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William Sibley Memorial Award for Japanese Translation 2017
Asian Studies, Languages, Linguistics, Translation Studies, Writing
William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award
The William F. Sibley Memorial Translation Prize was first established by the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and the Committee on Japanese Studies of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago in honor of their late colleague William F. Sibley. Sibley was Associate Professor Emeritus in East Asian Languages & Civilizations and a scholar and translator of Japanese literature. He is best known for his work, The Shiga Hero, first published in 1979 by the University of Chicago Press, which introduced Western readers to the fiction of Shiga Naoya, one of Japan's foremost modern writers. To view the William F. Sibley Memorial Translation Prize award-winning translations from 2010 to 2014, please visit the CEAS website.
In AY 2016-2017, the Sibley Prize was renamed The William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation. It is an annual competition coordinated by the Committee on Japanese Studies of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago (CEAS). In keeping with Sibley's lifelong devotion to translation and to the place of literature in the classroom, up to $3,000 will be given each year as a publishing subvention for translations of Japanese literature into English.
Eligible translations include, but are not limited to, poetry, fiction, short stories, compositions, literary criticism, and essays. New translations of works previously translated are acceptable.
Subvention funds will be paid directly to publishers. Nominations will only be accepted from presses that have previously published Japanese literature in translation. Materials submitted by individual authors and translators will not be accepted.
Author and publisher must agree to acknowledge the publishing subvention as "a William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation from the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies Committee on Japanese Studies" in the acknowledgment section of the book. Publisher will also provide 3 copies of the final published book to CEAS so copies can be shared with the Sibley family.
Required Nomination Documents:
A completed Cover Sheet. (Download PDF)
A description of the proposed publication and its potential impact on the field of Japanese literature (MSWord or PDF format, 2-page maximum). Descriptions should situate the work for the general reader, helping them understand why they should care about the translated work. If applicable, descriptions should cite any prior translations and provide a rationale for the new rendition.
A PDF copy of the draft manuscript of the publication.
A basic budget and explanation of how the subvention would specifically be utilized (MSWord, MSExcel or PDF format).
DEADLINE: Nominations must be submitted to eastasia@uchicago.edu
by April 1, 2017.
For more information please click "Further Official Information" below.
Awards, Online, Publications
International South Asian Studies Summer School, 19 – 25 August 2019, Lithuania
Postdoctoral Fellowship East Asian Environment 2019, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Fellowship Program 2019, France and etherlands
Visiting Fellowship Program at Houghton Library in Harvard University 2019-2021, USA
Leiden University Scholarships for Execellent Non-EEA Students 2019-2020, Netherlands


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Ивановка — деревня в Татарском районе Новосибирской области. Входит в состав Новопокровского сельсовета.

География
Площадь деревни — 35 гектаров.

Население

Инфраструктура
В деревне по данным на 2007 год функционируют 1 учреждение здравоохранения и 1 учреждение образования.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Татарского района

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Hey this is my favorite Theme. Thanks Klaartje wonderful. Here is my arch. Thanks for looking.
gosh what a challenge…. i used 'trash' to make my background rather than adding any elements…. used stale bread, yoghurt pot, used tea bag and an old net for putting washing tablets into.
Great idea! here's my arch!
Great challenge Klaartje! here is mine.
Thank you, this was fun! I will be back to look at all the arches during the week!
This is a terrific theme! Here's my arch.
This is my entry Using trash !
My entry for this week, using trash on Gothic Arches.
What a fun theme, Klaartje!
Here is my collage of trash!
i'm very happy with this theme!! thank you!!!
Great fun!!! I have lots of trash in my studio, so this was a no brainer.
Here's mine! I don't have a lot of room to keep a lot of trash, it usually goes out immediately, but I found this. Great challenge.
I loved this challenge so much I did 2!!!
Hi, I just stumbled across your great site and was wondering if anybody can join in ? Looks like fun!
and you don't have to read the long post unless you want to.
Yes, anyone can join in! Come on in and have a go – you will become addicted like me!
I have been wanting to do the weekly challenges for awhile,now that I have a blog I thought I would try to start with this one.
I have been wanting to do the gothic arch challenges for awhile,and now that I have a blog I thought I would start with this weeks arch of using Trash.
My arches are posted – I missed last week with an incrediable cold. It is good to feel better once again. I moved to a new blog just for a refreshing change with the coming of spring. Spring comes very late to Upstate, New York and I miss the warmth of the sun !!!
My "Using Trash" gothic arch-thank you!
j'espère qu'il est encore temps !
voici mon arche pour cette semaine !
je me suis régalée avec cette idée tellement originale !
Here is my Trash Art, at the very last minute!


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From Awe-Inspiring Murals to White Walls in Local Schools
EditorialOpinion October 10, 2019 / 6:00 AM October 9, 2019
Katie Fernstrom's mural, "Underwater Alaska," before it was painted over at Hilltop Elementary School in Canfield. Photo courtesy of Katie Fernstrom.
Students at Hilltop Elementary School in Canfield looked forward to the day they entered second grade so they could walk through the hall with the infamous large oceanic mural titled "Underwater Alaska."
Katie Fernstrom, a Canfield High School and Youngstown State University graduate, created the mural in the summer of 2013, spending countless hours and using gallons of paint to make detailed sea lions and orcas.
But all that is left of the mural is a white wall and a photo of the creation on Fernstrom's Facebook profile that reads, "Rest in Peace."'
Something so beautiful and intricate was gone overnight because of the administration's poor decision.
"No longer will the children in that school be able to look up at this painting with awe-inspired faces. No longer will classroom after classroom take pictures with it or run their hands along the wall, as if they could swim along with the animals I painted," she said in a Facebook post.
Fernstrom was unaware the mural would be painted over until the deed was done. Despite every hour spent on this creation, a memory is the only thing left for those who were greeted by it walking through the hall every day.
But this isn't the first time the Mahoning Valley has suffered the loss of talented artists' murals in schools.
Howland High School was full of various murals students painted, each with their own theme. From Super Mario Bros. to a recreation of "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dalí, the creations caught the eyes of students until those too were wrongly painted over.
Aubrey Adams, a Howland High School graduate, said a piece of Howland was lost after the riddance of the murals.
"Painting over all of them happened my senior year [March 2019], which was the year I planned on creating one," she said. "I know the school attempted to preserve the murals by creating a collage of photos of every one, but it wasn't until they were all painted over that [students] realized they missed a few."
Adams believed it was the best feature of the high school, as visiting students and parents from other districts always complimented the artists' work.
"I did personally know quite a few students who created them, some as early as two years ago, which can even be more frustrating considering how new the [murals were,]" she said. "Most were dated, and you were able to see how far back some murals were made, such as the 1980s."
Just as academics are crucial to shaping the minds of students, the arts are equally important.
From a young age, students learn from oversized books that crowd their bookbags, but creating art gives a moment of expression. Art is how we say who we are.
A white wall where these intricate murals once stood does not say anything. All it says is that administrations are OK with erasing the work an artist can never recreate the exact same way again.
It is also disappointing to see schools with developed band, art and theater programs behave this way. If a school claims to be a strong advocate of the arts through these programs, what message is sent when erasing art that the school wanted in the first place?

