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"Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God, (which He promised afore by His prophets in the Holy Scriptures.)"
Moses having written five books, has nowhere put his own name to them, neither have they who after him put together the history of events after him, no nor yet has Matthew, nor John, nor Mark, nor Luke; but the blessed Paul everywhere in his Epistles sets 1189 his own name. Now why was this? Because they were writing to people, who were present, and it had been superfluous to show themselves when they were present. But this man sent his writings from afar and in the form of a letter, for which cause also the addition of the name was necessary. But if in the Epistle to the Hebrews he does not do the same, this too is after his own wise judgment. 1190 For since they felt prejudiced against him, lest on hearing the name at the outstart, they should stop up all admission to his discourse, he subtly won their attention by concealing the name. But if some Prophets and Solomon have put their names, this I leave as a subject for you to look further into hereafter, why some of them wished to put it so, and some not. For you are not to learn everything from me, but to take pains yourselves also and enquire further, lest ye become more dull-witted.
"Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ." Why did God change his name, and call him Paul who was Saul? It was, that he might not even in this respect come short of the Apostles, but that that preëminence which the chief of the Disciples had, he might also acquire (Mark iii. 16); and have whereon to ground a closer union with them. And he calls himself, the servant of Christ, yet not merely this; 1191 for there be many sorts of servitude. One owing to the Creation, according to which it says, "for all are Thy servants" (Ps. cxix. 91); and according to which it says, "Nebuchadnezzar, My servant" (Jer. xxv. 9), for the work is the servant of Him which made it. Another kind is that from the faith, of which it saith, "But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from a pure heart that form of doctrine which was delivered unto you: being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." (Rom. 6:17, 18.) Another is that from civil subjection (πολιτείας), after which it saith, "Moses my servant is dead" (Jos. i. 2); and indeed all the Jews were servants, but Moses in a special way as shining most brightly in the community. Since then, in all the forms of the marvellous servitude, Paul was a servant, this he puts in the room of the greatest title of dignity, saying, "a servant of Jesus Christ." And the Names appertaining to the dispensation 1192 he sets forth, going on upwards from the lowest. For with the Name Jesus, did the Angel come from Heaven when He was conceived of the Virgin, and Christ He is called from being anointed, which also itself belonged to the flesh. And with what oil, it may be asked, was He anointed? It was not with oil that He was anointed, but with the Spirit. And Scripture has instances of calling such "Christs": inasmuch as the Spirit is the chief point in the unction, and that for which the oil is used. And where does it call those "Christs" who are not anointed with oil? "Touch not," it says, "Mine anointed, and do My prophets no harm" (Ps. cv. 15), but at that time the institution of anointing with oil did not yet even exist.
"Called an Apostle." He styles himself "called" in all his Epistles, so showing his own candor (εὐγνωμοσύνην), and that it was not of his own seeking that he found, but that when called he came near and obeyed. And the faithful, he styles, "called to be saints," 1193 but while they had been called so far as to be believers, he had besides a different thing committed to his hands, namely, the Apostleship, a thing full of countless blessings, and at once greater than and comprehensive of, all the gifts.
And what more need one say of it, than that whatsoever Christ was doing when present, this he committed to their hands when He departed. Which also Paul cries aloud, speaking thereof and magnifying the dignity of the Apostles office; "We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech by us;" i.e. in Christs stead. "Separated to the Gospel of God." (2 Cor. v. 20.) For as in a house, each one is set apart for divers works; thus also in the Church, there be divers distributions of ministrations. And herein he seems to me to hint, that he was not appointed by lot only, but that of old and from the first he was ordained to this office; which also Jeremy saith, that God spake concerning himself, "Before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." (Jer. i. 5.) For in that he was writing to a vainglorious city, and one every way puffed up, he therefore uses every mode of showing that his election was of God. For he Himself called him, and Himself separated him. And he does this, that he may make the Epistle deserve credit, and meet an easy reception. "To the Gospel of God." Not Matthew then alone is an Evangelist, nor Mark, as neither was this man alone an Apostle, but they also; even if he be said prëeminently to be this, and they that. And he calleth it the Gospel, not for those good things only which have been brought to pass, but also for those which are to come. And how comes he to say, that the Gospel "of God" is preached by himself? for he says, "separated to the Gospel of God"—for the Father was manifest, even before the Gospels. Yet even if He were manifest, it was to the Jews only, and not even to all of these as were fitting. For neither did they know Him to be a Father, and many things did they conceive unworthily of Him. Wherefore also Christ saith, "The true worshippers" shall come, and that "the Father seeketh such to worship Him." (John iv. 23.) But it was afterwards that He Himself with the Son was unveiled to the whole world, which Christ also spake of beforehand, and said, "that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou has sent." (John xvii. 3.) But he calls it the "Gospel" of God, to cheer the hearer at the outstart. For he came not with tidings to make the countenance sad, as did the prophets with their accusations, and charges, and reproofs, but with glad tidings, even the "Gospel of God;" countless treasures of abiding and unchangeable blessings.
Rom. 1.2. "Which He promised afore by His Prophets in the Holy Scriptures."
For the Lord, saith he, "shall give the word to them that proclaim glad tidings with great power" (Ps. lxviii. 12, Sept.); and again, "How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace." (Is. lii. 7; Rom. x. 15.) See here both the name of the Gospel expressly and the temper of it, laid down in the Old Testament. For, we do not proclaim it by words only, he means, but also by acts done; since neither was it human, but both divine and unspeakable, and transcending all nature. Now since they have laid against it the charge of novelty also, He shows it to be older than the Greeks, and described aforetime in the Prophets. And if He gave it not from the beginning because of those that were unwilling to receive it, still, they that were willing did hear it. "Your father Abraham," He says, "rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it, and was glad." (John viii. 56.) How then comes He to say, "Many prophets desired to see the things which ye see, and have not seen them?" (Matt. xiii. 17.) He means not so, as ye see and hear, the Flesh itself, and the very miracles before your eyes. But let me beg you to look and see what a very long time ago these things were foretold. For when God is about to do openly some great things, He announces them of a long time before, to practise mens hearing for the reception of them when they come.
"In the Holy Scriptures." Because the Prophets not only spake, but also writ what they spake; nor did they write only, but also shadowed them forth by actions, as Abraham when he led up Isaac, and Moses when he lifted up the Serpent, and when he spread out his hands 1194 against Amalek, and when he offered the Paschal Lamb.
Rom. 1.3. "Concerning His Son which was made of the seed of David, according to the flesh."
What dost, thou, O Paul, that after lifting up our souls so, and elevating them, and causing great and unutterable things to pass in show before them, and speaking of the Gospel, and that too the Gospel of God, and bringing in the chorus of the Prophets, and showing the whole of them heralding forth many years before those things which were to come: why dost thou again bring us down to David? Art thou conversing, oh tell me, of some man, and giving him Jesses son for a father? And wherein are these things worthy of what thou hast just spoken of? Yea, they are fully worthy. For our discourse is not, saith he, of any bare man. Such was my reason for adding, "according to the flesh;" as hinting that there is also a Generation of the Same after the Spirit. And why did he begin from that and not from this the higher? It is because that was what Matthew, and Luke, and Mark, began from. For he who would lead men by the hand to Heaven, must needs lead them upwards from below. So too was the actual dispensation ordered. First, that is, they saw Him a man upon earth, and then they understood Him to be God. In the same direction then, as He Himself had framed His teaching, did His disciple also shape out the way which leadeth thither. Therefore the generation according to the flesh is in his language placed first in order, not because it was first, but because he was for leading the hearer from this up to that.
Rom. 1.4. "And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of Holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, even Jesus Christ."
What is said has been made obscure by the close-folding of the words, and so it is necessary to divide it. What then is it, which he says? We preach, says he, Him Who was made of David. But this is plain. Whence then is it plain, that this incarnate "Person" was also the Son of God? First, it is so from the prophets; wherefore he says, "Which He had promised afore by the Prophets in the Holy Scriptures." (Rom. 1.2.) And this way of demonstration is no weak one. And next also from the very way of His Generation: which also he sets forth by saying, "of the seed of David according to the flesh:" for He broke the rule of nature. Thirdly, from the miracles which He did, yielding a demonstration of much power, for "in power" means this. Fourthly, from the Spirit which He gave to them that believe upon Him, and through which He made them all holy, wherefore he saith, "according to the Spirit of holiness." For it was of God only to grant such gifts. Fifthly, from the Resurrection; for He first and He alone raised Himself: and this Himself too said to be above all a miracle sufficient to stop the mouths even of them that behaved shamelessly. For, "Destroy this Temple," He says, "and in three days I will raise it up" (John 2.19.); and, "When ye have lifted" Me "up from the earth, then shall ye know that I am He" (John 8.28); and again, This "generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of Jonas." (Matt. xii. 39.) What then is the being "declared?" being shown, being manifested, being judged, being confessed, by the feeling and suffrage of all; by Prophets, by the marvelous Birth after the Flesh, by the power which was in the miracles, by the Spirit, through which He gave sanctification, by the Resurrection, whereby He put an end to the tyranny of death.
