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Christ Exalted!
1 Corinthians 15:25, 26 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed, is death. Subject: Our Lord Jesus Christ in the work of redemption gloriously appears above all evil. THE apostle in this chapter particularly opposes some among the Christian Corinthians who denied the resurrection of the dead and infested the church with their doctrine. There were two sorts of persons in that age who were especially great opposers of the doctrine of the resurrection. One among the Jews were the Sadducees, of whom we read, Acts 23:8. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, either angel or spirit. And we have the same account in other places. Among the heathen that were the chief opposers of this doctrine were their philosophers. The doctrine of the resurrection of the dead was not consistent with their philosophy, by the principles of which, it was impossible that one who was deprived of the habit of life, would ever receive it again. And therefore they ridiculed the doctrine when the apostle preached it among them at Athens. (Acts 17) Probably the church at Corinth received this corruption from the philosophers, and not the Sadducees. For Corinth was near to Athens, and the place of the chief resort of the philosophers of Greece. The apostle, in opposing this error, first insists on Christ's resurrection from the dead, and next on the resurrection of all the saints at the end of the world. And in the verses next before the text, shows how both are connected, or that one arises or follows from the other. And then adds, "then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." Observe, I. Here is one thing wherein appears the glory of that exaltation and dominion, that Christ has as our redeemer, viz. that it issues in the subjection of all enemies under his feet. It is not said all his enemies, possibly because those that shall be put under his feet are not only his enemies, but also the enemies of his Father and of his people. Their being under his feet denotes their being perfectly subdued, and his being gloriously exalted over them. It shall be thus with respect to God's and his, and his people's enemies universally, not one excepted; which universality is signified here two ways; all enemies — and the very last enemy: when there shall be but one enemy left, that shall also be put under his feet. II. We may learn what is here meant by enemies by the particular instance here given as the last that shall be destroyed, viz. death. Which shows that by enemies, is not meant persons only, that set themselves in opposition to God and his people, but evils; whatever is against God and his people, and opposes Christ or his saints, whether they be persons or things. SECTION I How evil of all kinds has prevailed and highly exalted itself in the world. Evil, of all kinds, has risen to an exceeding height in the world, and highly exalted itself against God, and Christ, and the church. — This will appear by the following particulars. I. Satan has highly exalted himself, and greatly prevailed. He is vastly superior in his natural capacity and abilities to mankind. He was originally one of the highest rank of creatures, but proudly exalted himself in rebellion against God in heaven. We are told, that pride was the condemnation of the devil. (1 Tim. 3:6) He became proud of his own superior dignity and mighty abilities, and the glory which his Creator had put upon him. And [he] probably thought it too much to submit to the Son of God, and attempted to exalt his throne above him. And he prevailed to draw away vast multitudes of the heavenly hosts into an open rebellion against God. And after he was cast down from heaven, he proudly exalted himself in this world, and prevailed to do great things. by his subtle temptations he procured the fall of our first parents, and so brought about the ruin of their whole race. He procured their ruin in body and soul, and the death of both, and that they should be exposed to all manner of calamity in this world, and to eternal ruin hereafter. He so far prevailed, that he drew men off from the service of their Maker, and set up himself to be the god of this world. And in a little time, [he] drew the world into that almost universal corruption, which brought on the flood of water, but which it was destroyed. And after that, he drew on all nations, except the posterity of Jacob, from the worship of the true God, and darkened all the world with heathenism, and held them under this darkness for a great many ages, he himself being worshipped as God almost all over the world. The nations of the earth offered sacrifices to him and multitudes offered up their children. And during that time, he often so far prevailed against the people of God, that he had almost swallowed them up. And when Christ himself appeared in the world, how did he exalt himself against him! And prevailed so far, as to influence men to hate and despise him all the days of his life. And at last he persuaded one of his own disciples to betray him. Accordingly, he was delivered into the hands of men, to be mocked, buffeted, spit upon, and treated with the greatest ignominy that unrestrained malice could devise. And at last procured that he should be put to the most cruel and ignominious kind of death. And since that, he has greatly exalted himself against the gospel and kingdom of Christ. And he has infected the Christian world with multitudes of heresies and false ways of worship, and greatly promoted atheism and infidelity. Thus highly has the devil exalted himself against God and Christ, and the elect. And so far he prevailed. II. Guilt is another evil which has come to a great height in the world. All guilt is an evil of a dreadful nature. The least degree of it is enough utterly to undo any creature. It is a thing that reaches unto heaven, and cries to God, and brings down his wrath. The guilt of any one sin is so terrible an evil that it prevails to bind over the guilty person to suffer everlasting burnings. And so is in some respect infinite, in that it obliges to that punishment which has no end. And so is infinitely terrible. But this kind of evil has risen to a most amazing height in this world. Where not only some persons are guilty, but all, in all nations and ages, are naturally guilty wretches. And they who live to act any time in the world, are not only guilty of one sin, but of thousands, and thousands of thousands. What multiplied and what aggravated sins are some men guilty of! What guilt lies on some particular persons! How much more on some particular populous cities! How much more still on this wicked world! How much does the guilt of the world transcend all account, all expression, all power of numbers or measures! And above all, how vast is the guilt of the world, in all ages, from the beginning to the end of it! To what a pitch has guilt risen! The world being, as it were, on every side, loaded with it, as with mountains heaped on mountains, above the clouds and stars of heaven. And guilt, when it was imparted to Christ, greatly prevailed against him — though in himself innocent, and the eternal Son of God — even so as to hold him prisoner of justice for a while, and to open the flood-gates of God's wrath upon him, and bring his waves and billows over him. III. Corruption and wickedness of heart is another thing that has risen to an exceeding height in the world. Sin has so far prevailed that it has become universal. All mere men are become sinful and corrupt creatures. Let us attend to St. Paul's description of the world (Rom. 3:9-18), "Jews and Gentiles are all under sin. As is written, There is none righteous, no not one; there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doeth good, no not one." And not only is every one corrupt, but they are all over corrupt, in every power, faculty, and principle. Every part is depraved. Which is here represented by the several parts of the body being corrupt, as the throat, the tongue, the lips, the mouth, the feet. "Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood." And not only is every part corrupt, but exceeding corrupt, being possessed with dreadful principles of corruption. horribly evil dispositions and principles of sin, that may be represented by the poison of asps, which makes men like vipers and devils, principles of all uncleanness, pride, deceit, injustice, enmity, malice, blasphemy, murder. Here their throats are compared to an open sepulcher, and their mouth is said to be full of cursing and bitterness, and destruction and misery are said to be in their ways. And there are those principles of sin not only that are very bad, but every kind. Here is no sort of wickedness, but there is a seed of it in men. And these seeds and principles have not only a being in men's hearts, but are there in great strength. They have the absolute possession and dominion over men so that they are sold under sin. Yea, wicked principles, and those only, are in the heart. The imagination of the thoughts of their heart is evil only. There are bad principles only, and no good ones. "There is no fear of God before their eyes." Thus the hearts of all men are deceitful and desperately wicked (Jer. 17:9). And if we look, not only at the natural corruption of the heart, but at the contracted habits of sin, by wicked education and customs, how full shall we find the world of wickedness, in this respect! How have men, by bad customs in sinning, broken down all restraints upon natural corruption, and as it were abandoned themselves to wickedness! So far has corruption and wickedness prevailed in the world, and so high has it risen, that it is become a great and universal deluge, that overtops all things, and prevails with that strength, that it is like the raging waves of the tempestuous ocean, which are ready to bear down all before them. IV. Many of the devil's instruments have greatly prevailed and have been exalted to an exceeding height in the world. It has been so in almost all ages of the world. Many of the devil's instruments have prospered and prevailed till they have got to the head of great kingdoms and empires, with vast riches and mighty power. V. Affliction and misery have also prevailed and risen to an unspeakable height in the world. The spiritual misery which the elect are naturally in is great. They are miserable captives of sin and Satan, and under obligations to suffer eternal burnings. This misery all mankind are naturally in. And spiritual troubles and sorrows have often risen to a great height in the elect. The troubles of a wounded spirit and guilty conscience, have been felt with intolerable and insupportable weight. "A wounded spirit who can bear?" (Pro. 18:14). And the darkness that has risen to God's people after conversion, through the temptations and buffetings of the devil, and the hidings of God's face, and manifestations of his anger, have been very terrible. And temporal afflictions have often risen exceeding high. But the height to which the evil of affliction has risen, nowhere appears so much as in the afflictions that Christ suffered. The evil of affliction and sorrow exalted itself so high, as to seize the Son of God himself, and to cause him to be all in a bloody sweat, and to make his soul exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. It caused him to cry out, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Affliction never prevailed to such a degree in this world, as in Christ, whose soul was, as it were, overwhelmed in an ocean of it. VI. Death is an evil which has greatly prevailed and made dreadful havoc in this world. How does it waste and devour mankind, one age after another, sparing none, high or low, rich or poor, good or bad! Wild beasts have destroyed many. Many cruel princes have taken away the lives of thousands, and laid waste whole countries. But death devours all. None are suffered to escape. And the bodies of the saints as well as other, fall a prey to this great devourer. Yea, so high did this enemy rise, that he took hold on Christ himself, and swallowed him among the rest. He became the prey of this great, insatiable monster. by his means, was his bodily frame destroyed, and laid dead in the dark and silent grave. And death still goes on destroying thousands every