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ADMIRAL SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL Streaming New Album Check 'em Before You Wreck 'em at Metal Injection
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New Album Available April 15th on
Rise Above Records in North America
ADMIRAL SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL are the last of a dying breed of Grease Rock Bastard musicians who somehow, despite and in spite of the last 3 decades trying their best to kill off balls out, non-bullshit rock'n'roll music, somehow, against all the fucking odds, still exist, surviving on a steady diet of God sent gigs, hire vans, broken down amps, split drum skins, greasy spoon fry ups, patched up jeans, roll-ups, cheap leather jackets, booze, weed and bathtub speed.
The new album Check 'em Before You Wreck 'em will be released tomorrow in North America via Rise Above Records. Metal Injection is hosting a stream of the entire album. Listen to all of Check 'em Before You Wreck 'em HERE.
The band's video for the song "The Thicker The Better" can be viewed HERE.
Facts to face – the SHOVELL are named after a 17th century English naval commander; Bill Darlington plays drums, Louis Comfort-Wiggett plays bass and Johnny Gorilla plays guitar and sings, they have been together as a band since 2008
They've toured and played with the likes of Orange Goblin, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Incredible Hog, Gentlemans Pistols, Graveyard, Gonga and countless more, toured Europe and had chief Groundhog Tony McPhee playing on their first LP!
On their new LP Check 'em Before You Wreck 'em the SHOVELL somehow carry on the lineage of the truly golden age of British heavy rock whose dog shit stained road was paved by the likes of Budgie, Sabbath, early Motorhead, Quo, Lizzy, The Groundhogs, Stray etc. Chuck in a healthy chunk of U.S. and Aussie proto metallurgists Sir Lord Baltimore, Dust, Bang, The Litter and Buffalo, as well as a healthy Vertigo 'Swirl' of dew picked mushrooms bad trip psych.
The SHOVELL thinks the world could do with another slice of no-nonsense re-gressive proto-rock 'n'metal – one that you don't need a Degree in doom-rock or a Masters in metal to appreciate – just a love of when music was
F U N!!!
Remember kids – CHECK 'EM BEFORE YOU WRECK 'EM!!!
Check 'em Before You Wreck 'em Track Listing:
1. Do It Now
2. 2 Tonne F*ckboot
3. Captain Merryweather
4. Running From Home
5. Happiness Begins
6. Shaker Your Head
7. Don't Hear It … Fear It!
8. Bulletproof
9. The Thicker The Better
10. Late Night Mornings
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EXODUS Announce Intimate Performance At San Diego Comic-Con 2019
July 1, 2019 Turbo
Metal and comics will once again come together as one at the 50th anniversary of San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC) with a special live performance from Bay Area thrash metal legends, EXODUS! The intimate event, coined Bonded By Con, will commence on Thursday, July 18 at the House of Blues. Tickets are on sale now! Vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza comments, "It's our honor […]
I SEE STARS STREAM NEW SONG "RUNNING WITH SCISSORS" WITH 360° VIDEO
May 16, 2016 Turbo
Treehouse album cover I See Stars, who will be previewing music from Treehouse (June 17, Sumerian Records) when they play the Warped Tour this summer, stream new song "Running With Scissors" with a 360° video: https://youtu.be/600kX4ZBzyE. "Running With Scissors" 360° video: https://youtu.be/600kX4ZBzyE Treehouse pre-orders are also available now, with physical […]
KOBRA AND THE LOTUS Sign Worldwide Deal With Napalm Records
Canadian Hard Rockers, KOBRA AND THE LOTUS have signed a worldwide deal with Napalm Records. Their fourth album and Napalm Records debut Prevail I + II will be released as two separate volumes of a double album. The first part will be released in February 2017 with the second part to follow in October of […]
WHITECHAPEL Premiere Lyric Video For Title Track Our Endless War on Artist Direct
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Q: Share validations across models with rails 4 There are other questions pertaining to this, but they all seems to be < Rails 4, and what's more, they're not too detailed!
They all talk about creating a module to share these common validations in:
require 'active_record'
module ContactValidations
  def self.included(base_class)
    base_class.class_eval do
      include ContactValidations::InstanceMethods
      # model validations
      validates_presence_of(:name, :message => 'You must provide a company name.')
      validates_presence_of(:street, :message => 'You must provide a company street.')
      validates_presence_of(:city, :message => 'You must provide a company city.')
      validates_presence_of(:post_code, :message => 'You must provide a company post code.')

      validates_numericality_of(:telephone, :on => :create, :message => 'Telephone should be a number with no spaces.', :if => :telephone_given?)
      validates_numericality_of(:area_code, :on => :create, :message => 'Telephone area code should be a number with no spaces.', :if => :area_code_given?)

      validates_numericality_of(:fax, :on => :create, :message => 'Fax should be a number with no spaces.', :if => :fax_given?)

      validates_numericality_of(:fax_area_code, :on => :create, :message => 'Fax area code should be a number with no spaces.', :if => :fax_area_code_given?)

      validates_format_of(:web, :with => /^((http)?:\/\/)?(www\.)?([a-zA-Z0-9]+)(.[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,3})(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,3})$/, :on => :create, :message => 'Web address is invalid. Example: http://www.domain or http://domain.', :if => :web_given?)

      validates_format_of(:email, :with => /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$/, :on => :create, :message => 'Th email address given is invalid.', :if => :email_given?)

      validates_uniqueness_of(:email, :message => 'This email is already given.')
    end
  end

  module InstanceMethods
    def telephone_given?
      !telephone.blank?
    end

    def fax_given?
      !fax.blank?
    end
    def web_given?
      !web.blank?
    end
    def email_given?
      !email.blank?
    end
    def area_code_given?
      !area_code.blank?
    end
    def fax_area_code_given?
      !fax_area_code.blank?
    end

  end
end

But I for one have no idea where such a file should be saved. In the lib directory? All files in the lib directory are included, seems a bit wasteful for a module I only want to be included in a two or three models...

*

*Does Rails 4 have an inbuilt way to share validations?

*If not, where should I save my custom module?

*And just to be super clear, how should I require this module in the models that need to include these validations?

A: Create the module in app/models/concerns, then include them in your classes with:
include ContactValidations

In this way Rails will automatically load the shared modules and make them available for you to include.

A: you should also have a look at validates_with
https://api.rubyonrails.org/v6.0.3.3/classes/ActiveModel/Validations/ClassMethods.html#method-i-validates_with

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Q: how do I change a Ultra High voltage AC currents frequency? I am currently making a theoretical tabletop particle accelerator. and i need the materials in the accelorator to be resonating together at a set frequency (Whcih I can change to test speicific theories)
The key is High voltage. ---
The secondary requirement is AC current ---
The third is the frequency
I can step up household AC via a transformer up to 300KV AC
Since transformers are tuned typically at a set frequency I cant change the frequency before I step up the voltage , I have to do it afterwards
NOTE: the frequency needs to be changeable so that the different ferromagnetic/parametric and diamagnetic materials i am using have their own fundamental harmonic frequencies and what i am attempting to do is match 2 different materials fundamental frequencies be picking a higher frequency that resonates with both materials used.
Ok with that all explained - How do I change a Ultra High Voltage AC's frequency ...
Other materials lets say one is 15hz and the other is 20hz would resonate both at AC frequency 60hz...
Im testing a lot of materials . One of the most common frequency for a few materials is 85-90 Hz . Some higher frequencies are 300-340hz, lowest would be 10hz

A: Mechanically drive a DC generator with a motor.
Excite the DC generator with your 10-350 hz AC.
Send the output through a variac to your HV transformer.
Vary your frequency with your exciter.
Vary your HV with a variac between the generator output and your HV transformer.
Generator output frequency should be independent of mechanical speed.
Be careful as insulators breakdown with higher voltages and higher frequencies can conduct through capacities.


This is just to poll some opinion regarding rounded corners in the Graphene theme. Jeffrey (the other developer) suggested that we remove the rounded corners completely from the widget title and the block buttons in the theme (see this issue). What are your thoughts on this? Do you like the rounded corners or can't wait to be rid of it? Do let us know.
Personally, I MUCH prefer the rounded corners. I think you two have done an excellent job with making sure it's not TOO much of a roundness. It's quite subtle, and just enough to make it stand out from the background.
If you were to change them to non-rounded… I would be among the first to go into my child theme and add them back.
Also, I think it's much easier to make css adjustments to remove the rounded corner than it is to add them. Especially if you are using cross-browser support in the css when designing the rounded corners.
I have experimented with my css, rounding various corners here and there, and making them more or less rounded… and I always end up coming back to the way the theme default is made. I think it's really perfect the way it is.
In my personal opinion I prefer straight corners. It's a sleek design, and a great idea but for me its not ideal. Maybe you can implement in the Graphene options able to turn on and off the options of rounded corners instead of having to manipulate every CSS with round corners back to none.
But all in all its a nice touch, it fits the theme perfectly!
First, Graphene is an amazing theme. It's amazingly flexible and the ability to add widget areas everywhere currently outweighs any issues.
On some sites I would like to have rounded corners on most elements. Not everything but certainly content items like post boxes and widgets.
On other sites I would like to go the other route and use rare rounded corners as a graphic highlight.
There's no good answer to this I think. It will depend on the goal of the website content.
In a dream world, I'd like to be able to choose rounded or square as options for elements. Including the menu/navigation bar, footers, etc. I'm testing what will be a very graphically oriented site now with Graphene to see if I can get it to work visually, and rounded content would be ideal.
Also semi-transparent backgrounds would be great.
Personally I don't like the way WP widgets use a "title" area at the top of widgets. It has a really clunky feel. Assuming all widgets (which have many purposes) would require the same style of header, or any header at all, seems crude in the contemporary web.
Lately I've been using layouts which don't have borders around widgets at all, so a header on each would look really awkward.
The buttons I think are best with rounded corners. In a conservative layout it highlights them as a call to action, and in a more graphically oriented layout it helps them fit in smoothly.
I notice that the boxes on this page are rounded and look very clean.
I'm not enough of a code-head to know how to add or remove corners in CSS, but I need to look into it.
My only suggestion for a definite alteration I would make, would be that the widget headers and continue buttons could be smaller. Continue button just overall not so big. Widget headers maybe 30% shorter.
In a dream world, I'd like to be able to choose rounded or square as options for elements.
Don't forget, you can always create rounded corners yourself… on any element… by using a small bit of custom css.
Personally I don't like the way WP widgets use a "title" area at the top of widgets.
It's not mandatory that you enter a title. Go ahead and try creating a new text widget but leave the title blank. Insert some text into the field area, and check it out on your front page.
You're right, that's a great function. I found rounding css in another post thread just a few minutes later. I was thinking of radio buttons for code-idiots like me though, I'm still trying to identify what css bits are needed. For example the slider seems to have several components that all need to be adjusted, but first I need to find them.
I had noticed that on text widgets and use them a lot for that reason, but others like the one listing pages, insists on a title.
Oddly, the widget title is the way WP makes inactive-with-saved-settings widgets identifiable in the widget manager. But if you don't want titles, then you have a lot of stored text widgets that all look the same. Alternately you have to add titles and remove them again as you store or activate widgets. Just another really clunky thing.
However it beats writing code myself.
I should note that, in my case, I'me trying to develop a couple of template set-ups so that I don't have to do a lot of tweaking every time I add a site. Efficiency is key for me, the less time a set-up takes to start, the better.


