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The 2013 CompR 12-Inch Subwoofer Enclosure comes loaded, carpeted and ready to ride.
Covered in stylish black and grey carpeting and built with thick MDF, these sturdy enclosures take some serious power. The enclosure comes with a single 2-Ohm terminal to make your sub amp deliver some serious juice!
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Rooms On The Beach Ocho Rios, Ocho Rios
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Located on the beach in Ocho Rios on Jamaica's north coast, just five minutes from the worlds famous Dunns River Falls and within walking distance of the best shopping and night life in Ocho Rios,
The hotel features an outdoor pool set in tropical gardens on the beachfront. The pool bar serves a range of refreshing drinks throughout the day. Guests can enjoy an array of off site activities such as golf, deep-sea fishing and plenty of watersports.
Rooms are beautifully furnished and offer a range of amenities including air conditioning, satellite TV, coffee maker, hairdryer, safe and internet access (surcharge applies).
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31 January 2016
Good for cost
GB, Orlando
Hotel is centrally located in downtown Ocho Rios. Beach and views are great: food was good and priced fairly. Staff is friendly and courteous. Guest Rooms can use some updating.
The best thing about my stay was...Location was ideal.
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It was sad that my first night at the Room on the Beach was not to be due to overbooking to accommodate the Canadians
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|Dustin Hoffman has joined the cast of Stephen Frears ' untitled Lance Armstrong biopic. Sources said Friday, that Hoffman will join when the production moves to the U.S. for the final stages of the shoot. The film marks the second collaboration between Hoffman and Frears after 1992's The Accidental Hero.Lee Pace (The Hobbit) has also joined the cast. Other actors on the film include Ben Foster, who portrays Armstrong, Chris O'Dowd, who portrays the journalist who helped uncover the doping scandal that hit the cycling pro after multiple Tour de France wins, Guillaume Canet and Jesse Plemons.The film is currently shooting on location in Europe. It is backed by Studiocanal U.K.
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New paper on coal trains in the Columbia River Gorge.
Its been awhile since I sent out an update on this project, but we've been busy working on the analysis.
As you probably know, we have done three sets of measurements, one in Seattle (2013), one in the Columbia River Gorge (2014) and one in Bellingham (2015).
I am happy to let you know that a new peer reviewed paper on Coal and freight trains in the Columbia River Gorge is being released today. These are from our measurements done there in the summer of 2014. Some of the key findings from this work are:
Open coal train releases nearly twice as much respirable particulate matter (PM2.5) compared to a freight train in the Columbia River Gorge. This additional PM appears to be due to airborne coal dust. In addition, we found that 5.4 percent of all coal trains were "super-dusters," generating visible dust plumes, captured by video camera, and having the highest concentrations of respirable particulate matter.
The paper and supplemental video files are now available on my website:
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Updated: IBM Gains On Upbeat Q2; Full Year Guidance A Penny Short
International Business Machines (IBM) is falling slightly after reporting better-than-expected second-quarter earnings.
IBM said it earned $2.95 a share on revenue of $20.24 billion. Analysts were expecting the company to earn$2.89 per share on revenue of 20.06 billion.
For the full year, IBM maintained its guidance of $13.50 a share, a penny shy of analysts' expectations.
IBM said cloud revenues climbed 30% in the quarter, and the annual run rate for Cloud as a Service increased to $6.7 billion, up from $4.5 billion a year ago.
In April, IBM shares fell despite a better-than-expected first quarter, as guidance disappointed.
Last week Barclays upped its IBM target while still being cautious on the name, while Morgan Stanley said a beat was more likely than a miss.
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Today we are talking about one interesting open source project called NopCommerce review , If you are in development field then may be you heard about it , I must say it is a fantastic e-commerce product and the good thing is that nop-commerce is a open source . it will cover all the important feature that every e-commerce site must have . I am just try to explain what is it and what are the features of it.
One thing that i liked most is their consistency , they are continuously working on their product and try to improve nopcommerce performance in every release , the support is just excellent.
nopCommerce is easy to use for new online businesses, yet powerful enough for the most demanding eCommerce expert. It's a secure, scalable and extendable eCommerce platform and fully customization shopping cart
NopCommerce Review & Features:
Mobile commerce
Yes it is true, NopCommerce is available with responsive design , that feature make it something different . if you want to start your e-commerce website then that is a first must have feature for your website .
Another interesting feature is multi store , The multi-store feature enables you to run more than one store by simply configuration . All the stores are managed by administrator so it is quite simple for administrator that handle multiple store from single panel.
Multi-vendor and drop shipping support enables you to sell online without having to stock inventory or ship orders. When drop shipping is enabled, each product is assigned to a particular vendor whose details (including email address) are stored.
When an order is placed an email is sent to the vendor of each product in the order. The email includes the products, quantities, etc. The vendor then ships the item to the customer on behalf of the merchant, who typically pays each of their vendors at the end of the month.
General features
- Mobile device support, responsive design
- Multi-store support
- Unlimited number of products
- Supports categories and manufacturers
- Anonymous checkout
- One-page Checkout
- Gift Cards (Virtual and Physical)
- Recurring Products
- Multilingual and multicurrency support
- Real-time currency exchange rates (ECB)
- RMA (return management)
- Live chat integration
- SMS notifications
- Mini shopping cart
- RTL (right-to-left) support
- Import products to Facebook
- Supports related products
- Marketing manager (Email campaigns)
- Customer groups can be marked as free shipping
- Supports discounts
- Supports coupons
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- "Store is closed" feature
- Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation
- CMS Topics
- Google XML site map
- Forums supported
- Google Product Search, PriceGrabber / Yahoo Shopping, become.com product feeds
- Polls supported
- Store blog supported
- Search Engine Friendly URL's
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- Payment method restrictions per country
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- Apply tax by country
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- FedEx Shipping features
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- OpenID, Facebook and Twitter authentication
- EU cookie law support
- Wish list
- Customer has an address book
- "Email a friend" feature
- Automatic registration (no approving)
Store Demo:
Browse our shopping cart demo store to get a feel for nopCommerce shopping cart.
Defaults for admin panel
Admin E-mail: [email protected]
Admin password: admin
User Side Demo : http://demo.nopcommerce.com/
Administrator Demo : http://admin-demo.nopcommerce.com/
System Requirements
- Supported operation systems:
- Windows 8
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- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2012
- Supported web servers:
- Internet Information Service (IIS) 7.0 or above
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 or above
- Supported databases:
- MS SQL Server 2008 or above
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- Supported browsers:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above
- Google Chrome 1.x
- Apple Safari 2.x
- MS Visual Studio 2012 or above (with MVC 5.0 installed). Required for developers who want to edit source code
Download NopCommerce
You can download the nopCommerce (free) from the below link .
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If you need any help then just leave your comment i will try to help you or you can get the nopcommerce documentation from the below link .
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The Art & Science of Fostering a Customer-Centric Culture
by MIA MULRENNEN
by MIA MULRENNEN
Dr. Mia Mulrennan has her doctorate in applied psychology and is known as a Hospitality & Travel Experience thought leader, Organizational Talent and Service Strategy Expert, and Georgetown University Professor. Has worked in top hospitality companies Marriott Corporation and The Saint Paul Hotel and also for large leadership consulting firms PDI/Korn Ferry and Right Management as an organizational psychologist and senior consultant. President and CEO of Rave-Worthy, a consulting and products firm dedicated to making their clients rave-worthy by transforming the art of service & hospitality through the science of psychology. Creator and researcher of The Five Factors Survey – a screening survey to find and develop high-touch, customer-oriented talent and author of the book: Passed Over and Pissed Off: The Overlooked Leadership Talents of Generation X.
