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The Coens weave their fraternal magic around this Old West fable
by Adam SweetingTuesday, 08 February 2011
Jeff Bridges saddles up as Rooster Cogburn, with Hailee Steinfeld as the redoubtable Mattie Ross
Henry Hathaway's 1969 version of True Grit famously won John Wayne his solitary Oscar for Best Actor. Jeff Bridges, remaking the role of battered, boozing, one-eyed lawman Rooster Cogburn in the Coen brothers' new incarnation, is nominated for the second year running after last year's triumph with Crazy Heart. Look out Colin Firth, because Bridges is in such barnstorming form that we could conceivably see him roaring off into the Hollywood night clutching another statuette, swigging moonshine and firing his six-gun in the air.
But despite its services to the Duke, Hathaway's film also raised hackles for the way it tampered with the Charles Portis novel from which it derived. It downgraded Portis's 14-year-old heroine, Mattie Ross, to a less remarkable twentysomething, and filleted the resounding cadences of Portis's dialogue.
The Coens have swept aside such egregiousness. They've pulled off a major coup by casting 13-year-old Hailee Steinfeld as Ms Ross, whose wise-beyond-her-years tenacity and shrewdness give the narrative its originality and bite. They've also kept faith with Portis's written style, redolent of quill pens and tallow candles. "He is not my friend," Mattie declares of Cogburn. "He has abandoned me to a congress of louts." For his part, Cogburn wails, "I am a foolish old man who has been dragged into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop."
The "wild goose chase" is set in motion when Mattie rides into the unsalubrious town of Fort Smith, Arkansas. She's looking for a lawman who will help her to track down Tom Chaney, the man who murdered her father and who is now hiding out in the wild Choctaw country. Assured by the sheriff that Cogburn is "pitiless" and "double tough", albeit frequently drunk, she hires him for 100 dollars. In order to afford him, Mattie has to engage in a robust bout of horse-trading with a local merchant (Dakin Matthews), demanding repayment for ponies he sold to her father which, perforce, he can no longer use. By sheer persistence and wildly implausible threats of legal action, she prevails.
Cogburn's "nincompoop" is the Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon, pictured below), who wants to bring Chaney in for the murder of a Texan politician, and proposes to join the hunt. Mattie protests indignantly that she has paid for justice and won't tolerate LaBoeuf spiriting her quarry back to Texas, but Cogburn and the Ranger sneak off without her. Mattie won't be denied, and reels in the lawmen with some resolute horsewomanship (in a curious continuity aberration, she catches them by swimming her horse across a river, from which she emerges bone dry).
The quest is of course both physical and metaphorical. They traverse bleak prairie and snow-blind forests, experiencing surreal encounters en route. Mattie climbs a vertiginously high tree to cut down a hanged man, who turns out not to be Chaney, but the corpse is snapped up as a saleable commodity by a passing traveller, bizarrely encased in a complete grizzly bear skin. An encounter with a couple of desperadoes in a weather-beaten shack ends in a gruesome flurry of violence, involving severed fingers and brains splattered across the wall. Chief bandit "Lucky" Ned Pepper (Barry Pepper) is a grotesque frontier gargoyle, spitting his words through black and broken teeth. It's a barbarous land where humanity is barely clinging on in the teeth of the elements. The Baroque, Biblical language represents a slender bulwark against the Void, and Carter Burwell's soundtrack supplies a rickety piano playing hymns and old-time music.
All the while, the relationships are subtly evolving. At first LaBoeuf patronises Mattie and tries to spank her for her impudence, but gradually comes to respect her unquenchable spirit. It's a subtle performance by Damon, as LaBoeuf's pompous officiousness is steadily deflated by the rigours of the journey - not least Cogburn's sarcastic barbs. Cogburn, perceiving that Mattie can see through his trigger-happy armour of bluff and bluster, in the end becomes almost grandfatherly towards the girl. He's not too far gone in drink to realise that she has, belatedly, given him a cause worth fighting for. As for the villain Chaney (Josh Brolin, pictured right), his contemptible worthlessness is drolly signalled by the almost McGuffin-like brevity of the role.
The Coens leave us with Mattie, 25 years later, looking back on it all like a hazy myth of the Old West. Despite the fact that the remarkable Hailee Steinfeld outrageously gets only fifth billing, it's her story, and she gets to tell it.
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Permalink Submitted by Dan (not verified) on Wed, 09/02/2011 - 14:13
Er. Jeff Bridges is nominated this year for True Grit. Firth deserves to win though.
Permalink Submitted by Adam Sweeting on Wed, 09/02/2011 - 14:35
You're quite right of course, Dan. Crass stupidity on my part, now corrected. Firth may be needing his pearl-handled Colt after all.
Nice re-write. Firth Vs Bridges though? I've seen both Bridget Jones' so I think I can say who might come off worse!
Firth will be looking for revenge after last year, of course. Perhaps Bridges will be defenceless against the dry one-liner.
Permalink Submitted by Joseph Alder (not verified) on Tue, 15/02/2011 - 17:11
A great disappointment and makes Henry Hathaway's 'original' look like an epic. Mattie has no 'journey' and never appears to mourn her dead father and there are holes to the plot that can only be filled in if you have seen the John Wayne version. If they wanted to be true to the book by was Rooster played as older than Wayne when he should have been much younger? Also there is no eye patch in the book! It is a flat, uninvolving version that fails to successfully amalgamate 'The Searchers' and 'True Grit' as I suspect was the aim of the Coens. Damon - so good in 'Hereafter' - is woeful here in a desperately underwritten role. Bridges as Rooster seems to be channelling Walter Brennan and is cartoon-like at times and never seems to be someone who will face off his enemies as he does at the end. The best bits of the script are those lifted straight from the older film and replayed shot for shot. The added scenes such as Mattie talking to Rooster through the outside toilet door, the hanged man and passerby in a bear skin are irrelevant and halt the film's progress. It was great to see a Western again and I cannot say I didn't enjoy it but I remain disappointed all the same. I would love Clint Eastwood to direct a new version of 'Red River' though!


