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"Is There Not A Cause?" (1 Samuel 17-18)
Scripture reading – 1 Samuel 17-18
A Royal Internship (1 Samuel 16)
The spiritual condition of ancient Israel parallels the spiritual and moral failure of those nations that reject the LORD, His Law, and Commandments. Having rejected the LORD as King, Israel demanded a king, and God gave them a king whose character was like their own…weak, and disobedient.
Now, the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and his spirit was troubled (16:14-16). The suggestion of a court musician, one skilled in playing the harp, and whose music would calm the despondent king (16:16-18), had providentially brought David into favor with the king, and he came to dwell in the palace (16:19-23).
1 Samuel 17 – David, the Giant Slayer
Saul's character flaws had taken their toll on the nation, and in 1 Samuel 17 we find the people fearful, uncertain, and disheartened. The Philistines had invaded Israel, and were aligned against Saul and his army (17:1). The armies of the two nations were encamped on opposite mountains, with a valley about one mile wide lying between them (17:2). Periodic engagements of the armies had given neither a victory, but it was the challenge of a giant Philistine named Goliath that had impaled the men of Israel with fear (17:4-7). His height was described as "six cubits and a span" (est. nine feet, nine inches tall), and his armor alone weighed nearly one hundred and fifty pounds.
For forty days, Goliath taunted the men of Israel, and mocked the LORD. He had challenged the nation to put forth a champion to fight him, and the nation whose champion was slain would serve the other (17:8-10). Israel's response to Goliath was like their king's, for we read, "When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid" (17:11).
David's Character (17:17-22)
It is not necessary for me to rehearse the story of David's response to Goliath's derisions (17:12-30), king's Saul's comical attempt to dress the young shepherd in his armor (17:31-39), or David's courage and faith in the LORD (17:40-54). Rather, I invite you to consider five virtues evidenced in David's life, that should inspire all who love the LORD.
The first virtue is that he was obedient. David's brothers were in Saul's army, and when his father commanded him to take supplies to his brothers, he "took, and went, as Jesse had commanded" (17:17-20). David was also punctual, for the next day he "rose up early in the morning" to go to his brethren (17:20). It was David's obedience, and his promptness that providentially put him at the front to hear Goliath's challenge (17:23). David was conscientious in his duties, for when he left for Israel's encampment, he insured his responsibilities were covered, and "left the sheep with a keeper" (17:20), and his "carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage" (17:22). He was also zealous, and was a picture of a dedicated, determined servant. Four times, David is described as running to his duties (17:17, 22, 48, 51). Finally, I believe David was selfless. He was the youngest of eight sons, and we have already seen he was often overlooked, and slighted. In spite of his brother's petty jealousies, and the mistreatments he suffered, his greeting to his brothers expressed a genuine concern for their well-being.
David's Passion (17:26-51)
David was jealous for the name of the LORD, and the welfare of his nation (17:26-45). Goliath's curses, and his mocking the LORD, enraged David, and he would not be still, or keep silent when God's name was blasphemed (17:45). Saul, and Israel saw a giant, but David saw an opportunity! With faith, and courage, he declared, "This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel… the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands" (17:46-47).
1 Samuel 18 – A brief review
1 Samuel 18 finds David residing in the king's palace, and befriended by Jonathan, the son of Saul (18:1-4). David's fame as a warrior continued to increase in Israel, and the king perceived he would become a threat to his reign, and lineage, and determined to kill him (18:5-30).
This entry was posted in Devotional on July 2, 2021 by PastorTravisDSmith.
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At the heart of historical trauma: Cordillera of Dreams opens 15th Pravo Ljudski Film Festival
The opening film asks how lessons from the past can prepare us for the future resistance to capitalism and state violence, while the closing film, State Funeral by Sergei Loznitsa, uses the power of archival footage to warn us of the ghosts of totalitarianism that haunts us to this day.
15th Pravo Ljudski Film Festival opens with the best documentary film of the Cannes festival – The Cordillera of Dreams by Chilean director Patricio Guzmán. This film completes his 'trilogy' that explores the societal, historical, and political traumas of his homeland.
Guzmán's work is already well known to our audience: Pearl Button was shown on PLJFF in 2017, Nostalghia of the Light closed the 6th edition. Discussion on the topic of missing persons that followed was the longest ever discussion in the history of the festival.
The basis of The Cordillera of Dreams is a collection of memories of the military coup d'etat from 1973. The legacy of these events is manifested in historical trauma, in the leftovers of the Pinochet regime, and brutal neoliberalism that cemented class division in the country. The visual motif that connects these memories are the magnificent Andes that at the same time protect and isolate Chile. Guzmán sees over the mountain horizon, not merely reminiscing on the horror of the dictatorship, or giving a simple diagnosis of the current state. No, during his conversations with Chilean artists, he is perpetually looking for new possibilities of resistance.
The closing film of this year's festival is a work by another PLJFF collaborator from previous years: Sergei Loznitsa. State Funeral is another look to the past, to the event that defined the epoch, and possibly ended it: the death of Stalin.
