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The Bulldogs entered Collegiate Baseball's national rankings at 24th earlier this week. In honor of that mark, the Bulldogs pounded out 12 hits and tallied a season-best 18 runs to close out a perfect four-game homestand.
For Bulldog pitching it was their fifth shutout of the season. Coming on the heels of Sunday's 5-0 Southeastern Conference win over Auburn, the Bulldogs ran their scoreless streak to 16 straight innings with seven more shutout innings in a contest shortened by a 12-run rule.
Offensively, the Bulldogs (19-6) scored five times in the second inning, once in the third inning, eight times in the fourth inning and four times in the fifth inning.
"We got what we wanted accomplished tonight," MSU head coach John Cohen said. "We were able to get some kids some extra at-bats and some playing time. It is a good tune-up situation going into a critical SEC series at Georgia."
An infield error and three walks opened the door in the MSU second inning. Jaron Shepherd lined a two-run double, while Ryan Collins added a two-run single.
An RBI-single by Adam Frazier extended the lead to 6-0 in the third inning.
A three-run triple by Taylor Stark was the big blow in the MSU fourth inning. Also in that at-bat, Cody Freeman had an RBI-double and Daryl Norris added an RBI-single.
In the fifth inning, the Bulldogs expanded the lead with an RBI-single from Frazier, two-run double from Trey Johnson and sacrifice-fly from Hunter Renfroe.
Kendall Graveman (3-0) was perfect in four innings on the mound, while picking up the win. Graveman retired all 12 batters he faced, including three by strikeout. Victor Diaz, Luis Pollorena and C.C. Watson threw an inning apiece in relief.
Demarcus Steward (0-2) was chased during the eight-run fourth inning and took the loss for Alabama A&M (3-20). Sanchez Tucker and Joseph Bryant had the lone hits for the visiting Bulldogs.
Freeman paced the MSU offensive attack with three hits. Collins and Frazier each added multiple hits. Stark and Johnson each had three RBIs.
Continuing the theme of head-to-head matchups involving Bulldogs, MSU plays Georgia this weekend when it returns to conference play. The SEC's two sets of Bulldogs meet at 5:30 p.m. CT Friday, 1 p.m. CT Saturday and 1 p.m. CT Sunday.


text: Photo Gallery Space Pictures This Week: Solar Storm, Spiral Galaxy PUBLISHED Sun Sep 08 10:04:00 EDT 2013 0 1 / 6 Soaring Into Space Virgin Galactic's passenger suborbital vehicle, SpaceShip2, broke the sound barrier on September 5 during its second powered test flight above California's Mohave Desert.The rocket plane turned on its engines for a 20-second burn, soaring to an altitude of 69,000 feet (21,000 kilometers) after being dropped from the underbelly of a carrier aircraft.Designed to be the first commercial rocket ride, SpaceShip2 will blast off on a two-hour flight that will reach the edge of space at 369,000 feet (112,000 kilometers), and stay in the microgravity environment of space for up to five minutes before gliding back to Earth. (Also see "After Space Shuttle, Does U.S. Have a Future in Space?")The company plans to fly suborbital flights with paying passengers starting in 2014.—Andrew Fazekas Photograph courtesy MARS Scientific/Virgin Galactic Space Puzzle As a single snapshot of space history, this mosaic represents the first attempt in putting together the global appearance of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io from individual Voyager 1 1979 flyby images. While the public has seen the computer-processed composite photos of the moons of Jupiter, the above illustration offers a peek at how the mission scientists first attempted to fit together, like puzzle pieces, individual detailed images beamed back to Earth from nearly 600 million miles (965 million kilometers) away. (See more pictures taken by Voyager.) Image courtesy NASA/UCL Solar Loops On August 28, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a solar tempest, which looked like giant arches of hot plasma erupting from the sun's surface. (See "New 'Sunquake' Trigger Found: Huge Solar Belches.") Solar scientists believe these unstable loops of supercharged gases are directly linked to eruptions of charged particles called coronal mass ejections, which can disrupt satellites and electrical grids here on Earth. Image courtesy SDO/NASA Watery Whiteout An August 24 photograph taken from the International Space Station showcases a late-summer "whiting event" washing over Lake Ontario— one of North America's Great Lakes. Such events occur when changes in water temperature and acidity in late summer cause fine particles of calcium carbonate to form, making the water turn milky in appearance, as seen here from orbit. Photograph courtesy NASA Majestic Spiral Like a ghostly pinwheel, a majestic spiral galaxy known as NGC 1398 shines in the Fornax constellation some 65 million light-years from Earth in a picture released September 3.Stretching some 135,000 light-years across, the galaxy is just slightly bigger than our own Milky Way galaxy, but contains less than a tenth the amount of stars.This deep-sky image is part of the Dark Energy Survey being conducted by the 4-meter Victor M. Blanco Telescope at the National Science Foundation's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.The survey will snap color images of more than 300 million galaxies and 100,000 galaxy clusters as far as eight billion light-years away. Image courtesy Dark Energy Survey Collaboration Smoke Trail The Earth-observing satellite Landsat 8 snapped this image of Indonesia's highly active volcanic Paluweh Island (map) on September 8.A trail of smoke stretching over the ocean and gray, scarred swaths of land in the northwestern part of the island are what's left from a deadly eruption and pyroclastic flow that descended from the summit of the volcano and killed five people on August 10. Image courtesy Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, Landsat/USGS/NASA Related Stories 16 Pictures From an Epic Solar Flight Around the World Solar Plane Lands in U.S. on Record Voyage Will We Soon Be Riding on Solar Roads? The Idea Gains Traction

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Undoubtedly some children are stressed out by tests, but national polls show that on the whole testing doesn't bother parents and kids very much at all.
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After premiering in New York and Los Angeles, the producers of Race To Nowhere
are now scheduling showings nationwide. Rather than playing theaters, they are
specifically seeking to partner with unions, parent groups, and others who
believe that standardized tests are part of a culture of placing inappropriate
demands and excessive stress on young people, often beginning in the primary
grades. (The subtitle is "The Dark Side of America's Achievement Culture.")
Producer-Director Vicki Abeles presented the film in two showings and a
discussion group at the CTA Joint Issues Conference over the Martin Luther King,
Jr., weekend.
