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When you learn to ride a horse, you become painfully aware of two things. The first is that the reins in front of you are just an illusion of control. The second is that, no matter how strong your thighs are, if that horse decides you belong on the ground, there's a good likelihood you'll end up there pretty soon. A relationship with a horse is risky. There's no way you can completely control an animal that weighs half a ton. Yet, as you might know from experience, a relationship with a horse is a privilege. It's an honor to move with a beautiful creature that is so much more powerful than you.
When Christians talk about nature, we usually talk about creation stewardship. We care for the earth because in the beginning God called the earth good, and in the New Testament we see that God desires to reconcile all things to Himself through Christ. Yet even creation care can sometimes focus too much on controlling or ruling nature rather than learning from it. Are we to interact with nature simply because we were told to take care of it, or does it exist to teach us something? Rightly regarding nature helps us understand human power correctly, and it can give us insight into our relationship with the earth and God.
In Melville's Moby Dick, we see that when man practices bad stewardship, he develops an unrealistic understanding of his power that leads to man's destruction. Captain Ahab is driven to fight nature because his perspective of the world is anthropocentric—he assumes that he has the inherent right to conquer the whale and misunderstands who he is in relation to the natural world. Ahab's missing leg and his "gashed soul" are, Melville tells us, the direct result of the attack of the great white whale. Despite this, Ahab is unable to accept his powerlessness in the face of nature, embodied by the whale, and he becomes obsessed with regaining power: "All…demonisms…all evil, to crazy Ahab, were…made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down." For Ahab, nature is the sole source of all human pain and destruction. Ahab completely relinquishes his roles as a husband and father and leads his entire crew into a dangerous oblivion, which ultimately claims the life of almost every crewmember.
The fate of Captain Ahab and his crew could have been changed if Ahab saw fault not in the whale but in himself. In his pride, Ahab fails to see nature for what it truly is, and he fails to see himself for what he truly is. In Ahab's world, there is only domination. Either Ahab will dominate the whale, or the whale will dominate him. He will be either a slayer of the earth or a slave to it. But there is a middle way that Ahab has forgotten: man's primary role as caretaker and lover of the earth.
Melville contrasts Captain Ahab with Ishmael. The only crewmember to survive the wreck of the Pequod, Ishmael does not claim control over the leviathan, and he includes many facts about the whale throughout his account of his journey, proving he is more interested in trying to know this unknowable thing than conquering it. He contemplates the foolishness of man in thinking that we can control nature at all: "However baby man may brag of his science and skill…yet for ever and for every, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest frigate he can make…man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it."
Oughtn't we come to terms with the fact that nature could, at any moment, "insult and murder" us, as Ishmael so bluntly tells us it could? It is a harsh truth that the earth is more powerful than we are, but this truth does not have to destroy us like it does Captain Ahab, who is wrong in assuming that the harshness of nature means nature is against us. Nature can be frighteningly untamable, but that which is untamable is not necessarily evil. Instead of losing his sanity because he cannot control the earth, Ishmael humbly accepts who he is in relation to the earth. He hungers for knowledge of it but is not obsessed with overpowering any part of it, including Moby Dick. He recognizes that he cannot hate the untamable parts of the earth because they reflect something human. Contained within the earth there is an image of something with which he identifies. Ishmael ponders, "Consider both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?"
The mysteries of the earth and endless depths of the sea remind us of all we do not know about this world and even about ourselves. Our souls are mysterious. Our bodies are mysterious. We gather facts like Ishmael, but the same questions God spoke to Job still hover over every created thing: where were we when all of this was created? How were the vast mountains and our tiny nerves fashioned? By reminding us of all we do not know and all we cannot know or control, nature humbles us. We, like Ishmael, should approach the earth not with the desire for control but instead with respect and a willingness to experience wonder. We are the creatures whom God made in His image, yet we have been given a world we cannot (and should not) fully tame, and that reminds us both of how finite human power is and how glorious our God is.


text: This is what is needed on our team! When the Falcons released defensive end Ray Edwards, they made it clear that it was a decision made because Edwards' diminished play no longer warranted a spot on the team's roster. They didn't say anything about also wanting to send a message to the rest of the team that neither your name nor your salary guarantee you anything in Atlanta, but it doesn't seem like they needed to be explicit on that front. The Associated Press spoke to several Falcons players who said Edwards' departure was a reminder that they were constantly being judged by the coaching staff and front office. "It's a wakeup call," safety Thomas DeCoud said. "The message has been received." "It's scary," guard Peter Konz said. "It makes you think. But if you do the right things, get the job done on the field, you don't have to be too worried about it." "That's the way this game goes. You can be replaced," cornerback Dunta Robinson said. "Ray was a great friend of mine. I hate to see him go. But it's a business. Things like this are going to happen when it's a business." http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/15/falcons-players-call-edwards-release-a-wakeup-call/

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Proprietary software helps you maximize your Internet experience, but is not open source. The software available includes Multimedia Codecs, Java Runtime Environment, and plug-ins for Firefox and Konqueror.
