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Technology alliance gives joint customers faster, cost-effective and more reliable disk-based backup in virtual environments
Westborough, MA and Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 13, 2013 – ExaGrid Systems, Inc. (www.exagrid.com), the leader in scalable and cost-effective disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, and PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual machine backup and recovery and innovator of virtualization monitoring solutions, today announced a technology alliance that will provide enhanced virtual data protection for joint customers.
With data growing at 30 percent annually, IT departments are faced with multiple backup and recovery challenges, including shorter backup windows, more aggressive recovery time objectives, a need for faster and more reliable disaster recovery, management of growing numbers of virtual servers and the need to do more with tight IT budgets. The combination of ExaGrid and PHD addresses these challenges by offering customers faster backups, unique high performance recovery capabilities, and more efficient disaster recovery via offsite disk-based replication for virtual server environments.
- Faster Backups, More Efficient Data Storage, and Better Disaster Recovery: PHD Virtual Backup offers proven, ultra-fast performance with effortless scalability, built-in ease-of use, and instant flexible recovery. The combination of ExaGrid's and PHD Virtual Backup's virtual server data protection solutions allows customers to utilize PHD Virtual Backup in VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer virtual environments on ExaGrid's disk-based backup system.
- This combination provides fast backups and efficient data storage as well as replication to an offsite location for disaster recovery.
- The ExaGrid system leverages PHD Virtual Backup's built-in backup to disk capabilities and ExaGrid's zone-level data deduplication for additional data reduction and cost reduction over standard disk solutions. Customers can use PHD Virtual Backup's TrueDedupe™ built-in source-side deduplication in conjunction with ExaGrid's disk-based backup system with zone-level deduplication to further reduce the amount of backup data.
- Customers can also perform replication of backups to offsite storage for disaster recovery purposes, without sacrificing performance of critical backup and recovery functions.
- The technology alliance with ExaGrid will allow joint customers to leverage PHD's unique recovery modes, such as Rollback Recovery and PHD Instant Recovery, with the ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication solution for reliable recovery and advanced functionality at the storage level.
- PHD Virtual Backup Instant VM Recovery from an ExaGrid Backup Appliance: ExaGrid and PHD Virtual Backup also offer the ability to instantly recover a virtual machine by running it directly from the ExaGrid appliance in the event of a primary storage outage or other issue that causes the primary storage VM to become unavailable.
- ExaGrid's unique landing zone makes this possible by retaining the most recent backup in complete form available for rapid recovery. This means ExaGrid can instantly recover VMs in as fast as minutes. With other disk backup solutions that only store deduplicated data, the data must be "rehydrated" before recovery, resulting in VM recoveries that can take hours.
- Using PHD Virtual Backup's Instant VM Recovery, ExaGrid and PHD Virtual Backup customers can run the virtual machine directly from the backup on the ExaGrid appliance. Once the primary storage environment has been brought back to a working state, the VM running on the ExaGrid appliance can then be moved to primary storage for continued operation with zero downtime.
PHD Virtual provides the best value in virtual backup for VMware and Citrix and monitoring solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. More than 5,000 customers worldwide rely on its products because they are effective, easier to use and more affordable than competitive alternatives. ExaGrid is uniquely suited for virtual machine backups because the ExaGrid system deduplicates the data after it's written to disk, which means users gain the maximum backup and restore speeds available.
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- Joe Noonan, director of product management for PHD Virtual: "We are very excited to announce a technology alliance with ExaGrid. The synergies between the two products in the areas of redundancy and backup and recovery flexibility provide customers an excellent value and powerful solution for virtual data protection."
- Marc Crespi, vice president of product management for ExaGrid: "The amount of data in virtual infrastructures is continuing to grow, putting pressure on IT departments to implement faster and more reliable virtual data protection. Partnerships such as this one allow IT departments to confidently expand their virtual environments, keep backup windows permanently short, easily scale the system as data grows with no forklift upgrades, and instantly recover VMs when needed to avoid costly downtime."
About PHD Virtual Technologies
PHD Virtual provides the absolute best value in virtual backup and monitoring for VMware and Citrix platforms. More than 5,000 customers worldwide rely on our products because they are effective, easier to use and far more affordable than competitive alternatives. Delivering the highest performance and most scalable cross platform backup and monitoring solutions on the market and pioneer of Virtual Backup Appliances (VBAs), PHD Virtual Technologies has been transforming data protection for virtual IT environments since 2006. Its PHD Virtual Monitor provides a complete, end-to-end solution for monitoring virtual, physical and application infrastructures in VMware and Citrix environments. For more information, please visit: http://www.phdvirtual.com/
About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
ExaGrid offers the only disk-based backup appliance with data deduplication purpose-built for backup that leverages a unique architecture optimized for performance, scalability and price. ExaGrid is the only solution that combines compute with capacity and a unique landing zone to permanently shorten backup windows, eliminate expensive forklift upgrades, achieve the fastest full system restores and tape copies, and rapidly restore files, VMs and objects in minutes. With offices and distribution worldwide, ExaGrid has more than 5,200 systems installed at more than 1,600 customers, and more than 320 published customer success stories.
For more information, contact ExaGrid at 800-868-6985 or visit www.exagrid.com. Visit "ExaGrid's Eye on Deduplication" blog: http://blog.exagrid.com/.
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Lawyers agree that residents have rights on lethal forceStaff Report
December 09. 2012 2:09AM
New Hampshire deadly force lawThe law regarding the use of deadly force in self-defense is RSA 627:4:II. It states:
"A person is justified in using deadly force upon another person when he reasonably believes that such other person:
(a) Is about to use unlawful, deadly force against the actor or a third person;
(b) Is likely to use any unlawful force against a person present while committing or attempting to commit a burglary;
(c) Is committing or about to commit kidnapping or a forcible sex offense; or
(d) Is likely to use any unlawful force in the commission of a felony against the actor within such actor's dwelling or its curtilage."
The law also states that merely displaying a firearm in response to "a threat which would be considered by a reasonable person as likely to cause serious bodily injury or death to the person or to another" is not a criminal act.
At a community meeting in Bedford Thursday, a resident asked the police chief under what circumstances a resident could use lethal force against a burglar.
"Say you're asleep, you hear a noise, glass breaks, you hear somebody in there, you know they don't belong," said the resident, who didn't provide his name. "Are you expected to ascertain whether they're armed if you have the ability to take them out legally?"
Joking that he's not a lawyer but has been accused of being one, Chief John Bryfonski sidestepped the question, saying it's inappropriate for him to provide a legal opinion.
"The RSA is there," Bryfonski said. "I think that folks should read it. Understand it. If they don't fully understand the aspects of the use of force or deadly physical force by a civilian . . . then you should seek your own legal guidance."
The meeting was called a week and a half after an assault at an upscale Bedford home. Dr. Eduardo Quesada and his wife, Sonia, were both hurt in the attack, which occurred after they entered their home. Quesada, an anesthesiologist at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, was in critical condition and remains hospitalized. His wife was released last week.
Citing crime data, Bryfonski said Bedford is the second-safest town in the state. But the home invasion has some residents on edge. A Wallace Road resident who lives a stone's throw from the Quesada house expressed fears on Monday.
"The only thing I got is my right to bear arms," said the man, who asked that his name not be used, "and I've been sticking to that heavily."
State law says deadly force may be used if another person is about to commit a kidnapping, rape, or use any unlawful force in the commission of a felony against the victim.
Chichester-based Attorney Mark Sisti said if someone breaks into a house, a felony has already been committed. "You can reasonably believe . . . you have the right to utilize deadly force," he said. "Oh yes you do.
"You don't have to negotiate with a burglar. And you're under absolutely no duty to run in your own home."
Sisti represented Moultonborough farmer Ward Bird, whose sentence was commuted in early 2012 following a conviction for threatening with a deadly weapon. Asked whether he himself owns a firearm, Sisti said, "I think just about everybody in the state of New Hampshire does. It's a common thing."
Concord attorney Penny Dean, an advocate of gun rights, said she cautions people that the problem isn't the law, it's police and prosecutors interpreting the law.
"When you get arrested, you get to raise it as a shield at trial. But the Legislature intended this for you to not be arrested in the first place," she said. "I tell people that, yes, you can defend yourself in this state. But you'd better be ready to defend yourself in court, too."
Dean said the interpretation of the use of deadly force by prosecutors is often inconsistent and often sides with criminals rather than with people defending themselves. She said police, prosecutors and judges seem to want people, in the throes of a panicked situation, to make rational, calm decisions while being attacked.
"If you see someone with a knife in your house, they want you to reasonably determine if he's going to kill you or just cut you," she said. "Do you want to sit there and debate it with (the attacker)?"
The problem, she said, is that the presence of an arrest is a stain on a person's reputation, even if they are acquitted.
"There's a financial cost and a social cost," she said. "Think about it. Would you like to not be charged? Or are you fine with saying, 'Oh, I can just raise this at trial?'"