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Can Humans Get Parvo From Cats?
Writing by howdy | Last Updated On: October 19, 2022
No, humans cannot get parvo from cats. Parvovirus is a highly contagious virus that primarily affects dogs. It is spread through contact with an infected animal's feces, and can be deadly in puppies.
While there have been cases of cats contracting parvo, it is very rare and not considered a threat to people.
There are a lot of myths and misconceptions out there about Parvo, and one of the most common is that humans can get this disease from their cats. The truth is, Parvo is a virus that primarily affects dogs, and while it can be deadly for them, it cannot be transmitted to humans. So if you're worried about your pet getting sick, you can rest assured knowing that they cannot give you Parvo.
Can Cat Parvo Transfer to Humans?
Can cat parvo transfer to humans? No, cat parvovirus cannot infect humans. This virus is species-specific and only affects cats.
It is not related to the human parvovirus, which is a completely different virus altogether. So, even if you are exposed to a cat with parvo, you will not catch the virus yourself.
Can Humans Get Parvo from Pets?
No, humans cannot get parvo from pets. Parvovirus is a virus that infects dogs and can be deadly. It is not known to infect any other species of animals, including humans.
The virus is spread through contact with infected feces and usually affects puppies who are not yet vaccinated against it. Symptoms of parvovirus include vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, and lethargy. If you think your dog may have parvovirus, take them to the vet immediately.
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Can Cats Give Parvo?
No, cats cannot give parvo to other animals or people. Parvovirus is a highly contagious virus that affects dogs and can be deadly. There is no known cure for parvo, so prevention is key.
Vaccinating your dog is the best way to protect them from this potentially fatal virus.
Can Cats Get Parvo from Dogs
No, cats cannot get parvo from dogs. Parvovirus is a virus that specifically infects dogs and does not affect cats. However, since both cats and dogs can contract other types of viruses, it is important to keep them separate to prevent the spread of disease.
How Long Can Parvo Live on Human Skin
Parvo is a highly contagious virus that can live on human skin for up to 48 hours. It is most commonly spread through contact with infected dogs, but can also be spread through contaminated food, water, or surfaces. The virus can cause severe gastrointestinal illness in people, and is particularly dangerous for young children and the elderly.
There is no specific treatment for parvo, and it can often be fatal. The best way to prevent the spread of the virus is to practice good hygiene and avoid contact with infected animals or their feces.
What are the Symptoms of Parvo in Humans
There is no known human case of parvovirus infection. However, because the virus is so closely related to other viruses that do infect humans, it is possible that a person could become infected with the virus. The symptoms of parvo in humans would likely be similar to those seen in other viruses, such as fever, diarrhea, and vomiting.
If you think you may have been exposed to the virus, it is important to see a doctor immediately for treatment.
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How Do Dogs Get Parvo
Parvo is a highly contagious virus that can infect dogs of all ages, though puppies are most susceptible. The virus is spread through contact with infected feces, and can live in the environment for months. Clinical signs of parvo include vomiting, diarrhea (often bloody), lethargy, and loss of appetite.
If your dog is showing any of these signs, please see your veterinarian immediately as treatment is critical.
According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, there is no evidence that humans can get parvovirus from cats. Parvovirus is a highly contagious virus that affects dogs, and can be deadly. There is a vaccine available for dogs, but there is no known cure.
The virus is spread through contact with infected feces, and can live in the environment for months. If you think your dog may have parvovirus, it is important to see a veterinarian immediately.
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We're done in by the passive voice
by Tim Curran
It's nothing new for editors and journalism teachers to inveigh against the use of the passive voice in newswriting. In fact, that's an understatement. Such exhortations are commonplace, trite, and boring; they're the first chapter in every writing guide. And still, the passive voice is everywhere in news copy. I fix a dozen passive voice sentences a day in copy from our stringers, writers and wire services, and still some get by me. So here is my brief harangue on the subject.
First, a definition. The passive voice is a verb form in which the subject of the sentence is the thing being acted upon, instead of the thing doing the acting.
John's ice cream is being eaten.
Sally is eating John's ice cream.
As these examples demonstrate, there are two basic problems with the passive voice in newswriting (or really, in any kind of writing).
The first is simply the stylistic fact that the passive voice makes for a less, well, active sentence. Passive voice sentences are just boring and flat, especially in constructions longer than the examples above. In large part, that's because the action described is hard to visualize. Why? That brings us to the second point.
The passive voice often disguises who is performing the action described. In the passive voice example above, we have no idea who is eating John's ice cream. We can't visualize the sentence except with a kind of blank space where "Sally" goes. (One could add that information: "John's ice cream is being eaten by Sally." But that's just a longer and more awkward way of saying what would be brief and to-the-point in the active voice).
This is the journalistic problem with the passive voice. Deliberately or accidentally, it hides who is doing what to whom, and that's bad journalism.
Sometimes (rarely) the passive voice is a necessary evil, when the 'actor' in the sentence is unknown or totally irrelevant.
Forty women and children were found dead in a remote Nigerian village this morning.
If this came to me from my wire service and I didn't know who found them, I'd be kind of stuck with the lede. But oftentimes, the passive voice can be fixed with a resort to one of the all-purpose 'actors.' Thus,
Residents of the Shaw neighborhood are being urged to boil their water until further notice.
…can easily be made active voice.
City officials are urging Shaw residents to boil their water until further notice.
"Officials" are, by far, the most beloved generic 'actors.' "A spokesman," "police," and "the administration" (as appropriate) are also very popular. (Comment if you can think of any others. I'm momentarily stumped.)
As I implied earlier, beginning newswriters seem to crank out passive voice sentences left and right. But with practice (or enough negative feedback from your editor), it's possible to develop very sensitive antennae that will ring an alarm every time you write or read something in the passive voice. And when that alarm rings, it's time to ask "Why is that line in the passive voice? Is it because who did what to whom is being hidden?" (Catch the hidden passive voice sentence in the forgoing paragraph and win a prize.)
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Say what? Friday's best press conference moments
Friday 25 May 2018 - Michael Beattie
Rafa loves a challenge, Sascha refuses to be caught out, and Garbine Muguruza finds out who she's playing...
After winning 50 consecutive sets on clay, Rafael Nadal is glad to have been pushed hard in Rome:
"I didn't lose a set during Davis Cup, Monte-Carlo, Barcelona, and in Madrid I won two matches straight sets. Then I lost in straight sets. There was not moments of that pressure, or moments that you needed to be there, you need to play well, no?
"In Rome I had plenty of these moments. I came back after [losing] a set against Fognini. Then I played a very tough first set against Novak in the semifinals, and the final had a little bit of everything. But coming back, too, that's situations that helps to keep going, to keep being confident, and to get used to play this difficult moments that the normal thing is you have these difficult moments in our sport."
Garbine Muguruza learns from a reporter that she will face fellow former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round:
Q. I just want to know if you were aware of your draw before going…
GM: No.
Q. …into this press conference?
GM: He said it, the first round.
I mean, it's a good first round. Last year I remember I started with Schiavone. It's good right away. Tough match.
It doesn't really matter, you know, who you're going to play because it's going to be a difficult match. We have a lot of battles together, so it's going to be good.
Lucas Pouille is hoping new coaching consultant Tommy Haas can fine-tune his game at Roland-Garros:
"An outside point of view is always important. It's always good to have a different ring of the bell. The aim is to help me to get settled in my game, to play my best tennis during the first rounds, and to go as far as I can."
For French No.1 and No.7 seed Caroline Garcia, Serena Williams has been a constant presence at Roland-Garros:
"My parents brought me to watch matches a couple of times. You know, it was special to be on this court watching. I think the first time we came we had some good matches, and so a great, more of great player, and Serena was already there. It's kind of surprising, but she's still here and competing."
A decade after her 2008 junior Roland-Garros title, two-time finalist Simona Halep reflects on how she has changed:
"Well, I'm not that shy like 10 years ago. I'm much better with you guys, talking better. But I am still the same impulsive girl on court. Off court, as well. Yeah, maybe your personality doesn't change that much, but you improve. So I feel more mature – it's normal. I feel more relaxed about everything. And in general, in life, I'm more open to people. So I'm different."
Gulbis and Tomic work hard to reach main draw
Don't try and outfox Alexander Zverev when it comes to German tennis history:
Q. If you do go all the way, it's the first German player since 1996. How do you feel about that?
AZ: Who was it in '96?
Q. Michael Stich.
AZ: He didn't win it though.
Q. No, he didn't win it.
AZ: Didn't go all the way.
Q. Went to the finals.
AZ: There you go. He made finals. I was thinking who it was. I thought my German tennis knowledge was better than you guys.
But, I mean, look, as I said, this is a long way ahead, and I'm not trying to think ahead. I have done that before in Grand Slams, and I lost early. I'm going to try to avoid that. I'm going to try to prepare myself the best I can and play the best tennis I can. The rest will take care of itself.
Kristina Mladenovic is not concerned about matching last year's quarter-final run, instead focusing solely on Roland-Garros 2018:
"If you have that type of mindset every year, every month, you become crazy. That's the underlying principle of tennis. You try to take a snapshot of the whole inventory at the end of the year, not in between. You never know when you're in good form; we try to produce our best performance every week.
"But as far as I'm concerned, I'm at the French Open – I'll try to go as far as possible. Not to defend last year's points, but rather to try to have a good tournament. I have a lot of ambitions, and once it's over, we'll see."
A year is a long time in tennis, huh? 😀
Feels very special to be back here at @rolandgarros again, even in the rain 😂❤☔ pic.twitter.com/puUDAfGJAz
— Petra Kvitova (@Petra_Kvitova) May 25, 2018
A year on from her stunning comeback at Roland-Garros, and a day after her assailant was captured by Czech authorities, Petra Kvitova is still stunned by her comeback:
Q. Could you have expected one year ago that your last 12 months would be so successful on court?
PK: Can you?
Q. No.
PK: Well, that's probably the answer from me, as well! No, not at all. I didn't have to use my special ranking at any time. It's been great 12 months so far. Of course it was up and down, but to having five titles since I came back, it's kind of unreal.
Sometimes it's unreal for me, too, to sit and say, 'Okay, I won four titles this year already.' It's a little bit weird. But that's why I actually came back, not only to play tennis but to be better. And, yeah, I think I'm not playing bad tennis right now.
01/05 Adventurous Muguruza cherishing every moment
12/10 2020 rewind: Roland-Garros centurion Nadal retains his crown
11/20 Nadal steps tantalisingly close to elusive ATP Finals triumph
11/05 Nadal joins the 1000 club on cherished Parisian territory
10/20 Nadal back in Paris soon
10/11 100 for the King: Numbers behind Rafa's latest Paris success
10/11 Day 15 Diary: Federer hails Nadal's milestone 20th
10/11 King of Clay the toast of Twitter as tributes pour in
Gallery: big names face the press
Nadal, Muguruza, Dimitrov, Halep and Kvitova among the stars to chat to the media on Friday at Roland-Garros.
Who'll emerge from this stacked quarter?
Zverev, Thiem, Nishikori, Wawrinka among the names in a tantalising "quarter of death" in the men's draw.
Serena's mission improbable
How the three-time Roland Garros champion's dream might turn into reality in 2018.


