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26. Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27. To a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. 28. And the angel, coming in to her, said, Hail, thou who hast found favor, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. 29. But when she had seen him, she was agitated by his address, and was considering what that salutation would be. 30. And the angel saith to her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favor with God. 31. Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS. 32. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of David his father: 33. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
26. Now in the sixth month It was a wonderful dispensation of the divine purpose, and far removed from the ordinary judgment of men, that God determined to make the beginning of the generation of the herald more illustrious than that of his own Son. The prophecy respecting John was published in the temple and universally known: Christ is promised to a virgin in an obscure town of Judea, and this prophecy remains buried in the breast of a young woman. But it was proper that, even from the birth of Christ, that saying should be fulfilled,
"it pleased God by foolishness to save them that believe,"
(1Co 1:21.)
The treasure of this mystery was committed by him to a virgin in such a manner, that at length, when the proper time came, it might be communicated to all the godly. It was, I own, a mean kind of guardianship; but whether for trying the humility of faith, or restraining the pride of the ungodly, it was the best adapted. Let us learn, even when the reason does not immediately appear, to submit modestly to God, and let us not be ashamed to receive instruction from her who carried in her womb Christ the eternal "wisdom of God," (1Co 1:24.) There is nothing which we should more carefully avoid than the proud contempt that would deprive us of the knowledge of the inestimable secret, which God has purposely "hid from the wise and prudent, and revealed" to the humble and "to babes," (Lu 10:21.)
It was, I think, for the same reason that he chose a virgin betrothed to a man There is no foundation for Origen's opinion, that he did this for the purpose of concealing from Satan the salvation which he was preparing to bestow on men. The marriage was a veil held out before the eyes of the world, that he who was commonly "supposed to be the son of Joseph" (Lu 3:23) might at length be believed and acknowledged by the godly to be the Son of God. Yet the entrance of Christ into the world was not destitute of glory; for the splendor of his Godhead was manifested from the commencement by his heavenly Father. Angels announced that "a Savior was born," (Lu 2:11;) but their voice was only heard by the shepherds, and traveled no farther. One miracle, — everywhere published by "the wise men who came from the east," (Mt 2:1) that they had seen a star which proclaimed the birth of the Highest King,—may have been highly celebrated. Yet we see how God kept his Son, as it were, in concealment, until the time of his full manifestation arrived, and then erected for him a platform, that he might be beheld by all.
The participle μεμνηστευμένην, which is employed by the Evangelist, signifies that the virgin had then been engaged to her bridegroom, but was not yet given as a wife to her husband. For it was customary among Jewish parents to keep their daughters some time at home, after they had been betrothed to men; otherwise, the law relating to the seduction of a "betrothed damsel" (De 22:23) would have been unnecessary. Luke says that Joseph was of the house of David; for families are usually reckoned by the names of the men; but on this point we shall speak more fully in another place.
28. Hail, thou who hast obtained favor The angel's commission being of an astonishing and almost incredible description, he opens it with a commendation of the grace of God. And certainly, since our limited capacities admit too slender a portion of knowledge for comprehending the vast greatness of the works of God, our best remedy is, to elevate them to meditation on his boundless grace. A conviction of the Divine goodness is the entrance of faith, and the angel properly observes this order, that, after preparing the heart of the virgin by meditation on the grace of God, he may enlarge it to receive an incomprehensible mystery. For the participle κεχαριτωμένη, which Luke employs, denotes the undeserved favor of God. This appears more clearly from the Epistle to the Ephesians, (Eph 1:6,) where, speaking of our reconciliation to God, Paul says, God "hath made us accepted (ἐχαρίτωσεν) in the Beloved:" that is, he has received into his favor, and embraced with kindness, us who were formerly his enemies.
The angel adds, the Lord is with thee To those on whom he has once bestowed his love God shows himself gracious and kind, follows and "crowns them with loving-kindness," (Ps 103:4.) Next comes the third clause, that she is blessed among women. Blessing is here put down as the result and proof of the Divine kindness. The word Blessed does not, in my opinion, mean, Worthy of praise; but rather means, Happy. Thus, Paul often supplicates for believers, first "grace" and then "peace," (Ro 1:7; Eph 1:2,) that is, every kind of blessings; implying that we shall then be truly happy and rich, when we are beloved by God, from whom all blessings proceed. But if Mary's happiness, righteousness, and life, flow from the undeserved love of God, if her virtues and all her excellence are nothing more than the Divine kindness, it is the height of absurdity to tell us that we should seek from her what she derives from another quarter in the same manner as ourselves. With extraordinary ignorance have the Papists, by an enchanter's trick, changed this salutation into a prayer, and have carried their folly so far, that their preachers are not permitted, in the pulpit, to implore the grace of the Spirit, except through their Hail, Mary 23 But not only are these words a simple congratulation. They unwarrantably assume an office which does not belong to them, and which God committed to none but an angel. Their silly ambition leads them into a second blunder, for they salute a person who is absent.
29. When she had seen him, she was agitated Luke does not say that she was agitated by the presence of the angel, but by his address. Why then does he also mention his presence? 24 The reason, I think, is this. Perceiving in the angel something of heavenly glory, she was seized with sudden dread arising out of reverence for God. She was agitated, because she felt that she had received a salutation, not from a mortal man, but from an angel of God. But Luke does not say that she was so agitated as to have lost recollection. On the contrary, he mentions an indication of an attentive and composed mind; for he afterwards adds, and was considering what that salutation would be: that is, what was its object, and what was its meaning. It instantly occurred to her that the angel had not been sent for a trifling purpose. This example reminds us, first, that we ought not to be careless observers of the works of God; and, secondly, that our consideration of them ought to be regulated by fear and reverence.