Speaker: Dr. Mulrennan is an organizational psychologist who advises clients in effectively applying tenets of psychology to achieve positive business results, in areas of talent management, organizational development, and service branding. She specializes in working with companies and high touch customer oriented industries, such as travel, hospitality, retail, and consumer products. Dr. Mulrennan is currently writing a book titled 'Becoming Rave-Worthy: Figuring Out What Motivates Your Customers, Clients, Boss, and Employees'. Please welcome to Elevate 2015, Mia Mulrennan.
Mia Mulrennan: Well hello everyone. And welcome. Today, we're gonna talk about the art and science of fostering a customer-centric culture in your organization. And we're gonna be very focused on the talent perspective, of course, as well as the strategy perspective. I'm Dr. Mia Mulrennan, and my company is Rave-Worthy. Please visit us on our website to find out a lot more information about leadership development, talent strategy, and customer experience, and service strategy as well. I know it can be fairly challenging to be learning on a virtual platform. So I will try and keep this moving and as engaging as possible. But I wanted to just give you some pointers and tips to have you focus here on this platform. I know, like I said, it can be a challenge when you're learning virtually. So we will keep things moving, and hopefully have you focused through the entire time.
This is one of my favorite quotes regarding talent and customer service by Simon Sinek. He speaks a lot about the why and purpose of why we do what we do. A lot of you are probably familiar with his TED talks. And one of my favorite quotes of his is 'If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they will work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.'. And this really goes into values and strategy and what the organization fosters once they have great talent on board. I really recommend you looking at some of Simon Sinek's TED talks on the power and purpose of 'why'. It has so much to do with strategy and customer service and experience.
So we're here to talk about fostering customer experience strategy. And this may sound very basic but here's where you begin. You need to actually have an existing customer-centric culture and strategy in order to foster one. This is really important. So start with the basics of asking, when it comes to your organization, why people buy what you do? What is your brand? What are you known for? And what are the gaps? Because without that knowledge, you can't then reward and foster a customer-centric culture without that customer experience strategy. If you need to begin at the very beginning and don't have a current strategy, what I do when I work with organizations is tell the entire leadership team and everyone in the organization to become an architect. Be an architect and look at the strategic picture first. It's important to invest in a process for choosing the very best talent, that's number one. Invest in development for the good and best talent only.
Now this is really important and I learned this from many years of being an executive coach. As we all know, things like high-quality selection process and coaching are really important. But they're also very expensive. And if you invest in those things and give them, hand them, to your talent that's not performing, that's not utilizing those services in the best way possible. If you instead utilize those very expensive services for your good and best talent, for your top 20%, imagine how much more you can gain in the power of those different components. And also, investing in rewards for the best talent. Because what you actually notice and reward is going to speak volumes about your culture and your organization, almost more than anything else because everyone else will notice that as well. And then finally, to build a strong bridge between these two components: the strategy that you build and the talent that you have and that you select that is incoming. So be an architect.
Many aspects of customer service strategy are both a science and an art. The science part is what we look at most commonly. Does someone have technical know-how? Do they have deep knowledge? Are they good at executing and managing a process? Do they have the relevant background and experience, the training and education? And are we, as an organization, good at measuring and tracking abilities, and things that are related to the P&L, measurement of tracking finance. But the aspects of a customer oriented customer service strategy that are art, are things that are just as important. Can your leaders and talent lead and understand people and build relationships? Can they actually influence behavior, especially behavior of those who are indirect reports of theirs? Can they establish and maintain credibility once they've established it? Can they themselves foster engagement and a positive culture? And do they have the ability to be adaptable and innovative? All of these qualities are incredibly important. And they're not really the science and the technical know-how or background, but the art of the people side, and the communication side, and really, the psychology side of what we do.
So many aspects of a customer service strategy, and as we all know, talent management as well, are both a science and an art. And it's important to have both. So my company, Rave-Worthy, it has this beautiful logo. You'll see it on the bottom left-hand side. And it is not purely aesthetic, although it certainly serves its purpose in that way as well. It's a model for branding that we use in leadership development, talent management, and in customer experience, service, and strategy. There are three components to this model. And I created it when I was working in the luxury hotel industry. I started my career with Marriott Corporation and then worked for many years in boutique hotels, the Whitney Hotel and then later the St. Paul Hotel. As you can see, the format itself is very fancy, curly Q sort of look, which fits in with a luxury hotel environment certainly. But more importantly, it's functional. And in this model, we're talking about three sections. And if you think of this as a branch of a living plant, it functions in that way when it comes to strategy and brand of an organization. The first component, all the way on the left, the core, is really the essence and the soul of an organization and what you want your customer experience strategy to be. It's what feeds the entire component. It is the nutrients. The middle curly Q represents the heart or the back of the house of your organization. And it's who you are internally, your leaders, your talent; it really is who we are, who we define ourselves to be. And then finally, the largest curly Q, is the front of the house. It's how you show it. It's who you are externally. It's your brand, as the community and your guests and customers know you.
To look at this another way in the three sections, you can think of your customer service strategy, or even your talent strategy, employment strategy, this works for all of those, as a model in these three sections. And your goal is that your strategy stems from a healthy core, which you live internally and model externally. So your strategic core, all the way on the left, is your essence, your soul, what your values, what feeds your organization. Your strategic integrity is how you actually behave, how you live. And your strategic brand is what you model to the outside world. One little note here: remember that a lot of organizations will profess to have a particular set of values, and you can profess to have any and all kinds of values that you want. However, what happens on the ground is your actual behavior. And that's the integrity. That's just strategic integrity. They're two very different things.
Okay, so if we're looking at this model--we'll go through each section--think of your organization and what you want to be fostering as a customer-centric culture. What's your purpose? What's your mission? What's the vision of the organization? What values do you hopefully live by? What are your organization's strategic initiatives, the goals you want to accomplish? And have you outlined those via job analysis, job descriptions, and definitive competencies? I call competencies the fuel of a talent management engine. And the reason I call them that is because they suffice in so many different areas. If you have a set of competencies, you know what you are looking for when you're hiring people. If you have competencies, you know what to reward when you are engaging and rewarding people. With competencies, you also have a good understanding of a definition, if you will, at different levels of the organization, and what it means to be a superstar in a particular role. So that's the strategic core.
Next, in strategic integrity, how do you actually behave? So does your organization align with the entire core that you've outlined? Do you have the ability to establish trust? This is internally now. Do you communicate change, and do that honestly and in a timely manner? Are you constantly igniting the why, the purpose of your organization? Can you build relationships internally? Foster engagement and morale? Do you live by the golden rule with your talent? The golden rule, of course, being to treat others as we ourselves would like to be treated. And do you make your stated values overt? Do you walk the talk instead of making decisions covertly and in secret? That's the integrity.
