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Phu Quoc aims to become hi-end tourism destination
Phu Quoc island district in the southern province of Kien Giang has taken a number of measures to develop the island into a hi-end eco-tourism destination of the region and the world.
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A corner of Phu Quoc island. (Source: VNA)
Phu Quoc island district in the southern province of Kien Giang has taken a number of measures to develop the island into a hi-end eco-tourism destination of the region and the world, a local official said.
It is calling for investment in infrastructure facilities on the island, Vice Chairman of the district People's Committee Huynh Quang Hung said.
Communication campaigns have been boosted to raise awareness of environmental protection among local enterprises and the community, Hung said.
The locality has also focused on enhancing supervision, management and human resource training to enhance service quality while actively connecting with international partners to introduce the local potential to international tourists.
Phu Quoc island, the nation's biggest island with an area of nearly 600 square kilometres, is endowed with favourable natural conditions for developing ecotourism such as beautiful beaches with white and golden sand, crystal-clear and blue water, pristine forests and a mild climate.
It sits in a favourable location to connect with key tourism markets in the region and the world.
Phung Xuan Mai, Vice Chairman of the Kien Giang Association of Enterprises and the General Director of the Sai Gon – Phu Quoc JSC, hailed the development of infrastructure facilities on the island.
He also stressed the need for a promotion strategy to lure tourists to the locality, adding that incentives should be devised to enhance the key role of enterprises in promoting local potential.
Nguyen Van Tuan, General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), highlighted the investment of giant property developers, such as the Vin group, BIM Group and Sun Group, saying that these projects enhance the competitiveness of the locality.-VNA
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Q: Python function that creates map with cells I want to create a square map that contains cells with a function. Function should take one variable that represents range of the map (range of 3 means that map is 3x3 = 9 cells and so on). Each cell should have coordinates that looks like this:
A1,A2,A3...B1,B2,B3...C1,C2,C3... and so on. Ofc, maximum range should be 26 (26x26).
I want to append those cells in the in the list.
I wrote a code that does that but only with numbers, I do not now how to create coordinates with letters.
This is the code:
def mapCells(n):

    cell_List = []

    for x in range (1,n+1):
        for y in range (1, n+1):

            cell = str(x) + str(y)

            cell_List.append(cell)

    print(cell_List)

mapCells(3)

A: Just replace str(x) code with chr(64 + x)

A: You can also use string.ascii_uppercase to get the letters and use a slice of length n for your coordinates:
import string

def mapCells(n):
    cell_List = []
    for x in string.ascii_uppercase[:n]:
        for y in range(1, min(n + 1, 27)):
            cell = x + str(y)
            cell_List.append(cell)
    print(cell_List)

mapCells(3)

Output
['A1', 'A2', 'A3', 'B1', 'B2', 'B3', 'C1', 'C2', 'C3']

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The power of words and of that mystical concept best called story maintains harmony in the mostly-Native world of Port Adams, the larger of the two cannery towns on Cooks´ Island, Alaska. But years ago, Jacob Chickenof, a successful fisherman, a highliner, a powerful toion, carelessly spoke harmful words that have festered until the spirit woman who holds them has her chance for revenge. Her revenge even takes the life of her son.
Jacob´s oldest son and namesake skippers his 105-foot crabber, the Iskai; his younger brother, Ivan, a shaman, skippers his 79-foot crabber, the St. Paul. In a storm, both vessels go down in a freak wave off the south end of Cooks´ Island. His son is lost at sea. His wife, her mind fogged with grief, accidently overdoses on sleeping pills. Five vessels, two of which are his, insured by the same carrier are lost in the storm--the insurance carrier fails. And Jacob must rely on his second son, John, a Juneau attorney who peddles his Aleut heritage, to wrestle justice from an overturned world for himself and the other boat owners.
John, astranged from his father, returns to Port Adams for his brother´s funeral, learns from another fisherman that his Uncle Ivan is singing his spirit song, and somewhat unwillingly engages the authority of the old stories, complete with spirit helpers and spiritual warfare which he doesn´t accept, doesn´t want to accept, and has been educated to spurn. Yet while rescuing his uncle he glimpses his uncle´s helper.
Jacob leaves Port Adams so he can engage the woman he offended. John remains on the island where he begins the process of recreating shredded documents. Their fight for economic and spiritual survival is a story about the power of words.
Jacob has been, since birth, his family´s designated storyteller, the person who was to remember the old stories. He knows the power of words, but because of his wife´s faith he has been reluctant to teach the stories of the island´s heritage to John, who, by birth, should secede him. But as a storyteller, Jacob has used the old tales to teach, rebuke and explain. However, words have, among the younger generation, become such devalued commodities that his stories aren´t understood by even his own children, let alone by the anthopologist, Heidi-Marie, who has come to the island to met with a demon, not believing that demons or spirit helpers exist.
Heidi-Marie wants to challenge the story that´s central to a religious denomination´s belief, but she is frustrated by the residents of Port Adams´ refusal to take her seriously.
In the end, the world can only be righted through story. Jacob sings his death song, and John manufactures evidence until his father undertakes to teach him the old ways.
Born in Indiana in 1946, Homer Kizer graduated from a small, Oregon coast high school, and entered Willamette University at sixteen. He was declared an emancipated minor during that school year. He transferred the following year to Oregon Tech where he entered the Gunsmithing program in 1964; he opened a gunshop near Siletz, Oregon, in 1967, relocated to Alaska's Kenai Peninsula in 1974, and began writing fulltime in 1979. Kizer has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from University of Alaska Fairbanks, with post graduate work in English and Art at Idaho State University.

