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Muppet Characters, Sesame Street Characters, Fairy Tales
Little Red Riding Hood in "Musical Fairy Tales".
Ernie as Little Red Riding Hood.
Wilkins and Wontkins renact the story in a Wilkins Coffee commercial.
Little Red Riding Hood is the central figure in the classic fairy tale of the same name. In the most common version of the story, she goes into the woods to take food to her grandmother's house. Along the way she meets The Big Bad Wolf who convinces her to stop and pick some flowers. The Big Bad Wolf then runs ahead, eats her grandmother, and disguises himself as her grandmother. When she finally arrives at her grandmother's house she in turn is eaten by the wolf. A friendly woodsmen rescues them, and helps them kill the wolf.
On Sesame Street, she attends Storybook Community School. She has a sister named Little Green Riding Hood. In her appearances on Sesame Street, she often mistakes everyone she meets for her grandmother and continuously calls them that.
Screen appearances
She has appeared in two Sesame Street News Flash installments. In one skit, she was performed by Richard Hunt, and in the other by Fran Brill.
In a third "Sesame Street News Flash", Cookie Monster dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood. The Big Bad Wolf also appears in this sketch, but he appears as a doctor taking care of Granny.
Cookie Monster assumes the role again in a Monsterpiece Theater segment, "Little Red Riding Cookie."
In Episode 3977 (2001), she appears in "Musical Fairy Tales", again played by Fran Brill.
Elmo and Abby Cadabby attended Little Red Riding Hood's birthday party in the direct-to-video release Elmo and Abby's Birthday Fun! with Jack and Hansel and Gretel. Brill again played the part.
She appeared in Episode 4318, performed by Stephanie D'Abruzzo.
Print appearances
Little Red appeared in a maze in "The Sesame Street Treasury Volume 1", and she was the featured character for July in "The Sesame Street 1977 Calendar".
Little Red appears in Grover's Little Red Riding Hood based on the Sesame Street News Flash sketch.
Little Red appeared at the Easter picnic in Rosita's Easter on Sesame Street, with her Storybook Community friends Baby Bear, Abby Cadabby and Little Bo Peep.
She also appears in Elmo Visits the Dentist, where she's startled to see the Big Bad Wolf in the dentist's waiting room. While she's waiting, Little Red leafs through an issue of Goodies magazine.
Little Red can be spotted shopping for plates at Hooper's Store in the 2002 book Look and Find Elmo.
Bert, Ernie, Betty Lou and Roosevelt Franklin dress up as characters from "Little Red Riding Hood" in the 1976 paper doll book Paper Doll Players.
Little Red and the Wolf dressed as her Grandmother appear in Elmo's Lift-and-Peek Around the Corner Book.
Little Red feeds birds with Bert, while the Big Bad Wolf lies in wait with a snowball, in the book Friendly, Frosty Monsters.
Little Red and the Wolf appear on a parade float in the book Big Bird's Red Book.
Parodies and Mentions
Wolle imagines the role on Sesamstrasse.
Eine Möhre für Zwei has Little Red Riding... Wolf?
In the version of "The People in Your Neighborhood" that was heard in The Sesame Street Book & Record, when Bob asks one Anything Muppet who he would be if he wore a firemans hat, the Muppet guesses that he would be Little Red Riding Hood.
Bert plays the titular character on a cover of Epi, Blas y los demás (1970s).
Mrs. Libby tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood with the aide of a puppet in the book A Visit to the Sesame Street Library.
In episode 2321 of Sesamstrasse, Wolle imagines what it would be like to be Little Red Riding Hood, with Nils as the huntsman, Pferd as the stand-in for the Big Bad Wolf who was on vacation in the Bahamas, and Rumpel as the grandmother.
Zoe plays both Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother in the 2004 Sesame Street coloring book, Big Bird's Favorite Fairy Tales. Cookie Monster takes the role of the Wolf. At the end of the story, the Wolf convinces Red and Granny that they should all have a picnic, and share the basket together.
Zoe also appears as Little Red Riding Hood in the 2008 book Storybook ABCs. Elmo appears as the Big Bad Wolf's replacement.
The story was referenced twice in season 11 of Plaza Sésamo: In episode 945, Pancho and a Multimonstruo audition for the part of the Big Bad Wolf in Federico Pelini's film adaptation and in another episode where they make up their own version.
In a 2010 storybook, Big Bird plays the part of Big Red Riding Hood.
Wolf ironically dresses up as Little Red Riding Hood for a costume competition on the Eine Möhre für Zwei episode "Der Kostümwettbewerb" from 2016.
In an Ernie and Bert sketch, Ernie shows Bert his collection of Rs. One R he claims to have gotten from Little Red Riding Hood.
Wilkins plays the title role in a Wilkins Coffee commercial. Wontkins plays the part of the Big Bad Wolf, who has already eaten Red Riding Hood's grandmother. Red Riding Hood recommends some Wilkins to wash her down.
In The Muppets on Puppets, Rowlf the Dog starts out telling the story of Cinderella, which quickly turns out to have the plot of Little Red Riding Hood.
In the Muppet Babies episode "Adventures in Muppet-Sitting," Baby Piggy spoofs the fairy tale as "Little Pink Riding Hood," with her as the main character.
Dinosaurs: Classic Tales featured a parody of the story, "Little Red Riding Horn", featuring Charlene Sinclair in the title role, Ethyl Phillips as her grandmother, and B.P. Richfield as the "Wolfedon".
On The Hoobs, Iver, Groove, Tula, and Roma set up a play based on the story called "Little Pink Riding Hoob."
