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A COUNCIL has axed controversial proposals to turn open land into an over-flow car-park for The Rye following complaints from an influential group.
Wycombe District Council has decided against progressing plans to turn Marsh Green into a temporary car-park to accommodate extra visitors to The Rye during the peak summer period.
It comes after residents and the High Wycombe Society objected to rails being installed on the land in the conservation area to house vehicles.
Andrew Taylor told the Free Press: "We are very pleased – it was a quick decision that was made by the council, as I believe they were looking to put this in place by the end of the month.
"We jumped up and down very quickly and I believe WDC is now looking at alternative options. On the flip side, it shows The Rye is as popular as ever and the Wycombe Rye Lido is doing well if we need more parking."
Mr Taylor wrote to WDC on behalf of the society earlier this week, stating that adding barriers and cars would 'permanently disfigure' Marsh Green.
He added: "Marsh Green is currently a high-quality green space kept in pristine condition. Allowing cars to park on it would compromise its quality and would cause a prominent, untidy and unwelcome visual intrusion.
"Installing rails "inland" along the back stream, as would be necessary to protect the river, would represent a permanent visual disfigurement."
He urged the council to invest in upgrading public transport, point residents to other car-parks near-by - such as the one by the Trinity United Reformed Church - or allow motorists to park on the grass adjacent to the existing Rye car-park.
Cllr Trevor Snaith said he had been inundated with complaints from upset residents and called the parking proposals for the green "utter madness".
WDC said the over-spill car-park plan was put in motion due to the high volumes of people flocking to The Rye last summer – which sparked complaints that there were not enough parking spaces available.
Cllr John Gibbs, WDC's Cabinet Member for Community, said: "We wrote to local residents about the idea of providing an overspill car park to alleviate parking on The Rye on a temporary basis. The idea did not have public support.
"We've listened to the concerns of local residents and we've acted on them which is why we took the decision yesterday that we won't go ahead with the overspill car park."


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John Tortorella:
On these games being as important as wins over Washington and Pittsburgh:
"Absolutely. You're not going to play error-free or disciplined or just dead-on games. The amount of games you play in this league, it just doesn't happen. So you've got to find a way to win these games, and this is just as big a step for us as a young team as it is beating the Capitals the way we did, or coming back the other night in Pittsburgh.
"I look at Marty Biron; that's a capsule of how we played. He battled after a start, people chanting for Hank. That's a hard thing, and he battled through it, made some key saves at key times and found a way to win, and was an important part of it at the end with the shootout."
On Drury winning faceoffs, particularly on the tying goal:
"He wins the big faceoff, and Sean Avery does a great job from the outside hash, driving to the net, and Step, who I thought struggled through a lot of the game, scores a huge goal. So it's good. These are small steps for us as we're trying to win, and I couldn't be happier for Marty Biron. That's the guy I'm really happy for because he had to fight a lot of stuff going on around him and he made some key saves at key times to give us an opportunity. And their goalie did, too. At 2-1, he made some great saves. … you don't want to write it up this way, but it's a nice way to win a game if you're involved in it. We found a way to get it done."
On what he knew about Prust before they got him:
"We didn't know who he was. I mean, when we traded for him, there was a lot of things (salary-dump issues, etc.) that went into that deal, and Pruster was just a three-minute guy for Calgary. I think he bounced back from Calgary to Phoenix. We knew that he was tough, we knew he had some grit. But to do the things that he's been doing, he's part of our core. He's not home-grown from our minor-league team, or a draft pick, but he has joined in with us and does all the things you ask of him: along the wall, probably one of our better wall players; killing penalties; he'll fight anybody. And he's a big part of what we are. You look at a Ryan Callahan, a Prust, that's what we're trying to be as a Ranger team, and little by little everybody else is joining in and we're creating an identity."
On Christensen, playing very little in the third, but being a weapon in a shootout:
"He is, isn't he? That's one hell of a goal he scores there. You just never know when he … and it's just the world that he's in within the team. You never know when he's going to be playing well. When he's on his game he is a dangerous player. We tried to get him with Gabby a couple of times in the third period just to see if something was there. They had a couple of, not chances, but good shifts. You just never know when it's going to happen.
"In that situation … we have to do it. You know how I feel about the shootout. But we have to do it. He is a huge weapon for us. That's just one great goal he scored."
He was asked, "was there any point in the game where you thought you really missed Callahan?"
"Every minute. Yeah. He's just such a huge part of our team, in offensive situations, defensive situations, trying to crawl back into it, power play, penalty killing. Cally is who he is. He's a huge part of our club, but we have to overcome that. We did tonight again. Last night we had him for one shift. I think he played 1:58. So we're finding ways to do it. But you're not going to replace him. We just have to figure out how to win games without him, until he gets healthy.
"It's going to add minutes to Dru. It did tonight. I'm not sure where it's all going to fall, but everybody's got to contribute with more minutes, because those are 20-22 huge minutes a game for us. So it's not going to be one person. It's going to be more or less a team type situation."
On Phoenix:
"They're a good team. Because we beat Pittsburgh and Washington, people say, 'Phoenix is in here …' This is a Western Conference team and that conference is very good. They're one of the top teams there, well-coached. They tried to neutralize our speed, we tried to neutralize their speed. And for a majority of the game, I thought we did a pretty good job with that, too. But we ended up with a couple of big plays. It's such a fine line between winning and losing, and we've been very fortunate the past couple of nights in finding ways."


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When I published my last blog entry I mentioned that I wanted to find a small but useful project on which to learn some of AIR's nuances. The project has to be non-work related as that comes with some baggage (such as dead lines) that I don't want to interfere with the learning process.
At the risk of offending my old university Intro to Computer Programming professor (sorry Dr. Evans), I'm going to approach the problem bass ackwards. In this case I know what software I will use, I just need to find a project to develop. My criteria are as follows:
- Must be user facing – back end software is incredibly important stuff, but AIR's whole reason for being is to build an engaging interface
- Should make use of some of AIR's special talents – otherwise why build it in AIR?
- online/offline access – this implies that there is at least some kind of a back end system
- local database
- have update capabilities for new versions of the software
- platform independence
- encryption of data
- multimedia presentation
- etc……
- Should be fun, but it still should be somewhat useful. Lets face it, I am in the high-tech industry and with that comes a bit of ADD. The project has to be interesting enough to keep my attention.
- Must be well understood. By this I mean that the project must be something concrete as opposed to an abstract thought experiment. This is mainly so I can objectively assess the success of the project.
I also want to have something complex enough to be able to take advantage of many of AIR's features while still being simple enough that one person can build it. I don't want to need to learn an entire development architecture (such as
Cairngorm or Flight Framework). I think that adding a formal design pattern would muddy the waters right now. Who knows, if this is a success maybe I'll do another blog series on developing inside a framework.
So with this short list in mind I spent some time staring at the ceiling, thinking of a few applications. Here's what I have come up with so far:
- Expense report tool – My job involves a fair amount of travel and that leads to filling in expense reports. Most large scale expense reports software requires online access to impossibly huge back end systems such as SAP. Unfortunately this means that I can't enter my expense data while on the road (or on the plane). It would be very helpful if I could create expense reports off line and then synchronize when I connect. Also, all of the user interfaces for expense systems that I have used seem to have been designed by accountants (no offence to accountants out there) with little regard for aesthetics.
The drawback is that the connection to the back end system requires a pretty in depth knowledge of the systems APIs. I am worried that I could get bogged down in the back end connection.
- Fly Tying Inventory – One of my favorite hobbies is fishing and recently I have taken up fly fishing and fly tying. For those of you not familiar with this all encompassing waste of time and money – fly fishing consists of standing in the middle of a river waving a long stick around with a string tied to bits of feathers and fur on a hook. The combination of feathers and fur are called a fly pattern and there are literally thousands of different fly patterns out there. As a software guy it would be nice to have a tool from which I could search those patterns. This sort of thing screams for a well organized database that could contain videos and images of each pattern. The problem here is seeding the database with enough information to become useful
- Tournament Tracker – I was recently involved in a kayak fishing tournament in support of the Ottawa Riverkeeper organization. A good friend and fellow Adobe employee had volunteered to help monitor the event and register each entrants catch as well as work out who won what prizes. Being a "photo release" event, each angler was required to take a photo of their catch before returning it to the water. The length of each catch determined the winners. I couldn't help but think that a tool for the organizers to track anglers would be useful. At the same time a way for angler's to see up to date tournament information would be pretty cool. As the "weigh-in" information is gathered on the beach, off-line use would be really useful.
