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Video ring tone maker Vringo , whose largest shareholders include Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, wasted little time in using $45 million it raised Friday to launch new legal battles.
On Monday the company said it was suing the UK subsidiary of ZTE Corporation for infringement. It further said \"The filing of this action in the United Kingdom is an initial step in Vringo\'s global licensing and enforcement program in the telecommunications sector.\"
A federal judge last week handed the company a victory by refusing to block its suit against Google and ordering the search giant to conduct settlement talks with Vringo this week ahead of an Oct. 16 trial date.
On Friday, a day after the court ruling in the Google case, Vringo raised $45 million in a direct offering to five of its existing institutional investors at $4.35 per share.
Mark Cuban\'s 7.4% stake in Vringo was revealed in an April filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In August Vringo agreed to acquire more than 500 telecom infrastructure patents from Nokia Corp. in a $22 million deal.
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asolitaryfigure needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 19 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
*We are looking for a design that basically replicates that of the London Underground or similar rail/underground map but using the information of routes below as the alternative names for the station points.*
As a local support organisation for volunteering and community involvement (reg charity and not for profit organisation) we are looking for a new and unique image/artwork design for use on adverts, posters and banners to help us raise awareness of the benefits of volunteering within Scotland.
Our aim is to create this through a new campaign based on volunteering being a life journey – a journey that volunteers participate in with different reasons for their involvement and different key benefits to them of being a volunteer.
With this we would like to create a campaign/visual that almost represents these points as destinations and routes in the style of a subway/rail map with the key benefits as six chosen final destinations. Other benefits should be represented as substations on each of these journeys.
The six journeys would be to the following six destinations -
Health and Wellbeing
Social Change
Personal Development
Environmental Action
The six journeys should all begin from a central "station" which would be VOLUNTEER.
We have had a range of ideas including that the rail lines/track map could be set out across the whole of Scotland with the central station/hub of Volunteering being in West Dunbartonshire which is where we are based. (See attached map). Many of the tracks from different journeys pass through multiple stations.
See attached brief for more
General volunteer involvement awareness in Scotland. People in Scotland and others who can educate and inform of the benefits of volunteering. Funders and Partner organisations.
The journeys/routes are as follows -
Volunteer (Starting Destination), New Skills, Build Confidence, Broaden Horizons, Peer Support, Use Spare Time, New Services, Change Lifestyle, Health & Well Being (Final Destination)
Volunteer (SD), New Skills, Build Confidence, Stronger Communities, Into Employment, Retirement, Career Change, Employment (FD)
Volunteer (SD), New Skills, Build Confidence, Broaden Horizons, Meeting New People, Use Your Skills, Stronger Communities, Use Your Spare Time, Give Something Back, Social Change (FD)
Volunteer (SD), New Skills, Meeting New People, Broaden Horzions, Stronger Communities, New Services, Getting Recognised, Placement While Studying, Citizenship (FD)
Volunteer (SD), New Skills, Building Confidence, Broaden Horizons, Meeting New People, Peer Support, Use Spare Time, Getting Recognised, Helping Others, Personal Development (FD)
Volunteer (SD), New Skills, Meeting New People, Use Your Skills, Bringing Communities Together, Change Your Community, Environmental Action (FD)
Please see attached Underground Map example + our poor attempt :)
The artwork/image is required for our initial marketing campaign (advert for our magazine/newsletter, posters and banner stand). The design should work well as stand-alone identity as well as in other pieces in the future (other promotional material, possible t-shirts etc)
Sleek, contemporary creative design.
Attention Grabbing
Files to be delivered in vector formats as follows - Adobe Ilustrator (.ai) and (.eps), Photoshop vector format, jpegs and png formats.
It is key that the central point showing VOLUNTEER is central and stands out as the key message
Most importantly a design that shows what volunteering is all about!
Don't Wants
Generic Logo
Any copyrighted elements
Cheap looking.
Tartanfied (An overuse of Scottish-ness)
We will try to run the competition with the following rating system.
Ratings System:
1 star - Wrong direction, start over again with something completely different
2 star - some elements I like
3 star - getting closer but need revisions or a different take on your design
4 star - design is being considered
5 star - made the final cut!
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Batman: Arkham Knight Trailer: Batmobile Battle-Mode
Ever since news first leaked that the next installment in Rocksteady Games' Batman: Arkham series would feature the Batmobile, wannabe caped crusaders have been clamoring for more info on the legendary vehicle and its capabilities in the game. Last week gave us a glimpse at what it can do on the streets of Gotham, and E3 will let a few lucky players kick the tires next week. Today, though, we get our first look at the Batmobile's armament in a new trailer for Batman: Arkham Knight.
You'll never see Batman fighting crime with a rifle or a handgun, but he apparently has a very different take on what guns his car can wield. The Batmobile is not messing around. Switching to battle-mode, the high-speed creation of Wayne Industries becomes a tank, toting a 60mm kinetic energy cannon, a Vulcan gun with incendiary ammo, a laser-guided missile salvo and a non-lethal riot suppression gun. It also looks freaking cool as hell.
Every update from WB and Rocksteady has raised the level of anticipation for Batman: Arkham Knight, and this one is no different. I imagine Batman won't be firing incendiary rounds or homing missiles into soft targets, but rather using his heavy weapons to affect the environment, i.e. burning away Mr. Freeze's ice barriers with the Vulcan gun.
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Use Revenue Intelligence to Set Revenue Goals for Next Year
OK, I've done it again: Changed the calendar. It's September, and I'm already talking about next year's sales goals. But we all know that very soon we will all be working on next year's budgets and thus next year's sales goals.
First, I would like to say that despite what every accountant and CEO wants to hear, you don't build your budget and then take it to the sales leader and tell her: "Here's your revenue goal for 2014, develop a plan to get here." This approach almost always ends in failure to meet the goals (or worse). Why? Because they were unrealistic. Stretch goals or growth goals (both in revenue and in profit) are mandatory. But the question is, just how much?
If you want to be sure that the revenue supports the budget, define your revenue goals first, and then build the budget. And if there's a shortfall – for example, new costs for say expansion or product – then adjust the revenue goals along with your sales team and senior management to reduce the gap and figure out how to finance any remaining gaps. Just saying "this is what we need" does not make it so. Sorry, Captain Kirk!
Let's examine some best practices in developing revenue goals:
- Never, never take last year's team number, multiple by a percentage, and well, you get the picture. The broader your parameters, the more inaccurate they will be.
- Remember the 80-20 rule when you create revenue goals, and focus on getting next year's revenue projection accurate for the 20 % of your customers who will drive 80% of next year's revenue.
- Ask each salesperson to rank their top accounts by revenue and likelihood to renew for next year. Literally assign points for revenue total and most likely to renew. Ask each sales person to have a conversation with those customers NOW and talk with them about what growth (if any) they expect next year. If they don't expect to grow, don't expect their purchases with you to grow. These accounts may not increase at all and could even decrease.
