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10 Tech News Roundup #9
Bran	News, Science	 October 13, 2017 October 15, 2017 3 Minutes
Here are 10 tech news that I found interesting.
Microsoft's Windows 10 breaches privacy law, says Dutch DPA – The Dutch data protection authority has concluded that Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system breaches local privacy law on account of its collection of telemetry metadata. The OS has been available since the end of July 2015. Techcrunch
Amazon finally makes a waterproof Kindle, after 10 years of Kindles – Amazon has been selling Kindles for 10 years now, but "waterproof" hasn't appear on its list of incremental technological advancements until now. The company just announced a new version of its popular e-reader that builds on last year's Kindle design and now has an IPX8 waterproof rating. The Verge
Hyatt breach exposed customer payment data at 41 hotels – Hyatt announced today that its payment systems were breached, exposing credit card data from 41 hotels in 11 countries. The hack was discovered in July and the investigation only just recently concluded. Techcrunch
AWS and Microsoft double down on deep learning with Gluon, a simplified ML model builder – AWS and Microsoft may be arch rivals when it comes to competing for business in cloud storage and services, but when it comes to breaking ground in newer areas where volumes of data make a difference to how well the services work and creating systems that are easier to use, collaboration is key. Today, the two companies announced a new deep learning interface called Gluon, designed for developers of all abilities (not just AI specialists) to build and run machine learning models for their apps and other services. Techcrunch
Fake Adobe Flash malware locks your Android phone's data unless you pay up – Consider this yet another PSA on why you should never ever download Adobe Flash Player, or anything resembling it if you're using an Android phone. Security researchers at ESET have discovered a new kind of ransomware infecting Android phones on a level nobody's ever seen before. Called DoubleLocker, the exploit encrypts the data on the infected device and then changes its PIN number so victims are locked out of their device unless they pay the ransom demanded by hackers. Mashable
Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to European Research Partner – On Tuesday (Oct. 10), Intel delivered a 17-qubit superconducting test chip to research partner QuTech, the quantum research institute of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. The announcement marks a major milestone in the 10-year, $50-million collaborative relationship with TU Delft and TNO, the Dutch Organization for Applied Research, to accelerate advancements in quantum computing. HPCWire
Fujitsu Tapped to Build 37-Petaflops ABCI System for AIST – Fujitsu announced today it will build the long-planned AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI) which is set to become the fastest supercomputer system in Japan and will begin operation in fiscal 2018 (starts in April). ABCI will use Intel's Xeon Gold processors and Nvidia V100 GPUs and deliver 550 petaflops theoretical peak performance in half-precision floating point and 37 petaflops of double-precision peak floating point performance. The award is from Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). HPCWire
Qualcomm fires another shot at Apple with a new lawsuit in China – Qualcomm has filed a lawsuit against Apple in its continuing legal battle over patents, this time looking to block the manufacturing and sale of iPhones in China, according to a report by Bloomberg this morning. Techcrunch
WD shows off market-ready MAMR tech for monster hard drives – Western Digital showed off a a prototype hard drive with a potentially revolutionary new energy-assisted magnetic recording technology called microwave-assist magnetic recording (MAMR). The company says the new tech could potentially be ready for market by the end of 2019, and it could allow the manufacture of 40 TB hard drives by 2025. For context, WD is now currently offering 14 TB drives to datacenter customers and 12 TB drives are just entering the general market. The company performed the reveal at its "Innovating to Fuel the Next Decade of Big Data" event at its headquarters in Silicon Valley yesterday. Techreport
Chaos and hackers stalk investors on cryptocurrency exchanges – LONDON, SHANGHAI, NEW YORK: Dan Wasyluk discovered the hard way that trading cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin happens in an online Wild West where sheriffs are largely absent. Channel Newsasia
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The Lower Town is at its most beguiling to the northwest of the Grand-Place, where the churches of Ste-Catherine and Ste-Jean-Baptiste au Béguinage stand amid a cobweb of quaint streets and tiny squares. The streets to the north of the Grand-Place are of less immediate appeal, with particularly dreary rue Neuve, a pedestrianized main drag that's home to the city's mainstream shops and stores, leading up to the clumping skyscrapers that surround the place Rogier and the Gare du Nord. This is an uninviting part of the city, but relief is at hand in the precise Habsburg symmetries of the place des Martyrs and at the Belgian Comic Strip Centre, the Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée. To the south of the Grand-Place, almost everyone makes a beeline for the city's mascot, the Manneken Pis, but much more enjoyable is the museum dedicated to Belgium's most celebrated chansonnier, Jacques Brel.


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Let me explain what I mean. I am afraid the term "small group" has become a trendy church term that has lost meaning to some degree. We hear terms like these used so much that they lose their significance, and begin to fade into the background noise of our modern church culture.
If I asked you to define the term "small group" what would you say? Most of us would say, "They are small groups of Christians that meet to study the Bible." Most of us would also agree that a church small group is a good thing. A lot of us would even go as far as to say that it's something we should do if we are serious about growing in our walk with Christ. We know we should spend time with other Christ followers by studying, praying, and having fellowship with one another. This just makes sense to us. The problem is, we know it is a good thing, but it is so hard to fit another good thing into our already busy schedules.
So, is it enough to simply see small groups as just another good thing we should do? Or, should we view being a member of a small group as a vital part of what it means to be the church? Here are three simple reasons that I believe being a part of a small group is not a good thing we should do, but a vital thing we need to do.
When we were saved, we were born into a Gospel-centered community. We are the children of God; therefore, we are all brothers and sisters in Christ. Being born into His family means we do life together as family. Imagine if your family members thought of their relationship with you as just another good thing. They would feel inclined to try and fit you into their busy schedule. If you're a parent of a teenager, you might know what that feels like! So, why do we take this view with our church family? Don't we realize that our earthly relationships are temporary, but that we will be brothers and sisters in Christ for eternity? How much more should we pursue community with one another now, as the family of God? I believe small groups are a vital key to pursue community with one another as the family of God.
Life change happens in the context of a Gospel-centered community. God called us into His family, and it is in the context of this family that He intends to grow us to maturity. It is pretty obvious a healthy family unit at home has advantages to raising kids into healthy mature adults. In fact, one of the primary functions of the family is to provide love, acceptance, security, instruction, and discipline that it takes to raise children. The same is true in the family of God. The best place to grow into a mature Christ follower is in a healthy church family. We need to belong to a body where members love one another, consistently encourage, and equip one another to truly live faithfully to Christ. Scripture describes it as "iron sharpens iron". Or, in other words, as we do life together and obediently pursue love towards one another, no matter how difficult that may be at times, God uses that process to sharpen and shape us into the image of His Son. I believe small groups are vital to how He grows us up.
We can't carry out our mission apart from community. Jesus did not commission a few individuals to go and make disciples. He commissioned the whole church. It takes a community to effectively reach a culture. In John 13:35 and John 17:23, Jesus said "The world would know (the word know here is actually continually know) that He sent us when they see our love for one another and observe our unity." The way we pursue community with one another is one of the greatest testimonies of the veracity of the Gospel to the watching world. It's when they see us loving one another more deeply than natural, when they see us unified and growing together more and more into the image of Christ, that they will take note that something supernatural is going on. I believe small groups are vital to how we reach our culture with the Gospel.
These are just a few reasons that barely scratch the surface of why doing life together in real, deep, genuine community with one another is so much more than just a good thing for us to try to squeeze into our busy day. I encourage you to stop and reconsider the vital part that small groups play in the life of the church, and how you can begin to pursue deeper community with a few brothers and sisters in Christ today.
One parting note, don't be afraid to think out of the box when it comes to small groups. It doesn't have to look like a circle of cookie cutter Christians sitting in someone's living room with Bibles on their laps (although that is perfectly alright). The real point is, you and a handful of other Christ followers are intentionally going deeper into real relationships with one another, and pressing each other on towards faithfulness in Christ that can take many different forms, but the principle is the same. Go deeper with fewer to help each other faithfully follow Christ.


