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Resolution of the long-standing argument between creationists and evolutionists will only ensue if there was undeniable proof of God. The atheist, agnostic, skeptic, philosopher, theocrat, presidents, kings, prime ministers and captains of industry would have to take a stand. Atheists would need to humbly submit themselves or directly and knowingly contend with God. Skeptics could no longer exist with undeniable proof of God. Democracy would become pointless if the truth flies in the face of what the greater majority believe. Can we vote for the truth? Philosophy and philosophers would now be redundant. Who would be held accountable if the present condition of the world is a result of what the most intelligent people are thinking. These are just a few of the questions whose answers are all hypothetical until someone lights the blue touch paper. The bible itself admits to a mystery that will eventually be finished. (Rev10:7) A mystery implies an eventual solution, which will only be had through contemplation and understanding. Will this revelation come through an archaeological enterprise?It is seldom contended that the bible is one of the foremost texts responsible for substantiating archaeological finds. This virtue is extended by means of it's engendering many archaeological excursions to their execution and rewarding accomplishment. Archaeology has returned this favour by proving to be a proponent for the accuracy of the bible's contents and the credibility of its authors. The very shrewd Indiana Jones wannabe's should spend much time contemplating the bibles contents before calling their travel agents. Using archaeological metaphor to encourage the pursuit of wisdom the bible touts itself as the source:
"If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding."
This wisdom, which includes the variety that fuels even the most ambitious archaeologist, can be acquired at very little expense and with much delight from one of the most comfortable and convenient venues on the planet, digging for hidden treasure, from your armchair.
Thanks to technology and the Internet, digging has been automated with bible study aids that electronically compare translations, cross reference concordances and explain subtleties and anomolies of the Greek or Hebrew languages. With the advent of the World Wide Web there is now access to an immeasurable number of archaeological references and historical texts archived in the public record. Powerful search engines can use Boolean expressions to quickly resolve a proposition or comprehend the previously unknown. An entire archaeological excursion could be hatched and accomplished without having to renew your passport or check your baggage.
An Archaeologist feels most accomplished when he corrects or rewrites history, giving to people a life enhancing truth which, remains firmly anchored in the public record. All of this could be achieved from the comfortable confines of your armchair.
What to explore though?
Rather than examine the trivial and unexciting, why not go digging for the most profound and exhilarating? It was Carl Sagan who once said:
"Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known."
All the writings of the bible eventually lead to the arrival of the messiah and God's Kingdom as the solution to our world's problems. This is something millions of Christians around the world pray for daily, "Let your kingdom come". A most significant question now arises. When will this kingdom come? Certainly the bible itself should provide the answer. In both the contemporary and historical record however, the answer remains either unclear or contended to the extreme. This is a question whose answer must be worth enough value and excitement to justify the expense of launching an expedition. As armchair archaeologists however, we need to be attentive to those clues in the text that result in tangible evidences. This is where the thrill starts. Is there evidence in the text we can see, touch, hear, smell, taste or measure? If the answer is yes, we have the collateral to launch our armchair expedition. Following are three scriptures found in the bible, which give indications of the events that should immediately precede the arrival of this most important kingdom:
"The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies."
"Thus saith the Lord, the heavens is my throne, and the earth is my footstool."
"And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night."Immediately prior to the arrival of this kingdom Satan the devil (the accuser of our brethren) and angels, which side with him, are to do battle in heaven and then be cast down to the earth. This is more evident if you sit back in your armchair and read the surrounding scriptures. Will this enormous battle between the most powerful creatures in the universe, which starts in heaven and yet concludes in the immediate vicinity of the earth, be something, which goes by, unnoticed to this planet's inhabitants? It is Jesus Christ himself who provides a hint that can launch our armchair adventure. The hint is dropped at Luke Chapter 10 verse 18:
"And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven."
Many of those higher critics doing bible research for strictly academic purposes will contend that Jesus is using allegory in this verse. This would become a mundane and disappointing conclusion to accept for an archaeologist eager to pursue his ambition. Archaeological excitement can only be achieved here if we have the courage to rebel against those who cling to their deeply entrenched and untested "truths" handed down through the generations and supported only by tradition and repetition. The circumstantial evidences found so far show great promise of finding something more tangible. Finding lightning from our armchair however, seems to be an overwhelming task, exactly what would we be looking for? This creates a necessary occasion to ponder a little before either abandoning or pursuing more tangible evidences.
If Satan's "casting down to earth" was identical to ordinary lightning then it could not be found. If it was indeed Jesus' intention however, that his words should be used to determine the arrival of his kingdom, then some extraordinary manifestation of lightning should eventually be evident and available for all to find. Clues intended for the purpose of their eventual discovery. Now we have some idea about what we should be looking for which seems plausible
This conclusion must then bring us to an inevitable question:
What if the kingdom has already come?
This is where the metaphorical digging process begins. Although the task is not insignificant, it is still not so overwhelming that we abandon it without an effort. In the immediate vicinity of our cosy armchair are some very powerful archeological implements. Internet search engines and bible discussion forums lead to the very interesting discovery that some small Christian religions have used bible chronology in a profound way to determine the date of this kingdoms arrival as being the year 1914. If this is true we now have a stake in the ground from which to start looking for the extraordinary manifestation of lightning in the public record. As we know what to look for and when to start looking, our search for lightning is no longer such a formidable task. Previous to the Internet this task may have been considered impossible. Perhaps that is why I can find no previous evidence this has ever been performed.
By employing keyword search criteria that includes a date, we can now use the Internet search engines to step back through time, 1914, 1913, 1912, 1911, 1910, 1909 and finally in 1908 we eventually discover an extraordinarily powerful and unusual manifestation of lightning. Several years before 1914 on June 30th, 1908 in Tunguska, Siberia a very powerful flash of light was responsible for instantly scorching trees over a distance of 50 kilometers initiating an even larger forest fire. This flash of light was also responsible for immediately incinerating entire herds of reindeer. At almost the same time an explosion uprooted and blew down approximately 80 million of these trees in a radius of about 20 miles. Certainly this lightning is well beyond the ordinary and worthy of further examination, especially considering the reasons for expecting its discovery and still yet actually finding it.
Please take some time to yourself now, to consider the implication of this discovery. The bible gives evey indication to expect an extraordinarily powerful manifestation of lightning immediately prior to Jesus becoming king in the heavens! It has now been discovered! Not only has it been discovered, the date of it's discovery is immediately prior to the date forecast by a small christian world wide religion! After this time Jesus is no longer "sitting at the right hand of God", Psalm 110:1.
Do not let the profundity elude you. There is now physical evidence which supports what is written in the bible. Not only circumstantial yet also now tangible proofs that God, Jesus Christ and Satan exists. This proof exists in our timeframe, not in an ancient historical record, but in a more contemporary printed newspaper. As you continue to read this article the circumstantial and tangible proofs will build a composite total of evidences which completely overwhelm coincidence and in my opinion drive any thought of scepticism beyond acceptable limits.
So what next!
Back to the armchair and a small stack of Tunguska Event books all ordered over the Internet, authored by scientists or journalists keen to examine this extraordinary event. It's interesting to contemplate how these scientists are trying to resolve the problem of the Tunguska Event and yet while searching from the armchair for something entirely different, the Tunguska Event itself is discovered as the solution. Like finding a chicken then looking for its egg instead of finding an egg then looking for the chicken. This archeologist now has both the chicken and the egg in hand while the scientists and journalists have the egg and are still looking for the chicken. The smiles and chuckles give some sensual pleasure however; the end result of this armchair adventure should hopefully result in a much larger accomplishment than embarrassing a few red-faced scientists. Browsing web sites, cups of coffee, white papers, expedition notes, abstracts, conferences, research papers. Hundreds of scientists and almost the same number of years and not one has proposed a commonly accepted explanation let alone examined it from a biblical or scriptural point of view. Have archaeologists never examined this?The result of all this armchair inquiry however, is the following very profound discovery and realization:
This extraordinarily powerful flash of lightning succeded the movement towards the earth of a visible body. If the rationales here are to be correct then, it stands to reason the identity of the body should be Satan himself!
