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LEFANU, Alicia. Tales of a Tourist (1823)
Publishing Papers
Correspondence, Journals, and Memoirs:
Letter from Longman & Co to Alicia Lefanu.
28 Aug 1821.
Your letter of the 22d reached us yesterday and we have given its
contents our best consideration. In consequence of the little success
we have had with your former work [Leolin Abbey (EN2 1819:
44)] we beg leave to decline engaging in the one you have now the
goodness to propose to us.
Source: Longman Archives, Longman I, 101, no. 167A (draft).
Notes: The typed transcript of this letter in the Longman Archives
records a deleted word that is not given here. The letter is addressed
to Lefanu at Northampton. No specific title is mentioned in the letter,
so the work referred to could be either Tales of a Tourist
or Don Juan de las Sierras (EN2 1823: 54), both of which were
published by A. K. Newman & Co in 1823.
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It can't have escaped anybody's notice that yesterday Google announced their very own web browser. Paul Ducklin, Sophos's head of technology in Asia Pacific, contributes a guest blog below discussing Google Chrome. Over to you Paul...
Google just released a web browser - or, more accurately, a beta version of a web browser - which they seem pretty certain will make the web safer by being more secure than existing browsers. It will also apparently complete the Trifecta by improving speed and stability at the same time.
This isn't really an invention or a revolution, though some viewers of Google's breathlessly enthusiastic YouTube videos about the release might let themselves believe that it is.
To be fair to Google, they don't actually present it this way - they do talk about starting from scratch, but they also make it clear that the new browser is about evolution and choice. In that respect, they appear to be delivering.
(At least they are delivering if you are a Windows user. They haven't quite got around to the Linux and OS X versions yet, which seems slightly ironic considering that the rendering code they chose to base their browser on is WebKit, already used in various forms both in Safari on OS X, and in KDE on Linux. But I digress.)
The browser itself, called Chrome, may indeed be the most secure browser yet, but it's much too early to tell yet. Part of this security appears to be that each browser tab is effectively a separate process, so that separate tabs "can't talk to each other", in Google's words.
Quite how this differs, other than visually, from running several separate copies of the browser program in separate windows (or, for Linux nerds using a tabbed window manager like Fluxbox, in separate tabs in the same window) isn't clear.
For a good example of this sort of problem, look at MS06-006, a Windows Media Player vulnerability from a couple of years ago. This is a bug in a single DLL used in playing WMV files. Ironically, the bug doesn't affect Internet Explorer, which merely hangs, but does affect Firefox, which can suffer remote code execution when confronted with an offending WMV link.
There also seems to be some conflict between Google's insistence that each browser tab is entirely self-contained and their tagline of "one box for everything". As one of their videos explains, to navigate or search the web, you simply start typing into the address bar. It will suggest popular sites, searches and even pages you have already visited which contain your search term.
So although your own individual browser tabs may be unable to talk to one another, the browser itself can and apparently will tie together the content of your tabs with its "one search window and address bar to rule them all". (This time those are my words, not Google's.)
Then there's the name of the browser, which is presumably meant to be mildly ironic. "Chrome," at least in Mozilla's parlance, refers to the parts of the browser which represent the user interface, controlled by the browser application itself, as opposed to the content, which is where possibly hostile content from remote web sites is rendered and displayed. Google's take on the browser is that the "chrome" should be minimised - so that the browser itself is effectively invisible, or at least minimalistic, like Google's home page.
But it remains to be seen whether Chrome's minimal chrome will produce a tension with security, since many users have learned to rely on annotations and visual signals in the browser's chrome to help them spot things like phishes, fake sites and misleading linking practices. Perhaps if too much of the browsing experience is left under the visual control of the content - which must always be considered potentially hostile - then security will decrease, and risk will increase.
And some observers are already expressing concerns about Chrome's memory footprint, given that each tab sounds as though it will have its own copy of everything needed to render and operate that tab. Generally speaking, the more carefully and completely you isolate the tabs, the less code and data you can share between them. Indeed, it sounds as though there will be a complete copy of Google's new JavaScript engine, aggressively named "V8", in each tab. V8 motors might be renowned for sheer grunt, but for efficiency and fuel consumption they can hurt your pocket.
So where do we go from here? Is this really the beginning of Web 2.0, as one of Google's developers excitedly implies on YouTube when she describes the previous generation of browsers as being from a time "when the First Web was created"? Will users rush to trust a browser, no matter how secure it is claimed to be, from a web search and online advertising Goliath? Will Chrome speed up our browsing, or will it just allow us to be presented with more content in the same lengths of time?
More importantly, will a better browser program make better browsers of us all? That's a question Google can't really answer, though their developers seem genuinely to want that result.

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Kramer's New HDBaseT HDMI Extender Compatible with Panasonic Digital Link Projector [PR]
As will be demonstrated at ISE 2013, HDBaseT extenders from Kramer are compatible with Panasonic projectors
In the coming ISE 2013 show, Kramer Electronics will be showcasing a new line of HDBaseT range extenders. These new range extenders with HDBaseT capability, send the HDMI signal, along with the Ethernet 100BaseT, RS−232 and IR input signals as an integrated HDBaseT signal over a distance of 100 meters.
Panasonic has recently introduced a new range of projectors supporting HDBaseT technology, which connects all entertainment devices through a single LAN cable. "The aim of developing the Digital Link line", says Hartmut Kulessa, Marketing Manager for PSCEU (Panasonic Systems Communications Company Europe), "is to provide projection solutions where a distance connection is required".
The new line of projectors supports delivery of uncompressed HD, audio and control commands up to 100m via a single CAT5e/6 LAN cable and is compatible with Kramer's HDBaseT products.
"The introduction of our new family of HDBaseT range extenders ensures interoperability between various devices using HDBaseT technology, says Ezra Ozer, Kramer Electonics' VP of Marketing. "It also reflects the Kramer philosophy, which is to ease the work for installers. "We believe that taking part in the HDBaseT certification program is the right move in the right direction, to reach our quest for seamless AV integration" adds Mr. Ozer.
"The adoption of HDBaseT by industry leaders such as Panasonic and Kramer Electronics reassures the importance of this technology in the AV industry" says Eliran Toren, VP Sales at Valens Semiconductor.
The family of TP−58x transmitters sends the HDMI input signal, along with the Ethernet 100BaseT, RS−232 and IR input signals as an integrated HDBaseT signal to a distance of 130m (430ft) using Kramer's BC−DGKat623 cables. The TP−58x receiver family converts the twisted pair signal back to Ethernet 100BaseT, RS−232, IR and HDMI outputs, and de−embeds the audio (in certain models) to S/PDIF and TOSLINK audio outputs. For demanding applications, Kramer is offering the special TP−58xXR Extra Range models, that reach up to 180 meters.
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It's been rumored, dismissed and rumored again, but this time, there's something to it.
Christy's of Cape Cod will open a store on Osterville's Main Street, including a Dunkin' Donuts counter and gas operation.
Patrick McKeown of Christy's of Cape Cod said construction is under way at the Osterville location, but there is no opening date at this point.
The Christy's will occupy the lower level at 804 Main St., which shares the parking lot with an existing gas operation that will also be operated by Christy's.
The informal announcement came Wednesday night at the annual meeting of the Osterville Village Association. Phil McCartin asked whether there was any truth to the rumor that Christy's to take over that space. The answer came from a town employee in the audience, who confirmed that an application had been submitted and approved by the health division. That information, which was confirmed by the Patriot yesterday, sparked a murmur in the OVA audience.Patriot last year, chain owner Christy Mihos said that the location didn't work well and was no longer under consideration.
Christy's had been rumored for Osterville in the past, but in an interview with the
Thursday morning, building commissioner Tom Perry said that a permit was filed though his office and requires no board action, nor a visit to site plan review.
