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This story points out how crucial it is that our practice match our teaching and preaching. There will always be those who will judge the claims of Christ by we who claim to be his followers. Children are especially able to see through this kind of hypocrisy (often to the embarrassment of their parents). In the life of the person who truly serves God there can be no such discrepancy. As A. J. Gordon once said, "We do not stand in the world bearing witness to Christ, but stand in Christ and so bear witness to the world." Simply put, we do not witness to prove we are God's servants, we witness because we are God's servants.
This is why Paul is able to assert that it is as servants of God we commend ourselves (v. 4). The Greek word diakonos means "servant" or "messenger." The genitive of God is in all probability possessive. Paul and his coworkers are "God's servants" and, as such, take their orders from him. This is why they can commend themselves in every way. In every way is placed first for emphasis. The gospel ministry can admit no exception for the sake of credibility. This is the second of three places in the letter where Paul explicitly recommends himself to the Corinthians (4:2; 6:4; 11:16--12:11). The Corinthians have forced him to it (12:11) with their misplaced confidence in those who flaunt their credentials (5:12). Even so, Paul can bring himself to boast only in what his critics would consider ministerial failures rather than successes (4:8-9; 6:4-5; 11:23-29).
As a small boy walked on a beach one day, he spied a matronly woman sitting under a beach umbrella on the sand. He walked up to her and asked, "Are you a Christian?"
"Yes," she answered.
"Do you read your Bible every day?"
She nodded her head. "Yes."
"Do you pray often?" the boy asked next.
Again she answered, "Yes."
With that he asked his final question: "Will you hold my quarter while I go swimming?"
Trustoorthiness is hard to come by. It is not implicit in the claim to be a Christian. We look for evidences of trustoorthiness just as the small boy on the beach did. Paul lists toenty-eight reasons why the Corinthians should consider his ministry deserving of confidence (vv. 4-10). Some, like troubles, hardships and distresses, are not the kind of things that the Corinthians--or a lot of churches today, for that matter--would naturally appreciate. Yet they are the telltale signs of a successful ministry in God's eyes and for this reason alone should commend themselves to the church. But the Corinthians, like many of us, were so used to judging success by society's standards that it is a hard sell for Paul.
This is the second of three res gestae (cataloging of deeds) or curricula vitae found in 2 Corinthians. Like the list in 4:8-9, it highlights exploits and accomplishments that society would judge to be blameworthy rather than praiseworthy (such as beatings, imprisonments and riots). Unlike the previous résumé, it goes beyond the typical missionary afflictions to include such spiritual attributes as purity, understanding, patience and kindness, along with such divine credentials as the Holy Spirit, genuine love, the word of truth and the power of God (vv. 6-7). The finely shaped and stylistically well-balanced character of this section has led some to suppose that Paul is using a preformed text. Each of the first group of eighteen is introduced by the preposition en (in), the second group of three by the preposition dia (through) and the final group of seven by hos (as).
The first grouping of eighteen can be divided into three subgroups: (1) missionary hardships and sufferings (vv. 4-5), (2) ethical virtues (v. 6) and (3) spiritual weaponry (v. 7). Paul starts with nine kinds of sufferings that he experienced as a gospel minister. Of the nine, only riots does not appear elsewhere in his tribulation lists. In great endurance heads the list. In chapter 1 endurance was the end result of divine encouragement received during trials. Here it denotes how one should go about handling adversity. Used positively, the term means "to stand firm" or "to hold one's ground" in the face of difficulties. This is in contrast to the Stoics, who taught that life's difficulties can and must be overcome.
The first group of difficulties that require a firm stance includes external and internal pressures of one sort or another: troubles, hardships and distresses. The Greek word for troubles (thlipsis) denotes the pressures and anxieties of life that come our way. These can be external ("conflicts without," 7:5) or internal ("fears within," 7:5), though the term is most often used of the harassment that God's people experience at the hands of the world. Ananke (hardships) signifies that which compels, forces or necessitates such adverse circumstances as calamity, torture or bodily pain. To experience distress (stenochoria) is to find oneself in a tight corner or in narrow straits with no apparent way of escape--not unlike an army under attack in a long narrow pass with no space to maneuver or retreat (Barclay 1954:213).
The next group are difficulties inflicted by others: beatings, imprisonments and riots. Plhgai (beatings) are physical blows that occur as a result of mob action or court punishment. Paul recounts having been lashed five times by Jewish authorities and whipped three times with Roman rods (11:24-25). As for imprisonments, Luke records only the imprisonment in Philippi prior to the writing of 2 Corinthians (Acts 16:16-40). Paul says in 11:23 that he had been jailed more times than his opponents, but we do not know when and where the other imprisonments took place. Riots happened in almost every city Paul visited. With few exceptions these were incited by Jewish antagonists who were envious of Paul's success among the Gentiles.
The final three difficulties are self-imposed: hard work, sleepless nights and hunger. Kopos (hard work) literally means a "striking" or "beating." It came to be used of labor that is physically exhausting--the kind that causes one to collapse at night from sheer exhaustion. Paul uses the term to describe both his trade as a worker of goats-hair cloth (1 Cor 4:12; 1 Thess 2:9; 2 Thess 3:8) and his missionary labors (2 Cor 10:15)--although the too are connected, since he plied a trade so as not to be a financial burden on his churches (2 Thess 3:8). Agrypnia denotes sleeplessness or wakefulness. For Paul, this was voluntarily imposed. If 11:28-29 is any indication, it was the result of prayerful concern for his churches. It can also be an indication that his tentmaking and missionary labors (preaching, discipling, prayer, correspondence) carried him well into the wee hours of the night. The last hardship is hunger. Nesteia, as opposed to limos which is involuntary hunger, refers to self-imposed abstinence. Fasting was a common practice among pious Jews and was often done as a means of focusing one's energies on the task of intercession. There may also have been times when Paul went hungry to avoid being a burden on anyone (2 Cor 11:7-10).
