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A Meditation on the Cross
Posted by Paul Smith
Just thinking on this cold and cloudy morning about what it means to surrender myself to the cross.
Thinking that for more than 300 years the disciples of Christ owned nothing but their surrender to the cross. They had no power. They were sometimes persecuted, sometimes abused, sometimes even murdered. They lived cautiously, but not fearfully. They displayed courage, not machismo. Stripped of all symbols of political and religious authority, they demonstrated the only power they had – the power of self-surrender and love for neighbor. They had no weapons other than the word of God and the shield of their faith.
Thinking that those Christians, the maltreated and abused and dispossessed, those Christians who had no power and no defense and nothing to rely upon physically – those disciples turned the world upside down. They converted thousands, if not millions, in those 300 + years by the simple strength of their unwillingness to surrender to the prince of this world. Those converts sometimes had to pay with their livelihoods, sometimes with their lives. They watched their families turn against them, their employers dismiss them, their nation label them as traitors.
Thinking of the amazing stories they could tell of courage and faithfulness and of the victories they shared in their Lord. They celebrated the death of their leaders and their followers as a birth into the eternal kingdom. Life here was precious, to be sure, but their home was yet to come. They did not live by the mantra of law and allegiance to nation, they lived by grace and the all consuming confession that Jesus is Lord.
Then came the conversion that has almost destroyed the church. The emperor Constantine saw a sign and "converted" to Jesus. Constantine thought Jesus gave him a victory, and in return Constantine gave Jesus a sword. For 300 years the church had survived, and even thrived without one. When your hands are nailed to a cross you have nothing with which to grip a sword.
But the church learned to wield the sword with brutal efficiency. Nations were conquered by the use of the sword in the name of the one who refused to allow his followers to pick one up. Those who refused to surrender to the Prince of Peace were butchered by the armies of a warrior god. Those who left the fold were not lovingly confronted and gently restored, but they were executed in a legitimate use of the "sword" of the secular law. Nation and church became indistinguishable. Wars were fought between followers of the cross and followers of the cross. Rivers, oceans of blood were shed in the name of Christian obedience.
Thinking, and wondering about the meaning of surrender to the cross today. Priests and prophets of the crucified one are beating the war drums once again. A call to arms has been sounded. "We are to arm ourselves" is the cry on the battle field. "We have a duty to protect ourselves" is the refrain. "We are protected by a Divine ordinance, enshrined in the Constitution!"
It may just be me, but I cannot help but wonder – how did those early disciples of Christ accomplish so much without their guns? How did they evangelize so effectively without having the protection of multiple firearms and a piece of paper? How, for three long centuries, was God able to protect this powerless and mistreated group of disciples without assault weapons and multiple cartridge magazines?
I'm thinking, as I read so many priests and prophets and preachers beat the war drums for the defense of a weapon designed to take a human life, where did the cross go? Has it been chopped down and the wood used for gun stocks? Have the nails that held my savior suspended on that tree been melted down for gun barrels?
I'm just thinking on this cold and cloudy day about surrender to the cross. About what it means to say "Jesus is Lord." I'm wondering how disciples of Jesus can argue for the taking up of arms when Jesus so clearly told Pilate that his followers would not fight. I'm wondering how modern disciples can argue that we need our guns when for over 300 years the disciples had neither gun nor sword and managed to overcome every obstacle to take the gospel to the entire world.
Did they not love their families? Were they ignorant of the command to "turn the other cheek?" Had they not heard of Jesus' teaching that those who live by the cause of violence will eventually die by that very same violence?
Or, was their success a direct result in their faith in God? Did they willingly lay down every form of human power and coercion for the exact reason that they did understand the Sermon on the Mount?
I must admit I'm confused. The ones who should be the closest to the cross are the ones who seem the most committed to the cold steel and wood of a modern firearm.
I'll say it again. If you are nailed to a cross you cannot hold a gun. If your hand is wrapped around an instrument of death you cannot grasp the hand that was pierced with an instrument of death.
The only implements Jesus used on the last night that he was alive on this earth were a wash basin and a towel.
I think there is a lesson in there, somewhere.
Maybe I just think too much.
About Paul SmithPaul was born in Santa Fe, NM. He graduated from high school in Albuquerque, NM, and has lived and worked in NM, TX, OK, and CO. He is married to Susan and father to Kylee. Paul has a BS degree in Youth Ministry, a MS degree in Biblical and Related Studies and an M.Div. degree, all from ACU. In June 2015 he received the D.Min. degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. Paul has served as a youth minister, preaching minister, hospice chaplain, and as a flight instructor and professional pilot for a freight company.
Posted on January 14, 2013, in Apologetics, Christ and Culture, Death and Dying, Pacifism and tagged Christ, Constantine, Crucifixion, discipleship, God, Kingdom of God, Sermon on the Mount, Spirituality. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
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Marshes do take up a lot of nutrients. The question is what happens after they take up those nutrients."
The cracks kept getting longer and bigger, and deeper and wider, and there were more clumps."make as many roots and rhizomes. Since they were in this soup of nitrogen they put all their energy into aboveground biomass, such as big tall green leaves.
One of the things that salt marshes do for humans is they act as physical buffers against coastal storms."Salt marshes don't do much about surge, because that's driven by really large, long wave forcings. They do slow the water down somewhat and dampen it a little bit. But what they're most effective at is protecting from wave damage, because they dissipate the energy of the waves. So the water might slowly rise, but if you're dissipating the energy of the waves, that's what marshes are more effective at.
Marshes are perfectly capable of rebuilding themselves if given the chance. And I think that they will do that."problem, that's a good thing.