And then the third section, remember, that largest external brand component is whether or not you demonstrate values in your partnership. So every business has outside partnerships. If you're a restaurant or a hotel, you have someone who does the linen and laundry. If you're a corporation, you're someone who gives you raw materials for your products. So do you demonstrate your values in your partnerships? How do you respond, react, or give in your community? What's your service delivery like? Not just customer experience, but how you actually deliver your process? Do you live by the platinum rule with customers? The platinum rule is unlike the golden rule. The golden rule says you treat others like you yourself want to be treated. The platinum rule takes you out of the equation completely and says you treat others the way they want to be treated, by their motivations, their perceptions. Period. And then finally, initiatives and goals. Do they not forsake your values? In other words, is your external brand something that truly lives out what you say at the very beginning your purpose and values actually are? So that's the strategic brand.
Now, let's talk a little bit about the talent component specifically, because we all know that hiring high-quality service staff is the first step. The people you hire are your brand. I will often tell organizations that if they think of their customer experience and customer service brand as a fragile glass globe, they're handing that globe, fragile globe, to everyone they hire who interacts with a customer, or guest, or shopper, or patient in their organization. We all know a lot of information about what bad hires can do in an organization, that hires average four times a person's salary. And certainly have untold, incalculable cost to your company's culture, staff engagement, leadership reputation, and service brand. Your product might indeed be why customers try you out initially, but your talent, your people, is the reason people do or do not come back. So it's really important to start here. As difficult as it might be, the hard part is your selection process. Choosing the best talent.
What is your selection process? Is it reliable? And does it have proven predictive validity? When I help organizations with their selection process, it's amazing to me how many components of the basics are not followed. For example, let's say you're trying to fill a role and you have four candidates for the same role. A lot of times, people will go through the interview process and the questions, and not ask all four of those candidates the very same questions. And also don't have strong interview or note taking capabilities. And then when the interview selection process is over with, they have nothing to really compare all the four candidates with that is reliable. So start with the basics. Make sure your selection process is a high quality and robust one because that's the only way you will have proven predictive validity in the end.
So let's talk about being that bridge between strategy and talent. Employee involvement and ownership in day to day interactions is something we want. And that requires hiring the right fit to begin with, understanding what motivates team members, and fostering a culture of trust and empowerment. Next, we wanna teach individuals and teams to be responsible for their actions and their results. And that really requires leading by example, communicating a clear vision and purpose, establishing clear procedures and good process. We also wanna instill a sense of accountability, through coaching and mentoring. And this requires rewarding talent, holding team members accountable when required, and declaring a commitment to and dedicating resources to coaching and mentoring. This doesn't even have to cost a lot but it's important. In all of those components we talked about, there really are a critical few priorities based on research and psychology. Like I said before, hiring the right fit to begin with, the leading by example component, and rewarding talent, and at the same time, holding team members accountable when required.
So ask yourself: do you have a high-quality process? Things like altruism, which is an important component, can be measured. Values, preferences, and motivators that correlate with job satisfaction, that information can be utilized across the board. Is there a lack of accountability? Is there honesty? And are you only doing what feels comfortable in the short term? If people leave your organization, why do they leave? That will give you information as well. And rewards that cause others to observe and learn, so that other people who have not yet been rewarded can say, "Oh, I understand. That's how it's done around here."
I've done research since 1989 on what makes people customer centric and service focused. And like I mentioned before, these things can actually be measured and be a highly valuable component of your selection, onboarding, and development process. So make absolutely sure you have a customer-centric and high customer experience strategy established that you want to foster, and that you then have a really strong process, and that a part of it is screening, selection, and rewards, and the components we've talked about in the model. I wanna thank you for joining me today. Please contact me if you have any other questions. And thanks so much for your time.


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less than 500 calories. Just saying. But hey, Maine's beach season's
almost over anyway, right?" So says Phoenix intern Andrew Steinbeiser, whose picks for good summer eating can be found below. (Not that my own recommendations have been any waist-friendlier...)
Previous installments are here and here.
"50 Things to Eat and Drink in Maine This Summer" was going to be a feature in this month's Phoenix Summer Preview issue, but it turned out that the issue was so chock-full of interesting summer stuff that it didn't fit. So we're breaking it in to more bite-sized chunks here on the blog, where installments of five dishes/drinks will be posted at a time.


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Player: Joseph Ibiloye
Hometown: Garland, Texas
Class: Redshirt senior
Height & Weight: 6-foot-3, 218 pounds
Likely position on fall depth chart: Starting linebacker
The rundown: Ibiloye has started five games in his career and played in 39. In those, he has managed to rack up 46 total tackles, the most of which came last year when he saw action in all but just one game. He also had a sack and pass breakup to go along with that production. Ibiloye really came on at the end of the season, recording half of his tackles in the final two games after managing just nine the other 10 games of the year.
Expectations for 2012: Full time starter. Impact player at the linebacker level. Along with Tom Wort, Ibiloye will be charged with the task of helping guide a very thin linebacking unit. He should up his totals considerably for his fifth and final season in a Crimson and Cream uniform. In OU's three linebacker sets, he'll be a mainstay player.
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All About Yoga
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BeschreibungYoga is a basic thing and if you've had the opportunity to visit a country where it has existed for generations: India, Japan, China, and others it's really ordinary. The practice of yoga came to the west back in 1893 when one of India's celebrated gurus, Swami Vivekananda, was welcomed at the World Fair in Chicago. He is now known for having sparked the West's interest in yoga. Literally, the word yoga comes from the Sanskrit term Yug which means: "to yoke, bind, join, or direct one's attention". At the same time, yoga can also imply concepts such as fusion, union and discipline. The sacred scriptures of Hinduism define yoga as "unitive discipline"; the kind of discipline that leads to inner and outer union, harmony and joy. In essence, yoga is most commonly understood as conscious living; of tapping into one's inner potential for happiness.
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A Choice
Written from the perspective of my unborn baby.
A Choice
I am surrounded by softness and warmth
I float around in a graceful dance
I am sedated by the humming vibrations
Oh the joy of the constant satisfying sensations
Aroused by curiosity I hear and feel a voice
Is it me?
No, but it is a part of me I'm sure
And there is that other one so deep and solid
And then another and another
One on top of the other running so fast
I call out, does anyone hear
I kick and punch in attempt to be revealed
And then, there it is, a touch, an energy so real
Overjoyed, I realize that there is more to my receiving
A force is pulling me,
I am a magnet being drawn down
Something powerful and omniscient is ahead
Fear flashes, as I let it pass me by
Instead I grab on to belief and surrender
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on Aug 24, 2011 @ 01:03 am
I just wanted to continue a bit on the topic that jskim07 posted about Disney movies.. reading all the comments got my mind wandering, and it wandered a bit far off topic to post this on that thread I think :-P
Someone brought up Pocahontas, and thats what got me started thinking lol. Pocahontas was also one of my favourite disney movies... actually, as a kid I'd daydream about living a life based more off of her Native life rather than the disney princess ones that most of my friends pretended to :-P
Anyways that's not really relevant.. but has anyone ever looked into how
much Disney actually changed her true story? Depending on what you
read, some points vary as to what the truth is, but some are consistent
no matter what your sources are.
Its actually an even sadder story than the one that disney portrays..
Pocahontas was a nickname (I think it meant playful one, or playful
child), and she was about 12/13 when the English came over. She did help
them survive through the winter, and I think it was a couple years
later the english captured her and held her prisoner. She was supposedly
wed, or supposed to wed, a member of her tribe, but after the english
converted her to christianity she married Rolfe (cant remember his first
name) had one son, and died at the age of about 20 or 21. Dont get me
wrong, I'll always love this movie, but it was really interesting to
learn about the origins of it.