30. Fear not, Mary He bids her lay aside fear. Let us always remember—what arises from the weakness of the flesh—that, whenever the feeblest ray of the Divine glory bursts upon us, we cannot avoid being alarmed. When we become aware, in good earnest, of the presence of God, we cannot think of it apart from its effects. 25 Accordingly, as we are all amenable to his tribunal, fear gives rise to trembling, until God manifests himself as a Father. The holy virgin saw in her own nation such a mass of crimes, that she had good reason for dreading heavier punishments. To remove this fear, the angel declares that he has come to certify and announce an inestimable blessing. The Hebrew idiom, Thou hast found favor, is used by Luke instead of, "God has been merciful to thee:" for a person is said to find favor, not when he has sought it, but when it has been freely offered to him. Instances of this are so well known, that it would be of no use to quote them.
31. Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb The angel adapts his words, first to Isaiah's prophecy, (Isa 7:14,) and next to other passages of the Prophets, with the view of affecting more powerfully the mind of the virgin: for such prophecies were well known and highly esteemed among the godly. At the same time, it ought to be observed that the angel did not merely speak in private to the ear of the virgin, but brought glad tidings, (εὐαγγέλιον,) which were shortly afterwards to be published throughout the whole world. It was not without the purpose of God, that the agreement, between ancient prophecies and the present message respecting the manifestation of Christ, was so clearly pointed out. The word conceive is enough to set aside the dream of Marcion and Manichaeus: for it is easy to gather from it that Mary brought forth not an ethereal body or phantom, but the fruit which she had previously conceived in her womb.
Thou shalt call his name Jesus The reason of the name is given by Matthew: for he shall save his people from their sins, (Mt 1:21.) And so the name contains a promise of salvation, and points out the object for which Christ was sent by the Father into the world, as he tells us that he "came not to judge the world, but to save the world," (Joh 12:47.) Let us remember that not by the will of men, but by the command of God, was this name given to him by the angel, that our faith may have its foundation, not in earth, but in heaven. It is derived from the Hebrew word ישע, salvation, from which comes הושיע, which signifies to save. It is a waste of ingenuity to contend that it differs from the Hebrew name יהושוע, (Jehoshua or Joshua.) The Rabbins everywhere write the word Jesu; and they do this with evident malice, that they may not bestow on Christ an honorable name, but, on the contrary, may insinuate that he is some pretended Jew. Their manner of writing it, accordingly, is of no more importance than the barking of a dog. The objection that it is far beneath the dignity of the Son of God to have a name in common with others, might equally apply to the name Christ, or Anointed But the solution of both is easy. What was exhibited in shadow under the law is fully and actually manifested in the Son of God; or, what was then a figure is in him a substance. There is another objection of as little weight. They assert that the name of Jesus is not worthy of veneration and awe, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, (Phil. 2:9, 10,) if it does not belong exclusively to the Son of God. For Paul does not attribute to him a magical name, as if in its very syllables majesty resided, but his language simply means that Christ has received from the Father the highest authority, to which the whole world ought to submit. Let us then bid adieu to such imaginations, and know, that the name Jesus was given to Christ, in order that believers may be instructed to seek in him what had formerly been shadowed out under the Law.
32. He shall be great The angel had said the same thing about John the Baptist, and yet did not intend to make him equal to Christ. But the Baptist is great in his own class, while the greatness of Christ is immediately explained to be such as raises him above all creatures. For to him alone this belongs as his own peculiar prerogative to be called the Son of God. So the apostle argues.
Unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? (Heb 1:5.)
Angels and kings, I admit, are sometimes dignified with this title in Scripture; but they are denominated in common the sons of God, on account of their high rank. But it is perfectly clear and certain, that God distinguishes his own Son from all the others, when he thus addresses him particularly, Thou art my Son, (Ps 2:7.) Christ is not confounded either with angels or with men, so as to be one of the multitude of the sons of God; but what is given to him no other has a right to claim. The sons of God are kings, not certainly by natural right, but because God has bestowed on them so great an honor. Even angels have no right to this distinction, except on account of their high rank among creatures, in subordination to the Great Head, (Eph 1:21.) We too are sons, but by adoption, which we obtain by faith; for we have it not from nature: Christ is the only Son, the only-begotten of the Father, (Joh 1:14.)
The future tense of the verb, he shall be called the Son of the Highest, is tortured by that filthy dog 26 Servetus to prove that Christ is not the eternal Son of God, but began to be so considered, when he took upon him our flesh. This is an intolerable slander. He argues that Christ was not the Son of God before he appeared in the world clothed with flesh; because the angel says, He shall be called On the contrary, I maintain, the words of the angel mean nothing more than that he, who had been the Son of God from eternity, would be manifested as such in the flesh, (1Ti 3:16;) for to be called denotes clear knowledge. There is a wide difference between the two statements, — that Christ began to be the Son of God, which he was not before, — and that he was manifested among men, in order that they might know him to be the person who had been formerly promised. Certainly, in every age God has been addressed by his people as a Father, and hence it follows, that he had a Son in heaven, from whom and by whom men obtained the sonship. For men take too much upon them, if they venture to boast of being the sons of God, in any other respect than as members of the only-begotten Son, (Joh 1:18.) Certain it is, that confidence in the Son alone, as Mediator, inspired the holy fathers with confidence to employ so honorable an address. That more complete knowledge, of which we are now speaking, is elsewhere explained by Paul to mean, that we are now at liberty not only to call God our Father, but boldly to cry, Abba, Father, (Ro 8:15; Ga 4:6.)