The adventure is still unfinished which, is appropriate, as what we have so far may not be enough to convince the sceptics. Time to fluff the pillow again and do some introspection. Jesus must have known while making his statement at Luke 10:18 that a body would precede this lightning. Some textual evidence should also exist with which to identify this body if it was his intention to use his words literally. Jesus certainly would not have intentionally left us hanging in some inconclusive never land. That would deny his renowned benevolent character. This leads to the comforting conclusion that actual eyewitness testimonies gathered from the investigators of this Tunguska Event could be used to measure the physical appearance of Satan.
In the bible Satan is likened to a serpent, dragon or lion however; if either of these were not allegorical it would already be immediately evident in the eyewitness testimony and make further investigation unnecessary. A straightforward examination of the bible texts reveals something quite different from the expected goatee, horns, red caped and cloven footed image traditionally accepted and taught through a variety of both secular and spiritual media.
So what does the bible say?
Please do not take offense however, the only way to convince an already preconditioned audience, would be to have them carefully examine each scripture in order to reach a truly biblical conclusion, untainted by religious tradition or secular media. Get your bible out and hold on to your armrest, as what follows is an armchair evaluation of scriptures. These can be used to identify and measure the physical appearance of ----- Satan the Devil:
1/ Bible verse ------- Isaiah 14:12
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the earth, which didst weaken the nations!"
The physical manifestation in this scripture is that Satan should be very shiny and bright, perhaps difficult to look at. It is interesting the manifestation is discovered in a verse, which describes his eventual "casting down to earth". (Compare also Ezekiel 28:17)
2/ Bible verse -----1 Peter 5:8
"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: "
The physical manifestation here is the noise of roaring which we should expect to be very loud and frightening. It also mentions that he "walks" so we could expect that his movements are self-directed although in this situation he is subject against his will. Many scientists would be expecting objects that approach the earth to be ballistic in nature perhaps not perceiving these may be sentient. It is therefore reasonable to assume their scientific examination should provide evidence of their inability to agree on the ballistic nature of the approaching body.3/ Bible verse ----- Ezekiel 28:13
"Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy taborets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created."
A "pipe" is a very familiar word however, "taboret" is now an uncommon word in the English Language. Therefore the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of "taboret" follows:
Main Entry: tab·o·ret
Variant(s): or tab·ou·ret/"ta-b&-'ret, -'r
A/Function: noun
Etymology: French tabouret,literally, small drum, from Middle French, diminutive of tabor, tabour drum
Date: 1630
1 : a cylindrical seat or stool without arms or back
2 :a small portable stand or cabinet
From the description of the materials used to create Satan it seems he should have a body of great beauty. It could also be possible the materials described in this verse may be discovered in greater abundance at the impact site than would normally be expected. This may be the incentive to purchase that ticket and pack those bags.
In conclusion it should be expected that a pipe or cylindrical object, shining very brightly and accompanied by loud roaring yet also not moving in a ballistic way like we would expect a meteorite. This and the extraordinary manifestation of lightning should be enough composite evidence to test the objects expected identity against the scriptures. Very different from the goatee, horns and pitchfork expected.
There are many documented eyewitness testimonies. A newspaper excerpt has been chosen however,with which you could initially test the expectation as it resolves with more credibility. This excerpt was found at the Internet link that is also identified in the immediate following:
Leonid Kulik was selected by the Soviet Academy of Sciences to investigate what happened. He began by gathering eyewitness accounts of the event. Many newspapers recorded the explosion, like the Irkutsk newspaper Sibir:
'in the village of Nizhne-Karelinsk in the northwest high above the horizon, the peasants saw a body shining very brightly -(too bright for the naked eye) with a bluish white light. It moved vertically down-wards for about ten minutes. The body was in the form of a 'pipe' (i.e. cylindrical). The sky was cloudless, except that low down on the horizon in the direction in which this glowing body was observed; a small dark cloud was noticed. It was hot and dry and when the shining body approached the ground it seemed to be pulverized and in its place a huge cloud of black smoke was formed and a loud crash, not like thunder, but as if from the fall of large stones, or from gunfire, was heard. All the buildings shook and at the same time, a forked tongue of flame broke through the cloud. The old women wept, everyone thought that the end of the world was approaching."
Exactly what the bible indicated !
Many other eyewitness testimonies contain similar observances but describe the shape as a fiery pole, log or sheaf rather than the more technical term "cylinder". It is likely the term pole is more familiar with many of the nomadic people who witnessed the event than a pipe which is an object associated with a more settled population. "Sheaf" is an interesting testimony as it contains both pipes (the wheat or rye) and cylinder (the sheaf).
In regards to the non-ballistic trajectory there is much still being examined and proposed. A leisurely read throuh the internet on the subject should familiarise the audience with this paradox which continues to baffle scientists to this day.
In his book "Cosmos" Carl Sagan mentions that a large number of tiny diamonds were found strewn over the Tunguska Site. The Russian Jewelry trade also recognizes the prevalence of diamonds and directly attributes them to the Tunguska Event.
Extraordinary manifestations of God's glory and of angelic presence were also revealed through eye witness testimony giving an overwhelming amount of composite evidence which supports not only the true nature of the Tunguska Event but also the chronological calculation undertaken to determine the arrival of Jesus Christ's presence in kingdom power. Please carefully read the information in the links provided in this paragraph to fully appreciate the abundance of evidence.To further add controversy to this topic the evidences also indicate which of the worlds many diverse religions may have actual divine support. Now the blue touch paper is definitely lit! A thorough search of the internet has revealed these rationales have never been pursued before.It is not very complex. Similar to an infantile math student discovering that if a=b and b=c then certainly a=c. A very straightforward and yet still beautiful logic. It is amazing to think that the discovery must have eluded some of the most intelligent theological students and academics for over 100 years.
There is some scripture existing which may explain why.
"That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:"
In the verses above it implies the "appearing" and it's "shewing" occur at different and yet calculated times. Therefore it doesn't matter how simple the rationale is, the manifestation or "shewing" was not to happen until an appointed time. This implies the appointed time is now! Verse 15 above indicates that Jesus will "appear" yet, in verse 16 it says that "no man can see him". It seems like a contradiction or waste of words. We are admonished just a few verses further however, to watch for "vain babblings". The only way I can see to break the contradiction is contained in the same passage where it says that Jesus is "dwelling in the light which no man can approach". Suggesting that if Jesus were to appear it would be as an extraordinarily powerful manifestation of light. The wary may also have noticed in these verses that some scientific opposition will likely exist. As many scientists make their livelihood out of investigating the "Tunguska Mystery" a resolution would understandably receive much opposition.
