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This work is Part 1 of an abbreviated, condensed study of how the New Testament scribes, who wrote the Gospels, suggested that Jesus was a homosexual.
The entire work, that presents all suggestions of Jesus' homosexuality, will be presented only to those who sign up to be my students.
In Part 2 of "Was Jesus A Homosexual?" there will be even more shocking suggestions of Jesus being a homosexual that were made by the Gospel writers.
In the section below on John 13:4-5, I will present the first round of scriptures which prove that evil, sinister scribes of the New Testament Gospels suggested that our Messiah was a homosexual.
Keep in mind that I will be using the King James version of the bible in this study.
The King James Verison has been around since the year 1611. It has been the main bible used by English speaking people for the last 400 years.
However, over the last 50 years, there has been an explosion of different translations of the bible!
Many of the translators of these new versions of the bible are removing or re-writing the homosexual references and other things they don't want people to know.
They want scriptures to read the way they want them to instead of how they were originally written.
Even so, in these new bibles, you can still see the homosexual hints attributed to Jesus but, in most versions, not as clearly as in the King James.
Because of this, don't be surprised when you tell people some of these verses and they tell you that those scriptures don't read the same as they do in the different versions of the bible they use.
It will do you good to research how these verses are translated in versions other than the King James so you will better understand how to present and explain what the Gospel scribes have done.
Now, let's take a look at some of the places where the New Testament scribes suggested that Jesus was a homosexual.
John chapter 13 describes the events of the Passover dinner when Jesus washed his disciples feet.
In verse 4-5, it states:
4. "He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself."
5. "After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded."
The average Christian would not see anything wrong with these verses. To them Jesus was simply demonstrating an act of humility by washing his disciples' feet.
But, what most of them won't see is that when scriptures said that our Messiah "laid aside his garments," it meant that he took off his clothes! And, without making a distinction, this suggests that he took off his clothes in front of his disciples, as if while they watched.
If this was the case, it was an improper thing for a man to do before other men, especially a holy man before his disciples. The reason why is because it disrespects the brotherhood and shows a lack of judgement and consideration on the Messiah's part.
Also, when John 13:4 says that he "took a towel, and girded himself," this suggests that the rest of his body was left uncovered or naked.
Now, let me bring your attention to when John 13:4-5 said that after Jesus undressed, before his disciples, "he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet."
Just think. A "basin" is really not that big. One person can easily carry it. And, a man does not have to take off his clothes to fill it up with water and wash peoples' feet no more than the people who got their feet washed did not take off their clothes for it to be done!
The writers of the Gospels want us to believe that our Messiah took his clothes and got naked before other men, to fill up a basin with water, so he could wash their feet. But, common sense should tell you that it was not necessary at all for him to take off his clothes to do this!
Where are the scribes taking us after telling us this unlikelihood?
Let's see.
Verse 5 tells us that after he finished washing their feet, he wiped them dry "with the towel wherewith he was girded."
Now, since our Messiah wrapped the towel around his waist, which covered his sexual organs, then to use that towel to dry his disciples' feet suggests that he was so naked before them that they could see his sexual organs!
There's something wrong with this picture.
I wonder what was on the Messiah's mind when he ended up completely naked with his disciples able to see his penis and testicles?
I wonder what his disciples thought when he ended up naked with his sexual organs before their eyes, while they were fully clothed, as he was drying their feet.
I wonder what he thought they were thinking when they saw him naked with his penis before them?
I wonder if the thoughts of Jesus having a small or large penis came across the minds of any of his disciples when they saw it?
Regardless, let's read on so we can see where this story goes.
12. "So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set back down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
15. "For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you."
Based on this order he gave to his disciples, they knew that they would have to take turns getting naked before each other and wash each other's feet, with their penises in plain view, like Jesus did.
I am certain, that the disciples with small penises wished that the other disciples did not have to see how small their penises were.
All this does not sound right even to most Christians. This is why when they perform this rite today, many of them choose to disobey Jesus' order and leave their clothes on!
Men taking off their clothes before each other is also wrong in the eyes of YAHWEH!
In Genesis 3:21, it states:
"Unto Adam also and to his wife did YAHWEH make coats of skins, and clothed them."
From that point on, YAHWEH intended for Adam, Eve, and all their descendants to be dressed before each other, at all times, except when they were intimate with their mates.
Also, since Jesus is said to be of the high priest order (Hebrews 8:1, which states: "...we have such a high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens..."), he was to be very careful for his nakedness not to be seen.
The reason why is because of YAHWEH's laws concerning the nakedness of the high priests found in Exodus 20:25-26. In these verses, it states:
25. "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
26. "Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy NAKEDNESS be not discovered [seen] thereon."
Judging by these scriptures, we see that it is improper, in YAHWEH's eyes, for men to do anything of a religious nature whereby their nakedness is seen.
Now consider what the scribes wrote that our Messiah said in John 8:28-29:
28. "as my Father hath taught me, I speak those things"
29. "for I do always those things that please him."
Well, for someone to write that our Messiah opposed YAHWEH's clothing laws by taking off his clothes before other men and ordering his disciples to do the same, has to be a lie against our Messiah!
The reason why is because, he would have known that YAHWEH did not teach him or anyone else to do so, and it would not have pleased YAHWEH for him to go against His Old Testament laws based on John 8:28-29 above!
Now, the question arises:
What has all this to do with the Gospel scribes suggesting that Jesus was a homosexual?
To find out, just keep reading.
23. "Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved."
24. "Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake."
25. "He then lying on Jesus breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?"
Take a close look at these verses. In them, you see an act between men which is improper and unnatural!
Please consider YAHWEH's laws against homosexuality in Leviticus 20:13. It says:
"13. If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
Now, consider Micah 7:5, which says:
"...keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom."
And, judging by this verse, only a woman is allowed to lie in a man's bosom and not another man!
Now, what have we here?
The New Testament scribes are portraying our Messiah as violating YAHWEH in this matter!
How, you may ask?
By allowing one of his male disciples to lie in his bosom which is only to be done with a woman!
Now, this is sin and evil!
What about the words attributed to our Messiah in John 8:28-29 when he said:
"... as my Father hath taught me, I speak those things," and "I do always those things that please him"?
How in the world does he allowing a man to lie in his bosom please YAHWEH?
It does not please YAHWEH it displeases Him!
Now, let's do a verse-by-verse break down of John 13:23-25.
23. "Now there was LEANING on Jesus' bosom on of his disciples, whom Jesus loved."
According to verse 23, one of the disciples was "leaning" on the "bosom" of Jesus. The word "leaning" suggest that the disciple was in some kind of upright position. The word "bosom" means the chest or breast of Jesus.
If a disciple was "leaning" on Jesus' "bosom," chest, or breast, the only way this can happen is if he was in between Jesus' arms!
Now, let us use our imagination to visualize the most likely positions this verse suggest Jesus was in with his disciple:
1. Visualize both of them standing with one man "LEANING" on the other's chest while between his arms.
Does this seem right to you?
2. Visualize one man sitting in a chair, with the other man sitting on his lap and "LEANING" on his chest while between his arms.
Does this seem right to you?
3. Visualize both men sitting on a flat surface, like a floor or bed, with one of them sitting on the other man's lap or between the other's legs and "LEANING" on the other's chest while between his arms.
Does this seem right to you?
