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Dr. Mark L. Bailey: Welcome to DTS Dialogue - Issues of God in Culture. I'm your host, Mark Bailey; I have the privilege of serving as president of Dallas Theological Seminary.
Today we want to interact on "key topics in the emerging church." We've already dialogued on a general topic of the emerging church in an earlier podcast. We want to take the opportunity today to dig in a little bit deeper.
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That raises the next question, which is this pendulum swing between orthodoxy and orthopraxy. Mark, it seems in the emerging church that that pendulum is coming away from orthodoxy and to a bigger emphasis on orthopraxy. But can you have one without the other?
There is no question that there have been those who have had orthodoxy without the orthopraxy, the question is can you have orthopraxy without orthodoxy, can you speak to that?
Dr. Mark Heinemann: Well, certainly some people would say, "Yes, you can have them separated." But the question is, does God separate them? And we could probably all of us think of different examples where Christ or the Apostle Paul or the Lord somehow makes it very clear, you know, all these things need to be integrated together. So Paul says, for example, "I admit my Jewish brethren have zeal, but it's without knowledge." John had a great concern, he says "You say you have faith, but where are your acts of faith?"
Jesus had a problem with Pharisees. They had the right acts, but they didn't have the faith. And so God... I think you're absolutely right; God, I think, is the one we need to look at, and Christ. What is their concern? And their concern always seems to be for the whole person, an integrated right belief, right action, right attitude, loving God with all of our hearts, soul, mind, and strength.
The Shema in Deuteronomy 6 emphasizing that. And so I understand that the emphasis on orthopraxy is another kind of a protest against a lot of the hypocrisy, a lot of the consumerism, a lot of the nominal Christianity, a lot of the compartmentalization of our lives, so that we can have our cake and eat it too.
But I think ultimately, big picture wise, we want all these things together, we want right belief, right action, we want right motives and attitudes as well.
Mark Bailey: In a new book that's edited by Robert Webber, called Listening to the Beliefs of the Emerging Churches, which I appreciated the title -- not the "emerging Church" but the "emerging Churches" -- with five different authors, Mark Driscoll, John Burke, Dan Kimball, Doug Paget, and Karen Ward.
In his summary Robert Webber argues that the emerging churches are trying to find a balance in reaction to traditional evangelicalism, that has theology but was weak in a applied ministry, and pragmatic evangelism that was pragmatic but weak in theology.
And that they are trying to strike a balance, because both of those are incomplete. And he sees a historic movement of the right doctrine, but didn't result in the ministry of compassions that ought to have happened.
And then there has been more of a consumer approach in an attempt to reach the seeking person or the one that's not seeking, how do we get them in the church. There has been incredible pragmatism with poor theology. And so I appreciated, at least, his perspective of trying to find a medium between those two.
The movie "Amazing Grace" is in the theaters right now, and in a biography written by John Piper, published by Crossway, William Wilberforce, who was fighting as a member of the British parliament in the 18th and 19th centuries to end slave trade and stamp out some of the social evils of his contemporary England.
And Wilberforce is quoted by Piper as saying, "The fatal habit of considering Christian moral as distinct from Christian doctrines insensibly gains strength. Thus the peculiar doctrines of Christianity went more and more out of sight. And as might naturally have been expected the moral system itself also began to wither and decay, being robbed of that which it have supplied it with life and nutriment."
And so orthopraxy without orthodoxy, and orthodoxy without orthopraxy, are the errors of the extreme, and I found that helpful.
Andy, orthopraxy stems from good spiritual formation. You and the Center of Christian Leadership obviously are greatly concerned about spiritual formation, but in what ways does spiritual formation look different in the emerging church, then maybe in the extremes that we've talked about?
Dr. Andrew Seidel: Well I think as a reactionary movement. The emerging church has looked at the existing church and said that basically our spiritual formation is discipleship and it's very programmatic, and they've said that you follow through a series of steps or something like that, and then you are a disciple.
And what they would say is that it's much more relational than that. That the question is really, what us God doing in the life of the person, and how do you connect with that, and how do you really understand what God is doing, and help people understand how God is using the experiences of their life to mold and develop them.
Scripture plays a significant role in that. There's no question about that, but it's also more interactive than the programmatic form.
And so what they are doing is asking the kind of questions...In fact, one of the things that was suggested by Reggie McNeil in one of his books, is that when you have a new members class, you don't bring them in and give them a packet of information about the church. You bring them and start doing life coaching with them and find out, where are you, and what does God do in your life, and would you like to see happen in the months and years ahead while you're part of this body. And so it's a very much more relational aspect.
It also goes to the spiritual disciplines, not that those were not a part of the existing church, but I think there is a greater emphasis on them, and the involvement of people in experiential elements of worship -- all of this oriented toward connecting more personally with God, not just with information, is what they would say. And I think one of the things that this does, particularly as it relates with the worship service, is it kind of restores some of the sense of majesty and glory of God into the relationship that we have with Him.
And it's a departure -- I remember in earlier years among our churches, evangelical churches, my church was one of them, and that is when we built a new building there was very little in the way of religious symbology in the building. There was a cross kind of up in the window in front, but that was it. We had some people come in and say, "Gosh, this is really a sterile environment." We'd have other people come in and say, "Oh isn't it wonderful that you're not spending money on your buildings."
I don't know which one was the right one, but what's being recovered here is they bring more of the symbology and things into the relationship with God, is a real sense of the majesty of God and connection with the supernatural that I think is very helpful as it is part of a growing and developing relationship where the Scripture is a critical part of it. And so it kind of fills out the process, I think.
Mark Bailey: That's great. I think that, well, when I was in seminary I went to seminary deficient in liberal arts because I had a medical background. So I had to take a course in western civilization at the junior college there, in Gresham, Oregon, there at Mount Hood Community College while I was going to the school.
And the teacher taught western civilization with a thread of church architecture. I never found out what his spiritual orientation was, but as he walked through western civilization, he showed the art and architecture of the church -- where it went to the great spires which reflected the majesty, and then thinking in those years, even initially the fellowship churches started looking more like houses because of the emphasis on fellowship and body life, as you say, rather than the stained glass. And there's been some balancing and rebalancing of that with bigger crosses and higher ceilings and different colored lights and things over the last number of years I've noticed, even among more evangelical churches.
But I thought it fascinating that the perception of God or the emphasis of the church was reflected in the architecture, not just the style of the services. Which relates to what you were just saying in terms of there's a desire to reconnect with the divine, with the spiritual. And the question becomes, how do we keep that from becoming just ritualistic? And I think that becomes the balance factor again, because we can return to the ritual without the relationship, and we can try to have the relationship and not have any expression of it even in ritual. And, again, the issue is balance of extremes.
Glenn: There's a place or two, Mark, where I think it's helpful to talk theologically and methodologically, that this rediscovery of historical practices of the church is a really good thing, it's a very positive thing among emerging churches and emerging conversations.
But sometimes I'd be concerned that there's the same kind of an approach that one sees in cultural analysis, and even in biblical and theological analysis, which I describe as kind of a "pick and choose", eclectic approach without really considering the implications and the contextualization of those practices in that cultural context. That sometimes the cultural practice is then removed out of that cultural context, put in this cultural context, as if somehow lighting candles, for example, would be...
Lighting candles means different things in different cultural contexts and in different places and I think what is desperately needed in this conversation is a systematic theological evaluation of how to do theology of culture, how to do historical theology and, obviously, biblical and exegetical theology, too. And there's a place where this conversation, and all theological conversations, need actually to be a conversation, a dialogue, among people with a variety of perspectives and expertise in the disciplines, so that we can actually learn and grow together towards that end.
And the tragedy is that what often happens in controversial matters is that there's an increasing polarity and a re-entrenchment rather than coming to the table and engaging in a conversation. I think those conversations, those dialogues, are good things, they're valuable, and ought to be a friend. And we don't necessarily walk away seeing everything exactly the same, but we agree on the essential things, and then practice in a variety of contexts what that looks like.
Mark Bailey: This is a more general question for all of you. When a movement is beginning, it often begins at the expense of previous movements or previous experiences, and in reaction to negative experiences. Some of these who write have come to the church out of backgrounds that would have been rejected by the church, and they have legitimate concerns that they didn't have a place, they weren't received, they could have been helped earlier, etc.