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Book Reviews, Books, Diverse Reads
Pride and Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev // Book Review
October 4, 2019 by Simone
If you follow me on bookstagram, then you already know that I pre-judged this book as a meh story. I was so set to give it three stars and voice my strong opinions on the writing tearing Sonali Dev a new one in my review. How PREJUDICE of me because this book turned out to be one of my favorite stories and a nice way to get out of the 3-star book slump I've been feeling lately.
Before I launch into this review, I do want to mention I read a few reviews where the readers dissect the medical stuff that takes place here. Not being a healthcare worker, I wasn't aware of those issues, but I thought I would share a couple of reviews that highlight them and share how problematic they are:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2629911370
Also do want to mention that there are discussions of sexual assault, rape, and terminal illness.
Pride and Prejudice and Other Flavors follows Trisha, a young neurosurgeon dedicating her life to helping blind people see again. She comes from a pretty prominent family of lawyers, doctors, and a brother who's running for Governor for the state of California. However, her past keeps her from living her present to its fullest potential. DJ is a chef born to cook, but comes from humble beginnings. His sister, Emma, is diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in her head wrapped around her optic nerves. Trisha will do everything in her power to save Emma's life and hopefully, her eyesight.
When Trisha finally meets DJ for the first time, at an event thrown by her parents, she's already pegged him as just the hired help. DJ's already pegged Trisha as a snotty rich girl who never had to work a day in her life. However, their prejudice against each other is the start of a relationship neither of them see coming until the very end.
Let's talk about some of the big ticket items that I loved about this book. First off, food descriptions. NOMS! I will always love a good food description and the usage of Indian food will keep you salivating while you read. Next, I loved the characters. I didn't think I would fall in love with the characters as much as I did, but they became so complex that even the secondary characters were really well written and made you want to know more about them.
As I mentioned before, the biggest flaw for me was the writing style. I'm not a fan of overwritten sentences and repetitive info. I understood quite clearly that DJ came from nothing despite the hundred times I was told that he came from nothing (OH BTW, HE CAME FROM NOTHING).
I think having the omniscient voice in this book made reading it a little bit tougher because it almost felt like the narrator knew even more than it was telling. Like it knew the name of a police officer before he's introduced and then you have to match up the fact that the person they're referring to was the police officer. It almost felt like Sonali Dev was holding herself back, trying not to write a romance novel so it's not until the end that Sonali Dev's writing felt comfortable and maybe it's because the ending felt like the ending of a romance novel.
But aside from its flaws, I told myself I wouldn't DNF. I wanted to read this book for my book club discussion and so I told myself to keep reading. Just one more chapter and if this chapter sucked, then I'll put it down. But as I kept reading, the book kept getting better and better. Suddenly, I couldn't put down the book. I needed to know what happened to DJ and Trisha and their families. I think it was at the moment when Julia Wickham is finally introduced that made me stick around to see what happened to these characters.
And I loved the characters so much. I even loved Julia Wickham! The reason why I loved them is because they were so complex. Sonali Dev can write a really great character even ones that you'll hate for the rest of your life and what I loved about her characters is that they're real.
I feel like there's a big cop out for authors to have these complex characters who's problems all go away by the final page, but I loved that everyone here stayed true to who they were even after the book was done. Real people need a lot of time to change and Sonali Dev provides them that time.
The last thing I want to talk about is the Pride and Prejudice retelling portion. When I was just starting this book, I guffawed at the fact this book didn't read at all like Pride and Prejudice. There's gender reversals (Trisha is Darcy and DJ is Elizabeth) and there was usage of the names, but I didn't see how it was a retelling.
However, when you think about the characters and how they judged each other prematurely, how they were so stubborn about changing their minds about each other, and how they slowly learned that the other person is actually a good person all brought me back to Elizabeth and Darcy and their dynamic. It's not an exact retelling, but the pieces of Pride and Prejudice are so expertly interwoven that you would love this book if you've never read Pride and Prejudice before.
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September 2019 Bookish Wrap Up
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A Conversation With Bob
INVESTING and the IRRATIONAL MIND
Rethink Risk, Outwit Optimism, and Seize Opportunities Others Miss
"Perceiving a situation seems, at first glimpse, like a remarkably simple operation. You just look and see what's around. But the operation that seems most simple is actually the most complex, it's just that most of the action takes place below the level of awareness. Looking at and perceiving the world is an active process of meaning-making that shapes and biases the rest of the decision making chain."
--David Brooks, "The Behavioral Revolution"
Shortly after the events of September 11, I left New York and returned to Chicago. I thought that I was done writing about the psychology of money forever. As the author of more than half a dozen critically acclaimed books on investing and money issues, what more did I have to say? Yet, with the global financial meltdown brought on by a new breed of traders fueled by greed, testosterone, and genius-level IQs, I once more felt the urge to enter the fray. A few years ago, who could have imagined the near demise of the financial world at the hands of traders trained as mathematicians and theoretical physicists?
It is only a recent phenomenon that the threat of "black swans" disguised as mortgage-backed securities or "quants gone wild," discussed in the news, could have been considered anything but a remote possibility. The problem was neither the disastrous effects of quantum physics and differential calculus, nor a global think tank run amok by a handful of whiz kids from Harvard, MIT, and Princeton.
What is to blame for the recent economic upheaval is our basic understanding of finance and market psychology, and those mysterious and unconscious forces-human emotions, social norms, and delusional expectations-that guide our investment decisions. In retrospect, we should have heeded Warren Buffett's warning to "beware of geeks bearing formulas" and taken into account the systematic and predictable irrationality of our brains when confronted with financial decision making.