– I see this film as a visual study of the nature of Stalin's personality cult and an attempt to deconstruct the ritual, which formed the foundation of the bloody regime. It is unthinkable that today, in Moscow circa 2019, 66 years after Stalin's death, thousands of people gather at his tomb on March 5th, to lay flowers and mourn his death. I believe it's my duty as a filmmaker to employ the power of a documentary image to appeal to the minds of my contemporaries, and to seek the truth, writes Loznitsa in the director's note.
State Funeral uses mostly unseen archival footage and represents "The Great Farewell" to the dictator as a peak of the personality cult. At the same time, the film deconstructs it as a terror-induced illusion, showing us the inner workings of the regime that haunts us to this day.
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South Korean leader Moon Jae-in shakes hands with North Korean officials in PyeongChang
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MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. A North Korean delegation, led by Kim Jong Un's sister Kim Yo Jong, arrived at South Korea's presidential residence on Saturday to meet with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in, the Yonhap news agency reported.
The sides are expected to have a joint lunch after the talks.
Previously the South Korean leader briefly met with Kim Yo Jong during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang.
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"Joker Seven" by David A. Ahead has several similarities to the predecessor"A Clockwork Orange", yet another dark comedy from the master crime novelist Tom Clancy. Like the first publication, this book presents a complicated and intricate plot which can be told in two parallel and connected sessions. This book has been praised by critics and has sold more copies than any of Prior's previous novel.
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After the incident, the detective is assigned to the case by his superior, Detective Inspector Harry Sloane. Sloane suspects that the serial killer can have a link to other victims and goes to New York City to nullify the alleged offender. During the course of their investigation, Sloane becomes suspicious of their motives of the serial killer along with his associates. He deduces that the girl Sloane is advised to meet is in fact the killer's future wife, and he gets her to convince her to leave town to give birth to the child that Sloane is intending to rescue.
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Big Oil Hits New Low With Financial 'Blackmail' Of Government
Before using the threat of equalization payments as a "poke in the ribs" to provinces such as British Columbia and Quebec, perhaps the petroleum industry should rethink its own dependency on subsidies. It should be aware that it, too, is vulnerable to budgetary policy.
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In the September 5 edition of the Calgary Herald, we read that "A group that represents oilfield service and supply companies asked Ottawa earlier this year to use equalization payments as leverage to get reluctant provinces onside with pipeline projects."
Mr. Mark Salkeld, president of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada, recommended that Ottawa "amend equalization payment criteria such that transfer payments can be reduced or forfeit if a recipient province refuses transit of extra-provincial goods and/or products, or unduly impedes another province's market access, including unreasonable delays to transportation infrastructure projects."
This is not the first attempt by fossil fuel companies to use equalization payments to essentially blackmail citizens and governments.
First off, equalization payments are an intrinsic part of the Constitution of 1982, meaning the spokesman for the Petroleum Services Association of Canada seems to be suggesting something illegal according to the fundamental law of the country.
Secondly, many groups in Quebec are demanding that the National Energy Board(NEB) for the Energy East project and its president should not be allowed to hold public hearings since they had secret meetings with Mr. Jean Charest, a consultant of TransCanada Pipeline at the time. Such meetings are unethical for a judicial or quasi-judicial institution like the NEB.
In addition, Commissioner Jacques Gauthier even admitted to insider trading a few years ago. Does Mr. Salkeld really consider that demanding a fair and ethical process under the law constitutes "unreasonable delays" and should warrant withdrawal of equalization payments?
This is not the first attempt by fossil fuel companies to use equalization payments to essentially blackmail citizens and governments. Mr. Michael Binnion, CEO of Questerre Energy and president of the Quebec Oil and Gas Association (QOGA), made a similar pitch in April 2013. May I remind Mr. Salkeld and Mr. Binnion that in Quebec we are working overtime to get rid of corruption and collusion; these efforts can be observed in investigative journalism by organizatiosn such as Radio-Canada's Enquête, the Charbonneau Commission and the Permanent Police Against Corruption (UPAC). Would Mr. Salkeld claim that fighting corruption and collusion with due process of the law is creating "unreasonable delays?"
Mark Salkeld of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Larry MacDougal)
In Canada, federal and provincial taxpayers subsidize the fossil-fuel industry to the tune of $3.3 billion a year in cash handouts or tax breaks. The federal government's share is $1.3 billion. In other words, a percentage of the federal income tax I pay each year helps the already rich oil industry.
True, my tax dollar helped Ontario's automobile industry during the recession of 2008. That's OK! But why should my tax dollar help the oil industry instead of the renewable energy sector? Promoters of free enterprise regularly claim that subsidies are for inefficient companies that don't deserve to survive! So, why those billions to the oil industry?
I am not the only one who believes that subsidies for the oil industry should be a thing of the past. In Reuters, (August 29, 2016), we read: "Insurers with $1.2 trillion under management called on Tuesday for the Group of 20 to set a timetable to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels by 2020 when they meet at a summit in China this weekend." To be consistent with the Conference of Paris, the governments of the G-20 must end costly tax subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.
If questionable actions don't work behind closed doors, then TransCanada will undermine a government's self-determination with judicial and financial blackmail.
Over and above the call to remove equalization payments for provinces who question its pipeline projects, the arrogance of the petroleum industry is apparent when it applies brutal blackmail to browbeat legitimate and duly elected governments to do its bidding, invoking NAFTA's Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clause.
