This enquiry originated from one of our long standing customers, who are a leading sensor distributor and manufacturer. The original enquiry was received in 1998, where a quantity of 24 load cells were supplied. A further order for 30 pieces was received in 2008.
The enquiry was initially for our standard CPA series load cell. Following further discussions with the customer, we were made aware that they were to be used with hydraulic cylinders, as part of a large offshore structure jacking system. We were able to suggest a modified version of the standard product to suit the final use. The discussions went a stage further, with us also supplying a complete centre of gravity instrumentation system, with bespoke PC software.
Supplied calibrated, with a calibration certificate, traceable to UKAS.
The main challenge with this load cell design was the quantity ordered, the amount of component parts required in the load cell construction and the lead time required. We achieved a delivery time of 6 weeks, including design, manufacture and final testing. This met the customers project requirements in full.
This special load cell design is a perfect example of the type of load cell we excel in manufacturing and the type of service that our client base requires; where a standard product is identified as almost meeting their requirements. With some adaptation and with advice from LCM engineers (where required), we can usually derive a product that ideally suits their requirements. Generally, this approach adds no extra cost or only a minimal extra cost to the standard load cell price, but quite often offers reductions in the client's overall costs.


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China shows off rising power in marking WWII defeat of Japan
With fighter jets roaring overhead, China's leader presided Thursday over a massive parade of tanks, missiles and troops that displayed growing military might, but also pledged to reduce the army by 300,000 troops in a bid to show that his country poses no expansionist threat.
The spectacle through the heart of Beijing commemorated Japan's World War II defeat seven decades ago, with helicopters zooming across the sky in an array forming the number 70, but the event also underlined President Xi Jinping's determination to make China the pre-eminent Asian power.
Xi kicked off the proceedings with a speech from atop iconic Tiananmen Gate, flanked by Chinese leaders past and present along with foreign dignitaries including Russian leader Vladimir Putin, South Korean President Park Geun-hye and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
"The experience of war makes people value peace even more," Xi said. "Regardless of the progress of events, China will never seek hegemony, China will never seek to expand and will never inflict the tragedies it suffered in the past upon others."
To underline that point, Xi said the 2.3 million-member People's Liberation Army would cut 300,000 troops. However, it will still remain the world's largest standing military and the reduction comes at a time when growing technological capabilities reduce the need for large numbers of troops.
Wearing a grey high-buttoned suit of the sort worn by past Chinese leaders, Xi then drove past the assembled troops in a Chinese-made Red Flag limousine. Standing in the sunroof with four microphones mounted in front of him, he called out "Greetings, Comrades" every few moments before the troops started their marching.
The event involved more than 12,000 troops, 500 pieces of military hardware and 200 aircraft of various types, representing what military officials say is the Chinese military's most cutting-edge technology.
The parade is part of commemorations packaged to bolster the ruling Communist Party's self-declared role as the driving force behind Japan's defeat 70 years ago and savior of the nation, though historians say the rival Nationalists did most of the fighting. The events also minimize the role of the U.S., Britain and others, although Beijing has attempted to stress the support it has received from a wide spectrum of foreign nations.
Most leading democracies kept high-level representatives away, reflecting concerns over the parade's anti-Japanese tone and China's recent assertive moves to press territorial claims. The U.S. sent only its ambassador to observe. In Washington, U.S. Defense Department spokesman Bill Urban said the U.S. maintains such commemorations should be about reconciliation and that a "large military display would not appear to be consistent with this theme."
Under Xi, who took power as party leader in late 2012, Beijing has sent ships to confront Japan's coast guard near disputed islands in the East China Sea, challenged Philippine outposts near the country's shores and constructed whole islands from reefs, topping them with airstrips and other military infrastructure.
China usually holds lavish military parades only every 10 years to mark the anniversary of the founding of the Communist People's Republic in 1949. By holding an additional one now, Xi ensures that he'll preside over at least two of the prestigious events during his decade-long tenure in power ending in 2023.
The parade panders to a prickly strain of nationalism in a Chinese public constantly reminded by state propaganda of China's past humiliations at the hands of foreign powers, especially Japan, which is widely despised for its perceived failure to properly atone for invading China.
While a hit at home, such sentiments heighten fears abroad about China's intended uses of its newfound power, frustrating Beijing's attempts to market itself as a responsible member of international society committed to the common good.
"In domestic terms, it's certainly a plus for Xi. But in foreign policy terms, it's controversial. It doesn't enhance China's soft power. It doesn't help China's image as a force for peace, stability and development," said Joseph Cheng, a retired academic and political analyst in Hong Kong.
In Tokyo, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said it was regrettable that there was no mention of any China-Japan reconciliation in Xi's speech.
"Rather than focusing excessively on the unfortunate history of the past, we hope that China will address the common challenges facing the international community in a future-oriented manner," Suga said.
Resistance to Japan remains a core component of the Chinese ruling party's foundational myth and is used as a key source of legitimacy in the absence of a popular mandate derived from free elections.
TV stations this week were filled with wartime dramas highlighting the role of Communist soldiers, and at a news conference in the lead-up to the parade, top party historian Gao Yongzhong said it has long been established that "the Communist Party was the linchpin in the victory."
"The Chinese Communist Party is trying to take credit for a war it didn't win and in fact in which it did very little fighting," said June Teufel Dreyer, a China historian at the University of Miami.
Foreign observers were watching the parade for any indications of new military capabilities, although there appeared to be few surprises.
China's latest model Type 99A2 tanks led the armored contingents, followed by self-propelled artillery, anti-aircraft systems and a variety of short, intermediate and long-range missiles. Unmanned aerial vehicles were loaded aboard trucks, while aircraft including China's domestically developed J-10 fighters and H6 bombers flew overhead streaming trails of colored smoke.
Of special interest was the appearance of the DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile, potentially capable of sinking a U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in a single strike. Although questions remain over its reliability on the battlefield, the weapon has stirred concerns in the Pentagon about the vulnerability of U.S. military assets in the case of an attack on Japan, Taiwan or American bases in Asia.
"This will terribly complicate Washington's ability to fulfill defense guarantees to its major Asian allies and implicit guarantees made to Taiwan," said Richard Fisher, a senior fellow at the Washington think tank International Assessment and Strategy Center.
The parade took place under blues skies and heavy security, with the route along central Chang'an Avenue closed to the public. Beijing residents greeted the event with a mix of pride and annoyance at the accompanying inconvenience.
"Military parades are fine, but we're losing business," said a clerk at a convenience store located east of Tiananmen Square that had been forced to close on Wednesday afternoon.
"It was really exciting," said street vendor Huang Mei. "But I don't think it was any big deal. It didn't really have much to do with us regular people."
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Tripping and falling is one of the most common forms of injuries, and also one of the most avoidable. These accidents are often caused by hazards that were ignored or otherwise neglected by property owners, and that is why the law contains a principal called premises liability. This principle states that property owners have a duty to maintain generally safe conditions for the visitors or guests of their property. If a property owner does not make a reasonable effort to eliminate a hazard, and this hazard is the cause of injury to a person, that person may have a premises liability case against the property owner.
When preparing a premises liability case, it is important to enlist the skill of an experienced personal injury attorney Atlanta GA relies on who will look at the factors of the case to build the best argument available. They will be able to handle the legal issues while you focus on healing and recovering. One of the most crucial factors that the attorney will analyze is the hazard that caused your injuries in the first place. The goal of the attorney in a premises liability case is to prove that the property owner acted without care towards the safety of those on the property by neglecting to remove an obvious or known hazard. If the hazard was an object purposefully placed by the property owner or their employees, then this can significantly help to build the case. An example of such hazards might be a wire carelessly run across the floor of a departments store. On the other hand, if the hazard was placed by another visitor to the store, the case may not meet the tests of premises liability.
Another important factor is how long the hazard had been in place before the accident. In the example of the wire, the store is much more likely to be found responsible for the injury if the hazard had been in place all day than they would be if the accident occurred before the store had been made aware of it. On the other side of this, if the object that caused the injury had been in place for a significant amount of time and had never proven to be a hazard before, the property owner may use this as evidence that it was the injured person who had been acting carelessly themselves.
The best way to know how solid of a case is will always be to consult with an attorney. The law is complicated, and each case is different from the last. If you have been the victim of a trip and fall accident, contact a premises liability attorney right away.
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MARIETTA, Ga. – Sept. 3, 2015 – View Technologies, a joint venture between Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (NYSE: SWK) and RF Controls, announced the inView Platform, a software framework that enables solution providers to access real-time data for the billions of items incorporating RAIN RFID (Passive UHF) tags in retail, manufacturing and logistics.
Through the combination of its patented Echo smart antenna technology and software-based services, the inView platform provides item-level visibility that can easily be integrated into enterprise systems, applications and IoT platforms. The Echo smart antennas continuously identify, locate and track RAIN RFID tagged items within 150 feet – 10 times farther than any other commercial system to deliver accurate tag location, continuous visibility and hands-free functionality.
"With the RFID market projected to more than triple by 2024, growing to $27.31 billion*, the inView Platform can provide businesses the information they want and need to manage their supply chain and gain competitive advantage through customer engagement," said Steve Blomberg, Head of Product, View Technologies.
"Our ultimate goal as a technology organization is to foster a community of developers who can contribute to the platform, extending its capabilities into a multitude of industry solutions," Derbis said.
Formed as a joint venture between Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. and RF Controls in 2014, View Technologies provides the optimum way for Retailers, Manufacturers, and Logistics providers to confidently and intelligently manage their inventory. With View technologies, these customers know what items they have, where they are located and when they need them. The inView platform features patented technology that continuously locates, engages and counts RAIN RFID (Passive UHF) tagged items to deliver real-time data visibility and actionable data to drive business growth, improve efficiency and prevent loss. View Technologies partners with leading system integrators and application platforms in retail and industrial settings to connect these environments to an intelligent IoT ecosystem. View Technologies is available via integrated solution and service partners. For more information, visit www.viewtechnologies.com.