4. Visualize one man sitting in a chair with the other man standing between his legs and "LEANING" on his chest while in between his arms.
Does this seem right to you?
Hey, it most certainly should not seem right to you!
The reason why is because this example results in the man's sexual organs (who is "LEANING" on Jesus chest while standing between his legs) being only inches away from Jesus' mouth if Jesus is sitting in a chair!
Regardless, how a person interprets this verse about the disciple "leaning" on Jesus' chest, the fact remains that this is an intimate encounter we're seeing here!
Now consider that John 13:23-25 also make the following suggestions:
1. the man who was intimate with Jesus was a homosexual playing the role of a woman
2. that Jesus was a homosexual who was acting like his male lover was a woman
3. that both Jesus and his disciple were homosexuals who often had oral and anal sex with each other
4. that the other disciples of Jesus were accustomed to them having homosexual relations while they watched because they did not react, at all, as if it was normal for them to see Jesus' and his lover behaving in a homosexual way
5. at least one or more of the other disciples had to wonder which one of them would be the next one Jesus would want to perform oral sex on or penetrate anally
6. that Jesus and all of the disciples were a bunch of sick men!
These suggestions are totally unnatural!
This is evil!
This is perverted!
YAHWEH is against homosexuality! He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of it!
(Read Genesis chapter 18 and 19)
And, now, what have we here?
What we have here are fraudulent sections of the Christian New Testament Gospels, written by demonic scribes, that portray our Messiah as a homosexual who had a man being intimate with him in a way that only a woman should do!
We saw, above, that Jesus got naked with his disciples to the point that his penis and testicles could be seen by them.
And, now we see, that, afterward, he allowed one of them "leaning," intimately, between his arms, upon his chest.
Normally, when this happens between two people, the one with the person "leaning" upon his chest, between his arms, usually has at least one of his arms around that person!
Now, let's break down the following verses and see the suggestions they make!
24. "Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake."
Here in verse 24 of John chapter 13, we see where Simon Peter signaled to the disciple "leaning" between Jesus' arms, upon his chest, for him to find out who Jesus was talking about.
Now, what does this suggest?
Simon Peter must have felt that this disciple had a greater power, than he did, at finding out who Jesus was talking about or he would have asked Jesus himself.
So, he signaled to the disciple who was between Jesus arms, to find out who Jesus was talking about. This suggests that this person had a strange power over Jesus like a woman does with a man who is in love with her.
Or was the power like that which a feminine male homosexual has over a masculine male homosexual that is in love with him?
Regardless, it was sick and demented!
Consider the next verse of John 13:
25. "He then LYING on Jesus breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?"
We saw, in verse 23, that the disciple was "leaning" upright on Jesus' chest. Now, in verse 25, it says that he was "lying" on his breast.
This suggests that the intimacy involved became even more intimate!
This also suggests that after Simon Peter signaled him to find out who Jesus was talking about, the disciple started seducing Jesus, like a woman does a man who she wants something from, and he ended up lying on top of him as if for sex!
Finally, this also suggests that the disciples were watching while the man was seducing Jesus!
All this proves that I am correct when I say that the Gospels suggest that Jesus was a homosexual!
Our Messiah could not have been a homosexual!
He never would have desire having oral and anal sex with a man.
Neither could he have been so twisted, in the mind, that he fell in love with another man like he would have done with a woman.
In Part 2 of "Was Jesus A Homosexual?" there will be even more "shocking" suggestions of Jesus being a homosexual made by the Gospel writers.
Part Two
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WICHITA FALLS, TX - Matt Porter shot a 1-unde par 70 in the final round of the 86th West Texas Amateur, finishing in fourth place for the event. Porter shot an even-par aggregate score of 213 for the 54-hole event at the par-71, 6,983-yard Wichita Falls Country Club.
Porter (Sr./Seymour, Texas) had rounds of 70, 73 and 70 for the tourney. Porter was one of just three players to shoot under par in the final round.
Wes Artac won the tournament with a 7-under 206 for the 54 holes.
Porter made a big move on the front nine holes, going 3-under par thanks to four birdies. Porter opened with three straight pars, before birdying the par-3 No. 4 and the par-5 No. 6. He then bogeyed the par-4 No. 7, before putting up back-to-back birdies on Nos. 8 and 9 (both par-4's).
Porter struggled early on the back nine, bogeying three of the first four holes (Nos. 10, 12 and 13). A birdie on the par-5 No. 15 got Porter back into red numbers for the day and even for the Amateur. He closed his round with three-consecutive pars for the total of 70.
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The suspect has been taken into custody.
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Kelly Avenue has been opened back up to traffic. An ambulance has left the scene. However, police have not confirmed if the suspect has been successfully removed from the home.
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The houses closest to the house where the police are negotiating have been evacuated.
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The role of magnetic susceptibility in magnetic resonance imaging: MRI magnetic compatibility of the first and second kinds23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597854View Description Hide Description
The concept of magnetic susceptibility is central to many current research and development activities in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); for example, the development of MR‐guided surgery has created a need for surgical instruments and other devices with susceptibility tailored to the MR environment; susceptibility effects can lead to position errors of up to several millimeters in MR‐guided stereotactic surgery; and the variation of magnetic susceptibility on a microscopic scale within tissues contributes to MR contrast and is the basis of functional MRI. The magnetic aspects of MR compatibility are discussed in terms of two levels of acceptability: Materials with the first kind of magnetic field compatibility are such that magnetic forces and torques do not interfere significantly when the materials are used within the magnetic field of the scanner; materials with the second kind of magnetic field compatibility meet the more demanding requirement that they produce only negligible artifacts within the MR image and their effect on the positional accuracy of features within the image is negligible or can readily be corrected. Several materials exhibiting magnetic field compatibility of the second kind have been studied and a group of materials that produce essentially no image distortion, even when located directly within the imaging field of view, is identified. Because of demagnetizing effects, the shape and orientation, as well as the susceptibility, of objects within and adjacent to the imaging region is important in MRI. The quantitative use of susceptibility data is important to MRI, but the use of literature values for the susceptibility of materials is often difficult because of inconsistent traditions in the definitions and units used for magnetic parameters—particularly susceptibility. The uniform use of SI units for magnetic susceptibility and related quantities would help to achieve consistency and avoid confusion in MRI.
Measurements of magnetism‐related forces and torque moments affecting medical instruments, implants, and foreign objects during magnetic resonance imaging at all degrees of freedom23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597853View Description Hide Description
We designed a novel force/torque moment transducer with six degrees of freedom. This new sensor is used for measuring the forces and torque moments exerted by static magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) fields on various medical implants, instruments, and ballistic shell fragments. To determine the location of strongest effect the inhomogeneity of the magnetic field between the entrance of the MRI‐tube (portal), and the imaging section was measured. Force and torque moments of a sample of 45 objects were measured at two positions, at the portal, and in the center of the imaging section. We classified the objects regarding to the magnetism‐related forces measured in the homogeneous part of the MRI tube. About one‐third of the objects was non‐ or weakly magnetic, one‐third moderately, and the last third was strongly magnetic. Forces within the inhomogeneous area of the magnetic field at the entrance part of the tube were up to half a magnitude larger than forces inside the homogeneous imaging section. Here the greatest potential risks to patients might occur.