Rom. 1.5. "By Whom we have received grace and Apostleship for obedience to the faith."
See the candor of the servant. He wishes nothing to be his own, but all his Masters. And indeed it was the Spirit that gave this. Wherefore He saith, "I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth" (John xvi. 12): and again, "Separate Me Paul and Barnabas." (Acts xiii. 2.) And in the Epistle to the Corinthians, he says, that "to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge" (1 Cor. 12:8, 11); and that It divideth all as It willeth. And in addressing the Milesians, he says, "Over which the Holy Ghost hath made you shepherds and overseers." (Acts xx. 28.) You see, he calls the things of the Spirit, the Sons, and the things of the Son, the Spirits. "Grace and Apostleship;" that is, it is not we that have achieved for ourselves, that we should become Apostles. For it was not by having toiled much and labored that we had this dignity allotted to us, but we received grace, and the successful result is a part of the heavenly gift. "For obedience to the faith." So it was not the Apostles that achieved it, but grace that paved the way before them. For it was their part to go about and preach, but to persuade was of God, Who wrought in them. As also Luke saith, that "He opened their heart" (Acts xvi. 14); and again, To whom it was given to hear the word of God. 1195 "To obedience;" he says not, to questioning and parade (κατασκευὴν) of argument but "to obedience." For we were not sent, he means, to argue, but to give those things which we had trusted to our hands. For when the Master declareth aught, they that hear should not be nice and curious handlers of what is told them, but receivers only; for this is why the Apostles were sent, to speak what they had heard, not to add aught from their own stock, and that we for our part should believe—that we should believe what?—"concerning His Name." Not that we should be curious about the essence, but that we should believe on the Name; for this it was which also wrought the miracles. For it says, "in the Name of Jesus Christ rise up and walk." (Acts iii. 6.) And this too requireth faith, neither can one grasp aught of these things by reasoning (λογισμᾥ καταλαβεἵν). "Among all nations, among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ." What? did Paul preach then to all the nations? Now that he ran through the whole space from Jerusalem to Illyricum, and from thence again went forth to the very ends of the earth, is plain from what he writes to the Romans; but even if he did not come to all, yet still what he says is not false, for he speaks not of himself alone, but of the twelve Apostles, and all who declared the word after them. And in another sense, one should not see any fault to find with the phrase, if about himself, when one considers his ready mind, and how that after death he ceaseth not to preach in all parts of the world. And consider how he extols the gift, and shows that it is great and much more lofty than the former, since the old things were with one nation, but this gift drew sea and land to itself. And attend to this too, how free the mind of Paul is from all flattery; for when conversing with the Romans, who were seated as it were upon a sort of summit of the whole world, he attaches no more to them than to the other nations, nor does he on the score of their being then in power and ruling, say, that they have in spiritual things also any advantage. But as (he means) we preach to all the nations, so do we to you, numbering them with Scythians and Thracians: for if he did not wish to show this, it were superfluous to say "Among whom are ye also." 1196 And this he does to take down their high spirit (κενὥν τὸ φύσημα) and to prostrate the swelling vanity of their minds, and to teach them to honor others alike to themselves: and so he proceeds to speak upon this very point.
Rom. 1.6. "Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ."
That is, along with whom ye also are: and he does not say, that he called the others with you, but you with the others. For if in Christ Jesus there is neither bond nor free, much less is there king and private man. For even ye were called and did not come over of yourselves.
Rom. 1.7. "To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."
See how continually he puts the word "called," saying, "called to be an Apostle; among whom ye also are called; to all that be in Rome, called:" and this he does not out of superfluity of words, but out of a wish to remind them of the benefit. For since among them which believed, it was likely that there would be some of the consuls (ὑπάτων; Ben. consulares) and rulers as well as poor and common men, casting aside the inequality of ranks, he writes to them all under one appellation. But if in things which are more needful and which are spiritual, all things are set forth as common both to slaves and to free, for instance, the love from God, the calling, the Gospel, the adoption, the grace, the peace, the sanctification, all things else, how could it be other than the uttermost folly, whom God had joined together, and made to be of equal honor in the greater things, those to divide on account of things on earth? on this ground, I presume, from the very outstart, this blessed Apostle, after casting out this mischievous disease, conducts them to the mother of blessings, humble-mindedness. This made servants better, since they learnt that they should take no harm from their servitude, while they had the true freedom; this would incline masters to be gentle, as being instructed that they have no advantage in being free, unless the goods of faith have the first place given them. And that you may learn that he was not doing this to work confusion, by dashing all things, but still knew the best distinction, he wrote not simply to all that were in Rome, but with a definition added, "beloved of God." For this is the best discrimination, and shows whence the sanctification was. Whence then was the sanctification? from Love. For after saying, "beloved," then he proceeds, "called to be saints," showing that it is from this that the fount of all blessings is. But saints he calls all the faithful. "Grace unto you and peace."
Oh address, that bringeth countless blessings to us! This also Christ bade the Apostles to use as their first word when entering into houses. (Luke x. 5.) Wherefore it is from this that Paul also in all places takes his beginning, from grace and peace; for it was no small war which Christ put an end to, but indeed one varying and of every kind and of a long season (τοικίλον καὶ ταντοδαπὸν); and this not from our labors, but through His grace. Since then love presented us with grace, and grace with peace, having set them down in the due order of an address, he prays over them that they may abide perpetual and unmoved, so that no other war may again be blown into flame, and beseeches Him that gave, to keep these things firmly settled, saying as follows, "Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." See in this passage, the "from" is common to the Son and the Father, and this is equivalent to "of whom." 1197 For he did not say, Grace be unto you and peace from God the Father, "through" our Lord Jesus Christ; but, "from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." Strange! how mighty is the love of God! we which were enemies and disgraced, have all at once become saints and sons. For when he calls Him Father, he shows them to be sons; and when he says sons, he has unveiled the whole treasure of blessings.
Let us then keep showing a conversation worthy of the gift, and hold on in peace and holiness. For other dignities are but for a time, and are brought to an end along with this life present, and may be bought with money (whence one might say they are not dignities at all but names of dignities only, having their strength in the investiture of fine array and the servility of attendants), but this as having been given of God, the gift of sanctification and adoption, is not broken through even by death, but even here maketh men conspicuous, and also departs with us upon our journey to the life to come. For he that holdeth on in the adoption, and keeps an exact watch upon his holiness, is much brighter and more happy even than he that is arrayed with the diadem itself, and has the purple; and has the delight of abundant peace in the present life and is nurtured up with goodly hopes, and hath no ground for worry and disturbance, but enjoys constant pleasure; for as for good spirits and joy, it is not greatness of power, not abundance of wealth, not pomp of authority, not strength of body, not sumptuousness of the table, not the adorning of dresses, nor any other of the things in mans reach that ordinarily produces them, but spiritual success, and a good conscience alone. And he that hath this cleansed, even though he be clad in rags and struggling with famine, is of better spirits than they that live so softly. So too he that is conscious of wicked deeds, even though he may gather to himself all mens goods, is the most wretched of all men. For this cause Paul, living in continual hunger and nakedness, and being scourged every day was joyful, and went more softly than they that were then emperors. But Ahab though a king, and indulging in a sumptuous luxury, when he had done that one sin, groaned and was out of spirits, and his countenance was fallen both before the sin and after the sin. If then we wish to enjoy pleasure, above all things else let us shun wickedness, and follow after virtue; since it is not in the nature of things for one to have a share thereof on any other terms, even if we were mounted upon the kings throne itself. Wherefore also Paul saith, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace." (Gal. v. 22.) This fruit then let us keep growing by us, that we may be in the fruition of joy here, and may obtain the kingdom to come, by the grace and love towards man of our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom and with Whom, be glory to the Father, and to the Holy Spirit, now and always, even unto all ages. Amen.
In every one of his Epistles prefixes (Savile).
i:1190This expression is significant as showing the confidence of Chrys. in the Pauline authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews. It need hardly be said that the reason for the omission of the Apostles name is purely fanciful and that the non-Pauline character of the Epistle is almost demonstrable.—G.B.S.
i:1191 i:1192οἰκονομίας, viz. the concealment of His glory in the Incarnation.
i:1193It is noticeable that in the New Testament the apostles call the body of believers "saints," but never apply this term to themselves or to one another. In later times the body of believers returned the compliment and fixed the term as a title upon the Apostles, New Testament writers, Church Fathers, and a large number of Christians more or less distinguished for learning or piety. Most Christians find the title more appropriate to the two first classes than to the two last.—G.B.S.
i:1194Which the Fathers teach to be a type of Christ upon the Cross. See on Tert. Apol. c. 30, p. 70. Oxf. Tr.
i:1195Supposed to be a vague recollection of St. Luke 8:10, Acts 19:10Luke viii. 10, or of Acts xix. 10.
i:1196The expression has also another important bearing upon a question much debated by modern scholars, viz.: was the Roman Church predominantly Jewish or Gentile? The Pauline usage is strongly in favor of understanding by the words τὰ& 158· θνη Gentiles as opposed to Jews. If this is correct the expression together with ἐν οἷς ἐστὲ would seem decisive as showing the predominantly Gentile character of the Roman Christian community.—G.B.S.
i:1197See St. Basil de Spiritu Sancto, c. 2, 4. and 5. St. Chrysostom is arguing against the Arian abuse of 1 Cor. viii. 6, as he does on the passage itself.