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What is a central idea in an essay?
What is the central idea example?
What is MS VSS?
How do I set up VSS?
How do shadow copies work?
Where are volume shadow copies stored?
Is it safe to disable volume shadow copy?
Should volume shadow copy service be running?
How do I find Volume Shadow Copy?
How do I find shadow storage?
How do I recover a shadow copy?
How do I install VSS on Windows 10?
The central idea is the central, unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story. The central idea can be best described as the dominant impression or the universal, generic truth found in the story.
The central idea is the "big point" or the most important idea that the writer is communicating to the reader. Often the reader can find the central idea just by looking at the title. For example, a passage titled: "Why Students Should Have Less Homework" will include reasons for that idea.
VSS is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows backup applications to safely back up locked and open files. Both the backup application and software application must be VSS-aware in order to utilize VSS to back up open or locked files.
Open Windows Explorer or the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Disk Management snap-in, then right-click the drive.
Select Properties from the context menu.
Select the Shadow Copies tab.
Under "Select a volume," select the volume for which you want to enable Shadow Copies.
Click Settings to configure VSS.
Shadow copies are a concept which was first introduced in Windows Server 2003. It works by Windows periodically crawling the system and looking for file changes made since the last crawl and recording the changes. These changes are indexed and stacked on top of each other which creates a history of the file/folder.
System Volume Information folder
It is not recommended to turn off Volume Shadow Copy. It manages and implements Volume Shadow Copies used for backup and other purposes. If this service is stopped, shadow copies will be unavailable for backup and the backup may fail.
The Volume Shadow Copy service doesn't need to be running all the time or set to Automatic. It's only used when an app requests it, e.g. a backup app. There is no reason to have it set to anything but Manual.
Windows operating system allows you to access the 'Shadow Copies' by right-clicking on the file/folder/drive, choosing 'Properties' and then 'Previous Versions'. However, this feature might omit some of the shadow copies. ShadowCopyView displays all of them.
vssadmin create shadow /for=c: Now go into the Windows File Explorer and right click the C: drive (or the drive you are working with). You should see an option called "Restore previous versions". Once you click on that you should see the available Shadow Copies (snapshots), click on the one you want to view.
Restoring a deleted file or folder (shadow copy)
Navigate to the folder in which the deleted file had been stored.
Right-click the folder and select Properties from the bottom of the menu.
Select the version of the folder that contains the file before it was deleted, and then click View.
View the folder and select the file that will be recovered.
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Navigate to the following location:
Now, in the System Protection tab under Protection Settings, select the volume you wish to create a shadow copy of and then click Configure.
In the new window, select Turn on System Protection under Restore settings.
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Mah Jongg – A Book Review
The game of mahjong is an old one, which has several variations. There are many theories about the origin of the game. Some say it originated with Confucius, while others believe it was created by ZhengHe, a Chinese explorer who commanded seven sails across Asia and Africa in the early 15th century. This is a common story, and there are references to sailing throughout the game. To play this classic Chinese boardgame, you need to know a few things about this ancient game.
The basic rules of the game are similar in all the variations, including how the pieces are drawn and robbed, the use of suits, honors, and basic melds. Some regional versions of the game have additional rules, such as different criteria for winning hands or different scoring systems. Some games are played by multiple players, and the National Mah Jongg League publishes a playing card that gives a brief history of the game.
According to Heinz, the game's popularity in the United States can be traced to the game's Chinese origins and its revival among Jewish women in the 1950s. The popularity of mahjong has increased throughout the decades and has gained a place in Jewish social networks. The popularity of the game has increased considerably in the past decade, largely due to its many variations. If you're looking for a good way to learn how to play the game, this is the book to read.
The game of mahjong has a rich history and a long tradition of controversy. A recent critique of the game's "refresh" echoes similar concerns from the early 20th century. Ashley Walters, a doctoral student of Jewish history at Stanford University, spoke with the author of a new book about the game's history and role in contemporary American culture. For the most part, these questions are answered in the book.
While the game has many variations, it has become an American favorite and has gained popularity among Hollywood celebrities. It was initially associated with Asian culture, but has since gained popularity among white women in the US. The popularity of mahjong has also soared since its origins. A recent study found that women who play mahjong are much more likely to be able to distinguish its rules from a Chinese word, and it is therefore important to understand the origin of the game.
The game of mahjong has many variants. In addition to the multiple accepted spellings, the game has a long history in the Chinese culture. In the United States, mahjong has revived in popularity among Jewish women in the 1950s. Its origins are also unknown to many people. The British Mah-Jong Association has published an extensive guide to the game. There are many rules that govern the game of mahjong.
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Cliff Maag Sr is the owner and designer of Maag Audio, a small boutique family-run audio company based in Utah, USA. Cliff designed the highly regarded NTI Nightpro 6-band EQ back in the 1990's which was the first product to feature his 'AIRBAND' EQ. I caught up with Cliff Sr to find out more about how this sound has developed over the years.
KMR : Were you always into recording gear or did you start life as a musician?
CM : I started as a musician singing in a dance band in the 60s, writing songs and having a desire to capture and record the music.
KMR : I know you became a successful Audio Engineer and Mix Engineer, how did this come about, and when did you decide to build/run your own studio?
CM : In 1974, I had the chance to go to a recording studio for the first time. What an experience, especially for someone who loves music! I was immediately hooked and soon after built my own studio to so I could create my own music. Every engineer and musician can remember their first studio experience!
KMR : You still run the Record Lab Studios, was it the need for certain equipment that got you into designing the original Air Band product?
Because of my tight budget, I had to update my console. This is where the "AIRBAND" Mic Pre, EQ, and MAGNUM-K came from.
KMR : How did you take that step into equipment design, as it's quite a bold move from simply using gear to building your own?
CM : I learned a lot when I built and wired the studio and I learnt about the circuits in the console by those I hired to service it - so I just went for it!
I had a great mic pre to compare to, so I developed my own. I wanted to hear the high end in dynamic and ribbon mics. The "AIRBAND" was born in the mic pre I developed for my custom console as it opened up the AIR in all of my microphones.
Then I developed a better EQ for my console and I had to have the "AIRBAND" in it as well. I also modified one channel in the console with a compressor to control only 2.5k in the EQ. I did it for the sole purpose of controlling the edge on female vocals and I called it the "MAGNUM-K".
KMR : What was the response when you first the presented the Air Band? I remember hearing about this 'Air Band' EQ in the 1990's when I was beginning as a tape op in the UK.
CM : The first time I showed it was in the early 90's and was in Nashville, Tennessee. The first to hear it was Producer Ed Seay, Vice President and Producer at Capitol Records in Nashville Paul Worley and Mastering Engineer Denny Purcell. All three endorsed it and wow, what an exciting time for me!
KMR : When did you decide to create Maag Audio?
CM : We created Maag Audio in 2009 and launched our first product in 2011.
KMR : Was the EQ4M to provide a mastering grade option - or to replace those old NTI / NightPro's that everybody was still searching for?
CM : It was to offer a mastering EQ to match or improve the specs and standards of our original NTI Eq3, which I'm convinced we accomplished.
KMR : The MAGNUM-K is a new direction for you, even though I've learnt that you created this a long time ago, was putting it into a rack always your idea?
CM : I had it in mind since the 1980's and it started with one modified channel compressor EQ in my custom console, designed to take the edge off female vocals. I also built two rack mount multi-band compressors when I modified the console. They are still in service today.
As I developed the Maag Audio 500 series gear we gained the learning and understanding required to make the Maag Audio MAGNUM-K come to life. I love this compressor! It has complemented my recordings in such a big way. I couldn't live without it at this point.
KMR : What has been the biggest challenge in getting Maag Audio off the ground and into the hands of mix engineers and producers?
CM : The biggest challenge was deciding to take it on again in the first place. My son Ryan had to hound me to get back into designing and manufacturing audio gear but once I made that leap, I haven't looked back. It's been an absolute blast and I have loved the challenge.
KMR : What has also been the biggest positive from it all, as I'm sure seeing and hearing your designs in use is such an amazing feeling?
CM : For me, the biggest positive is to be working and developing new products with my three partners, my two sons Cliff Jr and Ryan and Travis Allen. It is so humbling to hear the designs in use and to talk to those who use them and depend on the gear like I do.
KMR : You partnered with Plug-in Alliance and also UA to provide software versions of the EQ4 and EQ2, do you think this is the model for designers these days, to provide hardware and software versions?
CM : It's been a good model for us. I think it really depends on the type of product and desired end-state. Having hardware and software complement each other has been ideal. Dirk Ulrich at Plugin Alliance modelled both the Plugin Alliance and UAD versions. He is a great partner and friend.
CM : We build them all in the USA. It is a family business. There are four of us and we are the four worker bees too.
KMR : Last question, and one very hypothetical! If your studio was burning down… what 3 things would you grab and why?
CM : I would grab my C12... I love that mic!!
Yamaha C7 grand piano... I love that piano!!
Hammond B3 and Leslie cabinet... I love that organ!! Although I would need to transform into the Incredible Hulk to make this happen.
Obviously all the Maag Audio gear I could hold as well!!!


