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Although there's a lot of activity going on in the Midwest Gulen schools with the FBI raids, Ohio Department of Education, Ohio School Board, and Ohio Auditor's office investigations, there's also an interesting development going on with some of the Gulen Harmony Schools out of Texas.
It seems that at least four of the Harmony schools (Beaumont, Houston, Brayan, and El Paso) have signed up to play sports with a "Christian values" sports organization that requires participants to abide by its Christian based constitution.
So how is it possible that federal and state tax funded schools like Harmony and KIPP charter schools can agree to fulfill the edicts of a Christian (or any religious) organization and still accept tax payer funds, while ignoring the separation between church and state?
Over a year ago, Arne Duncan's Department of Education handed over 30 million bucks to the Texas Harmony Schools (Race to the Top Contest), and yet these very same contest recipients are essentially thumbing their noses to the federal and state government benefactors who are supposed to ensure that religious beliefs not interfere with public education as it is funded by the American taxpayers.
Children should be encouraged to participate in sports – but at the same time not feel pressured to join a religious organization in order to play sports, especially when they are enrolled in public charter schools like Harmony and Kipp.
The Texas Christian Athletic League has a very specific agenda and purpose – it's a Christian based league that espouses Christian values and expects its member to abide by its credo. That's perfectly fine for students who attend private schools that are not funded with tax payer funds; but it is not suitable for schools subsidized with federal and state funds to participate in what is clearly a defined religious organization and in violation of the separation between church and state.
Below is a link to the TCAL's constitution and bylaws:
http://t-cal.org.ismmedia.com/ISM3/std-content/repos/Top/2011/About%20Us%20and%20Forms/TCAL_Manual%20ConstitutionBylawsRev%20June2012.pdf
Below is an excerpt from the T-CAL Constitution:
*Our Vision*
*"We dedicate ourselves to encourage Christian values and expect nothing
less than*
*athletic and academic excellence. We shall endeavor to use all means
including*
*ministry programs to develop character in the students, teachers, and
coaches in*
*our league. In so doing, it is our commitment to foster a spirit of fair
play, TRUE*
*sportsmanship, and wholesome competition for young men and women."*
*"God's Standard is…Excellence
To read the entire TCAL membership set of guidelines go to the following website:
http://t-cal.org.ismmedia.com/ISM3/std-content/repos/Top/2013-2014%20TCAL%20Alignments%20w%20Info%20Updated%209-20.pdf
Below is an excerpt from the Firstamendment.org website describing in detail the specific legalities of the 1st Amendment as it relates to the separation of church and state and how publicly funded charter schools like the Harmony and Kipp schools are violating federal and state policies by entering into an agreement with Texas-Christian Athletic League known as T-CAL. http://t-cal.org/ :
"The First Amendment says nothing about 'separation of church and state' or a 'wall of separation between church and state.' Where did this idea come from? Is it really part of the law?
Although the words 'separation of church and state' do not appear in the First Amendment, the establishment clause was intended to separate church from state. When the First Amendment was adopted in 1791, the establishment clause applied only to the federal government, prohibiting the federal government from any involvement in religion. By 1833, all states had disestablished religion from government, providing protections for religious liberty in state constitutions. In the 20th century, the U.S. Supreme Court applied the establishment clause to the states through the 14th Amendment. Today, the establishment clause prohibits all levels of government from either advancing or inhibiting religion.
The establishment clause separates church from state, but not religion from politics or public life. Individual citizens are free to bring their religious convictions into the public arena. But the government is prohibited from favoring one religious view over another or even favoring religion over non-religion.
What general principles should public schools and religious communities follow when entering into a cooperative arrangement?
In these guidelines, a "cooperative arrangement" is defined as a shared participation in specific programs and activities in accordance with a written agreement. Before entering into a cooperative arrangement, public schools and religious communities should understand and accept the following principles:
1. Under the First Amendment, public schools must be neutral concerning religion in all of their activities. School officials must take the necessary steps to ensure that any cooperative activities that take place are wholly secular. Persons invited to address students during the school day shall be advised of this requirement and must agree to abide by it before being allowed access to students.