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Nils Emil Torsten Hemberg, född 18 februari 1915 i Stockholm, död 20 oktober 1999 i Vaxholm, var en svensk botaniker.

Torsten Hemberg blev 1959 professor i botanik, särskilt fysiologi, vid Stockholms universitet. Han blev ledamot av Vetenskapsakademien 1973 och av Fysiografiska sällskapet i Lund 1974.

Han var son till direktör Sven Emil Hemberg och hans andra hustru Elin, ogift Jakobsson, samt halvbror till Bengt Hemberg.

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By CJBAdmin May 15, 2019 September 17, 2020 Employer post
About Illumina
At the most fundamental level, we enable our customers to read and understand genetic variations. We strive to make our solutions increasingly simple, more accessible, and always reliable. As a result, discoveries that were unimaginable even a few years ago are now becoming routine – and are making their way into patient treatment.
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), is a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of next generation life science tools and integrated systems for large-scale analysis of genetic variation and biological function. These systems are enabling studies that were not even imaginable just a few years ago, and moving us closer to the realization of personalized medicine. With the innovative advances in our sequencing technologies, we are rapidly impacting the clinical market in areas such as reproductive health and oncology. The expanding Illumina oncology portfolio of next- generation sequencing NGS and microarray technologies is revolutionizing cancer genomics research. Our customers include a broad range of academic, government, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and other leading institutions around the globe.
lllumina has experienced phenomenal growth from $10 million in revenues in 2002 to over $1.4 billion in 2013. Forbes named Illumina #1 on the 2009 list of 25 Fastest-Growing Technology Companies in the United States, the second time over a three year period that Forbes ranked Illumina #1 on its list of rapidly growing technology companies. Illumina was also named #1 smartest company in the world as part of MIT's 2014 Technology Review. As of August 2014, the company had a $24 billion market capitalization.
Do you want to make a difference? Illumina's mission is to improve human health by unlocking the power of the genome. If that inspires you, let's talk. We've built a culture fueled by innovation, collaboration and openness, and established ourselves as the global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies. Our people and our technology change lives by driving advancements in life sciences, oncology, reproductive health, agriculture and other emerging markets. Life at Illumina is about working with teammates who are deeply passionate about what we do, because we know that our work has the power to improve lives.
We're an established company with a track record of phenomenal growth. Just check out our investor events and presentations to learn about our financial accomplishments. Our growth isn't just in financials, we've been busy hiring the best and the brightest. Perhaps that's why MIT has ranked Illumina near the top of its World's Smartest Companies each of the last three years. If you thrive in a brilliant, fast-paced, and mission-driven environment, Illumina is the place for you. Join the journey of a lifetime. Join Illumina.
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Palpimanus processiger est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Palpimanidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique du Rwanda.

Description
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Publication originale
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Palpimanidae
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Arvind Panagariya has a written an exhaustive review of the state of the Indian economy and its future prospects.
by A. Razin and E. Sadkain Brookings Trade Forum, 2007.
Their theoretical work emphasizes how set-up costs at home and in the host country can drive a wedge between marginal and total profit conditions. This insight combines with a description of FDI decision-making that separates the decision to invest and how much to invest.
Discussion of "The Political Economy of Indian Fiscal Federalism"
by I. Rajaraman in India Policy Forum, 2007.
The structure of fiscal federalism within developing countries can help dictate patterns of social spending and can interact with a variety of political economy considerations.
Discussion of "Does Economic Growth Reduce Fertility? Rural India 1971-1999"
by A. Foster and M. Rosenzweig" forthcoming in India Policy Forum, 2006.
(w/ J. R. Hines Jr.) National Tax Journal 58, no. 2 (June 2005), 275-278.


This postcard shows the islands of Loch Maree and Ben Slioch in Wester Ross. The loch contains over thirty islands, five of which are of moderate size. The south-east shore of the loch is dominated by Slioch which stands at 3,220ft and is only accessible from one side.


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The Cajones River, in the Ayotzintepec municipality, divides the Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca from the Sierra de Villa Alta in Oaxaca state, Mexico.
It joins the Manso River to form the Tesechoacan River, a tributary of the Papaloapan River.

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Waiting For Bondy In East Bondi
Alan Bond has been desperately trying to get out of jail in time for the upcoming America's Cup challenge in Auckland, but we're backing the Italians who have the Prada man's millions behind them
Alan Bond has been desperately trying to get out of jail in time for the upcoming America's Cup challenge in Auckland, but we're backing the Italians who have the Prada man's millions behind them
It is not Antigua. It's neither the South of France nor the bucket of Nantucket. It's the Hauraki Gulf off Auckland and you better believe it is America's Cup XXX – a 150-year-old sheltered workshop for high seas robber barons which started on Saturday in an ocean near you.
Crikey's yachting correspondents in East Bondi (yachts-for-all-the-workers was a key clause in the new Crikey enterprise bargaining agreement) are awash with bonhomie (and Mount Gay Rum) for this great event and send special cheerios to the oldest sporting trophy's greatest ever hero who is stuck in Karnet Prison Farm on the outskirts of Perth and may, sadly, miss this year's event entirely.
Bondy has asked the High Court for a special Get-Out-Of-Jail card claiming, among other things, the Constitution is un-constitutional, just so he can get to the races in New Zealand. The High Court has reserved its decision on his appalling appeal but the show will go on without him, as it has with Her Majesty's Pleasure since she was first told "there is no second" in 1851.
The Kiwis are the Cup holders and if they win it again, Australia can claim it as its own (like we will with Russell Crowe if he wins an Oscar). Always remember the key clause in the Closer Economic Relations agreement we have with the trans-Tasman Sheeplovers is this: "Phar Lap is an Australian horse if he is winning and a New Zealand horse if he is losing."
More than 65 percent of Kiwis don't believe the Kiwis can win and who are we to disagree with them. The other 35 per cent of the population have already emigrated to Australia. The head shepherd is Sir Peter Blake, a salt of some note who – only in NZ -goes by the preposterous title of Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. He got it for winning in 1995. At least we sent Bondy to jail (but not until he'd passed Go and collected $2.5 billion!).
Blake is feeding his crew a combination of high-altitude oxygen and deer velvet (we kid you not) to give them the ticker to take on the challenger. The Kiwis are the first defenders in the Cup's 150-year history not game enough to take themselves on in a defender series. "NZ is not bigger enough to have two syndicates," said Blake. The rest of the world are convinced they were afraid of losing to themselves and hence forfeiting the Cup.
Besides becoming a popular skylarking-suicide venue, the Cup Village would have done Mr Macawber proud with an "income shortfall" of $9 million declared this week despite getting three million people through the door. The defenders call their boat "Black Magic" which is entirely appropriate for Oceania's black sheep. They will wear "lucky" red socks made in Korea.
As should be perfectly clear by now, the Crikey yachting correspondents are rooting for the Italian challenger who's boat goes by the romantic name of "Luna Rossa". We are printing T-shirts with "Australians for the Italians" slogan in big letters – which is going down really well on the Auckland docks. In fact, so well that Australians are bobbing-up all over Auckland Harbour.
Our brave decision to back the Italians is based on the three great mysteries of life as we know it:
1.. The Italians will return to the good old days of Julius Caesar and starting kicking Kiwi arse and put those tired old jokes about Mussolini's tanks having five-reverse-gears-and-one-forward-gear behind them. ie they have the faster boat.
2.. We are barracking for whoever is playing against NZ. The Kiwis can't have much going for them if they can't beat the Wallabies or our netball team et al. ie they have the slower boat.
3.. There are more Italians in Leichardt and Carlton than Kiwis and – conversely – less Italians than Kiwis in Australia. The ZG staff have also voted to have their next yachting sabbatical on the Mediterranean.
We also like the cut of the Itai's gibe. Their chief gondolier is Signor Patrizio Bertelli, a low-down Neapolitan counterfeiter in the old swashbuckling-America's Cup tradition and not a upstart country bumpkin like the blowhard Kiwi, Sir Toby Blake.
Like the Jolly Swagman, Patrizio is the Jolly Bagman. He got knicked by the troopers when his factory was caught making fairly reasonable copies of Miuccia Prada's fashionable handbags. When she took both offence and legal action against him 12-years-ago, he upped the ante and jumped into the billabong and married her.
Together, they have turned Miuccia's Prada's third-generation artisan business into one of the world's must-have fashion labels and the Prada global conglomerate with a turnover of US$650 million. Prada's Jolly Bagman is said to have spent US$100 million on this year America's Cup. Whether it is true or not, if that is what his friends and enemies think, it will be money well spent.
The Prada boss arrived at his syndicate base tired and angry early on the last day of the challenger series. He had been kept awake until 3 am by music blaring from the base of his opponents, AmericaOne, and he wanted revenge. When he reached the Prada base at 7 am, Bertelli, who lives in his wooden yacht Ulisse berthed directly across from the rival compound, directed all Prada's stereo speakers towards the AmericaOne base right next door. And then he began playing the syndicate's theme, an old Neapolitan song called Luna Rossa, on repeat, perhaps hundreds of times before his boat left the dock.
Crikey's yachting correspondents love the song and hope to hear a lot more of it before the end of America's Cup XXX in East Bondi.


