My parents, whom I've mentioned before, were in the path of Hurricane Charley. They're safe and sound, their home undamaged, but they're still in shock and can't adequately fathom the damage done to their community. Trees, wires and double-wides uprooted like so many dry leaves. No electricity, no water and no phone service. I spoke with them throughout the storm and it was only after it moved into Central Florida that both the cellular and land lines went dead and I lost contact with them, but I knew they were safe.
They approached the storm with a healthy attitude, stockpiling water, batteries and non-perishable ready-to- eat food. They pushed the car up against the garage door to brace it against the wind. And because they live within a mile of the harbor, they had two state-of-the-art life jackets and an inflatable rubber boat, in case of flooding from the storm surge. But my favorite preparation was the special bottle of wine they bought, to be opened at the height of the storm, by candlelight.
The late great Julia Child said her favorite meal was any red meat and a bottle of gin. So with that in mind I sprang into action when they day before the storm I received the call.
For those of middle age, being asked for advice from your parents is a big deal. It means you've arrived—you think, "I'm a big boy now!" My stepmother called from Camino Real Liquors, Port Charlotte, Florida.
My mind raced. My choice would be a great white burgundy like a Corton Charlemagne from Henri Boillot, a grand cru of course. The first sip will confuse you. It doesn't taste like wine, but like gently perfumed water with grape, endive and watermelon juice taste notes. Each sip evolves in your mouth and the glass. The problem is it costs $139.99, and even facing natural disaster my parents are cheap.
"Try the Mulderbosch sauvignon blanc, it's from South Africa." I decide.
I wait as she cruises the aisles searching for my selection.
"I know you're used to buying wine in bulk from Sam's Club, but trust me on this one." I plead.
So she bought it. I chose it for its versatility, its price and Julia Child's principle of minimalism. Mulderbosch has hints of pineapple and an herbaceous nose that speaks of alpine meadows. And it's good with Cheez Whiz and trail mix.
The storm's destruction was terrible, all of Charlotte County's mourning for the dead. This catastrophe prompted me to think about all the New England hurricanes that caused destruction. The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 toppled chimneys, ripped boats from their moorings and flooded the Great Bay. The Great September Gale of 1815 left snow in the White Mountains and pounded the seacoast. And the Hurricane of 1938 flooded an already-soggy Manchester as the Merrimack River left its banks. Always important to me will be Hurricane Gloria, which left 600,000 without power and led to the birth of my son nine months later.
Chateau Gloria 2000: an unclassified yet tasty little number from the St. Julien region of Bordeaux. St. Julien's are more feminine and lack the aggressive, grassy flavors of a Pauillac and St. Estephe, but offer more cabernet than a Margaux. Look for chocolate, espresso and currant flavors. $34.99.
Buena Vista 2001 Pinot Noir: from the Carneros Region of Napa/Somona. Lots of overripe plum and juicy concord grape flavors. $14.99.
Merryvale 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon: made in the traditional way, by adding egg whites to collect the residual skins and particles, which are then skimmed off. $24.99.
2003 Torremoron Tinto from Spain's Ribera del Duero: 100 percent tempranillo grapes, a bit tannic due to the youth (somebody should import well-cellared Spanish wine) but a riot of sunny, slightly smoky flavors.
They'd hold potable water as elegantly as they held wine. And even in New England it's good to be prepared. Remember the highest wind speed ever recorded was 231 miles per hour on Mount Washington.
My parents were too scared to drink the wine during Hurricane Charley. They opened it two days later with lobsters and stone crabs that they bought on sale from a slightly damaged fish market that was without power. They had cooked them on a gas grill. They said the wine was delicious, the best they ever had, but I think they just tasted the sweet nectar of safe delivery.