The Lord God will give unto him the throne of his father David We have said that the angel borrows from the prophets the titles which he bestows on Christ, in order that the holy virgin might more readily acknowledge him to be the Redeemer formerly promised to the fathers. Whenever the prophets speak of the restoration of the church, they direct all the hope of believers to the kingdom of David, so that it became a common maxim among the Jews, that the safety of the church would depend on the prosperous condition of that kingdom, and that nothing was more fitting and suitable to the office of the Messiah than to raise up anew the kingdom of David. Accordingly, the name of David is sometimes applied to the Messiah. "They shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king," (Jer 30:9.) Again, "my servant David shall be a prince among them," (Ezek. 34:24, Ezek. 37:24.) "They shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king," (Ho 3:5.) The passages in which he is called "the son of David" are sufficiently well known. In a word, the angel declares that in the person of Christ would be fulfilled the prediction of Amos, "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen," (Am 9:11.)
33. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob As salvation was promised, in a peculiar manner, to the Jews, (the covenant having been made with their father Abraham, Ge 17:7,) and Christ, as Paul informs us, "was a minister of the circumcision," (Ro 15:8,) the angel properly fixed his reign in that nation, as its peculiar seat and residence. But this is in perfect accordance with other predictions, which spread and extend the kingdom of Christ to the utmost limits of the earth. By a new and wonderful adoption, God has admitted into the family of Jacob the Gentiles, who formerly were strangers; though in such a manner that the Jews, as the first-born, held a preferable rank; as it is said, "The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion," (Ps 110:3.) Christ's throne was, therefore, erected among the people of Israel, that he might thence subdue the whole world. All whom he has joined by faith to the children of Abraham are accounted the true Israel. Though the Jews, by their revolt, have separated themselves from the church of God, yet the Lord will always preserve till the end some "remnants" (Ro 11:5;) for his "calling is without repentances" (Ro 11:29.) The body of the people is apparently cut off; but we ought to remember the mystery of which Paul speaks, (Ro 11:25,) that God will at length gather some of the Jews out of the dispersion. Meanwhile, the church, which is scattered through the whole world, is the spiritual house of Jacob; for it drew its origin from Zion.
For ever The angel points out the sense in which it was so frequently predicted by the prophets that the kingdom of David would be without end. It was only during his own reign and that of Solomon, that it remained wealthy and powerful Rehoboam, the third successor, hardly retained a tribe and a half. The angel now declares that, when it has been established in the person of Christ, it will not be liable to destruction, and, to prove this, employs the words of Daniel, (Da 7:14,) of his kingdom there shall be no end 27 Though the meaning of the words is, that God will for ever protect and defend the kingdom of Christ and the church, so that it shall not perish on the earth "as long as the sun and moon endure," (Ps. 72:5, 17,) yet its true perpetuity relates to the glory to come. So then, believers follow each other in this life, by an uninterrupted succession, till at length they are gathered together in heaven, where they shall reign without end.
"Cur ergo aspectus etiam meminit?" Calvin's allusion is brought out more clearly in his own vernacular. "Pourquoy donc dit-il, Quand elle l'eut veu?" — "Why then does he say, When she had seen him?"
"Neque otiosam imaginari licet." — "Car nous ne pouvons point apprehender à bon escient la presence de Dieu, sinon avec ses effects."
The use of such epithets may not be easily reconciled to the refinements of modern taste; but, three centuries ago, few readers would be startled by them, and they are much more sparingly employed by Calvin than by many of his contemporaries. Not to mention that Paul says, Beware of dogs, (Php 3:2,) and that the statement, Without are dogs, (Re 22:15,) bears the impress of the Alpha and Omega, (Re 22:13,) Servetus, to whom the epithet "filthy" is applied, had denied the fundamental doctrine of our Lord's supreme Divinity, and had luxuriated in the most revolting and blasphemous expressions. — Ed.
Daniel's prediction referred to runs thus: "His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." The angel does not employ these words; but his departure from them is not strongly marked, and it can scarcely be doubted that he had this passage in his eye. — Ed.


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Prizes: 1st place, $20; 2nd place, $10; and 3rd place, $5.
Qualifying for the Finals: Players qualify for season finals each three months by accumulating five points total throughout the regular season.
Ratings: United States Chess Federation Quick rated event.

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Here Cathy shows you a great shaped card. This is a Wobble card which rocks back and fowards.
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Devil Daggers Review Impressions
Hooo boy, Devil Daggers. Devil Daggers. My longest gameplay session in Devil Daggers is eighty-six seconds long. From what I can tell, this is a pretty OK score.
Devil Daggers is a first-person arena shooter with a gothic retro artstyle and only one game-mode: survival. There are about 2460 people in the world who are better at surviving in Devil Daggers than me. The best player, as of this writing, has survived for only 483 seconds, which is eight minutes.
Devil Daggers is extremely hard.
The average session of Devil Daggers goes like this:
- You spawn in a circular arena. For about three seconds, you're at peace.
- A rotating obelisk covered in tentacles will appear somewhere on the periphery of the arena. After a few seconds it will vomit a cloud of human skulls into the air.
- These skulls are gonna chase you, constantly, until you hit them with your bullets.
- Some of them are gonna drop gems?
- Some other skulls are gonna show up. Then some things made out of different kinds of skulls stuck together. Then some even weirder stuff.
- If anything touches you, even once, you die immediately and must restart.
Repeat forever, with increasingly extreme types of skulls pursuing you ceaselessly across the abyssal darkness of the arena.
Hint: never stop moving. Movement in Devil Daggers-- everyone's movement, yours and the skulls'-- is fluid and lively. The smallest skulls bound off the floor and swarm after you like bugs. The process of getting better at Devil Daggers is, at a most basic level, all about understanding movement-- your enemies' movement, your own movement, and the way your movement affects your bullets. It's a Dark Souls-like experience. When you first start playing, the skull-swarms will seem impossibly complicated, but after a while, they'll start to make a lot of sense.