Analysis of noise in phase contrast MR imaging23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597729View Description Hide Description
In this work we analyze the effects of inherent random noise on the detectability of low‐contrast vessel structures that possess slow flow. When flow is encoded in more than one direction, the number of independent noise contributions increases in addition to the scan time. In a fast‐flow scenario, only the noise contribution from sampling along the direction of flow is of any significance. At slow flow rates, however, it becomes necessary to account for the noise in each encoded Cartesian direction. The degree to which noise affects low‐contrast detectability also depends on the method of phase contrastimage processing employed. A theoreticalanalysis of the statistical properties of signal and noise in processed phase contrast magnitude images is presented and verified from experimental MR image data. Results show a progressively increased bias in the processed phase contrastimage magnitude at slow flow rates due to contributions from inherent random noise. The amount of this bias increases with the number of physical directions in which flow is encoded and is larger for complex difference processed images than for phase difference processing. Correspondingly, the output signal‐to‐noise ratio associated with flow is compromised.
Plate scatter correction for improved performance in dual‐energy imaging23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597855View Description Hide Description
We have developed a method for correcting for the scatter produced by the computed radiography plates in single‐shot dual‐energy imaging. In our technique, which uses a series of four computed radiography plates (the middle two plates act as a filter), the back plate can have scatter fractions as high as 30% due to the scatter from the first three plates. We use the deconvolution method to correct for this scatter, as the scatter medium is uniform and isotropic with a constant air gap. The ratio of the modulation transfer function(MTF) of a standard computed radiography plate to that of a dual‐energy plate gives us the correction factor we need to scale the Fourier transforms of our images, thus compensating for the reduced response of the system due to scatter. We also investigated the effect of having an air gap between the back dual‐energy plate and the first three plates. Our measurements show that this degrades the signal‐to‐noise response of the back plate slightly at low spatial frequencies. We also used independent scatter fraction measurements to verify the validity of our MTF measurements. Applying the correction to a back plate image improves the fine detail contrast by approximately 30%.
Three‐dimensional multimodality medical image registration using a parameter accumulation approach23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597730View Description Hide Description
A parameter accumulation method based on the Hough transformation is proposed to register three‐dimensional (3‐D) multimodality medical images. The estimation of registration parameters is decomposed into separate estimations of rotation, using directional vectors, and translation, using positional vectors. Similarly, the rotation parameters are decomposed into the rotation axis and angle, which are then estimated separately. This kind of decomposition reduces the parametric dimension and improves the computing efficiency which has been a major concern in implementing the Hough transformation. When 3‐D rotation is involved, evaluating registration error is not straightforward. This paper introduces an equivalent error angle as a criterion to evaluate the performance of 3‐D registration methods. Experimental results indicate that a least‐squares fitting is superior to the parameter accumulation with data contaminated by additive noise only. When mismatched feature points (outliers) exist in the data set, however, the parameter accumulation approach is more accurate. The application of the proposed approach to the registration of 3‐D PET and CTimages is demonstrated.
Analytical description of the high and low contrast behavior of a scan‐rotate geometry for equalization mammography23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597731View Description Hide Description
Many solutions have been proposed to overcome the problem of imaging the radiographically dense breast with high contrastmammographic film of limited dynamic range. In previous works, we have proposed utilizing a modulated fan‐beam in a scan‐rotate geometry RSER (Rotary Scanning Equalization Radiography), as an efficient method for producing exposure equalized mammograms. The image quality of RSER is similar to that attained with the inefficient single beam, raster scanning SER (Scanning Equalization Radiography) geometry. RSER has the potential to be a practical, efficient method for improving the detection of cancer in the dense breast. In this work, we present a theoretical analysis of the imaging properties of the RSER geometry in two regimes defined by the variation of x‐ray transmission within the object. For low contrast objects, the imaging geometry was analyzed as a linear system, whereas the high contrast regime was studied by determining the contrast limit at which RSER requires nonphysical (negative) exposure modulation for a breast‐like object. The low contrast transfer function of the RSER system is shown to be very similar to that of the SER geometry. We show that RSER enables the use of wide scanning beam of approximately 4 cm and thereby significantly reduces x‐ray tube heat loading. Analysis of the high contrast behavior shows that a wide range of object contrasts and sizes can be equalized. For example, RSER can equalize a region of 100% glandular tissue within a 4.0 cm thick compressed breast composed of 100% adipose tissue. Thus, the RSER geometry produces images very similar to the more inefficient SER geometry, and is able to produce entrance exposure distributions appropriate for equalization of the range of contrast typically encountered in mammography.
TLD measurements of in vivo mammographic exposures and the calculated mean glandular dose across the United States23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597824View Description Hide Description
An analysis is presented of the exposures received by TLDs placed on the breasts of 4400 women obtaining mammograms at 170 institutions across the United States. Mean glandular dose and exposure were examined as a function of compressed breast thickness. The exposure and mean glandular dose were found to increase linearly with breast thickness. The mean glandular dose typically delivered by the institutions was well below the limit of 3.0 mGy for the 4.5‐cm breast. However, some institutions tend to uniformly give higher doses. In such institutions approximately 25% of 4.5‐cm‐thick breasts received a mean glandular dose exceeding 3.0 mGy.
A nondivergent specification of the mean treatment dose in interstitial brachytherapy23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597732View Description Hide Description
The harmonic mean formalism is investigated as a nondivergent specification of the mean treatment dose in three distinct applications of interstitial brachytherapy: (a) permanent 125I prostate implant; (b) double plane 192Ir linear source array; and (c) multiple catheter optimized high dose rate implant. In each case the harmonic treatment dose (HTD) can be calculated in regions that contain radioactive sources or otherwise high dose gradient, to yield objective and consistent results with little computational effort. The need to identify local dose minima, geometric centers, or seed planes is largely avoided, which makes the formalism suitable for automated computation. Dose distribution uniformity is analyzed in terms of the fractional spread for the HTD and, where the periphery of the target volume is delineated, the uniformity number and the peripheral uniformity number. It is shown that the harmonic mean dose formalism is a practical alternative to the ICRU dose specification parameters in certain areas of brachytherapy.
Measurement and calculation of heterogeneity correction factors for an Ir‐192 high dose‐rate brachytherapy source behind tungsten alloy and steel shields23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597733View Description Hide Description
Shields made of high atomic number material are commonly used in vaginal applicators with high dose‐rate (HDR) 192Ir remotely afterloaded brachytherapysources. However little data is available for the dose distribution around such shields. Heterogeneity correction factors (HCFs) are defined as the ratio of the dose to a point with the heterogeneity (shield) in place, divided by the dose to the same point with no heterogeneity. Using thermoluminescent dosimeters(TLDs) in solid water phantom we have measured the HCFs behind 6 and 20 mm diam tungsten alloy disks, 4 and 2 mm thick and a 4 mm thick steel disk, positioned 15 mm from the source. For each measurement point, the heterogeneity correction factors were also inferred from Monte Carlo simulations, which accurately modeled the experimental geometry. The agreement between measured and calculated HCFs on the average was within 6%. Tungsten alloy disks resulted in about two times greater dose reduction in water (HCF≊0.4, for 20×4 mm disk) than for a steel disk with the same dimensions (HCF≊0.85). Reducing the disk diameter to 6 mm increased the dose transmission up to about 25%. Increasing the source‐to‐detector distance from 4 to 7 cm caused a change in HCF from 2% to more than 20%, depending on disk material and diameter. The detector artifact effects arising from the finite size and different composition of the TLD chips were determined.
