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Northcoast RV Wins TV in Priority One Contest
October 24, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Priority One Financial Services Inc., a division of Forest River Inc., announced that Northcoast RV was the grand prize winner of the Forest River credit card "Hook 'Em Up" contest for its dealer partners.
According to a press release, Northcoast RV won a 70-inch LED Sharp TV. The credit card program, available to Forest River dealers, helps with sales of towable products, trailers, non-motorized RVs, boat engines, parts, accessories, service, repair bills and winterization. Other winners received $100 Best Buy gift cards and Apple 27-inch computers. Over $10,000 in prizes were awarded during the three-month contest.
The "Hook 'Em Up" contest rewarded dealers that signed up consumers with the card from July 1 through Sept. 30. For every completed Forest River credit card customer application a dealer submitted, the dealer received one entry into a weekly drawing for a $100 Best Buy gift card. Drawings were also held at month-end and at the end of the contest.
"Dealers have told us they are blown away to receive a prize for using something that is already helping increase sales so much," said Greg Hauenstein, Forest River credit card program representative. To enroll contact Hauenstein at (800) 419-1041 or go to www.forestrivercard.com for additional information.
Forest River Credit Card Adds Marine Industry
August 28, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Priority One Financial Services, Inc., a division of Forest River Inc., has expanded its credit card program for RV and cargo trailer dealers to the marine industry. According to a press release, the Forest River Credit Card can be used on boat engines, parts, accessories, service repair bills and winterization.
Consumers can now enroll for the credit card to receive multiple financing options on marine products and services along with exclusive offers while also experiencing quick and easy approval processing, low monthly payments and no annual fees.
As with RV and trailer dealers, participating marine dealers will receive individual training that will help to maximize program benefits, an EZ transaction guide with step-by-step instructions for processing applications, sales through the online system and marketing assistance.
"The Forest River Credit Card program really took off for towable products, so it's natural to move into assisting Forest River marine dealers as well," said Jared Zimlin, Priority One Business Development Director.
For additional information go to www.ForestRiverCard.com.
Priority One Kicking Off 3Q Contest for Dealers
June 28, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Priority One Financial Services Inc. and its parent company, Forest River Inc., have partnered with TD Retail Card Services (TDRCS) to hold a third-quarter contest for dealers offering the Forest River Credit Card to consumers.
According to a press release, consumers may use the card to purchase a cross section of Forest River products such as utility/cargo trailers, towable RVs, parts, accessories and service repair bills.
The "Hook 'Em Up" Forest River Credit Card contest rewards dealers that sign up consumers with the card from July 1 through Sept. 30. For every completed Forest River credit card customer application submitted, a dealer will receive one entry into a weekly drawing for a $100 Best Buy gift card. Drawings will also be held on the first business day of August, September and October for monthly prizes and at the end of the contest there will be a grand prize drawing for a 70-inch Sharp TV.
"The contest was developed to increase consumer use of the card, thereby driving more sales into our participating dealers' hands," said Greg Hauenstein, Forest River Credit Card program representative.
To enroll in the program contact Hauenstein at (800) 419-1041 or visit www.forestrivercard.com.
Priority One's Mariscal Garners Business Award
January 24, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Heather Mariscal, president of Priority One Financial Services, was recently honored as one of Business Leader's 2011 Women Extraordinaire Award winners at an award luncheon held at Florida's Tampa Palms Golf & Country Club.
According to a press release, Business Leader Media annually honors the top women business leaders of the South. Mariscal, along with 23 other honorees, was chosen out of 1,700 nominations and selected based on her outstanding professional achievements as well as her passionate efforts to make a difference in the Tampa Bay business community and organizations.
Mariscal has been with Priority One, a recreational industry F&I outsourcing provider and subsidiary of Forest River Inc., for eight years and was promoted from vice president of operations to president in 2009. She led the company through the economic/lending crisis of 2009 not only surviving the downturn but emerging with a stronger company.
Mariscal has also been involved in several community activities, such as Walk Now for Autism, and annually Priority One celebrates "P1 gives thanks" throughout the month of November. Employees are given time off to volunteer at charities to give thanks back to the local community.
"Respecting and encouraging the differences of each individual on your team helps maximize their potential," Mariscal said. "By empowering those around you to be creative and communicate ideas, you will continually evolve. Transparency, whenever possible, is paramount as it fosters an environment of open discussion creating a team aligned around a clear, common goal."
Priority One Offering Contest to Mark 25th Year
January 11, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Priority One Financial Services Inc., a leading F&I outsourcing provider to the RV industry, will commemorate its 25th anniversary in business by honoring its dealer partners.
According to a press release, Priority One will be holding a contest throughout the year. The dealer that sends the 25th funded deal every month will receive a prize. Prizes range from an Apple iPad II to a Keurig Commercial Coffee Brewer to a 32-inch LCD TV.
"As we strive to excel in our industry, we greatly appreciate the trust and confidence our dealers extend to us, and we wanted to show them how much we value their partnership and encourage them to celebrate with us all year long," said Heather Mariscal, president of Priority One.
In 1987, entrepreneur Lisa Gladstone founded Priority One by creating a concept that provides finance and insurance (F&I) services for marine dealers to retail finance their customers. In 2007, Priority One was acquired by Forest River Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, and added other recreational dealers to their network. Through the years, Priority One has grown from one to 50 employees and provides F&I managed services for hundreds of recreational dealers nationwide.
Priority One Offers Dealers NADA Guide Access
January 3, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Priority One Financial Services Inc., an F&I outsourcing provider for the recreational vehicle industry, is offering its dealer partners free online access to NADA's used value guide.
According to a press release, the guide offers a "comprehensive spectrum of benchmark pricing data" that consumers and professionals from various industries use to help buy, sell, trade or shop for vehicles including RVs, trailers, boats, motorcycles and more.
"Most of our dealers are currently paying to access NADA's online vehicle pricing guide or paying for the quarterly books to perform their book-outs, so we wanted to take that cost burden away from our valued dealers," said Lorraine Mariotti, vice president of lending for St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Priority One, a division of Forest River Inc.
By providing this tool for their dealers, Priority One dealers will be able to determine values on units at any time through a link to nada.com on Priority One's exclusive dealer resource center.
Priority One Financial Services Adds 4 to Staff
October 6, 2011 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Priority One Financial Services has added new employees in several of the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based company's departments.
According to a press release, Stephen Jolles and Jason Edwards have joined as business managers, Eli Salhaney has been added to the dealer account executive team and Tyler Swinehart is the new junior network administrator. Priority One is the recreational industry's oldest and largest F&I outsourcing provider.
Profiles include:
• Jolles brings prior experience as a mortgage banker and a recreational loan officer where he developed an understanding of lender guidelines. A Maryland native, he graduated from the University of Tampa, Fla., with a bachelor's degree in finance.
• Edwards offers years of experience as a senior loan officer responsible for loan applications, loan submissions and bank approvals. He has also worked in sales within the consumer finance industry.
• Salhaney has a strong background in mortgage financing, insurance sales and general management. Eli has lived in the Tampa Bay area since 2004 but was born and raised in Michigan where he graduated from Western Michigan University.