- Next, in the bigger customers, talk about the value they experienced over the last year by using your solution. Ask how your solution contributed to their growth or profitability – pick your favorite financial metrics to focus on. And talk about how you and your solution plan to contribute to their profitability or growth next year. If the customer didn't receive a proportionate value last year, you have work to do to before you ask them to increase their purchases next year.
- Examine the medium revenue accounts and ask each sales person what must happen for that account to purchase more next year. Is the driver something you can execute, or is it something the customer must do? For example, if you can confidently say that when you release the new product or upgrade medium accounts will jump on board – then this is revenue you can count on. If however, in order to buy more from you, your customer must generate new revenue from his product release, then you need to be damn sure that he's damn sure about the release date and its value to his customers.
- When projecting for new business, consider how many new accounts each sales person closed for each of the last three years and the average revenue each new account generated. Add a growth percentage to this commensurate with your position in the market, and you'll be close to accurate on the new business you can project.
Sit down with all this information and coach your sales team how to use this "revenue intelligence" to create revenue projections for each of their accounts. Aggregate this, add a stretch percentage, and you should have a realistic, achievable revenue goal.
Remember, SMART goals are successful when driven from the bottom up. So take charge now, and be the first to present your goals to the CFO. Beat her to her own game!


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Welcome to Coastal Carolina Off-Campus Housing
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About Coastal Carolina Off-Campus HousingThis website provides students with information about CCU off-campus housing. It allows students to post reviews about their experiences living in rentals near Coastal Carolina, with the goal of fostering good relationships between landlords and students. This website tries to provide students with all of the information that they need in order to make informed decisions about finding homes for rent near Coastal Carolina and living off-campus. Students can post reviews, search for roommates and find housing through this website for free. And anyone can post a housing advertisement for a small fee. Please see our Terms & Conditions for pricing & contact information.
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My Nails Spa needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 56 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
my nails spa
Our spa is for nails, it's very high standard nail spa, we will have luxury furniture and high qualified technicians. We will use all high quality luxurious brands in our treatments.
Our audience is ladies who are very sophisticated, who always care about their look and the place they go to.
My requirements are a very luxurious logo for my spa, we you see the logo you can feel royalty. I will attach logos that I like and I want it to be similar in design and theme. I attached it to show you the style I want my logo. the picture is for a perfume, i love their theme and i am looking for something which is like it.
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Putting Faith Under House Arrest
April 24, 2012 - Townhall
Opinion Editorial
"For decades, atheist groups have strategically involved themselves in questions of religious freedom, and they have done so chiefly by fighting to have all Christian symbols and texts removed from public view. But in recent years, as this fight has continued, it's become evident that it's not just symbols and texts they want removed from public view, rather, it's Christians themselves." Read article >>
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Yes, it is the smoking A51+. That guys warehouse is about 20 minutes from my house, I've gotten many good items from him, and only a couple duds, most of which I took a chance on, only ever returned one item that was not quite working as described.PID_Stop wrote:You are right: the controller and drive don't care what version the chassis is. The original version can be upgraded to a plus version -- in fact, I had to do it to our original chassis when we got the second, in order for the two to be compatible. It's been a number of years, but as I recall, it involved replacing a number of PALs and EPROMS, cutting several traces on one of the boards, and soldering a couple fine jumper wires. The backplane is the same, as is the power supply.
I can't say this with certainty, but I believe the memory boards are interchangeable for either version, but the boards that actually perform address computation -- which would be every other board -- are version specific.
If nothing else, having a spare controller keyboard is a worthwhile thing: the power regulator IC it uses went out of production years ago, and I had to retrofit a whole new regulator into one of our keyboards.
By the way... is this the unit that has smoke coming from one of its boards? That could be anything from the NICAD battery (easy to fix) to bad tantalum bypass caps (also easy to fix) to one of the IC's (a skilled job, if the particular IC is even available). If you do wind up with this, I would resist the urge to do a board swap until you know that you don't have a power supply problem that's encouraging smoke to escape...
-- Jeff
I"ll let you know what I find out as far as the source of the smoke. I'm picking it up today or monday, but I'm out on vacation after that so it will be a couple weeks before I know much. spare parts never hurt, even if I can't get the thing going.
Can you describe how your setup is layed out? I understand you have the combiners and all that but how do you have the a51(s) in the signal chain? Are the inputs assigned from a router and the output fed into switcher (VisionMixer)?
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Project Minnie needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 39 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
Project Minnie
Project Minnie is a website devoted to helping people who love animals find animal-free personal care, laundry care, clothing, bedding, and other plant-based products at a great price. We don't make the products, but rather we showcase them, review them and provide them at a discount so more people can learn about, try and convert to plant-based products.
The purpose of Project Minnie is to help raise awareness of the pervasiveness of animal byproducts in everyday items and offer viable alternatives. The site helps socially responsible companies gain trial and exposure, provides a great value to consumers and helps reduce the number of animals being consumed.
The site does not only feature animal-free products at a significant discount, it also has a philanthropy arm that donates a portion of revenue to causes that support animal welfare or reduce the exploitation of animals.
We believe if everyone makes a few small changes, we can help millions of animals.
-Primary: People who want to consumer animal-free products.
-Secondary: People who are not conscious about how pervasive animal byproducts are in everyday products and would choose animal-free products if: 1) they were made aware of what is in the products they are consuming and 2) there was a good alternative.
We need a logo that conveys that Project Minnie is devoted to helping animals one product at a time by providing excellent plant-based alternatives to everyday products typically made of animal byproducts. And, we will offer them at a discount. As a brand, Project Minnie is:
• Optimistic and hopeful
• Sincere, real and genuine
• Professional but accessible
• For everyone, not just vegans and vegetarians, but all animal lovers
• Not preachy or judgmental
• Not hippy
Please don't use any reference to Minnie Mouse or other famous Minnies.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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"But how are we going to survive without the annual conference blog?" I hear a reader exclaim. To which I reply, without so much as batting an eyelid: "You will have to write it yourself." Okay, I admit that imaginary exchange is just silly, but the reality is that I'd still like to cover the Lattice meeting in Beijing, but obviously can't do the reporting myself. So I would like to encourage my readers to volunteer as guest bloggers and cover a session or two from their own point of view. Any conference reports (except for those of a libelous,
To make this a more tempting offer I will add a prize for the most productive (by number of sessions covered, by words in case of equal numbers of sessions) guest blogger, who will win my Lattice 2008 Williamsburg baseball cap (autographed or unautographed at the winner's discretion).


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Casshan - Tatsunoko
"Every victory brings me closer to the destruction of the Andro Army!"
Tetsuya Azuma transformed himself from an ordinary human into the indestructible neoroider, Casshan. After his transformation, he awakened to awesome, newfound powers. He chooses to use these powers to fight against the android Braiking Boss, who has violently seized control of the world.
Casshan's signature face mask and pulsar weapon is accompanied by neoroider abilities such as extendable legs and superhuman strength. He is joined by Friender, his robotic dog partner who has a variety of special powers, including the ability to transform into a number of useful machines.