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hi everyone, my first post here (of many i'm sure, as i'm diving into a huge overhaul and upgrade project of my serotta csi this winter).
my first question is regarding stem replacement. i've got a beautiful serotta T1 carbon fork that i don't care to part ways with, but it's a 1" threaded and the stem options for this size fork (especially if you want to use a bar with a 31.8mm clamp diameter) are quite limited now.
i've seen these converters for changing a threaded to modern unthreaded (such as this one from nashbar) and since i haven't seen many of these around, i'm wondering if this is a wise and safe route to go, or if i should stick with the 1" quill?


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The Price is Right for Demi Lovato
We are so excited to share the news that Demi Lovato will be on The Price is Right tomorrow in support of Free The Children!
Demi performed at WE Day with us in Vancouver last year, and we are so honoured that she chose us as her charity of choice for her special appearance on the show.
Here are some great sneak peak images from the show, which will air on February 22. Check your local listings for show times and don't forget to tune in!


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The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a means of automatically distributing essential network configuration data to PCs connected to large networks. The settings that are automatically distributed are typically:
The configuration is not distributed on a once-and-for-all basis, but for a fixed time period, known as the DHCP lease, which typically varies from a few hours to a few days. Once the lease time has expired, the configuration might stop working. It is the responsibility of the PC's operating system to renew the lease periodically. If a lease is not renewed before it expires, the DHCP system is free to reallocate the previously leased IP address to someone else, if necessary. If a lease is renewed before it expires, then it is almost always the case that the same configuration is obtained as in the old lease.
The network configuration data listed above could in principle be set manually by the user, or by an installer program, but ISPs prefer to use DHCP to allocate addresses dynamically. This is because ISP's networks are subject to growth and re-organisation, which might require some customer PCs to be assigned new addresses. For instance, consider a neighbourhood of cable customers, all having IP addresses on the same shared sub-net (e.g. 62.253.123.xxx). As more customers subscribe to the service, it will eventually become necessary to divide the neighbourhood geographically into two, each on different sub-nets (e.g. 62.253.201.xxx and 62.253.202.xxx) and every customer's IP address needs to be changed. This is not feasible if customers configure their own addresses manually, so the ISP will use DHCP to distribute addresses automatically.
See Finding the DHCP server address(es).
The D in DHCP stands for Dynamic, so the allocated IP address can in principle change. A change of IP address is frustating to those who wish (for instance) to connect to their home PC from elsewhere. As described above, if a DHCP lease is renewed before it expires, then almost always the same address is renewed (if this were not so, then any open IP connections at the moment of lease renewal would be broken, and lease renewals can happen at any time). The only time a change of IP address might occur at lease renewal is when the ISP's network is being reorganised (e.g. during resegmentation of a cable network), or after a major breakdown.
So one strategy for keeping the same IP address for as long as possible is to leave the cable modem powered on continuously, and leave the PC powered on continuously (don't even let it drop into System Standby: you can let it spin down the hard disk and blank the display, but both the processor and the network interface must be kept active and not allowed to go to standby or sleep). If you are wanting to accept incoming connections, you would need to have the PC on all the time anyway.
If you have a NAT router connected to the cable modem, then it is the NAT router which leases the WAN IP address from the ISP, and so it is the NAT router which has to be left powered on continuously to keep the lease renewed. This is usually easier to arrange than keeping a PC powered on continuously, because the NAT routers are small silent devices and use little power.
However, what happens if you do power off your systems, and switch them on again a day or two later? Will you get the same IP address back as you had before? The answer is that often you will get the same address back, but it is not guaranteed. The DHCP server identifies you by the unique MAC address of your PC's network interface connected to the cable modem, and it maintains a record of which IP addresses it has issued to which MAC addresses. When you power off your PC and fail to renew the DHCP lease, your old IP address remains linked to your MAC address in the DHCP server's records, but it is available for re-allocation to someone else if the DHCP server runs out of spare IP addresses. So, if your area is short of spare IP addresses, you might not get the same IP address back the next time you go online, if that address has been given to someone else. On the other hand, if your area has plenty of spare IP addresses, you might be able to power off for many days and still get the same address back when you go back online. It's all a matter of chance.
If you want a way of addressing your PC at home which is not subject to the whim of a DHCP server, then you should investigate a Dynamic DNS service.
A DHCP failure is often the first visible symptom of an underlying problem: in other words, often the problem is not actually a DHCP problem. The majority of users' problems with DHCP (such as inability to acquire or renew a lease, suffering disconnection every few hours, etc) are caused by one of the following:
The trouble-shooting procedures listed elsewhere on this site sometimes require you to release and/or renew a DHCP lease. A simple method of requesting a new DHCP lease is to re-boot the PC, but that is disruptive and time consuming. It is possible to force a DHCP lease renewal during normal service without a re-boot. Before doing this, you should ensure that all applications which might have network connections open (e.g. e-mail) are closed. Alternative methods for some operating systems are as follows. If you are trying to release the DHCP lease and not renew it, just stop after the release stage of these methods, and don't continue with the renew.
Windows 9x/ME (though the GUI):
Windows 98/ME (by command line):
Windows NT/2000/XP (by command line):
Windows XP (through the GUI):
Apple Mac OS 8.x/9.x:
Apple Mac OS X (through the GUI):
Apple Mac OS X (by command line):
Although restarting usually relinquishes the DHCP lease, and requests a new one, with some versions of the Mac OS 8.6/9.x, this doesn't happen: the Mac continues using whatever network configuration it had when it closed down. Also, when the Mac shuts down, the DHCP lease is left dangling. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30994 for more info.
To cure this problem, install the special TCP/IP Options control panel. It is located on the system CD-ROM in the folder :CD Extras:Network Extras:OTExtras:TCP/IP. Drag and drop TCP/IP Options from that folder to the :System Folder:Control Panels folder on hard disk, then restart. Then:
Now, shutdowns will relinquish the DHCP lease, and startups will do a full DHCP discovery.
When a PC is powered up, it doesn't know the address of the DHCP server, so it can't talk to it, and the PC itself doesn't have an IP address, so it can't receive any replies anyway. So how does the PC manage to get the DHCP process started?
The answer is that the very earliest stages of DHCP Discovery are done by broadcast in both directions. The PC broadcasts (to IP address 255.255.255.255) a request for any DHCP server to reply, with a random number in the request. In a cable network, this broadcast is picked up by the UBR at the cable ISP's head-end. The UBR is not itself a DHCP server, but acts as a DHCP Agent (see RFC 2131). The DHCP Agent passes the PC's request to the real DHCP server elsewhere in the ISP's network. The DHCP server constructs a reply packet, including the same random number as in the request, and sends it back to the DHCP Agent in the UBR. The UBR then broadcasts the reply into the local cable network downstream (so that every connected PC receives it!). Our PC listens on the network for DHCP replies, and when it sees one with the same random number as it first sent, it takes the reply in and extracts the configuration data from it.