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The brace expansion also allows you to count backward:
for i in {15..1}; do echo $i; done
You can also use this construct to create new file or new directory:
mkdir dir{1..3} # Same as mkdir dir1 dir2 dir3
This command will grep the entire directory looking for any files containing the list of files. This is useful for cleaning out your project of old static files that are no longer in use. Also ignores .svn directories for accurate counts. Replace 'static/images/' with the directory containing the files you want to search for.
I think it would be wise if anyone voting down left a comment indicating the reason for that action. Don't keep it to yourself. Thanks.
The output of "echo $PATH" is hard to read, this is much easier. The parentheses ensure that the change to the input field separator (IFS) only happens the the sub shell and not affecting the current shell.
I am new to linux, and I was trying to figure out why I could not sudo with my username in Fedora 10. This command, when run as root, will add a line to the sudoers file allowing the loginname supplied to sudo. The above line will require a password when you sudo, if you wish to sudo without password, use:
echo 'loginname ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' >> /etc/sudoers
instead. you have to run this command as su, and this is just an easier way of using visudo, just adds it right from the terminal.
Issues a scan command on the given scsi host adapter (ex. a fibre channel adapter, in the example above on host0). Output can be watched in the messages log or in "dmesg"
Thanks to OpenSSL, you can quickly and easily generate MD5 hashes for your passwords.
Alternative (thanks to linuxrawkstar and atoponce):
echo -n 'text to be encrypted' | md5sum -
Note that the above method does not utlise OpenSSL.
This will send a test print job to a networked printer.
This command is a bit Linux specific, as --stdin doesn't exist for passwd on many Unix machines. Further, useradd is high level in most distributions and Unix derivatives except for the Debian family of distros, where adduser would be more appropriate. The last bit, with chage, will force the user to change their password on new login.
command to turn off your computer when you go home and can not wait
Replace (as opposed to insert) hex opcodes, data, breakpoints, etc. without opening a hex editor.
HEXBYTES contains the hex you want to inject in ascii form (e.g. 31c0)
OFFSET is the hex offset (e.g. 49cf) into the binary FILE
This is quite usefull in Unix system share via NFS or AppleTalk with OSX clients that like to populate your filesystem with these pesky files
A useful way to generate the MD5 hash for a string by command line
What this does is, if I type ?ssh ? then hit the page-up key, it will complete the line to the last time in my history file that I typed ssh. Hitting page up again will go to the 2nd to last time I typed it. Incredibly handy if you ever type the same commands more than once.
credit goes to http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/03/10/make-your-bash-shell-cool-again/
echo "\"\e[6~\": history-search-forward" >> ~/.inputrc
This was useful to generate random passwords to some webpage users, using the sample code, inside a bash script
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Replace $i with any YouTube ID you want and this will scrape the site for the _real_ URL to the full quality .FLV file on Youtube's server and will then will hand that over to mplayer (or vlc or whatever you want) to be streamed.
In some browsers you can replace $i with just a % or put this in a shell script so all YouTube IDs can be handed directly off to your media player of choice for true streaming without the need for Flash or a downloader like clive. (I do however fully recommend clive if you wish to archive videos instead of streaming them)
If any interest is shown I would be more than happy to provide similar commands for other sites. Most streaming flash players use similar logic to YouTube.
Edit: 05/03/2011 -
Updated line to work with current YouTube. It could be a lot prettier but I will probably follow up with another update when I figure out how to get rid of that pesky Grep. Sed should take that syntax... but it doesn't.
Original (no longer working) command:
mplayer -fs $(echo "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?$(curl -s $youtube_url | sed -n "/watch_fullscreen/s;.*\(video_id.\+\)&title.*;\1;p")")
only for sudo-style systems.
Use this construct instead of I/O re-directors ``>'' or ``>>'' because
sudo only elevates the commands and *not* the re-directors.
***warning: remember that the `tee` command will clobber
file contents unless it is given the ``-a'' argument
Also, for extra security, the "left" command is still run unprivileged.
This is a simple example of using proper command nesting using $() over ``. There are a number of advantages of $() over backticks. First, they can be easily nested without escapes:
program1 $(program2 $(program3 $(program4)))
program1 `program2 \`program3 \`program4\`\``
Second, they're easier to read, then trying to decipher the difference between the backtick and the singlequote: `'. The only drawback $() suffers from is lack of total portability. If your script must be portable to the archaic Bourne shell, or old versions of the C-shell or Korn shell, then backticks are appropriate, otherwise, we should all get into the habit of $(). Your future script maintainers will thank you for producing cleaner code.
This will print out the third column of every line in FILE. Useful for many files in /proc or *csv data.
This example summarize size of all pdf files in /tmp directory and its subdirectories (in bytes).
Replace "/tmp" with directory path of your choice and "\*pdf" or even "-iname \*pdf" with your own pattern to match specific type of files. You can replace also parameter for du to count kilo or megabytes, but because of du rounding the sum will not be correct (especially with lot of small files and megabytes counting).
In some cases you could probably use sth like this:
du -cb `find /tmp -type f -iname \*pdf`|tail -n 1
But be aware that this second command CANNOT count files with spaces in their names and it will cheat you, if there are some files matching the pattern that you don't have rights to read. The first oneliner is resistant to such problems (it will not count sizes of files which you cant read but will give you correct sum of rest of them).


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Wis. lawmaker fights heroin with new bills
Bills are designed to fight increasing state heroin use
GREEN BAY, Wis. - A northeastern Wisconsin lawmaker has introduced a package of bills designed to combat heroin abuse.
Press-Gazette Media reports (http://gbpg.net/19Z48lz ) that Rep. John Nygren, a Marinette Republican, announced the bills during a news conference Friday at the Brown County Sheriff's Department. Nygren's daughter, Cassandra, has been struggling with a heroin addiction.