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Standing on the banks of the river Thames, London's botanical gardens, Kew Gardens, is an absolute joy to visit any time of the year, for grown-ups and children alike.
Orchids at Kew
The attraction is not just 30,000 different kinds of plants, but the beauty of the landscape and fascinating landmarks dotted all over the extensive grounds.
The royal beginnings of Kew Gardens are explored in Kew Palace, 17th century building in a Dutch style, made a royal residence by George III. Now a Historic Royal Palace, it tells the story of the royal family at Kew, and its garden features medicinal plants used in 17th century.
Plants from every corner of the world thrive in six conservatories, and if you are visiting at a warm time of the year, you can stroll by the biggest flower border in England!
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Ornamental buildings, museums and botanical art galleries attract over 1 million visitors a year. For the younger visitors, there are indoor and outdoor playgrounds, and a tree-top walk, as well as a train ride around the grounds and various eating establishments – everything for a perfect day out!
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Warfarin is a widely used anticoagulant agent with a large spectrum of indications for prevention and treatment of thromboembolic complications. Despite its low cost, warfarin and all other vitamin K antagonist (VKA) use has several limitations, including narrow therapeutic index requiring frequent laboratory monitoring to prevent complications related to under- and over-anticoagulation. The concomitant use of medications may alter the metabolism of warfarin by inducing or inhibiting the cytochrome P450-2C9, resulting in a decrease or increase in anticoagulant effect. In this setting, interactions between warfarin and antibiotics have been described. These interactions represent one of the problems with VKA use in the clinical setting. We aimed to report four cases where the prescription of antibiotics without proper control of anticoagulation levels led to major hemorrhagic complications.
Luana Marchesan, Raíssa Londero Chemello, Vanessa Thomé, Diego Chemello. Major bleeding precipitated by interactions between antibiotics and warfarin: a case series. International Journal of Case Reports, 2018 2:22. DOI: 10.28933/ijcr-2018-05-0701.
1. Kuruvilla M, Gurk-Turner C. A review of warfarin dosing and monitoring. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2001;14(3):305-306.
2. Schulman S, Beyth RJ, Kearon C, Levine MN. Hemorrhagic complications of anticoagulant and thrombolytic treatment: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (8th Edition). Chest. 2008;133(6 Suppl):257S-298S.
3. Clark NP, Delate T, Riggs CS, et al. Warfarin interactions with antibiotics in the ambulatory care setting. JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(3):409-416.
4. Lane MA, Zeringue A, McDonald JR. Serious bleeding events due to warfarin and antibiotic co-prescription in a cohort of veterans. Am J Med. 2014;127(7):657-663.e652.
5. Baillargeon J, Holmes HM, Lin YL, Raji MA, Sharma G, Kuo YF. Concurrent use of warfarin and antibiotics and the risk of bleeding in older adults. Am J Med. 2012;125(2):183-189.
6. Ghaswalla PK, Harpe SE, Tassone D, Slattum PW. Warfarin-antibiotic interactions in older adults of an outpatient anticoagulation clinic. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2012;10(6):352-360.
7. Haas S, Ten Cate H, Accetta G, et al. Quality of Vitamin K Antagonist Control and 1-Year Outcomes in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Global Perspective from the GARFIELD-AF Registry. PLoS One. 2016;11(10):e0164076.
8. Hylek EM, Held C, Alexander JH, et al. Major bleeding in patients with atrial fibrillation receiving apixaban or warfarin: The ARISTOTLE Trial (Apixaban for Reduction in Stroke and Other Thromboembolic Events in Atrial Fibrillation): Predictors, Characteristics, and Clinical Outcomes. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014;63(20):2141-2147.
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The Global Peace Project aims to highlight the recurring themes of peace, love and compassion for humanity that are common throughout the world's major religions. The project's overall goal is to promote global understanding, peace, and tolerance.
ACET-Global is supporting the development and publication of a number of short books outlining the core tenets of several world religions. These books have the goal of promoting harmony and understanding across all faiths and people. The books will be available free of charge to interested people across the globe.
The first book focuses on the fundamental teachings of Islam, and the often misinterpreted and misrepresented values of peace and respect. In highlighting the true teachings of Islam, this book will work to promote non-violence and the eradication of negative interpretations of this religion.
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Dreams and Shakespeare: Othello
Shakespeare's most cunning villain turns sleep and dreaming against his enemies.
At the center of Shakespeare's dark tragedy is the cruel dynamic between Othello, a magnificent warrior and heroic leader, and Iago, his resentful subordinate. (In the current production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chris Butler performs in the title role, and Iago is played by Danforth Comins). Despite being a dark-skinned Moor, Othello has earned the trust of the white Christians of Venice because of his military valor and success in defending their city. But Iago secretly hates Othello, and he launches a devilish plan to ruin, humiliate, and destroy him, all while pretending to be Othello's most faithful servant. A subtle weapon in Iago's arsenal is his malicious manipulation of people's perceptions of sleep, beds, and dreaming.
The play opens with an overwrought gentleman, Roderigo, furiously accusing Iago of betrayal. Roderigo is in love with Desdemona (played in the OSF production by Alejandra Escalante), a Senator's daughter, and he has been paying Iago for help in wooing her. Now comes the shocking news that Desdemona has already married Othello, and Roderigo demands to know how Iago could have let this happen. These are Iago's first words of the play:
"'Sblood, but you'll not hear me. If ever I did dream of such a matter, abhor me." (I.i.4-5)
Iago tells Roderigo his suspicions are no more credible than the fleeting whimsies of a dream. He relies on a kind of proverbial phrasing that equates dreams with something as far as possible from the conscious mind. He's telling Roderigo: Not only did I not know about this, but it was not even in the furthest reaches of my awareness.
In fact, Iago did know about it, and he may well have dreamed about it, too (more on that below). He already knows about Desdemona, and he already has a plan for using her against the Moor. While he and Roderigo have been talking about their mutual hatred of Othello, Iago has been steering them through the dark nighttime streets of Venice, straight to the home of Desdemona and her family. Their yelling brings Brabantio, Desdemona's father, to the window. Prodded by Iago, Roderigo informs the Senator that his daughter has secretly married Othello (Iago puts it in more inflammatory terms: "your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs" (I.i.115-116)). Brabantio urgently calls for all the servants of his house to awaken, light candles, and search for his daughter. For a moment he pauses to reflect:
"This accident is not unlike my dream, belief of it oppresses me already." (I.i.141-142)
Iago slinks into the night before Brabantio confirms that Desdemona is missing, but his dastardly work is done. Brabantio has awakened to his worst fear—the dishonoring of his daughter—and Iago has insured that all his paternalistic rage will be aimed straight at Othello.
It seems unlikely that Iago knew Brabantio was dreaming right before he awoke, but it certainly works to the villain's advantage. In a way, Iago both creates Brabantio's dream and interprets it. If he and Roderigo had not caused a noisy uproar, Brabantio would have kept sleeping, and might not have remembered this dream at all. Once Brabantio is awake, if he had not been immediately confronted with the shocking news of his daughter's betrayal, he might have associated the dream with something else in his life. Although he seems slightly ambivalent about the dream's relevance to the situation with his daughter (they are "not unlike"), it takes no time for the two to become fused emotionally in his mind ("it oppresses me already"). This is just as Iago would want. Iago has manipulated Brabantio into using the energies of his dreams to fuel his vendetta against Othello.
From Brabantio's perspective, everything in the play turns out just as badly as he feared it would. In that regard, his dream could be regarded as an accurate prophecy of the doomed future. Even though he's wrong about Desdemona's virtue and integrity, he's right about the danger to her posed by the Moor. Iago is the interpretive agent of this realization, and he turns Brabantio's insight into a weapon aimed straight at Othello's heart.
Alas, the shot has no effect. Brabantio cannot persuade the leaders of Venice to act against Othello, given their overriding need of his military protection, plus Desdemona's sincere declarations of love for him.
Thus Iago must devise a new plan to destroy Othello. In the final lines of Act I Iago is onstage alone, pondering the question "How? How?" In a burst of malevolent inspiration, he envisions an intricate plot using people's fears and biases against them, all leading to a single violent end. Iago revels in his own nightmarish brilliance:
"I have't, it is engend'red: Hell and Night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light." (I.iii.410-411)
Later, just before a key piece of action begins, Iago refers again to the nocturnal provenance of his plan:
"But here they come: if consequence do but approve my dream, my boat sails freely, both with wind and stream." (II.iii.61-62)
He likens his scheme to a prophetic dream that predicts the future. At one level this is quite ironic, since Iago is anything but superstitious. His behavior reflects a pure form of willful, defiant individualism; he is determined to create his own chosen future, not wait passively for his fate.
But at another level this comment appears as an honest self-recognition of his unusual powers of imagination. Iago's "dream" is a detailed prediction about what will happen if certain people's emotions are stimulated in specific ways and channeled towards certain other people. He has set this dream in motion, and he can accurately foresee where it will lead. He knows that Othello's downfall will begin with the destruction of his sleep:
"Not Poppy, nor Mandragora, nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep which thou ow'dst yesterday." (III.iii.320-323)
While he steals the sweet sleep of Othello, Iago adds bitter falsehoods to the sleep of the Moor's top military assistant, Cassio. To persuade Othello that Cassio has illicit desires for Desdemona, Iago tells the following story:
"I lay with Cassio lately, and being troubled with a raging tooth, I could not sleep. There are a kind of men so loose of soul that in their sleeps will mutter their affairs: one of this kind is Cassio. In sleep I heard him say, 'Sweet Desdemona, let us be wary, let us hide our loves.' And then, Sir, would he gripe, and wring my hand, cry 'Oh sweet creature,' and then kiss me hard, as if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots that grew upon my lips; laid his leg o'er my thigh, and sigh'd and kiss'd, and then cried, 'Cursed fate, that gave thee to the Moor.'" (III.iii.403-415)
This story serves Iago's cause in several ways. Because of the nature of the circumstances (it's night, they're asleep), it cannot be checked or verified. It appears to be a special, unguarded insight into Cassio's true character, and it fits with other clues Iago has laid before the Moor. It allows Iago to insert the most blatantly sexual and jealousy-stimulating images into Othello's mind, but from a source that can easily be dismissed as trivial and foolish. Indeed, Iago bolsters his own credibility when he feigns skepticism about the waking-world significance of Cassio's strange sleeping behavior:
"Nay, this was but his dream." (III.iii.416)
As Iago intends, Othello replies by insisting that he shall decide for himself what to think about Cassio:
"But this denoted a foregone conclusion: 'tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream." (III.iii.417-418)
From here, Iago immediately pivots to the topic of the precious handkerchief that Othello gave as a present to Desdemona, and that Iago has stolen and is about to plant in Cassio's possession. Iago thereby weaves together "proofs" from various sources, each one small in itself but together forming a larger pattern of meaning, a pattern that, unbeknownst to Othello, has been predetermined to drive him mad. The mighty warrior is no match for his malevolent servant's interpretive reasoning.
For the most part, Iago acts as a mere assistant, letting Othello feel like he is in charge of determining what his wife has been doing and how he should respond. But at one crucial moment Iago gives the Moor a shocking directive. Othello has just decided he must kill Desdemona for her infidelity, and he asks Iago to get him some poison. Iago replies:
"Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated." (IV.i.214-215)
Iago makes this horrifying proposal because he knows that Othello's rage is also mixed with sadness ("but yet the pity of it, Iago") and might distract him from carrying out his deadly intentions. By demanding that he kill Desdemona in their marital bed, Iago helps Othello perceive it as a heroic act with an epic meaning, a violent but noble triumph in the cause of restoring moral order to the universe. Othello replies:
"Good, good, the justice of it pleases; very good." (IV.i.216)
Iago has persuaded Othello to think of murdering his wife in their bed as pleasing, as "good, good… very good." This line is chilling testimony to Iago's success in warping Othello's soul.
This is the same bed that Desdemona, just a few scenes earlier, has playfully described as a "school" where she hopes to teach her husband about empathy and compassion for others (III.iii.24). She is planning to devote herself to expanding his emotional self-awareness, but she never gets the chance. The bed where she wants to cultivate their relationship in new directions becomes the place where he, in a single-minded rage, will destroy it.
Othello likes to think of himself in larger-than-life terms, as a legendary hero bursting forth from a realm of mythic dreams. Desdemona loves him for his adventurous spirit, but she is also trying to temper his warrior instincts and bring out a fuller human being. Iago, however, feeds his grandiosity, stokes his reflexive aggression, and encourages his naïve assumptions. Othello, the proud and courageous veteran of so many fearsome battles, chooses, at this decisive moment in his life, to follow the easier, cowardly path. Death and destruction for all is the result.
Posted on March 8, 2017 April 19, 2017
Dreams and Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
Prophetic dreams of doom go unheeded in Shakespeare's tragedy about violent political strife among the greatest leaders of ancient Rome.
In Julius Caesar, strange dreams and nightmares join with other frightening portents to besiege the people of Rome from all sides. Terrible storms, weird avian behavior, and a haunting Soothsayer add to the pervasive sense of inescapable doom pressing down on the city. The very foundations of the world, both political and cosmic, are cracking apart. Forces of chaos have been set loose within the empire. And yet, not a single one of Rome's political leaders has the visionary capacity to recognize the signs of danger. For their failures to heed these warnings, they pay with their lives.
The great Caesar himself sets the tone in an early scene, when the Soothsayer gives him an unmistakable warning: "Beware the Ides of March." Caesar is the first character to make the grievous mistake of dismissing as trivial something that turns out to be a vital truth. For the supreme leader of the Roman empire, the reason for rejecting the Soothsayer boils down to one word: he is a dreamer. To be a dreamer, then, is to have nothing of significance to say to the ruling authority. But as the play later reveals, it is the dreamer who had the most significant message of all for the ruler. This complex polarity of dreaming and political power recurs throughout this play, and in many of Shakespeare's other plays as well.
Though named after Caesar, the play focuses more attention on Brutus, the popular Roman senator who faces an awful moral choice: Should he stay loyal to his long-time friend and comrade-in-arms, who has shown no evidence of tyrannical tendencies? Or should he defend the city and people he loves from the imminent threat of a dictator seizing total control of their government? The agony of making a decision has disrupted his sleep, to the point where nightmarish feelings and images begin seeping into his waking mind, threatening his mental balance.
His sleep-deprived condition makes Brutus easy prey for the deception of Cassius, who fabricates the letter from the people of Rome urging Brutus to take charge of the rebellion against Caesar. Brutus muses over the line about needing to "awake." What he really needs is to sleep, yet the letter urges him (metaphorically) to do the opposite. By taking the letter at its face value, Brutus compounds his mistake—accepting something as true that is in fact the opposite.
The most powerful prophetic dream in Julius Caesar is also the one that receives the most egregiously mistaken interpretation. The dream occurs to Calphurnia, Caesar's wife, one of the only female characters in the play. She does not narrate the dream herself; her husband tells it for her. He relates that she cried out three times in her sleep about his murder, then woke up and told him about a dream of a statue with blood pouring out from all sides. This is almost exactly what happens to Caesar later that day, and at first he accepts the dream's warning and plans on protecting himself at home rather than going out.
But Decius has been sent by the conspirators for the exact reason of luring Caesar out of his palace and escorting him to the Senate, when they will lie in wait, knives at the ready. Calphurnia's dream poses a direct obstacle to their plan, so Decius must quickly devise an alternative reading of the dream, one that calms Caesar's fears and persuades him to lower his guard. Using a combination of fawning flattery and rank misogyny, Decius leads Caesar away from the dream's true meaning and toward a false interpretation that actually facilitates the fatal fulfillment of the prophecy.
Immediately after this debate over the proper interpretation of Calphurnia's dream, the next scene opens with the reading of a letter by a character named Artemidorus of Cidnos, a well-regarded teacher who finds out about the assassination plot. His letter contains a true account of the plot, and if he had succeeded in giving it to Caesar, it would have saved the ruler's life. But as with all the other portents of impending doom, Caesar ignored this one, too, and Artemidorus calls for the ruler's attention in vain. The character of Artemidorus of Cidnos may have had a historical source, but at least some of the people in Shakespeare's audience would also have associated him with Artemidorus of Daldis, another famous Roman teacher who wrote the Oneirocritica, the most influential manual of dream interpretation for many centuries. The Oneirocritica was well-known in Shakespeare's time, and most of the popular dream interpretation manuals available to the public were based on the system of Artemidorus of Daldis. Perhaps it is just a coincidence that a scene with a failure to properly interpret an important dream about Caesar is followed by a scene in which a character named Artemidorus fails to convey an important message to Caesar. But some of the audience, and maybe Shakespeare himself, would have followed a connecting thematic thread through these scenes, and many other as well, about the dangers of missing a warning of dangers in dreaming.
The murder of Caesar sets loose a similar dynamic in the streets of Rome. A young poet, Cinna, awakens with a dream of feasting with Caesar, and like Caesar he hesitates in setting foot out of the house that morning because of the ill omen. But some irresistible force compels him to go forth, where he encounters a mob of people inflamed by Marc Antony's speech against Brutus and the other assassins. The mob confuses Cinna the poet with another man named Cinna who helped the conspiracy against Caesar. Even though the young poet tells the angry people of their mistake, they violently attack him anyway. The madness of the vengeful crowd dispenses with the need to distinguish truth from illusion.
In the bloody battles for power that follow Caesar's murder, the forces of Brutus are soon pushed to the brink of defeat. Brutus senses his time has come because the ghost of Caesar appears to him in a quasi-dream state, terrifying him with the presentiment of his own impending death. When the ghost departs, Brutus awakens Lucius and asks if he has been dreaming and cried out; Lucius confusedly says no, and Brutus struggles to process the uncanny reality of what he has just experienced. His epistemological uncertainty signals the further dissolution of his capacity to keep his waking and sleeping states from blurring into each other.
When the end comes, Brutus welcomes it as a long-desired rest. Only now does he clearly foresee his future. He conscripts the last of his friends, the slumbering Strato, to awaken and help ease him into an eternal slumber.
Contemporary performances:
The amazing production of Julius Caesar I saw at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in February, directed by Shana Cooper, had a setting so abstract and desaturated it could have been anywhere, or everywhere. Untethered to any specific time period, it explored the dark psychological dynamics of male aggression, vanity, and ambition. The bloody choreography of masculine violence overshadowed the fine speeches about political virtue. By the end of the play all the physical structures on stage had been torn to pieces and cast to the ground. Tyranny had been averted, but at the cost of chaos.
Two casting choices made this production especially powerful. First, Brutus was played by Danforth Comins, who performed as Hamlet in last year's OSF production of that play. Like Hamlet, Brutus agonizes over existential questions of duty, justice, and personal loyalty, and Comins gave the character a tremendous depth of consciousness, especially during his scenes of sleepless brooding. Second, the part of the Soothsayer was played by Brooklyn Williams, a 12-year old girl who wore a sleeveless green dress. This was a brilliant move, jarring to audience expectations perhaps, but unforgettably effective in showing that true wisdom, and even a hint of future growth, may come from the most improbable of sources.
References to sleep and dreams in the play:
I.2.29
Julius Caesar waves away the Soothsayer (who has just told Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March"): "He is a dreamer. Let us leave him. Pass."
I.2.203
Caesar says he prefers to be surrounded by agreeable men who are "fat, sleek-headed," "such as sleep a-nights."
II.1.4
Brutus tries to awaken his sleeping assistant Lucius, whose deep slumber he envies: "I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly."
II.1.48, 50
Brutus opens a letter supposedly sent to him from the people of Rome, encouraging him to lead the rebellion: "Brutus, thou sleep'st. Awake, and see thyself!" He then repeats this line to himself.
The stress of the conspiracy against Caesar has taken its toll on Brutus: "Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept." Brutus goes on to describe his agonized mental state as something "like a phantasma or a hideous dream."
II.1.214
Cassius tells the other conspirators that Caesar has become more superstitious recently, a change from his previously skeptical views "of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies."
II.1.248-252
Brutus finds Lucius asleep again, and praises the youth for his innocence: "Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies/Which busy care draws in the brains of men"
II.2.1-3
At night during a terrible storm, Caesar comes out of his bedroom and says "Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried out/'Help ho, they murder Caesar!'"
II.2.80-4
Caesar says he will stay home today because of the warning vision seen by his wife in her sleep: "She dreamt tonight she saw my statue,/Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,/Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans/Came smiling and did bathe their hands in it."
II.2.88-111
Decius, one of the conspirators, persuades Caesar that Calphurnia's dream actually has a more favorable meaning: "This dream is all amiss interpreted./It was a vision fair and fortunate./Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,/In which so many smiling Romans bathed,/Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck/Reviving blood, and that great men shall press/For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance./This by Calphurnia's dream is signified." Caesar is more pleased by the interpretation of Decius ("And this way you have well expounded it") than by his wife's ("How foolish do your fears seem now, Calphurnia!/I am ashamed I did yield to them").
Artemidorus of Cidnos reads a letter of warning that he plans to deliver directly to Caesar.
III.3.1-4
Cinna the poet goes out in the streets despite having just had an unsettling dream: "I dreamt tonight that I did feast with Caesar;/And things unluckily charge my fantasy." Moments later he is attacked by a mob who mistakes him for one of the conspirators.
IV.3.286
Brutus invites his comrades to rest before the next day's battle: "I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep."
IV.3.318-323
After Lucius and the others fall asleep and the candle burns low, Brutus sees the ghost of Caesar: "Ha, who comes here?—/I think it is the weakness of mine eyes/That shapes this monstrous apparition./It comes upon me.—Art thou any thing?/Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,/That mak'st my blood cold and my hair to stare?"
Deeply startled, Brutus wakes everyone up and asks if they saw anything: "Didst thou dream, Lucius, that thou so criedst out?"
V.5.1
Facing the end, Brutus says to his weary comrades: "Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock."
V.5.20-3
Brutus says he knows his "hour has come" because he has seen the ghost of Caesar "two several times by night."
V.5.36-46
Brutus bids farewell to his friends, even one who has fallen asleep on the rock: "Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep,/Farewell to thee, too, Strato." By this point he welcomes death: "Night hangs upon my eyes; my bones would rest,/That have but labored to attain this hour." A moment later, his other friends run away. Strato awakens, and holds the sword by which Brutus kills himself.
Updated notes:
Here's an article by Mary Beard in The New Statesman about the unintended political consequences of the assassination of Julius Caesar.


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A former Midland Police officer was sentenced to probation and community service on Wednesday after having pled guilty last month to a misdemeanor charge of receiving and concealing stolen property worth between $200 and $1,000.
Sean Seabase, who had addresses in both Midland and Merrill listed in the court file, was placed on unpaid administrative leave while he faced the charge in the Midland County District Court and has since resigned.
In addition to 12 months of probation and 40 hours of community service, Seabase will have to pay fines and costs of $1,000 and not use drugs or alcohol.
The offense occurred in Midland on March 15, 2010 when Seabase came into the possession of a 37-inch flat screen television worth $727 and belonging to Rent-A-Center. Seabase previously said that he intended to keep the television for himself and that he knew it wasn't his.
On Wednesday, Seabase told Judge Stephen P. Carras that he plans to stay in the area and seek employment.
"I apologize for wasting your time, your honor," Seabase said.
The case was investigated by Michigan State Police from the Mount Pleasant Post. Midland Police Chief Gerald Ladwig previously said Seabase was off duty when the incident occurred.


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The Incongruity In The Church
"No tree 'can' bring forth fruit inconsistent with its nature..." - Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary
"True religion (Christianity) will not admit of contradictions; and a truly religious (Christian) man can never allow of them either in his words or actions..." - Matthew Henry
"God's children are full of love and live holy lives. Those of the devil are the opposite." - People's New Testament
"There is no middle class between the children of God and the children of the devil." - Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary
"A life of sin is proof that one is a child of the devil and not of God." - Robertson's Word Pictures
"Every thing both in the animal and vegetable world was made so according to its kind, both in genus and species, so as to produce its own kind through endless generations. Thus the several races of animals and plants have been kept distinct from the foundation of world to the present day."
- Adam Clarke
In James 3:12, the Apostle James asks a very interesting question - "Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh." Although James is referring here to the incongruity of the tongue bringing forth blessing and cursing from the same source (the heart), we would like to use this Scripture as a springboard in speaking about the contrariety or contradiction that is allowed in the churches of today.
As the about verse implies, no one would go to a "fig tree" looking for "olive berries." Nor would anyone walk up to a "vine" expecting to find "figs." No tree bears two opposite kinds of fruit. On the contrary, every tree bears fruit according to its kind. Hence, a fig tree bears figs...an olive tree bears olives berries...and a vine bears grapes.
In Genesis, we see over and over the order of God in creating everything "after his kind."
Genesis 1:11 says - "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so."
Genesis 1:12 says - "And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good."
Genesis 1:21 says - "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good."
Genesis 1:24 says - "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so."
Throughout these Scriptures, we see the intimation that "like produces like." The kinds or species are fixed and don't run into one another. Each of them produces a seed according to its own nature. What is sown produces the like. The power of multiplication is in itself.
Notice that whatever God spoke - "it was so." The "seed' in itself produced fruit "after his kind." And the Bible goes on to say - "...and God saw that it was good." He was pleased with the congruity of the similar natures throughout His creation.
"Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh."
Let's take this question and statement from James and apply it to the church today.
Are we - generally speaking - guilty of permitting a "fig tree" to say that it is bearing "olive berries"...a "vine," "figs"...or a "fountain" yielding both "salt water and fresh" and not questioning the incongruity of it all? Nature itself says that this is impossible. Everything produces "after its own kind." Yet, in the church, we have people confessing that they are "Born Again" and still have the nature of Satan in them or are producing fruit "after his kind."
1 Peter 1:23 says - "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever."
1 John 3:9 says - "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God."
1 John 3:10 says - "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother."
"The child of God" has a divine and heavenly principle of life implanted in his spirit. This is the divine nature of God which produces "after His kind." It is an internal principle of grace...a germ of piety and holiness produced in the heart by the Word and Holy Spirit...a new nature...a new man formed... containing all grace to oppose, check, and prevent sin.
This "child of God" is characterized by two main traits - he does what is right according to the Bible and walks in love toward others. On the contrary, those who omit and disregard their duties toward God and man and despise, persecute, or oppress others are the "children of the devil." One carries the "seed of God" within him causing him to do what is right; the other has the "seed of the serpent" in him causing him to sin and rebel against God's commands or standard of holiness.
Matthew 13:38 says - "...the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one." Notice the distinction that is made between the two. There is no half-breed implied nor tolerated.
John 8:44 says - "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do..." Notice that the children will imitate their father in his ways.
We see what the Scriptures are saying, yet in the church of today, we call people "Christians" who are - "full of all subtlety and mischief"..."enemies of righteousness"...and "perverting the right ways of the Lord" (Acts 13:10). We think nothing of those who claim to be saved, yet are walking in unforgiveness, bitterness, and hatred toward their brethren when the Bible strictly says that - "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love" (1 John 4:8).
Doesn't the Bible say in 1 John 3:7-8 - "Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning..."?
1 John 2:29 says - "If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him." John 8:47 says - "He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God."
3 John 11 says - "...He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God."
There is no tolerance here for incongruity. The Bible is not advocating going to the "fig tree" and expecting to find "olive berries" or going to the "vine" expecting to find "figs." Everything is "after his own kind."
Isaiah 61:11 says - "For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth..." Whatever seed is sown in a garden, that is the kind of plant that will spring forth. Hence, if you sow the Word of God into an individual, righteousness and praise will result. On the other hand, if you sow worldliness, carnality, covetousness, lust, hatred, strife, violence, etc., sin will be the result.
The problem is - we have spiritual "fountains" walking around yielding both "salt water and fresh," and we think nothing of it. We have spiritual "fig trees" bearing "olive berries," yet it doesn't affect us. We have spiritual "vines" producing "figs," yet we don't blink an eye over it. It has all become acceptable.
Notwithstanding, the Bible does not advocate such incongruity in nature among those who name the name of Christ.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary confirms this fact with these words - "There is no middle class between the children of God and the children of the devil."
Matthew Henry adds - "True religion (Christianity) will not admit of contradictions; and a truly religious (Christian) man can never allow of them either in his words or actions..."
Contradictions...inconsistency...contrariety...incongruity - it should never be accepted in the church.
Then tell me, why is it happening - and on such a large scale - when God created everything "after his kind" and then called it "good" ?