"It's really like for like," Perry said.
In Hyannis, one of the two Christy's operations on Bearse's Way recently changed hands. Signs for an independent operator for the former location in the Bobby Byrne's plaza went up about three weeks ago. The newer Christy's gas station across the street remains.
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CUMBERLAND – Prior to Cumberland High's Division I showdown with Tolman on Friday afternoon, head coach Marty Crowley issued a message to his players.
"I just told them that Tolman's a great team, and – like every game – they need to be ready to play, and play hard," he stated. "I also said that they're brand new to the league (division), and we haven't seen them, but we needed to take them like any other (force). The good news is we heeded that warning."
PAWTUCKET — Allen Webster brought out his best to nab his first Triple-A victory on a cold Friday night.
The 23-year-old prospect delivered six innings of two-hit ball, striking out nine batters and walking none, to help the Pawtucket Red Sox produce a 4-1 victory over the Durham Bulls at McCoy Stadium.
Aside from a shaky third inning that saw Webster hit the first batter he faced and the Bulls collect both their hits and score their run, Webster was simply on top of his game.
PAWTUCKET — Gary DiSarcina wasted little time in explaining why the PawSox are refraining from employing a six-man starting rotation.
"Chris Hernandez will be in the bullpen," the Pawtucket skipper stated prior to Thursday's game, which was started by Alfredo Aceves.


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Air Travel In New York City Disrupted By Nor'Easter Storm
Cancelled flights due to a storm are viewed on a schedule board at... Nieuwsfoto'sBedrijfsleven,Cancelled - Engels woord,Financiën,Horizontaal,LaGuardia Airport,Luchthaven,Stad New York,Storm,Verenigde Staten,Vervoer,Weer,WindPhotographer Spencer PlattCollection: Getty Images News 2012 Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 07: Cancelled flights due to a storm are viewed on a schedule board at LaGuardia Airport on November 7, 2012 in New York City. The Northeast suffered another storm today as a mix of snow, rain and high winds moved through the area, canceling flights and creating hazardous driving conditions. Six thousand households in the area are still without power for more than nine days following Superstorm Sandy. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)


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Cal U women top Mercyhurst, 71-66
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The Cal U women's basketball team came from behind Wednesday to pick up its second PSAC win by defeating host Mercyhurst, 71-66.
The Vulcans (2-4, 2-1) outscored Mercyhurst (1-5, 1-1) 9-6 over the final 3:41.
Cal U got 15 points from Kaitlynn Fratz and Elena Antonenko, and 14 from Emma Mahady in the victory. Mahady and Chelsea McKnight each had five rebounds while Mahady also had three blocked shots.
Mercyhurst was led by Alex Artise with 15 points, while Adrienne Kloecker and Natalie Piaggesi added 10 each.
The Lakers controlled play in the first nine minutes of the second half, taking a 49-41 lead with 10:50 remaining in the game. Cal U rallied back, going on a 21-9 run over the next seven minutes to take a 62-58 lead with 3:58 left in the contest.
Leading 62-60 after Mercyhurst's Jessica Bell scored on a layup, Cal U scored the next four points as Antonenko hit a basket and Mahady hit two free throws. After Piaggesi hit a basket with 2:07 to play, McKnight hit a three-pointer with 1:44 to play to up the lead to 69-62.
The Vulcans' Miki Glenn hit two free throws in the closing seconds to seal the win.
In the nightcap, the Cal U men dropped a 64-51 verdict to the Lakers.
Mercyhurst (2-4, 2-0) jumped to a 34-22 lead in the first half as Jonathan Ouegnin scored 12 points.
The Lakers widened the gap to 38-22 in the second half before the Vulcans (1-6, 0-3) went on an 11-0 run to close to within 38-33 with 14:08 left after Tynell Fortune drilled a three-pointer.
The Vulcans got as close as four points (48-44) with 7:04 to play when Fortune made two free throws.
However, the Lakers held on down the stretch for the win.
Fortune and Chris Williams led the Vulcans in scoring with 11 points each. Williams grabbed five rebounds.
Mercyhurst was led by Ouegnin with 19 points while Anthony Lytle had 11 and Callon Dailey added 10. Ouegnin had a game-high six rebounds.
Mercyhurst shot nearly 50 percent from the field, hitting 21 of 43 shots while Cal made just 12 of 39 to shoot 30.8 percent.
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PAWTUCKET — A fire in a multi-family apartment house at 111 Randall St. on Friday injured four Pawtucket firefighters and left 15 people homeless.
According to Fire Chief William Sisson, the blaze was reported around 11:30 a.m. in the large, three-story woodframe house. It began in the attic and quickly burned through the roof, causing extensive damage to the entire house, he said.
PROVIDENCE – John Harwood, the attorney for the Lincoln police officer accused of kicking a seated, handcuffed woman in the head outside the Twin River casino on May 31, 2009, indicated in Superior Court on Friday he wanted to enlist the expertise of Dr. Frank Gallo as part of his client's defense.
Gallo, renowned statewide for his expertise on "use of force," is an instructor for various law enforcement agencies around the region.
PROVIDENCE — After huddling behind closed doors for two hours with mayors, town administrators and other municipal officials, Gov. Lincoln Chafee declared that 2012 "should be the year of the cities and towns.
"We can not have East Providences and Woonsockets and Coventrys and other towns being read about across the country in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times and other national publications that are going to be a detriment to the economy of Rhode Island," the governor said. "We've got to address it."
PAWTUCKET — Thanks to a $2,500 legislative grant, Mixed Magic Theatre will be able to embark on one of its favorite journeys: bringing the timeless tale of "Moby Dick" to new audiences in a unique and modern way.
On Thursday, state Sen. Donna M. Nesselbush (D-Dist. 15) presented a check to Mixed Magic Theatre, a non-profit arts organization based in the historic mill complex at the Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket.
PROVIDENCE — When the General Assembly abruptly dropped the exemption of car values for local tax purposes from $6,000 to $500 last year, drivers suddenly hit with tax bills several times higher than they were before started paying attention to the way values are placed on their automobiles, and they didn't like what they saw.
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Observations of China's Religions
From a Trip July 1st to August 8, 2005
For some years I had difficulty explaining to myself why Buddhism is not the true religion and is inferior to Christianity. This is because, as it appeared to me, the spirituality in some important respects is almost the same in both religions and both religions have their saints who do miracles and influence society for the better. So how could I claim to have the true religion? How does one objectively determine which religion is from God? Or do they both have the same God? Or does it matter which path one takes? I can explain how and why Hinduism, Islam, Paganism, Atheism, and other religions are distortions of the Truth that Adam and Eve and the Prophets and Apostles had passed on, and that Judaism dismisses the prophecies of Jesus Christ, as well as demonstrate how and why Roman Catholicism and Protestantism partially revert to elements of these false religions. But Buddhism had eluded me until I went to Shanghai, China for the first time to visit the relatives of my wife (who is soon to be baptized Orthodox).
The main problem behind any search for or defense of the True Faith is the lack of knowledge of how spirituality works. I believe in ancient times such information was common fact, but in today's ambivalent world, it needs to be learned and learned again. I say this because spirituality is (to use a modern term) a psychology of observing how the mind and soul work under the guidance of religious direction, and the modern psychology is based on carnality rather than on holiness. Another problem in this quest for the True God is ignorance or dismissal of important facts that would either support or weaken the logic of a religion's claims. All this is why I had problems knowing how and why Buddhism is not a path to salvation.