BERLIN, GERMANY/7/4/2006—In a move that promises to accelerate the acceptance of eBooks and electronic publishing, Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com), the world's largest science, technology and medical book publisher, is launching a new eBook initiative that will allow students and researchers electronic access to more than 10,000 books.
Springer unveiled its new eBooks program at the American Library Association's annual conference in New Orleans this week. As part of its eBooks program, Springer has re-launched its online platform, SpringerLink (www.springerlink.com). The site now integrates Springer eBooks with millions of articles from Springer's peer-reviewed journals. This integration gives researchers easy access to book chapters which should lead to more academic citations of Springer's books.
Springer will allow unlimited simultaneous access to eBooks. The eBooks' PDF and HTML documents are fully searchable and can be downloaded and printed. In addition, once a library purchases Springer's eBook collection, they own the book content for their use in perpetuity.
Libraries can purchase a complete collection of all Springer titles from a copyright year or they can choose to purchase one or more of 12 distinct topic categories (e.g., engineering, medicine, computer science, mathematics, etc.). Approximately 3,000 new eBooks will be published and available every year.
For librarians, Springer's new eBooks program will link to the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), an instructional tool that enables students to quickly search a library's catalog from a computer station either in the library, or from an off-site computer. In addition, Springer's eBooks will give librarians easy access to the thousands of books Springer publishes every year.
Springer is one of the leading international scientific publishing companies. It is the largest science, technology and medicine (STM) book publisher in the world with a reputation for excellence spanning over 160 years. Springer publishes on behalf of more than 300 academic associations and professional societies worldwide. The company publishes over 1,200 journals and 3,500 new book titles each year, in addition to offering an array of online services such as the online information platform SpringerLink. This is a preferred data source for researchers in academic and corporate institutions and other vital knowledge centers. Today, SpringerLink spans the universe of research with its peer reviewed journals as well as a constantly expanding library of eReference Works, eBooks and an Online Archive Collection. Springer is part of the specialist publishing group Springer Science+Business Media, which owns 70 publishing companies in more than 20 countries throughout the world and employs some 5,000 people.