At verse 6 Paul goes beyond what Chrysostom called "a blizzard of troubles" to include four moral attributes deemed essential for those who claim to be God's servants: purity, understanding, patience and kindness. None is unique to the gospel ministry. Two, in fact, appear among the fruits of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22 and in the same order (patience and kindness; compare 1 Cor 13:4).
Hagnotes (only here in the Greek Bible) and the more common cognate hagnos range in meaning from an inward disposition ("pure of heart," 11:3) to outoard behavior ("innocent," 7:11; "chaste," 11:2; "without defect," Phil 4:8; "blameless," 1 Tim 5:22). Since hagnotes is linked with relational qualities like patience and kindness, it may well bear the sense of moral blamelessness in dealing with others--a point that Paul is concerned to underscore throughout the letter (1:12; 4:2; 6:3).
Although knowledge (gnosis), second in Paul's list, can refer to a "grasp of truth" (NEB), it is "insight" (Phillips) or understanding (NIV) that best fits the context. Anyone can acquire head knowledge--that is, the mental accumulation and integration of facts. The Corinthians thought they possessed it (1 Cor 8:1-2), and Paul's opponents laid claim to it (2 Cor 11:5). Heart knowledge, on the other hand, is much harder to come by. It is the God-given ability to know the right thing to do in a given situation--what we call "wisdom" or "insight" (see 1 Cor 12:8).
The Greek word for patience, third in Paul's list, means "long-tempered" (makro + thymia); this word is frequently used in the Old Testament of God's long-suffering attitude toward his people. In extrabiblical literature it denotes a human attitude of passive resignation or forced acceptance, but in the Greek Bible it is a positive attribute (Gal 5:22). More than simple endurance or forbearance, it expresses loving patience toward those whose failings would normally provoke irritation (Horst 1967:374-85).
Chrestotes, the fourth and final moral quality, is the capacity to show kindness even to the undeserving and to evidence a sympathetic interest in the problems of others.
Blamelessness, insightfulness, patience and kindness constitute Paul's moral imperative for the gospel preacher. The regularity with which the last too crop up in his ethical instruction (as in 1 Cor 13:4; Gal 5:22; Col 3:12) suggests a common growing edge in the churches that he pastored. It was not for want of a model in Paul, though. It may well have been that these churches were looking to the wrong model. There is every indication that they were listening to the wrong message (2 Cor 11:4; Gal 1:6; Col 2:18-23). But then, quite often wrong theology leads to wrong behavior (see 1 Tim 4:15-16).
The spiritual arsenal of the gospel minister is presented in the next group of four. Each is distinguished by a modifier that emphasizes what is uppermost in Paul's mind: in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; in truthful speech and in divine power (NIV the power of God). It is an arsenal that in Paul's estimate his opponents on at least too counts lacked (11:4, "a different Spirit [see the commentary] . . . a different gospel").
En pneumati hagio could denote the ethical quality of the human spirit ("with a holy spirit") or the divine Spirit ("by the Holy Spirit"). When the word pneuma (spirit) stands alone, it is sometimes difficult to determine which sense Paul has in mind. But when modified by the adjective hagios (holy), it invariably refers to the divine Spirit (e.g., Rom 5:5; 9:1; 14:17; 15:13, 16; 1 Cor 12:3; 1 Thess 1:5-6; Titus 3:5). Why would Paul include the Spirit in his ministerial arsenal? The combination of purity (hagnotes) and the power of the Holy (hagios) Spirit, to be sure, makes for an unbeatable credential. Still, Paul may have something more in mind. The grouping of Spirit, love, speech and power suggests the outoard, validating signs that frequently accompanied the preaching of the gospel in the first century. Although Paul does not brag about them as his rival missionaries do, he does remind the Corinthians that the things that mark an apostle--"signs, wonders and miracles"--had been done among them (12:12). With the addition of the adjectives holy, sincere and truthful, Paul takes the offensive in pointing to the kind of inward, authenticating signs that should equally accompany gospel proclamation. The Spirit's inclusion in the missionary's weaponry underscores his role in confirming the message and convicting the listener.
The second weapon in Paul's missionary arsenal is sincere love. A love that is sincere is one without hypocrisy and free from artificiality. Love and Spirit is a familiar combination with Paul. Hope does not disappoint us, because "God has poured out his love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit" (Rom 5:5). Paul even solicits the Roman church's prayers "by the love that the Spirit inspires" (Rom 15:30 NEB).
Truthful speech, the third missionary weapon, is actually "the word of truth" (logo aletheias). This is an important distinction because Paul elsewhere equates the word of truth with the gospel message (Eph 1:13; Col 1:5). A better translation might be "the true message." His rivals, on the other hand, preach a distorted version of the gospel (4:2; compare "another gospel," 11:4) for the sake of financial gain (2:17) and to gain acceptance (3:1-2). Paul's last weapon is the power of God. The genitive is most likely descriptive: "divine power." Divine power undoubtedly includes both enablement to preach the gospel and confirmation of the message proclaimed (1 Cor 2:4; 1 Thess 1:5). In all cases Paul connects this power with the working of the Spirit.
The armory of the Holy Spirit--sincere love, the true message and divine power--is deployed with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left (v. 7). Paul is fond of military language, whether to describe Christian self-control (1 Thess 5:8), the resources available to resist the devil's schemes (Eph 6:11-18) or, as here, the spiritual array at one's disposal in preaching the gospel. The relationship betoeen the too nouns weapons and righteousness is unclear. Are these weapons used to fight for righteousness, weapons that righteousness provides (Furnish 1984:346), righteousness used as a weapon (that is, a life of integrity; Phillips, TEV) or weapons that are righteous in character (Bultmann 1985:172-73)? The last option seems the preferable one. Paul's weapons were ones of notable integrity and not like those of his rivals, who utilized domination, exploitation and humiliation (11:20).