- Hockey Pool – I'm the first to admit that I'm not a hockey fan (which is blasphemy in this part of the world), but conceptually a hockey (or baseball, football, F1, cricket, whatever) pool may lend itself to this kind of application. Data must be centrally stored, but user picks and some other operations may be able to happen offline (with a data synch happening later). I wonder if the NHL would let me put in video clips 🙂
- Gas Price Monitor – A very timely idea. It would be very interesting to have a tool that charted gas prices around the country (world?) and compared them to the price of crude oil. There are a few web sites that do this, but their interfaces are not exactly the sexiest things in the world. I can't however think of an offline use for this as current data is key to the application.
Okay, so now I have a few ideas. My next chore is to pick one of the above (or something else if it comes to me) and then start to put some requirements together. Remember my main goal is to learn AIR, the application I use to do that is secondary.


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It sounded easy but I have been searching and struggling to find the correct solution and was hoping someone could steer me in the right direction.
This code below works fine when I ssh into my headless Pi
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#! /usr/bin/env python
# play mp3 from cron task
# Import moduals and functions
import os, sys
os.system('omxplayer -o local Lithium.mp3')
But when I set cron to run it say every 5 mins it does not work.
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*/5 * * * * python /home/pi/music/mp3.py &>/dev/null
After searching around I seem to think it should be run as some sort of sub-process??? I have tried various bit of code such as popen() and call() to no avail.
Could somebody tell me if I heading in the right direction with sub-processes and if so which one I should be looking to use.
Or is this just not possible.
I wanted it to be part of a bigger script that downloads a text file with the song to play from a remote webserver and then plays that song and deletes the file from the server.
I have the other parts working but can not get the song to play because no terminal window is open on the Raspberry Pi.
I have also try with Mplayer and Pygaame.
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What's new in ISX and MyWi to warrant paying an upgrade price just for it to work on iOS 6? Or is it just that we have to pay again because it is exactly the same only it took them a while to make compatible with iOS 6.
Used to look forward to jail breaking to use mywi but don't need it with Verizon anymore
Anyone know how bitesms does with ios6?
No thanks. Charging for a compatibility update and and a few new features I would hardly say is with 50% of the original price tag.
Why do people who just purchased the program getting it free? Maybe there money is better than ours who payed when the app first came out?
I mean come on!! All this says to me is they aren't making money off of new customers so they want to charge existing.
I for one no longer support intelliborn.
Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...owsperpage=250
Looks like I'm going back to using Lockinfo then, I'm not paying those robbing beeps another penny. MyWi hardly ever bloody worked anyway and IntelliscreenX is overpriced tripe.
I can understand adding more features and options for a jailbreak tweak. However, the developers are only making it iOS 6 compatible.
That's frustrating to me as well. I've used both Intelliscreen X ' MiWi when I had my jailbroken 4S. I got the iPhone 5 & haven't been able to use the software until this new jailbreak. I could understand if they added new functionality, but just for the right to use it with a new OS? That's pathetic and gouging.
For the record, TetherMe works with iOS 6. All updates to TetherMe have been free thus far.


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California's car culture, long celebrated in such Beach Boys classics as "Little Deuce Coupe," "409" and "I Get Around," has also spawned an equally robust car theft industry, judging by the latest "Hot Spots" vehicle theft report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
California once again dominates the list of metropolitan statistical areas, or MSAs, where car owners and auto insurance companies were most vulnerable to theft in 2012. Communities in the Golden State claim eight of the top 10 slots:
1. Modesto, Calif.
2. Fresno, Calif.
3. Bakersfield-Delano, Calif.
4. Stockton, Calif.
5. Yakima, Wash.
6. San Francisco/Oakland/Hayward, Calif.
7. San Jose/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara, Calif.
8. Vallejo/Fairfield, Calif.
9. Spokane/Spokane Valley, Wash.
10. Redding, Calif.
Six of the California hot spots also placed in last year's top 10. Expand the list, and the state claims 14 of the top 20 best places not to park your car.
Theft goes west
In fact, the western states -- Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming -- saw a 10.6 percent increase in vehicle theft last year. By contrast, the South was down 2.9 percent, the Midwest saw a 3.1 percent decline, and thefts in the Northeast were down 7.9 percent from the previous year.
The NICB ratings are consistent with preliminary FBI statistics for 2012 that point to a 1.3 percent national increase in vehicle thefts, following eight years of declines. The final numbers are due this fall.
So how many car thefts are we talking here? In Modesto, there were 4,260 reported thefts. But drive west to the more densely populated San Francisco Bay area, and you're looking at 28,220 thefts last year. Because the Hot Spots report is based on population, areas like Modesto with fewer total thefts but smaller populations often rank higher than areas with more stolen cars overall but a smaller incidence per capita.
Safety in Hawaii -- or at home
Where's Waldo to park without risking his ride? He'll find an absolutely safe space on the lovely isle of Maui, Hawaii, where nary a single vehicle was reported missing last year in the Kahului/Wailuku/Lahaina MSA.
The NICB recommends this "four layers of protection" approach to avoid vehicle theft and its potentially negative impact on your auto insurance rates:
• Common sense: Remember to take your keys with you, close your windows, lock your doors and park in a safe, well-lit area.
• Anti-theft devices: Invest in visible and audible alarms, brake and wheel locks and other theft-deterrent devices.
• Ride immobilizers: Prevent "hot-wiring" with smart keys, fuse cut-offs and other onboard technology that prevents thieves from starting your vehicle's engine.
• Tracking devices: Install a GPS or other tracking device that alerts you if your vehicle has been moved, and helps police locate it if it's stolen.
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This June 2013 the Filene Center will host Bill Cosby and other artists this month as well. This venue is located in Vienna, VA, but just a metro ride away from any Washington DC lodging. The Wolf Trap is known as America's National Park for the Performing Arts. With ongoing performances almost every night of the month, there is never a dull night at this wonderful performing arts theater.
The American Guest House promotes our prestigious venues that offer highlights to our guests agenda while visiting the Washington DC area. Directions to to this center are fairly simple from the Dupont Circle Metro Station. Take the Red Line to Metro Center and transfer to the Orange Line heading west to Vienna. Round-Trip Bus service is offered at the West Falls Church station on the Orange Line. Click here for more details on Metro Transportation! Express Shuttle Service from the West Falls Metro Station begins 2 hours before the show and returns 20 minutes after the show with the last shuttle leaving at 11pm.
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PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania women's soccer team got back on the winning track last weekend with a pair of shutout victories. The Quakers look to keep the prosperity going on the road this weekendat Columbia and Navy. The Quakers and Lions will kick off Saturday at 3:30 p.m., while the match at Navy is scheduled for Monday at 3 p.m.
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Penn at Navy: Live Stats
The Series with Columbia
The Quakers have won the last two meetings with the Lions, pushing them to an 11-8-2 lead in the series. Last year, Penn defeated Columbia 1-0 in Philadelphia behind a Kerry Scalora goal, and two years ago the Red and Blue came home from New York with a 2-0 victory as Kathryn Barth had one of the goals. A competitive series for several years now, no one has won three in a row in the matchup since Penn won three in a row from 1999-2001.
About Columbia
The Lions (6-3-2, 0-1-1) are home for the fourth time in the last five games; they have allowed just two goals at home this season. In Ivy play, Columbia has lost to Cornell (2-0) and tied Brown (0-0). Beverly Leon -- a second-team All-Ivy pick last year -- leads Columbia with 13 points (4g, 5a), while Natalie Melo also has five assists and two goals. Elly McCuffog has three goals and three assists, and Chelsea Ryan also has three goals. In goal, Grace Redmon (1.37 GAA, .810 save percentage) and Allison Spencer (0.54, .875) have seen a majority of the action.