A new source localization algorithm with no requirement of one‐to‐one source correspondence between biplane radiographs23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597734View Description Hide Description
Conventional source localization algorithms require a one‐to‐one source correspondence between films. This requirement makes source localization cumbersome and error prone because multiple sources must be carefully digitized and some sources can be obscured or missed. A new source localization algorithm is described in this paper. The algorithm fits a ribbon or needle image on film to a linear‐quadratic equation, then analytically determines the 3‐D ribbon locus by its image on the other projection, and finally localizes the sources in the ribbon by tracing along the ribbon image. Only three points per ribbon per film are required, and corresponding points need not be identified on the other film. Phantom experiments and tests on clinical cases demonstrate that the source localization algorithm can increase the efficiency by a factor of up to 5, improve accuracy to about 1 mm, and reconstruct obscured or shifted sources without decreased accuracy and efficiency. The simplicity and minimal entry of data make this technique desirable for clinical use.
Verification of milled two‐dimensional photon compensating filters using an electronic portal imaging device23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597856View Description Hide Description
A computer‐driven milling machine is being installed at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology to fabricate photon compensating filters for conventional compensation and beam‐intensity modulation. Commissioning and quality assurance procedures are being developed for the design, fabrication, and delivery systems prior to using the milled filters in the clinic. The portion of the quality assurance procedures governing the filter fabrication using a computer‐driven milling machine includes, in part, a comparison of designed and fabricated filters. Test filters include geometrically regular filters, such as flat surfaces and steps. The verification of these shapes is accomplished using spatial measurements. However, to test the mill's ability to generate complex curved surfaces, filters with more complicated surfaces are generated. These filters do not lend themselves to precise verification using physical measurement of the thickness distribution. A method has been developed to verify the thickness distributions of these complex filters by irradiating the filters with high‐energy x rays and comparing the scattered and transmitted fluence to the fluence calculated using the intended filter shape. The fluence measurement is made using a calibrated commercial liquid ionization chamberelectronic portal imaging device. The calculated fluence is separated into transmitted primary and scattered fluences and is determined using a convolution of a distributed radiationsource kernel with an exponential filter attenuation function. The attenuation coefficient is measured for the filter material (Lipowitz metal) and fit to a second‐order polynomial in filter thickness and off‐axis distance. The distributed source kernel is measured using a split‐field technique and fit to a sum of three two‐dimensional Gaussian distributions. The scatteredradiation is modeled by the Klein–Nishina cross section. The algorithm is tested by comparing calculated fluences with measured fluences for a series of machined filters: an open field, flat filters of 9.6‐, 15.8‐, and 31.6‐mm thickness, split‐field filters, and a pyramid‐shaped filter. In each case, the algorithm calculates the fluence to within 3% of the measured values over the entire irradiated field size to within 1.5 cm of the collimated field edges.
Physical specifications of clinical proton beams from a synchrotron23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597735View Description Hide Description
Tumortreatment with charged particlebeams is a quickly developing field aimed to translate the potential advantages offered by the superior physical dose distribution and relative biological effectiveness of heavy charged particles into a real improvement of tumor therapy. To this purpose the new proton and light‐ion radiation therapy facilities must be designed according to strict clinical specifications to provide a reliable and effective tool against cancer. This paper provides the performance specifications of the accelerator and of the beam transport and delivery systems of the Italian Hadrontherapy Centre, which should be satisfied to meet the clinical specifications. A discussion is given on the requirements on energy range, energy variability, beam intensity, lateral penumbra, distal dose falloff, source‐to‐surface distance, time structure of the extracted beam, raster scanning system specifications, and beam abort time. Though the physical specifications are given for a particular accelerator, they can be used as a general guideline for the design of future biomedical particle accelerator facilities.
Magnetic repulsion of linear accelerator contaminates23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597818View Description Hide Description
NeodymiumIronBoron (NdFeB) rare earth permanent magnets have unique properties that enable them to fit easily onto the accessory mount of a clinical linear accelerator to partially sweep away electron contamination produced by the treatment head and block trays and thus increase skin sparing. Using such magnets the central axis entrance surface dose has been reduced by 11% for a 20×30 cm field size from 32% to 21% of maximum dose by the magnetic device. A reduction of 14% from 32% to 18% was seen for a 20×20 cm field size with a 6 mm perspex block tray positioned above the magnet. The magnetic device is light weight and thus clinically usable.
A comparison of mixed integer programming and fast simulated annealing for optimizing beam weights in radiation therapy23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597857View Description Hide Description
Two competing methods for assigning intensities to radiation treatment beams were tested. One method was derived from mixed integer programming and the other was based on simulated annealing. The methods faced a common objective and identical constraints. The goal was to maximize the minimum tumordose while keeping the dose in required fractions of normal organ volumes below a threshold for damage. The minimum tumordoses of the two methods were compared when all the dose‐volume constraints were satisfied. A mixed integer linear program gave a minimum tumordose that was at least 1.8 Gy higher than that given by simulated annealing in 7 of 19 trials. The difference was ≥5.4 Gy in 4 of 19 trials. In no case was the mixed integer solution one fraction size (1.8 Gy) worse than that of simulated annealing. The better solution provided by the mixed integer program allows tumordose to increase without violating the dose‐volume limits of normal tissues.
A generic genetic algorithm for generating beam weights23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597858View Description Hide Description
A genetic algorithm for generating beam weights is described. The algorithm improves an objective measure of the dose distribution while respecting dose volume constraints placed on critical structures. The algorithm was used to select beam weights for treatment of abdominal tumors. Weights were selected for up to 36 beams. Dose volume limits were placed on normal organs and a dose inhomogeneity limit was placed on tumor. Volumes were represented as sets of several hundred discrete points. The algorithm searched for the beam weights that would make the minimum tumor dose as high as the constraints would allow. The results were checked using dose volume histograms with standard sized grids. Nineteen trials were created using six patient cases by changing the required field margin or allowed beam position in each case. The sampling of points was sufficiently dense to yield solutions that strictly satisfied the constraints when the prescribed dose was renormalized by a factor of less than 6%. The genetic algorithm supplied solutions in 49 min on average, and in a maximum time of 87 min. The randomized search does not guarantee optimality, but high tumor doses were obtained. An example is shown for which the solution of the genetic algorithm gave a minimum tumor dose 7 Gy higher than the solution given by a simulated annealing algorithm under the same set of constraints. The genetic algorithm can be generalized to admit nonlinear functions of the beam intensities in the objective or in the constraints. These can include tumor control and normal tissue complication probabilities. The genetic algorithm is an attractive procedure for assigning beam weights in multifield plans. It improves the dose distribution while respecting specified rules for tissue tolerance.