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Reunite in Chengdu when Spring Comes —— Notice of Postponement of CDIIF 2022
In order to secure all participants' health and safety effectively and to protect exhibitors' benefits to the full extent, after prudent consideration, the organizing committee of the Chengdu International Industry Fair decided to make the following announcement:
The 2nd Chengdu International Industry Fair (CDIIF 2022), originally scheduled to be held on 19-21 October, 2022 at the Western China International Expo City, will be postponed until 26-28 April, 2023. The show venue remains the same.
The success of the 1st Chengdu International Industry Fair has set off an upsurge of digital transformation in manufacturing industry in Chengdu and Chongqing regions. The three-day event has attracted over the 600 finest domestic and foreign enterprises, constituting a total exhibition area of 50,000 sqm. Many new technologies and products, meeting the Western China's market demand, have made their debuts. Over 40,000 professional visitors have attended this wonderful event.
As the key engine to promote the upgrading of manufacturing industries in the central and western regions and the exceeding development of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, the 1st CDIIF has fully highlighted the generational feature of manufacturing development, presented the aggregational feature of each single process within the intelligent manufacturing production chain, and released the creative feature of further development of industrial capacity in the central and western regions.
With the theme of "Get New Technology First", CDIIF 2023 will continue to focus on key industrial sectors, including Metalworking and CNC Machine Tool, Robotics, Industrial Automation, Advanced Material and Information & Communication Technology, Energy-saving & Industrial Accessory, and Metro Transit. There would be an increasing number of top international and domestic enterprises in the event. The concurrent forums will closely follow the national development strategy and focus on new trends in industrial development. The digital transformation ecology and scene exhibition area, which made a splash during CDIIF 2021, will be re-installed and upgraded, inviting local industries and enterprises in Sichuan to jointly explore and upgrade new modes of transformation. With professional visitors going into action without delay, the number of both online and offline pre-registrations has exceeded expectations. The preparation is all set for the great gathering.
However, the reoccurrence of COVID-19 epidemic interrupted CDIIF again. But our footsteps will not stop, we will do our best to prepare for the next year's brilliance. CDIIF will further build a genuine global communication and cooperation platform for manufacturing industry, fully demonstrating the important achievements of national and global manufacturing technology innovation, new technology and new product applications; fully reflecting the linkage feature and integration feature between the innovation chain and industry chain; therefore, accelerating the cooperation and communication among manufacturing enterprises in central and western China and leading enterprises at home and abroad.
May all regrets of this year be the foreshadowing of next year's surprise!
We sincerely appreciate the company and support from all the exhibitors, visitors, partners, government authorities, and industry organizations at all levels who care about CDIIF.
We firmly believe in the returning of a spectacular industrial event with great crowd, safety, and efficiency.
Let's reunite in Chengdu when spring comes!
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Students help raise $205,000 for healthier hearts
Gathering his students together, Michael Henry asks them a question that resonates with most of them: How many of them have a family member affected by heart disease?
Many small hands are raised.
"I have had multiple people in my family that have had heart disease," said Henry, who has taught physical education at Lost Lake Elementary School in Clermont since 1995. "It touches all of us. It is the No.1 and 3 causes of death in the United States."
Henry then gets his students rallied for a good cause: to raise money for the American Heart Association, whose mission is "building healthier lives free from cardiovascular disease and stroke."
Since 1999, Henry has led a student effort to bring awareness to heart disease by raising more than $205,000 for the American Heart Association's Jump Rope for Heart program.
The educational fundraising program "engages elementary and middle school students with jumping rope or playing basketball while empowering them to improve their own health and help other kids with heart-health issues," according to the American Heart Association.
Students ask parents, family and friends to sponsor them with a flat donation for the program, which takes place in the spring at the school.
Recently, Lake County School Board members honored Henry for the program and Lost Lake Elementary School hosted a "Coach Henry Day" during which students dressed up in the coach's trademark outfit: plaid shorts and collarless T-shirts. Students then presented him with a banner signed by everyone.
Henry, a modest and soft-spoken man, said the effort is student-driven and less about him.
"I am getting too much credit," he said. "It is the community and kids that do more of this. It is all kids. We have less than couple thousand dollars donated by businesses."
He cited one fifth-grade student who raised $3,000 alone for Jump Rope for Heart.
Rhonda Hunt, principal at Lost Lake, said Henry is "an exemplary model for how hard teachers work and help children."
Aurelia Cole, chief of administration for Lake County public schools, also praised Henry's efforts.
"We are very proud of his effort because he is teaching kids how to help others and it is making an impact on our community," she said.
Henry's passion comes from his vision to promote exercise and awareness of cardiovascular disease.
"We stress the importance of exercise each and every day," he said. "It is a proven fact that the kids that are active in school usually do well in school."
Henry added that the fundraiser is more than simply encouraging physical fitness.
"It is a way to get the kids involved in the community," he said. "It is important for kids to know they have to give back to something else."