2. Students have the right to engage in, or decline to engage in, religious activities at their own initiative, so long as they do not interfere with the rights of others. School districts are urged to adopt policies that reflect recent consensus statements on current law concerning religion in public schools. "Religion in the Public Schools: A Joint Statement of Current Law," the U.S. Department of Education's guidelines on "Religious Expression in Public Schools," and other consensus guidelines are available: Write to the First Amendment Center Online to request copies.
3. Cooperative programs between religious institutions and the public schools are permissible only if:
· Participation in programs is not limited to religious groups. That is, schools must be open to participation by all responsible community groups. Qualifications should not be established which have the practical effect of including only religious groups. Eligibility shall be stated in writing.
· A student's grades, class ranking or participation in any school program will not be affected by his or her willingness to participate or not participate in a cooperative program with a religious institution.
· Student participation in any cooperative program may not be conditioned on membership in any religious group, acceptance or rejection of any religious belief, or participation (or refusal to participate) in any religious activity. "
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faq/frequently-asked-questions-religious-liberty


Former Norwalk Mayor Frank Esposito's funeral is held on Monday January 14, 2013 at St. Matthews Church in Norwalk, Conn.
NORWALK -- Former Mayor Frank Esposito, who served a record seven terms as the city's top elected official, was remembered Monday for his love and understanding of people, decades of public service and accomplishments, and fun-loving personality.
"Public service is not easy, and on the local level, it can be very difficult," said former Mayor Frank Zullo, one of two elected officials who delivered eulogies during Esposito's Mass of Christian Burial in St. Matthew's Church on Scribner Avenue.
City residents who support a mayor's decision don't have long memories, while those who oppose the decision never forget, Zullo said. He said mayors, unlike elected officials at the state and federal levels, are not insulated from their constituents, but must be prepared to justify their decisions to constituents "at every turn."
Still, Esposito won seven elections in a row, serving as mayor from 1987 to 2001, a record Zullo said he doubts anyone else will achieve.
"That says it all," he said.
State Rep. Lawrence Cafero Jr., who also delivered a eulogy, said Esposito had "incredible knowledge" of people and human nature, and knew how to bring people together and negotiate settlements. He noted Esposito was not a man of great wealth or lengthy formal education, but his "wealth and success was measured by how much he loved and how much he was loved by others, and, by that measure, Frank was the richest and most powerful man in the world."
The Rev. Walter Orlowski, pastor of St. Matthew's Church, said people always knew where Esposito stood on issues and many city residents remarked at Esposito's wake on Sunday that when they called his office and reached his secretary, Esposito always called back that afternoon. Orlowski said Esposito "understood his role in life: to serve God's people to the best of his ability."
Orlowski said Esposito, who was married for 62 years to Louise Esposito, was devoted to God and always attended Mass.
"He believed in his God, he trusted in his God," Orlowski said, adding that the former mayor never complained during his illness. He said Esposito understood the end of his life was just a new beginning.
"Today, Frank knows the face of God," Orlowski said.
Cafero said Esposito never wore that love on his sleeve. But Cafero said he often saw Esposito resort to silent prayer for guidance and wisdom.
Esposito's accomplishments as mayor included building a parking garage for rail commuters, raising the city's bond rating to the top AAA through sound financial management, leading the effort for a $50 million upgrade to Norwalk's sewage treatment plant and moving the Department of Public Work's garage from Matthews Park so a children's museum and playground could be built on that property, Zullo said.
Zullo said Esposito also designated a new site for the Norwalk Police Department, closed the city dump, which was near Interstate 95 and the last thing visitors saw of the city when entering or leaving it, and supported The Maritime Aquarium at a time when it wasn't that popular. "Frank saw the need for that center and supported it, and thank God because it's one of the rocks of South Norwalk," Zullo said.
"He knew how to work behind the scenes and across the aisle. Keep in mind he did all of this while still maintaining a very reasonable tax rate," Zullo said.
Esposito also had a fun-loving side, which Zullo and Cafero recalled in anecdotes that gave a glimpse into Esposito's sense of humor.