Buddhist beliefs and practices strongly parallel Biblical doctrines, Apostolic Tradition, and Christian monastic teachings in basic ways. Not only do Buddhists have some concept of a divine trinity, they also teach that their god is beyond our comprehension, just as the saints speak of the Father's Essence as being unknowable and indescribable. Buddhists even have various buddhas (a cross between a saint and Buddha himself, a historical man who is like a mediator or ladder to divinity) in their heaven that can be prayed to, as well as incense and statues for use in prayer, similar to our petitions to the saints, incense, and icons. But these and other things are the limit to the similarities as I was to discover from my reading and experience.
One main reason why I had such difficulty with discounting Buddhism was not only certain doctrinal similarities but also the spirituality, especially their monasticism. How can I explain to myself and others that the Apostles' Tradition is superior to Buddhism, when they both appear to be doing and believing the same things? If St. Peter does a miracle and a certain Buddhist does the same miracle, and both are virtuous men, how can one judge between these religions? Are both from God? For example, near Ningbo, China one of my wife's cousins some years ago got in a car wreck that resulted in a few visions of Buddha telling her some special plans that he had for her. From what I could gather, she was a devout Buddhist before and after this experience, but it is not clear (my translator was not skilled enough) how advanced she was in this spirituality and how involved she was with prayer. I got the impression that she was just a typical Buddhist who simply did her short, daily prayers without much more thought about her religion during the rest of the day. But about three years after her car wreck the spiritual changes that developed from her visions eventually led to her becoming a miracle-worker, healing the sick, reading palms, seeing the future, exorcising demons, etc. She is now quite popular in her area and many people go to her for spiritual advice and miracles. She is sincere and does not accept money for this, though there are times when she may accept some non-monetary recompense.
This miracle-worker is similar to the Apostles, and even some Christians in recent times, who were also teachers and wonder-workers. And this begs the question again- how does one explain that Buddhism is a false religion when it seems to be like Christianity? How can one understand that my wife's cousin is being manipulated by Satan? By God's grace I found before I left for China a book called "Christ, the Eternal Tao" by Hieromonk Damascene, who I had met while I lived in Nashville, TN. His book perfectly and clearly explained it all to me, so I was as prepared as God wanted me to be to distinguish between the spirituality of men and of God, and to utilize this insight in telling the Gospel of Christ to the Chinese whenever God provided the chance.
The first thing I noticed was the complete lack of temples and churches in China. I was not sure, so I asked my students (I also taught English there for two weeks) if this situation was caused by Communism's persecutions of religion. But they were convinced that this had always been the case, at least for temples, since Buddhism and Taoism have an ethic of establishing places of worship away from populated areas. So temples tended to be on the edge of or far beyond the towns and doubled as monasteries. Hence, all I saw in China's towns was store after store and apartment building after apartment building. Americans may have problems with materialism, but Asia turns it into an art form. I asked some other students more questions about this and they said that most people simply pray at home before their little statues of Buddha or whatever. They laughed at the idea of Buddhists going down the block to pray at a temple, since such an ethic is more of a Christian practice not at all associated with the Chinese culture.
There are a few churches that are visible, though Orthodoxy is not yet legal. All that the Chinese have is a somewhat regulated Roman Catholicism and a forced inter-denominational Protestantism. China does not allow each Protestant denomination to exist, so a form of non-denominational Protestantism can only be practiced. As a result, a Methodist minister must modify his dogmas to conform to a type of pan-Protestantism or covertly preach his theology. This is not easy for some people. I actually happened to overhear an angry church-goer outside a Protestant church berate a minister dressed like an Episcopal priest. The man was angry that the priest or minister was involved in diluting the dogmas of whatever Protestant theology he had in mind, probably because of the law forcing all Protestant churches to conform to a kind of pan-Protestantism. So there is some degree of frustration caused by this law.
Not all Chinese people are traditionally religious, since Communism and its persecution have popularized the religions of Atheism and Agnosticism. But it may be true to say that about a third of the people are Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, and others. Since all Chinese people love Americans and Europeans and are now heavily influenced by our Western culture, they are receptive to the Gospel, though this does not mean that they want to convert. On occasion we were able to bring up the topic of Christ in our discussions with my wife's relatives, friends, and their college-aged children. For example, I talked with a 2nd cousin about the importance of Jesus in the American heritage. But after a while the terms and ideas that I had to express became too difficult for my cousin. At that point my wife took over and spoke for a long time about the main stories of Scripture, the Gospel, and even the Holy Trinity. The cousin, her mom, and my wife's sister were totally captivated by what she said. At another time there were a few other 2nd cousins who sat and listened to me for a long time explain the meaning of Christ's death and resurrection. Of course, my wife was there to provide in Chinese any gaps to their understanding. Then there was a friend's son who was convinced that religion was a fairy tale and a superstition. I explained to him the inconsistencies in believing that God did not create the universe, as well as life, and then I threw his argument back at him by saying that his own belief that religion is a superstition may itself be superstitious. I could visibly see how that thought deeply affected him. And there were other times we talked about religion. So God did provide chances for us to teach the message of Jesus Christ, sometimes with me initiating the discussion and with my wife taking over in Chinese at some point, though also with my wife talking about the Bible, with or without me as a helper. But because these people's understanding of Christianity was very limited, I was only able to explain to one 2nd cousin the difference between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, as well as introduce Orthodoxy, which is almost unknown to the Chinese.
Though we saw no interest to convert to Christ, particularly Orthodoxy, since it is such a new concept to them, we leave it up to God to do His will. We are still in contact with these people who have heard the Gospel or parts of it, and the message of Jesus will probably come up in conversations on the internet and/or when we return to China next year. The Chinese people want to learn English and modernize themselves, as they call westernization, and in the process some feel that they should learn about Christianity in order to understand who and what they are dealing with. As a result of this exposure, there is a growing number of conversions to Catholicism and Protestantism, so that these forms of Christianity are gaining tens of thousands of converts and sympathizers every year. It is conceivable to say that in 50 years there will be more Christians in China than Buddhists and Taoists, or at least Christianity will be a greater rival.
The Chinese heritage is mainly Buddhist and Taoist, which still have an impact in the lives of many people, if or not they are religious. These two religions are heavily guided by a theology of health and wealth, whereby people pray and pray for good health, good luck, good happiness, and good money. It is much like the modern health-wealth movement that has been popular among certain Protestant groups in recent decades. The Chinese have a long history with this spirituality and they have many symbols for luck, success, health, happiness, etc. everywhere. When people pray, they often pray for more money, better jobs, economic luck, etc., or their prayers have some indirect connection to health and wealth. But this is not just among the lay-people; even the temples are adorned with symbols and messages promoting financial success and physical health. In one area we visited a Buddhist temple and a Taoist temple, which were once frequented by the local kings for a number of centuries. When we entered the Taoist temple, there was a priest in every corner pulling tourists (who were all Chinese) aside and deeply discussing things with them. I was aware that the founder of Taoism, Lao-Tzu, taught ideals that parallel Orthodoxy more than Buddha's did, so I assumed that these priests were donating their time and energy to giving people spiritual advice. One of them took one of our friends and spent 5-10 minutes with her. Afterwards I found out that he had read her future in her palm, which he said contained lots of money and success for her. But this could only come true if she paid him to pray for her every day at the price of 1 yuan (1 yuan is the price of a newspaper) per day. So she paid him 5 or 10 yuan. When we later walked by another priest, he called for us to sit with him, but our friend said that her palm had already been read. Then he said that it did not matter because his reading of her palm would be different. Such is the spiritual heritage of China. But it must also be stated that the Chinese people in social practice do strive to have an ethic of donating money to the poor and buying gifts, just as the Christian culture practices. Thus, they are not greedy in practice, but a major aspect of their religion is devoted to monetary concerns.
As a result of this fusion of God and money, nobody seemed to think that palm reading and paying priests for prayers were dubious methods of manipulating people's hopes and dreams. It was all part of their religion and worship, which is based on health and wealth, even for the monks. Moreover, outside the temples there are kiosks selling religious and secular stuff right along the walls and up to the doors. I told one of our Chinese friends that Jesus once destroyed a bunch of kiosks at the Jerusalem Temple because God should be the main focus and not money. He did not seem to grasp the point that the quest for money must be secondary to the soul's search for God. Nevertheless, there are Buddhist and Taoist monks who do give up all earthly attachments, including the yearning for money and possessions, yet the goal involves getting into their inner selves rather than into God. So this self-oriented form of detachment is part of their theology along with accommodating health-wealth beliefs, which is definitely ambivalent or duplicitous. But since they believe in reincarnation, this contradiction becomes moot because they do not consider the soul's purification to be an immediate necessity for this life. If people feel excited about giving up earthly attachments, then detachment is taught; and if others would rather yearn for success, then the monks will encourage this too. It does not matter to them because their religion says that holiness and spiritual enlightenment can occur in a succession of lives until we will all become absorbed into the Self as gods in a way that will eliminate individuality and what we now consider to be reality. The focus of all their forms of spirituality is man, not God.
This denial of present realities and the doctrine of reincarnation were recognized by the Early Christians to be logically flawed because these beliefs are saying that the essential distinctions between man and animals and between souls themselves and also between man and God do not ultimately exist, even though we can observe and see that they exist. But Buddhists do not even accept that this present age of sin is part of reality, which allows people to be more lax about sin and the seeking of holiness. Even doing good deeds is basically practiced not necessarily to attain holiness but to prevent bad things from happening, since what goes around comes around, which is a basic Buddhist doctrine that is still prevalent among the non-religious Chinese. This leads to a trust in oneself, in one's own abilities to adhere to holiness instead of trusting in our Creator. Yet Buddhists do not actually believe that God is Person anyway. In fact, their god is so unknowable that they have no connection with it at all in any way, even in prayer. As a Buddhist monk told me, the god of Buddhism is merely a relative concept who does not demand or reveal an absolute and universal standard of Truth about itself. And he seemed proud of this ideal. Hence, God is taken to be what any devotee presumes or desires Him to be. In other words, feeble man is the determining factor in achieving enlightenment, not divine revelation. Buddhism allows man to trust himself to decide who God is & how to unite with him, rather than submitting to God's standard of Truth and salvation as He reveals it to us. So Buddhists just pray to Buddha and wish to get to their heaven because of him, and then they assume that their spiritual experiences of transcendent unity with the divine are an objective truth, despite their assertion that there are no objective truths. Even Buddha himself, like their god, is not a static figure. Sometimes Buddha looks like a normal adult man or a prayerful man in their temples, and other times he is shown to be a fat, jolly fellow. This is the Fat Buddha, a statue of Buddha as a 400 pound man that is laughing and surrounded by signs of wealth. People pray before it and hope to acquire such earthly excess now or in the next life or in their heaven. Temples also have the Fat Buddha, thereby promoting carnal indulgence as a symbol of future spiritual or physical health and wealth along with the self-contradictory notion that man is the source of truth. Indeed, Buddha was a man whose own enlightenment cannot be objectively accepted as divine, contrary to Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead.
Toward the end of our stay I finally got to meet my cousin-in-law, the Buddhist miracle-worker. I expected to see a spiritually advanced monastic type, but she turned out to be more like an excited Protestant of the charismatic movement. A group of my wife's relatives had all gone out with us to meet her and eventually everyone hung around her to listen intently to her spiritual lessons. Then she started reading everyone's palms and poor my wife was pushed into taking part in it. While this was going on I left the room and sat with the miracle-worker's son and niece. They asked me why I was not taking part in this, and I told them how and why palm reading is a farce. The niece (my 2nd cousin-in-law) grasped the purport of what I said and agreed that it may be a matter of wishful thinking. When the palm reading was done, my wife told me what her palm supposedly said, and one of the things taught was that she does not work hard enough. That comment confirmed my cynicism because my wife works harder than anyone I know. From the second she wakes up to the second she goes to bed she is either thinking about work or doing some work, never resting. And I am sure that if I were to confront her cousin and challenge her on this palm reading that she would say not to take it literally or not to apply it to present circumstances or whatever. They just make it all up as they go. For instance, before my wife, came to America her palm supposedly said that she would never fall in love and get married. Plus, the Taoist monk that I mentioned earlier literally admitted that each palm reader can get different messages from the same palm. But I do not know if all monks think this way; there must be some Buddhists and Taoists who dismiss this spirituality.
The lessons that I learned from all this are that the Early Christians and the book "Christ, the Eternal Tao" teach the Truth derived from the Apostles of the Lord. The human spirit, soul, mind, and body that God created without the use of evolution are designed to do miracles with or without God. Thus, every religion has its miracle-workers and prayerful devotees. For example, Fr. Seraphim Rose in his book "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future" recorded a true story about a group of tourists from Europe who went to India in the late 1800's. An Eastern Orthodox monk happened to be among them as they got off the boat and walked on the port. It was then that they were told about an amazing Hindu fakir, who after many decades of transcendental meditation could do miracles. When they came to this man, they saw him meditating before a fire and immediately a giant vision in the sky appeared. Everyone saw the same vision of watching themselves and other people doing things on the very boat that they were on just hours before. It was like watching TV, though TV had not yet been invented. The Orthodox monk was taken by surprise; but when he came to his senses, he made the sign of the Cross and said the Jesus Prayer, which caused the vision to disappear for him, eventually causing the magician-fakir to break out of his trance. The fakir knew that God had worked through the monk and he was quite enraged because of this. So according to what I have read and seen, there is a spirituality from man, at least partially influenced by Satan, and a spirituality from God. God's spirituality is given to man and guides the soul to Him, seeking to make us as holy as He is holy. But man's spirituality has the ability to only imitate these effects, which can only go as far as man's spiritual abilities and intellect allow (Satan usually succeeds in adding lies as well, due to man's weakness). Because the human spirit can do miracles and acquire amazing virtues, people often confuse man's natural abilities with God's uncreated energies working in us. Man thus becomes God in such situations and/or earthliness becomes mistaken for Heaven. Jesus Christ and the sending of the Holy Spirit in the Church's Baptism free us from this confusion, but only as long as Christians preserve the distinction between human and divine spirituality and seek to eliminate the sins within us.
Despite its Apostolic origins, Roman Catholicism in the last 800-900 years has not preserved a distinction between human and divine spirituality, nor has Protestantism. Instead, Roman Catholicism has mingled carnality with the original standard of Apostolic sainthood, diminishing humility and elevating human opinion as a way of attaining holiness; and Protestantism has made human opinions about salvation, sainthood, etc. into a basic theology, almost eradicating humility and sobriety as a source of salvation. This is why I say that my Buddhist miracle-working cousin is like a charismatic Protestant. She says that she constantly hears Buddha talking to her in private, as well as when she reads palms, heals people, exorcises demons, teaches, etc., naively accepting these voices as divine revelations, as though she knows that she is worthy of such honor, without any cautious and sober consideration that these visions are from the spiritual realm of evil. But the voices that she hears are not from God because the messages she gets can turn out to be false and she is speaking and acting through human impulses, not through years of prayer and practice in the spirituality of detachment, holiness, and divine grace. This became even more evident to me after having had a religious discussion with her in private. I asked very deep questions that were meant to probe into her soul to see the level of spirituality that she was involved with. Along with the Church's interpretation of Scripture, I am aware of the spirituality of the Philokalia and the Ladder of Divine Ascent, as well as their Apostolic interpretation of psychology, and I am somewhat conversant in St. Dionysius the Areopagite's theology. Though I am not at all an expert in the teachings of these great saints, I do have some lay-person's grasp of what to look for when people claim to be guided by divinity. As a result, I did not get the impression that my cousin's miracle-working spirituality was at the level of the wisdom and holy perfection that Orthodox saints have possessed for 2000 years. Indeed, even ordinary Orthodox men and women surpass her in wisdom and holiness, though this cousin is a very sweet and genuine woman. But her spiritual knowledge was limited in wisdom and holiness due to a reliance on her own human powers rather than on divine grace. In fact, I was more impressed by the spirituality of Fr. George Calciu (jailed and tortured for the Faith by the Communists in Romania for over 20 years), who I was able to talk to for a few days, than I was with my cousin. So despite her claims of being a divinely-inspired example of Buddhism, the spirituality of St. Seraphim of Sarov or St. John of Kronstadt or any other Orthodox preacher is noticeably truer. There are many good Hindus and Buddhists, especially monks, who have achieved what appears to be spiritual perfection, being as holy as God is holy, but as Fr. Seraphim Rose's story about the Hindu fakir makes clear, the Cross of Christ triumphs as the Truth and the Author of our existence. Any other religion is a human endeavor limited by men's sinfulness and/or influenced by Satan's lies.