Matthew Chapter 24:27 is another scripture that mentions Jesus Christs presence in regard to a manifestation of lightning. In the verses that immediately follow verse 27, the start of the great tribulation is indicated and a cause for much anxiety as the bible states this will be the worst period in history that men will ever endure (or succumb). If you carefully contemplate the composite quantity of evidences presented here as well as it's improbability it should rule out the possibility of coincidence. If the blue touch paper is now lit and smouldering it raises the expectation of something far more eventfull to shortly come. The 20th century has surpassed all others in the amount of bloodshed, it makes the dark ages we learned about in high school history look like a cakewalk. A careful examination and understanding of the stupendous amount of power released at Tunguska should make those presently ruling who have made presumptuous decisions tremble at the thought of now being held accountable for that same bloodshed. You know who they are. All of those different factions of human society listed at the start of this article should now stand alerted to rethink their position. When an extraordinary mystery is solved it usually brings with it an appreciation for the wisdom of the one who inspired or created it. Ezekiel announced this would be the case at the time of this mystery's sealing;
"Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty".The Apostle Paul later echoed this same sentiment in the New Testament:
"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God"
What next?
In regards to this most astonishing event, Carl Sagan in his book "Cosmos" noted a fundamental dilemma;
"The key point of the Tunguska Event is that there was a tremendous explosion, a great shock wave, an enormous forest fire, and yet no impact crater at the site".
For this same reason many other Tunguska Event investigators and experts suggest in their hypothesis that the body which approached the earth must have completely disintegrated or evaporated in the great explosion. If this Tunguska Body (Satan) was resilient enough however, to completely survive the tremendous explosion, he may still be somewhere in the vicinity of the earth. If this were true it should then be expected that since the year 1908 and through the rest of the 20th century there would have been many eyewitness reports of a shining, roaring, pipe or cylindrical body "flying" in the vicinity of the earth. These reports should also exist somewhere in the public record.
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A woman reported March 11 that someone stole her purse from her shoulder as she was entering Dillard's department store, deputies said.
Detectives sent the mall's video surveillance of the incident to surrounding law enforcement agencies, and one of them identified the purse-snatcher as Steven Legnon, 19, 130 Legnon Court, Morgan City.
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Pair freed from prison, but still not in the clear
Prosecution moves to retest DNA in controversial 1986 double murder
In 1986, newlyweds Dyke and Karen Rhoades were murdered and their bodies burnt in their Paris, Ill., home. Police arrested Randy Steidl and Herb Whitlock for the murders, and the two men each spent many years in prison before their cases were overturned.
Now, the DNA evidence in that double murder is being retested, and Whitlock and Steidl worry they could face renewed charges in the decades-old case.
Patrick Delfino, director of the Illinois Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, which is handling the case, declined to discuss on the record what evidence is to be tested or whether Whitlock and Steidl could face new charges.
"Any comment at this time would be inappropriate," Delfino says.
Steidl spent almost 17 years on death row for the crimes. He was released in May 2004 after Steidl won an appeal for a new trial and prosecutors dropped the charges against him. Illinois Times first wrote about Steidl's case in 1993.
Whitlock's case remained lower profile because he was not sentenced to death. He spent almost 21 years in prison before his release in 2008. Though prosecutors declined to retry Steidl and Whitlock after their release, the pair has never been officially cleared of the murders, so they could face new charges at any time.
Flint Taylor, Steidl's attorney, says that's a very real possibility, even if the DNA evidence doesn't actually implicate Steidl or Whitlock. He says the pair was framed the first time, and he's not the only one who feels that way.
"Their suspicions and fears are well-founded in the sense that we know that these people have sought for decades to frame these men and are not satisfied with the fact that they're innocent. They're continuing on this disgraceful, legally-sanctioned vendetta."
In 2009, the Rhoades case was the subject of a book written by Michale Callahan, the Illinois State Police detective assigned in 2002 to reinvestigate the case. The book, titled Too Politically Sensitive, details problems Callahan says he found with the original investigation and prosecution of Steidl and Whitlock, as well as his ISP superiors' alleged attempts to get him to drop the case. Callahan, Steidl, Whitlock and others associated with their defense believe the case is a deeply political coverup involving public corruption and organized crime.
Whitlock and Steidl say the push to retest the DNA evidence is meant to intimidate them because of their ongoing lawsuit against the Illinois State Police, the City of Paris, Edgar County and several individuals involved with prosecuting the cases.
"They've wasted $14 million in taxpayers' money defending this case," Steidl says, referring to the civil case. "If they had just come and talked to me and Whitlock seven or eight years ago, we would have settled for a lot less…. When you're suing the hierarchy of the ISP, these people will move heaven and earth to try and deny what happened 25 years ago."
While it's unclear what evidence the special prosecutor is hoping to test in the criminal case, Bill Clutter, a Springfield private investigator and founding member of the Downstate Illinois Innocence Project, says there is DNA evidence in the case that has yet to be fully tested. That evidence is a strand of body hair found on a pillowcase in the Rhoades apartment after the murders.
The hair was previously examined by investigators under Attorney General Lisa Madigan using a common DNA test, but the results were inconclusive. It has not been tested using a different method that Clutter believes could show that someone besides Whitlock and Steidl committed the murders.
The DNA evidence will be tested by a private lab, according to special prosecutor Edwin Parkinson. Taylor, Steidl's attorney, says he does not trust any testing done by the prosecution in this case.
"My understand is they're thinking about using a lab that is totally in their pockets," Taylor says. "I would like to believe that they're looking for the real killer, but I have no reason to believe they are."
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- Just after closing a $316,720 Kickstarter campaign, Light Table joined Y Combinator. It was "just two guys" at first, but now they're looking to hire a lot of new people.
- Light Table speeds up your development time by 20 percent — and that's just right now. The team hopes to speed up development time by "orders of magnitude."
- Light Table might end up being the perfect way to learn how to program, too. Because everything happens in real time, you can immediately see where your mistakes are and parse your results. Light Table's co-founder wasn't a programmer to begin with, and learned how to do so by building Light Table.
Here's a lightly-edited transcript of the conversation:
BUSINESS INSIDER: Can you tell me a little bit more about your background?
CHRIS GRANGER: Right now we're just two guys, we met back in high school. We've known each other for a little over a decade. He went and did biology at Johns Hopkins. I went to Chapel Hill, actually for German, and took courses all over the place. I graduated with a German degree and I'd been programming forever. I worked my way through college on contract gigs, programmed for a while in Charlotte and then joined Microsoft as a program manager for Visual Basic and C-Sharp (C#) for a few years. It's a precursor to what we ended up doing for Microsoft's own development tools. We just started talking and said, ah, we should do a company together, and here we are now.
BI: How was your experience with Y Combinator?
CG: I had applied with another guy a few times ago with a completely different idea. It's always been on our radar. This time, it was really great, we certainly learned a lot. Y Combinator opens up opportunities, not even to just investors, but to meet people you might not otherwise meet and learn from them. It's not even them giving you anything necessarily or opening doors, it's learning from people you would never have the opportunity to see. That's the most valuable thing we got out of it, beyond the fact it also let us focus. We didn't have to worry about, how in the world do you set up a company. They have a streamlined process, now it's all done, so go do your stuff.
BI: So what is Light Table?
CG: Light Table is a new environment for creating software. The main problem, is building software is way harder than it should be and it's really inefficient. A good analogy is like, being a developer today is being a painter with a blindfold. You make a stroke on the canvas, you don't see the result. The time to be able to see a change when coding could be anywhere from 30 seconds to 8 hours. That disconnect is hugely impactful, it means what we end up doing most of the time, instead of doing little things and trying them, we make huge changes and hope to god that we got it right.
Light Table removes that blindfold and applies real-time feedback. It allows you to modify a running program. What this opens up is a new level of connection to the software. It's interesting, being able to see how data flows through your program, even so far as taking your code and seeing variables get filled in. It enables a real-time level of debugging, you write way fewer problems into the software.