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Overland Park police issuing 'tickets' to help drivers remember to lock vehicles
By: Kevin Holmes
Overland Park police have started issuing "tickets" as a reminder for drivers to lock their car doors and keep valuables out of sight.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — It's a problem that could be easily fixed if people just locked their vehicles.
41 Action News recently tagged along with Overland Park police officer Brian Payne as he conducted courtesy checks of parked vehicles. According to the police department, doors are unlocked in three out of every four car break-ins.
On this night, Payne walked around parking lots at a hotel and an apartment complex. He peered into hundreds of cars and gave every one a ticket.
The "ticket" serves as a reminder to lock car doors and keep valuables out of sight, Payne said. Officers either check boxes indicating what the driver could do to make themselves less of a target, or they check a separate box praising the driver for their vigilance. That box reads, "If I were a THIEF, I would have moved on because your vehicle was properly LOCKED and UNINVITING to me!"
Each ticket Payne issues also has valuable information detailing why Overland Park police take the time to check parked vehicles. In 2017, officers responded to 1,015 auto burglaries, causing more than $775,000 in property loss.
Payne said it's especially important to keep vehicles locked as the holiday shopping season nears.
During the recent courtesy checks, as 41 Action News tagged along, Payne spotted a vehicle with a tablet in the front seat, in plain view. In the span of 15 minutes, he also spotted a purse on the front seat of a different vehicle, also in plain view. In that case, the door was locked.
"Sometimes the window is more valuable than the electronic left in the car," Payne said.
In 2017, roughly 69 percent of vehicles broken into were left unlocked, according to Overland Park police.
In 2018, officers said 75 percent of targeted cars have been left unlocked — which is why now through the holiday season, Overland Park residents may see an officer patrolling a busy parking lot and issuing tickets.
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Published: Oct 21, 2018 at 9:14 a.m.
Updated: Oct 21, 2018 at 11 a.m.
WINDSOR, N.S. — Entering the front lobby of Landing Strong is not like walking into the lobby of a traditional clinic.
Situated on the top floor of the historic Cedar Centre for Active Health & Living building in Windsor, visitors are greeted to a warm, almost homey, atmosphere as soon as they pass through the front doors.
Dr. Belinda Seagram says the space promotes a feeling of a place where healing can happen.
"We didn't want it to feel institutional or clinical," said Seagram, who founded Landing Strong with Doug Allen, a social worker and military veteran.
A family therapy room at Landing Strong is private yet cozy.
"We tried to create an atmosphere that's calming and soothing. We're dealing with people who have overtaxed central nervous systems; they're already on alert. It's not easy to stand down. We want a space that's big, that's welcoming," said Seagram.
The non-profit treatment centre has been a vision of Seagram's for some time. Seagram, who opened Seagram and Associates almost a decade ago, works alongside Allen at the Falmouth practice and announced earlier this year the upcoming launch of Landing Strong.
The grand opening was held on Sept. 27, and Seagram said the response from the community, especially those who may seek the service, has been positive.
Each intensive day treatment program will run for three months, five days a week, with the first program starting in the near future. Clinicians with specialized knowledge and training around military related trauma and first responder trauma are on staff.
The program not only focuses on mental well-being but physical as well. They have partnered with a certified yoga therapist and Dr. Matthias Jaepel, who is involved with exercise therapy training.
"We don't want to be just tackling their current stressors. We want to be preventing future injury by helping them understand how to build resilience," said Seagram.
"Landing Strong is a vision. It's an idea that when people find themselves in a place where they have occupational stress injuries — perhaps they're not doing well — we provide a solid place for them to land," said Seagram.
And then they help them regroup, recalibrate and reclaim their lives as they build resiliency.
"We tell people that they're not going to be the same person that you used to be, but you'll be someone new who feels capable and confident and grounded and connected," she said.
Seagram said it's a long road to recovery, which often starts well before entering the day treatment program.
"If someone has been hiding in their basement for a long time and not having any contact with the community, we don't expect them to suddenly come out and join a group," said Seagram.
"Our hope is that we will reach them through our virtual community, through Facebook, through Instagram, through Twitter. We have a Friday blog. We send out a whole bunch of free resources on the internet," she continued, noting they offer campaigns that help people with varying levels of PTSD and occupational stress injuries, including caregivers and family members.
The online aspect allows people to reach out while remaining anonymous. When they're ready, they are then invited to call the clinic and begin discussions. Then, as they feel more comfortable, they can undertake a needs assessment.
"A needs assessment is a comprehensive look at where they're at, what their needs are, and coming up with really a very comprehensive treatment strategy for them," said Seagram, noting that they then enter one-on-one therapy sessions before reaching the ultimate goal of seeing them enter the intensive group program.
"Everybody says they're not a group person but what we find is once people really start feeling better — and we can get people a long way through the individual work — then they start feeling group ready. That's the next really big step to reintegrating into society," she said.
As the program progresses, the clients will start taking part in more community engagement activities.
Once the program concludes, the participants will still have a place to go. Fridays will be an open day to reconnect, share lunch and do something out in the community.
"I think in Canada we are in a bit of a crisis in terms of the need for services for people who are injured. Really good people have put themselves in harm's way for our benefit and suffered great personal consequences. It's our obligation to make sure that we take proper care of them," said Seagram of the program.
"We don't want to do that by shipping them out of province," she continued.
While anyone can participate in the program, it is designed for people within driving distance as it is not an overnight treatment centre. A limited number of hotel rooms will be available for out-of-town participants.
One of the group therapy rooms contains comfortable chairs, arranged in a circle, in order to help with the healing process. Pictured here are, from left, Doug Allen, a social worker and military veteran, Dr. Belinda Seagram, a registered psychologist, and MacKenzie Seagram, the director of well-being and community engagement at Landing Strong.
Landing Strong is already looking to add to its programming.
Allen is working on a return-to-work program that will help complement the work being done at the treatment centre.
"This is about using the building blocks to redefine and recreate community for these people," said Allen, who served 20 years in the infantry before becoming a social worker.
Allen says the program is going to be very hands on. It won't be about discovering how to get a job, rather it will focus on finding a job that will best suit their skillsets. It's about finding their passion and applying it in the workforce.
"They're not put into the workforce to sort of discover it on their own. They're able to work with someone to integrate safely and to see how things work and to get the growing pains out of transitioning from a very different culture back into a civilian community," said Allen of the program's goal.
Seagram said she's hopeful some of the main program participants will transition to the workforce program as they will be able to help them identify their transferable skills.
Seagram said they're hoping to have that program up and running early next year, but it is dependent on securing more funding.
As for the PTSD Hero Comics that Seagram launched to provide an illustrated therapeutic tool for people with PTSD, that series is doing well. The first book has been available for several months while the second installment will be released in November. The third installment, and a digital animation, is due out in February 2019.
"We want to make sure the information we're putting out is accessible in as many forms as possible," she said.
The treatment centre will also be hosting various workshops.
Coming up is a one-day workshop for caregivers, which is planned for the end of November.
"We all know that supporting someone you love who is struggling, that can take a toll on (the caregiver) and the entire family life," said Seagram, noting the workshop will be a three-part series.
To learn more about Landing Strong, or to begin receiving free online information to help with PTSD, visit: http://landingstrong.com/.


20 November 2015 by Liberty Living.
Students staying in Liberty Living's student accommodation in Cardiff contributed to a mighty 14.62 tonnes of unwanted items being diverted from landfill in 2015's "Get it out for Cardiff" (GIOFC) campaign.
The GIOFC campaign ensures that moving out at the end of term is stress free, whilst leaving the local community clean and tidy. The annual end of term waste, recycling and charity collection scheme provides 21 Green Zones in halls of residences and Student Unions across the city, six of which are located in Liberty Living's accommodation.
Unwanted goods such as CDs, DVDs, kitchen items, clothing, food and small electrical items can all be donated.
Charities also benefit from the campaign with £2,142.37 going to the YMCA and £1,000 to the Lord Mayors charity – Velindre Cancer Centre.
Liberty Living is delighted to support this campaign and will continue to do so with the backing of our fantastic students.


In some ways, running a city is like running a business. There are costs and pressures, and there's also a pressing need to understand the way cybersecurity and cybercrime are changing. And for both the CIO of a company, and the CIO of a city, the key part of the job is communicating what the organization needs to protect its data and keep itself secure. What the job entails, though, is constantly changing.
"Traditionally, we protect the perimeter by blocking off everything. But now we need a new kind of protection strategy," said Rob Meikle, the CIO for the City of Toronto.
He was speaking from a panel at Technicity 2013, an IT World Canada event exploring Toronto's role as a hub for the ICT industry and focusing on cybersecurity. The event was held Tuesday at the Toronto Reference Library.
As CIO of the City of Toronto, Meikle's main roles are to ensure public safety and to protect the city's assets. That could be anything from the city's data, to more physical objects like the city's buses or firetrucks, he said. However, both mobility and open data have changed the way the city approaches security.
"What mobility has now done is extended boundaries of this interconnected ecosystem. Normally you would just be dealing with laptops, computers, and technology that would reside on an organization's premises," he said in an interview after the panel discussion ended.
"But now you have citizens and businesses consuming information and services, especially through mobile devices. So what that's done is that our purview on looking at how we protect not just our network and our applications, but also how do we protect our data, which is a great asset," he added, saying that includes both data within the organization and outside the organization. With the city's Open Data portal, he and his team need to protect the data residing within the organization, as well as the data outside of it, he said.
For Ritesh Kotak, ensuring cybersecurity is all about integrating it into his organization. Kotak is the project coordinator for Operation Reboot, a program spearheaded by the Toronto Police to boost internal security and to educate the 5,500 police officers working for the force on how to deal with cybercrime.
"There's no common definition of cybercrime," Kotak said, adding that makes it difficult for police officers to identify when they do see it. He was speaking from the panel alongside Meikle.
For example, most people think of Anonymous or the Syrian Electronic Army when they think of cybercrime, he said. But there shouldn't be just a cybercrime unit dedicated towards fighting online crime, especially if its effects spill over into the offline world. Instead, his goal is to see cybersecurity become a decentralized goal for each police division in the city, he said.
"Stealing clothing from a mall is a crime. But cybercrime is no different, it's just virtual," he said, giving an example of, say, a resident of Toronto walking into a police division office and saying a neighbour has hacked his or her Wi-Fi and has racked up a ridiculously huge bill.
The project has mainly been an internal one, made up of a task force of police officers, individuals with a background in IT, and even a beat cop with a programming background, he said. Launching in April, the project ran for six months before it was renewed. The goal is to eventually make recommendations to the command officers of the Toronto police.
Still, while most businesses don't need to fight online and virtual crime in the same way as the city's police force, there is still a need to ensure officers understand IT policies, Kotak said.
"We have to be cognizant of [IT policies],but our mandate is public safety and public trust, and locking up bad people. That is the essence of a police organization," he said in an interview.
For the City of Toronto, there's also a difference in how it carries out its day-to-day IT activities, Meikle said. For one thing, the number of stakeholders is a lot higher, he said. Before coming to work at Metro Hall, Meikle worked first for Nortel Networks Corp. and then for the City of Brampton, so he's worked in both the public and private spheres.
But one thing he had to learn was to balance the needs of a large, diverse group of stakeholders. Unlike Nortel, which only delivered products and services to a small, niche category of people, the City of Toronto has to take its stakeholders – residents and taxpayers – into consideration too, he said.
And of course, then there are always hackers attacking both the city and the police force – a problem with which most businesses can relate. For example, the Toronto police has faced spoof attacks in the past, when hackers will send emails that appear to be from an individual within the organization, inviting recipients to download attachments containing malware.
Still, Meikle said he faces many of the challenges other CIOs face – namely, thinking about the future.
"We've got to be forward-thinking. It's not the same old. Boundaries, their reach and richness has been extended, so we've got to make sure our policies, procedures, our practices, and our people understand that … We've got to make sure we've got the right level of openness and security," he said.
That means designing architecture that doesn't just work for the present, but that will keep working in the coming months and years, he added.