day. And therefore the grave is one of those things which Agur says, never has enough (Pro. 30:16). — So have evils of every kind prevailed, and to such a degree have they exalted themselves in the world. SECTION II How Jesus Christ, in the work of redemption, appears gloriously above all these evils. It was not the will of the infinitely wise and holy Governor of the world that things should remain in this confusion, this reign of evil, which had prevailed and exalted itself to such a height. But he had a design of subduing it, and delivering an elect part of the world from it, and exalting them to the possession of the greatest good, and to reign in the highest glory, out of a state of subjection to all these evils. And he chose his Son as the person most fit for an undertaking that was infinitely too great for any mere creature. And he has undertaken the work of our redemption. And though these evils are so many and so great, and have prevailed to such a degree, and have risen to such a height, and have been, as it were, all combined together; yet wherein they have exalted themselves, Christ, in the work of redemption, appears above them. He has gloriously prevailed against them all, and brings them under his feet, and rides forth, in the chariots of salvation, over their heads, or leading them in triumph at his chariot wheels. He appears in this work infinitely higher and mightier than they, and sufficient to carry his people above them, and utterly to destroy them all. I. Christ appears gloriously above all evil in what he did to procure redemption for us in his state of humiliation, by the righteousness he wrought out, and the atonement he made for sin. The evils mentioned, never seemed so much to prevail against him as in his sufferings. But in them, the foundation was laid for their overthrow. In them he appeared above Satan. Though Satan never exalted himself so high, as he did in procuring these sufferings of Christ; yet, then, Christ laid the foundation for the utter overthrow of his kingdom. He slew Satan, as it were, with his own weapon, the spiritual David cut off this Goliath's head with his own sword, and he triumphed over him in his cross. "Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it," (Col. 2:15) i.e. in his cross, mentioned in the preceding words. Then the wisdom of Christ appeared gloriously above the subtlety of Satan. Satan, that old serpent, used a great deal of subtlety to procure Christ's death. And doubtless, when he had accomplished it, thought he had obtained a complete victory… But so did the wisdom of Christ order things that Satan's subtlety and malice should be made the very means of undermining the foundations of his kingdom. And so he wisely led him into the pit that he had dug. In this also Christ appeared gloriously above the guilt of men. Though the guilt of man was like the great mountains, whose heads are lifted up to the heavens; yet his dying love, and his merits, appeared as a mighty deluge that overflowed the highest mountains, or like a boundless ocean that swallows them up, or like an immense fountain of light that with the fullness and redundancy of its brightness, swallows up men's greatest sins, as little motes are swallowed up and hidden in the disk of the sun. In this Christ appeared above all the corruption of man, in that hereby he purchased holiness for the chief of sinners. And Christ in undergoing such extreme affliction, got the victory over all misery; and laid a foundation for its being utterly abolished, with respect to his elect. In dying he became the plague and destruction of death. When death slew him, it slew itself. For Christ, through death, destroyed him that had the power of death, even the devil (Heb. 2:14). by this he laid the foundation of the glorious resurrection of all his people to an immortal life. II. Christ appears gloriously exalted above all evil, in his resurrection and ascension into heaven. When Christ rose from the dead, then it appeared that he was above death, which, though it had taken him captive, could not hold him. Then he appeared above the devil. Then this Leviathan that had swallowed him was forced to vomit him up again, as the Philistines that had taken captive the ark were forced to return it, Dagon being fallen before it, with his head and hands broken off, and only the stumps left. — Then he appeared above our guilt. For he was justified in his resurrection (Rom. 4:4, 25; 1 Tim. 3:16). In his resurrection he appeared above all affliction. For though he had been subject to much affliction and overwhelmed in it, he then emerged out of it, as having gotten the victory, never to conflict with any more sorrow. When he ascended up into heaven, he rose far above the reach of the devil and all his instruments, who had before had him in their hands. And now has he sat down at the right hand of God, as being made head over all things…, in order to a complete and perfect victory over sin, Satan, death, and all his enemies. It was then said to him, "Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool," (Psa. 110:1). He entered into a state of glory, wherein he is exalted far above all these evils, as the forerunner of his people, and to make intercession for them, till they also are brought to be with him, in like manner exalted above all evil. III. Christ appears gloriously above all evil, in his work in the hearts of the elect, in their conversion and sanctification. This is what the application of redemption, so far as it is applied in this world, consists in, which is done by the Holy Ghost as the Spirit of Christ. In this work of Christ in the hearts of his elect, he appears glorious above Satan. For the strong man armed is overcome, and all his armor, wherein he trusted, is taken from him, and his spoil divided. In this work, the lamb is, by the spiritual David taken out of the mouth of the lion and bear. The poor captive is delivered from his mighty and cruel enemies. In this Christ appears gloriously above the corruption and wickedness of the heart, above its natural darkness in dispelling it, and letting in light, and above its enmity and opposition, by prevailing over it, drawing it powerfully and irresistibly to himself, and turning a heart of stone into a heart of flesh, above the obstinacy and perverseness of the will, by making them willing in the day of his power. In this he appears above all their lusts. For all sin is mortified in this work, and the soul is delivered from the power and dominion of it. — In this work the grace of Christ gloriously triumphs over men's guilt. He comes over the mountains of their sins, and visits them with his salvation. And God is wont often in their work, either in the beginning or progress of it, to give his people those spiritual comforts, in which he gloriously appears to be above all affliction and sorrow. And often gives them to triumph over the devil, and his powerful and cruel instruments. Many saints, by the influences of Christ's Spirit on their hearts, have rejoiced and triumphed, when suffering the greatest torments and cruelties of their persecutors. And in this work Christ sometimes gloriously appears above death, in carrying his people far above the fears of it, and making them to say, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" IV. Christ gloriously appears above all these aforementioned evils, in his glorifying the souls of departed saints in heaven. In this he gives a glorious victory over death. Death by it is turned from an enemy into a servant. And their death, by the glorious change that passes in the state of their souls, is become a resurrection, rather than a death. Now Christ exalts the soul to a state of glory, wherein it is perfectly delivered from Satan and all his temptations, and all his instrument, and from all remains of sin and corruption, and from all affliction. "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat — and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes," (Rev. 7:16, 17). V. Christ appears gloriously above these evils, in what he does in his providence in the world, as head and redeemer… Christ gloriously triumphed over these his enemies, in a remarkable success of his gospel, soon after his ascension, when many thousands in Jerusalem, and all parts of the world, were so soon turned from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God, and in causing his word to go on and prosper, and …to increase and prevail against all the opposition of the heathen world, when they united all their power to put a stop to it, and root it out. So that, in spite of all that the philosophers, and wise men, and emperors and princes could do, the gospel in a little time overthrew Satan's old heathenish kingdom in the whole Roman empire, which was then the main part of the world. And so brought about the greatest and most glorious revolution. Instead of one single nation, now the greater part of the nations of the known world were become God's people. And Christ's exaltation above all evil in his government of the world, in his providence, as the Redeemer of his people, has since gloriously appeared in reviving his church by the reformation from popery, after it had for many ages lain in a great measure hid, and dwelt in a wilderness, under antichristian persecution. And he will yet far more gloriously triumph over Satan and all his instruments, in all the mighty kingdoms that have been set up in opposition to the kingdom of Christ, …spoken of in Scripture prophecy "And then the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever," (Rev. 11:15). Though great and mighty empires have been set up one after another in the world, in opposition to the kingdom of Christ, during the succession of so many ages; yet, Christ's kingdom shall be the last and the universal kingdom,. Whatever great works Satan has wrought, the final issue and event of all, …shall be the glorious kingdom of Christ The glorious kingdom of Christ …; a kingdom of righteousness and holiness, of love and peace,… Agreeable to the ancient prediction, "I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of man, came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him," (Dan. 7:13, 14, 27). Then shall Christ appear gloriously exalted indeed above all evil. And then shall all the saints in earth and heaven gloriously triumph in him, and sing, "Hallelujah, salvation, and glory, and honour, and power unto the Lord our God; for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. Hallelujah: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth," (Rev. 19:1, 2, 6). VI. Christ will appear gloriously above all evil in the consummation of the redemption of his elect church at the end of the world. Then will be completed the whole work of redemption with respect to all that Christ died for, both in its interpretation and application; and not till then. And then will Christ's exaltation above all evil be most perfectly and fully manifest. Then shall the conquest and triumph be completed with respect to all of them. Then shall all the devils, and all their instruments, be brought before Christ, to be judged and condemned. And then shall be completed their destruction in their consummate and everlasting misery; when they shall be all cast into the lake of fire, no more to range, and usurp dominion in the world, or have liberty to make opposition against God and Christ. They shall forever be shut up, thence forward only to suffer. Then shall death be totally destroyed. All the saints shall be delivered everlastingly from it. Even their bodies shall be taken from the power of death by a glorious resurrection. Then shall all guilt, and all sin and corruption, and all affliction, all sighs and tears, be utterly and eternally abolished, concerning every one of the elect, they being all brought to one complete body, to their consummate and immutable glory. And all this as the fruit of Christ's blood, and as an accomplishment of his redemption. Then all that evil, which has so prevailed, and so exalted itself, and usurped and raged, and reigned, shall be perfectly and forever thrust down and destroyed, with respect to all the elect. And all will be exalted to a state wherein they will be forever immensely above all these things. "And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away," (Rev. 21:4).


