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cat-and-mouse game
1. A situation characterized by two parties engaged in a constant back-and-forth routine in which the advantage alternates between them. It's been a real cat-and-mouse game between these two teams—we won't be sure of the victory until the very last moment!
2. A situation characterized by two parties engaged in a constant back-and-forth routine in which one party attempts to gain tactical advantage over or draw out of hiding the other, often only to be thwarted or eluded. Police have been playing a cat-and-mouse game with drug dealers in this area for years now.
See also: game
dust mouse
A small accumulation of dust and lint, as found behind or under furniture. Also called a "dust bunny" or "dust ball." I was appalled by the amount of dust mice that were behind the sofa when we moved it from the corner of the room.
cat and mouse
1. A phrase used to describe the suspenseful relationship between one being pursued and the pursuer. We've been hiding out here for days, and I can't handle this cat and mouse game any longer—I'm calling the police!
2. A phrase that describes how one plays with or teases someone before turning violent or vicious, likened to the way in which a cat toys with a mouse before killing it. If we have any hopes of getting the prisoner to crack, we need to play a cat and mouse game now, in the early stages of the interrogation.
3. A game in which children stand in a circle and raise their arms to let one player into the middle. Then, they lower their arms to keep out a second player, who is chasing the first. Let's play cat and mouse! I'll go first—everybody else, circle up!
Mickey Mouse around
To play or fool around, rather than engaging in serious activities. The phrase refers to the Walt Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse. Would you quit Mickey Mousing around and take this work seriously? Pete is funny, but he Mickey Mouses around too much for my liking.
Are you a man or a mouse?
A phrase of encouragement, typically in situations where courage is required. You have to confront your co-workers if they're mistreating you. Come on, are you a man or a mouse?
See also: man
be (as) quiet as a mouse
To be silent and meek. I just can't believe that Kate actually yelled at Mike—she's as quiet as a mouse! I always tell my young son that he needs to be quiet as a mouse during the church service.
burn not your house to fright the mouse away
Do not overreact to a minor problem by taking drastic measures. It's just a minor leak—we don't need to tear open the kitchen to fix it. Burn not your house to fright the mouse away.
play cat and mouse
1. To engage in a suspenseful relationship in which one is being pursued and one is the pursuer. The marshals and the fugitive have been playing cat and mouse for months now, but they may finally have him cornered.
2. To play with or tease someone before turning violent or vicious, likened to the way a cat toys with a mouse before killing it. If we have any hopes of getting the prisoner to crack, we need to play cat and mouse now, in the early stages of the interrogation.
3. To play a game in which children stand in a circle and raise their arms to let one player into the middle and then lower their arms to keep out a second player, who is chasing the first. Let's play cat and mouse! I'll go first—everybody else, circle up!
mickey mouse
1. noun, slang Something that is trivial or insignificant. All I ever do at this job is a lot of mickey mouse.
2. noun, slang A police officer. You hear those sirens? Mickey mouse is getting closer—we need to move it.
3. noun, slang A small piece of paper containing LSD and imprinted with an image of Mickey Mouse. Got any mickey mouse I can buy?
4. adjective, slang Trivial or insignificant. She needs to get a real job instead of wasting time with this mickey mouse internship.
(as) poor as a church mouse
Very poor; having little or no money. My father was as poor as a church mouse growing up, so his sole focus was to give his kids every opportunity in life that he missed out on. We've become poor as church mice ever since the bank raised the interest rates on our mortgage.
(as) quiet as a mouse
Silent, meek, and gentle. I just can't believe that Kate actually yelled at Mike—she's usually as quiet as a mouse! We remained as quiet as mice to avoid being detected by the guards.
Burn not your house to fright the mouse away.
Prov. Do not do something drastic when it is not necessary. Ellen: I don't like the shape of my nose; I think I'll have surgery to make it look better. Jane: But you can make your nose look better just by using different makeup. Don't burn your house to fright the mouse away. When someone pointed out a small flaw in Bob's latest painting, Bob wanted to tear the whole painting to shreds. "Now, now, Bob," his friends said, "burn not your house to fright the mouse away."
mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken
Prov. It is dangerous to always depend on just one thing, because if it fails you, you will not have any alternatives. Don't put all your money in a single bank account. The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
play cat and mouse with someone
Fig. to be coy and evasive with someone. I know what you are up to. Don't play cat and mouse with me! I wish that they wouldn't play cat and mouse with me!
*poor as a church mouseand *poor as church mice
very poor. (*Also: as ~.) My aunt is as poor as a church mouse. The Browns are poor as church mice.
*quiet as a (church) mouse and *quiet as the grave
very quiet. (*Also: as ~.) You'd better be as quiet as a mouse while Grandma takes her nap so you won't wake her up. This town is quiet as the grave now that the factories have closed.
play cat and mouse
Amuse oneself or trifle with, toy with, as in She loved to play cat and mouse with an admirer, acting by turns friendly, indifferent, and jealous . The analogy of a cat toying with a helpless mouse was drawn centuries earlier, but the precise term dates only from the early 1900s.
poor as a churchmouse
Having little or no wealth and few possessions, as in She's poor as a churchmouse, so you can't expect her to donate anything. The reason for this long-used simile is unclear, but most believe that, since churches are not known for storing food, a mouse inside one would fare poorly. It has survived such earlier phrases as poor as Job. [Second half of 1600s]
See also: churchmouse, poor
quiet as a mouse
Also, still as a mouse. Silent, without noise, as in She sneaked into the house, quiet as a mouse, or When he heard the news he was still as a mouse. The first of these similes dates from the mid-1500s, the second from the 1300s.