Speaking of skulls: this is a super skull-filled game. It's very 'Warhammer 40K'-- the weakest skulls remind me of servo-skulls without the tech in them. In general, Devil Daggers' low-res artstyle is almost a perfect match for the kind of uninformed, childish mental pictures I used to create of the ultra-violent 90s-era shooters I was not allowed to play as a kid.
I didn't really imagine shooting people; I just imagined blasts and jets and fountains of blood randomly flying all over the place. That is basically what's going on in Devil Daggers. You're not shooting people, or even animal monsters-- just, you know, swarming skulls. The game is filled to the brim with bones and blood, but it's just a vibe, right? Gross-out gothic Lovecraft insectoid tentacle-skull horror-violence in the abstract. It works.
And if the artstyle is beautifully spooky, the sounds are spookily beautiful. Well, creepy-beautiful, anyway. The weakest skulls make a sort of muttering clop-clop sound as they chase you, and they die with a delicious glassy pop, like a christmas ornament dropped on the ground. The horned skulls circle ominously across the battlefield with a constant ticking sound, and there's another variety that comes after you with a much louder drone that grows louder the closer they get. There is a kind of enormous spider-skull that screams when it appears and reaches out to wave its zillion deadly legs over the battlefield with a sound like a giant scorpion scurrying across a tile floor. There's, uh, some other stuff, and it sounds even weirder. The sound design is, I think, my favorite part of Devil Daggers.
And the sounds are key. It would be pretty hard for a person with a hearing disability to play this game, to be honest. I'm usually so busy spinning and looping across the arena that I can't ever stop to take visual stock of my situation. My only warning that a new enemy has spawned is the sound it makes as it's barfed or plopped or hurled screaming into the arena. I had to wear headphones to keep an aural map of all the skulls closing in on me. At around seventy seconds, the game turns into a kind of cyclone of sound, and I honestly start struggling to keep track of where I am and who I need to kill. Getting better at Devil Daggers means learning to process its informational overload.
It also means solving a few puzzles. What do the collectable gems do? How do enemies affect them? What abilities do you have? How, exactly, do they even work? There's no tutorial here. You'll have to figure out everything for yourself. And you will, if you're a reasonably curious player. For a game with only one mode, one featureless arena, and a cruel insistence that you spend most of your time dying, it's got a lot of little discoveries to make.
My first session of Devil Daggers lasted about eight seconds. On average, I can now go about sixty seconds without dying. I peak in the low seventies on a regular basis, but I'm having a hard time besting eighty-six. I will, though. Right now, I'm making real strides with practice. It still feels extremely hard, but it no longer feels impossible.
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In a startling break with tradition, the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons will manage and run their own clinical trials testing expanded uses for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The two medical groups have recently been granted an investigational device exemption (IDE) by the FDA for one such trial and hope to gain an IDE for at least two more trials. The news was first reported by The Gray Sheet (subscription required) on February 8.
The new development represents a significant enlargement of the TVT registry, already run by the ACC and STS, which tracks all TAVR usage in the US.


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On Aug. 22, 143 people gathered at Heinz Field for training in the Be a 6th Grade Mentor program. To date, 670 people have applied to be mentors to sixth-graders in eight Pittsburgh Public Schools.
"What we're going to do in Pittsburgh is make huge numbers of interventions," said Pittsburgh Public School Superintendent Mark Roosevelt. "We think this will be a key piece to changing the outcomes for a whole variety of urban students."
Roosevelt joined the mentors-in-training during lunch to tell them his vision for the program and how their participation will help students become "college ready" by the time they graduate.
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"We have thought about education in a far too limited way for far too long," Roosevelt said. "Why middle school? Because these kids are still open to you. Even if they're a little behind, there's still time for them to catch up to be ready to succeed in high school."
United Way President Robert Nelkin echoed Roosevelt's vision. He said a mentor's job would be to make a student aware of the jobs and careers available and then show the importance of education in achieving his or her dream.
"This is the largest recruitment in the history of Allegheny County," Nelkin said. "We're not stopping this year and we're not stopping at this number."
Twenty-three-year-old Will Johnson was one of the many future mentors who went through the daylong training. Like most of the others in attendance, he said he wanted to become a mentor because of the positive impact his mentor had on his life.
"I realized I've been blessed and I haven't really given back to the extent that I've been blessed," Johnson said.
Johnson said he hopes to present a positive image of African-American men to his mentee. This includes showing his mentee African-American men can have careers in fields other than sports and entertainment.
"Young African-American men are in a crisis state right now. The things that African-American men are exposed to are things other races don't have to go through. I can relate to the things they're going through."
During training, the participants were given a variety of scenarios and case studies to discuss in order to determine the appropriate actions to take when dealing with their mentees.
Guidance counselors, teachers, principals, family and community members can recommend students for the program. Although there are not enough mentors for every 6th grader, recruitment will continue until Nov. 15.
"It is our sincere hope that every child who wants or needs a mentor will have the opportunity to have one," said Arlene Sparks, director of mentor recruitment for The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania.


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For each of my three children, my sister's gift to the newborn was a mobile to hang over the crib. Her first baby was born in December and it's my turn to be auntie and to provide the mobile. Since it's baby who spends most time looking at the mobile, my first design consideration was that it should be interesting to look at from a baby's-eye view, below.
One of my favorite spring-time activities is watching the birds as they go about the busy business of courting and nest building up in the branches of the trees in my backyard. So inspired, I composed the mobile of branches and birds for my new niece to look up at. I disguised the structural parts of the mobile as tree branches using I-cord twigs and garter-stitch leaves. From the branches, colorful birds hang by crochet chains. No two birds are alike, but they are all worked in different combinations of the same eight colors. By substituting a different palette, this mobile could fit in well with any nursery décor. I imagine a version with white birch branches, and baby pastels for the leaves and birds would look beautiful, too.