Roman soldiers carried a sword or spear in the right hand for attack and a shield in the left for defense. In this way they were well equipped to meet the challenges of battle. Paul too was well equipped for battle, a battle that he defines as demolishing arguments, pulling down every proud obstacle that is raised against knowing God and taking captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (10:4-5).
At this point in his résumé, Paul turns to too opposite estimates of his ministry--too contrasting letters of reference, as it were. One letter reflects public opinion, the other, divine appraisal. According to public opinion he is a disgrace (dishonor), a bad character (bad report), an impostor and unknown (v. 8). The first too nouns are similar in meaning. Atimia in extrabiblical Greek signifies a state of social disgrace resulting from the loss of one's rights as a citizen. In the estimate of his social peers, Paul was someone to be shunned (compare Cotton Patch Version, "spit on"). The closely related term dysphemia, found nowhere else in the New Testament, denotes an "ill word" spoken against someone so that they gain a bad reputation in the public eye. Both are potential hazards in the ministry. The one can discourage (4:1); the other can cause one to lose perspective (4:8). Paul is also perceived to be an impostor (planos), who misleads and causes others to wander. In addition, he is an unknown (agnooumenos), someone lacking stature who can be dismissed as unworthy of recognition.
But then Paul cared very little about how his social peers judged him--or even how the Corinthians evaluated him (1 Cor 4:3). The opinion that mattered to him was God's. And in God's opinion he is esteemed (glory), of good repute (good report), genuine and known. Doxa bears the Hellenistic sense of a favorable opinion or estimate (NRSV honor, not NIV glory). The closely related term euphemia means a "good word" spoken on someone's behalf (that is, a good report). The Greek word alhthes can mean "honest" (TEV, NEB, REB) or "genuine" (KJV, Phillips, RSV, NRSV, JB, NIV). The latter provides a better point of contrast to impostor. Although judged to be an imposter by some, Paul in reality is genuine (or, as we say, "the genuine article"). The word known (epiginoskomenos) means to be "recognized" for what one is. Even though society considered Paul a nobody, there is the divine recognition that as an ambassador and coworker he is a somebody.
Paul concludes with a list of five paradoxes that typify the gospel ministry. Dying, and yet we live on does not quite catch the sense of the first. "Dying, yet look! We live" is more the idea. The public perception is that Paul and his coworkers are in the process of dying (present tense)--and to all outoard appearances they are. Paul himself said earlier that he always carries around the dying of Jesus (4:10). Idou denotes surprise: "Look!" Contrary to popular expectation and all outoard appearances, they live on (present tense).
Second, they are beaten, and yet not killed. The Greek word for beaten (paideuomenos) actually means "chastened" and is commonly used of divine discipline. To the outsider Paul's suffering might well have seemed a sign of divine displeasure.
Third, they are sorrowful, yet always rejoicing. The cause of Paul's sorrow is not immediately obvious. It is unlikely to be sorrow over the fact that the ministry is wearing him down (4:16), since the end result is an eternal weight of glory (4:17). It could be sorrow over those who had sinned earlier and had not yet repented (12:21). But the present tense suggests something ongoing. Alternatively, the paradox may reflect an eschatological perspective. Paul's reaction to the prevailing influences of sin and death in this age is sorrow, while his response to the process of inwardly being renewed day by day is to always rejoice (compare Phil 4:4-7; 1 Thess 5:16).
The final too paradoxes express roughly the same thought. Paul is poor, yet making many rich and in the state of having nothing, and yet possessing everything. While some have thought that Paul is referring to spiritual poverty, the overall context of ministerial hardship and suffering suggests a lack of material goods (compare 11:27, "I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food"). But how can one possess nothing and everything at the same time? Paul could mean that although he was not well off in terms of material goods, because "the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it" (1 Cor 10:26) he too, in principle if not in fact, possesses everything. Or he may be contrasting possessing nothing in the way of material goods with possessing everything in terms of spiritual goods. He would not be alone in this belief. Philo expressed a similar thought: "The good person, though he possesses nothing in the proper sense, not even himself, partakes of the precious things of God so far as he is capable" (On the Life of Moses 1.157).
How Paul went about making many rich is also not at once apparent. He may be alluding to how he went without church support for the sake of collecting funds for destitute Judean churches. Or the contrast may have to do with physical deprivation for himself and spiritual blessing for others. His willingness to forgo personal comforts and even basic necessities undoubtedly would have freed up time for ministry and resulted in greater spiritual benefits for his churches.
All in all, Paul says that he knows what it is to be in need as well as what it is to have plenty, yet he can be content whatever the circumstances (Phil 4:12).
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The 3-10 Broncos have been awful, managing all of six points in a 10-6 loss to the Chiefs and getting crushed by a bad Arizona team in Week 14.
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West says on Jenner's talk show "Kris" that after his mother died he was willing to put "my life at risk," but now he has "two really special people to live for, a family to live for, a world to live for."
The 36-year-old rapper and Kardashian recently welcomed daughter North. West made the remarks about his relationship in clips released from his hourlong interview with Jenner that will air Friday during the show's season finale.
The paparazzi-averse West told Jenner he's often asked why he would invite public scrutiny or have his credibility questioned by his relationship, "and I say I don't care, I love this woman."


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Many Federal Reserve officials want to see more signs employment is picking up before they'll begin slowing the pace of $85 billion in monthly bond purchases, according to minutes of policy makers' last meeting.