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Shafia son accused of murder will not testify
By Rob | January 18, 2012 | No Comments | Crimes, Domestic, Mass, Murder
The 21-year-old Montreal man accused, along with his mother and father, of murdering three of his sisters and his father's first wife, will not testify at his murder trial, jurors learned Tuesday morning. Hamed Shafia (inset) will be the only one of the three accused not to take the stand in his defence. His mother, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 42, spent five and a half days on the witness stand and his father, Mohammad Shafia, 58, also testified.
Jurors weren't told directly that the youngest of the trio will not testify, but they heard defence lawyer David Crowe, who represents Yahya, say that the final defence witness will have to be "qualified," meaning it is an expert whose credentials must be assessed before the person is permitted to testify and give opinion evidence. The assessment process will take place in the courtroom Tuesday afternoon but because jurors will not be present, the discussions that take place cannot be reported.
"As I understand it, this is the last witness," Mr. Justice Robert Maranger said, before sending jurors home for the day, after defence witness Mohammad Anwar Yaqubi, a half brother of Shafia who grew up with him in Kabul, Afghanistan, had completed his evidence.
On June 30, 2009, a Nissan Sentra was found at the bottom of a shallow canal in Kingston. Inside were the bodies of three Shafia children, sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13. Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, also was found dead inside the car. Rona Mohammad was Shafia's first wife, whom he married in his native Afghanistan.
Three weeks later, the three family members were arrested and charged with first-degree murder. They have pleaded not guilty. The trial has been underway since October.
Yaqubi, a doctor who now lives in the Netherlands, testified that the foul curses Shafia is heard uttering on secret police wiretaps don't suggest he killed his children. Yaqubi acknowledged he has had only sporadic telephone contact with his brother in the past 18 years.
"This is not the place for my brother to be in there, because my brother is not a murderer," Yaqubi testified, in answer to a question by Crown prosecutor Gerard Laarhuis.
Yaqubi, who testified in Dari through an interpreter, said Canadians cannot understand that in his culture and language, Afghani men use the same curses to describe simple problems in life, like the theft of hubcaps, and the death of children. He said he believes his brother still uses an expression that he learned in childhood, to "cut someone in pieces with a cleaver" when enraged. Shafia is heard on one of the police wiretaps saying, of his dead daughters: "Even if they come back to life a hundred times, if I have a cleaver in my hand, I will cut [them] in pieces."
But Yaqubi said he has never heard of honour killing.
"So you're telling us that you've heard Afghan fathers talking about chopping up their own children with a cleaver but you've never heard about honour killing?" Laarhuis asked.
"Regarding killing for reputation or honour I never heard that … and this is a wrong label which has been put here, put on a traffic accident," he replied in a long and rambling answer about the pain he has felt at seeing the media reports portraying his brother as a killer.
The judge cut Yaqubi off, at the request of Laarhuis, who said the witness was again failing to respond only to the questions. Laarhuis had to ask the judge to intercede several times during his cross examination.
On the wiretap recordings, played for jurors, Shafia calls his daughters "whores," "filthy" and "rotten children" who betrayed the family and Islam and did "cruelty" to Shafia by secretly taking boyfriends and by wearing revealing clothes.
Prosecutors allege that the victims died in an honour killing orchestrated by Shafia to cleanse the shame he felt from the conduct of his daughters. The trial also heard that Mohammad wanted a divorce from Shafia and was supportive of the daughters who were dating.
"Honour is very important for him but we have to be careful; honour is a subjective issue," Yaqubi testified.
He insisted that the interpretation and translation of the wiretap recordings and the police interviews of the three accused are flawed.
"I think they should be released and those people who are in charge of these interrogations or investigation, they didn't do their job properly," Yaqubi testified.
Yaqubi said his brother's success in business spurred envy among people who would say "pessimistic" or negative things about the Shafia family.
"This was multi-millionaire family," Yaqubi testified. "They had the best house in [a Kabul neighbourhood] and they had the best Mercedes Benz and the were the envy of the other families and the jealousy caused them to say these things."
Yaqubi acknowledged that he did not know that Zainab had run away from home, that Sahar had attempted suicide, that Geeti had asked to be removed from the home by child protection authorities and that police had been to the Shafia home several times in the two years they lived in Montreal.
Laarhuis suggested Yaqubi did not really know what was going on in the Shafia home.
Yaqubi said the things he had been told seemed to be problems but "in reality, this is not a proper analysis, I think."
(this appeared first at the Montreal Gazette)
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Belt and Road initiative brings Chinese firm and Malaysian firm together
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Beyond government-owned enterprises, private firms from China are also participating in the Belt and Road initiative.
The Qinzhou Free Trade Port [Photo: China Plus]
The coastal city of Qinzhou is located along the southern coast of Guangxi. It's also been dubbed "the center of Chinese overland trade with Indo-China."
A refurbishment of its port area, as well as free trade policies, have given Qinzhou a solid reputation among both importers and exporters throughout the Indo-China region.
Guangxi Hebabiz Pharmaceutical Technology is a local company in Qinzhou.
Last year the firm opened a new factory in the free trade area's industrial zone, co-owned by a Malaysian company.
Li Fangli, assistant General Manager of Hebabiz, says the company's profit margins have greatly improved after the factory went into operation, mostly due to the free trade policies.