Analytical representation of head scatter factors for shaped photon beams using a two‐component x‐ray source model23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597827View Description Hide Description
An analytic representation proposed for the relative intensity distribution of the extra‐focal source in a two‐component x‐ray source model serves as the basis for calculation. From this representation, a closed‐form expression for head scatter factors defined on the central beam axis is derived by integrating over the area of the extra‐focal source plane visible from the measurement point. The resulting expression is applicable to photon beams from different Varian accelerators and different photon energies, and includes effects arising from beam shaping with cerrobend blocks or multi‐leaf collimators(MLCs). For 6‐ and 15‐MV photon beams from Varian 600C and 2300CD accelerators (Varian Oncology Systems, Palo Alto, CA), 361 measured head scatter factors for square, rectangular, asymmetric, and arbitrarily shaped fields, formed by either the X and Y jaws, the MLC and Y jaws, or by the MLC alone, were compared with model calculations. Results show that 93.4% of calculated values match corresponding experimental points to within 0.5%, the average deviation being 0.23% and the maximum deviation 0.9%. Thus, as a consequence of this work, the different influence of the X jaws, the Y jaws, and the MLC on head scatter factors is quantitatively described. In particular, it is demonstrated that in the case of radially symmetric scattering, the collimator exchange effect arises as a result of the different distances of the X and Y jaws from the focal spot.
Commissioning and Routine Testing of Mammographic X‐Ray Systems. Report No. 59 of the Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine, England, 1989, by M. Fitzgerald, D. R. Dance, K. Fisher, C. P. Lawinski, and M. L. Ramsdale23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597859View Description Hide Description
Review of Radiologic Physics, by Walter Huda, Ph.D. and Richard M. Slone, M.D.23(1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.597861View Description Hide Description


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|Cato Foreign Policy Briefing No. 79
|September 17, 2003
by Ian Vásquez
Ian Vásquez is director of the Cato Institute's Project on Global Economic Liberty and editor of Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism, published by the Cato Institute (2000).
Executive Summary
The failure of past foreign aid programs has given rise to a new consensus on how to make foreign aid effective. According to the new approach, aid that goes into poor countries that have good policies and institutions is highly effective at promoting growth and reducing poverty. Disbursing aid to countries that have good policies contrasts with the traditional practice of providing aid to countries irrespective of the quality of their policies or providing aid to promote policy reforms. President George Bush's proposed foreign aid initiative, the Millennium Challenge Account, is based on the selective approach to foreign assistance, as are, in large part, the World Bank's calls to double foreign aid flows worldwide.
Yet enthusiasm about the promise of selective aid is unfounded. Bold empirical claims about the positive effects of "selectivity" are based entirely on World Bank research, most of which is difficult or impossible to reproduce by outside researchers. Though the World Bank's research has had an enormous influence on the debate, the few attempts to reproduce the Bank's findings using its own data and methodology have contravened the Bank's findings.
Providing development assistance to countries with decent policies and institutions is a dubious undertaking. Good policies will reap the rewards of growth. "Overrewarding" those countries with foreign aid, by contrast, may have effects similar to those of traditional foreign aid programs: slowing the pace of reform and development.
Even if selectivity could somehow be made effective, the practical impediments to making it work are formidable. Delivery of MCA funds, for example, will surely suffer from politicization, bureaucratic self-interest, and congressional micromanagement. The prevalence of traditional foreign aid programs throughout the developing world will also undermine the intended impact of more narrowly focused selective aid programs.
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The Jewish Museum Berlin offers numerous guided tours through the exhibitions, around the Museum, and through the city. Museum guides illustrate selected themes in a variety of languages, answer questions, and engage in dialog with visitor groups. Join an open tour spontaneously when you come for a visit or reserve one in advance on a variety of topics through the permanent and special exhibitions. Our program for kids and teens includes workshops sorted according to age group, season, and theme; school classes can also learn about various themes of German-Jewish history in our exhibitions.
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Mapping Migration critique
A friend asked me what I thought about the NYT Mapping Migration visualization.
It's interesting that they note this is a new (experimental) kind of visualization; frankly I think it doesn't work very well.
To review, you (well, I) do visualization like this (one tweet version; hours long version).
In this case, it feels more like they had a structure they wanted to use (well, two structures, treemap and geographic map, they wanted to mash up and use). So that's a fundamental design failure because structure drives meaning so strongly, you really ought to pick structure in response to your purpose, not structure first. But this seems structure-driven, not purpose-driven.
If I were to communicate this same information I'd say the purpose is to show the relative proportions of origins of each state's population. Now a geographic map is a bad way to talk about population in general, because geographic size has nothing to do with population (NJ has about 10x the population and 1,000x the population density of Alaska), and so you get all kinds of accidental distortion. However, geographic maps are really good at showing things like regional trends, so there may be some value there.
So how to show proportion per state and also maintain regional relevance? For proportion a classic tree map (subdivided rectangular area, not Voronoi), or even pie graph, per state could work; they almost got that right. Instead of using the geographical shape of each state, each state could be represented with a size proportional to its population with a cartogram, similar to how the electoral vote results maps work.
The result would be the largest square for California, smaller squares for other states. Each state square would be subdivided into regional areas, each area proportional to population origin and colored as they have them here. If it was me, I'd use consistent placement for the colors, yellow/west always on the left, red/east always on the right, etc.
If you wanted to do something other than a tree map, bar graphs (either stacked or side by side) per state would work perfectly well too, but that's a little harder to implement and keep the geographical relevance.
How to pick a graph
I just tweeted this:
Step 5: What graph do I use?
4: What data matters?
3: What Q's need answering?
2: What actions do I need to inform?
1: What do I care about?
Visualization errors to avoid
I wrote a blog post on avoiding visualization errors over at Information Week.
Looper timeline
I drew a timeline of the film Looper for Wired. It's made of spoilers.
SeaVis: The Seattle Visualization List and Meetup
I've been running the Seattle visualization meetup since late 2012. We've got a Google Group for jobs and announcements and a Meetup group for events. Please join both!
Four Pillars of Visualization
I've created a lot of content based on my Four Pillars of Visualization design principles. The Four Pillars are:
- Purpose (the why)
- Content (the what)
- Structure (the how)
- Formatting (everything else)
Here are the resources. I'll update this page as new material comes online. Everything is free.
- A five-part webcast series on good visualization design, based on the Four Pillars, and PDFs of the slide decks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Concise blog posts discussing the Four Pillars. The depth here is roughly equivalent to what I cover in the standard Four Pillars lecture (as seen above).
- Longer whitepapers that go more in-depth on how to make good design choices.
Unbroken Excel
Because I mention it all the time, here's Cole Nussbaumer's template for good Excel graphs, where she's fixed all of the bad Excel defaults.
Big news, new job at IBM… and moved on.
Updated update: I'm no longer with IBM, and have taken a job in Settle with AWS.
Hello dear readers,
Just a quick note here to mention my new FT gig; I'm now working as a Visualization Expert at IBM's Center for Advanced Visualization. Part of my role involves continuing to speak at conferences and events as I have been, and various other writing projects. Additionally, I'll be working on a book for IBM (details TBD), writing some visualization white papers, blog posts, and other materials related to IBM's visualization projects, and working with the fantastic teams who are devloping IBM's public visualization tool Many Eyes and their new (unreleased) visualization engine RAVE.
I'm delighted by this new role. As I've been ramping up at IBM I haven't been publishing as much externally, but will be posting links to my writing and presentations here and on twitter (@noahi) as they become available.
Best, Noah
UPDATE: Yes, I'm staying in Seattle.
Process notes handout
Here are some visualization process notes from my talks and tutorials.
Talks: first half of 2012
Here are the various, videos, recordings, transcripts, notes, and slide decks from some of the talks I gave in the first half of 2012. With one exception, all of these are free to view or download.