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Q: How to get MimeContent while fetching an email from EWS? I am using EWS service in my Application. At point I want fetch an existing email and then convert it to a file. i am using following code for this.
private ExchangeService _service = null;

internal EWSClient()
{
     _service = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2010_SP1);
     _service.Credentials = new WebCredentials(HandlerSettings.MailReceiverLogin, HandlerSettings.MailReceiverPassword);
     _service.Url = new Uri(HandlerSettings.MailReceiverServer);
}

To Fetch email I use Bind method.
var completeEmailMessage = EmailMessage.Bind(_service, emailId);
var mimeContent = completeEmailMessage.MimeContent;
string tempFile = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), Guid.NewGuid().ToString() + ".eml");
using (var fileStream = new FileStream(tempFile, FileMode.Create))
{
      fileStream.Write(mimeContent.Content, 0, mimeContent.Content.Length);
}

Here, i get exception as completeEmailMessage.MimeContent; is null.
Which method shall i use to get complete email having MimeContent ?

A: You should create a PropertySet and add the MIMEContent as a property to load then specify that as an overload property for Bind eg
        PropertySet psPropSet = new PropertySet(BasePropertySet.FirstClassProperties);
        psPropSet.Add(ItemSchema.MimeContent);
        var completeEmailMessage = EmailMessage.Bind(_service, emailId, psPropSet);
        var mimeContent = completeEmailMessage.MimeContent;
        string tempFile = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), Guid.NewGuid().ToString() + ".eml");
        using (var fileStream = new FileStream(tempFile, FileMode.Create))
        {
            fileStream.Write(mimeContent.Content, 0, mimeContent.Content.Length);
        }