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Targus USB Bluetooth® Adapter
Factory Refurbished
With the Targus USB Bluetooth® Adapter, you can transfer files, synchronize your PDA and smart phone contacts and calendar with Microsoft Outlook, use your phone as a wireless modem to connect to the Internet or networks, connect multiple devices (mice, keyboard, keypad) wirelessly to your PC, print from your phone or PC to a Bluetooth printer, fax from your PC through your smart phone, and much more. Dimensions 2.22" x 0.79" x 0.43". Model ACB10US.
Hassle-free productivity: Connect up to 7 Bluetooth-enabled devices like PDAs, keyboards, mice and printers without the hassle of cables or cradles
Unwire your life: Wirelessly connect your notebook to the Internet or to networks via your Bluetooth-enabled phones and PDAs
User-friendly, secure access Plug and play convenience with secure, 128-bit encryption and authentication
Ver.1 (Stick Sold Before 06/2008) - Windows® 2k, Me, XP or Mac OS X cv. 10.2 and higher (Mac Users, visit www.apple.com for drivers and software)
Driver for ACB10US (Does not support Windows Vista) Driver for ACB10US ( Only supports Windows Vista) User's Guide for the ACB10

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Wow, this is a strange one. Tornado Outbreak is a completely new IP from Konami – home of Silent Hill and MGS – but it looks and feels like a Saturday morning cartoon tie-in. It's hard to believe that this saccharine sweet title was once thought to be MGS creator, Hideo Kojima's next project after Guns of the Patriots. When it comes to internet rumours, sometimes there definitely is plenty of smoke without fire.
You play as Zephyr. He's part of the Wind Warriors who can harness the power of the elements to turn into a huge tornado. Your mission – if you choose to accept it – is to seek out the hidden orbs scattered around Earth and restore the once mighty Omegaton creature back to his powerful state. You do this by destroying everything in sight. Clever, eh? You start as a tiny gust of wind and, just like in Katamari, you have to suck up little things like chickens and flowers to level-up and become bigger. You chew through fences, lampposts, vehicles and more until you can fling houses into the air quicker than you can say "We're not in Kansas anymore." A copied formula, but good fun.
But then it seems the developers had a crisis of confidence and decided to add some annoying features to Tornado Outbreak to separate it from the simple Katamari styling. Features like boss fights where you have to guide your tornado to a big totem pole while avoiding sunlight (UV rays kill wind, you see) are truly tiresome. Then there's the not-so awful combo-system where you catch fire-flies to string together big scores and, more importantly, open new levels. The annoying Gate Races that you fly through to create a vortex before each boss are as fiddly as they are pointless too.
Tornado Outbreak would've been better if it'd just been about the destruction and Katamari-style 'levelling-up,' which is by far the best thing about it. You feel nothing but disdain for the characters, and because there isn't a cartoon show to back up any stories, you'll always feel detached from all the stuff that's padding the game out. Without any real substance to back it up, Tornado Outbreak has a lot of huff, but not enough puff.
Nov 2, 2009


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• gosh •
Pronunciation: gahsh • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Interjection
Meaning: 1. An expression of surprise, as in "Gosh, you're beautiful!" 2. An emphatic term, as in "Do it now, by gosh!"
Notes: The names of gods in all languages rank high on the list of taboo words, words we are forbidden to utter. Taking the name of the Judeo-Christian God in vain is even a violation of the Fourth Commandment, to which all Jews and Christians must adhere. Clever creatures that we are, though, humans have invented euphemisms to circumvent this stumbling block: God became gosh or golly in our ordinary speech, thereby making today's Good Word a euphemistic interjection.
In Play: Today's Good Word is expressed most often when we are surprised: "Gosh, I didn't realize that!" Harvey exclaimed when May O'Naise mentioned that his nose was dripping in his soup. Gosh may also be included in compound adjectives as an emphatic modifier: "What a gosh-awful mess you've made of the car! I said paint the porch, not the Porsche!"
Word History: The origin of today's word is obvious from the phrases it has appeared in since the mid 19th century. In phrases like by gosh and gosh darn, it now holds places where God was heard in vulgar conversations. Golly actually has too many syllables, so it is often shortened to gol, as in gol-darn(ed). The fearsome GD expression has also been subjected to folk etymology, resulting in doggone (it) and dagnab (it). The name Jesus spawned Geez or gee whiz, and other four-letter words have undergone similar transformations. That is the origin of darn and dang; euphemisms for damn that arose before that word became a household expression. Heck is the polite alternative for the word referring to the home of the devil or, euphemistically speaking, the dickens. (Gosh, no one suggested today's Good Word. Doggone it! I had to think it up all by myself.)
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Eddie Van Halen is a guitar hero - that much we know. But these days you're not a REAL guitar hero till you're in a video game. And rumor has it, Van Halen is the next band up for the Guitar Hero franchise.
Following in the footsteps of Aerosmith and Metallica (whose version is set for 29 March release), Guitar Hero: Van Halen would be specifically branded for that band and will feature many of the group's best-loved hits: Jump, Panama, Hot For Teacher...gee, do you think they'll include Eruption?
Will game feature all band members?
Details are sketchy, at best, but the possibility of a Van Halen Guitar Hero game raises certain questions: Would it encompass the entire career of the band, and if so, will there be Michael Anthony and Sammy Hagar characters?
And what about the storylines? Does the band discover brown M&Ms in their dressing room? Will Valerie Bertinelli make an appearance? (Personally, we could go for that!) Do players get to jam on Eddie's solo to Michael Jackson's Beat It? These are things we must know!
Unfortunately, we may not find out the answers to these burning questions until the fall, which is the soonest Guitar Hero: Van Halen could be out. And what better time to compete with The Beatles: Rock Band?


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A group of British Paralympians have expressed their fears over government plans to cut disability living allowance (DLA), warning that the benefit is vital to enable them to live independently.
Under coalition welfare reforms, hundreds of thousands of disabled people will lose the allowance when the government replaces DLA with more restrictive personal independence payments (PIP) in 2013.
The Paralympians fear that the potential loss of the benefit, worth between £20 and £131.50 a week, which helps with the extra costs of transport, equipment, care and other specialist needs that disabled people have, could undermine the key legacy issue of the Games – to open up access to sport for disabled people.
The government plans to replace the allowance, which goes to about 3.2 million people at an annual cost of £12.6bn, with personal independence payments (PIP) from 2013. It estimates that up to 500,000 people will lose entitlement to DLA over the next four years as eligibility criteria are tightened and claims reassessed.
Ministers have argued that DLA is outdated and the switch to PIP will enable the benefit to be targeted at "people who need it most". But campaigners say restricting the benefit will force thousands of sick and disabled people to give up work, and give back their specially adapted Motability cars.
Lady Tanni Grey-Thompson, who won 11 Paralympic gold medals, warned in May that the DLA cuts could affect the development of top athletes and prevent working-age disabled adults from engaging not just in sport but in society as a whole.
Ade Adepitan, the Paralympic wheelchair medallist who is a Channel 4 presenter for the Games, said: "Without DLA I would not have been able to do what I did or be a top athlete."
Other Paralympians who have voiced their concerns at the proposals include:
Natasha Baker, equestrian
"Disability living allowance enables disabled people another life. If they have DLA they might be able to afford the petrol to go to work … it allows us to be independent. I love my independence. I hate relying on other people to do everything for me. I drive and probably would not be able to afford the petrol if I didn't have the DLA. I have a Motability car. I have support from lottery fund but definitely, getting around would be a hell of a lot harder without DLA."
Aaron Phipps, rugby
"It pays for those essential things that I need. A new wheelchair costs £1,700. I would not be able to live independently without a wheelchair like this. It is just completely essential. I would be completely lost without it. "
Kylie Grimes, rugby
"DLA is really important. It has been a massive help for me over the years. It is only in the last 18 months I have got back to playing sport properly. I have been injured now five-and-a-half years. I would have been lost without it to be honest."
Sue Gilroy, table tennis
"I have tried not to worry about it. If they did decide to stop things it would make life impossible. I have carers at home, I have people coming to help me with the things I cannot manage myself. Obviously things are a lot more expensive. Wheelchairs, cars. £20,000 of adaptations on the car, Motability."
Ali Jawad, weightlifting
"They need to sort it because a lot of people would suffer for not being eligible for mobility. I just hope the government have thought this through … [if they haven't] they are going to have a lot of disabled people who are losing their independence, which is not what we want."
David Clarke, football
"It does seem as though disabled people's independence is being jeopardised by the government's proposals and what worries me is that it has been done with good intentions in certain areas, but is so wide of the mark.
"DLA matters. It covers some of those additional costs that we wouldn't necessarily have the money for.