Restricted Extras
The Kubuntu Restricted Extras will install Adobe Flash Player, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (sun-java-jre) with Firefox and Konqueror plug-ins (icedtea), a set of Microsoft Fonts (msttcorefonts), multimedia codecs (w32codecs or w64codecs), mp3-compatible encoding (lame), FFMpeg, extra multimedia codecs for K3b, the package for DVD decoding (libdvdread3, but see here for info on libdvdcss2), the unrar archiver, odbc, and cabextract. It also installs multiple "stripped" codecs and avutils (libavcodec-unstripped-52 and libavutil-unstripped-49). This is a single command approach.
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras
- You could also use Ubuntu Restricted Extras (ubuntu-restricted-extras), but it installs plugins for the Gstreamer platform (the default in Gnome) and does not install the K3b codecs, so it is not recommended.
- Note: Installation only works completely and properly when done from the command-line terminal Konsole. The entire package will not usually install completely from within a Package Manager.
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I've often argued that business is not war and it's not a zero-sum game. If a business makes money for its shareholders, it is succeeding. It doesn't need to kill the competition; it merely needs do well enough to thrive. And so it is with remarkable individuals. Somehow it seems that if one man is great, the other has to be lesser. That's not true. With all the justified celebration of Steve Jobs and his life, his chief rival, Bill Gates appears to be forgotten.
What brings that to mind is an intriguing essay that appeared Tuesday in the Harvard Business Review by Maxwell Wessel, a researcher for the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a Harvard Business School think tank focused on innovation. It's titled "Idolize Bill Gates, not Steve Jobs."
[ InfoWorld's Galen Gruman reflects on Steve Jobs's fierce reign and legacy. | Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. | For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter. ]
I'm not sure about the "idolize" part. But it certainly is time to acknowledge that devoting billions of dollars of his own money in an attempt to cure malaria and other diseases that plague the developing world is at least as important as inventing the iPad. OK. I'll stop being coy. It's more important. That doesn't make Jobs any the lesser. It's simply a matter of values and perspective.
Also forgotten has been a simple yet critical bit of history: Jobs, in his second and more successful period as Apple's CEO, stood on the shoulders of Bill Gates. Had Microsoft not made computing ubiquitous, there wouldn't be any reason to have an iPod, or an iPhone, or an iPod. In fact, they simply wouldn't exist.
We're not just about our stuff
Ultimately, Apple and its products are really just stuff, or, more formally, commodities. Sure, they're beautiful, fun commodities that enhance our lives, in much the same way that Walt Disney brought joy to millions (as my colleague Galen Gruman noted a while back). And there's nothing wrong with that, as they used to say on "Seinfeld."
But commodities are, in the end, simply things, and the overwhelming focus in the media on Jobs's death was a rather stunning example of what Karl Marx termed the "fetishism of commodities." We all know that Apple and every other technology company exist to sell products or services to make money. The more they can convince us that we absolutely must own those products, the more they sell and the richer they get.
I'm not saying that's wrong. It's simply how a market economy works. But what is wrong is the pernicious belief that we are what we own. Apple's products have become must-have fashion accessories, in some ways not so different than the Rolex watches sported by the wealthy. Check out the guy at the next table in the café. He has a MacBook Air and you don't. Bummer. You still have an iPhone 3G S? What's wrong with you?
The iPhone and the like have spurred innovation throughout the technology industry and sparked advances in communication that have helped change the world -- witness the use of smartphones and their video capabilities during the Arab Spring. However, because we are so focused on our own commodities, many of us make the mistake of believing that the revolutions wouldn't have happened without the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android. Steve Jobs was not the father of the Egyptian revolution.


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mrtparse is a module to read and analyze the MRT data format. The MRT format can be used to export routing protocol messages, state changes, and routing information base contents, and is standardized in RFC6396. Programs like Quagga/Zebra, BIRD, OpenBGPD, and PyRT can dump to MRT.
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Vibur Object Pool is a general-use concurrent Java object pool which provides both validating and non-validating pool implementations. The pool is built entirely using the standard Java concurrency utilities, does not use any synchronized blocks/methods, and does not have any external dependencies. This pool is an excellent choice for pooling/caching of expensive to create Java objects such as database connections or other socket connections to remote hosts, and similar.
Apache UIMA DUCC (Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing) is a cluster management system providing tooling, management, and scheduling facilities that automate the scale-out of applications written using the UIMA framework. Core UIMA provides a generalized framework for applications that process unstructured information such as human language, but does not provide a scale-out mechanism. UIMA-AS extends UIMA and provides a scale-out mechanism for distributing UIMA pipelines over a cluster of computing resources, but does not provide job or cluster management of the resources. DUCC extends UIMA-AS by defining a formal job model that closely maps to a standard UIMA pipeline. Around this job model DUCC provides cluster management services to automate the scale-out of UIMA pipelines over computing clusters.