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pub struct EffectStats {
    pub remaining_duration: usize,
    pub attack_power: usize,
    pub defense: usize,
    pub health_regeneration: usize,
    pub mana_regeneration: usize,
}

impl EffectStats {
    pub fn new(remaining_duration: usize,
               attack_power: usize,
               defense: usize,
               health_regeneration: usize,
               mana_regeneration: usize)
               -> Self {
        EffectStats {
            remaining_duration: remaining_duration,
            attack_power: attack_power,
            defense: defense,
            health_regeneration: health_regeneration,
            mana_regeneration: mana_regeneration,
        }
    }
}

pub enum EffectState {
    Active(EffectStats),
    Finished,
}

pub struct NamedEffect(pub String, pub Box<Effect>);

pub trait Effect {
    fn cause_effect(&mut self) -> EffectState;
}

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module Blueprint
  module Dsl
    class PlainAttribute < Struct.new(:name,:type)
      def to_str
        name.to_s
      end

      alias :to_s :to_str

      # can be used as a Rails generator argument
      def to_arg
        [ name, type ].join ':'
      end

      # symbol for controller whitelist
      def to_whitelist
        ":#{name}"
      end

      def simple_form_input(builder = 'f')
        "= #{builder}.input :#{name}"
      end
    end
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Xi'an (Chine): Tomb of First Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Grandmother Discovered
Mary-Ann Russon
Source - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-ancient-tomb-first-emperor-qin-shi-huangs-grandmother-discovered-xi-1465022
The tomb of Qin Shi Huang's grandmother has been discovered in Xi'an (Weibo user Dynasty Ruins)
A huge ancient tomb belonging to the grandmother of China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang has been found in Xi'an during excavations to expand the Xi'an University of Finance and Economics campus in Shaanxi province, northwest China.
According to China.org.cn, the tomb complex covers an area measuring 173,325 square metres, stretching 550m in length and 310 meters in width, and is the second largest tomb to have ever been discovered in the country.
So far, archaeologists have excavated two carriages and 12 horse skeletons (each carriage would have been pulled by six horses) out of the tomb.
The carriages and horses are a symbol of high rank which is equal to that of an emperor or a member of the royal family.
The mausoleum complex, as seen from the air (Weibo user Dynasty Ruins)
The archaeologists also discovered elegantly engraved pottery inscribed with the Chinese characters for Qin Shi Huang's grandmother, together with fragments of jade, gold and silver, have confirmed the archaeologists' beliefs that the tomb belongs to Qin Shi Huang's grandmother.
They also believe that the first emperor commissioned the tomb to be built and it was completed in his lifetime, but there is no word yet as to whether they have found her sarcophagus.
The turbulent Qin family
Some of the horse skeletons unearthed from the tomb (Weibo user Dynasty Ruins)
Qin Shi Huang (260-210BC) was the first emperor to unify China and enact major economic and political reforms across the country. China had previously consisted of a multitude of warring states and kingdoms, each under the control of feudal overlords, leading to much instability.
Although history knows his parents, the concubine Lady Zhao and King Zhuangxiang of the Kingdom of Qin, not much else is known about his family.
After the death of Qin Shi Huang's father, he took the throne at the age of 13.
His mother took a lover Lao Ai and had two illegitimate children. Later, Lao Ai tried to stage a coup with the intention of killing Qin Shi Huang and placing one of the two children on the throne as a puppet ruler.
Qin Shi Huang ordered his half-siblings to be killed and his mother was placed under house arrest, while Lao Ai died during the coup.
Perhaps the first emperor might have had a closer relationship with his grandmother than with his mother.
In later life, he never chose an empress, but sired 50 children on numerous concubines, so he might have had issues with forming relationships with women.
The skeletons of six horses have been found with a carriage, a symbol of royalty in medieval China(Weibo user Dynasty Ruins)
The legacy left by Qin Shi Huang
Qin Shi Huang standardised units of measurement, the length of axles of carts and currency, creating the Ban Liang coin. He also created the first unified Chinese script to make one language and communication system.
Although he destroyed many books about the past so that scholars could not compare his reign to rulers before him, he has left the world a lasting legacy in the form of the Great Wall of China, a defensive wall system, and his mausoleum complex, which is also in Xi'an.
The first emperor's tomb complex took 38 years and over 720,000 builders to construct, and its location was deliberately lost, hidden under the man-made Lishan Mountain, with trees and vegetation planted over it.
Pottery inlaid with gold, found in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang's grandmothe r(Weibo user Dynasty Ruins)
Builders who sealed one tomb chamber were killed when they reported to their superiors, who would in turn seal the next chamber and then report to superiors who killed them in turn. It is also rumoured that his concubines were buried alive with him.
When the last builders and guards reported back to the capital that the task had been completed, they were killed too, and the location of Qin Shi Huang's tomb lay hidden for over two thousand years.
In 1974, the tomb was discovered by farmers digging wells, who stumbled on the garrison of 6,000 terracotta warriors.
The central tomb chamber housing the first emperor's sarcophagus has not yet been excavated as archaeologists currently lack the technology to adequately preserve the tomb's contents.
They believe that some ancient booby traps like rivers of mercury and rigged crossbows might still await them, thanks to probes inserted into the tomb discovering abnormally high amounts of mercury.