"What DLA does is enables you to afford all the additional support you need without impinging on the income you receive. It puts you on a par with other people in society."
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Carving of ivory into decorative or utilitarian objects.It has flourished since prehistoric times. Most Stone Age carvings have been found in southern France, in the forms of small nude female figures and animals. A masterpiece of early Egyptian carving is an ivory statuette of Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid. In China ivory carvings have been found in the tombs of the Shang dynasty (18th–12th century BC). The major artistic use of ivory in Japan was for netsukes, toggles used as fasteners on men's clothing. The early Inuit (Eskimos) produced such utilitarian objects as harpoon shafts and bucket handles out of ivory and often etched them with geometric or curving patterns. See also scrimshaw."An Elopement" (sometimes called "Lancelot and Guinevere"), ivory mirror ...By courtesy of the Liverpool Museum, England
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▪ art formIntroductionthe carving or shaping of ivory into sculptures, ornaments, and decorative or utilitarian articles. Elephant tusks have been the main source of ivory used for such carvings, although the tusks of walrus and other ivory-bearing mammals have also been worked.From ancient times ivory has been considered an article of luxury because of its qualities of fine grain, creamy light colour, smooth texture, and soft lustre. Ivory has been carved in such widely varied cultures as those of ancient Egypt, China, Japan, and India. In the West the use of ivory can be traced almost continuously from prehistoric times through the Roman, Carolingian, Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods up until modern times.Until about 1900 all ivory carvers used much the same tools: an ax, adz, or chisel for removing the outer bark, or rind, from the tusk; a bucksaw or bow saw for cutting the trunk of the tusk into sections; a special tool called a float for paring the surface; and hand chisels, fretsaws, and gauges for actually carving the piece. The great change came with power-driven rotary saws for cutting and peeling the ivory and with dental drills for carving it easily and quickly. These machine tools spread from Europe to Asia in the mid-20th century and are now in universal use for carving ivory.Ancient Western carvings.Carvings made of ivory, bone, and horn are numerous from certain periods of the Stone Age. Most of the carvings have been found in southern France, particularly in the Dordogne region. The earlier examples take the form of small nude female figures, mostly of scant aesthetic worth. The carvings of animals belong to the succeeding Magdalenian period, and many of these have great merit. The material used is reindeer horn, with the ivory of mammoth tusks also occasionally used. The incising, or engraving, of ivory probably developed later than carving in the round. The prehistoric engravings on ivory usually represent animals, often rendered in a masterly manner and combined to form scenes.Elephant tusks and hippopotamus teeth were carved from a very early period in ancient Egypt. Many combs, hairpins, and other utensils dating from the predynastic and early dynastic periods have been found at various sites, and to the same period probably belong some crudely carved nude female figures that were likely worn as amulets to ward off evil or harm. Among the masterpieces of early Egyptian carving are two statuettes, both found at Abydos; one represents a king of the 1st dynasty, while the other depicts the 4th-dynasty king Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza. The Egyptians also incised pictures on flat slabs of ivory, and sometime after 3000 BC they introduced the technique of relief carving. Later Egyptian ivory work, much of it of fine quality, is mostly decorative in intention, being used for handles, spoons, and inlays for caskets and furniture.The ancient Phoenicians used ivory from Syria and Africa, and they seem to have specialized in ivory inlays for woodwork, often overpainted or encrusted with lapis lazuli or glass. Among the earliest preclassical Aegean ivory carvings are small figures of acrobats found at Knossos in Crete and dating from the 16th century BC. Many ivory gaming boxes, mirror handles, and plaques carved in low relief with hunting or combat scenes have been found at Cyprus and at Sparta and Mycenae; they show a strong Asian stylistic influence and were probably made in Syria or on the south coast of Asia Minor.No ivories of importance belonging to the early Classical period of Greece have survived, though it is known from ancient writers that they existed. The high point of Classical ivory carving was most certainly the colossal chryselephantine statues (i.e., ones partly made of ivory and gold) sculpted by Phidias in the 5th century BC; the statue depicting a seated Zeus was in the temple at Olympia, and a statue of a standing Athena was in the Parthenon at Athens. In the last centuries of the Roman Empire, ivory diptychs (i.e., a relief carved on two tablets connected by a hinge) were issued by the Roman emperors, by consuls upon their taking office each year, and by patrician families to celebrate a marriage.Post-Classical Western carving.The most important surviving ivory carving from the Early Christian period is the Brescia casket (4th century AD); this is a small casket bearing relief carvings of scenes from the Old and New Testaments. Several reliefs on diptychs and panels having Christian subjects date from this period, and indeed depictions of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the Apostles form the main subject matter of European figurative ivory carvings for many centuries thereafter. No Byzantine ivory from the 7th to the 9th century survives, but there do exist several magnificent carved ivory reliefs from the 10th and 11th centuries. The figures are treated in a strongly classicizing, frozen, and monumental style. Byzantine statuettes from the late 11th and the 12th centuries show a more relaxed and fluid treatment of draperies, and their figures have elongated forms.Northern European ivory carving revived during the Carolingian Renaissance, using walrus instead of elephant tusks. The Carolingians carved ivory into reliquaries, crucifixes, relief panels, and the book covers of psalters. New Testament scenes and figures were the almost invariable subject matter. These traditions continued during the Ottonian period of the 10th century, with several impressive situlae (holy-water buckets) carved with scenes from Christ's life having survived. Romanesque ivory carvings of reliquaries, tau crosses, and bishops' pastoral staffs display a multiplicity of styles, depending on the country of origin. During the Romanesque and the succeeding Gothic period, the West's artistic emphasis shifted from the decoration and embellishment of sacred objects to the building of cathedrals, monumental paintings, and stained glass. Thus, from about the 12th century on, ivory carving ceased to be a major art or an important adjunct to religious or imperial liturgies. Nevertheless, ivory diptychs and triptychs carved with religious scenes continued to be produced in the Gothic style by many workshops. Ivory was also carved into caskets, combs, mirror cases, writing tablets, cups, dagger handles, and Chess pieces. Sometimes scenes of courtly love or extracts from romances were carved onto the surface of these utilitarian objects.Renaissance ivory carving marked a notable change from that of the Middle Ages in its technical sophistication and sensitivity. By this time ivory was rarely used except for domestic articles and inlay work, but there was a revival of interest in ivory carving in 17th-century Germany and Flanders, and many elaborate and sumptuously carved objects such as candelabra, plaques, statuettes, and drinking tankards were made by highly skilled artists. By the late 18th century, ivory carvings were regarded in Europe merely as curious and quaint decorative objects. In the 19th century, ivory came into prominence once more, chiefly for making forgeries of older, more valuable ivory objects. It was also used to make caskets, clock cases, and batons, as well as humbler objects such as snuffboxes, fan handles, and scent bottles. By the 20th century, with the use of machine-driven tools to cut ivory and the decay of unified stylistic traditions of decoration, ivory carving in the West had degenerated into a craft still possessed of technical sophistication but almost utterly lacking in aesthetic worth.Far Eastern carving.Ivory carving is one of China's oldest arts, and examples of skillfully carved ivory have been found in the tombs of the Shang dynasty (18th–12th century BC) kings; these pieces are so well designed and executed that they suggest a long previous development, probably going back to prehistoric times. In ancient China elephants still roamed the forests of the Huang Ho (Yellow River) region, so that the supply of ivory was close at hand. At the court of the Chou dynasty (12th–3rd century BC) it became fashionable for princes and high officials to carry narrow memorandum tablets of ivory. Called hu, these were generally worn as girdle pendants. In the Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) these ivory tablets came to be considered as marks of rank and were required for formal dress. Later, during the T'ang dynasty (618–907) and the Sung period (960–1279), these tablets were greatly elongated and were carried by court officials as a kind of sceptre as well as a writing surface for memoranda. The tablets continued to be carried as a mark of high court rank until the fall of the Ming dynasty in the 17th century. Some ivory figurines have also survived from these periods in Chinese history. Other carvings consist of flat ivory pieces that were painted or stained a dark colour and then carved to form intricate patterns of birds and animals or geometric figures, the carvings finally being stained with other colours or left plain.By Sung dynasty times the elephants had been driven far into the wilderness areas of southwest China (modern Yunnan), which then belonged to another nation, the kingdom of Nanchao. Accordingly, new sources of ivory were sought overseas, and at this time the first African elephant tusks were brought from Zanzibar to China by Arab traders. The new nationalistic-minded Ming dynasty, after overthrowing the Mongol Yüan dynasty, proceeded in the 14th century to revive the art of ivory carving, and a renaissance of fine craftsmanship resulted. The Ming ivory carvings that have survived are mostly handsomely carved figures, not stained or painted but having the natural colouring of ivory. The tradition of fine Ming carving seems to have carried over into the first half of the Ch'ing dynasty (1644–1912). The art of colouring ivory was revived at this time, and both stains and lacquers were used to enhance the delicately carved figures that many connoisseurs have considered the finest productions of the Chinese carvers' art. Workshops in Peking and Canton were the main centres of ivory carving, producing figures, singly or in groups; cylindrical brush boxes, table screens, and armrests and other desk fittings carved in low and high relief; sceptres; snuff bottles, snuff dishes, and