• A native of the Tampa Bay area, Priority One's junior network administrator, Swinehart, will be responsible for network operations, hardware and software maintenance and user support.
Priority One Financial Services Promotes Auer
April 7, 2011 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Priority One Financial Services announced that Rob Auer has moved to a new position within Priority One, assuming the position of specialty finance business manager.
In his new role, Auer will help dealers move additional units by securing recreational loans for credit-challenged consumers. He assumed his new role on April 1, according to a news release.
In 2008 Auer joined the sales department at Priority One bringing with him over 10 years experience in the finance industry. Previously at Priority One he was a dealer account executive, responsible for bringing new dealer partners aboard.
"Rob has tackled every challenge we've put in front of him with an amazing attitude and energy," said Heather Mariscal, Priority One president. "He has been a huge help to Priority One over the last year or so juggling projects outside of his normal day-to-day duties, and I know he will do amazing in this new role."
Priority One has been serving the marine and RV industry since 1987. Acquired in 2007 by Forest River Inc. a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. company, Priority One serves as the F&I managed services provider for hundreds of dealers nationwide. For more information, visit www.P1FS.com.
How Co-Buyers Help Secure RV Loan Approval
March 30, 2011 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Editor's Note: The following advice column was written by Lorraine Mariotti, vice president of lending for Priority One Financial Services. Priority One has been serving the marine and RV industry since 1987. Acquired in 2007 by Forest River Inc. a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. company, Priority One serves as the F&I managed services provider for hundreds of dealers nationwide. For more information, visit www.P1FS.com.
Co-buyers aren't the solution for every credit-challenged customer you see, but savvy F&I managers know when a co-buyer will help secure a recreational loan approval and when they won't. Of course, a lot of this depends on your lenders' guidelines as well as the amount financed, but knowing when to seek a co-buyer and when not to can help save you and your customer precious time when working on an approval.
It is a misconception that co-buyer and co-signer mean the same thing. They do not. Most lenders use these terms differently, so be sure to understand your lender's definition. Typically, lenders define a "co-buyer" as a person who has equal ownership (deposit, monthly payments, tax and insurance) of the unit and equal liability (subject to collection on payment defaults). The definition of a "co-signer" is someone who signs the loan with the primary buyer and is obligated to make the payment if the primary buyer does not. A co-signer usually has no ownership in the unit.
Qualified co-signers are used extensively in the automobile business; however, co-signers are typically non-existent when it comes to recreational lending. Why? Unfortunately, lenders have stricter underwriting guidelines for boats and RVs and lenders believe that in most cases if a person doesn't qualify for the loan on their own, a co-signer won't help that person qualify either. For the purposes of this article, the term "co-buyer" will be used, indicating a borrower who will have equal ownership in the unit.
A co-buyer is an important tool in an F&I manager's toolbox and can help secure a recreational loan approval in the following ways: When the total annual income of one buyer is not enough to meet the requirements of the loan. If there is a high debt-to-income ratio, using an employed spouse as a co-buyer can effectively speed up the approval process. When trying to improve guidelines for revolving debt. When trying to qualify the original applicant for a better credit score. When the original applicant has a good credit history, but could be somewhat light in the area of comparable installment history.
Co-buyers can be a husband and wife, a parent and child, significant other, siblings, or close friends, but typically recreational lenders look for a co-buyer to be living at the same address as the buyer and have a vested interest in the purchase. It is important for the co-buyer to understand that he or she is making a large, long term commitment when agreeing to become a co-buyer and not just to help the original applicant become approved for the loan. A co-buyer is just as responsible for the loan as the original buyer.
They are considered a joint owner of the purchase, so the co-buyer is equally responsible for the repayment of the loan. The loan will appear on the co-buyer's credit bureau as an obligation, and it will figure into the co-buyer's individual debts. If the buyer makes a late payment, or if the unit is ultimately repossessed, this will also reflect on the co-buyer's credit bureau. Both the buyer and co-buyer are named on the loan contract and on the title.
A co-buyer typically cannot help secure recreational loan approvals when:
- The buyer has derogatory credit. Lenders qualify each applicant's credit individually. If one applicant does not qualify, the entire application is declined. Lenders view co-buyers as adding strength but not solely supporting a loan.
- A spouse who has no additional income sources. Actually, this particular buyer can even hurt the loan approval process.
- Additional debt is brought to the equation, which is not entirely offset by their added income.
A good F&I manager will add the co-buyer's information (if helpful) when they first submit the application to their lenders to save time and to maintain acceptable funding ratios with their lenders. Additionally, an F&I manager should set proper expectations with their customers as to how a co-buyer can or can't help secure a recreational loan approval right from the beginning and not wait until the loan has been declined to bring the subject up. When to add a co-buyer and setting the proper customer expectations is critical in today's sales and lending environment and gives your dealership the best chance at securing an approval and delivering a unit to the customer.
Sierra Joins Priority One's New Department
January 21, 2011 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Priority One Financial Services, the recreational industry's oldest and largest F&I outsourcing provider, has added Ruben Sierra Jr. as a business manager in its new specialty finance department.
The new department was formed to help dealers move additional units by securing recreational loans for a higher percentage of credit-challenged consumers, according to a news release. Sierra's 30 years in the automotive industry as a sales, finance and closing manager makes him a perfect fit at Priority One and for this department, the release stated. In addition to his work experience, he is Association of Finance & Insurance Professional certified and has JM&A training, which is one of the largest providers of F&I products in the automotive industry.
"We really lucked out with Ruben," commented Rina Aponte, operations manager. "He is experienced, knowledgeable, customer service oriented and can even speak Spanish fluently, which will be helpful for certain dealerships we work with."
A native of Tampa, Fla., Sierra has been married for 43 years to his high school sweetheart, has two children and five grandchildren. When he is not working, he enjoys the Florida lifestyle of boating and fishing.
Priority One has been serving the marine and RV industry since 1987. Acquired in 2007 by Forest River Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. company, Priority One serves as the F&I managed services provider for hundreds of dealers nationwide. For more information, visit www.P1FS.com.


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Brittney Willson, #14, celebrates with Ashia Andrews, #31, after scoring a point during a game earlier this season. Playing in their first season in 1A, Pinnacle finished in fifth place in their region.
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How to Do Deep Relaxation
This is similar to meditation, but does not require a calm environment. It can be done absolutely anywhere by absolutely anyone. It is also a great way to catch up on lost sleep. Twenty minutes of this is purported to be equivalent to four hours of sleep.
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5Tense your left leg as hard as you can, then let go of it completely and consciously relax all muscles of the left leg, feeling that they become heavy; repeat then you're with you right leg, left arm, right arm then neck, head and chest. You don't have to do it in that particular order, but doing the chest bit last often works best. To help you achieve as full relaxation as possible imagine that the joints are completely loose.
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Present a genuinely diverse collection of short essays on specific Old Testament texts.
The exciting first edition of Global Perspectives on the Old Testament, by Mark Roncace and Joseph Weaver, is a diverse collection of writings emanating from a variety of geographic, social, cultural, political, economic, and religious locations. The book features 28 sets of essays on a specific Old Testament text. This design creates a focused, dynamic "conversation" of perspectives. Readers will become more self-aware of their own context as they explore the Bible with a variety of other interpreters from around the world.