Height: approx. 42 inches
Knit Picks Wool of the Andes [100% Peruvian Highland Wool; 110yd/101m per 50g skein]; 1 skein each color [CC1] #23439 Grass [CC2] #23766 Avocado [CC3] #23432 Cloud [CC4] #23428 Blueberry [CC5] #24075 Camel Heather
[CC6] Knit Picks Swish Superwash [100% Superwash Merino Wool; 110yd/101m per 50g skein]; color: #23877 Bordeaux; 1 skein
[CC7] Cascade Yarns Cascade 220 [100% Wool; 220yd/201m per 100g skein]; color: #9476 Maize; 1 skein Recommended needle size: 1 set US #5/3.75 mm double-point needles 1 set US #4/3.5 mm straight needles (or one size smaller than size used to achieve gauge) [always use a needle size that gives you the gauge listed below -- every knitter's gauge is unique]
Approx. 3yd/2.7m black yarn or embroidery floss (used for eyes) Crochet hook, approx. size US #I/9 / 5.5mm Waste yarn Yarn needle 48 inches wooden dowel, 0.25 inch diameter (to be cut into shorter lengths) Fiberfill stuffing
24 sts/32 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch using larger (double-point) needles Note: Gauge is not critical for this project, but it is important to work more tightly than receommended ball band gauge for yarns used. This will produce a firm fabric, which will help pieces maintain their shape and prevent stuffing from leaking out.
In the mobile shown, each bird uses five different colors: one color each for the body (including tail), body stripe, head, beak and wings.
The chart at right lists the colours used for each of these parts of each bird. The pattern will refer to 'body color', 'stripe color', etc.
Crochet Cast On Using waste yarn, work a crochet chain several sts longer than the number of sts to be cast on. Starting 1 or 2 sts in from end of chain and using working yarn, pick up and k 1 st in the back loop of each ch until the required number of sts have been picked up. Later, the chain will be unraveled and the resulting live sts picked up.
Jogless Stripes: This technique may be used to avoid the jog that happens at the beginning of a round, when stripes are worked in the round. Step 1: Work first round of new color. Step 2: Before working first st of second round of new color, lift stitch below first st of first round onto left needle. (The st you lift onto left needle will be in previous stripe color.) Step 3: Knit first st of second round together with st that has been lifted onto left needle, then continue knitting as usual.
Instructions for working a French Knot can be found here.
Instructions for grafting can be found here.
sk2p: Sl 1, k2tog, pass slipped st over. 2 sts decreased.
BIRD (Make 5) With body color, using Crochet Cast On or other provisional cast on method and leaving a tail approx. 18 inches long, CO 24 sts onto double-point needles. Divide sts between needles and join to begin working in the round, being careful not to twist.
Tail: Rounds 1-4: K all sts. Round 5: [K1, ssk, k6, k2tog, k1] twice. 20 sts. Rounds 6-7: K all sts. Round 8: [K1, ssk, k4, k2tog, k1] twice. 16 sts. Rounds 9-15: K all sts.
Body: K first 4 sts of next round. This point (center of bird's back) will now be beginning of round; redistribute sts as needed. Join stripe color, leaving a tail approx. 18 inches long.
Body is worked in 2-round stripes, using body color and stripe color. To avoid jog at beginning of each stripe, use 'Jogless Stripe' technique (see Pattern Notes). Carry yarn not in use up inside of work. When beginning a new stripe, be sure to bring the new color up from under the old color; this will twist the strands, preventing holes from forming at color-change points.
Color used for each round is indicated in brackets next to round number. See color chart in Pattern Notes.
Rounds 1-2 [Stripe]: K all sts. Round 3 [Body]: K all sts. Round 4 [Body]: [K2, m1, k4, m1, k2] twice. 20 sts. Rounds 5-6 [Stripe]: K all sts. Round 7 [Body]: K all sts. Round 8 [Body]: [K3, m1, k4, m1, k3] twice. 24 sts. Rounds 9-10 [Stripe]: K all sts. Round 11 [Body]: K all sts. Round 12 [Body]: [K4, m1, k4, m1, k4] twice. 28 sts. Rounds 13-14 [Stripe]: K all sts. Round 15 [Body]: K all sts. Round 16 [Body]: [K5, m1, k4, m1, k5] twice. 32 sts Rounds 17-18 [Stripe]: K all sts. Rounds 19-20 [Body]: K all sts. Rounds 21-22 [Stripe]: K all sts. Round 23 [Body]: K all sts. Round 24 [Body]: [K5, k2tog, k2, ssk, k5] twice. 28 sts. Round 25 [Stripe]: K all sts. Round 26 [Stripe]: [K4, k2tog, k2, ssk, k4] twice. 24 sts. Round 27 [Body]: K all sts. Round 28 [Body]: [K3, k2tog, k2, ssk, k3] twice. 20 sts. Round 29 [Stripe]: K all sts. Round 30 [Stripe]: [K2, k2tog, k2, ssk, k2] twice. 16 sts. Rounds 31-32 [Body]: K all sts.
Head: Round 1: Using head color, k all sts. Break body color. Knot body color tail together with head color tail, forming knot very close to inner surface of work. Cut knotted ends, leaving tails approx. 1 inch long; tuck these tails inside body. Break stripe color and secure end inside work. Continue in head color as follows.
Round 2: [K2, m1, k4, m1, k2] twice. 20 sts. Rounds 3-8: K all sts.
This is a good time to embroider the eyes onto the head of the bird, as you have access to both sides of the fabric. Working approx. 2 rows back from row currently on needles, use black yarn or embroidery floss to work French knots (see schematic below for placement). See Pattern Notes for link to directions for French knots. If you haven't worked a French knot before, you may wish to practice on a swatch before you begin.