I was editing a simple but unsaved map. Fortunately the file recovery system is working, so I only lost a few minutes work. Reducing save interval to 5 minutes from 10 now.
I copied some text from a subtopic and pasted it in to a main topic.
The text was of a smaller font.
I right clicked the topic and Format Topic - Map Theme - Revert to Default Theme and MindManager crashed.
Repeating the process on the recovered map did not crash it.
I'm not able to reproduce this on v16.0.159 (64-bit).
Were there some special elements on the main topic such as links etc?
No. The map now has 12 topics, 132 words and nothing else. It was less when it crashed.


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Blood at Antietam
Most Americans' response to the Civil War depends on which side of the Mason-Dixon Line they were born.
And they can endlessly discuss the causes of the war and its meaning. Was it fought to end slavery, or to impose Northern industrial power on the agricultural South? Was the Confederacy an evil attempt to perpetuate racism or a noble attempt to protect its native soil and individual rights?
But when you are standing in Bloody Lane, you can't pick sides. It no longer matters who was right and who was wrong.
Before Sept. 17, 1862, the brief dirt drive was called the Sunken Road, and it was a shortcut between two farm roads near Sharpsburg, Md. All around were cornfields rolling up and down on the hilly Appalachian landscape.
The narrow dirt road, depressed into the ground like a cattle chute, now seems more like a mass grave than a road.
And it was just that in 1862, when during the battle of Antietam Creek, Confederate soldiers mowed down the advancing Federals and were in turn mowed down. The slaughter was unimaginable.
You can see it in the photographs made a few days after the battle. The soldiers, mostly Southerners, fill the sunken road like executed Polish Jews. It was so bad, as one Union private said, "You could walk from one end of Bloody Lane to the other on dead soldiers and your feet would never touch the ground."
Even today, with the way covered with crushed blue stone, the dirt underneath seems maroon. Perhaps it is the iron in the ground that makes it so; perhaps it is the blood, still there after 135 years.
Antietam was the worst single day of the Civil War. Nearly 23,000 men were killed or wounded. They were piled like meat on the ground and left for days before enough graves could be dug for them. There were flies, there was a stench.
The whole thing was a fiasco, for both sides, really. Robert E. Lee had taken his Confederate forces, numbering about 40,000 men, into the North, intending to take Union supplies at Harrisburg, Pa. It was a strategic move that Lee hoped would lend the Confederacy enough respect so that England would recognize the presumptive nation diplomatically. This, many Southerners hoped, would force the Union to negotiate a peace with the seceding states.
But he didn't get farther than Maryland before the Union, under the sluggish General George McClellan, showed up with 87,000 men.
After a period of jockeying for position, Lee wound up with his troops in a long line, running north and south along Antietam Creek and through the town of Sharpsburg. The Union approached from the east.
Lee braced for a battle, but McClellan hesitated. When he attacked, his battle plan was botched by his field commanders. In the early morning, his men attacked the north part of Lee's line. They fought relentlessly for several bloody hours, only to reach an exhausted standoff.
In the middle of the battle, the Union soldiers attacked at about 9:30 a.m. That is where the Southerners had set themselves in the Sunken Road. It was a perfect defensive position, and when the Federal troops marched over the rise a few tens of yards above the road, the fire devastated their ranks.
For four hours, the battle went on, soldier falling on dead soldier, and at the end, the Confederate commander at one end of the road misjudged an order, and retreated, opening up the end of the road to Northern reinforcements.
Given a clean line of fire on the remaining Rebels, the Yankees hacked through them like machetes through a jungle.
That is where the midden of bodies came from that filled the hollow of the road.
Later that day, along the southern boundary of the battle, the Yankees tried to cross a bridge over the creek and were held back for several hours by the Confederates.
But at the end of the battle, both Northern and Southern battle lines were nearly exactly where they had been in the morning. The battle had been a pointless bloodbath. The cocky McClellan claimed victory, but he could not say what he had won.
McClellan had lost every chance he had been given, hesitating and halting. "It wouldn't be prudent to fight at this time," he said at just the moment he might have broken Lee's line and finished off the whole blood-soaked Civil War in an afternoon. As a result, Lee managed to get his army back safely south of the Potomac River. McClellan had lost his chance.
But all these years later, as you stand in Bloody Lane, the grassy margins of the road inclining up around you and the way lined with the criss-cross of split-rail fencing, it doesn't matter if the soldiers were Yankee or Reb. They were all young, brave, impetuous and dead.
It is painful to stand in the declivity, looking up at the mound in front of you, covered in cornstalks in a mid-July day. You can see that when the Yankees came over the rise, they were already close enough to touch. There was no neutralizing distance for your rifle fire to travel, no bang-bang-you're-dead, no time, no room for playing soldier. Your enemy was in your face and you had to tear through that face with lead, the blood splattered was both Federal and Confederate, in one red pond among the furrows.
It is only made more poignant by the peacefulness of the countryside now, turned into a National Battlefield Park. Birds and butterflies play among the grassy seedheads, tourists come with their videocams and enjoy the scene. Husbands regale their wives with statistics:
In four hours on 200-yard stretch of Bloody Lane, 5,000 men were blown apart.
In another part of the battlefield, Union General John Sedgewick lost more than 2,200 men in less than half an hour in a charge into the West Woods.
In the Miller Farm cornfield, Union General Hooker later wrote, "every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the slain lay in rows precisely as they had stood in their ranks a few moments before. It was never my fortune to witness a more bloody, dismal battlefield."
I am not a superstitious man. I lay hold of empirical evidence, hard fact. But it is difficult to stand in Bloody Lane and not feel that all the soldiers are still there, perhaps not as ghosts, but as a presence under your boot-sole, there, soaked into the dirt.
It is almost, as some cultures believe, as if everything that happens in a place is always happening in that place. The battle was not something that occurred before my great-grandfather was born, but a palpable electricity in the air. You can not stand there in Bloody Lane and not be moved by that presence.