Casshan first appeared in Neo-Human Casshern (Shinzo Ningen Kyashan), also known as Casshan, a 1973 Tatsunoko anime.
Casshan is a very powerful combo machine who lacks range, but makes up for it with his outstanding damage and setup potential. It takes some work to get in on the opponent, but once he starts a combo he can keep it going for some time thanks to his array of tools, with attacks that let him hit the opponent anywhere, even if they're down. He has high defense and is able to break through opponent's offense with his super armor knee attack, making him a great choice to deal with fast rushdown styled characters such as Karas or Zero. Casshan is also a fantastic teammate, with assists and supers that can aid a range of characters.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Style: high-damage, close combat fighter
Defensive power: Has high HP and some good defensive tricks, including super armor and Friender calls.
Offensive power: Very high. His combos do a lot of damage and are relatively simple. With the right assist he can easily top 30,000b in a single combo.
Approach strength: poor. He has some trouble getting in on characters at range and most of his attacks are somewhat short-ranged or slow to startup. Friender call is too slow to reliably use for pressure.
Combo ability: Very high. Can attack downed opponents and can loop his own combos naturally. His hits deal a lot of damage.
Meter Usage: Average. He uses meter to finish off his combos in many instances.
Key Techniques: Friender reset - using an assist to combo into a friender call, which allows him to loop his ground combo for more hits. Unblockable setups - with an assist and friender he can set up for unblockable damage on an opponent who's tagging in. Hitting grounded opponents - he uses many of his specials to hit opponents who have been knocked down, adding futher damage to his combos.
Partner Options: Casshan makes a great partner for many characters because of his assist. His strongest teammates are Frank West and Roll, as Roll's assist greatly helps him and the two are able to do some damaging combos together. Frank West needs Casshan's assist to do his most damaging combos, and his assist is good for letting Casshan get closer to the opponent.


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Cowboys up
Redskins up
Chiefs up (for meaningless pleasure)
Cowboys up
Redskins up
Chiefs up (for meaningless pleasure)
4th and a yard???
ugh.....we are puttzing around here on offense....lets get the rust of ben...lets go.
Ben drives me nuts snapping the ball as the clock expires every play.
Cost them a first down there.
3rd and a foot. The running back is 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage. I knew he wasn't going to make it.
Harrison is looking like Harrison
Chargers OL stinks, we better get pressure all friggin day
Polamalu is awesome
So, is the Boltz gonna score on the mighty Steelers.
lucky fg
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ollyctd necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 65 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
We are busy rebranding our website - krugerpark.com - and it all starts with a good logo. Please don't use the current site for ideas, we are looking for a fresh new look.
The logo needs to be immaculately presented and capture the essence of our business - Accommodation & Guided Tours in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Accommodation is in the form of bungalows, guest houses and camping / tents.
Some ideas :
* A safari vehicle with krugerpark.com written underneath
* Some form of related accommodation with krugerpark.com written underneath
Of course, we are very open to whatever idea designers have too!
We are an online accommodation website focussing on accommodation in and around the Kruger National Park. We are about to overhaul the website to increase functionality and bring everything in line with "contemporary web".
This brief will be to get a really great looking logo which we can then design a site around. The logo is crucial to business and will be used on the website, brochures, stationary, etc.
Thousands of people view the site every day and the winning logo will be seen by each and every visitor!
- Contemporary web logo
- Should be geared around KrugerPark.com
- Simple and not too cluttered
- Stick to natural, earthy colours (khaki, orange, blue, green, etc)
- Really open to designer's ideas at this point
- Logos too similar to current website
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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
A right-wing Utah policy group argues the state of Utah should stop supporting the Sundance Film Festival, because the internationally acclaimed event shows "films that are obscene and contrary to [Utah taxpayers'] values."
"Given the amount of sexual promiscuity that Sundance Film Festival regularly brings to Utah, it seems similarly indecent that Utah's major economic development agencies basically endorsed the event," writes Derek Monson, of The Sutherland Institute, in a blog entry posted Friday.
The Sutherland statement decries the sexual content of some of this year's Sundance titles, which Monson labeled "obscenity" and "pornography." He mentioned (without naming their titles) "Lovelace," a biography of "Deep Throat" star Linda Lovelace, and "Two Mothers," a drama in which two women each begin affairs with the other's adult sons.
"For the sake of public decency and encouraging a free, moral society, the state of Utah should end its 'complex relationship' with the Sundance Film Festival," Monson writes, concluding, "Some things are more important than money."
Sundance, the nation's most prestigious film festival, will begin its 11-day run Thursday. It will screen 119 feature films and 65 shorts in Park City and at venues in Salt Lake City, Ogden and the Sundance resort.
According to a study written last May by the University of Utah, last year's Sundance Film Festival generated $80.3 million in economic impact to the state and attracted 31,121 out-of-state visitors.
Three state agencies the Utah Film Commission, the Utah Office of Tourism and the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development are listed as "Festival Host State" support in Sundance's film guide and other literature.
Officials for the Sundance Institute and the Utah Film Commission did not return calls for comment by deadline Friday evening.


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Self-Driving Cars Are Still 'Years Away' (GOOG)
Experts say we're still years away from fully driverless cars, Dan Strumpf of The Wall Street Journal reports.
California, Nevada, and Florida have all passed laws regarding driverless cars. But in Nevada, where legislators have made the most progress, self-driving cars are only legal for testing, and nothing more.
Other states, like Arizona, have also mulled over legislation for self-driving cars, but hit a wall when it came to liability issues.
They couldn't figure out who to blame if a driverless car gets in a wreck.
But there are other issues, too.
"We don't actually have a fully self-guided car," Stanford Law School lecturer Bryant Walker Smith told The Wall Street Journal. "We don't know how various aspects of that will be introduced. We don't know how they will ultimately perform or what 'safe' is.…It would be much easier to analyze the legal uncertainty if we had an actual product out there."
Still, those potential legal issues haven't stopped companies like Google, Nissan, and Audi from testing driverless car technologies.
Google has been working on self-driving cars for a few years now, but the sensors it currently uses are super expensive, which could also delay it from bringing these cars to the mainstream.
SEE ALSO: Watch These McDonald's Employees Freak Out When A 'Driverless' Car Rolls Up
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General Description
Cassidys is a comfortable, family owned and operated, located in 3 converted Georgian buildings in Dublin?s City centre. Restaurant Six serves a wide range of delicious, contemporary Irish cuisine in comfortable, stylish surroundings; with an a la carte service for lunch and dinner, and a full buffet breakfast every morning. The restaurant is the perfect choice for a business lunch or romantic dinner. Groomes Bar serves traditional pub lunches and provides guests with the perfect spot to sit back and unwind while enjoying a few drinks after a long day of business or sightseeing. The hotel provides guests with a number of facilities and services including 24 hour reception, room service, concierge services, facilities for disabled guests, dry cleaning and laundry services, lounge, babysitting on request, parking facilities, tourist information desk, elevator, lounge, ticket reservation service, free daily newspapers, medical assistance, daily housekeeping services and wake up calls. Cassidys Hotel?s conferencing and banqueting centre is located on the 1st floor of the hotel and offers a central meeting room that can accommodate up to 80 people, as well as a few smaller meeting rooms available for a range of small functions. The banqueting hall can accommodate up to 50 people and ranges of catering services are available. Professional hotel staff can assist with the planning and running of any event to ensure its success.
