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Daddypotamus: "Who taught Katie 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?"
Me: That would be me. Last July.
Oh holidays. The food. The love. The traditions. The opportunity to count blessings and give some away. Who am I kidding? I'll celebrate just about anything. What other kind of person would do this?
Still, I want these days to shimmer and sparkle in my children's eyes . . . but not at any cost. I care about their health too much to open up pandora's box of refined sugars, unhealthy oils and unpronounceable ingredients. Will the grinch win? Absolutely not! With these quick and nourishing recipes on hand, he never had a chance.
Raw Eggnog
This recipe from Cheeseslave is "easy to make, and does not take more than a minute or two. Eggnog is a great way to get in a lot of extra raw dairy and high-quality saturated fats from the raw cream, as well as raw egg yolks during the winter season."
Molasses Custard
This recipe from Nourished Kitchen takes five minutes to prep and is loaded with rich, healthy fats along with vitamin A, riboflavin, selenium, phosphorus and calcium. I'm heading out to buy some ramekins right now (mine are lost in storage) so I can serve this for our Christmas Day brunch.
Almond Flour Shortbread Recipe
Let's do this one by the numbers.
Ingredients: 4.
Minutes to prep: 5.
Time these cookies will last on your holiday table: 0 seconds flat.
Thank you Hartke is Online for this simple but elegant treat!
What are you baking today?
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Couldn't get the custard link to work…is it just me?? =)
This eggnog recipe was already on my list to make today. Glad to hear that it is so easy! I may have to add the shortbread to my 'to make' list today!
We've been enjoying the delicious egg nog! The Almond shortbread is in the oven right now…mmm! Thanks for everything, Mommypotamus. I heart u!!


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Did you compare the rankings for Test 1, test 2 and Test 3 for the same KW?? that will be more helpful i guess..that would involve make 3 different sites for same KW..or may be use 3 wordpress.com blogs..
One of my successful tests and I wanted to share with you. I know many of the webmasters already know the practical value of .edu and .gov links, even if the link page doesn't have any PR. I tested them at 3 of my sites.
Test 1. only some .edu links (50+, NO PR but do-follow links)
Test 2. only 2-3 .gov link (NO PR but do-follow)
Test 3. Article marketing (7-10 articles per month; syndicated to top 15 article directories) + .edu links + .gov links
Test 1 - Good improvements (Rankings improved by 17 positions; Jumped to page 7 from page 9) The program ran for 25 days and results started showing up after 15th day or so.. stayed for 1 month .. till date
Test 2 - Little improvement but I'm hoping some good. it was difficult to attain many .gov links.
Test 3 - Fantastic improvements (On page 2 bottom from Page 7). The program ran for 25 days and results started showing up after we finished. But very nice improvements. Now to move up to page 1, I just need some article marketing and some contextual links.
Just to inform, I ran these tests on average competitive keywords (seo copywriting services) to super competitive keywords (diet pills).
So, I'd say a combo of .edu links, .gov links and article marketing gives amazing results and needless to say; stable too. This is one of the best link building combos that works really well..
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Did you compare the rankings for Test 1, test 2 and Test 3 for the same KW?? that will be more helpful i guess..that would involve make 3 different sites for same KW..or may be use 3 wordpress.com blogs..
I'll try to write an article for Google knol or promotionworld sites about it. But you should keep an eye at people who sells do-follow blogs and sites.. e.du of course..
Another way is to find .edu pages and contribute your real opinion. I must say, most .edu pages DO NOT allow the links but some do, specially when your comment is more like an article and truly relevant to the page.
SEO girl...
I want to be careful that people don't get the wrong impression about one thing.
Here's a quote from Interview with Google's Matt Cutts at Pubcon:
Matt Cutts: Typically, our policy is: a link is a link, is a link; wherever that link's worth is, that is the worth that we give it. Some people ask about links from DMOZ, links from .edu or links from .gov, and they say: "Isn't there some sort of boost? Isn't a link better if it comes from a .edu?" The short answer is: no, it is not. It is just .edu links tend to have higher PageRank, because more people link to .edu's or .gov's.
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
That's truly said but what we should believe is LIVE RESULTS.. Shouldn't we? And that's what make us conduct different tests.
My sole motive to run these tests was whether relevancy works or not? And if it does, then to what extent.
I was actually not expecting this much nice ouput, but it made me believe that .edu and .gov links help in rankings.
Article marketing is known to give excellent ranking boost from ages. And it works better and better as quality of content goes up (as I threw a light on kinda linkbait stuff it works)
But what was important here - this combination of .edu, .gov and article marketing gave a super boost.. So isn't it something that contradicted what Matt said?
However, I'm trying this test 3 on a different site and different keywords. If it gives me same results and the lasting one of course, I'd assume it working for most of niches.
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"Women are a creative force. We are creative beings: our bodies are designed to give birth to creations, ideas, and beliefs — to bring things into fruition."
"Your body is a physical manifestation of all you're thinking. If you're thinking polluted thoughts like 'I'm ugly, I'm fat, my body doesn't look like hers' then you are telling your body that it's not okay."
"I have no fantasy or delusions about being skinny. I admire every woman no matter what color or body type. I don't want to look like any of the supermodels or a size 2 because that's not realistic for me. I'm African, my body is different. I have hips, thighs, a butt. It's time for me to accept my body."
Fariha Roisin Hasan
"I used to think 'my body is so bad, I'm such a bad person,' because I was a young girl with a booty and hips and I attracted men. I hated everything about myself. A lot of women are just ashamed of who we are."
"Trying to get yourself to fit into a size 2 jean when you're curvy as hell means that you have to starve your whole essence."
Bailey Roberts
"I've gotten rid of the ideology of the scale. I got rid of how much I weigh and how much I want to weigh."
"I actually did this whole thing where I got naked in front of the mirror and had a long conversation with my body and I thanked it." -Shine Blackhawk
"It's funny because women have these hang-ups, but boys don't. They don't care. Every man I've ever been with has said that I don't need to change anything. It's me and my state of mind that makes me feel my body is inadequate."
All quotes from an interview with Shine Blackhawk
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One Install, Two EventsFor Peter Wille, St. Louis' Scottrade Center is familiar ground when it comes to producing events. 10/18/2007 9:05 PM Eastern
One Install, Two Events
For Peter Wille, St. Louis' Scottrade Center is familiar ground when it comes to producing events.