Cafero recalled going with Esposito to Hartford to ask then-Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. for more money for the city and that Weicker, whose idea of a state income tax had been opposed by Esposito, launched into a tirade filled with colorful language. "We could not get out of there quickly enough," Cafero said. "Just as we got out, Frank said, `I forgot my coat in his office,' and he sent me in to get it."
Zullo recalled a time when he and Esposito stood by a table of hors d'oeuvres during a function and a woman walked up and asked who they were. Esposito took both of her hands in his and introduced himself as Frank Zullo. The woman, Zullo said, replied that she had wanted to meet Zullo for a long time and believed that he was the best mayor the city ever had.
"For the first time I knew Frank, he was completely speechless," Zullo said.
Zullo said Esposito, who served in the Korean War and on the city's Common Council and state's General Assembly, dedicated his adult life "to make Norwalk a better place for all of us and for future generations.
Zullo said a good man must die, but his death cannot erase his good name or memory. "All who knew him and worked for him are better for that experience," he said.
Esposito's 90-minute service included the hymns, and his coffin was brought out of the church to an organist's rendition of "My Way," which Cafero said was Esposito's favorite song.
"There's a little piece of each and every one of us that is missing today, and the shine of our beloved Norwalk has lost a little luster," Cafero said. "Rest in peace, my dear friend. We'll see you soon."


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The Erie BayHawks won their third straight game Thursday night as five players scored in double figures to help down the Maine Red Claws, 118-105.
Erie (27-13) jumped out to an early lead behind Ivan Johnson's 10 first quarter points to hold a six point lead at the end of the first frame. The BayHawks lead grew to just eight after a balanced second quarter to enter halftime up 56-48.
Nate Linhart lead a big Erie third quarter as he scored 11 of his 16 points to help Erie grow its lead to 14 points entering the final frame. Erie then put away the Red Claws in the fourth as their lead grew to as many as 18 points and they cruised to another home win to improve to 15-4 at Tullio Arena.
Johnson, the team's leading scorer, once again was tops for Erie with 27 points. Blake Ahearn, who returned after missing three games, dropped in 18 points off the bench, and Linhart had the game's only double-double as he grabbed 10 points to go along with his 16 points. Jermaine Beal added 17 for Erie and Erik Daniels notched 12 in his second game back with the team. Toronto center, Solomon Alabi, had eight points and six rebounds in his first game back on assignment.
Maine (14-27) was led by DeShawn Sims and Kenny Hayes who each scored 21, Jamar Smith added 17, Magnum Rolle notched 13 and Bamba Fall added 11.
Erie hits the road for their longest road trip of the season as they first head to Iowa to take on the conference leading Energy on Sunday. Maine returns home to face Fort Wayne on Sunday.


Registration for the WOTFA workshop and Fiddle camp was opened on April 1st, per our tradition registration opens the first Monday in April. If you have not registered yet use this link Fiddle Camp Registration to select your class now. Classes fill up quickly, so don't delay.
We will be at the Moses Lake Christian Academy again this year. Class dates are July 15-19, 2019. As a reminder we are unable to park on the side of the buildings or plug into the event center so we have a limited amount of plug ins and they will be for medical needs first. Please contact us ASAP if you are in need of power.
Please make one order per family(*) then follow the link in your order confirmation to fill out a registration form per student to match the classes you just paid for. PayPal** is the preferred method and you don't need to have a PayPal account to use this option. If you don't feel comfortable making a payment online, you can still send a check but please include a $5 processing fee. The order total will not reflect the additional $5 so please remember to add that before mailing your check to Corrine. (Her address will be emailed to you) Finalize your order and follow the link in your order confirmation as previously mentioned.
If you are one of the lucky and have a scholarship, you will place your order just like everyone else and select scholarship as your payment method. *If you have some students in your family that have scholarships and some that don't, please place separate orders. One for the students without scholarships and one order for the ones with scholarships.
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Click on "Registration" in the Menu.
Click on the Category (i.e. Fiddle, Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, or Kids) and select the class you are interested in. You can also order your Camp shirt/hoodie at this time as well.