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Theatre Bristol Presents "Twelfth Night" as Shakespeare in the Park
The Sunday performance of Twelfth Night has been rescheduled for 7:00 PM. Don't forget your lawn chair!
Theatre Bristol Youth Service Board Twelfth Night ProgramDownload
Theatre Bristol presents Shakespeare in the Park with comedy "Twelfth Night" August 13, 14, and 15 at Cumberland Square Park in Bristol, Virginia.
William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" or "What You Will" is a tragedy turned comedy as twins Viola and Sebastian are separated after a shipwreck on the Illyrian coast. Thinking the other dead, Viola and Sebastian mourn their lost sibling. As they work to regain their footing on their separate paths, they meet some of the interesting characters of Illyria.
The cast of Theatre Bristol's "Twelfth Night"
Madly in love with Lady Olivia, Mason White rules Illyria as the illustrious Duke Orsino. Viola, played by Cameron Roberts, goes undercover using the alias "Cesario" to serve as a page to Mason's Count Orsino. As "he" tries to woo the lovely Lady Olivia, played by Bailey Lowe, on behalf of Count Orsino, Viola begins to fall in love with Count Orsino, herself. Meanwhile, Lady Olivia's aunt, the brilliant, jovial Lady Tabby Belch, enjoys partying, and galivants and rouses the night with Lady Alice Aguecheek. Enelisa Sutton and Whitney Brooks delight as Lady Tabby and Lady Alice, respectively.
Chloe Campbell attends Lady Olivia as the clever Maria, as well as serves Sebastian as his loyal companion, Antonio. Riley Lowe captivates as the witty jester, Feste. Zaiah Gray will have you ROFL as Malvolio, in his yellow stockings and cross-garters, and wrench your heart as Sebastian as he reunites with his long-lost sister, Viola.
"Twelfth Night" is a Theatre Bristol Youth Service Board production, with Camille Gray as the director, Faith Vance as the understudy, and Samantha Gray as the YSB mentor.
"Twelfth Night" is presented free of charge by Theatre Bristol at Cumberland Square Park, Bristol, VA, Friday, August 13 at 7:00 pm; Saturday, August 14 at 10:00 am, 2:00 pm, and 7:00 pm; and Sunday, August 15 at 7:00 pm.
Visit www.TheatreBristol.org for more opportunities including auditions for the Paramount musical "All Together Now," the Halloween Theatre Bristol On Air radio drama, ARTspace Christmas production, and the #TBKDOS Series of Theatre Bristol Scripted for all ages and Quaranteam Theatre Bristol for families. The #TBKDOS Series offers three safe ways to get involved that together preserve elements of live performance: auditions, casting, rehearsals, storytelling, acting, community, fun, entertainment, and audiences too.
Theatre Bristol appreciates the support of the Tennessee Arts Commission, as well as the support of our arts sponsors: United Company Foundation, Leticia Peltzer ENT & Allergy Consultants, ETSU Cross-Disciplinary Studies, Citizens Bank, HVAC Inc., Summit BSR Roofing, Seaman Corporation, Stephanie Snelson, DDS, Food City, Party Central, Guthrie Dentistry, M&M Bookkeeping and Tax Services, Celebrate Rentals, Blackbird Bakery, WCYB News 5, The Loafer, The Bristol Herald Courier, The Home Depot, and WETS 89.5 FM. Thank you to our graphic designer Haley White for our Series design.
If you love your community theatre you can help nonprofits like Theatre Bristol. Theatre Bristol has lost a significant amount of income that it cannot recoup without community support. We hope you make a contribution, of any size, and help us continue. To donate online visit: www.TheatreBristol.org/donate or mail a check to 512 State, Bristol, TN 37620. Thank you.
Follow Theatre Bristol's website and Facebook page for details and updates on our #TBKDOS Series.
Founded in 1965, Theatre Bristol is the oldest continually running children's theatre in northeast Tennessee. Its Main Stage season consists of up to six productions. Some of its performances take place in the ARTspace, a multi-purpose, black box theatre which seats up to 120, and other performances are on stage at the Paramount Center for the Arts. Theatre Bristol is volunteer run and we invite you to get involved.
For more information, visit Theatre Bristol's website or Facebook page, contact Theatre Bristol at 423-212-3625, or email info@theatrebristol.org.


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04. TERRY SMITH - My Man's Gone Now
05. TERRY SMITH - I Love You
06. TERRY SMITH - Windows Of The World
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Huntsville is a growing city that is full of opportunities. Many wonder why people continue to struggle in generational poverty when so many jobs exist and educational choices are plentiful. The answer is often as simple as one word – hope. Poverty has been aptly defined as "the absence of hope." An individual who has lived in the culture of poverty for generations, often comes to accept that culture as their fate. It becomes all they have ever known and any hope or dream for a better life seems totally out of reach.
Cornerstone Initiative seeks to build relationships among people in the low income neighborhoods in Huntsville's Westside who have lost hope. We work to build trust and eventually friendships with our neighbors there. As we listen to them and grow to care deeply about the issues that affect their lives, we don't just jump right in and try to solve all of their problems. Instead, we "walk with" our friends, seeking to empower them to find solutions to their problems that utilize the gifts, skills and resources that God has already given them.
It is amazing to see how God can use a simple friendship to remind someone that they are not alone and that He has given them infinite value and worth, regardless of where they live or how much education they have had. Building on these friendships within the community, CornerStone seeks to awaken this gift of hope that allows a person to recognize that he or she was created with a beautiful purpose and the opportunities that exist around him or her are attainable.
Once hope is awakened, CornerStone works to promote opportunities that will lead to flourishing lives and a flourishing community. We never want to reinvent the wheel and often collaborate with multiple organizations around Huntsville to provide amazing resources. It is our goal to see that no duplication of effort exists and that maximum impact can be achieved. Finally, CornerStone builds "Initiatives" focused in the areas of Education, Employment and Enrichment that address many of the issues we have seen affecting our friends living in vulnerable communities.
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The story of CSI began in 2010 when a group of faith leaders from Westside Community Church (Previously 100X Church) realized God's call to become more involved in under-resourced communities. Rather than start yet another non-profit to provide food and clothes in the community, the founders discerned that the best way to engage in the plight of the poor was through collaboration with existing organizations. After much prayer, a specific focus area within the 35805 zip-code was mapped out, community conversations began, and non-profit status was granted in May, 2013. It was around that same time that those closely connected with CSI became involved with the national organization known as CCDA (Christian Community Development Association). This deeper growing understanding of how to serve under-resourced communities in a way that honored God, honored the people of the Community, and made a lasting and sustainable difference for the Kingdom, became the basis on which CSI now builds its mission and its methods.
Debbi Akers is the Executive Director of The CornerStone Initiative, has been a team member since 2013 and E.D. since September of 2016.
Debbi comes to CornerStone after 19 years of investing in the lives of her 3 children as a stay at home mom. With the oldest two kids out of the home now and the youngest well on her way to independence, Debbi and her husband Tony felt it was time for her dust off her Social Work degree from The University of Kentucky and respond in a deeper way to her lifelong call of serving within under-resourced and often forgotten communities. She brings to CornerStone many years of experience of serving with Compassion International as well as other global and local mission efforts. Most of all she brings a love for the people of Westside and a desire to see them flourish. She seeks the Kingdom of God in the neighborhoods of 35805 and is excited about bringing others along on her journey.
Melonie Gurley served as the Director of Support Services in 2017. She is now serving as the Director of all Education and Employment Initiatives at CornerStone.
Melonie is a native of Huntsville, Alabama. Her professional experience spans 15 years in the public and private sectors, non-profit organizations, and higher education. Melonie envisions a world where work matters. She comes to CornerStone with a passion for equipping and empowering unemployed, underemployed, and under-resourced populations to succeed in the workplace and in life. Melonie resides in Huntsville with her 12-year old son, Noah.
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"I'm my own Valentine this year" Says Woman About To Finally Snap
Friends of Sophomore Ashley Everson have expressed concern about her mental state after Everson called herself her own valentine for the third year in a row.
"I don't know how much more she can take," said roommate Amanda Triste. "She's bought herself four of those heart shaped chocolate boxes and is calling it 'self love'."
"She's a walking ticking time bomb," said friend Marnie Krass. "I wouldn't want to be near her when it happens."
Experts predict a full meltdown somewhere in between her third and fourth box of chocolates. When asked about her prospective breakdown, Everson seemed strangely at ease.
"Eh, at least I know how to make myself cum," said Everson.