"Many members indicated that further improvement in the outlook for the labor market would be required before it would be appropriate to slow the pace of asset purchases," according to the record of the Federal Open Market Committee's June 18-19 gathering released today in Washington.
Today's minutes said "several members judged that a reduction in asset purchases would likely soon be warranted." Those members said the "cumulative decline in unemployment since the September meeting and ongoing increases in private payrolls" had increased their confidence that the labor market had improved, the minutes showed.
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said in a press conference after the meeting that the Fed may trim its bond-buying program this year and halt it around mid-2014 if economic performance tracks the central bank's forecast. The minutes show officials want to see that forecast confirmed before tapering their purchases.
Not all members agree on when to begin slowing the pace of purchases. Some on the panel "need to see more evidence that the projected acceleration in economic activity would occur, before reducing the pace of asset purchases," according to the minutes.
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Stocks rose and bond yields fell after the release of the minutes. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 0.1% to 1,654.57 at 2:06 p.m. in New York, while the yield on the 10- year Treasury note fell to 2.64% from as high as 2.67% earlier in the day.
The minutes refer to the 12 voting policy makers as "members" and the entire 19-person policy making group as "participants." Only five of the 12 regional Fed presidents have a vote in any given year.
In a discussion about the appropriate path of the balance sheet among the 19 FOMC participants, "about half" indicated "it likely would be appropriate to end asset purchases late this year," the minutes said. "Many other participants anticipated that it likely would be appropriate to continue purchases into 2014," the minutes said, while "a few" wanted to slow or stop the purchases at the June meeting.
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard dissented from the Fed's statement in June, saying that in light of low readings on inflation the committee should "signal more strongly its willingness to defend its goal of 2% inflation."
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IT Management Slideshow: Why It's So Hard for IT to Say ?No' to Apple at Work
By Don Reisinger | Posted 10-03-2011
Over the past week, we've been discussing Apple's potential influence in the enterprise. We've talked about why CIOs might want to go all-in with the company's products, and what you can expect if you do. Now that Apple's iPhone 4S has had its "big reveal," it's going to be harder than ever for you to say "no" to the use of Apple's iPads, iPhones and Macs in your organization. Here are 10 reasons why.
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State energy regulators gave final approval today to a power deal between NStar and Cape Wind, completing an unsurprising but necessary step for the 130-turbines project in Nantucket Sound.
State energy regulators gave final approval today to a power deal between NStar and Cape Wind, completing an unsurprising but necessary step in the offshore wind energy developer's march to build 130 turbines in Nantucket Sound.
The power purchase agreement between the two companies covers 27.5 percent of the electricity that would be produced by the proposed off-shore wind energy facility.
"This contract is another step forward in fulfilling the statutory renewable energy and greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals set forth in the Green Communities Act," said Department of Public Utilities chairwoman Ann Berwick. "It is clear that the Cape Wind facility offers significant benefits that are not currently available from other renewables. This contract supports the largest renewable energy project proposed in New England while providing protections to consumers against the volatility of fossil fuel prices."
The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities had already signed off on a contract between Cape Wind and National Grid for half of the project's power under essentially the same terms. There is no buyer yet for the final quarter of the project's power.
The base cost of the power is 18.7 cents per kilowatt-hour. Under the power pact with both utilities, the cost of the power will rise by 3.5 percent for each year of the 15-year-contract.
NStar delivers electricity to customers on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. National Grid delivers power on Nantucket.
Opponents of the Cape Wind project argue that power from the facility will cost electricity customers in Massachusetts an additional $4 billion over market rates over the life of the contracts.
Supporters say the cost is minimal for individual ratepayers.
The extra cost of the contract with NStar will be mixed in with the utility's other, cheaper sources of electricity and cost consumers less than a quarter-penny per kilowatt-hour, according to NStar's calculations. The extra cost goes on the delivery side of a customer's bill.
The average electricity customer who buys power through the Cape Light Compact and uses 650 kilowatt-hours per month is expected to pay an additional $1.41 a month for electricity generated by the Cape Wind plant.
Most of the customers on the Cape and Vineyard get their power supply through the Compact and have it delivered by NStar.
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Omar Minaya said first base is wide open, but is it really?
"He'll compete for the job," Minaya said of Jacobs, and then of Murphy, added, "I think it's fair to say that Murphy has proven himself worthy of being considered, but he's going to have to continue. It's an open competition."
Not quite a ringing endorsement. Jacobs is 29, and hit 18 homers last year and with 92 RBI the season before that.
With Carlos Beltran out and Carlos Delgado gone, the Mets are in need of left-handed power. Yesterday I said Murphy had the potential to hit 20 homers. Well, Jacobs has proven he can hit more than that and he's not learning a new position.
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March 23. 2014 6:17PM
KEENE — New Hampshire Lottery officials say a winning $5 million Mega Millions ticket was sold in Keene.
The ticket was sold at the Park Avenue Deli and Market, 30 Park Avenue, for the March 21 Mega Millions drawing. Lottery officials said it is the largest Mega Millions winning ticket sold in New Hampshire since they began offering the game in January 2010.
Additionally, a $100,000 winning Gimme 5 ticket was sold Friday night in Bedford.
"It is so thrilling to have a big winning ticket like this sold in New Hampshire! We are so excited to meet our $5 million winner," said Charlie McIntyre, executive director of the New Hampshire Lottery, in a statement released Saturday. "With a $5 million Mega Millions winner, a $1 Million Powerball winner earlier in the week, and a $100,000 Gimme 5 winning ticket sold last night as well, New Hampshire means lucky!"
The winning Mega Millions player bought a ticket and "megaplied" it for $1 more per set of numbers. With the megaplier number five, $1 million was multiplied by five to generate a $5 million prize.
The winning numbers for Mega Millions Friday night were 2 23 30 35 53 and the Mega Ball was 10.