FUNDAMENTALLY IRRATIONAL
Born out of the desire of economists going back to the eighteenth century to have their field regarded as a natural science, explanations of financial activity have traditionally been understood as fundamentally rational. In finance, people widely subscribed to the "efficient market hypothesis," first expressed by French mathematician Louis Bachelier, which holds that markets are "informationally efficient," with the prices of invested assets reflecting all publicly available information. Yet this rational model is coming increasingly under fire as eye-opening revelations provoke a deeper examination of us as market participants. The real question is whether we act in our own portfolio's best interests.
Benefiting from the latest insights in the fields of behavioral finance and neuroeconomics, today's market psychology has come a long way since the days of hard-and-fast investment axioms and reliance on pop psychology hawked by trading gurus and coaches. Today, it seems that almost anyone who has a large grant and Ivy League cred is demonstrating just how fundamentally irrational we really are-in love, in our business relationships, but especially when it comes to our pocketbooks, as this book will investigate. Studies released regularly from institutions such as Harvard, Caltech, Duke, and Berkeley note our ever-inventive expressions of herd behavior when it comes to spending our hard-earned cash and making financial decisions. For any doubters, everything from brain imagery to "theory of mind"- both of which we will discuss later-proves the point. A recent study from the University of Illinois has even shown that our brains know the market not as an orderly algebra class, but as the wild jungle.
In Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, MIT professor Dan Ariely explored how our choices in everything from occupational preferences to sex partners are derived from deep-seated emotions, misunderstood beliefs, and cultural norms that, as his title suggests, are not senseless or random, but are to be expected: inevitable and irrational. His work builds on the insights of behavioral economists and psychologists, among them several Nobel laureates: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Herbert Simon, Richard Thaler, Robert Shiller, and Andrew Lo.
In this book, which focuses on how to overcome our irrationality when managing our trading and our investment portfolios, I will explore at length this group's contributions to the field of behavioral finance and what we can learn from them, and ourselves, to become better investors.
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, his hair in two white tufts on either side of his elastic mind, once wrote, "Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded self-evident." When it comes to behavioral finance, after a long period of buffoonish laughter and academic criticism, we have now arrived at stage three. In truth, understanding the financial arena in psychological terms has been how I have always viewed markets from my earliest days trading foreign currency, interest rate, and equity futures on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Since my start in the trading pits, there always seemed to be something undeniably irrational about the markets, my fellow traders, and myself. Although I came to the exchange with little practical financial training, beyond degrees in economics, philosophy, and group behavior from Columbia University, my greatest asset was a burning need to discover what made this place thrive. What unseen forces controlled whether or not we survived in the financial jungle? My quest for competitive intelligence was often not shared by my rivals. I was more anxious to learn than they were to teach.
Today, I have the perspective of being a market veteran who has spent more than 30 years trading equities and futures, long and short term, utilizing technical and fundamental analysis, and a range of financial instruments. I have been an exchange member trading my own account, as well as a principal in a CME Group clearing firm, where I hired and managed a team of proprietary traders who were market makers in every pit of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, which today make up the CME Group, the world's largest futures exchange. I have also run, along with my business partner, Rand Financial Services' Innergame Division, which is recognized as one of the premier firms in the industry, executing trades and clearing for institutional clients with $50 million to several billion dollars under management. In New York, I was a principal in a $300 million hedge fund, where I supervised and created risk parameters for our team of proprietary traders. In addition, I have enjoyed friendships and conversations and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with top traders, hedge fund managers, and financial experts that were developed into my books, including The Inner Game of Trading, The Intuitive Trader, and Money Talks. I continue to work with traders to develop models and trading programs, and I advise others on trading strategy and risk management. In addition to all this, I've had my own ups and downs in the market.
Over time, I have learned that the stock market is a Rorschach test. The more I look, the more I see myself. The market is a mirror of complexity, inconsistency, irony, and paradox. Now, as validated by behavioral economics and neuroscience, investing is recognized as having less to do with the science of computation and more to do with the art of managing one's outlook, emotions, and consciousness. It involves invention, imagination, and know-how, and the courage to exploit the hard edge of a price chart-the action on the right-hand side that reveals the stock market's next unexpected move.
MAKE PROFITS, REDUCE LOSSES, AND GROW CAPITAL
Investing is a microcosm of life. Within it, we experience joy, uncertainty, frustration, and struggle. It requires courage, optimism, humility, and the desire to succeed. It would also be wise to refer to our army field manual on jungle survival, as at times there are predators as fierce as biting ants, spiders, and snakes. Our challenge is made all the more difficult because our decisions are under assault from our brains. As economist Richard Thaler, best known as a theorist in behavioral finance, has pointed out, we are bounded by rationality, willpower, and self-interest. We fluctuate irrationally between an aversion to losing and our own delusional optimism.
In this context, irrationality means poor decisions, systematic errors, market inefficiencies, herd behavior, and the hasty, often detrimental collective decisions of "groupthink," a mode of thinking in which the members of a group strive for unanimity by overriding their motivation to appraise alternative courses of action realistically, with the resulting loss of individual creativity, uniqueness, and independent thinking. This leads us, like lemmings, to inevitable bubbles and crashes. Our brain's hardwiring predisposes us to misconceptions of reasoning, aggravated by emotional triggers and deviations in judgment: biases, fallacies, illusions, and paradoxes. Why? Because we ache for certainty, control, and the validation that we are right.
Our minds are messy, confusing, and ambiguous, mirroring the market, which is messy, confusing, and ambiguous. Behind this paradox is our deep-seated fear of losing. Losing draws down our account and, worse, provokes thoughts of insolvency and failure. Within our repertoire of responses are denial, inaction, confusion, and anger. Loss burns into our psyches. We feel its effects in tightened muscles, sweaty palms, and shallow breaths. It makes us anxious and on edge. We can see, hear, and even taste past mistakes and visions of doom. It makes us think less of ourselves, leading us to confuse our investment decisions with our self-worth. Obviously, this is not the desired end result of investing.