Actually pretty much all of the Disney fairytales have been hardcore
altered. Google original fairy tales from the brothers Grimm, or check
out this link... None of this changes the fact that I always have and always will love Disney movies, but I find it so fascinating to learn the real stories behind them, and behind so many other childrens tales. :-)
|Yes on Aug 24, 2011 @ 10:58 am
When I was in K- grade 3 I was actually home school by mom (who is American) by an american curriculum and I did learn the real story of Pocahontas. I was disappointed too! haha But I guess Disney has no choice but to change some stories.
And you're right, fairy tales like Snow White, Cinderella and I think even Sleeping Beauty are actually pretty gruesome! At the end of Cinderella, she marries the prince but the step-sisters get their eyes plucked out by crows I think? And actually at the end of The Little Mermaid, the prince marries another girl (can't remember if it is actually the witch or not) and Ariel turns to sea foam because of her broken heart.
Beauty and the Beast is one that's a little different as well but the story is still sweet :)
|mmHmm on Aug 24, 2011 @ 11:10 am
The original storylines are quite sad, so I was glad that Disney...disney-fied the movies, to make the more child appropriate.
To be honest though, I don't usually pay attention to the storyline, as much as I look at the artwork :). Pocohontas and Lion King were my favourites.
I've read all the original storylines, and even the international versions! For example, There are several versions of Cinderella, all from different cultures and stories. I do prefer the original stories as well :).
Even with all that child-proofing, I think there are movies that are quite dark. Hunchback of Notre Dame was superbly dark, and despite it's alterations to the actual story, I think Disney did a great job through the art in showing what kind of film it really is.
They also dropped little hints here and there that mostly only Adults can pick up. That's what makes me really love Disney!
|Wow! on Aug 24, 2011 @ 01:38 pm
Wow I would have never known the true story. It is a sad one, but it is nice that Disney can adapt it in a way that is kid-friendly.
Thinking back.... I am sure we can all remeber Mulan. I think that it one of the most mature and gripping Disney movies that there is (I know that sounds a little melodramatic, but it is true!) I think if they did a re-make of Mulan with real people and made the story line a bit more mature then adults would watch that movie! The story-line and characters are great and the overall message is quite inspiring!
Ahh, the magic of Disney.....


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Bajrangi Bhaijaan
A young mute girl from Pakistan loses herself in India with no way to head back. A devoted man with a magnanimous spirit undertakes the task to get her back to her motherland and unite her with her family.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, RomanceActor: Harshaali Malthotra, Kareena Kapoor, Meher Vij, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Om Puri, Rajesh Sharma, Salman Khan, Sharat Saxena
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3 Things a Business Lawyer can do for your Business
Is your business just getting off the ground, or maybe just had its best quarter? Regardless of where you are in the entrepreneurial process, a business lawyer can improve your business's efficiency and preparedness by lending their expertise. Here are three differences a business lawyer can make for your company.
If your business if just starting out, the smallest decision can have major implications for the future of your company. A common decision entrepreneurs must make is how to file ownership of your company. Questions of partnership and liability arise during this stage, and a thorough understanding of each option is necessary for the health of your business.
If you're a little farther along, you may find yourself in need of a dispute resolution specialist. Whether you are dealing with a disgruntled employee or dissatisfied contractor, it is crucial to have a strong understanding of your rights and obligations as a business owner. According to the Austin lawyers at Slater Pugh, Ltd. LLP, when one party of a business agreement does not honor an agreement or contract, it can dramatically impact other parties to the agreement, including substantial financial losses. For this reason, hiring a business lawyer to review all aspects of your business is a smart step to take.
Is you are selling your business you face a whole host of legal hoops to jump through. Sales and mergers are heavily regulated, and the smallest regulatory misstep can be the difference between a successful sale and starting from the beginning. Hire a business lawyer to review all contracts and file the proper paperwork to ensure your sale runs smoothly. Do not allow your hard work to be for not by entering into a sale unprepared or unaware.
Common White Collar Crimes
Common White Collar Crimes
When we say crime, the first things that come to mind include violence, injuries, and deaths. But there are crimes out there that are not harmful in the physical sense, but can affect the lives of the victims regardless, like white collar crimes. White collar crimes are crimes committed by business and government authorities, mostly involving money and assets and not violence.
But what are the common types of white collar crimes? They are listed below so you can prevent yourself from committing them or fight against anyone who is committing them.
Bribery refers to the offering, giving, or receiving of goods with the intention of changing the behavior or at least influencing the action of the recipient, who is most of the time a person in charge of business, public, and legal sectors.
Goods may come in many forms, such as money, property, and and advantages such as free food, sponsorship, and promotion.
This is the criminal offense of obtaining a good through force, intimidation, threats, and other forms of pressure. The most common goods include money, property, and services. To be liable for extortion, a party does not necessarily need to receive these goods. There only needs to be proof that a victim has been receiving threats of violence in exchange for the goods.
This is the act of altering or imitating an object such as a document with the intention to deceive and change public perception. Forgery does not always focus on the object itself, but on how the object tries to prove something.
Identity Theft
If someone is using your personal information, such as your name, identification number, and credit card number, to have a financial advantage or any kind of benefit under your identity, that person may be held liable for identity theft. These cases usually put the victim in a disadvantage, like financial losses unwarranted crimes under his name.
Other white collar crimes include copyright infringement, cybercrime, embezzlement, fraud, money laundering, and ponzi scheme, all of which put you in some kind of disadvantage. But what if you are the one who has been charged by a white collar crime? It is best to get legal help, such as the Columbia criminal defense attorneys at Truslow & Truslow. Criminal offenses should be taken seriously, as they can have devastating effects on your future, such as in the aspect of finance and future employment.
Some of the Deadly Errors Committed in Emergency Rooms
The following are specific cases of diagnostic errors committed in emergency departments:
A young man who complained of severe headache and nausea was rushed to the emergency department twice, his headache much worse than earlier when he was first rushed there. In both instances, he was simply diagnosed as suffering from viral infection and so was sent home. Two days after, he died due to massive brain hemorrhage.
A 42-year-old woman was diagnosed as simply suffering from chest pains. Two hours after she was discharged from the emergency department, she suffered a heart attack.
A male teenager complained of fever and chills; however, the medical staff at the emergency department sent him home after he was given Tylenol. He died a little later due to blood infection, a condition called sepsis.
Diagnostic error is the most common type of medical mistake doctors and nurses in emergency departments are guilty of. This type of mistake includes delayed diagnosis and wrongful diagnosis, which may actually be results of misjudgment of symptoms. Diagnostic error can lead to an injury that is more serious; in certain cases, it can lead to patient death.
The National Center for Health Statistics says that about 113.9 million Americans were rushed to emergency departments in 2003 due to life-threatening situations. Ten years after this, instead of the declining, the number jumped to 133.6 million.
Emergency departments are fast-paced environments where a medical team must provide the immediate attention required by all those who are brought there. Though medical needs differ from one patient to another, treatment must be fast, but with caution and accuracy, so as to prevent patients' conditions from worsening or from not being treated at all. However, many of these fast-paced and over-crowded environments are understaffed, resulting to frequently overworked team members.