Round 9: [K2, k2tog, k1] four times. 16 sts. Round 10: [K1, k2tog, k1] four times. 12 sts. Round 11: [K2tog, k1] four times. 8 sts.
Beak: Round 1: Using beak color, k all sts. Break head color. Knot head color tail together with beak color tail, forming knot very close to inner surface of work. Cut knotted ends, leaving a tail approx. 1 inch long; tuck these inside head. Continue in beak color as follows. Rounds 2-3: K all sts. Round 4: [K2tog] four times. 4 sts. Round 5: K all sts. Break yarn and draw through all sts, pull tight.
Shape beak to a nice point and draw yarn end to inside of head. Turning bird inside out, tighten knots, trim and secure ends as needed, leaving long tails at beginning of stripe color and body color.
Turn bird right side out. Stuff head and body, but not tail. Use long tail of stripe color to sew body closed at point where body joins tail; sew top of body to bottom of body in a straight line, so that tail is flattened out at base (see photos). Sew in remaining end of stripe color.
Carefully remove waste yarn from CO end, placing resulting live sts on needles; place first 12 sts one one needle, and last 12 sts on another needle. When needles are held together, tail should lay flat. Graft sts on first needle to sts on second needle. Sew in remaining end.
Wings: Using wing color and double-point needles, CO 19 sts, leaving a tail approx. 18 inches long. Divide sts between needles and join to begin working in the round, being careful not to twist.
Rounds 1-5: K all sts. Round 6: K7, k2tog, k1, ssk, k7. 17 sts. Rounds 7-10: K all sts. Round 11: K6, k2tog, k1, ssk, k6. 15 sts. Rounds 12-14: K all sts. Round 15: K5, k2tog, k1, ssk, k5. 13 sts. Round 16: K all sts. Round 17: K4, k2tog, k1, ssk, k4. 11 sts. Round 18: K all sts. Round 19: K3, k2tog, k1, ssk, k3. 9 sts. Round 20: K2, k2tog, k1, ssk, k2. 7 sts. Round 21: K1, k2tog, k1, ssk, k1. 5 sts.
Break yarn and draw through all sts, pull tight.
Shape wing to a nice point and draw yarn end to inside of piece. Weave in end, but leave long tail at beginning of wing. Knit another wing in the same way.
Flatten wings, folding so that decrease line forms fold at one side of wing. This decrease-line fold will form back edge of wing. Use yarn tails to sew wings to sides of body (see photos), ensuring that decrease-line folds are correctly positioned toward back of bird.
BRANCHES Using MC and double-point needle, CO 6 sts. Work I-Cord until piece measures 15.5 inches. Break yarn, draw through all sts and pull tight. This piece will be Branch 1. Work three more l-Cord branches in the same way, of the following lengths: Branch 2: 12.5 inches Branch 3: 10.5 inches Branch 4: 8 inches
LEAVES Make 12 leaves using CC1, and 12 using CC2. Leaves are worked back and forth in garter st. Although [RS] and [WS] rows are indicated in directions, leaves are reversible.
Using smaller (straight) needles, CO 1 st. Row 1 [RS]: Kfb. 2 sts. Row 2 [WS]: Kfb, k1. 3 sts. Row 3 [RS]: Kfb, kfb, k1. 5 sts. Row 4 [WS]: K all sts. Row 5 [RS]: K1, kfb, kfb, k2. 7 sts. Rows 6-13: K all sts. Row 14 [WS]: K1, ssk, k1, k2tog, k1. 5 sts. Rows 15-17: K all sts. Row 18 [WS]: Ssk, k1, k2tog. 3 sts. Row 19 [RS]: K all sts. Row 20 [WS]: Sk2p. Break yarn and draw through remaining st. Weave in tail at end of leaf, but leave tail at beginning (CO end).
Cut four pieces of dowel, with the following lengths: 15 inches, 12 inches, 10 inches and 7.5 inches. These correspond to Branches 1, 2, 3 and 4. Lightly sand cut ends of dowel. Insert lengths of dowel into I-cord branches, sewing end of each branch closed using yarn tail at CO end.
Use attached yarn tails to sew three leaves to each end of each branch. Weave in and trim all ends.
Using MC, work crochet chains of the following lengths, leaving tails at least 4 inches long at the beginning and end of each chain. Measure lengths of chains when stretched; chains will stretch when piece is hung, so measuring length when stretched will give a better indication of final results. Four chains 8.5 inches long (short chains) Four chains 10 inches long (mid-length chains) One chain 11.5 inches long (long chain) Note about ceiling heights: This mobile measures 42 inches in height when fully assembled, which works well for high ceilings (10 feet or higher). If you prefer a shorter mobile, reduce the length of the chains. Reducing each chain by 1 inch will make a mobile 37 inches in height, and reducing each by 2 inches will make a mobile 32 inches in height.
Wrap the end of one of the mid-length chains around your index finger to create a loop at the end. Use the tail of yarn to sew the loop securely. Weave in and trim the end. Repeat for the other end of the chain. This chain, with a loop at each end, should measure approx. 8.5 inches when stretched. Form loops at each end of remaining three mid-length chains in the same way.
Form a loop at one end of each short chain. Sew free end of each short chain to the back of a bird, sewing through several stitches to avoid stretching fabric out of shape. Weave in ends; be sure to try hanging bird from chain before sewing in ends, to ensure that the bird will hang in a pleasing way.
Form a loop at one end of long chain, and sew remaining end to back of remaining bird.
To attach the top of a chain to a branch, fold the loop at the top of the chain over, then pull some of the chain through the loop, forming an adjustable loop. (If you've ever used a yo-yo, this will be familiar to you.) Slide the adjustable loop over the end of a branch, past the leaves, then pull to tighten.