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Marvel's Falcon and Winter Soldier Creator Reveals Sam Wilson's Conflict in Captain America 4
By Cameron Bonomolo - May 15, 2021 10:55 pm EDT
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier creator Malcolm Spellman reveals the conflict facing Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) in Marvel's Captain America 4: being a star-spangled superhero who's not a Super Soldier. Sam and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) grapple with a recreated Super Soldier Serum let loose in the Marvel Studios original series, where an eventually enhanced John Walker (Wyatt Russell) proves to be no replacement for a retired Steve Rogers (Chris Evans). When Sam soars into action as the all-new Captain America in the series finale — taking flight on Vibranium wings gifted to him by Wakanda — it's without any serum's man-made superhuman abilities.
In "One World, One People," Captain America battles Batroc (Georges St-Pierre) to a standstill before his star-spangled shield holds up against a clobbering at the hands of the Super Soldier Serum-empowered Karli Morgenthau (Erin Kellyman). Because Sam told Baron Zemo (Daniel Brühl) he'd decline a dose of the serum, Spellman expects the next Captain America story to address Sam's lack of powers:
"I believe that's going to be his conflict moving forward. It's appropriate," Spellman told Everyone Loves a Good Story. "In the action genre, what made Die Hard a classic wasn't who Bruce Willis beat, it was what he went through to beat them."
"He's walking through glass with no shoes on, you know what I'm saying," Spellman added about Willis' embattled cop John McClane. "That's what people can identify with: 'This motherf—er is just like me and taking on the bad guys.' What better hero than that to root for?"
Spellman has not confirmed reports he will co-write Captain America 4 with Falcon and Winter Soldier staff writer Dalan Musson, who penned the hard-hitting "Truth" episode dealing with the "complicated" legacy of Captain America's shield and the covered-up history of Black Super Soldier Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly).
The series head writer recently told UNILAD he has "no idea what's happening with Cap 4" — the movies are "[Marvel Studios president and producer] Kevin Feige stuff," he said — but Spellman did reveal the Falcon and Winter Soldier writers' room once discussed giving Falcon his ability to talk to birds from the Marvel comic books.
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Are you in tune with your competition? Knowing what's working for your competition, could greatly move you to the front.
What would you do to execute this?
The best way to do it is to network by getting on everyone's email list. If you're networking enough, you'll probably get 5-10 emails every day from investors selling properties. Real estate investor selling to you from guru's trying to sell you their products, would not count as networking emails.
Getting an email from a real estate investor marketing you, should be an opportunity to look over the material and see if there's a treasure you can glean from. What exactly are they offering? Is it really a good deal as concerning your needs?
There is one investor who is pretty sharp and closes a ton of wholesale deals. If suddenly, I see a stir of deals coming from a specific section of town, I know to start marketing there. This is where doing my do diligence comes in. Plus, when you know that your marketing is superior than the other guys, you'll most likely get more calls off your marketing pieces than he does.
The inexperienced and uneducated investor who doesn't know this business at all, thinks offering $180,000 on a $200,000 property is a good deal. I think the formatting and structure of the emails they send out for their wholesale offers is pretty good. Even though the information in the emails aren't sharing any real substantial deals, I can still learn from them about how they make offers.
Real estate investor marketing is no different than any other business. If you want to stay on top, always be studying your competition.
Copying everything your competition does may not be prudent, but when you find something that does work… use it to the max!
I've called bandit signs in my area, just so I could listen to the way they handled the pitch to me. They regularly always went to a voice mail and I wasn't impressed by what I heard most of the time.
Instead of getting annoyed with all the emails in your inbox, start to appreciate them, even if you have no desire to buy a wholesale deal. You never know what today's email or direct mail offer will hold and it could be a brainy idea you're going to get from a fellow real estate investor.
Like in other businesses, marketing is the fundamental for success. Regardless whether it's what we enjoy or not, we have to market to buy and sell properties. Good marketing is everything and makes selling much less of a battle. The funny thing is, you don't need to be showy and you don't even need to be an expert. You just need to be out there with honorable real estate investor marketing. Most successful investors already know that "bandit signs" work well, but the enforcement from many cities around the country have made it more difficult to use them. That's why it's so frustrating, since they are one of the most effective forms of marketing that you can use and one of the least costly.
None of us want to break the law, but knowing that they work so well presents an ethical dilemma. They're illegal in most areas of the country now. I stopped putting out bandit signs because I don't want to break the law and have legal fines and fees to have to pay. It's not worth it to me. Real estate investor marketing can still be realized without breaking the law.


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  using System.ComponentModel;
  using System.Linq;
  using System.Windows;
  using SIM.Tool.Base.Wizards;

  public partial class ExportDatabases : IWizardStep
  {
    #region Constructors

    public ExportDatabases()
    {
      this.InitializeComponent();
    }

    #endregion

    #region Private methods

    void IWizardStep.InitializeStep(WizardArgs wizardArgs)
    {
      var attachedDatabases = ((ExportWizardArgs)wizardArgs).Instance.AttachedDatabases.ToArray();
      this.Databases.DataContext = attachedDatabases.Select(database => new ExportDatabase(database.Name, true)).ToList();
    }

    private void NoneHyperlinkClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
      foreach (ExportDatabase item in this.Databases.Items)
      {
        item.IsChecked = false;
      }
    }

    bool IWizardStep.SaveChanges(WizardArgs wizardArgs)
    {
      var args = (ExportWizardArgs)wizardArgs;
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      if (this.WipeSqlServerCredentials.IsChecked != null)
      {
        args.WipeSqlServerCredentials = (bool)this.WipeSqlServerCredentials.IsChecked;
      }

      if (this.IncludeMongoDatabases.IsChecked != null)
      {
        args.IncludeMongoDatabases = (bool)this.IncludeMongoDatabases.IsChecked;
      }

      return true;
    }

    private void SelectAllHyperlinkClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
      foreach (ExportDatabase item in this.Databases.Items)
      {
        item.IsChecked = true;
      }
    }

    #endregion

    #region Nested type: ExportDatabase

    private sealed class ExportDatabase : INotifyPropertyChanged
    {
      #region Delegates

      public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

      #endregion

      #region Fields

      private bool _isChecked;

      #endregion

      #region Constructors

      public ExportDatabase(string databaseName, bool isChecked)
      {
        this.DatabaseName = databaseName;
        this.IsChecked = isChecked;
      }

      #endregion

      #region Public properties

      public string DatabaseName { get; private set; }

      public bool IsChecked
      {
        get
        {
          return this._isChecked;
        }

        set
        {
          this._isChecked = value;
          this.IsCheckedPropertyChaged("IsChecked");
        }
      }

      #endregion

      #region Private methods

      private void IsCheckedPropertyChaged(string propertyName)
      {
        var handler = this.PropertyChanged;
        if (handler != null)
        {
          handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
        }
      }

      #endregion
    }

    #endregion
  }
}

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Amazon.com Inc. plans to split its second headquarters evenly between two locations rather than picking one city.
Societe Generale has sold its Euro Bank business in Poland to Bank Millennium for $484 million.
NBC, Fox News and Facebook have pulled a controversial Trump campaign ad that CNN called racist and refused to run.
Spotify plans to buy back up to $1 billion in stock.
David's Bridal is reportedly weighing bankruptcy as debt deal deadline looms.
Eighty-two percent of Americans don't read the fine print on store credit cards and it can cost them.
Lowe's is closing 51 stores in the U.S. and Canada.


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Born in Berlin, Germany, after his family moved there from Poland, Mr. Schreiber immigrated to the United States in 1939 to escape war-torn Europe, and later served as a US Army soldier in WWII. He was a student of the late Reuben Tam at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Mr. Schreiber enjoyed a long and successful art career both as a commercial art director in New York City with Dell Publishing and others, and as a passionate creative geometric artist exhibiting in many NYC galleries. Perhaps stemming from his early apprenticeship in the diamond trade, his work is a commitment to the hard-edge experience.
In addition to New York City, Mr. Schreiber exhibited in Miami, Palm Beach and Boca Raton Florida; Dallas, Texas; Montreal, Canada; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Known for his highly disciplined art form, Mr. Schreiber's work was described by Newsday's Malcolm Preston as 'almost surgical precision of craftsmanship.' Through subtle changes of color and intensity, his hard-edge band style produces soft edge light vibration and illusions of spatial expansion. In his sculpture and wall constructions, the artist directs small progressions in shape and size towards the same spatial expansion witnessed in his paintings.
His work can be seen at the West Palm Beach Airport, where the Schreiber Family donated a painting for the Art in Public Places program. Martin Schreiber's work is part of the permanent collection at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Two of Mr. Schreiber's geometric canvasses are exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, in Dallas, Texas. The museum curated the Martin Schreiber Retrospective in Dallas, which was on public view from October 2011 through January 2012.
Martin Schreiber's work has recently been exhibited in 2012 to 2013 at Art Fusion Galleries in Maimi, in 2014 and 2015 at Art Design Consultants in Cincinnatti, in 2014 at Spectrum Miami, and in 2015 at Art San Diego.
"A series of beautifully crafted works, geometrically abstract, sensuous and radiant in their color relationships and illusionistic in their handling of form and space…It is the color usage, in combination with the spatial intervals and the almost surgical precision of the craftsmanship that gives these paintings their appeal. The flatness of the surface, devoid of brush stroke, and the flawless execution produce a lyrical yet resonant visual experience.