play cat and mouseor
play a game of cat and mouse
COMMON In a contest or dispute, if one person or side plays cat and mouse or plays a game of cat and mouse with another, the first person or side tries to confuse or deceive the second in order to defeat them. He would play cat and mouse with other riders, sometimes waiting until the fourth lap to come from behind and win. A diplomatic game of cat and mouse is being played between the United Nations and the warring factions in the region. Note: You can also talk about a cat and mouse game or a cat and mouse chase or use other nouns in this way. Amos played a cat and mouse game with officers for several hours. They were arrested after a cat-and-mouse chase through the fields. Note: The reference here is to a cat playing with a mouse before killing it.
poor as a church mouseOLD-FASHIONED
If someone is as poor as a church mouse, they have very little money. I was as poor as a church mouse, but I bought that wreck of a car. I suspect we'll continue to be poor as church mice. Note: Mice living in a church are unlikely to find much to eat as there is no kitchen or food cupboard.
quiet as a mouse
If someone is quiet as a mouse, they are very quiet or silent. During the day Mom was quiet as a mouse. She hardly said or did anything. We were quiet as mice, hiding in there.
play cat and mouse withmanoeuvre in a way designed alternately to provoke and thwart an opponent.
The image here is of the way that a cat toys with a mouse, pretending to release it and then pouncing on it again.
poor as a church mouse (or as church mice)extremely poor.
Church mice may be considered to be particularly poor or deprived in that they do not have the opportunity to find pickings from a kitchen or larder.
quiet as a mouse (or lamb)(of a person or animal) extremely quiet or docile.
1982 Robertson Davies The Rebel Angels I shall be as quiet as a mouse. I'll just tuck my box…in this corner, right out of your way.
(play) cat and ˈmouse (with somebody)(informal) (keep somebody) in a state of uncertainty, being sometimes kind, sometimes cruel: The police were playing cat and mouse with him; letting him feel safe in the hope that he would make a mistake and then they could arrest him. ♢ The authorities have been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the protestors.
This expression refers to the way a cat plays with a mouse before killing it.
(as) poor as a church ˈmousevery poor: She was as poor as a church mouse, living on a tiny pension. OPPOSITE: (as) rich as Croesus
(as) quiet as a ˈmouse(of a person) saying very little or making very little noise: He's quiet as a mouse in class. ♢ Be as quiet as a mouse when you go upstairs — the baby's asleep in our bedroom.
bald-headed hermitand bald-headed mouse and one-eyed pants mouse
n. the penis. (Usually objectionable.) Somebody said something about the attack of the one-eyed pants mouse, and all the boys howled with laughter. Although "bald-headed hermit" gave her mental images of Ghandi on vacation, she soon figured out the riddle.
bald-headed mouseverb
See also: mouse
one-eyed pants mouseverb
mickey mouse
1. n. nonsense; something trivial. (From the world-famous mouse character by the same name, owned by The Walt Disney Company.) This is just a lot of mickey mouse.
2. mod. trivial; time wasting; lousy. I want out of this mickey mouse place.
3. n. a police officer. (Streets.) Mickey mouse is hanging around asking about you.
4. n. a bit of blotter impregnated with LSD with a picture of The Walt Disney Company's Mickey Mouse on it. (Drugs.) How much is the mickey mouse?
mickey mouse ears
n. the two lights found on top of a police car. (This is the older form of emergency lights. A bar of lights with varying functions is now the norm in towns and cities.) There were no mickey mouse ears, but the jerk inside looked like your average ossifer.
mickey mouse habit
n. a trivial drug habit. (Drugs.) Nothing to it. Just a little mickey mouse habit. I can stop any time I want.
mouse potato
n. someone who spends a great amount of time using a computer. (Based on couch potato.) Every since we go the new computer, Jane has turned into a regular mouse potato.
word of mouse
n. a message spread by email. (Contrived. Refers to a computer mouse. A play on word of mouth.) A lot of these jokes are spread by word of mouse.


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SOMETIMES being famous is like attending your own funeral.
Chris Colfer learned as much at the ripe age of 18, when he was cast as the plucky gay countertenor Kurt Hummel on "Glee." Armed with a golden voice and an uncanny ability to cry on cue (his secret: think of eye injuries), Mr. Colfer became a poster boy for bullying issues and the show's breakout star.
But back in his hometown, Clovis, Calif., things got weird.
"People that I went to school with almost acted as if I had died," Mr. Colfer, now 22, said in a recent interview at the Trump SoHo hotel. Classmates who once treated him like toxic waste were now bragging on Facebook that they had been best of friends. "I thought, Wow, this must be what someone feels like at their eulogy."
That old Tom Sawyer fantasy is the basis of "Struck by Lightning," a film that Mr. Colfer wrote and stars in. After having its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, it was released on video on demand last week and opens in theaters Jan. 11.
Mr. Colfer plays Carson Phillips, a high-school outcast who, in the hope of getting into Northwestern University, blackmails classmates into contributing to his literary magazine. The film is told in flashback: in the first scene, Carson is, indeed, struck by lightning and dies.
Mr. Colfer conceived the story when he was 16, well before landing on TV. He first performed it in high school, as a monologue for his speech and debate team.Continue reading the main story
But the movie isn't just deferred juvenilia. It's part of Mr. Colfer's bid to become a multi-platform showbiz hyphenate. In 2011, he signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown. The first book, "The Land of Stories," which came out this summer, is a young-adult adventure novel that upends classic fairy tales, in the manner of Gregory Maguire. (He's at work on a sequel.) He also published a companion book to "Struck by Lightning," written as Carson's journal.
Mr. Colfer's literary ambitions, coupled with his piccolo-voiced demeanor, underscore how unconventional his stardom is. Playing a flamboyantly gay TV character means that Mr. Colfer has faced a nagging interest in his own sexuality, as well as questions about his long-term casting potential.