In addition to compiling fresh interpretations of biblical texts, the editors emphasize the fact that these perspectives are only a small part of the conversation, and they encourage readers to continue that conversation by developing and articulating their own views.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
- Engage successfully a variety of perspectives on the Old Testament
- Understand the contextual nature of biblical interpretation
- Recognize factors that shape their own reading of the biblical literature
- Assess and analyze different interpretations of the Old Testament
Table of Contents
In this section:
1) Brief Table of Contents
2) Detailed Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Genesis 1–3 (Part I)
Chapter 2. Genesis 1–3 (Part II)
Chapter 3. Genesis 12–21
Chapter 4. Genesis 22
Chapter 5. Genesis 25–33
Chapter 6. Genesis 37–50
Chapter 7. Exodus 1–15
Chapter 8. Exodus 20
Chapter 9. Leviticus
Chapter 10. Deuteronomy 6, 10, 16, 24
Chapter 11. Joshua 1–11
Chapter 12. 1 Samuel 16–2 Samuel 21
Chapter 13. Isaiah 40–55
Chapter 14. Jeremiah
Chapter 15. Ezekiel 1–24
Chapter 16. Jonah
Chapter 17. Micah 3, 6
Chapter 18. Psalm 22, 23, 42, 148
Chapter 19. Psalm 137
Chapter 20. Proverbs 31
Chapter 21. Job
Chapter 22. Song of Songs
Chapter 23. Ruth
Chapter 24. Lamentations
Chapter 25. Ecclesiastes
Chapter 26. Esther
Chapter 27. Daniel
Chapter 28. Ezra and Nehemiah
Chapter 1. Genesis 1–3 (Part I)
Chinese and Biblical Creation Myths
Sonia Kwok Wong (China)
The Purusa-Sukta Compared to Biblical Texts
M. Aravind Jeyakumar (India)
The Concept of Human Community in African Creation Stories
David T. Williams (South Africa)
Six Differences between Two Creation Stories in Genesis
Meir Bar-Ilan (Israel)
Chapter 2. Genesis 1–3 (Part II)
Theism, Evolution, and Reading Genesis
Patrick Gray (United States)
A Literal Reading of Genesis
Keith Megilligan (United States)
Genesis and the Treatment of the Natural World
Jonathan Merritt (United States)
Animals and Our Relationship to Them
Phillip Sherman (United States)
Chapter 3. Genesis 12–21
Life in India and Abraham's Trials
K. B. Georgekutty (India)
Raimundo Panikkar's Interpretation of Melchizedek in Genesis 14
Erik Ranstrom (United States)
An "Ethnic Minority" Interpretation of Hagar and Ishmael
Janice P. De-Whyte (Ghana, England)
Sodom and Gomorrah and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Roland Boer (Australia)
Chapter 4. Genesis 22
Genesis 22 and Conflict in the Middle East
Clare Amos (Lebanon)
A Comparison of Genesis 22 to the Qur'an
F. Volker Greifenhagen (Canada)
A Personal Reflection on the Sacrifice of a Son
Shira Salamone (United States)
Five Explanations for the Inclusion of Genesis 22 in Scripture
Christo Lombaard (South Africa)
Chapter 5. Genesis 25–33
A Jewish Feminist Reflection on Rebekah
Arlette Poland (United States)
God's Treatment of Esau
Shirley Phelps-Roper (United States)
Leah and the Challenges of Women in Polygynous Partnership
Madipoane Masenya (South Africa)
A Spiritual Reflection on the Life of Jacob
Clarence Mitchell (United States)
Chapter 6. Genesis 37–50
Forgiveness in the Joseph Narrative
Eric A. Seibert (United States)
Joseph's Actions and Economic Theory
Wayne Tarrant (United States)
An LGBT Reading of Genesis 37–50
Mona West (United States)
A Personal Conversation with Joseph
Francis G. H. Pang (Hong Kong, Canada)
Chapter 7. Exodus 1–15
Two Aspects of Exodus through a Buddhist Lens
Vanessa R. Sasson (Canada)
The Divine Name and Kitaro Nishida's Concept of God
Eiko Hanaoka (-Kawamura) (Japan)
The Exodus Story as Historical Fiction
Megan Bishop Moore (United States)
A Liberationist Reading of the Exodus Story
Gilbert Lozano (Brazil)
Chapter 8. Exodus 20
The Ten Commandments in an African-American Community
Febbie C. Dickerson (United States)
The Ten Commandments and the Separation of Church and State
Jonathan Redding (United States)
Confucius and the Fifth Commandment
Maggie Low (Singapore)
The Ten Commandments in Greenland
Flemming A. J. Nielsen (Greenland)
Chapter 9. Leviticus
Female Purity in Leviticus and India
Surekha Nelavala (India)
Necromancy in Africa
Onesimus A. Ngundu (Zimbabwe)
Slavery in Levitical Law and Black Liberation Theology
Josiah U. Young III (United States)
The Tao Te Ching and the Relevance of Leviticus
Michael Shepherd (China)
Chapter 10. Deuteronomy 6, 10, 16, 24
Korean Celebrations and Exhortations in Deuteronomy
Heewon Chung (South Korea)
Deuteronomy and Chinese Christians Living in Indonesia
Andrea K. Iskandar (Indonesia)
Deuteronomy as a Lesson on How to Treat the Oppressed
Song-Chong Lee (South Korea)
Deuteronomy as a Blueprint for Social Justice
Santiago Slabodsky (Argentina)
Chapter 11. Joshua 1–11
Reading Joshua as a Canaanite
Royce M. Victor (India)
Four Strategies for Reading Joshua Nonviolently
Eric A. Seibert (United States)
A Defense of God
Stanley V. Udd (United States)
God as an Egotistical Deity
Maria Vlashchenko (Russia)
Chapter 12. 1 Samuel 16–2 Samuel 21
The David Stories and a Life of Reckless Abandon
Seth Boulton (United States)
Four Interpretations of the David–Jonathan Relationship
James N. Pohlig (West Africa)
The Woman of 2 Samuel 20 and Abigail as Peacemakers
Andreas Kunz-Lübcke (Germany)
The Inspiration of Rizpah's Courageous Helplessness
Valerie Bridgeman (United States)
Chapter 13. Isaiah 40–55
Words of Hope for Contemporary Exiles in South and Central America
Gilbert Lozano (Colombia)
Fear of the Future among Igorot Tribes of the Philippines
R. G. dela Cruz (Philippines)
Isaiah as Resistance Literature
Rubertha Taylor (United States)
The Myth of Baliraja and the Servant Figure in Isaiah
Rajkumar Boaz Johnson (India)
Chapter 14. Jeremiah
Egypt in the book of Jeremiah
Safwat Adel Marzouk (Egypt)
Jeremiah and the Caste System
Varaprasad Gosala (India)
The Troubling Theology of Jeremiah Tim Bulkeley (New Zealand)
Jeremiah's Confessions and My Own Pilgrimage
Jim West (United States)
Chapter 15. Ezekiel
"Doom and Gloom" in Ezekiel and Today's News Networks
John Fink (United States)
God's Mistreatment of Female Jerusalem in Ezekiel 16
Aaron Koller (United States)
Ezekiel 16 as Hope and Warning for Orphans in Bulgaria
Elizabeth A. Steger (Bulgaria)
Reading Ezekiel 16 and 23 in the Red Light District
Brenda Kronemeijer-Heyink (Netherlands)
Chapter 16. Jonah
Jonah as Missionary
Jonathan Seitz (Taiwan)
Jonah and the Ocean
NaÉsili Vaka'uta (Tonga)
Jonah and the Challenges and Contradictions of Buenos Aires
Mariel Pons (Argentina)
Jonah as a Book of Surprises and Reversals
Jione Havea (Australia)
Chapter 17. Micah 3, 6
Micah 3 as a Warning to Greedy Preachers in Korea
Hyung Won Lee (South Korea)
A Jewish Lesbian Interpretation of Micah 6:8