One of the configuration items is the IP address of the real DHCP server, so that all future DHCP transactions, including periodic lease renewals, can be sent directly to the real DHCP server, not by broadcast.
It is the stage of the broadcast reply from the UBR DHCP Agent which causes most problems with user-configured firewalls, particularly when a PC re-awakes after Standby. On re-awakening, the PC reverts to broadcast DHCP discovery, and the reply from the UBR DHCP Agent can appear to be a hostile probe, which is blocked, because the firewall is already installed and running. See Personal Firewall Configuration for Cable Modems for instructions for avoiding this problem.
If you have a PC that can be booted into various different operating systems (e.g. Windows and Linux), you sometimes find that you get allocated different IP addresses in some or all of the systems, but in a consistent way: you usually get one address in Linux, and another in Windows. The disadvantage of this is that the longer you spend in one system, the less likely it is that you will be able to reclaim your normal IP address for the other system: the longer an IP address is idle and unleased, the more likely it is to be allocated to someone else.
The reason for this is that the IP address issued to you by the DHCP server is influenced by a client_id sent in your PC's DHCP request. Windows sends one client_id, and Linux sends another, so the DHCP server allocates different IP addresses even though your MAC address is the same in both cases.
If you can arrange for all your operating systems to send the same client_id, then you would get the same IP address when you boot into any of your systems. The chances of changing the client_id sent by Windows is small, but Linux DHCP clients can be configured to match Windows as follows.
Windows DHCP clients specify a client_id consisting of a type byte of 01 followed by the six-byte MAC address of your PC's ethernet/USB interface.
Some Unix DHCP clients, such as dhclient (from www.isc.org), allow the client_id to be configured. Others, such as the versions of pump used by many Linux distributions, do not. However, pump-0.8.11 or higher, supplied with RedHat Linux 7.1 and downloadable from ftp.redhat.com, has a new command-line option --win-client-ident to match the Windows behaviour. Download, build and install the new version, then edit the startup script /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup to add the --win-client-ident option. Reboot, and your PC should now keep the same IP address when it boots under Linux as when it boots under Windows. [Thanks to John Stark for the multi-boot DHCP information].
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The winners of the National STEM Video Game Challenge were announced today at The Atlantic's Technologies in Education Forum in Washington, DC. The competition was designed to motivate youngsters throughout the country to promote the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by making video games.
"Well-designed video games can help students excel in STEM and have fun doing it," said Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. "I want to thank the sponsors of the National STEM Video Game Challenge, and congratulate the students and teachers for the remarkable games they have developed."
Twenty-eight middle school and high school students from across the country were honored for their original game designs, along with two winners in the college age level and three in the Educator category. Seventeen games were honored – created by individuals and teams of students in eight different categories. The winners were chosen from more than 3700 entries.
Winners were also honored at a Microsoft-sponsored event on May 21 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Middle School and High School winners each received AMD-based laptops, game design software packages and various software tools to support their continued education in software development. Youth sponsoring organizations who had winning entries will also receive cash prizes and educational software. A total of $80,000 in prizes was awarded to the winners and their sponsoring organizations.
In the Collegiate category, Speedy Math Train, developed by Purdue University students Levi Miller, Stephen Shaefer, Alex Kampf, and Stephen Zabrecky, won the prize for the PBS KIDS stream that challenged participants to develop educational games for children ages 4-8 that focused on specific math skills. Cosmic Chain the Math Game, created by College of the Redwoods student Ryan Wehnau received the prize for the Middle School stream of the math category. Each winner received $10,000 for their winning game.
For the Educator category, the PBS KIDS stream prize went to Addition Blocks, created by Martin Esterman, a teacher from Marietta, Georgia. The Middle School prize was awarded to Mark Supal, an teacher from Warren, Michigan, for his game Energy Tycoon. Kevin Scirtchfield, a teacher in Fresno, California, was named the winner of the High School prize for his game Alge-Bingo. The winners of the Educator category are receiving $10,000 and guidance in the ongoing development of their games.
Details on all the winning games and the winning developers can be found here. The adult category winners can be found here. Congratulations to all of this year's winners!


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Author(s): Burgess JG; Osinga R; Armstrong E; Hoffman F; Reitner J; Schumann-Kindel G
Abstract: In recent years, a large diversity of sponge-microbe associations has been described: sponges can harbour archaea, eubacteria (including cyanobacteria), microalgae, fungi and probably also protozoa. The current paper gives a brief overview of the different types of associations and describes the potential influence of symbiotic micro-organisms on bioprocess design for the biotechnological production of sponge-associated natural compounds. It is concluded that the presence of microsymbionts may further complicate the already tedious development of sponge culturing techniques.
Keywords: symbiosis,sponges,biotechnology
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Patent reform efforts are a mish-mash of patchwork fixes that are not all that effective. Loser pays? Ever heard of loser pays insurance? You can buy it today before you file! Disclose the real party in interest and allow counterclaims against them? This is not going to impact the typical NPE. Better pleading standards? These proposals in effect just take what is already in the local patent rules of several districts and make them mandatory country-wide. (more…)
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We have a 2-node Red Hat / zimbra cluster.
While trying to troubleshoot random problems the cluster has (not necessarily related to zimbra) I ran the command "ps axl | grep D" to find processes in D state that might be troublesome. Only the node with zimbra on it has this output. [please see attacment - result of 'ps axl | grep D']
Why do zimbra processes have so many (unstable) D states.
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The "Teacher" badge is given for: Answering first question with score of 1 or more. However, the OP accepting an answer is significantly different from a general viewer up-voting a question. I suggest a new badge, say "Troubleshooter", awarded the first time when your answer is chosen as 'accepted answer' by an OP.
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
I think this is a very good idea. If nothing else, it should restore the symmetry between the starter badges for asking and the started badges for answering questions.
I would call the badge something other than "Troubleshooter", though. I think the name should be along the "Student"/"Scholar" lines. Since the badge for the first upvoted answer is called "Teacher", I would suggest calling the new badge "Mentor" or "Adviser".