Last year, President Barack Obama rejected Keystone XL because he was convinced it was not "in the best interest" of his country. With many options possible, his administration chose one course of action for the good of the USA. Future historians will decide if he made the right decision. As in any public policy made for the common good, some people are happy with this decision, others are not. Such are the political realities of a free, open and democratic country.
Unhappy with this decision, TransCanada Pipelines chose to directly challenge the sovereignty of the government of the United States with a $15 billion lawsuit. As the public affair program TTIP, Might is Right by VPRO explained in October 2015, these ISDS clauses are often used to steamroll any government who dares to put the interest of people ahead of the interest of big money. If the American democracy won't accept its pipeline, then Trans Canada Pipelines demands that American taxpayers pay $15 billion out of the $16 billion required to build Energy East. What arrogance!
Speaking of ISDS clauses, on March 16, 2016 in Lévis, during the Quebec environmental review agency's (BAPE) hearing, Patrick Bonin of Greenpeace asked Mr. Bergeron, vice-president of Energy East for Quebec and NB, if his company would refrain from suing Quebec or Canada under NAFTA's chapter 11 if its pipeline should be rejected, either because it is inconsistent with the legal obligation to reduce green houses gases (GHG) or because it lacked social acceptance.
Mr. Bergeron dodged the question. In other words, if questionable actions don't work behind closed doors, then TransCanada will undermine a government's self-determination with judicial and financial blackmail.
Honesty is the best policy. With that in mind, my parents and my teachers taught me that the law is the supreme example of fairness in society. Furthermore, my readings, many rooted in the fifth report of the IPCC, have convinced me that mankind must head rapidly towards a low-carbon economy in the 21st Century.
These are my values. Does the use of financial blackmail based on the withdrawal of equalization payments and ISDS clauses to promote its 20th Century infrastructures represent the real values of the petroleum industry?
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Poisoned Pines In Central Oregon To Be Cut
by Emily Cureton Follow OPB Feb. 13, 2019 6:15 a.m. | Updated: Feb. 13, 2019 3:22 p.m. | Sisters, Ore.
UPDATE (3:15 p.m. PT) – The U.S. Forest Service has finalized a decision to fell about 2,100 poisoned pines in the Deschutes National Forest along Highway 20, where officials have long worried about hazard trees falling over on the road.
"Our primary objective is to mitigate a public safety hazard, and our No. 1 priority is getting the trees down," said Ian Reid, Sisters District ranger with the Forest Service.
The trees died from exposure to herbicide. The federal plan is to turn them into forest products, but proposed state regulations may prevent that from happening.
According to the Oregon Department of Agriculture, the primary threat posed by milling poisoned trees isn't from the wood, but rather from the sawdust, said Rose Kachadoorian, a pesticides program manager with the agency.
She said the sawdust could easily go to the nursery industry, or to a farm as animal bedding, and from there become compost. She pointed out two studies showing that can lead to unintended plant die-offs.
For some backstory: state contractors inadvertently killed the mature ponderosa pines near Highway 20 with herbicide meant to control weeds, applied from 2011 until 2015. At that time, aminocyclopyrachlor, or ACP, was widely applied to rights of way in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. The compound had already been linked to tree deaths in other states and was even pulled from the market under one brand name until it reappeared through a different manufacturer, and again got federal approval from the Environmental Protection Agency for use on roadsides.
Kachadoorian said ACP is of low toxicity to animals and fish. But it moves through soil and water, into the roots of trees. After a few years of applications, the road to Sisters changed. Centuries-old ponderosa pines died; some of them hundreds of feet from where spraying occurred. The number of affected trees has grown in recent years.
After public complaints and pressure from the advocacy group Beyond Toxics, the Oregon Department of Agriculture ordered a temporary stop to ACP applications on roadsides and other rights of way in 2018. In January, ODA proposed making the rule permanent and added a prohibition on milling wood from ACP exposed trees. That's because it's not entirely clear how the compound lingers and moves in the environment.
ODA has received over 3,000 comments about the proposed rule, Kachadoorian said. The public comment period closes Feb. 26. The rule could be finalized by the end of March, before the Forest Service timber harvest near Sisters takes place during its planned April start. Reid and Kachadoorian said the agencies are in communication.
This story has been updated to include comments from the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
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Recently, I received my own review copy of a long awaited Pentaho book : Pentaho Kettle Solutions – Building Open Source ETL Solutions with Pentaho Data Integration.
Thanks to Roland, Matt and Jos for sending me this new book.
Matt Casters is the Pentaho Chief of Data Integration and Kettle founder (Kettle's dad, it's him). Have a look to his prolific blog here.
Roland is an IT expert, ranging from web application development and business process analysis to business intelligence. He co-authored the MySQL Cluster 5.1 Certification Study Guide. Please, have a look to his blog.
Jos is a BI expert with more than 15 years of experience. He created Tholis Consulting and is also covering BI developments for the Dutch Database Magazine.
Kettle development, customization and advanced usage.
What are the famous ETL Subsystems (Kimabal). A very detailed and inspiring chapter.