How do we keep from feeling attacked by this movement, and how do we engage in conversation with this movement without some of the more heat that light in the polemics and some of the apologetics of it? Obviously there are those in the movement that we would absolutely disagree with. We would think that their theology was weak, if not poor. There are some within the movement whose theology we probably share, but they've chosen to do a different style of ministry.
How do we stay in the conversation, maybe even not as those who would use the term "emerging" and profit from that conversation, and also bring some profit to the conversation, with grace and humility, Mark, like you mentioned? What are some ideas that those who listen to this could pick up on?
Mark Heinemann: Well, one of the things that hits me, and you mentioned this book Listening to the Voice of the Emerging Churches with these five representatives kind of along a spectrum. They all almost to a person made reference to the fact that what they really would have preferred was to talk to each other in person.
And so we've got this little problem that we've got a whole lot more information than we've got opportunity to actually interact with people as people. And so they become icons or images of something we imagine they are, which oftentimes they aren't. Maybe the answer is on the internet, where you can at least have the responding back and forth.
But something that I've struggled with, even in preparation for this conversation is wishing that I had more contact with someone in an emerging church in our area. There don't seem to be very many -- I tried to go to one over in Arlington and they had kind of fallen on hard times.
So communication's got to be a part of it. How to pull that off, that's tougher. We can't just load the faculty onto airplanes and fly them around to different emerging churches, that's a tough one.
Mark Bailey: We had some of our faculty attend some of those gatherings to hear it firsthand, and I think that it's helpful to bring those kinds of conversations back to us. Glenn?
Glenn: One of the reactions I read to the first conversation we had from someone within the emerging conversation was that he appreciated what we did, but he observed that basically what we had done was talk about what we had read, and I think, Mark, that you're right in pointing out that. I would also like to say, though, that he gave us a pass by saying that he would expect academics to deal with what has been published. But what has happened in the couple of years since then is that there has been just a proliferation of things that have been written. And I think there are two things I would want to say.
One is that it's a whole lot more helpful if you want to understand, if I want to understand what somebody believes, to read what that person wrote rather than read somebody's summary of a synthesis of and critique of. And it's been my experience in the Internet and email that a great asset here is that people are usually pretty responsive to a request to answer questions and to dialogue and get together. I think that's one of the things to do.
And then the second thing, and here I'd like to speak to people like us, those who are more mature and spiritual [laughs], no jokes there. [laughs] I do think that it's incumbent on those who see themselves, and appropriately so, as leaders, to learn how to listen, even to voices that make us uncomfortable and that pain us a bit.
I had a conversation recently with a student and he was observing how an artist to which he was listening...he said, "This guy's really angry. What makes him so angry?" I think in a way to understand what makes him so angry is to listen to what he says and to attempt to understand him. To quickly say that what he says is so offensive to me, I don't want to hear it, it cuts off the ability to understand, and if dialogue is to occur, that's why we have to listen to one another, and make sure we understand one another.
I want people who walk away from talking to me to understand what I say, not what they think that I said. And I want to do the same thing to others. If I summarize or reflect somebody's position, I want that person to say, "Yeah, that's what I believe."; whether or not we agree is a different issue.
And I think in the emerging conversation, I would like to be able to say that this is lessening and decreasing, but I don't think that's the case. What I think we see here is a defensive posture across the board on both sides, throughout the continuum, and a difficulty in engaging one another without immediately becoming judgmental.
Some of what I read and hear needs to be judged. Some of the infatuation with atheism and with heresy -- when someone writes a book called A Heretics Guide to Eternity for example and affirms that heresy is a good thing, we've got to say, "No." Heresy means something, orthodoxy means something. I do know that orthodoxy develops through conversation with heresy and heretics, but that doesn't mean that heresy is a good thing.
If we ought to have a theistic and an atheistic theology, as somebody's recently argued, then we basically have nothing. If it's good and bad, true and false, then it's neither. So there is a time to be critical, there is a time to say "yes" and "no." But that has to occur in the context of understanding, and sometimes, many times, it's hard to listen and to sort through things which make me uncomfortable and nervous.
Andy: I think coming off of that I would say that the basic way I'd describe it is a solid humility. The humility to talk and to listen and to engage, but there's a solidness about it, not a mushiness about it. In that regard, Mark, I appreciate you because Center for Christian Leadership had Brian McLaren here to speak to the people, and we've had Dan Kimball here to speak, and I think that is a very, very positive thing.
And I learned that while I was in seminary reading Charles Ryrie's book Dispensationalism Today and then another author came out with the book Amillennialism Today. And when I read it his description of dispensationalists, I would read it and I would think, "I don't believe that. They're not teaching me that at Dallas Seminary. Where did that come from?"
And it was like it wasn't reacting to what was happening here among dispensationalists, but it was kind of a caricature.
And I think to have the solidness to say, "Let's talk to the people who are really in this and have a dialogue with them, not just articles and books about them from others", and I think that's a very positive way of moving on. So I appreciate what you've done here at the seminary that's enabled us to do that.
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Dr. Mark Bailey: To have a conversation with someone doesn't mean we endorse everything.
Andy: Right.
Dr. Mark Bailey: And for them to talk to us doesn't mean they endorse us.
Andy: Right.
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A self-induced abortion is an abortion that a pregnant woman causes herself to have without direct medical aid. Although the term can include abortions induced through legal, over-the-counter medication, it also refers to efforts to terminate a pregnancy through more dangerous means. Such practices are illegal in most places - even where abortion itself is legal - and present a grave threat to the life of the woman. Self-induced abortions nevertheless are performed in places where circumstances (legal constraints, cost, concerns about secrecy) discourage the pregnant woman from seeking a safer procedure.
In the United StatesEdit
The practice of self-induced abortion by various means has long been recorded in the United States. Turn-of-the-century birth control advocate Margaret Sanger wrote in her autobiography of a 1912 incident in which she was summoned to treat a woman who had nearly died from such an attempt.[1]
A study concluded in 1968[2] determined that over 1.2 million illegal abortions were being performed every year in the United States, some proportion of which were performed at home by the woman. The study suggested that the number of women dying as a result of self-induced abortions exceeded those resulting from abortions performed by another person. Such figures are necessarily dubious, however, as the results of illegal procedures would generally not be reported to authorities or to researchers. A 1979 study noted that many women who required hospitalization following self-induced abortion attempts were admitted under the pretext of having had a spontaneous abortion.[3]
Although the decision in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), made abortion more readily available throughout the U.S., it remains a crime in most jurisdictions for a woman to attempt to perform such an activity on herself. For example, in May of 2005, Gabriela Flores - a Mexican immigrant living in South Carolina - was charged under such a statute, under which those convicted could receive up to two years in prison. She had brought about an abortion by ingesting misoprostol, an ulcer medication known to also cause abortions. Mississippi classifies self-induced abortions as deaths which affect the public interest, requiring that physicians report them to the local medical examiner. [4] By contrast, New Mexico's "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" exempts self-induced abortion from the criminal liability the act creates.[5]
There are a number of anecdotally recorded and disseminated methods of performing a self-induced abortion. These may include:
- physical exertion designed to bring about a miscarriage
- abdominal massage
- receiving blows to the abdominal area
- attempted removal of the fetus with a coat-hanger or similar device inserted into the uterus through the vagina
- attempted piercing of the fetus with a knitting needle or similar device inserted into the uterus through the vagina
- ingesting abortifacients, high quantities of vitamin C, or other substances believed to induce miscarriage
- douching with substances believed to induce miscarriage (beginning in the 1960s, many women used Coca Cola for this purpose, although its utility is at least dubious)
Many of the above named methods present significant dangers to the life or health of the woman. In particular, attempts to insert hazardous objects into the uterus can cause punctures leading to septicemia. Ingesting or douching with harmful substances can have poisonous results. Receiving blows to the abdomen, whether self inflicted or at the hands of another, can damage organs. Furthermore, the less dangerous methods - physical exertion, abdominal massage, and ingestion of relatively harmless substances thought to induce miscarriage - are less effective, and may result in the fetus developing birth defects. However, abdominal massage abortion is traditionally practised in Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia [6] [7].