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Q: can't get the error on next.js server side data fetching i try to get the error on my next.js server side data fetching
but i have 2 problems
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it says err object is not serializable and i can't see console.log result
i try to convert err to string and get object undefined
it comes to catch block i check it with assign it "custom error message" but i don't have access to catch's exception message

the official doc in next.js only uses custom message

A: The error Object is not serializable means that your object cannot be transformed into a JSON serialized version the way it is (probably the err object is too complex).
From your code, it seems that it is most likely an error thrown by axios, so what you could try to send is err.message to have the error message. If you want more information, you can check the axios documentation. Also keep in mind that undefined is not a value that can be serialized, and you should be using null instead when needed.

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Jamal Murray, Age and height and Jersey
By Ebenezer Jones March 29, 2022
Jamal Murray (born February 23, 1997) is a Canadian professional basketball player who currently plays for the NBA's Denver Nuggets.
In addition, he is a member of the Canadian national team.
He played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats before being selected seventh overall in the 2016 NBA Draft by the Nuggets.
Interesting revelation, but Jamal Murray is of three ethnicities.
His mum Sylvia is from Syria and his dad Roger Murray is a Jamaican immigrant who moved to live in Canada at 9.
Hence, he is partly Syrian, Jamaican and Canadian, having multi-nationalities.
Murray was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Jamal has a younger brother called Lamar.
Murray studied at Kitchener's Grand River Collegiate Institute before transferring to Orangeville Prep in Orangeville, where his father was an assistant coach.
He teamed up with fellow prospect Thon Maker to help Orangeville Prep defeat a number of American schools.
He was named MVP twice in his high school career, at the 2013 Jordan Brand Classic International Game and the 2015 BioSteel All-Canadian Basketball Game.
Murray committed to Kentucky on June 24, 2015, to play under coach John Calipari.
After a year at Kentucky Murray declared for the 2016 NBA draft, forgoing his final three years of college eligibility.
Murray was picked seventh overall in the 2016 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets on June 23, 2016.
He signed his rookie scale contract with the Nuggets on August 9, 2016.
During the games of November and December, his performance led him to be named Western Conference Rookie of the Month.
Earning this achievement after he scored a career-high 19 points in a game 112-105 with Portland Trail Blazers, which lead to their loss.
And in a game with Chicago Bulls, he topped that mark by scoring 24 points in 110-107 points, winning over them.
Murray earned many points contributing to his team's victory.
On the first day of free agency period in the 2019-20 season, Murray signed a contract extension of a 5-year, $170 million maximum deal with the Nuggets.
Murray scored 40 points and nailed six three-pointers in Game 7 against the Los Angeles Clippers on September 15, leading the Nuggets to a series-clinching 104–89 victory and a return to the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 2009.
The Nuggets became the first club in NBA history to overcome two 3–1 deficits in a single postseason with the victory.
The Nuggets would go on to lose in five games to the eventual NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, with Murray posting up 28 points, 8 rebounds, and 12 assists in the lone Denver victory in Game 3.
On February 19, 2021, Murray finessed a career–high 50 points in a 120–103 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
During the game he became the first player in NBA history to score 50 points without attempting a free throw, as well as being the second player to get 50 points while shooting more than 80 percent from the field and from beyond the arc.
Murray led Canada to a bronze medal in the FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship in Uruguay in 2013, averaging 17 points, 6 rebounds, and 2.4 steals per game.
At the 2015 Pan American Games, he was a member of the Canadian national team, which won a silver medal.
He averaged 16.0 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game in the tournament, while shooting 45.9% from the floor.
Murray suffered a torn ACL on his left knee during a game against the Golden State Warriors.
The following day the Nuggets announced Murray would be out indefinitely.
On April 21, Murray underwent surgery on the torn ACL on his left knee.
Murray signed a contract extension of a 5-year, $170 million maximum deal with the Nuggets.
Age and height
Jamal is 25 years old now and is 6 feet 3 inches (1.91m) in height.
Jamal Murray Signed a Multiyear Shoe Contract with New Balance, starting off the 2020-21 season with the Two Wxy.
The point guard wears the number 27 jersey for the Denver Nuggets
Jamal Murray's net worth is around $5.2 million.
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On 6 July, Raya Qonversation, an event co-organised by Gender Equality is Our Culture (GEC), LGBTQ organisations Jejaka and The Healing Circle SG, and a support group for Muslim women, Penawar, was held. The event allowed individuals who identify as queer and queer allies to come together and celebrate Hari Raya in a safe space while discussing topics related to gender, sexuality and faith.
The night opened with a sharing session by some participants on the current scholarship of gender and sexual diversity in Islam. They brought up ideas that were discussed by the scholars, namely, capturing the discussion of sexual diversity through karamah (the concept of dignity in Islam). They discussed how classical and contemporary scholars have shown that there is space in Islam for an understanding of religious texts that are more inclusive (of gender and sexuality) and does not limit interpretations through the perspective of gender binary.
With the tone set for the night, audience members chimed in with their individual perspectives and personal experiences. Many voiced their hopes for greater inclusivity in mosques, here in Singapore. Such establishments are beginning to crop up in cities around the world. For example, a participant shared her experience of worshipping at The Open Mosque in Cape Town – where there was no gender segregation and prayers were led by an openly gay Imam. While alternative displays of religious practice could raise some eyebrows in the Singaporean Muslim community, it was obvious that many in the room that night shared similar sentiments and aspirations.
In between bites of rainbow kek lapis and rainbow cookies, the discussion took a more serious turn as participants reflected on the question – is being gay a trial from God? This notion of sexuality as a trial is often used against individuals who identify as queer within the Muslim community. It demands them to reflect, repent and to 'get back onto the right path' because many in the community sees homosexuality, or any other sexual orientation that deviates from heteronormativity, as being unacceptable. The audience noted that for some, this notion is more than just self-doubt and self-hatred; it is a form of internalised homophobia, and that working to correct the thinking can be liberating for the individual.
The event concluded with a hopeful speech by the organisers that there should be more enlightening conversations as the ones had in this session.
Even though the night was filled with heavy conversations, there was still much joy and cheer as everyone mingled and bonded while snacking on Raya food. Not to mention, everyone came dressed for the event in their best kebaya and baju melayu, it felt like we were having a Hari Raya open house of our own!
GEC is a project that promotes gender-equitable interpretations of culture within the Muslim community.
Jejaka is a support group that provides support to gay Malay Muslim men in Singapore.
The Healing Circle.sg aims to provide a safe space for LGBTQ+ Malay Muslims to embrace both their spirituality and sexual orientation.
Penawar is a support group for women raised in Muslim households.