As pointed out in the website of the law firm Schuler, Halvorson, Weisser, Zoeller & Overbeck, P.A., doctors are charged with the very lives of those in their care. While patients always hope that the medical professionals who treat them will provide them with the very best in care, the unfortunate reality is that medical professionals do not always live up to the standards of the profession, exposing unsuspecting patients to carelessness and recklessness that can have life-altering, and even fatal, results. Due to this, it is important to send a strong message to the medical community that carelessness will not go unnoticed or unpunished.
Never Allow a Neophyte or a Reckless Person Operate a Jet Ski
One very important thing a jet ski owner should remember, including, by the way, someone who has rented a jet ski, is NEVER lend it to a neophyte or first time user (you should not lend it as well to an experienced but one you know to be a reckless operator).
A jet ski may be smaller than a boat and looks so easy to use, but this speedy and erratic vessel can be as powerful and fast as a much larger boat. Due to the still growing market for jet skis, manufacturers saw it fit to also increase its power; thus modern jet ski engines can now reach speeds of over 70 miles per hour with its more than 250 horsepower engine. This new engine makes jet skis faster and, thus, more thrilling . . . and also more deadly.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard's 2007 report, excessive speed accounted for nearly 15 percent of the 1002 PWC-related accidents. For the same year, the U.S. Coast Guard said that the number of registered vessels (motorboats and personal water crafts) totaled to 12,875,568 (from 8,557,857 in 1980). This means more-crowded waterways which, in turn, means increased hazards. And with the speed of modern jet skis having increased, inattentive, inexperienced and reckless operators, as well as all others who try to have fun on the water, have so much more to worry about.
A study conducted by researchers from the University of Florida showed that accidents which involved jet skis produced far worse injuries than other boating accidents. The most common injuries resulting from jet ski accidents include:
- Concussion due to serious blow to the head;
- Broken wrist, which usually occurs after collision with another watercraft or a solid object;
- Spinal cord injuries due to trauma to the back; this happens when an operator is thrown off the vessel due to collision or choppy water;
- Burns, which result from particularly bad crashes; and,
- Fractured ankle.
According to a Charleston boating accident attorney, jet skis present an excellent opportunity for fun on the water; however, serious injury can result when jet skis are operated by someone who fails to exercise good judgment or follow the law. Due to these, it would be advisable that victims of accidents immediately contact a boating accident lawyer who can help assess the situation and the extent of liability of the at-fault operator.
Slip and Fall Accident: It is not always the Victim's Fault
Slips, falls and trips are very common accidents in the US. But though these accidents can happen anywhere and to anyone, the ones most prone to these are older adults and seniors – people aged at least 55 years old.
Injury facts records from the National Safety Council (NSC) reveal that more than 8 million slip and fall accidents occur in the US every year. Some of the most common causes of these accidents include: wet, oily, or icy floors and surfaces; unreliable staircases; uneven, loose and broken floors, sidewalks, steps, and stairs; unsecured carpets and rugs; and, hidden or tangled extension cords.
When a person slips and falls, everyone else, sometimes even the victim, would think that there is on one else to blame for the accident except himself/herself. In the eyes of the law, however, blame may actually be on the owner of the property where the accident happened, instead of on the victim. This law is called premises liability.
Legally speaking, premises liability refers to a landowner's answerability for certain types of injuries suffered by anyone on his/her property where an unsafe condition exists. Besides injuries due to slips, trips or falls, premises liability also includes in its scope any type of injury that may result due to falling objects, electrocution, open excavations, broken benches or chairs, and so forth.
Property owners, especially owners of public places, like malls, supermarkets, restaurants, food courts, playgrounds, swimming pool areas, hospitals, government offices, churches, etc., have the responsibility of keeping their premises free from risks of accident at all times, lest they face legal complaints or a premises liability lawsuit from someone who gets injured while inside their premise. For the legal right to seek compensation from the property owner, however, it may be necessary for the victim to prove that the property owner was negligent in making sure that his/her property is kept from risks of accidents.
According to the website of the Abel Law Firm, proving a landowner's negligence is not always easy. Also, the premises liability law is complex, and each victim's case is affected by a variety of factors.
What you need to know about spinal cord injury
The spinal cord is a cylindrical bundle of nerves enclosed in the spine. This highway of nerve fibers connects the brain to the whole body, making it possible to perform body functions and respond to stimuli. If any part of the spinal cord or the nerves at the end of the spinal canal is damaged, spinal cord injury occurs. A spinal cord injury irreversibly compromise sensation, strength and function of the affected body parts, and so being diagnosed with it is definitely life-changing.
According to the website of The Mokaram Law Firm (view website), car-related incidents caused by negligence are always among the possible causes of an injured spinal cord. Falling badly from high places may also result in this condition. Acts of violence, such as gunshot and knife wounds, may also result in a damaged spinal cord. Diseases such as arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer and spinal cord inflammation, alcohol use, and recreational injuries also account for some spinal cord injury cases.
A person with a damaged spinal cord may suffer from either complete or incomplete loss of sensory and motor functions. Furthermore, they can also be referred to as either paraplegia (paralysis of the lower body) or quadriplegia (paralysis of the upper and lower body). Individuals with spinal cord injury may also experience some of these complications:
- Circulatory problems
- Bowel control
- Bladder control
- Partial or complete loss of skin sensation
- Spasticity (uncontrolled tightening) or flaccidity (reduced or loss of tone) of the affected muscles
- Respiratory problems (because of lack of control of abdominal and chest muscles)
- Compromised sexual health
- Depression because of loss of independence
Studies are underway to discover treatment that would aid in spinal cord regeneration or improvement. For now, healthcare professionals are focused on therapies, medications, and other treatments that would reduce nerve damage, prevent secondary complications, and empower patients to reclaim their independence.
Are You Certain It's Nursing Home Abuse?
How can you detect abuse if it's even really there in the first place? Some survivors can claim that for years, they never even thought they were in an abusive situation until they were made aware of what constitutes as abuse. Some people may even think that it's their own fault and that they deserve to be abused – as is only an all too common psychological occurrence that happens, unfortunately enough.
So take the example of nursing home abuse: how can you be certain?
With child abuse, the child can sometimes grow into adulthood with understanding of what constitutes as abuse and either strongly advocates against it or replicates the behavior. Abuse regarding adults can then be difficult to determine since most adults are already aware of their rights against being abused, right?
Little do some people know that neglect or insufficiency can actually constitute as nursing home abuse. A Tennessee personal injury lawyer would probably say that nursing homes have to abide by a certain standard care in order to fully serve as a nursing home. This means that homes must have enough capable on-call staff and facilities in order to provide the kind of individualized care that each of the admitted charges require.
Are there any rooms within the facilities that are off-limits for reasons that are questionable or unjustifiable? Are your older relatives whom you have entrusted into a home's care exhibiting behavior that may tell that something wrong is afoot such as sudden reluctance from physical contact or uncharacteristic subservience? Are they not getting the daily medication that they require, thereby making their condition worsen since they were initially admitted?
These are some ways you may at first be notified if the nursing home of someone you know is abusive but in order to be truly certain and proceed with legal action, it is advisable to contact an experienced professional first.