The cheap prescription drug Misoprostol is often used as an abortifacient in self-induced abortion in Latin American countries where legal abortions are unavailable, and its use has also been observed in immigrant populations in New York.[8] Although abortion proponents deem this method to be safer than those using insertion of objects or chemicals into the uterus, they also note that failure to effect an abortion by this method can lead to the child being born with serious birth defects.[9]
Current medical procedures are significantly safer than traditional at-home methods. In 1979, Bernard Nathanson, MD, an "abortion expert and an obstetrician-gynecologist who once presided over the largest abortion clinic in the world," wrote in his book Aborting America[10]:
- "The practice of abortion was revolutionized at virtually the same moment that the laws were revolutionized, through the widespread introduction of suction curettage in 1970. ... Even without a suction machine, a simple combination of catheter and syringe can produce enough suction to carry out a safe early abortion. As for the self-induced abortion, by thrusting a coat hanger or other dangerous object into the womb, this will also be a thing of the past."
Political impactEdit
The possibility of self-induced abortion is an undercurrent within the larger abortion debate. Those who favor legal abortion are prone to argue that the prohibition of the procedure, or placement of burdens on its exercise, will lead pregnant women to return to the more hazardous self-induced abortions that occurred when abortion was illegal. Those who oppose abortion counter that societal conditions have changed since that time, and that women today would be unlikely to engage in such activities. Furthermore, they note that statutes banning abortion were laxly enforced, and that self-induced abortions would be deterred by severe penalties for women who perform them.
References Edit
- ^ Bose C., A comparative study of spontaneous and self-induced abortion cases in married women. J Indian Med Assoc. 1979 Aug; 73 (3-4): 56-9.
- ^ Bernard Nathanson, MD, Aborting America (Doubleday, 1979).
- ^ Margaret Sanger. An Autobiography. (New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1938).
- ^ Richard Schwarz, Septic Abortion (Philadelphia: JB Lippincott Co., 1968).
- ^ John Leland: "Abortion Might Outgrow Its Need for Roe v. Wade", The New York Times, 2 October 2005
- ^ Kathy Simmonds, Susan Yanow, Use of Misoprostol for Self-induced Abortion Around the World
External linksEdit
- Mexican Immigrant May Face Two Years in Prison for Self-Induced Abortion Under South Carolina Law
- Abortion's Silenced Legacy
- Incidence of Induced Abortion in Southern Ghana
- Profile of Induced Abortions in Women from an Urban Slum of Delhi
- Rescue America and Operation Rescue about Non-Violence - Addendum
- Induced Abortion in Latin America: Social, Cultural, and Technical Aspects
- History and Efficacy of Emergency Contraception: Beyond Coca-Cola
- Emergency Contraception: When Reason Yields to Passion
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text: Show Hide image Politics 3 January 2013 By candlelight, a nation confronts its dark heart It won't be so easy to change the deeply entrenched patriarchal mindset that lead to the rape of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi. Sign up for our weekly email * On the evening of 16 December, a 23-year-old woman set off for home with her fiancé after watching a film at a south Delhi cinema. They hailed a chartered bus, a private vehicle used to ferry schoolchildren during the day and which prowls the city streets by night in search of passengers. There were no other passengers on the bus. There were six men, all staff. The men assaulted, beat and raped the woman as the bus –which had large, tinted-glass windows so that no one could see in –was driven around the city. A rusty iron rod was forced into her. A part of her intestines was pulled out. (Her injuries were so severe that the whole of her intestines later had to be surgically removed. But the infection could not be contained. It spread to several of her vital organs.) The men then stripped the woman and her fiancé and threw them out of the bus. The woman, who has not been named to protect her identity, was a student of physiotherapy from a lower-middle-class family. Her father, a loader with a private airline at Delhi Airport, had sold his ancestral land to pay for her studies. She gave private tuition to help out. She lived with her parents and two younger brothers in a one-bedroomed flat on the edge of the city. As doctors fought to save the woman's life in a Delhi hospital, India erupted in a manner never seen before. People were overwhelmed by the horror of the incident, angry and ashamed that it could have happened. Waves of protests engulfed the country. In a country familiar with political rallies and speeches, these demonstrations drew a very different crowd: young men and women, mostly ordinary citizens, gathered in their thousands at various venues, among them the homes of the president of India and the chief minister of Delhi. As candlelit vigils and marches persisted through the days and nights, police arrested six suspects by 21 December. But that was barely enough to assuage the people's anger. It could have been any of us, they said. They wanted action. They wanted change. One of many demands was the death penalty for those convicted of rape. Silence As the horrific incident and its aftermath continued to dominate public discussion on television channels, in the newspapers and on social networks, the Congressled United Progressive Alliance government misread the public mood. Its initial silence was interpreted as indifference. It was not seen to be acting; it was not seen to be empathising with the young woman and her family; it was not seen to be reflecting the convulsed conscience of a nation. People's fury was exacerbated as barriers went up at certain protest sites, several underground train stations were closed and the government tried to put Delhi under lockdown. With her condition worsening, the woman was flown out of the country in a plane chartered by the government, which by now had begun to try to control the damage inflicted on its image. She was taken to a hospital in Singapore on 26 December. In the early hours of 29 December, she passed away. New Year's Eve celebrations were muted across the country. We were shamed and chastened, united in grief, and the notion of revelry was not something that figured in most people's minds. As 2012 slipped into 2013, the Congress proposed harsher laws against rape: a 30-year jail term, chemical castration, and setting up fast-track courts to try the accused and mete out justice within three months. There has been only one conviction from the 635 cases of rape reported in Delhi between January and November last year. That is not all. One of the accused in the bus gang rape is 17 years old. He is said to have been the most brutal of the young woman's torturers. There is talk of redefining the Juveniles Act, of treating young offenders as one would adults, depending on the severity of the crime. In the first week of the new year, the mood is still sombre, grief-stricken, impatient for change, angry and ashamed. Harsher laws are likely to come as soon as February to address the punitive aspect of the matter. But the slew of measures suggested to act as deterrents – stepping up police patrols; sensitising the force to deal with complaints of harassment from women; a more nuanced portrayal of women in popular cinema and advertising – may not be enough to make India's streets safe. Not all men want to be violent towards women or rape them. For those who do, it is a question of a deeply entrenched patriarchal mindset, upbringing, education and awareness. It won't be so easy to change those things. That is the heart of India's darkness. As the six accused await trial, an entire nation will continue to look deep into its soul. Soumya Bhattacharya is the editor of the Hindustan Times, Mumbai, and the author most recently of the fatherhood memoir "Dad's the Word" (Westland, Rs225) Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 07 January 2013 issue of the New Statesman, 2013: the year the cuts finally bite More


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Did you know?
You should eat a normal breakfast before running an ultra marathon – don't disturb your system.
The Loskop Ultra-Marathon in Mpumalanga province is consistently rated as one of the country's top five long-distance running races.
And that's not because of the wicked pasta party they hold in Middelburg the night before, or because most of the locals turn out to support the runners or even because it's so well organised. It's because of the hilly challenges – namely the Kranspoort Pass and Varaday's Hill stages – that tap you, that sap you and ultimately snap you if your preparations were anything but flawless.
These notorious hills are well spaced apart with easy running stretches that allow you to recover and temporarily rebuild your resources.
This 50-kilometre marathon in Mpumalanga begins in the town of Middelburg in mid-April each year, just before dawn. You run through the quiet streets and then head out to Loskop Dam, managed by Forever Resorts, the naming sponsor of the race.
The beacon you can see from far away is the Post Office Tower, which actually stands at the 22-kilometre mark. Once you enter the Loskop Dam area, it would help if you had studied the relevant wildlife books before taking on this Mpumalanga marathon. Watch out for the wild animals along the way.
Race preparations for the Loskop Ultra-Marathon include a series of long runs and, possibly, a half-marathon about a month before the event; a lot of hill running and a good idea of how much liquid you're going to need to take in throughout the race.
At the same time as the ultra-marathon, the Forever Resorts Wild Challenge, a half-marathon, also known as 'The Wild Thing', is run.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Middelburg Marathon Club
Tel: +27 (0)13 243 2683
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
How to get here
The Loskop Ultra-Marathon is held in Middelburg in the Mpumalanga province, a three-hour drive from Johannesburg, east on the N4 highway.
Best time to visit
The Loskop Ultra-Marathon is run during the mild autumn month of April.
Around the area
Middelburg is surrounded by very pleasant scenery and several nature reserves. It's also the gateway to the Lowveld region and only a few hours from the Kruger National Park.
What will it cost
The entry fee for the ultra-marathon is R130 (the half-marathon has a R80 fee).