She said she has defended "innocent" people who are asked by police why they were in a certain place or acted the way did, rather than focusing on the person who broke into the house to begin with. She likened today's use of home defense laws to how rape victims decades ago "were asked why they were walking in a certain area or dressed a certain way. They're blaming the victim instead of blaming the criminal who attacked the victim."
But Sisti said the perception has to be somewhat reasonable in order to be protected by the law. "Just because somebody's on your property to do a legitimate thing doesn't give you the right to shoot them."
"If a little kid selling brownie cookies comes to your door and knocks and it's 7 at night and you didn't invite them, but the kid is there for innocent reasons on your property, you may not want her there, that doesn't give you the right to display a firearm or use threats to keep them off the property," he said. "But if at 7 p.m., your door is busted open by an unknown human being that you didn't invite, you can reasonably come to the conclusion that you are in harm's way."
Dean agreed.
"Is Hulk Hogan being attacked by a grandmother who can barely walk and has a screwdriver saying she's going to poke him in fear for his life? Maybe not," she said. "But what about the grandmother encountering three young punks holding screwdrivers?"
But the Bird case resulted in a law that removes the mere display of a firearm from the definition of criminal threatening.
Some home defense enthusiasts believe in shooting to kill, given the inability of a dead person to sue. Sisti said if guns are used properly, then there shouldn't be a problem of a civil lawsuit.
"In all honesty, that's just silly stuff," he said. "This isn't the Wild West, this isn't Crazyville. Firearms are for people to protect themselves, you don't have to flaunt them."
Greg Dupont served 10 years in the Army and works as a security guard in Nashua. He said the right to defend oneself against imminent harm is unequivocal, "whether or not the lethal force is a roll of dimes wrapped in hockey tape, something sharp and pointy tucked into the thoracic cavity, or a couple of .38 hollow points."
Though he keeps multiple weapons within reach of his bed, he said resorting to violence is a last resort.
"Behave yourself and respect others," Dupont said. "You're probably going to go further than if you didn't."
"There is no black and white, every scenario has to be analyzed through the lens of reasonableness," Sisti said. "I know people want to know a bright line. There isn't such a bright line on the extreme ends."
Union Leader Correspondent Sim�n R�os and Staff Writers Timothy Buckland and Bill Smith contributed to this report.

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Tonight we come in our study of the apocalypse, the revelation of Jesus Christ, to chapter 14...Revelation chapter 14. And we are looking at a text of Scripture that deals with the final harvest of the earth, the final reaping when the Lord Jesus Christ reaps the earth in judgment. The first time Jesus came to earth, He came as a servant. The next time He will come as the sovereign King. The first time Jesus came, He came as one obeying. The next time He will come as one commanding. The first time Jesus came, He came alone to live with a Jewish couple in a small obscure town. The next time He will come with all His holy angels to take over the whole earth. The first time Jesus came He came in humility. The next time He will come in glorious majesty and splendor. The first time Jesus came, He came to seek and to save the lost. And the next time He will come to judge and sentence the lost. Or, to put the contrast in the terms of our text, the first time Jesus came He came as the sower. Next time He will come as the reaper. He came in grace, He comes in wrath.
The book of Revelation is written to give us a clear understanding of that coming of Christ that yet awaits human history. And no one need be confused. The revelation of Jesus Christ is near, Christ is coming. He will appear in sovereign glory, the very same Jesus the world crucified and rejects. He will come no longer like the first time, but to judge the ungodly.
Let's read this text because it gives us a preview of the final judgment at the coming of Christ. Let's begin in chapter 14 with verse 14. "And I looked and behold a white cloud and sitting on the cloud was one like a Son of Man having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. And another angel came out of the temple crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud,`P`Put in your sickle and reap because the hour to reap has come because the harvest of the earth is ripe.' And He who sat on the clouds swung His sickle over the earth and the earth was reaped. And another angel came out of the temple which is heaven and he also had a sharp sickle, and another angel, the one who has power over fire came out from the altar and he called with a loud voice to those who had the sharp sickle saying...to him who had the sharp sickle saying, `Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth because her grapes are ripe.' The angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth and threw them into the great winepress of the wrath of God, and the winepress was trodden outside the city and blood came out from the winepress up to the horses' bridles for a distance of two hundred miles."
This is a description of the imagery related to the last judgment, God's final wrath. The theme of final wrath has already been discussed in chapter 14, you'll remember it from back in verse 8 and following. In fact, even verse 7 talks about the hour of judgment has come. So back in verse 7, judgment was introduced into this chapter...ran all the way through verse 11 and then there was a brief respite in verses 12 and 13 as we heard an encouraging word of the perseverance of the saints. After that brief rest to encourage the faithful, the theme again is wrath.
Now you know where we are in the book of Revelation so you kind of get a feel for the flow of truth. The seven seals have been opened. The seven trumpets have blown. The abomination of desolations by the Antichrist in the temple of Jerusalem has taken place. The persecution of Israel has escalated to a fever pitch. The execution and martyrdom of Christians all over the earth is going on. The whole earth and sky is devastated by divine judgment, divine vengeance. Satan is ruling the earth with the iron fist of Antichrist, aided by the false prophet, the whole remaining world is deceived into worshiping the Antichrist as if he were God and blaspheming the true God and Jesus Christ.
It is the worst time in the world's history. We have been seeing the details of that period to come known as the Tribulation in the latter half of that seven-year period known as the Great Tribulation. We are now toward the end of the Great Tribulation and people all across the earth are hoping things are going to get better. It seems as if they couldn't get worse, but they will. Times will become worse, rapidly so and finally so.
The judgment that ultimately sweeps away Satan and sweeps away Antichrist and sweeps away the false prophet and sweeps away the demons and sweeps away all ungodly people is about to hit. And here it is depicted under the final reaping of the earth. Here is the unprecedented final holocaust that gives the world its greatest bloodbath ever, the fury of Christ released in final and devastating judgment.
Now such a promise of judgment is not new in Scripture. In fact, in the New Testament at the very outset of the work of Jesus Christ, His forerunner John the Baptist came along and John the Baptist said to those who listened to him in Matthew 3:7 it is recorded, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" From the very beginning, before the Messiah even began to preach the gospel, here was one talking about future wrath. And of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, John said He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. In fact, He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire, said John.
Now the Apostle Paul also gave a number of warnings about the coming of wrath, as did Peter, of course. We will remember the words of Peter in 2 Peter as he speaks very explicitly about the earth melting with fervent heat, the elements being burned up in the terrible judgment of the day of the Lord that is going to fall. We remember that Paul wrote in Romans 1:18 about the wrath of God. In chapter 2 verses 5 and 6 he talked about the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous judgement of God who will render to every man according to his works. And we remember those extremely graphic terms that Paul used in describing the return of Christ to the Thessalonians. In 2 Thessalonians chapter 1 he said God is going to repay and He's going to give relief. When? When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. And these will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. All of this when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day.
And so whether it was John the Baptist or whether it was Peter or whether it was Paul, or even the Lord Jesus Himself who clearly predicted the coming judgment on a number of occasions, in Matthew 13 it's recorded, Matthew 24, 25. So there are a number of New Testament passages that speak of God's coming wrath, not just the book of Revelation. Even the book of Acts has the apostles preaching about a day in which the Lord will judge the earth by the One whom He has ordained, namely Jesus Christ.
Now those are general warnings, for the most part, about the coming final reaping of the earth, the final harvest of the earth. There are some very specific ones, however, and for those we need to go back to the Old Testament. And it's very important that we do that. Turn to Isaiah chapter 13 verse 13, we get a look at God's punishment of the world for its evil as he says in verse 11. "And the wicked for their iniquity." And he describes it in verse 13 with these words, Isaiah 13:13, "Therefore I shall make the heavens tremble and the earth will be shaken from its place at the fury of the Lord of hosts in the day of His burning anger."
Now go toward the end of Isaiah to chapter 63, and I want to read you a little bit of a longer passage here because it's so obviously fits the text of Revelation 14. The prophet Isaiah in chapter 63 receives this word from the Lord, "Who is this who comes from Edom with garments of glowing colors from Bozrah. This One who is majestic in His apparel, marching in the greatness of His strength." And he's talking really there about the majesty of the returning Messiah. "It is I who speak to you in righteousness, mighty to save. Why is Your apparel red and Your garments like the one who treads in the winepress? I have trodden the wine troth alone and from the peoples there was no man with Me. I also trod them in My anger and trampled them in My wrath and their lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments, and I stained all My raiment. For the day of vengeance was in My heart and My hear of redemption has come, and I looked and there was no one to help. And I was astonished and there was no one to uphold. So My own arm brought salvation to Me and My wrath upheld Me and I trod down the peoples in My anger and made them drink in My wrath and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth." There is a fascinating soliloquy on the part of the Messiah as He speaks about coming into the world for final devastating blood-letting judgment that splatters blood all over His garments and trampling out the grapes of wrath is also a parallel to chapter 14.