Calculating How Much Your Personal Injury Case is Worth
The main reason that most people would consider filing a personal injury lawsuit is to cover actual expenses they incurred because of the injuries they sustained. These are called economic damages, and usually includes medical bills, actual and projected loss of wages, cost of medical aids or devices, and life care. According to the website of Schuler, Halvorson, Weisser, Zoeller & Overbeck, P.A., the financial burden can be devastating. However, there is also another type of damages, which are less quantifiable. These are non-economic damages and usually includes emotional distress, and of course pain and suffering.
In most cases, the plaintiff is suing the liability insurance company of the defendant, directly or indirectly. This is nothing new to insurance companies, and they routinely offer a settlement to avoid the costs of court litigation. The settlement will depend on various factors that insurance adjusters include in the compensation formula to calculate the monetary worth of the claim. When they know that, then they can start negotiating.
The compensation (or damages) formula is necessary when non-economic damages are involved. Economic damages are easy to compute because these are actual costs supported by receipts, pay slips, and so on and so forth. Non-economic damages, on the other hand, are not a fixed figure. Who can say how much a person's pain is worth? Insurance must, and do, estimate non-economic damages using what they call medical special damages.
Medical special damages are the sum of all injury-related medical expenses. The insurer multiplies this sum by a factor ranging from 1.5 to 5, depending on the severity of the injury and the physical pain involved. As a rule of thumb, the more obvious the extent of the injury, the higher the multiplier. The lost income is then added to this number. The final figure constitutes the start point of the settlement negotiations.
Most insurers will start low, hoping the plaintiff will be just as anxious to settle as they are. This is the value of an experienced personal injury lawyer. Good Iowa car accident attorneys know how insurers estimate their liability, and how to compel them to use a higher multiplier. The plaintiff is much more likely to get a better settlement if they get the right lawyer to go to bat for them.
The Importance of Court Reporting
Court reporting in a legal case is a lot like the function of flour or eggs in a cake. It is not the star of the show, but without it, the whole thing will fall flat. It would be overly dramatic to say that court reporters are unsung heroes, but according to the Stratos Legal website, the success of a legal firm depends on the dependability of the court reporting service it has.
Court reporters serve an important function in legal documentation: they make it official. The active function of court reporters is to transcribe the spoken word into writing, but more importantly, they can certify that it is true and correct. Not all transcribers can do that. Court reporters undergo specialized training and pass certification exams to practice in a particular state.
Aside from doing transcriptions of court and administrative proceedings, court reporters are also responsible for taking down depositions. A deposition is the testimony of a witness taken outside the courtroom. A court reporter is there not only to take it, but also to certify that what is in the written document is what the witness actually said. Court reporting also includes the video recording of settlement documentaries and other legal and other proceedings.
A certified court reporter is able to provide real-time reporting and provide a rough draft of the proceedings when necessary. The court reporting service may also provide an online repository for clients so that they can access their transcripts, videos, and exhibits at anytime from anywhere. This can be a crucial accommodation when time is of the essence.
Just like in any profession, not all court reporting services are good. You need to exercise due diligence when selecting a service to do court reporting tasks for you. Get referrals from other law firms and check out online reviews of the various court reporting services in your area to get started.
Categories of Construction Accidents
Construction sites are inherently dangerous, which is why workers have all sorts of safety gear and practices to minimize their risk. However, not all construction sites observe safety protocols, and there are instances when the accident is due to other forces. People typically suffer serious injury in construction accidents, and in some cases, they are not even construction workers. According to the website of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. ® the consequences of such injuries can be devastating on many levels.
Often, the only thing a victim can do is to claim for compensation. Four categories of construction accidents exist, classified based on the circumstances of the injury.
On the Job Injury
The one thing most workers can rely on is workers' compensation. Because it is a no-fault system, no one has to prove negligence to make a claim. However, there are certain limitations. The worker sustained the injury while on the job, was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and may not file a personal injury lawsuit against a negligent employer. Workers' compensation also tends to be less than what a worker can receive in a personal injury lawsuit.
Third Party Involvement
While workers' compensation rules bar the injured worker from filing a personal injury claim against the direct employer, it does not prohibit filing a lawsuit against a third party, such as a truck driver or company that caused the accident. The worker can file a workers' compensation claim and still file a personal injury lawsuit.
Non-Worker injuries
Sometimes, the injured party is a non-worker, such as a pedestrian or a motorist injured by falling objects or open manholes. In most instances, non-workers are prohibited from entering a construction site to minimize exposure to danger. However, according to the website of Hach Rose, this does not relieve the contractor from the duty to post adequate warning signs and take steps to keep non-workers safe.
After the Fact
Even when active construction is over, the site can still be a source of danger if the contractor, designer, or engineer was negligent. It could be shoddy workmanship, a too-low railing, or structural defects. In such cases, the injured party can file a lawsuit against the responsible third parties. Consult with a personal injury lawyer in your area to find out who these are.


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Tired. Very tired. Last night I stayed up with Caleb and now im exhausted.
" Caleb?" I said walking into the closet.
" Yes," He answered.
" I'm going to see Elijah-"
" Can I come." He interrupted.
"Um," I hesitated."Later when my grandfather leaves you can come with me. I just dont want to risk you getting caught." He was silent.
" I understand."
" You hungry?" I asked trying to change the subject.
" Very." He said getting up.
" Ill get something." I walked out of my room and made my way into the kitchen.
" There is someone still there." I heard voices coming from the great room. I walked closer to the room. The men from yesterday were surrounding a desk.
" Well, what are we going to do?" Anthony asked.
" We can just leave them." Peter suggested.
" No. We need to destroy the Warsaw ghetto. Then who ever is in there will be gone for good." My grandfather said. Peter looked at me and our eyes locked.
" Dismissed." The group of men scattered. Peter came towards me. I walked away going into the hallway.
" Nim, wait up." I was in front of my bedroom door when Peter stopped me.
" What?"
" I thought you would be the one trying to save this person."
" Well, I'm not." He blocked me from going into my room.
" Why?"
" Because someone once told me that I cant save everyone and if I try I will probably get hurt in the end." He looked at me knowing that he put that in my head. I walked into my room.
" What was that about ?" Caleb asked as I handed him the food.
" Nothing." It wasn't nothing. He looked at me like he knew something was up.
" We are going ." He stopping eating.
"Are you crazy?" He looked at me and i knew he was completely sane.
" I will prove that you might not be able to save everyone but you can try and have success." He looked at me trying to convince me.
" Fine. Stay here/" I went downstairs. The house was empty. Everyone already left. I walked into the kitchen to see Jacob looking out the window into the lot.
" Hey Jacob." He turned after hearing my voice.
" Hello Nim. How was your day?" He said formally.
" Its been surprising."
" So what can I do for you?"
" Would you like to drive Caleb and I back to Warsaw?"
" Go get Caleb." He smiled at me, grabbed his keys and went outside. I went to get Caleb and we went to the car. We drove, but differently than before. All three of us were engaged in a conversation, it wasn't silent anymore. As we pulled up to the garbage cans, Caleb and i got out.
" NIm?" Jacob called.
" Yea." I went back to the car.
" be careful." We both smiled and I left. Caleb was already on the wall so he helped me up and we climbed down the other side. We walked down the streets and it was quiet and empty.
" This place is really peaceful." Caleb interrupted the silence.
" This place is a cemetery." I said walking along roads full of bodies.
" I think I see something." I ran toward a building. Caleb ran behind me.
" Nim!" He grabbed my arm and pulled me into that same space we hid in before. I looked out to see men setting each building on fire one at a time. I searched for the person I saw.