But on this front, too, he has broken ground. Though Mr. Colfer is reticent about his personal life, he has never denied being gay. In an Entertainment Weekly cover article this summer, "The New Art of Coming Out," the writer Mark Harris contrasted Mr. Colfer with slightly older gay celebrities like Neil Patrick Harris and Zachary Quinto, whose coming-out stories, while tellingly understated, were still news.
"There are more and more actors like Chris Colfer, whose transformation from an unknown 19-year-old to a TV star in 2009 was accomplished without any 'coming out' moment at all," Mr. Harris wrote. "He was simply out, and therefore didn't have to manage or strategize any revelation once he became famous."
"I kind of love it," Mr. Colfer said, after being read the passage. "I really hope that one day it won't be a thing, and we'll get past this ridiculous — this really complex line between reality and fiction that always gets blurred. It's crazy that people don't let actors work because they're gay."
"He didn't have to do a press conference," said Jane Lynch, the openly lesbian actress who plays the arch-villainess Sue Sylvester on "Glee." "It's implied. And I think that says something about the culture we're in."
STILL, it's possible to see Mr. Colfer's diversity of creative outlets as a kind of insurance policy. By writing his own material, he can circumvent casting directors and define his screen persona for himself.
In some cases, that means leaving things vague. His "Struck by Lightning" character is conspicuously asexual. "I wanted everyone to universally be able to be inspired by this character, so I didn't address it," he explained. (In the book version, the subject is acknowledged, if inconclusively: Carson confesses to having a crush on Rachel Maddow.)
To make the film, Mr. Colfer assembled a team of seasoned collaborators, including the director Brian Dannelly ("Saved!") and Christina Hendricks ("Mad Men"), who plays his father's fiancée. In a casting coup, he got Allison Janney ("The West Wing") to play his depressed single mother, having envisioned the part for her when he was in high school.
"I was very flattered by it," Ms. Janney said. "I've always wanted to be somebody's muse."
While not strictly autobiographical, the story stems from Mr. Colfer's fraught upbringing. When he was 7, his younger sister was found to have severe epilepsy. "She'd have these horrid, horrid epileptic fits in the middle of the night," he recalled. Mr. Colfer, who craved attention, was now deprived of it. Family friends would inquire about his sister's condition: "It was always, 'So when you grow up, are you going to come up with a cure for your sister?' I would say, 'Nope, I'm going to be an actor!' "
He came to see the unbalanced family dynamic as "an evil curse." Retreating into his imagination, he began writing fairy tales, which formed the basis of "The Land of Stories."
"It's all related to childhood traumas," he said with a laugh.
Things got worse — as they often do — in middle school. Mr. Colfer transformed from a skinny sixth grader into a pudgy seventh grader whose voice hadn't dropped. (It still hasn't, essentially.) Bullies vandalized his locker and defaced his gym clothes. He kept his travails mostly hidden. "I always assumed that my parents were busy with my sister," he said. "They didn't need any woes from me. So I never told them. I've still never told them the extent of what I experienced."
But he did confide in his grandmother. She alerted his parents, who pulled him from school and put him in a home-schooling program for a year and a half.
In the meantime, he kept writing. "Words were the only way I could get people to listen to me without them wondering what was wrong with my voice," he said.
In ninth grade, he transferred to Clovis East High School, which had a strong performing-arts program but also a strict conservative philosophy, fostered by its founding superintendent, Floyd Buchanan, known as Doc. Dr. Buchanan enforced an ironclad dress code: no facial piercings, no pro sports jerseys, and boys' hair couldn't reach their collars.
"Chris was right on the edge of those traditional views," said Mikendra McCoy, who was Mr. Colfer's coach on the speech and debate team. In an incident that later inspired a subplot on "Glee," his classmates blocked him from singing "Defying Gravity," a female duet from "Wicked," in the talent show. His senior year, he wrote a gender-bending parody of "Sweeney Todd," called "Shirley Todd."
"The district wasn't too excited about that," Ms. McCoy said.
Nevertheless, Mr. Colfer acted in community theater productions and became president of the school writers' club. Not that there was much competition. At the homecoming parade — this became a scene in "Struck by Lightning" — he and the club's sole other member piloted a two-person float atop his father's pickup truck. "When we came around the corner, the crowd went dead silent," he recalled. "They felt so sorry for us."
At the same time, he became a speech and debate champion, with Ms. McCoy as his mentor. (She has a cameo in the film as Carson's science teacher.) Her most enduring maxim, which could double as Kurt Hummel's, was: "As long as you truly own who you are, no one can ever use you against you."
The lesson held true when Mr. Colfer was cast in "Glee" in 2009. He originally auditioned for Artie, the paraplegic. But the series' creator, Ryan Murphy, conceived the role of Kurt — a bully-dodging show queen who gives killer makeovers — especially for him. At first, Mr. Colfer was hesitant about playing a gay character on national TV. "I was very nervous about people in my hometown," he said, recalling how he had seen local church groups campaigning for Proposition 22, a same-sex marriage ban.
He was also skittish about being typecast. "The first thing that was ever written about me was that I was fantastic in 'Glee,' but it would be the last and only thing I ever did," he said.
At first, a part of him believed that. But as the show caught on, the character deepened. In the second season, Mr. Murphy introduced a love interest, Blaine Anderson, played by Darren Criss. Kurt and Blaine's tumultuous relationship became one of the show's most nuanced — and pioneering — story lines. Last season, they lost their virginity to each other, in a barrier-breaking sex scene that Mr. Colfer compared to Maude's abortion.
"When this show comes to an end, that'll be one of the biggest things that stands out," he predicted. He credited Mr. Murphy for not relegating Kurt to sassy-sidekick status or painting him as a victim, like many of his TV predecessors. (Ricky from "My So-Called Life" comes to mind.)