Other software editors live in this world where the only thing we've ever had is text. Emacs is 36 years old, Vim is in the 20s, they were invented in the time where all you had was a teletype. As a result of that, they work in this very strict world where you have a file open and there's text in this file, and if you want more than that you're kind of screwed. One of the second things we're doing on top of connecting you is building an environment that basically mold it to the shape of your problem. We're talking about being able to edit running games and graph the performance, you immediately see it changing in front of you.
We're moving away from this notion where the only thing we have is a single file we work in or a couple of buffers, you can actually have all sorts of crazy stuff on your work surface. It's about creating a real work surface. If you look at other professions, they work on giant graphing tables, they have blueprints all over the place. 3D modelers have far more advanced tools that programmers have today, their work spaces adapt. Light Table takes it to that same level of adaptation.
BI: What languages does Light Table support?
CG: Right now we started with Clojure, the fastest growing language out there right now. Now that we're out of Y Combinator, we're pushing into Python and JavaScript because they're massively popular. What we're ultimately building is a completely open platform. You can't do what Vim did, doing it all themselves. There's a ton of value to letting the community build whatever they want to on top of it. The end goal is to create an open platform, any language you can ever want to support will be there. It'll be much easier for the greater number of applications, even Sublime Text or Vim or Emacs.
BI: How much time do I save using Light Table, instead of a standard editor?
CG: It depends on the kind of programmer you are and where we are. What we'll see, based on what we've seen so far, is you can see upwards of 20 percent faster development time. We're basically re-imagining the way you program, this is still very early stuff and I don't think we've got it all yet. Ultimately the goal we're talking is orders of magnitude faster. Right now, these very general environments we have, they're not necessarily good at anything. Once you get to the point that you have an environment that's tailored to what you do, you're playing a very different game. That's the difference between digging a posthole with a postholer instead of a standard shovel.
"Once you get to the point that you have an environment that's tailored to what you do, you're playing a very different game. That's the difference between digging a posthole with a postholer instead of a standard shovel."
BI: Sounds like it would be good for teaching?
CG: One of the use cases we're most excited about is teaching. When we released the videos, a lot of organizations said it would be the most amazing teaching tool for programming that's been around. I feel very strongly about that. My cofounder, he wasn't a programmer when we started this. He learned himself, he provides great feedback for how to be a teaching tool.
BI: Where do you go from here?
CG: Right now we're looking to hire. We did a Kickstarter a while back just before we got into Y Combinator. We set out a plan for ourselves, we want to release our Version 1 in May next year. We're looking to hire four or five guys to finish this thing out. Toward the end of the year, we're trying to get a beta version of this JavaScript and Python stuff out. For us, it's getting back to the product.


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Nursemaid to the World: The Church Amid Adversity and Sickness
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My previous and first impression of Riviera was as a comparison to the nearby Los Angeles Country Club (LACC). Riviera seemed corporate to me and the kikuyu grass destroyed me. While I still prefer a more intimate club such as LACC, Yeamans Hall or Somerset Hills, why let the lack of ambiance reflect negatively on a world-class course? I travel often to L.A. and have come to appreciate the culture more. I have become better familiarized with the different neighborhoods and welcomed a return visit to Riviera.
The first tee at Riviera is memorable, a 503-yard par five that plays from an elevation of about 100 feet down into Santa Monica Canyon below. The course is defined on both sides by the canyon and The Most Expensive Real Estate In The World. The first tee gives a hint that Riviera will be much more about strategy than anything else. The tee box lines you up away from the line of play so you have to aim left to hit the straight fairway. Get used to this here, as there are many little deceptions that make Riviera a great course that forces you to think your way around it.
A house perched atop Santa Monica Canyon overlooking Riviera
It would be a grave injustice to Riviera not to mention the par threes. The sixth is a class little uphill par three that has a bunker in the middle of the green and the sixteenth is a downhill 166-yard beauty that is visually intimidating. The sixteenth also shows off the beauty of architect George Thomas's bunkering style.
"From the South Bay, to the Valley
From the West Side, to the East Side
Everybody's very happy
'Cause the sun is shining all the time
Looks like another perfect day
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well so much for a good B day
well so much for a good B day
MwaHahappy birthday Mike!
Oh, how i wish to see his face of "surprise"
Word of advice dont surprise impulsively violent girls holding Baseball bats
The cake is a lie, BITCH.
Well. That didn't go well.
STOP THE SURPRISES oh O.O hes dead
well... that's a surprise party Lucy won't soon forget...
This gives me a sad...
Happy birthday you basterd
He finally succeeded in surprising her!
SOMEONE'S been reading too much of Maverik's story...lol
I may be PauloxLucy but that doesn't mean I like this.
Boom Baby
Irony. And sadness...
kinda deserved it... kinda didnt... could have gone better
... I just noticed that it's the same cake from Portal.
oho bitch got owned
at least he was able to surprise her before he died lolz xD
No, she thought that was Paulo going after the cake she made for Mike. Unfortunately, she discovered that she attacked and maimed the very person she made the cake for.
Guess Lucy's gonna be spending some time with Mike in the hospital on his birthday...
haaaaappy birthday, Mike!
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Anyway, this makes me both very amused and very sad. How did a simple surprise go so horribly wrong? The dark room looks scary as ****. Where was Mike going with this? And if it's a party, where the hell is everyone else? Why was Lucy so goddam paranoid that someone was going to attack her? Did she steal the baseball bat from Jasmine or something?
And actually, it was interesting that you kept this picture as ambiguous as you did. Was Lucy throwing Mike a party or was Mike throwing Lucy a party? We'll never know...
Way to go to any lengths to surprise Lucy, didn't end too well though
There's that bat again
it looks more like it was lucy's b day... soo.. poor mike. lucy wanted him to die for a wish.
A dark house, an over-aggressive girl with a baseball bat, and a large, darkened figure jumping out at said girl screaming and yelling at her...
How did you expect all this to turn out!?
Adversaries purified!


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UKSurf wrote:windsuks wrote:UKSurf, I was there that day, call me a liar if you wish but we all saw what we saw..end of (to us at least).
You must have felt like one of the disciples sitting on the shore of Lake Galilee. Well atleast the kite was designed in that part of the world
Nope not at all but please don't make me out to be a liar (or an idiot)
It's all been stated many times before by the various random people who were there, just regular people waiting for the wind to pick up.
There was no way dimitri would have been able to kite with any other board than the SUP, and that was a struggle enough...whatever it was blowing you could not feel it at water level or even the height of Arizona Lou's wind meter up top of his pole attached to his car in the front row of the car park.
Jeeze round and around we go!


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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen would like the Chicago summit to produce at least two key results: a roadmap for aiding a post-war Afghanistan and the official go-ahead for a missile defense shield for Europe.
Rasmussen, the former prime minister of Denmark, discussed those priorities and others with the Chicago Tribune editorial board Saturday, one day before the opening of the summit, which will bring more than 60 world leaders to McCormick Place.
"On Afghanistan, I expect that we will make a decision on the future mission," he said. With international security forces expected to exit by the end of 2014, NATO's role will shift to training Afghan troops to taking over full responsibility for national security, he said.
The price tag is expected to be $4 billion a year, with the U.S. picking up a little more than half.
But with the European Union in economic turmoil, there are questions about whether those countries can find the resources to support the plan.
"Though this is not a pledging conference, a number of allies and partners have already announced complete financial contributions, and based on that, I'm optimistic about reaching our goal," he said.