A few weeks ago, a friend commented on an article about the new overtime regulations that are going into effect on December 1, 2016. These regulations say that to be an exempt employee (not eligible for overtime), you will have to earn $47,476 per year ($913 per week), a huge jump from the current $23,000. She said that it was about time, and that she was tired of these horrible managers taking advantage of their employees.
Perhaps there is no cure for what I call the "dictator fantasy," but perhaps there is something we can do to blunt its effects. The next time I hear someone fantasize about "managers" (or any other "bad" guy du jour) "getting theirs", I plan to consider how that might blow back on them and ask how that suits them. Perhaps, if more of us who don't use the government as a substitute brain help those who do, we will tamp down on all the foolish clamoring for the government to dictate every aspect of our lives. This is no substitute for broader cultural activism, but perhaps it can buy some time by slowing down the rate of growth of government "planning."
It's still comical to see the fool getting what she deserves. I can point and laugh at her even while wishing that the *rest* of us weren't *also* going to be getting what she deserves.
Put a little differently: what's happening to that idiot is justice and should be celebrated as such. What's going to happen to people in similar situations who do not support this kind of government interference in the economy is injustice and should be identified as such.


Yes - it's official! I'm writing a book for Wiley all about Microsoft's new stack for beginner web developers - WebMatrix.
Launched just a few days ago, WebMatrix is already providing a lot of fuel for Tweeters - the vast majority of it very encouraging and positive, and some of it, well... uneducated, let's say. Regular visitors to this site will notice that I have been playing with WebMatrix since its first Beta release, and just like former Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Guru, Rob Conery (who's not shy in telling Microsoft when he thinks they have goofed), I believe that Microsoft have got WebMatrix just right.
Beginning ASP.NET Web Pages with WebMatrix will be published later this year - in September to be more precise. I am being supported by my good friend Imar Spaanjaars, a fellow ASP.NET MVP and first rate author of highly successful ASP.NET books, such as Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB. The book will target those who are completely new to web development, as well as their educators, but it will also appeal to bods who have a little web development experience away from ASP.NET, or those who found ASP.NET Web Forms or MVC all a little too daunting. It should also appeal to experienced ASP.NET developers who would like some "fun" injected into their web development again.
If there is anything in particular that you would like to see the book cover, let me know by using the comments form at the bottom of this page.
In the meantime, I have a busy few months ahead of me, so if I'm not posting new articles as regularly as I usually do, now you know why.


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N.L. reports 24th COVID death with 1,029 recoveries
Ben Cleary
Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting its twenty-fourth death from COVID-19. A woman from the Western Health region was over the age of 70 years.
The province has 404 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the last media update on January 13. Anyone who has tested positive must follow guidelines as outlined here. Cases are advised to notify contacts as per instructions on the website.
As a result of testing capacity being exceeded at the provincial laboratory and samples being sent out of the province for testing, an additional 71 cases are being reported today arising from these results.
The breakdown of the 475 cases are as follows:
In the Eastern Health region:
Fifty-eight under 20 years of age;
One hundred and twenty-two between 20-39 years of age;
Thirty-seven between 40-49 years of age;
Forty-nine between 50-59 years of age;
Twenty-eight between 60-69 years of age; and
Fifty-six 70 years of age and above.
There are 183 females and 167 males.
In the Central Health region:
Two under 20 years of age;
Three between 20-39 years of age;
Four between 40-49 years of age;
Six between 50-59 years of age;
Two between 60-69 years of age; and
Nine 70 years of age and above.
There are 13 females and 13 males.
In the Western Health region:
Eight under 20 years of age;
Seventeen between 20-39 years of age;
Three between 60-69 years of age; and
Five 70 years of age and above.
In the Labrador-Grenfell Health region:
Thirteen under 20 years of age;
Twenty-one between 20-39 years of age;
Five between 40-49 years of age;
Ten between 50-59 years of age; and
Two 70 years of age and above.
There are 25 females 26 males.
There are also nine cases that are the result of testing completed by a private lab outside of a Regional Health Authority:
One under 20 years of age;
One between 50-59 years of age;
One between 60-69 years of age; and
One 70 years of age and above.
There are three females, four males and two unknown sex.
There have been 1,029 new recoveries – 601 in the Eastern Health region, 65 in the Central Health region, 43 in the Western Health region and 320 in the Labrador-Grenfell region, and 6,485 people have recovered.
There are eight people in hospital because of COVID-19, five in non-critical care and three in critical care.
There are currently 5,574 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. The regional breakdown of the active cases is as follows:
Eastern Health – 4,182
Central Health – 215
Labrador-Grenfell Health – 726
Western Health – 333
Unknown RHA – 118
To date, 450,158 tests have been administered. People can check their COVID-19 test results online here.
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Q: php filter_var fails with zero on FILTER_VALIDATE_INT I'm confused the following throws an exception:
if (!filter_var(0, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT))
    throw new Exception("Non numeric field passed " . $field . " when expecting a number: " . $variable . " passed instead");

anything positive works fine? I've tried intval(0) and still nothing. is zero not an integer?

A: filter_var  Returns the filtered data, or FALSE if the filter fails.
filter_var(0, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT) returns int(0), and is a falsy value, !filter_var(0, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT) will be true.

A: People should test false instead:
if (filter_var($value, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT) === false) {
    // $value is not an integer
}