MUCH to the contrary, this season Kurt has graduated from high school and is pursuing his dreams in New York City. Freshly pompadoured, he shares an improbably large Bushwick, Brooklyn, apartment with Rachel (Lea Michele) and interns for a Vogue editor played by Sarah Jessica Parker, in a story line even more fantastical than Ms. Parker's previous series. (The Thanksgiving episode had them dancing around to "Let's Have a Kiki" with drag queens.)
The show's recent New York focus has meant shooting on location in Bryant Park and other high-traffic spots, which has drawn gawking crowds. One of the stranger aspects of Mr. Colfer's career is his relationship with his young fans, who mob him everywhere he goes. Not long ago, when he tried going to a public movie theater, the resulting hysteria left him with bruises.
None of this is unusual for a tween idol, of course. But Mr. Colfer's sexuality makes the situation curious. Surely, Kurt has served as a role model for countless gay teenagers. But the vast majority of his admirers, he said, are girls, who shower him with photo albums and even erotic fan fiction ("more than most of my male co-stars"). Tumblr is rife with fan pages dedicated to Kurt and Blaine (a k a Klaine), much like the ones you would find for Bella and Edward of "Twilight."
Certainly, the phenomenon speaks to the ubiquity of gay characters in popular culture, and suggests that Mr. Colfer's future as a crossover star is bright. But unlike, say, Robert Pattinson or Zac Efron, he is hardly a typical fantasy boyfriend, since he offers his female fans no logical hope of consummation.
What's in it for them?
"The new generation doesn't see people in black and white anymore," he said. "These girls identify with Kurt, because Kurt had something different about him. Who doesn't have that?"
He added, with a shrug: "I don't know too much about the female brain."Continue reading the main story

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venerability — noun The qualities of being venerable; great age, respectability, infirmity, etc. Because of the professors venerability his opinion was often asked, but his actual attendance in committee meetings was not insisted upon … Wiktionary
venerability — noun see venerable … New Collegiate Dictionary
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UMI Launches Iron Pro Giveaway
by Nov 20, 2015 8:49 am0
The UMI Iron Pro, the higher-end version of its Iron flagship, is less than a month away from release and the company has decided to run a giveaway for the new device on its UMI Community forums.
Those who would like to get participate in the giveaway need to firstly register on the UMI Community forums. After registering, they will gain access to the giveaway widget where they may do certain actions including Liking the UMI Community Facebook page, Following UMI Community on Twitter, and more to gain points or entries to the giveaway. After completing all the actions, users may also share a giveaway link to their friends to gain more entries. Additionally, users may also gain more entries every day.
The giveaway will run until November 25, 00:00 GMT+2 and the winner will be announced on the same day through the UMI Community Facebook page, Twitter account, and the UMI Community forum.
You can participate in the giveaway from here.
The UMI Iron Pro is currently available for pre-order through Banggood for a price of $159.99 and, as previously mentioned, will begin shipping by the end of the month.
It features an octa-core MediaTek MTK 6753 processor, 3 GB RAM, a 5.5-inch full HD 1080p screen, 16GB of internal storage, a USB Type-C connector, a 13-megapixel f/2.0 aperture Sony IMX214 rear camera with dual LED flash, 8-megapixel f/2.2 aperture OmniVision OV8858 front-facing camera with flash, and a 3100mAh battery.


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Here let's do a simple listing of popular depictions vs. the Biblical account.
1.) The Red Sea started to part from Israelites' side.
Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 and 1956 films, both entitled The Ten Commandments, and just about a majority of Moses films after it depicts the parting of the Red Sea in a very dramatic manner: as Moses raises his staff/hands over the sea, the sea starts to open from the shore where the Israelites are. (footage from DeMille's 1923 version)
The Bible (Exodus 14:21-22), however, paints a quite different picture:
Then Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind (v'ruach qadim 'azah) all that night and He made the sea into dry ground, and the waters were divided. The sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were for them a wall on their right and on their left.While the exact route that the Israelites took is still a matter of debate (see map to the right for various possible routes), the results would have been pretty much the same. The Israelites were going eastward towards Canaan, as any good map could tell you. If the parting of the sea happened like films show it (opening dramatically), the sea would have started to part from the other shore, as the sea was driven back by "a strong east wind", rather opposite to what the movies are depicting - since an east wind comes from the east and blows west.
2.) Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
There's really no indication that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, at least from the book of Jonah (2:1):
The LORD appointed a great fish (hadag gadol) to swallow Jonah; and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.Now the phrase "great fish" is ambiguous. While there is a possibility that it is indeed a species of whale, it could also have been another aquatic animal, or even a special one-time creature that God made for the purpose of rescuing Jonah.
The Greek Septuagint, meanwhile, renders the phrase hadag gadol as kētei megalō meaning "a large great fish" or "a large whale" or even "a large sea monster/sea serpent." Since in Greek mythology the word kētos, while meaning "great fish", is closely associated with sea monsters (e.g., Cetus (Kētos) of Greek mythology), early Christians seem to have understood and depicted the 'fish' as being a hideous serpentine creature like in the image at left; see here, here, and here for other examples.
Jerome later translated this phrase as piscis granda (great fish) in his Latin Vulgate. He translated kētos, however, as cetus in Matthew 12:40. At some point cetus became synonymous with "whale" (for instance, the study of whales is now called cetology).
In his late 14th century translation, John Wycliff rendered piscis granda as "greet fisch" (great fish) in Jonah 2:1, while translating cetus as "whal" (whale) in Matthew 12:40. William Tyndale followed suit, translating the phrase as "greate fyshe" in his 1534 translation of the Bible, while translating the word kētos or cetus as "whale". Tyndale's translation was later incorporated into the Authorized Version of 1611 (aka the King James Version). Since then, the "great fish" in Jonah 2 has been most often interpreted as a whale.
3.) Moses turned his rod into a serpent and called forth all ten plagues of Egypt.
