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The AAVSO SID Program consists of solar observers who monitor very low frequency (VLF) radio stations for sudden enhancements of their signals. Earth's ionosphere reacts to the intense X-ray and ultraviolet radiation released during a solar flare. The ionospheric disturbance enhances VLF radio propagation. By monitoring the signal strength of a distant VLF transmitter, sudden ionospheric disturbances (SIDs) are recorded and indicate a recent solar flare event.
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Thanks to a great volunteer effort by George Silvis, Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) observers can now use the SID Data Grabber help prepare an AAVSO SID report file from their Stanford/SARA superSID monitor log files. Please visit the SID Data Grabber page to read more and download this handy application.
The SID Data Grabber is an application to help prepare an AAVSO SID report file from your Stanford/SARA superSID monitor log files. It offers a zoomable graphical view of the log data where you can click the graph to grab the times then puts them into the AAVSO format report file, ready for submission at the end of the month.
When the ultraviolet rays from the Sun hit the Earths atmosphere the energy they possess work to knock electrons off of the atoms and molecules that the atmosphere is made up of. These free electrons make up a region of the atmosphere known as the Ionosphere. The region is strongest on the daytime side of the earth since it is dependant on the energy from the solar ultra violet rays.
Station Station Frequency Radiated
Site ID (kHz) Power
U.S. Navy
Cutler, ME NAA 24.0 1000
Jim Creek, WA NLK 24.8 250
Lualualei, HI NPM 21.4 566
LaMoure, ND NML 25.2 500
(Extracted from SID Technical Bulletin Vol. 3, Number 4, Oct. 1992)
The AAVSO SID section provides a number of options for data logging, data reduction and report generation. You may or may not use one or all of these methods. How you monitor SIDs and how you generate a report is up to you and left open to personal preference. The only constraint imposed by the SID Program as a requirement for submitting data is the format of that data. Two requirements must be met. One is the internal format and the second is the file name convention of the formatted report.
Two software packages are typically used by SID observers. One is the data taking or logging software, and the other is the data reduction software. The AAVSO provides some options but you may wish to create your own custom software. If you submit your data to the AAVSO SID program the report format must match a pre-defined format, therefore any custom software must generate an appropriate data file.
The section below lists the software made available by the AAVSO SID program. These are available by writing the SID Analyst, and will include instructions for use.
Note: Some of the following articles written by Cap Hossfield include references to Radio Shack part numbers. These were commonly available at the time of his writing but may no longer be so today. Cap also includes offers to sell some of the circuits he describes to interested parties and to supply tuning services to those that do not have the proper equipment to do so. Sadly Cap is no longer with us and therefore these offers are no longer valid.


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Introducing the Mighty VrachtfietsMonday, February 17th, 2014
Sinterklaas and two Zwarte Piets test the Vrachtfiets in the TU Delft wind tunnel.
The Vrachtfiets is a really big, heavy-duty cargo hauler on four wheels that can do things pretty much no other bike can. It's sturdy like a traditional Dutch bakfiets yet thoroughly modern with an ingenious suspension system and gasp…. electric assist. Yeah, yeah I already hear you thinking "Blasphemy! Henry hates electric assist!" Actually no I really don't. I just hate most e-bikes because most e-bikes suck ginormously. The Vrachtfiets, on the other hand, is seriously different. It's a robust, highly engineered workhorse that can carry a two cubic meter load. That's a bigger load than many small delivery vans. Thus the name "Vrachtfiets", Dutch for "Freight Bike".
Vrachtfiets evolved out of a TU Delft student project and came to WorkCycles with it's basic engineering already sorted out. A dozen pre-production Vrachtfietsen have been built and used by various firms including Ikea. Those are the two rider versions that will not go into production. At WorkCycles we'd long been considering the possibilities for a big transport bike as a serious small truck replacement for businesses and municipalities. The Vrachtfiets guys needed a partner with bike expertise and a way to promote and sell their bike. Add a super efficient, Dutch metalworking firm to build them and the partnership is complete.
A rare, modern day Dutch hard-man… at WorkCycles
Once upon a time Dutch hard-men rode heavily loaded, single-speed, fixed-gear bakfietsen tens of kilometers a day through wind, rain and snow (uphill both ways of course) to deliver their produce, milk, fish and baked goods, rocks and whatever other good old hard-man stuff they carried. For better or worse almost nobody in 2014 is so tough anymore; No modern enterprise will find employees willing to work that hard. So accepting that we live in the modern world the Vrachtfiets' electric assist enormously extends the range and capabilities of a bakfiets. The system is a robust, EU legal 250W pedalec. With a full complement of 48V industrial quality battery packs hidden away under the cargo bay it'll run a full work shift without recharging. You still have to pedal to ride and occasionally even a bit hard but it's nothing to whine about. The batteries are pricey so the bike can be outfitted with one, two or three units – more can always be added later. It can climb hills and has big, hydraulic disk brakes on all four wheels to safely descend them too. Maximum load capacity is about 300kg, similar to our classic bakfietsen.
Four wheels with suspension make Vrachtfiets super stable and easy to ride, even in situations where either delta (rickshaw style) or tadpole (bakfiets style) type trikes get sketchy. There are some firms using modified rickshaws (bike taxis) for cargo transport but the Vrachtfiets is much more stable. It's narrower and a little shorter too, which enables the Vrachtfiets to squeeze into spaces the rickshaw cannot.
The Vrachtfiets carries its load behind the rider so it's much less limited in volume than our classic bakfietsen. The standard load platform is a full 200cm long and 100cm wide and low to the ground. Tall loads won't impair the rider's vision and the platform remains fixed when turning. Note that the platform extends the full width to keep the bike as narrow as possible. While the Vrachtfiets looks really big it's actually only 100cm wide the same as a typical three-wheeled family bakfiets; It can be ridden on bike paths.
We'll begin with two basic load platforms: the Pick Up (open) and the Cargo (box). Accessories such as a windscreen and a range of modular box options will be added as needed. Like other Workcycles bikes customization is always an option. How can you put Vrachtfietsen to work? We've the following applications in mind but there are certainly many, many more:
– Local deliveries: Keep your customers' cargo secure with a 2m3 locking box
– Food vending: Espresso, crepes, sandwiches, stroopwafels, ice-cream, panini. There's enough surface area and volume to outfit a handy little kitchen.
– Maintenance: Greens-keeping, neighborhood cleanup, trash collection, recycling collection.
– Zoos: Animal feeding (Yes, we've done this before)
– School bus: How many kids will fit on a 2m x 1m platform? My sketches say that four benches of three kids wide equals 12! That's even handier than our current 8 child KDV bike schoolbus.
– How about a Vrachtfiets hearse? Please make my last ride be on a bicycle instead of a black Mercedes or Cadillac. If we can build Vrachtfietsen for both the nursery school and mortician we've got the full life span covered.
Though it's not our target market a Vrachtfiets could even be built into a great family vehicle for a fraction of the cost of a Prius and far more fun (and infinitely greener).
We're now sorting out the production details (think programming welding robots and the likes) and the first series of production Vrachtfietsen will be available in mid 2014. They'll be sold in the Amsterdam region in order to follow them closely. Ideally the first bikes will land in the hands of customers who can provide handy feedback and we'll offer some nice perks in exchange. Later they'll be sold worldwide. We'll get the Vrachtfiets on the WorkCycles website soon and a demo example in the shop so you can visit and try it out.
As you might already expect such a robust and sophisticated vehicle won't come cheaply. Final prices have yet to be fixed but expect about €7000-10.000 depending on how your Vrachtfiets is equipped. That's a considerable investment but then again the operating costs will be minuscule compared to any motor vehicle and one needs no drivers license to operated it.