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Peer Tutoring: The Essential Contact Zone
I recently had the honor of giving the keynote address at the 2013 South Central Writing Center Association's Annual Conference. Here is the text of the speech:
Keynote Address for the South Central Writing Centers Association Annual Conference
Salt Lake Community College Student Writing Center
PRE-INTRODUCTION
How many here are peer tutors?
How many here have been peer tutors?
Being the good writing center person that I am, I'm going to have you do a little writing first. Strange thing in a keynote address, I realize, but bear with me. "What are the most significant abilities, values, or skills that you developed in your work as a peer writing tutor?"
Peer Tutoring: The Writing Center's Essential Contact Zone
Today I want to talk about why I think Peer Tutoring is the essential contact zone for a writing center. By contact zone I mean the place where learning happens, in all its glory: learning about writing, of course, is important for peer tutors, but it often seems that they aren't necessarily learning anything about writing, per se, as they learn about how to work with other writers and how to help them improve and succeed. There are also other things that peer tutors learn in writing centers that I think we often don't pay enough attention to, or properly assess.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF WRITING CENTERS AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION
Please indulge me, however, while I set a historical context for the role of peer tutors in the writing center. It has been nearly 25 years since two foundational articles for composition studies and writing center theory and practice were published: Mary Louise Pratt's "Arts of the Contact Zone" and Mike Rose's Lives on the Boundary. Along with other influential texts about social constructionism such as Andrea Lunsford's "Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center" and Christina Murphy's "The Writing Center and Social Constructionist Theory", as well as the work of Kenneth Bruffee, John Trimbur, Mickey Harris, Mark Waldo, Marilyn Cooper, Irene Clark, Steve Sherwood, and Peter Carino, these two pieces have helped shape how writing centers function in the 21st century. The influence isn't necessarily direct, however, but when Pratt's "contact zones" or Rose's "boundaries" are mentioned, many in the academy do think of writing centers and the work we do. Rose, in fact, writes in Lives on the Boundary specifically about writing center work, the struggle to work with underprepared writers, and how such work is essential to helping students overcome deficits in their education caused by class and race barriers. Pratt, although not specifically mentioning writing centers (she is a language and literature person, after all) does state that the academy needs to create "safe houses" where students from different cultural backgrounds can come and learn:
"Where there are legacies of subordination, groups need places for healing and mutual recognition, safe houses in which to construct shared understandings, knowledges, claims on the world that they can then bring into the contact zone."
And lest we think that Pratt is just calling for a "safe house" where students can be sheltered from a harmful academy, her ideal student is interacting with peers to share her cultural experience and learn from others:
"We are looking for the pedagogical arts of the contact zone. These will include, we are sure, excercises in storytelling and in identifying with the ideas, interests, histories and attitudes of others; experiments in transculturation and collaborative work and in the arts of critique, parody, and comparison (including unseemly comparisons between elite and vernacular cultural forms); the redemption of the oral; ways for people to engage with suppressed aspects of history...ways to move into and out of rhetorics of authenticity; ground rules for communication across lines of difference and hierarchy that go beyond politeness but maintain mutual respect...."
In all, a fairly analogous description of a writing center, I should think.
Rose's Lives on the Boundary focuses on students who have been marginalized throughout their educational careers. Recently, Rose reflected on his exploration of class boundaries first started in Lives on the Boundary:
"Over the years I've come to understand that a key dimension of underpreparation is that some students have learned how to attend school in a routine and superficial manner, but haven't had the kind of education that teaches them how to use their mind in certain systematic and strategic ways, how to monitor what they're learning and assess it, and just the tricks of the trade of functioning effectively in this place called school....So what can seem like a lack of engagement or lack of focus can be more accurately understood as some of the results of a less-than-optimal education."
Rose called for an overhaul of basic writing courses and work that goes on in writing centers to offer struggling writers more feedback and more challenge on their writing, while at the same time directly addressing with the students the conditions that brought about their problematic educational backgrounds.
Since Pratt coined the term "contact zone" to mean the place where cultures meet, recognize each other on equal terms, exchange ideas, and grow without colonizing each other, and in the 25 years since Rose first discussed how it is vital for higher education to become the place where students can overcome the barriers that race and class thrown before them and be challenged with with meaningful composition/writing work, writing centers and writing center scholars, indeed, have taken up this work with gusto.
While some writing center colleagues may balk at going beyond anything but working on "writing" (as if the means of communication can be divorced from content), the recent work of writing center scholars such as Nancy Grimm, Beth Boquet, Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Anne Ellen Geller, Harry Denny, Meg Carroll, Laura Greenfield, Karen Rowen, Terese Thonus, Moira Ozias, Beth Godbee, Rebecca Day Babcock and others whom I am failing to mention and heartily apologize to, strive to explore how writing centers can address socially endemic problems that have blockaded student learning in the past and created a hostile learning environment at the institution. (There is a spate of recent scholarship that explore a broad view of writing center work: Everyday Writing Center, Noise from the Writing Center, Facing the Center, or Writing Centers and the New Racism, among others.)
It isn't surprising, since, as I mentioned, writing centers were nearly ready-made to do this work.
Social construction theory espoused by Bruffee, Lunsford, Murphy, and Trimbur created a space where we learn from each other, students develop as writers, and--to a lesser extent for this early work-- challenge received ideas from culture and the academy. As Lunsford famously writes
"The idea of a center I want to advocate speaks directly to the these needs for its theory of knowledge is based not on positivistic principles...not on Platonic or absolutist ideals...but on the notion of knowledge as always contextually bound, as always socially constructed. Such a center might well have as its motto [Hannah] Arendt's statement: "For excellence, the presence of others is required."
Lunsford, of course, is well-aware that
"collaboration can also be used to reproduce the status quo, the rigid hierarchy of teacher-centered classrooms is replicated in the tutor-centered writing center in which the tutor is still the seat of all authority but is simply pretending it isn't so..."
Trimbur also explores the problematic side of peer tutoring in "Peer Tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms:"
"In practice, new tutors often experience cognitive dissonance as a conflict of loyalties. They feel pulled, on one hand, by their loyalty to their fellow students and, on the other hand, by loyalty to the academic system that has rewarded them and whose values they have internalized."
The work of Bruffee first created the space where students work one-to-one: something that was no doubt a bit shocking to the academic audiences prior to the swinging 80s/70s/60s. "Students learning from each other?" you might imagine a stodgy old professor ask. "What can students learn from one another? They know nothing!" Ok--I know I've probably stuffed a straw man to represent our academic ancestors here, but we sometimes face such skeptical opposition to peer tutoring even to this day--even within our own writing center ranks...more on that in a bit. Bruffee does address the issue of a supposed lack of knowledge in "Peer Tutoring and the 'Conversation of Mankind:'"
"One answer to this question is that while neither peer tutors nor their tutees may alone be masters of the normal discourse of a given knowledge community, by working together--pooling their resources--they are very likely to be able to master it if their conversation is structured indirectly by the task or problem that a member of that community (the teacher) provides."
Bruffee further states that:
"Peer tutoring, again like collaborative learning in general, plays an important role in education because it provides a particular kind of social context for conversation, a particular kind of community: that of status equals, or peers. This means that students learn the 'skill of partnership' or re-externalized conversation not only in a community that fosters the kind of conversation academics most value, but also in a community like the one most students must eventually write for in everyday life...."
The "status of equals" that Bruffee refers to most likely derives from his work with writers in classroom settings. His A Short Course in Writing was primarily a classroom experiment, rather than a writing center one. In other words, the peers he was working with in classes learned about writing and responding to the writing of their classmates. Writers in such a class were better matched to be peers, in that sense. Under a Bruffee's model, students worked with each other in class, giving each other feedback and helping each other to learn about writing. One could argue, therefore, that peer tutoring as a model is also an adaptation from other sources or classroom practice.
Trimbur went on to further explore the question of whether tutors can truly be peers with writers in "Peer tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms?" where he concluded that
"To emphasize expertise at the expense of an experiential knowledge of co-learning risks short circuiting the dynamics of collaboration in student culture--the communities of readers and writers that are always in the process of formation when peers work together in writing centers."
The writing center, while advocating peer tutoring, also runs head on into the issues of authority or expertise and institutional placement, as well as the fact that many of our peer tutors are, most times, more advanced in their abilities in writing and in just being successful students than the writers they work with. Can a writing center peer tutor truly be a peer with a writer who is truly struggling through a literacy-level basic writing course? Mike Rose recently wrote in his blog:
"As with any complex practice – from baseball to weaving to singing opera – you learn how to do it well by doing it and doing it over time, typically in some sort of formal or informal setting with guidance and feedback from others who are more skilled. The same holds for learning how to be a student in the formal setting of school."
Rose, however, is talking about teachers there--not peer tutors. The implication is that the exchange is not a "peer exchange" since one party is more skilled and is a better student--or a better teacher. Just last week on WCENTER, former IWCA President Roberta Kjesrud, in her words, "stirred the pot" by stating:
"I don't think there's any such thing as a peer. We talk about collaboration in terms of practicing a continuum of collaborative strategies ranging from authority-sharing strategies (like those most familiar to us) to authority-asserting strategies. I find most writing assistants, no matter their "peer" status are very comfortable with authority-sharing strategies, so we also do some intentional work at the other end of the spectrum. Authority-asserting strategies are most often invoked when tutors are in one-down hierarchical positions (for instance, when talking with faculty or when talking with writers who challenge our pedagogical practices or make unreasonable demands). Practicing strategies across this continuum generates a lot of choices for fostering collaborations in diverse contexts."
While I don't think it is a misnomer to call students who work with fellow students in writing centers "peer tutors," like Roberta states, we need to be more expansive in our view of what a peer tutor does. We need to respect, I think, that peer tutors do indeed have some amount of authority to make decisions about the work they do. We need to trust them to make those decisions and we need to support them and help them to learn when they make the wrong decisions.