Rebecca T. Alpert (United States)
Micah and Hope for Toronto's Poor
Shannon E. Baines (Canada)
"The Image of Limited Good" and Micah
James N. Pohlig (Nigeria, Mexico)
Chapter 18. Psalm 22, 23, 42, 148
Psalm 22 as an African Spell
Zacharias Kotzé (South Africa)
Psalm 23 and West African Shepherds
Danielle Smith (Senegal)
Psalm 42 and Anorexia
Amy Lambert (United States)
Psalm 148 and the Native American View of Animals
David Aftandilian (United States)
Chapter 19. Psalm 137
Psalm 137 and the Bahamas
Fiona C. Black (Bahamas)
"Rivers of Babylon" and the Torture of Detainees in Abu Ghraib
Erin Runions (United States)
The Violence of Psalm 137 and 9/11
James Mackay (United States)
Righteousness and Hatred in Psalm 137
Maria Vlashchenko (Russia)
Chapter 20. Proverbs 31
Aspiring to Be the Woman of Proverbs 31
Melanie Chitwood (United States)
Reading Proverbs 31 Suspiciously
Athalya Brenner (The Netherlands, Israel)
Pandita Ramabai's Translation and Use of Proverbs 31
Rajkumar Boaz Johnson (India)
"Praise of Lady Yum," Proverbs 31, and a Challenge to Patriarchy
Heewon Chung (South Korea)
Chapter 21. Job
An African-South African Woman's Perspective on Job 3
Madipoane Masenya (South Africa)
Reading Job 3 and 42 with People Living with HIV
Gerald West (South Africa)
Job's Critique of a Theology of Prosperity in Latin America
Gilbert Lozano (Brazil)
The Troubling Theology of Job and its Place in Contemporary Life
Jonathan Redding (United States)
Chapter 22. Song of Songs
Comparing the Song to Literature and Film in India
Monica J. Melanchthon (India)
Hearing the Song as a Secular Cultural Product
Athalya Brenner (Israel)
The Song as Jesus' Personal Love Notes
Lynn Cowell (United States)
The Song as a Censored Allegory
Roland Boer (Australia)
Chapter 23. Ruth
Ruth and Naomi in a Joint Family System
Surekha Nelavala (India)
Ruth as a Marriage Migrant
Yani Yoo (South Korea)
Ruth's Relevance to the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
Comea M. Walthall (United States)
Ruth as Ideal Surrogate Mother
Francis G. H. Pang (Hong Kong)
Chapter 24. Lamentations
Lamentations and Minjung Theology of Han
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Joker Has Many Faces In The First Look At Max Landis And Jock's SUPERMAN/JOKER Story
Max Landis is a writer, director, YouTube sensation, and comic book fanboy. Landis' love of comics is no secret. Neither is it a secret he would like to write a comic. Landis revealed a few months back that he had been approached earlier this year to write a year long weekly series with Greg Pak to reboot The Death and Return of Superman for the New 52. Due to Landis' schedule and some 'internal decisions' by DC, the series was shelved. He turned the story into a 42 minute YouTube video just to get the idea out there. Well now that a few months have passed, he will indeed be working with DC on a comic about Superman. This one will see the Man of steel and Joker coming face to face. Landis has been teasing it on Twitter for a while, but today the first piece of art was unveiled.
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Two years ago, Ellwood City came under fire from a Wisconsin-based group known as the Freedom From Religion Foundation for displaying a nativity scene in front the the municipal building.
The group wanted to post a Winter Solstice banner on the scene to renounce the endorsement of Christianity, though Mayor Anthony Court decided against using it.
Last year, the nativity scene arrived once again, this time on a trailer attached to a truck parked in front of the municipal building. Again, the Freedom From Religion Foundation threatened legal action, claiming that the truck and trailer received special parking accommodations. Court explained that he followed ordinances properly, and that the trailer rested completely within legal guidelines.
Now, a white trucked with an attached trailer is parked in front the building displaying the nativity scene yet again. The display arrived back on the street on Sunday, and the mayor discussed his reasoning behind bringing it back for a second consecutive year.
"My biggest concern is that people will forget about tradition," Court said. "It is a lovable display, and I want to keep it alive. It keeps the community together and strong. As long as I am mayor, it will always be a part of Ellwood City. There are things in this world worth fighting for, and this definitely one of them in my eyes."
Court ensured that the vehicle and trailer follow city parking guidelines.
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Pope Benedict XVI met on October 22 with the participants in a conference for military chaplains, and encouraged them "to foster appropriate and well organized pastoral care" for military forces and their families.
The Pope recalled the apostolic constitution Spirituali Militum Curae, by Blessed John Paul II, which was devoted to pastoral care for the military. He remarked: "The military life of a Christian must, in fact, be seen in the light of the first and greatest of the Commandments, that of love for God and for neighbor, because Christians in the military are called to create a fusion whereby they can be soldiers for love, achieving the ministerium pacis inter arma"
The Pope offered special commendation to the work of soldiers who engage in rescue expeditions after natural disasters, or mine-clearing exercises, or peacekeeping missions. Participants included both chaplains and leaders of military ordinariates.
The military chaplains were in Rome for a conference organized by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, focused on human rights.
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The Mage/Druid combination favors strong single-target damage at the lower-levels from Fireball and Flame in sync with Control Flame, and then adds some Area of Effect capabilities once the player learns the Earth Attack buff to make Earth Pulse more effective. Green Guardian makes the Mother Earth's Protection buff even more covetable with its healing ability. Boiling Rock works in sync with Magma Blade to cause more damage on top of giving mana regeneration. Finally, Elven Mystic allows the player to build up energy to unleash a powerful burst of energy.
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The Mage / Priest combination is the most utilitarian of the combinations, affording access to the desirable Essence of Magic buff, the ability to remove curses (Purify), an increase in the potential of Flame and Fireball (Eruption), a change in Rising Tide's mechanics (Rising Tide Mastery), and a self-healing effect to Holy Aura (Shrine of the Holy Aura).