accessories for opium smoking; stands for fine porcelains; and perfume boxes, mirror cases, and other toilet articles for court ladies. Shanghai workshops produced such utilitarian objects as chopsticks, Mah-Jongg sets, combs, and seals.Peking and Canton continued to be centres for the finest Chinese ivory carving until after the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty in 1912. In subsequent years the output declined, resulting from the lack of Imperial patronage. From that time on, the industry was devoted chiefly to supplying foreign residents and tourists with ivory canes, card cases, and other objects. Because these buyers were not discriminating, the quality, which had been declining after the mid-19th century, deteriorated at an accelerating pace.It is not possible to claim any great antiquity for ivory carving in Japan. Although they learned the art rather late, the Japanese ivory carvers of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867) quickly developed an astonishing mastery of this medium and created many miniature works of art that still excite admiration. Ivory was used in Japan to produce such objects as the plectrum for plucking the strings of the samisen and the ends of the rollers for traditional scroll paintings. Its major artistic use, however, was for the togglelike pieces called netsukes (netsuke), which formed an indispensable item of men's costumes in the Tokugawa period. Netsukes were used to fasten the medicine box (inro) and pipe and tobacco pouches to a man's sash. They were often delicate and exquisitely carved miniature figures, landscapes, or animals. With the end of the Tokugawa regime in 1867, new customs of dress, and the introduction of the cigarette shortly after, netsukes became obsolete. Their former carvers, like the Chinese, gradually turned to making things for foreign residents and tourists, producing jewel boxes, chests, card cases, Chess pieces, buttons, brooches, and other objects to appeal to Victorian tastes. By about 1900, endless repetition and the use of machine tools for mass production had destroyed the remaining elements of the art. From that time on, most Japanese ivory carving has been directed toward the copying of old netsukes, complete with signatures of dead artists, and the forging of Chinese ivory antiquities.Other carving traditions.From the time of Muḥammad or before, ivory was used extensively in the Middle East and in Muslim-ruled Spain to decorate furniture, doors, caskets, and minbars (pulpits). The decoration consisted of geometric and plant-form arabesques, sometimes inhabited by birds and animals. Ivory was always plentiful in India, but few carved ivory pieces have survived to illustrate the art during most of the 4,000 years it has been practiced there. Some Hindu and Buddhist figures carved in the round are extant, along with little boxes and some reliefs.The early Inuit, or Eskimo, of North America lacked most useful metals, and so they fashioned the ivory from walrus tusks and buried mammoth tusks into a variety of utilitarian objects, such as bucket handles, bow drills, pipes, harpoon shafts, and needle cases. They etched these objects with geometric or gracefully curving patterns of fine lines. Another type of ivory carving is that of scrimshaw (q.v.), which is the decoration of whales' teeth or walrus tusks with various designs and images, carried out by whale fishermen in the United States during the 19th century.* * *
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Jonathan Toews scored in the first period, captain Sidney Crosby scored his first goal of the tournament and Canada defended its Olympic men's hockey title Sunday with a 3-0 victory over Sweden in the gold-medal game.
Chris Kunitz also scored and Carey Price made 24 saves for the Canadians, who confirmed their worldwide dominance in their national game by winning gold for the third time in the last four Olympics.
Allowing just three goals in six victories in Sochi, Canada became the only repeat Olympic champ in the NHL era and the first team to go unbeaten through the Olympic tournament since the Soviet Union in Sarajevo in 1984.
Henrik Lundqvist stopped 33 shots, but the injury-depleted Swedes couldn't keep pace with the new Big Red Machine in Russia.
Canada never even trailed in Sochi while winning its record ninth Olympic hockey gold medal - its first outside North America since 1952 - and joining the women's team to complete Canada's second straight Olympic hockey sweep.
The Canadians didn't allow a goal in their final 164-plus minutes at the Bolshoy Ice Dome after the first period of the quarterfinals against Latvia, shutting out the U.S. and Sweden.
In this meeting of the last two Olympic champions, Crosby had another golden moment with his unassisted breakaway goal in the second period, even if it wasn't as dramatic as his overtime winner in Vancouver four years ago.
The Canadians exchanged hugs and leaped over the boards at the final horn, gathering at Price's net for a celebration. Coach Mike Babcock smiled for likely the first time all day, and injured center John Tavares joined the group for the medal presentation.
Toews, who scored on a first-period tip-in, and Crosby are among Canada's 11 returning players from the 2010 championship team. Kunitz, widely criticized for failing to finish chances earlier in Sochi, capped the scoring with a vicious wrist shot in the third.
While Canada got goals from its two best centers, Sweden had to play without its top three centers. With Henrik Sedin and Henrik Zetterberg already out for the tournament, Nicklas Backstrom was scratched shortly before game time. Swedish Olympic officials said Backstrom had a positive drug test. Swedish news agency TT said it was because of an allergy medicine.
The Swedes also were unbeaten in Sochi until the final, but they struggled against Canada's formidable defense and Price, a first-time gold medalist who played splendidly in Sochi.
Although the predominantly Russian crowd wasn't exactly buzzing for the opening faceoff, both teams came out at speedy tempo. Gustav Nyquist hit Canada's post early, and the puck ricocheted under Price before the goalie gloved it. Patrice Bergeron then beat Lundqvist with a wrist shot, but also drew only iron.
Canada went ahead nearly 13 minutes in when Jeff Carter threw a quick pass in front to Toews, who nimbly held off Patrik Berglund and deflected it underneath Lundqvist for the Chicago captain's first goal of the tournament. Toews also scored Canada's first goal in the gold-medal game in Vancouver four years ago.
Late in the second period, Crosby scored after taking the puck away from Jonathan Ericsson at the Canada blue line. Loui Eriksson couldn't catch Canada's captain as he skated in on Lundqvist for a textbook-quality deke and a backhand past the Swedish goalie's sprawled toe.
Canada and Sweden were the most popular picks for gold heading into Sochi, and both teams backed up that belief with steady play despite relatively meager offensive performances. Both teams emphasize defense, but Sweden's big-ice proficiency and Canada's peerless talent made them dominant.
When Backstrom was ruled out shortly before game time, Sweden was left without its top three pivots. Jimmie Ericsson attempted to fill in between Daniel Sedin and Eriksson, but he's not a natural center, and he lost all six of his faceoffs in the first period.


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Exactly two years ago, a huge and overwhelmingly peaceful pro-democracy movement was being violently crushed by the government of Bahrain, with the help from mid-March 2011 of a Saudi-led intervention force from the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. So a panel discussion held in London a few days ago featuring Sir Tom Phillips, UK ambassador in Riyadh at the time, seemed like a good opportunity to challenge Britain's close alliances with Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. But then a better idea occurred to me: instead of asking a question myself in the Q&A, why not see if a Bahraini activist of my acquaintance would like me to put a question on her behalf?
I met Maryam al-Khawaja – Acting President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights – last year while she was in the UK raising awareness about the situation in her country. Her father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja , is a leading Bahraini human rights activist who has been tortured by the regime and jailed for life as a political dissident. The question she sent to me to ask Phillips was a simple one: "Are they [the British government] going to continue with silent diplomacy after two years of utter failure? Or will they actually promote human rights [in Bahrain]?"
Phillips' answer had three elements. First, he objected to my saying that the Saudis had helped crush the uprising. In fact, they had responded to a request from an ally, under a treaty obligation, and relieved Bahraini troops at their bases rather than become involved in the clashes themselves. This is a line previously used by William Hague when giving evidence to Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee . In effect, Britain's diplomats have been reduced to claiming that the GCC sending reinforcements cannot be regarded as them giving assistance to Bahrain's security forces. Indeed, the fact that the Saudi-led intervention happened at the same time as the crushing of the protests was perhaps nothing more than a sort of strange coincidence.
Second, Phillips argued that contrary to the characterisation of British "silent diplomacy", the UK had been highly outspoken about the spring 2011 crackdown, to the consternation of the various Gulf monarchies. Doubtless Phillips and his colleagues are to be congratulated for inviting the displeasure of the GCC autocrats, although to put this diplomatic triumph in context, these are of course states which are thick-skinned enough to treat an insult to the monarch as a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment.
In fact, Britain's response to the savage repression of thousands of peaceful protestors was to urge "all sides" to show restraint, and to welcome the King of Bahrain's proposals for "dialogue", while noting the "long friendship between Bahrain and the UK". Britain's "strong disapproval of the use of live ammunition against protesters", and other abuses, was severely diluted when couched in this broader narrative, which contrasted sharply with the UK's unequivocal response to the early stages of the crackdown in Syria.
Third, Phillips said that the situation in Bahrain is very complicated and can only be resolved through political negotiation. He welcomed the Bahraini regime's current "National Dialogue", and expressed puzzlement at what Britain could be expected to do other than support that process. This seemed an odd response to a question asked on behalf of a woman whose father is serving a life sentence for his non-violent calls for democratic reform, and who says he has been tortured and threatened with sexual assault while in custody. Last Friday, Maryam's sister Zainab was jailed for three months for her political activism . Perhaps she and her father should join the former ambassador in welcoming their jailers' commitment to political discourse? As Abdulhadi al-Khawaja has asked : "How can you have a dialogue if representatives of the groups you mean to dialogue with are in prison?"