The proposals would require people picking up prescriptions at pharmacies to show identification, provide limited immunity for people who call 911 to report an overdose, make it easier to drop off narcotics at community drug disposal programs and allow more first responders and paramedics to administer Narcan, a drug that counters the effects of a heroin overdose.
Nygren says none of the bills are "silver bullets."
The state Justice Department launched a heroin awareness campaign last week.
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- Police looking for driver who fled after causing crash
- MPD: 9-month-old girl back safe after father refused to return her to mother
- Committee debates to keep or remove Monterrey Dam
- 2 teenagers chased by police die in car crash in Milwaukee
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Is Mark Cuban Serious About Facebook?
I admire the guy. He's living the dream. People who say he's "lucky" or only made one smart move in his life are jealous. We should all be as "lucky" (and smart) as Cuban.
It's a long-standing admiration; however, if it never existed it would have been born -- via natural labor -- when Cuban schooled known media hack Skip Bayless earlier this year on ESPN.
It's a YouTube respite well worth taking.
Because I so often agree with Cuban, I have difficulty understanding the logic behind his recent criticism of Facebook (FB) .
Maybe you saw the Tweet from late October. Cuban lashed out at Facebook for soliciting more money from him to reach a larger audience with his Dallas Mavericks Facebook page.
With that, this week Cuban apparently decided to go in a different direction. While he will not dump Facebook completely, it sounds like he'll deemphasize it.
He probably should diversify his exposure. Keep it fluid. The NBA has a broad fan base; it makes sense to hit various forms of media, online and off.
But why reduce Facebook because they, for all intents and purposes, charge a sliding scale for ad space? Reach more people, pay more money.
If Cuban wanted to run a Mavs promo during the Super Bowl it would likely cost more for 30 seconds than it would to buy a full load of ads on 60 Minutes . In fact, it probably costs less to be on the lengthy Super Bowl pregame show than it does to get placed at halftime or some other prime slot.
Pretty simple concept to grasp.
It should worry investors -- and Cuban is one of the world's best -- if Facebook charged one price across the board.
If you want to get into the 2 million-user territory, you should have to pay a grand or two more.
If Facebook geeks its algorithm to prevent spam or puts the most engaging ads to the top, good for Facebook!
That's the direction television should head in. And, from this standpoint, Facebook isn't all that different than TV.
Facebook has made everything around it more social. Along with Twitter, Pandora (P) and other new/social media leaders, we're not only becoming more social, our content ends up more personalized.
In fact, we need a more, not less, dynamic model. One that measures and rewards impact on both sides of the equation.
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Marry this engagement with the platform's reach to ensure advertisers pay what's right; Facebook charges a reasonable and relatively objective rate; and creative teams and advertisers work harder to produce advertisements that look more like compelling content than intrusions or spam.


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Beneath the talented surface covering the gifted world of sports is an established crowd of lacking ballplayers. It's not all about stats, as these athletes made a living from failing.
We've completed construction on our own Hall of Shame, and it's about time to unveil the finished product. We're focused on those who earned a shot and scripted the proper way to fail, be it joyously, exuberantly or just plain awfully.
But in the end, these dudes continue to make more headlines than most of their talented peers.
Time to review those who made the cut as the 100 worst athletes in sports history.
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ICYMI: A Bi-Partisan Jobs Bill to Protect U.S. Consumers & Communities. Really.
WASHINGTON, DC – In the rush before the holidays, you may have missed a rarity these days in Washington – the introduction of an actual, honest-to-God, bi-partisan bill focused on U.S. jobs.
- The "U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act:" Co-sponsored by Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and Rep. Dave McKinley (R-WV), this bi-partisan legislation introduced in December responds directly to a disturbing recent trend. Call centers are a major economic force in the United States, representing about three percent of the entire U.S. workforce. Yet in recent years, many of the call center jobs that used to provide employment opportunities in the U.S. have been shipped overseas. In fact, according to data from the American Teleservices Association and 2010 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the number of US customer service/contact center jobs has declined in the last four years by 500,000. This trend has not only harmed job seekers, but also has placed consumers' personal information at risk to security breaches, as a report from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) demonstrates.
Recognizing the damages of the off-shoring trend to both U.S. consumers and communities, the Bishop-McKinley bill, which also is cosponsored by Michael Michaud (D-ME), Gene Green (D-TX) and Michael Grimm (R-NY), would add accountability and transparency to the off-shoring process and encourage call center jobs to stay in the U.S., while preventing corporations from using taxpayer dollars to pad their bottom line prior to moving overseas. Their legislation would not prohibit off-shoring, but would make corporations that send U.S. call center jobs off-shore ineligible for any direct or indirect federal loans or grants for five years; require that a list of companies that off-shore their call center work be catalogued by the U.S. Department of Labor and made available to the public; require foreign based call center employees to disclose their location to U.S. consumers; and transfer that call to a U.S.-based call center if requested by the caller.
- Why This Bi-Partisan Bill is Needed: As the referenced report from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) demonstrates, the off-shoring of call center jobs has led to a range of negative effects. The report details specific instances of fraud directly related to employees at overseas call centers, the lack of legal safeguards to protect customers' personal information in these countries, the loss of Constitutional protection for consumers' personal data once it leaves U.S. shores, and the recent trend of "sub-outsourcing" former Indian-based call center work to even cheaper foreign labor markets, including places like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Philippines. And some of the problems identified don't seem to be getting better, judging by recent developments – for example, while India passed new data privacy laws this year, the Indian government specifically exempted outsourcing companies from having to comply with these regulations. Even worse, in the Philippines, which overtook India as the leader in off-shoring call center activity this year, there are virtually no data protection laws or notification laws when your information is compromised.