I think it's a good idea. This also teaches about the site features. There is a lot of different types of badges that can be awarded yet there isn't anything on first accepted answer? It's be nice to show a noob accomplishment.
Also, the category would belong to Answers.
I don't think this is a good idea.
I think the general rule is that badges add value to the site if they either
a badge for the first accepted answer wouldn't fall in either of these categories IMO. It wouldn't encourage any new behaviour (You will strive to write good answers anyway), and it wouldn't help you explore new functions (because you're not the one doing the accepting).


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I am a die hard 10M raider. I was raiding strict 10M in Wrath (for those that don't know jack about it, it's raiding 10M only content with 10M only available gear; that back in Wrath meant raid comp issues, gear level issues as well as gear itemization issues – the great lack of 10M trinkets for casters back then is prime example). Back then, we were the underdogs, the often mocked "lolformat" of raiding. We did it because it was challenging as hell (strict LK HM kills pre 4.0 = 3 total) and because we preferred the intimacy of 10M close-knit group. As well, 10M being far more easy to organize and run, it was easier on me as GM and Raid Leader.
As noted elsewhere here, I was pretty excited about the intended raiding size changes for Cataclysm; 10M and 25M sharing same loot and same lockout? Yes please. No more belittling of our efforts and achievements, no more needing to prove ourselves. As well, with the gear and the format being on par between the formats, bigger pool for recruiting players for roster (which was constant struggle in 10M, as well as to remain on various "strict" rankings). This coupled with guild experience and guild perks felt like really the good and proper move towards more FnF style of raiding and actually good step forward in the PvE direction.
With T11 normal cleared and Wyrmus heroic beating the dust, I think I couldn't be more wrong…
Personal update
At one point at the end of Wrath, I kinda decided that I do not want to be GM anymore, that I don't have the willpower to go on anymore. was disbanded and some people fled server, and two guilds were created on Shadowsong as it's successors. One of CP officers and the coming-back-to-game GM from before CP decided to roll on with new guild and I was offered a Raid Leader officer spot in the new order. Since I liked the way these two people work and we shared the general view on things, I was thrilled to accept and be part of something new. So came into existence. The idea behind is to provide "Adult friendly" highly focused raiding scheme as well as social hotspot to hangout and chill after work. Pretty much the same thing we did in a guild with many interesting personalities and progress of 11/12ICC-HC. Well there we were, recruiting pre-Cataclysm, trying to trial the people in and out of outgeared and outpatched content, prepping ourselves for what was supposed to be the Golden Era of small size raiding.
Please note that for the following intents and purposes I am using our guild as the reference in my posts. By that I mean the format – we keep non-alt raiding roster of 12 people and we pride ourselves to provide enough raiding for everyone on the roster without necessary sit-outs; we do not sport 17 people roster to rotate people in-and-out to stack classes, buffs or trivialize mechanics. We unfortunately don't have Resto druid or Lock/Mage or Rogue and didn't have for longer period of time since Cataclysm launched, yet we worked our way around that.
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The reality check was kinda harsh though. We immediately found it hard to recruit anyone – most 25M guilds split into smaller 10M teams and even those pushed off the raiding roster stayed in their old guilds to take advantage of guild perks and level as well as hoping to make the cut "later". Many people from "pro" 25M guild came and went on pretty much soon and I realized one thing as we progressed into content with the Wrath 25M raiders on board:
There were 2 possible shifts for 10M raiding for Cataclysm; it could either be balanced as it felt for the 25M overgeared raiders going 10M for fun and points, a faceroll lolcontent basically, or it could've been shifted on par with the tougher and challenging 10M strict raiding we already had experience with.
Having healed and progressed normal content from i346 to i359 gear-wise, I can say that the latter is definitely the truth. 10M raiding now is very close to what the 10M strict felt like in Wrath and those 25M raiders were actually kinda blown away by that. Imagine that, you have to work now for 10M gear. I laughed a little when a Rogue suggested healers should do Magmaw spiking because he is loosing dps time if he does it.
We talked about this in /o lately as we killed Nefarian and Halfus then on hard, that afterall it seems we know what we are doing. Yes, yes, praising myself sucks, but no one else is gonna do it. Let me elaborate though – you can see guilds splitting, quitting disbanding left and right (especially lately) and people hitting brick walls whining how hard content is as 10M (not saying that does not happen in 25M, just really don't follow the scene) whereas us in don't find it that much harder than it used to be. We just rangered on the same way and with the same goals and approach like in Wrath and here we are, standing strong and looking forward to hardmodes. Not saying there weren't any speed bumps along the way, misjudged recruits and other mishaps, just saying that even after all that shit dropping down and hitting the fan, we made it here.
The actual T11 content
I like it difficulty wise, except for few bosses I like the mechanics. There are some old bad habits that come from ICC times, some class balance habits that simply can't be helped (because fixing them means screwing more things up), but there as well are some good things on current raiding scene.
- Same as with Discipline priests in ICC, healer composition makes wonders. This was most obvious pre 4.0.6 whenHoly Paladins trivialized most fights to the extent of making a kill or wiping. They were not necessary, but the mana effectivity and sheer throughput of their healing was something to stare at at awe (especially playing resto shaman in bluish gear). Having Holy Paladin on our squad rocketed our progress a fair bit.
- Interrupting situation is dire. For example fights like Halfus or Maloriak pre-nerf as well as Nefarian are nightmare for 10M raiding guild like ours at this moment. For example, I have one dedicated interrupter at hand and pillars on Nefarian are mostly done on the mechanic of tank and healer hitting their interrupts and praying something will work. The upcoming fix in 4.1 however is godsend and a proof that Blizzard listens.
- Majority of theorycrafting is less valid. Most of theorycrafters around are in 25M guilds and adjust to their raid compositions and buffs and healer compositions. We don't have that luxury and we heal what we can, when we can. On the upside, it's far easier to manage assignments of 3 people than 6-7 to avoid any overhealing and mana-wasting. However, either I am doing it wrong, or plain simple gear guides for 25M raiding don't work all that well for me.
- Homogenization of gear – definitely a good thing. I can now plan and contrary to the doom and gloom point above use the theorycrafting breakdown of trinkets, enchants and whatnot made by 25M raiders, because nowadays I can get the same gear as them. Not only same item level (screw that to be honest) but the same type of loot.