He says "In the past, we only exported raw materials to Malaysia. You know, because it's raw, we don't benefit a lot. But now with the synthetic factory jointly built by our company and a Malaysia firm, we can also get a much bigger share from the final product."
As part of the "Belt and Road" initiative, China is currently promoting the Qinzhou Free Trade Area to integrate more with other participating countries.
The China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park has been jointly set up by both countries' governments.
Along with pharmaceutical firm Hebabiz, the zone also features companies producing palm oil and rubber products, as well as bird-nest products.
These are products produced by the saliva of swifts, and are prized in Chinese culture for their use in foods and as medicinal products.
A bird's nest processing base is expected to be completed in the China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park in June.
Malaysia has also agreed to export raw bird's nests to China during a trip to China late last year during Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's visit.
Dato Ong Chong Yi is the President of the China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park. [Photo: China Plus]
Dato Ong Chong Yi, president of the China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park says "We are more than willing to see Malaysia firms coming to this industrial park, and I have heard that more and more Malaysian companies are showing strong interests in this. I think, Malaysia have an advantage in traditional industries like producing palm oil, rubbers, and bird-nest products, as well as halal food and other kinds of food processing."
In 2016, 1.4 million containers also passed through the Qinzhou Port, up 60 percent year on year.
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Ready to take on the world, Milky Valdez moves to Madrid to carve out a life and a career for herself, away from the stifling help of her well-meaning, affluent parents. Still young and inexperienced with men, she is shocked when she meets Luke, her handsome, womanizing neighbor, who leads a hedonistic lifestyle as a music producer.
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Slack Connect DM new feature drew a barrage of criticism
This week Slack Messenger developers announced a new Connect DM feature that allows sending messages directly to any Slack user in any organization. The developers positioned it as a new and convenient way to communicate with business partners.
However, users and cybersecurity experts did not like the new functionality included by default. The fact is that even if the user has Connect DM disabled, he will still receive email notifications and messages from everyone who tried to contact him, including random people who may abuse this feature to just send someone a portion of insults.
Even worse, outsiders were suddenly able to speak directly to employees of any company and invite them to private chats, where they could be subjected to phishing attacks and suffer from social engineering.
The community's reaction was immediate. For example, on Twitter, several security experts wrote that this function can be abused not only for phishing or spreading malware, it can also be used to send spam and harass specific people. The problem is that users did not have any mechanisms to block such messages and even the ability to report abuse to the administrator.
If someone in a free Slack *ever* accepts a cross-Slack DM invite, even if that connection is later revoked, anyone in that other Slack can forever find all the members of that free Slack and see their profiles. There is no way for someone running a free Slack to turn this off. activist Tom Lowenthal tweeted.
Because of this, companies began to massively disable Connect DM, and information security specialists advised using this function only in conjunction with strict access control lists that allow you to control which employees can participate in interorganizational chats.
The Vice Motherboard contacted the Slack representatives and asked what they intend to do with the problems that have arisen.
The company admitted that they made a mistake:
Following the deployment of Slack Connect DM, we received valuable feedback from our users that email invitations to use this feature could potentially be used to send offensive or annoying messages. We're already taking immediate steps to prevent this kind of abuse: as of today, we've removed the option to customize invite messages where a user invites someone to join Slack Connect DM. In the initial rollout of [new feature], we made a mistake that is incompatible with our product goals and our normal Slack Connect experience.Slack's vice president of communications and policy Jonathan Prince said.
At the same time, a Slack spokesman refused to say whether the company plans to finalize Slack Connect DM as a whole and, for example, add a much-needed blocking feature. The company said that the Trust&Safety team has been operating in Slack since 2016, but Slack disclaims responsibility for moderating its platform, shifting it to the companies that use it.
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How the pedagogic model places full responsibility on the teacher's shoulders.
Rogers' guidelines to help the adult facilitator in the course of his duty.
The five key assumptions of the pedagogic model.
The five key assumptions of the andragogy model.
The three-dimensional model developed by Knowles, Holton and Swanson.
The quintet matrix to diagnose performance problems.
The eight phases necessary to prepare the learning contract.
The competencies the adult facilitator must possess.
Implementing a questionnaire by the adult's self-learning style.
Implementing the model for teachers / trainers.
Submitting solutions to the twelve training problems that face beginner trainers.
Using a model to develop the effectiveness of the staff at work and in new environments.
Increasing the practice of content to the fullest extent possible.
Establishing cohesion among the group members.
Taking into consideration individual needs.
Encouraging learners to participate and be engaged at work.
Encouraging fun and a passion for work.
Distinguishing the learners' learning styles.
Choosing your style and modifying it.
Implementing nearly twenty tips to handle anxiety.
How to maintain your energy with learners.