It is, I suppose, a matter of trust. As we must trust the writer to be a writer, we must trust the peer tutor to be a peer tutor. We also need to trust peer tutors in shared governance of our writing centers. They work there. They know the conditions. We as writing center professionals certainly have a role to play in governance, but I don't think that role is one of being heavy handed and so adherent to rules that we lose site that everyone who works in a writing center as a writer, as a peer tutor, and as an administrator is a learner and is contributing to what happens to the development of a center.
As far as the writers we work with, in league with Mike Rose, writing centers already are more expansive in our view of what struggling writers who come to us can do. The default for most writing centers is to treat each person who comes into the center with respect and dignity and give them unconditional positive regard in that they are there to learn and grow as writers. Most writing centers view struggling writers, of course, as people who can make decisions--if challenged to do so. In the greatest tradition of writing centers, we do not see struggling writers as people to be fixed, repaired or healed. We truly do believe that even struggling writers can learn to be better writers. In that sense the writers who come to writing centers and the peer tutors who work with them are peers: they are all trusted to be decision-makers and to be learners. They are peers in the sense that they are human beings: we all have different levels of abilities--different skills, and we can all learn from each other.
Nevertheless, there are still those in the academy that reject peer tutoring. Recently in a meeting, for example, I ran head on into an administrator who claimed that using peer tutors shortchanges our students. Without cursing excessively, I managed to dissuade him from this point of view by showing the effectiveness of the work we do in the SLCC Student Writing Center, and by outlining the impact that working in a writing center can have on the education and career of a peer tutor. Unfortunately, the negative attitude toward peer tutoring does crop up occasionally--even from colleagues at, of all places, other writing centers.
A TALE OF WOE & INTRIGUE
Way back in the 90s when I was pretty new to my writing center directing gig, I was presenting at our local Two-Year College Association Conference--TYCA West--on how we at Salt Lake Community College had developed a peer tutoring program. It was a pretty standard presentation and I discussed all the pertinent issues: how do you deal with turnover--we just deal with it and continually work in preparing new tutors to work in the Student Writing Center; how do you recruit tutors--as broadly as possible from a variety of majors and educational backgrounds--including students who have struggled with writing in the past; how we prepare peer tutors to work with the wide-variety of writers we see--we strive to offer a full response and feedback to all writers and help peer tutors to understand the variety of resources that writers can use to improve their writing; etc etc. You can imagine, then, during the question time, that I was rather taken aback when my whole presentation and premise for hiring peer tutors was dismissed by a writing center colleague from another community college. "Our students could never do that," she said. In my mind's eye, I have the person storming out of my session, but in reality I think she just sat down while I hemmed and hawed for a response.
"Our students could never do that."
This colleague's community college was no different from most other community college's I've ever seen: more racially and ethnically diverse than other types of higher ed institutions; students from a wide range of ages and socio-economic backgrounds; more veterans; more returning students; more refugees. In other words, that community college, like most community colleges reflected the community that it came from. As George Vaughn from the Academy for Community College Leadership and Advancement, Innovation, and Modeling stated, "if one wants to understand who attends a community college...stand on a busy street corner, and watch people go by."
By saying "our students could never do that," this colleague was dismissing the entire student body of the institution she worked at as unsuitable to work as a peer tutor in the writing center. I can only imagine the reasoning: they were ill-prepared and could not talk about writing; to have them do so would be having the ignorant teaching the ignorant. In other words, everything this colleague said in that one statement of "our students could never do that" flew directly in the face of writing center theory from Bruffee on down as well as right in the face of Mike Rose who believes in challenging students to take on difficult tasks.
While I have no idea what my reply to this writing center colleague was--I don't think I swore excessively--the person's indignation at my temerity in hiring peer tutors is burned into my memory and has been a prime motivator for me to study the efficacy of peer tutors at community colleges, what impact they have on the institution as a whole, and, most importantly, I believe, what impact it has on their education and lives.
PEER TUTORING AS THE CONTACT ZONE
For several years now I have been tracking the careers of peer tutors (Peer Writing Advisors) who have worked at the Salt Lake Community College Student Writing Center--loosely based upon the guidelines put forth by the Peer Writing Tutor Alumni Research Project. That project was developed by Brad Hughes, Paula Gillespie, and Harvey Kail in order to better understand the effects of working as peer tutors in a writing center has on students. The project focuses on impact on learning (particularly in learning about writing), as well as career and education path. In general the project asks alumni peer tutors to respond to a survey. My spin on the project was to record exit interviews to probe the depths of the impact the writing center on their education and their lives. The recordings, I feel, make a better connection with viewers than written responses. I've used them, in fact, to show administrators the importance of peer tutoring to our institution.
Sonia (not her real name) was one such tutor who worked in the Student Writing Center. Sonia, as she later stated in her exit interview, didn't come naturally to writing center work. She had always struggled with writing and had to repeat several English courses during her rocky high school career. After barely graduating from high school, she worked for several years in dead end jobs because "she hated school." Sonia started at SLCC with great trepidation about taking classes again--numbingly worried about whether or not she would make it. After the first week at the college, however, Sonia said that "she was shocked and surprised at how different it was and how she was much more interested in her course work." Sonia was placed in a Writing 990--a basic writing course--and proceeded through the semester growing and learning as a student. By the time of the end of her first semester, she was touting a 4.0 average and said "she had never learned so much in her life." Her next semester was no different, she took our English 1010 (freshman comp) and by the end of the semester her instructor recommended that she would be a good candidate to work as a peer tutor for the Student Writing Center since she had done so well in the class, and gave excellent feedback to her fellow students in peer groups. Sonia applied, had an excellent interview, and was hired. Her peer tutor colleagues who sat as her interview committee found her to be engaged and passionate about her education and in working with others. At the time, I will admit that I was worried that as a struggling writer herself, Sonia would not be able to provide adequate feedback to other writers. After working successfully in the SWC for several semesters, however, Sonia's evaluations were stellar, and the students she worked with came to me with high praise. Sonia moved on from SLCC to continue with her bachelors degree.
In the exit interviews I ask the question "What are the most significant abilities, values, or skills that you developed in your work as a peer writing advisor?" When designing the exit interview, I originally chose this question since I thought it would give me a good sense of the types of things that peer tutors learned about writing, composition, and rhetoric. Sonia's answer, however, took me by surprise. "Empathy," she said without any pause.
It is interesting to me to watch the tape because I am clearly not listening to Sonia. I acknowledge her answer, but I ask the question again since I wanted to hear an answer that focused on what she learned about writing. I can easily read my thought process from the video: Empathy? Empathy? What's empathy got to do with writing? What's empathy got to do with a writing center? While listening to the interview, I realized that I had become pretty much like my strawman of old time professors who distrusted the whole idea of peer tutoring in the first place. I came to realize that what peer tutors learn in writing centers goes beyond the limitations of composition and rhetoric.
In reviewing other peer tutor exit interviews, I saw that most of them, at some, point in the interview talk about learning empathy for the writers they worked with. For example, Kenna recounted when she realized that a Somalian refugee she worked with wasn't just learning English, but knew five other languages and was also learning Spanish.
"I realized that she wasn't really struggling," Kenna explained, "but that she knew a lot more about languages and a lot more about English than I did. She was just learning. Learning takes time."
Or there was Jim, who realized in one memorable session with a Bhutanese writer, that his particular struggles with writing were more about his spending 17 of his 21 years in a refugee camp than it was about his lack of ability.
Ultimately, I think that empathy is a fine thing for peer tutors to learn in their experience in a writing center. Certainly it isn't the only thing they learn, but it is real and something that needs to be taken into consideration. I think we in writing centers should be assessing the entirety of the learning that happens.
Peer tutors are a contact zone: they are the place where change happens and change can be observed. Bruffee, in naming his article "Peer Tutoring and 'The Conversation of Mankind'" was onto something. Peer tutors do build connections with other human beings beyond just helping someone learn to be a more proficient writer. They often cross Mike Rose's boundaries and see what it is like on the other side. I think many of you, if you look at your answer to my question at the beginning of this address, will, no doubt, have answers that go beyond the pale of writing, composition, or rhetoric. I would hazard to guess that some of you even wrote down that you learned empathy from your writing center work.
Our writing center context is shaped by the fact that writing is the sharing and building of ideas. As Christine, a Peer Writing Advisor at the SLCC Student Writing Center told me when I sought her feedback on a draft of this speech, "Writing let's us see things differently; writing let's us interpret things differently; writing let's us share with each other." As Lunsford said, we write best together. I think the same could be said for peer tutoring. Like writing, peer tutoring is a series of decisions that we carefully consider and reflect upon and talk about with others.
In our willingness to help other people learn, but also to learn ourselves, we are all peers--no matter the role we play in a writing center. Let me repeat that (but in different words): as peers we can make a difference in the lives and learning of others, as well as making a difference in our own lives. We are peers as human beings; in seeing our differences we can learn about our problematic beliefs and prejudices; when we engage in the conversation--the contact zone--the border crossing--whatever you wish to call it, we make headway into building a better world. I realize that sounds awfully high minded and idealistic, but I think we need to keep a positive outlook while at the same time reflecting on the difficult encounters we have. We all have significant experiences that shape our lives and we can share with one another. As peers, we learn, in essence, to be better human beings.
Bruffee, Kenneth. "Peer Tutoring and the 'Conversation of Mankind." Writing Centers: Theory and Administration, ed. Gary A. Olson, NCTE 1984. Print.
Kjesrud, Roberta. "Discussion of undergraduate peer tutoring vs. graduate student 'peer' tutoring." WCENTER Listserv Post. Web.
Lunsford, Andrea. "Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center." Writing Center Journal. 12:1 (1991). Print.
Pratt, Mary Louise. "Arts of the Contact Zone." Profession. 1991. pp. 33-40. Print.
Rose, Mike. Lives on the Boundary. New York: Free Press. 1989.
Rose, Mike. "Inside the Remedial Classroom." Mike Rose's Blog. October 26, 2012. Web.
Trimbur, John. "Peer Tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms." Writing Center Journal. 7:2 (1987). Print.