- Loot quantity – I feel this as major setback for 10M raiding at the moment. As much as the gear is the same, bosses always drop the same. And with 2 items dropping per boss, it's getting old pretty fast. For example we haven't seen Shaman shoulder token off Cho'gall (4-5 kills me guess), not a single helmet from Halfus (upwards of 10 kills methinks, armory is down so can't check), Atramedes is quite stubborn with not dropping ranged weapon. The only caster weapon (beside 2 trash swords for Holy Paladins) is my mace from Cho'gall. Didn't see anything else. But hey, we keep sharding the same belts, bracers, robes every week. Is this the same for 25M raiders, or does your drop-table actually allow for faster gearing?
The state of art
Repeating once again – I am happy with the overall overhaul and difficulty of things as they are. The step up from LOLmode-impossible from wrath 10M to challenging content-overgearedlolcontent-challenging heroic content is nicely done and nicely follows the progression feel as it should, but…
Thinking about it, can't say my wishes/hopes for Cataclysm 10M raiding were fulfilled or that I am completely happy with the state of things. There definitely are things I'd done differently and few things that I think should be changed in order to make the whole raiding more appealing to the masses. But that's for another post, another time. For now, let's stop the excursion to the life of 10M guild here and not get into details, yet.
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NORMAN, Okla. -- Ask Sam Bradford about his big numbers or Oklahoma's potential to sit atop the college football rankings, and he'll tell you exactly what all that means to him.
"Absolutely nothing," Bradford said. "We've still got a long way to go before we even think about where we're ranked in the polls. Right now, they pretty much don't mean anything."
If this week proved anything, it certainly showed that Bradford's opinion is spot on. The second-ranked Sooners (4-0) were the only team in the top four that emerged unblemished, beating No. 24 TCU 35-10 Saturday night behind his career-best 411 yards passing and three long touchdown catches by Manuel Johnson.
With top-ranked Southern California, No. 3 Georgia and No. 4 Florida all losing, Oklahoma (4-0) made as strong a case as anyone to get back to No. 1 for the first time since it lost to Kansas State in the 2003 Big 12 championship game.
"It's a good thing, definitely a good thing, but we won't look at it," said cornerback Brian Jackson, who had his first interception of the season among the Sooners' four takeaways. "The rankings don't mean anything until the end of the season."
It didn't matter the Horned Frogs (4-1) felt they'd been called cheaters following their 2005 upset in Norman, or that they brought in the nation's top-ranked defense. Oklahoma aired it out behind Bradford and found the same success it had in winning its first three games by a 164-42 margin.
Bradford found Johnson for first-half scores of 76 and 55 yards on plays when his defender stumbled, and Johnson added another 63-yard TD in the third quarter on a screen pass to push the lead to 35-3.
By then, the Sooners' 21st straight home victory was as good as locked up. The streak, which started after TCU's upset, ties the second-longest in school history. Only a 25-game streak that ended in 1957 was longer.
"It's always a good thing to win," Sooners coach Bob Stoops said. "Believe me, it's not easy to do."
Bradford's passing total was a career best and the third-highest in school history, behind only a pair of performances by Josh Heupel the year before he was the 2000 Heisman Trophy runner-up. Johnson broke Mark Clayton's record with 206 receiving yards.
"When they bring receivers in here, they always want to label them the next Mark Clayton," Johnson said of the former Baltimore Ravens first-round draft pick. "I don't think there's anybody that's going to be the next Mark Clayton."
Oklahoma struggled to get a running game going, picking up only 25 yards on 36 carries against a TCU defense that was giving up only 30.5 yards rushing per game, the least in the nation.
Bradford made up for that by going 19-for-34 and throwing four touchdown passes to push his total for the season to 16, against only two interceptions.
His numbers have been even more impressive than last year, when he led the nation in passing efficiency, in Oklahoma's new no-huddle offense. Stoops called that scheme the reason the Sooners closed scrimmages this year, but TCU was left with the impression that Oklahoma thought they'd cheated by spying on practice prior to their 17-10 upset in the 2005 season opener.
The Frogs were never close to pulling off a repeat.
TCU, which had controlled the ball for an NCAA-best 37 minutes per game, got only one first down on its first four drives and fell behind 21-3. The only score came on Ross Evans' 32-yard field goal that followed Aaron Brown's 75-yard kickoff return.
By the end of the first quarter, Bradford had 202 yards passing -- the most by an Oklahoma quarterback in a first period. Johnson passed Clayton's record of 190 yards, set in 2003 against Texas, as he zipped downfield after catching the screen pass -- a perfect play-call against TCU's aggressive defense.
"You can't give up big plays and win ball games," TCU coach Gary Patterson said. "A lot of that was my fault. I tried to blitz it ... I was trying to get them into downs where we could make them punt, and they made big plays.
"The bottom line to it is when we quit doing it as much, we played better defense."
After that, the Sooners spent most of the time pounding the ball up the middle and trying to run out the clock.
It was a luxury USC, Florida and No. 9 Wisconsin didn't have. All three had been upset by the time the Sooners took the opening kickoff, and Georgia joined them with a loss to No. 8 Alabama.
That left a scramble for the top spot, and the Sooners capitalized.
They didn't seem to miss injured defensive tackle Demarcus Granger (left foot) and created three first-half takeaways -- including two fumbles recovered by Lendy Holmes -- against a TCU offense that had only one turnover through its first four games.
The Frogs also hurt themselves with 12 penalties, and backup quarterback Marcus Jackson threw another interception in the final minute after Andy Dalton had been taken off with an injury.
Dalton ended up with 212 yards on 16-for-39 passing. TCU was held to 102 yards rushing, less than half its 249-yard average, on 35 carries.
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Airdate: Thursday July 29th, 2010
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Task force to tackle homeless problem in Escondido
City officials worried that vagrancy in Grape Day Park will hurt downtown development
Concerned that crime and homelessness in Grape Day Park might stymie efforts to enliven downtown Escondido, city officials have created a task force that aims to solve the problem.
City Council members said last week that making downtown safer and more visually appealing is crucial to ongoing efforts to invigorate the area with upscale housing developments, new restaurants and outdoor gathering places.
But they said their plans, which also include spending about $10 million over the next few years upgrading sewer and water pipes in the area to allow high-rise buildings, could be jeopardized by the homeless problem.
"We can spend all this money on infrastructure, but if we don't deal with the vagrancy, we're just spinning our wheels," Councilwoman Marie Waldron said.
Councilman Ed Gallo called the task force "overdue" because crime in the 10-acre park has gotten steadily worse, noting that the problems have recently spilled onto the campus of the California Center for the Arts, Escondido and the Starbucks patio in the Regal Cinemas plaza.