When embarking on building a new custom luxury home, the most important decision is how to make the best use of the funds that are available. Even though the home is going to be in the a�?luxurya�? category, making wise decisions from the beginning of the project will ensure that the owner gets exactly what they are looking for.


If the ten-county Upstate region continues on its current low-density land use trajectory, the amount of land consumed by 2040 to accommodate the 300,000+ new residents projected for the region could more than double, according to a study released recently by Upstate Forever, Ten at the Top and Furman's Riley Institute.
The study suggests that if land use trends continue, government's cost to serve newly developed areas will increase dramatically over time, and expected revenues will likely not cover half of the projected costs. Specifically, costs for government services across the Upstate including water, sewer, roads, transit and police & fire protection could climb to nearly $650 million/year by 2040, while anticipated revenues to support those costs are projected to be less than $260 million/year by that time.
The findings of the study were presented at the Shaping Our Future Forum, an event hosted by Ten at the Top at the BMW Zentrum on May 25.
The study – known as the Shaping Our Future Growth Alternatives Analysis – used scenario planning tools to evaluate the relative land use and fiscal impacts of the region's 'business-as-usual' scenario as well as three hypothetical alternatives that could potentially occur over the next 25 years if communities change course in terms of land use.
The three alternatives included an extreme example of compact development (Compact Centers); a scenario that focused most new growth on major corridors (Major Corridors), and finally, a pattern of growth that steered new development to many 'rural village nodes' as well as major city centers across the region (Rural Villages).
The study was guided by a diverse steering committee representing the economic development and business community; utility and transportation providers; elected officials; local farmers; and the public health and nonprofit sectors, and a technical advisory committee made up primarily of local planners from around the region. It also relied on a focus group series and the findings and community feedback collected through a number of past efforts.
"Gaining a better understanding of the impacts resulting from our current development pattern versus potential alternatives was a logical next step stemming from efforts over the past decade to encourage discussion about land use and development in the Upstate. Through efforts like Upstate Reality Check and Upstate Shared Growth Vision, more than 15,000 people in our region have shared concerns about our current pattern of sprawling growth and ideas about how we could and should grow. This study helps us gain more clarity around the impacts of our current path and why it is important now to support communities and leaders who are trying to grow differently," says Ten at the Top Executive Director Dean Hybl.
The study was conducted by an award-winning consultant team led by the Charlotte-based firm City Explained in conjunction with Asheville-based Urban3 and Stantec and was made possible through the generous contributions of Hollingsworth Funds, Ten at the Top, Furman's Riley Institute, the Greater Greenville Association of Realtors, New Belgium Brewery, Duke Energy/Piedmont Natural Gas and Upstate Forever. The City of Greer sponsored the Focus Group Series.
Learn more and access the full study at www.ShapingOurFutureUpstateSC.org.


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'The Roman Holidays' DVD: Empirical Evidence of Collosally Great Comedy
Warner Archive's recent DVD release of the 1972-73 Saturday morning cartoon series "The Roman Holidays" should remove any doubt regarding Hanna-Barbera (H-B) earning the title of "All-time King of Saturday Mornings." Like the similar recently released DVD set of "Help!...It's The Hair Bear Bunch," "Holidays" is even better than remembered.
Greater "Holiday" cheer is likely attributed to its primary target audience of Gen Xers having a much better understanding of the humor of this "Flintstonesesque" series set in 63 A.D. Rome than they did 40 years ago.
Many of these children of the '70s did not understand the joke "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" back in the day. The same is true as to the humor regarding a Centurion traffic cop asking "Where's the fire, Nero" when pulling over a speeder.
The great humor and lack of a laugh track in "Holidays" evokes memories of Alan Spencer of the hilarious '80s cop show spoof sitcom "Sledge Hammer!," successfully lobbying for removing the laugh track from the episodes in the DVD release of "Sledge." Spencer plainly stated that the audience did not need to be told when something was funny. Trust him; he knows what he's doing.
"Holidays" followed the highly successful "historical context" formula that H-B utilizes in "The Flintstones" and "The Jetsons."
In the case of "Holidays," the middle-class nuclear Holiday family live an early '70s American style life in ancient Rome. Dad Gus mows the lawn and watches football, mom Laurie keeps house and guides Gus and the couples' two children through life. Teen son Happius (a.k.a. Happy) plays in a band and has a steady girl; tween daughter Precocia is the golden child who begs Laurie to allow her to wear a mini-toga.
Rather than a lovable dinosaur ala "The Flintsones" or a wonderfully dopey dog ala "The Jetsons," the Holiday family pet is a tame accident-prone lion named Brutus who loves Gus as much as Dino and Astro adore their "daddies."
"Holidays" also supports the theory that Hanna and/or Barbera have a thing for Gingers that may rival Alfred Hitchcock's preference for blondes. Laurie Holiday, Wilma Flintstone, Jane Jetson, Josie of "Josie and the Pussycats," Tina of "Goober and the Ghost Chasers," and Daphne of "Scooby-Doo" are all red-heads. This percentage of women in the H-B universe with that hair color far exceeds the norm in the general real-world population.
Just as the Flintsone family put a stone age spin on their vernacular and household possessions and the Jetson clan transforms everything into a space motif, the Holidays gear everything to the society of their days. This often takes the form of adding "ius" to celebrity names. Stefano McQueenius is a popular star, and Naderius is a consumer advocate.
Examples of tricking out everyday items Roman style include sundial and hour-glass watches, televisions that display numbers in Roman numerals, and newspapers coming in scroll form.
Similar to Fred Flintsone and George Jetson, construction worker Gus Holiday toils for a hot-tempered boss who regularly threatens to fire him and withdraws awarded raises and promotions. Gus has the additional woe of appropriately named Mr. Evictus, who is as tempermental as Gus' boss and often threatens the family with eviction from their home in the amusingly named Venus De Milo Arms apartment building.
Evictus' threats prompt one of the series' most amusing moments. Precocia asks during a ride in the family's chariot if they can take a detour through the park so that she can see where they will be living.
Like "Bear," "Holidays" also benefits from an awesome group voice cast.
Stanley Livingston, who provides the voice of Happy right after finishing a phenomenonal 12-year run as middle-son Chip Douglas on the sitcom "My Three Sons," is tied with veteran comedian Dom DeLuise for most recognizable name to Gen Xers. DeLuise does the same awesome job portraying Mr. Evictus as he does with his better-known roles.
H-B voice god Daws Butler, who brings Brutus to life, is almost as well known as Livingston and DeLuise. Butler makes this scene-stealing character a cross between "The Wizard of Oz's" cowardly lion and Butler's portrayal of classic H-B character pink mountain lion Snagglepuss.
Character actor Dave Willock provides Gus' voice; his other high-profile H-B gig is as the narrator of the hilarious late-60s series "Wacky Races." "Races" is notably for leading to the equally good spinoffs "Dastardley and Muttley in their Flying Machines" , which has the very catchy theme song with the lyrics "Stop that pigeon; stop that pigeon; stop that pigeon now, and "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop."