There's one other Old Testament prophecy that I want to give you just as a background. And you'll see the parallels as we look more closely at Revelation 14. And that's in Joel chapter 3...Joel chapter 3. You remember that after the major prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, you have the minor prophets, Hosea and then comes Joel right before the book of Amos. Joel only has three chapters but it's a very important brief prophecy because it is often quoted in the New Testament. It has a special place in the intent and the purpose of God.
It's a powerful book, Joel. It was written in a time when the land of Israel was being devastated by locusts. We aren't exactly able to be positive about the date of the writing of Joel, but we know it was a time of devastation. Locusts, draught and fire had come. And the prophet uses those devastating temporal judgments to warn of a greater more extensive and more severe judgment to come. You think it's been bad with the locusts and the draught and the fire, you haven't seen anything yet. And the prophet moves from that temporal judgment to the doom of the nations when the Lord unfolds His wrath and treads the winepress of His furious anger.
Prophecy is also at the same time an appeal from God to the people to seek Him through repentance so He can bless them before this judgment comes. Let's look at chapter 3 and get a little feeling for what Joel says, starting in verse 9. "Proclaim this among the nations. Prepare a war, arouse the mighty men, let all the soldiers draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say I am a mighty man, hasten and come all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there, bring down, O Lord, Thy mighty ones. Let the nations be aroused and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations." And here you're seeing the gathering of the nations all into the land of Palestine for the judgment Messiah will render upon them. "Put in the sickle," verse 13, "for the harvest is ripe. Come tread for the winepress is full. The vats overflow for their wickedness is great, multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and moon grow dark and the stars lose their brightness and the Lord roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem and the heavens and the earth tremble. But the Lord is a refuge for His people and a stronghold to the sons of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain, so Jerusalem will be holy and strangers will pass through it no more."
So the prophecies of Isaiah as well as this prophecy in the book of Joel provide a very similar imagery to prophetic understanding, as does Revelation chapter 14. The image of wrath, the image of vengeance, and the image of the stamping out of grapes in a winepress as symbolic of God crushing out the life of the ungodly.
Now as I said earlier, the Lord Jesus Himself spoke directly of this harvest of wrath, and let me at least have you look at Matthew chapter 13 and just note a couple of verses there. We won't beg the issue, but in Matthew 13, for example, verse 30, "Allow both to grow together," that's the wheat and the tares, "until the harvest and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, `First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up. But gather the wheat into My barn.'" That uses that same harvest kind of picture for judgment.
Then down in verse 39 of Matthew 13. Jesus speaking says regarding the enemy who sowed them, being the devil. "The harvest...He says...is the end of the age and the reapers are angels, therefore just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send forth His angels and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks and those who commit lawlessness and will cast them into the furnace of fire, in that place there shall weeping and gnashing of teeth." Then down in verse 49, "So it will be at the end of the age the angel shall come forth and take out the wicked from among the righteous and will cast them into the furnace of fire and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
So our Lord talked about a harvest of wrath. Joel and Isaiah talked about God coming in the form of Messiah as the judge and stamping out the grapes of wrath in final judgment. That is precisely what we see described in Revelation chapter 14. To borrow the language of Psalm 2, it is the time for the King to come. It is the time, as verse 6 of Psalm 2 says, for the Lord to install His King on Zion, His holy mountain. It is a time for God to laugh at the nations who scoffed and laughed at Him. It is a time for God to give the nations as the inheritance of Christ and for Him to break them with a rod of iron, to crush them like an earthen pot.
So whether you're talking about the Old testament prophets, or the New Testament writers, or John the Baptist or Jesus Himself, they looked ahead to a great judgment harvest.
Now the harvest here is pictured in two different motifs. First the grain harvest in verses 14 to 16. And then the grape harvest. The grain harvest, and then the grape harvest, and you'll see the difference very clearly. In both of them there is a sickle and a reaping.
Now the question immediately comes, why two visions of the same event? Well one simple answer is there are lots of different visions of this same event. I just pointed out a number of them to you, one in Isaiah, one in Joel, a number of them in the words of Jesus and then Peter and Paul and John the Baptist. It's not uncommon nor is it unnecessary to give repeated views of the same event. But, as you approach this particular juncture in the book of Revelation, there's something more here than just a repetition. There are two great aspects of judgment yet to come. And that's why I believe the Holy Spirit has ordained two visions. There are two significant final judgments to come. First we are going to see in chapter 16 the seven-bowl judgments. They come at the very end of the time of Tribulation, a rapid-fire sequence of frightening, worldwide judgments that destroy the whole world system of Babylon, destroying the Antichrist's empire. Then there is a second aspect of final judgment, and that is the battle of Armageddon when Jesus Christ actually returns to the earth.
So in looking at the end, we still are going to see two phases of this final wrath. One will take the form of seven bowls, and the other will be the very direct intervention of Jesus Christ when He returns. One then is described in chapter 16 and the second is described in chapter 19. And I believe that the reason you have two images here is to accommodate those two distinct aspects of final judgment.
Let's look, first of all, at the grain harvest...the grain harvest. In each case you have three simple points...the reaper, the ripeness, and the reaping. First of all, the reaper, verse 14."And I looked and behold, a white cloud and sitting on the cloud was one like a Son of Man, having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand." Now in this vision, John sees the reaper. He says, "And I looked," that's a familiar phrase for students of Revelation because it's used a number of times. And he adds that exclamation, "And behold," and wow, and startlingly I saw a white cloud.
Now the imagery of the white cloud is also associated with the Old Testament. Back in the book of Daniel in chapter 7, there are a couple of verses that are very important. Daniel says in verses 13 and 14, "I kept looking in the night visions and behold with the clouds of heaven one like a Son of Man." That's almost a direct parallel passage. And so we can be sure that the image that John sees there is drawn from that depicted in the book of Daniel. And it shows the Son of Man surrounded by clouds, which demonstrate His magnificent majesty. The Son of Man then is coming in fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy. To Him was given a dominion, wrote Daniel, and glory and a Kingdom that all the peoples and nations and men of every language might serve Him, His dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass away and His Kingdom is one which will not be destroyed. And so here He is depicted sitting on the white cloud ready to take the dominion that Daniel promised.
And the New Testament does not hesitate to speak of Christ in His Second Coming glory as being associated with clouds. Matthew 24:30, "Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory." Jesus said in Matthew 26:64, "You have said it yourself, nevertheless I tell you, hereafter you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven." You remember in Acts 1 He was taken up by a cloud, and the angel said, "In the same...this same Jesus shall so come in like manner as you've seen Him go." And so here is One sitting on a cloud and here we have the Lord, as it were, poised to return in judgment.
By the way, as point of contrast, the beast sits on something very different than a white cloud. Chapter 17 shows the beast sitting but sitting on many waters. Chapter 17 verse 1, verse 15, and the waters are the...where the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. But Christ is not earthly, He is heavenly and He is here associated with a white cloud.
And I believe the posture there depicts the reaper waiting for final orders to begin the reaping. The reaper is then identified very clearly here, look at it in verse 14, one like a Son of Man. That phrase is directly, as I said, from Daniel 7:13 and there it refers to none other than the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. And it does as well here.
Someone might wonder why does it say one like a Son of Man? Why doesn't it use the definite article and say was the Son of Man? One like a Son of Man...well, the answer is, I don't know why God chooses to do what He does, but He uses the identical phrase back in chapter 1 and verse 13, and we know it's there referring to Christ where He is moving in the church in the majestic vision of chapter 1 and He is called one like a Son of Man. Christ in His incarnation takes on the form of man. That's the intent of that text. And so it does refer to the Lord Jesus Christ, that's who it refers to, the very same phrase in chapter 1 and verse 13, and that's certainly what Daniel intended.
By the way, this is the last time the Lord is ever called Son of Man. This is the last time. The first time, you remember it? Matthew 8:20, "The foxes have holes, the birds of the air have nests, the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." What a contrast. The first time He was called Son of Man He had nothing, the last time He is called Son of Man He comes to take everything.
Now the reaper is further described in verse 14 as having a golden crown on His head, this is stephanos, this is notdiadema, the diadem, this is not the crown of the king, this is the crown of the victor, this is the runner's crown, not the royal crown. This pictures the Son of Man coming to conquer, coming to prevail over His enemies. This was a crown that was made out of like a laurel wreath, leafed in gold, worn on festive occasions, worn for wars and great athletic events by the victors, the triumphers. This is the crown of triumph that is referred to a number of times in the New Testament. The word stephanos is a very popular word, particularly with the Apostle Paul. It's different than the diadem or the royal crown which you see over in chapter 19 as being warn by the Lord Jesus Christ. Here He is seen not in His sovereign ruling position, but coming to conquer. His victorious posture, riding out of heaven, as it were, on a cloud to come conquering.
And in His hand a sharp sickle. A sickle was a long curved blade you may not understand a sickle unless you've looked at an old encyclopedia or seen some agricultural film somewhere or seen it in a book. We don't deal with that anymore in our modern world. But a long wooden handle had on the end of it a long curved sharpened blade, sharpened to the razor edge. In ancient Israel sickles were made out of iron or steel. They were sharpened like a razor to sweep through the grain and they would just sweep the sickle and it would just cut the grain right at ground level. And so you see depicted then the Lord Jesus Christ, as it were, sitting on a cloud waiting for final orders to come and take His sickle and begin the grain harvest, the final judgment.