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The Mage / Rogue combination focuses on Dark magic with a vampiric theme, giving a powerful damage over time effect (Cursed Fangs), a 60 second cooldown life-draining nuke (Kiss of the Vampire), a powerful PVP cooldown (Demoralized), a self-buff increasing Dark damage done (Fang Ritual), and a skill that temporarily moves you to the bottom of the aggro table (Distract).
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The Mage / Scout combination focuses on Fire damage, giving them a Root (Thunderclap), a buff imbuing their arrows with Fire (Fire Arrow), a Fire damage over time (Seed), a nuke dependant on the DoT (Fire Rose Explosion), the ability to summon a Fire-based pet (Flame Spirit), and the pet's primary nuke (Flame of Fire).
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In precisely 24 hours the movers will be here and a long wonderful part of my life will quite possibly be over - namely the communal-living part.
Hopefully some bourbon will be employed between now and then to mark the occasion.
After, if not.
Here's to many good years of learning several things the hard way...
...and to the next thing, the 24-hours-from-now thing, the scary and maybe perfect thing, the longest step across the widest chasm reaching deepest down your eyes upturned and nervous, muttering a prayer - here's to that thing, whatever in the flocculent* name of hell we decide to call it.
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Myanmar changes referendum law to allow free votingFebruary 27th, 2008 - 9:45 pm ICT by admin
Yangon, Feb 27 (Xinhua) Myanmar's constitutional referendum law has made provisions for transparency in voting and vote counting to ensure a free and fair nationwide referendum in May on a draft constitution. The law allows secret ballot and counting of votes immediately after voting in the presence of the voters, the state-run daily Myanmar Alin reported.
The law warned against acts aimed at undermining the referendum, banning public speeches and disseminating of leaflets and posters in an attempt to disturb the smooth running of the referendum.
Law-breakers will be punished with a prison term of up to three years or a fine in cash up to 100,000 Kyats (nearly $100), the referendum law said.
The ruling military government Tuesday enacted a 12-chaptered 2008 Republic of Union of Myanmar Referendum Law and set up a commission for a nationwide constitutional referendum.
The move, declared by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the name the junta has given itself, came a week after the State Constitution Drafting Commission announced the completion of the constitution draft Feb 19.
Formed under the referendum law, the 45-member Commission for Holding Nationwide Referendum is headed by Chief Justice U. Aung Toe who is also the chairman of the State Constitution Drafting Commission.
The May referendum will follow a multi-party general election in 2010 to transform the military administration into democratic administration in accordance with the government's seven-step roadmap to democracy.
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Over the next few weeks we'll present a series of 14 short videos inspired by the TKS stage show and album of songs composed by Scott Garbe and produced by Mike Timmins and Cowboy Junkies.
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IRVING, Texas — FOX Sports Media Group is televising the entire Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship to a national audience for the first time. FOX Sports Networks (FSN) will televise the championship final. All games leading up to the final will air on FOX College Sports (FCS).
Coverage of the event from the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City begins Wednesday, May 22 and continues through Sunday, May 26.
"The Big 12 Conference is excited to showcase its baseball programs to a live television audience," Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. "Oklahoma City and the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship have annually produced some of the country's best collegiate baseball. We appreciate our partnership with the FOX Sports Media Group and welcome the additional exposure."
Bob Licht, Jack Lazorko, Chad McKee and Jay Payton will call the games. The quartet has spent the 2013 season covering Big 12 teams for FSN.
"FOX Sports enjoys a great relationship with the Big 12 Conference and we're thrilled to extend our comprehensive conference coverage by televising every game of this year's Big 12 Baseball Championship," said Gary Ehrlich, Executive Vice President, FOX Sports Networks. "For the first time, fans across the country will be able to watch all of the exciting action live on FOX College Sports and FOX Sports Networks, making it easier to follow their favorite student-athletes and teams."
The Championship is played under a two-division, double-elimination format. The eight teams with the best league records (based on winning percentage) in regular season competition qualify for the event and are divided into two divisions with seeds 1, 4, 5 and 8 in division one and seeds 2, 3, 6 and 7 in division two. There is no cross-division play until two teams reach the championship game on Sunday.
Wednesday and Thursday's action includes four games, while Friday features a pair of contests. Semifinal action on Saturday will include a minimum of two or a maximum of four games depending on that day's early game results.
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This year marks the 15th year Oklahoma City has hosted the Conference's postseason tournament.
The postseason crown has been won by eight different league squads. Past postseason champions include Kansas (2006), Missouri (2012), Nebraska (1999-2001, '05), Oklahoma (1997), Oklahoma State (2004), Texas (2002, '03, '08-'09), Texas A&M (2007, '10-'11) and Texas Tech (1998).
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Kate Middleton's Baby Has It's Own Nail Polish: Can You Guess The Color?Joanna Mazewski
Kate Middleton still has another two or so months left before she gives birth, but it looks like it already has it's own nail polish!
Apparently, Butter Nail Polish of London has has created an opaque aubergine shimmer called Pitter Patter, which refers to an old colloquialism often used as a nudge by aging moms, hoping for new grandbabies. You can check it out here.
To be honest, I quite like the color (it would look so cute with a pink dress), but I can't believe that even though the Royal Palace hasn't confirmed the sex of her baby yet, they're already assuming that it's a girl. At this point, let's all hope IT IS a girl, otherwise the sales of this nail polish might take a nose dive, LOL.
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Legendary Laurel Canyon 3 Level Hollywood Hills
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Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
Sleeps: 6
Type: Home
Pets allowed: No
Internet: Yes
Environmentally Sensitive Amenities. Wood deck, patio, full of light, set in the trees and hillside of Laurel Canyon. Feels like home. Welcome.
Very bright (with many windows, french doors and skylight), beautifully furnished and decorated home located in the Hollywood Hills on Kirkwood. Tri-level home with two bedrooms and two baths plus an office with futon for additional sleeping. Gorgeous, private, and terraced patio on the upper level through french doors off the first bedroom, as well as an additional patio with patio seating and table for four. Floors: upper level living room and bedrooms are hard wood and downstairs kitchen and office area gorgeous rock floors. Laundry room with washer and dryer. High ceilings throughout, wood beamed ceilings in kitchen, lots of windows and french doors. French doors in bedroom one (as well as skylight and picture window), living room and kitchen. Balconies off kitchen. Queen-size bed in one bedroom, California King sized bed in other, plus full size futon in office for additional sleeping. Garage parking is available for longer term guests, otherwise it is easiest to park in front of the garage which is designated for you. The living room is on its own level as well and happily sleeps a guest or two. We have additional sleeping arrangements for the "extra" people in your group (aerobeds, futons, pack and play and portable children's bed). Just ask.
We have many regular guests who stay with us for all of these reasons.
Don't forget to walk down to the canyon country store for deli sandwiches, wine or coffee from Lily. There's also famous Pace, where you are likely to see celebs in the amazingly "local" and well appointed restaurant.