Select from the drop down menu whether the student is an Adult or Youth and then "Add to Cart".
Repeat steps 3 & 4 for each student in your family. For those taking two ½ day classes, please verify that one is AM and one is PM.
Once all the classes have been added to your Cart you may proceed to the "Checkout".
Select your payment method (i.e. PayPal**, Check (additional $5), or Scholarship) and Complete your order.
You will receive an email confirmation with one more step to fill out a registration for each student.
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Bad news. The company behind Project Bloodhound has run out of money. In a statement released this morning, Bloodhound Programme Ltd said it was entering administration.
The funds needed to progress from here, while a long way from insignificant, are a drop in the ocean of those needed to run an F1 team. Bloodhound believes that taking the Land Speed Record beyond 1288kph (it's currently held by Thrust SSC at 1228kph) will cost around £15 million (R283m), while £25 million (R472m) would be needed to take the record beyond 1600kph
The British project to break the 1600kph barrier on an 17km long, 17km-wide track in the South African desert began in 2007. With support from partners such as Rolex, Rolls-Royce (the one that builds aeroplane engines) the Ministry of Defence and donations from individual members of the public, last year the possible record-breaker hit 320kph in tests at Newquay Airport in Cornwall. From 100kph onwards, it maintained a more-or-less constant rate of acceleration, adding 50kph every second.
Although the car is fully built, having run at Newquay this time last year, lack of funds mean the project has had to be put on ice until further investment can be found.
It's not just the car itself that's ready to roll – much of the groundwork and planning has been carried out too. At Hakskeen Pan in the Northern Cape area of South Africa, an 18km long by 1500m wide course has been prepared and communications links arranged.
So let's hope this isn't the end of a project that has done so much to inspire children and promote STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) careers both in the UK and abroad. So if you're a serial hypercar buyer and want to invest your money in something truly, madly, deeply fast, get in touch with FRP Advisory.
Joint administrator Andrew Sheridan said: "Entering into administration provides some breathing space to identify an investor who will bring the guaranteed funding, impetus and expertise required to drive the project forward.
"We are already in discussion with a number of potential investors and would encourage any other interested party to contact us without delay." As would TG, providing you have R400 million or so buried down the back of the sofa.
Mark Chapman is the project's chief engineer. He says that with "the right support" (read lots of money), his team could be chasing the record in less than a year's time. So what are you waiting for? Get your chequebooks out. Your country needs you.
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Cape Town is one of many congested cities across the globe that wants to transform the daily commute into one that is cheaper, greener and more efficient.
Already the Mothercity is lined with 450 km of cycle lanes, and the local government is building more in order to reach its goal of having at least 8% of the city's workforce go to work on bicycles by 2032. Currently the percentage is 1%.
Transport for Cape Town aims to soon release a draft proposal for alternative methods of cultivating a cycle culture in Cape Town, in which cycling is considered a method of travel rather than merely a form of recreation. Such a culture can have economic boons that include more opportunities for bike manufacturing plants, bike-share systems, and greater interest in innovating the cycle industry.
At the Mobility Indaba in early October cycling was one of the key topics, and experts from The Netherlands – renowned for its cycling culture – were there to discuss sustainable mobility plans specific to the Cape Town terrain. Such plans included encouraging the use of non-motorised transport over private transport for school and work commutes.
Herron also pointed out the benefits of clearer roads and more accessible cycling routes to Cape Town's tourism industry, allowing tourists to access city hotspots on bikes more safely and in a way that is less taxing on the environment.


In a response written to the Atelier TM workshops asking "What is a sociable acoustic?", hosted by the Global Cities chair at Collège d'études mondiales, Paris, on 30th May and 13th June 2017, Richard Sennett develops his theory on open cities to show how the porosity of urban form can be thought of in sonic as much as spatial terms.
