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This is the Privacy Policy for all Web sites and mobile applications owned or operated by Colorado Springs Gazette LLC ("The Gazette"), located at 30 E. Pikes Peak Avenue, Suite #100, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, including, without limitation the following Web sites, Gazette.com and all other sites under The Gazette's ownership or control and featuring a link to this Privacy Policy (each a "Site" and collectively, the "Sites") and The Gazette's owned or operated mobile applications (the "Mobile Applications"). The Mobile Applications and Sites are defined collectively as our "Digital Services."
Your access to and use of the Digital Services is subject to the following Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") and all applicable laws. The terms "gazette.com", "we", "us" and "our" when used in this Privacy Policy means The Gazette. The terms "you" and "your" when used in this Privacy Policy means a user of any of the Digital Services. Any other capitalized terms used in this Privacy Policy but not defined in this document will have the meanings as defined in the Terms of Service for our Digital Services.
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us, and we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. This Privacy Policy describes how we protect your privacy when you use our Digital Services. This Privacy Policy applies only to information, including personally identifiable information, collected through our Digital Services. "PII" means "personally identifiable information," which is information that identifies you personally, either alone or in combination with other information available to us (including without limitation you name, address, email address, telephone number, age, background, or other personal information). "Non-PII" means "non-personally identifiable information" or other information which alone does not identify you (however, in some circumstances Non-PII may be combined with PII in order to identify a specific individual). This Privacy Policy is part of and incorporated into the Terms of Service for our Digital Services.
By using any of our Digital Services, you are agreeing to the collection, use, and disclosure of your PII and Non-PII as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your PII or Non-PII as described in this Privacy Policy, you may not use our Digital Services. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please email us at email@example.com.
We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy with regard to any or all of the Digital Services, at any time and without prior notice, by posting the revised version of this Privacy Policy on the applicable Digital Service. Your use of that Digital Service following any such change constitutes your agreement that all PII or Non-PII collected from or about you through any Digital Service after the revised Privacy Policy is posted will be subject to the terms of the revised Privacy Policy. You may access the current version of this Privacy Policy at any time by clicking on the link marked "Privacy Policy" at the bottom of each page of our Digital Services. To the extent rules or guidelines affecting your use of the Digital Services are found elsewhere using the Digital Services, those rules and guidelines are hereby incorporated by reference into this Privacy Policy.
We or our third party service providers may collect and track the following types of information about users on our Digital Services: Optional Voluntary Information. In order to access or use certain services and capabilities on our Digital Services, you may be required to voluntarily submit certain PII. The use of these services or capabilities is purely optional, so you are not required to submit any PII through our Digital Services if you do not wish to use them. Some of these capabilities include subscribing to our publications, making a payment or donation through our Digital Services, e-mailing or otherwise sharing articles with others through our Digital Services; participating in surveys, contests, or sweepstakes; placing classified advertisements on our Digital Services or submitting feedback to us. In some cases, (including without limitation placing classified advertisements or making payments on some sites) the PII you submit will be provided directly to third party service providers rather than to us (see sections regarding sharing information below).
Usage data. The Gazette tracks user traffic patterns and content accessed throughout our Site. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. The Gazette sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms users of our Site enter in our Search function, but this tracking is not associated with individual users. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand our audience.
Cookies and similar technologies. In order to improve your experience when using our Site, we, our third party service providers, or advertisers may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer, which may store preferences or other information, and may be used to help personalize your experience. The cookie itself does not contain PII, although it will enable us to relate your use of the Sites to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. We, our third party service providers or advertisers may also use "web beacons" or other technologies to monitor behavior and collect certain data regarding the actions of our users online, or "pixel tags," which are small pieces of code embedded in emails sent to users.
We generally use third party advertising companies to serve ads when users visit the Sites. In the course of serving advertisements to the Sites, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser or may use web beacons, pixel tags or similar technologies for purposes of generating advertisements and other content targeted to your interests, and for other data collection, response measurement, marketing and related business purposes. In some cases, these cookies or other technologies may track users over time or across their use of different websites. This Privacy Policy does not cover the collection methods or use of the information collected by these third parties. These third parties have their own privacy policies and may be members of The Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI"), a cooperative group of ad serving providers that has developed a set of privacy principles to which its members adhere. To remove yourself from some or all NAI member advertising programs, please visit the NAI Opt Out Page at www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp. Please note that if you use a different computer or Internet browser, you may need to renew your opt-out choices.
The Gazette uses cookies to track user traffic patterns, to enhance your experience when using our Sites, to persist information through your session, and to personalize the Sites for you based on your preferences and selections. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. Disabling cookies may result in errors while using the Sites. Because there is not yet a common standard regarding how to interpret web browser based "do not track" signals, our Site does not currently respond to undefined "do not track" signals.
Information Sent to Us by Your Web Browser. We may collect information that is sent to us automatically by your web browser, such as your IP address, the address of the web page you were visiting when you accessed our Sites, information on your operating system and browser, and the date and time of your visit. Such information does not by itself identify you personally. However, if you have registered on any of our Sites, it may be possible for us to link the information provided by your browser to information that identifies you personally. In addition, we may review our server logs for security purposes, such as detecting intrusions into our network. If we suspect criminal activity, we might share our server logs, which contain visitors' IP addresses, with the appropriate investigative authorities who could use that information to trace and identify individuals.
The Gazette may use PII collected on our Digital Services: to enhance your experience using our Digital Services (whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the Digital Services or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users), to provide information you have requested, to maintain your registration on any Digital Service, to process your customer service or payment requests, to improve our Digital Services, for purposes related to the business of The Gazette, for any other purpose described in this Privacy Policy, or otherwise as we may disclose to you from time to time. We may also use Non-PII sent to us by your web browser or by cookies to perform statistical analyses of our server logs in order to study the use and popularity of various areas of our Digital Service. We also review IP addresses to analyze where we are getting our audience. Our Classified Advertising Providers will use your Non-PII to place the advertisements you have requested, and to manage the profile you created when placing such advertisements.
The Gazette creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. We will not collect (nor provide to an advertiser or sponsor) information that a specific identifiable user clicked on any particular ad. However, by clicking on, otherwise interacting with or viewing an ad, you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad, and this may lead to similar ads being targeted to you on our Digital Services and potentially on other Digital Services. If you wish to take steps to opt-out of tracking by certain online advertisers, you can visit the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out page at http://www.aboutads.info/choices.
We may inform advertisers of the results of our analyses of our server logs, including details regarding Digital Service usage and general information about our audience, however, such disclosures will refer only to general, aggregate usage data from these analyses – never specific identifying information. We may share your PII with: (i) our current or future affiliates, subsidiaries, parent company, or other related entities; (ii) companies and organizations that perform services on our behalf, for example, companies that provide support services to us (such as data storage and web hosting services), classified advertising, or payment processing; and (iii) carefully selected third parties for marketing or other purposes not expressly described herein. We may disclose the PII we collect through our Digital Services when we, in good faith, believe disclosure is appropriate to comply with the law (or respond to any legal process such as a court order or subpoena); to prevent or investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft; to enforce the Terms of Service or other agreements that govern your use of our Digital Services; to protect the rights, property or safety of The Gazette, our users or others; or to protect your vital interests. Information submitted to our Digital Services is an asset of The Gazette and will become part of our normal business records. Any information collected on our Digital Services, including without limitation PII, may be transferred to any entity related to The Gazette now or in the future, including without limitation our parent company, subsidiaries or affiliates, or to another company that has acquired the stock or assets of The Gazette, for example, as the result of a sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or liquidation. If such a transfer occurs, the acquiring company's use of your PII will still be subject to this Privacy Policy, and the privacy preferences you have expressed to us. If you provide PII to our Classified Advertising Providers and certain payment processing providers, they may share the PII you provide to them with The Gazette and its related entities, and they may also use and share your information collected directly by them in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Please be aware that although we may request your consent for some disclosures described in this section, by using any of our Digital Services you are deemed to have accepted and agreed to the sharing of your information collected through our Digital Services in the manner described in this Privacy Policy, and we will not be required to obtain your consent for any disclosure described in this Privacy Policy.