We are high school sweethearts. We found each other in Web Design class and have been inseparable ever since.When we first started dating, we both had health issues so earlyon we learned how to take care of each other. We've been through a lot of hard times but together, we made through it. We are each other's best friend and love each other unconditionally. We started dating Wednesday, October 26, 2011 and got married on our 5-year anniversary, Wednesday, October 26 2016.
A few days before we got engaged, I sprained my ankle so Cody was driving me to and from work. After picking me up from work, he tells me we are going out to our favorite restaurant for dinner. The restaurant is next to a gorgeous waterfall. After dinner, he walked and I hobbled over to the falls and then he popped the question.
Planning the wedding was fun but stressful. I had a good 10 months to figure everything out. Our dream wedding was something intimate. We wanted a beautiful venue filled with our closest friends and family. Our actual wedding was exactly what we wanted. We found a great venue and everyone that mattered to us showed up. There were some hiccups that we didn't expect but those small bumps will become great memories. I would advise couples to start planning early, have someone help you coordinate the day of, and hire Rocker in Love.


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LINFINITY hosted a roundtable discussion on the topic of "The Present and Future Development of Blockchain Technology" at W Hotel, Beijing. Anndy Lian, CEO of LINFINITY, delivered opening remarks and served as moderator for the event. The attendants included many leading private-sector practitioners in the field of blockchain research institution, home appliance vertical media and representatives from manufacturer brands, including Huobi R&D Institute, Chinese Acadamy of Social Science, ea3w.com, Yixi Chinese Rice Wine.
Blockchain projects come out every day, as Guo Dazhi from Huobi Research Institute said: "There are many projects, but most of them are very similar, the only thing that differentiate the quality projects from the rest is the actual use cases." he added: "The project needs to find its own way." What he says is a common pain point in the blockchain industry.
Now blockchain projects are coming out everyday, many of them are in the name of blockchain only to get money. Such phenomenon occurs because the society is lack of understanding of blockchain and the blockchain technology, and most people when they think of blockchain the only thing come to their mind is token speculation. However, those who eventually stand out are projects which are doing the real works and have actual use cases. By finding the real demand of the market and taking such demand as the direction for the project development.
Alliance Capital have expressed their views on this issue. He mentioned that most people think winter has come for the finance sector so many think that it is money that holds back the commercialization of the blockchain. This is not true. Blockchain projects should understand their clients' business logic, advantages and disadvantages, and the market they target at. In fact, what lacks in the capital market is never the capital, but good projects. Capital companies are always open to listen to blockchain projects with a good vision, high commercial value and have sheer determination to drive implementation of use case studies.
During the meeting, Anndy Lian introduced the anti-counterfeiting and traceability solutions of LINFINITY in detail to the participants. This topic has gained sparked new conversations among the participants. "Traceability is very important in the home appliances industry. Traditional enterprises should explore how blockchain can be applied to their existing supply chain management systems to further enhance and streamline their processes. " said Wan Tao, General Manager of ea3w.com. Through the LINFINITY supply chain anti-counterfeiting traceability system, it is easy to check all procedures and item status in supply chain, such as the supply of raw materials, logistics, distribution and so on. In particular, fast consumer goods industry such as wine industry is viewed as a disastrous area with fake and inferior products.
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I am wanting to attend both Juana Good Time Regatta Sept. 7th ,8th and 9th. And also, I want to sail the 50/50 Round the Island, Fort Walton Yacht Club....Sept. 21st and 22nd....Now my question is what to do in between event without leaving the panhandle?
if you don't mind the drive .... cedar key is pretty great. small, old school fl town (rapidly growing into tourist-ville, like everywhere in fl)... but great place to visit. sailing at high tide is fun and easy access (a whole road is a free ramp) right next to cool hotel ( farawayinn.com). low tides is "not foil friendly"
I have both those on the books for this year. Juana's had like 100 beach cats 2 years ago when I went and was the most fun even for sure. The round the island was more of a put your game face on kinda weekend so fun wasn't really the goal during the event. The fun is printed on the results sheet Ed's for that if you did your job right.
I'd probably come back between the events but I think you can camp out at ft Walton club.


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Il quarantunesimo Festivalbar si svolse durante l'estate del 2004 in 9 puntate, registrate presso l'Arena Civica di Milano, piazza del Duomo a Catania, l'Arena Alpe Adria di Lignano Sabbiadoro e con la finale nel consueto scenario dell'Arena di Verona.

Conduttori furono Marco Maccarini e Irene Grandi.

Vincitore dell'edizione fu Zucchero con la canzone Il grande Baboomba.

Cantanti partecipanti
Zucchero - Il grande Baboomba e Indaco dagli occhi del cielo
Biagio Antonacci - Convivendo e Non ci facciamo compagnia
Eamon - Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)
Usher - Yeah!
Luca Dirisio - Calma e sangue freddo
Max Pezzali - Lo strano percorso
Jamelia - Thank You e Superstar
Kelis - Trick Me
Michael Bublé - Sway
Kings of Convenience - Misread
Eros Ramazzotti - Ti vorrei rivivere
Eiffel 65 - Voglia di dance allnight
R.E.M. - Bad Day e Leaving New York
Britney Spears - Toxic
The Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get It Started e Hey Mama
Outkast - Hey Ya!
Blue - Bubblin'
Raf - In tutti i miei giorni
Emma Bunton - Maybe
Articolo 31 - Senza dubbio
Mark Knopfler - Boom, Like That
Simone - Il mondo che non c'è
Jamie Cullum - The Wind Cries Mary
Daniele Groff - Come sempre
Mango - Ti porto in Africa
Le Vibrazioni - Vieni da me
Vasco Rossi - Come stai e Buoni o cattivi
Tiziano Ferro - Non me lo so spiegare e Ti voglio bene
Anastacia - Left Outside Alone e Sick and Tired
Maroon 5 - This Love e She Will Be Loved
Jesse McCartney - Beautiful Soul
Marco Masini - E ti amo
DB Boulevard - Pronta a splendere e Basterà
Amy Winehouse - Stronger Than Me
Alanis Morissette - Everything
Alexia - You Need Love
Avril Lavigne - Don't Tell Me
Jentina - Bad Ass Strippa
Pooh - Capita quando capita
The Corrs - Summer Sunshine
Zeropositivo - Fasi
Piero Pelù - Prendimi così
Pino Daniele - Dammi una seconda vita
Paolo Meneguzzi - Baciami
Paola & Chiara - Blu
Neffa - Lady
Max Gazzè - Annina
Maroon 5 - This Love
Kaleidoscópio - Você me apareceu
Mousse T. feat. Emma Lanford - Is It 'cos I'm Cool?
Luka - Tô nem aí
Janet Jackson - All Nite (Don't Stop)
J-five - Modern Times
Gabin - Mr Freedom
Muse - Time Is Running Out
Max De Angelis - Nuda
Mario Venuti - Nella fattispecie
Tiromancino - Amore impossibile
Le Vibrazioni - Sono più sereno
Francesco Renga - Ci sarai
Daniele Ronda - Come pensi che io
Kevin Lyttle - Turn Me On
Lionel Richie - Just for You
Caparezza - Vengo dalla Luna e Fuori dal tunnel
Joss Stone - You Had Me
The Servant - Orchestra
Bryan Adams - Open Road
The Rasmus - First Day of My Life
N.E.R.D - She wants to move
Z Star - Lost Highway
Giorgia - Vetro sul cuore
Raiz - Scegli me
Shifty - Slide along side
Ronan Keating - Last Thing of my mind
Gianna Nannini - Amandoti
Zero Assoluto - Mezz'ora

Altri premi
 Premio album: Biagio Antonacci con Convivendo parte I
 Premio rivelazione italiana: Luca Dirisio con Calma e sangue freddo
 Premio rivelazione straniera: Eamon con Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)

Sigla
La videosigla di questa edizione sono le canzoni  Il grande Baboomba di Zucchero e Convivendo di Biagio Antonacci.