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Q: How can I code an adaptive/dynamic UILabel in iOS Swift/Obj-C? I tried drawing it with CGRectMake + adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth, it gets it to work but only until if I need to size my UILabel less than 'default system font size' (i.e. 16 maybe), it doesn't get bigger more than 'default system font size'. On the other hand, if I hard code that font size like UIFont(name: "any-font", size: 20) it just keep stick to 20, no matter screen size decreases or increases. I also tried using CGAffineTransformMakeScale(2, 2) it gets it done, but it just zooms the text and make the quality poor it's rather a tedious way. How can i use a particular font size and make it adaptive/dynamic?
label = UILabel(frame: CGRectMake(self.view.bounds.origin.x + self.view.bounds.width * 0.2, self.view.bounds.origin.y + self.view.bounds.height * 0.2, self.view.bounds.width * 0.6, self.view.bounds.height * 0.2))
label.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
label.text = "Sign in"
label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
label.sizeToFit()

A: Try this
label.minimumFontSize    = 5.0;
label.minimumScaleFactor = 0.5;

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QUESTION 3: Was the Holy Scripture written because of the circumstances of the time (occasionaliter), and without divine command? Negative, against the Roman Catholics.
I. This question is debated between us and the Roman Catholics, who, in order to minimize the authority and perfection of Scripture, teach not only that it is less than necessary, and that the church could do without it, but even that it was written without any express divine commandment, and simply passed on to the church as a result of special circumstances.
[They also] teach that Christ gave the apostles no commandment to write, and that they had no intention of writing the gospel, except in a secondary sense and because of special circumstances, as Bellarmine argues (De Verbo Dei, book 4.3-4).
II. That the sacred writers responded to circumstances of time and place is unquestioned. We do not deny that they often put the mysteries of God into writing under such influence. The question is whether they wrote under such circumstances that they did not write by divine revelation and commandment. We indeed hold that this is not a matter of opposition, but of combination. They could write under the influence of circumstances and at the same time from divine commandment and inspiration. Indeed, since such a circumstance was not presented to them except through divine action, the writing was in accordance with the divine commandment, and the situation neither arose without design (temere) nor was used of their own will (sponte).
III. An implicit and general commandment is to be distinguished from an explicit and special one. Granted that all the sacred writers did not have a special commandment to write, although this is frequent (Exod.17[:14]; Deut. 31:19; Isa. 8:1; Jer. 36:2; Hab. 2:2; Rev. 1:12), yet they all had the general one. For the commandment to teach (Matt. 28:19) includes the commandment to write, since without writing we cannot teach those who are in another place or who come after us, whence preaching is said to be done in writing, in deed, and in word. Further, immediate inspiration and the internal direction by which they were led by the Holy Spirit were the equivalent of a commandment (loco mandati) for the sacred writers, so that Paul called Scripture "God-breathed" (II Tim. 3:16), and Peter said, "Prophecy did not come by the will of man, but men of God spoke, moved by the Holy Spirit" (II Peter 1:21): that is, the apostles wrote when God inspired and moved them, although not in a mechanical manner, under coercion. No more effective commandment could be given than by the inspiration of the things to be written, nor is any one of the promises made by ambassadors fulfilled except one they have been commanded to make.
V. Not all the apostles were required to write, although all were required to preach. As they were jointly sent of divine inspiration to the task of preaching, so they should all proclaim the same message and follow it with writing; there was an equal responsibility in all matters that were essential for the apostolate, since all were equal as God-breathed teachers. But they did not have equal responsibility in the performance of every particular action, so it is not strange if, through the freedom of the Holy Spirit, some were called to both preaching and writing, and others to preaching only.
VI. A single book was not put together by all the apostles conjointly, both so that they would not seem to have acted together in conspiracy, and so that it might not seem to have greater authority than what each one wrote individually; it would seem that for the same reason Christ refrained altogether from writing: that we might say that he is the one who wrote his teaching not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets but in the heart (II Cor. 3:2[-3]). It was therefore sufficient that that which was approved by all [the apostles] should be written by some of them. Indeed it adds much weight and authority to the apostolic writings that, although they were written in different places, for different purposes and circumstances, in different styles and different forms, addressed to different people, yet [they] are so harmonious.
VII. It was not necessary for a catechism to be written by the apostles; (1) it was sufficient for them to transmit that by which all symbolic books and catechisms were to be tested. (2) If they did not write a catechism formally, yet materially they passed on, both in the Gospels and in the Epistles, that from which we may do catechetical work in the best possible manner.
VIII. As we ought not to impose law on the Holy Spirit, and prescribe to him the method of revealing his will, so we ought not to doubt that the form of writing that has been followed is the most suitable, not only because at that time teaching by means of letters was a widely accepted procedure, because this manner of teaching was most useful for spreading the gospel rapidly, which was the chief purpose of the apostles; but also because this simple and popular form of writing suits the capacities of all, the uneducated as well as the educated, and teaches a theology that is not ideal and merely theoretical, but practical and specific (in hypothesi).
IX. The Apostles' Creed is so called, not efficiently because it was passed on by the apostles, but materially, because it was composed from the apostolic teaching, and is the kernel (medulla) and compendium of the apostolic teaching.
X. Those who wrote under the influence and compulsion (necessitas) of circumstances could nevertheless be writing from a [special] commandment: two realities, one of which is subordinate to the other, ought not to be understood as contradictory. Christ's commandment was the primary activating cause and the circumstance a secondary, less significant (minus principalis) activating cause, by which, as they wrote for the glory of God and the edification of the neighbor, the apostles preached both from divine commandment and on account of circumstances.
XI. Granted that it was proper for the apostles to write because they were under obligation to teach, it does not follow that pastors are now always under the same obligation to write as to teach, because they work under different conditions. The apostles were obligated to teach all nations, as ecumenical teachers, but this is not the case with ordinary pastors, who have a particular congregation (grex) committed to them.
Textus Receptus – Default Text or Chosen Text?