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Ad Fontes: How the Bible Shaped a Movement
October 27, 2017 January 3, 2018
G. Sujin Pak on the significance of theology for the Protestant reformers
Martin Luther's reformation was theological through and through. At its very heart were questions of theology. To claim this is not to deny or undervalue the important implications his reforming efforts had for matters of economics, social life, and politics; it is to claim that one will not fully grasp the core program of Luther's reformation in particular—as well as the multiple reformations of the sixteenth century (i.e., Swiss Reformed, Calvinist, Anabaptist, and Catholic)—without the recognition of its profound theological claims and commitments. "Theology" by definition is the study of the nature of God and religious belief. The foremost concerns of the leading Protestant reformers—Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, and John Calvin—were precisely to correct what they believed to be mistaken understandings of the nature of God, the nature of humanity, and the nature of faith. These concerns converged into a larger, pressing need to rectify the various conceptions of justification—how one is saved—in their time. Yet, as we will see, their assertion that salvation is entirely the work of God through God's gift of faith, in which human works make no contribution, had direct implications for views of authority, definitions of "church," and Christian worship practices.
Right Knowledge of God & Right Knowledge of Self: Justification by Faith Alone
Toward the end of his life, Martin Luther described his "reformation breakthrough" as the profound discovery that rather than God being a righteous God who demanded perfect righteousness from the human subject and who was always ready to punish the human for falling short, God is in fact a merciful and loving God who provides the very righteousness necessary to the human as a gift. Looking back on his early years, Luther wrote in his 1545 preface to his Latin writings, "I began to understand that the righteousness of God is that by which the righteous lives by a gift of God, namely by faith." For Luther, this involved first and foremost aligning conceptions of God, the human, and faith more closely with the teachings of scripture. As a monk, Luther had primarily been trained in the teachings of the leading nominalist theologians of his day: Gabriel Biel and William Ockham. Gabriel Biel is perhaps best known for the motto "facere quod in se est" ("to do what is in one")—the idea that one should do what lies in one and then God will do the rest. The prevailing tendency in this motto was to emphasize the role of the human "to do what is in" her—that is, to emphasize the role of human works in salvation. To be clear, among those theologically versed, the matter was much more complicated, for Biel's conception of "what is in one" entailed not merely the positive role of human works but the very definition of grace as God leaving the human will intact enough after the Fall (into sin) to be able to make a movement (however small) toward the good, and then God would provide additional grace to make up the gap. Yet, such theological subtleties often get lost in everyday practice and understanding, and such was the case in Luther's day. Ultimately, argued Luther, people were being taught that they were saved by their own efforts and good works. He criticized the church of his day for promoting a variety of human works as the means by which one's salvation was secured, such as the following: buying an indulgence (i.e., a grant for remission of the temporal punishment of sin to gain a loved one a certain number of years out of purgatory), giving of land and monetary gifts to the church, dedicating a son to the priesthood, or going on pilgrimage to a holy site. On top of this, each of the three steps in the sacrament of penance—confession, contrition, and satisfaction—ostensibly accentuated human effort: Did the sinner confess thoroughly enough? Was the sinner sufficiently contrite? What good works must the sinner do to make satisfaction for his sins?
Luther argued that as a consequence of such practices, Christians lived with a "terrified conscience," a wrong view of God, and a wrong view of self. Christians wrongly viewed God as a punitive God whom they must appease by their good works. They also wrongly viewed themselves as capable of righteousness and good works in and of their own ability. Rather, insisted Luther, true righteousness is God's work alone offered in Christ through the gift of faith. Instead of constantly striving to do enough, the powerful message of the Gospel is the freedom it offers—the freedom of realizing that no amount of human striving can adequately obtain salvation, the freedom of realizing that salvation is by God's gracious activity alone offered in Christ through faith as a gift of God. Luther clarified that God gave the law revealed in scripture to unmask human sinfulness by demonstrating that humans are incapable of keeping the law perfectly; they cannot keep all of the law nor can they do so at all times. Humans will always fall short, and that is precisely the point! In the recognition of human inadequacy, the necessity of Christ takes center stage. Christ is the God-Human who is the only one capable of fulfilling the law perfectly. Christ exchanges his true and pure righteousness for human sinfulness, thereby clothing the human in Christ's own righteousness. Through this gift of righteousness and faith, the human becomes a new creation in Christ, freed and able to do good works not as something that contributes to his or her salvation, but as the necessary, true, and right response and fruit of the salvation given (gifted) in Christ. In this way, Luther maintained that works belong properly to the neighbor as an expression of Christian love. For Luther, not only a right conception of salvation was at stake; the very necessity of Christ was at stake, for if one can be saved by good works, why would God need to send Christ at all?
I have focused upon Luther thus far because of his initial, leading role. Suffice it to say that on this matter of a right understanding of salvation as entirely the gift of God through Christ—i.e., justification by faith alone—Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin also asserted these same points as indispensable correctives central to their own reforming work. It may sound strange to our ears today that a right understanding of salvation would evoke such urgency. Here, Bruce Gordon's reminder in his introduction to this forum bears repeating: the roots of the Protestant reformations are found in the medieval world. The Protestant reformers still lived in a medieval world and mindset where wrong teachings concerning Christian faith (heresies) could not be tolerated, lest a single soul be lost on account of such wrong teachings. The whole work and purpose of the Christian church on earth could be boiled down to its call to rightly teach and guide its people on the proper path of salvation. According to Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and other sixteenth-century reformers, the church of their day—indeed, the church for several centuries—has been increasingly failing at this crucial task.
Authority, Scripture, and the Church
This view leads directly to a second set of converging theological concerns at the heart of the Protestant reformations: conceptions of authority, the centrality of scripture, and the church's proper identity and vocation. Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin each insisted that their corrections to the Roman Catholic Church's teachings concerning salvation, faith, and works (as well as understandings of human nature and the character of God) brought Christian faith and practice back to the teachings of scripture, in which the Bible is the primary—if not sole—authority for the Christian life. The Protestant reformers rigorously challenged prevailing views of the authority of the church and its relationship to scripture. The Catholic Church of their day upheld a kind of symbiotic relationship between the authority of the ordained leadership of the church (i.e., priesthood) and the authority of scripture. According to Catholic belief, both scripture and the priesthood are ordained by God and granted authority in guiding the life of the faithful. More specifically, Catholics maintained that scripture is obscure in many places. On account of this, God granted the gift of the priesthood, through whom God provided a specially designated human institution to guide the church in its beliefs and practices—for the priest by virtue of the sacrament of ordination is set apart as God's vessel to shepherd the church. Consequently, Catholics soundly affirmed the authority of scripture, but maintained that God equally provided an ordained, authoritative body (the priesthood) to lead the church in interpreting and applying scripture and in matters not explicitly addressed in scripture.
Scripture's Prime Authority and Perspicuity
Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli pointed out, however, that much of the Roman Catholic priesthood was not only teaching their people wrongly (i.e., contrary to scripture); they were blighted by numerous moral corruptions, including economic exploitation, avarice, and sexual improprieties. "What kind of authority can and should such a morally corrupt and theologically unsound priesthood have?" asked the Protestant reformers. On the contrary, they argued that scripture is the prime authority for Christian life to which all leadership of the church should submit. Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin insisted that God's Word is prior to the church and, thus, as Luther clarified in "On the Misuse of the Mass" (1521), "The church does not constitute [God's] Word but is constituted by the Word." Calvin similarly exclaimed in his Institutes, "But a most pernicious error widely prevails that scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church—as if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon human decisions!" Thus, as part of their assertion of its prime authority, the Protestant reformers maintained that scripture is self-authenticating and self-interpreting, by which they aimed to place scripture above the reach of any human endeavor to claim its authoritative, final interpretation, including the ordained leadership of the church. On the contrary, the true interpreter of scripture is the Holy Spirit, who is its very author. In On the Bondage of the Will Luther therefore maintained against his Catholic opponent Erasmus's assertion of free will, "No one perceives one iota of what is said in the scriptures unless one has the Spirit of God." Calvin likewise explained in the Institutes that the Word of God "cannot penetrate into our minds unless the Spirit, as the inner teacher, through illumination makes entry for it." Indeed, given the human's bondage to sin, the Holy Spirit must be the primary actor in any faithful interpretation of scripture. Thus, a parallel might be drawn between the reformers' insistence upon God as the sole actor in justification (justification by faith alone) and the Holy Spirit as the essential actor in scripture's interpretation—both are rooted in the Protestant reformers' convictions of human depravity and their visions of God as the initiator of all things pertaining to salvation.
If scripture is the prime authority for all Christians and the life of the church, in which scripture shapes and guides all other authorities as subsumed under it, then scripture must be clear. This is precisely what Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin (as well as many Anabaptists) argued. But, it is important to understand just what the Protestant reformers meant by this. They did not mean that every passage of scripture is clear, nor did they mean that it is clear to everyone. Rather, scripture is only clear to those who have been justified by faith alone—to those who have been given the necessary gifts of faith and the Holy Spirit. Moreover, the Protestant reformers recognized that there are many obscure passages in scripture; yet, they maintained that the central subject matter of scripture is clear. First and foremost, all of scripture points to Christ. Christ is its clear subject matter (to those who have faith and the Holy Spirit). More specifically, the clear subject matter is the overarching narrative that reveals scripture's central soteriological purposes precisely centered in Christ. In his 1538 exposition of Psalm 51, Luther maintained that all of scripture points to "the human guilty of sin and condemned and God the Justifier and Savior of the human sinner." In response to Erasmus's claims that the human will is free and scripture is obscure, in Bondage of the Will Luther asserted the essential tenets of scripture's clarity: that "Christ the Son of God has been made man, that God is three in one, that Christ suffered for us and is to reign eternally." In other words, the clear subject matter of scripture is its revelation of the proper path of salvation (i.e., justification by faith alone), which includes clear teachings concerning right knowledge of God (as Justifier, Savior, Trinity), the centrality of Christ (incarnation, passion, and resurrection), and right knowledge of self (as sinner in need of Christ).
Re-Envisioning the Church's Identity and Vocation