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what is the coldest temperature possible
Jan. 23, 1971. My wife can use my life insurance check to do whatever she wants. One of the first to discuss the possibility of an absolute minimal temperature was Robert Boyle. Contemporary models of physical cosmology postulate that the highest possible temperature is the Planck temperature, which has the value 1.416 785 (71) × 10 32 kelvin, or about 2.55 × 10 32 fahrenheit. This tool helps you do just that. One more cycle of "evaporative cooling" occurs, and you're left with 30,000 sodium atoms at a temperature of 450 picokelvins—the lowest temperature ever recorded. They are 100% unsure what condition the body and mind would be after thawing out from cryonics. The average normal body temperature is most often said to be 98.6° F (37° C). –80. Given that harrowing finding, it's worth finding out how cold it can get before your goose is officially, uh, frozen. At 82 degrees F (28 C), you might lose consciousness. It is also called 0 kelvin, a scale with increments equivalent to degrees of Celsius, but which uses absolute zero rather than water's freezing point as its starting point.This is the point at which all atomic motion ceases. Temperatures near absolute zero have been achieved with the techniques of laser cooling and magnetic evaporative cooling. The Coldest Place in the Universe Physicists in Massachusetts come to grips with the lowest possible temperature: absolute zero Hence, it can be concluded that – 273°C is the lowest possible temperature. Want to save up to 30% on your monthly bills? Lv 4. Is Guinness Beer Related to the Guinness Book of World Records? In magnetic evaporative cooling, the remaining atoms are held in loosely place by a magnetic field, and the more energetic atoms eventually escape, leaving behind the slowest remainders. Using these techniques, temperatures as low as 250 picokelvins (pK) have been achieved. The coldest recorded body temperature a person has ever survived is 56.7 degrees F (13.2 degrees C), according to Atlas Obscura.That almost-corpse-sickle was a woman named Anna Bågenholm, who fell into a frozen stream while skiing in 1999. Lowest temperature records in Balkan countries. His 1665 New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, articulated the dispute known as the primum frigidum. I read people will leave their money to these companies! The more oscillation there is in the air or in an object, the more heat there is and the higher the temperature. The temperature of our environment is one example. January 9, 2020. Masons must act promptly and follow special steps to keep masonry warm and workable. A record cold high temperature means that it will be the coldest high temperature ever recorded on that date. Which Material Has the Highest Melting Point? That's not for me at all. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak. "The record-low temperature was reached in a piece of rhodium metal, which was cooled to 100 pK, or 0.000 000 000 1 degrees above the absolute zero. When the weather outside is frightful, you can start a delightful fire, wear layers of clothes, and pack on warmth-giving fat by drinking too much hot chocolate. The lowest possible temperature, or absolute zero as it is called, is -459.67°F (-273.15°C). Without dust particles, the temperature can get even lower before the water turns to ice. by Tibi Puiu. Matter this cold can behave in bizarre ways, forming structures called Bose-Einstein condensates, which demonstrate a property called superfluidity, or the flowing of atoms without viscosity. physics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, and futurism. 0 0. Masonry work requires special attention when working temperatures are below 40 F. Very cold weather changes the behavior of mortar and can lead to cracking and other problems. The absolute zero is the limit of all temperatures, -273.15 °C, a temperature one can never reach. In laser cooling, fast-moving atoms are jostled with photons until they slow down to 1/10,000th of a degree kelvin. Relationship between Celsius and Kelvin scale is as follows: Substitute the temperature given in Kelvin scale in the above expression to get the temperature in Celsius scale. However, you don't need to be in a frozen lake or even freezing weather to risk dying of hypothermia. Has it been proven they can be brought back to life or are they frozen with no guarantee to be awoken? This may have been correct when it was first determined 150 years ago. And that they will just totally let you thaw out and bury you if they don't receive your payment. If this line is extended to zero volume, then it intersects the temperature-axis at – 273°C. If possible, remove them from the cold immediately. With heat, though, lighting a fire is counterproductive, you can't keep taking off your clothes once you're naked, and consuming too much cold stuff too quickly might give you brain freeze. But our bodies have changed. The coldest temperature recorded in the contiguous U.S. is 70 degrees below zero, measured at Rogers Pass, Montana, on Jan. 20, 1954. Is it true some people are frozen and stored somewhere only to be thawed way in the future? So if air conditioning isn't enough and you run out of scarves to remove, your only recourse is to start ripping off your skin like Robbie Williams in that terrifying "Rock DJ" video . I didn't know it was that hard to cease thermal energy, but I guess I'm comparing it to what a human can stand versus life in its simplest form. passionate about stem cell research, regenerative medicine, and life extension therapies. This figure is based on a 2015 study by The Lancet that examined 74 million deaths in 13 countries. The minimum and maximum possible temperatures. If you spray a can of aerosols, the can gets cold."
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The Games of 2019 are nearly upon us and what an event they promise to be. On this occasion we will be celebrating 20 years of the Aberdeen Highland Games. When organising the inaugural Games in 2000 I don't believe any of us contemplated the 20 year celebration but here we are! It is a pleasure to announce that our Honoured Guest for 2019 is Nicola O'Driscoll.
Nicola grew up at Kayuga, a property west of Aberdeen and has a strong bond with this area. She was educated in Sydney and Armidale and then became a Chartered Accountant while working in Sydney. Upon returning to the Upper Hunter in 1996 to work at Coolmore Stud, a position she left when she married her husband Tony O'Driscoll.
Sunday was a fantastic day at Muswellbrook Race Club for Aberdeen Cup. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Highland Games we had a touch of the new Upper Hunter Tartan. KULNURA won race 4 VINERY STUD B66 HCP 1500M for David Atkins with Samantha Clenton riding in the new Tartan jockey Silks. The Tartan was…
On Saturday 12th January, 2019 a special event took place at the Crofters Weaving Mill, Spring Ridge on the Liverpool Plains. This was a most significant event where those present were able to see the newly registered Upper Hunter Tartan (#12320) cut from the loom. These items will, in due course, be framed and presented…
The Upper Hunter Tartan – Bringing the Threads Together
The Upper Hunter now has its own official tartan, incorporating colours that tell a story of the history of the Hunter Valley. This tartan has become the 12,320th registered tartan in the world. The following considerations have been taken into consideration for a registration of the Upper Hunter tartan #12,320, as a District Tartan on the…
Aberdeen Highland Games Celebrates 20 Years
2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the Aberdeen Highland Games, which held its inaugural games on the 1st of July 2000. The Games committee, composed of a broad cross-section of the local community, wanted to create a catalyst around which the people of Aberdeen could rally, lifting their spirits and providing the community with much…


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Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto talks to reporters after voting at a polling station...
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Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto talks to reporters after voting at a polling station in Bogor July 9, 2014. Indonesians began voting on Wednesday in a presidential election that has become a closely fought contest between the old guard who flourished under decades of autocratic rule and a new breed of politician that has emerged in the fledgling democracy. Only the third direct election for president in the world's fourth-most populous nation, the contest pits former special forces general Prabowo Subianto against Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who have been running neck-and-neck in opinion polls. REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)
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God's great victory over evil and death is forever realized in one Jewish rabbi, back from the dead.
The tomb is empty, Jesus is risen, Satan is defeated, anything is possible.
Invite your family, friends, and neighbors to celebrate with music, kids programs, and the story of the resurrection.
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The Perfect HTPC?
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Unfortunately, it's not a suitable HTPC. It doesn't support CEC, and that will rule it out for many people. The fan noise is also a bit of a concern, but I find that at typical TV viewing it didn't bother me. It is, however, a very good emulation machine.
Chuwi is currently running a campaign on Indiegogo for "Larkbox", a PC in a minuscule form factor running the new Intel Celeron J4115 CPU.
Now I don't have a review unit or anything like that, so this is going according to known specs. The J4115 should be able to handle just about every relevant video codec (e.g. h264, h265 8 and 10 bit). No idea if it's capable of smooth 4K @ 60Hz.
It'll also probably make a great emulation machine. The preceding J4105 was capable of playing Wii games on Dolphin, and so the J4115 should be a little better than that. PS2 will most likely still be a bridge too far.
It comes with 6 GB RAM and 128 GB storage, which should be more than enough for an HTPC. The storage is eMMC which isn't the most performant, so I'll probably stick an M.2 2242 SSD in there. The only thing that I might miss is an Ethernet port, but I suppose I can use a USB adapter if I find myself really needing one.
All this at a power-sipping 10W TDP and a list price of USD199.
Now, I've had problems with Indiegogo, backed projects that were of poor quality, and a particular one that's not delivered at all. That said though, I trust Chuwi. I've owned one of their Windows tablets and it was solidly engineered.
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Android Emulators and Hyper-V for fun and profit
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There are various reasons to enable Hyper-V on Windows 10 installs especially for developers. Tools like Docker and WSL 2 require it.
One hurdle though, especially for gamers like myself, is that the Android emulators designed for gaming were not compatible with Hyper-V. The official Android emulator does support Hyper-V, but it is pretty awkward for gaming.
Now we have a solution. Bluestacks has a Hyper-V beta. I've been using it, and it's a good start. Not quite perfect, some odd crashes here and there with specific games, but good enough for now. It also can be run at the same time with the official Android emulator.
What can you do with it?
Just gaming and not much else to be honest. For development, it is probably better to go with the official Android emulator or Genymotion.
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I'm gathering a few items collecting on my desk now that September has reached a halfway point. Already. Sheesh.
How is it that the minute it turns September, fall seemed to arrive as if meeting an appointment? As pretty and invigorating as fall often is, I for one am not ready to say good-bye to the pleasures of summer. I am holding on to the hope of a warm and lengthy Indian summer. The cold comes soon enough, don't you think?
I did put some touches of fall into the house, but no pumpkins, please, yet. Nada.
Welsh collage artist Mia Hague, who I found as an artist on a greeting card. Having a passion for alphabets, I particularly enjoyed this one.
Full interview this interesting illustrator is here.
Russian illustrator Vladmir Rodinsky. I love his free-wheeling, funny, childlike style and I have all of the books below in my collection of picture books. As I was preparing to post the work of this illustrator, I discovered this obituary instead, posted for his death from leukemia on September 11. I am sorry the world has lost this artist.
She was the first woman to conduct the Royal Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At 80, she was asked about retiring and said, "I never think of age. I've no time. I work. Retirement? I don't know what the is. One works or one cannot work - that would be death," then worked until she lost her sight and mobility in her nineties.
Agatha Christie, aka The Queen of Crime, was born September 15, 1890. Ten things you might now have known. Maybe.
One billion copies of her novels in English and another billion in translation in 103 languages. Only the Bible and Shakespeare outsold her.
The world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, was developed from a short story by Christie. It ran longer than all of Andrew Lloyd Weber plays combined.
Her mother, herself well-read, and well-off, did not want her to read until she was eight, but Agatha, bored as an "afterthought child" taught herself at 5.
She was an accomplished pianist as a child but, because of her extreme shyness, did not pursue piano as a profession although she was encouraged to do so.
She wrote her first mystery on a dare during World War I when working in a dispensary. She started writing partly in response to a bet from her sister that she couldn't write a good detective story and and to relieve the monotony of the daily work.
Agatha's 10-day mysterious disappearance has never been fully explained and she never spoke of it afterward.
7. A prolific writer, she wrote 2-3 books in a year and 66 novels in her lifetime.
8. She wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westacott until it was discovered and made public.
9. There are many who believe that The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) is the single greatest whodunit ever written.
10. Hercule Poirot (whom she later despised but was stuck with) was said to have been inspired when Agatha caught sight of a Belgian man deboarding a bus in the early 1910s. He was thought to be a bit odd-looking, with a curious facial hair style and a quizzical expression.