Additional Information
Check-in time is 2:30 pm - Check-out time is 12:00 pm.
Cassidys Hotel is located in the city centre of Dublin, at the top of O'Connell Street, opposite the Gate theatre, set in 3 Georgian redbrick town houses. The city?s business district, shops, tourist attractions, restaurants, bars, entertainment and leisure venues are within easy reach from the hotel, making it the ideal choice for business and leisure travellers alike. The nearest airport to the hotel is the Dublin International Airport, which is located 8.2 km away. Close by tram stop and train station provide easy access to the entire city and surrounding areas. Cassidys Hotel provides guests with a comfortable and relaxing stay at reasonable prices, featuring excellent service and all the amenities of a modern hotel.
The hotel consists of 88 comfortable guestrooms, tastefully furnished with contemporary décor to create a warm and inviting atmosphere. All rooms are equipped with an en suite bathroom, multi-channel cable television, hairdryer, trouser press, tea and coffee making facilities, bedroom and bathroom direct dial telephones, safety deposit box, work desk and an alarm clock radio.
From Dublin International Airport. Exit the airport and follow signs for the city centre, an lar city, straigh into drumcondra which leads into dorset street. Take left turn at auldtriangle pub and contine straight and take th next right at D.I.D Electrical, a red sign, continue to second set of traffic lights and take left turn a church will be in front if you. Hotel is on your left hand side 100 meters down opposite the gate theatre. Car parking can be advised at the hotel reception.


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10. Cubs game, Wrigley Field (1060 W. Addison St.)
Celebs: Kevin Costner, Vince Vaughn, Eddie Vedder, Kelsey Grammer, Nick Jonas, Larry King, Seth Meyers, Joel McHale, George Lopez, Nick Lachey, Hope Solo, Billy Corgan, Jimmie Johnson, Julianne Hough, CM Punk, Scott McCreery, Vanessa Minillo, Michael Rapaport, James Denton, Phife Dawg, Kenny Wormald, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Sharp, Adam Burish, Joel Quenneville, Will Butler, Marika Anthony-Shaw, Star moment: Bill Wennington was one out away from singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at the Cubs game in May, but the game was called due to rain. The Bulls center-turned-radio commentator, however, would make the best of the situation afterward. ¿(Wennington) went back to the PNC Club (suite), where he was urged to belt out the song anyway," said Cubs special events/entertainment coordinator Katie Marta by email. "Bill led the way, the fans in the PNC Club joined in, and 'Take Me Out To The Ball Game' was indeed sung that night, despite the rain."
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Formula Drift Tech Day Details:
We spent the better part of the last two months preparing for Formula Drift to return to Source Interlink Media's Irvine, Calif. facility for Tech Day, the annual pro drift car preview and inspection, and encompassing car show. It's become quite the affair after mixed results in stints at Universal Technical Institute in San Berdoo and Super Autobacs in Stanton (when it was around).
Last year's Formula Drift event at the Orange County HQ of Super Street, Import Tuner, european car and Honda Tuning was completely insane in terms of attendees, and organizers were crossing their fingers lightning would strike twice.
It did. By the time the Formula Drift Tech Day event started officially at 10a.m., the massive parking lot behind the Source Interlink Media building was at capacity, as hundreds of enthusiasts came to check out the competition machines as well as take in the impressively big car show and meet. Import models Janey B, Maureen Chen and Sandra Wong were on hand to sign autographs, aftermarket parts were displayed in vendor booths for Mackin Industries and Tanabe, and food trucks Sexy Burger, California Grill Truck and Dos Chinos kept everyone's tummies stuffed.
Inside Source's tech center, Formula Drift Tech Day staff commandeered two lifts to scrutinize the pro drift cars. ARK Performance showed up with not one but two Hyundai Genesis Coupes, the AR7, last year's V6 powered entry now turbocharged and driven by Pat Mordaunt, and the AR1, a new chassis motivated by a 1,000-horsepower blown V8 and piloted by longtime ARK ace Dennis Mertzanis. Charles Ng also made a triumphant return after skipping the last two Formula Drift seasons to run touring cars, showing up with his Achilles Tire Infiniti G37 Coupe.
Other Formula Drift pros like Joon Maeng, Dave Briggs, Odi Bakchis and Forrest Wang brought out familiar entries to Tech Day. Perennial underdog Taka Aono was back with his turbo Scion tC-powered AE86 Corolla, flossing greater boost for 2014 in a quest for 800hp, as was Kyle Mohan, his Mazda RX-8 rocking more steering angle than ever before. Our favorite car of Formula Drift Tech Day, however, had to be FD rookie Andy Hateley's bright orange BMW E30; we imagine the thing is probably viewable from space.
It seems a bit unlikely, considering how much was going on, but miraculously Formula Drift Tech Day 2014 went off without a hitch. And that's a good thing, because next year we're emboldened to go even bigger and better than ever before. Scope the video and gallery to see what Formula Drift and car show action you missed this year.


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Fedora systemd Services
This document describes the guidelines for systemd services, for use and inclusion in Fedora packages.
Unit Files
The systemd equivalent for an SysV initscript is called a Unit file. Each package that contains software that wants/needs to start a service at boot must have a systemd unit file.
Unit files for services have a naming scheme of foobar.service. When considering what basename to use, keep the following advice in mind:
- Unit files must be named after the software implementation that they support, as opposed to the generic type of software. So, a good name would be "apache-httpd.service", and a bad name would be "httpd.service", as there are multiple httpd implementations, but only one Apache httpd.
It is our intention to unify service names of well-known software across distributions, so that we can eventually ship the service files in the upstream packages. Hence it is a good idea to discuss service names with maintainers of the same packages in other distributions and agree on a common name.
Basic format
Every .service file must begin with a [Unit] section:
[Unit] Description=A brief human readable string describing the service (not the service file!) After=syslog.target
The Description= line must not exceed 80 characters, and must describe the service, and not the service file. For example, "Apache Web Server" is a good description, but "Starts and Stops the Apache Web Server" is a bad one.
After specifies that this service may only start after the listed services have started. In this example, the service starts after syslog since syslog can be used for logging. (Most daemon programs can use syslog for logging so when in doubt, it's good to include this.)
Next, the .service file must have a [Service] section:
[Service] Type=... ExecStart=... ExecReload=...
The Type= setting is very important. For D-Bus services this should be "dbus", for traditional services "forking" is usually a good idea, for services not offering any interfaces to other services "simple" is best. For "one-shot" scripts "oneshot" is ideal, often combined with RemainAfterExit=. See http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.service.html for further discussion on the topic. Since "simple" is the default type, .service files which would normally set Type=simple may simply omit the Type line altogether.