" There she is." It was a little girl.
" She is just a child..."
" I have to help her." Next thing you know the men are in front of the building the little girl was in. The put it up in flames.
"N-." I tried to go after her, but Caleb held me back.
" NIm. Nim come on." I was blank. I couldn't think of anything. " Nim we have to get home before them." he just wanted to get me out of there. We went threw the back and over the brick wall.
"Hey guys. how'd it go?"He stared at the both of us.
" Can we just go ?" Caleb asked. I still had that blank look on my face. As we arrived home, no one was there. I gave Oris and Caleb dinner and then I just went into my room. I think Caleb went to bed because I didn't hear form him the rest of the night.I kind of lingered along until everyone came home. All of the soldiers and Jacob went home . Hans went to bed and so did my grandfather. But not Peter, I drifted down the stairs and into the library.
" Hey." I said standing in the doorway.
" Hey, what are you doing up?" He said putting down a glass and a book.
" Couldn't sleep."
" Same here."He went to fill his glass. That's when I saw it. He was drinking Old Crow Whiskey. I couldn't find alcohol in this house at all.
" Is that?"
" Old Crow Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey." He smiled as he poured me a glass as well.
" Those in the know~ Ask For Old Crow Kentucky Straight Bottled in Bond." We both said and laughed
" So whats up."
" I might of went after the little girl from Warsaw." I looked at him to see what he would say.
" Little girl?"
" Yea. i saw her and then I saw you guys so I hid. I could see her in the building before it went up in flames. She was looking at me and it looked like she didn't care." He put his arm around me.I put my glass in the air. " To Warsaw." I downed the glass and got another.
" You know, you need a drink." He got up and went to the kitchen. I knew he was drunk.
" I have a drink." He pulled out a bottle and handed it to me." Don Q Puerto RIcan Rum." I read the bottle.
" Have you ever had it?"
" Nope." he poured me a glass. I drank just a little. " Wow, that's strong."
" Its The Golden Touch." We laughed .
That night we drank everything from Cinzano to Seagram's Gin. 5 bottles and 20 glasses later he had his hand up my shirt and I wasn't doing anything about it. I don't remember much of it after that, but I hope it come back to me.


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Introductory note from Jason Pratt: see here for the previous entry; and see here for the first entry of the series. (It explains what I'm doing, and how, and contains the Johannine prologue.)
The next several 'chapters' are relatively short, but also footnote heavy; so watch for indications where I've left notes in the comments that I thought would be unwieldy to mention within the narrative. Also, since some of the chapters are long enough that I'll want to break them into two parts, I'm taking the opportunity to consolidate some short chapters here.
First Disciples
The next day (says the Evangelist), John (the Baptist) again was standing with two of his disciples (one of whom remains unnamed); and seeing Jesus as He walked (passing nearby), he says: "Behold! The Lamb of God!"
Now the two disciples, hearing him say this, follow after Jesus.
Jesus, turning and having seen them as they follow, is saying to them: "What are you seeking?"
They answered Him, "Rabbi," which (says the Evangelist for his audience) means 'Didaskolos' (i.e. koine for Teacher), "where are you staying?"
He says to them, "Come and see."
They went and saw where He was staying, and remained with Him for the day. This (says the Evangelist) happened at about 10:00 in the morning. [See first comment below for a footnote here.]
One of the two who heard John (the Baptist) and followed Jesus (that day) was Andrew, brother of Simon. He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him: "We have found the 'Messiah'!", which (says the Evangelist) means the 'Kristos' (i.e. koine for 'Anointed'.)
And he brought him to Jesus.
And looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon, the son of Jona; (but) you shall be called Kephas!" which (adds the Evangelist) means 'Petros'. (i.e. koine for Rock.)
[see second comment below for a footnote here]
The next morning (continues the Evangelist), Jesus is intending to go up into the Galilee region (to Cana). He found Philip; and Jesus says to him: "Follow Me." Now Philip (adds the Evangelist) was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. [see third comment below for a footnote here]
Philip finds Nathanael (who, as we are later told, comes from Cana--where Jesus happens to be going now), and says to him: "We have found the one written about by Moses the Lawgiver, and by the Prophets!--Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth."
But Nathanael said: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth!?" [see fourth comment below for a footnote here]
Philip says to him, "Come and see!"
When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, He said: "Look here! Truly, an Israelite in whom there is no guile!"
Nathanael said to Him: "...where do you know me from?"
Answering, Jesus says to him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
Nathanael answered, saying to Him: "Rabbi! You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"
Jesus answered, "You are believing this (simply) because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree!? You shall see greater things than these!"
And He says to him:
"I promise, I promise, I tell you the truth: you shall see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man!"
[see fifth comment below for a footnote here]
First Sign
On the third day (says the Evangelist, meaning three days after leaving the Betharaba Ford), a wedding occurred in Cana of Galilee. [see sixth comment below for a footnote here]
The mother of Jesus was there; and Jesus was also invited to the wedding, and His disciples.
But the wine ran out; and so the mother of Jesus says to Him: "... ... They have no wine!"
Jesus says to her, "Woman, what am I going to do with you?! My time has not yet come."
His mother (however) says to the servants: "Whatever he says to you--do it!"
Now, there were six stone waterpots set nearby, in accord with the Jewish custom of purification (handwashing before the meal), each holding about twenty or thirty gallons apiece (literally 'two or three metretai').
Jesus tells them: "Fill the pots with water." And they fill them up to the brim.
Then Jesus tells them: "Now dip some out, and take it to the dining room chief." (i.e. the master of ceremonies for the wedding feast). And they took it to him.
Now, the chief tastes the water which had become wine, although he didn't know this had taken place--but the servants who had drawn the water knew (adds the Evangelist).
And the chief calls to the bridegroom, saying to him:
"Every man serves the good wine first, and then whenever the guests are drunk he brings out the inferior... but you have saved the finest wine for now!"
This first of the signs, Jesus does in Cana of Galilee (says the Evangelist); manifesting His glory.
And His disciples believed in Him.
[see seventh comment below for a footnote here]
John 1:35-51
John 2:1-11
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Introductory note from Jason Pratt: see here for the previous entry; and see here for the first entry of the series. (It explains what I'm doing, and how, and contains the Johannine prologue.)
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- Jason Pratt said...
.......[first footnote comment here]
In 1st c. Hebrew time reckoning, "for the day" could mean until any time after noon; there were several notions of 'evening', starting from the point where the sun begins descending after mid-day, until actual sunset--at which point the new day would be reckoned to have begun. (This, incidentally, leads to some interesting interpretations of Genesis 1!--which surely represents this idea, and would be considered the scriptural justification of it.)
- Jason Pratt said...
.......[second footnote comment here]
The other storytellers imply that Andrew and Peter at least, if not the other disciple (probably intended to be the author, based on how GosJohn ends), did not join Jesus at this time, but only remained with Him for the day.
Keep in mind that at this point in the story, Andrew, Peter and whoever-that-unnamed-disciple-connected-with-them is, are still the disciples of John the Baptist, and so it isn't surprising they would go back to working with him for a while. Nothing the Evangelist says directly contradicts this, although neither does he offer direct support for supposing Andrew, Peter and/or John (Mark? the Apostle?) aren't with Jesus in the subsequent Johannine 'episodes'. Nevertheless, neither are they mentioned again until after a point in the story corresponding with when the Synoptics imply they joined up. Though the Scholar has some more particular information about when that finally happened than the Disciple or the Scholar do.