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Revoice's Founder Answers the LGBT Conference's Critics
Orientation is not necessarily sexual, Nate Collins says.
Interview by Mark Galli| July 25, 2018
Image: Courtesy of Nate Collins
The Revoice Conference, which begins tomorrow, has generated a great deal of conversation among theologically conservative Christians. The gathering, according to its website, is about "supporting, encouraging, and empowering gay, lesbian, same-sex-attracted, and other LGBT Christians so they can flourish while observing the historic, Christian doctrine of marriage and sexuality." Much of the controversy has swirled around terms used by proponents to describe who the conference is for and what its goals are.
Christianity Today editor in chief Mark Galli asked Revoice founder Nate Collins about the dispute. Collins is former instructor of New Testament interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and a leader at the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender. He is also author of All But Invisible: Exploring Identity Questions at the Intersection of Faith, Gender, and Sexuality (Zondervan, 2017).
What exactly is Revoice?
Revoice is an organization putting on a conference, and the idea behind the conference is to provide a place for conservative LGBT Christians, people who are non-straight and perhaps experienced gender dysphoria of some kind, to gather and to be supported and loved in their attempt to live a long and costly obedience. We all believe that the Bible teaches a traditional, historic understanding of sexuality in marriage, and so we are not attempting in any way to redefine any of those doctrines. We're trying to live within the bounds of historic Christian teaching about sexuality and gender. But we find difficulty doing that for a lot of reasons.
What are the most common misconceptions of Revoice?
Several people try and make the claim that we're on a slippery slope ethically, which is due in part to the choice of language we use on our website. Right now the conversation on LGBT issues and gender, sexuality, and evangelicalism is fragmented. There's a lot of groups of people that use language in very specific ways that makes sense to them but doesn't make sense to people outside of their tribe.
Revoice is trying to be a place where people who identify as gay or lesbian or bisexual feel like they can be encouraged. We're not pressuring people. We're not advocating that people use one language over the other. We're just trying to make space for people for whom the language they use is meaningful, in terms of how they are trying to reconcile their gender and sexuality with their faith.
You clearly state your views on sexual activity outside of marriage, but some are confused about your views about illicit sexual desire. Is that sinful as well?
Sexual desire for someone of the same sex is sinful and something that I should repent from. But in this regard, some people are being too Freudian. They are basically saying that orientation can be boiled down to a desire for sex. And I don't think that's a biblical anthropology. I think a biblical anthropology should reflect something that's more basic to the human experience, like God created us.
What then do you mean by someone identifying as gay or lesbian, or someone having a particular sexual orientation?
Even the phrase "sexual orientation" can be unhelpful because it puts sexuality at the center of orientation. We are sexual beings; God created us to have sexuality; we will inevitably at some point experience our orientation as sexual. But that doesn't mean that the orientation itself is a sexual orientation. Now what it is exactly I don't know—that is something that we Christians have a vested interest in thinking about theologically. But to take our cues from Freud and to consistently boil down orientation to a desire for sex—I don't think that is helpful, particularly for LGBTQ people who are trying to make sense of their sexuality in a cultural Christianity where their sexuality is taboo, where there is a history of stereotyping, mistreatment, and gay jokes in the pulpit—that kind of thing.
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When a person considers himself gay, we tend to understand that he means he is sexually attracted to people of the same sex. But you're saying that's not necessarily the case?
That's exactly right. I think that there's a lot of the ways that we experience intimacy and desires for intimacy. So the desire to not be alone in your life, the desire to have companionship, to have close, intimate, emotional companionship—these are all things that we experience in relation to orientation that are not intrinsically sexual. To the extent that those desires are neglected or that we fail to integrate those into a theological understanding of orientation—we're going to have unhelpful pastoral responses in trying to explain how Christianity can still meet the real relationship needs of gay and lesbian.
I'm a typical American baby boomer, an older male who's lonely a lot of the time. So I get the desire for male companionship. But I don't imagine you would say that's a sign that I am gay.
I think that a straight man's desire, the way he experiences desire for intimate friendship with other men, that is obviously real and is a very valid way of experiencing the God-given need for relationships not to be alone.
It's important to distinguish, though, between the way that a straight person would experience that desire and the way that a non-straight person would experience that desire. Because when gay people experience a desire for intimate relationships, they do it in the context of their orientation. Which, again, I want to say is not intrinsically sexual.
So we're trying to understand what is at the center of orientation, which I admit requires more thinking. But at this point, what I personally think [is] that at the center of orientation is the perception and admiration of personal beauty. God created us to recognize beauty in other image bearers. When we notice that beauty and when there's a pattern for that beauty then I think that raises the level of orientation.
For example, when I see beauty in another man and want to have a relationship with that person, it all depends on the context whether or not that is something appropriate that I should follow through on. If I'm visiting a church and I sit next to somebody and am I interested, then I might want to strike up a conversation and perhaps invest in a friendship if we decide to join that church. That's a very different response from if I'm walking down the street and I notice someone jogging past on a hot summer day not wearing a shirt. It's a very different perception of beauty, and my response to that perception of beauty is going to be different. Now neither of those on the surface are intrinsically sexual, I don't think.
While there's no sexuality involved, at the same time there's a perception of beauty. There's a recognition that there's an image bearer here that is drawing my attention and drawing me into an interpersonal connection with that person.
It sounds like you're saying that attraction to the same sex is not necessarily erotic attraction.
Yes. One of the main criticisms of Revoice is that we're trying to blur the distinction between erōs and philia, the brotherly love we're talking about. There are lots of ways to address that critique.
One way would be to say that erōs is not intrinsically sexual. It's never how that word is used in ancient Greek. The Greeks had a different word, venus, that was used to describe explicitly sexual love. Erōs is basically the energy of love, the love that drives you [to pursue relationships]. Philia, on the other hand, is the brotherly love of friendship.
But it's not helpful to drive such a hard distinction between them. We have to recognize that all kinds of loves will motivate us in the way we pursue relationships. And the way to be holy in those moments is to steward those loves well and not to reduce them to things that they don't mean. Erōs does not mean sexual love.
Some people say talk about being gay as a gift of God, not as disordered or a sinful desire. What is your take on this use of the language of gift?
I've heard mostly progressive gay Christians talk about their gayness as a gift, and I don't think that's very helpful. It seems to be more rooted in an inability to conceive that there might be something sinful about their orientation. And that feels too aligned with "the spirit of our age"— that gay is good, as humanity is basically good. It's not compatible with anything the Bible teaches about sin, and the fact that sin is part of everything we do.
One of the ways I talk about the sinful aspect of being gay in my book is calling it a disability. For LGBT people, for non-straight people, gayness can be a disability in at least two regards. It prevents them from exercising their sexuality the way God intended, that is with an opposite-sex spouse you're married to. And it can be a disability in a sense that it can inhibit chaste friendships from developing between a non-straight person and someone of the same sex.
But I think it's helpful to keep in mind something C. S. Lewis said. Someone asked him about homosexuality, and he framed it, again, in terms of disability: "Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.'" The quote comes from "Character of a Happy Warrior" by William Wordsworth, where there's a vocation in every disability—the perspective that Christians should have that vocation is a stewardship. We steward all of our experiences in life, including our disabilities. And the way we steward them is by submitting them to Christ and to follow the Spirit's leading in the way we live out our lives in the context of those disabilities.
It brings to mind a quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his Gulag Archipelago, where he talks about how the experience of being in prison, though unimaginably hard and trying, was one for which he was finally grateful: "Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul." He doesn't use the language of gift, but it comes close, no?
Most of us, when we realized we weren't straight, we prayed every single night, "God, make me straight. Help me wake up tomorrow and be different." But at some point, after reconciling our faith and our orientation, many have asked, "Would I want things to be different?" That's a hard question to answer, because so much of how have reconciled the faith has come through our existential crisis, and we are now thriving in our spirituality and in our relationships (some of us thriving in opposite-sex marriages). So many of us have found joy, actually, and contentment and a quiet confidence in God's sovereignty. And to question whether or not that should be different, Would I even be the same person?—those are questions we're really not going to find answers to until we get to heaven, until we see what things are like in the new creation, where things are all the way they should be.
Where have you experienced this crisis in your own life?
