story by the end of the class session (or, if it's going slow, the next class session) based on the quotes obtained from the text.
The stories are filed on blogger.com. I have all the students read the final story of the other class groups and comment.
Students rave about this assignment as one that forces them to think on deadline, approach people on deadline for quotes, and rely on each other (team-building and cooperation in a journalistic endeavor.) Some of the bureau chiefs hate it; others thrive on the pressure.
The stories they produce are amazingly cogent for what are mostly freshmen who have never written news or features on a tight deadline.


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Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, 406 459-5936
Conservation Groups Appeal Federal District Court wolf decision
"We still believe that Congress violated the U.S. Constitution when Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) used a rider to overturn the Federal Court's decision," said Mike Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies. "We will not allow the fate of endangered species to be determined by politicians serving special interests. These decisions must be based on science, not politics, and Congress has never before removed species from the Endangered Species list by political fiat."
Citing the wording from Federal Judge Donald Molloy's recent ruling, Garrity said the Alliance and it's co-Plaintiffs, Friends of the Clearwater and WildEarth Guardians, have filed an Appeal to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals "to preserve both wolves and the rule of law in the Northern Rockies."
"Although ruling that he was bound by previous decisions by the Ninth Circuit Court, Judge Molloy was very direct in his opinions on the use of non-related riders on appropriation bills such as used by Senator Tester," Garrity continued. "Take, for example, these quotes directly from Molloy's opinion."
"We're continuing this battle because Judge Molloy's ruling fully supports our contention that there is a well-established legal process that applies to every other species and that pure political expediency should not be the driving force over which of our nation's imperiled animals and plants will or will not be protected for future generations," Garrity explained.
The groups charge in their complaint that the delisting rider, which was sponsored by Montana U.S. Senator Jon Tester and Idaho Representative Mike Simpson, violates the U.S. Constitution because it specifically repeals a judicial decision and then exempts it from judicial review.
"While Congress absolutely has the right to make and amend laws, the wolf delisting rider (Section 1713 of the budget law, PL 112-10) does not amend the Endangered Species Act -- it circumvents the judicial process by ordering the reinstatement of the 2009 rule that delisted wolves," Garrity continued. "Moreover, by exempting it from judicial review it basically nullifies the Constitutional checks and balances between Congress and the Judicial Branch of government."
"There's little doubt that wolves are now facing drastic policies at the state level,' Garrity said. "Wyoming has a 'shoot on sight' policy, Idaho just enacted a massive "open season' that will kill hundreds of wolves and Montana announced it will allow up to 220 of the 566 wolves in the state to be killed this year — nearly half of the wolves to be shot by hunters and an unlimited amount to be killed by government trappers."
"We are doing all we can to hold back the tide of wolf-killing in Montana, Idaho, and elsewhere in the Northern Rockies," explained Garrity. "This ecologically important species is being unfairly targeted out of ignorance and intolerance and now lack a federal shield from being killed."
"But in the end, this is not just about wolves, it's about the rule of law. If Congress can exempt this decision from judicial review, it can likewise exempt anything it does. That not only spells disaster for endangered species, but for our entire form of government. Judge Molloy hit the nail on the head when he said Tester's rider is "a talisman that ipso facto sweeps aside Separation of Powers concerns."
"We agree with him," concluded Garrity, pointing to Molloy's conclusion that reads: "If I were not constrained by what I believe is binding precedent from the Ninth Circuit, and on-point precedent from other circuits, I would hold Section 1713 [Tester's rider] is unconstitutional because it violates the Separation of Powers doctrine articulated by the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Klein."
"We think, given the circumstances and the gravity of the Separation of Powers issue, that the Ninth Circuit will want to take a close look at the consequences of allowing Senator Tester's unprecedented wolf rider to stand. And we intend to give them that opportunity with our Appeal."
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
© Copyright 2015 Newton Citizen
Is God's love really only reserved for those who accept Jesus? Absolutely not.