BusName= should be set for all services connecting to D-Bus. (i.e. it is a must for those where Type=dbus, but might make sense otherwise, too) Omit this option if your service does not take a name on the bus.
ExecStart= is necessary for all services. This line defines the string that you would run to start the service daemon, along with any necessary options.
ExecReload= should be specified for all services supporting reload. It is highly recommended to add code here that synchronously reloads the configuration file here (i.e. /bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID is usually a poor choice, due to its asynchronous nature). Omit this option if your service does not support reloading.
Finally, the .service file should have an [Install] section:
[Install] WantedBy=...
The recommended parameters for WantedBy are either multi-user.target (for most system services) or graphical.target (for services related to the UI).
For more information regarding these options see http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.unit.html and http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.service.html
Strictly speaking ExecStart= (in the [Service] section) is the only option really necessary for a .service file. However, in Fedora you must add the other options mentioned here (as applicable).
Support for /etc/sysconfig files
If your service supports /etc/sysconfig files, then you must use EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/foobar in your .service file, in the [Service] section.
[Service] Type=forking EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/httpd ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS ExecReload=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -k restart
You may then refer to variables set in sysconfig files with ${FOOBAR} and $FOOBAR, in the ExecStart= lines (and related lines). (${FOOBAR} expands the variable into one word, $FOOBAR splits up the variable value at whitespace into multiple words)
The "-" on the EnvironmentFile= line ensures that no error messages is generated if the sysconfig file does not exist. Since traditionally sysconfig files have been optional you should always include the "-" when using this directive.
Ideally unit files are shipped along upstream packages. In order to make adoption of upstream unit files easy please do not introduce new /etc/sysconfig files or options, as /etc/sysconfig files are Fedora-specific. Please support sysconfig files only to maintain compatibility with previous Fedora release. The recommended way for administrators to reconfigure systemd service files is to copy them from /lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and modify them there. Unit files in /etc/systemd/system override those in /lib/systemd/system if they otherwise carry the same name.
Fields to avoid
For most services, we do not want to use requirement dependencies in the [Unit] section, such as Requires= or Wants=. Instead exclusively use ordering dependencies: Before= and After=. This is used to implement loose coupling: if someone asks two services to start at the same time, systemd will properly order their startup but not make it strictly necessary to run one if the other is started.
If you use a requirement dependency, use Wants= rather than Requires=, to make things a little bit more robust. If you use a requirement dependency in almost all cases you should also add an ordering dependency, as ordering and requirement dependencies are orthogonal in systemd.
Here's an example of this common case:
- A web application needs postgresql to store its data.
- It is set to start
Afterpostgresql. On startup, the web application does not start until postgresql does.
- Once running, the system administrator needs to restart postgresql due to a config tweak.
- Since only
Afterwas used, the web application may be temporarily unable to serve some requests but it does not need to restart in order to serve pages after the database comes back up.
Avoid referring to runlevelX.target units in all lines taking unit names (such as WantedBy), these are legacy names existing for compatibility with SysV only.
Avoid Names= (in the [Unit] section). Usually it is a better idea to symlink an additional name in the file system. Note that a name listed in Names= is only useful when a service file is already loaded. However, systemd loads only the service files actually referred to in another loaded service, and uses the filenames during the search. Hence a name in Names= is not useful as a search key, but a symlink in the file system is. Also do not put a (redundant) Names=foobar.service line into a file called foobar.service. We want to keep our service files short.
Avoid using StandardOutput=kmsg. Use StandardOutput=syslog instead. (same for StandardError=). syslog is a better target, because it is where service logging should primarily go. While messages written to kmsg eventually end up in syslog too they are normally attributed to the kernel, and lose much of its meta data. StandardOutput=syslog is recommended for all services which generate output on stdout or stderr which shall be piped to syslog. Note that if StandardOutput=syslog is set StandardError=syslog is implied unless StandardError= is explicitly configured too. That basically means that you never need to use StandardError= in normal cases. Just use StandardOutput=syslog. A full description of these options can be found here: http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.exec.html
Example Unit file
This is an example systemd unit .service file for ABRT:
[Unit] Description=ABRT Automated Bug Reporting Tool After=syslog.target [Service] Type=dbus BusName=com.redhat.abrt ExecStart=/usr/sbin/abrtd -d -s [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Bus Activation
In order to allow parallel startup of a D-Bus service and its consumers it is essential that D-Bus services can be bus activated and the D-Bus activation request is forwarded from the D-Bus system bus to systemd so that you end up with only a single instance of the service, even if a service is triggered by both boot-up and activation. If historically your D-Bus service was not bus-activated but started via a SysV init script, it should be updated to use bus activation. This may be implemented by dropping a D-Bus
.service file in
/usr/share/dbus/system-services/ and use the
SystemdService= directive therein to redirect the activation to systemd.
Here's an example for a D-Bus bus-activable service. The ConsoleKit bus activation file /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.service:
[D-BUS Service] Name=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit Exec=/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon User=root SystemdService=console-kit-daemon.service
And the matching systemd unit file /lib/systemd/system/console-kit-daemon.service:
[Unit] Description=Console Manager After=syslog.target [Service] Type=dbus BusName=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit ExecStart=/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon
As you can see SystemdService= is used in the D-Bus activation file to bind the systemd service to the D-Bus service.
Traditionally, bus activated D-Bus services could not be disabled without uninstalling them entirely. systemd allows you to disable services by making D-Bus invoke an alias systemd service name (that can be created or removed to enable/disable activation) as an intermediary for the real service.
You can easily implement disabling by directing the D-Bus service to an alias name of the real service file (in the filesystem this shows up as a symlink placed in /etc/systemd/system to the real service file). This alias is then controlled via "systemctl enable" and "systemctl disable". It is a good idea (though technically not necessary) to name this alias name after the D-Bus bus name of the service, prefixed with "dbus-". Example for Avahi, a service that the admin might need to disable: set SystemdService=dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service instead of SystemdService=avahi-daemon.service in the D-Bus activation file, and then make dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service an optional alias of avahi-daemon.service that can be controlled via the Alias= directive in the [Install] section of the systemd service file. This directive is then read by "systemctl enable" and "systemctl disable" to create resp. remove a symlink to make the service available resp. unavailable under this additional name. A full example for the Avahi case:
Here is the D-Bus .service file for Avahi (/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Avahi.service):
[D-BUS Service] Name=org.freedesktop.Avahi SystemdService=dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service # This service should not be bus activated if systemd isn't running, # so that activation won't conflict with the init script startup. Exec=/bin/false
Here is the Avahi systemd unit .service file (/lib/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.service):
[Unit] Description=Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack Requires=avahi-daemon.socket After=syslog.target [Service] Type=dbus BusName=org.freedesktop.Avahi ExecStart=/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon -s ExecReload=/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon -r NotifyAccess=main [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Also=avahi-daemon.socket Alias=dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
The Alias= line ensures that the existance of the /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service symlink can be controlled by "systemctl enable" and "systemctl disable".