From the reaper we come to the ripeness, look at verse 15. "And another angel came out of the temple crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, `Put in your sickle and reap because the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.'" The ripeness indicates the time is now.
Just a couple of details that are very interesting here. And another angel came out of the temple. The temple refers to the dwelling place of God, the place where God dwells. Verse 17 marks the same thought, "Another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven," and that tells us that this is not the earthly temple, this is not the temple of the Tribulation in Jerusalem, this is heaven,t he dwelling place of God, the sanctuary, the place of holy presence.
Here comes an angel from God. Remember now, angels are instruments of judgment. You see that in Matthew 13, you see it all through the book of Revelation. Here is the fourth active angel in this chapter. We've already met three of them earlier in the chapter. In fact, even clearly given specific tasks to do precisely from verse 6 down through 11. And here comes the fourth angel with a very specific task, he comes right out of the throne room, right out of the sanctuary, right out of the temple where God dwells, for very obvious reasons he is coming to tell the Son of Man that God wants Him now to move in judgment.
Now remember that the Son of Man has been given all given all judgment according to John 5:27, all judgment is committed unto the Son, but the Father is the one who passes the judgment passed to the Son at the appropriate moment. It is a delegated authority and the Son, as it were, sits on the battlements of heaven waiting to have His right to judge delegated to Him so that He can act. The Son can now exercise His right and judge and execute. Wrath has come. God's anger has reached its limit. He is sending vengeance by the man with whom He will judge the world, namely the Lord Jesus Christ. So this angel comes out of the temple, the temple that is in heaven, the dwelling place of God, crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud.
The idea of the loud voice is to demonstrate authority from God, urgency, power. And he tells Him, "Put in Your sickle and reap because the hour to reap has come." No more delay, no more grace, it is time for the harvest. The swift sharp sickle shows the completeness of this judgment and its speed, and its severity.
Just another interesting note. You see the word "ripe." It's time to reap because the harvest of the earth is ripe. The word actually means to be overripe, to have passed the point of any usefulness, to become actually dry, withered, overripe, or rotten. In other words, the grain, the earth has passed the point of any use at all. No purpose for it at all, it's overripe. It's very late. That may be a hint that God has been merciful and He has been so merciful and so gracious that He has waited until the world is even past ripeness for judgment. What grace.
The other implication is that the world is absolutely useless. It might as well be hacked down, bundled, and to borrow the imagery of our Lord, thrown into the fire. The gospel has been being preached, we remember that, don't we, from the first part of chapter 14 by the four..the hundred and forty-four thousand and also by the two witnesses and by the everlasting angel in chapter 14 verses 6 and 7. But the rotten world is going to be dealt with now because of its overripeness.
And then thirdly, the reaping. Verse 16, "And He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth and the earth was reaped." Boy, that's a tragic verse. I wish we could live in the light of the reality of that. It is done. It is done. The goats are destroyed, according to the terms of Matthew 25. The tares are destroyed, according to the terms of Matthew 13. The good are kept, the sheep, the wheat. The bad destroyed. This judgment, this devastating judgment is going to fall. And I believe certainly includes the seven bowls.
If you go over to chapter 16 for a moment, I'll give you a little preview. What happens in this judgment is just frightening. Verse 2, loathsome and malignant sores upon men. Verse 3, the sea becomes blood like that of a dead man and every living thing in the sea died. Verse 4, the rivers and springs of waters became blood. Verse 8, the sun was made to scorch men with fire, they were scorched with fierce heat. Verse 10, the kingdom of the beast became darkened and men gnaw their tongues because of pain, blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. Verse 12 talks about kings from the east. "And I saw coming out of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet three unclean spirits like frogs, they are spirits of demons performing signs which go out to the kings of the whole world to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty." That's Armageddon.
Verse 17, "The seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne saying, `It is done.' Flashes of lightning, sounds and peals of thunder, a great earthquake, the city is split into three parts, the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath. Every island fled away, the mountains were not found, huge hailstones a hundred pounds come down from heaven and men blaspheme God." All of that is rapid fire at the end and all of that speaks of the details of the harvest.
Without even a break, another vision comes immediately. Let's go back to verse 17. Not the grain harvest this time but the grape harvest. And while this certainly could encompass the bowls or a portion of those bowls since even the gathering to Armageddon is a part of those bowl judgments, I think this looks specifically not at the judgments described in the seven bowls, but at the actual coming of Christ, the very last judgment that ends Armageddon.
Let's meet the reaper here, verse 17. "And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also had a sharp sickle." This is the fifth angel in the visions of chapter 14 and he also is an agent for God's judgment. And he has a sharp sickle. Both the Lord Jesus Christ in the first vision and this angel in the second vision have instruments of judgment. Angels, you know, have played very prominent roles already in Revelation. The four horsemen that we saw in chapter 6 were called by angels, the seven trumpets were blown by angels, Satan and demons were defeated by angels, the seven bowls will be poured out by angels, Armageddon is announced by an angel, Satan and demons are bound by an angel, and here is another angel. And this angel comes out of the temple in heaven and he also has a sharp sickle.
Now remember, this is a visionary image of judgment. And from the reapers of the ripeness again, verse 18, "And another angel...yet another one, number six, this one is identified...the one who has power over fire came out from the altar." Now this is more interesting. This is a little different. This is somewhat unique. Here comes another angel and this angel is the one who has power over fire. And he comes out from the altar.
Now the altar has already been mentioned in the book of Revelation. Let's go back to chapter 6, this is a fascinating picture. Back in chapter 6 verse 9, when the fifth seal was broken describing the judgment of God in the time of the Tribulation, John says, "I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the Word of God and because of the testimony which they had maintained. And they cried out with a loud voice, saying,`How long, O Lord holy and true, wilt Thou refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?' And there was given to them a white robe and they were told they should rest for a little while longer until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren were to be killed, even as they had been, should be completed also."
What you have here is the altar of prayer. it is the altar of incense, if you will, which was emblematic of prayer. There is a symbolic altar in heaven, there are saints gathered there and their prayers or petitions are rising to God. They are praying for God to send His wrath. They have been martyred and they are praying to God to stop this martyrdom, to send His wrath, to crush the ungodly, to give victory to the saints, to vindicate the saints, to send Christ triumphantly to establish His Kingdom. So you see them praying there in chapter 6 verses 9 to 11.
Now go to chapter 8 and we'll go a little further into this picture. Chapter 8 verse 3, "And another angel came and stood at the altar holding a golden censer and much incense was given to him that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints went up before God out of the angel's hand. The angel took the censer and he filled it with the fire of the altar and threw it to the earth and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake."
Now let me give you a little Jewish background. Twice a day whether at the tabernacle or later on in the temple, at the time of morning sacrifice and the time of evening sacrifice, the priest would go into the brazen altar and he would get fire. Fire was always going there symbolizing the ascending prayers. But the priest would go and he would get some fire and he would put it in the censer. And then he would go into the holy place, and he would wave the censer, as it were, in the holy place which was like the presence of God, not the Holy of Holies but still a place where God would be present, and the incense would rise symbolizing the prayers of the people. Actually at that very moment, outside the people would be praying. So he was symbolizing at the time of morning prayer and evening prayer exactly what the people were doing. And he would stand right in front of the veil to the Holy of Holies and he would wave the censer. He would then ignite the altar of incense to its fullest flame.
Brazen altar and then the altar of incense. The incense arose and it symbolized the prayers of the people. So the fire on the altar symbolizes prayer rising to God. It represents all the prayers of all the true saints who pleaded for God to send Christ, who pleaded for God to judge, all the saints whoever said, "Thy kingdom come," whoever said, "Even so, come Lord Jesus."
Now all of that background, take you back to chapter 14 and have you note again that in verse 18 another angel, the one who has power over fire came out from the altar. Here comes an angel who's been dealing with the heavenly counterpart to the altar of incense, the fire angel. And he's coming out and he called with a loud voice to Him who had the sharp sickle saying, "Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth because her grapes are ripe."
The picture here is that this angel is not so much coming from the throne of God as the first angel did, representing the will of God, but this is an angel coming from the altar because he is coming to see that the prayers of the saints are answered. He comes from a place where the saints have been praying and praying and praying and it's now time to answer their prayers. It's time for the grape harvest, just as it was time for the grain harvest.
And again, these two different pictures of the same great scene, as I said, can focus and I think do on two great events that overlap...the bowl judgments and then the final great cataclysmic return of Jesus Christ. And you can see how this one emphasizes the winepress and thus the splattering of blood and the gushing of blood and the deadliness that is characteristic of the return of Christ. Verse 18 says, "Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth." Cut them off, sever them from the earth vine, sever them from earthly existence. Why? Because her grapes are ripe. A different word for ripe is used here, it means fully ripe, they're in their prime, they're bursting with juice, the juice of wickedness.