Councilman Mike Morasco said it was particularly bad timing that the park started to get "out of control" right after this summer's opening of the Latitude 33 apartments brought nearly 300 new residents into the area.
But Morasco said the city needs more holistic solutions than solely removing the homeless.
"We can't just try to brush them from one area so they end up in another," he said.
City Manager Clay Phillips said the task force would seek the kind of comprehensive solutions Morasco has in mind. Phillips said city officials want to figure out why the homeless congregate there, and have social service agencies try to help many of them improve their lives.
"We want to get the right people involved to figure out why there's a promulgation there," Phillips said. "Great ideas come from many places, so hopefully we'll get some and we'll find a way to make downtown a place where people feel safe."
Members of the task force, which met for the first time last week, include police officers, city public works officials, leaders from nearby schools and representatives of attractions in the area, such as the Escondido History Center and the San Diego Children's Discovery Museum.
Task force member Cameron Curry, executive director of The Classical Academy charter school on nearby Woodward Avenue, said he's optimistic that the task force will help make the park safer.
"I love the fact that everyone is working together to make the park a great place for families," Curry said.
Police Capt. Bob Benton, chairman of the task force, said he hopes to eventually include social service agencies, such as Interfaith Community Services, and some local churches.
Benton said the churches might be worsening the problem by bringing food and clothing to the park, which encourages homeless people to congregate there. He said one option might be asking church leaders to bring people loitering in the park back to their churches for help.
Benton said such ideas are part of his long-term goals for the task force.
Waldron said she suspects many homeless people in the park are mentally ill, or have other problems that social service agencies could help them address.
"We want to make sure people are getting access to services," she said.
Benton said his short-term goals include reducing crime in the park, and he said officers began focusing there in early October.
Past police efforts have included aggressive enforcement of rules against sleeping on blankets in the park, scavenging for recyclables in trash cans and bringing a cart carrying personal possessions into the park.
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Give Wall Street a little credit - if there is a demand for a product, they will meet it. If there is no demand for a product, they will figure out how to create that demand. With investors back out of their bunkers and looking to put money to work, Wall Street and Main Street have been working overtime to meet that demand. While not all of these ideas are new per se, many are seeing a resurgence in investor interest, and new themes and sub-types are emerging to siphon off some of that demand. (To learn more, check out The Wall-Street Animal Farm: Getting To Know The Lingo.)
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The idea that gold is pretty popular these days is hardly new, but gold bugs are getting increasingly inventive. The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GDX) has lagged the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) of late, but the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (Nasdaq: GDXJ) has been hot.
Going a step further, would-be investors are apparently trying to get more of the actual metal in their hands. Demand for minted gold coins continues to run hot, with many mints forced to limit order sizes to see that no customer goes away entirely empty-handed. And now this - gold-dispensing ATMs are on their way to the U.S.
Details are still scant and sketchy, but these machines dispense gold bars (in sizes ranging from 1-28 grams (one ounce), with the machines updating the gold price every 10 minutes. There is no word on the mark-ups that go with this service, but it seems fair to assume that they will be high, as retail gold prices often incorporate generous margins for the seller.
No-Fee ETFs
While the no-fee ETF arms race between major brokerage houses like Fidelity and Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCHW) began a while ago, it shows no sign of letting up. Brokers are increasingly trying to one-up each other by offering a larger and larger number of ETFs to investors with no commissions. Details of the financial relationship between the brokers and ETF administrators are not generally discussed, but even if the administrators are not sharing fees, the brokerages can probably look at the foregone commissions as part of their marketing budget to attract more assets and customers.
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Emerging Economies
Investor interest in emerging markets has always operated a bit like a full sauna session, with cycles of hot and cold following one after the other. Now things are heating up again. Nearly $6 billion flowed into emerging market funds in the week of October 20 alone, and two all-time weekly records were set in October, according to EPFR Global. With more than $40 billion flowing in this year, it has been a banner year for investor interest in these fast-growing economies.
Along the same lines, numerous emerging market-oriented ETFs are near 52-week highs, including the China Small Cap Index (NYSE: HAO), the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (NYSE: EEM) and Vangaurd Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO).
Diamonds have not yet managed to steal the stage from gold, but investor interest is heating up nonetheless. Relatively few direct diamond plays are available in U.S. markets, but Harry Winston (NYSE: HWD) (a miner and retailer) is near a 52-week high, as is Mountain Province (NYSE: MDM). Although a lot of diamond mining is dominated by giants like Anglo American, De Beers (a private company) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO), intrepid investors can find ADRs, small Canadian miners and shares listed overseas with a bit of effort. Investors are bidding up high-end jewelry retailers like Tiffany (NYSE: TIF), and these are often the only diamond-buying options for many people.
Fixed Income
With rates as low as they have been in decades, it is no great surprise to see that bond and fixed-income ETFs are near their highs as well. Names ranging from the PowerShares Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF (NYSE: PCY) to the iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE: LQD) to the Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (NYSE: BND) are near the highs, and some people appear baffled that yields could be so low with the size of the deficits and debt being racked up the U.S. government.
What is interesting, though, is that there is relatively little evidence that the boom in bond interest is being led by retail investors. Instead, demand appears to be driven by pension funds and foreign investors - pension funds that need a fixed-income substitute for the mortgage bond market, and foreign investors who seemingly cannot find better uses for their trade surpluses.
The Bottom Line
Odds are good that if a sector is hot, bystanders have missed the easy (and safe) profits. That is not to say that there cannot be more money to be made trying to "top-tick" a secular bull market, but that is a difficult and dangerous game. If nothing else, investors should recognize that Wall Street works overtime figuring out new ways to make money off the ideas reported every morning in the news media. (To learn more, check out a few Easy Ways To Diversify Your Portfolio.)


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and Latin America and is multi-lingual.
Peter is a popular religious educator and is often called upon to work with and
motivate youth in his Church and community. He and his lovely wife Nancy are the
proud parents of 4 children ages 12 to 3.
Prior to that, Mr. McKee was with The Bombay Company, a home furnishing retailer,
where he served as Director of Planning and Budgeting for the $400 million corporation.
Mr. McKee began his career with Arthur Andersen and Company in 1989, focusing primarily
on the retail, distribution and manufacturing industries throughout his tenure.