Note that the creation/removal of the alias symlinks should be done with "systemctl enable" and "systemctl disable" only. You should not create these symlinks manually.
In general, it is also recommended to supply native systemd units for all services that are already bus activatable, so that these services can be controlled and supervised centrally like any other service with tools such as systemctl. A similar logic like the one shown above should apply.
See the D-Bus documentation for more information about bus activation: http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-bus-starting-services
Filesystem locations
Packages with systemd unit files must put them into %{_unitdir}. %{_unitdir} evaluates to /lib/systemd/system on all Fedora systems (F-15+). Unit files are architecture independent (hence, not %{_lib}) and needed early in the boot process.
%files section
Systemd unit .service files must not be marked as %config files. If the user wants to reconfigure a .service file he should copy the .service file from /lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and edit it there. Unit files in /etc/systemd/system override those in /lib/systemd/system if they carry the same name.
Unit files in spec file scriptlets
Most systemd services must be disabled by default, especially if they listen on the network. On upgrade, a package may only restart a service if it is running; it may not start it if it is off. Also, the service may not enable itself if it is currently disabled.
These are the recommended scriptlets to conform to these requirements
Requires(post): systemd-units Requires(preun): systemd-units Requires(postun): systemd-units %post if [ $1 -eq 1 ] ; then # Initial installation /bin/systemctl daemon-reload >/dev/null 2>&1 || : elif [ $1 -ge 2 ] ; then # Package upgrade if [ -f %{_initddir}/httpd ] ; then ### FIXME: we'll want a loop that makes these changes for all sysv runlevels # We also need to map the runlevels to the proper systemd targets: # (0 => poweroff, 1 => rescue, (2, 3, 4) => multi-user, 5 => graphical, 6=> reboot) # If we're going to macroize this, then we might as well also write code to not duplicate # in graphical things that are in multi-user (since graphical includes multi-user) ### FIXME: Current chkconfig breaks the check. Talk with notting about what fix to # implement: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=616857 for pair in '0:poweroff' '1:rescue' '6:reboot' do ; # anything set to run here can be mapped directly to a systemd target runlvl=${pair%%:*} target=${pair##*:} if chkconfig --level $runlvl ; then ln -sf ../httpd.service /etc/systemd/system/$target.target.wants/ 2>&1 >/dev/null done ### FIXME: Think about: Maybe we want to just ignore runlevel 2 and 4 multiuser=0 for runlvl in 2 3 4 ; do # All of these map to the multi-user target in systemd if chkconfig --level $runlvl ; then multiuser=1 fi done if $multiuser then ; ln -sf ../httpd.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ 2>&1 >/dev/null fi if chkconfig --level 5 ; # If it's already in multi-user, it will be inherited automatically if test $multiuser -eq 0 ; then ln -sf ../httpd.service /etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants/ 2>&1 >/dev/null fi else # if multi-user then # Need to decide how to deal with this case. # Possibility 1) Do not support this as systemd tries to have graphical be a strict # superset of multi-user. release note this and what it means in this case. # Option 2) Try to mask out the service in graphical with something like this: # ln -sf /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants/ 2>&1 >/dev/null fi if /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 httpd ; then ln -sf ../httpd.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ 2>&1 >/dev/null fi # Previous SysVinit packages won't have a %postun that will invoke this /bin/systemctl daemon-reload >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ### FIXME: Do we need a systemctl try-restart in here for the same reasons? # Or maybe only if the service was configured to run in the "runlevel" that we're currently in? # /bin/systemctl try-restart httpd.service > /dev/null 2>&1 || : # Unregister with the SystemV init system /sbin/chkconfig --del httpd fi fi %preun if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then # Package removal, not upgrade /bin/systemctl --no-reload disable httpd.service > /dev/null 2>&1 || : /bin/systemctl stop httpd.service > /dev/null 2>&1 || : fi %postun /bin/systemctl daemon-reload >/dev/null 2>&1 || : if [ $1 -ge 1 ] ; then # Package upgrade, not uninstall /bin/systemctl try-restart httpd.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || : fi
Note that /bin/systemctl daemon-reload will automatically detect new systemd unit .service files placed into %{_unitdir}. There is no equivalent to 'chkconfig --add <service>', because it is unnecessary.
If your service should be enabled by default (which is the exception, see below) then use the following %post scriptlet instead of the one shown above:
%post if [ $1 -eq 1 ] ; then # Initial installation /bin/systemctl enable httpd.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || : elif [ $1 -ge 2 ] ; then # Package upgrade if [ -f %{_initddir}/httpd ] ; then ### FIXME: we'll want a loop that makes these changes for all sysv runlevels # We also need to map the runlevels to the proper systemd targets: # (0 => poweroff, 1 => rescue, (2, 3, 4) => multi-user, 5 => graphical, 6=> reboot) # If we're going to macroize this, then we might as well also write code to not duplicate # in graphical things that are in multi-user (since graphical includes multi-user) ### FIXME: Current chkconfig breaks the check. Talk with notting about what fix to # implement: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=616857 if /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 httpd ; then ln -sf ../httpd.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ 2>&1 >/dev/null fi # Previous SysVinit packages won't have a %postun that will invoke this /bin/systemctl daemon-reload >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ### FIXME: Do we need a systemctl try-restart in here for the same reasons? # Or maybe only if the service was configured to run in the "runlevel" that we're currently in? # /bin/systemctl try-restart httpd.service > /dev/null 2>&1 || : # Unregister with the SystemV init system /sbin/chkconfig --del httpd fi fi
Why don't we....
- Enable most services by default?
Some core services must be enabled by default for a functional system, but the default for most network-listening scripts is off. This is done for better security. We have multiple tools that can enable services, including GUIs.
- Start the service after installation?
Installations can be in changeroots, in an installer context, or in other situations where you don't want the services autostarted.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brooklyn Nets head coach Jason Kidd was fined $50,000 by the National Basketball Association (NBA) on Thursday for intentionally spilling a drink to delay a game.
The fine was imposed following an incident in Wednesday's game against the Los Angeles Lakers when the Nets were trailing 96-94 with 8.3 seconds remaining and had no time outs left.
Brooklyn guard Tyshawn Taylor collided with Kidd on the sideline, causing him to spill a drink he had in his hand.
The game was stopped while the court was wiped clean, allowing Kidd to call his players into a huddle to formulate a plan for the final few seconds.
The delay ultimately made no difference to the result as the Lakers won 99-94 and Kidd later denied suggestions he had deliberately spilled the drink.
"Cup slipped out of my hand while I was getting Ty," Kidd told reporters. "Sweaty palms. I was never good with the ball.
"In the heat of the battle, you're trying to get guys in and out of the game, and the cup fell out of my hand."
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Burial customs
1953 Article
To bury the dead is a Christian custom, adopted from the Jews. Non Judeo-Christian religions usually cremated their dead. In the New Testament two burials are recorded. Ananias and Sapphira were carried to their grave by young members of the church (Acts 5:10), and Stephen (Acts 8:2) by "devout men."