At any time, you may opt-out of having your information provided to third parties for marketing or other commercial purposes, and opt-out of other communications from us. You can unsubscribe from email newsletters or similar communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in every email, and you can subscribe or unsubscribe from various Gazette.com email newsletters by visiting gazette.com/settings and clicking on "Newsletters" (you must be logged in to change your preferences). You may opt-out of all information sharing with third parties for marketing purposes, or you may request that our affiliated companies not send you future emails, by emailing us at email@example.com or by sending a letter to The Gazette, attn.: Privacy; 30 E. Pikes Peak Avenue, Suite #100, Colorado Springs, CO 80903.
Third party sites, including our Classified Advertising Providers, partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content or service providers accessible through our Digital Services, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our Digital Services you may link to, or view certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party, including without limitation our classified advertisements, which are hosted by our Classified Advertising Providers. Through the Digital Services you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, third party sites, advertisements, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties. The Gazette is not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties and is not liable to you for any claims that may arise from your interaction with those third parties or their sites. You should exercise caution and check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing PII or another party's information on a feature or page operated by a third party.
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request PII from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent. The Digital Services are not directed at nor targeted to children under the age of 13 and we do not use the Digital Services to knowingly solicit PII from or market to children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, do not provide us with any PII. If we learn that someone under 13 has provided Personal Information to the Digital Service, we will use reasonable efforts to remove such information from our databases.
The Gazette operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. Only authorized individuals have access to the PII provided by our Digital Service's users.
To obtain a list of the personal information that The Gazette holds about you, or the kinds of personal information The Gazette has disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year, or for residents of California (as required by California law) to receive a list of the names and addresses of all third parties that received your personal information from The Gazette for direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year, please write to: The Gazette, Attn: Advertising Dept., 30 E. Pikes Peak Avenue, Suite #100, Colorado Springs, CO 80903.
We respect your right to make choices about the ways we collect, use and disclose your PII. You may update or modify your information or change your preferences at any time by emailing email@example.com DATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy is effective as of Oct 22, 2014.


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Technical Paper
Structural Vibration of an Elastically Supported Plate due to Excitation of a Turbulent Boundary Layer
High-Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers are an important source for inducing structural vibration. Small geometric features of a structure can generate significant turbulence that result in structural vibration. In this work we develop a new method to couple a high-fidelity fluid solver with a dynamic hybrid analytical-numerical formulation for the structure. The fluid solver uses the Large-Eddy Simulation closure for the unresolved turbulence. Specifically, a local and dynamic one-equation eddy viscosity model is employed. The fluid pressure fluctuation on the structure is mapped to the dynamic structural model. The plate where the flow excitation is applied is considered as part of a larger structure. A hybrid approach based on the Component Mode Synthesis (CMS) is used for developing the new hybrid formulation. The dynamic behavior of the plate which is excited by the flow is modeled using finite elements.

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Huckfest. Is it a Bro-fest? A Bro-deo? A Bro-gasm? Well, it's a ton of huge trucks trying to jump as far as possible out in the California dunes. So yes to all three.
This vid was put together by Hoonigan's Hert Eugene and Brian Scotto. It gives you a bit of a broader sense of the event than the last clip we posted, which was nothing but a bro-out in front of the 169 foot winning jump of Mike Hollywood Higgins.
Oh, and here's a behind-the-scenes look.
My boss @brianscotto never misses the shot.#scumbagscotto #fuckwitscottoyouknowhegotit#dattongue


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Ideally 18 Months Or More Between Babies
Photo credit: metin Kiyak/iStock / 360/Getty Images
Sometimes preterm birth happens and there is no obvious cause, but an in-depth study found that timing may be a factor for some of these experiences. Researchers found that an interval of 18 months or more between births reduced the risk of prematurity.
More time between babies
Back-to-back babies can be hard on Mom's body, and when researchers dove in to the records of 454,716 mothers who had given birth at least twice in the last six years, they were looking at some data in particular. They wanted to know who experienced a preterm birth and what the spacing was like between their pregnancies.
They found that moms whose babies were born with an interval of less than 12 months between births had a 53.3 percent rate of preterm deliveries, compared to moms with an 18-month gap (or greater), who had a preterm birth rate of 37.5 percent.
According to the March of Dimes, one out of every nine babies arrives before 37 weeks. Prematurity sometimes leads to health problems, disability and even death, even for babies who are born later than their profoundly premature peers. So any information that can help babies cook longer is good for both moms and babies.
"We knew already that shorter intervals between pregnancies are associated with higher likelihood of preterm birth," says Dr. Emily DeFranco, professor at the University of Cincinnati who led the study, which was published in the International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. "But we did not know whether or not short spacing led to a lower likelihood of delivering after the due date of 40 weeks."
More on preterm delivery
U.S. preterm birth rates fall, but remain high
Rock-a-bye baby: Lullabies may help sick preemies
Welcoming a preemie


text: In celebration of Father's Day this weekend, meet some truly awesome animal dads! Seahorses Male seahorses take on an interesting role when it comes to parenting. It is the male who becomes pregnant and delivers the babies! Seahorses have monogamous relationships, and the male cares for the unhatched eggs, regulating the conditions inside the pouch where the eggs are stored. Arowanas Arowana dads do a lot to take care of their little ones! A male arowana will build a nest for young fish, as well as protect them from harm. If his spawn are in danger, he'll suck them up into his mouth to keep them from getting hurt. Emperor Penguins Photo via National Geographic. The male emperor penguin is a dedicated dad! After laying her egg, a penguin mom will return to the ocean for two months to fish. During that time, the male cradles the egg between his feet, taking care not to expose it to the elements. He does not eat until the mother returns! Mouth Almighty When breeding, it is the male that will take up the female's sack of eggs and incubate them in his mouth for about two weeks. After the eggs hatch, the developing fry will continue to stay in the safety of the male's mouth for about another week. During this time, the male does not eat. Golden Lion Tamarins Male golden lion tamarins are ever the attentive fathers! They will "co-parent" offspring with their mate and can often be observed carrying their young on their backs in between feedings. Be sure to bring Dad to the Aquarium this weekend to meet some of these incredible animal parents in person! Tags: animal-dads, arowana, best-animal-dads, emporer-penguins, fathers-day, golden-lion-tamarins, mouth-almighty, national-aquarium-2, national-aquarium-in-baltimore, national-aquarium-in-dc Categories: Animals, News Previous Post Next Post


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Table of contents
12 April 2011
Prerequisite knowledge
Knowledge of PHP and some Flex or ActionScript is required. Knowledge of Zend Framework will also help you make the most of this article.
User level
Adobe Flash Builder for PHP, a recently introduced version of Flash Builder 4.5 co-developed by Adobe and Zend Technologies, could be one of the more interesting cross-platform integrations in a long time.
Back in the yesteryear of 2008 AMF support was added to Zend Framework for PHP. AMF stands for Action Message Framework and it is the de facto standard for communicating with Flex applications. What makes this interesting is that while there are lots of mechanisms for connecting between two different languages, this integration couples the Adobe Flash Platform and PHP—two of the most popular ecosystems for web-based applications. They operate almost exclusively at opposite ends of the spectrum and came to their popularity through very different paths.
The Flash Platform's popularity came through the strong support of a company that built its reputation on providing tools to create engaging UI experiences, whereas PHP became popular because it democratized server-side application development. In other words, PHP brought web application development to the masses.
The addition of Zend_Amf to Zend Framework provided the integration point for Flex applications, but the tooling to make that easy was missing. Flash Builder 4 included an interface to PHP that used Zend Framework, but the level of integration in Flash Builder for PHP makes connecting to PHP services even easier.
With Flash Builder for PHP great steps have been made to reduce some of the barriers that were present earlier. Adobe and Zend looked at the workflow that both PHP developers and Flex/ActionScript developers use to build their applications and worked hard to streamline that process. The goal is to provide you with as much freedom as possible while providing a foundation strong enough to keep you from shooting yourself in the foot.
This article includes a high-level look at several new features in Flash Builder for PHP. After covering the basics of creating an integrated project, it explains the new introspection tools and continues on to debugging. Once you've completed this article, you should be able to start working quite easily—either starting an application from scratch or providing a rich UI to your existing PHP application.
Additional required products (third-party/labs/open source)
- Zend Framework
- Zend Server 5 or Zend Debugger-compatible PHP installation
Flash Builder for PHP is an integration of the Adobe Flash Builder product and the Zend Studio product, both of which are recognized as leaders in their respective spaces. There is always interest in marrying a great UI with great data, so bringing these two products together to help developers build compelling Flex and PHP applications is a natural fit.