When asked whether the goals for a post-2014 Afghanistan had been ratcheted down to aim for a "good enough" outcome, Rasmussen said it was important to have reasonable expectations for a society that faces numerous challenges, from its wartorn condition to corruption, drug trafficking and poverty.
"We are there first and foremost in Afghanistan to prevent the country from once again becoming a safe haven for terrorists," he said.
But, he said, "we can't expect Afghanistan to be what some people might call a perfect society compared to the standard of society we are used to. And less can do."
He downplayed the impact of new French President Francois Hollande's pledge to withdraw French troops by year-end, noting Hollande has said his country is prepared to provide other forms of support.
"I don't think it creates uncertainty," he said.
NATO leaders at the two-day summit also will decide whether to move ahead on the first of four phases of a missile defense system for Europe — a program that has raised hackles in Russia, which is not a NATO member.
The first phase does not raise major concerns in Moscow, Rasmussen said, "so we still have some time to go." The full program could take up to a decade to roll out.
As for his initial impressions of Chicago as a host city, Rasmussen said, "it's my clear impression that all the security arrangements work smoothly."
He said he was well-aware of planned protests and said a key NATO official has met with an umbrella group for many of the protesters to listen to their positions.
"It's not justified to call NATO a war machine," he said. He said its historic role has been as a peacemaker.
"But in free society, it's a constitutional right to express yourself, even if your statements are not justified," he said.


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Boy, 15, planned shooting at California school, police say
ALTURAS, Calif. – A 15-year-old boy was taken into custody after investigators said they found evidence he was planning a shooting at his high school in Northern California.
Authorities were called to the teen's home on Sunday after he pulled a knife on his parents and was attempting to load a .30-caliber rifle, Alturas Police Chief Tim Barnes told the Record Searchlight of Redding on Thursday.
The teen was being held at a mental health facility. His name has not been released because he is a juvenile.
The teen made statements to investigators that indicated he planned a shooting Friday at Modoc High School, Barnes said. The teen had chatted online about school shootings and talked to neighbors who had firearms, Barnes said.
"We're pretty sure he was planning this," said Barnes, who declined to elaborate.
Calls to Barnes and the Modoc County District Attorney's office by The Associated Press on Friday were not immediately returned.
Meanwhile, a 14-year-old boy was arrested Thursday for investigation of bringing a gun to school after rumors began spreading on a social media network that someone planned a shooting at a Central California high school.
The ninth grader was taken into custody in a classroom at Central High School, the Fresno Bee (http://bit.ly/Yth3vy) reported.
Authorities said the teen had a .25-caliber handgun and was playing with more than 50 rounds of ammunition in his pockets.
Fresno County sheriff's investigators and the school district superintendent said rumors started circulating Wednesday that someone planned a shooting on the Fresno campus, although there was no evidence that the rumors constituted a real threat or that it was linked to the student.
Prosecutors said Friday that no charges have been filed, although sheriff's officials said the teen could face counts of possessing a firearm while on campus, carrying a firearm in a public place and being a minor in possession of a concealed weapon.
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The Evil Mad Scientist is fed up with the Looney Tunes and plans to get rid of them once and for all. Using his homemade time machine and giant ACME eraser, he will travel through time and erase the Looney Tunes and their ancestors from existance.Little does he know though that the Looney Tunes have built their own time machine, and will fight the Evil Mad Scientist to save themselves from dissapearing.
Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal is an action-adventure game featuring seven playable Looney Tunes characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tazmanian Devil, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Gossamer and a special secret character, all rendered in high-definition, next-generation graphics. Gamers find themselves immersed in combat, puzzles, and vehicle-based action. Players also command an arsenal of ACME melee and projectile weapons in outrageous battles and travel to various locations such as Camelot, Ancient Egypt, Mars, and the Wild West.
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Not all buildings were meant to be preserved. If you saw nothing but Roman ruins every time you turned around, they would soon lose their significance and appeal, wouldn't they? Sometimes it's just best to throw in the towel, thank a structure for its useful contribution to the world, and then stick a fork in that turkey, because it's DONE!
We have been faced with that very situation for several years now. An old granary at the other farm has not been used for anything productive for a long, long time. We quit storing oats in a granary sometime back in the early 1980s, I'm guessing. The one we used was at the home place and was torn down to be replaced by a more spacious yard. The one at the other farm has always been a bit out of the way, so tearing it down wasn't really going to gain us any valuable real estate. We always thought about the removal project, but never did anything about it.
Since we didn't buy a couple groups of feeder pigs this past winter, we finally had time this summer to move the granary project up the To Do List. Staff member Lorne started by removing the tin from the lean-to on one side. Then he removed the roof and an addition on the other side. It made the base of the building look easier to get rid of when it was whittled down to size a little bit. We were looking at a building that was almost a 20-foot cube. It was about 20 feet wide, 20 or 24 feet long and it seemed like it was 20 feet high. At least, that's the reasoning I used to keep me from going up on the roof to remove any tin. Heights are not my thing. The same goes for Guy No. 1.
Here was the engineering brainstorm behind the building. Concrete walls approximately 6 inches thick ran the length of the building. Each one was about 6 or 8 feet apart and stood about 3 feet high. The wood portion of the building rested on concrete foundation footings. The quality of the wood was still pretty good, but probably not good enough to make any Amish dudes want to tear it down for us. Once the building was gone, then we could have some demolition fun and get rid of the foundation. That would open up some space.
Call it reflex or force of habit or whatever you want, but Guy No. 1 and I had the same initial thought about the removal of the building, which involved three steps. Step 1: Light a match. Step 2: Step back. Step 3: Watch that puppy burn.
1, 2, 3, done. Simple Two Guys Farming math.
Of course, we're not total pyromaniacs. Well, we are, but we still have a bit of a practical streak in us. Perhaps we can credit the German ancestors for that. As fun as a fire would be (and that was the Irish in us talking), it would still leave us with one significant downside. We couldn't get the fire hot enough to melt all the nails in the building. We'd be puncturing tires for years to come if we burned it and didn't take out a hundred dump truck loads of the remaining nail-laden ground and replace it with 125 loads of dirt from the field. You really can't move dirt in July without doing some serious damage to those cornstalks calling it home at the time.
So we kicked around some ideas . . . literally. Okay, it wasn't so much kicking as pushing. A quick after-hours exercise with the skid loader on my part (sans witnesses) revealed that the building could be lifted from the foundation. Not only lifted, but perhaps even gently nudged in a horizontal direction.
A meeting of the corporate brain trust eventually produced a potential solution, in part because of the role the building had served for years. It stood next to the spot where we park all of our gooseneck trailers. We realized that those gooseneck trailers were pretty much the same height as the foundation of the granary. If, say, you suddenly realized that you could, say, shove that building around, you could maybe park a trailer in such a position as to gently nudge that building right onto that trailer. Next thing you know, you've got yourself a shed ready to go places in the world!
We got everything into position that we needed. It didn't take a lot of nudging to get the shed onto the flatbed trailer. Once it was on, the next step was to figure out how to get it out of the yard. The local Amish farmers have been known to move a building or two in their time. They do it with horsepower. We did, too, but we did it with a John Deere 8420 MFWD at the helm instead of a team of Belgians.
Once we got the building loaded and mobile, we made another discovery. Remember the somewhat cubic dimensions of the shed? You can't sneak it underneath every power line in the yard when it's almost a 20-foot cube. A 14-foot cube, no problem. A 16-foot cube, probably. Twenty feet, though? That would require the other Amish solution tradition. They have been known to park a kid on the roof of the building they're transporting. Not just a kid, though. It's usually a kid with a stick. As they come to the power lines, the kid holds his stick up and makes sure the building fits under the power line.