Beaches: Southern California has many beaches to choose from but here is an article about our 5 favorite beaches, courtesy of Daily Candy- we just happen to agree! The easiest and prettiest way to the Ocean? Just head down the hill and turn right on Sunset Blvd. you will be heading west and will run straight into Malibu while taking in the sights of Bel Air an Brentwood Neighborhoods. The less scenic, but faster route to the water? Turn right on Sunset Blvd., then left on La Cienega to the 10 Freeway. Go west and Exit at 4th Street. Make a left, then turn right on Pico (there is a gas station there). You will see the water and make your choice (this drops you off the in Casa Del Mar/Santa Monica Pier/ Venice Beach areas. Keep in mind, the freeways are never faster if you are traveling during traffic times. And that includes late weekend mornings when it is sunny in LA.
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School:University of Southern California
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|Jan 01 2014
|Dec 31 2015
|5 Nights
|Check In: 4 p.m.
|Lodging tax: 14%
|Deposits: 50% more than 30 days prior, 100% less than 30 days prior. Security/ Damage deposit can be a credit card authorization (like a hotel).
|Payment Options: American Express, Mastercard, PayPal, Visa
|Other Fees: Cleaning Fee is $150 for stays less than 7 Nights.
- 1 King Bed
- 1 Double Bed
- 1 Sofa Bed
- 1 Crib
- 1 Queen Bed
- Air Conditioning
- Hardwood Floors
- Linens Provided
- Patio
- Balcony
- Heating
- Parking Included
- View (Mountains)
- Full Kitchen
- High Speed Internet
- Alarm Clock
- Dishwasher
- Refrigerator (Full)
- Telephone
- Blender
- Iron
- Stove
- Toaster
- Coffee Maker
- Microwave
- TV (Cable/Satellite)
- Washer/Dryer
- DVD Player
- Oven
- Hiking
- Shopping Area
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- Amusement Park
(7 miles)
- Scuba Diving
(10 miles)
- Bicycling
(<1 mile)
- Bowling
(1 mile)
- Beach
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- Snorkeling
(10 miles)
- Grocery Store
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- Park
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- Boating
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- Surfing
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- Gym/Fitness Center
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- Playground
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- Canoeing
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- Water Skiing
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- Live Entertainment
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- Basketball Court
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- Jet Skiing
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- Windsurfing
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Kasia Huart
Los Angeles,CA
Trip Advisor Award Property
Date of Stay July 27, 2013
What a wonderful place to stay for a family vacation. Close to everything yet so far away. Outstanding service from the owner/property manager made for a vacation to remember, clean, well maintained and safe. Well worth the extra money to skip the hotel and experience the exclusive atmosphere of the Hollywood Hills. Don't miss the Country Store down the street, Carney's restaraunt, the drive on Mulholland, and the Beverly Hills sites only minutes away!!..Highly Recommend this property and this rental host.
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Wow, thank you so much. You outlined the reasons I moved to Laurel Canyon over 12 years ago. The reasons haven't changed- we still love it here too! We will expect to see you back next time you are in town :-)
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It will be (Open)JDK7 where OpenJDK==JDK
I'm listening to the 'holidays 2008ish' episode of Javaposse and in reviewing their last years predictions they have enough fumbling around the status of OpenJDK that I want to do a little bit of explaining.
OpenJDK 6 != JDK 6
There are circuitous historical reasons for this but the fact is that OpenJDK 6, as good as it is, does not correspond to JDK 6uN for any value of N. OpenJDK 6 began as a fork of OpenJDK 7, and the team stripped out code from the OpenJDK 7 fork until it became compatible with the Java6 specification as verified by the JCK 6 test suite.
Joe Darcy has posted several blogs about this OpenJDK 6 Genealogy, OpenJDK 6 and 6u10 features, OpenJDK 6: Logistics of Partial Merge with 6u10, and the most important of these is: Forward to the Past: Toward OpenJDK 6
If you're scratching your head going "huh??", well, I don't blame you, just read Joe Darcy's blog postings and it will be clear as, well, uh, I just hope it's clear why.
The bottom line is that OpenJDK 6 works rather well, several Linux distros are using it as their JDK, it can be built to pass the JCK6b test suite, meaning OpenJDK 6 can be used to build a compliant JDK, and unfortunately it is this evolutionary sidetrack which we hope will be relatively short-lived. It serves a purpose, namely of having an fully open OpenJDK compliant with Java6 ....
OpenJDK ~=~ IcedTea
It seems some people really like typing "./configure" rather than setting up environment variables and running "make". The IcedTea project originally began due to incompleteness in the OpenJDK (gaps due to encumbrances) and the community requirement of a fully open source toolchain and code base. IcedTea has long been a set of patches applied to OpenJDK, along with a different build system that is "./configure" based as I just said.
In OpenJDK we've replaced the encumbered code such that there are no gaps any longer. As we've done so I believe the IcedTea project has shrunken the number of patches they use. One nice thing seems to be that the IcedTea configure script makes it easy to build OpenJDK in many different modes such as using the Zero Assembler port to support compiling on non-x86/sparc chipsets, etc.
A big piece IcedTea provides is a plugin/java-web-start infrastructure. We haven't been able to open source our plugin and of course for 6u10 we completely rewrote the plugin. It is hoped we will open source the new plugin into the OpenJDK project but to my knowledge that decision has not been made concrete set in stone.
I don't spend much of my time looking at IcedTea so don't be alarmed if I've missed something ...
OpenJDK 7 == JDK 7
Okay, given that there is not a Java7 JSR and all the JCP stuff related to that issue ... Hopefully all that will be straightened out and we do have a proper Java7 JSR, so for the following please assume that's the case, that Java7's JSR status is straightened out ... the plan is that beginning with OpenJDK7/JDK7 that the code bases will be nearly identical. It is obviously expensive to maintain a fork, and if JDK7 were to diverge strongly from OpenJDK7 it would do two things: a) be very expensive, b) undermine our efforts at an open source ecosystem.
But "nearly identical" does mean it's likely there will be some differences.
Remember those gaps due to encumbrances? Some of those gaps were simply code we couldn't open source as of May 2007 but have since done so, other gaps are for code we still have to gain approval on (e.g. SNMP), but there is some code where there are open source replacements where we still use the old closed source code. This is primarily in font and graphics rasterization. The old closed source rasterisation code, while being encumbered, has had 10+ years of bug fixing and fine tuning etc and, for any open source replacement to displace that code in productized JDK builds, it would have to be provably as fast and stable and good quality as the existing closed code.
What took so long?
If we had followed normal release patterns JDK7 would be shipping about now. That is, Java6 shipped in December 2006 and our normal pattern is 18-24 months between major releases meaning the JDK7 launch would have been 2-5 months ago. What happened? Well, clearly there was a resource crunch on several angles.
For example getting the nearly complete OpenJDK source release in May 2007 took a lot of effort from lots of people. But there was also certain announcements at JavaONE in May 2007 (a little thing named JavaFX) which also turned into a major rethink of Java (as some have said, this ain't yer Dad's Java) and also a major piece of work to accomplish.
In other words instead of producing JDK7 we did JDK6u10 and JavaFX.