- Separate from concerns about customer data security, the call center off-shoring trend also has exacted a real toll back home, as the report makes clear. Desperate to make up for lost manufacturing jobs, many local governments committed millions in taxpayer dollars to fund incentives for companies to locate call centers in their communities in the past decade. Yet, the report notes numerous examples of companies taking these taxpayer handouts and off-shoring the call centers jobs just a few years later, leaving local taxpayers to pay the bill.
- Even if You Missed the Introduction of this Bill, Foreign Governments and Media Didn't: After the introduction of the Bishop-McKinley bill, governments and leading media outlets in places such as India and the Philippines have sounded the alarm about this legislation. For example, check out these pieces from India and these articles from the Philippines. Typical of the reaction was this quote, from a senior parliamentarian in the Philippines said, "We have to act immediately by sending a strong lobby team in the US."
Despite the alarm bells from foreign press, this legislation is a measured step towards helping foster job growth in the U.S. while addressing some of the problems outlined in the disturbing CWA report.
To Learn More:
- Link to full CWA report: http://files.cwa-union.org/national/News/Misc/20111215-offshore-callcenter.pdf
- Link to information about U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112:13:./temp/~bdaMPd:@@@L&summ2=m&
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Very active before being placed in refrigerator. pH reading above was taken shortly after being removed from the refrigerator. The pH of the bottled water I have been using is 7.6.
What is your feeding process Norma?
Thanks Norma. I was curious if you discarded half your starter and refreshed with equal amounts of flour and water, or if you start with one tablespoon of old starter and continued to double your feedings until fully active. I'm curious how the pH would compare between these two scenarios.
Norma,Have I missed a post in this thread where you have tried baking with this starter? Perhaps the results might be different, but they might also be better. I'd avoid conflating pH and smell. The proof will be in the pizza.BTW, my French starter was activated this weekend - it produces the sweetest, least acid tasting of all my starters. It's pH was ~4.8 which is pretty close to the Ischia.
...it would have been fun to smell his Ischia starter.
Norma,Whatever floats your boat. Peter
Thank you for posting your results Norma. A few months ago I had similar troubles getting my Ischia re-started. It was very sluggish for 2-3 weeks and then finally took off. I'm curious if PH has anything to do with it, and will continue to follow this thread.
This is what the sourdough dough ball looked like this afternoon. It really does not look like a dough ball anymore though. There are a few tiny bubbles on the top of the dough ball and also some small bubbles on the bottom of the dough ball. The temperature of the controlled temperature Styrofoam box can be seen. The pH of the sourdough this evening about 6:00 PM also can be seen.I am not going to market tomorrow because it is supposed to snow in our area from 3-5 inches starting around 7:00 AM tomorrow morning. I was going to use the sourdough to make a pan pizza. The size of the pan I was going to use was 10x14. I am not sure of what to try now.What do other members think I should do? Bake in the 10x14 pan in my home oven or divide the sourdough ball and bake in an 8x10 steel pan and maybe try some of the dough in my Blackstone unit if it does not snow too much.Norma
Norma,I vote for the pan pizza. Please share a picture of your decision.Mary Ann


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Legendary Auctions has former Crew player Edson Buddle's 2002 U.S. Open Cup championship in an on-line auction with a minimum bid of $500. The description accompanying it says "The 10K-gold, size-10 ring features a distinctive yellow stone and exhibits Near Mint condition. A 2009 purchase LOA is included." The bidding ends on Nov. 21.
There are six frequently asked questions on the www.firstenergystadiumproject.com website, but none of them concern who will pay for the $120 million in improvements announced this week for Cleveland Browns Stadium.
The Browns have qualified for an NFL loan for $62.5 million, but team CEO Joe Banner was asked several times at the press conference to announce the project if the city of Cleveland will be asked to finance part of the project and he doggedly refused to answer.
His reason and/or excuse?
He said he did not want to release that information to the media before he gave the official proposal to Mayor Frank Jackson and the Cleveland City Council.
Most of the changes to the stadium are cosmetic – two enormous video boards are at the heart of the project – so the taxpayers' horror at the possibility of being stuck with all or part of the costs are understandable.
It's still early, but Tribe starter Justin Masterson can become a free agent after the 2014 season and there is already speculation over what it might take for the Indians to re-sign him. Mlbtraderumors.com estimates Masterson might need a five-year deal worth between $65 million and $85 million for the Indians keep him away from free agency.
Randy Rowley, Masterson's agent, told Cleveland.com that he understands the team has other issues to deal with first.
"We're not in any hurry," Rowley said. "We have to wait and see what the market is going to be. There is going to be an increase of dollars from the national TV contracts. I have an idea it will be a lucrative year for free agents."
Two members of the Indians rotation, Ubaldo Jimenez and Scott Kazmir, are already part of that free agent market, Jimenez having turned down the Indians' $14.1 million qualifying offer..
Masterson, 28, is one of nine Indians eligible for arbitration. Eligible players can file on Jan. 14 and exchange salary numbers with their teams on Jan. 17. He avoided arbitration last season by signing a one-year deal worth $5,687,500.
If it seems like Gregg Berhalter almost magically appeared as the Crew's coach and director of soccer when he was hired from Hammarby IF in Sweden, there was more behind his hiring than an interview where he reportedly blew the team's new owner, Anthony Precourt, away.
One of those who has Precourt's ear is longtime Crew star Frankie Hejduk, the team's so called "brand ambassador." Hejduk played with Berhalter on both the Los Angeles Galaxy and the U.S. national team and they are close friends. Since the move was made, Hejduk had offered high praise of his friend's work.
Hejduk didn't make the hire, obviously, but he was a voice the team's brass heard during the process.