So the reaper and the ripeness and then you see lastly the reaping, verse 19, "And the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth and threw them into the great winepress of the wrath of God and the winepress was trodden outside the city and blood came out from the winepress up to the horses' bridles for a distance of two hundred miles."
A winepress was an interesting thing. There would be a large carved out piece of stone, then below it would be another one that would catch the juice. There would be a trough running from the upper to the lower one. The grapes would be thrown into this press and then trampled under the feet of those who did the work. And as they would stamp and crush those grapes so full of juice would burst and the juice would then flow downward to the trough and run down into that second basin which would catch it. To watch that happen with the brightness of the grapes and their color would be almost like you were looking at a bloodbath, and so there is a cross over in the imagery here. The splattering of the grapes becomes the splattering of those destroyed. All the enemies of God who are still alive when the final return of Christ comes, all the enemies of God who have survived the seven seals up to now, the seven trumpets and the seven bowls, all of them who are still there who are still left will be engaged in the great final battle of Armageddon. It will be an Armageddon in the north, Har Magedo, plain of Esdraelon up in the north, it will stretch all the way down through the middle through the valley of Jehoshaphat, all the way as Isaiah pointed it out to Bozrah in Eden, to the south down even below the Dead Sea. That great stretch of land that runs from the southernmost part to the northernmost part of the land of Israel, all the way, if you will, from beyond Dan to beyond Beersheba, from Esdraelon to Eden, this great conflagration of nations of the world will be gathered in that land of Palestine.
The very moment is described by Isaiah, as I read you in chapter 63 and by Joel in chapter 3. And at that point God's powerful angel puts the sickle in and the grapes are harvested and thrown into the great winepress of the wrath of God to be crushed. The crushing is just amazing. It says in verse 20, "The winepress was trodden outside the city," it's best to see that as a reference to Jerusalem, it's like the Lord sort of protects the city of Jerusalem itself at this moment. The prophets, Zechariah in chapter 14, Daniel in chapter 11, Joel in chapter 3 says the battle will be around Jerusalem. But apparently the city will be spared without the bloody carnage that will go on all over the land. And blood will come out from the winepress, the juice now, the imagery turns to blood, up to the horses' bridles.
There are two possibilities here. If that's just running blood, it's four feet deep. Now you say, "How many people are going to be engaged in the battle of Armageddon?" Well there will be many. It's not unrealistic to assume there will be millions. And when all those millions that still remain and have survived up to this last moment are fighting their battle against God and against His Christ, and Jesus comes in the great final act of judgment, it's not beyond assumption that there could be millions. We don't know how many millions who would be caught in this bloodbath. But even millions of people in a bloodbath would make it very difficult to understand how that the blood could be four feet deep for two hundred miles. So I don't think that we are intended to assume that there is this two hundred mile long lake of four feet deep blood. But I do think what we can assume is one of two things...the implication here is that the blood will splatter to the height of the horses' bridles, which would be four feet, blood-splattered horses or blood splattered to that height, or better yet, there may well be a trough running right down the central valley of Israel that is four-feet deep in blood. If the battle takes place in those areas that are near the central valley, it's possible that at some points that blood could run that deep as it troughs its way down the center of the land of Palestine.
But certainly the idea here is that blood is going to splatter to the horses' bridles all over a two hundred mile area. By the way, in the Greek you have sixteen hundred stadion here which roughly translates into a hundred and eighty to two hundred miles. If you stretch this thing all the way from Armageddon in the north, all the way down to Edom in the south, and go say forty miles beyond, you would have ample space to fill up that hundred and eighty to two hundred miles. And I think that's the intent. The battle will rage from...from beyond the borders of one end of that land to beyond the borders of the other end of that land because of the millions of people that will be flooding in there to engage themselves in this final great Armageddon. And at that point the Lord will come.
That description of the Lord's return is given in chapter 19. Let's look at it because here you have, I think, the description of...of the treading of the winepress, the bloody slaughter. Verse 11 of chapter 19, "I saw heaven opened, behold a white horse and He who sat upon it called Faithful and True and in righteousness He judges and wages war. And His eyes are a flame of fire and upon His head are many diadems and He has a name written upon Him which no one knows except Him. And He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood and His name is called the Word of God and the armies which are in heaven clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses and from His mouth comes a sharp sword so that with it He may smite the nations and He will rule them with a rod of iron and He treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God the Almighty."
The angel cuts the grapes, if we can put these two scenes together, but the Lord Christ crushes out their life. It's an incredible scene. The land is literally filled with blood and it's splattered all over the garment of the returning Christ. And it says, "On His robe...verse 16...and on His thigh He has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords, and I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried out with a loud voice saying to all the birds which fly in mid-heaven, `Come, assemble for the great supper of God in order that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all men both freemen and slaves and small and great.' I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war against Him who sat upon the horse and against His army. And the beast was seized and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone and the rest were killed with a sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat upon the horse and all the birds were filled with their flesh."
That's it, that's the final note on the grape harvest. The grain harvest I think is describing those final bowls that lead up the grape harvest, when the Lord Himself comes and treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God the Almighty.
Some people feel that in Ezekiel chapter 39, it's a debatable point, we'll talk more about it when we get to chapter 19, but for those of you who, I know, who will ask me the question, some people feel that Ezekiel chapter 39 verses 8 to 16 describes the cleanup that has to take place going into the Kingdom because of all this carnage that's left in the land of Palestine. The King doesn't want to set up His Kingdom in that land with all of that carnage. And Ezekiel 39 some feel relates to the cleanup at this particular time, and we'll say more about that later.
No wonder the Bible says, "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God." No wonder the Bible says, "Kiss the Son lest He be angry." What a frightening future the world has. They don't know it, do they? We know it. Can you understand that, my friend? Can you understand that you know where the world is going? You know that, it's not a guess. It's here. We have information that we must give. We know the house is on fire, and hell awaits. We know what's coming. What a responsibility. We've got a nation full of people trying to figure out the future, right? We know the future.
Father, we thank You for giving us this truth, at the same time we feel responsible to pass it on, to warn men of the wrath to come, just like John the Baptist did, just like Jesus and Paul and Peter and every other faithful believer. Help us to be faithful, to warn of the terror to come. The world isn't going to get better, it's going to get worse. And as bad as it is now, they don't have any idea what it's going to be like. Lord, help us to have a passion in our hearts to tell men the truth, tell women the truth, to warn. It's not enough just to talk about the positive things and the happy life, we need to warn men, to warn them of what's coming and coming soon, surely. Help us to be faithful, for Jesus' sake. Amen.
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean truckers blocked the country's main road on Monday to protest a string of arson attacks, including one that killed an elderly couple in a southern region that Mapuche Indians call their usurped ancestral land.
The couple's death has triggered a national debate on the escalation of a conflict in Araucania, where Mapuche Indians — the fearsome opponents of the Spanish conquistadores 500 years ago— are pitted against timber companies and wealthy landowners.
The attack has also raised questions about the inability of President Sebastian Pinera's government to meet the demands of Chile's largest indigenous group and the administration's vow to use harsh dictatorship-era measures to quell the violence.
State TV showed images on Monday of a long line of trucks clogging Route 5, the north-south highway running more than 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers) in this narrow, coast-hugging country. Truck beds carried lumber trucks and farming machinery that were set on fire in past attacks. Protesters carried banners calling for an end to the violence. One of them read: "No more burned alive," a reference to the killing of Werner Luchsinger and his wife Vivian McKay, who died Friday while trying to defend their home.
The vast landholdings of the couple's family had been long-targeted by Mapuche Indians.
"We knew they would set our house on fire," Jorge Luchsinger, the couple's son told local TV as he joined the protest. "I'd like to ask people who are not here for a stronger support so we can put a stop to this. These are commandos devoted to acts of terrorism."
A radical faction of the Mapuche have occupied and burned forestry farms and lumber trucks to demand the return of ancestral territories. They also protest timber companies that they say damage the environment by planting hundreds of thousands of acres with invasive pines and eucalyptus trees to supply Europe, Japan and the United States.
But police have also been accused of violent abuses including storming into Mapuche homes at night and shooting rubber bullets and tear gas during demonstrations.
"Police stormed in last night without warning, looking for who knows what and being extremely violent against our people," said Jorge Huenchullan, a spokesman for the Mapuche in Temucuicui, some 400 miles (650 kilometers) south of the capital Santiago.
The Mapuche, which means "people of the land" in their native Mapudungun language, resisted the Spanish conquest for 300 years and their desire for autonomy remains as strong. It wasn't until the late 19th century that they were defeated militarily and forced into Araucania, south of the Bio Bio river, about 550 kilometers south of the capital.
Many of the 700,000 Mapuche who survive among Chile's 17 million people, still live in Araucania. Most live in poverty on the margins of forestry companies or ranches owned by wealthy landowners like the Luchsinger family who arrived to the region in the late 1800s, from Switzerland, and benefited from the government's colonization policies since then.
"I don't have the formula (to solve this) but the starting point is recognizing that there's a history of usurpation unrecognized by the state," Carlos Bresciani, a priest in charge of a Mapuche mission in Araucania, told local La Segunda newspaper.