To set up a great environment for building Flex and PHP applications, use Flash Builder for PHP as your IDE and Zend Server for the back end. Zend Server is the Zend PHP application server and is available in both free and professional editions. For the purposes of this introduction, you'll only be using the installed debugger, so if you are not already using Zend Server, then installing the free Community Edition version will be sufficient. If you are using your own PHP server you will need to download the Zend Debugger, as it is required to work with some of the tooling provided in Flash Builder for PHP.
Zend Framework is added by Flash Builder to the PHP include path for any PHP project that you intend to use as a data service, even if it's not a Zend Framework project per se. This is because Flash Builder for PHP connects to your PHP application using a component in Zend Framework called Zend_Amf. You may not need to use any of the other features, such as MVC or database access, but you will need to have the Zend_Amf component available for the gateway in order to communicate with your Flex application. If you are using Zend Server, it is probably already installed for you.
Flash Builder for PHP introduces much tighter integration between Flex and PHP projects. Although it was possible to connect to PHP services from within Flash Builder 4 due to the inclusion of Zend Framework, now the relationship is much stronger. You'll see that in action a little later on, but first you need to set up your workspace environment.
There are two mechanisms you can use to integrate Flex and PHP projects, which I have dubbed Fraternal projects (non-identical twins) and Sibling projects (same parents, but with more pronounced differences). This is not official terminology, but it helps to differentiate the two mechanisms.
When I refer to a PHP project, it can either be a plain PHP project or a Zend Framework project.
Fraternal projects
To create a Fraternal project, you simply choose File > New > Flex and PHP Project or File > New > Flex Mobile and PHP Project (see Figure 1) and use the wizards.
This method is the easiest to use and it works best when running on a default installation. In other words, if you are starting out from scratch with a new installation of Zend Server and Flash Builder for PHP, this will probably be the way to go.
Both Flex and Flex Mobile projects can connect to service layers that have been made available via PHP. Indeed, they can even share a PHP project if you have both a Flex and a Flex mobile project that access the same PHP data sources.
Sibling projects
If you find you need to switch between PHP projects in your Flex application or if you have an existing PHP application that you would like to expose to a Flex interface, Sibling projects are likely the better option. It is actually quite easy to associate an existing PHP project with the Flex project:
- Right-click your Flex or Flex Mobile project and select Properties.
- Select Flex/PHP Support.
- Select Enable PHP Support.
- Select the PHP source project (see Figure 2).
You may still need some minor configuration changes, but using this mechanism will get you up and running easily with an existing PHP project.
With the original Flash Builder 4 PHP integration there were a few constraints that you needed to work around to create access points to remote PHP projects. The most obvious was that PHP class definitions were required to exist inside of the public document root. While this is permissible in PHP, it generally tended to limit your integration points. This is because with many frameworks (and when following PHP best practices in general) it is unusual to have application code in a publicly accessible folder.
In the new Flash Builder for PHP you can now introspect your PHP objects much more easily and, thus, import them into your ActionScript code as value objects. While you still have the original mechanism to introspect your code, you now also have the ability to introspect objects that are outside of the document root. To do this follow these steps:
- Switch to the Flash perspective in your opened PHP project (if it is not already active).
- Right-click the file with the class that you want to introspect and select Create PHP Service for Flex (see Figure 3).
The Zend Studio introspection mechanism will read the PHP source file and do the heavy lifting of creating the PHP service for you. This mechanism makes connecting to PHP services outside of the document root much easier. After the class is introspected you will have value objects with all the methods and return values created based on any return values that have been provided.
At this point you can start adding service calls to your ActionScript code that invoke your remote PHP end point and begin binding Flex UI elements to the results of those PHP service calls.
You have a Flex project. You have a PHP project. Data is being passed back and forth flawlessly and you get to go home early, right? Hopefully, but the reality is that problems happen and handling errors on a remote connection is downright difficult.
Flash Builder for PHP integrates the workflow for debugging PHP applications into the workflow for debugging Flex applications. All you need to do is launch a Flex application with a new debug run configuration and you will be able to debug your PHP code right along with it.
Doing this is quite easy: Right-click your Flex application in the Package Explorer and choose Debug as > Web (PHP) Application (see Figure 4). This will launch your Flex application in a browser, preconfigured to kick off the PHP debug process when remote requests are made to your PHP application.
It's a simple feature, but having personally had to debug a fair amount of Web 2.0 applications, I can say that the ability to just click a button on the front end and have the back end automatically start a debug session is a substantial time saver and a much more natural way to work with your application in development.
Where to go from here
You've now had an introductory look at the new Flash Builder for PHP IDE and seen glimpses of its potential. As a PHP developer, I am quite excited at the opportunity to do more interesting and interactive work using Flash Builder for PHP for both the browser and the mobile Internet.
The first thing you will need is the Flash Builder for PHP IDE. If you are looking to provide feedback you can visit the forums. Additionally, you can download the sample files for this article and use the example applications to try out the new IDE. For more information on core Flash Builder 4.5 features, see What's New in Flash Builder 4.5. For more information on core Zend Studio 8 features, see Zend Studio 8 Overview.
Flash Builder for PHP is a great opportunity for developers to build rich Flex applications with PHP-based data/business logic on a merged platform that enables you to develop using the best of both worlds in a seamless IDE.


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For us Dodger fans, the news that former Laker great and businessman Magic Johnson -- and a group of investors -- has purchased the team via auction is good news. The previous owner Frank McCourt had taken money out of the team to pay for a lavish lifestyle -- and ended up pushing the franchise into bankruptcy.
Complete Coverage: Dodgers' ChangeUp
One of McCourt's many sins was against the people of California: according to the LA Times, he and his co-owner -- McCourt's then-wife Jamie -- made $108 million between 2004 and 2009, but didn't pay state (or federal) income taxes.
That should be more of a scandal, particularly in early 21st century California, which has faced big cuts to education and other core public programs. And it also begs the question: will California and its governments finally see some money for McCourt's profits on this sale?
The short answer: no one knows for sure, since we don't know about McCourt's taxes.
But the announcement of the deal had one telling detail that suggests tax avoidance may explain part of the structure of the sale. McCourt will remain an owner of the land that includes Dodger Stadium, in an entity that includes some of the new owners.
There can be many reasons for such structures, and some reports suggest McCourt wants to retain rights to develop the parking lots around the stadium. But one reason for keeping McCourt's name on the deed may be to avoid reassessment of property.
Some advocates of changing California's property tax laws have shown that such structures allow business and property sales to occur without the legal change of control that triggers reassessment.
Without reassessment of property, tax bills are based on earlier valuations. And the purchase price of the Dodgers -- $2 billion, a record for a professional baseball team -- stands to reason that the land upon which Dodger Stadium is far more valuable today than whatever number upon which it was most recently assessed.
Taxpayers deserve a cut of this deal. And of McCourt's profits.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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This ensemble will run July 23rd - August 20th, 2019 with performances on Friday, August 23rd.
A critical component in jazz education is developing the ability to play in a small ensemble setting. Participating in a small ensemble is a great experience for developing musicianship skills of playing in time, using dynamics, listening and interacting, all while working on feel, soloing and accompanying.
Playing jazz in small ensembles also develops confidence, collaboration, spontaneity, anticipation, empathy, creativity, working within structure, leading, following, focusing, quick thinking, memorization, and pattern recognition.
Come join the fun and build your jazz performance skills in a guided rehearsal setting. Work on soloing, accompanying, and playing as a group.
Classes culminate with a session-end performance.
The Ensemble is open to players Level 1.
Acoustic piano, drumset, and amp are provided.
Student Requirements
Punctual attendance and desire to learn to play jazz/desire to improve.
Students supply their instrument.
Homework is comprised of playing assignments based on the ensemble music and individual needs.
Ensemble meets 1.5 hours weekly.
Registration and Payments
Registration for a small ensemble requires payment in full by the first meeting of a session (unless special arrangements have been made). Seats are filled on a 'first-come, first-serve' basis and cannot be assigned unless payment is received. Payments can be made by cash, check, or credit card.
Please refer to our Policies page for information regarding important information about registration and payment.


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Jewelry should always make a girl feel special, but inspirational jewelry is exclusively designed to evoke true heartfelt emotions. Maybe that's why I fell in love with this Circle Heart Icon Necklace from Alexa's Angels. The message behind it states that Love Conquers All, and that is something I believe to my core.