In my own life, I discovered that I was not straight when I was a teenager. The first person I came out to was my dad. My dad is one of my best friends today, but he wasn't always. When I was 15, a lot of things sort of resulted in my dad pulling me and my brothers into his office and apologizing in tears for the way that he had fathered us. So that was an important thing that happened when I was 15.
Then I went off to Bible college. I always thought perhaps I would get married; I didn't really know if it would be possible, but maybe I'd meet the right person. And I did, and so I got married in 2004, and our marriage has been wonderful. It has its ups and downs like any marriage. We made the decision in 2007 to be more open about my orientation and the way that I experience not just my sexuality but my desires for intimacy and relationships with other men.
I shared my testimony at our church, which had a lot of seminary students and a lot of seminary professors as Sunday school teachers and elders. And I began being more vocal about the need for traditional conservative evangelicalism to understand and better engage this conversation.
I had very few positive experiences when the topic came up. In my book, I tell a story in my book about being in a classroom with about four or five other students. We had been sent out to go to another classroom to do Hebrew drills and someone got on the topic of homosexuality, and they basically told gay jokes for 30 minutes.
Another time, I was walking into the library and one of the librarians was talking to somebody. He pointed to me and said, "That's the guy you need to talk to." So the person comes over, and I was about to get on the elevator, and he says, "So, I hear you're the guy that I need to talk to about LGBT stuff. I guess it's safe to get on the elevator with you"—what in the world I was going to do to him in an elevator? This person is a PhD student and research fellow. So these are ideas, these are postures, is what I would say, that are very common that I encountered quite a bit at Southern Seminary and that are very common in conservative evangelical circles.
The Revoice conference website uses the phrase "sexual minority" to talk about gays, lesbians, transgender people, and others. Some think this is part of the slippery slope of relativizing this issue.
Some say the word minority is too tied to political discussion, perhaps, civil rights and racial minority issues. I don't want to be seen as trying to co-opt a narrative that has been meaningful to racial minorities, to make sense of the way they experience marginalization. Race and sexuality are very different issues. At the same time, there is, I think, a degree of overlap between the experience of racial minorities and the experience of non-straight minorities that I think is important to note. Groups form based on social categories, and that just happens. And whenever groups form, a lot of times an in-group and an out-group will form. That's mainly what this term is meant to suggest.
Another word that comes up often on the conference website is queer. This has sometimes been associated with militant or radical sexual politics. What do you mean by the term?
The word basically points to the experience of people who live on the margins, who don't experience their gender or their sexuality in purely binary ways, and they don't want to feel limited to that. What we want to accomplish at Revoice is, again, giving space for people who find value in that language to participate in the conversation, to attend, to even have a workshop, because we sense the need for their voice at the table. Whether or not the conversation that unfolds ends up going in that direction is a different issue, and I think we need to be able to separate the two and live in that tension.
Personally, I think that while the language of queerness can point to real things that we experience and that we're trying to make sense of, I don't think it's the most helpful theologically. But, again, that's a conversation that I think needs to happen, and I want it to happen in the context of involving people who do use that language. I want there to be consensus about these matters. So that means trying to be a big tent for a certain group of people to participate and come together.
What's key for you in creating this big tent, so that you don't go down that proverbial slippery slope?
Our first value is explicitly the historic Christian teaching about marriage and sexuality. And so anybody who adheres to that is welcome at Revoice and, I would say, should find some kind of a home there. As long as it happens within or underneath that value and submission to that value, then the conversation can happen in helpful and truthful ways.
So what we're talking about is how to develop the historic Christian teaching about marriage, gender, and sexuality in ways that are faithful to Scripture, faithful to our only final authority. And the way that scriptural teaching about gender and sexuality and marriage is applied to our current context where we have this thing that we call orientation and we're trying to understand it, and we're trying to understand how it affects the goods in life that God gives us—relational goods, familial goods, in some ways the concrete goods of life that make us feel, help us feel stable and secure.
So in the future maybe the evangelical perspective on marriage, gender, and sexuality will, I hope, be more filled out and rounded out, and some of the things that we experience as tensions right now won't be tensions then because we'll have a fuller understanding of what is in and outside the lines.
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CyrilleB
When a song start with parentheses such as: (I love you) For sentimental reasons, could it be possible to sort it starting from the letter after the opening parenthesis (in this case, the letter "I")?
I have a bunch of songs starting with parentheses and they all end up at the top of the list.
It would be easier for searching when scrolling up or down
raymb1
Do you absolutely need the words in parentheses? I know some songs like that and there's no need to put them in the title.
For the songs I'm familiar with, I don't need the parentheses. But some songs are most commonly known with only the part that is not in parentheses. So the parentheses can help to avoid any confusion
In order to keep your songs in the proper order then, why not put the parentheses after the title. Joy!
sciurius
For most songs I have, I'd want "(Foo) Bar" to be sorted at Bar, i.e., ignore the part between parens...
Yes, that would work as well
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Technology has made pretty much everyone a potential cinematographer. The issue is quality. Follow these guidelines to make the most of your opportunity—and avoid common mistakes.
These days, most of us walk around with an HD video camera in our pocket.
Thanks to people's growing appetite for mobile and video, the technology in our phones, tablets and other mobile devices gets better and better.
Marketers and other content creators are turning to mobile devices to capture behind-the-scenes glimpses of their office, industry events and trade shows, and spur-of-the-moment videos for social media.
Although mobile devices make video storytelling easier, executing a high-quality video is not as simple as whipping out your smartphone, pointing it and shooting.
Although vertical video is becoming more widely accepted (given the popularity of video messaging app, Snapchat), content that lives elsewhere will most likely have to conform to a widescreen player and horizontal orientation.
Before you start shooting your video, decide where and how you'll use it, and then orient your video recording device accordingly.
As a rule, you should hold each shot for at least 10 seconds. Then, when you reach the cutting room, you'll have enough video to play with to create a scene. You can always trim the clip, but you can't add what you didn't shoot.
Be careful of panning and zooming too much, as it could become jarring. Think about the way your eyes naturally view the world. You might scan a crowd, but generally your sights land on one image at a time, whether you roll your eyes or turn your head.
Finally, steady your shots. Use a tripod whenever possible. Otherwise, find another way to lock down your camera and hold it in place.
Just as you write a story sequentially, make sure you shoot video in sequential order.
Let's imagine you're shooting video of a dog on a treadmill (because even pets have summer weight loss resolutions).
Start with a wide shot to set the scene. Without adjusting your angle (we'll get there, just not yet), move in a little closer to get a medium shot, cropping out most of the treadmill and focusing on the dog's body in motion.
Shy away from using the zoom feature, because that can lead to shaky video. Instead, let your feet do the walking.
Finally, get a close-up shot, perhaps filling the screen with the dog's panting face.
You just shot one sequence. Now it's time to adjust your angle and shoot a similar sequence. You can shoot from above, from below, from another side or from behind. Have fun with it.
4. Set the stage for interviews.
Avoid conducting interviews in front of a generic background that adds little to your overall messaging and story.
Instead, put your interview subject in a relevant environment. For example, if the interview is about the benefits of bicycling and offers safety tips, let's see the person with a row of bicycles behind them, or suit them up in gear and put them on a bike trail. You get the picture.
Shooting interviews on a mobile device is often challenging because of the audio quality. So, get close to your interview subject. If you have another phone handy, use one to record video and the spare to capture sound in an audio file.
Before you start the interview, clap your hands together once in view of the camera. This will create a mark that you can eventually use in the edit to sync the video with the audio.
Horizontally, one-third of the frame should appear above the person's eye line. Another third should cover the person's face and shoulder area. Leave the bottom third for the person's upper body.
When shooting an interview with the person looking off screen, leave enough room (about a third of the screen) in front of the person (favoring the direction he or she is looking) to create talking space.
5. Insist on quiet on the set.
Noise—particularly irrelevant sound from the crew—can pollute an otherwise terrific shot. Although audio is often overlooked, it can really enhance and drive the video's story.
You want to capture the cleanest possible audio, especially when it's vital to the shot. It's arguably never more important than when you're conducting an interview.
Bottom line: When the camera's rolling, hold your tongue. The camera picks up virtually everything on its microphone, and you can't edit it out.
To connect with your audience and convert them into customers, follow the guidelines above to create high-quality, visually engaging content.
Wes Benter is a senior online community services specialist at ProfNet. A version of this article originally appeared on Beyond PR.