Pinera flew to the scene shortly after the attack on the couple, doubled the number of police agents in the region to 400 and announced tough new security measures.
In a letter to the president, Mapuche leader Juana Calfunao Paillaef said she regretted the violence but criticized the government for ignoring their demands and taking sides.
"My community, family and I have suffered attacks of this nature; unknown elements torched my house three times and the remains of my uncle were found after," she said. "But in my case there were no visits by the Chilean president, a state of emergency was not declared and the perpetrators are not punished under the anti-terror law."
The latest string of arson attacks have led right-wing politicians to demand the government guarantee safety by declaring a state of emergency.
After an emergency meeting on Monday with politicians from ruling and opposition parties, Interior Minister Andres Chadwick said the government will use the anti-terrorist law for now but doesn't rule out the state of emergency.
Members of the Mapuche have gone on repeated hunger strikes lasting more than 50 days to protest the anti-terror legislation that dates from the late Gen. Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship.
Human rights groups say the law is abusive because it allows for suspects to be held in isolation without charge, and for the use of secret witnesses and telephone taps.
Mapuche journalist Pedro Cayuqueo told state TV that the arson attacks don't merit the use of the anti-terrorism laws because they are already harshly punished, with arson that leads to death potentially carrying a life sentence.
"The civil population is not being indiscriminately targeted," Cayuqueo said. "Please, come on, under international law terrorism is the attack on the trains in Spain, the bombing of the AMIA (Jewish community center) in Buenos Aires, the 9-11 attacks. But there's no public Mapuche group that is belligerent against the state."
Associated Press writer Eva Vergara contributed to this report.
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FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 21, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SGI (Nasdaq:SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced the appointment of Cassio Conceicao as SGI's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, a newly created position in the company. Mr. Conceicao, 49, brings more than 25 years of technology industry experience to his new role, having most recently served as General Manager and Corporate Vice-President, Service Products at Applied Materials, Inc.
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Jennifer Aniston keeps warm in a stylish new coat on the set of The Baster in New York City on Monday (March 30).
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TULSA A former janitor at a Tulsa megachurch engulfed in a sex-abuse scandal was sentenced to 55 years in prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl in the church's stairwell.
Chris Denman also was sentenced to 5 years of probation and a $12,000 fine.
Denman pleaded guilty in October to first-degree rape, forcible oral sodomy of a child, lewd molestation, making a lewd proposal to a child and two counts of using a computer to facilitate a sex crime.
He did not have a plea agreement with prosecutors and had faced up to life in prison.
Denman was accused in the August rape of a girl on the campus of Victory Christian Center, a worldwide ministry in south Tulsa that has 17,000 members. Denman was also charged with molesting a 15-year-old girl and making a lewd proposal to a 12-year-old girl.
Denman spoke briefly at Wednesday's sentencing, quoting Bible verses and saying that he wanted to go to prison. At the hearing, prosecutors said Denman was arrogant and had used religion and the safety of the Victory Christian Center to prey on young girls.
A second former church employee, Israel Castillo, awaits trial on a charge of making a lewd or indecent proposal to a child. Prosecutors allege that Castillo sent explicit Facebook messages to a 14-year-old girl he had known for at least two years.
Five employees of the church, including the son and daughter-in-law of Victory head pastor Sharon Daugherty, also face misdemeanor charges. They're accused of waiting two weeks to report the alleged rape of the 13-year-old girl by Denman.


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Fisher Cats score in 9th to win
May 17. 2013 11:56PM
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — Kevin Pillar pieced together a four-hit night and scored the game-winning run in the top of the ninth to help the Fisher Cats (20-22) beat the New Britain Rock Cats 4-3 on Friday night.
The victory is just New Hampshire's third against the Rock Cats (20-21) this season as it starts a seven-game road trip.
The winning rally started for the Fisher Cats with one out. Pillar reached on an infield single to shortstop before stealing second base against New Britain reliever Mike Tonkin (L; 1-2). After a single by Ricardo Nanita moved Pillar to third, Clint Robinson's groundball to short trickled through Danny Santana's legs to bring home Pillar for the winning run.
Joel Carreno closed the door in the bottom of the ninth, working around a single and a two-out walk for his third save. He picked up the save to end a good night for the bullpen, which had allowed seven runs on Thursday. Carreno (save, 3), Evan Crawford (win 2-1), and Dustin Antolin (Double-A debut) combined for four scoreless innings in relief of Tyson Brummett.
Pillar's four hits led the Fisher Cats offense, but the biggest blow of the night belonged to Nashua's Kevin Nolan. Trailing 3-1 in the sixth, Nolan smashed a 2-0 fastball to left field for his third home run. The blast tied the game at 3-3, nearly clearing a 45-foot-high video board structure in the process. Adam Loewen had a solo homer for the Fisher Cats.
The series continues tonight at 6:35. Lefty Sean Nolin (1-0, 1.93) takes the ball against New Britain southpaw Logan Darnell (3-2, 2.06).


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When I make baby blankets for friends' babies, I never have any problems deciding what size to make them, and I stop when it feels naturally proportionate. With this one though, the first "baby" blanket I've made, I had no idea how big to make it. I think that was mostly down to not knowing what the purpose of the blanket was … it's not a pram blanket as I have another one planned for the pram, and I've got one of those baby sleeping bag things so don't really need a warm blanket for the crib. After I gave it a purpose though, it became a lot easier to be decisive about the size. This blanket then, is my car seat blanket. A blanket for tucking baby up in in the car, and then when baby is bigger and sitting in a front facing car seat it will still be big enough to snuggle over legs if need be.
I found that the easiest way to do the ends was to do two at once. The yarn is fine and had no problem being done like this. Take them through one way, and then back the other. It's not the neatest end darning in the world but the stitches are so open it's difficult to hide them. It looks fine though and I'm not too precious about it, as long as they're not flapping about I'm happy. When I'm doing granny squares I prefer to diligently sew in all my ends as I go along but with a blanket like this I prefer to get my hooky momentum going and do my ends in a few sessions. It's quite a nice thing to sit in bed and do before going to sleep, surprisingly relaxing. It's worth it when done though, I love the sight of a blanket with all the ends done:
I lay the blanket out from time to time to see how I'm doing size wise and once it looked right I started on the border:
(this pic is pre-end sewing!)
As I showed you previously, I like to start my edging with a row of granny clusters up each side. This gives a nice base for the border. You don't need to do a cluster in each row as it won't fit and you'll have more border than blanket. A cluster in every other row, with no chain spaces, works best in my opinion.
I had done two rows of blue at each end of the blanket so to make it even all the way around I did a further row of blue on top of the row of clusters. You have to bodge the corners a bit but it works out fine. After that I did a round of yellow and a round of green working in the tops of all the stitches. These were UK TR stitches worked in the tops as opposed to between them. The final round is a round of blue again, using UK DC stitches in between the stitches. I'm not really one for fancy borders, I just like the blanket to look finished really.
Crochet stitches all have a front and a back. When working in stripes, you turn your work each time and when you look at the finished piece, the rows where you can see the front of the stitches look thinner than the rows where you can see the backs. In the above photo, the blue rows are the front of the stitches and the yellow and green ones are the back of the stitches. I liked that this made the blanket look less blue and the yellow and green were dominant. I chose to put my border on so that this side faced up. The other side is just as lovely, it's just that the blue is a more dominant colour and I preferred the lightness and freshness of the yellow and green. For my next striped blanket, I am not going to turn my work each time, I am going to make all the stitches face the same way. This will make sense when I show you, I promise!
It would benefit from blocking I think, as the corners are curly. I'm not that bothered though and curly corners aren't going to matter when it's in use.
I started this blanket on the 14th of July and I finished it on the 8th August so that's what, 3 weeks and 4 days? Not bad for a 4ply blanket! The yarn is divine, it's 100% merino but it's not fibrous when you stroke it at all, but it's not heavy like cotton is. It's Katia Merino Baby in colour shades 14, 37 and 44. I used a ball and a half of each yellow and green, and three and a half of the blue.
So here you have it … one finished blanket for baby. That brings the count to two … I wonder if I can squeeze another one in before baby arrives?


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It is still hard for me to believe that I have a child in high school. Two? Oh. Yeah, I mean TWO young men in high school. Sigh. I do remember my mom telling me that time would fly, boy was she right!
So, my freshman was kind enough to let me snap a quick photo of him setting his locker up. Then I took a photo of little tiny him in front of great big school. That bottom photo pretty much sums it all up for me. Sigh.
The supplies for this layout are out my GDT kit from Back Porch Memories. The line is Notable from We R Memory Keepers. LOVE.
Ahhhhh, back to babies. This is my dear, sweet, little baby girl last winter enjoying the snow. She must have been FREEZING but she never stopped smiling or enjoying the winter wonderland in our very own backyard. Supplies are MORE {can you believe how much they squeeze into the kits?} out of my GDT kit from BPM. This line is Fancy Pants' Timbergrove. Swoon.
On another note...