"What more Britain can do" in these circumstances seems reasonably obvious. Rather than talking up the regime's "National Dialogue", Britain should publically acknowledge that, as Amnesty International says, talks will be an "empty exercise" unless all prisoners of conscience are unconditionally released, and all restrictions on freedom of expression are lifted. Instead of welcoming regime pledges of reform, and disingenuously saying as Phillips did to me that the extent of those reforms is "something we can debate", Britain should acknowledge the fact that (to quote Human Rights Watch ), "no progress" has been made, and that "all [the regime's] talk of national dialogue and reform mean nothing". In short, Britain could stop parroting its ally's obfuscatory narrative .
If the monarchy does not change course, the British government should cancel the UK-Bahrain defence agreement (with its reported focus on "internal stability" ) that was signed with minimal coverage last October. It should put an immediate and complete end to all arms sales and any continuing training of Bahraini security forces . And it should reverse the contemptible decision to rename the Mons Hall at Sandhurst military academy after the King of Bahrain, following a £3m donation. The hall was originally named after a First World War battle that claimed the lives of 1,600 British troops, the betrayal of whose memory speaks volumes about the squalid relationship between the British state and the Bahraini royal family.
In the absence of such measures, Britain will not merely have failed to promote democracy in Bahrain but will to all intents and purposes have sided with the oppressor. As Maryam al-Khawaja told me in response to Phillips' comments, "the UK needs to hold its allies accountable for human rights violations. As long as the international state of immunity for the Bahraini regime continues, the human rights situation will continue to deteriorate".
David Wearing is researching a PhD on British relations with the Gulf states at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Find him on Twitter as @davidwearing.


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Midna's Desperate Hour
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Info: A somber piano piece that occurs when Link carries the weakened, wounded Midna to see Princess Zelda. (Hear the original.)
I'm more likely to transcribe a simple piano piece than an orchestral one, even though playing complex music from sheet music seems more helpful. With orchestral pieces, I like having the freedom to choose what instruments and musical textures to accent, and I interpret the original differently each time I perform it. Transcribing notes to paper is difficult when I don't have a specific plan (as opposed to something like the "Boss Battle Piano Medley" arrangement.)
On the other hand, when the original piece is a piano solo, I try to replicate it note-for-note, which makes writing sheet music more helpful. That being said, please enjoy "Midna's Desperate Hour."


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LGT Capital Partnershas been awarded a GBP100 million multi-alternatives mandate from Kingfisher Pension Scheme. The mandate is focused exclusively on alternative investments and includes hedge funds, commodities, insurance-linked securities, property, private equity and other alternative asset classes.
Roberto Paganoni, CEO of LGT Capital Partners, says: "We are delighted to be able to work with Kingfisher Pension Scheme on this mandate, which will provide their pension fund with an actively managed portfolio with nine alternative asset classes and access to best-in-class external managers. This segregated mandate gives Kingfisher Pension Scheme the flexibility to change the risk/return profile of their return-seeking assets at any point in time."
Dermot Courtier, Secretary of the Kingfisher Pension Scheme explains that: "After a thorough and in-depth manager selection process, the Trustees decided that LGT Capital Partners' proposition offered the most appropriate solution, complementing the Scheme's existing exposures and providing flexibility in terms of the asset allocation and level of risk, depending on the Scheme's requirements as it continues on its secondary funding objective flight path."
LGT Capital Partners recognised the difficulties some pension funds face in accessing alternative investments. Based on its 15-year track record, the firm developed a multi-alternatives offering in 2011 especially for these investors.


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Welcome to the 101st instalment of the now venerable Skeptics' Circle, your fortnightly dose of reality, logic and critical thinking! Being the second time I've hosted the carnival, I figured I'd be the opposite of demure and seize the opportunity to promote African skepticism because the continent, you see, needs skepticism. Irrationality, of course, is a world-wide phenomenon to which Africans are no more or less susceptible and we aint no 'Dark Continent'. But Africa lacks, it seems to me, a sufficiently effective rational counter-insurgency and to get one off the ground, we need your help. That 300,000+ people died in South Africa due to AIDS denialism, that children in Nigeria are widely accused of witchcraft and that many other horrors attributable to false beliefs occur, is everyone's business. So... what can you do? Many things, but two stand out: (1) write about African skeptical topics and contribute to our carnival, and (2) read, support and promote at least one African skeptical or science blog. (Oh! And link to Stop Danie Krugel... we need your Google juice!).
The African Invasion
I have a large list of African science and skeptical blogs in my blogroll, under "African Science Blogroll" (please let me know if you know of any more!) but here are some notable blog entries from African skeptics over the last while...
First up is James Hough of Acinonyx Scepticus with a fascinating post on the application of evolutionary psychology's error management theory to scientific skepticism.
Owen Swart of 01 and the universe introduces and debunks the tokoloshe, a common Southern African superstition sure to interest many of you. (It's a bit like a really evil leprechaun).
Probably South Africa's best known skeptical activist is George Claassen, who runs Prometheus Unbound. George has two great recent entries: on 13 things we should tell our children and on creationist stupidity in the South African media.
Angela, The Skeptic Detective, admirably dissects a crazy quack chain email that claims rubbing Vicks Vaporub on your feet will cure your of a cough.
Finally, a couple of entries from a blog new to me, The Skeptical Blacksheep: silly Christians yet again being fooled by pareidolia and a deeply troubling instance of censorship at the CSRI (an important research outfit in South Africa).
Everybody else...
Leading the non-African pack is Techskeptic's Data Daily with an excellent explanation of why fMRI cannot be used to justify pseudoscience.
Skeptico explains how there is a big difference between race, sex, sexual orientation and handicap status on the one hand, and religion on the other, which means anti-discrimination laws cannot be used to justify banning 'blasphemy'.
Happy Spirochete of Ideas are Dangerous claims Michael Egnor is a stupid poopy head. I, for one, am not skeptical of that claim...
Greta Christina, in usual good form, explains that the universe is not perfect or 'fine tuned'.
Karen Stollznow, The Skepbitch, discusses bigfoot (aka Bigfootae Ambiguus Subjectico).
Next up is Scepticon (all the way from New Zealand, it seems), who interviews Alison Campbell (of BioBlog).
Also from Down Under is Kylie (the PodBlack Cat) on a play that promotes the 9/11 conspiracy nonsense. Who would have though such a thing possible?!
Aerik Knapp-Loomis has a challenging post about feminism and skepticism, specifically, he takes Phil Plait to task for allegedly sexist comments.
Politics and science. Science and politics. It'll never work... or at least not as long as a chiropractor is the Minister of Science, as is the case now in Canada, as Polite Company explains.
Our next host, Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes (how did he come up with that name?), has a Modest Proposal... (about drugs).
Next, Einar from Waffle ("Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection") reviews CS Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. To put it lightly, he was not impressed, and I can see why...
The Lay Scientist submitted an appropriately indignant post on science reporting so preposterously bad that even the NHS was pissed off.
Finally, there is Life, the Universe, and One Brow, with three posts skewering philosopher Thomas Nagel for claiming (among other things) that evolution and design are not alternatives.
AiG-obsessed Bing from Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes will host the next edition of the Circle on December 18th. If you'd like to contribute, check out the guidelines and then email your contributions to the host.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
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- AnonymousDecember 4, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Perhaps it's short for "Theocratic Skeptic"...?
Thanks for the inclusion, and I'll admit to not paying as much attention to African science as I should: anywhere that includes the birthplace of humanity should be on the list, eh?
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Artists are an indispensable part of the coin production team at the United States Mint. Meet the talented artists who design and engrave the coins and medals of the United States of America.
Sculptor-engravers create designs and sculptural models for the production of coins and medals. They are based at the Philadelphia facility.
Beginning in 2003, the United States Mint began developing a pool of talented, diverse American artists called the Artistic Infusion Program (AIP). AIP artists are called either Master Designers or Associate Designers. Both groups have submitted designs for many recent coins.
Thirty billion, give or take a few
...that's how many coins the United States Mint can produce in a single year. The actual number fluctuates, however, depending on the year's demands.
How do we do it? Find out on the How Coins Are Made page.


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Northwest: Hearing at noon; strike by nightfall?
This week, Northwest flight attendants have been going to school for "CHAOS." CHAOS -- which stands for "Create Havoc Around Our System" -- is the union's trademarked name for unannounced, sporadic work stoppages.
The Association of Flight Attendants hopes its strategy will force Northwest to back off the wage and benefit cuts it imposed almost a month ago.
Dozens of flight attendants filled a conference room at the union's Bloomington office Thursday for a training session. During a brief look given to reporters, rows of men and women, many sporting CHAOS t-shirts, watched a video on the use of CHAOS at Alaska Airlines, where it was first applied in 1993.