In this way, assemble mobile as shown in diagram, using mid-length chains to connect branches. After each step, dangle the assembled piece to see if it is balanced; adjust positions of pieces as needed. - Beginning at the bottom, hang two birds on the shortest branch (branch 4). - Hang branch 4 from the end of branch 3, then hang another bird from the other end of branch 3. - Hang branch 3 from the end of branch 2, then hang another bird from the other end of branch 2. - Fasten a chain around the center of branch 1. Hang branch 2 from the end of branch 1, then hang another bird from the other end of branch 1.
Dangle mobile to see if it is balanced; adjust positions of pieces as needed. Once all pieces are placed and mobile is balanced, tighten loops. These may be sewn in place if desired, but for mobile shown, pulling the loops tightly was sufficient to keep everything in place.
Meg likes to knit toys (and other stuff, too). She has two daughters, one son, five nieces and a husband who is a kid at heart, so there's always someone ready to adopt the toys she knits. She's also a grad student in evolutionary biology and once had her research featured on The Colbert Report. That was cool, but she thinks having a pattern published in Knitty is even better!
Her Ravelry name is meggles and she blogs here.


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To one who has been predicting the demise of print media in the E-Commerce Times for over five years, it might seem odd that such a techie as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos would buy The Washington Post. Why, even this past November, Bezos said in an interview with the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung, "one thing I'm certain about: There won't be printed newspapers in 20 years."
Yet, I see nothing strange about his purchase. And, from what I have read, even Silicon Valley is happy with it.
What's going on here? The answer is surprisingly simple. For some time, technologically competent people have been wondering why there has been such a firewall within newspapers between the newsroom and the information technology people. This is why the techies have been amazed that publishers haven't taken advantage of their IT departments in order to broaden their readership. Bezos will change all that.
While the Publishers Slept
While the publishers were sleeping, Internet entrepreneurs weren't. They've been creating "things." Things such as Circa. Circa was established by Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh. It seeks to "slice and dice" the news so that when it gets to the individual reader, it is just what she/he wants. It eliminates the extraneous as well as the stories that the reader is least likely to read or appreciate.
I recently visited Circa's website and it says, "News without the fluff, filler, or commentary: Circa's editors gather top stories and break them down to their essential points — facts, quotes, photos, and more, formatted specifically for the phone. Circa makes it easier than ever to keep up with what's going on in the world from wherever you happen to be."
The founder of Circa, Mr. Huh, recently said, "the advantage of Circa is that by rethinking journalism from the ground up, we can build an individual relationship from the ground up… We know what you know, and what you don't know. The shackles are completely off."
I think that Circa is all about gathering news and then broadcasting it across various social networks and trying to attach that news to as many search engines as possible. I can see why Silicon Valley is so pleased with Bezos' acquisition of The Washington Post. I have no doubt that it will become a technological leader in the print media world, as well as in the e-media world.
A New Business Model for Print Media
As I see it, there are still far too many print media publishers who have been taken for a ride on the inertia of motion express. Remember your early physics lessons about inertia? Remember Newton's First Law of Motion? It is commonly stated as, "An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force." There's a fancy formula to further explain this law of motion. Let's skip the formula, because I was never that good with mathematics.
Suffice it to say that newspaper publishers have rested on their laurels. During that time, they have been acted upon by an "unbalanced force" while they were sleeping. Perhaps many of them had assumed that when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, the printing press was the equivalent to one of those immutable axioms that we learned in science class. But all indications now point to the eventual devise of print media, and e-media has already become quite ubiquitous. Can you imagine anyone trying to take a person's smartphone or tablet away and handing them a newspaper instead? I can't.
The bloom is certainly off the rose when it comes to print media. A smart approach for print media publishers is to create a new business model that has as a key element the demise of the printed newspaper. Publishers would then be focused on ways to develop a user-friendly website for their newspapers. Such a website could have a firewall that one would hit after having read so many free articles. After that point, further articles could only be accessed by subscription or by paying for the individual article. Many major newspapers now have such a firewall in place.
Additionally, advertisers to a paper's website should be targeted and pursued aggressively. Since nothing succeeds like success, the easiest way to attract new advertisers would be to continually expand the publication's circulation. That could be done by microtargeting readers and broadcasting the news over as many social media platforms as possible, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Search engines should also be targeted in order to put as many portals out there as possible, thus increasing the likelihood that readers will enter a portal and find a given publication.
So does Jeff Bezos know what he is doing by acquiring The Washington Post? I certainly think so. Wasn't it Jeff who said, "If we have 4.5 million customers we shouldn't have one store — we should have 4.5 million stores"? As ironic as this seems, he told that to a Washington Post reporter in 1998.
His statement means to me that he wants to slice and dice the news for each individual reader based upon the reader's tastes and preferences. How can he do that? Let's remember that Amazon, created by none other than Mr. Bezos, has one of the most formidable computer infrastructures in the world. It is so formidable that countries lease computer time on its system so that they can benefit by the incredible depth and breadth of Amazon's infrastructure.
Look for great things to come from The Washington Post. I have no doubt that Jeff will wed outstanding and first-rate reportage with formidable computer, technological and marketing prowess. Give him just a few short years and I have no doubt that his prediction that "there won't be printed newspapers in 20 years" will easily come to pass. In fact, I personally think that he erred in his prediction. With him now in the newspaper business, it probably will take far fewer than 20 years for the printing presses to stop.


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Maria Goeppert Mayer, who made important discoveries about nuclear structure, is one of only two women to have won the Nobel Prize in physics. But during her early career, she was forced to spend many years in unpaid positions before she was able to obtain a professorship in physics. Nonetheless, she persevered in her research. In August 1948, Goeppert Mayer published her first paper detailing the evidence for the nuclear shell model, which accounts for many properties of atomic nuclei.