Finally finished my December Daily album. My BFF came over and looked at it a few days ago...it wasn't quite finished then and that was all the push I needed. Three hours later...done, finished, complete.
These are a few of my favorite pages:
As you may notice from these photos, I still have a Christmas tree up...having a little trouble letting the season go this year. Strange, I am usually VERY ready to put it all away come the New Year. Hmmmm, not sure what this means.
Check back soon for a super simple tutorial on how I made the background paper for my "Snow Day" layout. In the meantime, take a peek at these magazines out this month, I have a few fun projects featured in them;)


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Reviewed By Honesto d (San Pablo, CA) Reviewed for a 2008 Nissan Titan —4/17/2009 12:05 PM
I have procured this product and thinking I'd install it myself since the product suggests "speed." Boy, am I wrong. You'd have to drill some holes for the bottom grille... I was also going to purchase the main grille but it's on backorder. Will install it in the near future once available! I've had it professionally installed and it looks great in my truck! (See pic!)


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On one side of the ring, we have the LG G Flex, a marvel of a device that showcases some new and innovative design qualities we have not seen commercialized on a large scale. Meanwhile there's the Nokia Lumia 1520, the biggest and most high spec'd Windows Phone to come to market made more profound with its hard-to-beat on-contract price from the onset. Several valid reasons exist right now as to why consumers should pick either of them up, but there can only be one that can give us the practical and meaningful answers.
Stylish look
Overall, it is safe to say that both handsets borrow from past devices, so we would not say that they are dramatically different. Despite that, we will give the stylish look to the Lumia 1520, mainly due to its chic tapered design in conjunction with the various bright colored paint jobs it's offered in.
Unconventional curved design
Then again, the G Flex is unique in itself for its unconventional curved design, giving it the ability to go back into shape after being flattened, and its self-healing rear casing. When it comes to the in-the-hand feel, we are going to give it to the LG G Flex because of its ergonomic and more comfortable feel. Honestly, it is tough which design we prefer more, seeing that they a handful of characteristics we like.
Pixel Resolution
The curve also worked particularly well for videos: the HD display has a 1,280x720-pixel resolution and seemed particularly clear and glare-free, which matches what CNET TV editor David Katzmaier says holds true for larger curved-display OLED televisions.
Weirdly, the Flex does not indeed flex; an LG rep encouraged us to try, and we pressed the device down on the table face-first, against every instinct not to. It held up against the pressure, and is meant to survive being sat on.
The rear finish, which LG says is "self-healing," is derived from paint finishes in the automotive industry. Hydrogen in the finish is involved in the surface expanding over time after being scratched, sealing up any damage.
The handset includes an aforementioned contoured battery. According to LG, the 3,500mAh battery uses patented technology that takes advantage of its unique shape to perform more reliably. Powering the device is a 2.26GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor (the same blazing fast CPU that is seen in the Nexus 5 and the LG G2 flagship) and a 450MHz Adreno 330 GPU for ultrasmooth gameplay. For shutterbugs, the phone is equipped with a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera. It runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and is LTE-enabled. Other features include 2GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, and NFC.
Additional news feature
Additional new features to LG's Optimus 3.0 user interface include Q Theater. This lets you view photos and videos directly from the lock screen. There is also an urgent call alert, which flashes the LED notification light when you miss several calls in a row from the same number, and swing lock screen, which changes the lock screen image depending on how you hold the phone.
Nokia Lumia 1520
To see the phones in real size or compare them with other models, visit our Visual Phone Size Comparison page.
OLED Display
What we have here are two 6-inch displays, one employing IPS-LCD technology, the other being OLED. Looking at strictly at their qualities, there's no arguing we get a higher level of it with the 6-inch 1080p (368 ppi) IPS-LCD display of the Lumia 1520. Not only is it more detailed than the 6-inch 720p (245 ppi) P-OLED panel of the G Flex, but it also proves to be more visible in outdoor conditions.
Outclassed specs
Although it is being outclassed in the specs department, the G Flex's flexible plastic OLED display is undeniably rare, one that's able to flex accordingly without any worries in regards to it breaking or shattering. Yes, it is cool, impressive, and innovative, but we have come across some distracting elements, like some odd color banding and spottiness, that appear when the brightness is set at 50% or below.
Processor and features
As the first Windows Phone device with a 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor, the Lumia 1520 possesses exactly the thing that caused us to mark down the HTC One Max in our recent review. That said, Windows Phone is not as taxing for a phone to run as Android, and it is questionable as to whether there is anything you can do with the Lumia 1520 that will prove truly taxing for it.
Feeding the processor and the giant screen is a potent 3,400mAh battery, which is one of the most powerful batteries is any smartphone device around. One of the issues many people initially complained about when phablets started appearing on the market was extremely poor battery life, so it is nice to see Nokia show commitment to getting this right on its first attempt. This battery is not going to keep the phone going for ever like Nokias of old, but it will keep it guzzling along smoothly for about a day. Also on board the 1520 is 2GB RAM and 32GB of storage, which can be supplemented with a 64GB microSD card and 7GB of free SkyDrive storage.


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The Red Devils boss has been asked to provide a written explanation to the Football Association about his public criticisms of assistant referee Simon Beck following his side's 1-1 draw against Tottenham.
Benitez infamously launched a calculated attack on Ferguson four years ago during his time in charge of Liverpool, suggesting the 71-year-old received preferential treatment from the FA - accusations which he believes still stand.
|Chelsea are 4/1 with William Hill to win the FA Cup
"I could see what was happening from my point of view, and maybe now a lot of people are seeing the same things. I will not talk too much about that because it's obvious.
"It's a question for the FA what they do about it. What I said at that time was what I thought, and what I'm seeing now is similar.
"It depends on the FA. I don't know what they will do, it depends on them. At this moment in time I have enough things to do here, so I want to concentrate on my job."The Spaniard says he is focused on making sure Chelsea qualify for the Champions League, hoping that will be enough to land him the job on a permanent basis.
"A lot of doors can be opened, but the main one is this one here," he said regarding his future.
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By Kerry Magro Jan 24, 2014 1
Big Idea for the Big Game
Last year, I wrote a post on my personal blog called "My Autism My Voice" about the benefits of having an autism Super Bowl commercial. In the piece I discuss how it would have a critical impact on our community in terms of spreading awareness. Then I wondered: If we did have a 30-second commercial, what would that look like? In my blog I mentioned having the entire spectrum represented, having facts and figures on autism prevalence thrown in and having a celebrity with autism—such as Temple Grandin—close the piece.
A year has passed and I still feel the same way about this idea. However, the message has been altered a bit. Now more than ever (and maybe with a little bias!) I'd love to see a Super Bowl commercial that emphasizes adults on the spectrum.
If I were creating such a commercial, I would include:
- A photo of several young kids with autism with the most recent statistics regarding prevelance;
- A photo of those same kids now as adults, noting that "500,000 individuals with autism will reach adulthood in the next decade;"
- There would then be a few seconds dedicated to a photo of each young adult, one would be graduating from high school, one with a job, one being helped by an aid in a group home, one still living at home with their family;
- The last few seconds would feature older adults on the spectrum with a quote in the background that says, "Kids grow up, and we need to be ready for them." The commercial would close with information regarding resources to learn more.
The Super Bowl is the most-watched TV show nationally year after year; the commercials that air during the game share that audience. Admittedly, comnmercial space during the Super Bowl is prohibitively expensive for autism organixations! Regardless, this commercial would be my wish. As much as I love football and the Super Bowl, I keep thinking about the impact those 30 seconds could make in our society.
That's why the first bullet I wrote about mentioning the most recent statistics is so important. When I was growing up the estimated number of children with autism was 1 in 10,000. The impact that autism has on our society is why the national attention is key now. We need not only a commercial but also a national agenda.
My dream of an autism Super Bowl commercial might be unrealistic, but it sure would be nice wouldn't it?


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ITS NOT A SKI! gawd! the origin of wakeboarding comes from "skurfing" which came from skiing and surfing combined. The style of the boar is closer to surfing and you are positioned more similar to a surfer rather then a skier. But the skiing part comes from the fact that you do have a boat towing you with a rope and handle, and that you have bindings. Wakeboards have many things that affect the board including, fins and whether you have them or not, the rocker (how far off the ground each side comes). The smaller the rocker the better the rider. Same with fins, no fins=difficult but no fins also=better rider. I for one have been wakeboarding since i was 10, and im 15 now.
The lake is glassy, it's a good time for wakeboarding.
by anniethebizitch May 24, 2005
A sport of champions, ivolving a water skier using a large snowboard like ski, called a 'wakeboard'
Easy way to show of to the ladies
Easy way to show of to the ladies
by wello boys forever!!! September 28, 2003
An alternate spelling of wakeboarding.
v.) the process of using a board, slightly longer and wider than a skateboard, to ride and perform tricks while being pulled behind a watercraft.
v.) the process of using a board, slightly longer and wider than a skateboard, to ride and perform tricks while being pulled behind a watercraft.