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Ryland filed it's 10Q yesterday, and as I thought, they are running very thin on cash. They reported $85 million of cash in their press release, but failed to mention in that same release that much of the money came from drawing down $117 million from a credit line. Without the credit line draw down they would have ended the quarter with negative cash generated. They would save about $75 million a quarter if they stopped trying to fool those that may not know better by buying their stock back and issuing dividends. That money is much, much better used in marketing to take sales share from their competitors, or even offering incentives to get people to buy houses. Which which you rather have as a shareholder, a piece of a percent greater accretion from the stock buyback and a few pennies dividend, or a company that successfully reduces it's overpriced, high carrying cost inventory or reduces it's life threatening debt?
As a little tiny aside, they noted that they lost an additional $37.3 million on option contracts, which they classified as a non-cash charge. Sure it's non-cash this quarter from an accounting perspective, because they wasted the cash in past quarters. Remember, the cash flow statements have the impairment charges added back in, even though the impairments are still representative of cash gone, just cash from previous periods - and ultimately value from the company.
Of course, the entire beleaguered sector is trading up as I type this, including Ryland - currently at $25.85, up $0.35. Using book value comparables, it comps out to about $13.66. Obviously, there are those who haven't read my last two posts on Ryland. The disconnect between Ryland's actual value and its current momentum driven market price exists. If you think the Ryland research was interesting, you'll probably love what I come up with on Lennar, and be mildly amused with the analysis on MBIA, the monoline insurer, first mentioned as suspect on this blog in September.


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Rocker-turned-actor Lenny Kravitz has reportedly been tapped to portray Marvin Gaye in filmmaker Julien Temple's forthcoming biopic.
The controversial British director stepped in to revive the project last year after both Cameron Crowe and F. Gary Gray abandoned plans to bring the soul legend's life story to the big screen, and now Kravitz has been cast as the music icon, according to London newspaper The Evening Standard.
Kravitz has already proved his acting chops with small roles in "Precious" and "The Hunger Games," but if the rumors are true, this will mark his debut as a leading man.
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Olympic guru Lord Coe is returning to his days of athletic prowess by captaining a team of celebrities for a Sport Relief challenge.
He will go up against a team captained by comic John Bishop for the Clash Of The Titans in a series of head-to-head challlenges which will be screened by the BBC next month.
They and their team-mates will compete in a series of events including track cycling, rhythmic gymnastics, synchronised swimming and a swimming relay, some of which will be filmed at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Clare Balding and Gabby Logan will be on hand to host the programmes.
Lord Coe was a celebrated middle-distance runner, setting world records and picking up Olympic titles before heading into politics and later overseeing London 2012 as chairman of LOCOG (the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games).
"I spent the best part of 10 years preoccupied with the planning and delivery of London 2012. Not once did I imagine that less than two years later I would find myself back at the park competing.
"I hear John Bishop has quite a competitive streak but I know these venues inside out - something that, probably unrealistically, I am hoping will play to my advantage."
John amazed the nation - and himself - when he undertook his "week of hell" challenge for Sport Relief two years ago as he cycled, rowed and ran from Paris to London.
He said: "Two years on, I am back again to take on whatever challenges Sport Relief throws at me. Am I intimidated by going up against four-time Olympic medal winner Sebastian Coe? No, I say, bring it on - may the best man win."
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This week the 113th Congress of the United States of America convened, and while this is a routine part of our government's normal functioning, both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate saw some historic firsts that should appeal to those hoping for a more religiously diverse representative body. Perhaps the most high-profile is Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu to be elected to Congress, and the first person to swear their oath of office on the Bhagavad Gita.
"I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad-Gita because its teachings have inspired me to strive to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country." – Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
In addition to Gabbard, Sen. Mazie Hirono, also of Hawaii, became the first Buddhist elected to the U.S. Senate (she had already served in the House), and the first Asian-American female senator.
"I don't have a book […] But I certainly believe in the precepts of Buddhism and that of tolerance of other religions and integrity and honesty […] It's about time that we have people of other backgrounds and faiths in Congress…" – Sen. Mazie Hirono (in 2007)
A third first comes from Arizona where Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, the first openly bisexual member of Congress, also happens to be the first explicitly religious "none" elected to Congress.
Democratic Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, who was raised a Mormon, is religiously unaffiliated but does not describe herself as an atheist. Her campaign was unavailable for comment to Whispers due to the swearing in, but spokesman Justin Unga told the Religion News Service in November that Sinema favors a "secular approach." He told the New York Times the same month that Sinema "believes the terms 'nontheist,' 'atheist' or 'nonbeliever' are not befitting of her life's work or personal character."
There are other interesting religious facts about the 113th Congress, but I think these three women are representative of the shifts happening in the United States right now. Specifically the rise of "nones" who aren't necessarily atheists, but also don't claim a religious identity, and the ongoing growth of non-Christian minority religions. We are fast approaching the day where hot-button moral issues in this country can no longer be discussed solely within a Judeo-Christian context, and we are already seeing the end of the "white Christian strategy" in national politics. It's a new dawn, one that started with the November elections, and is now enacted with this new Congress.


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The whole idea of tonight is the coronation of Jesus Christ. The whole theme is His exaltation and that He be high and lifted up. And that is what I want to make a humble attempt at doing. I want to talk about Jesus Christ. I want us in our hearts and minds to see Him lifted up and exalted.
And sometimes that's not easy to do. Maybe in this environment it is because we feel the fever of the passion of so many hearts gathered around profound truths and great causes. But as we go back to those churches where we slug it out day in and day out, it's easy to get discouraged and disillusioned and even depressed. And we understand that the church of Jesus Christ is to be the all beautiful bride of Christ, but very often she appears more like a ragged Cinderella for whom the clock has struck midnight.
And we who preach and shepherd the church are continually burdened for the care of the church. The Apostle Paul said his concern for the church was more painful than physical torture. We're concerned for the church in so many ways. We long that our people have a deep fellowship with Christ and not some kind of shallow communion. We desire for our people in the church to have a triumphant spiritual experience to know what it is to triumph over trials and temptations and sin. And we pray for their strength. We desire their holiness, their virtue, the purity of their lives. We long that they would come under the authority of the Word of God and that they would not only believe it but they would live it. And we passionately crave that God would surround us with leaders who share our convictions and who will set the example for godliness before our flock. We desire that the church would be protected from Satanic deception, from grievous wolves from the outside and perverse people from the inside. And we are concerned that the beautiful bride of Christ be able to reflect the glory of her bridegroom so that many will be led to salvation. And every genuine shepherd carries these burdens in his heart.
And I'm here tonight to encourage you. I'm here tonight to tell you there is tremendous reason to be encouraged in spite of all the difficulties...not because of what we do, though we do our best, but because of what the exalted and crowned Christ is currently doing in His church. That's what I want to address not in my words but in the words of the Apostle John as he wrote about a vision he was given in Revelation chapter 1.
Take your Bible, if you will, and turn to the first chapter of Revelation. And here is the only passage in the Bible which gives us a detailed picture of what the exalted and crowned and enthroned Christ is doing right now in His church. It is in the form of a vision, the first of the visions of this great apocalypse. It is a glimpse into the invisible world of spiritual and divine reality, a vision which came to the beloved and aged Apostle John in his exile on Patmos. And it must have been of immense encouragement to him.
Remember now, the beloved John was very, very old. He had lived to see the city of Jerusalem destroyed and at least a million, one hundred thousand Jews massacred. He had lived to see nine hundred and eighty five, at least, towns and villages in the land of Israel sacked and looted and devastated and its occupants killed. Any hope for the soon establishment of a Messianic kingdom in Israel seemed infinitely remote. He had outlived all of his fellow Apostles who had been systematically executed by the system. And he was doomed to die sitting on a rock five miles wide and ten miles long in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.
And beyond that, the beloved church at Ephesus which had mothered six other churches, at least, and perhaps more had left its first love and the Lord threatened to shut it down. The church at Pergamos was idolatrous and it was immoral and the Lord was about to come with a sword in His mouth and smite that church. The church at Thyatira had compromised itself with sin and wearied the Lord with its iniquities and worldliness and faced divine judgment. The church at Sardis was dead. And the church at Laodicea made the Lord vomit. And there sat the aged Apostle.