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text: nathan7 0 Posted April 4, 2009 Let me say I have used Macs for 20 years, and I never did a RAID. A few weeks ago, I bought two fast drives (ST3320613AS), and setup a software RAID 0 to boot with munky's EFI method. It is fast as hell! I love it. I have 3 RAID volumes between these 2 drives: Mac RAID, Applications, and Users. I know it could be faster if the whole drive was one RAID volume, but this is better than a single drive anyway. I get 220MB/sec with AJA System Test. For this guide, let's assume: 1. You are logged in as a user with administrator privileges. I don't know if this matters for renaming the "Boot OSX" volumes from the desktop, but I was, so be aware. 2. You already have an Extra folder that is working well for you with Chameleon 2 installed on a non-RAID volume. It has DSDT.aml (if you use one), Extensions.mkext, Themes, com.apple.Boot.plist, smbios.plist (if you use one) in it. 3. Suppose that your RAID installation root volume is /dev/disk4, which is either a mirror or a stripeset consisting of /dev/disk2 and /dev/disk3. When you create a RAID with Disk Utility, Mac OS X creates a small helper partition after each RAID slice, namely /dev/disk2s3 and /dev/disk3s3. These are all named "Boot OSX". If you haven't already, set up your RAID root volume, and clone your working install to it with Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner. There should not be a /Extra on the RAID root volume and /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist should be vanilla, no modifications. Boot.plist.vanilla.zip Because I was coming from a munky w/RAID mod install, my RAID root volume was already set up. I tried and failed to get Chameleon 2 to work with the EFI partitions on my RAID slices. The computer would just reset when it tried to load Chameleon, so I formatted the EFI partitions like so: diskutil eraseVolume "HFS+" "EFI" /dev/disk2s1 diskutil eraseVolume "HFS+" "EFI" /dev/disk3s1 This got me into Chameleon from the RAID disk, but having followed the README with Chameleon 2, when I tried to boot the "Boot OSX" partition, I got a kernel panic related to AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext, so I knew my Extensions.mkext was not loading from /Extra on the RAID root volume. I moved a copy of Extra to both of the "Boot OSX" partitions, removed /Extra from my RAID root volume, and hooray it works! Then I experimented with changing the name of the "Boot OSX" partitions, and that worked, too. I also tried both RAID root volume UUIDs, and either one works. You can skip all the sudos if you become root first with sudo -s. OK, Let's do this, fire up Terminal: 1. Copy your Extra folder to the Desktop, and unzip the Chameleon folder to the Desktop. 2. Add "rd=uuid boot-uuid=(your UUID)" to your kernel flags in your ~/Desktop/Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist. Find your UUID using Disk Utility, right click on your RAID root volume (i.e. "Mac RAID"), then click Information. You can use the Universal Unique Identifier or the RAID Identifier: nano ~/Desktop/Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist It should look like this: <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>rd=uuid boot-uuid=ECCB72E4-D6EC-37DC-97C4-8AD7BD4466E6</string> 3. Set good permissions on Extra (others may work, this is how I did it): sudo chmod -R 644 ~/Desktop/Extra sudo chown -R root:wheel ~/Desktop/Extra 4. Change to Chameleon i386 folder: cd ~/Desktop/Chameleon-2.0RC1-r431-bin/i386 5. Install boot0 to the MBR of both disks: sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk2 sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk3 6. Install boot1h to the bootsector of each "Boot OSX" partition: sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk2s3 sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk3s3 7. Copy boot and Extra folder to both "Boot OSX" helper partition's root directories. 1st partition: sudo diskutil mount disk2s3 sudo cp boot /Volumes/Boot\ OSX/ sudo cp -R ~/Desktop/Extra /Volumes/Boot\ OSX/ (before unmounting, if you wish, change the name of Boot OSX from your desktop, I called mine "Mac RAID Boot 1") sudo diskutil unmount disk2s3 2nd partition: sudo diskutil mount disk3s3 sudo cp boot /Volumes/Boot\ OSX/ sudo cp -R ~/Desktop/Extra /Volumes/Boot\ OSX/ (before unmounting, if you wish, change the name of Boot OSX from your desktop, I called mine "Mac RAID Boot 2") sudo diskutil unmount disk3s3 sudo touch /Volumes/(your RAID root volume, i.e. "Mac RAID")/System/Library/Extensions 8. Make the disk bootable (partially copied from munky). I didn't do this step, but I should and will because it makes sense. My board seems to be one that doesn't care as it boots like it should. This stage may not be necessary on some boards, but on munky's Intel board and Bad Axe boards it is. If you skip this step and your system wont boot, try doing it. That said, doing this on boards which DONT need it will do no harm so my logic is do it anyway. A) sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk2 (Ignore any fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory error) B) f 3 C) w D) q Repeat 1-4 with your other RAID member disk, rdisk3 in this example. Reboot, set your BIOS to boot either of your RAID member disks, and you should boot into the Chameleon 2 GUI. Select either of the "Boot OSX" partitions or whatever you may have renamed them to, and your RAID root volume will boot in a thing of beauty. This guide may not be perfect, but I went over it several times, and I am pretty sure it is. Please give me feedback and I will make any corrections, if needed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences
for June to December 2014, Edition #31
Prepared by Clayton R. Wright, crwr77 at gmail.com, May 12, 2014
The 31st edition of the conference list covers selected events that primarily focus on the use of technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration. Only listings until December 2014 are complete as dates, locations, or Internet addresses (URLs) were not available for a number of events held from January 2015 onward. In order to protect the privacy of individuals, only URLs are used in the listing as this enables readers of the list to obtain event information without submitting their e-mail addresses to anyone. A significant challenge during the assembly of this list is incomplete or conflicting information on websites and the lack of a link between conference websites from one year to the next.


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A True All-Star Event
Every now and then the Super Bowl is played the weekend immediately following the conference championship games, which seems to usually result in a better game. But most of the time, as is the case this year, the NFL gods determine that there must be a two-week gap in order to inundate us with the type of senseless hype that only the NFL can provide. The result leaves us with what I consider the most boring weekend in sports – the weekend before the Super Bowl. Of course, now we get the added misfortune of the NFL Pro-Bowl to compound the misery of this past weekend.
Fortunately, the way the calendar has worked out for the past few years – what was previously the most boring weekend in sports, instead features the Rolex 24 at Daytona – the twenty-four hour endurance sports car race on the infield road course that also utilizes a good part of the oval at Daytona International Speedway. Suffice it to say, I don't follow sports car racing very much. I am aware that I'm opening myself up to be corrected on many potential mistakes I may make in this post due to this lack of knowledge. That's why I acknowledge that on the front-end, so if I say something incorrect – have at it.
My understanding is that there are two competing series in sports car racing – Grand Am and the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). I can't really explain any differences between the two. My confusion is probably not unlike the general public's view of CART and the IRL in the late nineties. The cars look basically the same to a novice and it's hard to discern which series races where and why.
But for this weekend, it doesn't really matter. I am usually so starved for racing at this time of year, I would watch a tricycle race so long as it had some names that I recognized. This winter has not been too cold here in Nashville. Last winter was a different story. As I recall, last year we had a good bit of snow on the ground while this race was running. Watching racing with snow outside my window is a surreal experience, since I'm usually wearing shorts and complaining about the hot weather while watching most races.
When I was growing up in the sixties, the Indianapolis 500 was becoming a melting pot of the top names from different motorsports disciplines. Not only were the USAC regulars competing for a spot on the grid, but the top stars from Formula One, NASCAR, sports cars and even motorcycles were there as well. For example, the 1969 Indianapolis featured USAC stars such as AJ Foyt, Bobby & Al Unser, Mario Andretti and Johnny Rutherford; but also drivers that had previously made their name elsewhere – such as Jack Brabham, Dan Gurney, Joe Leonard, Denis Hulme, Peter Revson and Mark Donohue. Although it is an overused cliché, it can be said that the Indianapolis 500 was truly an All-Star event in the mid-to-late sixties and early seventies.