Beginning with a subjective, concise history of investor psychology, I will draw on behavioral finance to explore, and then demonstrate how to apply, state-of-the-art concepts. By the end of this book, you will know how to overcome debilitating emotions, irrational biases, and investment fallacies and arrive at an understanding of overall market risk through an approach that identifies, assesses, and controls losses. It is only through the development and implementation of focused, disciplined, patient, and confident market behavior-important internal skills that have been recognized as essential for nearly as long as there have been markets-that investors from small-share traders to billiondollar hedge fund managers can make profits, reduce losses, and preserve and grow capital.
Insights from top traders, behavioral economists, risk managers, and neuroscientists further serve to illustrate the latest thinking, such as the work of Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, whom the New York Times's Paul Krugman calls "an insanely great economist, in ways you can't really appreciate unless you're deep into the field." Building on such brilliant analysis, I will ask some of the basic and provocative questions needed to arrive at an understanding of the source of market failure, relating it to the individual investor and emphasizing the persistent need for scrutiny, regulation, and oversight of our own decisions. Financial meltdown and flawed response is not a phenomenon that occurs only on the macro level.
Just as life doesn't come with instructions that, once followed, will enable you to sink baskets like Kobe Bryant or sing like Bono, in my experience knowing and working with many of the world's top traders and investors, I have come to realize there is no winning algorithm, no blueprint to explain peak performance. Unfortunately, knowing all the rules or mastering an objective system is about as far removed from the experience of optimum investing as painting by numbers is from producing a Picasso.
While it would be grievously incorrect to deny or underestimate the importance of reason or logic, as we will see, successful investing involves far more than specific analytical and strategic skills. It requires the development, cultivation, and conditioning of habits, thought patterns, and creative attitudes that influence the way we think and act in the market.
It is my goal in Investing and the Irrational Mind to answer the most fundamental question about financial decision making: how does the investor overcome habit-driven behaviors and ordinary reasoning, and move forward to achieve the psychological freedom to invest? In other words, I will reveal how we can master our irrational minds to gain the skills necessary to control our financial decisions.
Copyright © 2011 Robert Koppel. All rights reserved.
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'Train to Busan' sequel derails from beginning as zombies take a backseat to military troop gone awry
Jacqueline Chang
An artist's rendering of Gang Dong-won, who stars as Jeong-seok, an ex-South Korean soldier. The protagonist fights for his life to escape from zombies and a rogue military unit established nearby Incheon Port in "Peninsula," the long-awaited sequel to 2016's South Korean-made "Train to Busan."
Alice Lee, Staff Reporter
Earning $98.5 million worldwide, South Korea's "Train to Busan" returns four years after its initial release with a long-awaited yet disappointing sequel that features a cliche good guys vs. bad guys plot and unnecessary elements.
When director and screenwriter Yeon Sang-ho ("Psychokinesis") first took viewers into his world of virus-infected South Korean zombies and a group of passengers fighting for survival on a train to Busan (a major city known for its beaches), his themes of self-sacrifice and unconditional parental love catapulted "Train to Busan" to more than just an action-horror flick.
Unfortunately, the ride in producing the sequel took a wrong turn when the Korean Herald reported that producers would include a completely different cast without any updates on the survivors from the first film and a whole new setting — Incheon Port in northwestern South Korea, the third most populated city after No. 1 Seoul and No. 2 Busan.
It's also not a good sign when the sequel's title undergoes various changes from "Train to Busan 2" to "Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula" to just "Peninsula."
So this nearly two-hour movie flashes forward four years after "Busan" ends when what appears to be an American crime boss (Geoffrey Giuliano, "The Singapore Grip") living in Hong Kong offers Jeong-seok (Gang Dong-won, "Ilang: The Last Brigade"), his brother-in-law, Chul-min (Kim Do-yoon, "Lucky Monster"), and two other Korean refugees a job to drive a truck loaded with $20 million in cash out of the South Korean peninsula (hence the movie's title) and toward the Incheon Port, where a ship awaits to transport the four of them and the truck back to Hong Kong.
If they succeed, the team gets half of the money, and of course they accept the mission. And so we expect that this squad will be the main characters who will for the rest of the film have to overcome the zombies who are somehow still alive.
But disappointingly, that's not what happens. Half of the team face their end too soon before the audience can form an emotional attachment with any of them.
And their deaths don't necessarily just come at the hands of the zombies, either. The director's decision to introduce a rogue South Korean military unit led by the barbaric Sgt. Hwang (Kim Min-jae, "Urban Cops") and the useless Capt. Seo (Koo Gyo-hwan, "Maggie") convolutes the plot, adding more of a "Mad Max" vibe than a "Zombieland" one.
This time, "Peninsula" doubles the number of kids in the storyline compared with "Busan," and although they're cute and quite innovative when we first meet them, their survival rarely comes in doubt throughout the last half of the movie.
Furthermore, the film contains unexplained intangibles that become confusing. For example, the zombies from the first film supposedly have been left behind throughout South Korea; they cannot swim toward another country like neighboring China or Japan (zombies can "walk" but can't swim? They can jump out of tall buildings and crash through windows but can't swim?), and they do not seem to age. After four years, the world has yet to figure out how to extinguish these walking dead.
Such questions will definitely be looming in the audience's mind throughout much of this sequel.
An area that the movie's producers succeed in is the eerie darkness that pervades throughout much of the time that the team spends in Korea. Viewers from "Busan" will recall that zombies have difficulty with the darkness and the silence that naturally comes with it. So our hearts do quite beat much faster whenever certain lights go off or sounds are made as the protagonists are either trying to complete their mission or survive against these antagonists.