Typical ETL development lifecycle. A must read here !
Performance tuning. Here again, a must read that will give you precious information on how to make your Kettle set up reach the hills of performance and stability.
Parallelization, clustering and Partitioning : my favorite. You have big data and / or strong constraints ? Think parallel and start building your own Kettle cluster / parallel set up. As to me, the best chapter ever written on this topic, all ETLs included.
Dynamic clustering in the cloud. Once again my favorite. You all know my passion for Cloud Computing ! Very technical article, you need real experience on using AWS tools and APIs.
Data Vault Management : interesting concept. You will learn about Data Vault and discover this mixed (Codd with 3NF / Kimbal with star schema) approach in detail.
Web Services. I love that one too ! More and more datawarehouses are now feeded by using web services. Learn how to feed yours by leveraging Kettle.
Extending Kettle. Yummy ! If, like me, you created your own Kettle plugins or want to, this chapter is a must read. Java programing experience is needed.
Kettle enterprise edition features : comparative matrix.
Built in variables and properties reference : a must read in order to be aware of Kettle internals, and be able to create fully automatised / self sufficient jobs.
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This book is now sitting on my reference BI shelf, it entered my personal BI Book Hall of Fame.
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The entire process of a site-specific review can be quite involved and should not be left to anybody but the most experienced engineer professionals. A fabric structure company should use external, third-party engineers to review all structures to avoid company bias and ensure the strict objectivity of the design work. Site-specific reviews for standard configurations are completed in 1-2 weeks. If the review identifies that changes are required, these are discussed with the customer before the drawings are finalized. The customer is then supplied with stamped drawings for their structure.
In conclusion, the outcome of the evaluation is the selection of appropriate design parameters per the relevant building code which defines the load cases that must be evaluated for the structure. The site evaluation ensures that the appropriate parameters are used for the analysis of the structure. The configuration of the building is thereby validated, or changes are made to ensure the structure has the requisite reliability for the site. This, along with snow loads, wind speeds, and seismic parameters, are considered as part of a detailed review for every site.
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The 2017 "Purses with Purpose Charity Event" will be held on Wednesday, April 19, 6:00 PM in the Nautilus Ballroom at Marina Inn Grande Dunes in Myrtle Beach. Martin Heat and Air will be returning as the Title Sponsor for this year's event.
In 2016 it was standing room only with over 300 ladies attending the April event. Attendees this year will again enjoy a delicious dinner buffet. A large selection of gift baskets chocked full of gift certificates for services and restaurants, cosmetics, jewelry, spa treatments, weekend getaways, and other niceties will line the entrance to the Nautilus Ballroom in the silent auction.
Bidding for the silent auction this year will be conducted on your cell phone or your ipad! How fun will that be! So bring your smart phone/or ipad to bid on our awesome auction items! Remember Husbands Optional…Credit Cards and Cell Phones Mandatory!
The live auction is the main event and promises not to disappoint. A fine selection of handsome male models (Check out our 2016 models!) will showcase gorgeous designer handbags and purses donated by celebrities and local professionals. The models prance and dance to win the highest bid for their purse from some very competitive lady bidders.
"Purses with Purpose Charity Event" is our number one fundraiser and allows our club to contribute to charitable organizations with a focus on supporting women, children & youth, seniors, and those in need. Please check out our Contributions page to view recent contributions.
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11 Traditional Breakfasts Around the World
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I had written this article on breakfasts for BootsnAll in 2012 but they are going through a website reorganization and it seems my hard work has disappeared from their pages and found its way into shady sites which plagiarize stuff. Now that we are slowly emerging from the pandemic raring to eat and drink and travel, here's a round-up of breakfasts from around the world. My favorite is Japan but Sweden is a close second. Who doesn't love a cup of good strong kaffe?
Having avoided complete invasion until World War II, the island nation of Japan has a cuisine and culture that is as strikingly different from the West as it is from the rest of Asia. Breakfast in the "The Land of the Rising Sun" is a like a seven course dinner, where bite-sized portions are placed on their individual plates and presentation takes center stage. It is not called "designer cuisine" for nothing. Of course, the scale is trimmed down in most homes, especially on weekdays, and some households have given it up altogether in favor of time-saving Western staples like buttered toast (bread was introduced to the Japanese by the Portuguese in the 16th century), cereal and milk.
At a traditional Japanese breakfast, you will find a bowl of steaming white rice and miso soup (usually made with seaweed, tofu, green onions and seasonal vegetables), with sides of grilled fish, strips of nori (flavored dried seaweed), natto (slimy, stringy, strong-smelling, fermented soybeans packed with protein), pickled fruits or vegetables (popular choices are sour plums and radishes) and tamagoyaki (rolled omelet). For dipping you have the ubiquitous soy sauce, and depending on which part of Japan you are in, mustard. For sipping, there is green tea. Sometimes, you may be served a raw egg, and if that happens, don't go looking for a skillet. Just break it into a bowl, pour it over the hot rice, wrap the nori around it and enjoy!