I pray that these observations of China may help clarify for others what and where the True Faith is. If anyone has doubts about the uniqueness and exclusivity of Orthodoxy, or believes that other religions are paths to the same end or have the same God as ours, or that Roman Catholicism and Protestantism are not movements toward Paganism, then I challenge you to do more research. Our God, our Doctrine, and our Church are the surest path to holiness and salvation that the Lord's Apostles established. Any other way is an attempt to appease human desires and assuage man's weaknesses, to make Christ more convenient and salvation conform more to human standards of religion. This is the difference that I learned between Buddhism and Christianity. Buddhism relies on the human mind for its divine revelation, as well as unverifiable visions, but Apostolic Christianity relies not on men's limited spiritual discoveries, but on the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the only God who fully reveals Himself as the Way for man to be restored. The Buddhist revelation comes from human claims or opinions of divinity, while the Christian revelation comes from historical and verifiable witnesses of Christ's Resurrection. So if or not God speaks through Buddhists, their theology cannot be objectively ascertained as truly divine, whereas the Gospel of Jesus Christ was powerfully and undeniably experienced by actual witnesses of the Lord, a witness that can still be experienced today through the Church in Communion and prayer. It is these things that prove Orthodoxy to be unique, exclusive, and the true religion. May the Lord guide us there.
"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it." Jesus in Matthew 7:13-14.


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NY Event: 9/11 Floating Lanterns Buddhist/Interfaith Remembrance Ceremony
At 6 – 9pm at the South Side of Pier 40 (West Houston St. and West St.) Buddhist priest and Interfaith Center vice president T.K. Nakagaki will oversee the 10th Annual 9-11 WTC Memorial Floating Lanterns Ceremony.
Rev. Nakagaki started the Floating Lanterns Ceremony in 2002. Other religious and community organizations soon joined in and continued the tradition year after year, inviting people of all beliefs to take part. 108 handmade lanterns were crafted by volunteers and will be lit and lowered into the Hudson River.
Below is a schedule of events of for the night.
6:00pm Preparation of Lanterns
– writing loved ones' names and/or messages for peace
6:30pm Interfaith Ceremony
– Interfaith Prayer and Meditation
– Music Performances
– Greetings and Messages
– Buddhist Chanting for 9-11 victims
and 3-11 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami victims
7:45pm Floating Lighted Lanterns on the Hudson River
Guest Musicians:
Paul Winter (Saxophonist), Shinji Harada (Japanese Recording Artist),
Russell Daisey (Composer, Pianist), Tomoko Shibata (Soprano),
Ailing Sai (Harpist) and Kaoru Watanabe (Taiko Drummer)
The event is free and open to the public. I can't attend, being in South Dakota, but I applaud Rev. Nakagaki for his work and effort. For more info and video check here.
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Kmart: *HOT* Over 90% Off Shoes, Boots & Slippers = as Low as Only $1.24 Per Pair
This Hip2Save.com Deal was hand-posted on Sunday, March 31st, 2013 at 7:07 pm.
Wow! Hurry on over to Kmart.com where they are currently offering over 90% off clearance shoes, boots ans slippers! Be sure to browse around in the clearance section as there are a ton of great deals to be had for the whole family!
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Just got two cute pairs of heels for only $3.87 with my SYWR! Thanks, Colin!:D
How long is it get pair and get doller off
Found a few pair in the stores for $1 more than online price. Saved me shipping charges as they werent avail for store pickup.
Sears.com has good deals on clearance shoes too. You can also use code EASTERSALE (today is the last day 3/31) to received additional 10% off, including clearance.
The bronze wonderkids boots are also available in silver for $4.99. We bought these boots this year and they are really cute – highly recommend for the price! I just ordered more pairs for next year – thanks!!
One of the reviews said the silver rubs off, did you experience this?
A little bit, but they are still totally wearable with skinny jeans for school – great value for $5. They also made black – not sure if those are also on sale but they held up well.
How long is it
Can anyone tell me anything about the sizes of Kmart slippers for women? I usually wear 9 1/2 or 10 regular shoe, but slippers run so strangely, it seems. Does anyone know if Kmart runs small on slippers, or what a large v. xl for women's equates to? TIA!!
I wear a size 9. I bought the brown sequined slipper boots in a size large. At first they were a little tight but after about 2 days, they fit perfectly. I love these boot slippers by the way.
got a pair of sneakers and flats for me and 2 pair of slippers for my daughter for $14.03 shipped. thanks collin.
This stuff is selling out super fast! I placed 10 items in my cart, and by the time I registered and put all my info in, 4 of the items had sold out.
Off topic but if anybody needs a jcp code, here is mine I will not be using…BUYMORE8 and serial number is 843889213. I also have the one from the mail…code is GREATBUY and serial number is 0483694772. Sorry I'm posting them so late but maybe someone will still be able to use it.
Thanks so much!
Used shop at home and free max shopping trial for free shipping. 2 boots and 2 dress shoes for my child shipped to door $15.
How do you cancel the shopyourway max trial? I accidentaly agreed to it :/
From what it looks like to me.. the 90 day trial is just a trial. There is no credit card info to bill you when the time is up. You choose that when it's time if you want to keep it for the annual $79. So you should be good, just double check if you want. I also did the 90 day trial to get my free shipping also. :) Good luck!
i am really so confused with the size i know most of store sell by numbers .. this medium and large for kids are not clear for me .. can any one help what size 3 or 4 for toddler 7 years old will be medium or large ty …
Did I ever tell you how awesome you are? Well… YOU ARE!!! You made Easter better! With 7 kids it is hard sometimes to get everybody something all at the same time- especially slippers. Slippers aren't really a necessity around my house; but we all love them. All the kids have pretty much grown out of their other ones and I wanted to get new ones, but at $10+ a pair it wasn't reasonable. Well you made it happen by posting this Kmart deal. I had $11.70 in SYWR and did the trial free shipping and got 5 slippers, and 2 pair of boots for the younger girls and even a new pair of slippers for me and paid only $7.78 out of pocket- to me that is HUGE!! Even my husband was happy :). Thank you Colin!!!!!
woohoo! i have ten pairs shoes/slippers/boots in my cart right now for 40 bucks plus i got an email for 10 off 30 or more (birthday gift) so im getting ten footwear items for about 30 shipped…tyvm collin! :)
3 womans boots (for two teen girls and myself) 4 slippers, 1 womans clog, 1 girls shoe, 1 boys shoe…30 bucks shipped!
I <3 Collin :D
I just got a dance leotard and winter coat (jacket for you non-Floridians) for my daughter for less than $13 shipped. I was a bit disappointed that it waits until the very, very last step of the ordering process to tell you things are out of stock (I also had a pair of boots for myself in my cart). FYI – They also have a bunch of girls flannel pajamas (long sleeve/long pants) on clearance for $4-$5.