The Bible says, ""For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son." (John 3:16-18, NIV)
And it says, "My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense -- Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world." (1 John 2:1-2, NIV).
Still further it says, "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9, NIV).
The issue isn't God's love for us, the issue is, and always has been our response to that love.
Suppose one person is in love with another person but the second person does not return that love. The first person, however, is determined to pursue the other despite the other's expressed desire to be left alone.
Is there any possible way for those actions by the first person to be seen as a love relationship? Absolutely not. The law would view such a relentless pursuit as stalking and an injunction to cease and desist would be forthcoming.
Anyone who reads the paper or listens to the news is familiar with the Jaycee Lee Duguard saga. Kidnapped at 11 years of age by Phillip and Nancy Garrido, Duguard was forced to be Phillip Garrido's wife for 18 years. Is there one among my readers who would describe that scenario as a loving relationship?
Just so, we must understand that while God wants a loving relationship with all mankind, that relationship can only be realized by those who will respond in kind to Him. God loves you so much He accepts you just the way you are, but He loves you so much He won't let you stay as you are.
Jesus said, "Everything and everyone that the Father has given me will come to me, and I won't turn any of them away." (John 6:37, CEV). And the Bible says, "Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new." (2 Corinthians 5:17, CEV).
Now the reason the Just Judge of the Universe can and does accept us warts and all is because Jesus has paid the penalty for our sins and offers a free pardon to anyone who will accept it.
The issue is simple, either you can respond to God's love and accept His offer, or you can reject it insisting on your own way. Because God is love He will not force you into a relationship with Him, even if that means that at the end of your life you are eternally separated from Him because of your refusal to accept His free gift to you.
The War of 1812 and the Battle for New Orleans launched Andrew Jackson into the National limelight which resulted in his election into the office of President of the United States.
Following a different course, another hero of that war, James Wilson, moved westward where he became an outlaw stage coach robber. Eventually, Wilson was apprehended and sentenced to death. News of his arrest and scheduled execution reached the President who sent a pardon to this fallen hero.
On the day of the scheduled execution, the warden of the prison which housed Wilson entered his jail cell. However, instead of being there to lead him to his death, he offered him freedom.
Wilson's response shocked the warden -- he refused the pardon. The refusal went to the Supreme Court which ruled that Wilson must die. He was duly executed.
God loves you so much He will not force you into a relationship you don't want. Those who spend eternity in hell are successful rebels to the end. All their lives they have insisted that God leave them alone and with a broken heart of love, that is what God does.
Dr. John Pearrell is pastor of Gateway Community Church in Covington, GA.. For more information visit the Gateway website at www.gatewaycommunity.org
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- JOHN PEARRELL: We have two choices: accept or reject Jesus ( October 3, 2011 )
- JOHN PEARRELL: We have two choices: accept or reject Jesus ( October 2, 2011 )
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Conservative group promotes 'Gun Appreciation Day'
Following President Barack Obama's federal proposals addressing gun violence this week, a coalition of conservative groups hope to make a far-reaching statement on protecting the Second Amendment and their firearms by celebrating Saturday as "Gun Appreciation Day."
It's no coincidence that the national call to rally gun enthusiasts comes two days before Obama's second inauguration and next week's anticipated introduction of a revised ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines to Congress, according to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
"We hope to win the argument, that's No. 1," said Larry Ward, president and CEO of Political Media, a Washington, D.C., Republican consulting firm organizing the event. "We're not looking to just postpone some votes and slow it down. We're looking to win, and win decisively."
Ward said the event — which has gained momentum across the country, including in Ventura County — is urging "people to go to gun stores, shoot a few bullets, buy a few bullets, buy a gun if you don't have one or if you want another one and ... hold up your sign, 'hands off my guns.' "
But while Ward and the Ventura County Tea Party, which has endorsed the event, argue the demonstration is just as much about defending the Second Amendment as it is about gun rights, local Democrats disagree.