In the 1998 film The Prince of Egypt, it was Moses who call forth all the plagues to the Egyptians. However, the Bible has Moses commanding Aaron to throw down his staff and to summon the first three plagues:
Exodus 7:10: When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the Lord had commanded them – and Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake.However, that piece of artistic license within the context of the film is understandable (the film has Moses' wife Tzipporah accompanying him to Egypt in place of Aaron, who seems rather bitter at Moses by this point).
Exodus 7:19: And the LORD spoke to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, over their rivers, over their ponds, and over all their pools of water, that they may become blood. And there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in wood and stone containers.'"
Exodus 8:5: And the LORD spoke to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'"
Exodus 8:16: And the LORD spoke to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'"
As to the reason why Aaron is commanded to do the things that would call the three plagues, Jewish belief explains it as Moses being obliged to appreciate the help he received earlier from the Nile (Exodus 2:1-10), and the dust (Exodus 2:11-12) and was therefore unable to smite either of these, necessitating Aaron to do it in his stead.
4.) The Tablets of the Law are only written on one side.
Exodus 32:15-16 tells us that:
And Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides – they were written on one side and the other. And the the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.There was in fact a Jewish tradition which states that the letters were not merely engraved on the surface of the tablets; they were fully bored through it. In fact, while one would expect the reverse side to bear a mirror image since the letters were bored fully, both sides appeared normally; i.e. the back appeared identical to the front. Another is that the inner part of some Hebrew letters (either ayin, which in paleo-Hebrew looked like an 'O', or samekh or the final mem in modern-day Hebrew script) 'hovered' in place, despite the letters being graven fully.
As for how any commandments are written on one tablet, while arrangements such as "five commandments on each tablet" or the "three commandments on one with seven on the other" (first suggested by St. Thomas Aquinas, for theological reasons) are common, some are of the idea that that each tablet contained all ten commandments in imitation of ancient treaties, in which each party receives a copy of the treaty - usually written in stone - while the subordinate party places his copy of the pact inside the main temple of his deity, which would be parallel to the keeping of the tablets within the Ark of the Covenant, which in turn was kept in the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and later in the Temple of Jerusalem.
Apparently, this was also a debated point among early Jewish rabbis: some held that there were five on each tablet, but it was also admitted that "the Sages say ten on one tablet and ten on the other".


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I am honored and excited to begin my two-week stint as a guest blogger for one of my favorite science blogging communities. I'm a community paleoecologist and a conservation biogeographer, which means that I'm interested in using the tools of space and time to figure out what ecological questions are most important to understanding how ecosystems, and especially plants, respond to global change-- particularly when facing interacting threats like extinction and climate change. To do this, I spend a lot of time (in my head at least) in the Quaternary, the geologic period that encompasses the last 2.5-ish million years of Earth history. This is a really fascinating natural laboratory, particularly if you zoom in on the last ice age in North American (which is my specialty). Humans show up for the first time, lots of very large animals (like mammoths, giant ground sloths, and beaver the size of black bears) go extinct, and a 2-mile thick ice sheet makes life very interesting for animal and plants. One of my main research interests is in the interactions between animals and plants, which is a topic that hasn't received a lot of attention for reasons I'll get into later. For this reason, I'd like to spend my two weeks at Scientopia detailing the many ways that animals (especially large ones) influence plant species and communities, from the coevolution of tasty fruits to the modern-day dispersal of invasive species. Topics will include bison wallows, avocados and other seeds with Megafaunal Dispersal Syndrome (a tasty, tasty syndrome!), passenger pigeons, sheep spit, and, of course, mammoth poop.
As for me, I recently completed my dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, where I researched the effects of the extinction of ice-age herbivores like mastodons on eastern North American plant communities and fire regimes (more on this-- stay tuned!). I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Environmental Change Initiative at Brown University, where I'm spending a lot of time these days thinking about ecological anachronisms and how well large-fruited trees will be able to cope with climate change. I'm normally found blogging at The Contemplative Mammoth, and on Twitter as @JacquelynGill. Feel free to suggest a topic you'd like to read about in the next two weeks! While my tenure at Scientopia will be a mere blip in the paleoecological record (my timescales rarely involve centuries or decades, let alone years or weeks!) I'm very excited to share my perspective from the fourth dimension--time-- with you.


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text: In pursuit of alternative material systems for white LEDs, scientists at National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, at Sharp Corp. in Mihara and at Fujikura Ltd. in Sakura, all in Japan, are investigating phosphors of α-SiAlON containing lithium and doped with Eu2+ for use with 460-nm InGaN LEDs. They suggest that the warm white emitters point the way to a substitute to white LEDs based on the YAG:Ce3+ phosphor for applications such as LCD backlights, flashlights and automotive interior illumination.SiAlON-based phosphors enable white LEDs with various color temperatures. Courtesy of Rong-Jun Xie and Fujikura Ltd. Rong-Jun Xie, a senior researcher at the institute, explained that there is a commercial impetus to develop replacements for YAG:Ce, which is patented by Nichia Corp. of Tokyo. Beyond increasing competition, however, another goal is to improve the performance of white LEDs. For example, Xie noted, LEDs that employ YAG:Ce alone cannot produce a warm white because they rely on the mixing of blue and yellow light produced by down-conversion. Although the addition of another phosphor can compensate for the lack of red in the output spectrum to achieve a more natural white, this decreases the luminous efficacy, he said. Moreover, thermal quenching can be a problem with some compositions of YAG:Ce, resulting in variations in the chromaticity of the LEDs.Proposed alternatives in the form of yellow phosphors such as Sr2SiO4:Eu2+ display similar thermal issues, he said. As a result, the scientists have focused on those based on the alpha polymorph of SiAlON, an alloy that offers thermal and chemical stability. Initially, they employed calcium-containing α-SiAlON as the host for Eu2+. But they found that LEDs using this orange-yellow phosphor produced too warm a white. Now they have blueshifted the emission by 15 to 30 nm by replacing the calcium with lithium. They synthesize the phosphor by heating a mixture of α-Si3N4, AlN, Li2CO3 and Eu2O3 at 1700 °C in nitrogen for two hours. Commercially available InGaN LEDs serve as the 460-nm primary light sources.Using an intensified multichannel spectrophotometer from Otsuka Electronics Co. Ltd. of Hirakata, Japan, the scientists characterized the performance of devices incorporating various concentrations of the phosphor. Driven at a bias of 20 mA and operated at room temperature in the tests, the LEDs demonstrated luminous efficiencies of 40 to 44 lm/W, correlated color temperatures of 4000 to 8000 K and color rendering indexes of 63 to 74.Although the ability to achieve color temperatures approximating daylight is promising, Xie noted that the color rendering index must be improved for wider application. One technique the researchers are exploring is to employ a mixture of several SiAlON-based phosphors in a device. They also are investigating potential nitride materials for triple-phosphor white LEDs, which have the potential to offer higher color rendering indices.Applied Physics Letters, March 6, 2006, 101104.