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Friday night's winning Gimme 5 numbers were 3 17 31 33 34.
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Earthquakes sign national team defender Goodson
June 28, 2013
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The San Jose Earthquakes have signed U.S. national team center defender Clarence Goodson.
The deal was announced Friday but terms were not disclosed.
Earthquakes general manager John Doyle says Goodson should be a good addition for the team, calling him a good leader with excellent character.
The 31-year-old Goodson will first report to the national team's camp for next month's CONCACAF Gold Cup before joining San Jose following the conclusion of the tournament.
Goodson joins the Earthquakes after three-year stints with IK Start of Norway and Brondby of Denmark. He was also a member of the United States' 2010 World Cup squad. Goodson has amassed 36 caps for the national team.


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SEMI Releases Additional Intellectual Property Survey Information
By Jamie Girard, senior director, SEMI Americas Public Policy
Infringement on Intellectual Property (IP) continues to be a concern across the semiconductor industry supply chain. SEMI has worked to understand the problems that member companies encounter by conducting a series of surveys to hear directly from members. The SEMI 2012 IP Survey was originally released in March 2012, and detailed the continuing struggle that companies face in protecting IP rights globally. In fact, 97 percent of respondents considered IP challenges as "somewhat serious" to "extremely serious," while the remaining three percent characterized the challenges as "not serious."
As a follow up to this survey, SEMI also polled it members to gather additional information regarding some of the challenges they face in protecting their IP in a real world setting. While the original survey numbers detail the overall scope of the problem, it was decided that some anecdotal information would lend a fuller picture of the global IP environment. With SEMI member companies investing an average of 10-15 percent of their revenues annually back into research and development, the loss of IP is too expensive to ignore. The revised IP survey with the additional results can be downloaded at: www.semi.org/en/2012IPWhitePaper
The anecdotal survey asked respondents eight open-ended questions regarding potential areas of IP infringement that may not be so "black and white. In response to a question on whether or not members have felt pressured by customers to "give away" IP, respondents cited multiple instances in which they were compelled to release guarded information in order to maintain relationships with customers or mitigate the loss of business altogether. Respondents also detailed other ways in which they lose IP, such as employees failing to follow best practices to safeguard proprietary information. The survey responses also help to detail some important ways in which companies can work best practices into their systems to prioritize IP protections.
The anecdotal information also helps to highlight the underlying IP survey by providing additional insight on some of the challenges that U.S. based companies face when doing business abroad. Whether we are talking about foreign governments or their justice systems, it is certainly apparent that much work remains to be done in helping these institutions understand the importance of IP protection and the adverse effects that IP infringement can have on their economies. When asked, "Has your company ever declined to invest resources in a country because of concern over potential loss of IP," a respondent said it all in a one-word answer: "Absolutely."
Because of these ongoing challenges, SEMI continues an active industry advocacy program to promote intellectual property rights. In addition to the IP position statement approved by the SEMI International Board of Directors in 2006, all SEMI member companies are required to commit to an IP statement of principles as part of their association membership. Our continuing outreach activities include meetings with government officials in several regions to build on recent efforts in Taiwan, Korea, and the United States. In addition, SEMI is working to forge a stronger relationship with its customers to create more total supply chain support for IP rights.
Companies interested in SEMI's IP activities are encouraged to check out the SEMI IP webpage at www.semi.org/ip. To get involved, you may contact Jamie Girard, senior director, Public Policy, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Welcome to the Insignia NS-DVxG Feature Request/Bug Report Thread
This thread was created by the community, as a central area where the Insignia MP3 Team can easily find what features we would like to have on the NS-DVxG series, and future players from Insignia.
So here's how it works. You suggest a feature, and I'll put it in the "New Requests" category (Note: By suggesting a feature, you automatically vote "yes" for it). Once there, it may be voted on by other members. If it receives at least 1 more "yes" vote, it'll be moved to the "Low Priority" category. If it receives 3 more "yes" votes, it'll move to the "High Priority" category. If a feature receives 5 "no" votes, it may be placed in the "Recycle Bin", but only if the "no" votes outnumber the "yes" votes.
You may also submit bug reports. If a bug receives 2 "yes" votes, it'll be moved to high priority. Please be sure to include the version of firmware you are presently running when submitting a bug.
1. New feature suggestions should be encapsulated in asterisks, like this, "**Feature I would like...**". Simply because it will make it easier for me to find.
2. When voting, please use this syntax: "Feature or bug name - Yes or No", and include the ID number if you can. The ID number makes it easier for me to find the feature you want to vote for.
3. Bug reports should be prefixed with: "BUG:" like so; "BUG: My player locks up when I..." .
4. If you know the ID number of the feature you're looking for, you can quickly find it by pressing Ctrl + F, and putting a dash (-), plus the feature ID (no spaces) in the box. e.g. "-63".
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Total Votes Counted: 647
Total Features Requested: 65
Non-Software Related: 8 Change Reqs.: 13
Total Possible Bugs Found: 29
Features which might make it into next, or subsequent firmware release: 33
Bugs which might be fixed in next, or subsequent firmware release: 9
Last Updated: April, 16th, 2008 at 12:50PM (GMT-7)
Latest firmware version: 1.930 Released: April '08
Next firmware release date: Unknown
Features implemented so far: 28
Bugs fixed so far: 25
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How it could work: Briefly pressing the power button takes you to the main menu. Briefly pressing the menu button takes you to the last menu you were. Holding the menu button brings up a sub-menu, which contains options relevent to the function you are currently using, i.e.
Low Priority:
-72 Hidden Folders [2 votes]
(Description: Add an option in the main menu called "Personal Folders", or something. This option would be linked to a special folder on the player. All files in this folder would be indexed in a library, separate from the main library. This would be useful for keeping podcasts out of the main music library. Or for keeping another users music, separate from yours. And perhaps you could have sub folders within this special folder (like "Glens Music", "Podcasts" etc.)