In the mid-seventies, the International Race of Champions (IROC) was created. The first season featured top drivers from Formula One, USAC, NASCAR and SCCA in identically prepared cars run exclusively on road courses. Mark Donohue captured the first IROC crown. The second year, ovals were introduced to the equation. Two races were run at Riverside and the ovals at Daytona and Michigan rounded out the other two. It was a true test of versatility and was won by Bobby Unser. Over the years, IROC became more and more slanted towards NASCAR. The cars became more like stock cars and they ran exclusively on ovals that NASCAR visited. As racing became more specialized, it became mostly NASCAR drivers against a slim few outsiders. Gone were representatives from around the world on challenging tracks.
Eventually, IROC faded away after the 2006 season which was won by Tony Stewart. It featured seven stock car drivers, two Grand-Am drivers and Steven Kinser from World of Outlaws. There were only two open-wheel drivers represented in the 2006 field – Sam Hornish and Scott Sharp from IndyCar and no drivers from Champ Car – and no drivers from ALMS, Formula One or USAC; hardly a fair representation of champion drivers across the spectrum of motorsports. And they wonder why the popularity waned.
That is why I've come to really enjoy the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Not only is it the first racing we've seen in months, it's also the only real star-studded event that combines stars from various series. I think the term All-Star is way overused in sports. Many times, the term is used simply for hype. In a weekend when the NFL and NHL both showcased their "All-Stars"; the Rolex 24 at Daytona was the only event where the term actually applied. Since racing has become so specialized, it's rare to get drivers to cross over and race in any series other than their own. Le Mans and Sebring are interesting, but they are run when other series seasons are already in full swing or about to start.
This years Rolex 24 was full of drivers from the IZOD IndyCar Series. Paul Tracy, Marco Andretti, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Justin Wilson, Dario Franchitti, Scott Dixon and Graham Rahal were some of the drivers representing American Open Wheel Racing. Tony Kanaan and EJ Viso were originally scheduled for the car that Marco drove, but sponsorship issues forced a last minute change.
The racing was good and it's fun to be able to have the channel on the same station. Do I sit there and intently watch the race? No, but it was always on – except when SPEED cut away during the late night-early morning hours. I can recall some years when they had twenty-four hour coverage. Those years, if I happened to wake up during the night, I would turn on the TV just to catch up on what had happened while I slept.
Another intriguing aspect is that unless they are regular drivers in the Grand-Am series; many of these drivers aren't concerned with points. They are there to do one thing – win. A win at the Rolex 24 is an impressive feat for any driver. The impressive list of IndyCar drivers that have won the Rolex 24 includes AJ Foyt, Lloyd Ruby, Mark Donohue, Mario Andretti, Danny Ongais, Bobby Rahal, John Paul, Jr., Al Unser, Al Unser, Jr., Raul Boesel, John Andretti, Davy Jones, PJ Jones, Mark Dismore, Scott Pruett, Scott Sharp, Max Papis, Christian Fittipaldi, Scott Dixon, Dan Wheldon, Juan Montoya, Dario Franchitti, Buddy Rice and Graham Rahal. That's a partial, but very impressive array of IndyCar talent.
For the record, new IndyCar owner Michael Shank Racing won the race, with current IndyCar driver Justin Wilson and former Champ Car driver AJ Allmendinger, who is now driving for Roger Penske in NASCAR, Ozz Negri and John Pew rounded out the team of drivers that swapped off stints for the twenty-four hour race. So long as it's an IndyCar driver, I don't really care who wins – but this year's winning team had multiple ties to the IZOD IndyCar Series. It is rumored that Michael Shank Racing will sign Paul Tracy for this season in IndyCar, for what Tracy says will be his final year. Hopefully, that will come to pass. We'll see.
It's just good to see such a diversity of drivers who are there mostly for the love of the sport and are trying their best to win. It is always an impressive field that is assembled from a world-wide talent pool, all there to race and not collect points. The Rolex 24 is always a refreshing reminder why we love this sport we follow. Plus, it's a great way to spend the most boring weekend in sports.
George Phillips
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The Rolex 24 Hour Race at Daytona, always a great way to kick off the race season, always some great racing and amazing efforts to be seen in the pits and padock.
Something to be witnessed in person at least once too… Generally it is easy enough to get a reasonablty priced room down the block from the track then simply walk to and from same as you wish to watch whichever portions of the race you like from nearly anywhere on the track you like, but bring your walking shoes. (however, this year being the 50th running, there was an unusually large crowd) Further, one of the best kept secrets of this Rolex race is the Roar before the 24, which is a four day period (Thurs-Sun) for set up and testing prior to the actual race and generally takes place two weeks before the actual race.
Oh, and this year after TV coverage ended Saturday night, Speed.com had the race streaming live from four cameras with continued live commentary … The Grand Am website also kept a running order for all racers for the entire race…
This race really is as George states an all-star event, filled with a group of highly competative and capable drivers who are there for only one reason…. They need a new dress watch…
I was also happy to see cars on a racetrack in spite of the fact that I share your lack of knowlege re: sports car racing. I will demonstrate: the two classes of cars running at the same time seems a little hectic. Like watching two races at once, but you only care about one of them. And the 24 hour endurance length means you have a race but only expect folks to watch a small part of it.
But the team driver concept is interesting. The cars are sorta cool. And I'd like to win one of those watches. It actually peaked my interest for a 3 hr. race during the Nascar weekend in Indy. Good for Allmendinger & Wilson & Michael Shank Racing.
For me, I always view the 24 hours of Daytona as the official start of the racing year. I like the DP cars more than the GTs because of the amount of Indycar drivers racing them.
I have always enjoyed the 24 Hours of Daytona. I thought it was so cool to see Paul Newman run in the race back in 2002 as well as see Dan Wheldon and Scott Dixon win Rolex watches for winning. Lots of fun and you can catch some great interviews as well as stories and garage action. Yes, this makes for a good time on what is usually a cold winter's weekend.
After watching the 24 Hours of Le Mans the past two years, I watched a portion of the Daytona 24 this weekend. As I expected, I was not stirred by the cars on the track. Nothing mechanically exciting or exotic; almost like drones circulating the track. No Audi Turbo Diesels, Aston Martin V12s, nor V8 thunder from a Corvette. Sure, big name drivers from IndyCar and stock cars can draw interest, but sports car racing has ALWAYS been about the cars. Why else does each car have multiple drivers (even before regulations mandated it)? The technology poured into that car is used by that manufacturer (Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Porsche, etc) for implementation into their road cars (have you seen Audi's Lightweight Technology ad? Porsche's KERS-style hybrid?) In Grand-Amatuer, auto makers just get to put their name on the car (sound like another American series?) and that's about it.
The real sports car racing season begins in Sebring.
"Nothing mechanically exciting or exotic,"
a few silhouettes on chassis with big ECR, Roush, or Dinan motors – the France family's bastardization of U.S. sports car racing
('We have some big race tracks, and other race series with identical silhouettes on tube frames with big motors, so, uh, let's create another race $erie$)
The 'Corvette' silhouettes looked cool, especially in dark blue, without a horrible sponsor decal set. And the new R&S bodies looked cool, but… it's still NASCAR-ized sports car racing that I boycott because I don't like greedy tyrants' split of top-tier North American sports car racing.
"Sure, big name drivers from IndyCar … draw interest," and that's what almost lured me from Panama City to Daytona – to see/hear/maybe meet Wilson, Hinch, Dinger, Tracy, etcetera in the paddock and pit lane, … but I held to my boycott. Once they're in the cars, it's similar bodies – R&S, 'vette, 911 GT3, and RX-8 goin' 'round and 'round and 'round and 'round (yawn) … reminds me of (yawn) NASCAR's other three series on roundy-round tracks, except for the goofy, needless 'bus stop.'