Insisting upon the prime authority of scripture not only led the Protestant reformers to recast the proper place of church authority, it led them to re-envision the very identity and vocation of the church exactly in terms of its right relationship to God's Word. For example, contrary to Catholic Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto's definition of the Christian church as "a society of saints spread over the whole world, existing in all ages, yet bound together by the one doctrine and one Spirit of Christ," Calvin countered that such a definition lacks one of the most crucial elements: that the church is that community of saints who hear and obey the Word of God. "What comes of the Word of the Lord, that clearest of all marks, and which the Lord himself, in pointing out the church, so often recommends to us?" asks Calvin in his reply to Sadoleto. By defining the church as that community who hears and obeys God's Word, the proclamation of God's Word (preaching) took center stage in the worship life of Protestant churches. In their aim to bring the definition of church and its vocation in closer alignment with the teachings of scripture, the Protestant reformers proffered the New Testament model of the church as the biblical prototype for emulation. Specifically, this meant that the leadership of the church should adhere to the church offices demarcated in the New Testament—such as the offices of pastor, teacher, elder, and deacon. Though the Protestant reformers did not agree on exactly which offices are biblical (for there was particular disagreement on the office of bishop), they unanimously viewed the papal office as unbiblical and, thus, soundly rejected papal authority. Moreover, the reformers argued that the biblical text clearly pointed to a married clergy (e.g., I Timothy 3:2), thereby repudiating a centuries-old tradition of celibacy as a requirement for priestly ordination.
As for vocation, the Protestant reformers rejected the customary separation between the "spiritual estate" and the "temporal estate," in which only those who are ordained priests or who have set apart their lives for God as monks and nuns are part of the "spiritual estate" and have a "vocation" from God. On the contrary, the Protestant reformers insisted that all Christians, by virtue of their baptism, are called to bear witness to God's Word, to proclaim God's Word, to read scripture, and to rebuke wrongdoing and wrong teaching insofar as they depart from God's Word revealed in scripture—thereby exactly defining each Christian and the church as a whole in the very acts of hearing and obeying God's Word. Consequently, not only priests, monks and nuns are "spiritual," but all Christians are spiritual and have a vocation to hear and obey scripture. Involved in this reconceptualization of who the church is and what the church does through centrally defining it by its relationship to God's Word, the Protestant reformers radically redefined "priesthood." The reformers drew a distinction between priesthood and ministerial offices: all Christians are priests; some Christians possess the call and gifts to hold a ministerial office. Those holding a ministerial office submit to scripture's prime authority and wield authority only insofar as they rightly proclaim and follow scripture; they may be married; and ordination is an affirmation of a calling, not a sacrament. That is, the Protestant reformers no longer viewed ordination as one of the sacraments of the church. The radical nature of this change cannot be overstated. In a Catholic sacramental view of priestly ordination, the priest becomes something other; he is set apart to be a very means of God's grace to the people, a vessel and mediator of God's grace, in which it is promised that God's grace will be mediated regardless of the priest's holiness or abilities (for that is the very definition of a sacrament). Alternatively, the Protestant reformers presented ministerial offices as something to which one is called by the larger community and for which one should have gifts as discerned by the community. Consequently, authority is not automatically attached to the office (as something ontological due to its sacramental character); rather, authority is recognized only when there is right adherence to and implementation of scripture's authority.
Scripture, Worship, and the Sacraments
Redefining the church's authority, identity, and vocation in scriptural terms and under the prime authority of the Bible set in motion a reevaluation of the church's worship practices also according to the measure of scripture. This development leads to a third set of converging theological concerns that further illuminates the crucial role of theology in the sixteenth-century Protestant reformations: the promotion of a scriptural vision of worship expressed in the centrality of preaching, Protestant iconoclasm, and assertion of only two biblical sacraments. For many centuries prior to the rise of Protestant churches, the celebration of Eucharist (the Catholic Mass) was the centerpiece of Christian worship. By defining the church as the community of saints who hear and obey God's Word, the proclamation of God's Word took precedence in the worship life of early Protestant communities. The sermon—the preached Word of God—replaced the Mass as the heart of Christian worship. Moreover, the Protestant reformers launched a number of objections against Catholic worship forms and practices, starting with the Mass. Luther, Zwingli, Karlstadt, and Calvin, among many others, argued that Roman Catholics had made the Mass into a human work, as if it were something humans offered (or sacrificed) to God instead of focusing on the primacy of God's activity, in which God promises and enacts grace in the sacrament. Furthermore, they rebuked the veneration of the consecrated Host as an idolatrous practice, refuted the doctrine of transubstantiation (as unbiblical), and contested the withholding of the cup from the laity (as unbiblical). The Protestant reformers argued that the Eucharistic liturgy should be said in the vernacular, so that the whole community may more fully understand and participate, and they insisted that there should be no celebration of the Eucharist without the preaching of the Word, for Word and Sacrament belong inextricably together.
The Protestant reformers further aimed to rectify a number of the worship practices of their day. They rejected the use of relics and icons as idolatrous, citing the first of the Ten Commandments and the exhortations of the Old Testament Prophets. Some reformers (such as Calvin, as well as the Anabaptists) argued that anything that is not directly described or prescribed in scripture should have no place in the worship life of the church, so that, for example, some spurned the use of organs and other musical instruments in worship. Such views lead to the eruption of sometimes riotous iconoclasm (the destruction of paintings, sculptures, relics, and organs) in regions where Protestant views were gaining a foothold. Additionally, the Protestant reformers condemned the belief in purgatory as unbiblical and thereby repudiated the practices of indulgences and prayers for the dead that accompanied it. Against various penitential practices that emphasized either the sole ability of the priest to forgive sins or the necessity of the sinner to demonstrate notable effort and good works to gain such forgiveness, the Protestant reformers asserted that one can confess one's sins to anyone and anyone can proclaim the forgiveness offered because the actual granting of forgiveness belongs to God alone, who grants it freely (without works) to the truly repentant (as exemplified in James 5:16). At the core of these objections to many of the Roman Catholic worship practices of their day were three things: the desire to bring worship back into alignment with scripture's clear teachings, the aim to place the focus of worship upon God and God's activity rather than human activity or works, and the need to purify Christian worship from what the reformers viewed as idolatrous practices.
Holding the worship practices of their day up to the mirror of scripture animated the Protestant reformers to reevaluate the nature of a sacrament and reduce the number of the true, biblical sacraments of the church from seven to two. The Roman Catholic Church upheld seven sacraments, but the Protestant reformers argued that only two of these have a clear biblical basis and were instituted by Jesus Christ: baptism and Eucharist—the latter they preferred to call the "Lord's Supper." Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin agreed that a true sacrament must be clearly instituted by Christ. They also agreed that the primary actor in a sacrament is God, in which God either declares, signifies, or mediates God's grace. Consequently, the preaching of God's Word must always accompany the celebration of a sacrament, so that there is a clear communication of God's promises. Yet the precise nature of what actually happens in the celebration of the sacrament becomes a point of contention among the Protestant reformers. Does the sacrament simply declare a grace already present spiritually? Do the elements of the sacrament signify the grace declared, or do the material elements of the sacrament both signify and actually mediate grace? The differences and harsh debates among the Protestant reformers concerning these questions became a matter upon which they could not agree and were unwilling to compromise. Why? Because precisely the nature of true faith, Christology, scripture's authority, and the right practices of worship were at stake—that is, the key theological tenets upon which the various Protestant reforming movements were grounded in the first place. Citing the text that the "flesh profits nothing" (John 6:63), Zwingli argued that true faith could never trust in material things, which could only lead to various forms of idolatry. Consequently, Zwingli argued that the Lord's Supper is a meal of remembrance of Christ's death that commemorates and simply declares a grace already spiritually given directly to the believer. Luther, on the other hand, insisted that Christ's words "this is my body" are true, literally, so that the sacrament does not merely declare grace; it mediates grace precisely through the material elements, for exactly a right understanding of Christ's Incarnation was at stake. Of course grace can be mediated through material things, insisted Luther; otherwise, what is the Incarnation? Without belaboring the many theological subtleties in the Protestant reformers' debates over the Lord's Supper, the disputes boiled down to their conflicting claims of having the right Christ, the right understanding of faith, and the right enactment of scripture's authority—all of which were for them non-negotiables.
A clear common thread in the three sets of converging theological concerns highlighted here—reassessment of teachings on justification, re-conceptions of church (its authority, identity, and vocation), and reevaluation of worship and the sacraments—is the appeal to bring each of these into better alignment with the teachings and prime authority of scripture. There were some followers among the early Protestant movements, however, who did not believe these movements went far enough. In response, several of these groups made an even more profound appeal to the sole authority of scripture. These groups, perhaps most notably the Anabaptists, proposed a radical vision of the church as a community guided by congregational rule and called to live holy lives set apart from the world in literal obedience to Christ's teachings in scripture, which included a staunch rejection of any connection to the state, the taking of oaths, and use of the sword (the latter with a couple of tragic exceptions). In a manner, the Anabaptists took many of the key concerns of Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin and magnified them through a principle of sola scriptura. They asserted an even more literal imitation of the New Testament church as the true model of the church. Through a literal interpretation of scripture and a sola scriptura principle, they rejected the practice of infant baptism as a contrived tradition of the church that had no biblical basis and even more robustly repudiated any forms of worship that had no historical basis in the apostolic church described in the New Testament. They denied "sacraments" altogether in favor of a view of these as simply memorials: baptism as a public, voluntary vow of a commitment to Christ and the Lord's Supper as a meal of fellowship that commemorated Christ's death and resurrection, in which the concept of material things as a sign and means of grace (i.e., the definition of a sacrament) held no place at all.
Admittedly, the reform of the church's worship practices and challenges to ecclesiastical structures and authority were not merely theological matters, for they bore deep political, social, and economic implications, incentives, and assumptions. Nonetheless, Carlos M. N. Eire remains correct in underscoring the crucial role of the theological convictions of the Protestant reformers—particularly those of justification by faith alone and the prime authority of scripture. Eire writes in his recent book Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650, "The two principles alone do not explain the whole of Luther's theology, but it is impossible to understand Luther and the whole Protestant reformation without them." Indeed, as I have argued, these two theological convictions not only undergirded re-conceptualizations of salvation and the church, they were the principles generative of new Protestant theologies, forms, and practices of worship.
G. Sujin Pak served as Associate Dean of Academic Programs at Duke Divinity School from 2012-15 and is a faculty member in the history of Christianity at Duke Divinity School since 2008. She specializes in the history of Christianity in late medieval and early modern Europe, in which her research focuses upon the theology of the Protestant reformers, the Protestant Reformation and the Jews, women and the Reformation, the history of biblical interpretation, and, more recently, views and uses of prophecy in the early modern era. She has published two books, one entitled The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates over the Messianic Psalms (Oxford University Press, 2010) and another forthcoming with Oxford entitled The Reformation of Prophecy: Early Modern Interpretations of the Prophet and Old Testament Prophecy. Pak has also written several articles in journals such as Church History, Reformation & Renaissance Review, Religions, Calvin Theological Journal, and Church History and Religious Culture.
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Q: How to sort an array of objects by date? I am trying to sort an array of objects with each object containing:
var recent = [{id: "123",age :12,start: "10/17/13 13:07"} , {id: "13",age :62,start: "07/30/13 16:30"}];