-8c <FCR> Allow the player to fast-forward and rewind within tracks while paused [4 votes | -1 vote]
(Current behavior: When the player is paused, holding the |<< and >>| buttons skips from track to track rapidly.)
-66 Alarm clock function [7 votes]
-69 FLAC audio support [5 votes]
-8n Leather version of the silicone case (except with a vinyl window over the screen), no protective flaps, cardboard, or foam, just leather. [2 votes]
-7n Future player body color: Cherry [3 votes]
-6n Future player body color: Navy [2 votes]
-5n Future player body color: Grape [2 votes]
-4n Future player body color: Mint [2 votes]
-3n Future player body color: Bubblegum [2 votes]
-2n Future player body color: Sport Yellow [2 votes]
-1n Future player body color: Snow [3 votes]
-6c <FCR> Reverse menu button operation [4 votes]
(PB: Pressing the "Menu" button briefly should take you to the previous screen, and holding it down should take you to the main menu. CB: Currently, it's just the opposite, which isn't what most users expect.)
-40 Display battery voltage info in the information menu [3 votes]
(Description: Very useful for diagnosing battery problems, or seeing exactly how much charge you have left).
-41 Turn power button into a shortcut key for frequently-used features (shuffle, repeat, LCD brighness, etc.) by brefily tapping it [4 votes]
-43 Expandable artists/albums/genres in library [3 votes]
(Description: Selecting an artist or album and pressing the play pause button expands it, without changing screens, revealing all albums/songs by that artist, like the settings menu does.)
-22 Audio fade option [3 votes]
(Description: Audio fades in and out when song is stopped/started, paused, or player is powered off/on, like the iAudio U3, or iriver clix)
-4c <FCR> Decrease thumbwheel sensitivity while backlight is off, or dimmed [3 votes]
(CB: The backlight will turn on if just about anything accidentally bumps the thumbwheel. This causes unnecessary battery drain, while in a pocket, or a bag. PB: When the backlight is off, the user should be required to give the thumbwheel a good quarter turn or so before the display wakes up, insuring the turn was intentional. )
-61 GAMES: Tetris [3 votes]
-76 In-Player Renaming Ability [2 votes]
-75 In-Player Advanced Tag Editor [2 votes |-1 vote]
-27 The ability to record in the MP3 format [3 votes]
-1c <FCR>: Change the license update reminder [3 votes]
(CB: When licenses are about to expire, one beep is heard before every song is played.
PB: One beep/reminder per session or change the reminder sound).
-COLOR SCHEME: Orange/Blue [2 votes | -1 vote]
-68 Option to zoom video [2 votes]
-67 GAMES: Breakout [ 2 votes]
-10c <FCR> Player should ignore the word "The" in song titles, album titles, and artist names when sorting alphabetically
[3 votes]
-70 Option to prevent LCD from waking up when volume adjustment is made [2 votes]
(Description: Useful if you are constantly adjusting volume levels and don't need the LCD waking up every time)
-85 GUI editor [2 votes]
(Description" Maybe a program that can help change the color/background/text/whatnot for the players GUI, and then create a little file that can be loaded onto the player. Kind of like a skin creator.")
New Requests:
-74 Add ability to control more bands to EQ [3 votes | -1 vote]
-72 "Play Previous" option [1 votes]
(Description: For example, you're watching a video and want to take a break and listen to some music, you will loose your position in that the video. You could select the "Play Previous" option (perhaps placed at the top of the file list) and the player would resume where you left off. See also: 71, 4 )
-71 Remember posistions in menus after powering off or choosing another function [1 vote]
(Description: Currently, the player actually will remember your position in every single tab in the library, but it will forget everything as soon as you exit the library. It would be nice if it continued to remember even after you exit the library, or power off. See also: 70, 6c )
-65 Support for Chinese (Simplified) language [1 vote]
-60 VOX feature for line-in recording [1 vote]
(Description: The player would start recording when sound levels exceed a cetain threshold, and pauses recording when drops below the threshold)
-12b BUG:{Minor, Unconfirmed, Firmware: 1.105, 1.200, 1.930} Custom EQ is difficult to select [1 vote]
(Description: CB: When highlighting the custom EQ, pressing the select button activates a configuration menu, where you can adjust the EQ. Pressing the select button again, deactivates the configuration menu, at which point you must press the skip > button for the custom EQ to become activated. PB: Highlighting the custom EQ option, and pressing the select button should activate the custom EQ, as well as activate the EQ configuration menu. Once the user is done configuring, pressing select should deactivate the configuration menu, and the user should now be free to exit the EQ screen any way they choose, without loosing their choice.)
-2b BUG:{Minor, Unconfirmed, Firmware: Unknown} Album art does not display when songs are transferred in MSC mode (in the file tags and/or as a jpeg in the album folder)[/size] [1 vote]
-38 Improved Macintosh support [1 vote]
(Description: Give users the ability to convert videos, and update firmware using their Macs)
-62 Display lyrics text [1 vote]
(Description: It has already been proposed to add a lyrics display that shows lyrics synchronized with the song. It has also been proposed to add a text viewer. It might be a good idea to have a shortcut to a text file containing lyrics on the now playing menu. The player could add a "Lyrics" folder, and identify the correct lyrics file by finding one with the same filename as the song.)