Where to stay
You could stay at a resort near the dam, or opt for one of the many other choices – guesthouses, B&Bs, self-catering or camping.


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Flex tries to provide you with the most flexible way of using embedded fonts in your applications. If your application consists of just one SWF and you embed fonts in that SWF, everything should just work, but once there are multiple SWFs involved, while it should work most of the time, if it doesn't, you may need the following information to figure out why. With Flex 4 defaulting to using RSLs, your default configuration now involves multiple SWFs and many more of you are suddenly using multiple-SWF applications because each RSL counts as a SWF.
The principle rule is that there are two places that the Flash Player will look to find an embedded font to use to display text in a TextField or TextLine. It will look in the global table where fonts are registered via Font.registerFont, and it will look in the SWF whose code instantiated the TextField or TextLine.
Font.registerFont has a couple of limitations. One is that, if two SWFs try to register the same font, the last one in wins. That is normally ok until you start embedding font subsets (only certain characters in the font) which you might want to do when optimizing for SWF size, especially with large Asian fonts. If SWF A has only upper case characters and SWF B has only lower case characters, for example, then SWF A won't be able to display its characters if SWF B loads later and registers its font of lower case characters.
The second limitation is that there is no Font.unregisterFont call so registering a Font pins the SWF with the font in memory.
For those reasons, Flex never tries to call Font.registerFont. Instead it has an infrastructure that tries to make sure that all TextFields and TextLines are created by code in the SWF that contains the embedded font. We use the term "SWF context" to mean the SWF whose code created the TextField or TextLine. And because a TextField or TextLine can have only one SWF context, it means that all fonts displayed in a TextField or TextLine must be embedded in the same SWF. If you must mix, you will have to register the font and deal with the fact that the SWFs containing the fonts may never unload.
Making sure the right code instantiates TextField is a bit trickier than it first seems. You can't just put calls to "new TextField" or "TextBlock.createTextLine()" in a single factory class and link that class into every SWF. The ApplicationDomain rules may cause the class in a SWF to be ignored (see the modules presentation on the blog for details).
For example, suppose I create a TextLineFactory class and link it into SWF A and SWF B. If SWF A loads SWF B, when B calls TextLineFactory, it will be calling the one in SWF A and thus the TextLine will be created in a different SWF context than B expected and the embedded fonts won't show up. Or suppose the TextLineFactory class is in an RSL. Then it is not in SWF A or SWF B so those SWFs won't be able to display text using fonts embedded in those SWFs.
In order to solve this, Flex adds code to a uniquely named class in every SWF it generates for RSLs and Applications and Modules. That way there are no ApplicationDomain class collisions. Flex does that by adding that code to the main class of every SWF and names it after the SWF. For example, if you have A.SWF with mx:Application, Flex wraps the mx:Application with a SystemManager subclass called something like A_SystemManager and adds factory APIs to that subclass.
For TextField, Flex uses the ISystemManager.create() method. For TextLine, Flex uses the ISWFContext.callInContext API. If you are writing your own text-based components, it would be a good idea to subclass the Flex components so you can inherit the embedded font infrastructure that makes those calls and also figures out the next hard part: given an embedded font, which SWF do you reference to call these APIs? Again, because of ApplicationDomain rules, any class you write may be running in a different SWF context from the caller.
Flex tracks all fonts it embeds in SWFs and each SWF registers its embedded fonts in the EmbeddedFontRegistry on load. (Yes, we do it in a way that allows the SWF to unload). When a Flex text component is about to display text, it looks up the fontFamily, fontStyle and fontWeight and sees if there is an embedded font in the registry that matches, biasing the search to the current SWF so that colliding subsets will work. The EmbeddedFontRegistry returns the best SWF context for that font and the component uses that SWF context to create the TextField or TextLines. That means that even simple components like Label will destroy and create a new children if the font styles change since the style change could require the use of a different SWF context.
How can Flex always know which SWF is the current SWF given the ApplicationDomain rules? This is done in Flex by conditionally propagating the moduleFactory property to child components. All top-level components in a SWF have their moduleFactory set to the SWF's IModuleFactory and propagate it to children unless the child already has a moduleFactory set.
Note that even though SystemManager is an IModuleFactory, not all ISystemManagers are IModuleFactory like AIR's WindowedSystemManager so code should not assume that you can determine your SWF context from the systemManager property.
There are lots of implications from having this infrastructure. If you can't control the code that creates the TextLine or TextField because the instances are created via mx.core.IFactory (itemRenderers and Chart visuals), you may need to use ContextualClassFactory or code up something similar. It also means you can't cache a single TextField for measuring text; you may have to cache a TextField in each SWF context. It means that SystemManager.isFontEmbedded and Font.enumerateFonts may not know about every font that has been loaded and return inaccurate results.
And, it turns out that other font-related APIs must also be called in the correct SWF context. If you call ElementFormat.getFontMetrics(), you must also call that via ISWFContext if you are using embedded fonts in a multi-SWF configuration. Getting this wrong an result in really subtle bugs like having the position of strikethrough and underline being off by a pixel or two, or having baselinePosition be off by a pixel or two.
The Flex team has put a lot of work into making all of this transparent to developers, so hopefully you won't ever need to know all of this, but folks definitely get tripped up by this now and then. And now, if you do, I hope you can use the information in this post to solve your problem.
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>Off the Beaten Path>Forget gun control! This is for the '80s kids.
And maybe the parents that had to buy these.
What awesome memories!
There was a point in my life when I ran. Now, I just run.
We are always running for the thrill of it
Always pushing up the hill, searching for the thrill of it
can't remember the 80's.
Get off my porch
((Oldman)) not the 1880s, the disco 80s!
Running is stupid
I need to have a talk with my mother. I remember mainly gettng Shredded Wheat w/ honey for breakfast. My mornings were never that magical.
No Talent Drips
"Breakfast with Barbie", eh? Wink wink. Nudge nudge.
Dei Gratia
Feeling the growl again
And maybe the parents that had to buy these.
What awesome memories!
I don't remember those (perhaps because we didn't get the fancy schmancy cereal), but I do remember playing the game on Atari...in black-and-white.
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills
A Saucy Wench
I guess this makes me a child of the '70's officially I remember none of those
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
I loved Smurf Cereal. I can't believe I lived off of that sort of crap.
Prince of Fatness
+1. This is after my time and prior to my kids' time. I vaguely remember seeing a couple of those on the shelves in grocery stores but that's about it.
I pitty the fool who never had no Mr. T cereal.
In an infinite universe, the one thing sentient life cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion
These don't ring my bell either but I do remember when we were kids and would get toys from inside the box of cereal. This would drive my Mom nuts cause we didn't eat the cereal, we just wanted the toys.
Princess Cancer Pants
I have fuzzy memories of some of those...but I don't remember the Swedish Chef one at all...if we'd have seen that one I'm certain we'd have bought it.
And it's a damned good thing that Boo Berry is only available seasonally, nowadays...I would eat that daily if I could.
• Chemo
• Chemo-Radiation
• Surgery
• Return to kicking my own ass by 2018
She was not strong. She was valiant. Radiant. Brave and broken. The beauty she discovered in the aftermath was unparalleled to anything she had known before, because it had come at such a cost.
~ Unknown
Interval Junkie --Nobby
Same here. Though, i think the hay-day of cereals was over when they stopped giving out free stuff with N-number of Proofs of Purchase cut-outs. Instead they went to: N-Proofs of Purchase and $7.95 gets you some piece of crap.
The whole thrill as a kid was the economic side of getting your mom to buy stuff for the PoP cut-outs, so you could "buy" stuff without actually having any money of your own. Don't know how many boxes we'd have around the house with squares cut out of the bottom.
Cap'n Crunch is still a favorite: though it really wrecks the roof of your mouth.
2016 Goals: Lose the 10lbs I gained for not having goals
((Oldman)) not the 1880s, the disco 80s!
You mean the disco 70's?!
I only remember some of those cereals cuz my kids ate the stuff. I'll have to apologize to them for that.


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Star Trek (film)
2009 American science fiction film(Redirected from Star Trek (2009 film))
Star Trek (Paramount Pictures, 2009) is the eleventh feature film based on the popular science fiction television series, Star Trek: The Original Series. The film takes place in an alternate time line and explores the backstories of James T. Kirk and Spock, before they unite aboard the USS Enterprise to combat Nero, a Romulan from the future (thus creating the alternate timeline) who threatens the United Federation of Planets.