Date format is: mm/dd/yy hh:mm.
I want to sort in order of date with the most recent first. If date is same it should be sorted by their time parts.
I tried out the below sort() function, but it is not working:
recent.sort(function(a,b))
{
    a = new Date(a.start);
    b = new Date(b.start);
    return a-b;
});

Also how should I iterate over the objects for sorting? Something like:
for (var i = 0; i < recent.length; i++)
    {
        recent[i].start.sort(function (a, b)
        {
            a = new Date(a.start);
            b = new Date(b.start);
            return a-b;
        } );
    }

There can be any number of objects in the array.

A: recent.sort(function(a,b) { return new Date(a.start).getTime() - new Date(b.start).getTime() } );

A: As has been pointed out in the comments, the definition of recent isn't correct javascript.
But assuming the dates are strings:
var recent = [
    {id: 123,age :12,start: "10/17/13 13:07"},
    {id: 13,age :62,start: "07/30/13 16:30"}
];

then sort like this:
recent.sort(function(a,b) {
    return new Date(a.start).getTime() - new Date(b.start).getTime()
});

More details on sort function from W3Schools

A: ES6:
recent.sort((a,b)=> new Date(b.start).getTime()-new Date(a.start).getTime());

A: This function allows you to create a comparator that will walk a path to the key you would like to compare on:

function createDateComparator ( path = [] , comparator = (a, b) => a.getTime() - b.getTime()) {
  return (a, b) => {
    let _a = a
    let _b = b
    for(let key of path) {
      _a = _a[key]
      _b = _b[key]
    }
    return comparator(_a, _b)
  }
}

const input = (
  [ { foo: new Date(2017, 0, 1) }
  , { foo: new Date(2018, 0, 1) }
  , { foo: new Date(2016, 0, 1) }
  ]
)

const result = input.sort(createDateComparator([ 'foo' ]))

console.info(result)


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A win, not a draw By:Dayan Jayatillake
(April 18, Geneva, Sri Lanka Guardian) Will this Sinhala and Tamil New Year be the gateway to a new period of Sri Lanka's history? Will it be better or worse than what has gone on so far? Or will there be no change and will the country still remain in the same stage of history that we have been in all these dozens of Aluth Avurudu celebrations? Or will a new cycle of the old conflict begin with this Avurudu?
The answer depends on how we comprehend this period we are living through, the moment in which the Aluth Avurudu has taken place. It is characterized by three factors or potentialities:
I. Prabhakaran's efforts to play for time until the Indian election season, puts irresistible pressure on Delhi and thereby on Sri Lanka.
II. The uncoiling of the full mobilizing, lobbying and electoral capacity, deriving from the sheer demographic weight and mass of the overseas Tamil collectivity.
III. The combination of factors I and II, which have the potential to bring into alignment India and the US, in a condominium or pincer, which puts irresistible pressure on Sri Lanka.
In short a repetition or more accurately a variant of 1987. Sri Lanka cannot afford such a return of contemporary history.
The longer we have to hold back (Tamil Nadu elections end on May 13), the more time Prabhakaran has to dig in and make the eventual battles more expensive for our troops, slip his cadre through our defenses, and arrange his own escape. If Prabhakaran, his successors and the LTTE leadership survive, the country will be plagued by war for the next several generations, culminating possibly in the setting up of a Tamil Eelam. Simultaneously, the sense of outraged Southern nationalism will consume the status quo, all which is identified or identifiable with the social structural and systemic flaws that thwarted final victory.
This being the case, there is only one way to prevent such an outcome and it is most certainly not the "Ostrich Option" of ignoring external pressures. We have to use smart power to support our hard power. We have to engage in a trade off, a grand bargain, and fast. This grand bargain would be one in which we give New Delhi something to stave off Tamil Nadu pressure. By doing so, we would keep Delhi on our side as we finish off the LTTE. This trade off would be a straightforward swap: a solemn commitment at the highest political level to a roadmap and time frame for the full implementation of the 13th Amendment.
My suggestion is a reverse version of the events of 1987 in order to pre-empt a re-run of the events of 1987. In 1987, India set a flotilla of small boats with the flag of the Indian Red Cross. We arrogantly turned them back, only to fall into the trap set for us. The turning back of the Red Cross boats triggered the airdrop, which we had no capacity to resist. Had we attempted to do so, we would have incurred severe military losses within a short time frame. The next link in this chain of events was the signing of the Indo-Lanka accord, followed by the Southern civil war.
What if the Indo-Lanka accord, with necessary modifications, had been signed before the Vadamaarachchi Operation? We would have been able to proceed with our military drive to defeat the Tigers. The evidence is that the IPKF took up from where we left off and tried to enforce the Accord and the 13th Amendment. Similarly, had we agreed to the Parthasarthy proposals or promptly signed off the Chidambaram proposals of December 1986 (the real opposition to those came from the Tamil side), we could have proceeded with our military campaign against the Tigers.
Strategy and tactics apart, there are intrinsic reasons as to why Sri Lanka should commit itself sincerely to the full and speedy implementation of the 13th Amendment. It is a simple matter of identity, autonomy and adequate space. This is true not only of ethnic communities but also of individuals. This is the basic case for devolution. It is not a question of a Tamil being elected Chief Minister. It is a question of devolving an adequate number of powers and functions to the people of those areas. No peoples like to be policed, patrolled, garrisoned and ruled by those of a different ethnicity and religion who do not speak their language. No one likes their areas of habitation to be dominated by others. This is why a measure of self-rule is needed, simply to make the people of certain areas feel stakeholders of the state, and to make governance secure. Let there be no mistake: governance and ruler-ship can be sustained only by consent of the governed. If those governed see no congruence between themselves and those doing the governing, they will resist and rebel, in one way or another.
The case for devolution is weaker if the state treats all communities – ethno logistic and religious as equals. This is so in republican France. Indonesia's population is over 90% Muslim (it has the largest Muslim population in the world) but it is a secular state. This is not so in Sri Lanka. But that doesn't mean that those who are not of the dominant culture wish to live on the terms of that culture, which in effect means to live under it. It is in such situations that peoples require their own space where they are free from the linguistic and cultural dominance of others, and are able to administer themselves.
Right now, we have to keep open and in fact widen the political space needed for the successful conclusion of the conventional war. That space is being narrowed daily by the gathering and cumulative pressure of the large majority of overseas Tamils on the states in which they live–from the indigenous Tamils of Tamil Nadu to the émigrés of the UK, US and Canada. We have to make an existential decision and make it fast. Which is the lower price to pay: internal devolution or external interference/intervention? What do we want more: to win the war, smash the LTTE or to preserve an un-devolved centralized unitary state? Who and what is our enemy: the secessionist Tiger army or the full and speedy implementation of 13th Amendment?T
he 13th Amendment is the "booster rocket" or "turbo charger" we need to win, the boulder we have to block Prabhakaran's exit with, and the only life belt or parachute that we have to escape intervention. We do not have the luxury of not making choices. We are on the high wire or if you wish a different metaphor, on a razor's edge. The more we delay, the higher the price we shall have to pay and the more precious the chance which we shall lose. It is nothing less than the chance for victory.
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With the game on my mind, I revisit how a small deformity of mine became an asset in fiction for the narrator—an all star pitcher—of my first published story.
My thumb, badly slashed on New Years Eve by the broken neck of a champagne bottle, never healed properly. After surgery to reconnect the tendon and a few months tied down with a rubber band on the cast, the digit developed a permanent crook. The knuckle won't straighten.
A thumbs up from me looks like a sort of mockery, a sardonic comment on a likely swell performance.
The publisher of Guts, choosing to focus on the narrator's relationship with his infant son, ran it with the image of a milk bottle. This was the right thing to do.
But he might equally have run it as a political story: the narrator's wife is an ex-Hill staffer completely disgusted by what she sees in congress. It also might have come out as a story about bullying, or steroids.
And I would have been happy if it ran with a focus on baseball. I invented a heroic origin for my thumb's condition and made it play to the narrator's strengths. He injures it saving a buddy from some playground bullies, and leverages it in life as a pitcher with an unpredictable curveball and an unhittable slider.
However you read it, Guts is a story about parenthood, standing up for what's right, and baseball.