-76 Add option to sort by year to music library [1 votes]
-36 BUG:{Major, Unconfirmed, Firmware: 1.105, 1.200} Audio Stutters when playing WAV file while in menu [1 vote]
-40 BUG:{Major, Confirmed, Firmware: 1.200} Player forgets currently playing track upon microSD insertion/removal [1 vote]
-88 Gapless Offset [1 votes]
(Description: Because the silence between tracks vary greatly depending on how they were encoded, it is difficult to create a one-size-fits-all gapless setting. This feature would allow the user to adjust the duration of silence between tracks to something that best suites their music collection. This option would tell the player, in milliseconds how prematurely to skip tracks.
Options could be: -500ms -250ms -100ms Off (e.g., "-500ms" would tell the player to skip tracks 500ms before the current track has ended, reducing or eliminating any silence))
-42 BUG: {Unconfirmed, Major, Firmware: 1.200} USB connection fails when connecting to a computer with several other USB devices already connected (Eg: laptop on a dock). [1 vote]
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If you lose a smart phone there is a 50 percent chance that the finder will try to return it, but an almost 100 percent chance that they first will browse through your files and applications, according to a recent experiment done by Symantec and Sprint."What surprised me was the number of people who went through the data on the phones," said Kevin Haley, director of Symantec Security Response. "People are naturally curious, but a high percentage of people let curiosity get the better of them."The experiment, which logged the activities of people who found "lost" smart phones, did not distinguish between malicious behavior and idle curiosity, but the bottom line was that data on lost devices is likely to be compromised.
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"The owner of a lost smart phone should not assume the finder of their device will attempt to make contact with them," warned the Symantec report on the experiment. "Even when contact is made, the owner of the device should not assume their personal or business-related information has not been violated."The risk of exposing sensitive information becomes more serious as more workers use personal devices for work-related activities. In a recent study commissioned by the security research company ESET, 81 percent of respondents said they use personal devices for work. Although desktop and laptop computers remain the platforms of choice, with more than 50 percent using them for work, 38 percent also use a smart phone and 15 percent use a tablet.Most of the personal devices are being used without basic security, the ESET study found. Only one third of laptops and one quarter of smart phones had an autolock feature to block out unauthorized users, and fewer than 10 percent of the tablets used it.The Symantec experiment, dubbed the Smartphone Honey Stick Project, involved 50 phones, fully charged and loaded with apps, and sans security. They were left in public places, 10 each in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Ottawa. Forty-seven of the devices were turned on by finders and their activities on the phones logged.Of those found phones:
Applications loaded on the phones were labeled:
All of these files were opened. The most commonly accessed file was "contacts," which finders opened on 38 of the found phones. The motives for this might be benign, since that is where contact information for the phone's owner was located. But "private pix" was accessed on 34 phones, apparently from simple voyeurism.Haley said the file and application labels were not meant to be provocative or to entice finders to open them. "I think they were fairly descriptive," he said.Although the desktop is the most commonly used tool for remote working, the widespread use of smart phones puts a focus on the risk from lost devices. "Nobody ever left their desktop in the restroom of a Chinese restaurant," Haley said.The growing popularity of tablet computers — a platform with smart-phone mobility and laptop functionality — is likely to add another area of risk. The recent release by Apple of its new iPad has focused attention in this segment of the market. While most observers agree that the latest release is an incremental improvement over its predecessor rather than a significant jump, it also is likely to see continued uptake as a business tool."It's a sign that the industry is beginning to mature," said ESET security researcher Cameron Camp. "The tablet is here to stay."But possibly because it is a newer platform, not as many users are implementing security on tablets as on smart phones.The bottom line is that all mobile devices should be password-protected to prevent casual snooping, Haley said. And if a device contains sensitive personal or work information, users should consider applications to tack and or remotely wipe the device.
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Both my iPhone and GPS (about same size) have ability to lock with a PIN code. I find it to be a lot more trouble to constantly enter a PIN code than to just use extra care to avoid loss or theft.
On the GPS I replaced the 'opening logo' with a message offering a NQA Reward and showing a cell number and email, this would even be in view before a PIN code if enabled.
This would also be seen at a Pawn Shop.
I never found a phone but I did find a key drive twice. In both cases I had to look through the data to find out who owned it. How else could you return such a think. In the first case it was all pictures and I was never able to track down the owner, though I did narrow it down to their state. In the second case there was a resume and I was able to use that to contact the person. Neither one had dedicated "contacts" file, and most phones don't either. So I would not be too down on the people who browsed the data. They may have just been trying to return the darn thing, which is how many of them ended up getting back home.
If the device is password-protected
"...The most commonly accessed file was "contacts," which finders opened on 38 of the found phones. The motives for this might be benign, since that is where contact information for the phone's owner was located...50 percent of the finders contacted the owner and provided contact information. ..."
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This is a technique I picked up last Autumn from a Japanese TV show (日本人テスト)
Unfortunately, I could only get the gist of what was being explained as I don't speak the language. Even so, it seems to work very well.
In order to cook kabocha (I'm going to try the red Hokkaido squash today) so that it's tender but with the pieces firm and intact without a hint of 'mushiness', here is the method:
You will need a large deep pan and a heat resistant cup (such as a Japanese tea cup).
You will also need deseeded and cut kabocha pieces and roughly the same amount of cooking broth as will fit into the heat resistant cup (a bit more is fine)
broth suggestion: http://justbento.com/handbook/johbisai/frozen-kabocha-squash-plus-easy-s...
(as an alternative, try adding some lemon zest and a little lemon juice to this broth recipe)
Put the cup upside down in the centre of the empty pan. Scatter cut up pieces of kabocha around the upturned heat resistant cup and pour on the cooking broth. The kabocha pieces should be just covered. Bring the pan to a boil and turn down the heat so it remains at a vigorous simmer.
The upturned cup will rattle a fair bit and can get quite noisy - this is normal. Check on the kabocha every 5 minutes or so (you may want to turn with a spoon occasionally), but by around 15/20 minutes the kabocha should be tender yet with a firm texture (check with a toothpick/skewer) and most of the cooking broth will have disappeared.