Organizzazione
La trasmissione andò in onda su Mediaset a partire dal 1º giugno 2004.

Direzione artistica
Andrea Salvetti

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Festival musicali del 2004
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Apple to ship 5-6M Verizon iPhones in Q1 2011
Faith Merino · December 27, 2010 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/1546
The company is rumored to have increased its overall iPhone shipment to 20-21M units
Apple is gearing up to ship 20-21 million iPhones next quarter, an increase of 1-2 million from the company's previous goal of 19 million units, according to unnamed sources with Taiwan-based component suppliers who spoke to DigiTimes. Among those shipments will be the CDMA iPhones for Verizon, set at 5-6 million units.
The sources added that global iPhone shipments for Q4 2010 are estimated at some 15.5 million units, up more than one million units since the previous quarter, when the company sold 14.1 million iPhones. Q3 2010 saw one of the steepest climbs, selling 8.4 million more iPhones than Q2. In all, if the company has, indeed, sold 15.5 million units this quarter, Apple's iPhone sales will total 47 million units sold for the entire year.
The company has adapted accordingly, adjusting its shipment order for next quarter for some 15 million WCDMA units (iPhones for AT&T) rather than the previously planned 13 million.
The reports fall in line with previous reports that the Verizon-compatible iPhone would be manufactured in late 2010 for release in the first-quarter 2011. The Wall Street Journal published similar reports in October, noting also that Apple and Verizon had battled over whether Verizon would be allowed to sell the iPhone through its retail partners.
Apple and Verizon has allegedly been meeting with Apple to add capacity and test its networks in preparation for the barrage of new iPhone users who will be flocking to Verizon, WSJ reported.
At an October press conference, President Lowell McAdam responded to a question as to whether Verizon would begin carrying the iPhone: "At some point our business interests are going to align," he said, in reference to Apple. "I fully expect it, but I don't have anything to say."
While Foxconn is the sole maker of the WCDMA iPhones, it has shared that role with Pegatron Technology in the production of the CDMA iPhones, sources told DigiTimes.
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Allmän beskrivning : This 1959 Cadillac Coupe Deville 2 Door Coupe (Stock # P10501) is available in our Pleasanton, CA showroom and any inquiries may be directed to us at 925-484-2262 or by email at Sales@SpecialtySales.com.
New to our Pleasanton showroom is this eye-catching 1959 Cadillac Coupe Deville 2 Door Coupe with turquoise blue exterior paint and a matching blue/black cloth interior. You'll find a factory correct 390 cid V-8 engine under the hood with a matching automatic transmission and this beautiful, iconic classic vehicle is very nicely equipped with upgraded 4-wheel power disc brakes, power steering, power door locks, and countless original trim pieces and accessories. This example is in very nice original condition and it is a true joy to drive.
This 1959 Cadillac Coupe Deville originally sold in Santa Rosa, California and it has remained on the West Coast virtually its entire life. The current owner took possession in 2017. You will find very nice original chrome with only minor pitting and factory glass as well, plus several factory trim pieces to the dash, door panels and along the exterior. Most would consider this example a high end driver with lots of upside- it's ready to be enjoyed right away by the next owner and definitely clean enough to show locally.
Additionally, this 1959 Cadillac Coupe Deville Coupe has a nice feel on the open road with nice acceleration and very smooth handling. The four wheel disc brakes are a welcomed upgrade as well since this classic stops on a dime. From what we can see, it appears that this example has been kept largely factory stock throughout its lifetime and the overall quality really stands out in person.
Overall, this 1959 Cadillac Coupe Deville 2 Door Coupe is a high end classic driver with nice curb appeal and excellent performance. It doesn't need anything to be enjoyed right away and it's a great value at the current asking price. Given how desirable these '59 classics are with the large fins, you'll be hard pressed to find a more impressive model within this price range. For more information about this vehicle, visit our Pleasanton, California showroom, give us a call at 925-484-2262, or email us at Sales@SpecialtySales.com. Be sure to mention Stock # as well.
1959 Cadillac De Ville 8 cylinders 390 is listed såld on ClassicDigest in Pleasanton by Specialty Sales for $46990.


Growing your own food could be one of the most rewarding experiences. Enjoying organic fresh fruits and vegetables from your own garden is not only deliciously healthy but environmentally friendly. The joy of working amongst nature nurtures the feeling of connection between us and nature. "Buying local" couldn't be easier when local is your yard. LuxEco Food will blog the tips and secrets of growing your own verdant garden.


Our innovative Like-it Landscape File Sorter expands with your changing files! Each divider can move to make a smaller section for little notes and small sheets of paper, file folders or expand to fit binders and journals! And its landscape design allows for maximum organization with a minimal footprint! And it fits perfectly atop our Like-it Landscape Letter Trays.
Our Like-it Wide Magazine Holder is specially designed to accommodate larger items, including thick magazines, books and binders. Store it vertically or horizontally to fit nearly any shelf. The keyhole cut-out makes it easy to grab, and the included label provides content identification at a glance.
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Our Like-it Landscape File Sorter measures 13-1/2" x 7-1/8" x 7-1/4" h.
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Pittsburgh, January 24, 2012 - Select International, a provider of employee assessments and hiring systems, announced a new release of SelecTrak, its candidate applicant tracking system, planned for mid-February. The updated version operates all of Select International's pre employment assessment tests.
The new release added improved reporting for a few of Select International's major testing platforms in Select Assessment for Leader Development, Select Assessment for Leaders & Professionals, and Select Assessment for Professionals.
SelecTrak was also improved with many performance enhancements that will help to provide a more enjoyable experience for users while navigating through the system. Developers also added performance improvements for integration clients as well as candidate-facing enhancements to allow candidates to move through the application process more quickly.
"We are always looking for ways to improve the experience of our clients, candidates and administrators who utilize our software," said Lou Simon, Manager of Software Solutions at Select International. "There are a number of updates tied to this version that do just that."
As Select International continues to grow outside the United States, the most recent version of SelecTrak also includes enhanced translation capabilities.
Select International develops employee assessments and hiring systems to help organizations identify, select and develop a strong, productive workforce. The company's employee selection and development solutions include pre employment assessments, executive assessment, online interview training, manufacturing assessment tests, healthcare hiring assessments, customer service assessment tests, and tools to help organizations hire safe workers. Select International works closely with its clients to improve hiring at all levels, and across all industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, customer service, energy, retail, transportation and logistics, and distribution.