January 21, ORDcamp Ignite Talk Data Visualizations Done Wrong: live lecture recording. 5:11 (quick and fun)
January 25, Strata presentation preview Design Thinking for Effective Data Visualization: online lecture. 17:15
January 27, UIE Virtual Seminar preview podcast The Power of Data Visualization: audio recording, transcript. 29:50
February 2, UIE Virtual Seminar Telling the Right Story with Data Visualization: online lecture with slides; paid. 90 minutes. (With free preview. 1:08)
February 23, Visual.ly blog guest post Why Is Data Visualization So Hot?
March 16, UIE Virtual Seminar follow up podcast: audio recording, transcript. 30:38
April 2, Where conference interviewed by Julie Steele: video. 11:55
April 3, Where conference keynote When Not to Use Maps, live lecture recording. 11:32 (this one is fun too)
April 4, Linked In Tech Talk Designing Data Visualizations, live lecture recording, with extra conversation about visualization of social networks. 1:49:12
July 12, dotAstronomy conference keynote How to be a Data Visualization Star, with Julie Steele: live lecture audio recording, with still images, slides, and time-coordinated notes twitter responses. 53:05
July 16, European Bioinformatics Institute guest lecture Designing Effective Data Visualizations, handouts, sketchnotes, slide decks (I love the sketchnotes).


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The Troy September 11 Memorial Coordinating Committee will host a memorial service for the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Friday, December 21, 2012 at 6:00pm.
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does anyone know anywhere I can go for a weekend or week long break with my hubbie and one year old? My little boy will not sleep when we are in the room - had a disastrous week in Mallorca last year when he thought it was play time all night with us there and we got NO sleep. A hotel with an adjoining room or something similar would be good? UK preferably....
I dont want to leave him at all - he just cant be in the room with us directly!
Any ideas or shall I just wait til he is older?
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no dont wait!! u have to have your break. what about centre parks?? thats brill, swimming pools, music discos for kids, kids club etc etc! i have a friend with a 13month old going next week and a friend with 2 under 2 going in may!
try that maybe. u get a chalet or apt there is a double room and lounge for cot etc, and u can hopefuly sleep better and maybe even a lie in!! xx
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we are going to Haven this summer and cos we are staying in a caravan, the cot HAS to go in the living room, which suits me, as Ruby (14 months) wont sleep in the same room as me either. Dunno your feelings on caravans but you can also get a chalet in any holiday camp and have the cot in the living room. x x


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The Cobblers were quickly out of the blocks and Clive Platt was foiled by Brian Saah's last-gasp challenge while Chris Hackett had a close-range effort blocked.
O'Donovan saw his low drive saved by Michael Poke and Ishmel Demontagnac fired over at the end of Northampton's best move.
In between Jordan Chappell tested Lee Nicholls and Ryan Jarvis fired wide but Poke did well to foil Ben Harding following a scramble as Northampton dominated the first half without getting their reward.
The Cobblers picked up from where they left off after the restart. Ben Harding hit a post, Hackett was denied by Poke from the rebound and from the ensuing corner John Johnson headed just wide.
O'Donovan had a header ruled out for offside but Torquay had a strong penalty appeal waved away when Elliot Benyon was tripped by Clarke Carlisle.
But with five minutes remaining Hackett turned inside before crossing for O'Donovan to head past Poke from 10 yards.
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Elderly Woman Killed in Manhattan High-Rise Fire
An elderly woman was found dead following a fire in her apartment in a Manhattan highrise early Tuesday.
Gloria Hillman, 82 years old, was discovered dead in her third floor apartment around 4:25 a.m. following the blaze inside the building on 7th Avenue in Chelsea, authorities said.
The fire was contained to her apartment, where she lived with her grandson, identified by a law-enforcement official as Anil Parekh, 32. He left the apartment several hour earlier to go to a store in Union Square, the official said. He returned to find emergency personnel on the scene.
The cause of the fire has not been determined.
In January, one man was killed and another injured during a highrise fire in Midtown. Daniel McClung, a 27-year-old playwright, was trying to escape his 38th-floor apartment in the Strand building on W. 43rd Street when he was overcome by smoke in the stairwell and suffered an apparent heart attack.


text: Art market in Gurgaon has changed dramatically over past few years from a totally non-existent to a thriving interest in the arts more recently but it is still shaping up. The old money is still in Delhi and that is where most collectors come from. Gurgaon has new money and mostly executive crowd getting used to the idea of buying art but are still vary of being collectors. However, the city still boasts of some of best artworks of famous artists adorning the walls of the art collectors of the millennium city.


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8 Triathlon Racing Kits From The 2013 Triathlete Buyer's Guide
- By Kim McDonald, Jessica Broderickx and Aaron Hersh
- Published Jul 23, 2013
- Updated Jul 21, 2015 at 3:36 PM UTC
SLS3 Compression
Tri Race Short/Top
$198, Slstri.com
The draw: Perfect fit for stronger athletes
This kit is tailored for triathletes with muscle. Taller athletes and those who prefer extra quad coverage will love the long inseam in the shorts—but shorter athletes may find the longer length unnecessary. This two-piece kit with a hidden pocket in the rear of the shorts and two large side pockets with flaps in the top is a great choice for long-course athletes who want to pack in the calories and shave precious minutes from their bathroom breaks. It's comfortable for running and biking, overall durability seems excellent and, while seams are thicker, chafing was not a problem.
RELATED – 2013 Triathlete Buyer's Guide: Run Compression
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(approximate) sizes for baby stuff?
I have a lot of friends that are, er, acquiring babies, and I want to do up baby hats and baby booties. I found a pattern that I like for baby booties (link) but it doesn't give gauge, and I'm using slightly larger needles and a different size yarn so it's coming out way too big.
Problem is, I don't have any babies of my own to measure, and so I don't know how much to compensate. (And I have a similar problem with hats; some patterns say "will fit newborns" but I don't know how to adjust for a several-month-old or whatever.)
So is there some sort of guideline for baby clothing sizes (eg average circumference of ankle, length of foot, size of head both for width and height)?
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Does It Take 20 Seconds to Wash Hands?
My print column examines a new study of hand-washing practices in East Lansing, Mich. — and the recommendation that people wash their hands for 20 seconds, made by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The study found that barely 5% of people washed their hands for even 15 seconds, five seconds shy of the CDC recommendations. But it's not clear where 20 seconds came from.
"The CDC recommendations on handwashing times are not based on evidence of health impact," said Valerie Curtis, director of the Hygiene Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. "All we know is that people should use soap, and that it takes a certain amount of time to get it on and then rinsed off."
A CDC spokeswoman said no one was available to comment on the CDC recommendations during the holiday week.
It's also not clear whether the study applies to all bathroom users in the U.S. "We're anticipating our college town is like any other college town," said lead author Carl P. Borchgrevink, associate professor at Michigan State University's School of Hospitality Business. Other bathrooms where users might be more aware of their germ exposure — such as airports — might have higher hand-washing rates. "The need and desire for hand-washing may be more salient among subjects in high-traffic surroundings," Borchgrevink said.
Gaby Judah, a graduate student at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and fellow researchers conducted a study of 198,000 bathroom users at highway service stations in 2008 in the U.K. — using sensors, rather than observers, to detect stall entry and sink usage — and found slightly higher rates of hand-washing than the Michigan State study did, but with lower rates of soap usage.