The city is a good home for what Immanuel Kant called in 1784 the "twisted timber" of humanity. A truly open urban place is full of people who differ economically, ethnically, politically, or in ways of life — all packed together. Should this crookedness be straightened? Hitler's architect Albert Speer thought so; he sought the re-cast the streets, parks, offices, and houses of Berlin in an orderly Nazi mould. Today, other forces are doing the work of straightening. Economic inequality, ever increasing, undoes previously mixed neighbourhoods; racial, ethnic, and religious groups live as segregated lives in the mid-20th Century. Straightening can be sought as well as imposed: the most popular housing today lies inside gated communities. It's come to seem normal and natural that people who differ should live apart.
Kant, I think, would not like much what's happened to today's cities; he wrote that "out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." He counselled that the good citizen, following this precept, should accept as they are those neighbours who differ without trying to "straighten" them; he believed that diverse people could live peacefully together; he imagined that people might even enjoy a crooked place, with all its nooks and byways of unexpected experience. Rather than the arid Reasoner depicted in school text-books, he subscribed to the ideal of a society able to dwell in complexity.
Can people who differ in fact live together? That promise seems faint, because powerful forces keep people isolated or disconnected. Wealth inequalities isolate people; racial, ethnic and religious divisions set them at odds. High-tech can lighten the weight of difference: if you don't like what you experience on-line, click and go to the next window. Affirmations of difference have become similarly light-weight, the terms "multi-cultural" or "inclusive" being now worn-out clichés. And spiritually, the fractious, complicated, messy street seems no place to put oneself in order, no site in which to find inner balance. Or is it?
I am going to argue it is. An open city would be a good place in which to live: economically more just, socially more engaging, personally more character-forming than existing reality. When arguing for a near-impossibility, the usual thing is to maintain that existing reality has such deep cracks and defects that only a panacea will do. But this policy way of thinking can be self-defeating; the critic can become stuck in sheer critique. of existing reality, or depressed by its sheer weight. The alternative is to explore an ideal in itself so that it becomes common-sensicle, comprehensible, tangible, reasonable, and so, perhaps, compelling. That's the journey I want to take: to imagine what an open city could be like and how to build it.
The creation of a complex city requires more than sheer good will. It entails developing certain skills which enable people who differ to co-exist; Kant's ideal, cosmopolitan citizens have learned how to handle complexity. Nor does a complex built environment, which fosters these dwelling-skills, just happen; it has to be designed in certain ways. To make cities as I imagine Kant would like them to be — diverse, complex, cosmopolitan– means focusing on the relation of how people live to the built form of the city.
One spatial condition which helps us engage actively with openness in the city is the edge condition. At the cellular level, the difference is between the cell membrane, which is a border, and the cell wall, which establishes a boundary. The cell wall functions as a container holding things in, while the membrane is at once porous and resistant, letting matter flow in and out of the cell, but selectively, so that the cell can retain what it needs for nourishment. This is an ambiguous distinction at the cellular level, in part because cell linings can sometimes switch function; again a wholly-sealed wall would cause the cell to die. But the difference, in degree, between wall and membrane is important for our understanding of "openness" as a condition: it is never simply free flow, it resembles the membrane in combining porosity and resistance. This ambiguous condition which has great consequences for more complex structures.
If we make a big mental leap from cells to natural ecologies, we find the difference between borders and boundaries to take on a new character. Now the boundary-edge, as in the marking of territorial edges by tigers or bears, become zones of low interaction between species, whereas border edges, as in the meeting of water and land along the sea-shore, are high activity zones, places where creatures feed off other species and where the pace of evolution speeds up. The contrast between cell wall and cell membrane becomes, in natural ecologies, the difference between less intense and more intense life.
Steven Gould draws our attention to an important distinction in natural ecologies between two kinds of edges: boundaries and borders. The boundary is an edge where things end; the border is an edge where difference groups interact. At borders, organisms become more inter-active, due to the meeting of different species or physical conditions; for instance, where the shoreline of a lake meets solid land is an active zone of exchange where organisms find and feed off other organisms. Not surprisingly, it is also at the borderline where the work of natural selection is the most intense. Whereas the boundary is a guarded territory, as established by prides of lions or packs of wolves. No transgression at the boundary: Keep Out! Which means the edge itself is dead.