CHALLENGE: Produce two live events, each using a 40-foot by 17-foot rear-projection screen with seamless two- projector overlap, high-definition, and custom resolutions.
SOLUTION: Electronic signal alignment using next-generation scaling and video-signal processing technology.
For Peter Wille, St. Louis' Scottrade Center is familiar ground when it comes to producing events. But the September 2006 Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis' "Two Decades of Grantmaking" event held a few twists for Wille, manager of visual technologies at St. Louis AV integrated solutions provider Cignal Systems.
"When we started our planning, we had envisioned a simple presentation, with maybe video and music," says Melinda McAliney, grants administrator for the Lutheran Foundation. "Once Peter and his staff at Cignal came on board, the vision for the event changed, and became much more rewarding and complimentary to the foundation's mission and goals for the day."
One big challenge was the 40-foot by 17-foot screen that would serve as the backdrop for two hours of mostly live performances. "Originally, they were going to go with two screens, sort of the standard look that everybody does," says Wille. "Instead, we proposed that they go with a wide screen with a two-project overlap. They thought it was a great idea. It unified the stage and made it much more impressive, because it became the backdrop for the whole stage."
Delivering that look took a lot of preparation. As part of producing the event, Cignal shot high-definition video and whittled it down to two hours. The video was shot in 1080p, intended to be displayed at an unusual 40x17 aspect ratio as dictated by that large, single screen. The footage then was fed into Renewed Vision's ProVideoPlayer, which Wille chose because it had the needed flexibility to accommodate the custom display requirements.
"We played everything off of that because I could use customize resolutions," says Wille. "Everything was running at native pixel level. I was using DDC HD pro codec, but I was editing a very weird pixel size. ProVideoPlayer let me play back at that weird size."
A 40-foot by 17-foot screen sets the stage for "Two Decades of Grantmaking," an event of the Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis in September 2006. Cignal Systems proposed using the huge video screen, and employed the latest scaling and video-signal technology for the event.
Wille also liked the ProVideoPlayer's price tag: $999 for the high-def version. "Those abilities are available with other products, but not at this cost," he says. "This is a affordable video server that let me do custom resolutions in the codec I wanted to use."
Cignal used multiple cameras for the event. One was a Panasonic P2 series camcorder that stores to a flash memory card."I really, really like the picture from the Panasonic P2," says Wille. "I also like all of the resolution choices I can get out of it. But the memory cards are a challenge. I have to treat them like I treat film: You can shoot only seven-minute loads. It's not the end of the world having to do that, but we're constantly having to download to laptops."
Another was a JVC HD 110. "It's a nice camera and gives me a good picture," says Wille. "And it still records to tape, which is very nice."
During the event, Wille picked cameras based on the required shooting styles. "If it's much more controlled and I'm shooting film style, I'll choose the Panasonic," he says. "If it's more run and gun and I've got to have longer loads, I'll choose the Sony."
Seams Are a No-Show
Another challenge at the Lutheran Foundation event was lining up the two Eiki 10,000-lumen projectors just right, so that they would create a single, seamless image. That's no small task when the projectors are 30 feet above the stage.
"We're often flying projectors like we're flying trusses," says Wille. "We do the math and get them darn close, but to nudge the projector to get the overlap to line up is very physically difficult."
To keep the seam from showing, Wille chose TV One's CORIO C2-7200 Dual Channel HD-SDI Video Processor, with two units handling edge blending and a third switching sources. A single TV One CC-300 hardware controller, which lists for $2,950, commanded the trio of C2-7200s.
"What I really like about the TV One product is that I can nudge the image at the pixel level up, down, left, or right," says Wille. "Even when it's 30 feet in the air, I can align my projectors by [electronically] nudging it with the controller. You can get an absolutely perfect alignment by nudging each image individually."
The 7200 includes TV One's proprietary scaling engine, which is a rarity. "Most video scaler manufacturers don't have their own scaling engine," said Dan Gibson, vice president of TV One in Erlanger, Ky. "They use a third-party chipset, which limits what they can do."
The 7200 — of which Cignal was the first to use for a live event — also features a firmware-heavy design. As a result, the unit's hardware is less of a factor in determining which types of signals it can accept and output. That's one reason why it was attractive to Cignal for the Lutheran Foundation event and its unusual display requirements. For example, the 7200 can handle any resolution within a range of 30x30 to 2048x2048. It lists for $10,500 with high-def SDI and $7,900 without.
"If it's an odd resolution, which we often come across in medical and government applications and in LED displays, if it's not already in the table, we can program the resolution into the unit," says Gibson. "I'm not aware of any video processor that can do that. We get a lot of business as a result."
The emphasis on firmware over hardware also lets the 7200 be upgraded in the field, such as to improve its edge-blending and motion-compensation abilities as TV One enhances them. "It helps futureproof the unit," says Gibson.
The 7200's flexibility was particularly handy because the Lutheran Foundation's schedule didn't allow much time for tinkering. Cignal got access to Scottrade Center midafternoon the previous day. The mostly amateur performers began rehearsing at 7 a.m. the following morning, and didn't stop until about five minutes before the doors opened for the 3 p.m. performance, which was attended by about 7,500. Despite the tight schedule, limited budget ($60,000 for lighting, sound, and video production) and the Lutheran Foundation's negative experiences with the 664,000-square-foot Scottrade Center, the event went smoothly.
"Probably the biggest challenge was they really wanted a major 'wow' factor, but their budget wasn't that large," says Wille. "Plus, they'd had really bad experiences in that venue before. This client made it clear that people should be able to see, be able to hear and be impressed. That's what we delivered."
McAliney of the foundation says rave reviews still come in, eight months after the event, from those who attended and were impressed. "Peter and his team did an excellent job in listening to the foundation's vision for the event, and then creating a presentation that went above and beyond our wildest expectations," she says.
Others were impressed as well: Cignal's work on the event won the International Special Events Society St. Louis Chapter's award for best show with a budget of more than $20,000.
Two Weeks' Notice
Ten days after the Lutheran Foundation event, Cignal used the same projection setup across town for a tribute to trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, who died Aug. 23, 2006. Held at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, the event was a scramble for Cignal, which had less than two weeks to prepare.
"We had no lead time and no rehearsal," says Wille. "Because of that, it was really important that we could deal with [such things as] changing speed as we went along or loop very quickly, and pretty much run everything on the fly."