Mercifully, the 24 didn't have any horrific crashes.


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Michelin, the popular travel and restaurant guide, has recently confirmed that Tokyo has once again taken top marks as a culinary destination. The Japanese capital and surrounding area features more Michelin stars than any other city in the world, including Paris, where the guides are published.
The Michelin Guide Tokyo Yokohama Shonan 2014 offers a selection of the best restaurants, "ryokans" (traditional inns) and hotels in three areas. The guide, only available in Japanese, includes a total of 504 establishments, of which 438 are restaurants, 54 are hotels and 12 are ryokans.
In this year's guide, the 7th edition for the Tokyo area, 14 restaurants in Tokyo and Shonan maintain their three-star rating. A Michelin three-star rating is considered the ultimate international recognition in the culinary world, with just slightly more than one hundred restaurants around the world holding this prized distinction.
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Beat the Streak Report: Wednesday, September 1
Another day, another hit for "jpells10", as Joe Mauers' base knock extended our leader's streak to 31 games.
"jpells10" is slowly creeping to that make-or-break 35-game threshold
where I start taking him/her seriously and start with the e-mails.
Time for Wednesday's picks
Oh, hello there …
? Ryan Zimmerman: .611 AVG (11-for-18) lifetime vs. Marlins starter Chris Volstad
? Brian McCann: .486 AVG (18-for-37) lifetime vs. Mets starter Mike Pelfrey
? Martin Prado: .438 AVG (7-for-16) Mets starter Mike Pelfrey
? Pablo Sandoval: .357 AVG (10-for-28) lifetime vs. Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez
Feeling kinda spicy?
? Geoff Blum: .536 AVG (15-for-28) lifetime vs. Cardinals starter Jeff Suppan
? Travis Hafner: .484 AVG (15-for-31) lifetime vs. White Sox starter Freddy Garcia
You'll thank me later …
? Carlos Gonzalez: .143 AVG (2-for-14) lifetime vs. Giants starter Tim Lincecum
? Ryan Braun: .176 AVG (3-for-17) lifetime vs. Reds starter Johnny Cuetto
? David Wright: .000 AVG (0-for-7) lifetime vs. Braves starter Tommy Hanson
Leaderboard time!
Ryan Braun's fruitful night at the yard lifted "bretzky26" to 30 games,
as our second-place stalwart is right on our leader's toes.
Top MLB streakers
? Miguel Cabrera: 13 games
? Paul Konerko: 12 games
? Michael Bourn: 10 games
? A.J. Pierzynski: 10 games
? Troy Tulowitzki: 10 games
? Joey Votto: 10 games
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I guess that the silence about a September Edition means that it's not going to happen this year?
Hey all. Got the stats all done up and ready to post. Will do it in about 20 mins or so when I take my lunch break.
17 users are at 24+
843 are at 11+
Some of course are eliminated due to no selections.
17 "24+ gamers" remain racing towards $3M (was 99 after Friday). 11 23-gamers hoping for Oct 4th game. But one of those 11 is making matters worse. "shinn_8" picked J.Bruce (DNP) yesterday & picks J.Hamilton today. Per rotoworld yesterday, Hamilton was to get a knee injection post-game & wouldn't be in the lineup tonite; so appears back-back DNP picks. I expect to see Francouer in Hamilton's spot & Vlad back at DH. BTW. At least 1 other 23-gamer going DNP tonite.
I guess everyone with a streak of 11 or better still has a shot to beat the high mark set by Dick & Geoff. Geoff's 12-gamer reset yesterday when his pick A.Huff went 0-fer. Good luck to those.
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Wednesday's Top Picks of the current Top2500, 159 Batters picked overall.
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Josh Hamilton 357 14.28
Joey Votto 336 13.44(3rd & 5th)
Ichiro Suzuki 138 5.52
Miguel Cabrera 133 5.32
Brian McCann 114 4.56
No Selection 95 3.8
Albert Pujols 86 3.44(1rst)
Martin Prado 69 2.76(4th)
Ryan Zimmerman 66 2.64
Adrian Beltre 66 2.64
Robinson Cano 65 2.6(5th)
Hunter Pence 60 2.4
Joe Mauer 59 2.36
Derek Jeter 47 1.88
Mark Teixeira 13 0.52(2nd)
Highest "No Selection":Pg# 6 with a streak of 16 back to zero.
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset was 18.5% with Prince Albert again killing the most hopes and dreams. And 4.7% paused.
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
whbirdman9, 14, pg 11, 209, M. Cabrera
00LIber, 11, pg 26, 579, A. Rios(PICKED 17X IN TOP2500)(GOOD)
bravesfanforlife88, 10, pg 40, 844, M. Prado
kevmaan, 8, pg 58, 1384, A. Callaspo(PICKED 2X IN TOP2500)
backrubs, 6, pg 96, 1945, R. Zimmerman
GL to all
Pujols O fer takes two out including the leader. 15 remaining
@yanksgiantsdevils33: Two more may be out: 1 picked Hamilton (expecting not to play) & 1 picked Zimmerman, not in the lineup (pinch hitter maybe)
My bad. That 1 that picked Hamilton is a 26-gamer so has games to spare. The Zimmerman picker is a 24-gamer.
LaV, it's nice when the braves actually give Hanson some run support. He's had some great numbers(save his last start) in the last month or so.
Rios chugged me along bright and early this morning so I'm onto tommorow. Looking at nyy(guarenteed starter) cause I can't afford a DNP, right on the brink am I.
GL to those waiting still.
@dragbunt: My prediction of ATL winning appears evident.
FLA hammering WAS, odds of Zimmerman coming into pinch is remote unless WAS runs out of pinch hitters.
@00Liber: Good luck on the 10k run, seriously. If you were 24+ games right now, I'd be hexing you 🙂
Lav – Braves were a good call for Survivor. I went with Reds and Votto in HR. Got a hit today in BTS with Juan Pierre who is hitting well lately.
What is going on with Niger Morgan? Watch the replay of him charging the mound tonight v. Marlins and Marlins 1B, Sanchez? close lining him to the ground! Heard but did not see that the hit Cards catcher on Sat. at a play at the plate when catcher did not have the ball(?). ESPN announcers tonight on NYY game were "suprised he wasn't suspended by MLB." Is the video of this one anywhere to be seen?
Wow, the Cardinals are dropping so fast out of playoff contention, it isn't even fun to poke fun at them any more…. Nah, it's still fun, very fun. To help with their offense, they shouldn't have hired Mark McGwire during the off-season. They are choking so badly, they should have hired Dr. Heimlich instead. 8 out in the Central with CIN win today; put a fork in them, they're done! Wildcard? Hmmm, 5 behind Philly. Looking like they'll be watching the playoffs same as the Cubs — at home on the couch
@dragbunt: I saw that Cards game on TV. He did go out of his way to push/shove the catcher, it was intentional but not sucker-punch-like by any stretch of the imagination; didn't even knock him down
Saw all the replays of Niger Morgan. Is he reading a biography of Ty Cobb? Suspension and "anger management" classes seem to be in his near future.
He threw a ball into stands and injured a fan on 8/21 too.
I'd like to be that fans attorney cha-ching$$$$.
He is playing as he is appealing his 7 game suspension for the thrown ball incident.
For Thursday?
Day game for the Rockies – Tuolwitzki played on Wed night.
Is he recovered from his groin 'Tweak" – Will he play day game after night game with that injury? So far he is 0-2 on Wed evening.
@lavolpe Miguel Cabrera is 0 for 3 but may get to see extra innings. If he goes 0 fer I'll take him tomorrow. I'd like to take Mark Teixeria but I'm afraid he may have an 0 fer looming.
I took Hanley Ramirez in BTS and the Reds in survivor so I'm back at 1 in each. I wasted my HR pick on Josh Hamilton not thinking about the fact that he isn't playing tonight.