One fault with the lighting techniques, though, concerns the director's decision to have cars' headlights shine onto the zombies followed by a medium shot of their faces making their classic facial and hand gestures. That might work as an avenue to frighten us the first time, but it becomes annoying after watching the same thing happen a few times thereafter.
Despite the initial excitement for a sequel to an excellent zombie apocalypse film, "Peninsula" fails to live up to the hype and does not entertain viewers enough. Originally released on Aug. 12, the Korean import with English subtitles can now be seen on the big screen in Orange County theaters as COVID-19 cases have been simmering down.
As of Sept. 12, the closest movie theater to Sunny Hills that's screening "Peninsula" is Regal La Habra.
Nevertheless, viewers looking for something to do (especially since Halloween is a bit more than a month away) are better off skipping the sequel because of the poor storyline and unexplained plot points.
"Peninsula" does not have a movie rating but has occasional violence and some profanity.
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The force of the argument for the truth of Christianity drawn from a ...
By John Rotheram
ferent Exigences of the several Ages in which it was delivered, and the Measure of Support and Comfort that was necessary to be imparted to them: But He observes, that the second Purpose above-mentioned will be still farther assisted by taking in one entire View the whole Scheme of Prophecy, and that they who consider the Prophecies under the old Testament, as so many Predictions only, independent on each other, can never form a right Judgment of the Argument for the Truth of Christianity drawn from this Topic.
Now an entire View of the Prophecies may be taken in two different Lights: either succesfively, as they lie in Order of Time ; or collečtively, as they All together make up one compleat Set of Predictions relating to the same Person. These Views are manifestly distinct: The first of them is, I apprehend, chiefly to be attended to, when we speak of supporting the Faith of the Old World; as the latter of them is most subservient to the Proof of Christianity.
THAT the Prophecies of the Messiah recorded in the Old Testament are disposed in a regular and dependent Order, cannot be doubted by any one who seriously considers them: and that this Order was not fallen upon accidentally, and without Design, I think will admit of as little Dispute. The Giving Testimony to Christ's Mifion could not be the Design of Providence in disposing them in this Order. For it will
that a Set of Prophecies, if they only contained a full Description of the Messiah, would have given as
perfect an Evidence to the divine Mission of Jesus, in whatever Order they had been delivered, or delivered even without any Regard to Order, as they do when ranged in that Regularity in which they now appear,
No other Conditions could be requisite for this End than that the Prophecies should be, 1. so clear as to be easily applicable to the Meshah; 2. so numerous and particular, as to comprehend a View of the most material Actions of bis Life, and the Intention of bis Coming ; and, as to be necesarily restrained to him, and applicable to no one else. Now these Conditions might be obtained, without any Regard to the Order in which the Prophecies were delivered : and therefore the giving a more perfect Testimony to the Mission of Jesus, could not be the Design of Providence in giving that regular Arrangement to these Prophecies in which they are disposed. But then these Conditions could not both be obtained without a Regard to the second View of Prophecies which we have pointed out. For though the Prophecies might have been so plain as to be easily applicable to the Messiah (as in Fact all the Prophecies applied to him are) yet unless they did all together make up one compleat Set of Predi&tions relating to the same Person, they could not have been so numerous and particular as to comprehend a View of the most material of our Saviour's Actions, and the Intention of his Coming, nor as to be restrained to him alone, and applicable to no one else.
These Distinctions then, I apprehend, give a clear and easy Account how far Prophecies, diftinctly and independently considered, can go towards producing a perfect Testimony of the divine Mission of Jesus, and how far they must fail in doing this. We must easily see, that Prophecies, signly considered, might be so plain as to be applicable to our Saviour: but then under this View only they could go no farther. They might ftill be of such a Nature, (and in Fact many
of them are of that Nature,) as to be applicable to many more besides the Person of our Saviour. Thus that Prediction, which says the Meffiah should make his Grave with the Rich, is plainly applicable to our Lord, because it un, doubtedly happened to him ; but it happened to many more belides our Saviour, and therefore, if we consider it no otherwise than singly, the Evidence of this Prophecy is manifestly lost. It can no more, by its own single Force, prove Jesus of Nazareth to be the Messiah, than it can a Thousand others, to whom the same Thing happened in common with him. It only fets hiš Claim to that Title upon a Level with that of all those on whose Corpses, since the giving out of the Prophecy, the same distinguished Interment has been bestowed. But when we give it a Place amongst a Collection of Prophecies that were all given out concerning the same Messiah, then we see how, under this collected View, it is at once restrained, and assists in restraining others, to the Person of our Saviour ; since it can
then only be applicable to him in whom all the other. Circumstances concurred, nor can the rest be applied, but where this is also due. 'Tis true there are some of the Prophecies by their Nature more restrained. There are perhaps some of them which no one could, in strict Justice, pretend to have fulfilled but our Saviour alone. These are however far the smallest Number. Nay there are scarce any of them, which a cavilling Age would have allowed him a peaceable and incontested Right to: and, in by far the greatest Number, He would have had many Competitors. But if they fail here, much less can scattered, disjointed Predictions answer the other part of the second Condition. For it is a Contradiction, that a Prophecy of a single Event should comprehend a View of the most material Actions of the Messiah, and the Intention of his Coming. We fee how small a Part of that Evidence for the Truth of our Saviour's Mission, which Reason teaches us to expect from Prophecy, is obtainable from Prophecies singly and independently considered: and therefore how neceffary it is, in order to draw a conclusive Argument for the Truth of Christianity from this Topic, to take an entire View of the Prophecies of the Old Testament in the second Light, as they all together make up one compleat Set of Predictions relating to the same Person.