Union leaders decline to say where or when they might act at Northwest, although they have offered last-minute e-mail notification for passengers. At the training session, Twin Cities local union president Camilla Wolkerstorfer wasn't giving anything away.
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"The deadline is Friday night. That doesn't mean we're going to have an event on Friday night. We could have an event in two weeks, we could have an event on Sunday. We're the only ones who are actually going to know that," said Wolkerstorfer.
Northwest officials have said a strike could be fatal. But on the eve of the strike deadline, the airline also says it has a contingency plan and expects to maintain its full schedule. The airline won't go into detail.
Flight attendants say no plan using replacement workers can be very effective, when the airline doesn't know where or when strikes will occur.
It's about bookings, it's about maintaining a steady cash stream while they're operating under Chapter 11.
Clay Foushee, a former vice president of flight operations for Northwest, says the airline could do what Alaska Airlines did -- and put replacements on every flight, just in case.
Foushee says the danger from CHAOS stems not from actually grounding flights; those may be very few. It's in the uncertainty felt by travelers, and the damage that can do to the finances of a bankrupt company if travelers avoid the carrier.
"It's about bookings, it's about maintaining a steady cash stream while they're operating under Chapter 11," Foushee says. "If there's an alternative way of traveling, I think many informed travelers are going to select that."
For that reason, Foushee thinks Northwest will make a very compelling case in court Friday when it argues a strike must be blocked.
While Northwest's bankruptcy judge agreed a strike would be harmful, he concluded U.S. labor law gave him no authority to block a strike in these circumstances. Northwest hopes U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero, who is considering the appeal, will reach a different conclusion or -- at the very least -- allow more time for the legal process to play out.
Marrero will have the opinion of the federal government to consider. This week the Department of Justice filed a brief supporting Northwest, saying the sides are obligated to keep negotiating.
David LeMay is a bankruptcy attorney for the firm Chadbourne and Parke, and represents a financial institution in the Northwest bankruptcy case. He says it's unusual for the government to weigh in on a case like this.
"Typically in injunction litigation, each side seeks to show the public interest is best served by its position," LeMay says. "Here we have the uncommon situation of the government -- whose whole job and raison d'etre is to think only about the public interest -- saying that granting the injunction is in the public interest."
The eventual outcome of this case will set a precedent in U.S. labor law. Ed Gilmartin will argue the flight attendant union's case in court. He says the union's victory in the initial decision gives Northwest little or no chance to win its appeal.
That decision, Gilmartin says, "is everything -- because (bankruptcy judge Allan Gropper's) decision is consistent with the law. Having the decision really makes it very hard for them to overcome that. Not only is he a well-respected judge, but he has been overseeing the Northwest bankruptcy for over a year now."
The flight attendants say they have no desire to drive Northwest out of business and lose their own jobs. They say the goal is to force more talks. Northwest says it's willing to talk. But given the conditions both sides have set, the only people talking Friday will be their lawyers in a New York courtroom.


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Encoders Know All the Angles
January 4, 2013
Engineers use rotary encoders to measure the angular position of an attached device, such as a motor shaft, or to measure distance indirectly when used with a linear belt drive, for example.
Rotary encoders come in two types: digital and analog. Digital rotary encoders comprise two categories: incremental and absolute. An incremental encoder produces n digital pulses for each 360-degree rotation of the encoder's shaft. An absolute encoder provides an x-bit binary code that indicates a specific angular position.
Incremental encoders rely on an opaque disc with a concentric ring of small, equally spaced holes placed near the disc's outer edge. Light from LEDs on one side of the disc shines through the holes on to two phototransistors on the opposite side. As the disc rotates, the out-of-phase transistors create two pulse signals. The number of holes in the disc ranges from hundreds to several thousand. Equipment can count these pulses to determine incremental angular changes.
The two phototransistors generate square waves out of phase with each other, as shown in the figure. This phase relation shifts when the encoder changes direction. As an option, some incremental encoders produce a separate index pulse signal once per revolution to indicate a specific position or the start of another revolution. A controller circuit can count pulses from one output to determine the shaft's angular position. The pulse-phase relationship indicates direction of encoder shaft rotation. By measuring the time between pulses, or by counting the number of pulses over a specific time, software can calculate a shaft's rotational velocity and acceleration. When equipment power goes off, though, you lose track of an incremental encoder's position.
An absolute encoder provides a unique binary output as the encoder's shaft rotates. If you require an absolute location with, say, a 15-minute resolution or 1,440 unique codes, a 12-bit absolute encoder with 4,096 codes would work well. You would have 360/(212) unique codes for a resolution of 5.3 minutes. Loss of power does not affect the encoder, so you know the position of a mechanism attached to your encoder when power returns.
Like incremental encoders, many absolute encoders rely on an encoder disk and a series of phototransistors -- one per bit.
Absolute encoders also might use a rotating magnet and a stationary Hall effect sensor to produce binary angular position codes. Encoder manufacturers offer straight binary and Gray code binary outputs. Engineers use absolute encoders in robotic and other equipment that requires coordination of movements on many axes. By using the Gray code, which changes only one bit per increment, engineers can avoid any electrical glitches caused by multi-bit transitions such as 01111 to 10000.
Do you have a measurement question you'd like answered here? Contact me at [email protected].
For more information, consult the Encoder Application Handbook from Danaher Industrial Controls.
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"She is my heart and the other half of my life, and now, that life no longer exists." ~Drake Evans, Surviving Love
For Drake Evans, life was once happy. He was living the kind of existence that any man would envy. By his side was the woman he loved and a daughter he cherished. Life was truly perfect, until the day demons from the past came crashing into their perfect world, destroying everything he had been so sure would last forever.
Today, Drake's life is shrouded in misery. Every day he faces the unyielding pain of losing the love of his life at the hands of a drug dealing murderer. On top of it all, he has to live with the anguishing betrayal caused by the devastating role his brother played in Presley's death. Gone are the days of carefree happiness and impending futures. They've all been replaced with the shallow emptiness hollowing out his heart and the undeniable rage pumping through his veins. Drake is only moving through the motions of life, raising his daughter and earning a living, in the only way he can tolerate—alone.
Since the day she was banished from her family, Zoe Ledoux lives her life as a free spirit. For the past four years, Zoe's been moving through life day by day, place by place. She never stays in one area long enough to establish relationships. She refuses to get close to anyone, protecting herself from the fear of once again being left behind. Then a turn of fate sends her to Sulfur Heights where she lands a job working as a bartender.
In a chance meeting, an instant connection forms, bringing together the wounded souls of Drake and Zoe. It is together that they begin to cope; to mend the brokenness of their pasts and feel what it is like to truly live again. However, will their newly formed friendship be enough to pull Drake and Zoe from their dark pasts? Can Drake overcome the fear of losing someone he loves and eradicate his anger just enough to let someone in? Will he learn that Surviving Love with Zoe is what he ultimately needs in order to be happy?
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Warning: Spoilers abound in the following interview, up through "Lost Cause," the July 20 episode of True Blood.
It's not a stretch to call Nelsan Ellis's Lafayette the heart of True Blood. He's the one Sookie and other Bon Temps residents continually go to for both the tough love and the laughs, the one who comforts them when they need it most and who won't let them mope when they need to celebrate life. So is it so wrong for him to get a little loving, too? Okay, granted, getting it on in the parking lot with Jessica's boyfriend, James, before they've actually broken up may not have been the best way to start fresh, but Lafayette has a point — he deserves some happiness, too. Coincidentally, it's the same point that Ellis's portrayal of Bobby Byrd has in Get On Up, the James Brown biopic, out August 1: Just because you're the support system, the sidekick, the best friend doesn't mean you don't deserve a little love, too. Ellis chatted with Vulture about Lafayette's love life, how he feels about Luke Grimes dropping out of the show, and how he overcame his "two right feet."
Lafayette's been lonely for a really long time …
I think this season for Lafayette is about redemption and taking command of his own happiness. He's not happy in the first half of the season, but he becomes happy the second half of the season. And I can't say why he's not happy in the first half of the season. Wait — yes, I can! That [episode] already aired. [Laughs] Tara died.
It's completely understandable that he's been in mourning and unhappy for so long, because Jesús died, and then Tara died. But we've been rooting for him to get some for a while. A lot of people have — as long as it's love this time.
It is. It is. It's love. I'm a very lucky actor, because this is my second love interest. We deal with certain fans of that, and we have good chemistry, and we throw everything into it. I can't say enough about Nathan. Both of my love interests are great guys, great actors, both Kevin Alejandro and Nathan Parsons, and I love them onscreen. Every moment with them. You know what? I kind of fall in love with both of them! I guess I'm supposed to.
What was it like shooting the scene with Nathan? Did you do anything to bond with him beforehand?
It was easy breezy, just like Kevin. Because Nathan is a professional. He shows up and does his job, and he puts his heart into it. Kissing him was weird at first, but then I went, "Okay!" Same with Kevin — I can close my eyes, and you can be the girlfriend. It's not really a big deal. It's easy breezy. I mean, he's a wonderful actor. I love watching him work. Love watching him work. Our first scene together, I just listened to him talk most of the time. And we have good chemistry, and it worked. It worked.