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Maryland dairy farmers say they need fairness in milk pricing and other improvements or they risk going out of business.
Based on recommendations from a 17-member dairy task force, organizers of the recently formed Maryland Dairy Industry Association plan to lobby for passage of the Fairness in Milk Marketing Act.
In part, the act is written to give Maryland Agriculture Secretary Lewis Riley authority to establish minimum milk prices paid to dairy farmers, milk processors and retailers.
The proposal will go before the General Assembly this session, said Patrick McMillan, assistant to the state Secretary of Agriculture.
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One of my recent gardenia paintings is now available at Abend Gallery in Denver, CO and here's the ad in the October, 2011 issue of Southwest Art Magazine.
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"Tumbled Cherries", Oil, 6" x 12"
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Lady Bits!!!
But first, an update about the dress.
The answer is: No. I did not wear the dress over the weekend. But before you get all mad and/or disappointed in me, hear me out.
On Friday afternoon after your lovely comments poured in, I went upstairs and decided to put the dress on. I was feeling good, and assured, and ready to commit to wearing the damn thing. So on it went, and then I decided to look -- really look -- at myself in the mirror.
And as much as I wish I could give you a sweet, heartfelt story about how that moment was the beginning of my owning my better-but-still-changing size, it was not. I cannot.
Instead, I have to tell you that it's a VERY good thing I decided to put the dress on again because I had never looked at it close up before and hadn't, therefore, realized that it doesn't actually fit me.
I mean, I can get it on and buttoned. But the part of the dress that buttons across my waist? It's tight. So tight that when I'm just standing in the dress, it pulls the fabric between the buttons into concave ( )'s.
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Like that, kinda.
And maybe you're wondering how I didn't notice this before? Well, okay, that's a fine thing to wonder.
The reason is because when I am wearing the dress, I can't see the part of my body directly below my boobs. (Let's be honest: unless I'm leaning forward, I can't see my feet.)
So my big booby lady bits got in the way of my noticing the dress didn't actually fit my waist after all. SIGH. (I guess I never looked long or hard enough in the mirror to notice, either.)
You can bet there'll be an update once I DO manage to fit into the dress.
Remember how I was all, "Should I try a spin class?" and you were all, "OUCHY! NO! IT'S HARD AND IT WILL HURT YOU!" Guess who didn't listen.
Yesterday I decided on a whim to try my gym's "Intro to Spin" class. I figured it would be like, Spin Lite. Maybe there would be other overweight people in the class who were also afraid of trying a full-blown spin workout. Maybe, I thought, we would bond. Maybe the instructor would be kind and gentle and encouraging.
Or? Maybe "Intro to Spin" should be called "Spin For People Who Want To Fit All The Insanity of Advanced Spin Into 30 Minutes."
There was nothing "Intro" about it, except for its 30 minutes-ness. There was no kindly, welcoming instructor. There was no explanation of how to do things we were barked at to do. There were zero overweight people in the class.
And holy God, but oh my oh my OH MY LADY BITS OOOOWWWWW.
Those seats are super incredibly painful. What in the wide world of workouts were people thinking? Why is this done? Why is this okay? When did everyone become completely nutso?
I will grant that maybe it's because I weigh more, but really? I am supposed to balance my entire body on my, shall I say, "inner bum cheeks"? Because short of balancing on a curtain rod in mid-air or kickboxing while sitting on a bathroom plunger, I can't really think of anything less comfortable.
I lasted 20 horrible, excruciating minutes and then I gave up. I just got off my bike and walked right out of the room. I then waddled, looking as bowlegged as someone who'd just been horseback riding for two weeks, to a recumbent bike, sat my big butt down in it, and finished off the 30 minutes.
What's next...?
P.S. You'd better believe I am soooooooooore today. Any workout class that makes sitting this unpleasant is off my list for good.


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I ran the Vestal XX (20K) on June 15th. It was one hilly race, but I did awesome. I was hoping for anything under two hours and finished very strong with a time of 1:50:26. Only a few hills were tough. The first six miles were the hardest, then it was mostly downhill for the remaining six and a half. No problem at all. I passed a lot of people after mile seven.
Then Monday I boarded a plane for St. Louis, MO for work. I was hoping to find a 5K race to run on the weekend (today), but really didn't see anything. I've been running in the neighborhood around the hotel in the evenings. It's nice out here. Neighborhoods have a speed limit of 20 which is great for runners. The farthest I've gone is four miles because shortly after I arrived, a heat wave moved in and it has been over 90 degrees every day. I have to be at work by 7:30 which leaves no time for a morning run. There are treadmills in the fitness center, but it's summer and I don't want to run inside unless I really have to. A little heat never killed anyone. Well, maybe that's not true, but I've been keeping my runs to a half hour and try not to go too fast.
Today I am going to be a tourist and have planned a trip to the Arch and the zoo and maybe check out some running stores in the city because I like running stores. I don't need any running clothes or accessories, but it's fun to look.
I'm in St. Louis until Thursday and then I get to fly back home.
I really don't like traveling. I hate flying, rental cars, suitcases, hotels, but I am trying to make the best of it. My rental car is a 2013 Dodge Charger and I was scared to death of it at first, but now I rather like it. That pushbutton start feature is very cool.
Well, got my old running shoes on and I'm off to see the arch. This will probably be my only day for sightseeing (have to work tomorrow) so I'm going to see as much as I can.


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this is not nice. It's a PITA but everyone uses it: The Gnu Compiler Collection; here with a backend to produce m68k object code. I suffered for some hours, but then i had success: The first test program compiled! Let's see how it works. (and leave out most of whatever did not work.)
Compiling the GCC is not a trivial task, you need a GCC and lot's of other tools, they should match each other, find each other and work on my desktop machine.
Mac Ports (the port system i use on my Mac to port 'alien' stuff) was no help though right now i can see they provide a (very outdated) version of the rtems tool chain. Yesterday i installed a toolchain for ARM and the Mac Ports ARM GCC for Linux is so old that it even fails to install (it's from 2005, today is 2014!)
OSdev.org is a great site but still a little bit over-complicated. (Ok, actually it's the GCC which is over-complicated.)
Next was rtems.org, a project for real-time embedded micro systems. The project supports the 68k CPUs but it's not the bare GCC but with their added extra. Maybe i'll cherry-pick some sources from them... :-) In the first place i didn't realize that this project already comes with a whole OS, else i had eventually skipped it. But so i downloaded the whole stuff from rtems.
Starting from their start page it was only three clicks away from rtems.org/ftp/pub/rtems/people/chrisj/source-builder/source-builder.html.
Following the instructions i did:
$ cd
$ mkdir -p development/rtems/src
$ cd development/rtems/src
$ git clone git://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder.git
$ cd rtems-source-builder
$ source-builder/sb-check
$ cd rtems
$ ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --list-bsets
$ ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --log=l-m68k.txt \
--prefix=$HOME/development/rtems/4.11 4.11/rtems-m68k
(Actually i installed into a different directory, but that doesn't make much difference.) After waiting roughly one hour a couple of new GCC instances entered this world.
The rtems people have configured their installation scripts so that the resulting tool names all start with "m68k-rtems4.11-" which is different to "m68k-elf-" which is normally used. Probably there is a good reason for that.
Next i stumbled over the bitsnbikes blogger site. J. Silva started a 68008 project in 2010 and described the sources for his first "project". He had borrowed from others and i borrowed from him:
For the first successful test i needed 4 files and two commands:
(You can find all files in my first project folder at little-bat.de)
• "main.c" the main source file with function main()
• "crt0.S" an assembler file with the bootstrapping code
• "ldscript.ld" a configure script for the loader
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This actually produced an S-Record file which i can download into an Eprom. Fine!
I don't know whether this will work because i haven't even built the hardware. ;-)
The software toolchain for the 68008 board is up and running! :-)
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My good friend Dennis "The Machine" Cartwright is taking on the NDW100 and has asked me to pace him from halfway(ish) to the finish! :D
I say halfway-ish as the NDW100 isn't actually 100 miles, its 102.6....but whats a few extra miles eh?!
Ill ask Dennis at a hundred ;)
Its funny how much I`m looking forward to an event that I`m not officially in. I have no number, I get no medal and I couldn't care less! I am just so excited to try and help him get that buckle!
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Siena 1 – Catania 1 (Serie A, October 25, 2008) Calaio put the hosts in front 15 minutes from time with a powerful header but the high-flying Sicilians were quickly level when Mascara converted a penalty after Paolucci was tripped by keeper.
Vicenza 1 – Sassuolo 0 (Serie B, October 25, 2008) The only goal came from Sgrigna 's penalty as top-placed Sassuolo fell to a surprise defeat that puts Vicenza in second place.
Mantova 1 – Parma 3 (Serie B, October 25, 2008)
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Reimagined and Revamped. Fighting the spread of nonsense often feels like a Sisyphean task. However, the joy is in making the information available, not the hope of conversion.
Dear Republicans,
Present evidence that lowering taxes for wealthy businesses provides any economic stimulus whatsoever or shut the hell up.
We now return to our regularly scheduled program.
These are politicians, so most of them seem to believe that repetition of statements is proof.
Well, there is a link. It also seems to make logical sense as well. When you raise taxes on a business, it only has a few choices. It can either raise its price, hurting consumers and probably hurting the company as well, or it can cut corners on the product, either on materials, future R&D, or by firing employees. Of course, the third choice would simply be to move its operations to another country, which we've already seen in many cases.
Similarly, it is not as if our corporate tax rate isn't high. We have the 2nd highest rate overall, only behind Japan. Plus, in 24 states the corporate tax rate exceeds Japan's rate, given how high some state's corporate rates are. Ireland, Iceland, and the Baltic nations are perfect examples of how lowering corporate rates can provide not only economic stimulus but also increase the competitiveness of exports, something our economy desperately needs.
Anyways, Ive gone on too long but to shorten it up... if you provide economic stimulus for wealthy businesses you will allow them to lower the price of their good or increase their workforce, both of which would help stimulate the economy.
Its not impossible that a TechBit is not really the right place to explain my position regarding tax policy or any complex subject and I wont do it again.
Your link is simply about who shares a tax cut. I have not read the actual study but one thing is clear. If you have a company of say 500 people with a typical structure (5 executives, 10% middle management) if 70% of the tax break goes to 90% of the people working there then it is split between 450 people, each receiving small fraction of the overall break.
That is the whole problem with that: big deal, so they get 25 bucks each.