The concert featured top trumpet players from around the world, with screen backdrop displaying photos of Ferguson from the time when each song became famous. The screen also ran recorded tributes from jazz musicians who couldn't attend.
The event had to go flawlessly, not only in order to provide a good show, but also because Cignal was recording it in high definition for a tribute DVD to be released by Contemporary Productions, the event's host. For example, the event had to be video friendly in terms of lighting and the 40x17 display backdrop. (Cignal's sister company, Logic Systems Sound and Lighting, provided support, including audio recording.)
"It was a heck of a project in terms of all the different variables," says Wille. "Just the rendering time of the high-definition stuff we were doing in there was four days. Getting that done in their time period was an interesting challenge."
Tim Kridel is a freelance writer and analyst who covers telecom and technology. He's based in Columbia, Mo., and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Speaking of the new album, a set of circumstances (well, really one circumstance) gave me a sneak preview. Didn't sound as awesome to me as it would have sounded to me circa 2002... but if you really like yelling and hooks and lyrics about bleeding, you'll really like Artwork.
And since I just spent an hour or so entering all of Chain Reaction's show listings into our database, here are two more extremely Chain Reaction-y shows coming up: The Ataris on Sept. 25, and Finch on Oct. 10. Pogo stick on!
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FANUC's RoboCut α-CiA series of wire EDMs with a Series 31i-WB control features Volumetric Taper Compensation (TPCMP) with four-axis overburn control for enhanced taper accuracy on any material, thickness or angle within specifications. The concept is to adjust the position of the top and bottom wire guides by a precalculated value so that the wire moves slightly away from the workpiece surface where the taper settings would otherwise create an overburn situation caused by the "slower" relative movement of the wire. This compensation reduces wire breakage while maintaining taper cut accuracy to ±0.0008 inch, the company says.
Three models feature XYZ travels ranging from 14.6" × 10.6" × 10.2" (with UV travels of ±2.362") to 23.6" × 15.7" × 16.2" (with UV travels of ±3.937"). The C400iA and C600iA can manufacture complex components with seven-axis simultaneous machining options. The series is suitable for a range of materials including cobalt-chrome, high-nickel alloys and titanium in applications the aerospace, medical and military industries.
For graphite cutting, a Pulse Mode achieves good surface finish in a single pass for time savings and consistency when machining electrodes. The mode can cut ribs as thin as 0.013" and graphite as thick as 8". An anti-recast power supply offers virtually undetectable recast in high-nickel alloys, stainless steel and titanium.
The power supply and twin servo tension control are designed to make thin wire cutting more efficient. The system offers reliable threading of 0.002" diameter wire through a 0.006" diameter start hole with tungsten wire, and inside corner radii as small as 0.0011". The Auto-Threader features a Taper AWR, enabling threading at a taper angle in threads of 5 degrees as thick as 2".
As an accessory, a single-access CCR rotary table provides a range of motion suitable to the demands of wire EDM applications in the medical and aerospace industries. The rotary table has a water leak monitoring function that shuts down the machine upon detection to minimize water-related repairs.
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Fact Sheet: Improving Organization
Organization means the arrangement of things in a certain order. Being organized means having a place for everything and knowing where that place is. In school work, it means knowing what the work is, getting that work finished, and turning the work in when it is due. It can also mean keeping your work in an organized way or keeping your supplies organized.
A lot of people with Spina Bifida say they really have to work at organization; it doesn't come easy. Students with Spina Bifida have a lot to keep track of. They must always be problem solving about getting around with a different kind of mobility--wheelchair, walker, or crutches. People without Spina Bifida have an internal alarm that tells them when to use the bathroom, but people with Spina Bifida even have to organize that!
Being organized will make your life more comfortable and less stressed.
Tips for Organizing Your School Life
1. Follow the same routine every day. If you do the same thing every day at the same time, you will develop a pattern. If you forget to do part of the job, it will feel funny and you will be reminded to think about what you may have forgotten. This is helpful in organizing your hygiene habits or developing study habits.
2. Keep your supplies for school together in a backpack. At night when you finish your homework, pack up your backpack with everything you will need for school so the only thing you have to do is pick it up in the morning.
3. Keep your school papers and homework in one place. Some students like to use 8-pocket folders. There is a pocket for each subject and you can keep your homework in the pocket also. When your teacher asks for the homework to be turned in, all your homework will be in one place, but each subject in a different pocket. This is especially useful if you have a duplicate set of books at home and another set at school. Your 8-pocket folder is what you will carry back and forth with all your assignments.
4. Write it down and check it off when complete. Use an assignment book, planner, or "To Do" list. All business executives have a planner and calendar. Take a lesson from them and use one for yourself. Write down your assignments, due dates for projects and homework, and test dates.
5. Anticipate. Get in the habit of thinking ahead or "rehearsing" what you will need for an activity. Hygiene supplies, specific clothes, medicine. Write down what you will need and check the list before you leave for school or activities.
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In Genesis 3, God places a curse on the serpent, on Eve, and on Adam, as a result of the sin in the Garden of Eden. Here is the passage as provided in the King James Version:
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Many Bible readers are confused as to the specific meaning of each of these curses. What do they each mean?
The Curse on the Serpent
According to Genesis, Satan approached Eve as a snake and tempted her to sin. In Genesis 3:14, God pronounces a judgment on the serpent, decreeing that, from that point forward, it would travel "on its belly." This episode raises several questions, including whether it was "normal" for animals to talk in the Garden of Eden and how snakes traveled at the time. The Bible is silent on such questions, leaving us to speculate.
Since the Garden of Eden constituted an idyllic paradise on Earth personally designed and created by God, it's certainly conceivable that Adam and Eve enjoyed some form of perfect communication with the animals. As for the snake's travel habits, it's hard to imagine serpents traveling any other way than what they do now, given their anatomy. However, it is possible that God's original design for snakes was different. Obviously, we can't say that for certain, nor would I even want to begin to speculate as to what such a possible design looked like. The only thing we can say is that the book of Genesis indicates that serpents moved differently in the Garden of Eden than what they do today.
Whatever the case was with serpents before the Fall, they have (since the Garden) been consigned to traveling the earth on their belly. And, lest there be any doubt as to the serpent's identity in Genesis 3, God pronounces a prophetic judgment on Satan in Genesis 3:15. The sin of Adam and Eve spelled victory for Satan, but God tells the serpent that He will put "enmity" between Lucifer and the woman's seed. In a sermon titled "The Curse on the Serpent," Dr. John MacArthur explains: "This is the first indication of salvation. For the first time, we find that this enmity [between the human race and God, caused by the Fall in the Garden] won't last. So the curse on Satan is that he's going to fail. The curse on Satan is that he will not succeed in his effort to control all of humanity for his evil purpose."
The Curse on Eve
After judging the serpent and Satan, God turned His attention to Eve. He pronounces judgment on Eve (and, by extension, all women) on two areas of her life: Men (specifically Husbands) and Children. With respect to children, God warns that there will be "sorrow" and "pain" in connection with child-bearing. While I'm Baptist (not Lutheran), I believe this Lutheran pastor's wife sums up pretty well the impact of this part of God's judgment on Eve:
In Genesis 2, God blessed Adam and Eve and told them to be fruitful and multiply. Having children was something inherently human, even before The Fall. It was integrally part of who we were, and what our purpose was.
Think of what that meant. Having children was an unadulterated blessing. Nothing tainted it. There was no fear of childbirth… no pain, no death, no destruction of figure, no bodily deterioration. Nursing didn't hurt and wasn't complicated or tainted with carnal implications and cultural negativity. Babies inherently trusted and that trust was not in jeopardy from parents who would be tempted to put their own needs first. Exhaustion would not exist. Our children would be without sin and our marriages would be peaceful. Punishment and discipline would not be issues. Fear of harm coming to our children or spouses…death was not in the picture.
Now, look at what the fall into sin meant….Pain, possibility of death in childbirth, infections. Loss of figure, physical problems, c-sections, infertility, etc. Babies crying for hours at a time because of colic, exhaustion, isolation, depression; husbands that weren't supportive or worse yet, weren't there. Breastfeeding problems, formula feeding, the terrible twos — the worse threes; adolescence. Bickering siblings, disobedience, punishment, frustration, harm, injury, handicaps; death.
John MacArthur explains that the situation isn't much better, from the woman's point of view, when it comes to men. In his sermon "The Curse on The Woman," Dr. MacArthur explains that God's original design for marriage provided for harmonious, blissful union and painless child-bearing, but the Fall in the Garden of Eden brought much hardship and difficulty on women. Explaining what God meant by a woman's "desire" to the man (thus making her vulnerable) and man's often cruel and harsh "rule" over the woman, Dr. MacArthur writes:
In general, men have throughout human history used women for sexual fulfillment, for domestic duties, to tend to the children. All over the world, women have been subjugated and humiliated. And until modern times, men actually held the power of life and death over women, and still do in some tribal regions. This harsh treatment of women, which is pretty much the general pattern of human history, was not the original design of God. Sin brought it in. And it, therefore, corrupted the original relationship between man and woman, between woman and her children, and made life very difficult. And while there is general suffering in the world that everybody goes through because of death, because of disease, because of disasters…there is a particular area of suffering that belongs only to women.
We live in a situation today where there are remnants of God's original design, meaning that women can still find great fulfillment and joy in marriage and children, but (sadly) we also live in a fallen and sinful world that, even in the best of marriages and circumstances, results in sorrow and pain for women. Does this mean that a woman should avoid marriage and children? Certainly not. But it does mean that when a woman marries, she marries a sinner. And when she has children, she produces sinners. Because of sin, there is pain. That's the harsh truth of living in our fallen, sinful world.
The Curse on Adam
In the Garden of Eden, there was no need for Adam to leave home in order to work. He and Eve worked alongside one another. And the work was pleasant and easy-going. After the Fall, that all changed. God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden and He cursed the earth. Work was now hard, which meant that survival itself was now a challenge. It also meant that a man would have to venture out from the comforts of home in order to labor for his own survival and that of his family. This is not to suggest that women aren't supposed to help with this labor or work outside the home. But it does mean that when a woman ventures into the work sphere, she enters into the same curse that God placed on Adam.
Were the Curses Fair?
Deep down, most people cringe at the harshness of these curses in Genesis, especially when they understand what they mean. Were these curses fair? This is ultimately, of course, a question for God. Who are we to say whether God is "fair" or "unfair"? But it should be noted that Adam and Eve were the perfectly made, divinely optimized Homo Sapiens. They were in perfect health. They were in perfect harmony with "Nature." They were blessed in every way. They had all their needs and pretty much all their wants. They were perfectly compatible for one another. God was their matchmaker, after all. They brought no "issues" into their marriage or into the Garden. They couldn't claim a rough childhood or bad parents or anything like that. Adam and Eve were innocent, complete, and….without excuse. No other human being since (except for Jesus, who was God in the flesh) could make such a claim. Thus, it's not unreasonable for God to ask that Adam and Eve love, follow, and obey Him.
Adam and Eve chose to go their own way. As a result, they unleashed terrible consequences on their offspring (including you and me). For those who say they wouldn't have done the same, I should point out that if Adam and Eve (who were innocent and whole) could fall, so can (and so would) we. It does no good to get angry at Adam and Eve, nor to speculate that we could do better. (We wouldn't do better than them). Instead, we must learn the lessons we need from the book of Genesis, and purpose to do our best to live our lives in conformity with God's will. And when we exit this life and enter eternity with God, we will truly be at peace.
"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." –Romans 8:18, NIV


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The Opelousas City Marshal's Office checks out Ronald Vidrine's grocery store as part of its nightly patrol, which is in part funded by local businesses and meant to prevent crime at the establishments.
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Opelousas City Marshal Paul Mouton said his first round of evening business patrols has gone well so far.
Thanks to an influx of business donations to his office, Mouton has hired eight reserve officers to complement his four full-time deputies. The increase in manpower has allowed him to start regular evening business patrols. He said he intends to preemptively reduce crime by increasing the department's presence in the area.
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Kovacevic: Why Haley, LeBeau could be out
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BOSTON — Tom Brady could throw for 10 touchdowns, Ben Roethlisberger could take 10 sacks behind 10 different linemen, Antonio Brown could catch 10 screens for 10 total yards, Ryan Clark could spend the first 10 defensive snaps still searching for Terrelle Pryor, and the Steelers on this Sunday ultimately could lose to the Patriots by a tenfold margin.
Moreover, it could set them on the way to losing the final 10 games.
And through it all, there would be nothing remotely tenuous about Mike Tomlin's job status.
Nor Kevin Colbert's.
Neither is going anywhere, and I'll happily lay down a 10-spot to back it up. The Rooneys trust these men. They'll stick by them.
But that shouldn't be taken to mean no change will happen.
Looking ahead, and assuming these Steelers keep plodding along with a couple wins here against a handful of losses there, I easily can lay out a 10-point case for why both coordinators, Todd Haley and Dick LeBeau, the next men down the ladder, won't be back in 2014:
10. Ben vs. Todd
Let's get this out of the way early because I don't believe it will be decisive. Not singularly, anyway.
Still, a QB and his coordinator must be on the same page, and it's clear these two aren't. Whether it's Ben deferring all questions about playcalling to Haley or describing how he's left out of scripting a game's opening 10 plays — both happened this week — it can't go on.
9. Philip Rivers?
Think such a relationship is overrated?
Tell it to the Chargers' QB, an exasperating underachiever for years under Norv Turner but now a big hit under first-year coordinator Ken Whisenhunt: Rivers' 111.1 passer rating is No. 2 in the NFL, sandwiched between Peyton Manning and Drew Brees, and he leads the league in completion percentage at 73.9.
Rivers is 31. He didn't suddenly figure himself out without help.
8. Haley's messes
Whether it's the two local lawsuits against Haley from his house-builders and his dog-walkers — oh, go look that one up yourself — or being seen at a hotel bar in the wee hours before a 1 p.m. kickoff or even that playful 'Chiefs suck' napkin scribble that went viral ... fair game or not, that's a whole lot more drama than all of the Rooneys, Tomlin and Colbert have combined to produce over the last decade.
The Rooneys, in particular, aren't drama fans.
7. The defense stinks
Might seem harsh given the No. 4 ranking in yards allowed, but the bottom line is that this defense doesn't get to the football. And sacks and takeaways rule in this game, as those awful 8-0 Chiefs can attest.
This is hardly all on LeBeau, of course. He's been more aggressive with blitzes to no avail, and injuries have forced him to use six defensive backs extensively. You'll see a ton more of the latter against the Patriots, in fact.
But it is LeBeau's defense, and it isn't frightening or fooling anyone anymore — not even Jake Locker, Matt Cassel, Geno Smith and Pryor.
6. The offense stinks more
You don't really need to read more about this, do you?
OK, good. Let's move on ...
5. A different game
When focusing on all the individual offensive shortcomings, it's easy to lose the forest: These Steelers are, to a large extent, playing a different game with the football than the rest of the league. Just flick through the channels on any Sunday, and you'll see teams relentlessly passing downfield. It's the way of the new NFL, in which rules protect the QB and receivers more than ever.
Haley's answer is to build an offense off screens, most of which work as well as a screen door on a submarine.
That has to change, no matter who is coordinator.
4. Wilson's turn
Had running backs coach Kirby Wilson not been badly burned in a house fire nearly two years ago, he'd surely have been coordinator all this time.
Well, Wilson never missed a practice or a game, recovering amazingly well. To boot, he's respected for his knowledge as well as his boundless energy — the man sprints during drills almost as much as his backs — and a human touch.
And if he was qualified for the job then ...
3. Butler's turn
It's been an even longer wait for linebackers coach Keith Butler, who has stayed with the Steelers primarily because of the transparent promise that he'll succeed LeBeau.
Butler is known and respected not just in Pittsburgh but throughout the industry. He won't wait forever.
2. A fond farewell
On that note, there are precious few figures in football more respected — as a Hall of Fame player, as a coach and, above all, as a person — than LeBeau. I cringe at even connecting him and Haley for this column. They've got next to nothing in common.
LeBeau and the Steelers have enjoyed an extraordinary ride. The man shouldn't be remembered as anything less than a total triumph.
But he'll be 77 next year, Butler 57, and the latter has earned a chance of his own.
1. Tomlin deserves it
No matter what all concerned insist, I'll never believe that anyone below Art Rooney II hired Haley. Too much from that time period points that way. And that wasn't fair to Tomlin, a richly successful head coach who deserves to pick his own coordinators. He was fortunate to inherit LeBeau, not so much Haley.
I've been tough on Tomlin this season. A lot of us have, and he's deserved most of the criticism coming from all over. But I still think a ton of him as a head coach and would welcome seeing if he can bounce back with fresh wingmen.
I'll give 10-to-1 odds.
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Great to see this on SOFREP. I work with one of the team members from ST1 who was part of this operation.
@LCpl X It's funny that you mention Maine, as I don't consider it to be a "far-flung" place, but I live here so it makes sense that I don't. We have a ton of veterans in Maine, they just seem to settle here after service. A lot of our citizens join any of a number of Guard units, but we have had a few SOF personnel. One of my friends is currently serving with MARSOC, though it's been a few years since I've been able to get in touch with him. We've had a couple serve in Special Forces, and a Registered Maine Guide buddy of mine served in the 75th Ranger Regiment. The most famous is SEAL Astronaut Chris Cassidy. I went to the same high school as him, and last I heard they were adding a sign that said "Home of SEAL Astronaut Chris Cassidy," right when you get into town.
@Tango9 True.This is why Im a believer in guys getting thier stories out, before its forgotten to history. Maybe its generational but as long as its not an OPSEC violation Im all for getting it out for posterity.
7 hours in rough seas awaiting a rescue helicopter only to go back in.... those boys were harder than a woodpecker's lips.
@BrandonWebb @SEAL76 Moki Martin was already a legend when I came aboard at ST1 in Sept of 1970. He was one of the men we all looked up to. Rick Hetzel, Sam Birky,Spence Dry and the rest are real heroes. Not like the hollywood and sports heroes the world idolizes.


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Step ZeroThis tutorial describes how to build a simple input form using DroidDraw and TableLayout. This tutorial assumes that you have downloaded and installed the Android SDK. This tutorial also assumes that you are reasonably familiar with concepts in GUI programming and the Java programming language.
Step OneStart up the DroidDraw User Interface Designer.
Step TwoSwitch the root layout to RelativeLayout
Step ThreeSelect the "Layouts" tab
Step FourDrag and drop a TableLayout object from the Layouts panel into the top-center of the screen
Step FiveDouble click on the TableLayout to modify its properties. Change its width to "fill_parent".
Step SixDrag and drop three TableRow objects from the Layouts panel into the TableLayout object. When you drop the TableRow objects, you should select TableLayout from the pop-up menu.
Step SevenDrag and drop a TextView into each of the table rows:
Step EightDouble-click on each TextView to edit its properties, change the text so that it matches the following image:
Step NineDrag and drop an EditText box into each table row to the right of the existing text.
Step Ten
Select the TableLayout, modify the "Stretchable Column" property to have the value "1", this will stretch out all of the EditText widgets to fil the table.
Note: selecting the layout can be difficult. To access stacked widgets which are "below" top level widgets, press the control key while you click (or right click) to select from the available widgets at that location.
Step ElevenEdit the properties of each EditText, make the text ""
Step TwelveDrag and drop a Button widget to the space just below the lower right corner of the TableLayout. It should be outside of the TableLayout and aligned with its right side.
Step ThirteenEdit the properties of this button to make the text "Ok"
Step FourteenPress "Generate" to generate the .xml file.
Step FifteenIn Eclipse, create a new Android project.
Step SixteenReplace the contents of res->layouts->main.xml with the xml generated in step twelve.
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These tablets have extra security features that will keep your work safe and your IT pros happy.
Apple's iPhone and iPad may have been built for consumers, but the folks in Cupertino correctly guessed that what's good for consumers is good for businesses. The only stumbling block may be the growing volume of apps available: more 140,000 natively for the iPad and over 500,000 that work on the iPhone and iPad. Here are 25 go-to iOS apps for business users, from travel planning to document editing using Microsoft Office tools to time tracking to getting a good night's sleep.
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Visualise the tall and gangly Tobie Cronje and the title Vettie Vettie (My Fat Friend) doesn't come to mind, even if the image makes you smile.
That's the gentle Tobie who has a kind of hangdog look that makes you feel you want to rush over and give him a big hug. He smiles when you remark on the title and, as he is playing the friend, he's not the one that's fat – natch.
But how smart of producer Kosie Smit (Kosie House of Theatre) and Pieter Toerien to attach this treasure to their first Afrikaans production at Toerien's Montecasino theatre. It's an open secret that Afrikaans audiences support theatre, but more relevant is that the landscape is opening up to embrace the full diversity of our artists, with language not hampering.
It's taken time, but James Ngcobo at The Market is planning to do similar things.
And if you are a regular at the various festivals around the country, and an ardent theatregoer, it is the richness that flows from people as diverse as Prince Lamla to Marthinus Basson that informs local theatre and makes it so proudly South African.
That's why Cronje and Vettie Vettie are a clever choice to open the perhaps tentative Toerien exploration of broadening theatre choices. Vettie Vettie was translated by Johan Bernard and adapted by Pierre van Pletzen from My Fat Friend, the hit comedy by Charles Laurence.
"I was supposed to direct Vettie Vettie a few years back," says Cronje, which meant that he had the whole production in his head, the way it would play out and that kind of thing. But then Smit wanted him to play the lead with André Odendaal as director. "It means more money," says Cronje wickedly as he glances at Odendaal, but there's a camaraderie as they understand the industry.
Even though they knew each other, they hadn't worked together and both are enjoying the experience. "Ideas always pour out when I'm working," says Cronje, and Odendaal encourages that. He is also an actor, understands how they work best and has a relaxed touch to keep things rolling.
"Everything becomes slightly heightened in my head when I start rehearsals," says Cronje, so he needs calming down. But Odendaal describes him as gentle and sees something of himself as he prepares for his roles.
"I know that an actor wants to be directed," he says. And he has encouraged Cronje to push the boundaries. "It's good working with someone for the first time, because he doesn't allow for any comfort. He challenges me to come up with something different."
Everyone knows that comedy is tough to pull off. You can't play funny and when you're as naturally hysterical as Cronje on stage, the temptation is there to display all the usual tricks.
"Not this time," says Odendaal, and that's exactly what an actor as experienced as Cronje wants to hear.
"I can walk around in anguish," says this funnyman who seems to hold audiences in the palm of his hand. Yet while he is playing a gay friend in this one, Odendaal didn't necessarily want him to camp it up too wildly. That would be too easy.
And to further up the ante, he is also performing with a youthful cast, most of whom will be watching this master with starry eyes.
"It takes me back," he says as he remembers his early days. For Odendaal, this masterclass is important for younger actors. They don't have the luxury of mentors, as these older actors had.
"It's important to create a real person on stage, and the performance has to be serious," says Cronje, with his inner clown comfortably intact.
Vettie Vettie, which opens at Pieter Toerien's Montecasino Theatre for previews tomorrow and runs until June 1 before moving to the Theatre on the Bay, where they open on June 4, is a play that pokes fun at women's eternal struggle to shake off those excess kilograms.
Vicky (Hanna Grobler) is the successful owner of a bookstore in Hatfield, Pretoria. She is single and visibly fat. When she meets the man of her dreams, Tom Delport (André Lotter), she decides to shed those excess kilos once and for all so that she can claim her prince.
Unfortunately, it's not that easy – especially when your one housemate is a gourmet cook and the other likes to remind you of all your previous failed diets.
Henri (Cronjé) has been friends with Vicky long enough to know her get-thin resolutions won't last long, and he derives great pleasure from teasing her incessantly about it.
James (Luan Jacobs) is a culinary expert who is incapable of making an ordinary meal. However, he works for Vicky in her bookstore and has a soft spot for her.
With this team determined to shatter the myths and send the numbers soaring at Montecasino, wrap up and head out for some hot and silly laughter with Cronje and his gang.
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Redden to take pay cut to stay?
Tsn.ca and other media outlets are reporting that Wade Redden may be willing to take a pay cut to stay with the powerhouse Senators next season.
Redden is presently poised to become a UFA at the end of this season however it is becoming apparent that he is very happy with the situation that he is presently in. The tsn.ca article suggests that Redden is willing to take a cut on his 6.5 million dollar salary in order to stay in Ottawa. Apparently the group of players and the wining atmosphere are incentive to leave money behind in order to stay. It should not be overlooked that the article does note that Redden will have to talk to his agent before making any decisions. HTR believes that things could still get interesting.
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Conrad's Madison Northshield (right) hugs Ursuline's Marie Dickson a hug after the two finished first and fourth respectively in the 500 freestyle at the state meet on March 1.
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With only seven athletes qualifying for the DIAA Girls Swimming and Diving Championships, Ursuline knew it wouldn't have enough to take down perennial power Charter of Wilmington.
The Force churned to its seventh consecutive state title, but the Raiders turned heads by outpointing everybody else on March 1 at the University of Delaware's Rawstrom Natatorium. The versatile team placed at least one swimmer in the top eight in all but two races and finished second overall with 224 points.
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|Does orthopaedic surgical training induce hypertension? A pilot study.
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 22810159 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND: Elevated blood pressure (BP) is associated with increased cardiovascular risks manifested by ischemic heart disease and stroke. Studies of cardiothoracic surgeons and neurosurgeons suggest surgery induces a hemodynamic stress malresponse. However, it is unclear whether these occur in orthopaedic surgeons.
QUESTIONS/PURPOSES: We measured the BP of surgeons during hallux valgus surgery, TKA, and THA with the: (1) trainee assisting the trainer, (2) the trainer assisting the trainee, (3) the trainee operating independently, and (4) compared the intraoperative changes in BP and heart rate of orthopaedic surgeons with those of a clinic day and during an exercise tolerance test.
METHODS: We used an ambulatory BP monitor to measure the BP and heart rate of three consultants and their respective trainees during hallux valgus surgery, TKA, or THA. We noted if there were any differences in the stress response of the lead surgeon in comparison to when the same individual was assisting a trainee, and vice versa. Additionally, we recorded the trainee's BP and heart rate when they were operating independently. The intraoperative changes in BP and heart rate of orthopaedic surgeons were compared with those measured during a clinic day and during an exercise tolerance test.
RESULTS: When the trainer was leading the operation, their mean arterial pressure gradually increased to 105 (range, 102-109) until implant placement. However, when the trainee was operating and the trainer assisting, the trainer's BP peaked (mean, 101; range, 95-111) at the beginning of the procedure and slowly declined as it progressed. The trainee's BP remained elevated throughout. The highest peaks for trainees were noted during independent operating. All of the surgeons had higher average BP readings (mean, 100; range, 95-108) and heart rate (mean, 86; range, 57-117) on days when they did surgery compared with baseline.
CONCLUSIONS: The elective operations studied induced a hypertensive response. The response was more marked in trainees than in trainers, particularly if the trainee was operating independently.
|Hari Om Gupta; Sanjay Gupta; Robert Lewis Carter; Aslam Mohammed; R M Dominic Meek
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The June 29 editorial, "Myopic ruling on voting rights," carries on about the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing states to determine voter identification requirements.
The logic is insulting to the Southern states, implying they can't wait to return to their long-past history of black voter suppression. Typical progressive liberal thinking is that only federal oversight can save us from ourselves.
Yet the editorial board goes on to laud the Supreme Court for overturning California's Proposition 8 when the state wouldn't defend it. Sure, let's have more of "government knows best!"
As for voter ID, you can hardly do anything in this country without ID. Why should our most important right not require proof of citizenship? Every voter ID proposal has included various ways to accommodate those few legal citizens who may not have ID.
The feds instead choose to remove all proof of citizenship with things like motor voter laws for registration, only requiring a voter to state they are a citizen. Why is that? Have they never heard of Chicago, where voters have been known to vote often and long after death?
The liberal position is that voter fraud is insignificant. When we experience towns casting more votes than their total population, it doesn't seem insignificant, and just how much fraud is OK?
Meanwhile, our president is making speeches commending Kenyans for implementing voter ID, ensuring valid elections. Why is it good for them but not for us?
Oh, right, they won't be voting for him or his party at our next election, but they could.
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Last updated at 11:53, Tuesday, 24 April 2012
A Carlisle curry house boss hounded young girls for sex and tried to recruit six vulnerable child prostitutes while running a brothel in Botchergate, a court heard.
Azad Miah, 44, who ran The Spice of India, is said to have "stalked" girls to have sex for money. Many of the girls were addicted to drugs or had troubled pasts and backgrounds.
A jury at Carlisle Crown Court was told he also paid regularly for the sexual services of a girl over a four-year period from when she was aged 14.
At Carlisle Crown Court yesterday prosecutor Tim Evans said the case was "a cold, clinical, calculated exploitation of the desperate and the vulnerable".
Miah, who also ran takeaways in Cockermouth and Whitehaven, is charged with eight counts of paying for the sexual services of a child. The offences are said to have taken place between 2005 and 2009 when the girl was aged between 14 and 17. He is also charged with eight counts of inciting child prostitution. These offences involving six different girls – aged between 12 and 16 – are said to have taken place between 2007 and 2011. He also faces one charge of keeping a brothel at the Spice of India takeaway.
He denies all the charges.
Mr Evans said: "This is a case in which the defendant sought to persuade a variety of young girls – some of whom he knew were under 16 – to have sex with him for money or the equivalent of money via the provision of drugs and or drink. Those requests were either made face to face when girls came into or were working in his takeaway shop [The Spice of India] or were made by telephone calls or texts.
"The attempted persuasion was persistent – he would hound young girls for weeks, months – face to face and over the phone. More worryingly he would stalk some of them, following them home in particular. Some girls did indeed have sex with him for money.
Mr Evans told the jury of six men and six women: "Other witnesses will tell you that The Spice of India was a place they attended and had sex with men, including Miah, for money.
"In essence therefore the premises not only operated as a takeaway restaurant but also operated as a brothel being a location where women attended and prostituted themselves. Miah told one of the girls that 'young girls were better depending on how many people they had slept with'.
"He said that sex with young girls was better and for him it was more of a thrill."
Miah, who lives on Warwick Road, described himself as "a sex addict who would not refuse any woman who wanted to have sex with him," although he said he would not have interest in a child which he defined as under 18.
He suggested that all those who had given evidence against him were drug users who had got together and concocted stories. All the complaints against him were "nonsense", he said.
When police showed him photographs of some of the complainants he did accept that he knew some of them. He denied having sex with young girls or approaching them to have sex with him.
He denied The Spice of India was used for paid sex.
The trial continues.
First published at 16:52, Monday, 23 April 2012
Published by http://www.newsandstar.co.uk
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How much speed are you looking for? Kawasaki has the new Ninja 300 coming out that looks very promising as a commuter and can be had for under $5k. That said I would place the Ninja 650 and SV650 basically equal. As said, see what feels best. Though I would take the SV simply because I dislike the way parallel twins sound. My current/first bike is a 1983 Honda Nighthawk 650. I'm probably getting an SV650/Gladius next spring. I keep trying to convince myself to buy the Ninja 300 but I bought a sensible car (2012 Mazda 3 skyactiv) I can't have too sensible of a bike.
Remember that the smaller displacement bikes are lighter and can be tossed around like a hooker on her prom night. Nothing wrong with the sub 600 series bikes as fun toys! In fact because you can wring their necks without breaking the sound barrier, I'd say they're possibly MORE fun than bigger bikes.
I think the perfect size would be a 400 cc inline 4. Something like the old FZR400: They had 60 HP (close to the SV650 and Ninja 650), but weighed about 350 pounds instead of 400+, and to get at that power you had to wind them up. Would make for a fun bike!
Damn you all are making me want to get back into the sport, and an FZR400 is what I want.
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Witnesses say the two men then began to argue with the homeowner, Charles Murphy, and a 14-year old boy. The sheriff says when Murphy tried to get Freeman and Asher to leave his house, a fight broke out.
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FILE - This is a Monday March 9, 2009 file of a then newly discovered portrait of William Shakespeare, presented by the Shakespeare Birthplace trust, is seen in central London, New research depicts William Shakespeare as a grain hoarder, moneylender and tax dodger who became a wealthy businessman during a time of famine.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
LONDON (AP) — Hoarder, moneylender, tax dodger — it's not how we usually think of William Shakespeare.
But we should, according to a group of academics who say the Bard was a ruthless businessman who grew wealthy dealing in grain during a time of famine.
Researchers from Aberystwyth University in Wales argue that we can't fully understand Shakespeare unless we study his often-overlooked business savvy.
"Shakespeare the grain-hoarder has been redacted from history so that Shakespeare the creative genius could be born," the researchers say in a paper due to be delivered at the Hay literary festival in Wales in May.
Jayne Archer, a lecturer in medieval and Renaissance literature at Aberystwyth, said that oversight is the product of "a willful ignorance on behalf of critics and scholars who I think — perhaps through snobbery — cannot countenance the idea of a creative genius also being motivated by self-interest."
Archer and her colleagues Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley combed through historical archives to uncover details of the playwright's parallel life as a grain merchant and property owner in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon whose practices sometimes brought him into conflict with the law.
"Over a 15-year period he purchased and stored grain, malt and barley for resale at inflated prices to his neighbors and local tradesmen," they wrote, adding that Shakespeare "pursued those who could not (or would not) pay him in full for these staples and used the profits to further his own money-lending activities."
He was pursued by the authorities for tax evasion, and in 1598 was prosecuted for hoarding grain during a time of shortage.
The charge sheet against Shakespeare was not entirely unknown, though it may come as shock to some literature lovers. But the authors argue that modern readers and scholars are out of touch with the harsh realities the writer and his contemporaries faced.
He lived and wrote in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, during a period known as the "Little Ice Age," when unusual cold and heavy rain caused poor harvests and food shortages.
"I think now we have a rather rarefied idea of writers and artists as people who are disconnected from the everyday concerns of their contemporaries," Archer said. "But for most writers for most of history, hunger has been a major concern — and it has been as creatively energizing as any other force."
She argues that knowledge of the era's food insecurity can cast new light on Shakespeare's plays, including "Coriolanus," which is set in an ancient Rome wracked by famine. The food protests in the play can be seen to echo the real-life 1607 uprising of peasants in the English Midlands, where Shakespeare lived.
Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate told the Sunday Times newspaper that Archer and her colleagues had done valuable work, saying their research had "given new force to an old argument about the contemporaneity of the protests over grain-hoarding in 'Coriolanus.'"
Archer said famine also informs "King Lear," in which an aging monarch's unjust distribution of his land among his three daughters sparks war.
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I am trying to configure 2x 10GE XFP on two EX4200 Switches. These uplinks would not be configured as Virtual but as trunks to Cisco 6509's.
After the install and reboot, the switches do show FPC 0 PIC 1 online, but I have been unable to find a configuration guide for these.
These interfaces do not show up in operational mode (show interface terse) but ge-0/1/0 -3 are show in config mode (show interface ?)
Any help would be highly appreciated.
admin@jswitch> show chassis pic fpc-slot 0 pic-slot 1
FPC slot 0, PIC slot 1 information:
Type 2x 10GE XFP
State Online
PIC version 2.4
Uptime 5 hours, 19 minutes, 55 seconds
admin@switch> show interfaces terse
Interface Admin Link Proto Local Remote
ge-0/0/0 up down
ge-0/0/0.0 up down eth-switch
ge-0/0/47 up down
ge-0/0/47.0 up down eth-switch
vcp-0 up down
vcp-0.32768 up down
vcp-1 up down
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bme0.32768 up up inet 18.104.22.168/2
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admin@switch# show interfaces ?
Possible completions:
<[Enter]> Execute this command
<interface-name> Interface name
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ge-0/0/0 Interface name
ge-0/0/47 Interface name
ge-0/1/0 Interface name
ge-0/1/1 Interface name
ge-0/1/2 Interface name
ge-0/1/3 Interface name
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strange.. whatever is in the config shouldn't bother the diagnostic (sh int terse) output very much i suppose.
Could you see with show virtual-chassis vc-ports (or something like that from the top of my head) if they might have been initialized as VCP ports ?
This is what it shows under vc-port:
admin@switch> show virtual-chassis vc-port
Interface Type Trunk Status Speed Neighbor
or ID (mbps) ID Interface
PIC / Port
vcp-0 Dedicated 1 Down 32000
vcp-1 Dedicated 2 Down 32000
We had connected the virtual ports initially (just for test purpose) but the vc ports are no more connected and would not be used either.
Is there a way I can change these to normal 10G uplink ports?
These VCP ports are the dedicated VCP ports on the back of the chassis. You can tell this by the speed as well as it is 32000 mbps.
You might want to log a support case for this as i think it isnot normal behaviour what you are experiencing...
Hi All,
If I have a mixture of XFP and VC ports used for VC, what is the command should be used?
> show interfaces ?
Pls advise.


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