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Why Talk About Your Money?
by Dawn Franks | Feb 26, 2015
What does your money look like?
It used to be green paper and change in our pockets, then paper turned to plastic and now it looks an awful lot like my iPhone. More than ever before the "medium is the message". How we define money – share, spend, or save it – makes us a walking electronic billboard transmitting false advertising to ourselves, our family and the rest of the world. According to research we are flooded with over 5,000 advertising messages a day.
How We Talk About Money
We talk about how to make it, lose it or how to spend it. We talk a lot about other people's money. But, we don't talk about our own money.
Nathan Dungan, a respected speaker on money matters and values, believes money can be viewed through the lens of transactions and interactions.
Money transactions include cash management, retirement, wills, investments, credit scores and charitable giving. Each transaction requires management and decision-making.
Money as an interaction is how we connect our money decisions to our values. Dungan describes interaction with money as "the ability to talk openly and thoughtfully about money by sharing family stories, money mistakes and values."
Our interactions with money shape our transactions. Just learning about how compound interest works or the benefits of a tax-deductible charitable contribution does not help us understand how we make money decisions. We need to understand how we interact with money.
Our Money Narrative
Nathan Dungan says our stories, actions and values reflect how we share, spend and save money. It includes how we mentor the next generation and our own personal brand of generosity. Our family money narrative grows over a lifetime, directly and indirectly. The money messages inform attitudes and behaviors like an underground stream that feeds a pond, but is never seen.
Two Families – Same Secret
Cards with one sentence money messages were spread around a table and we were instructed to pick one that best described our family and money. Several individuals picked a card with the statement "Don't tell anyone we have money".
As explanation to their choices one person said his family inherited money through his mother but it was kept a secret so they would not be asked to give it away. The other one said their family actually had very little money compared to his school friends, but they behaved in ways that suggested wealth so it was necessary to keep the lack of money a secret.
The secret lay at the heart of both family's actions and values impacting them well into adulthood.
Stories, values, relationships, family and cultural heritage shape our money transactions. Our children absorb these messages like breathing air. Thus the messages transfer from one generation to the next.
Money Stress
It ranks at the top of research lists about the causes of our stress. It isn't the lack of cash, or the credit card bill or the paper a will is written on causing the stress, it's the money messages. Nathan Dungan says we have to spend time talking about it. He has designed an interactive experience called Money Sanity Solutions: Linking Money + Meaning (www.sharespendsave.com). He says the goal of the experience is to "help you think money, talk money and do money in brand new ways, especially in ways that link to your values." Check out Dungan's Money Sanity U, a virtual learning library.
Money and Kids
Dungan emphasizes the importance of fostering financial literacy with kids. He says there is no wrong or right way to share, spend or save. But there is a better way to deal with money and that is to talk about it, share stories about what you've learned about it. If you're a parent the stories are food for hungry minds; if you're a grandparent the stories are priceless remembered and shared with the next generation.
How do you talk about money in your family? Share an example.


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Chinese Zodiac Horse Astrology : The Year of the Horse
The Chinese Zodiac Horse Astrology And Personality
(Years – 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026)
The Chinese Zodiac Horse Astrology says that people born with this zodiac sign are energetic like stallions. Natives of the Horse Chinese zodiac are always trying to invent or discover new things. They love to chirp around and showcase their witts. The most popular guy among your friends might be a horse zodiac sign.
Love is like a dive for individuals with Chinese zodiac sign horses. They fall in love easily and may fall out as well. A list of horse zodiac traits also includes a loud appearance in a sophisticated party or event. These people are clever to respond quickly, and it gives them an upper hand in critical situations. The best words for a zodiac horse are practical and highly dependable.
Individuals with Horse zodiac signs enjoy a profound career and monetary benefits. They have an innovative mind and a striking personality. There are few things horses need to work on, like hypertension and insomnia. Natives of this zodiac sign have to listen and respect the opinions of others as well.
If we discuss the Chinese Zodiac horse compatibility, they are a good match with Boar zodiac natives. Both can learn so many good things from each other. Together they are outgoing and indulgent. They don't interfere in others' personal space and give equal weight to adjustments in their relationship. Read more about Horse and Boar Compatibility.
Chinese Horse's Compatibility
Dog And Horse Compatibility
Horse Boar Compatibility
Horse And Dog Compatibility
Horse Dragon Compatibility
Horse And Horse Compatibility
Horse Ox Compatibility
Horse Rat Compatibility
Horse And Sheep Compatibility
Horse Tiger Compatibility
Horse Snake Compatibility
Ox Horse Compatibility
Rabbit Horse Compatibility
Horse Personality and Characteristics
The natives who are born in the year of Horses are zealous and passionate. In Chinese Astrology there are twelve Zodiac Signs. Each of the Zodiacs is represented by an animal. Each of these Zodiac signs carries unique characteristics and attributes. The Horse personality is quite warm-hearted. People who are born under the Horse Zodiac Signs are very enthusiastic and positive. These natives are quite agile.
Read More about Chinese Horse Personality here.
Chinese animal signs
Rat 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020
Ox 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021
Tiger 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022
Rabbit 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023
Dragon 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024
Snake 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025
Horse 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026
Sheep 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027
Monkey 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016, 2028
Rooster (Chicken) 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017, 2029
Dog 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030
Pig (Boar) 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019, 2031
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Q: Exception handling pattern It is a common pattern I see where the error codes associated with an exception are stored as Static final ints. when the exception is created to be thrown, it is constructed with one of these codes along with an error message.
This results in the method that is going to catch it having to look at the code and then decide on a course of action.
The alternative seems to be- declare a class for EVERY exception error case (although related exceptions would derieve from a common base class )
Is there a middle ground ? what is the recommended method ?

A: To answer your specific question: Your decision should be based on how and why your exceptions will be processed.  Do you want to make your program as foolproof as possible and conveniently react to every possible error scenario individually? Then you should indeed create an Exception class for every possible error cause you can identify.  Otherwise, it is best to decide for each case individually.
There are a number of very common errors that jeopardize the stability of your entire program (such as ClassNotFoundException or NoSuchMethodException) - these should definitely be handled specifically.  There are other errors that are closely related to one another, resulting in similar problems - these can very well be grouped or organized hierarchically (IOException stands for all kinds of errors related to in- or output, NetworkIOException stands only for in- and output errors related to network access, etc.).
Far more important than the exception's name and class hierarchy, in my opinion, is what you do with it: Where do you place your try/catch blocks? Which log entries should be written for which log file?  Who should be notified? Which error messages should be presented only to admins/developers?  Which errors should be communicated to the end user?
There are many patterns for handling exceptions, answering all sorts of questions like these.  A quite extensive collection of common and useful patterns can be found here.