MichaelMaggs via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breakfast_at_Tamahan_Ryokan,_Kyoto.jpg
Who wouldn't want to wake up to a steaming mug of rich, dark chocolate and crispy sticks of spirally dough or chocolate con churros as they say in Spain? If you have been out doing the tapas crawl the night before, then you are going to love it even more. Forget the eggs, this is a breakfast made in heaven for hangovers. The churros are deep-fried in sizzling olive oil and if that's making your health-conscious self guilty, think of all the antioxidant-rich chocolate you are drinking on the side.
With all the excitement surrounding Swiss chocolate, few people know that it was Spain where the "elixir of life" first arrived in Europe, and that the Spaniards kept it to themselves for almost a century. A novelty from the New World, the enjoyment of chocolate was initially confined to the royals and the rich, as they were the only ones who could afford the pricey beans.
To get your morning chocolate fix, step into a Churrería, which are cafes specializing in this delicacy. Some prefer a dusting of sugar on their churros, which come in various shapes and sizes – chunky, thin, straight or knotted. Seat yourself comfortably, pick up a golden-brown churro, swirl it in the hot chocolate (often it has a pudding-like consistency in which case replace the swirl with the more forgiving dip) and go for the crunch!
Photo credit: www.flickr.com/photos/radziahradzi/7188833229/
Serving as a link between Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Morocco is a mishmash of varied influences in everything from cuisine to language to culture. It constantly finds itself straddling the conservative with the modern, the new with the old. But in doing so, the country has found a character and voice that is distinctly its own.
Leading importer of green tea worldwide, Moroccans drink a lot of this refreshing beverage, and not just at breakfast. Their teapots are not your average short and stout type. Instead, the spouts are long and curved to aid the ritualistic pouring of tea from a height. Preferably flavored with mint, sweet green tea is a fitting accompaniment to every form of Moroccan breakfast, especially one which involves a soft and spongy baghrir (sort of a pancake) slathered with amlou (sweet spread). Pockets of air crowd the surface of the baghrir, and the more the merrier. Unlike pancakes, you do not flip them while cooking, so the top retains its honeycomb-like texture, ready to soak up spoonfuls of amlou.
Roasted almond, pure honey and argan oil are blended together to produce the rich, aromatic paste known as amlou. Native to southwestern Morocco, and a boon for the local economy, the kernels of the gnarled Argan trees are used to produce this rare oil, known as much for its bold and nutty flavor, as for its restorative properties. Often called liquid gold, argan oil is exclusive to this part of the world, and adding a generous dose of it to your morning meal makes perfect sense.
Photo by Nisrine Merzouki. http://www.dinnersanddreams.net
Located far, far up in Northern Europe, Sweden conjures up images of pickled herrings, meatballs in light-brown gravy, whipped potatoes, and red, tart lingonberries. The Swedes also like their fika paus (coffee break) and according to the International Coffee Organization (ICO), they are 2nd only to the Finns when it comes to coffee consumption per person. So it does not come as a surprise that they would begin their day with a cup of coffee, or kaffe as they call it. Their coffee is strong and contrary to popular belief, they do not plop an egg into it, not anymore at least. No egg shell crumbling is required either.
Breakfast is usually served cold, with the smorgas (open-faced sandwich) reigning supreme. Back in the European Middle Ages, thick slices of stale bread (trenchers) were used in lieu of plates, which were then thrown away at the end of the meal. Eventually people began to notice that the bread wasn't all that bad, on account of retaining some of the goodness and flavors of the food. And so began the trend of eating a piece of bread with everything piled on top aka the open-faced sandwich.
Photo Credit: Camilla Lillsebbas. www.flickr.com/photos/lillsebbas/7972844692/
Essentially a slice of buttered bread topped with cheese, gurka (cucumber), tomat (tomato), and cold cuts, the "smorgas toppings" have endless possibilities. Anything from smoked salmon to fruit is fair game. Always eaten with a fork and knife, this dish represents the Swedish way of life – elegant and understated. Bon appétit, or as they say in Swedish, smaklig måltid!
After almost two centuries of colonial influence, India may have adopted many things British, including the English language, but when it comes to food, they have remained true to their roots. Bacon and eggs are confined to restaurants specializing in continental fare, and most households relish a variety of Indian breads or crepes with curried vegetables, pickles and dipping sauces.
Hailing from the eastern part of India, the Bengalis (community native to the state of West Bengal) are known to be passionate about two things – food and football. Ranking high on their list of favored breakfast dishes is luchi (pronounced as in Gucci) and aloor dum (potato curry). Puffed up like a ball when piping hot, luchi is a kind of deep-fried bread made of maida, a form of highly refined wheat flour. For the side, big chunks of potatoes are sautéed in ghee (clarified butter) or vegetable oil with onion, garlic and spices such as turmeric, cumin and coriander. Pureed tomatoes are a welcome addition as is cilantro for garnishing. For drinking, there's hot tea with milk and sugar.
Kids may not be a fan of the spicy side, so you will often find them sprinkling large crystals of sugar on the luchi and rolling it up like a sweetened wrap. Speaking of sweet, rosogollas (syrupy dumplings made from Indian cottage cheese) are almost always served at the end of the meal to balance all the savory deliciousness.
Photo by Dibyaroop Samajpati.