"There was an infrared sensor at the entryway to the toilets to count how many people were going in, and sensors inside the soap dispensers to count how many times the soap was used," Judah said. "This meant we could calculate for each hour the proportion of people using the toilet who washed their hands with soap. We wanted to use electronic sensors as we know that the presence of observers increases hand-washing behavior, so this method provided an objective measure of hand-washing. It also enabled us to collect data over a much longer period, and at all times of day, compared to if we had used observers."
Time isn't everything when it comes to washing. Also critical: whether hands are thoroughly dried — something the latest study didn't assess. Wet hands are more prone to picking up new germs than are dry hands, which can make hand-washing without drying counterproductive.
Borchgrevink said his team decided to measure time, and not other variables, to ensure the observers weren't spotted. "If we were going to start measuring friction, people would know what was going on," he said.


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GPA, Interior Return To First Division
Monday, June 15, 2009
Gambia Ports Authority F C and Interior Football Club are this year's returnees to the country's top flight league after one- year absence in Thursday's final end of the season game.
GPA finished the season as champions on goal difference to Interior, after their 4-1 win on newcomers Lamin FC. Interior drew 1-1 to Ham-Ham.
Despite their lose, Lamin FC have maintained their status in the second tier, together with fellow newcomers Serrekunda United FC, who were 1-0 winners over Young Africans..
Having been the only team in the division to have remained unbeaten throughout the season ,Serrekunda East missed out on promotion only by a single point.
East were 3-0 winners over relegated Jambanjelly United who together with Kaira Silo will now play in the third tier of the Gambian football next season.
Source: Picture: GPA FC


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BPC Spring Break mission trip scheduled for Belarus
MOUNT VERNON— Dr. Hal Ostrander, chair of Brewton-Parker College's Division of Religion and Philosophy, looks forward to another successful and enjoyable Missions Practicum or Apologetics Practicum this spring to Minsk, Belarus.
This will make the trip Brewton-Parker's third visit. Students attending the course/trip during Spring Break will earn three hours of course credit.
Minsk is the largest and capital city of Belarus, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia on the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.
Other places Dr. Hal Ostrander has traveled with this class include Krasnador, Russia; Astana, Kazakhstan; Odessa, Ukraine; Berlin, Germany; and, Prague, Czech Republic.
"Teams of students have ministered alongside me in various capacities in these countries through: teaching Christian doctrine, apologetics, and youth ministry in both church and seminary contexts; sharing Scripture and personal testimonies with ESL students as well as with other kinds of students; preaching in churches; prayer walking; and, experiencing and forging strong bonds with the missionaries appointed to these countries as well as with the indigenous church leaders."
Dr. Ostrander adds, "We've both encouraged and been encouraged by the relatively few evangelical Christians in these countries. God is at work in remarkable ways over there, in ways that we rarely hear about here at home."
To learn more about attending the 2011 spring trip/course to Minsk, Belarus, contact Dr. Ostrander by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention, Brewton-Parker College is the only accredited four-year Christian college in South Georgia.


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Dear editor:
Your article of December 27 under the oh-so-clever headline, "Timmins man facing weapons charges has a 'hired gun' for a lawyer," is a textbook example of media myopia.
It is impossible to conclude whether wrongdoing has occurred prior to a hearing, yet the media often join hands with police on firearms stories and predict the worst. Collectors, sport shooters, hunters and farmers have grown accustomed to police and media who prematurely draw a straight line from a firearm seizure to organized crime, which is preposterous.
Any suggestion that a gun collection is a "distressing arsenal" evokes the stench of "yellow journalism." And, quoting the reporter in the third person asking if a gun and martial arts collection is connected to organized crime is beyond the pale. Responsible journalists use independent sources that represent both sides -- they do not create a storyline that wouldn't exist without inserting a reporter's own bias.
The police officer so liberally quoted in your reportage appears to have little background in the shooting sports. He said, "These prohibited weapons have a specific purpose; to cause personal injury or death. With that in mind, we are very relieved to have them out of circulation and in police custody." Sport shooters and collectors have an avid interest in owning every type of firearm and many use them at shooting ranges, according to the law. And collectors' guns are not in circulation. Until the facts are determined every individual case, it is wrong to assume accessibility.
Police and the media need to understand that safe and responsible firearms enthusiasts are not criminals. There are hundreds of thousands of prohibited guns across the country in safe storage that have not caused "personal injury or death" and they never will. A sharp pencil in the wrong hands is far more dangerous than a firearm in the hands of a sport shooter.
Canadian sport shooters are most fortunate to have Ed Burlew, LL.B. in our midst. It is trite for your newspaper article to dismiss this firearms lawyer with more than 30 years' trial experience as a mere "hired gun." Mr. Burlew is a beacon of hope for many Canadians who fall victim to charges sometimes laid by police who are forced to interpret the poorly written Firearms Act. The insult is exacerbated when the media become a willing lap dog for the Canada Firearms Program.
Timmins was in the news recently when local M.P. Charlie Angus tabled his Private Members' Bill C-580. He espouses deceitful NDP policy to ban many different kinds of firearms that are currently enjoyed by sport shooters. It is surely time for Timmins-area sport shooters and hunters to demand fair treatment and fair media coverage.
Canadians are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Aren't we?
Tony Bernardo
Executive Director
Canadian Shooting Sports Association/
Canadian Institute for Legislative Action


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On Aug 5, 1:40*pm, Alex Schuster
> Hi there!
> I am having some trouble determining the order of the slices of volumetric
> multi-frame images.
> Let's assume the image is transaxial in standard orientation, that is Image
> Orientation (Patient) is (1,0,0)/(0,1,0).
> In case of enhanced CT/MR (modalities I do not know much of yet) I think I
> have the Image Position (Patient) for each slice, and I would use the z
> component for ordering just as in the case of single-sliced DICOM files. No
> problem there.
> For other files, I would look if there is a slice vector, and re-order the
> slices accordingly.
> Then, the stacking order should go from head to feet (in my case of a
> transaxial image), or contrary to the direction of the cross product of the
> Image Position (Patient) vectors. Right?
> That is, unless the the Spacing Between Slices is negative, in which case
> the order is reversed. At least this is what the DICOM standard says about
> NM images. What about CT and MR images? I think multi-frame images of these
> modalities are uncommon or even not allowed, but I happen to have some of
> those. Some, having similar DICOM tags, have contrary stacking order, butI
> am not sure which one is correct.
> Same goes for my few volumetric multi-frame NM images. Using the algorithm I
> desribed above, half of them show up correct, the other half is mirrored.
IMHO I do not think there is an answer for your question, at least not
in this dicom newsgroup. After all we are talking about the DICOM
standard. So here is my opinion.
If some 3rd party vendor decide to implement extended SOP class, they
have to produce some kind of DICOM Conformance Statement. You should
contact them directly.
A couple of days ago I found one of those files:
I thought this would be extremely rare...
I think that what you assumed is somewhat correct, I mean worse
scenario is that you have the slices inverted.
In a clinical trial environment (during site qualification I guess),
you need to check again with your site, to adjust their machine to
produce proper DICOM files.
> So, if someone could elaborate on this, I would be very thankful. I also
> would like pointers to sample images. I found only few multi-frame DICOM
> sample images,
Well, thankfully ! Any vendor producing those things should be
contacted very quickly so that they can produce a software update that
fix this issue for the rest of us.