A: If you can generalize the behavior across different error cases, especially if such behavior can be classified into "classes" of behavior (no pun intended), having an exception class hierarchy makes sense.
If you must catch EVERY (or almost) every exception anyway, and the handling of most of them is nearly identical (e.g. print error and quit), having 1 class with exception number in it makes sense as it's a simpler design.

A: This is a good question. I believe there is definitely a middle ground.
Error codes are essential in my opinion for displaying errors to QA, and for customers to report to customer support and back to developers.
For programmatically handling errors I personally don't recommend error codes, I'd recommend a new Class for each category of errors, but definitely not for every single error. Java did a decent job getting us started with Exceptions like IOException, IllegalArgumentException, UnsupportedOperationException, etc. I frequently throw and catch these when appropriate in my code.
If you have a new category of exceptions that your code should respond to programmatically then you should definitely create a new class for it, extending the appropriate parent class. For example UserRegistrationException or ProductException.

A: The "middle ground", as I see it, is to use the internal "error codes" (common pattern, but not VERY common, IMO) as additional information for reporting/informational purposes; but not for deciding who catches the exception (this is determined by the exception class).

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Anthony is originally from Lake Forest Park, Washington, and is a graduate of UW and Seattle University School of Law. He currently works in the office of Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen, which he joined in 2014 after five years working in Washington DC as a government affairs consultant to clients based in Washington State.
Anthony currently lives in Phinney Ridge. When not at City Hall you'll usually find him at Greenlake, where he'll either be running, biking, playing tennis, or with his Sluggernauts softball team.