Jay Bell's hiring as new Reds manager Bryan Price's bench coach comes as no surprise. He told MLB.com that when Price seemed in line to become the Miami Marlins manager a year ago, he had agreed to become his bench coach. The Marlins hired Mike Redmond instead.
Bell and Price spent four years together with the Arizona Diamondbacks. When Bob Melvin was the manager in 2006, Bell was the bench coach and Price was the pitching coach.
It took a close friendship to lure Bell away from the Pirates, where he was a two-time All-Star shortstop from 1989-96.
"I'm really excited about working for Bryan. It's going to be a really good thing," Bell said. "I'll miss being in Pittsburgh, for sure; there's such a great group of men in that clubhouse I have a lot of respect for. But this opportunity was really nice."
Bengals coach Marvin Lewis was put on the spot during a conference call with the Cleveland news media this week. He was asked given Paul Brown's affiliation with both the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals, where a statue of the legendary coach should be placed.
"You're trying to get me in trouble?" a laughing Lewis said.
Lewis has been coach of the Bengals since 2002, so the Brown family has been his employer all that time.
"[Answering] politically," Lewis said, "there would be two, right?"
Given that Brown founded both franchises that would make sense, but. . .
"Put a statue up there on the lake," Lewis said. "You would have to put it outside the stadium in Cleveland, wouldn't ya? I just think (because) he started with the Cleveland Browns and (he got) football going there like he did, and at the standard and the level it was played at when he was there."
Besides, Lewis noted, the Bengals play in Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati.
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger spent part of his week addressing an NFL Network report about his unhappiness with the franchise and his possible desire for a trade during the off-season. He wasn't happy about it.
He answered questions about it both to the team's beat reporters in the Pittsburgh locker room and on a conference call with Detroit reporters. The Steelers play the Lions on Sunday.
"To me it's about this game and things like that take away from this team and what we're trying to do," Roethlisberger told reporters in Pittsburgh. "It's a non-issue with me because it's silly so it's not worth addressing, and to me the focus is on this week and the Detroit Lions."
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It is not known to what extent sea turtles communicate with one another. They make grunting noises which can be heard by other turtles, and apparently use these vocalizations to locate each other. Visual cues are probably important in identifying other members of their species, and some tactile communication undoubtedly occurs during mating. However, the bulk of communication in this species remains undescribed. (Scholastic and Inc., 1998; Scholastic and Inc., 2001)
Communication Channels: visual; tactile; acoustic
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I'm using the ym4r_gm plugin in rails 3.0.5 and ruby 1.8.7 ...Makes maps in localhost, but up on the dev server it complains about the api key.(which is fine, I've triple checked it and printed it out to the view to confirm it). I'm getting firebug script errors
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Nice interview, but the articles were more helpful. Maybe this show should include some more coding and live up to its name. Apart from that: keep up the good work!
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Located on Zoar Road, the property is home to a "brand new state of the art" sugar house. Owner Paul Lesefske completed the new sugar house recently that was dreamed up after Lesefske wanted a steamaway, a machine used in evaporation of sap for making syrup.
"It started with talk about a steamaway. In order to do that, we would have had to take the roof off," Lesefske said.
The new house replaces the former sugar house which was knocked down. In order to make room for the new building, a two-story 28-foot by 40-foot structure, the old building had to be knocked down. Knocking down the former building, Lesefske said, was "bittersweet."
"It was a bittersweet thing to rip down but I knew this (new building) would be so much better," Lesefske said.
The new sugar house took 10 months to construct and Lesefske and his brother, Dana worked together. Construction started after Maple Weekend last March. Dana works in construction and it was natural for him to do the work, Lesefske said.
"My brother, Dana was the mastermind," he said. "He enjoyed (building)."
The new building includes a bathroom and is heated. The stair tread is made from maple wood and the beams in the ceiling are made from spruce. Also for an added touch, maple leafs are cut out of wood. On the property, Lesefske has three lots of trees used for tapping. While on a tour, demonstrations of tree tapping are available. Maple Glen Sugar house taps all their trees themselves. The sap is brought in to a tank and put through a reverse osmosis machine. The purpose of this machine is to draw the water out before boiling the sap. Maple Glen Sugar House makes maple syrup, candy and cream. They sell all their products, plus others including pancake mix, jelly and more, on location.
Maple Glen Sugar House will be open during the 18th annual Maple Weekend during the weekends of March 16-17 and 23-24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. when tours and free samples will be given. Food will be available for purchase, including fry cakes and hot dogs boiled in sap, plus more. Horse drawn wagon rides will be available for $2. The first 200 children will receive a free Maple Weekend coloring book. Lesefske also offers tours during maple season.
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Microsoft Live Labs has turned these research ideas into a streaming multi-resolution Web-based service called Photosynth.
You can also read about newer research we have been doing in this area at the University of Washington Photo Tourism project page.
Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, and Richard Szeliski, Photo Tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D," ACM Transactions on Graphics, 25(3), August 2006. (Video (WMV), Video (MOV))
We have developed a system for interactively browsing and exploring large unstructured collections of photographs of a scene using a novel 3D interface. Our system consists of an image-based modeling front end, which automatically computes the viewpoint of each photograph as well as a sparse 3D model of the scene and image to model correspondences. Our photo navigation tool uses image-based rendering techniques to smoothly transition between photographs, while also enabling full 3D navigation and exploration of the set of images and world geometry, along with auxiliary information such as overhead maps. Our system also makes it easy to construct photo tours of scenic or historic locations, as well as to annotate image details, which are automatically transferred to other relevant images in the collection. We demonstrate our system on several large personal photo collections as well as images gathered from photo sharing Web sites on the Internet.