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Rock >
Bachman-Turner Overdrive >
Bachman-Turner Overdrive II
Bachman-Turner Overdrive|Bachman-Turner Overdrive II
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Released on 01/12/1973 by Mercury Records
Main artist: Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Buy the album Starting at £13.49
Released when Mercury Records was still located in Chicago, IL, back in 1973, the second album from Bachman-Turner Overdrive was the first to break through in a big way. First the hit single "Let It Ride" went Top 25 circa March of 1974, then the anthem "Taking Care of Business" went Top 15 the summer of that year. By October they would top the charts with "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" from the follow-up LP, 1974's Not Fragile, but their seven chart songs were all made possible by this album and these two songs, "Let It Ride" and "Takin' Care of Business," in particular. "Let It Ride" features one of C.F. Turner's best vocals; keeping that gargle-with-Draino diesel sound down to a minimum, the song has two major guitar riffs, one a strum, the other from Led Zeppelin's 1970 "Immigrant Song," an inverted mutation of Randy Bachman's own "American Woman" riff which also hit in 1970. That "Takin' Care of Business," which was written solely by Randy Bachman and contains his vocals, as well as the Turner/Bachman co-write "Let It Ride" are light years ahead of the other six songs on this album is an understatement. Putting their minds to it and crafting hooky, radio-friendly music was something Bachman and Turner were quite capable of, but Tim Bachman's voice and writing on "Blown" and "I Don't Have to Hide" leave much to be desired. Randy Bachman sings on "Tramp," co-written with drummer Robbie Bachman, and "Welcome Home," both songs having the merit that he always cleverly injects, while "Stonegates" and "Give It Time" are total C.F. Turner singing his heavy essays. By the time Randy Bachman departed for 1978's Street Action and 1979's Rock N' Roll Nights, Turner's music was really all that was left, and it never progressed from these sludgy workouts. What is most fascinating about Bachman-Turner Overdrive II and the Guess Who's #10 is that both Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings were showing their propensity for self-indulgence. Without the balance each provided the other, Bachman's "Tramp" and Cummings' "Glamour Boy" failed to climb the charts substantially. Bachman-Turner Overdrive and the Bachman-less Guess Who both got seven songs each onto the Top 40 (with the Guess Who actually accruing six additional songs which should have got onto mainstream radio), all found on The Best of the Guess Who, Vol. 2. Still, Randy Bachman's work and musical intuition cannot be denied, and when he chose to chart, he did so in a big way. The two hits on this album and their follow-up, "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," are staples on classic rock radio. The Guess Who went further into a light, poppy direction while Randy Bachman and company descended into heavy depths, the schizophrenia so obvious when listening to a disc like Bachman-Turner Overdrive II.
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Randy Bachman, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Bachman-Turner Overdrive, MainArtist - Charles F. Turner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Rob Bachman, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Timothy Bachman, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Buzz Richmond, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marc Sterling, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
Randy Bachman, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Bachman-Turner Overdrive, MainArtist - Charles F. Turner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Rob Bachman, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Timothy Bachman, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Buzz Richmond, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marc Sterling, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
Randy Bachman, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Bachman-Turner Overdrive, MainArtist - Charles F. Turner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Rob Bachman, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Timothy Bachman, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Buzz Richmond, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marc Sterling, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
Randy Bachman, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Randolf Charles Bachman, Producer - Bachman-Turner Overdrive, MainArtist - Charles F. Turner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Rob Bachman, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Timothy Bachman, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Buzz Richmond, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marc Sterling, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
Give It Time
Randy Bachman, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Robin Bachman, ComposerLyricist - Bachman-Turner Overdrive, MainArtist - Charles F. Turner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Rob Bachman, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Timothy Bachman, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Buzz Richmond, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marc Sterling, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
I Don't Have To Hide
Randy Bachman, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Bachman-Turner Overdrive, MainArtist - Charles F. Turner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Rob Bachman, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Timothy Bachman, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Buzz Richmond, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marc Sterling, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
Takin' Care Of Business
Randy Bachman, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Randolf Charles Bachman, ComposerLyricist - Bachman-Turner Overdrive, MainArtist - Charles F. Turner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Rob Bachman, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Timothy Bachman, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Buzz Richmond, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marc Sterling, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Norman Durkee, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
Label: Mercury Records
Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1973 UMG Recordings, Inc. A Mercury Records release; ℗ 1973 UMG Recordings, Inc.
By Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Let's Roll Once More
Let's Roll Once More Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Best Of Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Best Of Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Street Action
Street Action Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Not Fragile
Not Fragile Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Achtung Baby U2
The Dark Side Of The Moon
The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd
The Wall Pink Floyd
Let It Be The Beatles
Raise The Roof Robert Plant
Neil Young in 10 Albums
It's hard to shout "Rock'n'roll will never die!" without sounding like an idiot. But Neil Young can pull it off. Easily. For over half a century, the Canadian legend has proved himself to be one of the greatest songwriters of his generation, constantly renewing himself and taking rock'n'roll down both rustic and rougher paths. The proof lies in these ten albums.
My Bloody Valentine, the Inner Experience
Thirty years after its release, My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" remains the craziest album of the 90s. This electric monument in the form of a wall of sound was a product of Kevin Shields' deranged mind. It turned the history of rock upside down and remains a major source of inspiration for many musicians from all walks of life.
Britpop in 10 Albums
"If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge." It was with this sentence from Damon Albarn in 1993 that England invaded the stage previously dominated by Nirvana and Seattle grunge. Britpop is deeply linked to politics and local identity and emerged just as Tony Blair and New Labour were entering the scene. English romanticism was once again becoming attractive compared to the American identity, which was considered too hollow in the UK. Make way for "Cool Britannia".
The Apartments - Monochrome Melancholy
IDLES : F The System!


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// Code generated by client-gen. DO NOT EDIT.

package v1beta2

import (
	"context"
	"time"

	v1beta2 "k8s.io/api/apps/v1beta2"
	v1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
	types "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
	watch "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/watch"
	scheme "k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/scheme"
	rest "k8s.io/client-go/rest"
)

// ReplicaSetsGetter has a method to return a ReplicaSetInterface.
// A group's client should implement this interface.
type ReplicaSetsGetter interface {
	ReplicaSets(namespace string) ReplicaSetInterface
}

// ReplicaSetInterface has methods to work with ReplicaSet resources.
type ReplicaSetInterface interface {
	Create(ctx context.Context, replicaSet *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, opts v1.CreateOptions) (*v1beta2.ReplicaSet, error)
	Update(ctx context.Context, replicaSet *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, opts v1.UpdateOptions) (*v1beta2.ReplicaSet, error)
	UpdateStatus(ctx context.Context, replicaSet *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, opts v1.UpdateOptions) (*v1beta2.ReplicaSet, error)
	Delete(ctx context.Context, name string, opts v1.DeleteOptions) error
	DeleteCollection(ctx context.Context, opts v1.DeleteOptions, listOpts v1.ListOptions) error
	Get(ctx context.Context, name string, opts v1.GetOptions) (*v1beta2.ReplicaSet, error)
	List(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (*v1beta2.ReplicaSetList, error)
	Watch(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error)
	Patch(ctx context.Context, name string, pt types.PatchType, data []byte, opts v1.PatchOptions, subresources ...string) (result *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, err error)
	ReplicaSetExpansion
}

// replicaSets implements ReplicaSetInterface
type replicaSets struct {
	client rest.Interface
	ns     string
}

// newReplicaSets returns a ReplicaSets
func newReplicaSets(c *AppsV1beta2Client, namespace string) *replicaSets {
	return &replicaSets{
		client: c.RESTClient(),
		ns:     namespace,
	}
}