From a human perspective you might have thought that the dream had totally unraveled. What hope for a kingdom for Israel? What hope for a church that would turn the world upside down? And John needed a word from heaven...more than that, he needed a vision because the picture was really bleak.
And we identify with that, we understand that. There are a lot of us here but there's a wide world not here. And it seems so vast and so impenetrable. But it's not just the world, it's the church that breaks our hearts...infected with liberalism and legalism and compromise with the world and immorality and unsound doctrine and heresy and apostasy and carnality and materialism and apathy and all the rest. And we're out there shooting our arrows as passionately and faithfully as we can. But we know our weakness and we know our frailty and we need something transcendent, we need a vision of the glorified Christ. We need to know when His hand is on the bow with us...what's He doing? And we find it in the text. Let's begin at verse 10.
"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet saying, `Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.'"
In the midst of John's loneliness, in the midst of his isolation, in the midst of his exile on a Sunday on the rock called Patmos, heaven opened up and revealed itself to John. And he was commanded to write. When he heard that voice he turned around and verse 12 tells us what he saw. "And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me and having turned I saw seven golden lampstands."
Down in verse 20 we find out that those seven lampstands represent the seven churches. Made of gold they represent the preciousness of the church. Lampstands indicate that they are the light of the world. The number seven is the number of perfection, the number of completeness. So here we see the precious church compositely represented in the imagery of lampstands.
But there's more than just the lampstands. Notice verse 13, "And in the middle of the lampstands one like the Son of Man." This is an absolutely incredible vision. John sees the ascended coronated exalted Christ moving in His church. This is the vision that defines what it says down in verse 19, "Write the things which are." This is Christ moving in His church before the time of Tribulation, before the breaking out of the day of the Lord, the time of the millennial kingdom or the new heaven and the new earth. This is now and this is a powerful vision that all of us need to see. And I want you to see what Christ is doing in His church by just going through the elements of this vision.
First we see that He is building His church. It says in verse 13, "And in the middle of the lampstands one like a Son of Man." That takes me back to Matthew chapter 16 where Jesus said, "I will build My church." And there's a sense of intimacy there, "My church." There's a sense of certainty there, "I will build My church." And there is the sense of invincibility because "The gates of Hades will not prevail against it." He's building His church. He purchased it with His own blood. He paid the price. It belongs to Him.
Listen to me, He accomplished His incarnation. He accomplished redemption at the cross. He accomplished resurrection. He accomplished the work so perfectly that God exalted Him to His right hand and seated Him on the throne. And if He accomplished all those other things, I can promise you this, He will build His church. There is invincibility in that statement.
The term "Son of Man" is very important because it takes us back to Daniel chapter 7 verses 13 and 14 where the prophet Daniel said, "One like the son of man was given dominion, glory and a kingdom." That's why you see Him here under the term Son of Man because here He is taking His kingdom. He is building His dominion. And Daniel wrote, "A kingdom of people and nations and men of every language who would serve Him and it would be an ever lasting kingdom that will never be destroyed." So Daniel provides the initial imagery that ties into this vision. When Daniel says that God is going to give to the Son of Man an ever lasting kingdom made up of people from all over the world, He will receive that Kingdom, He will build His church.
Now I want to give you just a little bit of insight into the profound nature of Christ building His church, listen very carefully. In Titus chapter 1 and verse 2 the Apostle Paul said that the whole process of evangelism, the whole process of sanctification and the glorification of the church was promised by God...listen to this...before time began. The question is, before time began to whom did God make the promise? We believe that people were created when time began. It is very most likely that even the angels were created about the time of the creation of the universe. And so if you go before time began you have to ask the question...to whom did God promise this saving enterprise? The answer, 2 Timothy 1:9, it says that God made this promise to Christ Jesus. This is an immense concept. In eternity past the Father has perfect love for the Son. Love must express itself and so the Father one day says to the Son,"Because I love You perfectly, because You are the object of My divine affection, I want to demonstrate that love, and here's how I'm going to do it...I am going to redeem a humanity and I am going to give that humanity to You and I'm going to bring them to this very place where we are and forever and ever and ever they are going to praise and glorify Your name."
The Father deemed that was the greatest way in which He could unendingly offer the praise of His own love to His own Son. And so before the world began He wrote in a book the names of those who would make up that redeemed humanity. And it became the love gift to the Son. And it was before time began. And then the Father said to the Son, "But You have a part and Your part is to go into the world and pay the price to propitiate My justice, pay the price to satisfy My justice. And when You've paid that price as I impute the sins of all who will ever believe to You, I will impute Your righteousness to them. And on that basis I will gather them to glory."
And not only that, the Father went a step further...the supreme...the supreme demonstration of affection is imitation. And so the Father said, "I will not only bring them to glory to praise You forever and ever, but I will make them like You." And that's what it says in Romans 8:29, "We were predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son that His Son might be the prototokos, the chief one among many who are like Him." And so why then does the church come into existence? Why is there a redeemed humanity? Because the Father is giving a love gift to the Son. And John 6 says, "All that the Father gives Me shall...what?...come to Me and I will lose none of them." Jesus Christ then came into the world to provide the atonement and now through His Spirit He is gathering His people and they will all come. I will build My church.
To those of us who have been chosen and called to be the agents who participate with Him in the calling of these people He promises, "Lo, I am with you always, I will not leave you, I will come to you. If anyone loves Me...He says...I will make My abode with him." No matter how we struggle, no matter how we battle, in the end the Lord will build His church.
Secondly, He intercedes for His church. It tells us in verse 13 that He was clothed in a robe which reached down to the ground to His feet and He was girded across His chest with a golden sash or belt. And that is the garb of the high priest in the Old Testament. And that depicts the interceding work of Christ. We look at our church and we look at all of their problems and all of their struggles and we see them battling temptation and going through the trials of life and struggling with all the issues. And as all faithful shepherds do, we spend a lot of our time on our knees and we pray for the flock and how encouraging it is to know that the High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, the true Priest, ever lives to make intercession for them. You think you care about them? He cares more. You think you want to build the church? He wants to build it more and He will. And we have a merciful and faithful High Priest who comes to the aid of those who are tempted.
That's such an encouragement to me. I can't get around all my people...but He can. He is faithful over His house, it says in Hebrews 3:16. No matter how our beloved people struggle and no matter how difficult life is and no matter how unreachable sometimes the path of victory seems, He will bring His sons to glory and He will be there interceding for them. And even when they sin He will bring no charge against them. And no matter how they fail, there will be no one to condemn and nothing to separate them from His love. He has an unequalled and undiminished devotion and sympathy with His beloved through all their dangers, all their trials, all their temptations. He is interceding for them.
Thirdly, the image of Jesus in His church is that He purifies His church. This is very vivid. "His head and His hair...verse 14...were white like white wool, like snow and His eyes were like a flame of fire and His feet were like burnished brass, or bronze when it has been caused to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters." And in that section we read about His purifying work, His head, His hair white like white wool, like snow...speak of His purity. His eyes like a flame of fire are that penetrating laser-like gaze that can see into the deepest corner of every life and search out the iniquity that is there. And when He finds it, His feet like burnish bronze are ready to move in chastening and every son whom He loves He scourges and chastens that He might bring that son to righteousness. There's nothing hidden from His eyes. He wants a chaste bride. He wants a pure virgin. He gave Himself to sanctify and cleanse His church. It is more important to Him that the church be glorious and without spot and without wrinkle and without blemish and holy and blameless than it ever is to us. He wants to present the church holy and pure and above reproach. And that's why in Matthew 18 He says, "Where two or three of you are gathered together in a case of discipline for sin, there am I in the midst." And when you say to someone you're bound in sin, you're only saying what heaven has already said. And when you see someone repent and you say you're loosed from your sins, you're only affirming what heaven has already affirmed. Heaven is moving in your church. Judgment begins with the household of God and every branch He purges...John 15:2 says. He's purifying His church.
At the end of verse 15 we see something else about our Lord in His church, "His voice was like the sound of many waters." John heard them every day...pounding the rocks. And when there was a storm crushing the rocks, I've sat on the traditional site where John was believed to have received the revelation on the island of Patmos and heard with my own ears the crashing of the surf. And the voice was like the sound of many waters...it was the voice of authority, it was the voice of commanding. And the Lord is ever commanding His church and He does it through the pounding voice of conscience and He does it through the pounding truth of Scripture, He does it through the preaching of the Word of God and He brings His church under the hearing of the truth. It's His truth, it's His Word and we are told to disciple men by teaching them all things whatsoever He has commanded us. The church if it's to be anything, beloved, is to be the pillar and ground of the truth. It's to...