Like every classic dish, each region has its own interpretation of Huevos Motulenos, a robust, layered breakfast staple from the Mexican town of Motul, in the Yucatan Peninsula. Felipe Carrillo Puerto, a progressive governor who served the state of Yucatan in the 1920s for a couple of years, is believed to have played a pivotal role in putting this dish on the menu. Apparently, on one of his customary visits to the La Sin Rival restaurant in Motul, he had arrived with a large group of people leading to a shortage of tableware. Instead of providing individual plates for the sides, the head chef heaped all the accompaniments over a bed of tortilla, and thereby created the very first Huevos Motulenos or Motul-style eggs.
The likeliest version will have you eating fried eggs and black beans atop a bed of crisp corn tortilla (tostada), soused with roasted tomato sauce, and topped with crumbled cheese (queso fresco), diced smoked ham and a generous smattering of peas. Slices of sweet, fried plantains maybe served on the side. A dash of minced cilantro is used for garnishing, as is a wedge of lime for added zing. The tomato sauce, also referred to as Yucatan-style salsa, is often laced with fiery habanero peppers and best prepared in advance.
A tropical island off the Caribbean Sea, Jamaica is known for reggae, rum and the piquant flavors of Jerk Chicken. Its economy is driven by tourism and mining, followed closely by agriculture and economy. With a plethora of plants being brought from far off lands by the colonizers, it is of little surprise that farming is a big part of life here, and the national fruit is one of the main components of a traditional breakfast, which doubles up as the national dish – "Ackee and Saltfish."
Often mistaken for buttery scrambled eggs when boiled, ackee was brought to Jamaica in the 18th century aboard a slave ship from West Africa. Unripe or inedible portions of this nutritious fruit may lead to poisoning, so it's best to let experienced hands take care of the picking and preparation. Once boiled, this squishy, yellow-ish fruit is cooked with saltfish, onions, tomatoes, sweet peppers, scotch bonnet peppers and thyme. Any meaty, white fish can be cured and dried to make saltfish, although cod remains a popular choice.The fork-tender, mellow ackee is the perfect foil to the flaky bits of salty cod, and often accompanied with fried plantains, dumplings and bammy (flatbread made from cassava).
If you visit "The Aloha State", you will know that the islanders like waking up to a starchy protein-fest smothered in brown gravy, or loco moco, as much as they love their surfboards. The dish is said to have originated in 1949 at a local dig in Hilo on the Big Island when a party of famished teens wanted to have something which would be deeply satisfying yet easy on the pocket.
It really doesn't take much to fix a classic loco moco. All you need is a scoop of rice, on which you embed a juicy beef patty and a fried over-easy egg, and then drown the entire mound in thick, rich gravy. Voted one of the "50 Fattiest Foods in the States" by Health Magazine, this traditional breakfast is now being interpreted in gourmand circles with enough variants to fill a book. Fried rice, fish, mushrooms, green onions, streaky bacon, Spam, different types of sausages and fried chicken are some of the more common items which have been introduced to the humble loco moco with great success.
The best way to eat something this layered and comforting is by letting the runny, golden yolk and the beefy undertones in the sauce seep into the hamburger and rice, binding everything together, making one big mouthful of pure delight.
It is not that uncommon to start your day with a hearty bowl of soup in many parts of the world, particularly in parts of the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. You have pho in Vietnam, congee in China, miso soup in Japan, and changua in Colombia. A type of egg and milk soup, with variations found all over the country, changua is particularly favored in the Andean Mountains, including the capital city of Bogota.
Simply put, changua is poached egg in a milky broth, flavored with chopped scallions and sprigs of cilantro. Addition of potatoes (usually fried in butter) is an option, as is sautéed garlic. The soup may be ladled over toasted bread and then topped with a plump egg, or the bread may be served on the side. You can then use the crusty bread to sop up all the creaminess. Alternatively, there may be arepas (cornmeal patties) on the side.
Rarely has any herb had such staunch detractors and supporters as the aromatic cilantro, which is an essential ingredient in this soup. It adds just the right touch of zest and vibrancy to an otherwise bland dish. Great as a pick-me-up after a night out and fairly easy to put together, the origins of this soup maybe rustic but these days it is often served in high-end Colombian restaurants.
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When you ask for the "Full English Breakfast" or a "Fry Up" or the "Full Monty" in UK, make sure you have enough time to indulge in a leisurely meal, and don't even think of counting the calories. Mostly made up of a medley of greasy pork parts accompanied by a pot of strong English tea and jars of fruity marmalade, a fry-up is best served hot. If you like doing things the traditional way, even the thickly-buttered bread has to be fried in sizzling fat. The other must-haves in the pan include back bacon (Irish bacon), plain pork sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms and eggs. Baked beans, a squeeze of tomato ketchup or HP sauce (England's much loved brown sauce) and black pudding complete the line-up.
Although "black pudding" may look like discs of moist chocolate cake, it is not anything like dessert. It is also known as "blood pudding" and "blood sausage", which are more apt descriptions of this dark, rich breakfast meat. Called boudin noir in France, blutwurst in Germany and morcilla in Spain, blood pudding when prepared and spiced right should not have too much of a metallic aftertaste.