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Cincinnati, clifton, neighborhood
Clifton is known for its safety, historic architecture, lively market culture, and beautiful parks. It's an affluent and historic neighborhood located in the northern urban parts of Cincinnati, Initially a separate village as Cincinnati was being built up, Clifton maintains a vibrant culture, and holds itself as a unique community in great esteem. Seekers of culture, the arts, and plenty to do will find that the neighborhood of Clifton is a good place to live!
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Where is Clifton?
Map of Clifton, Cincinnati
Clifton History & Overview
What's It Like Living in Clifton?
What to Eat, Do, and Shop in Clifton, Cincinnati, OH
Clifton, Cincinnati, OH Schools
Is Clifton, Cincinnati Safe?
Clifton, Cincinnati, OH Real Estate
Clifton is located in the northern part of urban Cincinnati, just before the urban sprawl gives way to the suburbs. It is bordered by Northside to the north and west, Avondale and North Avondale to the east, and by The Heights and C.U.F. to the south. The distance from Clifton to the city center of Cincinnati is about 5 and a half miles. Clifton is located within the zipcode of 45316.
Clifton is bordered by I-75 to the north and west, providing access deeper into and out of Cincinnati. As it is still firmly within Cincinnati's urban sprawl, most of Cincinnati's city public transportation, primarily buses, can be easily accessed from anywhere in the neighborhood. In fact, Clifton owes much of its growth to the Cincinnati Street Railway, which ran until the 1950s, but streetcars like this are by-and-large no longer extant in the city. With excellent access to many different transportation nodes and veins, commuting around Clifton and Cincinnati will be easy.
The history of Clifton, like many neighborhoods of older cities in the United States, begins with farming. Incorporated as a village separate from Cincinnati in 1850, but inhabited for some time beforehand by European settlers, the neighborhood took its name from the Clifton farmstead, which was over 1,000 acres in size and was famous for its hills and dales. It was also the location of the University of Cincinnati during that time.
The village was just as affluent in character in the 19th century as it is today, with the primary housing in the area being rural Victorian estates set on large, open farmland, with estate ground designed by the famous Adolph Strauch. Also like today, the northern section of the village was dominated by parkland and unmaintained woodland, giving it a rural character, while the southern section was more densely packed, and filled with flourishing business of various sectors.
Clifton was incorporated as a neighborhood into Cincinnati in 1893, at which the University of Cincinnati relocated to the C.U.F. neighborhood. Many of the old estates were demolished to make way for new urban development in the 1960s, but some still stand, keeping Clifton's manorial character.
The population of the Clifton neighborhood is 8,408. Residents of Clifton are well-educated and well-paid. The age of the population here is older in general than the surrounding Cincinnati area, and ethnically speaking is very homogenous, with Whites making up over 80% of the population, with Blacks making up a small secondary minority at around 8%. The median household income for Clifton is $69,006.
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Clifton is a neighborhood defined by its affluence, parks, historic architecture, and friendly community. While most of the old estates are gone, there are still plenty of examples of Clifton's beautiful 19th century architecture that ground you in the history of the community. There are plenty of nearby attractions and restaurants, suitable to please the affluent residents of this neighborhood. With a unique combination of affluent charm, historic buildings and regions, parks, and new development with modern attractions and amenities, Clifton is among the best neighborhoods to live in in the Cincinnati area right now. Moving to the Clifton neighborhood will be a fantastic experience!
Set in the center of Cincinnati, it should be no surprise that Clifton has plenty of excellent shopping, five-star restaurants, and fun things to do! No matter what sort of experience you're looking for in this lovely neighborhood, you're sure to find it!
Want to know where all the best shopping is in the Clifton neighborhood? You need look no further than Clifton Plaza on Ludlow Avenue, which serves as Clifton's "main street", so to speak. Here, you can find gift shops and boutiques like Toko Baru, the Kilimanjaro African art gallery, and other unique stores, as well as your typical array of grocery and general stores.
Looking for things to do in Clifton? You're in luck, because some of Cincinnati's finest attractions are located within the neighborhood! First and foremost, the widely acclaimed Cincinnati Zoo is right on Clifton's eastern border, featuring a huge botanical garden and a zoo with all sorts of exotic species. There's also the famous Burnet Woods park, with a beautiful water fountain, a lake, and walking trails. Clifton in particular is well known for its numerous parks and natural scenery.
Want to know about the best restaurants in Clifton? If you're craving Central American cuisine, but dreadfully far away, don't worry, Habanero has you covered with excellent, authentic Mexican dishes! If you'd rather eat a cuisine originating from closer to Cincinnati, try the excellent Creole-Cajun dishes at J. Gumbo's! No matter where you are in Clifton, you will have quick access to great eateries.
Clifton Plaza, 333 Ludlow Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220, United States
Toko Baru, 325 Ludlow Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220, United States, (513) 751-3338
Kilimanjaro African Art, 310 Ludlow Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220, United States, (513) 221-0700
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, 3400 Vine St, Cincinnati, OH 45220, United States, (513) 281-4700
Burnet Woods, 3251 Brookline Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220, United States, (513) 357-2604
Habanero, 358 Ludlow Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220, United States, (513) 961-6800
J. Gumbo's, 286 Ludlow Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220, United States
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Those moving to Clifton will be part of the Cincinnati Public Schools District. This district covers nearly the entire city, so Clifton parents will have many options for their kids! An excellent choice nearby is the highly-rated Roger Bacon High School, just outside Clifton's eastern bounds. In terms of continuing education, Clifton also has the Cincinnati State and Technical Community College within the neighborhood.
Wondering if Clifton is a safe neighborhood to live in? A valid question, considering that Cincinnati itself has a significant problem with crime. Clifton is one of the safest neighborhoods in the Cincinnati metropolitan area! The crime rate of Clifton is more than 70% lower than the crime rate of Cincinnati itself, at 1,831 crimes per 100,000 people. The violent crime rate here is 8% below the national average, while property crime is 25% lower.
With a cozy community, plentiful attractions and restaurants, and safe streets, comes higher property prices than surrounding Cincinnati. However, you'll be pleased to know that Clifton is still a very affordable place to buy property in. According to Redfin, the average home price in Clifton is $377,500. Despite price fluctuations, this is more than $100,000 more than the Cincinnati average of $229,000. The median days on the market for real estate is 48 days, while the number of homes sold annually is 14.
Renting apartments in Clifton will have you paying a typical monthly rent of $1,200 for an 870 square foot apartment, according to RentCafe. This is almost half the national average for renting price, which is $2,100 per month, meaning that Clifton will have all the benefits of an affluent neighborhood while not weighing on your wallet!
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If you're interested in looking at listings for Clifton's homes, take a look at some Clifton, Cincinnati, OH real estate options here.
Planning on moving to Clifton? No matter how big or small your relocation is, Bell Moving's excellent neighborhood moving team is ready and eager to help! That's why you should call us at 513-942-7500! We're a professional full-service company with the experience and excellent customer service necessary to make your relocation as simple as possible. Call now or fill out our online form for a free quote.
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Movie: The Equalizer 2
Bible Based Review
This Review Reveals Minor Details About the Plot.
Clash of Titans
Robert "Mac" McCall (Denzel Washington) has ex-military written all over him; he's too well organized for civilian roots. He's not by disposition a man of letters, but his wife Vivienne had been reading the world's greatest 100 books, so he started, too, to have something to discuss with her. She died on the 97th, and he was up to number 91 as of the 2014 movie, "The Equalizer." He remains a little melancholy without her. He'd promised her to be a different kind of man, so he quit his—very hush hush—job and is now working as a Lyft driver in Boston. He assists the unfortunate from time to time, and with help from his old agency friend, Susan Plummer (Melissa Leo.)
The current movie opens with him reading his 99th listed book as he travels by train to a former haunt in Istanbul, Turkey, on a mission of mercy this time. Turning the pages marks the passage of time to the last book as he's "helping all these random people." The pace of his humdrum existence picks up ("Looks like there's coming a storm,") however, as Hurricane Frances is "moving up the eastern seaboard" to form a backdrop to an armed confrontation in an evacuated town being ravaged by it. His former colleagues ("It's nothing personal") are cleaning up loose ends, and he's the fag end.
Frances is a real gully washer comparable to the great deluge insofar as the release of a flurry of pigeons is enough to put one in mind of Noah sending a raven and then a dove out of the ark in search of dry land. Noah and his three sons (with all their wives) were all that survived the worldwide flood. ( Gen. 9:18-19 ) "And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread." Writer Bodie Hodge holds forth that: "Generally, from the Middle East in the land of Shinar (modern-day Iraq, where Babel was), Japheth's descendants went north toward Europe and Asia, Ham's went toward Africa, and Shem's remained in the Middle East" (183). In EQ2 three persons are given sanctuary in metaphorical arks: a nine-year-old half-Turkish girl (Rhys Cote) is delivered anonymously to the Defense Dept. desk to await her worried American mother Grace (Tamara Hickey.) A soused intern Amy (Caroline Day) is deposited by her Lyft driver at Mass General to have her stomach pumped. And an African-American tenement dweller Miles Whittaker (Ashton Sanders) is secreted in a safe room when the baddies show up. These three vaguely evoke Noah's three sons.