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The Backlash Against Trump's 'No Daylight' Saudi Policy
President Donald Trump poses for photos with ceremonial swordsmen on his arrival to Murabba Palace, as the guest of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, Saturday evening, May 20, 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky attack the Trump administration's fawning treatment of Saudi Arabia and Mohammed bin Salman:
The Trump administration seems clueless and paralyzed. Right now, we have a bizarre role reversal: The Saudis are acting as if they're the senior partner in the relationship—and have convinced Trump that the U.S. needs Saudi Arabia more than it needs the U.S. and that what the Saudis do for the U.S. requires great sacrifice on their part and isn't in the Saudi national interest. Nothing could be further from reality. Why the administration is unwilling or unable to use the leverage it possesses to alter Saudi Arabia's damaging behavior is not clear—but it's not good for America.
Trump's Saudi First foreign policy is definitely no good for the U.S., but it does serve as a useful cautionary tale about what pursuing a "no daylight" policy looks like in practice. The common hawkish complaint against Obama during his presidency was that he was too critical of "allies" and didn't do enough to support them. When Trump came to power, he made a point of undoing that by catering to all of the whims of the reckless clients that Obama has supposedly "snubbed." The only way to have "no daylight" with other states is if the U.S. chooses to give their interests priority over our own, and when dealing with the Saudis and other regional clients this is exactly what Trump has done. That has put the president and his officials in the ridiculous position of running interference for the Saudi government with Congress and the public.
The funny thing about a slavish "no daylight" approach to any international relationship is that it harms the relationship in question while discrediting the administration that is bending over backwards to preserve it. The more that Trump declares that his subservience to the Saudis is proof of that puts America first, the more obvious it is that no U.S. interests are served by covering up for the crown prince's many crimes. Trump and Pompeo's over-the-top propaganda efforts on behalf of the Saudis haven't silenced critics or increased support for keeping U.S.-Saudi ties as they are. On the contrary, they have caused more senators to turn against the Saudi relationship and the war on Yemen to varying degrees, and they have proven that there is no Saudi outrage that they won't try to whitewash or ignore. Maintaining "no daylight" with another state is ultimately unsustainable because no government can consistently put the interests of another state ahead of the interests of its own country, because sooner or later the citizens of that country will turn against such a noxious, one-sided relationship. That is beginning to happen with the U.S.-Saudi relationship because of Trump's determination to put Saudi Arabia first, and the backlash is long overdue.
Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.