Links to the last six months of E Church services are on the right.
Why bother with this EChurch?
In our three years of writing this blog, we have become aware that a fair number of people have been so hurt and disillusioned by the church that they have dropped out of attending church altogether. After reading story after story about painful experiences, we don't blame them. We both have been there.
Yet, many of these folks want to be around other Christians as evidenced by the numbers who visit blogs. Most of these have maintained their faith, but some have walked away or are seriously questioning if this faith is real.
So we wanted to provide a place in which a reader could get some of the benefits of church without the requirements that are often inherent in church attendance. We look at this place as a kind of halfway point between no church and church.
Many churches have their entire services online. Why not refer to one of them?
This is a good question. In fact, Wade's church service is entirely online as well. Most church services are dedicated to the life of that group of people so there are some some limitations due to these distinctives.
There is always the underlying plea to come to this church. Please donate money. Come to this church event. For those who have been wounded or those who are questioning, this may be too much, not relevant or off-putting.
We want to remove a few barriers. We hope that this enterprise, along with our regular blog, will help folks to discover certain characteristics that should be present in a healthy, well-balanced church.
Why do you refer to this as a "baloney free" zone?
We simply mean this. When you watch a service, you are free to disagree, rant, blow us off and you will still be cared about. We have no requirements. You don't have to follow the order of service, pray or listen to the sermon. We will not ask you for money nor ask you to sign some paper. We simply want to provide some water for your soul should you want it.
Why Wade Burleson? Isn't he a Reformed Baptist?
Yes, Wade is Reformed and his church community is part of the SBC. However, Wade has a unique ability not let his theology trump his love for others. He has made some stands, which have not enamored him to the either the SBC or to the Reformed community. He has no problem with being criticized and handles conflicts better than most pastors we have had the occasion to know.
Please read his column on how he handled a serious church conflict. It is titled Lessons in Dealing with Disgruntled Members. Link. It will help you to understand his underlying character. Those of you who have been hurt by a church (which includes both of us) should read this story and think back to your former churches. Ask how they would have handled such an event. The answer to that question might help you to understand why Wade is different than many.
What happens if I disagree with the sermons, prayer or music?
That's OK. There will always be points of disagreement amongst people of good will. You are free to express your opinion and no one will "discipline" you for your thoughts. It is important to understand, however, that we approach this undertaking as those who adhere to orthodox Christianity and our theology will fit within the "pale of orthodoxy."
The sermon may take a couple of minutes to load. Also, we have had some technical issues with security codes. Hopefully they have been resolved. If for any reason it does not load, we will attempt to rectify the problem in a timely manner.
We will try to find music that, over a period of weeks, will reflect a broad range of traditions from ancient through contemporary. You might even see a Gregorian chant! We will be limited by what is available through sources such as You Tube. We search everywhere for ideas. Because of the beauty of some of these videos, you may find it helpful to go to full screen.
Of all the songs sung from the dawn of creation, Some were meant to persist"
How do you choose the prayers?
Once again, we are limited by what may be reprinted. We will have prayers that span the ages from a variety of Christian traditions.
What sort of help is available to me?
Of course, our ability to help is limited by our distance from one another but we will make every effort to be of support to you.
In addition, there is help and counseling available through Wade's church, Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, Oklahoma..
What is this about a Sunday school?
We thought it might be helpful to ask folks to limit the discussion in comments under the EChurch post to the subject at hand. So, for example, we could discuss the sermon, the music, the prayer or even suggestions for the format.
TWW is deeply appreciative of all who spend their precious time visiting our site and leaving comments. You matter to us and we try very hard to be welcoming. However, we have experienced a tremendous upswing of visitor comments and emails and became concerned that we, inadvertently, might overlook someone who visits the EChurch site and leaves a comment.
Ruth is a good friend who served as a missionary to Germany for a number of years. She is a loving person who has a heart for people. We have asked her to be our backup, ensuring that we do not miss anybody who visits the EChurch and leaves a comment. Think of her as the Welcome Desk at a church. She will be sure to hound us if we get distracted. We want everyone who visits to feel both welcomed and valued.
Is this format sealed in stone?
No, in fact, we know that there will be major tweaking going on. We are in uncharted waters -some things may work, others may not. We are open to any and all suggestions. In fact, if you have a favorite prayer or song, please send it onto us, along with any links.
What do the two of you believe?
Dee comes from a broad evangelical tradition, which includes non-denominational, Lutheran, Congregational, SBC and Christian Reformed churches.
Deb's experience has been primarily in the SBC along with some time in the Methodist camp.
In the context of his sermons, Wade may venture to give his assessment of a particular passage. We want to assure our audience that he is not saying that you must believe as he does.
How can I find archived EChurch posts on the blog?
My name is Wade Burleson. Rachelle, my wife of thirty years, and I are friends of Dee and Wanda (aka Deb) at The Wartburg Watch. We are participating in the formation of EChurch@Wartburg because we have a heart for people who love Christ but have been hurt by the church. In a moment you might choose to watch today's video message, and it is only fair that I tell you a few things about myself before you take the time to listen.
First, you will be joining the fourth Sunday morning worship service of the church I serve in Enid, Oklahoma. I realize that the visual of me wearing a suit and standing on a platform may trigger some bad memories. If I could, I'd be casual and relaxed sitting across a coffee table from you and we'd simply talk about Jesus, life, and the Scriptures. Try to ignore the venue. If it helps, grab a cup of coffee or a glass of tea and relax as you listen. I will personally welcome you and all the EChurch viewers at the beginning of this video because you are important to us.
Our church believes that people who have been burned by organized religion and have either opted out of going to church or are in transition are as important to Christ as faithful, dedicated members of any organized church. We would like to play just a small role in your healing process as you reorient to what is really important in your walk of faith.
Second, I am not a professional entertainer. I won't use props or gimmicks to get you to like either the message or myself. May we find our source of life in Jesus Christ. I will go verse by verse through the Scriptures and talk of Him. Feel free to disagree with me! Yell and scream at what I'm saying if you feel like it!
I am nobody's spiritual authority, nor do I have some special insight into spiritual things. I am just an ordinary Jesus-lover who believes the Truth will set you free. If you make it through the 30 minute message and come away knowing a little more about Christ and find Him a tad more satisfying, then I will have succeeded.
Third, we at EChurch@Wartburg are NOT trying to control you, fix you, change you, or get something from you. We just want you to know that somebody really does care for you. We are like you — we love Christ and His Word, but we believe the church and organized religion have a tendency to screw things up! If at some point you can enter into personal relationships with people in your area who share a love for Christ, we want to encourage you to develop those relationships!
Until then, we welcome you to EChurch@Wartburg for some spiritual refreshment and encouragement.
I just watched you for the first time. I am sick and can't get to my church today. I have a regular church that I attend. I sat under you Dad for many years, and you remind me of him. I loved him, if fact he married us.
I went to school with Cherry, and my daughter went to school with Teri. Small world isn't it? I love your message today and even though I have my own church in which I love I will still listen to you. It is like a young Bro. Paul all over again. And that is a compliment. I can't wait until next week to hear you again. May God bless you.
Thank you for weighing in with some history. We will make sure Wade sees this comment.
Seems I'm unable to view Wade's embedded Vimeo videos using my mobile device. Any chance of a remedy for that?
When I had my Blackberry, I remember not being able to watch videos because I hadn't updated it. Could that be the problem? Maybe GBTC can address this issue.
Thanks for doing this. Ms FSGP and I have totally disconnected from any church in the wake of our escape from the SG church we were part of. Ms FSGP threatens to find a church someday; I seriously doubt that I will and haven't seriously looked for several years. It is nice to know that you have created an alternative.
Thank you for this!! My family was threated by a pastor of our local SGM church that he would "call the civil authorites and have you arrested" if we continued to attend without submitting a membership application. Even though my wife and I had attended all 32 weeks of pre-membership classes, about to go thru a huge personal lawsuit and all we asked was for a few more months to sort things out before joining. They told us we would be arrested if we set foot into the place again because after three years of attendance we wouldn't submit a membership application.
What kind loving people. Just like Jesus.
@ Jon Owens: OMG! Would you like to write a story for our blog?
A special Hi to Dee. Thank you for helping me see red flags! I didn't and still don't like what I Know to be true now but I now have much more. My life compared to the previous !! What on earth did I used to find to worry about! My son has been dragged through hell and I think they've only just begun really but I have told him I'm proud of him more times recently than I've ever thought possible. He has managed to keep going ….he has not lost But had everything taken from him. He now has nothing but he's strength to carry on. And it's that strength, that love for God, truth and justice which has made him a man to fight for his children and all those who also need to be free from KFC.
Hi, came cross your blog today, and only thought to mention…dissenting from cultish behavior which inevitable grows out of group environments is best fought by reading scriptures (not arguing them). How anyone would go for that discipleship movement with emphasis on submission to other human interference is beyond me. It's entire premise is what animates the Catholic Church and its twisted. Likewise the money movement of the 1990's. people's hearts stray so far from God for drivel because they do not make knowing the Word the focus of their lives.
While that is sad, and I only read certain pages of your blog… But people are succumbing to the blame game. (Those awful misguided teachers are why "my cousins do drugs" and that "I am divorced", etc etc… That approach won't stand up in your day of judgement. What you did with your life you alone answer for. Read the book. Stupidity and willful ignorance won't be an excuse for being asleep at the wheel. (I preach to myself)).
I applaud your reaching out to the wounded! Millions will never again step foot in a building. Hopefully you teach them picking at old wounds can make you lose a limb in the natural..in isnt better in the spiritual. The Word is the defense against being led astray. That AND knowing The Lord, not knowing OF Him!
Thank you! Since I have come to Jax, Fl. there are so many churches, but never have felt at home, in any of them, do not know why, either built on emotion and money, or so big you got lost in them. Or you have great teaching, but a not the freedom during worship. Choir singing, when I hear the words I was overcome with love and felt so compelled to surrender, in all of me, (not running up or down the isle) just wanted to stand up and reach my hands out. Yet nobody did,,, so either it was to much of that and to much of this, or being, there and leaving alone without connection with others.So I gave up. I had a great home church in S. CA great studies, great fellowship, never was ask to put my money in or reminded of what I owed to God. Just giving with a cheerful heart. Here in FL you are reminded, that you owe, I do not believe that as Jesus said give freely, when they talk about the tithe I feel obligated, and after all I am no longer under the law I am free because I have Christ now. I do not want to sin, I try to see people thru the eyes of Jesus, after all he said love another as I have loved you. It is not always easy. But he said pick up your cross and follow me. I understand now what it means.
How sad that no one believes the apostles warning found in 2Cor. 4:4.
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From your quote: We both adhere to the beliefs spelled out in the Nicene Creed.
Do you feel that the Church should have rejected the Jewish from associating with the Church? The Nicene Creed is harsh against one people group. Some consider it to be the first split in the Church.
Should the Church repent for the declarations that were made against the Jews? It is obvious on all accounts that there were many Jewish believers at that time since the gospel was first delivered to the Jews and the Apostles were all Jewish. Thank you for your thoughts.
I have come to the place where I believe in 'elder led house churches'. (See the web site NTRF.ORG I believe this would be idea for those who have had some serious problems in their church. Meeting in homes is really what the early church did. I would say more but, just check out this site above for details. I would love to start an elder led house church in my area. If any live in the South Jersey/Hammonton, NJ area, I'd love to hear from you.
Pray for the salvation of my wife, JoAnn, who continues to be very devoted as a JW. We've been married for 54 years! Praise God for His mercy!
Hi there. Just passing through. Keep up the good work.
This service for people who have been injured by abuse is a great work of mercy. I can vouch for the kindness and compassion of Wade Burleson for such people, and I am very grateful to God for Wade's service on E-Church for the sake of those who have suffered. Wade's theology and mine may differ (I'm Catholic), but I have the highest respect for his care and commitment to people who have been abused. May God give strength to the Deebs and to Wade for all they do for the injured ones being cared for.
Wow. I didn't know this existed. I need real Christian contact. My husband was put on "trial" by the men of the church when myself, my daughters, had a difficult time (understatement) over the unspeakable actions of one of my sons. Meanwhile, my husband was faithfully leading this small church plant and doing a faithful job. My husband was determined by the church that we were a plant under, that he was exactly the type of man the church needed but by then he'd been so drug through the mud, he has lost his desire to serve. When we needed compassion, we got attacked. Funny thing, it was the membership not the leadership. We've wandered from church to church trying to find a home. We sure need healing. There's a good bit more.
I am so heartened and appreciative to read of the existence of this ministry. Thank God there is still a faithful following who are after God's heart and are no propelled by greed. This ministry deserves the support of all Christians.
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Looking for some fun Christian kid music? Hillsong has created an album for children that is upbeat praise music that your kids can wiggle and dance around to. I worked at a Christian daycare this past year and this is the cd that we listened to all day. The kids loved to play the music loud and dance all around the room. It was so cute!
If you want to preview the cd you can check it out on youtube. This song "Superhero" was the kids' favorite song.
If you enjoyed that song then you can buy the cd on the hillsong website for $13.99. The cd is called "Jesus is my Superhero".
This song makes excellent background music for any kids' event. It could be great for Sunday school. Since the words are simple, it would be easy to make up fun simple hand motions for the kids to do.
Christians are called to dance and sing to the Lord so this is one option for getting started!
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Paperwork ~ how long should I keep it?
My clients often ask how long they should keep their paperwork so I thought it would be helpful to share this information in my Blog.* I will break it down into two parts.
The IRS has three years from your filing date to audit your return if it suspects good-faith errors. The three year deadline also applies if you discover a mistake in your return and decide to file an amended return to claim a refund.
The IRS has six years to challenge your return if it thinks you underreported your gross income by 25% or more.
There is no time limit if you failed to file your return or filed a fraudulent return.