Now that you have the main parts of the fry-up down pat, here's a look at some of the common additions to this already hefty dish – potatoes (in the form of chips, hash or patties) kippers, kidneys, muffins and crumpets. After all, the English breakfast has often been called a dish with a thousand variables. Nowadays relegated to weekends and holidays, the "Full English" is a Victorian tradition, and one that comes in handy when shaking off hangovers.
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With more castles per square mile than anywhere else in the world, Wales conjures up images of grassy slopes, daffodils and Caerphilly cheese. Part of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, and roughly the same size as Massachusetts, this small country has a wide range of fresh produce and all the advantages of a long coastline.
A traditional Welsh breakfast may closely resemble a "Full English", except for the presence of laverbread and cockles, or bara lawr a chocos as they say in Welsh. Laver is a type of edible seaweed found clinging to the rocks along the Welsh coast, which is thoroughly washed, cooked and converted to a greenish-black, salty-smelling, thick paste known as laverbread. You can skip the laborious process of preparing this slimy seaweed and buy it straight from stores. High in protein and minerals but low in calories, laverbread is used in many Welsh recipes, including sauces and pestos. For breakfast, it is rolled in oatmeal and fried in bacon fat till you get these crisp patties called laverbread cakes. The cakes are then served up with bacon and fresh, steamed cockles (saltwater clams). Depending on who you talk to, cockles are grainy or a delicacy par excellence, and their high mortality rate is a cause for concern for harvesters.
Beginning your day with shellfish and seaweed may not sound appetizing but if you can get past the pungency of taste and the off-putting gritty texture, this is a breakfast which will keep you going till dinner, especially if you complement it with bacon and eggs.
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The Challenge: Homesickness
Rebecca Hagelin · Nov. 13, 2014
We've all felt that bittersweet longing for familiar places and people. Our experience of homesickness increases with age. The more places you visit and come to love, the less "at home" you feel in any one place. And the more people you come to cherish, the more often you miss someone.
Perhaps those who can identify most with the term "homesickness" are those who have lost loved ones. It's more than a simple miss; an undeniable void is created at the departure of a loved one. Your world – your home – is altered and you know with final certainty that it will never return to the way things were.
Parents experience a similar phenomenon. You love your infant child with an eager curiosity to see him grown, and you love your grown child while also mourning the loss of her infancy.
Natural beauty, too, stirs a feeling like homesickness in us. The painted tips of trees in fall give us such an intense desire to somehow soak it in, to enter in, to take it with us. But we can't quite do it. Though we are filled with joy and wonder and gratitude at the present season, we don't ever quite enjoy it enough. And soon the season changes again.
All of our senses contribute to the longing. We eat and are full before we have a chance to taste all the flavors, and hunger follows again. Even music is a delightful kind of taunting. In a letter to his friend, Sheldon Vanauken, C.S. Lewis wrote, "When do we hear a musical air? Until the last note is sounded it is incomplete; as soon as that sounds it's already over."
Homesickness, in this sense, is the longing for wholeness, which we feel so frequently and never quite satisfy in a lifetime.
Some of us respond to homesickness by becoming "homebodies." We do not venture far because we decide the pain is too great. We cannot stand to let go of the things we are attached to. We despise change because we believe that if we hold on tight enough, we will avoid change and the pain of separation that comes with it.
On the other hand, some of us respond with wanderlust. We lust after the next adventure, the next relationship, the next great beauty, hoping that when we've done and seen enough, the sum of our experiences will leave us whole. Each of us has a tendency toward one response or the other, but neither produces the desired result. What are we to make of this homesickness?
The Hope: An Eternal Home
In one of his books, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote:
"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same."
Lewis' thinking most likely came from Hebrews 11, which describes the great heroes of faith. It says:
"They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth. Obviously people who say such things are looking forward to a country they can call their own. If they had longed for the country they came from, they could have gone back. But they were looking for a better place, a heavenly homeland. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them" (Hebrews 11:13-16).
2 Corinthians 5:1-8 also describes the afterlife as the ultimate homecoming. The Message version reads, in part:
"We know that when these bodies of ours are taken down like tents and folded away, they will be replaced…and we'll never have to relocate our 'tents' again….. The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what's ahead. He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we'll never settle for less.
"That's why we live with such good cheer….Cramped conditions here don't get us down. They only remind us of the spacious living conditions ahead. It's what we trust in but don't yet see that keeps us going. Do you suppose a few ruts in the road or rocks in the path are going to stop us? When the time comes, we'll be plenty ready to exchange exile for homecoming."
The moments where we feel most at home on Earth, the moments of beauty, peace, love and joy, often seem to exist outside of time. Those moments give us glimpses into God's eternal character. But they are also fleeting moments, designed to leave us longing for more and more of Him.
So if we decide to let it, the homesickness we experience can drive us toward God. And when we place our hope in Him, we become free to enjoy life's blessings without the need to find satisfaction through them, and our homesick longing transforms into confident expectation.


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Mutua accompanied Kenyan President William Samoy Ruto on his visit to South Korea. Park Jin said at the meeting that since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1964, the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries have continued to develop, and he looked forward to the Kenyan President's visit to South Korea after 32 years to push the bilateral friendly and cooperative relations to a higher level.