- Directed by J. J. Abrams. Screenplay by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.
Spock PrimeEdit
- [final lines] Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life-forms and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone... before.
- James T. Kirk was considered to be a great man. He went on to captain the USS Enterprise... but that was another life. A life I will deprive you of, just like I did your father!
- [Aboard the USS Kelvin, Robau requests George Kirk (James' father) to follow him to the shuttlebay for his final orders]
- Robau: If I don't report in 15 minutes, evacuate the crew.
- George Samuel Kirk: Sir, we can't just-
- Robau: There is no help for us out here. Use the auto-pilot, and get off this ship.
- Kirk: Aye, Captain.
- Robau: [grimly] You're Captain now, Mr. Kirk.
- [Leonard McCoy sits down next to James T. Kirk on a shuttle]
- McCoy: I may throw up on you.
- Kirk: I think these things are pretty safe.
- McCoy: Don't pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull, and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait till you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles. See if you're still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding! Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.
- Kirk: Well I hate to break this to you, but Starfleet operates in space.
- McCoy: Yeah, well, I got no where else to go. The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones.
- [Kirk is caught cheating on Spock's Kobayashi Maru test]
- Kirk: The test itself is a cheat, isn't it? I mean you program it to be unwinnable.
- Spock: Your argument precludes the possibility of a no-win scenario.
- Kirk: I don't believe in no-win scenarios.
- Spock: Then not only did you violate the rules, you also failed to understand the principal lesson.
- Kirk: Please, enlighten me.
- Spock: You of all people should know, Cadet Kirk. A captain cannot cheat death.
- Kirk: I of all people?
- Spock: Your father, Lieutenant George Kirk, assumed command of his vessel before being killed in action, did he not?
- Kirk: [defensively] I don't think you like the fact that I beat your test...
- Spock: Furthermore, you have failed to divine the purpose of the test.
- Kirk: [seething with anger] Enlighten me again.
- Spock: The purpose is to experience fear. Fear in the face of certain death. To accept that fear, and maintain control of oneself and one's crew. This is a quality expected in every Starfleet captain.
- Kirk: What's it like? Not to feel anger or heartbreak, or the need to stop at nothing to avenge the death of the woman who gave birth to you?
- Spock: Back away from me-
- Kirk: You feel nothing! It must not even compute for you! You never loved her! [Spock attacks Kirk in anger]
- Sarek: [Spock is choking Kirk] Spock!
- Spock: [breaks off; to McCoy] Doctor, I am no longer fit for duty. I hereby relinquish my command on the grounds that I have been emotionally compromised. Please note the time and date in the ship's log.
- Scotty: [after an awkward silence] I like this ship! You know, it's exciting!
- McCoy: Well congratulations, Jim, now we've got no captain and no goddamn first officer to replace him.
- Kirk: Yeah, we do. [Kirk sits in the Captain's chair]
- Sulu: Pike made him first officer.
- McCoy: You've gotta be kidding me!
- Kirk: Thanks for the support.
- Uhura: I sure hope you know what you're doing, Captain.
- Kirk: So do I. [Kirk opens a comm link] Attention, crew of the Enterprise, this is James Kirk. Mr. Spock has resigned commission and advanced me to acting Captain. I know you are all expecting to regroup with the fleet, but I'm ordering a pursuit course of the enemy ship to Earth. I want all departments at battle stations and ready in ten minutes. Either we're going down...or they are. Kirk out.
- Ayel: [choking Kirk] You can't even speak... [Kirk chokes out an unintelligible statement] What?
- Kirk: I got your gun. [shoots Ayel]
- [Kirk offers Nero assistance]
- Spock: Captain, what are you doing?
- Kirk: Spock, showing them compassion might go a long way to promoting peace between us and the Romulans. It's logic, I thought you'd like that.
- Spock: No, not really. Not this time.
- Nero: I would rather suffer the end of Romulus a thousand times. I would rather die in agony, than accept assistance from you!
- Kirk: You got it. Arm phasers, fire everything we've got.
- [Spock notices an elder Vulcan walking in the docking bay]
- Spock: Father...
- Spock Prime: [turns around to face him] I am not our father. There are so few Vulcans left. We cannot afford to ignore each other.
- Spock: [gets closer] Then why did you send Kirk aboard, when you alone could have explained the truth?
- Spock Prime: Because you needed each other. I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.
- Spock: How did you persuade him to keep your secret?
- Spock Prime: He inferred that universe-ending paradoxes would ensue should he break his promise...
- Spock: You lied?
- Spock Prime: Ah... I - I implied.
- Spock: A gamble.
- Spock Prime: An act of faith. One I hope that you will repeat in your future in Starfleet.
- Spock: In the face of extinction, it is only logical that I resign my Starfleet commission and help rebuild our race...
- Spock Prime: And yet, you can be in two places at once. I urge you to remain in Starfleet. I have already located a suitable planet in which to establish a Vulcan colony. Spock, in this case, do yourself a favor: Put aside logic. Do what feels right. [turns to leave] Since my customary farewell would appear oddly self-serving, I shall simply say... [shows Vulcan hand salute] Good luck.
- The Future Begins.
- Prepare For The Beginning.
- This is not your father's Star Trek.
External linksEdit
- Star Trek quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Star Trek at StarTrek.com
- Star Trek on Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)


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Hi, I'm Chuck Mason, and I'm a moron. This is in no way an admission on my part. I have done no genealogical research to discover a lineage of moron-like behavior hidden deep in my family roots. I've not subjected myself to complex psychological experiments, probing medical studies or extensive (and likely not covered under my existing medical plan) DNA sequencing. The only proof I have is shared below. I, as an assumed moron, do not ask for your sympathy or support, only your understanding and acceptance.
As I took a momentary break (from composing my latest sarcasm laced ode to quirkiness) to top off my inkwell and sharpen my quill, I adjusted my monocle, glanced over at the ancient Mayan perpetual calendar tacked above and to the right of the desk, and realized it's been nearly two years since the positive responses I received from an anger-fueled tirade to the editor forced my hand into accepting a freelance position as a moron (I mean columnist) with this fine publication.
Yep, these wacky observations and sometimes inept attempts at humor have graced the BCR pages for nearly 3.8 percent of my life now. My original intent was to bring a satirical edge to the proceedings; make a case for the ridiculousness of the overwrought, crisis filled, end-of-the-world tone of most major news broadcasts; perhaps cause a few people to smile along the way; and remain mostly unrecognized when in public. So far, so good (or so I thought).
The cards and letters have continued to pour in, giving me the positive reinforcement to continue doing this until I'm told otherwise. But there's always THAT ONE GUY (or several) who doesn't (or don't) get it. Some angry character who wouldn't be happy if it weren't for being so sad. After 20-some, well received published columns, Mr. Anonymous Comments decided it was time to chirp in with this quote: "The paper must be hard up to continue to let this moron write for it."
Now that's a trait I can admire in anyone: Be up front, speak your mind, and don't mince your words. But in one fell swoop, you took into question my character; the ability of my English teachers, my ancestors, the editorial policies and publishing ethics of this newspaper; and the influence of my role models.
I chuckled at first, thinking it was one of my "friends" in a lackluster and ineffective attempt at getting under my skin. As I reread it though, and considered the possibility of that statement representing someone's true feelings, I became curious and momentarily bothered. Was he correct? Could it be true? Was there substantial, unequivocal evidence to suggest that perhaps I was a moron?
I spent most of that following weekend in deep introspective thought: Cataloging and reexamining my life's works, revisiting those powerful moments that sets one's direction, re-evaluating all the life choices I have made. Certain sequences of events, taken individually, meant nothing ... but these random experiences, when compiled and studied with a critical eye, would seem to indicate, despite my best efforts to deny the truth, that perhaps I am a moron ... an insensitive twit, an ignoramus, an incomparable nimrod, a painfully unaware halfwit, a ninny, a dolt, a blockhead or babbling imbecile.
I have glanced into my soul's mirror of discovery, and through coming to terms with my own moronism, will become a better person. The truth has set me free. Thanks, Mr. Anonymous Comment Guy for the not so gentle nudge in pushing me over the cliff of self discovery. You're a real pal ...