His clients included Zale Corporation, the world's largest retailer of fine jewelry,
and Carlson Restaurants Worldwide, whose TGI Friday's concept included over 500
worldwide locations. Other clients included Elcor Corporation, a publicly traded
manufacturer of roofing materials under the Elk brand, and Glazer Wholesale Drug,
one of the largest wholesale alcoholic beverage distributors in the nation with
revenue in excess of $2 billion.
Chris earned his Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Mississippi in 1989.
He has been active in several professional organizations, including Dallas/Fort
Worth Retail Executives Association. He serves on the board for the Down Syndrome
Guild of Dallas and the finance committee of the Education is Freedom foundation.
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I started this out in a container in the greenhouse/duckhouse until it was sufficiently established to introduce some into the duck pond itself. It didn't think it would stand a chance if introduced directly to the pond due to the hungry little duckies that eat everything in reach of their bills. The container was filled with nutrient rich water from the duck pond and sat atop a shelf in the greenhouse where it received filtered afternoon sun.
I have now moved the azolla to the verandah as the local wild bird life have discovered the duckhouse and pond and tend to perch on the shelf where the azolla was sitting. Their fluttering occasionally dislodges a pot from the shelf so I wasn't taking any chances of losing the azolla. The greenhouse was also proving too dark, as being a tropical aquatic fern I had expect the plant to establish rather easily and quickly, which was not happening. Indeed, it seemed to be struggling instead.
I continue to top the container up with water from the pond and I am watching it closely awaiting new growth.
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A succinct translation of the Bible and Christ's salvation for us.
In memory and love of its author.
( Offered in the spirit of Gamaliel. Acts 5:34. s/C )
The Bible is a book consisting of the Old Testament and the New Testament. It reveals the word of God. It was compiled in the first instance by a people of faith, who believed in God, were "...accepted as righteous by God (...for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands all motives.)," ...and inspired with the spirit of holiness, recorded, preserved and communicated this treasure, for all people for all time. `It is the Book of books.' `Our good is its aim. The glory of God is its end.' Our understanding and acceptance of it enables us to live life beyond mere grasp and within due restraint. Our mastery of it is conditioned on its mastery of us. 'In making it known to others, use words if needed.' The Old Testament is proclaimed by the religions of Judaism through the Torah, Christianity through the New Testament, and Islam through the Koran.
`Read it to be wise, believe it to be saved and practice it to be holy.' Read it often, slowly, prayerfully, factually, allegorically, with confidence and in faith. God thus becomes known. "God is spirit...creator...love,...full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great kindness...God shows no partiality, but in every nation any one who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to God...God is the same Lord of all and richly blesses all who call to him...God has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted...God shows us to call no one common or unclean...to respect everyone, love our fellow believers, honor God, and respect authority...It is God's power to save all who believe." 'God never deceives, but man deceives himself...God walks with the simple, reveals Himself to the humble, gives understanding to little ones, discloses His secrets to pure minds, and conceals His grace from the curious and conceited.' "God's Kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of the righteousness, peace and joy which the Holy Spirit gives." 'Unto God all hearts are open, all desires known, and from Him no secrets are hid.'
It spans from the beginning of time into the future of time. `It contains the character, nature and will of God,' (who stood "...with a plumb line in His hand")`...the condition of humankind, the way of salvation, the judgment of [unrepentant ] sinners, the joy of believers' and the sorrow of unbelievers. It defines sin as that which separates humankind from God. `Sin produces all perverse acts:' "...immoral, filthy, and indecent actions; worship of idols and witchcraft. People become enemies and they fight; they become jealous, angry, and ambitious. They separate into parties and groups; they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these...All wrongdoing is sin." Original sin continued is the basis of 'illness, violence rooted in hatred, greed, hopelessness, poverty, decayed families, drug abuse, inadequate work ethics, and a lack of skills to cope with life.' "In our natural condition we lose all feeling of shame, give ourselves over to vice and indecent things without restraint, ...and are destined to suffer God's anger." "Incline your hearts to fear, obey and love God that it might go well with you and your children forever."
It is the book of holy writings to which we "...neither add nor subtract," and that we interpret as enlightened by its `values and truths.' 'When the words inspired humans wrote are read by people also enlightened by the Holy Spirit, the Bible's spiritual meaning is clear.' It becomes the word of God. `True power lies not in the letter of the text, but in the spirit that inspired it.' "All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching truth, rebuking error, correcting faults, and giving instruction for right living, so that the person who serves God may be fully qualified and equipped for every good work." 'It contains light to direct us, food to sustain us, comfort to cheer us,' history to inform us, and events to ponder. `Its words lead to the Word of God in the incarnate Jesus of Nazareth.' It professes one earthly father, Adam, one spiritual father, Abraham, one heavenly Father, God, and one Savior Jesus the Christ - 'the Anointed, the Messiah, the only Son of God ...begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father.' "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...He was in the beginning with God...God said, `Let us make man in our image.'" `Through Christ, God created the world; and through Him, God is redeeming it.' "All authority in heaven and earth is given to Him." By knowledge and free will we come to know and do good and evil. An awakened and convicted conscience and repentance are the beginning of redemption and salvation - forgiveness, hope, being conformed to Christ, eternal life......
`Christ is its grand subject.' It is fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ and continued by His sending the Holy Spirit to all who will receive it. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility and self control...There is no law against such as these." He charges us to repentance with the promise of redemption by His grace,...'to have our roots and foundation in love,'...to renounce "the [evil] powers of this world" and that which nurtures them...'to be in and for the world, but not of it, and to live by His power and values.' "Salvation is found through Him alone; in all the world, there is no one else whom God has given who can save us...God became flesh and lived for awhile among us...Immanuel - God with us...Christ is the visible [ presence ] of the invisible God"...'totally God and totally man'..."tempted in every way as we are, but sinned not...God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life...God desires the salvation of all men...For this reason he sent his Son as Savior"...'He became like us that we may become like him...God made himself one with our humanity.'..."He is the incarnation of the love of God...This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." 'Through Him, every spiritual blessing is ours.'
"By Him, we come to know and believe in God...In the past God spoke through the prophets, but now God has spoken through his Son...By Him we are put right with God; we become one of God's holy people and are set free...By Him our faith frees us from everything that the law of Moses cannot free...The law was our discipline until Christ came...God gave the law through Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." Christ knows no national boundary, nor exclusive gender or race. Moses led the exodus from human bondage; Christ leads the exodus from all bondage. Religious piety, individual morality, humanist justice, scientific truth, artistic beauty, social equality, philosophical inquiry, secular pragmatism, and concerns of body, mind and soul are subject to salvation in Christ 'There is no greater grace to assist the shaping of our souls than yielding to the Christ impulse within us...no proxies will do...you cannot carry a cross in company.'