Park Jin said that Kenya is a logistics and economic hub in East Africa, and also an important economic and development partner of South Korea. He hoped that the two countries will further strengthen cooperation in the fields of economy, development cooperation, nuclear energy, and personnel exchanges. Mutua expressed the hope that the South Korean side will increase investment in Kenya, and that the two countries need to deepen cooperation in the fields of agriculture, health, military industry, and personnel exchanges.
Park Zhen also appreciated Kenya's leading role in resolving African disputes and other issues as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council from 2021 to 2022, and called on Kenya to support South Korea's election as a non-permanent member of the Security Council from 2024 to 2025 and Busan's bid to host the 2030 World Expo . Mutua expressed deep concern over unprecedented provocations such as North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and agreed with the need for a united response from the international community. (Finish)
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Migraine is often wrongly attributed to a disorder of the sinuses, teeth, refraction, neck, when it is indeed the result of a disturbance of the central nervous system..
Know your migraine
Migraine is a primary headache that is present without any underlying cause of other diseases.
It is therefore not a symptom but a disease itself. With a prevalence of 15%, migraine is one of the most frequent neurological conditions.
It is caused by a combination of genetic (80% of migraine sufferers have a family history) and environmental factors that result in hyperexcitability of the brain with dysfunction of the neuromodulatory pathways in the hypothalamus and the brainstem. Migraine is then triggered by the activation of a complex mechanism that causes the release of inflammatory substances, causing pain, and a variety of associated symptoms depending on the affected structures of the central nervous system (CNS).
The pain can be unilateral or bilateral, pulsating or like a pressure. It often predominates in the frontal, ocular, temporal or occipital region. It often requires bed rest.
The duration can vary between 4 hours to 72 hours.
It has two varieties, migraine without aura which is the most frequent and migraine with aura in which the headache is preceded or accompanied by transient visual or other neurological symptoms.
The attack is often preceded by prodromes:
Irritability, asthenia, drowsiness, hunger, yawning.
Migraine headache begins gradually, during the day or at the end of the night, reaches its peak after a few hours and lasts half a day to a few days. Often pulsating, unilateral and rocking, its intensity is moderate to severe.
It often involves posterior pain with associated neck pain, which misleads the diagnosis towards a headache due to cervical arthritis or Arnold's neuralgia.
Migraine Aura
Auras are transient episodes of neurological symptoms, lasting a few minutes to a maximum of 1 hour, which most often precede the headache, but sometimes accompany or follow it, or may even occur without any pain.
One can have only one symptom of aura, or a succession of different auras. The first episode of the aura is usually very distressing for the person.
The extent to which migraine can disrupt the lives of those living with it is vast. So it's no surprise that migraine often comes with feelings of hopelessness and helplessness.
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Visual Aura
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Aphasic Aura
Sensory Aura
ascending brachio facio-labial paresthesias
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Marc Kamionkowski, David Spergel Awarded 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize
On January 16, Marc Kamionkowski, a Simons Investigator in theoretical physics, and David Spergel were awarded the 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. The prize, awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society and the American Institute of Physics to mid-career scientists for outstanding work in astrophysics, is one of the most significant honors in the field.
Marc Kamionkowski
Kamionkowski, professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins' Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Spergel, the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy and chair of the astrophysical sciences department at Princeton University, received the prize in recognition of what the selection committee describes as their "outstanding contributions to the investigation of the fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background, which have led to major breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe."
"All of the prior recipients of this prize are people whose work I have admired over the years, and so it's a great honor to be included among them," says Kamionkowski. "It's also great to share the prize with David Spergel, an early mentor to me and a remarkable scientist."
Kamionkowski began studying cosmic background radiation, or leftover thermal energy from the Big Bang, in the 1990s. Together with Spergel, he wrote several papers proposing a way to determine the spatial geometry of the universe from measurements of the way the temperature of the cosmic microwave background varies across the sky. These proposals provided the theoretical basis for a generation of remarkable experiments that have established our current understanding of the earliest moments of the universe. Later, Kamionkowski studied the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, providing impetus for experimental measurements of this phenomenon.
"I think the prize recognizes the tremendous advances that have occurred in cosmology in the past decade and a half through studies of the cosmic microwave background," says Kamionkowski. "The takeaway message for me, as a theorist involved in this enterprise, is that there is value in thinking freely, unfettered by the limitations of current experiments, about what might be done in the future."
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David Spergel's primary research focus over the last few years has been the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), a NASA satellite launched in 2001 to make fundamental measurements of the cosmic microwave background in order to understand the properties of the universe as a whole. He also belongs to a group of scientists and engineers at Princeton who are developing new technologies that aim to enable direct imaging of Earth-like planets. His next major cosmic microwave background venture will be at the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), where he will work closely with experimentalists searching for cosmic signatures of the Big Bang.
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errors and effectively hangs during initialization.
CPUs have proper speed info.
that the HV cpu speed calculation will self-correct.
with the right hardware situation it could fail too.
corrects it, dom0 is in trouble.
(XEN) Platform timer overflows in 234 jiffies.
effectively did nothing on those calls.
the frequency of CPU0, while all other CPUs have correct values.
Xen reported: 13692.820 MHz processor.
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