// Get takes name of the replicaSet, and returns the corresponding replicaSet object, and an error if there is any.
func (c *replicaSets) Get(ctx context.Context, name string, options v1.GetOptions) (result *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, err error) {
	result = &v1beta2.ReplicaSet{}
	err = c.client.Get().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("replicasets").
		Name(name).
		VersionedParams(&options, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// List takes label and field selectors, and returns the list of ReplicaSets that match those selectors.
func (c *replicaSets) List(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (result *v1beta2.ReplicaSetList, err error) {
	var timeout time.Duration
	if opts.TimeoutSeconds != nil {
		timeout = time.Duration(*opts.TimeoutSeconds) * time.Second
	}
	result = &v1beta2.ReplicaSetList{}
	err = c.client.Get().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("replicasets").
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Timeout(timeout).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// Watch returns a watch.Interface that watches the requested replicaSets.
func (c *replicaSets) Watch(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
	var timeout time.Duration
	if opts.TimeoutSeconds != nil {
		timeout = time.Duration(*opts.TimeoutSeconds) * time.Second
	}
	opts.Watch = true
	return c.client.Get().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("replicasets").
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Timeout(timeout).
		Watch(ctx)
}

// Create takes the representation of a replicaSet and creates it.  Returns the server's representation of the replicaSet, and an error, if there is any.
func (c *replicaSets) Create(ctx context.Context, replicaSet *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, opts v1.CreateOptions) (result *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, err error) {
	result = &v1beta2.ReplicaSet{}
	err = c.client.Post().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("replicasets").
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Body(replicaSet).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// Update takes the representation of a replicaSet and updates it. Returns the server's representation of the replicaSet, and an error, if there is any.
func (c *replicaSets) Update(ctx context.Context, replicaSet *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, opts v1.UpdateOptions) (result *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, err error) {
	result = &v1beta2.ReplicaSet{}
	err = c.client.Put().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("replicasets").
		Name(replicaSet.Name).
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Body(replicaSet).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// UpdateStatus was generated because the type contains a Status member.
// Add a +genclient:noStatus comment above the type to avoid generating UpdateStatus().
func (c *replicaSets) UpdateStatus(ctx context.Context, replicaSet *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, opts v1.UpdateOptions) (result *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, err error) {
	result = &v1beta2.ReplicaSet{}
	err = c.client.Put().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("replicasets").
		Name(replicaSet.Name).
		SubResource("status").
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Body(replicaSet).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// Delete takes name of the replicaSet and deletes it. Returns an error if one occurs.
func (c *replicaSets) Delete(ctx context.Context, name string, opts v1.DeleteOptions) error {
	return c.client.Delete().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("replicasets").
		Name(name).
		Body(&opts).
		Do(ctx).
		Error()
}

// DeleteCollection deletes a collection of objects.
func (c *replicaSets) DeleteCollection(ctx context.Context, opts v1.DeleteOptions, listOpts v1.ListOptions) error {
	var timeout time.Duration
	if listOpts.TimeoutSeconds != nil {
		timeout = time.Duration(*listOpts.TimeoutSeconds) * time.Second
	}
	return c.client.Delete().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("replicasets").
		VersionedParams(&listOpts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Timeout(timeout).
		Body(&opts).
		Do(ctx).
		Error()
}

// Patch applies the patch and returns the patched replicaSet.
func (c *replicaSets) Patch(ctx context.Context, name string, pt types.PatchType, data []byte, opts v1.PatchOptions, subresources ...string) (result *v1beta2.ReplicaSet, err error) {
	result = &v1beta2.ReplicaSet{}
	err = c.client.Patch(pt).
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("replicasets").
		Name(name).
		SubResource(subresources...).
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Body(data).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