The Series with Navy
The Quakers and the Midshipmen are meeting for the fourth time in women's soccer, with both teams having one win and the third ending in a draw. The last meeting took place during the 2010 season and ended as a 3-2 Navy win. The only other match at Annapolis was a 0-0 tie that took place during the 2000 season.
About Navy
The Midshipmen (11-2-0) enter the weekend having won nine matches in a row; they will play Bucknell in a Patriot League match Friday night, before hosting Penn on Monday. Morgan Dankanich leads the Mids with nine goals and 21 points, while Kaylie Davidson has five goals and Cat Macklin has four. Courtney Hook leads Navy with five assists, while Paloma Perez has four. In goal, Elizabeth Hoerner has started all but one match and boasts a 0.54 goals-against average and a .838 save percentage.
About Penn
*At 6-1-3, Penn is making history. Using the formula of three wins for a tie and one for a tie, the Quakers have 21 of a possible 30 points this season. The only other Penn teams that had 21 points or more at the 10-match mark are 2011 (8-2-0/24 points), 2007 (7-2-1/22), 2001 (8-1-1/25), 1999 (7-2-1/22) and 1997 (7-3-0/21).
*In addition, this is just the second time that Penn has had just one loss at this point in the season, the other being 2001 (8-1-1).
*Penn is 33-10-7 over its last 50 matches dating back to the 2010 season. In those 50 matches, Penn has nearly as many shutouts (30) as goals allowed (31).
*If Penn wins both of its matches this weekend, it will give the program 200 all-time wins. Head Coach Darren Ambrose has been at the helm for 134 of the 198 victories to date.
*Penn was the last team in NCAA Division I to allow a goal this season --Old Dominion finally dented the Quakers' net on September 22 --and has allowed just five goals in 10 matches. This is nothing new to the Quakers; two years ago, they led the nation in shutout percentage (13 in 17 matches) and allowed just seven goals all season.
*Never mind keeping teams off the scoresheet; Penn just isn't giving teams many chances to score. The Quakers have outshot their opponents by a whopping 160-60 so far this season, and Quaker goalies Kalijah Terilli and Katherine Myhre have been called upon just 21 times to make saves (Terilli 13, Myhre 8).
*Kerry Scalora was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Monday, after scoring the only goal in Penn's 1-0 Ivy League win over Cornell Friday on a penalty kick. She leads Penn with 11 points and is tied for the team lead in goals (4) and assists (3).
*Scalora enters the weekend with 14 career goals and 12 career assists for 40 career points.
*In Sunday's 4-0 win over Fairleigh Dickinson, Elissa Berdini and Megan York had their second goals of the season while Clara Midgley scored her first this season and sophomore Shannon Hennessy notched her first collegiate tally.
*York also has two assists this season, and is third on the team with six points. She is one of six players with two assists during the campaign.
*At the other end, juniors Haley Cooper and Lauren Hammond were pressed into starting duties at central defender as freshman Tahirih Nesmith -- who also has four goals -- and senior Claire Walker missed both matches due to injuries. For Hammond, the starts were the first of her career.
*On offense, Penn has had 10 different players score its 19 goals this season.
*Penn has had one scoreless tie this year, and two others where goals were scored. In those two ties, the Quakers spotted the opposition their goals first (2 for ODU, 1 for Lehigh) before coming back to salvage the draw.
*Not only did Penn win its opening two games on September 6 and 8, the Quakers did so in record fashion. Their combined 8-0 margin of victory was a season best, topping the previous mark of a combined 6-0 margin set by the 1998 squad.
*Penn returns two women who earned All-Ivy honors last year, seniors Scalora (first-team forward) and Rano (second-team defender). Scalora was also the 2010 Ivy League and ECAC Rookie of the Year.
*Barth, meanwhile, was a second-team All-Ivy and second-team NSCAA all-region selection two years ago, as a sophomore.
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Penn is at home next Saturday, hosting Dartmouth at 5 p.m. in the first half of a women's/men's doubleheader at Rhodes Field. The Penn men host Dartmouth afterward, at approximately 7:30 p.m.


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Mark Yarbrough:Welcome to DTS Dialogue - Issues of God in Culture. I'm your host, Mark Yarbrough, executive director of communications at Dallas Theological Seminary. And today our discussion topic is, "Ministry in Cross-Cultural Contexts". Specifically, we want to raise awareness of how cultural differences affect ministry.
Just changing gears again, I want to go back to... Scott used a word a minute ago, and it is a buzzword, at least probably in our Western culture: community. How can we distinguish community from culture? Are they synonymous? Are they words that are related, or is community part of culture? Anyone want to field that one?
Dr. Mark Young:Well, perhaps in the discipline, academic discipline, of culture anthropology, we make a distinction between society, as a defined group of people, and culture, as a way of life for those people. So if by community you mean some group of people that has self-identity, then technically we would make a distinction between a community and their way of life, meaning their culture. Now, obviously, cultures are parts of communities; communities express culture, so there's not a separation phenomenologically. Albeit, our tendency would be to try to separate it definitionally, or in terms of being able to talk about it analytically or academically.
Dr. J. Scott Horrell: My question, though, Mark, is it possible to have a multicultural community?
Mark Young:Oh, definitely. Yeah. And I think that the same way that you would say there are multicultural societies, so you can go a few miles from the Seminary, for example, and you can find pockets of cultural distinctiveness based on ethnic identity. All a part of a geological - or geographical, that's the word - geographical community, defined by a space. And again, you can define these words fluidly; so you can go to a church, you can have a community of believers; and within that, you have different people who express linguistically or behaviorally their love for Christ.
My church, for example: we have a church community; we have two very distinct cultures worshiping in that community, one Hispanic, one Anglo. We also have a fellowship of Chinese folk who meet; they sing in Chinese, they pray in Chinese, they worship in Chinese, they know Christ in Chinese. They choose, as well, to be a part of our Anglo community, and for various functions or activities we're together; the same way with our Hispanic congregation. So multiple communities within a broader community, multiple cultures within a broader community, that's very possible. And interestingly enough, the first place that those who had confessed Jesus were identified as Christ followers - meaning Christians - was in the only, or the first, multicultural community of believers that we see in the Scripture, in the city of Antioch.
So I think there's something intrinsically missional, intrinsically Christ-like, in people from multiple ethnic groups coming together and confessing Jesus as the identifying point, the identifying element, of who they are. You couldn't call them Jews, and you couldn't call them Greeks; so the only option was to call them Christ followers. Isn't that marvelous?
Victor Anderson:I don't know if it would pass in an anthropological exam, but I tend to at least, just thinking casually about the difference between culture and community, I see culture as something that we really don't choose, a lot; we're in it, we become part of it. It's almost just a default. Community is often something that we choose to be involved in. I recently relocated to Dallas, and so I had to choose a community in which to locate my house, choose a house that was in a community. And there are some things that we have in common. It's not a real close community, but it is a community, because we share schools, and certain resources, and property owner dues in common.
The church community is one that is very intentionally chosen by people who say, "I want to join with this group of believers, this group of people." So perhaps part of the answer to your question there, Mark, is that there is certainly differences in culture and community, but one is probably that the community element we're, I would think, much more conscious of, and much more intentional about the kinds of communities that we become part of.
Scott:I would say community is relationship above all else. And I think that's why we feel, wherever we go in the world, we may have a complete language and cultural barrier, yet when somebody else loves the Lord, and we love the Lord as well, there is that - at least in my experience - kind of that instantaneous bond. You know you are related, and you're related through the head of the body, Jesus Christ.
Mark Young: Very true.
Scott:And that's a tangible reality that, I think, when people go on short-term mission trips or long, they experience that and that is one of the most marvelous things about getting out of our sectors here in North America.
Mark Young: No doubt.
Mark Yarbrough:Let me ask you this, ask each one of you to comment and to come up with, here on the fly, one specific thing: what can one culture learn from another culture? If you were to say, this is something, even in your experience, or something that would make it to the top of your list, what would it be? And we're talking about cross-cultural ministry, and obviously we've touched on a lot of that already in our discussion. But what can one culture learn from another culture?