Chuck Mason, a self-described opinionated wiseguy, resides in Princeton. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Book a flight to Columbus with Qatar Airways and experience a city that is brimming with excitement, diversity and culture. It boasts an internationally-acclaimed arts scene and you'll find events happening throughout the calendar, such as the Cleveland Arts Festival, the State Fair and the ever-popular Picnic with the Pops, where you can see some of the biggest names in music performing alongside the Columbus Symphony Orchestra.
However, Columbus is also a thriving metropolis, with its feet firmly planted in the 21st Century and plenty of shopping and attractions. Flights to Columbus can be caught from most international airports, taking you to a city with a futuristic skyline and old-fashioned values.
Columbus is a city of surprises, playing host to a number of attractions you possibly wouldn't expect from such a pristine, contemporary location. No trip to Columbus would be complete without visiting the historic German Village.
If you're expecting a kitsch, Bavarian atmosphere, think again; the German Village is a residential and commercial neighbourhood with brick sidewalks, urban gardens and architecture dating back to the 1800s. It also boasts some of the best coffee shops and diners in the region.
Another must-see for anyone travelling to Columbus is the Kelton House Museum and Garden, which details the lives of the city's inhabitants in the 19th Century. Set in a Victorian house with spectacular gardens, it's a fascinating and educational day out.
To find out about the famous explorer from which Columbus takes its name, head on down to the banks of the Scioto River, where you'll find a life-size replica of his ship, the Santa Maria. Children love this attraction, as they can muck in and learn how to live as a 15th Century sailor, with plenty of hands-on experiences.
Despite the constant buzz of business and commerce, Columbus is a great city in which to relax. There is a huge range of parks to wander through and walks to take, including the Ancestral way, a hillside walk lined with sculpted, organic forms and the extensive People Trails.
The People Trails are designed for those who want to take in the quiet side of the city and leads past three creeks, two rivers and a number of beautifully-kept parks and gardens.
If your children tire of seeing cultural exhibits, then take them to Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, where you'll see a spellbinding array of animals, such as Manatees, leopards and okapi. Next door, you'll find an enormous water park, where they can cool down and burn off any excess energy.
Alternatively, the Columbus Center of Sciences and Industry is an informative and engaging attraction, where you can learn everything from which oceans are the deepest to developments in space exploration.
If you're travelling to Columbus with the thought of trying new dishes, then you've come to the right place! Columbus is packed with restaurants and places to eat, offering cuisines from around the world. You'll find fast-food restaurants, diners and superb fine-dining establishments.
The downtown Arena District is where you'll find the most variety, but there's sure to be somewhere to sample great food, wherever you are. Steamed crabs are a popular dish and, if you have a sweet tooth, be sure to try a slice of cheesecake.
Shopping in Columbus can take a variety of forms. There are impressive malls, selling high-end goods and designer clothes, upmarket boutiques, outlet shops and, the star of any shopping trip to Columbus, the markets. North Market is definitely one of the best and sells virtually everything you could imagine.
From exotic spices and delicious sauces to basket-ware and cooking implements, the North Market is a feast for the senses. While you're there, be sure to sample some of the local produce on offer, such as fresh seafood and doorstop-sized sandwiches.
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Hybrid Bike
It follows that this general-purpose bicycle makes a pretty good starting point for any cycling beginner – and for us to describe how other bikes are different.
But first let us define the middle ground of bicycle design. The wheels are large, commonly 622 or occasionally 559 size - see Tyre Sizes for an explanation of those numbers - and shod with tyres of medium width (32 to 42mm) for easy and comfortable rolling on roads and decent tracks, without the added weight of suspension – although an increasing number of upmarket hybrids also have this feature.
Almost all configurations of pedal cycle (i.e. tandems, tricycles …) are made in this style and some of those, e.g. folding bikes, necessarily involve smaller wheels - often with suspension to provide a big-wheeled level of comfort.
Hybrids have derailleur gears – it is the most common kind of gearing after all – with three front chainrings to provide a wide range. Beginners and less energetic riders do not have the knack of pedalling rapidly, so top gear will be over 100in, whilst a bottom gear under 30in is what anyone can deal with to get up steep hills.
Some kind of flattish handlebar is the norm, positioned quite high and close to the saddle for a fairly upright body position, as befits that kind of rider, and with all the gear and brake controls at the rider's fingertips.
This jack-of-all-trades will do most things well enough, until and unless your cycling interests broaden to require another more specialised bicycle or two. It probably won't come with much other equipment beyond the bare bike, but the frame should nevertheless incorporate the usual threaded eyes for mudguards and a rear carrier. If you're lucky there may also be eyes on the fork for a front low-load carrier. Lighting will also have to be added.
If you are certain to want all or some of these 'accessories', it pays to look at trekking bikes or tourers where they are part of the original specification.


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5 Types Of Flowers + What They Say About Your Relationship
It's National Flower Week! See what it means if your guy brings you any of these gorgeous flowers.
This week is National Flower Week. This means one of two things: You have a reason to go out and buy yourself flowers just because, or you can pester your guy to get you flowers (it's a national holiday!). During this week only, you're allowed to have a bouquet in every room. Also: You can wear flowers in your hair or pin them to your clothes a la Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City Season 3. Or give yourself a floral iPhone background! The possibilities are endless.
If your man does end up buying you flowers, the flowers he chooses can say a lot about your relationship. Use this key to figure out what the flowers he brought home mean.
Read How to Avoid Emotionally Unavailable Men (And Find Mr. Right)
1. Carnations
Carnations are one of the cheapest flowers, but they come in a ton of colors. So either your guy knew your favorite color was hot pink and decided to get a flower in your favorite color (how sweet!) or he ran into the flower shop and grabbed the cheapest flower without putting any thought into it. If he did the latter, don't get too upset. Maybe he just needs a little coaching or a hint for next time!
2. Tulips
Tulips are my favorite flower. I think they're the perfect gift for any special moment in a relationship, and they're more unique than roses. They come in a variety of colors, and if your guy gets you a multi-colored tulip bouquet, he obviously put a lot of thought into the gift.
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To be chief executive of a multinational tech company, even one whose sales are declining, rarely merits the description "underdog". Yet this is how Henry Blodget, who heads Business Insider, refers to Marissa Mayer, in her first interview since becoming chief executive of Yahoo a year ago, which features in the all-important September issue of US Vogue. Read more
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Time Arithmetic
From ErlangCentral Wiki
You have a date and time and want to find the date and time of some period in the future or past.
By using the functions counting Gregorian days or seconds, subtracting, and adding seconds is all you need:
1> NowSecs = calendar:datetime_to_gregorian_seconds( 1> calendar:universal_time()). 63260897707 2> Twenty_Four_Hours_From_Now = 24 * 60 * 60. 86400 3> NewTimeSecs = NowSecs + Twenty_Four_Hours_From_Now.' 63260984107 4> New_Date_Time = calendar:gregorian_seconds_to_datetime 4> (NewTimeSecs). {{2004,8,29},{7,35,7}}
Important Note: If time values are given as local time, they must be converted to universal time. Otherwise, you will have a time skewed by the difference between the local time measurement and UTC.
Furthermore, if you use your understand of the problem at hand, you can easily add or subtract given time units directly (instead of handling all time in seconds). In this case, you can use any kind of time as input.
5> {{Year,Month,Day}, {Hour,Min,Sec}} = erlang:localtime(). {{2004,8,28},{0,44,53}} 6> NewDay = Day + 2. 30 7> calendar:valid_date({Year,Month,NewDay}). true 8> OtherNewDay = Day+15. 43 9> calendar:valid_date({Year,Month,OtherNewDay}). false


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From the Chair, Stefan Becker
Welcome to Geography, Geology, and Environmental Science at Lehman College of the City University of New York. This is an exciting time to study either of these subjects. Today it has become more important than ever before to learn about our changing planet. How will climate change affect us? What do we know about natural hazards such as hurricanes, thunderstorms, floods, and earthquakes? How can we contribute to conserve our environment and reduce its pollution? Where and why do we experience increases in economic inequalities between people, regions, and countries? The study of these and many other issues and concerns are fundamental within our programs.
There is no better place to study in the New York region than Lehman College if you are interested in these issues. Our faculty is highly motivated and excited and is looking forward to engaging you in a learning process that will make you see the world with different eyes. You will develop knowledge of the fields as well as analytical problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Degrees in Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences will prepare you for a broad range of careers in the private sector, government, and non-governmental organizations, as well as graduate study in the geosciences and allied disciplines.