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Don't let the myths about Latin America lead you to false expectations when traveling to a new country or worse, deter you from traveling and having an experience of a lifetime! For this blog series, our team is debunking some of the common misconceptions about various countries in Latin America through the voices of Latin American students studying in the US.
Check out the first post in the series about Venezuela here!
Continuing with our series, I had the chance to discuss the misconceptions about Brazil that exist within the US with Pedro and Lucas. They explained that while most people are curious and excited about Brazil, most have limited knowledge based on stereotypes and news headlines.
In reality, Brazil is not the uniform and exotic place it is made out to be. Brazil is huge, and it can't be labeled by the characteristics found in any one single state.
What was it like growing up in Brazil?
Pedro: I lived on the same street for 20 years. My whole family actually still lives on the same street and I knew everyone living there. I could visit my grandma every other day. I would also go to the building next door and play with the kids that lived there.
I really enjoyed growing up in Rio de Janeiro; the culture in Rio really affected who I am today and what I like to do. Since Rio de Janeiro is such a big city, I was afforded the opportunity to travel to other parts of the city, and as I grew older I could go out to clubs and meet new people. Not to mention having the beach nearby was great!
Lucas: I was born in the US and lived in LA for the first three years of my life. Then my family moved back to Brazil. I have been living here ever since, so I identify as a Brazilian. I'm from an upper middle class family. I never went through much financial or academic difficulty. I felt comfortable studying and learning here [in the US]. After living in São Paulo for another four years, I moved to Porto Alegre, which is in the south and a lot different from other places in Brazil (it snows upstate!).
Porto Alegre and the state of Rio Grande do Sul as a whole, is marked by extensive German and Italian immigration, not to mention its proximity to both Uruguay and Argentina. The result is a state that, although considerably large and diverse, acts like a collection of small towns. As such the gaúcho is usually very proud of where he belongs and the things he produces.
Why did you decide to study in the US?
P: Mainly because of the qualities offered by higher education in the US. In Brazil, there is less funding and they require you to choose your major before applying. I was very undecided about what I wanted to study, so having to decide what to major in when I was 18 years old was not ideal for me.
L: When I went to high school, I joined Model United Nations. I participated in two conferences and was selected to be part of Harvard's Model United Nations. When I visited Harvard and MIT, I realized the atmosphere and the culture were different from everything I had ever seen in Brazil. It was much more comprehensive and diverse. In Brazil, it is difficult to double major.
In fact, to double major you have to attend two universities at once since you can only study what's in your major's program. When I applied I was interested in engineering, and I knew that the most I was going to get out of an education in Brazil were classes in that field, but I was also interested in other things like Poetry and International Relations. When I saw how the system worked in the US, it was much closer to what I wanted.
In addition, I hadn't even finished senior year and I had already been accepted to a college in Brazil. I felt like I wasn't living up to my full academic potential and I didn't feel challenged. I felt that going to the US for my undergrad would be a much more interesting experience than going to college in Brazil.
What was the most difficult aspect to navigate?
P: In the beginning, I was overwhelmed by the language. After, it was difficult to grapple with the individualistic culture. There is a really different definition of what success means in college. Focusing so much on your grades is not something we usually do; we focus more on having passing grades than having perfect scores.
L: In the US there was a lot of pressure and competition. In Brazil, the level of challenge is smaller. Brazilians are much more intimate in the classroom and friendship level. In the US, however, the students aren't as connected on an intimate basis, so it's easier to feel isolated, pressure or simply left behind. This was especially true at Penn, where the competitive environment can get to an unhealthy point.
What did you miss most when you were in the US?
P: I missed my family and my dog. My family can't visit me in the US because most of them don't have passports. Realizing that I was in the US alone and my family couldn't visit me made me miss them more. I missed my dog because he doesn't have WhatsApp.
L: I mostly missed the food, not that other things weren't important, but I could talk to people on Facebook and WhatsApp. I could also get most Brazilian products online. As a first year, I didn't have an option of not having a meal plan. In the dining halls, healthy food was not seasoned or cooked well. So I really had no other choice than to eat unhealthy food. I really didn't have access to authentic Brazilian food, either because it was not available or because it was too expensive. Most of the "Brazilian food" was a fusion of some sort with other Latin American foods.
Throughout our conversation, Lucas explained the differences in the way Brazilians relate to the country as a whole. "In Brazil, we are very pessimistic about our government and institutions; we tend to underrate ourselves as a country. We are much less patriotic and overly proud than the US.
Since Brazil is a developing country and since many people learn about Brazil through the media ãwith movies like Elite Squad and City of God, people may fall into the misconception that all of Brazil is like that. As Lucas, explained "People think Brazil is only favelas and the Amazon Rainforest.
What's your favorite place in your country? Fortaleza, especially the Future Beach, Praia do Futuro.
Favorite food typical of your country? Feijoada, by far. Every time I go back home grandma cooks it for me!
Favorite holiday/custom specific to your country? Carnival, because I really love seeing how the year only starts after Carnival has happened. Even in school, people would often skip classes before Carnival.
One word to represent the essence of your country? Happiness. I think the concept of happiness in Brazil is less connected on money and influence, and I love that. This makes me feel more relaxed about life.
What's the greatest thing about your country? Brazilians themselves because of how strong we are, we manage to be inviting and welcoming even when things aren't going well.
Favorite holiday/custom specific to your country? Carnival! Every other holiday feels like a scam. We can celebrate the independence but nothing changed.
One word to represent the essence of your country? Resilience: Brazilians go through a lot of hardships, and through it, they remain strong.
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These adaptations for flute and the two hands of a harpsichordist of works in trio sonata format by Johann Sebastian Bach, with the three intertwining voices originally having emanated from the hands and feet of one or two or three players, reflect Bach's own practice and result in four exquisite new sonatas for flute and keyboard that number among the most moving of Bach's instrumental works. One comes down to us as a work for solo organ, another for harpsichord and violin, one for either 2 flutes and harpsichord or viola da gamba and harpsichord, and one for flute, violin and harpsichord (the Musical Offering trio sonata).
Johann Sebastian Bach composed a Trio Sonata for Two Flutes and Continuo (BWV 1039), but later transferred the first flute part to the right hand of the harpsichord while giving the second flute part to a solo viola da gamba, resulting in his Sonata for Viola da gamba and obbligato, or fully written out, harpsichord in G Major (BWV 1027), performed here with flute assuming the viola da gamba, or second flute, role. Similar treatment will be applied to the most famous of all baroque trio sonatas, the Musical Offering Trio Sonata (BWV 1079) for flute, violin and continuo which Bach prepared for Frederick the Great in 1747, and also to the Organ Trio Sonata in Eb Major (BWV 525), with the right hand being given to the flute, and the organ left hand and pedals to the harpsichord. In Bach's Sonata for Obbligato Harpsichord and Violin in G Major (BWV 1019), the flute and keyboard right hand will alternately share the violin and keyboard right hand parts.
The sublime sentiments contained in Bach's largest well-known works for chorus, soloists and orchestra are crystallized in this chamber music by Bach for very few instruments. As the original scoring of these works is largely unknown, and was almost certainly not always as has been handed down to us, our interpretations for flutist and the two hands of a harpsichordist might well be what Bach originally had in mind.
The program will take place at 7:30 p.m., at St. Mark's Episcopal Church at 3rd & A Streets, SE in Washington, DC, just behind the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill.
The suggested donation (a free will offering) is $20 or $25. Students 18 years of age and under are free. Advance tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com and at the door. For further information please call St. Mark's at (202) 543-0053 or email chcmf@aol.com.