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Arnott Selected as PTDA Executive Vice President
The Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA) board of directors unanimously selected Ann Arnott, currently PTDA's vice president of programs and services, to succeed Mary Sue Lyon as the next executive vice president of PTDA, effective January 1, 2011. The selection of Arnott is a result of an exhaustive search which began in March 2009, after the board of directors received notification of Lyon's intent to retire at the end of 2010.
After concluding the search process, PTDA's leadership affirmed their support of Arnott. Keith Nowak, president of the PTDA board of directors in 2010 and president of MPT Drives, Inc. shared the following sentiment. "Even though Ann was a qualified candidate, the board elected to do a full-blown executive search. We wanted to be sure to get the best possible person to lead PTDA going forward. We are now more confident than ever that we have the right person for the job. Ann's background in finance and experience as well as knowledge of PTDA and its members helped her to excel above the other candidates."
John Masek, vice president of Bearing Service Inc., chaired the executive search committee. According to Masek, "Ann handled her position as an internal candidate with grace, strength and a positive demeanor at all times. At the end of the process, she clearly was affirmed as the best individual to lead our association forward into the next decade. Her poise, enthusiasm, creativity and leadership qualities stood out and will serve her well as she expands her service to the membership of PTDA."
Arnott joined PTDA in 2006 as director of programs and services and was promoted to her current role in 2008. Arnott is integral in managing the development and execution of PTDA's strategic plan through the association's volunteer committees, task forces and work groups. Additionally, she provides oversight for the association's events, including the Industry Summit, Canadian Conference and Leadership Development Conference. Arnott also oversees the association's marketing plan.
Prior to working with the association, Arnott spent 16 years with the Institute of Real Estate Management, where she developed a broad-based background in association management. Serving as financial editor, chapter relations manager, member and chapter services manager and finance manager, Arnott rose to the position of director of marketing and sales, where she crafted and implemented a long-term strategic marketing plan. PTDA also benefits from Arnott's financial background. Before beginning her career in association management, Arnott completed her MBA in Finance and worked at the investment counseling firm Scudder, Stevens and Clark.
Lyon has also reached an agreement with PTDA to remain as a consultant to the association for the first quarter of 2011. Lyon and Arnott have already initiated the transition of EVP responsibilities to ensure continuity and an orderly transition.
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Kathmandu, Dec. 27: The Investment Summit-2019 is taking place in the capital on March 29-30, 2019 in a bid to promote Nepal as an attractive destination for foreign investment.
The summit is to be organized by the Government of Nepal and co-organized by the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Confederation of Nepal Chamber and Nepal Chamber of Commerce.
The summit is an effort to raise investment for industries based on energy, information and communications technology, industry, tourism, physical infrastructure, agriculture and forestry.
The summit, to be held under the aegis of Ministries of Finance, Industry, Commerce and Supply and Nepal Investment Board, will endeavour to bring in foreign investment to the sectors which can yield results in coming 10 years.
It will be a grand opportunity to enable environment conducive for flow of investments and exchange national and international experiences on investment.
At a press conference organized by the Finance Ministry today to inform about the summit, Minister for Finance Yubaraj Khatiwada shared that the investors would be informed of political changes and improvements in investment climate after the 2016 Investment Summit, potential new areas of investment and changes in the areas of Nepal's competitive benefits in the changed regional and global context.
Stressing on the need of mobilization of existing resources and means and utilization of innovative technologies for the attainment of 'Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali', he said the summit would be useful in importing national and international investments in the effective use of natural resources and means of Nepal.
"The projects with an investment amounting to around Rs 275 billion have been already signed and most of them are hydropower projects. Roughly 23 companies have shown interests on feasibility study of the projects and some of them have already submitted proposals", Minister Khatiwada said while informing about the foreign investment received following the 2016 Summit.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is set to inaugurate the summit. The Finance Minister is leading a direction committee with National Planning Commission Vice-Chairperson, secretary of Nepal government and representative private sector as members.


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This 8 hour course is designed for the Registered nurses in a leadership role. The course will help to facilitate the growth and development of registered nurses as unit leaders. Advanced leadership strategies, communication techniques, priority setting, and conflict management will be discussed. Practice scenarios will be facilitated in group exercises.
5.	Explain differences between managing and leading.
6.	List benefits of functioning as a team.
This course provides 8 CEs. The course DOES NOT award an AHA certification card.


VINNIE VINCENT. Vinnie Vincent's greatest claim to fame is that he was thefirst guitarist to replace original lead guitarist Ace Frehley in Kiss. Born Vincent Cusano, Vincent was given his stage name by Gene Simmons when Vincent joined the band in 1982.
Prior to joining Kiss, Vincent (as Cusano) had played in a variety of bands and done session work for Laura Nyro and Dan Hartman and had been a composer for the television show Happy Days. Meeting Kiss's Gene Simmons through a mutual friend, Vincent was soon asked to contribute songwriting and lead parts on the band's Creatures of the Night album when the band began experiencing problems with original guitarist Frehley. Once Frehley had exited the band, Vincent was asked to join. With "Ankh Warrior" face makeup (designed by Paul Stanley), Vincent joined the band for its tour in support of the Creatures album.
After the tour finished in 1983, Vincent joined the band for that year's Lick It Up, for which the band took off their makeup. Vincent contributed songwriting on much of the album, which after a string of commercially disappointing albums became the band's first in three years to go gold. Unfortunately, Vincent was unhappy about his salary with the band and departed before work on 1984's Animalize began.
Landing on his feet, Vincent soon emerged with the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, which released its eponymous debut in 1986. Featuring pop-oriented metal tunes and an over-the-top glam rock image, the band made something of a splash on MTV and released a second album, All Systems Go, in 1988. Shortly after the second release, Vincent's bandmates, singer Mark Slaughter and bassist Dana Strum, departed themselves to start their own band, Slaughter, and the invasion was over.
Vincent popped up again briefly in 1992, contributing writing to Kiss's Revenge album, but by 1997 had filed suit against the band for alleged nonpayment of royalties. Little more has been heard from Vincent since, apart from occasional appearances at Kiss conventions during the 1990s, although he released Speedball Jamm in 2004, featuring informally recorded unaccompanied shredding.
Discography: Vinnie Vincent Invasion (Chrysalis, 1986); All Systems Go (Chrysalis, 1988); Speedball Jamm (Vinnie Vincent, 2004).


AG's Manchester Corporate team is celebrating a strong start to 2017 having advised PE house LDC, and Salford based Frenkel Topping, a leading Independent Financial Adviser, on their respective investments into two expanding businesses in the space of one week.
AG advised LDC on the management buyout (MBO) of Fishawack Group, a medical communications agency headquartered in Knutsford. LDC's investment will allow Fishawack to develop its buy-and-build strategy in a series of targeted acquisitions. The team was led by Partner Paul Medlicott and Managing Associate George Danczak.
The Corporate team also advised Frenkel Topping, on its investment to FCFM Group Properties IV, a principal investment firm. The team consisted of Partner Roger Hart and Managing Associate Oliver Hincks.
The team, which is recognised as the dominant player in the local deals market, continues to advise on M&A, private equity and IPO transactions, and is celebrating outstanding results from 2016, advising on more than 40 deals totalling over £6.8bn for the region's highest profile companies.
The team recently advised on deals including the Co-operative Group on its sale of 298 stores to McColls, Accrol on its £93m AIM IPO, and CCL Industries on its $1.13bn acquisition of Innovia.


VideoCrawler, created through a partnership with a start-up called Divvio, can search more than 1,600 video sites. It doesn't host any videos, but members can compile playlists.
AT&T isn't the brand that comes to mind when you think of online video search, but let's get past that point: the telecommunications company has announced a beta version of a site called VideoCrawler, which can search more than 1,600 online video outlets. AT&T hasn't released a full list of compatible video sites, but Google's YouTube is one of them.
VideoCrawler was developed in conjunction with start-up Divvio, a search company that constructed the VideoCrawler platform.
VideoCrawler doesn't host any videos, but members can still compile playlists and share them through embeddable widgets.
Other players in this space include Blinkx and the AOL-owned Truveo.


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from tools.load import LoadMatrix
from numpy import random
lm=LoadMatrix()

random.seed(17)
ground_truth = lm.load_labels('../data/label_train_multiclass.dat')
predicted = lm.load_labels('../data/label_train_multiclass.dat') * 2

parameter_list = [[ground_truth,predicted]]

def evaluation_multiclassaccuracy (ground_truth, predicted):
	from shogun import MulticlassLabels
	import shogun as sg

	ground_truth_labels = MulticlassLabels(ground_truth)
	predicted_labels = MulticlassLabels(predicted)

	evaluator = sg.evaluation("MulticlassAccuracy")
	accuracy = evaluator.evaluate(predicted_labels,ground_truth_labels)

	return accuracy

if __name__=='__main__':
	print('MulticlassAccuracy')
	evaluation_multiclassaccuracy(*parameter_list[0])


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Breakdown Sports USA will be presenting its 10th Annual Minnesota Elite Preseason Tournament on August 3, 2019 at Midwest Volleyball Warehouse in Burnsville!
We will invite the top eight teams from our preseason polls in each of the three classes (AAA, AA and A), as well as eight at-large teams to come up with up to a full 32-team tournament on Saturday. Invitees will be contacted over the winter and when the field is set, we'll post the teams involved right here on the website.
Format: Pool play with pools of four (4) teams, running from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., followed by playoffs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. All pool play matches will be best-of-3, with the first two games to 25 points (no cap) and the third to 15 points (no cap) if needed.


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Adolescent newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes Authored by James LaSalle and Stephan Matthaei on behalf of the Global Partnership for Effective Diabetes Management. The Global Partnership for Effective Diabetes Management is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca LP.
Type 2 Diabetes: Recently Diagnosed What is type 2 diabetes? The cells in your body need insulin to change glucose, the sugar that comes from the food you eat, into energy you need to live. Without insulin, this sugar cannot get into your cells to do its work. It stays in your blood instead.


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