Photos are automatically placed inside a sketchy 3D model of the scene;
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Baby swimming specialists Water Babies and the Institute of Swimming (IoS) have signed a Skills Pledge to provide premium education and training in baby and pre-school swimming, developing the only ASA externally accredited programme for under-four-year olds.
The partnership will provide a seamless swimmer pathway, linking the Water Babies baby and toddler programmes into the British Gas ASA Learn to Swim framework. This will ensure quality assured swimming instruction from birth, with a clear development pathway.
A key concern was that when children 'graduate' from Water Babies at the age of four, they need to continue swimming and developing their skills.
As part of the Pledge, all new and existing Water Babies tutors will be trained in line with the ASA structure via the IoS. These tutors will then be qualified to deliver the Water Babies Adult & Child accredited Diploma to all Water Babies instructors nationwide.
Steve Franks, Managing Director at Water Babies said: "More than 24,000 babies learn to swim with us each week and we wanted to ensure that we are offering the best possible service with a clear development structure. Partnering with the ASA is further endorsement of our world-class teaching and our commitment to providing the highest quality swimming lessons.
"A key concern for us was that, at the age of four, when children 'graduate' from Water Babies, they need to continue swimming and developing their skills. This partnership will give the young swimmers the benefit of clear pathways into other swimming disciplines and the option of linking with the ASA accredited partners when the time is right."
IoS is one of the largest training providers in the sport and active leisure industry. Emma Phipps, Assistant Head of Operations at the IoS, said: "Through our partnership, Water Babies instructors will benefit from being supported in their complete career development pathway by the IoS.
"The Water Babies Adult & Child Diploma will allow instructors to then hone their skills by attending a range of our continual professional development seminars."
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the turn calculation with the update of economic and demographic data, and the processing of battles. This part should run continuously in the background.
I've used Rails for the "UI" part, where players will issue order and read reports, but I'm not too sure about how to handle the other part.
I was thinking about using ruby+active record + C API(for the heaviest calculations). Can I use rails directly to handle this? And wouldn't the use of the C API make finding a host very hard?


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Johnny Griffin: April 24, 1928 - July 25, 2008
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WBGO bids farewell to Johnny Griffin, a master jazz musician. Many jazz people referred to Griffin as "The Little Giant," no doubt because of his dimunitive stature (he was a shade below 5 and a half feet tall). The consensus, however, was that Griffin's true stature loomed large in the music. Johnny Griffin could easily fall under the category of "hard bop saxophonist," but to do so would be an injustice. When you listen to the raw muscular sound of early Johnny Griffin records, you can hear a combination of saxophone legend Coleman Hawkins, the rough-and-tumble rhythm and blues of Griffin's Chicago hometown, and some definitive gospel wails. It was a big, combustible sound. One that will be missed.
If you're looking for good music from Griffin, you have plenty of options.
Some suggestions after the jump.
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Jimmy Giuffre Dies at 86/An Update on Jim Hall
April 26, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: arts music, jazz, Jazz Community, jim hall, jimmy giuffre, Listening Post, Masters, nytimes, obituary, Video, wbgo
Jimmy Giuffre died on Thursday, a few days shy of his 87th birthday. Fans of jazz know Giuffre as the composer of the Woody Herman hit, "Four Brothers." Beyond that, Giuffre had a unique mind for music. As I listened to Sonny Rollins' "A Night at the Village Vanguard" yesterday, a record without piano or chordal instrumentation, I thought about how demanding it is to make music like that. Jimmy Giuffre was among one of the first to try, on his record Tangents in Jazz.
I've always liked "The Train and The River," another Giuffre work that people describe as folk-chamber-jazz. When you listen to this, you might suspect that some musicians today like Bill Frisell owe a lot to Jimmy Giuffre. Yes, they do. Anyway, here are two versions of Giuffre's trio playing "The Train and The River," one from the television program The Sound of Jazz:
Then, the great trio of Giuffre, trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, and guitarist Jim Hall, from the Newport Jazz Festival documentary, Jazz on a Summer's Day.
One of the Jimmy Giuffre Three members, Jim Hall, has undergone back surgery for the last couple of months. He has been rehabilitating, and is expected to be released on Tuesday. WBGO wishes the distinguished guitarist and NEA Jazz Master a speedy recovery. Check out Jim Hall's Great Live Moment while you're here.
Herbie Hancock Keeps the Spotlight
February 29, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: arts music, grammy, herbie, Jazz Alive, Masters, nytimes, ratliff, Riff
I don't really care so much about why Herbie Hancock won a Grammy. All of the bloggers from the indie rock camp should get over it, which, I'm sure, they have by now (it's just the Grammys, folks...). I'm just happy that jazz gets any attention from television. On that note, check out CBS Sunday Morning this weekend. Correspondent Rita Braver visits Herbie Hancock at home. What she discovers about Herbie is as interesting as you can imagine from someone as interesting as Herbie Hancock. Jazz people already know this. Now, folks who watch TV before church service can get an insider portrait of the recent GRAMMY Album of The Year winner. And how many of us have ever been inside Herbie's pad, anyway?
And tomorrow, The Harvard Foundation (for Intercultural and Race Relations) of Harvard University will name Herbie Hancock 2008 Artist of the Year at their annual Cultural Rhythms ceremony. Cool.


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After two weeks of media overdosing on GSA's fiasco in the desert, innocent feds — from the majority of GSA workers to folks at Interior and the Pentagon — must be praying for an incident that will take them out of the spotlight.
What would it take?
Maybe one of the GOP candidates will snap at the next debate and give one of the opposition guys a wedgie. Or maybe one of the Kardashians will do something, like get married, get pregnant or get a real job. Anything they do is news to us. You go Kim.