DAF Trucks NV is a Dutch truck manufacturing company and a division of Paccar. Its headquarters and main plant are in Eindhoven. Cabs and axle assemblies are produced at its Westerlo plant in Belgium. Some of the truck models sold with the DAF brand are designed and built by Leyland Trucks at their Farington plant in Preston, England.
In 1928, Hubert "Hub" van Doorne founded the company as Commanditaire Vennootschap Hub van Doorne's Machinefabriek. His co-founder and investor was A.H. Huenges, managing director of a brewery. Van Doorne had repaired Huenges' car several times. Huenges was so pleased with his work that he offered to finance him in business. Hub started to work in a small workshop on the grounds of the brewery. In 1932, the company, now run by Hub and his brother, Wim van Doorne, changed its name to Van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek (Van Doorne's Trailer Factory), abbreviated to DAF. Huenges left the company in 1936 and the DAF company was now completely in the hands of the van Doorne brothers.
DAF developed the Trado conversions to convert 4×2 Ford trucks to an off-road 6×4 drive. One of DAF's few armoured vehicles was the M39 Pantserwagen, using developments of this Trado drivetrain. This was too late for WWII and the invasion of the Netherlands, and only three saw combat.
After the Second World War, luxury cars and lorries were very scarce. This meant a big opportunity for DAF. In 1949, the company started making lorries, trailers and buses, changing its name to Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek (Van Doorne's Automobile Factory). The first lorry model was the DAF A30.
Through the 1950s, DAF was a major supplier to the re-equipping of the Dutch Army's softskin vehicles with models such as the DAF YA-126 and DAF YA-328 'Dikke Daf'. These used the all-wheel-drive H-drive developed from the Trado conversions.
In late 1954, Hub van Doorne had the idea to use belt drive, just like many of the machines in the factory that were belt-driven, to drive road vehicles. In 1955, DAF produced its first drafts of a car belt drive system. Over the next few years, the design was developed and refined. In February 1958, DAF demonstrated a small belt-driven four-seater car at the Dutch car show (the AutoRAI). The public reaction was very positive and 4000 cars were ordered. In 1959, DAF started selling the world's first car with a continuously variable transmission, the small four-seater DAF 600. This was the first of a series of models to be released in subsequent years, including the DAF 33, DAF 44, DAF 55 and DAF 66, all using the innovative Variomatic transmission system.
In 1967, DAF opened a new plant in Born for car production. The 44 was the first model to be produced there.
In 1972, International Harvester of Chicago, IL bought a 33% stake in DAF (with the Dutch government holding 25% and the Van Doorne family holding the remaining 42%), forming a joint-venture. This agreement lasted until 1981.
DAF sold its passenger car division, along with what is now the NedCar factory in Born, in 1975 to the Swedish company Volvo Cars, leaving DAF to concentrate on its successful line of lorries.
In 1987, DAF merged with the Leyland Trucks division of Rover Group and was floated on the Dutch stock exchange as DAF NV. The new company traded as Leyland DAF in the UK and as DAF elsewhere.
DAF Bus was split off in 1990 to become a part of United Bus. Following difficulties in the British market, DAF NV went bankrupt in 1993. A new company, DAF Trucks, appeared in the Netherlands as a result of a management buy-out of the Dutch operations, as did Leyland Trucks and LDV (vans) in the UK.
In 1996, PACCAR acquired DAF Trucks. DAF Trucks and Leyland Trucks were rejoined in 1998 when PACCAR also acquired Leyland Trucks.
On 9 January 2012, PACCAR installed the cornerstone of the new plant in the city of Ponta Grossa in the state of Paraná, Brazil.
The first passenger car, the DAF 600, had a unitary steel construction, with a front-mounted, air-cooled two-cylinder boxer engine driving the rear wheels through a centrifugal clutch and the Variomatic CVT transmission. The way this was constructed eliminated the need for a differential, with the drivebelts taking up the difference of speed in the corners. This acted as a limited-slip differential. The car had independent suspension all round, with MacPherson struts and a transverse leaf spring at the front, and a coil-sprung semi-trailing-arm design at the rear. The first 600s rolled off the production line in the following year. The next model was the 750, featuring a larger 749 cc (45.7 cu in) twin.
Later, DAF produced a more luxurious type called the Daffodil, divided into three models assigned the numbers DAF 30, DAF 31 and DAF 32. The designation 32 was changed to 33 upon the 1966 release of the 44, a larger middle-class vehicle designed by Giovanni Michelotti. The 44 featured a completely new design aesthetically as well as mechanically, but was of the same layout as the "A-type's" (the 600,750,30,31,32 and 33), with the main difference being its 850 cc (52 cu in) two cylinder engine, and its full swingaxle rear-axle design as opposed to the A-type semi-trailing arms.
The 1968 DAF 55 carried a bigger water-cooled 1,108 cc (67.6 cu in) OHV four-cylinder engine derived from the Renault 8 Cleon engine. Its body design was altered from the 44 by a new front which accommodated the longer engine and radiator, bigger taillights, and a more plush interior. The front suspension was changed from a transverse leaf spring to MacPherson struts with torsion springs and an antiroll bar.
The DAF 66 was introduced as a successor to the 55. It featured new, boxy styling of the front, and a new rear-axle design. The two drive belts now powered a differential, and the axle was changed from a swingaxle design to a leaf-sprung de Dion-axle. It was a major improvement over the (tricky) handling of the swing axles of the earlier 33, 44 and 55 models.
Volvo gained a 33 percent stake in DAF in December 1972, always with the intent of taking a larger interest. They increased their holdings to 75 percent on 1 January 1975, taking over the company and the NedCar plant. Volvo dropped the 33 and 44 models, and later rebadged the DAF 66 as the Volvo 66, with bigger bumpers and a safety steering wheel. The DAF 46 was developed with Volvo's assistance, and was basically a 44 with the rear axle of a 66 and a single-belt Variomatic (half the 66's transmission). A big weakness of this system is that a failed drive belt would cripple the car. The Volvo 300 series, introduced in 1976 had been designed as a DAF, with a Variomatic transmission similar to that of a 66.
For a small company, DAF made a huge number of prototypes. Also, famous coach builders like Giovanni Michelotti and OSI made cars based on the DAF technique. For instance, the OSI City Car, which turned into a miniature. There was also Michelotti's "Shellette" beach car, which was later modified to use Fiat 850 underpinnings. The Dutch Royal Family used one of these at their Porto Ercole summer residence. DAF's last project, the DAF 77, became the Volvo 343, which ended up selling about 1.3 million units.