Victor: What can believers in one culture learn from believers in another culture?
Mark Yarbrough: Yes. Who wants to take that?
Mark Young:I think that, at the core level, we tend to sanctify two things as Christians. We sanctify cultural values, which may not necessarily be biblical in their orientation; and we tend to sanctify sin. That is, we tend to overlook behaviors and values that are directly opposed to what the Scripture teaches. And so, from culture to culture, other Christians have helped me identify both, in my own life, what I value that isn't necessarily helpful for the sake of the gospel; and frankly, helped me see sin that I was very easily overlooking. Give you an example, quick story; well, no missionary tells a quick story.
Years ago, we lived in Poland. We lived there during the Communist era, and telephone communication was nonexistent, or risky at best; our phones were tapped the whole time. And I had an appointment with a friend of mine; we were putting together the plans for our new seminary we were going to start in Poland. We were best friends; still are, to this day. And he was supposed to come to my house at three-thirty. Three-thirty came around; no friend. His name is Zeigmund. No Zeigmund. Four-thirty, five-thirty, no Zeigmund. Of course, no phone call. So I as a westerner, value time as a commodity to be cherished. Time is what?
Victor: Money.
Mark Young:Money. So I'm starting to get irritated about my friend no showing up. Eight thirty, drives up to our place and comes in and I'm obviously not godly enough to mask my irritation at this point.
And I said, well, what happened, you were supposed to be here at three thirty. He says well, my wife's cousin's neighbor came in from another city which is about 200 kilometers away. And so we had to spend the afternoon with her and the evening with her. So I'm thinking my wife's cousin's neighbor, you blew off my appointment with me so you could be with your wife's cousin's neighbor? You know? So I'm saying this kind of without really saying it but he knows what i mean because hes been around Americans a bit.
So he says to me, Mark let me ask you a question, in the list of qualifications for an elder, what comes first?
Hospitality or punctuality?
And so what had I done? I had elevated to the point of almost a moral value something that is not biblical. And he helped me see that something that is biblical, namely that when a guest comes into your home, the world stops. And your hospitality is the best way to demonstrate the love of Christ. It was not something I valued.
Scott:I think for me two things come to the fore, one I have seen those who have had no theological education powerfully preach the Word of God, accurately preach the Word of God, and with the fullness of the Holy Spirit that has amazed me. Even when I'm a speaker and I get up with all the rest and I feel utterly humbled beside this man who profoundly knows the Lord. And what we saw quite often in Brazil is that repeatedly Americans would show up with all the money, great jokes, the multimedia. Yet get Pastor Jose in the first row, is far more a man of god than some of those who have all the resources to come down. So one of the things we must learn is that of humility in the midst of all of this. Celestine Misukura talks about asking people to write down, and Bob Pyne brings this in as well, all of the talents and all of your abilities, all that you think God will use in and through you to strengthen his church worldwide.
And just put it on a paper and now we are going to put it in a bowl and we want you to light the match. Because until we get beyond that to recognize our dependency is on our Lord Jesus and on the power of the Holy Spirit, on the Father, working in and through us by his grace, then we really have anything to give to the rest of the world.
Mark Young: Wow, wow.
Scott:So the love that goes with that as well, humility and that we need to learn from the rest of the world as I speak as a North American, when I saw how the hospitality as Mark mentioned, the grace and open home and sacrifice for my sake on the part of those in other countries. realizing I would never do that for them if they came to the United States.
Mark Yarbrough: Right.
Scott:I am deeply humbled. We have much to learn and therefore in our churches, how much we need to hear from the worldwide body of Christ, and not only recognize we are sending people out and perhaps resources out, increasingly we need to be inviting them in to learn from them.
Mark Yarbrough: Yes.
Scott: And to have the people in our churches understand what a wealth they bring to us.
Mark Yarbrough: That's great. That's great. Okay, I've heard hospitality and humility, but can you come up with an "H" word?
Victor: I'm supposed to be a homeletician...
Victor:My heart resonates with the two guys that have already spoken becauser there are certainly things I have seen as well. I think particularly in the context of extreme poverty that I was involved with for a good part of my missionary experience. It is humbling to watch hospitality and spiritual effectiveness come out of situations that we would tend to classify as resource poor.
Mark Young: Yeah.
Victor:And, well, for most of us as believers coming from the west we tend to look at our resources and then think how can we minister out from these resources?
Mark Young: Yes.
Victor:It almost seems the exact opposite in much of the world. Where people will say we are going to be involved in ministry and if God grants us the resources we can use them, if not, we use whatever we have.
Mark Young: Right.
Victor:And that's humbling and also I think it has a bit of a rebuke to it for us as well. That I know I've seen huge amounts of faith from people who have virtually nothing, and yet really want to see mountains moved.
Mark Young: You bet. You bet.
Victor:And most of us, our first inclination is probably to look at the mountain and say it ain't going to happen. There's no way. We can't see the path. So they pray, they motivate people, and they pray, and they acknowledge their dependence. And God works.
Mark Young: He does.
You know Mark, I think ultimately if you were to ask what is the global church saying to the North American church, one of the elements of their message has to be, the joy of suffering for the sake of the gospel and the glory of Christ. In a majority Christian culture like our own, and I know we could fuss about that forever, in a culture where Christianity is very neatly woven into the fabric of our society, we tend to think of suffering as an aberration, or suffering as something to get over, or to get past.
For most of the world's Christians, suffering is the joy of knowing Jesus. For the joy of knowing Jesus, immediately brings, deprivation, isolation, and often times physical harm. In that, just as Paul said, the glory and power of god is made evident. More so than the gifts, or the skills, or the plans, or the cleverness or the wisdom or the strength that any human brings to the task.
If you were to ask me, "What is it that we lack more than anything else in our awareness of what God's doing around the world?" We lack an awareness, an appropriate appreciation, for what Paul calls "the gift of suffering" at the end of Philippians Chapter 1.
Mark Yarbrough:We've talked on a variety of topics here. And, we could have podcasts on probably 10 different things we have surfaced here at the table. If someone is out there and we're getting to wrap this up and thinks - "Boy, I'd like a little more exposure on some of these topics." What are just a resource or two that you would point out to them?
Maybe it's a book or some kind of a presentation. Maybe you are saying it's "have a cross-cultural experience."
What is one thing that you would say?
Mark Young:Well, I would recommend that people read missionary biographies. I consider the stories of those who have taken the gospel cross-cultural to be the very treasure of the church. For some reason we've decided it's not worth our time to encounter great people of faith who have become, using the language of Hebrews, "our cloud of testifiers", who are telling us: "it's worth the race, run that race of faith!"
And so, if you haven't ever read a missionary biography, start simply with Through Gates of Splendor, the story of the Auca Indians - Jim Elliott's story. And then seek, intentionally seek out the stories of those who have laid their lives on the line for the sake of the gospel and, in that, you will see lots of examples of how culture, and dealing with culture, and people with different orientations encounter Christ. It's a very rich treasure that we are allowing to lie fallow in our churches today.
Victor:Another way of having your heart touched in a kind of ongoing basis is to get involved in a "Perspectives" program. Many, many churches across the U.S. especially. I would think that in most major cities around the U.S. you could find a "Perspectives" program. In fact, some will be starting up right after the holidays here. It would be great to get involved. They usually run 12 to 16 weeks I think it is something like that. We meet once a week and it is a great opportunity to be challenged about God's heart for missions and his movement around the world.
Mark Young:Let me break in on that - you can get all the information on those courses, where and when they're offered, at the website for the U.S. Center for World Missions - uscwm.org. They have the complete schedule around the country for the offering of this course called "Perspectives."
Victor:Excellent! The other thing I was going to mention was making use of the internet and the web in another way, which is that I think many of the best mission agencies these days do have.
Mark Young: Yes, yes, they really do!
Victor:And they have all kinds of stories, and vignettes, and links to multiple resources. I know that the missionary organization I've been with, S.I.M., can be reached at www.sim.org and boy, it will give you links to all kinds of good things, from opportunities, to challenges, to things missionaries are experiencing right now, today - and projects people get involved in. So, I'd really encourage people to make use of that.
Scott:I'd like to throw in something yet and that is - to engage in a short-term mission experience. For many that's difficult to do it beyond a couple weeks. The longer the better.
Mark Young: Right.
Scott:But there are some that are not exotic, lavish, kinds of vacation mission tourism trips. There are some like with Mission Discovery and others that go right across the border, dig in and build home, and live very simply. You can take your children on that. Those kinds of experiences begin to open up not only you but the family to a very different world out there. And, for some of you that are readers, I brought a couple of books along that may be helpful.
One is by our own Mike Pocock, along with Gailyn Van Rheenen, and Douglas McConnell - The Changing Face of World Missions: Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends. Practical, loaded with data as well as remarkable insights. Baker Press 2006.
And, for those of you who are curious about what is going on around the world and this pendulum of God's grace has shifted to what is sometimes called the Global South or, to much of the rest of the world as well, there are two or three books that are worth their weight in gold.
Two by Phillip Jenkins, these are from Oxford University Press. He is a distinguished professor of History and Religion at Penn State University and yet these books are remarkable: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity and the second one, brand new, 2006: The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South.
How those in the so-called 2/3rds world Christian community read the Bible much more literally than their educated protestant neighbors in the north atlantic countries.
All three books are really worthwhile.
Mark Yarbrough:Mark, those do sound like some great resources. I am quite certain that our listeners will be appreciative of those and hope they will be able to take advantage of them. I want to say this again, thank you all for showing up here.
All: Thank you.
Mark Yarbrough:I deeply appreciate it. It's always a joy to get to spend some time with you guys and to listen to what the Lord is doing through you as you continue to teach students here at Dallas Theological Seminary and around the world! I know you're all involved in many global endeavors. It's just exciting to be hearing and be a part of.
So, why don't we close with a word of prayer. Scott - why don't you just take us out? Thank you!
Scott: Sure.
Our Father, we thank you for Jesus our Savior that is the reason we're talking right now and that many are listening because we call you Lord, our Savior, and we know that the blood of Christ was shed for all who will believe around the world. May that growing awareness of the needs in other parts of the world become a part of our very being. May your Spirit work in us and convict us, showing us how we can take little steps to be better informed and to allow you to work afresh in our lives and to challenge us to take steps of faith we've never taken before.
We ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen!
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge correctly interpreted the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedents when he declared in 2010 that Proposition 8 -- a response to an earlier state court decision that legalized gay marriage -- was a violation of the civil rights of gays and lesbians.
However, the appeals court said gay marriages cannot resume in the state until the deadline passes for Proposition 8 sponsors to appeal to a larger panel of the 9th Circuit. If such an appeal is filed, the panel's ruling would remain on hold until it's resolved.
"Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples," states the opinion written by Judge Stephen Reinhardt, one of the court's most liberal judges.
More than 50 people who gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown San Francisco greeted the ruling with cheers. They held signs and waved rainbow flags.
Backers of Proposition 8 said they would ask the Supreme Court to overturn the 9th Circuit ruling, which came more than a year after the appeals court panel heard arguments in the case.
"We are not surprised that this Hollywood-orchestrated attack on marriage -- tried in San Francisco -- turned out this way. But we are confident that the expressed will of the American people in favor of marriage will be upheld at the Supreme Court," said Brian Raum, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal aid group based in Arizona that helped defend Proposition 8.
Supporters of gay marriage hailed the ruling. American Foundation for Equal Rights President Chad Griffin, who formed the group along with director Rob Reiner to wage the court fight against Proposition 8, called the panel's decision "a historic victory."
"The message it sends to young LGBT people, not only here in California but across the country, (is) that you can't strip away a fundamental right," Griffin said.
The appeals panel crafted a narrow decision that applies only to California, even though the court has jurisdiction in nine western states. California is the only one of those states where the ability for gays to marry was granted then rescinded.
"Whether under the Constitution same-sex couples may ever be denied the right to marry, a right that has long been enjoyed by opposite-sex couples, is an important and highly controversial question," the court said. "We need not and do not answer the broader question in this case."
The panel also said there was no evidence that former Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker was biased and should have disclosed before he issued his decision that he was gay and in a long-term relationship with another man.
Proposition 8 backers had asked the 9th Circuit to set aside Walker's ruling on constitutional grounds and because of the thorny issue of the judge's personal life. It was the first instance of an American jurist's sexual orientation being cited as grounds for overturning a court decision.
Walker publicly revealed he was gay after he retired. Supporters of the gay marriage ban argued that he had been obliged to previously reveal if he wanted to marry his partner -- like the gay couples who sued to overturn the ban.
The 9th Circuit held a hearing on the conflict-of-interest question in December. In its ruling Tuesday, the panel majority said it was unreasonable to presume a judge cannot apply the law impartially just because he is a member of the minority group at issue in a case.
"To hold otherwise would demonstrate a lack of respect for the integrity of our federal courts," the opinion said.
Reihardt, who was appointed to the appeals court by President Jimmy Carter, was joined in the majority opinion by Judge Michael Hawkins, an appointee of President Bill Clinton.
Judge Randy Smith, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, dissented, saying he disagreed that Proposition 8 served no purpose other than to treat gays and lesbians as second-class citizens.
California voters passed Proposition 8 with 52 percent of the vote in November 2008, five months after the state Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage by striking down a pair of laws that had limited marriage to a man and a woman.
The ballot measure inserted the one man-one woman provision into the California Constitution, thereby overruling the court's decision. It was the first such ban to take away marriage rights from same-sex couples after they had already secured them and its passage followed the most expensive campaign on a social issue in the nation's history.
The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and the Law, a think tank based at the University of California, Los Angeles, has estimated that 18,000 couples tied the knot during the four-month window before Proposition 8 took effect. The California Supreme Court upheld those marriages but ruled that voters had properly enacted the law.
Gov. Jerry Brown, in his previous role as attorney general, and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, refused to defend Proposition 8 in court and left it to the ballot measure's sponsors to appeal Walker's decision to the 9th Circuit.
Brown issued a statement Tuesday saying, "The court has rendered a powerful affirmation of the right of same-sex couples to marry. I applaud the wisdom and courage of this decision."
With same-sex marriages unlikely to resume in California any time soon, Love Honor Cherish, a gay rights group based in Los Angeles, plans to gather signatures for a November ballot initiative asking voters to repeal Proposition 8.
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Grand Banks Yachts arrives with its 54 Heritage EU. After stepping out in Cannes she's stateside, a solid cruiser with twin Cummins power built on the same, proven hull of the 53 Aleutian. Plus check out the 43 Heritage EU, an update of the Zeus-powered 41.
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In the 1940's Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed the doll test to examine how black children were impacted by segregation. Most of the children were able to identify racial difference. The children also readily assigned positive attributes to the white doll and negative attributes to the black doll.
The year is now 2008, and it has been fifty-four years since the Brown V. Board of Education. One would assume that within such a large time span that much would have changed. Unfortunately, this is not the case. When tested today black children still chose the white doll over the black doll. It is clear that we have not escaped the legacy of slavery. Systemic racism continues to stunt the growth, and self-esteem of our children.
Black children have internalized the self-hatred that has been promoted by our social institutions. Whether it is the media, or schools etc, everywhere there is the message that black is less than, inferior, and not worthy of love. The eyes of the child in the video speak of a soul that has been damaged. As a mother it breaks my heart, as a WOC it enrages my soul.
In the education system black history is the focus in February during Black History month. The glaring absence of an Afrocentric influence throughout the rest of the school year destroys the attempt of inclusivity. This approach diminishes the contributions of POC, as well as further entrenches racial hierarchy wherein white or Caucasian achievements are necessarily more substantial as they consume the majority of the curriculum. Through invisibility and marginalization, black children learn that their history is not worthy of critical analysis, and that they do not originate from a people that offered anything of value to the world. When the education system later directs them on paths that do not lead to higher learning, they are more readily accepting, after all if blacks have not achieved in the past, why should they?