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God...If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves...Evil hates the light...The law of the Spirit, which brings us life in union with Christ Jesus, has set us free from the law of sin and death...In order to set us free from evil, Christ gave himself for our sins...He carried our sins in His body to the cross...He died upon the cross...our sins are forgiven." Atonement completed! `A full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction, for the sins of the whole world.' Full because no greater love has one than to lay down one's life for another. Perfect because He was God incarnate. Sacrifice because He was man. Oblation because it was His free offering for our salvation. Satisfaction because all who believe in Him are forgiven of sin and have eternal life.
"Christ crucified - a stumbling block and foolishness to non-believers...but to those saved in Christ, it is the power and wisdom of God. He was raised for our justification...God has given us eternal life, and this life has its source in His Son...It is by God's will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all...God first loved and chose us - to be holy and without fault before him, through Christ." Through our free will we accept or reject being chosen. 'Choosing Christ is the way of salvation.' "His cross and victory are ours"
"No one comes to the Father but by me (Jesus Christ). I am the way and the truth and the life...I am resurrection...I am life...I am light...I am bread...I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth...I came that you might have life more abundantly...Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives...You cannot see the Kingdom of God unless you are born again - from water, and from the Holy Spirit...I will have mercy, not sacrifice...My house shall be called a house of prayer for all people...Not everyone who says to me `Lord, Lord' shall enter the Kingdom of God, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven...Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them...Many are called but few are chosen...Go to all peoples and make them my disciples...Love God, love your neighbor, love your enemy...Do not let your hearts be troubled and be not afraid...I and my Father are one...Follow me...I Am. The Sacrament of Holy Eucharist is ...for the remembrance of Me." (By it, `we celebrate the memorial of our redemption...we recall His death and resurrection.' By it, 'vices are cured, passions are restrained, temptations are lessened, grace is given in fuller measure, virtue is fostered, faith is confirmed, hope is strengthened, and love kindled and deepened.' A forgiven life in union with Christ is consummated in this Sacrament. "No more will God remember our sins and our iniquities.")
`In Jesus, we experience God. In God, we see Jesus'. His call for us is "...to accept Him,...to love and worship God in spirit and in truth...in humble fellowship,...to do what is just,...to be wise in what is good, but innocent in what is evil;" '...to fill our minds with thoughts that are good, true, noble, right, lovely and humble,...to work and not meddle,...to be humble, gentle, patient and understanding,...to look after widows and orphans in their distress,...to practice faith, hope and charity; fraternal love, relief and truth; temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, peace and fidelity... to do the will of others rather than our own,...to possess less rather than more,' "...to take the lower place - regarding ourselves as less than others," '...to displace secular strength with weakness in Christ - vengeance with forgiveness, hate with love, greed with giving,...to be reconciled to those offended,...to avoid pride and spiritualist mediums and practices,...to desire and pray always that God's will may be perfectly fulfilled in us;' and `...to love, to live, to be' ‑ to be all we can be in Christ: `bringing love to the unloved, freedom to the bound, wholeness to the distorted, peace to the disturbed,' hope to the discouraged, acceptance to all; `to accept our self when accepted, to forgive our self when forgiven, to love our self when loved;' to forgive and forget; to be free by love and truth expressed; to be thankful and to realize all fruits of the Spirit; to be "pure in heart," obedient to His new covenant; and "to be a good person, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, bringing others to the Lord." 'The only Christ another may ever know is the Christ they know in us.' "As we have done it to the least of these, we have done it to Him."
"It is by God's grace that we are saved through faith...We are justified by faith in Christ without works." `Faith in the Word separates those who are saved from those who are lost.' `Faith follows evidence and precedes understanding.' "Faith comes from God...Seek and it will be found." Claim it. "Its testing develops perseverance." Faith overcomes doubt, 'expands by obedience, unfolds in a moral life, acts through fraternal love, maintains itself through fidelity and ends in eternal life.' "You will be with Me in Paradise. " "Faith without works is dead...God created us for a life of good deeds...When we have done all that is commanded, we are still an unworthy servant; we have only done what was our duty...Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message comes through preaching Christ...If we deny Him, He also will deny us ...Denial of the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven."....'It is God's gift to those who obey him.'..."Salvation comes from faith in Christ, Wisdom from faith in and doing the will of God." "By faith we are made whole." By our choosing Him we are by election, adoption and grace chosen of God, through Jesus Christ, our Mentor, Redeemer, Savior, Lord. "In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." Amen.
("The members of the Council were amazed to see how bold Peter and John were and to learn that they were ordinary men of no education." Acts 4:13. "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and set aside the understanding of the scholars." 1Cor 1:19, Is 29:14. "Prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but man spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." 2 Peter 1:21. 'It is faith and a holy life that is required, not a lofty intellect or knowledge of the profound mysteries of God.' When logic is exhausted, believe and know. Ponder the Bible with prayer, faith and discernment for the revealed word of God. It is revealed. 'Holy Scripture contains all things necessary to salvation.' 'It is a chronicle written by our ancestors in faith as they walked through history in the presence of God.' "See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ." `Religion lies in the will, as does righteousness.' "Faith, prayer and healing are Bible based . ''Affirm "the priesthood of all believers." Pray for all laity and ordained `...that they may be faithful ministers of the word and sacraments,'...living and communicating 'our relationship with God through Christ.' "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few...Ascribe to the Lord the honor due His Name; bring offerings and come into His court.")
Build upon Christ, Certainty of theology, Commitment thereto, Communication thereof, Community therefrom.***
Religion supported by state is compromised. The state supported by religion is corrupt. A state not tempered by religion is foul.


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In this case, B&W or color?
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In this case, B&W or color?
My company specializes in processing old film. I have a question pertaining to the processing of long expired Kodak disc film which hopefully the answers I get here will help direct our approach.
We can process this film into a B&W negative with virtually a 100 percent success rate in salvaging a recognizable image.
We can process this film into a color negative with about an 85% success rate with about 20% actually having decent color. 15% of them the disc with this approach come out entirely blank.
Should you find an old undeveloped disc film with old pictures shot on it, in an either or situation which would you choose? We may end up offering a choice but its a bit of a logistical headache.
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