DAF produced their first lorry, the A30, in 1949. This lorry was upgraded in the following years. Their first attempt into the international market was a failure, the 2000DO. Their next lorry was the 1964 2600, which became a big seller with its well-equipped but practical cabin. They also produced a so-called torpedo-front tractor.
In the 1970s a new modular tilting cab called the F218 was introduced on the F1600/F2000 range of vehicles. Three years later, the wider F241, which featured DAF's characteristic three-wiper windscreen, was introduced as the DAF 2800. This design lasted until the introduction of the 95 style cab in 1987. There was also a lighter, narrower version called the F198 which was introduced in 1972 on the F1200 and F1400, but this short-lived model was replaced after only three years. 1984 DAF truck production was 13,645; this increased to 14,382 in calendar year 1985. DAF was also one of the first to introduce an intercooled turbocharged diesel engine into their lorries, which in these years became very evident with their 3600. Their largest 11.6-litre (710 cu in) six-cylinder turbodiesel was based on the old Leyland O.680 motor. It was to be DAF's standard large engine long into the nineties.
DAF's 95 series was launched in 1987, and quickly gained the coveted 'Truck of The Year' award. The 95 featured an all new cab developed jointly with ENASA of Spain, a revised version of the 11.6 litre ATI engine, rated at 310, 350, and 380 Bhp, and 16 speed ZF gearbox. On the Continent Eaton's Twinsplitter gearbox was an option. A full range of axle configurations were offered, to suit every operating requirement. Much attention was paid to soundproofing - the gearlinkage for example was telescopic - in-cab noise levels on the 95 put many luxury saloons to shame. An update in 1991 saw new power ratings of 329, 364, and 401 Bhp, - a 430 Bhp variant, along with low deck tractor unit models and revised interior trim, were introduced in Spring 1992.
Two years later, after an intensive study of the ultra long haul market sector, DAF unveiled the 95.500 Super Spacecab at the 1994 RAI show. The 95 series cabin had gained height and length, and sat atop Cummins' 14 litre N14, rated at 507 Bhp. ZF's new Aluminium-cased 16S221 gearbox was fitted, with optional Intarder, an innovation was the hydraulic gearshift developed with Konsberg of Norway. Within an overall height of 3.85m, the Super boasted an interior standing height of 2.25m, a luxury bunk with generous stowage underneath and a full range of options included microwave, fridge, TV/Video. The 95.500 was available as a 4x2 tractor or drawbar rigid, with LHD only, though the Super Spacecab was available on 11.6 litre-engined models, and sold well. The 95.500 is now a very rare truck, which I find surprising given the original list price of £87, 650.
The basic cab design remains in production to this day, latterly as the 95XF and now the XF105, although both these developments of the original 95 are totally different machines under the skin. Other vehicles in the DAF range have included the inherited from Leyland Trucks Roadrunner (Badged DAF 600, 800, 1000 On the Continent) which evolved into the 45 Series, the cab of which was used on the 18 ton gross 55, also as a military spec 4×4.
An all-new medium to heavyweight line up debuted in late 1992, the 65, 75 and 85 utilising the same wedge shaped cab. Powered by DAF's 6.24-litre (381 cu in), 8.65-litre (528 cu in) and 11.6-litre (710 cu in) engines, some novel styling details featured, while the 85 Series' cab sat 10 cm (3.94 in) higher on the chassis to clear the WS engine.
A short-lived model was the 1990-93 80 Series using the T45 Roadtrain cab acquired from the Leyland Trucks takeover, fitted with the ATI driveline. Also offered for a short period was the 3200, basically a remodelled 2800 with the corporate style, three-bar grille.
There is a DAF LF45 hybrid version, which was presented by DAF at the IAA 2010 in Hannover.
In August 2011, DAF announced it had built up a 19% stake in Tatra, which will use DAF cabs and PACCAR engines. DAF dealers will sell Tatra off-road lorries.
DAF cars had the image of being slow. The company tried to change this image with entries in rallies and races, such as their entry in the London-Sydney Marathon.
They were pioneers with continuously variable automatic transmission called Variomatic.
1980s: DAF lorries started competing in the Dakar Rally, winning in 1982, 85 and 87. In the later years, they competed with a twin engine lorry, producing a combined power output of more than 1,000 PS (740 kW).
1988: Two lorries were entered into the Paris-Dakar rally. Jan de Rooy's lorry was running third overall, beating the Peugeot 405 T16's on speed, when DAF's other lorry, driven by Theo van de Rijt, was involved in a crash. His co-driver Kees Van Loevezijn was fatally injured and the other 2 occupants of the lorry narrowly escaped the same fate. DAF withdrew from the event following the crash.
1996: DAF started competing in the European Truck Race series, first not very successful, but by 1999 almost became champions. Then to everyone's surprise, they withdrew.
2002: DAF competed in the Dakar Rally, with Jan de Rooy and his son Gerard.
2003: DAF competed in the Paris-Dakar rally, winning numerous stages before Gerard de Rooy crashed.
2004: DAF competed in the Paris-Dakar rally, powering six racelorrys. Jan en Gerard de Rooy, the team Tridec, The team Hans Bekx with 2 lorries and the GINAF Rally Power team (Note that 4 lorries were built by DAF, 2 by GINAF).
2005: Hans Bekx almost finished second overall in the lorry division, before being removed from the competition because of an irregularity, much to the surprise of the (mostly Dutch) fans.
2006: Jan and Gerard de Rooij were excluded from the Dakar because of paperwork issues.
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£150 Asus X101CH Netbook: A decent machine from a dying breed
By Desire Athow published 25 January 13
This is probably one of the last members of the EEE PC family, one which in some way has heralded the era of very cheap portable computing devices.
Meet the Asus X101CH, available for £150 including delivery and 150 Nectar points at Argos via eBay. The device is refurbished and comes with a full 12-month warranty. It weighs a mere 1.02Kg with a 22mm thickness (somehow, I wonder whether Asus deliberately made it that thick).
It runs on an Intel Atom dual core N2600 processor clocked at 1.6GHz, with 1GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive, a 10.1in 1,024 x 600 pixels display, two USB ports, an SD card slot, Ethernet and HDMI ports, a webcam, Windows 7 starter and up to four hours battery life.
Netbooks, which are effectively a cheaper version of Ultrabooks, are said to have lost their appeal because of the rise of tablets and another new breed of laptops called Slimbooks, which are the true successor of Netbooks.
Argos also sells another similar netbook, the MSI Wind U180, for £150. It is slightly heavier and comes in purple.
Desire Athow
Desire worked at ITProPortal right at the beginning and was instrumental in turning it into the leading publication we all know and love today. He then moved on to be the Editor of TechRadarPro - a position he still holds - and has recently been reunited with ITProPortal since Future Publishing's acquisition of Net Communities.