And Christ is proclaiming His truth, He's preaching and He'll always have faithful preachers, always.
The next thing I point out to you in verse 16, He controls His church. In His right hand He held seven stars, seven angelos, seven messengers mentioned in verse 20 as the seven messengers. I simply think they are the representative pastors from the seven churches who are going to carry back copies of this revelation to those seven churches. And by the way, the order in which they're given in verse 11 is the order of the postal route in Asia Minor. And as they went from Patmos with each carrying his letter, they dropped one off at each of those seven stops and delivered the book of Revelation which had been written and copied. These are the elders, the pastors of the seven churches and they're in His hand. God will always have His men. He will always raise them up. I suppose every generation of older men worries about the next, but He'll always have His messengers in His hand. I guess the question is, will you be one of them? He'll always have those who will be involved in the sovereign purpose of building His church. Ephesians 4 says, "And He gave to the church gifted men, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers."
Sixthly, verse 16 says, "Out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword." What is that? If you read further into chapter 2 verses 12 and 16 you read about it again, the sharp two-edged sword. Its purpose, very, very important. It is used to make war, according to chapter 2 verse 16. To make war against who? False teachers, those who bring in the doctrine of Balaam, those who bring in the corruption of the Nicolaitans. Let me tell you something. I worry about this. You know me, you know the books I write. I'm always battling against error in the church and I'm always comforted to know that behind me comes the sword out of the mouth of the living Christ. Even in the time of the Tribulation He cuts it short so that the elect cannot be deceived. He's protecting His church. And that two-edged rhomphaia, that big, huge, broad sword cuts every direction. And we're worried about the cults and we're worried about the isms and schisms and spasms and yogis and all the rest of the stuff that comes down the pipe, we're worried about the liberalism, the subtleties of Satan, the deceivers, the frauds, the fakes who seek to destroy the church...so is He. And what little power I wield on this earth can't compare with the exalted and crowned Christ enthroned in heaven and the sword that comes out of His mouth to deal with the deceivers.
Seventh, and this is so crucial a climax, "His face was like the sun shining in its strength." What does that mean? At high noon in full blaze on a cloudless day, John looking at the face of Jesus was as if he had looked right into the sun. What is that? What does that mean? It means simply that He reflects His glory through His church.
What are we saying? He puts Himself on display in His church. That's what He means. And Paul summed it up in these words, "He shines in us to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." What's this saying? It's evangelism. He evangelizes the world through His church, through the shining testimony of a transformed life, through believers who have moved from one level of glory to the next level of glory to the next level of glory and been conformed to Jesus Christ.
Do you see it? We serve the church. We live for the church. We die for the church. We work tirelessly to see it be what Christ wants it to be. And we're concerned with the saints' fellowship with Christ being full and rich. And we're concerned with the saints having the help they need in their temptations and their trials. We're there to hold them up. We're burdened that they would know the truth, believe the truth and live the truth. We want them pure and holy and undefiled. We want the church to be under control by Christ. We want the church to reach he world and everything we want He is doing.
I don't feel so lonely. John needed that vision. He needed to see the exalted crowned Christ empowering, interceding, purging, teaching, commanding, controlling sovereignly and evangelizing to gather His church. And He's doing it every moment.
And as Dr. Rogers said in the beginning of his great message, that's why we are always being led in triumph through Christ. It isn't because of us. It's because of Him.
All I can do is be a part of it or be set aside. And my love for Him moves me to be a part of it. My accountability to Him moves me to be a part of it. The privilege moves me to be a part of it. And the eternal reward moves me to be a part of it.
Do you see Him high and lifted up in His church? It doesn't depend on you or me.
What should be our response to this? Let's follow John, verse 17, "And when I saw Him I fell at His feet like a dead man." You know what that is? That's holy fright. I want to tell you something. If God really showed up in Toronto, they would not be laughing. (Applause) Manoah, the father of Samson, came home one day. He said to his wife, "We'll die, pack up the stuff, give it to the kids, we'll die." She said, "What? Why?" He said, "I saw the Lord."
Now why would he react like that? Because he knew that if he saw God, God saw him. That's terrorizing. I had a preacher say to me, "Sometimes Christ comes in the bathroom in the morning when I'm shaving and puts His arm around me when I'm shaving and talks with me."
I said, "You mean...you mean the risen and ascended Christ comes back like to the Apostle Paul, puts His arm, the literal Christ?"
He said yes. He said, "Do you believe that?"
I said, "No." But I said, "What bothers me is that I think you believe that. I do."
And he said...I just said, "I have one question. Do you keep shaving?" Because if the living exalted Christ ever showed up in my bathroom, I would be as a dead man. I'll tell you something, "Whom having not seen I love," and I'd just soon have it that way until I am prepared to see Him without being consumed.
Job came off of his experience and said, "I have heard of you with the hearing of mine ear, but now my eye sees you and I repent in dust and ashes." To have a visitation from the exalted Christ is not funny.
The disciples were out on a boat and it says a storm came in the gospels and they were afraid. And then it said Jesus got up and stilled the storm and they were exceedingly afraid. You know what's worse than having a storm outside your boat? Having holy God in your boat.
There was a woman in Mark chapter 5 who was healed by Jesus and the Scripture says she was terrorized, terrified. And it uses a word that is used of the shaking of the islands of the sea when the Lord comes in the day of judgment and destroys the earth. She was one shook lady. What shook her? She knew that if she had been healed, this was God. And if she saw God, God saw her and what He saw was sin.
John fell on his face.
I'm telling you, we need the Lord high and lifted up so we get things in perspective. And I really believe like Isaiah, what God is looking for is a man who is honest enough to pronounce a curse on himself. And literally Isaiah in chapter 6 consigned himself to damnation. Damn me...he said...woe is unto me, I am disintegrating, I've seen God.
Ezekiel had a vision of God and fell on his face several times. Paul had a vision of the exalted Christ and went blind. The disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration saw the exalted Christ and fell over like dead men. We need to minister in a sense of awe, with a sense of worship and reverence, holy fear.
But I love the next. Verse 17, "And He laid His right hand upon me." That was a familiar hand. It was Jesus but He didn't look like He looked last time John saw Him. But the touch was the same touch. "And He said, `Don't be afraid.'" Fear, yes...terror, no...don't be afraid, I'm the first and the last.
What do You mean? What I start, I...what?...I finish. I love that. And I'll tell you something more, you don't have to worry about your sin, John, because I'm the living one and I was dead and I'm alive.
What are You saying? What He's saying is your sin is not an issue, I already paid for it. It's a done deal. And furthermore, I've got good news for you, I have the keys of death and hell so you not only don't need to fear what I might do to you, you don't need to fear what anybody else might do to you because I've got the keys.
And then he reiterates his responsibility. Verse 19, just one word, "John, write. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, fix your hair, get the dirt out of your mouth and do exactly what I told you to begin with when I started this whole thing. Just go back to being faithful."
I don't believe in my heart that I could minister if I felt the Kingdom depended on me. I'm so glad it doesn't. And it doesn't depend collectively on all of us. He'll do it. What a privilege to be a faithful part...that's the issue. And to see Him high and lifted up and to live with holy fear and yet know that your sins are paid for and all He asks is that you give the message. Pray with me.
Father, thank You for the confidence that Jesus Christ is high and lifted up. Thank You that He will draw all men to Himself. Thank You...oh, thank You for making us a part of that unfolding glorious redemptive plan. We thank You humbly in Jesus' name. Amen.
Thank you, John. Amen.
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HOLT� Holt Assembly of God Pastor Jay Tyler and church members invite area residents to a neighborhood cookout next Saturday.
HOLT� Holt Assembly of God Pastor Jay Tyler and church members invite area residents to a neighborhood cookout next Saturday.
Residents can eat fried fish, coleslaw, grits, french fries and hushpuppies while socializing with church members, Tyler said.
"We are trying to get the church reacquainted with the community," he said.
Church members recently collected non-perishable food items and donated them to First Baptist Church of Holt's food pantry. Assembly of God members also volunteered during the church Harvest Festival on Halloween.
The neighborhood cookout will be the first of several community activities the church will offer in the near future, Tyler said. "We want to do something (community) outreach-related at least once a quarter," he said.