Located on the third floor of Gillet Hall, the Department of Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences' classrooms and teaching laboratories offer students learning experiences that incorporate a variety of teaching technologies, including a state-of-the-art GISc computer laboratory.
The research of our faculty is internationally known and covers a diverse array of topics. There are many opportunities for you to become involved in our research. Please come and visit us and learn more about how you can become part of Geography, Geology, and Environmental Science community at Lehman College.
Stefan Becker
Professor and Chair
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Sustainability Club Talks Trash
February 19th, 2013 | SMWC
By Lisa Luper, Communications Intern
Emma Bird is passionate about trash. Or more accurately, as the president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods' Sustainability Club, she's passionate about seeing less of it.
Along with the other members of the club, Bird, a social science history concentration major from West Terre Haute, Ind., encourages SMWC students to adopt sustainable habits. This semester, the club is involved in several projects both on campus and in the community.
One of their newest projects is a competition to reduce the amount of trash students throw away. The week of February 19, 2013, club members will count the bags of trash in the Le Fer residence hall to see which floor makes the least garbage. The floor that reduces their trash by the biggest percent will win a prize. Most of the trash, according to Bird, is water bottles.
According to Treehugger.com, "The US consumes 1500 plastic water bottles every second. Out of the 50 billion bottles of water being bought each year, 80 percent end up in a landfill, even though recycling programs exist."
"It's crazy how many water bottles people throw away," Bird said. "Those are one of the easiest things to recycle. You don't even have to wash them out first."
The club is also promoting a grass-roots effort to go trayless in the dining hall. Bird explained that it helps students examine their attitudes about food.
"First, you get a tray, which you don't really need," Bird said. "You load it up with a couple of plates and maybe a bowl and fill them with food that you probably won't eat. Without the convenience of a tray, you have to make deliberate choices about what to eat."
She added that going trayless helps to improve students' health by eating less, to eliminate wasteful food choices, and to save water by not soiling trays.
Additionally, the club is focused on other ways to improve the environment. Students earn Eco-Bucks when demonstrating sustainable behavior around campus. They are rewarded for making choices such as to walking instead of driving around campus. The club plans to allow students to exchange their Eco-Bucks for prizes.
The club's concern for the environment is not limited to campus. For the past two years, the Sustainability Club has disposed of trash at the Wabashiki Fish and Wildlife preserve. The club's third annual cleanup day is scheduled for April 7, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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What does Chuck do on his day off? Eat ice cream, of course.
Cooking Channel's Frozen Treat Truck hits the west coast this week, with a couple surprise guests in tow. Chuck Hughes from Chuck's Day Off, Jeffrey Saad from United Tastes of America, and Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos from Extra Virgin will make special appearances to taste the local ice cream flavors, and meet you, the fans!
Here's the full schedule:
Thurs, Sep 1 — Seattle
11am-5pm at Westlake Center
Serving: Molly Moon's Ice Cream
Meet Chuck Hughes 1-3pm
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ASCO Annual Meeting
June 3, 2011
A new study shows that using high-dose methotrexate (multiple brand names) for children and young adults with a type of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) called high risk B-precursor ALL reduces the risk of recurrence when compared with the standard methotrexate regimen. Recurrence is when the ALL comes back after treatment.
Methotrexate is part of standard chemotherapy for children with ALL. It is usually given with asparaginase (Cristanaspase, Elspar, L-Asnase), a combination called the Capizzi regimen that starts with low doses of methotrexate that gradually increase over time. This regimen reduces the risk that the disease will come back in the bone marrow, but does not decrease recurrences in the central nervous system (CNS; the brain and spinal cord). To lower CNS recurrences, researchers compared high-dose methotrexate (doses 50 times higher than the starting dose used for the Capizzi regimen) with the standard Capizzi regimen for patients between the ages of one and 30 with newly-diagnosed ALL.
Five years after treatment, researchers found that 82% of the patients who received high-dose methotrexate had not had a recurrence, compared with 75% of patients who received the Capizzi regimen. The patients who received high-dose methotrexate also had fewer bone marrow recurrences and experienced fewer fevers caused by a low number of white blood cells (a common side effect of chemotherapy).
What this means for patients
"Pediatric ALL was once a deadly form of leukemia, and now it's one of the most curable. With these results, we now have an approach that will raise cure rates even higher," said lead author Eric C. Larsen, MD, Director of the Maine Children's Cancer Program and the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center in Portland. "Based on the findings from this study, all current and upcoming treatment plans for children newly diagnosed with this type of ALL will use this regimen."
Questions to ask your child's doctor
- What type of leukemia does my child have?
- What are the treatment options?
- Do you recommend high-dose methotrexate?
- What are the short-term and long-term side effects of treatment? How can they be managed?
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Topic: Doctors at Sloan Kettering
Hello All,
I am curious if CC is such a rare cancer then why is it that at Sloan there are many doctors mentioned in this forum? My mom is under the care of Dr. Abou Alfa which I have never seen mentioned on this forum? We are happy with him that is not my issue, it just struck me odd that's all....any thoughts??


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One Cocktail Combines Two Holidays: The Mint Julep Margarita!
The Cooking Channel has come up with an easy to make and tasty beverage.
-PJ Gach
This weekend is Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby. Talk about party, party, party!
Now there's no need to decide on which you'll celebrate, 'cause this one drink will work for any party. The drink was created by Cooking Channel's Roberto Ferdman.
Read 6 Easy, Delicious Cocktails for Cinco de Mayo!
The Mint Julep Margarita
2 limes, each cut into 16 pieces
2 teaspoons superfine sugar
10 fresh mint leaves
2 ounces bourbon
1 ounce orange liqueur
1/4 cup seltzer
Place the limes in a cocktail shaker. Sprinkle with the sugar and add the mint leaves. Muddle well, making sure the juice is really extracted from the limes and the sugar dissolves. Add the bourbon and orange liqueur. Add a couple of ice cubes, cover and shake well. Strain. Can be served over ice or straight. Top with seltzer.
PJ Gach is Senior Editor: Style + Beauty at BettyConfidential.


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Health groups and advocates today called on the Legislature to increase anti-tobacco funding and reject the governor's program cuts to help decrease the number of smoking-related cancer deaths in the state.
Almost 10,000 people died in 2009 from cancers related to smoking in New York, according to a report from the American Cancer Society. That accounted for more than one in four cancer deaths statewide — out of a total of 34,916 that year, the report said.
"This report documents for the first time the amount of cancer deaths in New York that are caused by smoking," said Blair Horner, vice president for advocacy at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. "It's not just lung cancer, there is a listing of about 10 various cancers in the state."
The total number of cancer deaths from smoking were 9,610 in 2009. Lung and bronchus cancer had the highest number of smoking-related deaths at 7,115, the report said.
Other cancers that were smoking related include esophageal, pancreatic and urinary bladder cancer, with a total of about 1,400 deaths in the state. A small number of deaths from oral cavity, larynx, kidney and stomach cancers were also tobacco-related, the group said.
The American Cancer Society said the funding for the state's Tobacco Control Program has been cut from $85 million in 2006 and 2007 to about $41 million in 2012. The program helps smokers to quit and funds smoking cessation campaigns.
"A shrinking percentage of the money that the state brings in from tobacco taxes and other revenues is being devoted toward tobacco control programs," Horner said. "The program that helps smokers to quit and not have to pay those taxes has been cut in half, that seems fundamentally unfair."
In the governor's 2013-14 proposed budget, the funding for public health programs in Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis prevention and tobacco use prevention are included together. Horner said the three prevention programs are unrelated and should not be connected together in the budget. He said it looks more like a cut that is masked as a reform.
"Governor Cuomo's budget appears to put New York's tobacco control efforts in peril," Horner said. "This report underscores our call for the state to bolster – not cut – its support for tobacco control."
The American Heart Association wants state government to guarantee that the funds generated by the tobacco tax, which is the highest in the nation, is used to fund the programs that help curb smoking and increase public health. New York has a $4.35 per-pack tax on cigarettes.
"We have grave concerns with the governor's proposal to consolidate these funds," said Julianne Hart, government relations director for the Heart Association. "Consolidation will ultimately mean a cut to this life-saving program."
Hart said the Tobacco Control Program was created in 2000 and since then the smoking rate among young adults has declined from about 27 percent to 12.6 percent.