- Jason Pratt said...
.......[third footnote comment here]
Bethsaida (i.e. 'Huntingdon', or next to a lake 'Fisherton'), renamed as Julias by Herod to honor an Empress, is the name of a 1st century township on the eastern side of the Jordan River at the point where it enters Galilee Lake at the north. Western towns on the Galilee shores were generally Jewish and eastern towns were generally Gentile, although a healthy population of Jews lived in the eastern towns as well, of course. Bethsaida may have had elements on each side of the Jordan, as a 'fording' town. As it happens, there is another Bethsaida mentioned in the texts as well: the fish-port suburb, as we would call it, of Capernaum, where Peter is currently living and working when not traveling as a disciple of John the Baptist.
The recent story action, though--including the current scene--has taken place south of Galilee Lake, where the River Jordan continues running until it reaches the much larger Dead Sea, at which point it seeps into the sands or evaporates.
- Jason Pratt said...
.......[fourth comment footnote here]
Nazareth should not be confused with modern Nazareth, though it would have been nearby the modern locale. Nazareth was founded as a watchstation between tribal borders during the Joshuan invasion of the region; originally it was known as Sarid or Tsareth (per Joshua 19 in the OT). By the 1st century, it was probably an unincorporated suburb of Sepphoris; its main claim to importance was as a gathering area for priests of local relationship to travel in a caravan to serve in the Temple four times a year (two courses plus the two Great Feasts). Around 135CE (per later Talmudic report), the town was refounded by descendents of this family of rabbis, due to this tradition. It's possible, though not certain, that these were the Messianic Jews known as the Nazoreans, who seem to have regarded Jesus as the Messiah but not as divine. (Probably meaning they regarded Jesus as the preliminary Messiah, the Son of Joseph/Ephraim who was to die before the coming of the King Messiah, the Son of David--a concept that begins appearing among rabbis after the founding of Christianity, if not sooner.)
- Jason Pratt said...
.......[fifth comment footnote here]
Thus, Nathanael--a fellow who is presented as being a bit of a comic figure, a little oversceptical and a little overcredulous, yet affectionately accepted by Jesus--becomes the first disciple to confess Jesus as Son of God; not Peter, who along with Andrew (per the Synoptics) did not join Jesus at this time, even after spending a day with Him. According to GosJohn, Philip and Nathanael (and perhaps that unnamed disciple connected to Peter and Andrew) are the first definitely known "followers" (or disciples) of Jesus.
Yet nothing ever really seems to come of this--no special use of it is made for apologetic purposes, or for establishing special authority among disciples later. Jesus says good things about Nathanael, but in a humorously affectionate way, not as though the eventual apostle will be the foundation of the Church or anything like that; and certainly the author doesn't present Nathanael as being more than a bit dull-witted if quite honest and forthright. (The point being that the Evangelist cannot be using this anecdote to try to 'compete' with 'Petrine' authority--he isn't setting himself or anyone else up as the cornerstone of the Church. If anything, he strongly hints that Jesus planned Peter's eventual authority from the very beginning, before Peter had even joined up as a disciple!)
Notably, at least one early 2nd century tradition reports that GosJohn is based on notes taken by John (the Apostle?) when, meeting together shortly after Jesus' departure, he interviewed the others in order to combine remembrances. GosJohn itself, as we actually have it, does not demonstrate such a structure--it reads more like an account intended to fill in details around presumed knowledge--but some of those details could easily have been derived from such a notesheet.
- Jason Pratt said...
.......[sixth footnote comment here]
Cana was a town about 5-7 miles west of Galilee Lake, across the surrounding mountains; also 5-7 miles north of Nazareth. Betharaba ford, probably just north of the Dead Sea, on the road past Jericho from Jerusalem, is quite a hike from there; but not too strenuous for three or more strong young men who are used to traveling by foot in hilly terrain: about 45 miles straight overland, maybe 60ish miles on roads north up and then west from the Jordan. Going through Samaria to Cana would take longer, and would invite other problems; although Jesus does take the road through Samaria later.
- Jason Pratt said...
.......[seventh footnote comment here]
GosJohn never mentions Jesus' mother by name; which could be in keeping with the claim that the 'beloved disciple' who later adopts Mary as his mother at Jesus' request, is the author or editor of this Gospel. He would (in that case) be following one ancient decorum standard, of not including one's own name in a biography which should be centered on someone else--a standard which could also include the names of close family members.
The apparently harsh rebuke given by Jesus to Mary here has caused some lamentable confusion; the literal phrase is 'what to Me and to you?', translated from a Hebrew idiom. It could mean 'What does this (their running out of wine) mean to us? My time has not yet come." I gather the idiom means something rather more personal, however, which is why English translations typically try something like "What am I to you?" or "What do I have to do with you?" or "What is it between you and Me?", with an exclamation force.
Given Jesus' obvious tender affections for His mother elsewhere in the story--especially in GosJohn--along with the fact that He does in fact do just what she is wishing (despite this not being in His original plans), I do not believe for a moment this is intended to be derogatory to Mary. I strongly suspect it was meant as a touch of wry humor or affectionate minor exasperation: more along the lines of the English idiom I've given above. Lord knows, my own mother can be a little pushy about when she wants her son to do something, whether to help someone else or to promote himself... But, accepting it in good humor is part of the service to the beloved.
And, there is something rather humorous about using washingpots as the vessels for making the best of the wine--theologically pertinent, too, fitting with all the many rich emphases on Jesus being the cleaning action of God, so to speak...
- Rachel said...
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I actually started investigating universalism as I was reflecting on the doctrine of the Trinity. :) Anyway, thanks for all your input! I don't have a whole lot of theological training and I'm especially ignorant when it comes to exegetical issues so any help I can get in that area is invaluable.
Looking forward to investigating your blog a little more after I get through this round of papers.
- Jason Pratt said...
Thanks for stopping by our blog, too! {g}
If you started investigating universalism as you were reflecting on the doctrine of the Trinity, I'd say you were on the right track. (That was how I finally arrived there, after years of what might be called hopeful suspicion. {s}) We have some contributors here who are hopefully suspicious, too (including an EOx contributor); and others who go with the typical doctrine (plus at least one solid annihilationist that I know of). But I think I'm the only convinced universalist in the bunch so far. That being said, I don't usually talk about it in the main posts, for purposes of ecumenical polity. (I do occasionally comment on it though.) That includes the KoS entries, which are intended to be a resource for all readers.
The theological underpinnings (per se--that series is about metaphysics, not scriptural exegesis) can be found starting around here, though.
{{I don't have a whole lot of theological training and I'm especially ignorant when it comes to exegetical issues so any help I can get in that area is invaluable.}}
I don't do much exegetical work here on the Cadre Journal, but I'm thinking of starting a separate journal for that purpose later this year. It's a massively huge topic.
I'd have to say based on your journal entries, though, that you're doing very well (and with good humor--I loved the dialogue with Jessie {g}) on theological studies. You have a real talent for it. I'd almost suggest going into the field professionally; but nursing is actually more important and there's a crying need for it. So if you're comfortable with the nursing (or better yet if you're called to that), keep at it.
(But keep at the theology, too. {g})
- Rachel said...
Thanks so much for the encouragement! I really appreciate it.
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