For now, Tyler wants residents to bring their appetites.
"We want this to be a blessing to the community," he said. "We will be serving food until we run out."
WHAT: Neighborhood Cookout
WHEN: 2-4 p.m. Nov. 16
WHERE: Holt Assembly of God, 540 3rd Ave., Holt
COST: Free
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Invasion of the Tiny, Linux-Powered PCs
May 31, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Bigger may be better if you're from Texas, but it's becoming increasingly clear to the rest of us that it really is a small world after all.
Case in point? None other than what one might reasonably call the invasion of tiny Linux PCs going on all around us.
We've got the Raspberry Pi, we've got the Cotton Candy. Add to those the Mele A1000, the VIA APC, the MK802 and more, and it's becoming increasingly difficult not to compute like a Lilliputian.
Where's it all going? That's what Linux bloggers have been pondering in recent days. Down at the seedy Broken Windows Lounge the other night, Linux Girl got an earful.
It's 'Fantastic'
"Linux has been heading towards one place for many years now: complete and total world domination!" quipped Thoughts on Technology blogger and Bodhi Linux lead developer Jeff Hoogland.
"All joking aside, these new devices simply further showcase Linux's unmatched ability to be flexible across an array of different devices of all sizes and power," Hoogland added.
"Having a slew of devices that are powerful enough for users to browse the web -- which, let's be honest, is all a good deal of people do these days -- for under 100 USD is fantastic," he concluded.
'It Only Gets More Exciting'
Similarly, "I believe that the medley of tiny Linux PCs we're seeing hitting the market lately is the true sign of the Post PC Era," suggested Google+ blogger Linux Rants.
"The smartphone started it, but the Post PC Era will begin in earnest when the functionality that we currently see in the home computer is replaced by numerous small appliance-type devices," Linux Rants explained. "These tiny Linux PCs are the harbinger of those appliances -- small, low-cost, programmable devices that can be made into virtually anything the owner desires."
Other devices we're already seeing include "the oven that you can turn on with a text message, the espresso machine that you can control with a text message, home security systems and cars that can be controlled from your smartphone," he added. "This is where the Post PC Era begins, and it only gets more exciting from here."
'There Is No Reason Not to Do It'
This is "definitely the wave of the future," agreed Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien.
"Devices of all kinds are getting smaller and smaller, while simultaneously increasing their power," O'Brien explained. "Exponential growth does that over time.
"My phone in my pocket right now has more computing power than the rockets that went to the moon," he added. "And if you look ahead, a few more turns of exponential growth means we'll have the equivalent of a full desktop computer the size of an SD card within a few years."
At that point, "everything starts to be computerized, because adding a little intelligence is so cheap there is no reason not to do it," O'Brien concluded.
'We're Approaching That Future'
Indeed, "many including myself have long been harping on the fact that today's computers are orders of magnitude faster than early systems on which we ran graphic interfaces and got work done, and yet are dismissed as toys," Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza told Linux Girl.
"A friend suggested to me once that eventually microwave ovens would contain little Unix servers 'on a chip' because that would be basically all you could get, because it would actually be cheaperto use such a system when given the cost of developing an alternative," he said. "Seeing the cost of these new products it looks to me like we're approaching that future rapidly.
"There has always been demand for low-cost computers, and the massive proliferation of low-cost, low-power cores has pushed their price down to the point where we can finally have them," Espinoza concluded.
"Even adjusted for inflation," he said, "many of these computers are an order of magnitude cheaper than the cheapest useful home computers from the time when personal computing began to gain popularity, and yet they are certainly powerful enough to serve many roles including many people's main or even only 'computer.'"
'It Gives Me Hope'
Consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack was similarly enthusiastic.
"I love it," Mack told Linux Girl.
"When I was a child, my parents brought home all sorts of fun things to tinker with, and I learned while doing it," he explained. "But these last few years it seems like the learning electronics and their equivalents have disappeared into a mass of products that are only for what the manufacturer designed them for and nothing else.
"I am loving the return of my ability to tinker," Mack concluded. "It gives me hope that there can be a next generation of kids who can love the enjoyment of simply creating things."
'They Look a Bit Expensive'
Not everyone was thrilled, however.
"Okay, I am not all that excited about the invasion of the tiny PC," admitted Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor.
"With 7-inch Android tablets with capacitive displays, running Android 4.0 and with access to Google Play's Android app market, 8 GB or storage expandable via a Micro SD card, 1080p video playback, a USB port and HDMI out and 3000 to 4000 mAh batteries starting at US$90, it is a bit hard to get excited about these tiny PCs," Lim explained.
"Despite the low prices of the tiny PCs, they all look a bit expensive when compared to what is already in the market," he opined.
'These Devices Have a Niche'
The category really isn't even all that new, Slashdot blogger hairyfeet opined.
"There have been mini ARM-based Linux boxes for several years now," he explained. "From portable media players to routers to set-top boxes, there are a ton of little bitty boxes running embedded Linux."
It's not even quite right to call such devices PCs "because PC has an already well-defined meaning: it was originally 'IBM PC compatible,'" hairyfeet added. "Even if you give them the benefit of the doubt, PCs have always been general use computers, and these things are FAR from general use."
Rather, "they are designed with a very specific and narrow job in mind," he said. "Trying to use them as general computers would just be painful."
So, "in the end these devices have a niche, just as routers and beagleboards and the pi does, but that niche is NOT general purpose in any way, shape, or form," hairyfeet concluded.
'Opportunities for Specialists'
Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the Ledger SMB project, considered the question through the lens of evolutionary ecology.
"In any ecological system an expanding niche allows for differentiation, and a contracting niche requires specialization," Travers pointed out. 'So, for example, if a species of moth undergoes a population explosion, predators of that moth will often specialize and be more picky as to what prey they go after."
The same thing happens with markets, Travers suggested.
"When a market expands, it provides opportunities for specialists, but when it contracts, only the generalists can survive," he told Linux Girl.
'Niche Environments'
The tiny new devices are "replacements for desktop and laptop systems in niche environments," Travers opined.
"In many environments these may be far more capable than traditional systems," he added.
The bottom line, though, "is that the Linux market is growing at a healthy rate," Travers concluded.
'The Right Way to Do IT'
"Moore's Law allows the world to do more with less hardware and so does FLOSS," blogger Robert Pogson told Linux Girl. "It's the right way to do IT rather than paying a bunch for the privilege of running the hardware we own."
Last year was a turning point, Pogson added.
"More people bought small, cheap computers running */Linux than that other OS, and the world saw that things were fine without Wintel," he explained. "2012 will bring more of the same."
By the end of this year, in fact, "the use of GNU/Linux on small cheap computers doing what we used to do with huge hair-drying Wintel PCs will be mainstream in many places on Earth," Pogson predicted. "In 2012 we will see a major decline in the number of PCs running that other OS. We will see major shelf-space given to */Linux PCs at retail."


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Finally! I'm finished with my Cosmic Burst quilt top. You might remember that my friend Mark Cesarik graciously sent me a stack of 5" squares of his new line, Cosmic Burst, to play with a couple of months ago. And can I just say that I think Cosmic Burst is the best name ever for this line?? The colors are so bright and saturated, so I knew that I wanted to combine them with white fabric to really make them pop. I opted to make a bunch of half-square triangles with the squares and I really loved the vertical orientation of the blocks.
The three white zig zag stripes of the negative space really stand out against the colorful prints!
I'm not sure how I'll quilt this yet, or what I'll use for the binding. Do you have any suggestions? Cosmic Burst is shipping to stores this month, so be sure to ask your independent fabric store to carry it!


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They bring you out a container of fired up charcoals and plop them into your table grill.
Stop for soup if you like too - we didn't - not soup fans.
Shell-on Shrimp
This is the funniest thing ever - I have no idea what happened to my pictures of the cooked food! All I have is this:
Quick shot of the sushi bar...
And now - these are for my sister and for fun. We were cracking up at the "decor".
Sumo wrestlers and a dainty saucy girl drinking some booze.
Seems a little stereotypical...as it greets you at the door.
Then - random shots of a "cabin" in summer and winter!
And hey - why not a quick shot of Times Square?!
Sea Kumgang...not touching that with your...um never mind.
Oh yes another saucy innocent - but she's a drinker!
And some random chubby kid on TV doing karaoke.