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Meantime, it would be nice if somebody (outside of the Tidewater media in Virginia) would check out what the Navy has done in the wake of that potentially tragic event when a fighter jet crashed, shortly after take off, into an apartment complex.
That nobody was killed is a minor miracle. Or was it?
While the incident is still under investigation, it is clear that much (maybe most) of the jet fuel on the F/A-18D Hornet fighter — which was apparently out of control and going straight up — was dumped before it crashed into the Mayfair Mews apartment complex in Virginia Beach. That action alone — either because of superb training or divine intervention — drastically reduced the scale of the fire that followed when the aircraft slammed into the buildings.
Both crewmen managed to bail out — at the minimum height safety level — and both survived. So did everyone in the apartment complex. The pilot who was rescued by local residents apologized profusely for hitting their building. Most residents of the pro-military town seem to have adopted an accidents-happen attitude and are grateful the flyers and people on the ground survived it.
Although the government and the military have a reputation for red tape, the Navy moved immediately to provide financial aid to people impacted by the crash. It has set up shop close to the complex where impacted individuals can be given up to $2,300 to help pay immediate costs, for lodging, food, clothes, etc.
A friend said the action reminded him of the time years ago when a major hurricane slammed into the Homestead, Fla., area. People were without power — and everything that goes with it — for weeks. The military mobilized. The U.S. Postal Service delivered the goods, and drove imported Social Security Administration workers around to see that elderly people, whose mail boxes were gone and whose banks were closed, got their checks. A representative of FEEA (the Federal Employees Education and Assistance fund) flew to the area, with a suitcase full of cash and made immediate on-the-spot loans and grants to needy feds.
How many old or accident-stricken people have been saved this year by alert letter carriers, who noticed that someone (who lives for their mail) isn't picking it up? Probably a couple of dozen, and its only April. But we don't hear about these things, unless it happens to a neighbor, relative or us.
When the government — or any part of it — screws up, we have a right to know, and holler. But it would be nice once in awhile if some good news got people's attention, if only for a moment. I'm just saying …
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Twenty one years ago, Colorado voters approved a state constitutional amendment creating a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights that limits the annual growth in state and local revenues to the total of the inflation rate and the percentage change in the state's population.
For example, if inflation is 3 percent and the state's population increases by 1 percent, state spending can go up by 4 percent. A budget proposing further increases in spending must be approved by a public referendum vote. Taxpayers are also entitled to a refund if tax collections increase faster than the rate of inflation or population growth.
Critics, including dozens of current and former Colorado legislators, say the inability to spend taxpayers' money has hurt the services Colorado can provide. They say education has suffered, making it difficult to train qualified workers. Lawmakers also say the spending restrictions have hurt infrastructure repair, such as road construction, and forced the state to eliminate hundreds of programs statewide. A second constitutional amendment approved by voters limits amendments to one topic. Since the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights deals with several dozen areas, it would take several amendments to reverse it.
Rather than fight the legislative battle, lawmakers have turned to the courts. They have filed a lawsuit, Kerr v. Hickenlooper, arguing the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights violates the Guarantee Clause of the U.S. Constitution in Article 4, Section 4, which requires the federal government to "guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government." Lawmakers argue Colorado must have the power to tax and spend, without restriction, or else it isn't a republic.
The case is awaiting argument in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. A ruling in favor of the Colorado lawmakers would be a departure from a long-held precedent set in the 1912 Supreme Court case Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Co. v. Oregon, in which the court refused to rule whether state legislation by initiative and referendum was inconsistent with republicanism.
The Supreme Court set a solid precedent 101 years ago that should be followed today by the federal court in Denver. While Colorado is the only state with such a restrictive stance Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, 49 states have measures such as New York's 2 percent tax cap either debt, taxes, and spending. The fact that such laws exist is a statement from the governed that they need protection from the taxing power of the government. Removing such protection from taxpayers should be legislated, not removed by the courts.


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Day 3 of Green Global Travel's Amazon ecotourism adventure uncovered some rare treats led by Toucan Sam himself. Co-Founded by Bret Love & Mary Gabbett, Green Global Travel is a website devoted to ecotourism, nature/wildlife conservation & sustainable living.
Every evening we were on International Expeditions' Amazon River Cruise [15], our ship, The Aquamarina [16], would fire up the engines and move a few hours down the mighty river. Eventually she'd stop and we'd tie off right by the riverbank, which was great if you wanted to hear a majestic chorus of tree frogs, crickets and other assorted critters. The problem was that said frogs and crickets did not STAY on the riverbank, and let's just say the lights by our rooms drew more than their fair share of insects. Still, we were very happy to see these guys by our window the next morning. The frog looks well-fed, does he not?
Back in December (before we knew we'd be traveling with IE), we wrote about our dream of going to the Amazon Rainforest and specifically mentioned how much we wanted to see the Pink Amazon River Dolphin [17]. So, despite being sick as a dog the night before, there was not a snowball's chance in Hades I was going to miss the show that they and the Grey River Dolphins were putting on. Unfortunately, while the greys loved to frolic and play, flipping and splashing all akimbo, the pinks were a little more shy. Though we saw quite a few over our time in Peru, it was always very brief and only a mere glimpse. Somehow, their elusive nature only made them seem more magical.
When I was growing up, getting sweet cereal was a rare treat, and Fruit Loops were always my favorite. To this day, whenever I see a toucan in the wild I immediately think of Toucan Sam… and get hungry for Fruit Loops. This handsome red-striped toucan was pretty high up in the trees, but we were able to close the distance a bit with our 400mm zoom lens. Still, it was my perfectionist's dissatisfaction with wildlife photos like this that made me upgrade to a new 500mm zoom after we got back from the Amazon. Can't wait to try it out in Panama!