> most of them being not volumetric but time series images,
> and the rest is either sagittal or shows blurry kidneys, so I cannot see
> which ordering would be correct.


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Biking terminology SEP 12 2008
From a Copenhagen blog that highlights biking style, a plea to cool it with all the subculture cycling attitude and terminology already.
Let's straighten things out, shall we? What you see in the photo above, taken in Copenhagen, is something we call a "cyclist".
Not a "bicycle commuter", nor a "utility cyclist". Certainly not a "lightweight, open air, self-powered traffic vehicle user". It's a cyclist.
The Copenhagener above is not "commuting" - or at least she doesn't call it that. She's not going for a "bike ride" or "making a bold statement about her personal convictions regarding reduction of Co2 levels and sustainable transport methods in urban centers".
She's just going to work. On her bike.
(via gulfstream)
Update: The problem with biking in America: people don't feel safe, mainly because people in cars just aren't that aware of people on bicycles.


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Martin O'Neill says that The Black Cats' Craig Gardner "should have 10 league goals at the end of every season."
Sunderland have managed to score just six goals in the Premier League so far this season.
However, O'Neill believes Gardner could prove useful to the side because of his talent in scoring goals.
He said to the Shields Gazette: "I feel Craig should have 10 league goals at the end of every season – regardless of the number of games that he plays. I mean of course assuming he plays upwards of 25, of course. It would be a bit much if he only played eight or nine times! But Craig's eye for goals really could be a tremendous asset for us. He has a great shot, he gets into dangerous positions and he hits the ball as strongly and as truly as anyone in the Premier League."
Last season, Gardner scored just three goals, starting 31 times. However, he was not in his preferred position, and he scored on many occasions for his previous team, Birmingham City.
However, the Sunderland boss is now expecting goals from him now he plays in his right position.
Martin O'Neill said: "Playing at full-back, he was unable to get into those forward advanced midfield positions. But now he is back in midfield, I will be looking for him to contribute some goals. We need goals from other sources, we know that. Steven Fletcher has made a very good start since joining us in the summer, but we can't put all the goal scoring burden on one man. Other players have to share the load. At the moment, we are just not creating enough chances and that needs to change. We know that, we recognise it and we are working hard to find ways of improving it."
Louis Saha has talked about how he and the team could be doing more.


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I was under the impression the Phils had an awful bullpen. We might still have this if Hoover can get a grounder
I was under the impression the Phils had an awful bullpen. We might still have this if Hoover can get a grounder
At worst we split this series and were able to rest Chapman, Rolen, and Phillips today for the Cardinals series this weekend.
Splitting in Philly no matter how down they are is never a bad thing.
Good lord he almost hit him
Does Cairo know what talc is?
please come back Joey
The older I get - the better I was
and yes - I hate the Cardinals (Reds fan since 1958)
ARRRGHHHH this game is going to kill me
Hard to win if you give a team five outs.
Body. I'm not an animal. Mummy. I'm an abortion. - Sex Pistols
hope this makes Cario's spot less saving on the team
"Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings." Sparky Anderson
Suicide here?
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- Nov 27:
- Teen whose skirt was set on fire released from burn unit
- Nov 16:
- A call to community to remember victims of gender violence
- Nov 14:
- Supporters of Oakland teen burned in bus attack hang rainbow ribbons during march
- Supporters of Oakland teen burned on AC Transit bus plan gathering of support
- Nov 13:
- Teen charged in AC Transit bus attack appears in court
- Nov 9:
- Supporters of teen burned on AC Transit bus raise more money, decorate bus poles in rainbow colors
- Nov 8:
- Students at Maybeck High School in Berkeley wear dresses and skirts during Skirt for Sasha Day Friday
- Nov 6:
- 16-year-old boy suspected of setting man on fire on Oakland bus
- Nov 5:
- Oakland: AC Transit bus passenger set on fire Monday evening
OAKLAND -- While an 18-year-old Oakland resident recovers in a burn unit after being set afire Monday night aboard an AC Transit bus, supporters have raised $20,000 for medical care and recovery costs.
More than 400 supporters had pledged money by Wednesday afternoon, helping the online fundraising effort for Luke "Sasha" Fleischman reach its goal of $20,000 within 24 hours.
The money will help pay medical bills for Fleischman, who suffered second- and third-degree burns to the legs and was in stable condition Wednesday at St. Francis Memorial Hospital's Bothin Burn Center in San Francisco. Fleischman, a senior at Berkeley's Maybeck High School, will require massive skin grafting and a long recovery period, the victim's mother, Debbie Fleischman, said.
The fundraising site was shut down Wednesday and the family is no longer raising money.
"I'm honestly not surprised at all," friend Eve Irwin, 22, said of the outpouring of support. "Sasha is a wonderful human being. The idea that anybody would hurt Sasha is dumbfounding."
Less than 24 hours after the attack, police arrested a 16-year-old Oakland High School student Tuesday afternoon on the campus.
Police said the suspect, not named because he is a juvenile, boarded the AC Transit bus near Oakland High about 5:20 p.m. Monday, saw Fleischman sleeping in a rear seat and lit the teen's skirt on fire. Fleischman tried unsuccessfully to put out the flames before other passengers rushed to help and extinguished the flames.
Fleischman does not identify as male or female, but rather a "nonbinary" gender. When they aren't referring to Fleischman by name, friends refer to the Oakland resident as "they," "them" or "it," said Irwin.
On the day of the attack, Fleischman was wearing a skirt, as usual while riding the bus, according to family members. Fleischman's parents said their child has not had an incident before on the bus, but the attack has left some friends fearing the attacked was provoked because of the outfit.
"Wearing a skirt when you look masculine can get negative attention," said Irwin. "I don't think that the suspect had a plan, but I think it had some factor to it."
Police investigators are still sorting out whether the fact that the victim was wearing a skirt was the reason the fire was set. Charges are not expected to be filed until Thursday. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and mayhem and could face other charges. He was identified through surveillance video on the bus, according to police.
Tiffany Woods, transgender programs manager at Tri-City Health Center in Fremont and the liaison for the transgender community with the Oakland Police Department, said transgender and gender nonconforming individuals routinely experience acts of violence against them for simply expressing their gender identity and expression.
"Many never get reported," Woods said. "The recent horrific acts of violence in Oakland against a young gender nonconforming individual while riding a public bus as well as the murder of (transgender woman) Brandy Martell in 2012 are everyday reminders of how deadly and pervasive anti-transgender bias is."
There are many young people who don't feel comfortable identifying as a male or a female, Woods said.
"By putting themselves out there, they are trying to make people think about that there are more options than just male or female," said Woods. "As more and more kids are coming out, you are going to see this gender nonconforming movement grow."
Fleischman's parents described their child as a straight-A student who is applying to universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The younger Fleischman has a fascination with public transportation, volunteering at Market Street Railway in San Francisco, the parents said.
Meanwhile, police would like to interview passengers on the bus who left before police arrived, particularly two men who helped extinguish the burning clothing. Lead investigator Anwawn Jones can be contacted at 510-238-3326.
"We are asking the good Samaritans to contact the Oakland Police Department, and we also want to recognize their heroic efforts," said Oakland Police spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson.
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