Bear is a lightweight remote automation tool for Groovy/Java/JVM. It allows you to deploy projects, setup your cluster, and install software to your remote machines. It differs from other existing tools in that it uses a programmatic approach - your deployment is a regular Java class. It also uses static types, chained method calls, FP, and fluent programming techniques.


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Last post Mar 03, 2012 09:00 PM by disgruntleddrone
Feb 21, 2012 02:48 PM|disgruntleddrone|LINK
I know that it's something simple (yet, still alludes me despite my efforts and web-crawling), but what am I doing to cause a NullReferenceException?
DataSet lvDS = new DataSet(); lvDS = bizobj.sqlfetchDS("select [Client Name] from Accounts"); ProvTab_Client_DropDown.DataSource = lvDS; ProvTab_Client_DropDown.DataBind();
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Feb 21, 2012 02:58 PM|me_ritz|LINK
Try using: DataSet lvDS = new DataSet(); lvDS = bizobj.sqlfetchDS("select [Client Name] from Accounts"); ProvTab_Client_DropDown.DataSource = lvDS.Tables[0]; ProvTab_Client_DropDown.DataTextField = "[Client Name]"; ProvTab_Client_DropDown.DataBind(); and make sure DataSet has data inside its table 0;
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Feb 21, 2012 03:05 PM|rajsedhain|LINK
you have to define DataTextField and DataValueField as well. Try using SqlDataAdpter :
DataSet lvDS = new DataSet(); SqlDataAdapter myda = new SqlDataAdapter("select [Client Name] from Accounts ", conn); myda.Fill(lvDS); ProvTab_Client_DropDown.DataSource = lvDS; ProvTab_Client_DropDown.DataTextField = "ClientName"; ProvTab_Client_DropDown.DataValueField = "ClientId"; ProvTab_Client_DropDown.DataBind();
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Feb 22, 2012 08:57 AM|disgruntleddrone|LINK
Thanks, but the problem persists. :(
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Feb 23, 2012 03:43 AM|Qin Dian Tang - MSFT|LINK
The code you have above is right. You need to check whether you have set the DataTextField and DataValueField in ddl. Then make sure the lvDS has data to bind the ddl. You can set a breakpoint at the line "ProvTab_Client_DropDown.DataSource = lvDS;" to see if "lvDS" has valid data or not.
If still not working, please describe it in detail. Where is the ddl or how does the method sqlfetchDS() works?
Feb 24, 2012 04:36 PM|disgruntleddrone|LINK
Upon further research, I discovered that the control itself, not the DataSet was generating the error. The DropDownList for which I am trying to define a Datasource is nested inside a TabPanel. Although I have read countless threads on the matter, I have yet to find a way to access this control from my ActiveTabChange handler (and associated event) - AND IT IS DRIVING ME MAAAAAD, MAD I TELL YOU.
<ajaxToolkit:TabPanel ID="ServiceProvTab" runat="server" HeaderText="Services Provided" > <ContentTemplate>
 <asp:ListView ID="ListView3" runat="server" InsertItemPosition="FirstItem" OnItemCommand="ListView3_OnItemCommand"> ..... <InsertItemTemplate>
  <asp:LinkButton ID="InsertButton" runat="server" CommandName="InsertItem" Text=" Insert" /> 	  <asp:DropDownList ID="Ins_ProvTab_Client_DropDown" runat="server" Width="352.5px"></asp:DropDownList> 	  <asp:TextBox ID="Ins_ProvTab_Service_Description2" runat="server" Width="352.5px" Text='<%#Bind("Field_1")%>' ToolTip="Service Description"/>
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Any and All Assistance concerning this matter is greatly appreciated.
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Feb 24, 2012 07:09 PM|sushanth009|LINK
Your dropdown is nested inside a ListView control.. So you cannot access your dropdown Directly. You need to first find the control Inside your ListView and then assign your functionality to it in the ItemDataBound event of the Listview..
protected void ListView_ItemDataBound(object sender, ListViewItemEventArgs e) { if (e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.DataItem) { DropDownList ddl = (DropDownList)e.Item.FindControl("Ins_ProvTab_Client_DropDown"); if(ddl != null) { /// Assign the Datasource aand other info for the DropDown Here } } }
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Feb 26, 2012 10:40 PM|Qin Dian Tang - MSFT|LINK
You need to access ListView from TabPanel first, then access DropDownList from InsertItem in ListView and bind DropDownList:
ListView lv = (ListView)ServiceProvTab.FindControl("ListView3");
DropDownList ddl = (DropDownList)lv.InsertItem.FindControl("Ins_ProvTab_Client_DropDown");
Mar 03, 2012 09:00 PM|disgruntleddrone|LINK
Ultimately, I wired a handler for the dropdownlist control itself and had to navigate the control collections from said handler.