In the earliest Christian church burial was already a congregational affair. Tertullian and other church fathers relate that the churches took care of the burial of their poor, and that they had common burying grounds. The entire congregation participated in the religious rite. This participation was based on a regard for the body as the "organ of the spirit," and on the belief in the resurrection. Funeral sermons in the modern sense were unknown. The funeral procession, which took place by day, was to express the joy in overcoming death. The custom of throwing three shovelfuls of earth originated in the Middle Ages. The dedication of the corpse came at a much later period.
By the mid-20th century cremation had been widely accepted, though the Catholic Church did not accept it and its priests were forbidden any participation in the procedure. In most Protestant churches it became optional; ministers could take partial or complete charge of cremation. Among European Mennonites it was also occasionally practiced, especially in the city churches; many country churches opposed it.
Practices in Europe
From the beginning the Mennonites have buried their dead in accordance with local custom, and in common cemeteries. Several exceptions to this custom have been noted. Emil Egli (Die Züricher Täufer, 37) related that a Michel Meier helped his brother bury his wife in a meadow. Ernst Muller (Berner Täufer, 62) states that he heard a Mennonite in the Jura say they should not be compelled to bury their dead in the churchyard, but that each should be permitted to bury his dead on his own land. P. Burckhardt (Die Basler Täufer, 64) reports that the Mennonites preferred to bury their dead in a place of their own choosing. All of these are no doubt isolated cases. Where European Mennonites decided to lay out their own cemetery it was as a rule because the use of the common community burying ground was denied them or made very difficult. This is probably the reason for Preacher Risser's note in the church book of the Mennonites of Sembach: "Wherever several Mennonite families lived in a community, they had their own burial grounds." When the Mennonites buried their dead in common burying grounds, whether for Protestants or for all Christian creeds, their preachers delivered a sermon and at the conclusion thanked the authorities for the privilege of using the cemetery. (See "Friedhof" in Gem.-Kal. 1892, 93.)
In 1541 the preachers Cantzenius and Erasmus submitted to the city council of Bern their opinion that it seemed doubtful to them, whether the Anabaptists who die in their error are saved, and whether they should not be separated in burial from other, ordinary Christians, as they (the Anabaptists) have separated themselves in life; whereupon the council replied that "they, the councilors, did not wish to interfere with God's judgment regarding the salvation of Anabaptists. Error is not always damned; we do not wish to separate their corpses from other believers, since other evil persons who are executed for their crimes, are buried at the upper almshouse" (Muller, Berner Täufer, 82 f.).
On 5 June 1694 the council of Bern was again occupied with the question whether Mennonites should be buried in the churchyards with other Christians. "Honorable persons" had taken offense. The council answered that the right of burial could not be refused them, but that in the future their burials should be conducted without a funeral procession. But in the next year (27 February 1695) instructions were issued to officials that "Mennonites as excommunicated persons shall not be buried in a churchyard or other customary burying ground." In 1729 the Täuferkammer was asked for an opinion; it was divided. Some favored retaining the regulation of 1695, "because the plain man considers burial in a churchyard very important, and many might be frightened away from joining a sect which, as they can see, is segregated from the rest even after death." The others did not consider them less Christian than the Christian-minded, who were not denied the churchyard. Presumably the regulation of 1695 remained in force. In 1729 the cabinetmaker Lerch was compelled by the magistrate to bury his Mennonite sister in a remote spot on his little farm.
Concerning Holland there is not much to report. When the period of persecution was over in Holland, the Mennonites were buried in the customary manner; i.e., the more important ones in the Reformed churches, e.g., Hans de Ries in the Grootekerk at Alkmaar in 1638, and the plain people in the cemeteries. It was done in this way until burial in the churches was forbidden. The Mennonites of Holland have never had their own cemeteries. During the 16th, 17th, and part of the 18th centuries no mourning service was held. The preachers were usually not present at the burial: the poor of the congregation (the so-called gealimenteerden) and those who had few or no relatives were conducted to the grave by the deacons. Only in the 19th century did the Mennonites adopt the practice of the Reformed Church, of having the pastor conduct the entire funeral service and give a talk at the home of the deceased or at the graveside. In the first half of the 20th century it became more and more customary in the rural congregations to hold a funeral service in the church before interment.
In the Palatinate the Mennonites followed the same burial customs as the Lutherans and Reformed. They buried their dead unhesitatingly in the churchyard. The bells were rung, the school children accompanied the funeral train with singing, the Lutheran or Reformed parson gave the funeral address, or in his absence, the teacher read it. It continued so for 50 years after their settling there in 1664. On 6 July 1714 the Catholic priest of Spiesheim near Alzey complained that an "Anabaptist by the name of Hahn delivered a public funeral sermon in the churchyard," and requested a suppression of this "offense." Hahn was fined 10 Reichstalers, and the Mennonites were no longer permitted to bury their dead in the cemeteries of the three tolerated creeds (Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed), nor to hold public burial speeches. A petition of the Mennonites of October 1714 brought about the regulation that the Mennonites could be buried in the cemeteries of the three tolerated religions, but only in special parts reserved for them, isolated from the others. On 31 May 1743 an electoral decree went to all the Oberämter that Mennonites could now be buried quietly, without public singing or other show. A Mennonite request of 27 February 1746 was refused; it was decided that they could in no case be buried in a cemetery used by the Catholics. In Kaiserslautern a revolting incident occurred in 1780; a Mennonite woman who had been buried in a Catholic cemetery with church honors, was exhumed and at night buried outside the cemetery walls. In 1785 the Protestant and Catholic parsons in Winnweiler quarreled about Mennonite burial fees, which the Catholic priest claimed for himself. It was settled by giving each a part (Kirchenbuch der Mennoniten-Gemeinde Sembach).
The 19th century brought toleration on this point to the Mennonites in Bavaria. A government rescript of 1 November 1807 stated "in answer to the petition of N., the tenant of the N-hof near N, and the other Mennonites living there, asking that burial of their members be permitted according to their custom, without calling in a Catholic priest for a fee, considering that Catholic ceremonies at the burial of a non-Catholic constitute a presumption contrary to freedom of religion and conscience, and considering that the Anabaptists also are entitled to the privileges of our religious edict, we determine that the above custom be observed, and the pastors be instructed to regard it in similar cases hereafter." The government decision of 12 October 1847 again assured to the Mennonites the right of burial in the common burial grounds.
In West Prussia, where in several towns the Mennonites paid burial fees to the Protestant or Catholic parsons, some difficulties arose in the 1890s in connection with the burial of their dead. A Mennonite preacher was sued for delivering a funeral sermon in the Catholic cemetery at Marienau against the priest's express order. This was forbidden by the decree of 13 February 1852 which stated that it was permitted only to the clergy to give addresses at the grave, and forbade lay addresses. He was declared innocent by the jury and in the court of appeals at Elbing on 9 October 1898, on the ground that "the church at Rosenort had corporation rights and was an accepted religious organization, so that its preachers are clergymen in the sense of the regulation referred to, and the funeral sermon delivered by him is not to be considered a lay address."