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by simonis - 2009-01-16 10:06@david, nim_nim I think the main reason why open source projects or libraries will NEVER be integrated into OpenJDK is not quality, but it's a pure licensing issue. You will probably never get an Open Soure project (er even worse, all the contributors to an Open Source project) to sign the Sun Contributor Agreement (SCA). But without SCA, no integration into OpenJDK!!! And the reason is clear: as you mentioned, Sun want's to keep OpenJDK X and SUN JDK X as close as possible ("nearly identical") - otherwise this will "be very expensive"! The only money Sun is currently earning with Java is from commercial Licensees, and they expect to get Java sources under commercial licenses. So the closed, proprietary library will remain in the JDK! As sad as this sounds, I think even if an "Open" solution would be an order of magnitude better compared to its counterpart in the closed JDK, it will not become part of OpenJDK/JDK because of the reasons mentioned above. Hopefully, projects like IcedTea, OpenJDK6 and the OpenJDK clones shipped by various Linux contributors will put enough pressure on Sun (if they become superior for example in font handling) to change this situation. Regards, Volker
by www_hero - 2009-01-14 21:41The fact seem to be pessimism. As you white above that ......and the team stripped out code from the OpenJDK 7 fork until it became compatible with the Java6 specification as verified by the JCK 6 test suite. with JDK7 release, the performance and stability may more improving on side of swing and Java2D?
by nim_nim - 2009-01-08 11:31@david The first step in moving to cairo is to just use the freetype backend which is available now in openjdk. And I was responding to the fallacy that consists to pretend current java font support is good (it isn't) and alternatives are unproven (they aren't). Years of half-hearted font support while SUN was focusing on server-side java does not make a wondrous codebase. Can it even handle yet the OTF fonts everyone from proprietary foundries to open font projects produces nowadays ? So, "10+ years of bug fixing and fine tuning". That's one way to put it.
by robogeek - 2009-01-08 09:59@nim_nim: There are some somewhat related projects on openjdk.java.net, 'Graphics Rasterizer' and 'XRender' and 'Cacciovalo' (?sp?). The story you lay out for Cairo is very tempting from the same 10,000 foot level you accuse me of living on. It's quite possible to launch an openjdk project to rejigger the graphics & font rasterization to use cairo. We have adopted freetype for the openjdk (but not closedjdk). I suggest that the first step to convincing us to use this in closedjdk is to implement it in openjdk so that we have a concrete thing to discuss.
by nim_nim - 2009-01-08 01:00> This is primarily in font and graphics rasterization. The old closed source rasterisation > code, while being encumbered, has had 10+ years of bug fixing and fine tuning etc and, > for any open source replacement to displace that code in productized JDK builds, it would > have to be provably as fast and stable and good quality as the existing closed code. This sounds reasonable and PFB-friendly except the kindest words one could ever write about java font handling were "quirky" "buggy" and "ugly", it forgets font formats and unicode have and still are evolving (so an historic rasterizer does you no good without continuous updating and maintenance), and that also papers over the fact that the alternative is to just use the same font software stack as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, GNOME, KDE, and countless others. Between them they represent a bigger multi-platform text test base than java ever had (because an awful lot of java users never cared about its text rendering, another big part cared but resignated itself to its crappy state, while good text rendering is a MUST for a browser or office suite). True, OpenOffice.org still has a few peculiarities but is moving away from them as its historic codebase is increasingly lagging behind cairo in terms of modern opentype support (last I've looked java was worse). But it has adopted fontconfig and freetype for quite a few years already. Do yourself and your users a favour and use the same font/text libs (cairo, pango, freetype, fontconfig) everyone else has been converging on. Java needs proper text handling not to condemn its new attempt at desktop-friendliness.
by fabriziogiudici - 2009-01-07 12:54"In other words instead of producing JDK7 we did JDK6u10 and JavaFX." ... only question is why didn't you name it Java 6.1 (or 6.5) instead of the pretty obscure JDK6u10.
by atripp - 2009-01-06 15:44OK, I'll take you word for it on the effort of JavaFX and 6u10 as opposed to OpenJDK. As for OpenJDK having potential for "huge significance", I've been asking what that means for years now. From what I can tell, it's produced a handful (by which I mean 5-10, but maybe it's even as high as 30) additional contributors, and Java now comes preinstalled on the few Linux distros that wouldn't do so before. As always, I'm curious about what difference that's made in terms of dollars (or mindshare, or whatever) for Sun. The Mozilla reference was toward Netscape putting their effort into open-sourcing their browser, and in doing so, spending lots of effort for no money. The company tanked, got bought out, and eventually all laid off. They did their own self-fullfilling prophecy: working to make sure their work lived on, and in doing so killed the company. So yes, Mozilla lives on and Netscape is dead, which I guess is what Netscape wanted. It seems Sun is doing the same with Java. All IMHO of course :) And as for mozilla being hugely successful, I think any company would do well when 85% of its income is a donation from google. Let's see how they do when that income stops later this year. And in any case, I think Netscape did far better than Mozilla no matter how you measure.
by robogeek - 2009-01-06 11:56
@atripp, this blog was purely focused on explaining the situation for OpenJDK for an explicit purpose. Because the public coverage of OpenJDK work has been minimal. Believe me that for the team overall the effort has been highly skewed to JavaFX and 6u10, if you want a taste of that side of the story I suggest you find the podcast named 'This Ain't Your Dad's Java" and listen to the episodes.
As for the relative benefits of these different projects, I too have my doubts. But I am very clear on one thing. That the OpenJDK has potential for huge significance. I am hoping that we at Sun can get our act in gear for cooperation with IcedTea and others before its too late.
I really don't understand your reference to mozilla. Today the mozilla project is hugely successful but of course the early years of mozilla were pretty doubtful.
by atripp - 2009-01-06 10:24> For example getting the nearly complete OpenJDK source release in May 2007 took a lot of effort from lots of people. It's nice to see you acknowledge that the OpenJDK effort is, at least in part, responsible for there being no JDK7. But then you say... > In other words instead of producing JDK7 we did JDK6u10 and JavaFX. From outside of Sun, it sure looks like more effort is going into making Java open than into JavaFX and JDK6u10. This blog is a perfect example - almost entirely on OpenJDK. Now might be a good time to look back and see if the time was well spent. How many developers will benefit from JavaFX, how many from JDK6u10, and how many from OpenJDK? How many would have benefitted from JDK7? I'd also recommend thinking hard about the size of IcedTea. You assumed that it's shrinking, and gnu_andrew points out that it's actually growing. Maybe it's time to question all the things that people were saying about IcedTea: It's temporary, its changes would get folded into Java, it will increase the size of the Java community. And it's always a good time to think about whether the OpenJDK work has helped or hurt Sun's bottom line. I think Sun has Mozilla-ed itself ;)
by opinali - 2009-01-06 07:00Before somebody complains that Java 7 is late, I for one consider 6u10 a massively important update - it's great that, for a change, we have an update that just makes Java faster and better, without any growing of footprint, APIs or other aspects. Besides that, it wouldn't be possible to have JDK 7 finished by now because the discussion of some new language features was a drag (unfortunately with a bad outcome - we're apparently not having closures or properies for this release). The invokedynamic stuff was also more difficult to get right and much expanded by the MLVM project; and fortunately in this case it's shaping to be a huge win of Java 7.