For me, the Amazon has always seemed like this amazing ecotourism adventure– something every nature lover should do before they die. So, to actually be there, sitting in a little boat on the Amazon, eating breakfast and chatting away like everything was normal… well, it still blows my mind that it actually happened. Oh, and do you see the guy in the yellow shirt? That's Charlie, the Aquamarina's bar manager, and he's grabbing some water for me. I may screw up and get heat stroke once, but I do learn from my mistakes. I must have drank at least 5-6 bottles of water that morning.
Travel tip: Hydration is important in the jungle, people!
This remarkably colorful fellow is the Northern Caiman Lizard, which is found in swamps and flooded areas throughout northern South America. They spend most of their time in or near the water, hunting snails and various shellfish or branches over water where they can make a hasty escape if needed. That's precisely where we found this guy, and I loved his skin so much I must have taken several dozen photos. I like this close-up (which was almost too close for comfort) the best.
Truth be told, I've seen many of the Amazon wildlife species in other places. What made the area around the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve so special was how frequently you'd spot animals, and how many there would be at one time. At one point this particular tree had 12 Scarlet Macaws in it, but I chose to focus tightly on this group of five that were all perched close together. For a closer view of two scarlet macaws in flight, check out our initial post on the Peruvian Amazon.
It was so weird to see the Saki Monkeys and Squirrel Monkeys side by side on day two of our Amazon River Cruise. The former looked like something freakish out of the movie Predator, while the latter may be the single most adorable primate I've ever seen. Most of them skittered about the trees in search of fruit like junkies after their next fix. But this little beauty too an interest in the sound of our clicking shutters, and stood still long enough for us to snap a few quick portraits.
We might not be quite as crazy for a three-toed sloth [18] as actress Kristen Bell, but they've always been one of my favorite creatures of the rainforest and are great fun to photograph. This one was especially cooperative: When we first spied it, it was so far up in the treetops that I couldn't get a good angle. Fortunately, he moved down the tree until he was perfectly lit by the rising sun and we snapped this shot right us he presented us with his perfect profile.
Normally today's itinerary would've included a brief hike through the Amazon Rainforest. But since it was high season, the rising waters had flooded the area, so it was difficult to find high ground on which to take a potty break. When we did find a spot, there was a Ribereños Family waiting there in small dugout canoes, hoping to trade with us. This adorable girl held up a freshly caught apple snail, but we eventually gave them some protein bars and our juice from breakfast in exchange for one of the most delicious fruits I've ever tasted.
Call me crazy here, but I'm gonna go ahead and wager that ice cream fruit is called that because it looks like vanilla ice cream. The taste, however, was more like a cross between the pulpy feel of a mango with the milky creaminess of a coconut. There was a little seed-like disc inside that kids would suck on until they'd gotten all the flavor out, and our guide called it Amazon candy. It was surprisingly sweet, and delicious!
After some great morning wildlife sightings, during our siesta the boat made its way to the Picaya-Samiria National Reserve [19] entrance, where we parked the boat for the night. The confluence in front of the entrance was an awesome hotbed of dolphin activity, and we spent quite a bit of time up on the top deck shooting video of their antics (coming soon). But soon it was time to head into the reserve in our skiffs, for our very first nighttime excursion.
We ventured deep into the tributaries of the main river, going back into areas so narrow and clogged with lilypads, it took our driver a few minutes to work his way through the vegetation. Along the way we got to see wildlife both big (squirrel monkeys, the distinctively unicorn-like bird aptly called the Horned Screamer) and small (tree frogs and tarantulas), but my favorite was this brilliant red dragonfly, who posed perfectly right next to the boat.
We've seen an awful lot of amazing sunsets during our travels, but few that could rival this stunning sunset on the Amazon River. The water was almost as still as glass, and the surrounding landscape made for a great silhouette against the richly-hued light. The colorful shading and the mirrored reflection were, for a moment, absolutely picture perfect, and we were grateful to get this shot just before the sun faded below the horizon.
We weren't there when the other boat's naturalist guide grabbed this baby caiman right out of the water, so I'm not sure how they spotted it in the pitch darkness of the river at night. They had huge spotlights to guide the way, but he was so small and off to the side, I don't think we would have ever noticed him. Here, our guide Johnny tells us about the caiman [20] while one of our fellow passengers feels his can. We were glad to see him, but also glad when they released him back into the water, so that he (and we) could get a restful night's sleep after a long day…
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[14] http://www.ietravel.com/central-south-america
[15] http://www.ietravel.com/central-south-america/amazon-river-cruises
[16] http://www.ietravel.com/central-south-america/amazon-river-cruises/aquamarina-ship-information
[17] http://www.ietravel.com/blog/amazon-river/pink-river-dolphins
[18] http://www.ietravel.com/blog/panama/three-toed-sloth
[19] http://www.ietravel.com/blog/amazon-river/see-many-species-of-primate-in-pacaya-samiria-reserve
[20] http://www.ietravel.com/blog/amazon-river/black-caiman


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Willliam Crutchfield worked with Kenneth Tyler at both Gemini GEL and Tyler Graphics to create a large body of prints, as well as a series of cast bronze multiples. His favoured mediums—watercolour and drawing—translate well into print form. Crutchfield completed several print series at Gemini in the 1960s informed by the natural world and transportation technology..
In making his bronze multiple series, Crutchfield created sculptural forms out of a series of numbers and the word 'FLY'. Crutchfield and his wife, Barbara, are also responsible for a significant amount of the candid photography taken at the Tyler studios. Much of this work is held in the National Gallery's Kenneth Tyler Archive Collection, and can be viewed in the photo archive section of this website.
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