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SAN JOSE: Antonia Montez Killed In Car Accident By The Intersection of Curtner Avenue and Briarwood Drive
Antonia Montez Accident: Pedestrian Died In Car Accident After Being Hit By SUV Near The Intersection of Curtner Avenue and Briarwood Drive
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA (October 26, 2018) A 52-year-old woman identified as Antonia Montez has tragically died after she was involved in a car accident while crossing the street by Curtner Avenue and Briarwood Drive.
San Jose police are saying that the accident took place around 6:53 p.m. A woman who was driving an SUV hit the victim with her 1998 Ford Explorer.
Paramedics were dispatched to the scene in order to treat Antonia Montez for her injuries. But she later died as a result of the crash. This is the 36th victim this year that has died in a car accident in San Jose.
An investigation into the fatal crash remains ongoing at this time.
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On May 5, St. Vincent Foundation held its first annual St. Vincent White Coat Gala at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The evening celebrated our healthcare heroes who contribute to innovative medical research towards cures for chronic illnesses. The event was presented by the Honorary Chairpersons, Annette and Leonard Shapiro, while the MC for the evening was ABC7 Morning News anchor, Phillip Palmer.
The special honorees for the evening were Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Dr. Taro Yokoyama, and Dr. Robert Naraghi. Dr. Soon-Shiong was recognized for the 25th anniversary of his groundbreaking, world's first human encapsulated islet cell transplant at St. Vincent Medical Center. Dr. Taro Yokoyama was presented with the Senior Sage Award for his devotion and expertise in thoracic and cardiac surgery for more than 50 years. Dr. Naraghi was presented the Next Generation Healer Award for his dedication and success as the Medical Director of the Multi-Organ Transplant Center.
The White Coat Gala celebrated and honored St. Vincent's rich, historic past, cherished present accomplishments, and embraced the many new developments to come as a bigger, better, brighter St. Vincent is on the horizon.
The evening was also a celebration of the exciting campus expansion at St. Vincent which will include a new tower with state-of-the-art facilities and groundbreaking technologies. Along with tremendous growth in the areas of transplant, oncology, orthopedics and cardiology, St. Vincent is expanding service lines and bringing in top physicians from around the country.
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Василь Андрійович Шендеровський (22 серпня 1942, Заставна, Буковина) — український фізик, історик науки, доктор фізико-математичних наук, професор.

Життєпис

Народився 1942 року в містечку Заставні на Буковині. Закінчив із відзнакою фізико-математичний факультет Чернівецького університету. Після проходження служби в Радянській армії влаштувався інженером, а згодом науковим співробітником Інституту фізики АН УРСР. У 1970 р. закінчив аспірантуру в Інституті фізики АН України за спеціальністю «Теоретична фізика». З 1972 р. — кандидат фізико-математичних наук, з 1984 р. — доктор фізико-математичних наук, а з 1993 р. — професор. Виховав 8 кандидатів наук. Провідний науковий співробітник Інституту фізики НАН України. Віце-президент Українського фізичного товариства. Член трьох спеціалізованих учених рад із захисту кандидатських і докторських дисертацій.

Наукова діяльність

Автор і співавтор понад 500 наукових, науково-популярних і публіцистичних праць. Співавтор трьох фундаментальних монографій з фізики напівпровідників:
 Вузькозонні напівпровідники. Вирощування та фізичні властивості. — К.: Наукова думка, 1984.
 Процеси переносу в телурі. — К.: Наукова думка, 1987.
 Варіаційний метод в кінетичній теорії. — К.: Наукова думка, 1992.

Видав у співавторстві словники:
 Українсько-англійсько-німецько-російський словник фізичної лексики (спільно з В. Козирським). — К.: Рада, 1996.
 Українсько-англійсько-російський словник з радіаційної безпеки (спільно з В. Козирським та С. Шаховцовою). — К.: Рада, 1998.
 Українсько-ангглійсько-російський тлумачний словник з радіології та радіологічного захисту (спільно з В. Козирським та Ю. Бездробним). — К.: Поліграфічна дільниця Інституту теоретичної фізики ім. М. Боголюбова НАН України, 1997.

Громадська діяльність

Широкій громадськості відомий насамперед як автор тритомника нарисів про видатних учених з українським корінням, які зробили значний внесок у розвиток світової науки, «Нехай не гасне світ науки».

Упорядник і редактор 4-х томної праці про видатного українського вченого Івана Пулюя: «Іван Пулюй. Збірник праць» (т.1, 2. К.: Рада. 1996; т.3 К.: Рада, 1997). «Іван Пулюй — Пантелеймон Куліш. Подвижники нації» (К.: Рада, 1997).

З його ініціативи вперше в Україні перевидано Біблію в перекладі Пантелеймона Куліша, Івана Пулюя та Івана Нечуя-Левицького. За редакцією Василя Шендеровського вперше перевидано українською мовою німецькомовну монографію видатного вченого-фізика Олександра Смакули «Монокристали» (2000), видано збірку творів Ганни Барвінок та матеріалів про неї (2001; це була перша книжкова публікація оповідань письменниці після 1927 року).

Започаткував авторську програму «Нехай не гасне світ науки» і п'ять років вів її разом з журналісткою Еммою Бабчук на першому каналі Українського національного радіо. Вийшло 125 передач про видатних українських учених, які з різних причин були маловідомими або замовчуваними.

Автор сценаріїв до науково-популярних фільмів:
 «Іван Пулюй. Повернення», який отримав першу премію на Міжнародному конкурсі «Нашого цвіту — по всьому світу» у 2001 р.;
 «120 років Чернівецькому університету»;
 «Олександр Смакула».

Василь Шендеровський — ініціатор, організатор і виконавчий директор Міжнародного енциклопедичного бюро з фізики, діяльність якого скеровано на створення українською мовою «Енциклопедії фізики», словників, посібників з фізики та історії науки.

Член Буковинського земляцтва в м. Києві.

Нагороди

Лауреат премій Фонду Тараса Шевченка та імені Івана Огієнка. Нагороджений подякою голови Київської міської державної адміністрації (2001) та нагрудним знаком «Знак Пошани» (2002).

Відгуки

 «Ми розкинули по світу своїх геніїв і тільки тепер їх збираємо, дякуючи таким сподвижникам як Шендеровський.» (Борис Олійник);
 «Важким буде оберемок, коли у нього зібрати всі книжки Василя. 100 душ, котрих звільнив від тліну забуття, піднімають тепер Україну та нас, українців. А це вже подвиг.» (Микола Шудря);
 «Василя послано на білий світ із місією залишити про свій час і знаних людей писемний знак. Велику цінність мають його книги для церкви, для молоді.» (Богдан (Дзюрах)).

Джерела
 Нехай не згасне світ науки Василя Шендеровського (до 70-літнього ювілею)
 Василь Шендеровський: Досягнення науки варто пропагувати через життєпис учених, які їх творять" // Урядовий кур'єр. — 2012. — 22 лют.
 Вірний син України Василь Шендеровський // Час. — 2012. — 3 груд.

Уродженці Заставної
Українські фізики
Історики науки
Випускники Чернівецького університету
Науковці Києва
Доктори фізико-математичних наук
Лауреати премії імені Івана Огієнка
Члени Українського фізичного товариства
Буковинське земляцтво

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If there's one thing I know about Batman, it's that he will travel any distance to take on the forces of evil. That was definitely the case in 1976, when his never-ending battle against crime -- and an appearance at a nearby car show -- brought him to Memphis and an encounter with local villain and professional wrestling icon Jerry "The King" Lawler, who was sporting a full-on Superman costume, complete with cape.
Fortunately, their encounter -- featuring Adam West in the role of the Caped, er, Tracksuited Crusader -- was captured on video, and it is quite possibly the greatest thing I have ever seen. Admittedly, I'm a guy who has both "Batman" and "Pro Wrestling" right at the top of my list of favorite things, but right around the time Batman starts talking about his pals "Supe" and "Spidey-Baby," I think you're going to agree. Check out the whole video, and our list of the ten most amazing things about it!
#1: Adam West is clearly inebriated. And judging by the fact that he mentions that Lawler was wrestling "this morning" (and the show's traditional 11 AM time-slot), I'm pretty sure that means that he straight up kicked off his day with a few of Alfred's traditional breakfast cocktails.
#2: Batman is meant to be traveling incognito. And by that, I mean that he's cold wearing a velour tracksuit, plus his mask and gloves. You want to see the whole suit? Pay your two bucks to get into the Memphis Auto Show, son.
#3: Mr. Freeze and the Penguin have teamed up to cause an unseasonably cold winter in Tennessee. That might seem ridiculous, but let's be real here, folks: This whole "Gotham City" thing was clearly not working out for them. It only makes sense that they'd give it a go somewhere else, but true to form, they didn't consider that their evil crime would coincide with a car show. The fatal flaw that brings down their house of cards.
#4: They Have a "Hook Up" With Jerry Lawler, the Evil King of Memphis. I have been watching professional wrestling for my entire life, and never have I seen a heel so evil that he would team up with actual super-villains in order to secure a victory in the ring. At long last, Jerry Lawler, have you no decency?!
#5. Jerry Lawler? Full Superman costume. Adam West? Tracksuit plus cowl. No wonder he seems a little grumpy that the short-tied interviewer is asking him what's up with his outfit.
#6. "I've heard about your box." I have not actually been able to verify this, but apparently, the box contained Frankenstein. No joke.
#7. Batman's Pal, Soup. See #1 above.
#8. Batman's other pal, Spidey-Baby. If we get nothing else from the DC Reboot, I want Batman to start talking about this. And maybe explain why Spider-Man would give a crap about any of this.
#9. Batman's Endorsement of Turn-Signals. Who knew that was all it took to be a good person?
#10. Bat-Fans or Rednecks? Guys, as someone who worked in a comic book store in South Carolina for six years, I can assure you that it is possible to be both.
Unfortunately, it's unknown at this time whether or not Batman and the Super-King actually did settle their differences at the car show down at the convention center, but if anyone at DC editorial would like to provide an answer in one of their upcoming Batman titles -- maybe one that focused exclusively on Batman's career as a pro wrestler in the '70s and '80s -- I would like to point out that I'm definitely available to write it.