Let's make a further large leap. This ecological difference marks human communities, too. Gated housing estates, isolated business campuses, shopping malls places surrounded by boundaries. These are in one way low-intensity habitats, because they are not much stimulated by difference. They have a single function and that's that. Left-wing planners like myself are tempted simply to open them open, letting all sorts of "inappropriate" activities and people seep in, but it's not quite so simple. The model of the cell membrane cautions against taking sheer openness and lack of barriers as the corrective; there must be some combination of porosity and resistance, as in a mixed street of shops, flats, and small businesses, each distinct in purpose and activity within, yet contributing to the mix of people out on the street. We commonly say such compound places are "full of life" and that's more than a metaphor; it reflects a certain kind of edge.
This combination marks the experience organisms have ecologically at the border's edge, and defines the condition of openness, then, in human systems. Urban design provides examples of how porosity and resistance can combine.
If you think of a medieval urban wall like that surrounding Avignon, for instance, you might imagine from its stony bulk this wall to be an impenetrable barrier, a boundary of the most life-ending sort. You see it as inert and you don't much think about using it. In fact, Avignon's walls, far from the centre, were places where Jews, prostitutes, and other outcasts tended to congregate, places as well where the unregulated black economy of the city flourished. Their inhabitants needed to know how to navigate these forbidden, complicated, often dangerous edges; more precisely, the inhabitants needed to become skilled in dealing with ambiguities of policing, black-market trading, and squatting at the wall. Knowing how to make the space work made the solid wall function as a membrane.
Just as in stone, so in sound. A sonic boundary would be one which divides an absolutely silent place from a place full of noise: in construction, that would mean triple-plated glass windows or thick floors and walls; in design, it would mean the removal of sleeping quarters far from the places in which people are active during the day. In urbanism, the sonic boundary suggests, removal of the domestic sphere from the convivial or the productive spheres. "Peace and quiet" are the ideology justifying sonic boundaries.
A noise wall-membrane is the structure or the spatial passage which mediates between different levels of sound. it is the zone, that it, in which we sense how complex the soundscape of a city to be. Emerging from the Metro or passing between inside and out buildings we sense how much difference it contains – a heightened awareness which disappears as we describe underground or close the door. Correspondingly, this heightened awareness diminishes by becoming pasteurized as the ear adjusts to sounds in space. The membrane is the site of heightened sensory life.
The assemblage of visual complexity occurs by paying attention to events and images at the edges of vision, rather than focusing the field to a centre. So too in the acoustic realm. Dissonant sounds. as in a baby crying somewhere out of sight, or sounds with different rhythms, as with the speech of people audible far away, are more important in creating sonic an experience of complexity that immediate sounds.
Here, we are focusing on the edge condition, the periphery of sensation, the liminal state. William James is the source of what's sometimes called the "spotlight" version of focal attention, in which the brain lights up a central object, problem, person, to dwell on, and pushes aside objects, problems, or persons who seem, as we say casually, not central to the problem at hand. A variant of this Jamesian idea is that the brain "zooms in" on a problem, magnifying it, again pushing other material out of focus. This is the opposite of liminality.
Liminality can take on a deeper character in social experience. When people make the transition from one kind of experience to another, they often become aware of a dissonance or difference; this happens to children in the the transition from dealing with parents to dealing with teachers; as adults, we feel the transit from an initial sexual encounter to a long-term love. It is a rough passage rather than smooth, an ueberbruchen. The liminal passage forms a kind of "transitional consciousness." R.W. Winnicott first alerted psychologists to the importance of transitional moments which establish the borders between experience for children. Some recent studies of long-term memory compliment this, pointing to the ability of elderly people to recall sharply moments of shift in their lives, even as the contents within each time layer have become fuzzy. Think, in a related vein, of the stimulations of shift, the provocations of transition, which occur in the poetry of Rimbaud or Rilke. The marker of value in all these cases is a rupture, a tear in experience, rather than a smooth shift of scene, which creates than edge of experience.
A big issue in urbanism today how to design just that provocation. It matters because we want to counter that design of cities which separates and isolates different functions and different kinds of people; in place of clarity, liminality. This is true of the eye, and of the ear.