There was no immediate comment from the governor's budget office.


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1 Game Pass Shelter, Kamberg, Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal
This site forms part of the Kamberg San Rock Art Trail in the scenic Drakensberg mountain range. The trail includes an informative Interpretive Centre. more
2 Didima Gorge and Rock Art Interpretation Centre, Cathedral Peak, Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal
Impressive shelters here reveal varied rock art styles. The interpretation centre is dedicated to San art, particularly from this region. more
3 Main Caves, Giant's Castle, Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal
The caves contain one of the best-preserved San rock art sites, and have been converted into a museum. more
4 Bushmans Kloof, Pakhuis Pass, Clanwilliam, Western Cape
Situated in a privately-owned reserve, these 130 sites depict shamanic figures and dancing processions. more
5 Warmhoek Trail, Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project, Clanwilliam, Western Cape
Community guides trained by archaeologists from the University of Cape Town, lead tours to these rock art sites. more
6 Gifberg, Van Rhynsdorp, Western Cape
Several hiking trails lead to some exceptionally well-preserved paintings. more
7 Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre, Kimberley, Northern Cape
Some 400 engravings are spread over a small sacred hill on land owned by the !Xun and Khwe San people. more
8 Wonderwerk, Kuruman, Northern Cape
This cave has long record of human history in excess of 800 000 years. more
9 Tandjesberg, Eastern Free State
Situated on the farm Tripolitania between Ladybrand and Clocolan, the site has over 530 well-preserved paintings of eland, medicine dances, rain-animals and apocalyptic figures.
10 Sevilla Trail, Pakhuis Pass, Clanwilliam, Western Cape
Ten sites located on an easy 4km walking trail. more


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In many ways, Abbott Laboratories' decision to split its pharma and medical device segments makes good sense, says Venkat Rajan, industry manager, medical devices at Frost & Sullivan. While there is some overlap between the firm's pharma and medical device divisions, the business models for the two divisions are vastly different. Rajan pointed to sizable differences in R&D, testing, product lifecycles, commercialization, and intellectual property. The regulatory paths of pharmaceutical products and medical devices are also very dissimilar, he adds.
"I don't think you'll see a lot of wholesale changes at the two divisions."
He again stressed that the main advantage of the decision was to manage the device segment differently than the pharmaceutical segment. The main downside of the split is that it might prevent the firm from having enough capital to make large acquisitions. He points to Johnson and Johnson as a counterpoint, which, thanks to its large cash supply, can afford big purchases like Synthes. In then end, though, the inability to make large acquisitions is something of a minor disadvantage when taken in the broader context of the move.
He summarized by saying "I don't think you'll see a lot of wholesale changes at the two divisions. There probably won't be any fundamental huge change in the next three to five years."


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CMS Continuing Education Committee
furthers educational efforts in the area of collection management and development librarianship, ranging from library school instruction and practices to all types of continuing education; encourages and coordinates programs, preconferences and institutes; identifies needs and makes recommendations for the content of such educational opportunities; addresses issues related to the education and recruitment of collection management and development librarians; establishes liaisons, as appropriate, between the committee and other groups having similar interests.
Betty Landesman (Chair, July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015)
Mr. Chad E. Buckley (Member, July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2016)
Tara Tobin Cataldo (Member, July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2016)
Janet A. Hulm (Member, July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2015)
Cara Ann List (Member, July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2015)
Erika Ripley (Member, July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2016)
Edward F. Lener (Virtual Member, July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2016)
Ms. Tandra Frazier (Intern, July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015)
Julie Reese (Staff Liaison, July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2018)
Displaying active committee roster as of 07/01/2014. Last retrieved on 08/23/2017. Members can log in to view full contact information for committee members.
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The Continuing Education Committee consists of nine members appointed by the CMS Chair Elect. Members serve two-year terms and are led by the chair of the committee.
Established as the Continuing Education subcommittee of Resources Section's Collection Management and Development Committee. In 1991, CMDS established the Continuing Education Committee and Education for Collection Development Committee, which merged in 1997 to form the Education Committee. With the 2010 reorganization of CMDS to CMS, the committee was renamed Continuing Education Committee.
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ALCTS values committed and active committee members. Qualified members are welcome to volunteer to serve on the CMS Continuing Education Committee. Members should be enthusiastic about continuing education and willing to share and act on great ideas for new CE content.


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10 Haute Hats to Wear Now
Heads up! Here are a few of the cutest hats we've seen yet.
-Diana Denza
You've scoured the racks for the perfect winter coat. And after multiple trips to department stores and countless try-ons, you finally found 'The One.' But don't declare outerwear victory just yet! All that time, effort, and cash will be wasted if you head out the door donning a drab hat. While a cute pea coat may be the first item gal pals notice on you, your entire look can be placed in the fashion folly category if you haven't changed your headgear in five years.
Luckily, there are tons of stylish hats out there to take your outerwear to the next level. Here are 10 we're craving right now!
1. Leatherette braid wool hat ($18.80, forever21.com). We're smitten with this hat's floppy brim and braided band. And we have a feeling that it's just the beginning of a cozy winter romance.
2. Maknes felt fedora ($168, freepeople.com). Give every ensemble an added dose of class and color with a chic fedora.
3. Diesel 1-Cassie felt hat ($78, revolveclothing.com). This little felt hat means business! Pair it with your favorite pea coat as you head to the office.
4. Ana Konder Exclusive for Asos Snood ($48, 34, us.asos.com). The faux fur caught our attention, but the ultra-stylish color blocking placed this elegant snood on our must-have list.
5. Chunky jewels knit beret ($18, betseyjohnson.com).This beautiful beret has just enough bling to make your winter getup pop –without looking ridiculous!
6. Ecote space dyed slouchy beanie ($24, urbanoutfitters.com). Slouchy beanies don't have to be sloppy! Make a bold statement in complete comfort with this cool creation.
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7. Genie by Eugenia Kim Dakota trapper hat ($49.50, shopbop.com). Cold ears, meet your soul mate! This hat's wool ear flaps will offer needed protection and perfect your cold weather look.
8. Fair Isle Heidi hat ($39.99, juicycouture.com). Here's an equation every fashionista will enjoy. What do you get when you combine bold neon hues with classic Fair Isle patterns? One fiery outerwear addition!
9. Contrast bow beret ($20, topshop.com). Here's a minty cool beret that can brighten any chilly day. Plus, its bow accent will keep you looking feminine and flirty even under all those layers!
10. Lauren by Ralph Lauren newsboy knit cap ($27.99, macys.com). Listen up, 'cause we've got the scoop. If you're in need of the perfect newsboy cap, look no further than this feather-soft knit hat. Now go top headlines!
Diana Denza is a regular contributor to BettyConfidential.


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SEVERN Trent Water has apologised for last night's water supply problems and are saying all Bromsgrove customers should be seeing a return to normal service.
Overnight and this morning, (March 19), some residents lost their supply, while others suffered with poor pressure out of their taps.
The problems were caused by a burst water pipe in Catshill yesterday evening, which led to a number of householders across Bromsgrove, including Valencia Road, Millfield Road, Stratford Road, Royal Worcester Crescent and Chapel Walk, being affected.
A temporary solution couldn't cope with the high demand for water during peak times, resulting in the system struggling to keep water supplies on.
Instead, water was moved around the network of pipes and tankers full of water were brought into the areas affected.
A Severn Trent Water spokesman said: "We're really sorry for the loss of water supplies or poor pressure our customers in the Bromsgrove areas may have had.
"We understand how difficult it is when you don't have water, especially in the morning when trying to get ready for school and work.
"We're pleased to say that all customers should now have their water supply back on.
"When the water supply is first restored there may be some air trapped in the system which may result in lower pressure or intermittent supply - please allow up to an hour for the system to settle down.
"We still need to repair the pipe that burst and we have teams on site working to fix the pipe now.
"This is a difficult location and it has taken us a little while longer than we'd like to actually get at the pipe, due to the amount of water escaping, but we'd like to reassure everyone that we are working as quickly as possible."


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Finny's Funny Baby Gear
Don't you want to have monkey ears? Or swaddle your munchkin like a little bug, antenna and all? And did I mention the giraffe hat? Finny's Funny Fleece, an Etsy seller, has playful hats and swaddlers in addition to a bunch of goofy monkeys. The cuteness factor is out of control.