If we should attend only to one single Operation of Nature, or to one single Act of God's Dealings with his Creatures, we might perhaps
be tempted to deny a Providence. But if we take in at one comprehensive View the whole System of Nature, and run through the whole Scheme of God's Dispensations, then the Proofs of Power and Wisdom shine in so strongly upon Us, that We cannot help acknowledging the great and good Creator and Governour of the Universe. So here, when we attend only to one single Prophecy, so narrow and partial a View will at best leave the Mind clogged with great Uncertainties : but when We enlarge our View, and admit at once the whole System of Prophecies; then the Evidence for our Saviour's divine Million breaks in with a Force so irresistible as carries all Doubts before it, and pours strong Conviction and full Assurance over all the Mind.
I do not deny, but that the first View of Prophecy may contribute something towards strengthening, or at least beautifying, the Argument drawn from thence for the Truth of Christianity. For 'tis certain that the System of Prophecies cannot be ranged in a more beautiful Order than that wherein they stand. And besides ; having an Eye to the Occasions for which they were given, the Place they possess in the Series of Prophecies, and the Circumstances that attended their Delivery, cannot fail of giving Light to several particular Prophecies. There is some Reason to imagine, that our Saviour and his Difciples looked
this as the most commodious Order, in which to draw out these Prophecies, to give their Evidence to the Truth of his Mission.


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The news that Rob Halford has rejoined the legendary British metal act Judas Priest has prompted me to break out 1984's Defenders of the Faith. Some sweet stuff there, especially The Sentinel. Why is it that you have to go back to the 80s to find metal bands that actually can play guitar?
In other news, will someone at MSN please fix the router that is making it impossible for me to visit ESPN.com? I'm going into withdrawal.
UGO: What's the one thing that will convince UT2003 owners to go for UT2004?
You can bet that The Master and I will be nabbing this bad-boy as soon as it hits the shelves. Quality FPS + Linux support = A good time for A.T. Thanks Blue's News.
Release Candidate 1 for OpenOffice.org 1.1 has been released. You can see a full list of the new/improved features here. You can download a build for your OS. Thanks Linux Today.
On a related note, I'm going to start looking into the WordPerfect filter that is in development for OOo. I really would like to switch over since OOo uses a more open format for its files (a zipped-up XML file) and WordPerfect development on Linux has come to a screeching halt. I've got about 15 years worth of files in WordPerfect format so I can't just abandon them all.
The UT2K3 Troopers team has released a "demo" version of their Star Wars-themed modification for Unreal Tournament 2003. You can see a complete features list here and several download mirrors here. It weighs in a 146M, but it's apparently just a taste of what the full mod will offer. Get it while it's hot (or before it's Foxed). Thanks Blue's News.
If you are running a dedicated server, add -nohomedir to the end of that command. Unfortunately, I must say that my initial impressions of the mod are not favorable. I played a Rebel and if I get hit twice by a Stormtrooper, I'm dead. If I accidentally fall into some water, there seems to be no way to swim. You drown very quickly. I'll read up on it a bit more and report back later.


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Home/Fairy Encounters, Fairy Magic/Can Fairies Really Grant Wishes?
Since we had an interesting question related to fairy wishes posted on our chat this week by Fallon ( I think that was the name, there was more than one name used), my daughter, and Real Fairies team member, Katie stepped in to answer it after conferring with Mr E.
To Fallon and all the others that weighed in on this question, I hope you find the answer helpful. I enjoyed reading the ongoing conversation on this topic, thank you to all who participated.
Recently we were asked an interesting question: Do wishes (as in the common fictional types) exist in this universe and if so what type of fae can actually grant it?
For example, if I wanted to wish something outrageous like the portal gun from the game Portal, or for something that has never been into existence, can it possibly come into reality? Is that kind of wish possible?
The truth is, there are many powerful beings (including dragons) in the fairy realm that are undoubtedly capable of doing just what the questioner asked. However, for the most part, they would not be inclined to grant that or any other type of wish.
First of all, doing so may unbalance an already precariously balanced world. Power or energy needs balance and they would never risk disturbing that balance for something that was not of grave importance. Secondly, granting such a wish is usually not in the best interest of the person who made the wish.
This question immediately brought to mind a type of being known as Jinn. These, we are told, are powerful magical beings that are known for their ability to instantly manifest anything into this reality.
Mr E tells us that, when released from their bottle (where they probably deserved to be), they can grant the one that released them some wishes. But, there is a dark side to this story because, once they are freed, Jinns often become a negative force in the universe. Unfortunately, those that freed them could easily become their first victim because there's always a reason the jinn came to be contained in the first place. It seems likely that a powerful wizard with the good intentions imprisoned him there to prevent whatever negative plans he had in store for the world.
This is the story of the devil's bargain. By asking an entity that doesn't have your best interest in mind for a favor, you could end up trading your self-worth, become indebted, and lose your power. There are no free rides in the universe. You can't merely ask for money, confidence, or whatever you are wishing for and have it be magically bestowed upon you. Beings that can quickly offer you those things, whether it is a genie or another negative entity, do so with the expectation that they will be able to take advantage of you in the end.
With that said, much of the material we have been given from the elves has been provided with the intention of teaching us how to have happier, more empowered and magical lives. In the new year, we are looking forward to adding classes so that we can share how the elves live their lives magically with simplicity and intent. Beings like the elves are open to sharing their wisdom and support, but after giving us their knowledge, it is our job to put it into practice and create the lives we want.
Throughout many of our interviews for the book, the common consensus between every being in the fairy realm is that most of humanity is disconnected from the earth, their source of power and each other. Most people don't have a clear idea about what they want in life, which is the foundation of any goal. What is it you are wishing for? After you have a clear idea of what you want, then you can create a plan to bring it into being. With dedication, intent, and knowledge, anything is possible!