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My Buddy's Booty
"My Buddy's Booty"
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"A whole week of sleep, you're going to have some killer bed head. I'm nervous, I'm sorry. I love bed head, see?"— J.D.
"My Buddy's Booty" is the eleventh episode of the fifth season of Scrubs. Everyone's favorite patient, Mrs. Wilk, is put into a coma for intubation after developing a lung infection. Elliot starts a booty call with Keith. Carla asks Turk to convince Dr. Kelso to make the gym more female-friendly. Dr. Cox and Janitor become friends at the bar.
2 Recurring Themes
2.1 Fantasies
2.2 Flashbacks
2.3 Janitor story
3 Guest Stars
6 Trivia/Goofs
Dr. Cox collapses while J.D. goes over his story regarding Julie
Mrs. Wilk encounters a major setback in her recovery from her serious disease when she develops a lung infection. In order to keep her alive, she will have to be intubated for a week. This procedure is extremely risky and cannot be done safely while the patient is conscious, so Mrs. Wilk has to be sedated and put into a medically-induced coma until the infection clears. Just before being put into the procedure, she advises J.D. and Cox to let her die if the procedure fails.
Everybody deals with Mrs. Wilk's status in their own way; Turk goes to work out, Carla and Elliot eat six gallons of ice cream, Cox goes to the bar and J.D. tries to pick-up women (which also doubles as a way to get over breaking up with Julie). When that doesn't work, Turk suggests J.D. make a booty call. J.D. enlists Elliot (who along with him are worrying the most about Mrs. Wilk) to booty call someone as well.
Elliot gets revenge on J.D. after he keeps bothering Keith
They decide to choose from a pool of interns, but are all too unattractive for even a booty call. But Elliot turns the tables by hooking up with Keith Dudemeister, one of the interns and J.D.'s nemesis.
J.D. believes the relationship won't last long, then finds them post-lovemaking in their apartment. J.D.'s original suggestion backfires completely when Elliot turns Keith into her own sex puppy - he'll do anything she wants for a little attention. J.D. isn't happy about it, since he didn't hook up with anyone, and asks her to stop hanging with him. She doesn't. And to make matters worse, she tells Keith to page her if J.D. bothers him.
Meanwhile; Carla asks Turk to approach Dr. Kelso about making the gym more female friendly. Dr. Cox gets wind of the idea and convinces Turk that would be a bad idea. Turk and J.D. go to Kelso's office, but instead of asking him, they phrase their sentence to make it seem like they asked him about a doctor named Jim who needs medical equipment. When Kelso gives them a resounding no and throws them out of his office, conveniently saying "There's no way in hell that Jim (gym) is getting new equipment!" Carla is convinced that they did their job. Turk's cover is later blown when Dr. Kelso changes his mind and gives to "OK" to Dr. Bianco getting the new MRI machine, which is what Turk really asked him about, instead of the gym.
While Cox is worrying about Mrs. Wilk at the bar, he and Janitor begin hanging out more and eventually form a lop-sided friendship over drinks and bond as drinking-buddies. Cox is stunned when Janitor later reveals that he can't be friendly to Cox at the hospital, because it will ruin his rep with his fellow working class friends. Cox accepts this and their friendship ends peacefully, although he is privately sad over it.
All the couples end up in an argument in the same elevator, but it ends when they each get a page on Mrs. Wilk's condition: she awakes from her coma with the infection cleared. This sudden appearance of good luck causes all of their petty arguments to fade away. In the end, the gym gets new women-only equipment, Cox and Janitor become bar-friends again (but not work-friends to preserve the Janitor's rep), and J.D. and Elliot make up...but J.D. still hates Keith.
More: Fantasies • Flashbacks • J.D.'s girl names • Janitor's pranks and lies
J.D. as a caveman
J.D., as a caveman, makes a booty call.
Mrs. Wilk teaches Turk how to dance
Mrs. Wilk teaches Turk how to dance.
Janitor sets J.D.'s bed on fire.
Janitor story
Janitor becomes friends with Dr. Cox in the bar, but when in front of all the other cleaning staff and related friends, Janitor won't admit that this is true. Dr. Cox obviously finds this annoying, because a Janitor is embarrassed of him.
Shaughn Buchholz as Jason "Cabbage" Cabbagio
Robert Foster as Janitor's Crony
Ellerine Harding as Old Woman
Callard Harris as Bob
Aaron Ikeda as Rex
Rachel Jenkins as Nurse
Michael Learned as Mrs. Wilk
Kellie Madison as Sexy Girl
Marisa Petroro as Cavewoman
Alexis Teague as Angry Nurse #2
Jack Yang as Patient
Elliot sticks a picture of Gary Busey over Julie's head
♫ List of music featured in Scrubs
"Shadow" by The Southland
"Open" by Rob Laufer
"Head Off" by Moris Tepper
"Without You" by Tart
"Blue" by Jayhawks
J.D.'s raccoon scratch marks.
"Dr. D, what's that on your back?"— Jason
"Those Jason, are the panicked scratches of the adolescent raccoon, who until animal control can get into my home, is currently residing in my sock drawer."— J.D.
[To Mrs. Wilk who is about to go into a week long coma]
"You ok, Dr. Dorian?"— Keith
"Keith, it's like you're begging me to hate you."— J.D.
"I don't feel like I am."
"You can't stop, can you?"
"You think you're better than me? With your rock-hard abs, and your dynamite areolas? You're not. "— J.D. to Keith
Trivia/Goofs
Mrs. Wilk recovers from her coma
The "El Toro Grande" brand of condoms phrase is the spanish for "The Big Bull".
After the Janitor insults Dr. Cox with work friends one of them is alleged to say "Nice one, Tom" indicating that the Janitor's real name is Tom. However, it has been debated that the "work friend" is saying, "Nice, you tell 'im" and not "Nice one Tom". Moreover, if the "work friend" did say "Tom" this could just be another one of the Janitor's persona, along the lines of Nigel or Ephrem, and not his real name. Bill Lawrence had confirmed that the Janitor's name would later be revealed in the last episode of the show. It was shown not to say "Nice one Tom" the subtitles show him to actually be saying "nice you tell him". In the Season Eight finale, a person, in fact, calls the Janitor "Tommy" after the Janitor reveals his name to J.D.
When J.D. pulls the cover off his dead patient Mr. Joy, the patient's mouth is open. However, in the next shot, his mouth is closed.
Near the beginning of the episode, the Janitor purposely parks his van in front of J.D., making him hit it straight-on. The van shown is also the van in the popular television series, 'The A-Team.'
Season Five Episodes
1. "My Intern's Eyes"
2. "My Rite of Passage"
3. "My Day at the Races"
4. "My Jiggly Ball"
5. "My New God"
6. "My Missed Perception"
7. "My Way Home"
8. "My Big Bird"
9. "My Half-Acre"
10. "Her Story II"
11. "My Buddy's Booty"
12. "My Cabbage"
13. "My Five Stages"
14. "My Own Personal Hell"
15. "My Extra Mile"
16. "My Bright Idea"
17. "My Chopped Liver"
18. "My New Suit"
19. "His Story III"
20. "My Lunch"
21. "My Fallen Idol"
22. "My Déjà vu, My Déjà vu"
23. "My Urologist"
24. "My Transition"
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