"This is about the gun-manufacturing lobby whipping up hysteria to buy their product," Ventura County Democratic Party Chairman David Atkins said. "This is not a constitutional issue ... Preventing the sale of tactical assault rifles with high-capacity magazines and creating a registry of firearms is not an illegal restriction on the Second Amendment. It's common sense."
"Common sense" was a repeated phrase Obama used as he proposed 23 executive orders Wednesday, including proposals on gun regulation, mental health and researching the effects of violent video games, among others.
Even Ventura County Tea Party leader George Miller didn't think "everything he said was inappropriate."
"Over the last couple of months there's been a big push ... to restrict ownership of guns," said Miller, one of the founders of the 2010-established Ventura County Tea Party. "While we agree with some of that, much of it we don't."
Miller, also a member of the National Rifle Association, agreed greater attention should be paid to mental health and said there should be policies to prevent firearms from getting into the hands of the mentally-unstable, drug users, alcohol abusers and felons. Otherwise, he added, "it's everyone else's right to use them responsibly."
"Several loads of people" from the Ventura County Tea Party are planning on traveling to Sacramento to support "Gun Appreciation Day" by protesting in front of the State Capitol, while others intend to patronize local gun stores and ranges, Miller said.
"We're all for responsible gun use and we look back at the Second Amendment, which guarantees us that right," Miller said. "We want to make sure that's not lost."
The national event has proliferated through social media, going from 1,100 'likes' on the Gun Appreciation Day Facebook page to 47,700 'likes' in less than two weeks. A common image used to promote the event is President Ronald Reagan paired with a quote from his 1975 column for "Guns & Ammo" magazine: "The right of the citizen to keep and bear arms must not be infringed if liberty in America is to survive."
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation in Simi Valley declined to comment on the event's use of the late president, who passed some gun-control laws while serving as California governor and supported additional policies after his presidency.
Obama, for example, referenced Reagan's support of bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines during his Wednesday speech, despite calling Reagan "one of the staunchest defenders of the Second Amendment."
In a 1994 letter to the House of Representatives, Reagan and former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter urged lawmakers to pass an assault weapons ban, calling it "a matter of vital importance to the public safety."
Ward said he was aware of gun-control measures supported by Reagan and decided to use his image to advertise the event despite disagreeing with some of Reagan's policies.
"Reagan is an icon in conservative movements and he said a lot of great things," Ward said. "He's not, obviously, the perfect gun advocate, but he certainly had the right statement for this particular time ... That quote was important."
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UT Martin's English Society is a group dedicated to inspiring others to study and love English. We are not alone in this task at UT Martin.
UT Martin also has a chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the National Honors English Society. Although the English Society and Sigma Tau Delta very often work in conjunction, there are some key differences.
• English Society is open to all students interested in literature topics; Sigma Tau Delta is open only to English majors and minors who qualify.
• The English Society is a local group; Sigma Tau Delta is national.
• The English Society does boost your resume, but we currently offer no scholarships or internships. Sigma Tau Delta has undergraduate and graduate scholarships, and offers paid internships through Better World Books and Penguin Books.
Sigma Tau Delta's national website is an invaluable tool for those seeking to join the honor society. You must be a second semester sophomore, junior, or senior to join. If you are a freshman interested in Sigma Tau Delta, hang out with the English Society! Most of the members of Sigma Tau Delta are also in English Society, and we'll give you the inside scoop.


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It's possible Paige Wilson has the makings of a coach deep down inside her basketball brain. With Drury trailing rival Southwest Baptist by two points and the clock ticking under 25 seconds to play, she decided it was time for a quick shot.
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. Either way, her 3-pointer sent the Lady Panthers on to a 77-76 win Tuesday night at the Meyer Center.
The game was a thriller that featured five ties, six lead changes and frantic final five minutes. ...