Again, we had another corporate powwow. On a 2-to-1 vote, it was decided that The Chairman Emeritus would be nominated to climb up and hold the stick.
Then we switched back to the practical, but yet imaginative, side. If we were sneaking it under the power lines, why did we have to get it under all of the lines and go out the driveway? Why not sneak it under only one or two and go through the hay field instead? With a little bit of Drivers-Ed work, we could do a 14-point turn with that puppy and end up driving straight through to the hay field and not even risk hitting all the other power lines out to the road. Not only that, but we'd skip the whole block-the-entire-roadway-for-a-half-mile-in-the-middle-of-the-day issue. The cows were at the distant pasture on the other farm, so there wouldn't even be any traffic to get to the timber to unload this shed. Everywhere we looked, it seemed, there was nothing but upside to this deal.
You may find this hard to believe, but I was the cautious voice of reason when it was time to get the shed on the road, as it were. It was resting on the flatbed. The key word there is resting. Having transported cargo of various types and dimensions over the years, I have a couple of rules to live by for successful transport. First on that list is: Strap it down!
Again, on a 2-to-1 vote, it was decided that no straps would be necessary. We got it from the foundation to the flatbed and it didn't fall off. That meant the trip from the yard to the timber via the hay field should be just as easy. I mean, it's not like we'd be going across ground that was too steep to continually raise corn or anything! Who'd want to strap down something on a route like that? WIMPS, that's who! Tie-down straps? We don't need no stinking tie-down straps!
With Guy No. 1 behind the wheel, we got the shed jockeyed around in the yard and headed for the hay field. I figured we were going from there to the road via a driveway in the field. As we approached the driveway, another executive decision was made. This one had more of a dictator feel to it than a governance-by-committee feel. The power line overhead looked kinda low, and the approach to the road looked kinda steep. Seeing as how I was close by and easily dispensable for anything, I could quickly drive ahead of the mobile shed and remove all the electric fence in the pasture to enable Guy No. 1 to drive straight down to the brush pile in the timber with the cargo. Between gates and fences, we'd really only cross three or four, so why not just go that route? P.S., Guy No. 1 would neither stop nor slow down as he went across the field, so make sure the fence was down as he got to it or he'd just drive through it and I could clean up the mess afterwards. We'd waited 20 years to tear down the granary, but we apparently didn't have 10 minutes to spare to clear a path for its removal. It reminded me of one of my favorite lines from Dennis Miller. "I was stuck in traffic the other day. Turns out it was a funeral procession. Yeah, I gotta wait around . . . cuz a DEAD GUY needs to make good time!"
I got the first gate opened up wide enough for the procession to pass through with no problem. I got the second one down just before it was run over. Small problem, though. The terrain dropped a bit from that paddock into the next one. That meant the very back end of the trailer caught the electric fence wire as it went through. I flagged Guy No. 1 to a stop and told him to back up so the wire would unhook from the trailer. That's how the logic flowed in my TV-influenced little brain: Watch scene. Dislike outcome. Hit Rewind. Press Play. Fully expect different outcome.
Guess what. We hit Rewind a couple times, but the scene kept replaying exactly the same each time. Go figure. I should stick with Cut and Paste instead of Rewind.
There was one solution. Again, using TGF corporate logic, it was determined that the youngest and most flexible participant could crawl underneath the trailer and un-snag the wire. Shouldn't take but a couple seconds. A little extra Tide in the wash that night should pretty well clear up any grass stains on the Levis. Of course, if the shed happened to tip off the flatbed while I was under it (You know, what with the LACK OF TIE-DOWN STRAPS!), grass stains may be the least of my laundry concerns, or those of my estate and my mortician.
I got the wire off and then quickly made my way to the next fence in the pasture to get it out of the way before A.J. Foyt got to it with the shed-on-wheels. It wasn't as easy as the last one, because I decided not to press my actuarial luck. This fence was yanked clean off the corner post and dragged out of the way before A.J. got there with the load. You can't snag a wire that isn't there. We had a load that was maybe 16 to 20 feet wide, but I cleared off a path that was 120 feet wide. I wanted to make sure I had all the bases covered before Guy No. 1's A-D-D-riddled brain kicked into overdrive and he decided to change positions as he approached the last fence. If I gave him 40 feet, he'd choose a spot that was 42 feet from the post and claim it was more level as he dragged the wire with him on the back corner of the shed. Give him a 6-to-1 ratio for hitting that target and then it's easier to be William Tell.
That was pretty much the last hurdle to clear before we got the cargo into the right spot for a proper download. We now had it positioned right where we wanted it. Well, sort of. We had it positioned about 40 feet from the gulley where the brush pile (read: spare kindling) was. The plan was to take the loader tractor and nudge the cargo from the trailer onto the ground and then push it into the ditch.
The Chairman arrived on the scene with the loader tractor. Since there were no bothersome tie-down straps to remove, I was free to watch from a distance. Our thinking was that the granary would tip off the side of the trailer and either collapse into a heap, or land with a gentle plop and then we'd shove it the rest of the way to the ditch once the trailer was moved out of the way.
Good thing we didn't burn that baby in its original location. There were apparently a BILLION nails holding it together! The Chairman gave the shed a nudge and it pretty much did a barrel roll into the ditch . . . completely intact!
You've heard of Little House on the Prairie? We now have Little House in the Ditch.
My guess is that the shed is haunted and/or possessed. I'll call Steven King to run it past him. Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to have him on speed-dial anyway.
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I have been thinking about the saying "what does not kill you makes you stronger', and I am not sure that is always true.I recently read something written on this subject by the renowned author, Christopher Hitchens, who recently succumbed to cancer, in which he made the point that in his personal experience with cancer, that "ism" was not true for him.
I agree with him completely on the issue of not being physically stronger after fighting cancer. Many cancer treatments have long term permanent side effects that will always be there. But what about other situations? I have used this saying myself, and I think we all want it to be true when we have survived some sort of tribulation. But is it true? Perhaps on some level we have more emotional endurance for unpleasantness after we have gone through a life threatening event, but even that is suspect. What does not kill you often scares the wits out of you and confronting your own mortality in a crisis often makes you realize that you may be more vulnerable than you thought. The fact is, what does not kill you almost kills you, and the short term effect of an encounter like that is often that you are alive but greatly weakened and then you still have to come to terms with those permanent side effects.
What I know for certain is that what does not kill you changes who you are. I don't think any of us is ever the same person after we have survived something dreadful, whether a disease or an accident. We may survive the event because of treatment or because sheer strength of will, or both, but regardless, we are different. We may be completely recovered, but we now know a reality we did not know before – IT CAN HAPPEN TO US – and that changes our world forever.
I think we prefer the "what does not kill you makes you stronger" idea because we do not want to feel like victims of our situation. We want to be seen as fighters, wobbling to our feet for another round, no matter how many times we've been knocked down.
Maybe what would be smarter to say is "what does not kill you makes you not dead, and hopefully a little wiser", and being wiser is probably more helpful in the long run with issues of life and death. Being wiser and thus more realistic about your capabilities is not a weakness.
One interesting place where we see this played out is when someone who has had something nearly fatal does not want to go back for follow up visits with doctors because they do not want to deal with or "give energy to" the possibility of negative outcomes. I can identify with that because I have been there. However, if you do go back and get bad news you realize that going back may have saved your life. If you had not gone back you might have felt you had a more positive attitude, but a shorter life, which was probably not your goal.
So in conclusion, I think i'll stop saying "what does not kill you makes you stronger" and say instead "what does not kill me makes me aware of the possibilities", and hope that serves me well as I go forward to whatever is in store for me.