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The 28th Annual Easton Holiday Festival is set to take place December 6th and 7th at the Rockery. We are in need of sponsors for this event, including the restoration of the Saturday night dance we are organizing with the Easton Women of Today. Last year, many Lions helped with the program booklet by placing ads for their own or a friend's business or by including a spirited family holiday greeting.
We are again selling advertising space in the festival program booklet and need your help to make this event a success. Sponsor logos and names will be used in the program booklet in print, on our website, and on flyers spread-out around town. You can view last year's booklet at the club meetings in October and online at flipsnack.com/EastonLions/ft3lo583.html
Ads for the program booklet are available at 3 levels:
- Gold – Partner $ 100 8"x1.5" graphic/logo
- Silver - Supporter $ 50 2"x1.0" graphic/logo
- Bronze - Friend $ 25 Name listed
We hope that you will help us help others in our community by supporting this popular annual event. 100% of the proceeds go to charities, schools, scholarships and community service groups.


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Body of Swimmer Pulled From Lake Mattoon
Published on July 2 2012 10:05 am
Last Updated on July 14 2013 12:07 pm
Written by Millie Lange
(Mattoon, IL) -- The search for a missing swimmer at Lake Mattoon in east-central Illinois meets a grim conclusion. Dive teams from three different counties assisted in yesterday's search for a man around 25 years old. The body of the unnamed victim was found early Sunday night several hours after he first disappeared. Witnesses said the man went underwater to retrieve an inflatable raft and simply never resurfaced.


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Sales tax receipts for Cline Shale cities, Abilene continue to grow
July sales tax revenues for a sample of Cline Shale cities:
Big Lake: Up 17.93 percent at $176,692.87
Big Spring: Up 9.91 at $722,751.19
Colorado City: Up 20.51 at $60,589.89
Mertzon: Up 127.09 at $29,093.71
Robert Lee: Up 1.23 at $7,175.16
Roby: Up 14.33 at $2,080.64
Snyder: Up 4.82 at $297,562.42
Sterling City: Up 39.76 at $27,176.32
Sweetwater: Down 1.80 at $267,513.07
Source: Texas Comptroller's Office
The upward trend for sales tax receipts for select cities that lie in the Cline Shale oil-formation area continued this month. Sweetwater had a small decrease, 1.88 percent below July 2012.
The sales tax receipts are reflective of May sales.
Although Taylor County is not one of the areas on the Cline Shale map, energy experts say that thanks to its infrastructure, Abilene is expected to be a major player should the oil boom live up to its potential.
Abilene's sales tax receipts in July increased by 9.26 percent over July 2012 figures and 13.72 percent above the projected 2013 fiscal year budget amount, according to a memo Wednesday from the city's finance department.
The breakdown of that amount is $2,480,852 to the general fund and $826,950 for economic development. Of the rebate, $114,279 is from prior periods, audit payments, future payments and unidentified payments.
From October — the start of Abilene's current fiscal year — to this month, sales tax is 2.25 percent below the same time period the year before. However, the total is 6.09 percent above the projected fiscal year budget.
From the seats of select Cline Shale counties, the largest gain in July was recorded by Mertzon in Irion County, up 127 percent, followed by Sterling City in Sterling County, nearly 40 percent.
There were mixed showings of receipts for other cities in the Big Country:
Albany, down 1.78 percent at $49,457.59
Anson, up 17.26 at $21,786.33
Breckenridge, down 1.48 at $132,449.13
Buffalo Gap, down 8.40 at $9,462.69
Coleman, up 17.72 at $68,096.96
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I'll be arriving an hour early and leaving late in case anyone wants to have a one on one discussion, or just sit around and chew the fat about the financial markets. I expect a small group, so there will be plenty of opportunities to exchange ideas.
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Tamar is a rich, strong Old Testament name sometimes given to girls born on the holiday of Sukkoth, as palm branches were used to make the roof of the sukkah. In the Bible, there are several Tamars, including a daughter of King David and also Absalom's daughter, who is praised for her 'fair countenance'.
Tamar is also a river name in ancient Celtic. The River Tamar forms the border between the British counties of Devon and Cornwall, and Tamar is also associated with the Thames.
The Russian form Tamara has long outshone Tamar, but we think Tamar feels fresher. Parents in modern Israel agree: Tamar is the most popular girls' name there. Just don't think about Tammy as a nickname!.
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Is your organisation ready for the Digital Switch off. Are your staff are aware of what the Digital Switch is and the implications for your residents.
Housing/Maintenance Managers & Customer Services representatives will benefit from understanding the implications for your residents and will be able to address the inevitable enquiries that will be received during the build up to and during the Switch Over. Concero provides two tailored training products:
DIGITAL TV REVEALED: A half day workshop designed for Customer Services Representatives. The workshop provides an overview of the Digital Switch, the implications for your residents, and addresses the frequently asked questions that will be raised by your residents.
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This is one of those things that I thought only happened to me. For years, I've been running multiple Outlook profiles: one for my personal e-mail, and one for my Microsoft e-mail. It's quite common for me to exit Outlook and fire it up again so I can check a different e-mail account. As a matter of fact, I do this many times each day. Unfortunately, a quick re-start of Outlook doesn't always work, because the OUTLOOK.EXE process usually hangs around for awhile before it terminates. I'm not afraid to admit that I'm quite used to popping up Task Manager to see if the process is closed, and if I get too impatient, I close it myself. Come on...admit it...you've done it too (dad...if you're reading this, I'll explain what Task Manager is later). :-)
Like I said, I thought it was a problem that was unique to me. However, I received an e-mail today that not only confirmed that I wasn't alone, but it actually contained a suggestion for eliminating this problem altogether! If this information is to be believed, closing Outlook by clicking on the X doesn't always shutdown the OUTLOOK.EXE and WINWORD.EXE processes right away; but, if you use File/Exit, both processes shut down immediately. Of course, I've been trying to test this tonight, but Outlook is closing immediately in all cases...kind of like the car that doesn't squeak when you drive it to the dealership.
While searching the internet for similar cases, and I've found a few other solutions:
If you can confirm that File/Exit does the trick, please post feedback!
I've been running the Windows 7 beta for awhile now, and I'm in love! If you're relatively technical and want to take the new OS for a spin, the good news is that we've extended the beta download period until February 10, 2009. Once you have it installed, it's worth reading Tim Sneath's fantastic list of 30 Windows 7 secrets. I'm running Windows 7 on my Dell XPS desktop machine at home and on my Dell laptop at work. Even with the beta version, everything runs very smoothly and I feel a lot more productive. Plus, it's just a joy to use.
Windows 7 introduces theme packs, which are .cab files that contain all of the necessary assets to implement a theme, including sound files and images. You can find a bunch of theme packs on the Windows 7 site, and Paul Thurrott covers the basics and includes his own theme packs in his article, Windows 7 Feature Focus: Styles and Desktop Slide Shows.
As an experiment, I've created a theme pack based on my wallpaper images. It contains 20 hand-picked, nature-themed macro photos that I've taken over the years. The desktop images are configured to shuffle randomly every 30 minutes. Otherwise, the theme uses the default Windows 7 color and sound schemes.
As always, comments and feedback are welcome. Drop me a note if you decide to create your own.
Update on 2/24/2010: If you (or your browser) renames the file during download, it may not be recognized by Windows 7. Simply rename the downloaded file so that it ends with ".themepack", then double-click to install.
How often have you or one of your fellow developers checked code into your source control system that causes a build failure for someone else? And how many times have you heard that "it builds just fine on my machine?" More importantly, how much time does it take to backtrack through all of the changes to uncover the root cause of the failure? If the last good check-in was two days ago, it can be difficult to figure out not only what caused the failure, but whose check-in did it.