Yo, the lake is so smooth it looks like a mirror. Let's go wake boarding poste haste!
by Casey "Tofu" November 01, 2005
Watersport where a skier is towed behind a boat using a rope and is similar to snowboarding except on water. You can do sick tricks off the wake of the boat such as the tootsie roll, scaracrow, etc. It's the only tight watersport.
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I an trying to find a reliable router for a dial-up home network system with as many of the features listed below as possible.
1. 4 ports
2. NAT firewall
3. Compatible w/Windows 98 thru Windows XP(?) and Unix/Linux
4. 10/100 LAN interface
5. DHCP support
6. Stateful Packet Inspection firewall
7. Filtering tools
8. Logging tools
9. Printer port
10. Easy to set up and maintain
The only routers I have been able to locate thus far are the Netgear FVS328 (http://www.netgear.com/products/details/FVS328.php), Asante FR3004C / FR3004LC / FR3004FLC (http://www.unlimited.com/productpage.asp?family_id=649) and SMC Barricade 7004ABR (http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?sec=Pro...prod=67&site=c). Using a separate PC running something like IPCop, Smoothwall, etc. is unfortunately, not a viable option.
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U.S. Commerce Department Implements 2011 Wassenaar Arrangement Update
In a quick turnaround, the US Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) updated the Commerce Control List (CCL) in July to reflect this latest Wassenaar revision, which includes some positive changes for the semiconductor and PV industries. Since 1996, the Wassenaar Arrangement has served as the primary international authority governing the transfer of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies. This multilateral export control regime exists to support global security standards and reinforce a nation's existing control mechanisms.
The 17th annual Wassenaar Arrangement plenary session took place this past December with 41 member-nations convening in Vienna to revise the Arrangement's list of dual-use good and technologies. A primary focus of this year's regulatory revision was to make the control lists more user-friendly for licensing authorities and exporters. The changes also look to improve the detection and denial of undesirable exports. Overall, the Wassenaar (and CCL) update should increase harmony in dual-use regulations across the globe.
Prior to the December meeting, SEMI and its members worked to ensure that this plenary session would be productive for our industry and we are pleased to report such substantial progress. We now encourage companies to carefully review the regulation and the updated CCL to determine how these changes affect your business.
Some key areas of focus:
1) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Equipment (3B001.a.2): Wassenaar members determined that MOCVD equipment no longer merits inclusion on the Sensitive List. While it originally had been added due to use in high frequency semiconductor devices used for military applications, this type of equipment is now primarily used to produce devices for mass market consumer application. With the removal from the Sensitive List, BIS has made MOCVD equipment eligible for both GBS and CIV license exceptions. The CIV exception is especially notable since previously epitaxial growth equipment, classified as 3B001a.1, was the sole type of semiconductor equipment eligible for this exception.
2) Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) Equipment (3B001.d): All PECVD equipment has been decontrolled, as Wassenaar members agreed that it is "widely available and does not merit control because it is overwhelmingly used in civil consumer applications."
3) Hetero-Epitaxial Materials (3C001): A note was added to 3C001.d with the goal of decreasing controls on LEDs while keeping controls on laser diodes that can be used for non-civil purposes.
4) Technology Control (3E003): Paragraph 3E003.b was revised to add the word "electronic" to "hetero-structure semiconductor electronic devices." The purpose is to clarify that 3E003 is not intended to include LEDs or solar cells.
SEMI will continue to work in support of streamlined export mechanisms for its members. As an advocate for progressive improvements to global export control regimes, we hope to increase productivity within the semiconductor and PV industries while also supporting regional and international security and stability. For more information on this, or other export control issues, please contact Taylor Sholler, manager, Americas Public Policy at email@example.com.
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Thunder at Eagles
Faceoff: 6:05 p.m., Budweiser Events Center (Loveland, Colo.)
Records: Stockton 19-12-7; Colorado 18-16-3
Broadcast: 1280 AM; stocktonthunder.com
Skinny: The Thunder's two newest players will miss the final two games of the three-game series. Forward Ryan Green and defenseman Colton Hayes were acquired by the Thunder before its 8-3 loss to the Eagles on Wednesday, and they were injured in the game. Green is out with a groin pull and Stockton coach Matt Thomas confirmed Hayes had a concussion after taking an elbow to the head from Colorado forward Devin DiDiomete. They will miss the games today and Saturday. ... The Thunder is set to get some help as defenseman Ryan Constant and forward Harrison Reed were activated from the reserve list. Constant is one of the team's hardest-hitting defenders, and Reed is third among active players on Stockton with 30 points in 31 games. ... The eight goals allowed to the Eagles on Wednesday was the most the Thunder had given up all season. The goals against average (GAA) of goaltender Tyler Bunz went from 3.24 to 3.45. ... Thomas said Cody Reichard will start in the net for Stockton. Reichard has an 8-3-4 record with a 2.49 GAA. ... Stockton forward Justin Maylan has a goal in three of the past four games and 15 for the season. ... Forward Chad Costello leads the Eagles with 49 points (14 goals, 35 assists) in 27 games. Forward Michael Forney, who had a hat trick Wednesday, leads Colorado with 20 goals.
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While anyone can get Hepatitis C, people born during these years are five times more likely to have Hepatitis C than other adults. That's why CDC recommends everyone born from 1945-1965 get tested for Hepatitis C.
75% of people with Hepatitis C were born from 1945-1965
Of the more than 3 million people living with Hepatitis C, 3 out of every 4 were born from 1945-1965.
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clojuresque – a Clojure plugin for Gradle
What is Gradle?
Gradle is a build system written in Java and Groovy. One advantage of Gradle is, that the build script itself is also a Groovy script. That means whatever can be done in Groovy can be done in the build script. This is useful to abstract away common patterns in the build like repetition or conditional decisions.
On top of that Gradle provides a convenient build system which comes in form of different plugins. Each plugin defines certain conventions which (if followed) automasie 95% of the build completely. Still the conventions are freely configurable to be adapted to different project structures.
What is clojuresque?
clojuresque is now a plugin for Gradle, which adds Clojure support. It allows compilation with automatic namespace recognition. The plugin is based on the Java plugin and hooks into the standard configurations and archives.
Contrary to the Groovy plugin, there is no special
groovy configuration.
Java code in the same project might want to hook into [Clojure][] as well. So
the [Clojure][] jar must be available also to the Java portion of the project.
Automatic recognition of namespaces only works if the
nsform is the first in the file. Comments may precede the form. The symbol is allowed to be fully qualified:
Clojars deployment is currently broken, because the clojars server does not like a single Java implementation of ssh. With other servers like the "real" ssh it works quite well, though. I suspect the issue to be on the clojars side.
Create a
build.gradle script in the root directory of your project. Note
that gradle derives the project name from the name of this directory!
buildscript { repositories { mavenRepo name: 'clojars', urls: 'http://clojars.org/repo' } dependencies { classpath 'clojuresque:clojuresque:1.4.1' } } group = 'example.group' version = '1.0.0' apply plugin: 'clojure' warnOnReflection = true aotCompile = true repositories { mavenCentral() clojarsRepo() } dependencies { compile 'org.clojure:clojure:1.2.1' }
A small walkthrough:
- The
buildscriptpart defines a dependency and automatically fetches clojuresque from Clojars.
- The
versionproperties define the respective attributes of your project. They are required for the POM generation.
applybasically loads the clojure plugin.
warnOnReflectionturns on the reflection warnings of the clojure compiler
aotCompilespecifies whether to produce a source jar or an AOT compiled jar. The default is produce a source jar, because they also tend to be smaller. This issue was discussed on the Google group.
clojarsRepoadds the Clojars Repository.
- In the
dependenciessection we add a dependency on clojure.
In the filesets you can specify filters with
include resp.
This is fine for mostly file based languages. However clojure is strongly
based on namespaces. Therefor the clojure part of the source sets support
clojureIncludeNamespace and
clojureExcludeNamespace which can be
used to filter on the namespace name. Eg. to exclude examples from the
final jar one could use
sourceSets.main.clojure { clojureExcludeNamespace 'my.project.examples.**.*' }
Clojars Deployment
Note: Does work only on Unix/Mac OS via shell out to scp. Does not work on Windows! Make sure you have an agent running which handles your clojars key.
As Leiningen, Clojuresque now supports uberjars. That means you can enable
uberjar task with
uberjar.enabled = true
Then invoking
gradle ueberjar will create a jar file with all runtime
dependencies included.
This is alpha software! Expect problems! Please report issues in the bugtracker at the lighthouse tracker. Or email them to me.
General support is available on the clojuresque google group.
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| April 4, 2011, 12:57 pm
Here's a simple recipe from the new book, "Skinny Dips" by Diane Morgan. Make it with canned artichoke hearts as in the recipe, or if you're feeling ambitious, fresh ones. Serve it as a dip with pita chips or baby vegetables, or stir it into some pasta.
Artichoke Pesto
Recipe adapted from "Skinny Dips," by Diane Morgan (Chronicle)
2 cans (13.75 ounces each) artichoke hearts packed in water, well drained
1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher or sea salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper