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Digital tool 'Screen Time' in Apple's iOS 12 will show how long you spend on each iPhone app and let you set daily limits, while its web browser Safari will get security upgrades to stop users being tracked by other companies
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Apple spoiled consumers and tech press at last year's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with the surprise launch of a new iPad, but 2018's event went back to what it has always been about: software updates for developers, which in turn lead to superior apps and user experience for consumers.
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If there is a theme for this year's WWDC, it is Apple's continued focus on health – both physical and mental. Two key features of its iOS 12 operating system are designed to help you interact with your device less.
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A more realistic, and better, usage scenario for Screen Time is for parents to control their children's phone usage. Imagine you're the parent of a teenage daughter and you can shut off her access to Instagram or chat apps? Another iOS 12 feature that is marketed as helping users turn away from the phone is grouped notifications with an improved interface – though I think this is merely Apple playing catch up in user experience.
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New Double Stud Wall Assembly with Rock Wool & Smart Vapor Retarder
We've been inspired to test a new double stud wall assembly on First Steel that may be used in future projects like reNEWBOLD. There is a 2.5 minute video below walking through the basics of the wall assembly. You will find more details below the video to feed your inner building science geek's thirst for knowledge and discussion.
If you'd like to see this wall in person before we close it up, please attend our mid construction event tomorrow evening between 4PM and 8PM. Use the Facebook Event to RSVP and find out more details. We hope to see you there. As a side note, anyone interested in the reNEWBOLD project should strongly consider attending as one of the homes is a beta model for the homes in South Philly.
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- All electric and utilities on interior wall inside of the vapor retarder
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That's it for the assembly. I'll try to address some additional detail I didn't have time for in the video.
The rock wool insulation is very unique product that is used a lot in Europe and also in the US in commercial fire rated and sound proofing applications. What's great about it is how well it completely fills the cavities. It does not droop or sag at all like typical fiberglass batts. It also does not absorb moisture and will not produce mold which makes it perfect for installing during construction and prior to being completely dried in.
In our first test houses, we found it was easiest to frame up the entire house with the exterior stud walls and treat the interior stud wall just like the other interior framing. That allowed us to get the house tight with the ZIP sheathing product and come back to insulate the exterior wall at a relaxed pace once the main framing of the house was completed.
I am still a bit torn on the effectiveness of the vapor retarder, especially when we have the ZIP sheathing and vented rainscreen on the exterior keeping us dry and a thick layer of drywall with multiple coats of paint on the interior. I know people will chime in saying I'm wrong not to have this interior vapor barrier and hopefully I will learn more from the comments in this post to help make a decision on future projects.
Special thanks to Greg La Vardera of Lami Design who has been inspirational in testing out this wall assembly. That's all I've got for now. Let's leave the rest to the comments.
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Chad, that really looks like an awesome assembly.
Would love a home made that well, esp. in the north!
Chad, thanks for sharing your process in this video — much more informative than a detail drawing. I think this wall is an easy leap for builders accustomed to the old "code wall" since the exterior sheathing and window installs are all unchanged. Nice having the vapor barrier protected from future penetrations (e.g. homeowners nailing holes to hang artwork). A few questions come to mind:
1. Do you do a blower-door test prior to installing the final layer of insulation? Seems like you might want to identify any air barrier problems before burying the MemBrain… Or now I'm re-reading this and wondering if the Zip system provides your air barrier at the exterior, with the MemBrain only being used for vapor control.
2. Does the MemBrain product have a "front & back"? If so, then installation in this manner would be a bit tricky since it comes off the roll for a traditional installation on the interior side of the wall. (I'm thinking it probably doesn't matter, and the MemBrain must be smart in either direction.)
3. Why fiberglass instead of more Roxul on the interior side?
OK never mind on my question #3…. I thought you were using ordinary Knauf, but now I see that it is EcoBatt. Seems like a good choice for lower embodied energy and better indoor air quality, plus it should be easier to fit around your romex, etc.
Great video guys! Just getting into sustainable design and have been taking a few on-line course. In a recent class on envelope design we discussed the proper location of the vapor layer. From what I have learned the location inside the interior wall is fine. A quick calculation of the wall assembly temperature profile would suggest the assembly temperature will not go below the typical indoor dew point of 40-45F until you get into the outer wall on a 20F day. Even if you do get water vapor into the assembly it can not get into the insulation so you should be fine.
Green construction is definitely an important area for the history of construction. The problem is that not enough developers see the value in trying to go 100% green. Great to see videos like this with people in the industry really worried about our planet.
So if I am understanding this correctly you are achieving R-39 with no exterior rigid insulation? If so that seems pretty impressive for this rather straight forward approach. Why the change from the previous double stud, cellulose and exterior rigid insulation wall? And are you still using a rain screen detail? If so what is it? I suppose with the metal siding you would not need it but I would think you would still use it with the other wall claddings. I would also like to hear more about the smart vapor retarder considering it is the third vapor retarder in this assembly, I wonder how much it actually does?
Hi Chad,
I am planning a high R exterior wall for a home addition in the (sometimes) wintry mountains of Va. Double stud looks really good for insulation, sound blocking and wiring cavity. I have been thinking about a variation on your design 1. Use 2″ Roxul Comfortboard IS 4′ x8′ panels between the walls instead of 2″ AFB Roxul. 2. Use metal studs for the interior studs. Metal studs should conduct less sound and dont twist or warp but thermal bridging might be an issue. Any comments are appreciated !
Hi Chad, have you had any problems with the interior studs warping and affecting the inner wall surface ? Since the studs do not have plywood or OSB sheathing on the other side, there isnt much to keep them in alignment. Some 2x4s look like airplane propellors after they dry.
Metal studs that have a U or C cross section would require batt insulation that is wider than the insulation intended for wood studs. From the Ecobatt web site I see that batt insulation is listed in the correct widths for metal studs – dont know how available it is.
Damp spray cellulose insulation might be good for the inner stud wall, but Im not sure it will adhere to the MemBrain vapor retarder that lines the exterior-facing plane of the stud cavity.
Why did you choose Ecobatt instead of Roxul for the interior stud wall ?
Interesting stuff Chad. Did you price out several different methods before landing on the double wall? Just curious to see how a 2×6 with expandable foam might stack up. Keep up the good work.
NIce wall and good job on the service cavity. Some items I would like to note to greatly improve air-tightness of this wall:
The airtight vapor variable membrane should be connected to the airtight layer on the floor below, to the ceiling and windows, otherwise the service cavity will get bypassed at those points -(of course I recommend INTELLO Plus that I import – as it is stronger, doesn't tear and works really well with Pro Clima tapes).
Some ideas how to solve these airsealing issues in the following blogpost (an using INTELLO as a blow-in mesh):
Of course these means you either need to use a little bit more lumber, or apply the airtight layer over the rockwool before building the service cavity wall in front of it.
Some of Greg La Vardera's details (swedish and new USA walls) make connecting airtight layers from floor to floor easy – this and other solutions to deal with beams, floor connections can be found here:
What is the R-value of the Roxul AFB? I don't see it listed on their website. I know its a higher density aimed at STC ratings and fire resistance, like the Safe n Sound. Wouldn't the higher density compromise it from preventing heat loss?
Chad, It appears you are using double 2×4 for the front and back wall at 24″ and 2×6 for the party walls? Is that correct. Are you using a double wall construction for the bearing party walls as well. What does the insulation look like there?
I get your logic but I'm just going by what Roxul says on their site. They mention the higher density in their safe n sound actually does have a negative impact on heat loss. I'm not sure if this is the case with the AFB. I've used the safe n sound in some exterior walls where there was machinery/hvac to deal with. having done it in winter I can say that the rooms felt warmer despite it not being the comfortbatt.
Finally found a tech doc with the R value, Thermal Performance:
ASTM C 518 (C 177) R-value/inch @ 75°F 4.3 hr.ft².F/Btu
It looks like the electric is run behind the interior studs but in front of the vapor barrier. Is the wire stapled to the stud?
Thanks for posting this! I'm really glad I stumbled upon your video as I intend on utilizing the same wall detail for my home being constructed this summer. One concern I have is with the walls being so thick, that the inside surface of the zipboard will build up condensation (cold sheathing issue) and OSB hates water. How did you handle this? Did you strap the exterior to provide a rain drainage gap?
One additional question: I assume that you taped the seams of the membrain? I didn't see this in the video.
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A classic, traditional way of making an apple pie, known also in other countries in the neighborhood.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Corn and soybean futures rose Tuesday, as did gold, silver and other metals.
Corn for December delivery rose 7.25 cents to settle at $5.1075 a bushel Tuesday. November soybeans rose 22.5 cents to $12.8625 a bushel. September wheat was unchanged at $6.695 a bushel.
Metals closed higher. Gold for August delivery rose $6.90 to $1,290.40 an ounce. Silver for September delivery rose 9.6 cents to $19.935 an ounce.
Copper, platinum and palladium also rose.
September copper rose 4.2 cents to $3.1865 a pound, October platinum rose $3.70 to $1,425.10 an ounce and September palladium rose $3.45 to $735.60 an ounce.
Benchmark crude oil for August delivery fell 32 cents to finish at $106 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Other energy futures rose.
Wholesale gasoline rose 3 cents to finish at $3.13 a gallon, heating oil gained 2 cents to end at $3.05 a gallon and natural gas was flat at $3.68 per 1,000 cubic feet.


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Chevron has a new boss man, and in an ironic kick in the pants Chevron's new CEO John Watson is the very man that orchestrated Chevron's takeover of Texaco, and with it the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water and 17 million gallons of crude oil deliberately dumped in Ecuadorian rainforest communities. Given Watson's intimate understanding of Chevron's toxic legacy there is no question he knows what is necessary to clean up their mess and compensate the communities that have been living with the effects of Chevron's contamination for decades. In response to Watson's new tenure the Clean Up Ecuador Campaign has launched a global petition to Mr. Watson, with an accompanying video-message (Spanish / English) the affected communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Watson is stepping into a mess that former CEO Dave O'Reilly left behind when he skipped out on the reeling company on 12/31. Unfortunately, judging the reaction by Chevron today in Houston where marathon runners had their free speech silenced, and comments attacking Amazon Watch's global petition in yesterday's Sphere article it seems that Watson is committed to enabling the same negligence towards human rights as his predecessor. Watson may choose to define his tenure by continuing down the O'Reilly path that just last year had Chevron publicly aligning themselves with known felons, losing precedent setting refinery battles, being wholly rejected by the US Trade Representative, and being a lightning rod for a thriving climate justice movement at their front door.
However, dealt such a rotten hand Mr. Watson stands at the most opportune time for an oil giant's CEO to actually step it up…or just step in it. RAN's newest campaign Change Chevron see that Watson holds an unmatched opportunity to right past wrongs and transform an industry from criminal to catalyst. Yet, there is a long way to go. Prior to this moment Chevron has not only ignored the communities they impact, they blatantly insult them. Chevron relies on lobbying and a brutal PR campaign to evade responsibility of, what experts call, the "Amazon Chernobyl". As a recent Independent article points out Chevron seems to be standing firm in it's refusal to pay any damages, even if ordered in a court. In fact a Chevron spokesman has promised a "lifetime of litigation."
Will Watson build a tenure on human rights or legal fights?
"It's Human Right's my Dear Watson"
In the above video, community members hope Watson's tenure stands human rights, asking him to visit Ecuador and address the oil company's toxic legacy. The video and petition lead the calls being made for John Watson to take this new approach as CEO and to rectify the human rights and environmental disaster experts call the "Amazon Chernobyl."
Emergildo Criollo, a leader from the Cofan tribe, and rally cry for this weekend's Chevron Houston Marathon where activists are running on his behalf, says in the video, "We don't want to continue dying from cancer." Criollo lost two sons to fatal illnesses after coming into contact with toxic waste-water dumped into Amazon waterways by Texaco. Mariana Jimenez, another community member living with Chevron's lifetime litigation strategy invites CEO John Watson to Ecuador and says that he "will be received well" and that they are only "hoping for a rational person". Seems like a reasonable request. However, considering the last guy, rational has never been one of Chevron's (or any oil companies) strong point.
Around the contaminated region, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island, there are thousands more cases like Emergildo and Mariana's. Joining with 30,000 other indigenous people and campesinos, they are plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador that has the potential to change the landscape of the oil industry and catalyze a new era of accountability to the communities big oil operates in.
I'm pretty confident real solutions to the human rights violations and climate crisis are not going to come easily from Watson and Chevron. However I am confident that as pressure continues to boil over, the oil giant will be held accountable to their past, present, and continuing attempts to sell out communities and the climate for a cheap barrel of crude.


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I bought Possum because I loved her face from the moment I saw her. She looked so sweet, cheesed off and tired.
I do not recommend this as a good reason to buy a horse! Still, as a keen studier of Linda Tellington-Jones's book on telling horse character from facial features, I must say there was nothing about this head that I didn't love.
And, I did love her. She was everything this gorgeous head promised she would be: Sweet, intelligent, sensitive, sensible. She did have a white sclera on her other eye, and this added a note of quirkiness and naughtiness to her temperament that always gave her an interesting complexity too. One side sweet and soft, the other naughty and impish!
Soft eye:
Same horse different sides. :)
I didn't get her vet-checked, and I should have. She'd been playing polocrosse for five of her eight years of life, and it had worn her body out. By the time she was thirteen I had to make the hard decision to let her go due to a bone spur in her knee that no longer allowed her to lock her leg straight (horses need to lock their legs to rest standing up) and for most of her time with me, she wasn't really sound enough for steady riding.
Still, don't you think that sometimes animals (and people) come into your life for their sake, not for yours? Possum had a lovely five years with me, I think. She arrived a standoffish, sore, tired little horse, but she soon cheered up into the most friendly, funny little character you can imagine.
A large part of her conversion to friendliness was due to 'booby scratches'. I'd go out and just hang around with her and give her scritchies, the recommended way to bond with a horse, and her fave was getting the area all round her nipples and inner thighs scratched. Makes sense when you think about it. They can't reach that area themselves. Must drive them crazy.
This is Poss having a scritchy. Check out that top lip wobbling when I get to the booby scratch at the end. :)
I did ride her a bit more often at the beginning. First we had to work on lowering her head and stretching her very tight neck muscles to help her learn to relax under saddle.
Later, we did some very nice work in a more dressagey frame, but not for long. A bad combo of a dicky knee that couldn't do much work plus stifle issues that needed her to be fit to stop them being painful, didn't make for a horse you could ride much.
She was a fantastic little horse to have around the place, though. Safe and gentle. She got to roam the property here and graze everything, and never did the dogs or herself any harm.
Like a lot of polocrosse horses, she'd spent a lot of time in big paddocks and herds, and I've never known a horse with the herd social skills she had. She loved to be out with other horses, and while no boss horse herself, she would always buddy up with a boss horse so that she was protected and got all the best stuff. Clever! Anyway she did love it so much, so I tried to give her lots of time out in paddocks, though when she was here she lived alone. Once she'd been mine for a little while, she always came when I called her, no matter how big the paddock was.
How happy does she look in that second photo? And check her expression in this pic as opposed to those top pics taken the day I went to see her.
I loved her to bits, even her backside. :)
The day I sent her to the bridge, it was just me and the vet here at home in her favorite snoozing place. I just couldn't handle having to deal with anyone else that day, or even to have to seem strong for anyone. It was ok and awful, peaceful and terrible at the same time. Worse than dogs and cats, though that's bad enough. I don't think I want to have to do that to a horse again. Maybe that's one reason why I don't have horses any more.
Still, I'm glad she was in my life for five years. She was really special. My funny, bright, quirky little Poss.


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Living green can produce a sense of pride because you know you are protecting the environment. That's great, but are you aware of how much green energy helps you, personally? That's right, green energy can save you money in energy costs. This article has some great tips for using green energy to benefit everyone.
To save money on your electric bills, simply try to minimize the electricity you use. If you have appliances that are not in use, keep them unplugged until you need them. Make sure you turn off lights and electronic appliances when you do not plan on using them. This may be a simple tip, but it does save you money.
If you want to conserve energy, adjust your air conditioning unit so that it is set two degrees higher in the summer and two degrees lower in the winter. You will probably not be able to tell that you have changed it, but taking that step will save you on your monthly bill and bring down your carbon emissions.
Take advantage of government grants if you plan to invest in renewable energy sources. Ask at your local municipality office to research what types of programs might be available to you. You may qualify for wind or solar installation with little cost, or possibly you may be able to use it as deduction on your taxes.
As a way to live greener, purchase power strips for your home. In areas where you have multiple electronics, you can utilize these power strips as a central hub where you may shut off all power to these electronic devices when they are not in use. As an example, if you have a home office, by plugging in your computer, printer, wireless router, and desk lamp into a power strip, you can turn them all off with the flip of a single switch when you are finished with your day's work.
If there is running water on your property, you should consider investing in a good hydro-power solution. A simple mill can turn into an energy generator. Get in touch with Department of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to find out if your stream is strong enough to produce a significant amount of power.
Turn off all appliances. When not using appliances in your home, make it a habit to turn them off when not in use. Items such as televisions, computers, and lights should all be off so you can prevent unwanted energy use. Not only is this good for using less energy, your electric bill will be much less too!
Think about installing natural gas in your home as opposed to other sources of power. Methane is the same fuel produced by cows and in landfills and is one of the cleanest burning gasses available on the market. It is a very green choice when deciding on your energy needs.
To incorporate green energy into your life, heat your home using biofuel instead of traditional fuels. This way, you can heat your home using renewable, biodegradable and generally, more environmentally friendly energy fairly easily. A wood or pellet stove is a great way to heat your home using biofuel products.
If you are looking to naturally heat your water using solar power, an indirect circulation system may be perfect for your home if you live in an area where the temperatures go below freezing. These systems run a fluid that does not freeze through the system to prevent icing. This pump will still use electricity, but only about 25% when compared to traditional water heaters.
One very basic method of using renewable green energy in your home is the use of solar power to dry your clothes. That is, hang your wet laundry out on a clothesline. The amount of energy saved by not using a dryer is considerable, and it also gets you outside in the nice weather.
Power strips are a great way not only to protect your expensive appliances but also to easily lower your energy usage. Instead of having to switch off or unplug every individual appliance when they are not in use, you can simply switch off all power strips at night or when you leave your home.
Your electric company is probably eager to help you start saving energy today. Utility companies often have web site tools that let you see the amount of energy you use and ways to reduce the consumption. Make sure you investigate all programs and rebates offered if you buy energy-efficient items, from large appliances to light bulbs.
As you are now aware, changing to green energy is purely not about reducing your carbon footprint. It's about everybody on earth. Using green energy will save you money over time, and protects our natural resources from destruction. You can create new, greener habits by using the tips you just read. Make these energy use habits part of your daily routine so that you continue to save energy over the coming years.


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Air Traffic Management VoIP Plugtests 4
This event aimed to test the interoperability of the latest version of the EUROCAE standard and to perform interoperability tests between Voice Communication Systems (VCS), Ground Radio Stations (GRS) and Recorder Systems (REC). In order to ensure interworking between systems, issues regarding signalling protocol definition, parameter configuration and Air Traffic Service feature functionalities also needed to be clearly defined.
When compared with the previous Plugtests events on VoIP for ATM, this event has shown a real increase in the interoperability between the VCS and the GRS provided by various participating companies.
The results gained from this event clearly show that the VoIP call types and the wide range of Air Traffic Services (ATF) features specified by the ED 137 interoperability documents have now been developed and implemented by the main European VCS and Radio Suppliers with a hig level of interoperability achieved. This will in turn, lead to ATM VoIP VCS and GRS deployment by ANSPs in the very near future for operational use in the framework of the Single European Sky (SES).
For the first time in a Plugtests event covering this technology, voice recorder suppliers who are currently developing VoIP interfaces were also invited to join. This meant that a total of four Voice Communication Systems (VCS), five Ground Radio Stations (GRS) and five Recorder Systems (REC) were supplied
This event was attended by thirteen companies from nine countries worldwide. Twelve of these companies actively participated in the testing while STG Technologies attended on behalf of the FAA, in order to observe the event.


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What's happening to the old models of journalism?
Torry Pedersen, the CEO of Norway's most read newspaper, VG, describes online news coverage (Quinn, 2009) as being like a "bubbling brook" while print coverage was like "bottled water". Both he says, "contain water". They are two different formats of great journalism, which suggests perhaps there is a need for different platforms with different formats and content and maybe the old models of journalism may still have a place in the new world?
According to Quinn (2009), journalism will thrive when media companies free themselves from print. This allows for a heavy reliance on online resources, allowing for the old model of journalism being print journalism, to be diminished as numbers demonstrate higher success with journalism, which is imperative in order for it to continue.
News can be reached to anyone at any time. Individuals are often seeking new, breaking stories and rapidly. As Quinn (2009:71) states, "The Internet allows people to seek information from thousands of blogs, aggregators, and social networks" This means that people don't tend to wait to get home to watch the news. The decrease in this means that if a journalist were not up to date with modern technologies and the use of the internet for news, they are in no way prepared to be successful in journalism.
There's no "out with the old and in with the new" in journalism, it is just a craft that accepts it must evolve with the times to survive. Stephen Quinn (2009) writes: "Within two decades news wi will primarily be delivered via wireless devices and online. Print will be a niche product."
Journalists must adapt in social media, as the readers have already done that". Torry Pedersen says that in Noway well-known reporters have effectly become a brand."
Torry Pedersen, the CEO of Norway's most read newspaper, VG. (PHOTO: http://www.dn.no/etterBors/2014/08/26/2159/Medier/vil-ikke-at-nrk-skal-vre-nettavis)


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That I'm quitting my job on 9 August! It was going to be on the 10th but next month they are changing the pay week. Whatever, as long as I'm out of that place. I will be homeschooling full time once that happens. DH got accepted at NSU and starts classes on 18 August.
We have done a few days of homeschooling for the 2014-2015 school year already. We aren't doing it full time yet, I just want to be ahead of the game. Hurricane season just started and there has already been some minor activity in the tropics. Nothing threatening to us YET but I'd like to be ahead so I don't have to worry about conducting school from a hotel room and packing workbooks. And I can also count those road trip days as field trips if we manage to find something educational to do, like an exhibit or something.
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What if you had the time to follow your dreams?
Think about what dreams you would follow if you just had the time and money. Getting the free time for doing the thing you really love can be tough. When is the last time you had a few days to spare for traveling, decorating, or learning an instrument? In fact, the time you spend adhering to someone else's 9 to 5 schedule is probably one of the main things that is hindering you from following your dreams! However, there is hope to be had.
Make your own hours by working for yourself and sharing what you already love.
Nerium International knows that following your passion is important. Our Brand Partners know that working for yourself and making their own schedule gives the freedom to experience life instead of simply counting down the days until you retire. They enjoy an exciting and rewarding career that they love simply spreading the word about Nerium's skin care line – something any NeriumAD fan will tell you comes naturally! It's easy to share good news. The real results you receive from using NeriumAD make it easy and exciting to tell a friend so they can try it for themselves.
Consider a new career with Nerium and get your time back.
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10 Comic Book Characters of (Literally) BIBLICAL Proportions
10 Comic Book Characters of (Literally) BIBLICAL Proportions1 of 12By Graeme McMillan, Newsarama Contributor
Those familiar with their Bible will doubtless find the lead of Dan Didio and Brent Anderson's new Phantom Stranger series very familiar.
It's never stated outright, but there are more than enough hints, suggestions and pointers to the idea that the Phantom Stranger is Judas Iscariot, the man who sold Jesus out for 30 pieces of silver. While this may be one of the more high-profile cases of a Biblical character showing up in a mainstream comic book readers prefer their mythical figures a little less Judeo-Christian, usually but it's certainly not unique.
Here are 10 other examples of comic book characters who may or may not have appeared earlier in the Good Book.
Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!
THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE2 of 12On the one hand, it seems ridiculous to speculate that the four super beings created by X-Men villain Apocalypse are the same four horsemen mentioned in the Bible. Clearly, they just share the same names (Death, Family, War and Pestilence), right...? After all, there have been multiple characters taking on each role at various times (at various times, Angel, Wolverine, Gambit and Psylocke have all taken up the "Death" persona).
And yet... the Bible never actually explicitly said that its horsemen weren't genetically-modified super beings who were working for a self-important arch-villain with a massive mouth, did it? I think you see my point.
ZAURIEL3 of 12A literal guardian angel not the only one on this list, either who came to Earth to save the world (well, and also profess his love to a mortal woman whom he'd fallen for, but that didn't exactly work out too well), Zauriel acted as unofficial Hawkman during Grant Morrison's JLA run, sacrificing himself as Mageddon threatened the planet purely as a strategic move to get back to Heaven and lead an army of angels to bring peace to the planet... or else.
We knew that a lot of them like to get together to have dance parties on the head of a pin, but who knew that angels could be so bad-ass?
VANDAL SAVAGE4 of 12So, we all know the origins of Vandal Savage: Caveman who got too close to an irradiated meteorite, and ended up immortal as a result. Nothing very Biblical about that, surely...
Except that, as revealed in Final Crisis: Revelations, somewhere along the way, Savage became the "inspiration" for Cain, the son of Adam who became the first human to kill another. If you accept that idea and, considering that DC actually has a "real" Cain and Abel in the Dreaming, it's definitely something you could dismiss if you wanted to then that means that Savage is one of the first humans to show up in the Bible. Bet you didn't see that one coming.
LIANDRA5 of 12The second of the two guardian angels on this list, Liandra the title character from Peter David's creator-owned series Fallen Angel was tossed out of Heaven after killing the man who murdered one of her charges, ending up on Earth and taking up the role of defender of the city of Bete Noire, the one city on Earth that God has no control over.
It's almost as if there was some kind of Divine Plan going on or something, isn't it?
SAMSON6 of 12The Bible's Strongest Man well, as long as he's having a good hair day has made numerous appearances throughout the years in DC Comics, most recently trying to woo Lois Lane in All-Star Superman using his incredible strength (somewhere, Delilah is jealous).
Before then, he'd shown up in the Silver Age, usually in a Superman family title like Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen or Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane, to challenge the Man of Steel and, of course, end up beaten by our hero's intense goodness.
MAGOG7 of 12File alongside the Four Horsemen for ambiguous connections to the Bible. On the one hand, how would the Biblical character from the Books of Genesis, Ezekiel and Revelation end up in a future DC Universe, bringing about a temporary end to the age of superheroes?
On the other, the origins of Kingdom Come's Magog (as opposed to the one in Justice Society of America and the regular DCU years later) were never really explained, so if you can somehow come up with a way for the Biblical Magog to travel through time and end up an "extreme" cyborg psychopath, you should feel free to go with that.
'A FRIEND'8 of 12One of the greatest and most ridiculous characters to appear in a Marvel comic ever, "A Friend" showed up in Ghost Rider #9 back in 1974 and was, very clearly, writer Tony Isabella's attempt to redress the balance in the fight for Johnny Blaze's soul by introducing Jesus into the series.
That's not a metaphor, by the way; although unnamed, the character was unmistakably Jesus Christ, turning Satan and his minions back at every opportunity and giving Blaze chances to reclaim his soul. Well, until #19, where the rewritten-at-the-last-minute (by Jim Shooter) story revealed that it wasn't Jesus, but was actually a fake Jesus created by Satan to mess with Blaze's head. Well, he is known as the Prince of Lies; I guess "Archduke of Pranks" is a lesser-known title.
MEPHISTO9 of 12Speak of the Devil! No, literally; although Marvel has a tendency to downplay whether or not Mephisto is the devil (he's officially just one of numerous pretenders to that throne, and his "Hell" is apparently "just" another dimension), there's little doubt that this particular crimson demon is the closest thing the Marvel Universe has to the traditional Devil himself: He barters for souls, tricks good people into doing bad and generally just makes the world a worse place.
Not to mention, he's got that whole "undoing Spider-Man's marriage" thing to deal with. Seriously: This guy is, without doubt, comics' second-most devious devil incarnate. Second worst, you say? Well, yes. Click on...
LUCIFER MORNINGSTAR10 of 12While Mephisto plays it safe with his choice of name in the Marvel Universe, DC's Satan has no such problem.
Appearing as the Big Man in Hell in Neil Gaiman's Sandman before leaving Morpheus holding the keys (literally) for a new life in a piano bar and later his own title, courtesy of Mike Carey and Peter Gross Vertigo's Lucifer is without doubt intended to be the very same Lucifer from the Bible, just continuing his adventures some years after that book was released.
Given the success of Before Watchmen, I wonder if we can convince DC to reissue the Carey/Gross series under the new title After Bible?
GOD11 of 12Other comics play it safe by having minor characters from the Bible show up in veiled forms, but only Erik Larsen was bold enough to just bring God in as a special guest star for the Savage Dragon #31 series in 1996.
To make matters even better, the cover featured a giant God punching a giant Satan, bringing the masses what they'd wanted since the Bible was first published centuries earlier: A slam-bang no-holds-barred showdown between the two long-standing enemies. Phantom Stranger may seem sacrilegious to some, but as Savage Dragon demonstrates, it's got a whole lot further to go before it can top where comics have already gone with the Christian faith.


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After posting about iNotes mail redirection, I realized I neglected to help you move Lotus Notes Traveler so it was still accessible for everyone and in a way that is memorable.
So here is what you do.
1)Open your names.nsf.
2) Go to Configuration-Web-Internet Sites.
3)Locate the Web Site: IBM Lotus Notes Traveler Web(or whatever your website is listed as).
4)Open it up, select from the menu of that window, Web Site-Create Rule.
5)Provide a Description name, traveler is fine.
6)Type of Rule is Redirection.
7)Incoming URL pattern is /traveler.
8)Redirect to this URL: /traveler/index.html.
9)Save it.
10) tell HTTP restart from the server console.


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Desktop-as-a-Service Designed for Any Cloud ? Nutanix Frame
Environment: Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP
This article describes the customization of existing applications through the use of custom Dynamic-Link Libraries (DLLs) and the process of, what I have titled, Remote Library Loading. It also presents a small utility I developed to make this process easier; I titled it the Remote Library Loader.
The Problem
There is one major problem that arises when it comes to customizing existing applications: virtual address spaces. In 32-bit Windows environments, each application has its own virtual address space that only its components can see. This means that one application cannot freely modify another without some additional work. This is the problem that is overcome with the Remote Library Loader and the use of custom DLLs. With the architecture described below, developers can work around this problem fairly easily, and accomplish their intended tasks.
The Achitecture
The architecture developed to solve the problem above can be broken down into three discrete components. These components are as follows:
- An existing target application that is to be customized
- A created "plugin" DLL for customizing the target application
- A loader application that is responsible for starting the target application and mapping the plugin DLL into its address space
We will now examine the second two components in detail. The target application will not be discussed here because its functionality is only pertinent to the plugin DLL developer, and could be one of many different things.
The Loader
The loader component is provided to you as the Remote Library Loader. This executable acts as a controller and error-reporter for the entire architecture, and covers the basic tasks. Its tasks are as follows:
- Start the target executable (using CreateProcess())
- Allocate memory in target process address space (using VirtualAllocEx())
- Copy the plugin DLL filename into remotely allocated memory (using WriteProcessMemory())
- Create a thread in the target process which will call LoadLibrary() passing the plugin DLL filename stored earlier (using CreateRemoteThread())
- Wait for this thread to finish (using WaitForSingleObject())
- Free allocated memory in target process (using VirtualFreeEx())
If an error occurs during any one of the preceding steps, a message box is presented to the user, informing them of the error. This includes if the remote LoadLibrary() call fails to load the plugin DLL.
Please read the Readme.txt in the download package for specific information about loader installation/usage.
The Plugin
When the plugin DLL is loaded into the target process address space during the LoadLibrary() call, its entry-point function will be called. At this point, the DLL can perform initialization tasks and do whatever it wants to customize the application. The following model is recommended, for reasons I will explain:
- Catch the DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH notification in the entry-point function.
- On this notification, create a new thread (using CreateThread()).
- Perform any and all customizations in this newly created thread.
It is important to follow this model for one main reason: Access to the entry-point function is serialized, meaning that it can be called only once at a time. Performing a lengthy operation in the DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH notification may force other threads attempting to call the entry-point function to wait, including threads within the target process (see Footnote #1). For this reason, use the model above for best performance.
Once in the newly created thread, customizations can be performed, such as subclassing one of the applications windows, and so forth, and other things that you can do in the context of the target process.
Remote Library Loader Package zip file - 18Kb
This download includes an installation/usage Readme.txt, the Remote Library Loader source code and executable, and a sample plugin DLL source code and executable. The loader was written directly in Assembly for small size and fast speed. The sample plugin DLL was written in C for more clarity.
I hope this article will help people interested in this topic! Thank you for taking the time to read it.
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For the first time ever, lakes have been discovered beneath the ice sheets of Greenland, following a discovery from researchers from Cambridge University. "Our results show that sub glacial lakes exist in Greenland, and that they form an important part of the ice sheet's plumbing system," says, Steven Palme from the team.
There have been hundreds of lakes discovered beneath the Arctic Ice sheets, but this is a first for Greenland, with two roughly 10 kilometers square located by airborne radar. They are believed to be formed by different processes however.
Greenland comprises a thinner ice sheet and proper land mass, and has surface lakes in the summer which are likely to feed these subterranean reservoirs. Previously it was thought that the steeper ices surface of Greenland would make this unlikely.It's very possible that more lakes exist.
"Because the way in which water moves beneath ice sheets strongly affects ice flow speeds, improved understanding of these lakes will allow us to predict more accurately how the ice sheet will respond to anticipated future warming," Palme said.Source: IceNews


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Happy Monday!.
I created this inverted canvas from a canvas that I had tried to do several designs. However, it just never worked out. So today, I covered the canvas that was stenciled and painted with a Prima Nautical which was used for the back and the side. The sides of all the paper and distressed. I used my goodies from my new Monthly Crafteezee Collection Life is a Journey. To complete my design I used a Magnolia Doo Hickey Die, Magnolia Post Card Stamp, Blue Frantage, diluted Gesso, Antique Bronze Vintage Anchor and Antique Vintage Seam Binding Blue.
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For our home school curriculum we have been blessed tremendously by my good friend Susan Duty. She introduced us to the A Beka curriculum and it has worked wonderfully!! Thank you so much Susan you are such a blessing to us!!!
This past Thursday and Friday another home school friend of mine and I went to a HUGE Home school convention in Memphis, TN. Every home school vendor you can think of was there. It was a little over whelming, but wonderful in the same!!! Oh and the speakers...
I didn't sit through one session that I wasn't uplifted in someway! All of the speakers were very diligent to give God the glory in everything that they do, and they made sure that they got their point across to us, that it was through our All Mighty God that their home school theories and ideas worked!!!
I liked one particular family's outlook on home school. The Malley Family, and when they started homeschooling they wrote down in what order their home school would be ran.
1. Godliness
2. Wisdom
3. Knowledge
4. Skill
5. Ministry
Academics didn't even come into the picture until they understood that Godliness and Wisdom would come first!
I found a really neat math curriculum that we can't wait to start. As a matter of fact we aren't going to wait until next fall to start it!! We are going to dive right in when it comes in next week.
It is called Right Start Math
When we walked into the exhibit hall I wasn't overwhelmed at first because I knew exactly what I was going to buy, A Beka, and that was it. Well my friend Kaycee wanted to go to the RSMath booth and I wasn't very interested. So I stood there and listened a little bit, but kept finding myself venturing off.... I returned 3 different times just to find myself venturing off each time again...
Then I realized I'm going to lose Kaycee in this huge room if I don't stay put because my phone was dead, so I really started listening to what the lady had to say. The more I really listened, the more I noticed that is how Sky is trying to learn anyway. Math was difficult for me to teach her this past year because she was trying to learn a more natural way then I was trying to teach her. This was exactly the natural way for her!!!
And as for the other curriculum I purchased... I am over the moon about it!!!!! We sat through 3 of Amanda Bennet's sessions and loved every minute of each one. She is an Author of 90 different unit studies. She is a very godly woman and she inspired me in so many ways.
Even if you do not home school you must check this website out! It might be something you can do with your children in your spare time. Also, it is very affordable!!
We are going to start a Handsome Horses unit study Monday and we cannot wait!!!!!!
I will try to keep you updated on how it goes as we do it!
One last thing that I got out of this weekend, and I need to put it on every wall in my home...
Homeschooling is a marathon, NOT a sprint!!


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I received in my inbox this open letter from an anonymous reader. I know that many men and women both have felt this pain, and have sought peace in the storm. Today, in honor of Peace Day, I bring you this:
Dear Woman,
This is hard. I don't like you. I don't even know your name, but I don't like you. I don't like a woman who knows a man is married and chooses to say and show him things that only his wife should say or show. I don't like the kind of woman who would do things that could destroy a marriage. I don't like what you did. I hate it.
And yet I wonder if we knew each other, if I would like you. I wonder if we knew each other, if I would see why my husband found you alluring. I wonder, if I knew you, if you would have known how much your actions would hurt me and if you would have refrained from making the choices you did. And now, imagining who you might be, I wonder if you were lonely and hurting and needed attention and kindness and affection. And I wonder if you were so hungry for something to make you feel good that you were willing to accept the flirtations of a married man, a man you knew to have a wife and children at home that he needed to attend to.
And yet, even as my heart is breaking, my heart hurts for you. My soul wonders that if we had known each other under different circumstances, would I encourage you and pray for you? And I know the answer is yes. So there is my dilemma. Hate you or hurt for you? And in the end, since we don't really know each other, the choice really only affects me doesn't it? So which do I choose?
I am choosing to forgive you. I choose to see you as a hurting woman and not as a woman who caused hurt. I choose to extend the grace that I've felt in my own life so many times. I choose to forgive your trespasses against me.
And I choose to pray for you. So God, surround this woman with your grace. Holy Spirit, convict her of her sin and lead her to seek forgiveness. Help her see that she is loved beyond measure and that no man can give her what you can God. Where she hurts, comfort her. Where she is lonely, fill her. Where she is broken, heal her. And where she is feeling less than, show her that she is worthy in you. Cover her in dignity and when the time is right God, help her tell her story so that others may see Your goodness and glory and grace. Thank you God for loving us both. Through the power of the cross, Amen.
Thank you for sharing your story, dear reader, and I pray peace upon you and your family. In your mercy, Lord.


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Graymalkin is a science fiction fanzine by Denise Parsley Leigh.
Graymalkin was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. and was first released in 1978. Denise Leigh continued to release issues up to #6, which appeared in 1981. It was 8 1/2 by 11" zine featuring articles, reviews, stories and letters.
Contributing writers included Stephen Leigh, Jodie Offut, Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Windhaven), Bob Tucker (Le Zombie), and a reprint of an article by Don Ford (Pooka) and Lou Tabakow.
Contributing artists included Earl House.
Letters came from Robert Bloch, George R.R. Martin, Andrew Offut, and others.


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UAV Autopilot Documentation
This is a documentation site for UAV Autopilot, developed by UAVOS company.
The current hardware version is AP10.
The UAVOS AP Project is not open source, although, the 'Open System' words are stated to show the flexibility of the system, and capability to be integrated in almost any vehicle, with features, to be expanded freely by users.
The PCBs, Schematics and nodes firmware source code is not open source, at least now. The binary files are distributed through debian repository.
The Open Source Linux OS can be used to extend the existing firmware and run user's code onboard. The Ground Control Unit software is supplied with SDK (header files, run-time library, and example), to create extension plugins or communicate with the UAV from user program.
The Software can still be evaluated on Open Hardware platform (now for free).
The project provides Hardware Abstraction Layer for your Unmanned Vehicle, making it able to automatically take-off, execute a mission and land, fully autonomous. And you are open to develop your own algorithms to control your vehicle or payload, running it onboard. Still having full access to controls, i.e.: change parameters or commanded values, or override fast controls, but always having backup capability to recover your vehicle when you do R&D.
The system has distributed architecture, all boards are connected together through Controller Area Network (CAN) interface. There may be several boards of the same type connected to the same system, making it redundant.
Supported configurations
- Standard airplane
- VTOL UAVs (helicopter, or any kind of rotary-wing aircraft, quad copters, hexa, etc.)
- Atmospheric Satellite (formation)
- Blimps
- USVs (boats)
- UGVs (cars)
- Programmable logic controller functionality
Autopilot general features
- Very small size and light weight.
- ESD protection, -40..+80C operation.
- Leading edge components and technologies.
- Able to control fixed-wing and rotary-wing UAVs, VTOLs.
- Redundancy capability.
- Virtual Machine on key nodes for user program extensions onboard.
- Automatic take-off and automatic landing.
- Telemetry 10Hz with compressed stream, 100km LOS.
- AHRS linear accelerations compensation without GPS.
- Dead-reckoning, flight and navigation without GPS.
- Onboard wind speed and direction estimation.
- Ability to run user code for UAV control onboard.
- Bluetooth communication for debugging.
- HIL/SIL simulation with X-plane flight simulator.
- GoogleEarth integration.
- GCU software expandable by plugins and network (SDK).
- Onboard equipment flexibility and expandability (CAN network).
- Real-time controls override through telemetry channel (RC remote).
- Interfaces for external high-precision IMU.
- Controls big UAVs (options with IP67 enclosures).
Controller Area Network (CAN)
All units and components of the AP system connected to the CAN network. The network supports CAN protocols version 2.0A and B. It has been designed to manage a high number of incoming messages efficiently with a minimum CPU load. It also meets the priority requirements for transmit messages.
- Supports CAN protocol version 2.0 A, B Active
- Bit rates up to 1 Mbit/s
- Supports the Time Triggered Communication option Transmission
Additional devices, payloads and standard avionics can be integrated to the system through dedicated interface device.
Thus, all devices are connected by the 4-wire cable (ground, power, CANH, CANL), and this line can also be looped or splitted to isolated networks for reliability and redundancy.


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By choosing the "Help me with my size" section, you can purchase your product, take your receipt and fitting station unique identifier code with you to an authorized fitting station who will then measure you up, give us your measurements so that we can then send you a suit for your measurements.
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On October 15th 2017 the dreadful fires that occurred in Portugal burned 200 000 ha (according to the European Forest Fire Information System) and killed 45 people. Thousands of animals have died mainly sheep, goats, poultry and dogs. In this region most people have small properties and depend on agriculture and cheese making. Only in Oliveira do Hospital municipality at least 9000 sheep have died. For a small country like Portugal this is a catastrophe. Farm animals that survived have now nothing to eat since the pastures, hay and feed rooms have been burn to the ground.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
christmas morning
Posted by HornFamily at 10:12 AM
5 comments:
- Michelle (aka mybelle101) said...
I love Braden's face in the second pic..."I got a CAR!!" :) Priceless!
- December 26, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- cheryl said...
Oh my gosh...SO CUTE! ;o)
- December 26, 2009 at 12:25 PM
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Happy new year by the way.
- January 4, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Christine said...
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- January 18, 2010 at 9:08 AM
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- April 1, 2011 at 9:00 PM
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WILMER, DALLAS COUNTY - Dalport Trade Center, a 758,922-sf warehouse on I-45 in Wilmer, has been purchased by USAA Real Estate Co.
The property is located at 201 S. I-45 in the Inland Port District south of Dallas on 37 acres. The huge distribution building is located just south of Union Pacific Railway's intermodal freight center.
The warehouse is roughly 2.5 miles from the Union Pacific Intermodal and 6.5 miles from the FedEx Ground Hub.
The industrial building was developed in 2008 by First Industrial and is vacant.
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Le Jeu 2 août 2012 8:22, Florian Rivoal a écrit : > Hi, > > I've submitted a few TCs for @supports in > contributors/opera/submitted/css3-conditional/ http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/opera/submitted/css3-conditional/ > > This is the first time I submit TCs, so I am sure I did it wrong, but > hopefully not too much. > 4- I proposed and recommend to always start with the formulation "Test passes if there is/are ...[boolean statement or relational comparison of some sort] " . For several reasons, mostly consistency, efficiency (text skimmability, predictable reading, etc). 5- The title text often seems to me to be more of a text assert actually. The title text should just describe what the test involves. The text assert should describe the goal, purpose, target, etc of a test. Expressions like "should work", "should not work", "should apply", "should not apply", "should parse", "should successfully parse", "be parsed succesfully" in the title text suggest that these should be in a text assert instead. example given: Actual: at_supports_005.html non-matching @media within @supports should not apply at_supports_009.html Negations of failing simple conditions in @supports should pass Proposals: <title>CSS Test (Conditional Rules): Non-matching @media within @supports</title> <title>CSS Test (Conditional Rules): Negations of failing simple conditions in @supports</title> You want the title text to just list, to just mention the "ingredients" of a test. Eg. <title>CSS Test: absolute position - bottom offset with percentage unit</title> and you want the test assert text to describe or explain the purpose/goal/target of the test. The assert text is aiming at the reviewer, advanced testers, a spec careful reader, etc. Also, keep in mind that the flag invalid will indicate that a syntax or particular code should not succeed, should be ignored, should not work, should not "pass", etc. 6- Spelling: witin (at_supports_004.html), Bizare (at_supports_015.html), parens (3 times: 006, 011, 016), succesfully (017) Gérard -- Contributions to the CSS 2.1 test suite: http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/ CSS 2.1 Test suite RC6, March 23rd 2011: http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/toc.html CSS 2.1 test suite harness: http://test.csswg.org/harness/ Contributing to to CSS 2.1 test suite: http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/web-authors-contributions-css21-testsuite.htmlReceived on Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:24:51 UTC
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Yves Massard is Un Missionaire in this inspirational drama. Consumed by wanderlust, novice missionary Massard ventures into the wilds of French colonial Africa. Here he is taken under the wing of mission founder Charles Vanel, who is somewhat wiser in the ways of his chosen profession than the headstrong Massard. The two men form a strong bond, which serves to strengthen the younger man's faith and upgrade the older man's jaundiced opinion of Mankind. Un Missionaire was directed by Maurice Cloche, who also helmed the successful religious epic Monsieur Vincent (1946).
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So what does it mean when you hear something of which your younger self would have approved--and you agree with it? Or when an opinion you agree with is expressed by someone your younger self wanted to be, but who now makes you cringe?
I am thinking now of day I heard exactly what I thought about the US invasion of Iraq and our meddling in the Middle East--with the exact reasons I had for my belief, expressed almost verbatim in the way I'd expressed it--from none other than Pat Buchanan. And, I have to admit that even though I have long dismissed my youthful embrace of Ayn Rand's philosophy (such as it is) as a jejune fever-dream, there are still times I find myself siding with libertarians--at least to a point--on some issues.
So it is today. But I am not the only left-ish person to find herself siding with anti-tax conservatives about a law just passed in Oregon.
Last month, I wrote about the debate in the Beaver State legislature over a proposed bicycle tax. The bill, in its original form, would have placed a levy on sales of new bicycles costing $500 or more. Apparently, the authors of the bill thought bikes in that price range are "luxury" items. I argued that if you are going to buy a new bike that you want to use for daily transportation, you have to spend at least that much if you want something that's reliable and will last.
One of the bill's authors--Lee Beyer, a Democrat--argued that it would ensure that cyclists had "skin in the game", ignoring the fact that cyclists pay the same taxes that everyone else pays. A fellow Democrat, Earl Blumenauer--a Congressman who regularly appears on C-Span with a bicycle pin conspicuously attached to his lapel--also defended the tax, saying that it would "raise the profile of cycling."
Well, yesterday the State legislature voted in favor of the tax as part of a sweeping transportation bill. Worse, the threshold for the $15 tax is not $500, but $200, and would apply to bikes with wheel diameters of 26 inches or more.
(Does that mean small-wheeled folding bikes are exempt? What about 650s?)
Not surprisingly, Bike Portland publisher Jonathan Maus called the tax an "unprecedented step in the wrong direction." He found an ally in Bill Currier, who blasted Governor Kate Brown's "endless obsession with finding new and innovative ways of taking money out of the pockets of Oregon taxpayers."
Who is Mr Currier? The Oregon Republican Party Chairman!
|From the New York Times
My concern about a bicycle tax is the same one I have almost any time a government tries to raise revenue for some ostensible purpose or another--in this case, improving bicycle and other transportation infrastructure. New taxes--whether direct ones on sales or incomes, or less direct ones like lotteries or other government-sponsored gambling schemes--are sold to the public as a way of funding what people want and need, whether it's education or infrastructure improvements. Too often, however, the money doesn't find its way to those stated purposes. I've a feeling that whatever is raised from bicycle sales won't go to bike lanes (which, more often than not, are of questionable value anyway) or other facilities for cycling, or even for other forms of non-automotive transportation.


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History as surfers graduate
Last Friday March 9th, Donegal Adventure Centre in Bundoran proudly hosted the very first graduation of students from the first ever FÁS course in Surfing and Lifeguarding.
Sixteen students began the course last November, and have trained hard in winter weather to improve their skills in surf instruction, lifeguarding, leadership and teaching skills, first aid and child protection. Donegal Adventure Centre and FÁS are delighted that Bundoran has not just hosted this first course, but that there has been such great support for this type of course among the surf schools in the local area.
Many thanks are due to trainer assessors Kenneth Keane, and Kyle Willshire, Neil Ellis, Cillian Costigan and administrator and trainer Trisha Corr, administrator Ciara O Shea, to Jack Britton from Lifeguards Ireland and Zoe Lally from the Irish Surf Association for their great contribution to the course
Donegal Adventure Centre have been running Outdoor Instructor training courses since 2006, and offer a range of options for Irish and overseas students to come to Bundoran to train in surfing, lifeguarding and the leadership skills that are required for the job. Many American students have trained with DAC as part of their gap year studies and we were delighted to have Professor Travis Feezel & a group of sports students from Belmont Abbey North Carolina in attendance too. Professor Feezel has worked closely with The Donegal Adventure Centre over the past four years bringing groups of young Americans sports students to Bundoran and was very impressed with the students and the support that was provided by both the town and FÁS.
Training manager Niamh Hamill is very grateful to everyone who supports the work of educational development and training in outdoor sports and for the encouragement of initiatives that bring students into Bundoran.
On the night Bundoran Town Council was represented by Lord Mayor Michael Mc Mahon, Chairman Sean Mc Eniff, Town Clerk Joe Mc Nulty, and Tourism Officer Tracey Ferguson.
Donegal Adventure Centre manager Colm MacPhaidin and his staff would especially like to thank Michael Carr, Charlie Gorney and Guven Faracli and all the staff of FAS in Letterkenny. Thanks also to Paddy & Keith -La Sabbia Restaurant, John O Connell - Atlantic Apartotel.
Congratulations to the sixteen graduates, and we look forward to the next course. For further information on any of the training available at Donegal Adventure Centre, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 071 984 2418.


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A bit of pineapple, a bit of dried fruit and some melon, that's right! That's what I'll have this morning before I have my cereal. As I pick the fruit and add them to my plastic container one lady says to me, are you on a diet? "My diet is permanent" I reply, "I envy you" she utters. Well that's it! That's the secret to losing weight fast, that's how you can maintain a desired weight and not have to worry about gaining, it's not spasmodic, it's permanent. Every day I witness women, men and children who've gone way over the border line. Some reckon that following a cabbage soup diet with dry wafers for a month or so will help, but what happens is that they deprive their bodies of the much needed nutrition found in a variety of healthful food. Others reckon it's getting some kind of gadget, suction or supplement treatment that will help remove the flab, but what happens when the treatment ends? It's rhetorical. The obvious happens; we waste thousands of Rands or Dollars pilling up with machinery, corsets and treatments that are a means to what end? Catch the rhetoric? So what did I mean by 'permanent?' Health is a lifestyle; that's right! It's what I put in that influences what goes out, in all respects of the wordJ. If I sow wheat, I should get wheat as the result, "whatsoever a man soeth, that shall he also reap." So what do you suppose I should get for filling my body with junk? Junk in = junk out, fat in = fat, cholesterol and disease out. You get more out than you actually get in.
So what actually works?
1. Eating whole grains (brown rice, brown bread etc.), greens and whole fruit not only helps the body to excrete the extractable easily, but also helps reduce chances of getting chronic and inflammatory diseases like strokes, diabetes type 2, heart disease, colorectal cancer, arthritis, gum and tooth disease helps maintain healthier blood pressure levels and helps to keep your weight down.
2. Exercise, exercise and exercise! Instead of using the elevator or escalator to the 5th level of the building, use the stairs when going up and going down the next level, that's what keeps me energetic throughout the day! Instead of driving, try walking, it will not only save you petrol/gas, it will save your life and induces weight-loss. Eating healthy coupled with exercise is the best combination and will never disappoint.
3. Drink plenty of water not less than 8-10 glasses of water a day. Apple juice, coffee, tea and fizzy drinks just don't do it, water, water, and more water!
4. Spend time in the outdoors early in the morning, and late in the afternoon to get fresh air and sunshine. The best and safest time to bask in the sun is between sunrise and 9am and again between 4pm and sunset.
5. Moderation is key, it's called balance. Keep all things at a moderate level; eat enough, but never too little or too much, exercise enough and never too little or too much, the same with sleep catch the drift?
6. Rest, we live in a fast-paced society where there is hardly any rest. Get rest every day, that's not an option – that's if you don't want wrinkles and mood swings and the rest literally, you get more from rest than you get from not resting.
7. We've lost confidence in humanity, we've lost confidence in love and in anything that requires us to trust, but amidst all the strife and all that happens around us, there is one whom we can place our trust in, that's the Creator. Trust His providence, His love, and His care. It's has been proven, daily prayer does wonders to our lives. It does wonders to those who are physically, mentally and spiritually worn out. Try it, it works!
There you have it, lose weight, it's easy!!