@yanksgiantdevils33: "I wasted my HR pick on Josh Hamilton not thinking about the fact that he isn't playing tonight"
Yeah, I tried to warn everyone yesterday when I saw it on rotoworld.
MIN wins, leaving M.Cabrerra on deck. That means 10 $37M streakers fell out of that race today. Ichiro still holds fate of 1 more tonite.
Did I say $37 million? Wow, getting tired. Obviously meant $3M. Good night all, blog y'all tomorrow.
My buddy Robinson Cano went 0 fer taking another (whmail) out of contention. It's touch when you think the season is over with a month to spare like a lot of us including me do being eliminated from even the consolation prize.
Joey Votto did NOT get a hit! 5 more are gone.
Yep, 10 are gone: Votto(5), Pujols(2), Zimmerman(1), Cabrerra(1), Cano(1). Zimmerman didn't play, but the streaker had 24 and needs 25 entering tomorrow.
@00Liber. Looks like your the Bloggers Group last chance to tie/beat Dick & George. Stay on top of that list for another month!
"I'd like to be that fans attorney cha-ching$$$$."
Oh, please no!
I am sure the guy is fine.
Why should he get money for having a scab or even wasting the court's time.
"For Thursday?
Day game for the Rockies – Tuolwitzki played on Wed night.
Is he recovered from his groin 'Tweak" – Will he play day game after night game with that injury? So far he is 0-2 on Wed evening. "
The Rockies play at night tomorrow.


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"If you love the Lord and love fast cars, this Honda S2000 is the car for you." For sale on AutoTrader, this S2000 is perfect for Jesus freaks with a need for speed.
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FRIDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Two kinds of state laws can help reduce drinking and driving by teens, a large new study finds.
Graduated driver licensing laws limit new drivers to less risky driving situations until they acquire enough skills to become fully licensed. Use-and-lose laws permit the suspension of a teen's driver's license if they are caught using alcohol.
Researchers analyzed the drinking-and-driving behaviors of more than 111,000 males and more than 110,000 females, aged 16 to 17, from data in the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System for 1999 to 2009.
The results were published online June 15, and will appear in the September issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
"The key finding of our study was that states with restrictive [graduated driver licensing] laws and use-and-lose laws had less youth who reported driving after drinking any alcohol or riding in a car with a driver who had been drinking alcohol," study corresponding author Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, a research assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said in a journal news release.
"In other words, a student in a state with the strongest [graduated driver licensing] and use-and-lose laws would be approximately half as likely as a student in a state with the weakest laws to drive after drinking," she added.
"Given that many states have already adopted restrictive [graduated driver licensing] and use-and-lose policies over the past decade, we were pleased that our findings support the strengthening of ... laws that is already occurring," Cavazos-Rehg said. "We hope our findings provide evidence for adopting and/or strengthening [graduated driver licensing] and use-and-lose laws to those states not already involved in these efforts."
Teens make up less than 5 percent of licensed drivers in the United States, but account for about 20 percent of all traffic crashes, the researchers noted.
"These two laws, if they are strong, can have a significant effect on teen behavior and can save lives," James Fell, a senior research scientist with the Impaired Driving Center at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Calverton, Md., said in the news release.
"Parents and clinicians should reinforce the awareness of teens to these laws and work to get weak laws strengthened," added Fell, who was not involved in the study.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about impaired driving.
-- Robert Preidt
SOURCE: Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, news release, June 15, 2012
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hi everyone. it is good to see you pati. I hope you continue to get better and fast. it is also good to know that lor has been here. Lor you get that stuff for making pottery and get to turning out stuff. I want you to post pictures of what you make, ok?
I fell again, that makes twice in one week. this time I hit the back of my head. hubby and I had gone to pick up grandson and were in son's house when I was going to sit on the chair arm and look at something. and I just missed or did not realize that the chair arm was so soft and I sorta missed landing on chair arm like I inyended and down in floor I went.
hubby was there but I was still so sore from falling earlie this week. and their floor was hardwood and very slick. I had hard time getting upon my knees because I slid on floor. but finally did get up and at least it was not no 2 hours like the first time getting up. but gosh a I ever sore.
Joy, I don't know what we are going to do about your falling. You be careful. I'm sure you are.
Finally baked my fruit cakes. I've already eaten a loaf. Two more to go. Then I'll make some more. My daughter takes a loaf for herself. My husband just loves it too. It's not caked with too much fruit so I would say it's more like a bread than a cake.
That's reminds me of a story. I was in a mental health group and we had to be tested for drugs, I failed one test and the only thing I could think of why is because the fruit cake has a spice called mace in it which is a drug type. I told the doctor that and he started laughing and agreed with me that it was the fruit cake. lol
Hope this finds everyone healthy and upright. lol
Take care,
forgot to tell the good news: my youngest is now getting married in April or May. Will have to see who has openings at such a late date. They go back to California in June so they want to get married before they go.
Take care,
My dear JOY!! Did you get an EEG for that tumble on your head??? You've got to keep up and get these falls seen about. Surely you can see the damage I have done by these falls!
It scare's the daylight's out of me just thinking about falling. When I go for over a week and can't tell anybody who I am, where I am, etc., I'm afraid I will fall and never come back.
Please Joy, Go get them to do an EEG to see if there is damage. You and I have talked and we both know the awful things we can do to our selves. I want to hang around here a while longer and I want you here with me.
Take care to all, Julia
Did you ever know that you're my hero and every thing I would like to be I can fly higher than an eagle
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings
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hey everyone !
yes, i have been missing for awhile.
there is so much to do before christmas! i like to do a pretty good job of cleaning the house before the holidays and then i don't worry about it for awhile. i do stuff that i only do a couple times a year, like cleaning the blinds. cleaning blinds is a long job. i dust every slat and then i wipe it down with soapy water. these are the blinds in my living room...3 windows. i dusted and cleaned the wooden blinds in the dining room and washed a few walls. i am also switching banks, so i've had to go to the banks to open and close accounts and change all my numbers for paying my bills online.
my friend whose daughter died a few weeks ago, had rotator cuff surgery last week. she had been in pain for several months and some doctor she was going to wanted her to go to physical therapy. she said she could barely move her arm. finally, she went to another doctor and he did an mri and saw the tear in her rotator cuff. one of her other daughters asked me to wrap a few presents for her, cause she is out-of-state and she knew her mom wouldn't be able to do that. so i wrapped 4 presents for her. i am wrapping presents here for other people, too. that is one thing i learned by doing with my mom. plus making bows. my mom was really great at that.
my mom continues to decline. she is not making much sense when she talks anymore. most of the words she says are not real words. once in awhile, she'll say a word i understand. she can still feed herself, though. i know she is in the most severe stages of alzheimers disease. there is nothing i can do.
thank you all for being here for me this year! this is such a special place for me. we all need support. you are so giving and kind and generous and i you all!
thank you for sharing and caring,
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"The world is a better place when you're barefoot." Mark
"Don't go there unless you know the way back." TC
"...there will be an answer. Let it be." Paul McCartney
Julia I don't need an mri from these las falls. maybe I should have gone for the one last years but I did get better finally. I fall more than I should because of my numb and dead parts. I just need to be more careful. but who thinks that in their own home? io do when in bathroom and tile floor could be wet but not in other parts of house. I promise I will start being more careful in the whole house. I do not go places often but whe I do hubby is always right there to offer his arm if I get out of vehicle without my cane.
well i had alot of tests & they ignored my bruise that still hows from the fall back in August. so much for that. but thats me-not our sweet joy. head things are weird. i still don't feel good in alot of ways. maybe i never will. my right arm still hurts. i'm alive though & it could have been so much worse!
your body went through some awful stuff pati. I hope you start feeling better soon. take good care of yourself because your body needs it.