Integration problems like this happen every day on software development projects. Back in 1996, Steve McConnell published an article in IEEE Software magazine about the benefits of performing a Daily Build and Smoke Test that addressed this specific issue. Since then, the concept of a daily build has become more accepted in the development community, but it still amazes me how many projects don't take advantage of this simple, yet powerful technique.
Well, if we agree that integrating and building a project once a day is good, are there any benefits to continually integrating and building many times a day? How about every 15 minutes?
Continuous integration is a technique that encourages developers to check-in their code more frequently, have it compiled by an automated process, run a suite of unit tests, and report on the status. The idea is to tighten the feedback loop so that the effect of an integrated change is communicated back to the developer as soon as possible. By reducing the time between check-in and build status, developers find it much easier to identify faulty code.
A continuous integration server is responsible for monitoring the source code repository for changes that are made during check-in. When a change is detected, the server automatically:
Of course, for this to work, all source code needs to be stored in a central location that is shared by the development team. Fortunately, source control tools like Visual Studio 2005 Team System, Visual SourceSafe, CVS, Perforce, Subversion, Rational ClearCase, SourceGear Vault, etc. are found on many projects and provide a single repository.
For the continuous integration server to build the project, a build script needs to be created. NAnt is a popular and free Open Source project that is supported by both CruiseControl.NET and Draco.NET, two popular continuous integration systems for .NET development. Before configuring the continuous integration server, it is worth spending the time to create a functional build script. Although NAnt is not difficult to use, plan to invest a little time reading through the documentation before generating your first script.
Last, although unit tests are optional, they are highly recommended. On the NxOpinion project, we have over 600 individual NUnit tests that run during every build. The success of this suite of tests tells us that a majority of the basic functionality that is provided by our system is working as-expected. We consider the failure of a single unit test to be equal to a full build failure, and we work to immediately resolve any issues.
With CruiseControl.NET, when a build or test failure is detected, an e-mail message is sent to the entire development team notifying them of recent check-ins along with the specific failure. When a check-in is successful, an e-mail is sent only to those developers who checked-in code for that build. This way, everyone is always kept in-the-loop on build status. CruiseControl.NET also provides a web site and system tray application to monitor the status of the continuous integration server.
For our current project, we have configured the server to poll for changes every 15 minutes. If there have been no check-ins since the last build, the system sleeps for another 15 minutes. This cycle continues until new changes are detected. When this happens, the entire system is completely rebuilt. Because of the relatively short polling period, developers only have to wait a few minutes before learning the status of their most recent check-in.
CruiseControl.NET can also automate FxCop. FxCop is a code analysis tool that uses reflection and IL parsing to check managed assemblies for conformance to the Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers. Think of it as an "after-the-fact code review" that doesn't depend on the original source code. The current version of FxCop evaluates over 200 individual rules, and custom rules can be created. FxCop is very comprehensive, and it is very rare to receive a completely clean report. You may need to ignore rules that don't apply to your project. Although we run FxCop as part of our build, we do not currently have it configured to cause a build failure if any violations are found.
For a very thorough look at continuous integration, I recommend reading Continuous Integration with CruiseControl.NET and Draco.NET by Justin Gehtland.
Webster defines ambient as an adjective that means "existing or present on all sides." When used as a noun, it means "an encompassing atmosphere." Ambient science is an evolving field that attempts to convey low-bandwidth information by embedding it into our surrounding environment. The idea is that certain information isn't worthy of interruption, so instead, it should available at a glance.
Ambient Devices is a company that manufactures products that convey ambient information. The Ambient Orb is a $150 sphere of frosted glass that glows a nearly unlimited variety of colors. The Orb is capable of some simple color "animations" like pulsing and an effect called "crescendo" that slowly brightens a color, then immediately dims. Ambient Devices also makes a Beacon that is similar in concept to the Orb, and a recently-available Dashboard.
The Orb is commonly sold as a device to monitor the stock market, local weather, or any of a number of other free channels of information. Fortunately, for the true geek, a premium account is available for around $20 a quarter that allows you to send your own custom information to the Orb. By calling a specific URL at Ambient's web site, you can control both the color and animation of your own Orb.
You might ask: "why do I need to call a URL to change the color of something that's sitting on my desk?" Good question…this is where the geek magic steps in. You see, each Ambient device has wireless pager electronics built-in that allow it to receive signals over the wireless network (I'm not talking about 802.11x wireless…I'm talking about a wireless pager like the kind you'd wear on your belt to monitor those servers that like to go down in the middle of the night). This means that you only have to plug the Orb into a power outlet, register its device ID with Ambient Devices, and from that point on, the Orb will change colors and animations when its information changes. Pretty cool.
The Orb is imminently touchable, and visitors always stop to feel its warm glow. It's definitely a conversation piece. After they ask if you bought it at Target for $19.95, you can proceed to twist their brain by explaining how you've configured your system to send information over the Internet that the Orb wirelessly receives through the pager network. The look on their face is similar to the look you'd get if you said: "I'm an alien from Alpha Centauri and that's my invisible spaceship parked out there on the lawn." Priceless.
So I had this idea that we could configure an Ambient Orb to reflect the current status of our NxOpinion continuous integration build. A slowly pulsing green would mean that the build is currently okay, and a quickly pulsing red would indicate a build failure. I planned to put the Orb in the middle of our project team so that everyone would be aware of the build status. I hoped that by raising its visibility, everyone on the project team (including the customer) would be more aware of the project "health."
Now, when the build breaks and the Orb pulses red, it's like a fire alarm around here. The first question out of everyone's mouth is "who broke it?" After appropriate developer guilt has been piled on by the development team (all in good fun, of course), it's usually a relatively trivial matter to discover and fix the problem. Because we continuously integrate our code and the automated build potentially runs every 15 minutes, determining what caused the failure is as simple as looking at what has been checked-in since the last successful build. Fortunately, CruiseControl.NET includes this information (along with check-in comments) in its e-mail and web page summaries.
To-date, our solutions contain approximately 175,000 lines of C# code and over 600 unit tests. Since we consider the failure of a single unit test to be a failure of the entire build, if one test fails, the Orb pulses red. As you'd guess, CruiseControl.NET also includes unit test results in its e-mail and web page summaries which makes it easy to identify the problem.
Although we haven't done it on the NxOpinion project, it would be trivial to configure multiple Orbs to reflect the build health at any location within wireless pager range. You could have an Orb in every development office. And even one at home. Okay, maybe I'm going overboard with that last suggestion, but you know what I mean.
To configure the automated process to send build status information to the Ambient Orb, we need to add some properties and targets to the NAnt build script that CruiseControl.NET uses. NAnt has two built-in properties that can be leveraged to execute a task on build success and failure. The properties are called nant.onsuccess and nant.onfailure, and they need to be set to point to valid target elements in the build file. In our case, we define targets called OnSuccess and OnFailure, although any valid names will work just fine.
To send information to the Ambient Orb, query string parameters are passed to an Ambient JavaServer Page. The format of the request is as follows:
For more information on the available colors, animation styles, and formatting requirements, see the Ambient Orb WDK documentation.