My gripe was that "reduce Corporate Taxes" has become republican dogma. Its now the defacto knee jerk response to any change whatsoever. Its short sighted, short term band aids. I'd much rather get rid of our debt in 40 years so that my daughters taxes can be lower for real reasons.
There is not a soul on the planet who thinks that lowering taxes would be bad. But its a matter of priorities. Should we be lowering taxes when our debt is out of control? Should we be lowering taxes when our infrastructure is in such a non-competitive position? Should we be lowering taxes when the only energy solution that removes us from foreign oil requires government investment for success (that includes nukes)?
I dont care "if it makes logical sense" lots of things seem to make sense but when implemented don't work or have adverse effects. I am asking for evidence that lowering taxes improves the economy. We have tried lowering taxes, over and over again, we are now seeing one of the worst recessions ever. I'm not saying its cause and effect, I'm saying that I dont see evidence that it improves the economy as claimed. That is different than a study that points out who gets the benefits of a tax break.
What would then? Maybe I'll do a post on how investment in technology (specifically infrastructure, energy and productivity tool) and reduction of debt is the only real tangible path to an economy boost.
We want to build an economic engine that produces. We want to switch from a four banger to a V8. Switching to higher octane fuel is just like praying that your ford fiesta will become a Ferrari by changing the gas you use.
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"Should we be lowering taxes when our debt is out of control?"
How about the opposite question, should we allow unrestrained government spending when our debt is out of control? I've only recently come across your blog, but it seems that you're being partisan and not looking at the negatives of government spending. If your concern is about the debt, then you should be arguing against anything that increases the debt.
"Maybe I'll do a post on how investment in technology (specifically infrastructure, energy and productivity tool) and reduction of debt is the only real tangible path to an economy boost."
If you do such a post, then please elaborate upon how the government is suppose to pick the right technology. It can be argued that investment in roads is what lead to suburban sprawl and investing in energy is essentially a subsidy to the rich utility companies so that they don't have to do the R&D themselves. So assuming that government can run a project better than motivated entrepreneurs, how do you know that government won't be throwing all it's money at ethanol or some other worthless endeavor?
Thanks anonymous for your input.
I think you have set this up to be more black and white than it is. When we think of lowering taxes, its a short term benefit. If taxes are lowered without also reducing spending to a point where there is a surplus then debt can not be paid off. Its the exact same thing as increasing debt. I don't hear specific proposals on reducing spending, and when we hear some you can expect the same response our governor (Patterson in NY) got from both parties...."don't cut my stuff".
However, if you increase debt by investing in things that will bring greater income in the future, then the increased income will allow for the new (and old) debt to go away. I don't promote any short fixes. To me, the worst thing we did was cut taxes when we had a surplus. The taxes should have been cut when debt was under control and not before.
So simply cutting out anything that may increase short term debt is not a fruitful endeavor, if we can put money towards things the give my kids a chance to have a lean, mean economy.
As for what to invest in? Everyone has their pet projects and people smarter than me and more knowledgeable in their fields, may battle that out and get paid for it. I just hope that battle gets done in a data driven fashion.
For me, the goals are to generate prosperity while increasing safety. Energy independance and abundance is one, the only path is to get off fossil fuels. Next is electronic and power infrastructure, more distribution.
I'll tell you one way to avoid the issues you bring up about government running the show in some places. Listen to the experts. We just had 8 years of gut based governance. Leaders and voters must demand evidence and more importantly oversight. 350 billion was just given away with virtually no oversight, no one to check and ask "what specifically will you do with 25 billion" etc. The car folks got it to some degree, the banks..not so much.
It also doesnt have to be willy nilly funding. Darpa and other agencies have offered challenge based development. Its a good method that promotes creativity and competition. I think even McCain suggested something like that.
There are tons of ways to have government push development forward without being a monolithic suffocating entity.
I will certainly agree there are tons of ways to fuck it up too.
BTW, of course I am partisan, everyone is. however it is our job to listen and debate so that we can change our minds. But it goes more to the idea around the post. "Reduce taxes" is republican dogma, and as long as it continues to be used that way, I'm going to have a partisan response to it.


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That is the opening line in a story about how starting next month, the US military is going to start a new vetting process to try and weed out Afghans with bad intentions who are enterign the police and army. Uhh, one question comes to mind, it is FRIGGEN 2011 and we have been doing this embed, training and mentor mission since 2003 so why are these Afghans just NOW going to be vetted? I wrote about this issue recently ( http://www.bouhammer.com/2011/02/can-afghan-forces-ever-be-trusted/ ) and in that blog entry I have links back to similar posts I have written back to 2009 about this same topic. I read the following and I am amazed and sickened.
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"Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her back. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere. To a large place, a comfortable place, an indoor place, and preferably a beautiful place. And that's why she decided upon the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City."
E. L. Konigsburg, beloved and multiply Newbery-winning author of the wry, quiet, and brainy children's classics From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler; The View from Saturday; Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth; and many others, passed away at 83 on this past Sunday, April 21.
I can't count how many times I've read From the Mixed-Up Files…, thrilled to the furtive elegance of Claudia and Jamie's runaway plot, and dreamed about harvesting coins from the Met's fountains and sleeping in its brocaded beds alongside them. There's so much to love about Konigsburg's portraits of watchful, thoughtful, growing kids. With concise wit, she captures their probing intelligence; their capacity for nurturing odd thoughts in secrecy; their pride; and, both humorously and sympathetically, their disaffection. Her affection towards them isn't so much the fond downward gaze of an adult, but the admiring, good-humored glance of one comrade at another. Thank you, E. L. Konigsburg.
Also, from her obituaries I've learned that she was a woman in the sciences (chemistry, specifically) long before it was widely accepted. I feel proud to be following her, and women like her. I would have loved to be able to talk with her about science and writing.
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