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Good news: Amber India is moving to modern quarters in Los Altos, just across the Mountain View border, with plenty of parking. Even better news: The old location still provides the excellent food and service that introduced the South Bay to white-tablecloth, multi-regional Indian cuisine in 1994.
The original Amber India will remain open for catering, said owner Vijay Bist. It is a place of memories for Silicon Valley. As Bist puts it, "People are very loyal in Mountain View. They say, 'How can you move? We grew up there!'''
The restaurant's enduring popularity also comes from its being family-friendly.
"We're bringing the whole team from Mountain View, a new chef from India," Bist said. "Hopefully we can serve the next generation of young kids."
The Amber empire started expanding in 2003, with a chic restaurant/lounge in San Jose's luxe Santana Row. Then there were restaurants in San Francisco, Palo Alto and a cafe in Mountain View.
By the end of the year, Bist hopes, there will be one in Los Altos. The new Amber India is going into a 10,000-square-foot building just across the street, on the Los Altos side of El Camino Real. There will be three levels, each with its own personality, kitchen and bar. The new restaurant will have a well-stocked cocktail lounge with big-screen TV, a private room, and a patio with fire and water features for Indian weddings.
In true startup fashion, Bist's first food business did not go so well. His organic food store in San Jose predated the market, and had a bad location, he says. And one of his restaurants in San Francisco is closed for now, while he focuses on Los Altos.
Meanwhile, Mountain View is doing just fine. Even with the Olive Tree Shopping Center half empty, parking is very competitive at lunchtime. This may be because the $14.95 buffet is constantly refreshed. Naan doesn't sit in a steam tray, but is served fresh to your table. Remarkably, tandoori chicken (skinless but with bones) stays tender. Dishes rotate and are cooked from scratch every day. It's a good time to try something new, like for me, a luscious Bhodpuri potato dish. Amber India represents a variety of regions well.
For pacing purposes, it's important to know that the signature butter chicken and a couple of other savory meat dishes are accessed at the dessert table.
At dinner, the assorted tandoori hors d'oeuvres ($13.95) could make an entree for the indecisive meat-eater. You get luscious lamb sausage (seekh kabab), minced with onions, ginger, garlic and spices. Cubes of lamb (barrah kabob) are tender and aromatic. Boneless pieces of marinated chicken maintain a moist texture and flavor-enhancing char spots. All of the above are served on a platter, with the bed of onions still sizzling and the slice of lemon nicely warmed for juicing. Tamarind and mint-cilantro sauces come in easy-to-pour creamers.
Servers spoon out the entrees. As opposed to the lunchtime buffet, rice and naan are extras. We needed both butter naan ($2.95) and basmati rice ($2.95) to soak up the silken butter chicken and sauce, which also features tomatoes and fenugreek.
Visually and flavor-wise, palak paneer ($14.95) makes an excellent companion to butter chicken ($17.95). Creamy spinach is dotted with cubes of farmer's cheese.
For a sweet ending, try Bengali rasgulla ($4.50), two little balls of dense farmer's cheese dumplings in relatively light rose-flavored sugar syrup.
My only issue with Amber India is the anemic wine list. The new location is sure to cure that problem.
Amber India
2290 W. El Camino Real, No. 9, Mountain View.
Hours: Lunch daily 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Dinner daily 5-10 p.m.
Reservations: yes
Credit cards: yes
Parking: parking lot in front
Alcohol: full bar
Children: yes
Outdoor dining: no
Party and banquet facilities: yes
Noise level: medium
Bathroom cleanliness: good


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Fatigue During Radiation
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My husband got radiation treatment 10 years ago. He sailed through it and worked full time. I am getting radiation for breast cancer now and am so tired I can hardly get out of bed some days. Am I feeling tired from the radiation and why did my husband not have these problems? He thinks I�m being dramatic!
Tammi Fisher, RN, OCN Staff Nurse in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
Everyone's cancer treatment experience is different - so don�t compare your experience to anyone else's and don�t let them either. Fatigue is common in a lot of patients undergoing radiation therapy. Believe it or not, exercise is one of the best ways to alleviate fatigue. 15-30 minutes of daily exercise can help- I�m talking a walk through the neighborhood or mall though, not running 5 miles! Check out OncoLink�s Exercise and Fatigue tip sheets for more information.
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Yule Craft Bazaar will be at Normandy Park Towne Center Saturday, Dec. 8
The 2012 Yule Craft Bazaar is set for Saturday, Dec. 8 at Normandy Park Towne Center, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
"Join your neighbors and get ready for the holidays!" reads an announcement. "Beautiful hand made gifts from local area artists are only the beginning!"
Here's the schedule:
- 11:00 am—11:30 am, see Normandy Parks own Miss Melanie's dancers perform!
- 11:30 am—1:00 pm, visit with Santa! Moms and Dads, have your camera ready for those great photo ops!
- 12:00 and going through out the day, enjoy the fun folk sound of Portland's own "Sold Only As Curio"!
Toys-For-Tots is hosting a toy-drive for those in need – please consider donating to this great cause.
Please contact Amber Nichol for more information on this fun event: [email protected].
Here are the details:
WHAT: 2012 Yule Craft Bazaar
WHERE: Normandy Towne Centre, 19901 1st Ave South, Normandy Park, 98147
WHEN: Saturday December 8th, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
SPONSORS: Thank you to our sponsors for your generous donations:
- Tom O'Keefe
- The Normandy Park Starbucks
- The Nichol Family
- Donald Benton
- The Normandy Park Arts Commission


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Advanced digital control systems, improved engineering, and better material-handling technology characterize the latest generation of automated screen-printing systems for wide-format web substrates. Learn about the ease of operation, precision, and high throughput they can deliver in industrial and electronics printing environments.
The latest generation of roll-to-roll screen-printing systems marks a significant evolutionary step in the press technology that has dominated since the early 1900s. Now, the incorporation of more sophisticated electronic controls reduces the need for time-consuming manual adjustments that typify earlier and less sophisticated equipment. In this discussion, we will consider how state-of-the-art electronic controls and software integration are changing the capabilities of roll-to-roll screen-printing systems, including both flatbed models (Figure 1) and cylinder systems (Figure 2).
The underlying electronics and software engineering that now have bearing on screen-printing technology are cut from the same cloth as the electronic controls we now see in a wide swath of industrial equipment. At the core are programmable logic controllers (PLCs)—computers geared to provide stability in real-world manufacturing conditions and able to handle multiple inputs and outputs. PLCs, originally developed for the automotive industry, are now programmed with more sophisticated instructions than when they were originally introduced, enabling expert programmers to fine tune industrial controls to an unprecedented extent. This includes today's PLCs that can fully automate the steps in roll-to-roll screen printing.
Job setup and tool-free changeovers
Adjustments to the screen clamps, as well as squeegee and floodbar pressures, can now be achieved with touchscreens operating pneumatic controls via the system's PLC. This eliminates a good deal of time that had previously been spent by operators making mechanical adjustments to balance these components for each job. On today's roll-to-roll presses, no tools are required to make these adjustments—they are all done electronically and with greater precision and repeatability than what human operators can typically muster. If and when fault conditions arise, they can also be corrected with a few keystrokes.
Going from a manually sheet-fed printing process to an automated web process can speed throughput by 50% or more. The actual speed improvement varies and is dependent on the size of the job, among other factors.
Once a skilled operator has set up all the required job parameters for a particular application—web speed, web transport settings, squeegee angle, screen height, dryer settings, etc.—the PLC will automatically store all these parameters. For repeat runs of the same job, a far less skilled operator is able to quickly initiate and set up the system by recalling those parameters.