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If I had 240 Microsoft points tomorrow, I would buy you a monkey. Haven't you always wanted a monkey? The Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace pet shop opens tomorrow.
Depending on your opinion of the Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace, tomorrow brings either a wondrous new addition or another ridiculous thing to waste your money on - pets! Microsoft has most of the bases covered in its pet lineup, with three types of dogs (including Dog in Bag), three cats, birds, snakes, fish, guinea pigs, and of course, monkeys. They'll even have a pony up for sale, making countless childhood dreams come true with the push of a button.
The downside? Each pet will run you 240 Microsoft points. The upside? They don't pee on your girlfriend's robe, who then tries to cuddle you while wearing it because she has a cold and can't smell it, leaving you with the moral dilemma of whether or not you should tell her she smells. That's just an example, mind you, and certainly didn't happen in my apartment last night.
Yes, you can haz Pony [Major Nelson]


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Obama mentions Snowden (twice)
In the run-up to Friday's speech on National Security Agency surveillance, some wondered if President Obama would mention NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
And he did -- twice.
At one point, Obama noted that the government might like to prosecute Snowden for divulging details of NSA activities, triggering the government review that led to the president's speech.
"Given the fact of an open investigation, I'm not going to dwell on Mr. Snowden's actions or his motivations," Obama said at one point. "I will say that our nation's defense depends in part on the fidelity of those entrusted with our nation's secrets."
He added: "If any individual who objects to government policy can take it into their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will not be able to keep our people safe, or conduct foreign policy.
"Moreover, the sensational way in which these disclosures have come out has often shed more heat than light, while revealing methods to our adversaries that could impact our operations in ways that we may not fully understand for years to come."
Snowden is currently living in Russia, which granted him political asylum.
Obama also mentioned Snowden in saying that the United States is not the only nation that spies on other nations, even allies:
"We know that the intelligence services of other countries -- including some who feign surprise over the Snowden disclosures -- are constantly probing our government and private sector networks, and accelerating programs to listen to our conversations, and intercept our emails, and compromise our systems. We know that."


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Darvish, Beltre reflect on club's wayward season
All-Stars have different approaches to solving Rangers' problems
MINNEAPOLIS -- Rangers All-Star third baseman Adrian Beltre and pitcher Yu Darvish have seen a promising season collapse around them.
The Rangers limped into the All-Star break on an eight-game losing streak, with a 38-57 record, last in the American League West. But Beltre entered the break leading the AL with a .337 batting average, 13 home runs and 51 RBIs, and Darvish is 8-5 with a 2.97 ERA in 142 strikeouts in 17 starts.
They approach the solution differently. Here are their words:
How they're holding up amid the team-wide collapse
Beltre: "I try. You have to look yourself in the mirror and see what you can do to help the ballclub. It doesn't matter what happened yesterday if you're losing 20 in a row. The next game is the one you're going to win and believe you're going to win. That might not be the case, but you cannot sit down and feel sorry for yourself and just crawl back and believe the season is over.
"I always have that in me, that I'm always trying to do what I can to win ballgames. It's not about me. It's about the team. I'm not going to help the team just trying to sit there and feel sorry for myself."
Darvish: "I don't know. That's the short answer. I cannot pinpoint what went wrong, when it went wrong, how it went wrong. But the team is still fighting. We're struggling but we're still fighting. It's really hard to motivate myself, especially with the team in the situation that we're in. People are not focused sometimes when we're in the situation. But as a professional baseball player, I just have to do whatever I have to do.
"I don't think I have, 100 percent. I'm always trying. But if you look at the numbers, it's not there. But I like to reflect on what I did in the first half, improve and take it to the second half of the season."
Their respective roles with teammates differ, with Beltre being an everyday player and Darvish working once every five games.
Beltre: "Instead of having three or four young guys, you have probably 15. You have to be a little more on things that they're doing to make sure they're doing things right. Obviously when you're losing things pop out more. In those cases you have to make sure not to make excuses why we're losing. We try to make sure everybody's doing things right."
Darvish: "I don't tell my teammates anything. They're professional baseball players, as well. They have to figure it out. In the midst of that, I just have to focus on what I'm capable of doing.
"I'd like to go deeper in innings. Every game I pitch, I'd like to go deeper and give more chance for the team so we can win."
On the All-Star Game itself, Beltre is 1-for-5 in three appearances. As for Darvish, well, he's been invited twice before.
Beltre: "No doubt it's been tough the last seven weeks or so. We haven't been playing the way we wanted to. It's been not fun to watch, not fun to be part of it. We know that we don't have the team we assumed to have out of Spring Training but we still have good enough players to compete. That is not reflected in our record. These four days will be for everybody on our team to sit back, relax and refresh and try to start over, not think about how we've been struggling."
Darvish: "It'll be interesting. Let's say I go to two more All-Star Games and not pitch. It'll be a record."


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Notes & Outlines EXODUS"By Dr. J. Vernon McGee © Thru the Bible Radio Network,http://www.ttb.org. "
(Audio index:MCGEECOMMENTARYAUDIO Exodus )
WRITER: Moses
A CONTINUED STORY: Exodus continues the account which was begun in Genesis, although there was a lapse of at least 3 1/2 centuries. kjv@Genesis:15:13 says that
the seed of Abraham would spend 400 years in a land that was not theirs. It is difficult to be dogmatic about the chronology of the patriarchal period. It has been omitted purposely from these outlines. The word that opens Exodus is a conjunction which is better translated "and" rather than "now." Exodus has been called the sequel to Genesis. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan wrote, "In the book of Exodus nothing is commenced, nothing is finished."
Exodus means "the way out." Redemption is by blood and by power. The message is stated in kjv@Hebrews:11:23-29.
I am the LORD thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ( kjv@Exodus:20:2)
Seventy souls of Jacob entered Egypt kjv@Genesis:46:27). It is conservatively estimated that 2,100,000 left Egypt at the time of the Exodus. Although we cannot be certain of dating during this early period, it would seem that Joseph entered Egypt under the Hyksos or shepherd kings. This was the 15th to 17th dynasty. They were Semitic con- querors from Mesopotamia, Bedouin princes from the desert. They were related to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Actually, the Israelites were their only friends, as they were hated by Egyptians. Amasis, military leader of Egypt, led a rebellion against the Hyksos kings, deposed them, and was made Pharaoh. It was Ramses II in this line who was the Pharaoh of the oppression and the one "who knew not Joseph."
Moses' life is divided into three 40-year periods:
1. 40 years in Pharaoh's palace in Egypt,
2. 40 years in the desert in Midian,
3. 40 years in the wilderness as leader of Israel.
The training in Egypt, evidently in the Temple of the Sun, did not prepare Moses to follow God in leading Israel out of Egypt. God trained him in the desert for 40 years to reveal to him that he could not deliver Israel alone. God gave Moses a B.D. (Backside of the Desert) degree. "And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds" kjv@Acts:7:22). The wisdom of Egypt is not to be despised even today. The construction of the pyramids and the retention of brilliance in the colors they used reveal they knew architecture and chemistry. Also, they knew the distance to the sun. And writing was a highly developed science among them.
After God prepared Moses to deliver his people, He sent him back to Egypt after 40 years. Moses is to assemble elders of Israel and go to Pharaoh. Pharaoh will refuse to let Israel go. His refusal will open the contest between God and the gods of Egypt. Pharaoh was a representative of the gods of Egypt. Egypt was dominated by idolatry - "gods many and lords many." There were thousands of temples and millions of idols. Back of idolatry was Satan. There was power in the religion of Egypt - "Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth, men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith" ( kjv@2Timothy:3:8). Pharaoh asked, "Who is Jehovah?" He had never heard of Him. "And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go" kjv@Exodus:5:2). God introduced Himself. Pharaoh got acquainted with God and acknowledged Him as God. "And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time; the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked" kjv@Exodus:9:27). " Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you" kjv@Exodus:10:16).