Why Should You Go? Well - it's a once/year kinda place. At $30/person - it's expensive - especially when you're cooking your own food! But there were a lot of Korean's there - which I think is a good call to it's "authenticity". I felt like interviewing some to see why they come and how often. It is fun and would be great for a first date - good ice breaker to cook together.
As far as the alphabet goes - looking forward to Dusmesh and letter E! And thanks again to Cincinnati Bites for telling me about Chung Kiwha!


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Danielle Dinberg aboard Zula
Name: Zula
Gender: Mare
Age: 13
Discipline: Eventing
Owner: Tawn Edwards
Zula, ridden by Danielle Dinberg"Zula is a superb pony who has struggled with breathing issues for the past couple of years. Even though she is only 13 years old, I had to consider an early retirement due to the severity of her respiratory troubles. This would have been a huge loss for me because she is one of my best school horses/event ponies – she has competed in the American Eventing Championships 3 times, winning in 2009, and has been pictured in Eventing Magazine more than once! As Zula's respiratory troubles progressed, she had less energy and seemed depressed. Steroids were the only thing that gave her some relief, and I worried about their long term effects. After speaking with SmartPak and consulting with my vet, I decided to give SmartBreathe a try, even though it seemed like a long shot. I was extremely surprised at how quickly it made a difference for her! I am thrilled to say that since trying SmartBreathe, Zula is doing really well!! She is back to herself again – moving forward and happy to do her job. She is no longer receiving steroids, and I don't have to let her go to live in retirement after all."


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Film festivals, art galleries, museums, and cultural events give Rutgers students endless ways to have fun and explore—and expand—their interests. You can revel in the creativity of others, or you can be the one who's working on a theater production or staging an art show.
Arts & Culture
Cultivate your mind. Think interesting thoughts. Move the world forward and know happiness. Get details below, then go explore.
Museums and Galleries
View a dinosaur trackway, Soviet art, or exotic insects. Whatever your interests, you'll be both educated and amazed after visiting the museums at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
Zimmerli Art Museum
Admire and critique art of all time periods and mediums, from ancient paintings to contemporary photography. The museum's permanent collection comprises more than 60,000 works and features particularly rich holdings in the areas of French art of the 19th century; Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art; and prints, rare books, and original illustrations for children's books.
Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square
This 4,000-square-foot venue presents exhibitions featuring the work of students, faculty members, and distinguished outside artists. The gallery also hosts shows organized by the Institute for Women and Art.
Geology Museum
This free museum allows students and visitors to view historical exhibits and collections featuring shimmering geodes, minerals, an Egyptian mummy, and a mastodon skeleton.
Entomological Museum
If you're interested in researching various species of insects and bugs, schedule an appointment to view more than 200,000 pinned specimens.
Ethnic/Cultural Centers
Explore new cultures or learn more about your own at Rutgers–New Brunswick's ethnic and cultural centers—a great way to share cultural experiences and events with students, faculty, and community members. Also think about joining one of the many cultural clubs and organizations on campus.
Asian American Cultural Center
The center provides a supportive environment for Asian-American and Asian students and is active in expanding multicultural education through events, guest speakers, and cultural programs.
Center for Latino Arts and Culture
Lectures, art exhibits, and cultural events are some of the many ways students, faculty, and staff can participate in Latino culture on campus.
Paul Robeson Cultural Center
The center hosts lectures, films, academic programs, and other events reflecting the social and educational experiences of the African-American student population.
Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
Film festivals, exhibits, and lectures connect the center with the New Brunswick community. The Bildner Center also works closely with the Herbert and Leonard Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center to educate teachers, students, and scholars.
Whether you're interested in student-created films, shopping for new plants for your garden, or taking in some live music, you'll find a variety of festivals at Rutgers–New Brunswick.
Rutgers Day
Alumni, friends, family, and visitors participate in the day's activities, which include Ag Field Day and the New Jersey Folk Festival. Usually the last Saturday in April, Rutgers Day attracts 100,000 visitors to Rutgers' campuses in New Brunswick and Piscataway.
Ag Field Day
Rutgers draws thousands of visitors to the G.H. Cook Campus each spring to take part in a day of demonstrations, activities, and lectures covering all facets of New Jersey farming and agriculture.
New Jersey Film Festivals
Rutgers students with a passion for film can take in screenings, participate in discussions, and help plan the festival.
New Jersey Folk Festival
The oldest continuously running folk festival in New Jersey takes place each year on the New Brunswick Campus, with music, food, and crafts. The festival is managed by Rutgers undergraduates.
Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
The festival showcases films from the past and present that are rooted in Jewish culture, covering all genres, including documentaries and dramas.
Readings and Lectures
Prize-winning writers, preeminent scientists, and political leaders often come to Rutgers for readings, panel discussions, and conferences. Check the calendar of events for the latest in readings and lectures.
Institute for Research on Women Distinguished Lecture Series
Scholars come to Rutgers on six occasions during the year to present their work and engage others on women's involvement in today's culture.
Writers at Rutgers Reading Series
Leading writers from around the world read their poetry and fiction and engage in discussions with students, faculty, and community members.
Mason Gross Guest Artist Series
The Mason Gross School of the Arts welcomes acclaimed artists from all mediums to meet with students, faculty, and the general public.
Venues and Student Groups
Looking to see a movie or a dance performance? Hoping to act in a play—or even direct one? Here's a resource to help you find arts/performance venues and student groups at Rutgers–New Brunswick. Get involved in the arts. Choose from scores of clubs and organizations devoted to singing, dancing, acting, and art.
Arts/Performance Venues
Whatever you want see or hear, whether it's hip-hop music or a string quartet, you'll find it at Rutgers.
Whether concentrating on an undergraduate degree in dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts or enjoying your free time with a student group in hip-hop or Middle Eastern traditions, dance at Rutgers gives you a way to express yourself.
Music can be heard everywhere at Rutgers! As a student you can perform with the Opera Institute through Mason Gross School of the Arts or get the crowd going before tip-off as part as the pep band. Whatever your style, you'll find it.
Let your voice be heard by participating in a vocal program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts or one of the many student organizations featuring styles from a capella to contemporary to gospel.
Theater/Performing Arts
Pursuing a degree in theater arts through Mason Gross School of the Arts lets students follow their dreams of taking center stage, calling the shots as director, or designing the intricate sets. The university also offers performing arts programs through student groups for comedy, improv, and cabaret.
Art & Design
Students majoring in art & design at the Mason Gross School of the Arts receive instruction and feedback from skilled and experienced faculty. Exhibits are held regularly throughout the year displaying student work in campus galleries.
The Science of Singing
Mason Gross students are privileged to be able to learn from master teachers, such as associate professor of voice Eduardo Chama. But anyone can follow his tips to become a better singer.


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Oracle continues to press the open source developer button, shrugging off its long-term criticism in this space with this week's release of Solaris Studio 12.3 edition. This C, C++, and Fortran development platform now comes with a branded "Code Analysis" tool designed to detect application vulnerabilities, including memory leaks and memory access violations.
As the current (and presumably permanent) stewards of the Java language and platform, Oracle has taken particular pains to evidence its commitment to open source since its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The company claims that this new release accelerates performance of SPARC T4 and x86-based applications by up to 300 percent as a result of leveraging Oracle's advanced compiler technology.
Optimized for Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux (yes Oracle still boasts "Linux commitment and leadership"), Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 has built-in remote access capabilities so developers can create Oracle Solaris or Linux applications from Oracle Solaris, Linux, Windows, or Mac OS desktops.
The new release comes with an analysis suite designed to provide developers with a chance to observe their applications' interactions with the underlying system, improving application correctness, reliability, and performance. Plus there are new install and patch-provisioning repositories built upon the Oracle Solaris 11 Image Packaging System (IPS) to simplify the installation and management of Oracle Solaris Studio.
Oracle senior director of software development Don Kretsch is on the record for this news announcement with a quote enriched by terms including "cutting-edge compiler technology" and "security and agility" — but more interesting is this simple statement (below) from the company's news pages.
"For over a decade, Oracle Solaris Studio has offered a suite of multi-thread aware developer tools that help application writers take advantage of hardware concurrency in new multi-core systems. Oracle continues to deliver state-of-the-art optimizing compilers that simplify the creation of parallel applications. Accompanied by advanced performance, debugging, and thread-analysis tools, developers using Solaris Studio can more easily create and deploy enterprise applications that exploit Oracle's latest hardware systems."