Did you ever get a chance to talk to or bond with Luke Grimes when he was playing James, before they switched off?
I didn't, but I'm completely … I mean, I can say I'm not going to make a comment, but I just think that, you're an actor, you're an actor on a show that's True Blood, we're all sitting there going, "You quit your job because … really?" I'm just… I'm over him. You quit your job because you don't want to play a gay part? As if it's … You know what? I'm going to stop talking.
That's okay. I get what you're saying. If you're going to be on True Blood, you have to be open to a lot of experiences.
You have to be open. But more importantly, you make a statement when you do something like that. I did a documentary called Damn Wonderful, about gay suicide, and you make a statement, a big statement, when you go, "I don't want to play this part because it's gay." If you have a child, if you have a son, and he comes out as gay, what are you going to do? If you have a daughter who comes out gay …? You just made a statement, and it has ripple effects. First of all, this show, it's True Blood, and shit, we get scared when we read scripts! Excuse my language. When scripts come, we're like, "What are they going to have us do this week?" But when you make a statement that is a judgment … I was kind of like, "Have you met Alan Ball?" I'm supposed to do what my boss tells me to do, as an actor. I can't approach a character with judgment. I certainly can't tell my boss, "I can act what I want to act, but not what you tell me to act," especially on a show where you come in, knowing what it is. I was like, "Okay… I guess?" I just thought that, having just done the documentary, I didn't like what he did because he made a statement, and sometimes you have to take responsibility.
Is it safe to say he won't be invited back for the True Blood musical?
[Laughs.] I don't think he'll be invited back to HBO.
Would you be game to do the musical?
If they invite me, I'll do it! I do everything they ask. I can at least do a whole lot of dancing.
That's what Joe Manganiello said, and we know he can dance, from Magic Mike.
Yeah, he's a better man than me, because I thought I could dance, but 90 percent of my job in Get On Up has dancing in it, and I apparently have two right feet. [Laughs.] It was a lot of dancing for me, and I actually found out that I can't dance.
But you dance on True Blood!
[Laughs.] Every time I dance on True Blood, I pay the choreographer out of my own pocket to come in, and I ask, "What should I do?" Because I don't know how to be a stripper! I had rhythm, but I didn't know I couldn't dance until Get On Up. They had two very good choreographers, and then I had to bring in a person from an agency — [a man] named David Sincere — to be my dance coach and live with me. When I got off work, we danced until my eyes bled. So when they call "Action!" I can produce. We did the work. We did the work. And now, I've got way more funk. [Laughs.] I'm doing the mashed potato! And I don't kid. When people ask, when I'm in the club doing it, I'm sorry, I like this! I do all those dances, because James Brown invented some dances. The jerk, he invented that style of jerk because he was a boxer. He invented dancing. Usher does what James Brown does. Yeah. The difference is, I have an old face. I don't have a contemporary face. So when I do that style of dance, everyone calls me an old man. But I spent five hours a day rehearsing these dance moves, and then going home to a person and rehearsing for hours again. So I'll probably be doing these dance moves for the next two or three years! [Laughs.]
Did you manage to steal anything from the set? Or what are you going to take away, to say good-bye?
What am I going to take away? It's sad. I'm not going to see Anna Paquin's babies. I'm not going to see Sam [Trammell]'s babies. I mean, we had babies all together. We started this show with no families, and then we had families. We made families together. And I'm in love with Anna's son with the curly hair, with this Afro that's weird, and her feisty daughter, and Sam's big ol' sons. So moving away, I'm losing a lot of family. We've had babies together. My son is 7, and we all had these kids on the show, and we all bring them to work. I mean, we had a trailer committed to the babies. And we had a set that allowed our dog, as long as he doesn't bite anybody, to run free. So all our dogs, too. I'm going to miss seven years of a family. That's the thing I'm going to lose. Because the reality is, we're not going to talk. Because that's what actors do: They go off a show, and they go off and do what they're going to do. It doesn't discount the fact that you honor and love the people in that family. I mean, my son is going to miss Anna, the dog, the kids. And to explain to him, "Daddy has to move on," that stuff doesn't compute with a child. And it doesn't compute with me, because I thought this was going to be forever. That's the thing I'm going to lose. I'm going to lose fourteen families.
What about at Comic-Con and future reunions?
All that other stuff is bittersweet. You go, "Okay, I saw you now, but I'm not going to see …" The reason that it's bittersweet is that I'm so used to seeing them every day. And the babies, the dogs, the families. My son, jumping in Sam's girlfriend's lap. I won't have anymore memories like that. It's going to be gone.


text: have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. CHAP XLII. HOSPITALITY. LOVE ye the stranger. The stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself. The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Be given to hospitality. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and, when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and bowed himself toward the ground, and said, let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree; and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts. And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. Jesus said to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee; for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. CHAP. XLIII. HUMILITY. BLESSED are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven. Before honour is humility. By humility, and the fear of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life. If I, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ve also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. Cease from thine own wisdom. The Almighty respecteth not any that are wise of heart. Scest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Let no man deceive himself; if any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise. If any man think he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet, as he ought to know. If a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Be not wise in thine own eyes. Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! The haughty shall be humbled. A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. Thou shalt no more be haughty. The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low." Be not proud. Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Better is it to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. Talk no more exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth. Pride and arrogancy do I hate. I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Lean not to thine own understanding, He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find ? He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth. Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. Be not high-minded. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded. The rich man is wise in his own conceit: but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out. Thus saith the Lord, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord, which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth for in these things I delight, saith the Lord. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. Vain man would be wise. Remove far from me vanity. Let us not be desirous of vain-glory. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves. He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour. He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth. Who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Whosoever will be chief among you, let him 'be your servant. Ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. He shall save the humble person. Surely he scorneth the scorners; but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their fil thiness. Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say I am perfect, that shall also prove me perverse. Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts. Jesus spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others. Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood, and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. In thoughts from the visions of night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of flesh stood up: : it stood still, but I could not my |


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On Kiley's Run
The roving breezes come and go On Kiley's Run, The sleepy river murmurs low, And far away one dimly sees Beyond the stretch of forest trees -- Beyond the foothills dusk and dun -- The ranges sleeping in the sun On Kiley's Run. 'Tis many years since first I came To Kiley's Run, More years than I would care to name Since I, a stripling, used to ride For miles and miles at Kiley's side, The while in stirring tones he told The stories of the days of old On Kiley's Run. I see the old bush homestead now On Kiley's Run, Just nestled down beneath the brow Of one small ridge above the sweep Of river-flat, where willows weep And jasmine flowers and roses bloom, The air was laden with perfume On Kiley's Run. We lived the good old station life On Kiley's Run, With little thought of care or strife. Old Kiley seldom used to roam, He liked to make the Run his home, The swagman never turned away With empty hand at close of day From Kiley's Run. We kept a racehorse now and then On Kiley's Run, And neighb'ring stations brought their men To meetings where the sport was free, And dainty ladies came to see Their champions ride; with laugh and song The old house rang the whole night long On Kiley's Run. The station hands were friends I wot On Kiley's Run, A reckless, merry-hearted lot -- All splendid riders, and they knew The `boss' was kindness through and through. Old Kiley always stood their friend, And so they served him to the end On Kiley's Run. But droughts and losses came apace To Kiley's Run, Till ruin stared him in the face; He toiled and toiled while lived the light, He dreamed of overdrafts at night: At length, because he could not pay, His bankers took the stock away From Kiley's Run. Old Kiley stood and saw them go From Kiley's Run. The well-bred cattle marching slow; His stockmen, mates for many a day, They wrung his hand and went away. Too old to make another start, Old Kiley died -- of broken heart, On Kiley's Run. . . . . . The owner lives in England now Of Kiley's Run. He knows a racehorse from a cow; But that is all he knows of stock: His chiefest care is how to dock Expenses, and he sends from town To cut the shearers' wages down On Kiley's Run. There are no neighbours anywhere Near Kiley's Run. The hospitable homes are bare, The gardens gone; for no pretence Must hinder cutting down expense: The homestead that we held so dear Contains a half-paid overseer On Kiley's Run. All life and sport and hope have died On Kiley's Run. No longer there the stockmen ride; For sour-faced boundary riders creep On mongrel horses after sheep, Through ranges where, at racing speed, Old Kiley used to `wheel the lead' On Kiley's Run. There runs a lane for thirty miles Through Kiley's Run. On either side the herbage smiles, But wretched trav'lling sheep must pass Without a drink or blade of grass Thro' that long lane of death and shame: The weary drovers curse the name Of Kiley's Run. The name itself is changed of late Of Kiley's Run. They call it `Chandos Park Estate'. The lonely swagman through the dark Must hump his swag past Chandos Park. The name is English, don't you see, The old name sweeter sounds to me Of `Kiley's Run'. I cannot guess what fate will bring To Kiley's Run -- For chances come and changes ring -- I scarcely think 'twill always be Locked up to suit an absentee; And if he lets it out in farms His tenants soon will carry arms On Kiley's Run.


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