Two points of significance arise from this episode:
A. Why the plagues?
They were God's battle with the gods of Egypt. Each plague was directed against a particular god in Egypt. "For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD" kjv@Exodus:12:12).
1. The Nile was turned to blood - the Nile was the lifeblood of Egypt and sacred to Osiris.
2. Frogs - Heka was the frog-headed goddess. It was an offense to the goddess to kill frogs.
3. Lice - Geb was the earth god.
4. Flies (beetles or scarabs) were sacred to Ra (the sun god), Ra- Ammon, and Khepara. Gold scarabs have been found in the tombs.
5. Murrain on cattle - Egypt was a land of "zoo-olatry." They worshiped animals. Apis was the black bull that was worshiped. Mumified bulls have been found in a pyramid near Memphis, Egypt. There is a note of humor that God injects here. Imagine the Egyptians worshiping a sick cow!
6. Boils - the priests had to be spotless. They could not serve in their temples with boils.
7. Hail - Egypt is a land of no rainfall. There is less than one inch a year in Cairo. Isis was the goddess of air.
8. Locusts are a judgment from God (compare locusts in Joel and Revelation).
9. Darkness - Egyptians worshiped the sun (Ra).
10. Death of firstborn - the firstborn in Egypt were set aside for the service of the gods.
B. What does it mean to harden the heart of Pharaoh?
The word "harden"' has in it the idea of "to twist with a rope." The suggestion is that God hailed Pharaoh into court and made him reveal what was already in his heart. He was not permitted to cover up or compromise. He had to reveal his true intent and thought. See kjv@Exodus:4:21; kjv@Exodus:7:3; kjv@Exodus:14:4 and kjv@Romans:9:17-24.
The Passover is the oldest religious holy day or holiday in continuous celebration. It sets forth redemption by blood. God delivered His people out of Egypt by blood and power. This was the grace of God described to them in this fashion, "Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you unto myself" kjv@Exodus:19:4). God wanted to reveal to His own people that He had power to deliver them.
The Law was then instituted with their permission. The Ten Commandments are a segment of the Mosaic Law. Legislation that regulated the social life in relationship to the Ten Commandments was given in the remainder of the Pentateuch. The great emphasis was upon the construction of the tabernacle and the service of it. The sacrificial system was the heart of the worship of God. Sin must be dealt with before God can dwell with His people. "And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them" kjv@Exodus:25:8). The floor plan of the tabernacle and the furniture of it should be learned by every student of the Scriptures.
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Altar of Incense
Tabernacle Proper
Golden Lampstand Table of Showbread
Brazen Altar
I. A DELIVERER, Chapters kjv@Exodus:1-11
A. Slavery of Israel in Egypt, kjv@Exodus:1
B. Birth of Moses - first 40 years in Pharaoh's palace, kjv@Exodus:2
C. Call of Moses - second 40 years in Midian, kjv@Exodus:3 (incident of burning bush)
D. Return of Moses to Egypt - announcement of deliverance to Israel, kjv@Exodus:4 E. Contest with Pharaoh, kjv@Exodus:5 (9 plagues against idolatry of Egypt, battle of the gods)
II. DELIVERANCE (by blood and power), Chapters kjv@Exodus:12-14
A. Institution of Passover - tenth plague, death of firstborn (blood), kjv@Exodus:12 B. Crossing Red Sea - destruction of army of Egypt (power), kjv@Exodus:13-14
III. MARCHING to Mt. Sinai (spiritual education), Chapters kjv@Exodus:15-18 (7 experiences correspond to Christian experience)
A. Song of redeemed - wilderness of Shur, kjv@Exodus:15:1-22 (no bed of roses after redemption)
B. Marah, bitter water sweetened by tree, kjv@Exodus:15:23-26 (Cross sweetens bitter experiences of life)
C. Elim (fruitful Christian experience), kjv@Exodus:15:27
D. Wilderness of Sin - manna and quail, kjv@Exodus:16 (Christ is the Bread of Life)
E. Smitten Rock ("That Rock was Christ"), kjv@Exodus:17:1-7
F. Amalek (the flesh), kjv@Exodus:17:8-16 (victory on the hilltop, kjv@Deuteronomy:25:17-18)
G. Jethro, priest of Midian, kjv@Exodus:18 (worldly wisdom in contrast to revelation)
IV. The LAW (condemnation), Chapters kjv@Exodus:19-24
A. Arrival at Mt. Sinai - agreement to accept the Law, kjv@Exodus:19 B. Ten Commandments - order for the altar, kjv@Exodus:20 C. Social legislation, kjv@Exodus:21-24
V. BLUEPRINT and CONSTRUCTION of tabernacle, Chapters kjv@Exodus:25-40 (a pattern and picture of Christ)
A. Blueprint for tabernacle - pattern of garments for high priest, kjv@Exodus:25-30 B. Workmen for tabernacle - Sabbath a sign to Israel, kjv@Exodus:31 C. Golden calf - broken law - Moses' intercession, second tables of the Law, kjv@Exodus:32-35 D. Construction of tabernacle, kjv@Exodus:36-39 E. Tabernacle erected - filled with glory of the Lord, kjv@Exodus:40
Exodus begins in gloom and ends in glory.
These notes, prepared by J. Vernon McGee, are for the purpose of giving assistance to the listeners of the THRU THE BIBLE RADIO program. They are to be used with the Bible and will be more meaningful as you look up all the Scripture references. Due to the necessary brevity of both notes and broadcasts, a list of recommended books is included for those wanting a more detailed study. These books may be obtained from a Christian library or bookstore or ordered from the publishers.
Davis, John J. Moses and the Gods of Egypt. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1971.
Epp, Theodore H. Moses, Vols. 1 and 2. Lincoln, Nebraska: Back to the Bible Broadcast, 1975.
Gaebelein, Arno C. Gaebelein's Concise Commentary On the Whole Bible. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1970.
Grant, F. W. Numerical Bible. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1891.
Jensen, Irving L. Exodus. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1967.
Mackintosh, C. H. Notes on the Pentateuch. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1880.
McGee, J. Vernon. Exodus, Vols. 1 and 2. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1975.
McGee, J. Vernon. The Tabernacle - God's Portrait of Christ. Pasadena, California: Thru the Bible Radio Network, 1986.
Meyer, F. B. Exodus. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel Publications, 1952.
Meyer, F. B. Moses: The Servant of God. Fort Washington, Pennsylvania: Christian Literature Crusade, n.d.
Pink, Arthur W. Gleanings in Exodus. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1922.
Ridout, Samuel. Lectures on the Tabernacle. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1914.
Thomas, W. H. Griffith. Through the Pentateuch Chapter by Chapter. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1957.
Unger, Merrill F. Unger's Bible Handbook. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1966.
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This is a kit of two adapters that can connect to each other using WHDI wireless technology, allowing you to forgo the long physical HDMI cable that generally connects a playback device and an HDTV. And in my testing, the quality of both video and audio of the wireless connection was virtually the same as when you use a cable for the connection, making it a great accessory for those who want to cut down on cables and have more flexibility in terms of equipment placement for their home entertainment systems. The kit also comes in handy for offices, in case you want to quickly connect a laptop to a big screen for presentations, gaming, or what have you.
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That said, the Gigabyte SkyVision WS100 is still one of the best among its peers and is definitely worth the investment.
Design and ease of use
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WiDi has the advantage over WHDI since it's now a built-in feature on many laptop computers. WHDI, which is developed mainly by Amimon, however, generally offers better signal quality with virtually no lag detectable by human eyes.