LAHORE: Former Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu arrived in Pakistan on Friday to attend the swearing-in ceremony of prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan.
Sidhu arrived in Lahore via Wagah border and headed towards Islamabad for the oath-taking ceremony scheduled for August 18.
Speaking to reporters in Lahore, Sidhu welcomed the 'change' in Pakistan brought about by the rise of the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government.
"I have come to Pakistan on my friend's [Imran] invitation. These are very special moments," Sidhu said.
The former cricketer also expressed his views through poetic verses-laden with emotions.
"Hindustan jeevey, Pakistan jeevey!" he chanted in a visibly happy mood.
The Indian comedian expressed that Imran Khan was like a 'Gold' who could deal with adversaries as well. He elaborated that he was in Pakistan as a friend and an ambassador of peace and not as a political figure.


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Main Street Bridge open; the 'loop' is closed
A couple of momentous events took place over a scorching hot Memorial Day in Horry County.
Lessons from the flood reviewed at CCU forum
It's awfully sad to ride through neighborhoods in Conway and Socastee devastated by last year's flood.
When cops seize assets, your rights are violated
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County must find money to fund recreation
Close the Carolina Forest Recreation Center?
County council should hire its own attorney
Horry County Councilman Al Allen has a good idea.
Vote on Eldridge shows dissension on council
Last week's effort to dismiss Chris Eldridge as Horry County administrator failed when Horry County Council split evenly, 6-6, on the vote to fire him.
Keep county administrator talks public, civil
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After a rocky start, the new Horry County Council seems to be operating in a more efficient — and less dramatic — manner.
New school chairman can make a big difference
For years, Bobby Chandler must have felt like a lone voice in the wilderness.
Impact fees needed to pay for new schools
Do you ever get the feeling that public education is a bottomless money pit?
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Desperate people in desperate situations do desperate things.
The approach to long-term disaster recovery in Horry County must change
The federal government will set aside millions to help the victims of Hurricane Florence recover. That isn't in doubt.
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The options aren't good for victims of the historic flood
I've heard the story time and again.
Time has come and gone to build flood diversion canal
An idea to control flooding on the Waccamaw River might have worked nearly a century ago, but I don't see how it can be implemented in today's environmentally-friendly climate.
Historic flood marks county's most vulnerable roads
Hurricane Florence set a new benchmark for flooding in Horry County.
Memorable thoughts about the great flood of 2018
Thank God, the Waccamaw River crested in Conway yesterday, four feet above all previously recorded levels.
Flood level predictions impact all of Horry County
I'm not the type who runs around wringing my hands proclaiming that the sky is falling.
Don't underestimate the power of this huge storm
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Impact fees can help avert general tax increases
In November, I get to tell Horry County Council what I think about imposing impact fees on new residences and businesses.
Closing Conway's Main St. bridge will create huge traffic jam
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America has never had a president like Trump
By this time, nothing Donald Trump says or does should shock anyone. Yet, the President continues to defy conventional political wisdom with little regard to the consequences.
Primary held plenty of surprises, mistakes
The June 12 Republican Party primary held a couple of big surprises.
This Father's Day, become a foster parent
If you believe it's better to give than to receive, consider making this Father's Day a very special occasion.
Opportunity knocks twice for City of Conway
For as long as I can remember, Conway has been trying to figure out how to lure visitors from the beach to the pastoral beauty and charm of the city on the river.
What's so new about betting on sport events?
The nation's highest court may have opened Pandora's box last week by allowing legalized sports betting.
Lost! Trip for laundry turned into an adventure for Conwayite studying abroad in Scotland
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Medicare policy discourages civic involvement
Conway City Councilwoman Jean Timbes had a difficult decision to make recently due to an odd Medicare policy.
Online retailers should have to collect sales tax, too
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Getting something 'free' on the internet has a price
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
County should be innovative with impact fees
Growth is good.
Awards show commitment to our communities
I'm pleased to report to our subscribers and readers that the newspapers you loyally support were recently recognized as being among the best in South Carolina.
Unhappy with your leaders? Run for office
Were you incensed when the Horry County Board of Education gave itself a 66 percent pay hike.
Horry needs a shelter for battered families
I was surprised to learn that women in fear of being abused by their husbands must go to Georgetown County to find safe shelter.
Arming teachers won't solve the problem
At first blush, the idea of arming teachers seems like a good one.
Early results of energy-efficient schools discouraging
It's far too early to say Horry County's investment in energy-efficient schools has failed the grade, but the results to date certainly haven't been impressive.
DC's recent Shutdown
Washington, D.C., better known as The Swamp, showed its utter contempt for the American public last week when bickering between Democrats and Republicans resulted in yet another government shutdown.
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No one should smoke.
Emrick deserves job as Conway city administrator
Now that the election is over, Conway City Council should turn its attention to selecting a permanent city administrator.
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This Is THE Wine For Fashion Girls
Gia Coppola just made wine even more fun — if that's possible.
By Megan O'Sullivan on
Designed by Briana Gagnier.
She may be known as an American screenwriter, film director, and actress, but Gia Coppola is now extending her area of expertise into the realm of wine. She's already created compelling video content for high profile fashion brands like Opening Ceremony, Diane von Furstenberg, and Rodarte. Well now, she's bringing her creative skills to one of our very favorite surfaces: the wine bottle.
Courtesy of The Family Coppola.
The new line features stunning photos as label art and seeks to bring an exciting design element to the wine-buying experience. When describing her inspiration and objectives with her new line, Coppola explains, "I wanted to make a wine that tasted good and was inexpensive. I know buying wine for my generation is so much about the label and the price. Using my own photos for the labels feels true and tangible to who I am. I'm really fascinated that wines with catchy or silly names seem to be the ones people buy."
The collection features a staple white, red, and rosé, each of which was carefully crafted in collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola and the winemakers. The rosé, for instance, has juicy red fruit impressions that are reminiscent of pomegranate and cherries. Mouthwatering, right? Our favorite detail, however, is that these wine bottles are one liter, more than the traditional 750ml wine bottles.
Coppola explains the creative process behind this unique choice. "My cousin Robert and I wanted to play around with numbers as a play on modern culture," she shares. "I like the liter bottles because you can host a big group of friends. More bang for your buck and the twist cap top is easy on the go."
Courtesy of Gia Coppola.
If you're not already enticed, here's what you need to know about the launch of the new collection. It wouldn't be right for a fashion insider to celebrate a new product without making waves, which is why Coppola will be officially launching her collection with a splash, literally.
On July 27, the creative mogul will be hosting a pool party at the Francis Ford Coppola Winery. The menu? Only the most fun foods, including shrimp rolls, corn dogs, nachos, and grilled corn. The event will also have '80s arcade games, neon bocce ball, and a silent disco by rising music artist Myles Hendrik.
Ready to join in? Party goers can purchase general admission tickets for $50 per person, or a premium package for $150 per person. Get your tickets for this exclusive event here.
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