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"Dismiss Television" is an experimental collection of uneven bits and pieces of Aaron's imagination. "Sophia" is a spoken piece with an accompanying strumming bass. Aaron attempts a portrait of a young woman's mundane day in the life. It is so mundane that it is lifeless. The comic potential descends into annoying. The wit is two-dimensional. No one will mistake him for David Sedaris.
Aaron fares better when he focuses on the music. "You Ought to Know" is a pop-bop piece that starts out as a duet, has a couple of nicely played solos: one has a Middle Eastern feel that is subtle and graceful, the other is a blustery bluesy saxophone wail by Aaron. This piece works quite well.
"Rabwar" has a roly-poly theme that quickly drifts into solos by bassist Pete Johnson and drummer Benn Ross followed by a dueling duet between Aaron and baritone saxophonist Dawn Hatfield. It feels like a piece that is wandering aimlessly, an array of stray thoughts, without a defining structure of the purpose of the piece.
"Jd4" has a similar theme to "Rabwar," but somehow it is pulled off better with sharp dollops of bop and soul. It feels off-the-cuff, rougher, looser with a broad nod to Charles Mingus. Pianist Marie Mcauliffe offers a sweet deft touch in contrast to the rougher saxophones and rhythm section. This is a piece that the elements of the band are held together by bassist Brad Jones. With his strong lead, the others are free to explore different corridors of their imaginations without getting lost and reaching dead-ends. A very nice accomplishment.


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These shoes are quite comfy, even with a wide foot (12, 4E - their size 13 fits great). Their downfall is sole strength.
After two months, the sole showed very little wear, until flexing the shoe, where multiple tears were apparent. They are on the center, outside of the shoe, near the arch - where the outer pins make contact. My flats are DMV Vaults, which have fairly aggressive pins, and I'm about 200lbs.
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A few of the older recordings were recorded well and still sound good by todays standards, but that's a very small percentage. Some is thin and tinny...like they recorded it on a cassette deck instead of a studio deck. Then some are simply outstanding. I noticed some LP's don't sound well either depending on the recording budget or studio equipment quality. In my collection of CD's, LP's and a few cassettes, overall, the percentage of great sounding stuff is probably about 20%.
Forget about the quality of the musicwhat percentage of your music collection sounds great?
Sometimes our favorite music sounds like crap, and sometimes the best-sounding work in our collection is an artistic failure, but we keep the thing anyway. Forget about the quality of the music, what percentage of your music collection sounds great?
Almost all of my collection sounds fantastic. Who could possibly say that Clash, Siouxie and Jam singles, original UK pressings, sound otherwise? Like my respected co-respondant from Mtn. View, I never buy anything to show off the gear but I'm very often startled at how good-sounding are what I buy or glean from the stacks in the back room. My original Big Star albumns stand up to the re-issues, for instance and Sinead O'Connor's weird dub re-work of old reggae classics from 2005's Throw Down Your Arms is a surprisingly effective recording. Studio by definition but the music and emotion are available to the listener. That's what a good recording needs to do. Not everything should be recorded like The Lamentable Consort. Then there's always Hazy Fantazie which just sounds awful no matter who they tag "big leggie".
Stereophile is making a dangerous assumption here -- that we keep recordings that are artistic failures just because they sound good. No amount of great sound quality can make me listen to bad music. That said, at least a third of my collection sounds pretty darn good to my ears.
I only listen to CD's now, so about 80% of my collection sounds really good. Despite that I have a tubed power & preamp, some of the earlier CDS from the eighties are lean on bass and some are strident in the treble, but the performance is classic. I have noticed that the sound quality of CD's mastered after 1990 really start to come into their own. Some good news is that a great deal of the earlier CD pressings are being remastered, but sometimes these efforts seem to deviate enough from the original that the songs don't sound like the way we remember them. I appreciate good sound quality, but I think the performace supercedes the sound. I don't mean to be harsh, but there are a lot of well mastered, dynamic and transparent CDs that do not deliver a pleasing experience, simply because of a lack of truly good music.
How great a given recording sounds on a system is a matter of synergy similar to component synergy. I have a few recordings which sound noticeably more musical on my mid-fi rig at work vs. the tweaked assemblage at home, fortunately just a few!
Look. If I like the music, it sounds good coming even out of a Bose Stereo Nowhere System. Sure, you can make it sound better, but if I don't like the music then I don't play it and music that's on the shelves sounds worse than music that's being played. After all, when you're jumping up and down in your seat because Uncle Stanialo's Polish Polka Reunion is playing on the Linn... who cares about the sound. My answer then is 100% because if it makes me happy it sounds great. In fact, everytime I start to listen like an "audiophile" I stop enjoyin the music and start to imagine problems... Jeez.. pass the MaiTai and put that old Don Ho record....
Really well recorded CDs with the music I enjoy at least and at an affordable price is not always easy to find. Last week's vote results were pretty much spread all over the percentage range. For this vote I pegged my collection at 50%. I would think a lot of other readers will group closer to the middle percentage range also.
I would rather listen to a poorly recorded Grateful Dead piece than a really well recorded Kiss piece. The same goes for equipment, bad music on a great system still sounds bad. When I first the Beatles White album on a crappy fold out record player, it blew Doris Day on my parents state of the art system out of the water. Bad music is bad. No matter the system or the recording quality.
It is very difficult to buy great sounding CD's. I don't know what it is buy my guess is musicians and recording engineers are just naive to the science of capturing great sound for reproduction use.
There's great music and then there are also great sound recordings. Too bad more often than not you end up with one at the expense of the other. The very few times both seem to coincide is nothing short of a miracle as a planetary alignment may be. But if I were forced to choose, I'd rather have the bad recordings with good music - it's easier to survive listening to rough gemstones than to polished crap.
Collection is 60% classical plus a mixture of popular forms, I was born in 1950! Pop forms is where multi-mike mono is the go. this can sound great but too often doesn't. For Classical and Jazz those labels whose engineering I came to trust tended to predominate as time went by. Having a system that lets you hear the seams and limiters, but lest the music through probably plays a part. 'Real stereo' recordings acan be surprisingly real and natural all at once!
I like to listen to live concerts. Many of these are audience recordings where quality ranges from awful all the way up to very good. The stuff off of the soundboard often sounds fantastic. One of my best sounding concerts, and perhaps the best sounding music in my collection, is Tom Waits "Nighthawks at the Diner." I also have a lot of the early CDs and not too many of those sound right.
Good set of questions. I guess I'm pretty much floored every time I place an LP on the turntable. I'd guess about half of my LP's really sound great, maybe more. I rarely listen to CD's on my main system, yet they are passable and even good in the back room & studio(office). I've taken Fremer's advice and I'm burning CD's of LP's. That's a good way to go for when out of the listening room.
That's even tougher to answer than last weeks quesiton. It seems some of the respondents last week answered THIS question. I can think of those albums that always stood out with exceptional sound quality — Steely Dan, Aja; Dire Straits, Brother in Arms; Kate Bush, the Hounds of Love; the Beatles, Abbey Road; and so on. And of course there's been all those remasters and HDCD, DVD Audio, and SACD re-releases of late, some of astounding quality. Realy impressed with Emmylou Harris, Producers Cut; the Beatles, Love; ELP, Brain Salad Surgery; Miles Davis, Kind of Blue, In a Silent Way and more; Elton John, Tumbleweed Connection; Roxy Music, Avalon; etc. Seems I've been purchasing more re-releases than new content the last couple of years. So, I'd say a respectable portion (30%) of my current collection is really well done.
It's not the CDs which are bad, it's the lack of phase shift in the speakers that makes them sound worse than they are--speakers are the only place in the audio chain where time-relationships can be smeared, and most all speakers distort in the time domain.