Like with all wireless technologies, unless your devices have built-in support for it, you'll need adapters. The Gigabyte SkyVision WS100 is made for those situations in which both the HDTV and the playback device, be it a laptop, a game console, or a Blu-ray player, don't support WHDI. As long as both devices have an HDMI port, you can use the Gigabyte SkyVision WS100 with them.
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On a sleepy holiday weekend, the New York Times revived a debate that most of us thought was over: Did the Obama administration mislead Americans about what happened in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012? Was it really a spontaneous response to an anti-Islam video, as officials first claimed, or was it a planned al Qaeda attack?
Launched with the kind of tender loving care and year-end timing that says "Pulitzer bait," the Times published a 7,000-word report spread over three full newspaper pages by Middle East correspondent David Kirkpatrick that aimed to settle once and for all the big lingering questions about the assault, which killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. The key paragraph:
Months of investigation by The New York Times, centered on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault. The attack was led, instead, by fighters who had benefited directly from NATO's extensive air power and logistics support during the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi. And contrary to claims by some members of Congress, it was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam.
"Months of investigation." "No evidence." A swipe at Congress. These are the kinds of authoritative statements you make when you're pretty darn sure of your reporting.
No matter—several of those members of Congress fired back Sunday, doubling down on their version of the story. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who heads the House Oversight Committee, had this to say on NBC's Meet the Press: "It was never about a video. … There was a group that was involved that was affiliated with al Qaeda. It is not about al Qaeda as the only terrorist organization." (Issa traveled to Libya in September as part of his investigation into the attack, but has said little about his trip.) Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the head of the House Intelligence Committee, also disputed the Times story. Rogers said his committee's "exhaustive investigation" contradicted the Times account, and suggested that Kirkpatrick "didn't talk to the people on the ground who were doing the fighting and shooting and the intelligence gathering."
Conservative outlets soon jumped in too. The Weekly Standard, in a posting linked on Twitter by GOP strategist Karl Rove, accused the Times of "whitewash[ing]" the Benghazi attack. Powerline, a popular conservative blog, slammed it as a " revisionist account." The author, retired lawyer Paul Mirengoff, writes: "Whatever else the Times story demonstrates, I believe it shows that this story won't go away as long as Hillary Clinton aspires to be president."
Leaving aside Mirengoff's dubious speculation about collusion between the Times and the latent Hillary Clinton campaign, he does make one good point: This story isn't going anywhere. And here are six reasons why:
- Political opportunism. Republicans see a chance to damage Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the attack, ahead of a feared waltz into the White House in 2016. No doubt they'll keep trying. But so far, nothing has emerged to tar her with anything other than paying insufficient attention to security in Libya, and she survived a Capitol Hill grilling on this more or less unscathed. None of which has deterred the critics one bit: Some Benghazi obsessives gleefully pointed to polls this spring and summer showing a decline in Clinton's approval ratings. There's no proof, though, that Benghazi had anything to do with it—and it seems unlikely that voters will factor a 5-year-old incident into their decision come November 2016. More plausible is the explanation offered by Democratic pollster Peter Hart: "Pure and simple, she's gone from being the nonpartisan secretary of state to potentially a partisan Democratic nominee for president."
- Ideology. Beyond politics, many on the right were and are deeply offended by the initial claims, offered up by officials like former U.N. ambassador Susan Rice and now backed up by the Times story, that a video mocking the Prophet Mohamed helped trigger the attack on the Benghazi mission. To these critics, this explanation is tantamount to saying America asked for it—and the administration's repeated denunciations of the video rankle. It's a gripe that no amount of evidence will assuage.
- People don't agree on what al Qaeda is. There's a long-running debate among experts about whether al Qaeda is more of a centralized, top-down organization, a network of affiliates with varying ties to a core leadership or the vanguard of a broader movement better described as "Sunni jihadism." As Clint Watts, a counterterrorism analyst formerly with the FBI, writes: "There are lots of militant groups around the world which host members that fought in Iraq or Afghanistan or support jihadi ideology. But that doesn't mean they are all part of al Qaeda." For instance, is Ansar al-Sharia, an extremist group that everyone agrees had a presence at the Benghazi attack site, an al Qaeda affiliate? Some, including Issa and Rogers, say it is; others insist it isn't. To make matters more confusing, there are at least two Ansar al-Sharia groups in Libya—one in Benghazi and one in Derna, a city to the east—and dozens of other extremist groups. What about Abu Khattala, the U.S. government's lead suspect and the central figure of the Times story? He evidently shares a jihadist outlook—but Kirkpatrick found no ties between Abu Khattala and al Qaeda.
- The journalism's been all over the map. The volume of reporting on Benghazi is enormous—and that means alternate explanations are available to those seeking one. And not just on Fox News: According to previous Times reporting, for example, U.S. officials believed members of the Jamal network, named for Egyptian militant Mohamed al-Jamal (also known as Muhammad Jamal Abu Ahmad) and known to have al Qaeda ties, had participated in the Benghazi attack. But when the State Department formally designated the network a terrorist group in October 2013, it made no mention of Benghazi—and Kirkpatrick doesn't mention Jamal in his story. That may be because the connection is murky: When Egyptian authorities captured him and several others in December 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported, "Aside from a possible indirect connection through Mr. Ahmad, U.S. officials have said they can't confirm connections between the five men detained in the raid and the Benghazi attacks." Even so, the mere fact that people with al Qaeda ties were present wouldn't prove that al Qaeda planned the assault.
- A matter of interpretation. Perhaps the most suggestive evidence tying the Benghazi attacks to al Qaeda is an intercepted phone call first reported by Eli Lake of the Daily Beast. Lake's sources saw the gloating call as evidence that the assault was a planned terrorist attack, but the Times is dimissive. Writes Kirkpatrick: "The only intelligence connecting Al Qaeda to the attack was an intercepted phone call that night from a participant in the first wave of the attack to a friend in another African country who had ties to members of Al Qaeda, according to several officials briefed on the call. But when the friend heard the attacker's boasts, he sounded astonished, the officials said, suggesting he had no prior knowledge of the assault." Analysts tend to work in shades of gray, not black and white—leaving ample room for individual officials to view the same evidence differently. How are readers to judge whose anonymous sources have it right?
- You can't prove a negative. The Times clearly sought to put a stamp of finality on the Benghazi debate. But if the goal was to prove that al Qaeda wasn't involved, basic logic suggests this was a tall order. As the astronomer Carl Sagan once put it, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" (a quote, incidentally, favored by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the context of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction). Even if the Times is right, and even if the U.S. intelligence community formally dismisses the idea that al Qaeda planned the attack, there will always be some who wonder if we simply haven't looked hard enough.
And on the debate will go. Vast amounts of ink have already been spilled about the Benghazi tragedy, and vast amounts will doubtless be spilled in the weeks and months ahead. What we're not likely to argue much about: Libya itself, a deeply troubled country that Americans once thought was important enough to liberate—and then, scarred by a mysterious attack, left to its fate.


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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Blog posting written by Ian Carsia, Cinema & Photography '14, FLEFF Intern, Hamilton, NJ
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Suspect sues Bridgeport police over shooting
BRIDGEPORT >> A man who survived 12 gunshot wounds in a police shooting is suing two Bridgeport officers.
The Connecticut Post reports (http://bit.ly/185j55n ) the lawyer for Michael Stinson says his survival is remarkable and called the Jan. 31 shooting excessive. The 35-year-old Stinson is suing Lt. Brian Fitzgerald and Officer Mark Belinkie in state Superior Court.
Bridgeport City Attorney Betsy Edwards called it the "height of injustice" for a criminal suspect to sue officers for doing their jobs.
Police say a University of Bridgeport security guard reported seeing Stinson break into an unmarked police car. He was chased by officers and, police say, slashed at them with a large knife.
Police say he was shot with a stun gun with no visible effect.
Stinson was charged with attempted assault on an officer and other offenses.
Information from: Connecticut Post, http://www.connpost.com