Maria Goeppert was born in 1906 in Kattowitz, which was part of Germany at the time. When she was four years old, her family moved to Göttingen, where her father was a professor of pediatrics. In fact, he was the sixth generation university professor in the family, and Maria was later proud of being the seventh generation academic. Her father always encouraged her to grow up to be more than a housewife. It was assumed that Maria would get an education, and she did, even though it was difficult for women at the time.
After attending public school and a college preparatory academy for girls, in 1924 she entered the University of Göttingen, where at first intending to study mathematics. But after attending Max Born's quantum mechanics seminar, she switched her focus to physics.
She completed her Ph.D. in 1930, with a thesis on double photon reactions. While at Göttingen, she met her husband, physical chemist Joseph Mayer. After she completed her Ph.D., the couple moved to the US, where he got a job at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Nepotism rules prevented the university from hiring her as a professor, so she worked as a volunteer, continuing her own research, most of which involved applying quantum mechanics to chemical problems. She encountered a similar situation in 1939 when her husband got a job at Columbia University. Maria Goeppert Mayer was given office space, but no salary. At first she worked on calculations of properties of transuranic elements; later she worked with Harold Urey on a photochemical method for isotope separation (the method was abandoned as impractical).
In 1946, Maria Goeppert Mayer and her husband moved to Chicago, where she was employed half time at the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies and half time at Argonne National Laboratory. Here she began working with Edward Teller on a project to determine the origin of the elements.
The work involved creating a list of isotope abundances. While making this list, it became clear to Goeppert Mayer that nuclei with 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, or 126 protons or neutrons were especially stable. (These numbers became known as "magic numbers," a term thought to have been coined by Eugene Wigner, who was somewhat skeptical about the shell model.) This observation led her to suggest a shell structure for nuclei, analogous to electron shell structure in atoms.
In the nuclear shell model, each nucleon moves in a central potential well created by other nucleons, just as the electrons orbit a potential well created by the nucleus in the atomic shell model. The orbits form a series of shells of increasing energy. Nuclei with completely filled outer shells are most stable.
The fact that nuclei with certain numbers of nucleons were especially stable had in fact been noticed before, but physicists were so certain that a shell model could not be correct, in part because an alternative model, the liquid drop model, which treats the nucleus as a homogeneous blob, had been quite successful in explaining fission. In addition, physicists assumed that the interactions between nucleons would be too strong for the nucleus to be accurately described by a shell model, which treats nucleons as independent particles. Goeppert Mayer, who had less formal training in nuclear physics, was less biased by evidence for the liquid drop model.
Goeppert Mayer then considered other nuclear properties, and found they all pointed to more support for magic numbers. In August 1948, her first paper summarizing the evidence for a shell model of the nucleus was published in Physical Review.
Although Goeppert Mayer had collected evidence for the nuclear shell model, at first she couldn't explain the specific sequence of magic numbers. Standard quantum mechanics and a simple central potential couldn't account for the magic numbers higher than 20.
The key insight came to Goeppert Mayer when Enrico Fermi happened to ask her if there was any evidence of spin-orbit coupling. She immediately realized this was the answer. Goeppert Mayer was now able to calculate energy levels and magic numbers.
As she was sending her paper off to the Physical Review for publication, she became aware of a paper by Hans Jensen and colleagues, who had independently come up with the same result. She asked that her paper be delayed to be published in the same issue as theirs, though hers ended up being published in the issue after theirs, in June 1949.
Goeppert Mayer had not met Jensen at the time, but later the two did meet. They became friends and collaborators, and wrote a book together on the nuclear shell model. Jensen and Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in 1963 for their work on the shell model. They shared the prize with Eugene Wigner, for unrelated work.
Maria Goeppert Mayer was appointed to a full professorship at the University of California, San Diego in 1960, but suffered a stroke soon after. She never fully recovered, and died in 1972.
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Hack a Day hasn't change its format since 2004. Even though MAKE has gone Web 2.0 with buttons using mouseover, and Instructables has fancy drop-down menus, Hack a Day has been a constant black background, green text child of the web circa 2004. A while ago, we decided it was time for an update to our layout. Today we're pleased to announce an open beta test for our upcoming update – Hack a Day: the retro edition.
In case you're wondering, yes, this is a joke, and no, we're not going all Web 0.1a on you.
The retro edition is a little side project to our upcoming update where we'll be rolling out a new template for Hack a Day. We're going to fix a lot of the problems with the current template – searching, and an admittedly terrible commenting system design – and generally 'cleaning up' the design. We already have the store up and running, so progress on the update is slowly being made.
As far as the retro edition goes, we're keeping that. We've had a few nerd-offs trying to load Hack a Day on the oldest computer possible, so a version of Hack a Day built for computers from 1983 seemed like a worthwhile goal. Think of it as a challenge: if you can send in a picture of your Commodore PET loading up the retro edition, we'll add you to the retro successes page.
There's a bit more we'd like to do with the retro edition, namely guides to getting your old computers up on the Internet. As a little bonus (and in keeping with the retro theme), we're putting up a few classic Hack a Day posts from the days of yore.
So, there you go. We've tested the retro edition on a Mac PowerBook 170 and a Quadra 700, but feel free to dig out your old hardware and give this a spin.
EDIT: As far as the 'retro competition' goes, [Jaromir] wrote in and brought up an interesting point: Loading that .GIF logo would be really hard on computers with kilobytes of ram, so I'm changing that to a .BMP. Just so we're all clear, there are no official rules, you're competing against yourself, and if you can get a picture of an old computer loading this site, you're going to be listed on the 'successes' page.