We use the NAnt <get> task to send our build status. The <get> task queries a URL and copies the response to a specified file. In our case, we copy the response to a file in the temporary folder, then immediately delete it with the next task. This isn't our entire NAnt script, but it does contain enough for you to figure out how to incorporate this into your own process:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<project name="Example">
<!-- Load environment variables -->
<sysinfo />
<!-- Define targets for build status -->
<property name="nant.onsuccess" value="OnSuccess" />
<property name="nant.onfailure" value="OnFailure" />
<!-- Set Ambient Orb for successful build -->
<target name="OnSuccess" description="Build success">
<get src="http://myambient.com:8080/java/my_devices/submitdata.jsp?
dest="${sys.os.folder.temp}\delete.me" failonerror="false"/>
<delete file="${sys.os.folder.temp}\delete.me" failonerror="false"/>
<!-- Set Ambient Orb for failed build -->
<target name="OnFailure" description="Build failure">
We've been using CruiseControl.NET for automated continuous integration for the past year-and-a-half, and it has been a fantastic addition to the project. Although continuous integration is typically associated with the Agile development community, it is a technique that can provide major benefits to teams using any project methodology (even if the developers aren't writing unit tests).
It is rare that our build is in a failed status for more than 30 minutes, because CruiseControl.NET makes it so easy to determine what has changed since the last successful build. Plus, because our Ambient Orb is in a highly visible location within the project team, it is easy to see the health of our source code with just a quick glance. We can go home in the evening confident that our offshore team is working with a healthy build, and we have that same expectation when we come in to work the next morning.
I firmly believe that once you've worked on a project with automated continuous integration, you won't want to work on a project without it. To get started, download either CruiseControl.NET or Draco.NET. It might take a bit of effort to create your first build script, but once you have it up and running, you'll find that it requires relatively little care and feeding to maintain.
Oh, and don't forget to let me know about your experience!
Daily Build and Smoke Test by Steve McConnell: http://www.stevemcconnell.com/bp04.htmMartin Fowler's introduction to Continuous Integration: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.htmlContinuous Integration with CruiseControl.NET and Draco.NET by Justin Gehtland: http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=ContinuousIntegrationCruiseControl.NET: http://ccnet.thoughtworks.com/Draco.NET: http://draconet.sourceforge.net/NAnt: http://nant.sourceforge.net/NUnit: http://www.nunit.org/FxCop: http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/fxcop/Ambient Orb: http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/orb/Ambient Orb WDK: http://www.ambientdevices.com/developer/OrbWDK.pdf
In response to my XAML By Hand? post awhile back, I became curious about what it would take to export Avalon-friendly XAML from a tool like Adobe® Illustrator®. So, I downloaded the publicly available Illustrator SDK, and I've been spending some spare time in the evenings working on a plug-in.
Well, the plug-in is far enough along at this point to be relatively useful, so I'm releasing it to the public as a free download. The current version works with Adobe Illustrator CS and CS2 running on Windows. Note that this plug-in is not endorsed, warranted, or supported by Microsoft. It was created by me after hours, so use it at your own risk.
For most of the common scenarios, I think you'll find that the plug-in works very well. However, there are limitations, and you can see some of them illustrated on the Eye Candy page.
Version 0.11 of the plug-in exports XAML that is compatible with Avalon Beta 1 RC, so you should be able to start producing some pretty cool stuff right away. If you do create something that others should see, please let me know, and upload it to the Channel 9 Sandbox.
Speaking of Channel 9, Robert Scoble talked to me about the development of the plug-in, and if you have 25 minutes to spare, you can watch the complete video interview. We talk about raster/vector artwork, how Avalon enables smooth workflow between a graphic designer and an application developer, and I show some demos of the exporter in action.
I'd certainly be very interested in any feedback, comments, or questions you may have.
We released the latest version of Photo Story yesterday, and it is now available for download for Windows XP users. If you're like me, you probably have a hard drive full of digital photos that you'd like to make into an easy-to-download (or e-mail) slide show. Well, this free tool makes that process extremely simple. Here are some of its features:
Channel 9 has an interesting 24 minute demonstration by Vladimir Rovinsky and a second 28 minute interview with members of the product team. Also, Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows has a good review of Photo Story 3 that is worth reading.


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Celebrate the new improved Lewes Road – Sat 5th Oct
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Since September 2009 Bike Train & Lewes Road for Clean Air have been campaigning for improvements to cycling conditions along Brighton's Lewes Road to make it safer, cleaner and friendlier for everyone. Now, four years on, we can celebrate this achievement, following major improvements carried out during the last year. Thanks to Brighton & Hove City Council, the Jo Walters Trust, the government's Local Sustainable Transport Fund and to all our supporters – we did it!
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Celebrate a more civilised Lewes Road that's fit for a low carbon future, at Wild Park from 1pm to 4pm on Saturday, 5th October..
Assemble from 12 noon (to check bikes, meet up, hang out).
Depart at 12.40pm for a mass ride, at a gentle pace with upbeat music and a celebratory attitude.
We'll arrive at Wild Park before 1pm for start of the Lewes Road Improvements Launch Event. Includes speakers (inc. Transport minister Norman Baker MP), stalls, pump track and other fun bike stuff.
Bike Train assembly and departure points:
- The Level (Elm Grove end)
- Bevendean at Farm Green
- Moulescoombe Library (meet 12.30pm to join ride at 12.45pm
- Coldean Primary School
- University of Sussex (by Zebra crossing near Falmer House)
Meet from noon for 12.30pm departure.
Bike to the future!
Register on Facebook or contact 07944 152706 or just turn up.
Family-friendly ride, children should be accompanied by an adult. Please bring a roadworthy bike.
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Facing the Shadow.
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This weekend my old friend and teacher Martin Hunke taught a Shadow Yoga workshop at my studio, 7th Heaven in Berkeley, California.
I was exposed to shadow yoga—long before I became a teacher myself—through Joey Huynh, my teacher for eight years, who became a student of Shadow Yoga creator Shandor Remete for the last three or so of those years. I have always credited Shadow Yoga at the top of the list of influences on my Upeksha Yoga—along with the Tibetan Kum Nye Yoga I had studied at Thatang Tulku Rinpoche's Nyingma Institute in Berkeley. One of the things that these three practices (Shadow Yoga, Kum Nye and Upeksha Yoga) have in common is an emphasis on a subtler level of experience—the mind, senses and the emotions—as well as an attitude that yoga is an unspectacular event, an internal affair designed less to showcase our strengths and more to expose our weaknesses, that we may grow where we need to grow most.
Following Joey, I too ended up teaching at Martin's studio, Inner Heat Yoga in Berkeley, until it closed when Martin got married and moved to Berlin. I have since grown to teach workshops, retreats and even teacher trainings, offering my own humble insights as "Upeksha Yoga" and crediting all the many styles that I had tasted for all that I had learned and proceeded to teach. While I never called my classes Shadow Yoga (and did not, by any means, have the mastery of that practice to justify doing so), I was very excited about the Shadow Yoga elements in my teaching and made a point to include "Shadow Yoga" in my bio. This last Saturday morning, when I met Martin at 7th Heaven, he asked if I were free after the workshop, expressing his wish to take a little time to speak with me. I was very pleased, as by the end of his time in the U.S., Martin and I had become very fond of each other, and hindrance of our friendship by the sudden appearance of the Atlantic Ocean (not to mention the width of North America) between us was a genuinely sad development for me.
After the workshop, Martin and I sat down and talked about our lives, our relationships, and Shadow Yoga. He said that another teacher in the area asked him what the deal was with this guy, Shy, who claims to teach Shadow Yoga. So, I am taking this opportunity to announce: I am not a Shadow Yoga teacher and never claimed to be one. In fact, I don't think I was really ready for to face my shadow when I first received some instruction from Joey and Martin a few years ago. Today I feel that Shadow Yoga is like graduate school in yoga – deeply internal, mentally demanding and purposefully designed to nitpick on our greatest weaknesses, as westerners who grow up sitting in chairs and thinking far, far too much. Preying on joint stiffness and weak, underused leg muscles, it is as though the practice wants to teach you how not to run out of the room screaming when you want to do so the most. I am humbled in the face of its insight.
So now I started a count: today is day ___ of my daily Shadow Yoga practice. I think I am finally ready to face the shadow. I am probably wrong.
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