"Winter dead ahead" That phrase is so poetically laden… especially if transplanted out of the haiku form. Given your chosen stomping grounds, I would think that it's possible to come across some "winter dead ahead." On that cheery thought… the rest of the haiku is great!
Thanks! I was sort of fond of that line, lol!
Then by all means use it again! No law against it.
Ah! Classic Q – 'winter dead ahead' gives the sense of motion and collision. Your wry voice is ever amazing.
Damn, now I think I underplayed it. November should attempt surrender but then meet its demise anyway in the last line. Too mamby-pamby as is, lol!
Haha! What? November is weak – it gives in to the power-play of December and his henchmen.
Perfect. Al Capone meets Winter.
Ahahah! Thanks for the idea!
I love, rain surrenders frost.


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Candy bars and childhood scars
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Voice advocate heads to Freo
January 13, 2023 · by Your Herald · in News. ·
A LEADING advocate for an Indigenous Voice to federal Parliament will speak at Fremantle's One Day celebrations on January 28.
In December prime minister Anthony Albanese said a national referendum on an Indigenous Voice would be held by the end of this year, previously outlining a "simple" yes or no question that wouldn't be bogged down by detail on how it would operate.
Thomas Mayor was one of the signatories of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a petition signed by 250 delegates at the 2017 First Nations Constitutional Convention at Uluru calling for constitutional change.
Fremantle council's senior Aboriginal engagement officer Brendan Moore said One Day festivities had been moved to the city's rebranded Walyalup Koort this year, providing a stronger connection to the centre of Fremantle than its previous iterations at Bathers Beach.
The move was endorsed by the city's reconciliation group.
"One Day continues to evolve to ensure it remains at the forefront of the national conversation regarding reconciliation as well as being a fantastic day out," Mr Moore said.
Fremantle has endorsed the Uluru Statement, but in December Cockburn voted 7 – 2 not to, saying councils shouldn't meddle in federal affairs.
A staff recommendation that the council endorse the statement was watered down to simply "note the officer report" under an amendment by councillor Michael Separovich.
Cr Separovich said there was "widespread outrage" when Cockburn put up billboards thanking "WA Labor" for funding the North Lake flyover and he feared this was a move in a similar direction.
"I do not think it is the role of the city, as a local government, to be telling people how to vote in a referendum," he said.
Cr Phoebe Corke countered that the council had been asked by the Voice campaign, First Nations people and its residents to endorse the statement.
She noted the WA Local Government Association's advice to councils was to "answer the invitation of the Uluru Statement" and help spread its message.
"The statement itself is an invitation from First Australians to the rest of Australia to join them as we think about who we want to be as a nation, how we want to redefine our relationshiop, which has been tested, and how do we move forward together."
Quoting former prime minister Paul Keating, Cr Corke urged her colleagues to "open your hearts tonight, vote for the officer's recommendation and accept the invitation of the Uluru Statement.
The 'Voice' briefly explained
FEDERAL minister for indigenous Australians Linda Burney and former minister Ken Wyatt urge Australians to read the 272-page report Indigenous Co-design Process explaining the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Here is a very short outline.
The Voice will establish "the National Voice as a new independent Commonwealth entity established by legislation", controlled and operated by Indigenous people, and independent from our Federal Parliament and government, state/territory and local governments and funded through the Commonwealth budget process.
Some 9,478 people and organisations participated in the co-design process with 35 per cent representation from our major cities and 25 per cent participants from NSW.
The reported total number of Indigenous people was 798,365, with 33.28 per cent in NSW, 27.72 per cent Qld and 12.59 per cent WA.
The Voice will not replace or undermine existing structures currently supporting Indigenous Australians across three tiers of government, such as advisory bodies, land councils or the social justice commissioner.
The Voice comprises two parts:
Part 1: The National Voice (NV):
• Key focus – provide advice to the Australian Parliament and Government;
• Proposed membership is 24 selected solely by Indigenous people – two from the states and territories, two from the Torres Strait Islands, five remote representatives from the NT, WA, Qld, SA, and NSW, and one representing Torres Strait Islanders on the mainland, plus an option for two members appointed by the minister;
• NV is structurally linked to local and regional Voices in each jurisdiction;
• NV represents Indigenous people on national issues, providing policy advice to the Australian Parliament and government and influencing the development of proposed national laws, policies, and programs during drafting by government agencies. That will be done by tabling advice to parliament and ministers via a parliamentary committee, etc., plus two legislated permanent advisory groups, one for youth and one for people with disability. Policy matters include housing, education, employment, economic development, suicide, and interactions with the criminal justice system;
• The Australian Parliament and government would be obligated to ask for advice;
• NV requires an Office of the National Voice with two co-chairs, a CEO, and administrative staff, an ethics council appointed by the NV, a new Parliamentary standing committee and an international role on United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues;
• NV can establish committees to advise for example on specific policy matters, the Stolen Generation, traditional owners, elders and the LGBTIQ+ community. Committee memberships include NV members and external stakeholders – academics, community representatives, peak bodies, community-controlled organisations, and other organisations.
Part 2: Local & Regional Voices (LRVs)
• 35 LVRs regions are proposed across Australia in each state/territory jurisdiction to solicit views from local people and stakeholders within their region, including community-controlled organisations, service providers, business, advisory bodies, statutory bodies, educators, and others;
Provide advice to the National Voice;
• Each LRV will be a 'governance arrangement' in each region and may choose to become a legal entity;
• Each LRV would partner with all levels of government providing advice, priorities and guidance and independently negotiating and shaping issues for each specific community;
• Each incorporated LRV would be supported regionally by secretariats resourced by but independent of government. They would support and facilitate joint action by Aboriginal community controlled organisations, government, non-government organisations and corporate partners reporting to a regional board of eight directors across the region (including two independent directors with legal-financial-accounting expertise) plus local management committees comprising chairs and CEOs of community organisations and Aboriginal organisations across geographic regions.
I recommend downloading and reading the Indigenous Co-design Process report to direct informed public discussion on the Voice.
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HomeCountriesGuatemalaGrowing inclusion of London's Latin Americans
Growing inclusion of London's Latin Americans
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SourceNick MacWilliam
The growing presence and influence and influence of Latin American communities in London has been emphasised by Hackney Council's decision to recognise those from the region as an ethnic group. With the Latin American population having risen sharply in recent years, there has been pressure from advocacy groups to ensure newer arrivals are provided with the same rights and status as longer-established residents. Hackney's move makes it the fourth London borough to identify Latin Americans as a community, following on from Lambeth, Southwark and Islington.
At the Welcoming New Communities event at Hackney Town Hall, staged to mark the council's decision, Lucila Granada of the Coalition of Latin Americans in the UK (CLAUK) explains the benefits of official recognition as an ethnic group. "It's the first step towards a wider process of inclusion, which also includes participation and representation," she says. "The council will start being able to see the lack of access to services that the community currently faces."