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It's fall on PBS, when the big documentary blockbusters heave into view; and nobody builds them bigger than Ken Burns, whose name always seems to be part of the title, even when it isn't: "Ken Burns' Baseball," "Ken Burns' Jazz," "Ken Burns' Civil War." Burns likes to swallow huge subjects whole -- American subjects -- and this year he brings us "Prohibition," the story of the 14-year misrule of the 18th Amendment and of the decades-long temperance movement that preceded it.
It's a great subject with many present-day echoes, as the war on drugs ever more loudly raises questions of legislated morality, missed tax revenues and business opportunities created for bad people. As television, it also dovetails, historically, with "Boardwalk Empire," whose second season has just begun and, analogously, with "Breaking Bad," which is, after all, the story of a bootlegger.
With co-director Lynn Novick, his collaborator on "The War," Burns tells his story in three chapters, "A Nation of Drunkards," "A Nation of Scofflaws" and "A Nation of Hypocrites," locally airing Sunday through Tuesday on PBS SoCal/KOCE. At more than five hours, "Prohibition," while interesting from moment to moment, is longer than it needs to be, and made even longer by Burns' habitual stateliness. (It's easy to imagine him telling narrator Peter Coyote to "take that line just a little slower.")
I prefer this approach to the machine-gun pacing of many modern documentaries, but it doesn't fit every subject well -- "Baseball," yes, "Jazz," no -- and, as it often does here, can make the material feel remotely historical instead of bringing it to life. (It can also squeeze the humor from his texts.) And though, as the best-known documentary filmmaker of his time, Burns has the prestige and the resources to acquire a remarkable wealth of visual material, it does not necessarily help his story to use it all.
Prohibition did not begin on a whim, certainly: We learn that by 1830 "the average American over 15 drank the equivalent of 88 bottles of whiskey a year" -- you can see how that might lead to a temperance movement. It was in many ways a progressive movement, tied to female suffrage, even as it was a movement that also demonized immigrants, their cultures and drinking habits. But the Volstead Act, the instrument that transformed the 18th Amendment from a general ban into particular law -- "a law that would imprison Jesus if he turned water into wine," in the words of talking head Pete Hamill -- was to be finally not an instrument of sobriety but the starting gun for a national binge that lasted from January 1920 until December 1933, when the 21st Amendment voided the 18th. By one count there were some 32,000 speakeasies operating in New York City at the height of Prohibition; the word "scofflaw" was coined to describe their innumerable patrons.
As usual, Burns uses individual case histories to tell his tale. Here is Carrie Nation with her ax, busting up saloons. There is Al Capone with his bulletproof Cadillac, a "Prohibition businessman" signing autographs and gracing the cover of Time. "I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat," he said. "You just have them transferred someplace they can't do you any harm." In reality, Capone's Chicago was, as even Lucky Luciano, visiting from New York, described it, "a crazy place. Nobody's safe in the street."
The drama might flag or grow diffuse, but there is still a lot here to learn. Of the talking heads, the most consistently valuable resources are Hamill and Daniel Okrent, who was also featured in "Baseball" and whose 2010 book "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" would seem to be the rock on which "Prohibition" is built.
Despite the presence of a few witnesses old enough to recall the time, "Prohibition" lacks a voice as vibrant as that of Shelby Foote in "The Civil War" or Buck O'Neil in "Baseball," or the reminiscing soldiers and sailors of "The War." It remains for Coyote's measured narration, written by frequent Burns collaborator Geoffrey C. Ward, to push the narrative through expanses of black and white photos and footage, relieved by the occasional new glamour shot of a drink being poured. That looks pretty good, you might think, and are meant to.
Where: KOCE
When: Part 1, 8 and 9:45 p.m. Sunday; Part 2, 8 and 10 p.m. Monday; Part 3, 8 and 10 p.m. Tuesday.
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Love by Submission
Ephesians 5:21 poses a conundrum: Paul commends Spirit-filled Christians for "submitting to one another." Isolate the verse from its context, and it almost sounds as if the Apostle teaches a kind of mutual, universal submission, without regard to any …Read More
Union with Christians
The doctrine of union with Christ is central to understanding the riches of God's grace in the gospel and all of its implications. Whether it be from the words of Jesus Himself, particularly in passages such as John 15 …Read More
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If, as Jonathan Edwards proposed, heaven is "a world of love," then love is pure, intense, and uncommon. But even here in this world, God wants us to display something of His heavenly love: "Above all, keep loving one …Read More
Love's Significance
It is virtually impossible to exaggerate the importance of love. Nothing is more basic to true spirituality than this singular virtue. Nothing is more central to Christian living. At the very heart of authentic discipleship is love. Without love, we …Read More
Soft Hearts, Solid Spines
The Internet allows unprecedented opportunity for communication between Christians from different theological traditions. The results have not been pretty. Comment threads are the Devil's playground and blogs his amusement park. And even if we exclude online media, theological bickering between …Read More
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Real men don't eat quiche, and real men don't do church. For a variety of cultural and sociological reasons, it has become an accepted fact that the majority of people in most churches are women. It is now …Read More
The Church Gathered
In ancient Athens, Aristotle, a Greek philosopher of the fourth century BC, wrote about a custom in which, at age eighteen, young men submitted to an examination by fellow citizens and subsequently started physical and military training. Three fathers from …Read More
Dealing with Differences
We are called upon by the Lord to contend earnestly for the faith (Jude 3). But that does not necessarily involve being contentious; it involves avoiding compromise, standing forth for what we believe, standing forth for the truth of God …Read More
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Local woman continues holiday ministry in father's honor
As Christmas rolls around the corner, Donna Vincent is doing her part to ensure everyone has a merry holiday.
Vincent said she started Operation Christmas Cheer two years ago, after seeing people in the community who had a variety of needs and couldn�t give their children a Christmas.
She said the first year, she was able to help out just one family. However, when she decided to help out three families the following year an overabundance of donations came pouring in.
�People were sharing it on social media, and donations started coming in from across the state and country,� she said.
Vincent said the process of selecting families begins a few months before Christmas, when she puts out a post on Facebook asking for the stories of families who need help. She asks only for the circumstances, along with the gender, age and interests of any children.
Vincent said she tries to keep everything anonymous, and she doesn�t even meet the at need families. She collects the items and then passes them along to her contact who will deliver the Christmas gifts.
�It�s anonymous, so that way these families are more receptive of help, because people don�t know who they are. We want these people to accept our help so that way their children can have a great Christmas,� she said.
A list of items needed is available on the Operation Christmas Cheer Facebook page. People, who wish to donate can contact Vincent at 252-933-4211 and arrange a time to drop off items.
Vincent said in addition to items from the list, many people are also donating gift cards. She either purchases things on the list or will give the gift cards directly to the families. The cards often help with buying clothes for teenagers.
Vincent said she plans on continuing for years to come, and has high hopes for the future.
�I would love to have someone help me with it, so we could be broader and reach more people,� she said.
Laurie Saul donated a gift card to the cause and said she is glad to participate.
�I want to help out people in need and it warms my heart to be able to do it,� she said.
Vincent said Operation Christmas Cheer has become more of a mission since the passing of her father in August.
�This is something he was really proud of me for doing. What he didn�t realize is that I just took the lead from him. This is the way he was all his life and I hope that in some way, this not only helps families, but honors his memory as well,� she said.
Vincent said the cutoff date for donating is Monday.
Noah Clark can be reached at 252-559-1073 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @nclark763.
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