In Baden it was long customary to have the Protestant pastors bury the Mennonite dead without the participation of their own preachers and elders. Ulrich Hege, the editor of the Gemeindeblatt, energetically and successfully protested against this practice (1896, 11). It occurred very rarely by the mid-20th century.
Practices in America
In America no difficulties in obtaining burial privileges have been experienced. The Amish who had no church buildings often had family cemeteries on their farms. In Holmes County, Ohio, the Old Order Amish followed this practice until the mid-20th century. In later years it has become customary, however, to have congregational burial sites.
In one of the Amish cemeteries near Arthur, IL the dead are buried in rows in the order of their death, without regard for family connections. The Moravians also have this practice.
In the early Mennonite settlements in America, generally as soon as church sites were obtained, burial plots were procured also. Most Mennonite congregations in the United States and Canada now have their own cemeteries, generally near the church and often on adjacent grounds. Those Mennonites, however, who came to the Americas from Russia in the 1870's and later and settled in villages did not always establish congregational but sometimes community cemeteries. This practice is followed in Mexico and Paraguay.
In the mid-20th century in congregational cemeteries, burial rights were generally open to any family in the community, with no charge made for burial privileges. At the time of the first death in a family a plot in the church cemetery was selected by the family and the sexton, which area was then reserved for that family. This plan was not always followed, however, as is illustrated by the Mennonite cemetery near Donnellson, Iowa, where for many years the dead were buried in rows in the order of their death. Not all American Mennonite congregations have their own cemeteries, for in certain communities several churches may use a common burial ground, while in other communities, Mennonites patronize city or public cemeteries.
1990 Article
There does not appear to be an Anabaptist and Mennonite standard for burial. As with some other areas of life, Mennonite patterns for the handling of the physical remains of the deceased reflect wider cultural practices and responses to laws or historic settings. The most common Mennonite burial forms, worldwide, articulate the kin group or family, town or community of residence, and congregational affiliation.
In Europe during 16th century, Anabaptists buried their dead in public or church cemeteries. Where possible, this continued. The break with the state church and banning of Anabaptists from public roles, meant that they were sometimes refused burial in public cemeteries. In Switzerland some Anabaptists are reported to have been buried in places reserved for criminals and non-Christians. The unbaptized deceased children of Mennonites were sometimes buried separately, or in special sections of common cemeteries. Where Mennonites developed their own settlements and congregations in the mountains of Switzerland, the Palatinate, and the Vistula Delta (West Prussia), they had their own cemeteries and burial practices.
As distinctive traditions emerged among those Mennonites who had emigrated from their original 16th-century homes and cities, family, village, and congregational burial arrangements became the most common.
A study in central Kansas (Janzen) identified the burial patterns of linked Old and New World Mennonite traditions: the Amish of Eastern United States and Swiss-Alsatian-Palatinate origin; the Swiss-Volhynian, i.e., "Old World" Amish, who immigrated to Kansas in 1874 via Poland; Dutch-Prussian-German immigrants with ancestry in the Vistula Delta "Old Flemish" congregation of Prezchowka (later, in Molotschna, Alexanderwohl).
The Amish practice congregational and community burial with patrilineal family rows, based on order of death of family members. Some conjugal pairs are recognized in that a place is reserved for the spouse beside the deceased, usually within the man's family row. An emphasis on Amish "plainness" is clearly evident in burial, with the use of wooden coffins, the absence of embalming, and uniform, simple, hand-cut limestone or concrete markers with name and birth/death dates.
In the Swiss-Volhynian congregations of Hopefield and Eden, burial reflects age-grading within the congregation. Adults and children are buried in adjacent rows, in order of death within the congregation, regardless of family membership. Conjugal pairs are recognized by reserving a burial place beside the first-deceased spouse. A variety of commercial tomb markers are used, with the largest identifying community leaders.
Low-German-speaking immigrants from the Molotschna colony brought their village settlement system to the North American plains. At first, as in the Ukraine, each village had its own cemetery, although some families buried in family plots. The village cemeteries of Alexanderwohl tended to practice age-segregated burial, as the Swiss Volhynian above, with children's rows and adult rows, within patrilineal family plots. Later, when the villages were dissolved, and the people began to bury in congregational cemeteries, they practiced an egalitarian pattern of burial, filling row after row without distinction for age or family. Only the conjugal unit was recognized, by leaving room for the spouse beside the deceased.
In the Prussian-German tradition, both congregational and patrilineal family lines were articulated in burial, as had been the case in Heubuden's cemetery in the Vistula Delta. The burial practices of Emmaus and Zion congregations were based on family plots demarcated within the cemetery. The historic practice of cousin marriage between landed families in this tradition—in the face of restrictive land-owning conditions imposed by the Prussian military state—carried over in a few cases into the New World, and was reflected in partner-family sections in congregational cemeteries, or in private family cemeteries such as the Bergman-Harder cemetery of rural Whitewater. Here a variety of commercial tombstones was used, with some reflecting the Grabschrift song and verse tradition of Europe (funerals). An urban congregation in this tradition utilized a city public cemetery.
Non-Western Mennonites have utilized a combination of wider cultural practices and more self-consciously "Christian" burial forms. In India, Christians, as well as Muslims, practice burial, in contrast to the Hindu practice of cremation. Indian Mennonites of Madhya Pradesh utilize a congregational cemetery; the separate identity of the family is minimal. In the Congo Mennonite Church, located mainly in Kasai and Bandundu provinces, burial is either in the village, lineage, or family plot, or in the church cemeteries found on some of the mission stations.
Indonesian Mennonites, whose origins go back to Dutch Mennonite missions of 1850, are drawn from both Chinese and Javanese ethnic groups. Both practice burial in public Christian cemeteries following services in the home with family and friends. The conjugal unit is acknowledged by reserving a place for the spouse beside the first-deceased. The tomb is marked with a simple marble tablet. Because of limited space for cemeteries, and cost of burial, cremation has been approved by the Persatuan Gereja-Gereja Kristen Muria (United Muria Indonesia Christian Church, largely drawn from ethnic Chinese).
See also Death and Dying
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 154-157.
Janzen, John M. "The Early Midwestern [US] Mennonite Cemetery as a Social Document." Yearbook of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1968): 605-607.
Information on Indian, Congolese, and Indonesian Mennonites supplied by Lubin Janzen, Fremont Regier, and Mesach Krisetiya.
Smith, C. Henry. The Mennonite Immigration to Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Century. Norristown, PA, 1929: 49-54.
|Christian Neff
|Melvin Gingerich
|John M. Janzen
|Date Published
Cite This Article
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Neff, Christian, Melvin Gingerich and John M. Janzen. "Burial customs." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1988. Web. 22 Mar 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Burial_customs&oldid=144906.
APA style
Neff, Christian, Melvin Gingerich and John M. Janzen. (1988). Burial customs. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 22 March 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Burial_customs&oldid=144906.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp. 473-475; v. 5, pp. 110-111. All rights reserved.
©1996-2019 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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