There are a number of ways in which the council can support minority communities. "They will identify the issues or barriers that are problematic," says Lucila. "It might mean information in Spanish or that they work more closely with our community organisation. For instance, in public consultations or decisions, they include all community groups, but they didn't approach Latin Americans because we weren't part of the recognised ethnic minorities here. Now, they will."
With Hackney one of Britain's most multicultural areas – the 2011 census recorded 89 first languages spoken in the borough – Deputy Mayor Sophie Linden believes multiculturalism has a positive impact. "We want to welcome new groups to Hackney and to celebrate diversity," she says to representatives of the various organisations in attendance. "Hackney has a long and proud tradition of welcoming communities. That's what today is about, to have that celebration and to say thank you for what you are doing in the community."
According to research carried out by the University of London, the number of Latin Americans in London almost quadrupled from 31,000 in 2001 to 113,000 in 2011. That number is likely to have risen since, as more people arrive via Europe, where many qualify for Spanish, Portuguese or Italian citizenship through earlier family generations. Brazilians and Colombians are the largest groups in London, while an increasing number of Peruvians, Bolivians and Ecuadoreans are becoming established in the city. There are also older communities of Chileans and Colombians who initially came to the UK fleeing repression or violence at home.
This steep increase in numbers has created greater demand for organisations such as CLAUK which seek to support the Latin American community. "We are made up of twelve charities," Lucila tells me. "We campaign towards three aims: gaining official recognition as an ethnic group, improving Latin Americans' access to health services, and enforcing labour rights."
Addressing these rights forms a major part of the support network, with new communities open to exploitation by employers. "Latin Americans in London have an 85% rate of employment," says Lucila. "But most people are working in the cleaning or catering sectors, which offer very poor work conditions. A lot of people are in casual or temporary work, or with zero hour contracts, or they have to work in isolation. We've seen lots of cases of unpaid hours, harassment, and violations of sick pay or holiday entitlement. The situation in the cleaning sector is a big issue."
Other challenges facing the community in Hackney were outlined by CLAUK in 2013. They included a lack of information in Spanish or Portuguese regarding health services; a lack of access to English classes exacerbated by low wages (workers don't qualify for funding but cannot afford the fees); inadequate governmental concern for labour rights; and insufficient access to democratic participation and community engagement. The council's recognition will seek to address these concerns and improve the quality of life for Latin Americans in the borough.
Deputy Mayor Linden is behind the decision to identify Latin Americans as a distinct group. "CLAUK asked if we would recognise Latin America as a category," she says. "We look at all groups above a certain population in the borough. The criteria for recognition are a combination of overall population but also if there's any additional reason such as extreme inequality when you're trying to understand reasons of underachievement. We felt it would be a good opportunity to celebrate the changing population and the newer communities here. That way we can identify how we reach other communities as well."
Official recognition means that London's Latin American residents will now be afforded the same rights and concerns as other groups, although with only four boroughs having so far acknowledged the community, there is much still to be done. Next in CLAUK's line of vision are the boroughs of Newham and Haringey. Lucila is optimistic. "We're all very happy as it means the council has taken the commitment to throw light on an invisible community and will start monitoring the problems we face. It's a huge step."
For more information on CLAUK and its member charities, visit the organisation's website.
Credit for main picture: Jesus Rigores
*Nick MacWilliam is a British freelance writer, editor and translator based between Chile, Argentina and London. As well as LAB, he contributes articles on culture and politics to Open Democracy, Pluto Press, the Quietus, Remezcla Magazine, Left History, the Comment Factory and various other publications. He is assistant editor of the online magazine Sounds and Colours, which focuses on South American music, cinema and literature, and the managing editor of Revolver Santiago Magazine, Chile's main English-language cultural review. Follow him on Twitter at @NickMacWilliam.
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Q: Why is this synchronisation not working? This is my code:
public class TestClass {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Thread threadOne = new Thread(new SomeRunnable("x"));
        Thread threadTwo = new Thread(new SomeRunnable("y"));
        threadOne.start();
        threadTwo.start();
    }
}

public class SomeRunnable implements Runnable {
    private String name;
    public SomeRunnable(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    @Override
    public void run() {
        for(int i=0;i<50;i++) {
            NameShouter.shoutName(name);
        }
    }
}

public class NameShouter {
    public static void shoutName(String name) {
        synchronized (System.out) {
            System.out.print(name);
        }
    }
}

The output I will get is:
xxxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I am expecting that System.out will be synchronized but it is not. Why? And how can I make this code work that it will output:
xxxxxxxxxxx....yyyyyyyy....

A: You are synchronizing every single invocation of shoutName, which just means that each name is written completely before the next one. If you want to shout all the same names one after another you need to move the synchronized around the loop:
public class SomeRunnable implements Runnable {
    private String name;
    public SomeRunnable(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    @Override
    public void run() {
        synchronized (System.out) {
           for(int i=0;i<50;i++) {
                NameShouter.shoutName(name);
            }
        }
    }
}

public class NameShouter {
    public static void shoutName(String name) {
        System.out.print(name);
    }
}

Since you alluded that you potentially have different NameShouters that shout from different things (and you still need the capability to shout those names 50 times), you could introduce a method overload that shouts a number of times and pass the PrintStream to use as an argument:
public static void shoutName(String name, int count, PrintStream out) {
    synchronized (out) {
        out.print(name);
    }
}

Then you can just call shoutName("x", 50, System.out) for your current behaviour.
Over time you'll notice that just static methods make things cumbersome here, though, and you could just use NameShouter objects instead which have appropriate properties for the resource they are shouting to and whatever else is necessary.
If your resource is not just a PrintStream, e.g. if you want to shout names to images as well, maybe, then either wrap whatever else you want to shout to in a PrintStream (probably not the best idea because misusing an interface for certain things makes it somewhat hard to implement), or create your own interface, e.g.
public interface IResource {
    void print();
}

and wrap System.out and whatever else you're using appropriately into an IResource.

A: ok try something like this :
public class TestClass {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    TestClass test = new TestClass();
    Thread threadOne = new Thread(new SomeRunnable("x",test ));
    Thread threadTwo = new Thread(new SomeRunnable("y",test ));
    threadOne.start();
    threadTwo.start();
}
}

public class SomeRunnable implements Runnable {
private String name;
private TestClass test;
public SomeRunnable(String name, TestClass test) {
    this.name = name;
    this.test = test;
}
@Override
public void run() {
   synchronized(test){
    for(int i=0;i<50;i++) {
        NameShouter.shoutName(name);
    }
  }
}
}

public class NameShouter {
public static void shoutName(String name) {
        System.out.print(name);
}
}

OR if you don't want to create an object of TestClass you can do something like this:
public class Try {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Try test = new Try();
Thread threadOne = new Thread(new SomeRunnable("x",Try.class));
Thread threadTwo = new Thread(new SomeRunnable("y",Try.class));
threadOne.start();
threadTwo.start();
}
}

class SomeRunnable implements Runnable {
private String name;
private Class test;
public SomeRunnable(String name, Class test) {
this.name = name;
this.test = test;
}
@Override
public void run() {
synchronized(test){
for(int i=0;i<50;i++) {
NameShouter.shoutName(name);
}
}
}
}