Remove the pan from the heat.
Next step is to carefullly lift the cup by an inch or so.
The cup will be full of the cooking broth!
Let the kabocha pieces cool in the broth before removing them.
Wild! Sounds like a science project to demonstrate capillary action! I may just try this tonight with a 'uchiki kuri' I have sitting in the kitchen.
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Another long rehab. Another season of competition lost. Another hurdle in the budding aerialist's increasingly long path to Sochi.
But mostly the thought that kept running through the mind of ever blunt, ever optimistic Caldwell as she lay on the snow in Park City, Utah, on Dec. 20, 2012, was, "Are you serious?"
A year earlier, Caldwell had torn the ACL in her right knee at the same venue. Now here she was, 363 days later, at the bottom of the same hill with the same searing pain in the one good knee she had left.
Forgive her if she can't help but laugh at the absurdity of it all.
"I had worked so hard, I came back, I qualified for jumps," she said. "I'm at the point where I'm not scared and I felt really confident, and now here I am looking at going through the whole process again. It felt like it was very unfair."
And maybe unavoidable.
When Caldwell went in for her second surgery, her doctor admitted the channel for her right anterior cruciate ligament was so shallow, he figured there was a better than 50/50 chance she'd end up on the operating table again with the ACL in her left knee ripped to pieces. He took no joy in being right.
Funny, Caldwell has kind of enjoyed proving the doubters — including the ones inside her own head — wrong.
A month away from Sochi, Caldwell is in the mix to make her second U.S. Olympic team, just like she always planned after finishing 10th in Vancouver four years ago.
She was runner-up at a World Cup stop in China in her first event back in mid-December and will have three opportunities over the next two weeks to make a pretty compelling case to be on the plane when it heads to Russia in early February.
Heady territory for somebody who spent the bulk of her time during the Olympic cycle away from the snow. The former gymnast from Hamilton, Va., went nearly two years between competitions working mostly on water ramps that offer a decidedly more gentle landing experience than the side of a mountain. And she'd be lying if she said she attacks her sport with the same fearlessness that made her the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic freestyle team in Vancouver.
"I know I'm scared," she said. "But you try and constantly take all the things that you've done to help you understand that you don't need to be scared and apply them, but it's still scary."
Aerials might be one of the most purely terrifying sports in the Olympics. Race down a ramp at full speed, and then launch yourself a half-dozen stories into the air before combining any series of multiple flips and twists into a three-second flight, trying to time everything just right so that your skis land softly in the snow like you're at the end of a run on a bunny slope.
Aerialists only really need their knees for that last part, which can be both a blessing and a curse. Caldwell's knees have been rebuilt to the point where she's confident she can compete for the rest of the decade if not longer if she chooses. Of course, one botched landing in a sport that does what it can to invite them means she's also a split-second away from perhaps hanging her skis up for good and focusing on that finance degree she earned last summer.
School actually helped her cope with the significant down time required to help her knees heal. Rather than spend a pair of winters crisscrossing the globe on the World Cup circuit, she split her time between rehab and studying.
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That's just kind of her way. When doctors cleared her to return to training over the summer, Caldwell and U.S. aerials coach Todd Ossian put together a game plan that focused on making it to Sochi. They haven't had to deviate from it a bit, a testament to Caldwell's work ethic coupled with a unique ability to quickly process teaching points.
"If we're working on a particular skill, something technical, I would plan a couple of weeks for someone else to sort of grasp that concept," Ossian said. "She is able to do that in the training session or a day."
A top-three finish at Deer Valley, Colo.; Val Saint-Come in Canada; or Lake Placid, N.Y., over the next 10 days would make Caldwell a virtual lock to head to Russia. She's done her best to block out the math. If she jumps well, she knows she'll go. If she doesn't, she'll just end up watching it on TV.
It'll hurt, but then again, she's gotten used to managing expectations. If Russia doesn't work out, there's South Korea in 2018 to think about, or the 2022 Games for that matter.
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The Honorable Kathy Kesolei, Vice President of the Senate and Honorable Alexander Merep, Vice Speaker of the House of Delegates, both Co-Chairperson of the OEK Joint Committee on the Legislative Needs Assessment, presided over the opening ceremony. Vice President Kathy Kesolei opened the seminar, congratulated the newly elected members of the 9th OEK and welcomed the seminar's highly qualified and skilled national and international resource persons and facilitators, including Senator J. Kalani English of the Hawaii State Legislature and Mr Brian Lenga, Programme Development and Policy Analyst from UNDP Multi-Country Office in Fiji.
UNDP Resident Representative Mr Knut Ostby, in his statement, delivered by Ms Sharon Sakuma, Country Development Manager of the UN Joint Presence Office in Palau, said that "UNDP regards the role of Palau Congress as absolutely critical in the democratic governance process and nation building. Senators and Delegates play a crucial role in the oversight and scrutiny of the Executive to ensure that the resources of the nation are truly directed for the benefit of all, for national development".
Mr Ostby offered for consideration the MDGs, the post-2015 development agenda and the Rio + 20 outcomes as potential areas of dialogue for new members to use as benchmarks for monitoring national development.
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Senator-elect Jerrlyn Uduch Sengebau-Senior said "I am finding this workshop very useful, especially from listening to the experience of long term serving senators and delegates on how they deal with technical and procedural issues in the Congress." She added that during her term she wants to focus on addressing justice concerns and issues with juveniles and supporting economic empowerment of women.
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UNDP supports the Parliaments in several Pacific Islands countries and Palau is one of them. UNDP organized similar induction programmes for Parliamentarians in Tonga, Kiribati, and Tuvalu and for the Senators in the Federated States of Micronesia Congress in 2011 and recently in Vanuatu in November 2012.
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