by thebohemian - 2009-01-06 00:11I second Andrew's post and would like to add that IcedTea plays an important role when attempting to cross-compile OpenJDK (including a complete source-based toolchain bootstrap). Details: http://rschuster.blogs.evolvis.org/2008/12/21/serving-cross-compiled-ope... http://rschuster.blogs.evolvis.org/2008/12/23/comments-on-latest-post-on... I am curious to see what the future brings in regards to OpenJDK7. :-)
by gnu_andrew - 2009-01-05 17:52Nice blog; I think this is something that comes up a lot and does need clarifying. Of course, what I hope is we get into a situation where we just have OpenJDK eventually, but I can't see that happening until 7 is released and that's assuming the two divergent 7 trees become one by that time. To clarify a few things on IcedTea: * IcedTea still uses the OpenJDK build system, it just saves you time by working out what all those make variables should be and making sure you have everything before you get halfway through the build... * IcedTea has grown rather than shrunk - while we've been able to drop a lot of the plug replacements, it now plays host to a lot of patches along with the plugin/javaws support, and zero/shark/cacao vm replacements. We're also now using a newer HotSpot release. * It's really two equations: OpenJDK \subset IcedTea OpenJDK 6 \subset IcedTea6 i.e. there's an IcedTea 6 that matches OpenJDK 6, and an IcedTea that matches OpenJDK. Things work the opposite to OpenJDK, as most development work goes into IcedTea6 rather than IcedTea. IcedTea primarily just tracks the new JDK7 build drops and pulls in changes from IcedTea6 periodically. I also see the relationship as less an equality one and more of a OpenJDK being a subset of what's in IcedTea. We now add quite a bit of stuff that's not provided by OpenJDK (like tripling the architecture support). * As far as the plugs go - it's true you can now build OpenJDK6 without proprietary plugs by setting a variable (I don't know why this isn't just the default though), but this isn't true of OpenJDK7. Also, it still isn't possible to bootstrap OpenJDK without an existing IcedTea build (e.g. with GNU Classpath + ecj as we do in IcedTea). This is more a difference in approach than any technical problem IMO. For us, relying on proprietary software to build by default is not an option and this is still the case for both OpenJDK6 and 7.


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Evaluate the total carbonate buffering system in the body, an influence of kidney and respiratory (lung) function. Serum (plasma) carbon dioxide (CO2) is actually a measurement of bicarbonate (HCO3-). This is because the procedure used to measure bicarbonate, first converts it to CO2. In the body, 95% of the CO2 is present as bicarbonate so most of what is measured represents bicarbonate. The kidneys are the organ primarily responsible for maintaining the normal levels of bicarbonate. Metabolic acidosis (pH less than 7.35 and bicarbonate less than 20 mEq/L) is a symptom of renal disease. However, bicarbonate levels are also decreased in the presence of organic acids, (ketone bodies in diabetic ketoacidosis) because bicarbonate is used to neutralize the acids.• Decreased levels of bicarbonate may indicate: - Ketoacidosis - Lactic Acidosis - Kidney Disease - Diarrhea - Methanol poisoning - Salicylate toxicity (such as aspirin overdose) - Ethylene Glycol poisoning - Addison's Disease (adrenal gland insufficiency)- Treatment with corticosteroids- Excessive use of antacids• Increased levels of bicarbonate may indicate: - Excessive vomiting - Respiratory Dysfunction (breathing disorders) - Hyperaldosteronism - Cushing's Syndrome• Additional conditions under which the test may be performed: - Alkalosis - Delirium - Dementia - Renal Tubular Acidosis; Distal - Renal Tubular Acidosis; Proximal - Any medical condition in which the examiner feels there might be a metabolic derangement.


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Italian luxury car-maker Maserati has appointed Motorline to represent it in Kent. From mid-January Motorline Maserati will operate out of a temporary showroom and workshop facility in Bircholt Road, Maidstone, pending the build of a brand new solus Maserati dealership featuring a five-car showroom and full workshop facilities.
Glen Obee, chairman of Motorline, said: 'We are delighted to have been given the opportunity to represent Maserati in the Kent territory and at such an exciting time when Maserati's new model announcements will result in significant growth in volume and build on the brand's widening appeal. Our investment in dedicated new facilities at Maidstone will allow us to offer the very best motor retail experience to Maserati drivers and reflects our confidence in the brand's future business model.'
Maserati's network development manager David Aldcroft added, 'It is a great pleasure to bring Maserati back to Kent and in partnership with Motorline. They have an excellent reputation for offering great customer care and know the local area very well. Their business has shown an ability to grow extensively with some exceptional results and this is testament to the Motorline ethos. With this progressive attitude and our fantastic new product range we anticipate some great future results.'
Maserati is aiming to increase its annual worldwide sales from under 7000 units to 50,000 by 2015, by expanding its model line-up and global dealer representation. It has already renewed the Quattroporte luxury saloon, launched the BMW 5-Series rivaling Ghibli saloon and also plans an SUV called Levante. The marque celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.


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Writer Peter Orner has been selected to receive the annual Bard Fiction Prize for 2007. Orner is receiving this year's Bard Fiction Prize for his first novel, set in Namibia, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (Little, Brown and Company, 2006). He will be writer in residence at Bard College for the spring 2007 semester, where he will continue his writing, meet informally with students, and give a public reading.
The Bard Fiction Prize committee was impressed by Orner's evocation of an American sensibility coming to terms with Namibia and its proud, eloquent people in his novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. "With the concentrated linguistic energy of an imagist poet, Orner creates remarkable miniatures: whole stories in his first book (Esther Stories) and tantalizingly brief chapters in this new novel, the committee wrote. His narrative vision allows the reader to reside concurrently in suggestive and declarative realms, which tell the story of intimacy among the humiliations of social and racial inequities."
A primary concern of Orner's is "how place influences character." In The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, he draws upon his own experience as a teacher in Namibia in the early '90s. Orner's novel explores the life and people of Goas, a semidesert area. His title character is a beautiful veteran of its war of independence against South Africa who returns to the Catholic all-boys school (where her brother-in-law is the principal) with her illegitimate son. Mavala Shikongo becomes the object of all her colleague's desires, including the American teacher who is the narrator of the story. Dave Eggers notes in the Guardian that this book "has the same sort of episodic structure, lyrical prose and completely hypnotic effect as the novels of Michael Ondaatje. . . It's a gorgeously written book, very funny, and bursting with soul."
Margot Livesey of the New York Times wrote of Orner's short story collection, Esther Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), "Orner doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls. Brooding, mysterious, ineffable, beautiful." Esther Stories was a New York Times Notable Book, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the Samuel Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction. Orner is the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction, 2002–03 Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 2003 Gold Medal for Fiction from the Association of Educational Publishers. His work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), Pushcart Prize Anthology (Pushcart Press, 2001), Lost Tribe Anthology: Jewish Fiction from the Edge (Harper Collins, 2003), Future Dictionary of America (McSweeney's, 2004), and Chicago Noir (Akashic Books, 2005), and has appeared in a number of national publications, including the Atlantic Monthly, Bomb, Harvard Review, McSweeney's, and Paris Review. Orner holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa, a degree in law from Northeastern University School of Law, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. He lives in San Francisco and teaches writing at San Francisco State University.