Thanks for all of the suggestions - from all of you.
sushanth009's direction proved the most beneficial.
protected void PopulateRecvTabDDL(object sender, EventArgs e) { DropDownList ddl = (DropDownList)ListView4.Controls[0].Controls[1].Controls[1].FindControl("Ins_RecvTab_Client_DropDown"); if (ddl != null) { sqlLogic bizobj = new sqlLogic(); ddl.DataSource = bizobj.sqlfetchDS("use hcitasset select [Account Key],[client name] from Accounts"); ddl.DataTextField = "client name"; ddl.DataBind(); } }


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4. You Don't Know How to Taper
Training is easy, tapering is hard. Training is something we do every day, some of you several times a day. Tapering is something very few triathletes do. In fact, most triathletes spend the bulk of their seasons training straight through races, using them as organized workouts.
When it comes to actually tapering for performance you most likely don't have enough data to know what will work for you. Just remember that the goal of tapering is to be 100 percent rested for race day.
Too many athletes say they need "just one more key workout to make sure they're ready." That workout is, in fact, their race. This turns the big event into nothing more than a footnote instead of a foot race.
Resting should be easy. The best way to do it is simply to not work out. But most Type A triathletes don't come with an off switch, and if they do their version of "off" isn't exactly what their body needs. Remember that no one ever said they were too rested on race day.
Building the right taper takes practice and even some tweaking along the way.
More: How to Optimize Your Triathlon Taper
5. You Swim Too Hard On Race Day
Then again, it's possible to get everything right and still not have your best possible race. Your equipment is good, your fitness is high, you're mentally ready?but then you go out and try to impersonate Michael Phelps on race day.
Sometimes this is caused by an experience, sometimes simply by too much adrenaline. Either way, your body simply can't handle the work of a super hard swim within the context of the triathlon.
It's worth spending a few key workouts before your next a race focusing explicitly on race pace swimming. Not to get faster, but rather to dial in that pace so that it becomes the default. While the vast majority of triathlons aren't won on the swim, many of them are lost there.
More: 6 Ways to Train the Triathlon Swim Start
6. You Can't Hit Race Weight
Fitness is one thing, speed is another. While there are many different gradations when it comes to quality of equipment—usually in proportion to how much you're willing to spend on it—there are some things that money can't buy. The biggest one on the list: gravity.
Aside from the time you spend in the water, the rest of your time is spent moving your body across land. The larger you are, the more work you have to do. The math is that simple. You're far better off working to lose 5 pounds then you are spending hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on a wheel set that will save you 1,000 grams. You're better off losing 5 pounds then you are locking yourself on your bike trainer for 8 weeks to improve your threshold power.
Weight loss is, of course, extremely relative. Some of us have more to lose than others. Know your body, know your limits, and focus on the things that give you the highest return on investment. Besides, looking really fit and strong on race day offers a secret psychological advantage as well.
More: 5 Ways to Slim Down and Speed Up for Your Next Race
7. You Frequently Change Your Training Focus
As a coach, this has to be one of my biggest pet peeves. Back in the day, there was very little information on coaching, workouts or training performance. Now thanks to your smart phone, you're only seconds away from finding hundreds of articles with training ideas, each one promising better results than the last.
While some people worry about their child's potential for having Attention Deficit Disorder, many of you suffer from a parallel issue: Training Attention Deficit Disorder.
What starts out as a simple season with the master plan quickly snowballs into doing the workouts your friends are doing. Maybe you find a new article on secret high intensity intervals, and now you're including those as well. Adding hills to your new training focus: running? Not a problem; that's in the schedule now too. Everyone is doing a big century ride this weekend, so you cut your intervals and do something else instead.
While there is always new information on what can be more effective, there is no substitute for a consistently implemented program. It usually takes your body anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks to achieve a basic training plateau. Any changes, incremental or otherwise, made during the six-week period will inhibit your body's ability to adapt and grow.
Next time you find something new and appealing, set it aside for when you revisit your training results, within the context of your master season plan, at the end of one of these phases.
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Make sure no one is watching when you place this outstanding piece on your hand. Amazing detail and a superb handmade platinum mounting gives a proper setting for a .70 carat old European cut round brilliant diamond. Glaringly white with it veritable colorless E and VS1 clarity grades, four (4) additional old European cut accent diamonds lend their estimated total diamond weight of .10 carats to the outstanding center gem. Hand engraved to the interior are partial initials, most likely "KMS" and the partial numbers 25-26, in all likelihood when given or as wedding date day of 26 presented in 1926.
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