So, as it turns out, many fae-kind are probably quite capable of granting wishes. Speaking from what we know about them to be true, it makes sense that they would not want to. The idea that you can catch a pixie in a jar, and make it do your bidding comes from the glamorized Disney version of the fairy realm where fairies are dainty, docile little people. We strongly reject that stereotype. Each being that we have met has their own life and personality. While they would want to support you and wish you well, only you have the power to create your destiny.
I agree what you said at the last part, using within your power to creating the destiny you want. That being said, I'm actually lost on what my role is on this planet. I'm sure I'll somehow find it… before I become too old!
Is it possible for a human to transform into a Winged Fairy? If so, what is the process to enact the change and is it permanent? Is the transformed Fairy still human size? Can they change their size at will? Can they fly? Does one who is transformed able to continue to live in the human world and appear human to other humans? Will the person who is transformed interact with other Fairies? Can they perform magic? Are they allowed into the Fae world? What happens to their soul? I know this is a lot of questions but they are all related.
This was a great way to answer my question, really appreciate it. I have so many more interesting questions that I hope to share in the future.
Can I borrow a little stream of singing oak from fairy realm?
Sorry Lukasz, I don't know what singing oak is.


The Scottish Government today (Friday, 1 February) announced a consultation which proposes some welcome changes to the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006. Among the measures, the consultation will look at increasing the maximum prison sentence for the most serious cases of animal cruelty from one year to five years imprisonment. Currently, at just 12 months, Scotland has among the lowest animal cruelty sentences in Europe.
Battersea has been campaigning to see the maximum prison sentence for the most shocking animal cruelty offences raised from one year to five years since 2017.
"Battersea welcomes today's decision by the Scottish Government to launch a consultation on animal health and welfare. We're particularly pleased it includes the prospect of raising prison sentences for the most horrific cases of animal cruelty to five years. Animal abuse knows no boundaries but Battersea is cautiously optimistic that there's the political will in Scotland now to get tough on abusers once and for all and make the punishment fit the crime.


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A Wearable Haptic Device Based on Twisting Wire Actuators for Feedback of Tactile Pressure Information
M. Reza Motamedi, David Florant, and Vincent Duchaine
Control and Robotics Laboratory (CoRo), Department of Automated Manufacturing Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) 1100 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Montreal H3C 1K3, Canada
wire actuator, haptics, grasping force, touch sensitivity, static modality
A wearable haptic device
This paper presents a novel wearable haptic device that provides the user with knowledge of a vertical force, measured at the fingertips, by applying pressure at three different locations on the user's body. Human prehension and manipulation abilities rely on the ability to convert tactile information into controlled actions, such as the regulation of gripping force. Current upper-limb prosthetics are able to partially replicate the mechanical functions of the human hand, but most do not provide any sensory information to the user. This greatly affects amputees, as they must rely solely on their vision to perform grasping actions. Our device uses a twisted wire actuator to convert rotational motion into linear displacement, which allows the device to remain compact and light-weight. In the past, the main shortcoming of this type of actuator was its limited linear range of motion; but with a slight modification of the principle, we have extended our actuator's linear range of motion by 40%. In this paper, we present the design of our haptic device, the kinematic and dynamic modelling of the actuator, and the results of the experiments that were used to validate the system's functionality.
M. Reza Motamedi, David Florant, and Vincent Duchaine, "A Wearable Haptic Device Based on Twisting Wire Actuators for Feedback of Tactile Pressure Information," J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.27, No.4, pp. 419-429, 2015.
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Augustana softball has kicked off their season, playing 10 games in Florida during spring break and two more against UW-Platteville in a dome-doubleheader in Loves Park, Illinois. They won eight out of the ten Florida games, bringing their record so far this season to 9-3.
This fast start is a great sign for the team, who are looking to improve upon their 22-16 record from last season, on top of going 7-9 in conference.
Leading the team is seven seniors, including pitcher Kelcie Fredrickson and catcher Marissa Catalano. Catalano talked about the takeaways from their success in Florida.
"Obviously going 8-2 was a huge plus, but an even bigger one was being able to get on dirt and put together what we've been practicing," Catalano said. "We were able to see different situations, move people around, sub people in, and see where our pitching staff is at. A major positive was the freshmen class stepping up and filling some roles needed on varsity both pitching wise and offensively."
Even with the success, Catalano was clear that there still is room to improve.
"The games we did lose were winnable games and we just fell flat," Catalano said. "Moving forward, we have to keep in mind fourteen innings, two games, is the goal, not seven innings or one game. We want two wins each day, no more splits."
Both seniors made it apparent that this year's freshman look to be special and are going to play a role in the team's success this year. Referring back to last season, the improvements Fredrickson wanted to see echoed Catalano's negative takeaways from the Florida trip.
"We almost never showed up for both games. The first game was almost a 'warm-up.' We need to play ball for all six hours, competing for all six hours," Fredrickson said.
Fredrickson also talked about how the seniors plan on getting the underclassmen to buy in to this mentality.
"Among the seniors, we want to take control, set a good example and lead by example. We want to make sure the other underclassmen see the effort we are putting in everyday. And on top of our head coach, we want to be coaches for our own individual positions," Fredrickson said.
These improvements, mental and physical, begin in practice and Catalano talked about the team's focus in these practices preparing for upcoming conference games.
"The main things being worked on in practice is situations both defensively and offensively. Working on having different counts and different goals at bat. On the other end, pitchers and catchers working on what pitches to call at what locations for certain types of hitters," Catalano said. "Moving into conference, our goal is to be sharp and confident. Making those split decision calls more of a habit and just keeping the cohesiveness increasing."
The team is feeling good about the upcoming games, ready for the weather to allow them to display all the things they are working on. Four games this season have been canceled due to weather, but it's only making them hungrier.