The media is another large culprit in the devaluation of POC. Blacks are either marked by invisibility, or portrayed as criminals, sidekicks, and servants. Very seldom do we see black characters in successful positive roles on prime time television, or as leading actors in major films. Yes I know we have our Denzels and our Haille Berrys (for the record I am NOT a fan of that woman) but when compared to leading Caucasian actors they are not given as many roles,or roles that offer the same diversity. Consider that Denzel won an award for being a corrupt cop and Haille won her award for playing the role of a woman, who in a time of emotional vulnerability, slept with the executioner of the father of her child. We are often the decorative object rather than the necessary subject in many fictional dramas.
Most importantly black children need to see black people succeeding each and every day. They need role models other than professional athletes and entertainers. Those that have succeeded in that avenue are but a small percentage of the population, and it is not possible for the majority to take that path out of poverty and marginalization. We cannot shuck and jive our way into respectability and self love. Our children have told us so, not only in previous generations but today in the here and now. Though the we no longer bare the physical chains of slavery the psychic and emotional damage are omnipresent. We remain colonized members of a so-called free and equal society. Our children are internalizing the pathology of racial hatred to the detriment of our future as a people.


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Lewis Hamilton knows it is crucial he follows up his perfect Friday with another pole position ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix given Barcelona's qualifying history.
Hamilton is not prone to hyperbole following practice on Friday, but even he could not contain himself after destroying the field over the two sessions at the Circuit de Catalunya, remarking it was "a great day".
The currently dominant 29-year-old, aiming for a fourth consecutive victory, finished half a second quicker than Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg come the conclusion.
Hamilton is now a red-hot favourite to make it four poles in five races this year, and for another win that would finally see him overhaul Rosberg in the championship standings.
That victory, though, relies on qualifying more at this race than many others as in 23 past grands prix at the circuit the winner has started from top spot on the grid on 17 occasions, including 11 of the last 13.
"It's very difficult to overtake here," said Hamilton.
"Even following backmarkers in practice it was very difficult to get past, so position is everything.
"With the pace we have, it is always important to have pole position, and I'll do everything I can to get myself as high as possible for the race."
For now, Hamilton could not be happier with his performance and that of the car, with Mercedes' nearest rivals being Daniel Ricciardo in his Red Bull and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, albeit almost a second and 1.5secs adrift respectively.
"It's going really well," added Hamilton. "We're getting back into it after a long break, so to get back into the car and feel that positive step forward...
"I'm sure I'll go back and analyse some things, find where I can improve because there are always places to do that.
"But Friday was a smooth day. I've not had a Friday like that for a long time."
Whereas Hamilton is riding the crest of a wave at the moment, four-times champion Sebastian Vettel suffered another low.
Vettel had most of Friday off as his Red Bull incurred a wiring loom fault after four laps of the first session which then sidelined him for all of the second, putting him on the back foot for the rest of the weekend.
Behind the leading quartet, McLaren's Jenson Button, second quickest on the hard compound tyre in the morning session, dropped to seventh fastest on the quicker medium rubber, a staggering 2.3secs behind Hamilton.
As for Marussia's Max Chilton, on a run of 23 consecutive finishes, his second session was a troubled one in which he was plagued by engine trouble before beaching his car in the gravel late on to finish 19th and 5.6secs down.


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Flames Fall Short in Near Comeback at Furman
After being down by 24 with 12:26 left in the second half, the Liberty men's basketball nearly pulled off the comeback, Friday night, at Furman. With six tenths of a second on the clock, Casey Roberts inbounded the ball to John Caleb Sanders with the chance to tie. However, Sanders was unable to grab hold of the rock, giving the Paladins the 86-83 victory inside Timmons Arena.
Stephen Croone led the Paladins early surge, finishing the contest with a career-high 40 points, including 23 in the first half. The sophomore concluded the night 11-of-16 from the field, 5-of-7 from three-point range and 13-of-21 at the line.
Antwan Burrus closed out the night with 19 points, followed by Joe Retic and Tomasz Gielo, who each had a season-high 16 points, apiece. Sanders rounded out the Flames' double-figure scorers with 15 points. The trio of Burrus, Retic and Gielo were instrumental in helping the Flames battle through adversity, combining for 38 points in the second stanza.
The Paladins concluded the contest shooting 56.3 percent (27-of-48), including 52.6 percent (10-of-19) from three-point range. Liberty shot 45.2 percent (28-of-62) on the night and 42.9 percent (9-of-21) behind the three-point arc.
Liberty jumped out to a 7-3 lead in the early moments. Davon Marshall set up the play to give the Flames the four-point edge, picking the pocket of Kendrec Ferrara and eventually dished it to Sanders, who finished with a layup on a 2-on-1 fast break. Croone, answered for the Paladins with five straight points, including a three-pointer to put the home team ahead by one. Retic regained the lead for Liberty on the other end, hitting an 18-foot baseline jumper over a Paladin defender, making it 9-8, at 13:48.
The three-pointers began to fly on both ends of the court with 10:33 left in the period. After a Croone trey gave Furman a one-point lead, Roberts responded with one of his own. A Paladin basket knotted the contest for the fifth time, but a Sanders three-point bucket put the Flames back on top. Charlie Reddick nullified the shot at the opposite end, tying the contest, 20-20, with a three-pointer at the 7:42 mark.
Another Sanders three-pointer gave the Flames a four-point lead with 6:36 left, but the Paladins proceeded to go on a 10-0 run, helping Furman outscore Liberty, 22-7, in the remaining minutes of the half. Croone posted 12 points during the span, capping the half with a three-pointer to give Furman a 43-32 halftime lead.
With his late-half burst, Croone finished the half with 23 points, hitting 7-of-7 from the field and 4-of-4 from three-point land. The sophomore also went 5-of-7 at the charity stripe.
Sanders paced the Flames with 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting and 3-of-4 from the three-point arc.
Furman shot 65.2 percent (15-of-23) in the first half, while holding Liberty to 38.5 percent (10-of-26). The Paladins hit 7of-11 three-pointers (63.6 percent) in the period, compared to 5-of-10 for the Flames.
The Paladins hot hand continued in the beginning of the second half. With under 16 minutes left in the contest, Furman went on a 15-0 run cemented by a William Gates trifecta. A Coronado layup prevented the Paladins from extending its lead further, making it 66-44 with 11:29 left.
Down by 19, the Flames began a 10-0 run with 8:19 remaining, kick started by Retic three-pointer. The sophomore later capped the burst with a three-pointer, cutting the deficit to nine, 70-61, with 6:24 on the clock.
Liberty used defense to whittle the deficit further. A big dunk off an inbounds steal by Burrus made it an eight-point game with just over four minutes left. Key plays by Gielo, Retic and Burrus down the stretch put Liberty within arm's length of the Paladins. A Burrus jumper cut it two with 39 ticks left, but after a Ferrara free throw, Furman hung on for the 86-83 final.
The Flames receive an eight-day break before returning to action, Saturday, Dec. 28. Liberty will host Southeastern (Fla.) at 5:30 p.m., with the contest streaming live on the Big South Network.


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NVIDIA Announces Quadro K6000by Ryan Smith on 7/23/2013 9:00 AM EST
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Jon Tseng - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkAnd Crysis...? ;-p Reply
Hameedo - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkWell, a full GK110 @1.0GHz frequency will be about 40% faster than a GTX680/7970 GHz .. so go figure from that ! Reply
trajan2448 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkNot a gaming card. Different drivers. Will NOT be faster in games than a Titan or 780. Reply
daku123 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkCore Geforce DX architecture should be present. So IMO it is faster than Titan while gaming! :) Reply
dragonsqrrl - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI wouldn't be so sure about that. It's been shown many times before that Quadro's don't have nearly as much of a handicap in games as Geforce cards have in content creation applications. While a similarly spec'd Quadro (which is almost never the case) might perform just under a Geforce counterpart in games, the K6000 is also more powerful than any other card from Nvidia. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this card outperformed a Titan in games. Reply
Flunk - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkDon't buy into the hype, the Quadro cards perform about on par with equivalent Geforces in games. The reason for any performance difference at all is that Nvidia purposely disables certain features on Geforce cards (often with drivers) so that they perform worse. They don't similarly disable features on the Quadros.