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PORTSMOUTH — Scots musician Alan Reid takes the outdoor stage in the historic gardens of the John Paul Jones House on Sunday, July 21 from 3-4:30 p.m. Alan will combine song and narrative in a concert dedicated to the life of John Paul Jones based on his 2012 recording of the great sailor's adventures Tickets will be available at the door. Admission is $10 for all Portsmouth Historical Society members/ $15 non-members. The historic house museum is located at 43 Middle St.
John Paul Jones is the father of the American Navy and was born on the southwest coast of Scotland on July 6, 1747. Jones was a tenant of the Widow Purcell in this house in 1781 while he supervised the building of the Navy's ship America nearby. The house will be the backdrop for Reid's latest release in collaboration with Rob van Sante and is the culmination of eight years of researching, writing and recording. The album truly represents Alan's enduring fascination with the Scots born sailor. This concert is a rare opportunity to be entertained, see the historic gardens and to learn more of the exceptional story of John Paul Jones.
Many know Alan Reid as an ever-present member of celebrated Scottish folk group Battlefield Band from its inception in 1969 through 2010. He pioneered the use of keyboards in folk bands and garnered a reputation both for his story-style songwriting and his sensitive renditions of traditional song. He was nominated in the Scots Tradition Awards of 2009 in the 'Composer of the Year' category and also participated in Linn Records mammoth project in recording every song composed or collected by Scotland's other favorite son, the poet Robert Burns.
Admission: $10 for Portsmouth Historical Society/ $15 non-members
Where: John Paul Jones House Museum, 43 Middle Street, Portsmouth.
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Convergence: Round 4
I recently read the opinion of the CEO from one of our competitors that FCoE is too costly and that the demand for convergence in the data center is slowing. It is hard to argue that worsening economic conditions might affect customer's spending plans in the future.However, history has shown that network convergence saves money, both in capital and operational expenditures. Whether it was convergence of WAN technologies in the 1980s that led to the dominance of TCP/IP as the standard protocol for the Internet or the convergence of numerous LAN technologies to Ethernet in the 1990s that enabled the creation of hundreds of new products that have the now-ubiqutous RJ45 Ethernet jack.This past decade has been no different. The convergence of voice, video, and data networks has created a completely new industry and lowered the cost of communications for millions across the world. From Skype to Vonage to Telepresence, none would be possible without network convergence.So as we look forward to a new decade, why would we not expect data center networks to follow a similar path? And why would a certain CEO downplay convergence when he just closed a major acquisition that enables him to capitalize on it? Perhaps history is already repeating itself and he finds himself behind like many other competitors that clung to their legacy technologies a bit too long.If you're curious about how FCoE and data center network convergence could save you money, check out our online calculator and plug in your real-world numbers and see if it makes sense for you.Also, be sure to check out this recent article from the FCIA that makes the case for FCoE.
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This summary deals exclusively with Amnesty International's concerns with regard to shootings, killings, torture and ill-treatment by French law enforcement and prison officers. Many of the victims are of non-European ethnic origin and include a group of Chinese refugees who were fired at with rubber bullets. This situation is being compounded by lengthy delays in judicial enquiries and effective impunity for the abusers. Many officers in these cases are protected under the law of legitimate defence. AI recommends a review of training procedures to ensure use of minimum force.


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Archer Daniels Midland Company is expected to announce Wednesday it will move its headquarters to Chicago without the $20 million in tax credits it originally sought.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports ADM will move 60 to 75 jobs to the city, below the 200 projected with an incentive package.
ADM officials said this fall they plan to move the company out of Decatur, where the grain giant has been based for more than four decades, to a larger city with a greater talent pool and easier access to world-wide travel.
ADM consultant Mike Kasper told lawmakers in October that the agribusiness wants legislation letting it apply for tax credits worth around $1.2 million annually for 20 years.
One legislator asked ADM's chief financial officer how a comparatively small credit mattered to a multibillion-dollar company. Ray Young said watching "nickels and dimes" has made ADM successful.
ADM officials reportedly were in the Twin Cities that month as they continued shopping for a new city to call home.
Though the company wants to move its global headquarters out of Decatur, it plans to keep the bulk of its operations there.


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Perhaps the best news I've heard in this dreary year is that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are gearing up for another tour. We need the Boss more than ever, in part because few of our leaders are extolling the American worker.
President Barack Obama is being hammered by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, R-Oops, for saying Americans have become "a little bit lazy." In truth, the president was referring not to working men and women in general, but to what he sees as a decline in the zeal with which corporate elites and government policymakers have been chasing foreign investment.


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HOLIDAY — The beige stucco house was unassuming from the outside. A pink, flowered "Welcome" sign hung from one of the eaves in front, and a Rays sticker was posted in a window. In the first lot of a quiet, dead-end street, neighbors say the people they saw living there were equally subdued. Until someone got closer.
A moving truck pulled up in the driveway at 1011 Hiawatha Place on Wednesday afternoon, though neighbors said they don't know why it was there. The driver knocked on the door, but no one was home. Moments later, Frankie Rodriguez got a knock on her door from the man. She said he looked worried.
He asked if she had recently seen anyone at the home across the street, where his truck was parked. She asked why. He said there were flies on the windows. Corpulent ones, the size of acorns.
"They look like corpse flies," he said.
Rodriguez followed the man over to the house. The blinds were shut as usual. She tapped on the windows and shouted hellos through the glass. Dogs barked from inside. She called 911.
Deputies arrived and began inspecting. They went through a gate to the back yard with Rodriguez close by.
"As soon as I put my head over the fence, I could smell … rot," she said.
The yard was full of wet rags, she said. A side door was left open. She watched a deputy take a breath of fresh air and walk inside.
"Pasco County Sheriff!" she heard him announce.
Then, a stream of bone-thin puppies poured out of the door, their skin stretched thin over their ribs and spines. She said the deputies told her the inside of the home was covered with feces.
Pasco animal control workers showed up and removed cages from inside. There were eight dogs, seven rabbits, four cats, four turtles, two snakes, two lizards and one ferret — 28 animals in all.
Rodriguez said the woman she'd previously seen at the house arrived around 9 p.m. The woman screamed and cried in the street. When everyone left, Rodriguez said, the woman went inside and turned off the lights.
The Sheriff's Office identified the animals' owner as 25-year-old Alicia Nelson. She has not been arrested and is not in custody. Deputies referred the case to the State Attorney's Office, which is investigating to determine whether to file charges.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Melanie Snow said deputies did not make an arrest because "they just didn't think she was a flight risk."
Assistant state attorneys Mike Halkitis and Bruce Bartlett did not return phone calls for comment.
In an interview Thursday with the Tampa Bay Times' coverage partner Bay News 9, Pasco Animal Services interim director Kevin Mallory said the animals had been in substandard conditions. He said three 4-month-old boxer puppies were emaciated. The rest of the animals are in good health.
He said Nelson has the option of relinquishing the animals to animal control where they can then be put up for adoption. If the case goes to court, a judge can force her hand.
Nelson could not be reached for comment.
On Thursday morning on Hiawatha Place, neighbors said they didn't know the people in the beige house.
Catie Kordenbrock, who shares a fence line with them, saw a man and woman move in four months ago but had never spoken with them.
Rodriguez stood in her driveway and looked warily at the house.
"I'm not a nosy neighbor," she said. "But if something like that's going on, I'm going to stop it, especially if it's animals or children."
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Members of the Bethany Baptist Church joined together Sunday, April 19, 1998, to observe the churchĺs 120th anniversary. Many people who had been involved in the churchĺs history, including past congregation members and former pastors, traveled from Idaho, California, North Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska and Colorado to share in the celebration.
The day began with reminiscing about the Sunday School House "Early Days." Myrtle (Wirth) Meacham; Donna Wood, wife of the late Rev. John Wood; and the Rev. Delmar Stephans, retired from Sudan Interior Mission, shared their memories with those attending.
The Matney Family Singers performed during the worship service and throughout the day. Kathleen (Schulz) Reimer played an offertory on the piano. Former pastor Douglas Anderson was the morningĺs featured spearker. A fellowship dinner was held at noon.
Donald Wirth began the afternoon service by reading scripture. Former pastors Bill Matney, Wrey, Colo.; the Rev. Kenneth Schmuland, Idaho Falls, Idaho; and the Rev. Edwin Voigt, Columbus, Neb.; spoke to the group about their memories of the church. Norman Schulz, Cortez, Colo., taped a vocal solo. The Rev. Chester Stroebel, the area minister, offered congratulations on behalf of the Southwest Association. Letters of greetings and congratulatoins from sister churches and from those unable to attend were read by Howard Wehrman and the Anniversary Committee. Greg Finch, Lee Summit, Mo., represented the former Pastor Knauf family. The afternoon speaker was the Rev. Don Wood, son of a former Paster, the Rev. John Wood. The Rev. R.H. Zepik, Bismarck, N.D., provided an 8m movie taken during his pastorate and a 44-minute video was made touching a cross-section of Bethanyĺs history.
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Facility to improve quality of effluent water without increasing the facility's footprint
The city of Ávila, Spain, will install GE's ZeeWeed 500D ultrafiltration membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology to double the amount of water treated at its existing wastewater treatment plant. The city chose to upgrade the facility with MBR technology to increase the capacity and to comply with new regulations for nutrient removal while keeping the same footprint and reusing most of the existing infrastructure.
For the city of Ávila to meet the new regulations for nutrients in the existing plant, it would have had to double the size of the plant, including purchasing new land. Instead, the city chose to implement GE's MBR technology, which allowed it to improve the effluent quality without increasing the footprint. GE's ZeeWeed membranes treat the same amount of water while removing all total suspended solids and complying with all other requirements. Since the extension of the current footprint was not necessary, economic advantages were gained as most of the existing infrastructure can be reused.
The original wastewater treatment plant was constructed in 1991 to service 190,000 inhabitants with a 30 million liter per day (mld) average daily flow. However, due to new regulations, the discharge area of the Cogotas water reservoir was classified as a "sensitive area," meaning that the new parameters are more restricted on effluent quality and require reductions in nitrogen and phosphorous.
"More and more municipalities are searching for solutions to increase efficiency and reduce energy consumption and costs, while getting the highest quality effluent possible. Our ZeeWeed technology will enable the Ávila wastewater treatment plant to remove pollutants, including nutrients, and increase the amount of water treated daily," said Yuvbir Singh, general manager, engineered systems—water and process technologies for GE Power & Water.
The upgrade of the plant's wastewater treatment processes with the GE MBR technology features four ZeeWeed 500D trains and 32 cassettes. A fifth train is designed for the future expansion. All together this will expand the plant's treatment capacity to 37 mld and improve the region's quality of water.
GE's ZeeWeed technology was selected for the upgrade of this plant by the Spanish Consortium Company as ZeeWeed can achieve the technical specifications required on the public tender by Somacyl. Somacyl was awarded the project by UTE EDAR Avila (a consortium formed by Aqualia and Volconsa).
Xylem Water Solutions and GE jointly developed the project and assisted on the technical specifications. The facility is expected to begin commercial operation in summer 2013, when it will be the second largest ZeeWeed MBR plant in operation in Spain.


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Britons learned for the first time last week of the Guy Fawkes Club (officially, the Westminster Munitions Unit). For more than two years some 150 wives of Ministers, M.P.s, clerks of the Lords and Commons, cleaners, custodians and councilors have been making weapons of war in the massive vaults beneath the Houses of Parliament, where in 1605 Guy Fawkes was caught among the 36 gunpowder kegs with which he planned to blow up Britain's lawmakers. From 9 in the morning till 9 at night the air-conditioned dungeon hums to the sound of precision machines. Last year the volunteers, garbed in white...
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Do you truly desire to make health and fitness a part of your reality? Can you see yourself making yourself and your health a priority? If you have a strong desire to change, you can do it, however it does require a commitment on your part.
If you can commit to change, no matter how small in the beginning, you can build momentum and motivation to accomplish your goals. Whether you are motivated to regain your health to have more time with your children, or because you want to increase your self-confidence and self-esteem, with a strong commitment you can completely change your reality, your life.
When your desire to change is stronger than your desire for those old habits, you truly can change your health, and your life.
Reality Forms Around Your Commitments
©2006 by Max Steingart
Desire is the starting point of achievement.
Your desires are the precursors of the things
which you are capable of doing or having.
These desires can in time externalize themselves into concrete fact.
Your intense anticipation itself will transform your possibilities into
Weak desires will bring you weak results,
just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
If you just care enough for any result, you'll almost certainly attain
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
The achievement of your goal is assured
the moment you commit yourself to it.
If you have the will, you'll find a way.


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With their erotic pin-up covers and hardboiled crime tales, the Hank Janson pulp paperback novels were a British publishing sensation in the 1940s and 1950s, selling millions of copies to readers craving escapism from post-war austerity. Prosecutions under Britain's then-harsh obscenity laws dealt them a severe blow, however, and today they are highly sought-after by collectors.
(Stephen D. Frances wrote every Hank Janson from When Dames Get Tough in 1946 through until at least 1959, returning to pen the occasional novel in the early 60s. From his departure up until the final novel, Grass Widow in 1971, most were written by Harry Hobson, Harold Kelly, Colin Fraser and James Moffatt.)
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"The State of Apple" session during Macworld iWorld Expo took many weird, insightful turns but the least expected twist was surely the conclusion where all three Mac media luminaries suddenly heaped praise on – of all companies – Microsoft. Even they looked shocked that they weren't immediately lynched by the somewhat taken aback Mac fans.
Macworld Editorial Director Jason Snell hosted the "State of Apple" discussion panel, which also featured Andy Ihnatko (Chicago Sun Times), and John Gruber (Daring Fireball).
While it was supposed to focus on where the new, Tim Cook-led Apple will go in 2012 and beyond the discussion veered from amazement at Apple's recent quarterly financial results ("Apple could fund Greece's debt payments for two years!") to Snell's shopping trip to ailing department store JC Penney and revolutionary thermostats.
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Apple said on Tuesday that it hit $46.33 billion in sales and $13.06 billion in profit for the fiscal first quarter ended December 31.
Ihnatko suggested that with its many billions Apple could help out the near-bankrupt country of Greece: "Thanks for democracy. We made quite a lot of money out of it."
Gruber and Ihnatko disagreed over the impact of Apple's iPad. Gruber said the all-conquering tablet was further along today than the iPhone was at the same point two years into its cycle.
Ihnatko suggested that we'd know how successful the iPad was only when it had some serious competition.
Gruber prophesised the end of the optical drive in all Mac products, starting with the Mac laptop range: "If you want a MacBook Pro with an optical drive… buy it now, because it's going away soon".
He suggested that Apple was "offended if a component physically spins," as it leads to breakages. He also said that Apple was "paranoid about complacency" and so had to keep disrupting industry norms.
Apple's MacBook Air was the first mainstream laptop to abandon the optical drive, and all three Mac commentators praised the ultra-thin Mac laptop as an amazing product – with Snell saying the 11-inch MacBook Air is his favourite Mac computer of all time.
A long part of the panel session focused on the JC Penney chain of department stores. Why was this relevant to the state of Apple in 2012?
JC Penney links with Apple as the iPhone maker's former head of retail Ron Johnson is its new CEO, and he looks to be taking lessons learned from the wildly successful Apple Stores to the failing, discount retailer.
Snell had to visit a JC Penney store for the first time as his mother had given him some store vouchers for a Christmas present. He bought five shirts but was astounded by the faded retail environment.
Gruber and Snell also sidelined the discussion into their thoughts on the Nest home thermostat, from the man who helped design the first 18 generations of the Apple iPod, Tony Fadell. It looks gorgeous and is the first attempt to redesign domestic thermostats, and is probably what an Apple thermostat would look and work like if Steve Jobs had decided to focus on energy-efficient homes.
But the weirdest tangent was spared till last. With little prompting all three panelists started heaping praise on old Apple enemy Microsoft – particularly its Metro user interface from Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8.
Gruber called Metro "graceful and elegant".
The company that was once famed for its conservative mindset had previously avoided changing something that worked. Now it was praised for taking a humble step backwards and starting over in a brave way.
Ihnatko said he missed many of the nice touches of Windows Phone 7 when returning to his Apple iPhone.
The Mac faithful could hardly believe their ears, and suddenly snapping out of this Microsoft-loving dream Snell quickly ended the session before the stage was invaded and the panelists beaten to death for their heretical chatter.


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Jesuit magazine urges repeal of Second Amendment
An editorial in the latest edition of America/The National Catholic Review urges repeal of the Second Amendment, asking,
"Is it prudent to retain a constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms when it compels our judges to strike down reasonable, popularly supported gun regulations? Is it moral to inhibit in this way the power of the country's elected representatives to provide for the public safety? Does the threat of tyranny, a legitimate 18th-century concern but an increasingly remote, fanciful possibility in the contemporary United States, trump the grisly, daily reality of gun violence? The answer to each of these questions is no. It is time to face reality. If the American people are to confront this scourge in any meaningful way, then they must change. The Constitution must change."
America is a Jesuit weekly founded in 1909. The editorial goes on to state:
We acknowledge the gravity of our proposal. The Bill of Rights enumerates our most cherished freedoms. Any proposal to change the nation's fundamental law is a very serious matter. We do not propose this course of action in a desultory manner, nor for light or transient reasons. We also acknowledge that repeal faces serious, substantial political obstacles and will prove deeply unpopular with many Americans. Nevertheless, we believe that repeal is necessary and that it is worthy of serious consideration.
Our proposal is in keeping, moreover, with the spirit in which the Constitution was drafted. The Bill of Rights belongs to a document that was designed to be changed; indeed, it was part of the genius of our founders to allow for a process of amendment. The process is appropriately cumbersome, but it is not impossible. Since its adoption in 1787, the American people have chosen to amend the Constitution 27 times. A century ago, leaders like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson raised serious questions about the Consti-tution. Amendments soon followed, including provisions for a federal income tax, the direct election of U.S. senators, women's suffrage and the prohibition of alcohol. The 21st Amendment, which repealed prohibition, established the precedent for our proposal.
Yet that kind of thoughtful, critical engagement with our fundamental law, the kind of spirited debate that characterized early 20th-century America, is not evident in contemporary American discourse. In the national imagination, the Constitution is too often thought of as a kind of sacred text. Yet neither our founders nor our forebears held to that view. The Constitution is mere human law. It is excellent law, but it is not divine law; it is not revelation. We should be wary of amending the Bill of Rights. We should also be wary of idolizing it. The Constitution is the man-made law of a self-governing people; the people, therefore, are entitled to ask basic, critical questions about it. In our time, is a given constitutional provision a good law or a bad law? Does it promote the common good? The secular dogma of constitutional immutability must yield to careful, critical inquiry.
Read the full editorial here. What are the chances of actually repealing the Second Amendment? Probably as safe a bet as election of a Jesuit pope. But God bless these Roman Catholics for taking such a bold stand against the scourge of gun violence plaguing our country.
At the same time, Bill, several of the Supreme Court justices have said just this about the Constitution, if not about the Second Amendment specifically: if we're not happy with the Constitution, the proper course is not to expect judges to interpret it, but to change it. These same justices want us to pursue legislative remedies instead of judicial remedies.
Frankly, it sounds like the court system is rife with the same sort of folks who are in the legislatures. It's a form of intellectual laziness. Times and circumstances do change, and remedies need to reflect that. At the same time, it's also political laziness not to elect folks to pursue these changes. We progressives have been slow about that - perhaps 30 years behind. The best evidence is how poorly folks are convinced by the argument about who selects and who confirms judges to vote accordingly. But, there would be logic in changing the Second Amendment through the legislative path. While it's slower and harder, it's not so open to interpretation.
Marshall Scott
Politically,this is a non-starter...
...but I'm most interested in how it plays out in RC internal relationships. The Popoid wing of the (US) church is currently whining about how their "religious freedom is under attack!!1!1!", and aligning itself w/ the extreme Right (the "2nd Amendment remedies" crowd). The two sides really couldn't be any further apart.
JC Fisher
It seems like throwing the baby out with the bath water: surely there's a sane interpretation of the Second Amendment that doesn't exclude any regulation whatsoever? And the proposal is sure to play into the hands if the NRA and the gun nuts who are just SURE that Obama is coming after their guns as the first step in turning the country into a Soviet/Nazi/Muslim/gay dictatorship.


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I sent four e-mails over a two week period to Hobbs about my on line order and they didn't reply until I posted a comment on Facebook. They replied pretty fast after that but didn't acknowledge their lack of response or apologise. Do they realise how much these things matter? I'm shocked a company this big is so bad at this.


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National Limited (Amtrak train)
The National Limited at Effingham, Illinois in 1979.
|Service type
|Inter-city rail
|Eastern United States
|First service
|May 1, 1971
|Last service
|October 1, 1979
|Current operator(s)
|Former operator(s)
|New York City, New York
|Kansas City, Missouri
|Distance travelled
|1,322 miles (2,128 km)
|Service frequency
|Train number(s)
|On-board services
|Sleeping arrangements
|Catering facilities
|Observation facilities
|Dome car
|Rolling stock
|Heritage fleet
|Track gauge
|4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
The National Limited was a passenger train that ran between New York City and Kansas City, Missouri. Amtrak operated the train between 1971 and 1979.
In 1970, the Department of Transportation, in its designation of endpoints for the Amtrak system, designated a train to run between New York City, Washington, D.C., and St. Louis.[1] This was later amended to run all the way to Kansas City, with a connection to the Super Chief that would run between Chicago and Los Angeles. The route was being served, prior to Amtrak, by the Pennsylvania Railroad's Spirit of St. Louis. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad also ran a train connecting New York and Washington with St. Louis. It was their train, known as the National Limited, that had the name that Amtrak would eventually use.
With Amtrak's birth in May 1971, they ran the Spirit of St. Louis, extending it to Kansas City. It soon lost the Spirit moniker, being replaced with the National Limited. The route had issues almost from the start. Although it should have been a financial success, going through a myriad of population centers, it frequently ran late (and sometimes not at all), owing to the deteriorated Penn Central trackage in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.[2]:55 For most of its existence the National Limited operated a Washington section. Until October 29, 1978, this section split at Harrisburg and reached Washington via the Port Road Branch. From that date until discontinuance the National Limited split at Philadelphia.[2]:62
In 1979, the Carter administration, in its plan to cut Amtrak's budget, applied criteria on a cost/farebox ratio to every Amtrak train.[1] Any train not making enough money would be dropped from the system. Unfortunately, the problem of Penn Central's track in the Midwest had led to a substantial decline in ridership on the National Limited. Although there were some protests by local politicians, the National Limited made its last run October 1, 1979.
The state of Missouri, not wanting to see service lost between St. Louis and Kansas City, stepped in on that part of the National's route, and introduced the Kansas City Mule and St. Louis Mule to provide service there; Amtrak now operates the Missouri River Runner between the two cities.
- ^ a b Schafer, Mike (1991). All Aboard Amtrak. Piscataway, NJ: Railpace Publishing.
- ^ a b Sanders, Craig (2006). Amtrak in the Heartland. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34705-X.
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Police issue warning over telephone scams
The Alexandria Police Department is warning residents about a scam that is targeting residents in this area.
It starts with a telephone call where residents are asked to wire money to a specific location. The scammer will pretend to be a relative, stating that he/she is in trouble and needs help.
Another scam involves a caller saying that he/she is with law enforcement and a relative is in jail and needs money in order to be released.
Authorities advise people to not conduct financial transactions with unverified sources or give out financial information to suspicious callers.
If you encounter any type of this activity, contact the Alexandria Police Department at (320) 763-6631.


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If a band is forced to go through the exchange of its lead singer, this often ends in a breakup - but not for Asking Alexandria . After the British metalcore band had been on the road with frontman Danny Worsnop for over 12 years (with a different name from 2003 to 2007), he announced his exit in the beginning of 2015. Only a few months later Denis Stoff joined the band and it didn't take much time till he had even the "old" Asking Alexandria fans on his side, because despite the line-up change even on their new record THE BLACK, Asking Alexandria commit themselves to their typical electronic metalcore sound - And you can't argue with that!
In March 2016 THE BLACK is being released through Sumerian Records, the new Asking Alexandria record and the first one with Denis Stoff as lead singer. If you believe guitarist Ben Bruce's words, we can expect a lot from this record: For him THE BLACK is the most aggressive and rawest release since RECKLESS & RELENTLESS (2011). If you want to see for yourself, you can find THE BLACK together with a lot of Asking Alexandria merch in our online shop now!


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Opportunities knock, Angels pass
Angels unwilling to pitch in at Winter Meetings
The Angels delineate their priorities as to what will make their team better. They meet and greet and engage in the requisite milling that is de rigueur at the Winter Meetings. And then they head home with their roster intact.
That occurred a year ago in Dallas and it did again here at the Dolphin Resort at Walt Disney World, where the annual meetings concluded Thursday.
The opportunities were there. Prospective deals for established stars like Boston's Manny Ramirez and Colorado's Todd Helton were discussed as were those concerning younger players like Atlanta's Adam LaRoche and Arizona's Chad Tracy.
A common theme throughout, however, was a target that encircled the Angels' strength and general manager Bill Stoneman simply could not be persuaded to part with any of his pitching, which is the core of his team.
"The one thing the teams that came after us, they wanted pitching; we have quality pitching," Stoneman said. "The No. 1 thing a club has to protect is pitching to win consistently."
The names Scot Shields and Ervin Santana were tossed around so much it was if the Angels had posted billboards in the hotel lobby. But the truth in advertising is the success they have generated on the field and the Angels didn't have to tell anybody.
They weren't shopping these guys. Nor had they any realistic intentions of moving Francisco Rodriguez, Jered Weaver or Joe Saunders, but any discussion that involved one of their pitchers didn't get very far and the Angels had difficulty generating interest in their position players.
Chicks may dig the long ball but the hottest commodity was readily apparent this week.
"If you have a decent starting pitcher in this market you can move him and get quality back," Stoneman said.
The Angels believe they have quality and feel they've already improved their club by adding center fielder Gary Matthews Jr. and right-handed reliever Justin Speier last month. So as the frenzy of the Meetings abates and the market settles, Stoneman expects opportunities, preferably in his price range, to surface.
"The season starts in April; there is no time frame," Stoneman said. "If you self-impose a deadline, you're setting yourself up."
Deals done: There were none. The Angels had plenty of discussions and were rumored to be involved in a number of deals, both high level and low, but they left the Winter Meetings essentially unchanged
Rule 5 activity: The Angels lost Triple-A catcher Ryan Budde to the Phillies but did not draft any players.
Goals accomplished: The Angels were unable to unearth the power-hitting corner infielder they sought but gained serious validation about the pitching throughout their organization. Every deal the Angels could have pulled off involved one of their pitchers. They also made it clear they will not be in the market for Barry Bonds.
Unfinished business: The Angels have Matthews but they haven't upgraded the offense as they had hoped to do. Still unsettled are the two corner slots, where the Angels had hoped to plug in a power hitter, maybe two. Chone Figgins is the front-runner to take over at third if the club does not make a move but Dallas McPherson, Maicer Izturis and Robb Quinlan will be in the mix.
First base is more of a question mark. Casey Kotchman is playing winter ball, his first on-the-field action in several months, and if healthy could prove to be the solution the club had hoped he would be a year ago. The Angels will target both positions, though. Aubrey Huff and Shea Hillenbrand are two available free agents while LaRoche remains a possibility but a blockbuster trade is unlikely.
GM's bottom line: "We like our team; we like it a lot. We won 89 games last year and that's a lot better than losing 89. There were some disappointments [last season] but we have to look at how we're going to make ourselves better." -- Stoneman
Mike Scarr is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Located in downtown Akron, the John S. Knight Center is a top-notch convention center in northeast Ohio. The center has hosted a variety of special events, meetings, concerts, conventions and trade shows since it opened in 1995. The center is home for the Akron Roller Derby Team, the Rubber City Rollergirls.
The 129,000 square foot center has 18 meeting rooms, 30,000 square feet of exhibit space, a 15,000 square foot convention center, and a 15,000 square foot banquet hall. Visitors to the center are within walking distance to the Akron Library, restaurants, shopping, attractions, and nightlife.
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Flappy Bird was never available in the Amazon Marketplace and will most likely never be available since the app was officially taken out of the Google Play and Apple market. Fortunately we can still sideload the game to our Kindle Fire. The method will work for all versions of the Kindle Fire including the first generation, the HD, and the HDX.
How-to Sideload Flappy Bird to the Kindle Fire
1. Enable Installation of Applications from Unknown Sources
For the Kindle Fire & Kindle Fire HD: Go to Settings > Device > Enable 'Allow Installations of Applications'
For the Kindle Fire HDX: Go to Settings > Applications > Enable 'Apps from Unknown Sources'
2. Open the Silk browser and go here to download the Flappy Bird .APK file: Download Flappy Bird .APK
3. Open and install the file
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A growing number of Reglan lawsuits have been filed or are being investigated throughout the United States following the addition of a "black box" warning earlier this year about the increased risk of tardive dyskinesia with Reglan (Metoclopramide). However, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has determined that it is not necessary to consolidate the cases in a manner similar to how a Reglan class action lawsuit would be handled for pretrial litigation, and the cases will proceed individually in various through the court system.
The various manufacturers of generic metoclopramide, which is still more commonly known by its brand name "Reglan", have come under increasing fire recently as a result of their failure to warn that using the gastrointestinal drug for more than 12 weeks substantially increases the risk that users will suffer from tardive dyskinesia, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary and repetitive movements of the lower face and limbs.
The first Reglan lawsuit involving tardive dyskinesia was filed more than 20 years ago, and more than 70 cases have been filed in state and federal courts throughout the United States since then.
Last month, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation considered a petition to centralize and consolidate 11 currently pending Reglan tardive dyskinesia lawsuits before one judge for pretrial litigation to avoid duplicate discovery, inconsistent rulings and serve the convenience of the parties, attorneys and witnesses. However, in an order issued June 3, 2009, the MDL panel denied the transfer request, stating:
On the basis of the papers filed and hearing session held, we are not persuaded that Section 1407 centralization would serve the convenience of the parties and witnesses or further the just and efficient conduct of this litigation at the present time. The eleven actions at issue do share factual issues as to whether the drug metoclopramide causes neurological injuries (principally, tardive dyskinesia). But there is no single common defendant, and some entities, such as Baxter Healthcare Corp., are named in only one or two actions. Moreover, several of the actions appear to be substantially advanced (five were commenced in either 2006 or 2007). Metoclopramide litigation has a lengthy history, and the record indicates that a significant amount of the common discovery has already taken place. The proponents of centralization have failed to convince us that any remaining common questions of fact among these actions are sufficiently complex and/or numerous to justify Section 1407 transfer at this time. Alternatives to transfer exist that may minimize whatever possibilities there might be of duplicative discovery and/or inconsistent pretrial rulings.
This ruling does not impact potential claimants' ability to pursue compensation against the manufacturers of metoclopramide drugs for failing to warn about the serious and debilitating Reglan side effects. Potential cases are still being reviewed by our Reglan lawyers and individual lawsuits will proceed in various courts throughout the United States.
If you, a friend or family member have been diagnosed with tardive dyskinesia or another neurological disorder after taking Reglan, request a free consultation and claim evaluation.


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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The Hundred Fold Return
Look in Matthew's Gospel, the 13th chapter. Jesus is talking here, telling us a very well known parable. The parable of the sower. So, we know what happens. The sower sows on stony ground and it is scorched, and all the other things. I want to focus on the 8th verse. It says, "But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold." Jumping down again to the 23rd verse, we find that Jesus is explaining what happened here with the seed. Take a look at the way the Amplified Bible says it. "As for what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the Word and grasps and comprehends it; he indeed bears fruit and yields in case a hundred times as much as was sown, in another sixty times as much, and in another thirty." So, we see that there is a principle in effect here. Jesus said that when seed is sown, some reap thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred fold. Now, the seed here is the Word, but there are also other things that we are shown here. Using a farmer as his example, Jesus shows us that this is not just a principle limited to Word. This is a matter of sowing and reaping. Sowing and reaping.
Check out 2 Corinthians 9:6. It says, "He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully." There is no faith required in that statement. It is a simple matter of fact. You give, God will bless. Thirty times what you gave sounds like a real good return on your investment, or your giving, but God says that you can also get sixty or one hundred times what you gave! That's exciting, isn't it? Glory to God. When we give, we must give generously to others.
Let me share a story here from my own life, from seeing the hundred fold work. Last November, I was at Brother and Sister Copeland's "Washington D.C. Victory Campaign" . Man, it was good. I was able to make two of the meetings with my school schedule, and I sowed into both of the offerings while I was there, on top of my normal tithe. One of the nights, and to be honest, I can't remember which one it was, Brother Copeland took up the offering, and told us to name our seed. So, I wrote down what I was believing for, and I stuck it in my wallet. I didn't tell anyone about it, just like the man of God said. Well, needless to say, I forgot about it. Today, while I was spending time with the Lord, He reminded me of this. I thought back to it. A few months after the meetings, my life had drastically changed. I had left of school, and was back home looking for a job. I was in debt just about up to my eyeballs, from school and credit cards, and just being stupid with money for the longest time, although I have gotten much better with it. So, come to find out, I was given a check that was nearly ONE HUNDRED times what I had given over those two nights! So, I had already gotten the hundred fold on one of my seeds, and then, a few months after that, the rest of it came in. I used that money to pay down many of my debts. What a blessing of the Lord! You see, He still meets needs through the hundred fold. I received the hundred fold on my seed! I paid off bills I wouldn't have been able to pay! Glory! Now, you may say, "That doesn't work, it isn't true." Well, it's in red, so like Jesse Duplantis says, "Either Jesus is lying, or you're lying. I pick you."
What people don't seem to get, is that God wants to bless you! Proverbs 10:22 tells us that the Lord's Blessing makes us rich, but without the sorrow that world adds to it! Glory to God! Sowing and reaping, seed time and harvest will be with us as long as the earth remains! Time to put it to work! God's ways goes totally contrary to the world's way. The world tells us to work and save and hoard our money. God tells us to give it away!
You see, once you give, and help meet someone else's needs, God shall supply your every need, want, and desire through His riches in glory, by Christ Jesus! You don't believe me? Philippians 4:19, and Psalm 37:4. Giving, and being cheerful is delighting yourself in the Lord, so you qualify for God giving you the desires of your heart!
Praise God! The Hundred Fold still works. I feel like Isaac must have, who, we are told in Genesis 26:12, sowed in a time of famine, and received the same year a hundred fold! Praise God! There hasn't been a recession in Heaven, and God is not a respecter of persons. What He did for Isaac, He will do for you! Start asking God where you need to sow. Not only to make it through this tough financial time the world is facing, but to increase in it! That's what I have done this whole recession! I am in a better position financially than I was a year ago! The world tells you that can't happen! But, we, as Christians, should be rising above all of this mess in the world! Like the children of Israel when they were held captive by the Egyptians, we can boldly tell the world the answer, and show them that while it may be dark in Egypt, there is light in Goshen! We have the answer out of this mess! It's giving! Sowing and reaping! Thirty, sixty and a hundred fold return! Glory to God!
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Great Post!ReplyDelete
I myself have been delivered from the curse of poisen ivy! I professed the scriptures over my problem and now two times small outbreaks have been dried up. Not 6 months ago before I started geting active in these principles (I attend this years voice of victory In Fort Worth Texas) I was covered in poisen ivy, I used to get it really bad, but now that I started walking in my athority I am healed!
It is great to hear that you have recieved 100 fold yourself! Many like to say the Copelands take and their followers never experiance the same results! How sad. God's word works!
- AnonymousJune 12, 2011 at 9:57 PM
Praise God for this post! I have also received the 100 fold return on past seed sown, and am looking forward to continuing to receive the 100 fold return on future seed sown.ReplyDelete
I happened on this post while I was listening to Bro. Copeland's cd The Laws of Prosperity. This is not by chance that I found this post right when I needed it.
God is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO Good!!!!! Bless you!
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2011 at 11:16 AM
Thanks for your post. I am believing for supernatural increase. Praise GodReplyDelete
This was a good read! I really enjoyed your testimony as I am also waiting on a seed I sowed for the 100 fold. The devil sees that its coming supernaturally & is desperate to seek to kill steal & destroy but he is defeated in Jesus name! Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
This is very uplifting material, you are in the right place, may that 100 fold come to you foreverReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 28, 2013 at 2:15 AM
Awesome post ! So the people that have a problem with prospering should sell all they have and just stay home and fiddle there thumbs .ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2014 at 7:15 AM
Thank you for posting this! This is the encouragement I need in this time. May this verse be your blessing. Isaiah 50:4" The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2014 at 1:06 PM
his whispers lead me all day long.....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2014 at 1:13 PM
Glory be to God! He's amazingly good to His children and ABSOLUTELY faithful!ReplyDelete
The truth is abound and unstoppable and I believe that it is alive in more people than the enemy would like us to know!!
Thank you Jesus! :)
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2014 at 2:16 PM
thank u for explain the law of sowing and reaping 30,60 and 100 fold. I'm always been a tither and give offering but never like give my seed a name.so for now on I will name my seed and expect a miracle.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2015 at 12:23 PM
Thank you so much for this clear explanation of the principle of sowing and reaping! Reading the account in Mark 4 left me with some questions......that is until your blog (found quickly on a search engine) reminded me of the connection between Mark 4 (and Matthew 13), Genesis 8:22, 2 Corinthians 9:6 etc. The whole counsel of God! This blog, in itself, is sowing into others' lives. May our God and Father bless you! I must add that I have seen extraordinary demonstrations of this principle in my life, even though I had not fully grasped its entire meaning.ReplyDelete
It's times for all Christians to rise up and start changing this world through the power of His World. This is a Mathematical Equation that will expand our Wealth 10 30 60 100 Fold forever.ReplyDelete
It's times for all Christians to rise up and start changing this world through the power of His World. This is a Mathematical Equation that will expand our Wealth 10 30 60 100 Fold forever.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2017 at 7:45 PM
Based upon simple mathematics the concept of a hundredfold return is a complete impossibility. Bro Hagin's book the Midas Touch elaborates much on this. Apostle Fred Price deals with this extensively in his mini book the truth about giving.ReplyDelete
What I wonder is where did this check appear from? Often times Christian have income generated via tax returns, refunds, other business dealings, sales from property, inheritances, things the believer or unbeliever, giver or non giver can experience.
We cling to testimonies that seed faith works but in reality, for the majority, it is rare to actually find a believer who received some windfall finances. Creflo Dollar referred to it as a jackpot mentality.
We give because we desire to fund the work of the Gospel. Seed faith concepts turn our giving into a give to get venture. It is void of love and right motive because the main reason we give and keep giving is to finally receive the promised jackpot the minister teaches about. We give so much we become invested highly in seed faith.
I am no novice. I was in WOF Prosperity circles since the 1990s. I witnessed so many Christians giving their car away, their paychecks away, their clothing away, their watches away, and many to this day are still broke and can't afford to pay their own bills.
We should give to further and advance God's work. We should utilize wisdom and God's gifting to increase in this life. God supplies our needs, but one thing to note, those who proclaim they received a windfall on their giving only reference receiving such provision periodically. Not each and every time they gave. What has occurred is a working of a financial miracle majority of the time.
Glad the Lord blessed you but don't make it a doctrine.


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DataSet Designer, Xml Schema Designer and Xml Editor
(Note, DataSet Designer is also called DataSet Editor, Xml Schema Designer is also called Xml Schema Editor)
In VS2002 or 2003, we shipped a XmlSchema designer, which serves as both schema designer and typed dataset designer.
In VS2005, you will see that there is a brand new DataSet designer in additional to the original Xml Schema designer.
Furthermore, there is a new xml text editor (developed by Chris Lovett from another team, I am sure someone is blogging it, will find out where) called Xml Editor will be shipped too.
What are the relationships among these designers?
All of them have the same extension ".xsd"
If you start fresh, create a new DataSet item, the DataSet designer will be launched.
If you choose to create a new Xml Schema item, the XmlSchema designer will be launched.
If you double click (or open) on an existing xsd file in the solution explorer (SE), the IDE is smart to peek the content of the file and open the DataSet designer or SchemaDesigner appropriately. The DataSet file is recognized by the msdata:IsDataSet="true" attribute in the root element of the schema, for example:
<xs:element name="DataSet1" msdata:IsDataSet="true"...>
Well, you know that the DataSet is a schema file, so you can still open it by the Schema Designer, you can do this by open with menu (see the picture).
Can we open a non-DataSet xsd file with DataSet designer? Sure you can but you will be warned that to use with your own risk because the DataSet designer use DataSet.WriteSchema to persist the data. That means it does not persist white space, comment, etc.
Another cool thing is the XmlText editor and the DataSet designer shares same designer architecture and they share the same text buffer. That said, you can open an xsd file with both designer at the same time, changing in DataSet designer will reflect to XmlEdit immediately and vise versa.
To be continued…
Ok, pick it up from yesterday.
What about the sharing buffer with Xml Schema Editor? Well, that depends on which editor is opened first.
If you open the xsd file with DataSet designer first(which uses text-buffer), then open with Xml Schema Editor, you are in good luck as XML Schema Designer knows how to use text-buffer. However, if you open the file by XML Schema Designer first (which uses HtmDocData buffer), then bad luck, you cannot open it in DataSet designer as it does not know how to use HtmDocData buffer. The IDE will prompt you to close the Xml Schema Designer in order to open the DataSet designer.
When you right click on the xsd file, you can also see there is a menu command called View Code (of course there is a View Designer command, and you should know that it will launch either DataSet designer or Xml Schema Designer as I talked above). What is the View Code doing here?
Here is a summary: if the DataSet designer is opened, view code will bring you to the partial class file (e.g. DataSet1.vb). If DataSet designer is not opened or the Schema designer is opened, view code will bring you to the xsd source code with the Xml Editor.
There is an exception though for the web project. As a web project does not support the partial class, the view code command then always brings you to the xsd source code even the DataSet designer is opened first.
Wrap it up here! I hope this blog make you feel clear about how our DataSet designer works along the Xml Schema Designer and Xml (Text) Editor.
I hope we can have a new extension for typed dataset file next version.
(Don't know how to add a picture yet. See my post here for the pictures for now).
Zhiyong (John Chen)


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ProAc Response Two loudspeaker System
I used the ProAcs as my main speakers for three months; driven mostly by VTL Deluxe 225 amps, they also tangoed with the new Dynaco Stereo 70-II, Nobis Cantabile, and Muse Model One Hundred amps. The rest of the system included my buffered-passive preamp, an Audio Research SP-14's phono stage, and a Well-Tempered Record Player fitted with a Sumiko Blue Point cartridge. Digital sources were a Theta Data/Pro Basic II combo and the Proceed CD Library I'll be writing about next month.
Interconnects were Kimber KCAG throughout, except for AudioQuest Silver Lapis between the 'table and the SP-14. The ProAcs were bi-wired with two 8' pairs of Kimber 4AG, and all electronics were plugged into API Power Wedge AC line conditioners. While I drove the ProAcs full-range, the Muse Model 18 subwoofer I usually use with my Spica Angeluses (footnote 1) was moved out of my listening room into the adjacent living room, where it served admirably for a time as a big black wooden thing with no apparent purpose.
And of course, like all right-thinking Americans, I voted for the young Elvis stamp.—Corey Greenberg
Footnote 1: Spica has recently replaced a small inductor in the Angelus's crossover with a much larger unit; the result, on my Spicas, was less midrange congestion at high levels and a clearer sound overall. If your Angelus's serial number is 1400 or below, your Spica dealer can handle the modification; believe me, after dicking around with razor blades and a hot glue gun revamping mine, I tell you you'll be glad to let your dealer do it.