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The devil is something and he tricked me..
I was tested and mostly I failed! Failed to see what was really happening. The devil is something and he tricked me…into getting upset (again). I LET him steal my peace. NOW, I'm on guard.
My hubby & I recently attended a series of marriage enrichment sessions. To give props it is called "Laugh Your Way to a better Marriage". At the last session, a point regarding household chores was brought up in the small group discussion. Specifically laundry and why when we (wives) do it, they (husbands) don't put theirs away. Some of the ladies leave it at the bottom of the stairs, some in the middle of the room. I leave it in the laundry room in a basket.
For some of you, right now would be a really good time to breathe and stop shouting expletives at my husband.
I thought my head would EXPLODE! WHAT?! I'M LEAVING MY TASK UNFINISHED?!!! I could hardly string two coherent words together – which was good, because some very unloving and unkind things would have come out of my mouth!
Who controls my feelings? ME – not my husband or the stupid things he says, not the devil who is always trying to cause strife.
We had to leave to pick up out youngest, I was pretty much mute the whole time. I did say that I would no longer leave my "tasks" unfinished (what I did not say was, that was because I would NEVER do his laundry again)! I also said it would be fine if he just mowed 1/3 of the lawn and did not bother to do anything for anyone else. I can be fluent in sarcasm sometimes – I wanted him to see how absurd I thought he sounded. Also my statement was pretty passive aggressive and not loving – I'm a work in progress!
After we were quiet for about 15 minutes he said, "Aren't you going to talk to me at all?" I replied, "I don't want to say something hurtful, something I'll regret".
His response……."Oh, that's real nice. You are making a big deal out of this and I was only JOKING. But you lost it".
I'm not sure if he was joking or figured he better start back pedaling – either way I was NOT happy with him.
His retort was I'm thinking about my answer because I don't want to say anything I might regret – hmmm – passive aggressive at its finest.
I told him I was glad he was considering his words and appreciated the fact that he did not want to hurt me. I really did mean it – I wasn't falling back in to sarcasm mode.
In the past I would have blown-up, said ugly things and stayed angry for a long time. This time, I mostly kept my mouth in check & I realized, after about an hour, that the devil was having a heyday!
19a "Now it's time to change your ways! Turn to face God so he can wipe away your sins, pour out showers of blessing to refresh you.
Where was God? He was there calling me to be quiet, calling me to be love. Giving me free will to behave in a way that honors him or NOT.
While I'm sorry I didn't do the right thing right away, I'm glad I'm not who I once was. I'm glad I can "see" what's happening.
21 My son, let them not escape from your sight, but keep sound and godly Wisdom and discretion, 22 And they will be life to your inner self, and a gracious ornament to your neck (your outer self).
#1 Seek peace not strife!
#2 It is not EASY, if it was everyone would do it!
#3 Do it anyway, easy is so overrated!


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Wright thrilled to rejoin Seahawks after setback in rehab
Tim Booth
RENTON — When he first underwent knee surgery in mid-August, K.J. Wright targeted the Seattle Seahawks' Week 3 game against Dallas for his return.
It made sense. The procedure was relatively minor and the amount of recovery time should have been sufficient for Wright to be able to play at least some against the Cowboys.
"I was running within two weeks," Wright said. "But I think I went a bit too hard."
It's now Week 8 and Wright is finally set to make his season debut when the Seahawks travel to Detroit on Sunday. A month later than he expected, Wright's return should help solidify a position that's used four different players through Seattle's first six games.
If Wright can play at the level he has for most of his career, his return is a major boost for a defense that has held three of its last four opponents to less than 20 points, including a 27-3 rout of Oakland in Seattle's last game.
"We've been playing together for seven years, so we have a communication that can't be replicated," linebacker Bobby Wagner said. "He makes plays and he's going to make adjustments and things of that nature. I'm extremely excited to have him back. I think the last time you saw him, he was making big hits and all that stuff, so that's what I'm expecting from him."
Wright said it was a very simple movement that led to his injury during pregame warmups before Seattle faced Minnesota in the third preseason game. Wright said he was doing a shuffle move when his leg gave out momentarily. He didn't really think much of it and went on to play in the game without any problems.
It was afterward, when he told trainers his knee was a little sore, that concerns started to grow. Wright initially balked when told he needed to undergo an MRI, but soon learned the concerns were justified.
"I was like, 'I don't need the MRI,' but once they showed what happened, it showed that it was messed up and I had to get it repaired," Wright said.
The Seahawks tried four players to fill in for Wright. They started rookie Shaquem Griffin in the opener against Denver, but it was obvious Griffin wasn't ready for the role. Seattle signed Mychal Kendricks, but he lasted only three games before being indefinitely suspended by the league for his guilty plea on federal insider trading charges. Austin Calitro also got a look, but the most promising option may have been Barkevious Mingo.
Signed by Seattle to play strongside linebacker and rush the quarterback in passing situations, Mingo showed a knack for playing behind the line of scrimmage and covering in space.
"It's a tremendous boost for him in his career, too, to be able to play behind the line of scrimmage as he grows to do that," coach Pete Carroll said. "It really will help him. I don't think anybody's seen him do that very much and (we're) surprised that it's come so easy to him, but we'll continue to work on with it."
The emergence of others at weakside linebacker and the time missed with injury has heightened questions about Wright's long-term future in Seattle. He's in the final year of his current contract and Wright said not having future security crossed his mind briefly in the immediate aftermath of his surgery.
"When I got hurt it did cross my mind like, 'Damn, this is the worst timing,'" Wright said. "But when you get hurt and you miss some ball, all you care about is football, and the contract stuff will handle itself. I just want to play. The money is the money — whatever. I just want to play ball, be out there with my guys, and just do what I love."