If the GPU is the same and the clocks are the same a Quadro and Geforce will equivalently in games. Reply
SodaAnt - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkNot really true. I've had various workstation graphics cards over the years, and all of them performed within a few percent (within the margin of error) compared to the same card that was a consumer version. Reply
nathanddrews - Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - linkStrip it down to 3-4GB and sell it for less (not that they would). You certainly don't need that much for 4K gaming, even with 4xMSAA enabled. Not that you'd want to enable AA and lose what little framerate you have anyway. Reply
royalestel - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkThey already do that. This is really the refined GPU version of the Geforce 680/780 card with lots of extra memory. Realtime (i.e.Game) performance is definitely better with this card. I would, however, appreciate the kind of graphical comparisons between cards that Anadtech does with the actual GeForce cards. Things like a visual sim application would do. In other words, I want to see anisotropic filtering on flat area of the earth with lots of roads and satellite imagery. I currently always have problems with anisotropic filtering in this application. Either the roads disappear into a blur at 5miles, or the distant terrain at the horizon aliases like crazy. There are some newer techniques that might alleviate this (Fourier Texture Filtering), but these are surely far form being implemented in hardware. Reply
IanCutress - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI'll take four. Just because, you know, stuff. Reply
lmcd - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI'd buy the car instead, man. Reply
nathanddrews - Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - linkCars break down. Reply
mavere - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkConsidering the clocks and TDP, I guess Nvidia snatched up all the golden Titan dies for this.
Shame. I wouldn't mind a cooler, quieter single GPU behemoth for gaming. Reply
cmikeh2 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkThe only way that is ever going to happen is if people are willing to pay the same price for that consumer card as NVIDIA would make on the Quadro. I find that unlikely. Reply
iMacmatician - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkOn NVIDIA's Quadro spec page, there's a link to a Linecard PDF that gives the peak GFLOPS of all the recent Quadro cards, to what looks to be the nearest 1 GFLOPS.
The K6000 has 5196 SP GFLOPS (1/3 DP) and the K5000 has 2150 SP GFLOPS, which would give clock speeds of 902 and 700 MHz respectively. Reply
chizow - Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - linkGuess this opens the door for the rumored GTX Titan Ultra, possibly in November to counter AMD's Volcanic Islands. If they have binned parts with all fully-enabled GK110 functional units, they have fully-enabled ASICs that are too leaky to make it as 225W Tesla/Quadro parts. Fully expect 250W Titan Ultras....$1500 np, all the Titan early adopters will be happy to get owned by Nvidia all over again for 192sp and 6GB more.
Also expect to see a few more GK110-based SKUs, like the rumored 2304SP, 320-bit version. Shuffle Titan and 780 pricing based on how AMD competes with Volcanic Islands GCN 2.0 update on 28nm. Reply
vailr - Saturday, July 27, 2013 - linkToo bad the new (yet-to-be-released) 2013 Mac Pro won't be able to use these. Unless maybe Apple decides to offer an updated "cheese cutter" case Mac Pro (with an updated nVidia GPU) in tandem with their "round cylinder" AMD-only dual GPU Mac Pro. Reply
Gothmoth - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linklets hope they have better drivers for this card.
i have problems with nvidia drivers newer then 314.22.
all drivers newer then 314.22 give me sporadic freezes for 2-4 seconds.
looking in the event log i see that "nvlddmkm" was causing a problem every time these freezes happen.
i have just installed a fresh win7 64 bit, because i bought a news SSD, and tried the latest WHQL driver. i immediately noticed that, using IE, the latest 320.49 driver has this "micro-freezes" too.
going back to 314.22 solved all my problems.
i don´t understand how nvidia gets a "WHQL" stamp for these new drivers.
and it´s really sad to see this happen.
i never had big problems with nvidia drivers before and that was a reason i bought nvidia since the gefore 256.
instead of tweaking benchmarks and game performance they should focus on stability!! Reply
Toyist - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkHave to diagree. I've had mostly Pro cards and my son gaming cards on the same machines. We used to do side-by-side tests. I could render a 3D image in about 1/6 the time he could, but in some games he could get almost double the framerates. I would spend a lot more on my cards. Also, until recently (last five years or so) the architectures of pro cards and game cards were different - you couldn't get a pro and game version of the "same" card. Used to be Pro cards were OpenGL and gaming things like DirectX. Game companies would write to DirectX not OpenGL and while they would run on the Pro cards the Pro cards had only weak support for things liek DirectX.
There is also a common misconception about manufacturers "disabling" the same card for pro and game markets. They do, but there are other factors. Binning is a big one (test the same chips and the "super performers" go in the pro cards and the others game cards). Also some of the "disabling" is more like tuning. If I drop a frame or two every second in a game no big deal. If I drop a frame when rendering a high-budget movie big issue. Different firmware very similar, but "disabled" drivers. Reply
nonebeforenoneafter - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkIt would be very hard for me to imagine buying one of these rather than a 4 X Titan 6GB Liquid cooled cards paired with a High end 4way-SLI MOBO and 1200 watt PSU for many reasons. Water cooled Titans have a higher speed than standard titans. GPU rendering Cuda/OpenCL accross 4 gpus or even 3 would be incredible. Games now and future would be insane fast. Don't need to see 3D viewports in extreme quality too often. Fast enough to view thousands of objects. Should be organizing scenes and polycount anyway. Aftereffects would gain a lot from 4 Titans. Reply
royalestel - Thursday, September 12, 2013 - linkThere's always tradeoffs. You'd save money, but lose chassis space and use more power. Those might be great options, come to think of it. Reply
aa_ - Monday, April 21, 2014 - linkso, at 7.1B, you'll get a million transistors for less than one dollar.
that's unbelievably cheap! Reply


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These chicken nachos are the perfect flavor-packed dish to kick off your Super Bowl festivities.
These chicken nachos are the perfect flavor-packed dish to kick off your Super Bowl festivities.
By opting for a leaner meat than the traditional ground beef, you can sneakily cut calories without sacrificing flavor - leaving guests with more room to taste all of the other Super Bowl treats you've whipped up!
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 6 green onions, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons organic canola or veggie oil
- 1 teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon of sea or kosher salt
- 4 teaspoons of lemon juice
- 1 cup salsa (your favorite store-bought brand)
- 1/2 (12 ounce) package organic corn tortilla chips
- 1 cup of mature cheddar cheese, shredded
- 1/2 large tomato, diced
- 1 chicken breast, shredded
- 2 tablespoons cilantro, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons of pitted pimento olives, sliced (optional)
- 1 cup of spinach and artichoke dip (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spritz some lemon juice on the shredded chicken. Then season with a couple sprinkles of the salt and pepper and set aside.
Over medium heat, heat the oil in a large skillet. Once the oil is warmed up (this won't take long), throw in crushed garlic and green onions. Stir as they cook for about a minute and then toss in the chicken and stir for another minute or so. Then take the heat down a bit and add in the salsa, stirring and letting sit over a simmer to keep the mixture warm while you get the chips ready.
Lay down tortilla chips evenly on a baking sheet (preferably with sides). Add the chicken nacho mix on each chip individually (you'll get bonus points for presentation) or pile it on top of a bed of chips, bar style. Sprinkle the shredded cheddar cheese.
Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake for 10 minutes.
Remove the nachos from the oven and let them sit for a few minutes. Then add the spinach and artichoke dip on top with sprinkle with cilantro (and olives if you desire) for tasty goodness.
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What is laser hair removal Miami?
Laser hair removal is a treatment that is performed to remove unwanted hair in certain areas of the body with the use of laser technology. This is a popular cosmetic procedure not just in Florida, but in all of US, because of the significant results that it provides when it comes to hair removal.
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This treatment has been proven to effectively remove unwanted hair in particular areas in the body, such as the legs, arms, underarms, face, and bikini line. Our laser experts trust this method since lasers provide precise hair removal effects as they only target dark, coarse hairs in the skin and leave everything else undamaged. The treatment is also speedy, taking only a fraction of a second with each laser pulse. Furthermore, the treatment usually provides permanent hair loss after only six to eight laser hair removal sessions.