There followed with Noah a critical incident where, Gen. 9:20-22 , he got drunk on wine and was exposed in all his glory to his youngest son Ham who brazenly viewed him uncovered in his tent. Noah's other two sons, Shem and Japheth, covered him up, Gen. 9:23 . Ham had violated him, which Noah sniffed out upon awakening, Gen. 9:24 . Noah's curse puts Ham's youngest son Canaan in a position of servitude, Gen. 9:25 . Noah's other two sons Shem, Gen. 9:26 , and Japheth, Gen. 9:27 , were blessed by Noah. The blessing of Shem was shared by Japheth who was to dwell in the tents of Shem, integration of two of the brothers as it were.
The servitude of Ham as passing to his youngest son Canaan also encompassed his eldest son Cush, see Gen. 10:6 . Cush is Hebrew for black, whose descendants settled in Africa. Canaan is the youngest son of Ham carrying the curse on the whole family by a figure of speech called a synecdoche where a part stands for the whole. (Jasher 73:35) "For the Lord our God gave Ham the son of Noah, and his children and all his seed, as slaves to the children of Shem and to the children of Japheth, and unto their seed after them for slaves, forever."
In EQ2 the girl rescued on the train carried a stuffed bunny representing the animals in the ark that later repopulated the earth. Mac retrieved all the "cell phones, cameras, and recording devices" from the rich baddies who'd drugged the intern, so her humiliation wouldn't get exposed. And Mac & black 'brother' Miles took upon themselves to do the scut work of covering up the tenement's graffiti without anybody paying them for it ("Everybody complaining because nobody did what anybody could have done or should have done to begin with.") Working Miles like a slave kept him from participating in gang violence, which would have done him no good.
Production Values
"" (2018) was sequel to the 2014 action flick "The Equalizer," based in turn on the 1980's Equalizer TV series created by Michael Sloan & Richard Lindheim. It was directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Richard Wenk. It stars Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, and Ashton Sanders. It capitalizes on the Hollywood myth of three-letter agencies employing teams of highly trained super-assassins. When they were withdrawn from service, some of them couldn't handle a desk job and went private. One, however, became an amateur scholar. These two clash. Author Max Allan Collins comments:
Wasn't as if a hired killer couldn't be a lowlife piece of scum. Few paid assassins were the glamorous figures of espionage fiction or even the real-life cold-blooded, blue-collar hit men who did contract work for organized crime. (88)
In four years since transferring, Mac's former partner Dave York (Pedro Pascal) has gotten "fat," he tells him, but I think he was just projecting. Mac himself has porked out. He had to get a whole new wardrobe having overflowed the former. He wears solid dark colors now to trick the eye, but the facial closeups as he's getting psyched for battle reveal some inconsistent pounds. Just saying. Otherwise the stunt doubles, camera work, and choreography are a wonder to behold. For that matter the whole cast from the least to the greatest did an excellent job.
MPAA rated it R for brutal violence throughout, language, and some drug content. The heroes and villains are all quite human. The subplots mesh well together.
Review Conclusion w/a Christian's Recommendation
This is the rare sequel that's better than the original. They cranked up the juice to do it, which may make it dicey for younger viewers. I found it an enjoyable action flick with interwoven dramatic themes. Not a classic but a winner nonetheless.
Action factor: Edge of your seat action-packed. Suitability For Children: Not Suitable for Children of Any Age. Special effects: Well done special effects. Video Occasion: Fit For a Friday Evening. Suspense: Keeps you on the edge of your seat. Overall movie rating: Five stars out of five.
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C S Lewis's dawning asceticism: "Depth under depth of self-love and self-admiration"
In the last post, as I began to unpack monasticism and asceticism with C S Lewis's help, I took a passage from his science fiction novel That Hideous Strength as a window into the way that war, by shaking all our self-interests and focusing us on a higher goal, can give us a new vision and focus for life. I concluded, drawing from a phrase of Lewis' in that book: "'The immense weight of obedience' involved in asceticism, too, can attune us more finely to our relationships, relativize our petty anxieties and cares, and help us live our earthly, human lives with more zest and appreciation." Now, to continue:
Why monasticism?
This focusing function may be a helpful general principle about asceticism. But we may fairly ask: "What makes us think the particular ascetic modes of monasticism have any answers on our modern problems? They're so . . . medieval! Stone cloisters, hard beds, celibacy, rising at ungodly hours to chant Psalms in Latin? Really? This is the balm for our ills?"
Lewis plumbs the depths of self
Lewis, in the year leading up to his conversion, struggled mightily with his "flesh" – and even more with spiritual pride, a sin the monastic fathers unanimously agreed was among the worst, and especially tending to beset those making efforts in their lives to achieve spiritual progress.
From early on, as he struggled toward conversion, Lewis also appreciated the asceticism of the Middle Ages. It was 1931 when Lewis took has famous late-night walk with his close friends Tolkien and Hugo Dyson and then, soon after, made a specific commitment to Christian belief while on his way to the zoo with his brother. The previous year, on Jan 30, he had written to Greeves "saying that things were continuing to go well for him spiritually, though he tried not to take pride in his progress, knowing that it came from the grace of [146] God, not from his own efforts." In an ascetical key, he admitted that there seemed to be "no end" to his spiritual pride. He found in himself "depth under depth of self-love and self-admiration," which prevented him from "making even the faintest approach to giving up my own will: which as everyone has told us is the only thing to do.'"[1]
Without too much exaggeration, we can say that this struggle with pride and self-will is the taproot of the monastic tradition. Lewis knew that. As the "hound of heaven" closed in on him, he wrote to Barfield: "Terrible things are happening to me. The "Spirit" or "Real I" [a term straight out of the Theologia Germanica] is showing an alarming tendency to become much more personal and is taking the offensive, and behaving just like God. You'd better come on Monday at the latest or I may have entered a monastery.'"[2]
Though of course he never did this, we see how strong this awareness of the importance of ascetic self-denial was for Lewis in a letter to his friend Owen Barfield on Sept. 12th, 1938, as the storm clouds of World War II so clearly gathered overhead.
"My dear Barfield," he wrote,
"What awful quantities of this sort of thing seem necessary to break us in, or, more correctly, to break us off. One thinks one has made some progress towards detachment . . . and begin[s] to realize, and to acquiesce in, the rightly precarious hold we have on all our natural loves, interests, and comforts: then when they are really shaken, at the very first breath of that wind, it turns out to have been all a sham, a field-day, blank cartridges."[3]
He continues:
"This is how I was thinking that night, about the war danger. I had so often told myself that my friends and books and even brains were [232] not given me to keep: that I must teach myself at bottom to care for something else more . . . and I was horrified to find how cold the idea of really losing them struck. An awful symptom is that part of oneself still regards troubles as 'interruptions' as if (ludicrous idea) the happy bustle of one[']s personal interests was our real [task or work],[4] instead of the opposite." (231-2)
"I did in the end see . . . that since nothing but these forcible shakings will cure us of our worldliness, we have at bottom reason to be thankful for them. We force God to surgical treatment: we won't (mentally) diet."
In other words, God forces "troubles" on us because otherwise we will refuse to abandon our selfish interests—which we need to do, for our own good. Lewis derived (or at least strengthened) this insight from his reading of certain medieval devotional books. In particular, he studied closely three manuals of Pseudo-Dionysian devotion–books that followed the early writer Pseudo-Dionysius the Aeropagite (late 5th – early 6th c.) in prescribing a threefold mystical process of purgation, illumination, and union with God. These were Walter Hilton's The Scale of Perfection (c. 1400), the anonymous Cloud of Unknowing (late 1300s) and the Theologia Germanica (1497), which he had just finished reading for the first time when he wrote to Barfield.[5]
Two years after his letter to Barfield, Lewis wrote his Problem of Pain, in which he reflects at length on how suffering and self-denial can become parts of our training in holiness. In May of that year (1940), he wrote an essay for The Guardian in which he reflected that we can see our self in two ways. We can see it, first, as "God's creature, an occasion of love and rejoicing; now, indeed, hateful in condition, but to be pitied and healed." But we can also see it as "that one self of all others which is called I and me, and which on that ground puts forward an irrational claim to preference."
This second, truly selfish claim, says Lewis, "is to be not only hated, but simply killed." Our struggle with egotism and self-preference is truly an "endless war," but even in the midst of that war, the wise Christian "loves and approves selves as such, though not their sins. The very self-love which he has to reject is to him a specimen of how he ought to feel to all selves; and he may hope that when he has truly learned (which will hardly be in this life) to love his neighbor as himself, he may then be able to love himself as his neighbor: that is, with charity instead of partiality." (194) (This is very much what Bernard of Clairvaux had said centuries before: that our ultimate goal vis-a-vis self-love, realized fully only in heaven, is to love ourselves for the sake of God – that is, with the fully self-giving agape love of God–that is, "charity" in the biblical phrase–rather than the eros love of potentially selfish desire.)
"The wrong asceticism," Lewis concludes, "torments the self: the right kind kills the selfness." (195) He put this personal understanding of the Christian ascetic vision into practice through regular use of such ascetic disciplines as fasting, meditation, and frequent prayer.[6]
[1] Need actual citation from Letters. Found originally in David Downing, The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith (Downer's Grove: IVP, 2002), 145 – 6.
[2] Downing, Reluctant Convert, 146.
[3] Letters, [vol?] 231.
[4] Hooper's note on this Greek term, n. 26: 'task' or 'work'.
[5] David Downing, Into the Region of Awe, 23.
[6] On Lewis's spiritual disciplines see, for example, Wallace A. C. Williams, "C. S. Lewis: Spiritual disciplines for mere Christians," For All the Saints.
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