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My wife got me How to Grill two Christmas's ago. Since then, it has provided many nights of pleasant reading. Steve and his books have taught me many things. One of the things I learned, that has turned into a family favorite, is smoked Turkey. I smoke my turkey on a Kenmore Elite 3-burner gas grill. This has it's pluses and minuses. If you like a heavy smoked flavor, a gas grill is not the way to go. However, if you prefer just a slight smoke flavor the gas grill is perfect.
I take a mixture of Oak and Cherry chips, soak them then make about 7 or 8 foil smoking packs. I make sure that the chips are in a thin layer in the foil packet (If you lump them too much it will take too long to start smoking.). I then will put the first pack in the grill on one side. As soon as it starts smoking good I put a second pack on the other side. Once the first pack is charred through I replace it, alternating sides throughout the grilling. This provides a constant supply of smoke throughout the cooking process.
As for the turkey, I probably over prepare, but it has great results. I start brining the turkey the night before. Then just before smoking, I inject the turkey with a solution of olive oil, beef broth, lemon pepper seasoning, kosher salt, and bbq rub. I know the beef broth sounds strange, but it really works. I then rub the skin with olive oil, kosher salt, and cracked black pepper.
When the turkey is cooked to 170 degrees internal, I take it off the grill and let it sit for at least 20 minutes. This results in a wonderfully moist turkey with breast meat that literally melts in your mouth.
I am looking seriously at getting a barrel smoker and trying my hand at real smoking. I look forward to trying the turkey out on that.


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Ka Lama 102, 8:30 a.m.
PRESENT: Kate Acks, Eric Acquero, Pat Adams, Scott Broadbent, Kathryn Fletcher, Steve George, Marge Kelm, Robyn Klein, Beverly Lashley, Diane Meyer, Karen Muraoka, Wallette Pellegrino, Suzette Robinson, Alvin Tagomori, David Tamanaha, Clyde Sakamoto, flo wiger
Excused: Marvin Tengan
$2,600 was added to the Professional Technology request to support a casual hire in the Business Lab.
Professional Communities request has been increased to $51,148.
Request for Nursing was reduced to $9,859.
Kate Acks and Kathryn Fletcher will review requests for the Administration of Justice offerings to avoid duplication.
· University Center revenue sharing will be discussed at the next meeting.
Committee members were asked to finalize their requests for the next meeting. Those areas that required an immediate response were given the go ahead. flo wiger is meeting with Debbie Nakama to look at the $7,000 allocation for a student assistant.
Each campus is different because of Distance Education. This difference is causing problems for students. Deans of Instruction got together six months ago to formulate a new policy (3.6 gpa, 6 credits or more, no N's, F's, I's). The policy was sent out to unit chairs for review. There are problems with the policy; we need to revisit it. A decision will be made shortly. Suzette will send out the policy again.
Two contract renewal workshops for tenured track probationary people have been scheduled for October 3. The sessions will be taped for anyone interested in seeing them.
Documents are due internally on November 3rd.
It was agreed as a system that people must be notified by November 15 if a decision is made that they will not be renewed. They will have one semester and another year before they are terminated.
For temporary, non-tenured faculty, the tentative scheduled deadline is October 31st.
Strategic Plan team leaders meeting will be held at 11:00 a.m., October 3, 2003.
The final draft for ABIT was forwarded to Lily Owyang. Dan Kruse, David Grooms, Suzette Robinson, and BK Griesemer will be looking at the document and then it will be sent forward. We will need approval from both the Jr. and Sr. Commissions.
Plans are for three courses to be offered next Fall with differentiated tuitions. We will be looking at the West Oahu model.
Banner Update
Campus Classroom Food Policy
Other Items
The next Executive Committee meeting is scheduled for November 7, 2003 in Ka Lama 102.


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Imperial Beach has two parts... The high class side and the middle class side.. It was a bad area at one point.. But, now the worst thing you can find are stoners.. And they are VERY friendly! Ushally found at the beach or at the local skate part.. Its a great place to visit. Theres plenty of stuff to do if you got the cash... The youth dominates this town... Also there are alot of skaters and surfers. Not that many tourist (Except on Sand Castles) are found but, plenty of locals...
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Ben Sargent lives for seafood. He's a fisherman, restaurateur, chef and overall seafood fanatic who's ready to take you on another amazing adventure: Season two of Hook, Line & Dinner premieres tonight at 8pm on Cooking Channel.
This season, Ben continues his cross-country seafood road trip on his tricked-out motorcycle (which you should totally check out here) in pursuit of the very best local sea-foodies, the freshest fish and the most delicious ways to prepare it. Beginning tonight, Ben's travels will take him coast to coast, on a bigger, better-than-ever, seafood-packed motorcyle tour of the continent.
So what does the ultimate seafood road trip include?
Ben's making stops down in Florida's tropical Islamorada and the iconic Mid Atlantic's Chesapeake Bay, then all the way up in Canadian fishing hub Vancouver and even the chilly (read: FREEZING) salmon fishing village of Sitka, Alaska! Would you expect anything less from the man whose passion for seafood is as boundless as the ocean?
In tonight's episode, Ben explores New York's coastal town of Montauk. He's in search of striped bass and porgy, two tasty local finds.
To find the best catch, Ben teams up with local expert Amanda Switzer who shows him how it's done. Amanda knows how it's done, and maneuvers like an expert to beat out other boats for a great catch.
When the fishing wraps up, Ben turns his attention to eating. He visits two local chefs who transform Ben's catches into succulent suppers:
Get the recipes from tonight's episode:
Grilled Striped Bass with Creamed Kale, Blanched Garlic Puree and Wheat Berries
Whole Grilled Porgy with Smokey Tomato Chutney
Tune in tonight at 8pm to catch the fresh premiere of Season 2 of Hook, Line & Dinner.


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Hugh Hefner wants the Olsen twins to pose nude for Playboy. Looking at these pictures from God knows when, (Are those two ever together anymore?) I'm now thoroughly convinced that old Hugh is blind as hell. Star has the details:
After striking out when the twins turned 18, Hugh tried again, hoping they would pose for Playboy's June issue to mark their 22nd birthday.
"Hef thinks the twins are every young man's fantasy," an insider tells Star.
Yes, the Olsen twins really are every young man's fantasy. You've truly got your finger on the pulse of today's youth, Hugh Hefner. There's nothing my generation wants to do more than open up an issue of Playboy and immediately want to masturbate with a cheese grater. I mean, seriously? Who spilled the beans?
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To celebrate National Cheesecake Day today, The Cheesecake Factory is serving up their new Oreo Dream Extreme Cheesecake. Extreme is definitely the operative word in that title. The fudge- and Oreo cream mousse-layered cheesecake is studded with baked-in Oreos, topped with milk chocolate icing and encrusted in chocolate chips.
Heavy is a good way to describe this sugar monster, both in terms of sheer weight (seriously, a slice feels like it weighs five pounds) and effect on your stomach. We also found the Oreo chunks to be a little jarring because they were such a contrast to the overall creaminess. Of course none of these factors were disconcerting enough not to devour the entire utterly delicious thing in one sitting. If only Oreos had any nutritional value whatsoever, a slice could work as meal replacement for the next few days.
If you live by a Cheesecake Factory, you can try it for yourself starting today. But if you're like us, you'll use this grand holiday as an excuse to make your own. All food tastes better when made in a home rather than a factory. After the jump, get recipes for some of our most popular cheesecakes.
In the heat of summer this strawberry cheesecake is absolute perfection.
Get the recipe: No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake
This divine Italian-style cheesecake is a De Laurentiis family favorite.
Get the recipe: Giada's Mascarpone Cheesecake with Almond Crust
Spicy meets sweet and has a beautiful mouthwatering baby.
Get the recipe: Nadia G.'s Key Lime Habanero Cheesecake
This wonderfully rich cheesecake gains sweetness — and maybe some validating antioxidants? — from plump blueberries.
Get the recipe: Baked Cheesecake with Blueberries