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Odd Tornado Damage (1 Viewer)
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Kevinoz10
Huron, Ohio 44839
I do have a few questions on violent tornadoes, is how granulation happens (I assume just from the high winds just pulverizing debris) as well as how windrowing occurs (I would assume due to sub vortexes)
Also I would love to see any odd photos of tornado damage any of you may have, I'm always in awe of what they can do
Riverside, Ohio
I thought this was sort of interesting. It's from the recent tri-state EF4 in Leachville, AR. Only one tree in a row of pine trees has been debarked, and it's probably no coincidence that it appears to be the only tree wrapped in sheet metal. The sheet metal probably acted like a potato peeler to that tree. This is among the most severe debarking I've seen next to a building that still has walls standing.
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buckeye05 said:
I thought this was sort of interesting. It's from the recent tri-state EF4 in Leachville, AR. Only one tree in a row pine trees has been debarked, and it's probably no coincidence that it appears to be the only tree wrapped in sheet metal. The sheet metal probably acted like a potato peeler to the trees. This is among the most severe debarking I've seen next to a building that still has walls standing.
That is amazing that it debarked the one tree, and left the rest alone and didn't destroy the building in the process
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You'll find a lot of photos of odd/extreme high-end damage in this thread:
Significant Tornado Events
(My apologies if there's already a thread in this vein; I checked but I didn't find one.) So, once upon a time, Talkweather was host to a pretty swell thread called "Significant Tornado Events." I'm sure some of y'all will remember. Full disclosure: I think I initially started the thread in a...
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I know these have been posted before, but I can't help but mention them again.
Also it wouldn't let me post the photo for some reason, but there was a hose impaled through a tree at one location as well.
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ARRL Member
No photo evidence, but some hearsay.
Martin Lisius, who chased the 1995 Hoover TX tornado, meant this
I just can't figure out how powerful the winds were that could impelled mosquitos into trees.
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I thought this was sort of interesting. It's from the recent tri-state EF4 in Leachville, AR. Only one tree in a row of pine trees has been debarked, and it's probably no coincidence that it appears to be the only tree wrapped in sheet metal. The sheet metal probably acted like a potato peeler to the trees. This is among the most severe debarking I've seen next to a building that still has walls standing.
Similar to this from Hattisburg 2013. One almost fully debarked trees near EF1 damage
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One children's play set was left almost untoched in Joplin. For a comparsion, the same type of thing almost got pulled out in Pilger.
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locomusic01
Kevinoz10 said:
Yeah, debris granulation is pretty much just stuff gettin' smashed up real good. The debris itself can also add to the tornado's destructive force, so it's a bit of a feedback loop at a certain point - ground-up debris gets entrained into the tornado, which smashes up more stuff, which creates more debris, etc.
Regarding windrowing, it can be associated with subvortices but isn't always. Basically what happens is that there's a part of the vortex called the corner flow region, which is where the horizontal/radial inflow abruptly shoots vertically into the updraft. If the winds in this corner flow region are really intense, they sort of collect the debris that's being generated and deposit it in convergent streaks. The same thing can happen w/subvortices as well, just on a smaller scale and in multiple streaks.
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pohnpei said:
Yeah. It is worth mentioning that in both cases, these were softwoods/pine trees, which seem to be much more prone to debarking. While severe debarking is usually a very reliable indicator of a violent tornado, I have learned to ignore cases where one single tree is debarked but surrounded by many others that aren't. It usually suggests a defect or extensive debris impacts to that one particular tree.
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locomusic01 said:
Thank you a ton on that information! I'm still trying to learn as much as I can about tornadoes. I know the very basics, but I'm starting to get more in depth with them, the December outback really got me re-interested in them
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Taylor Campbell
Wedowee, AL
NWS Little Rock, AR - Severe Weather on February 5, 2008 (Stories)
Most of the stories were similar. Some people lost their vehicles; that is, the vehicles were thrown so far they have not been found. Others found vehicles they did not own...the vehicles came to rest on their property. Check receipts and bills were carried for miles, with paperwork from Atkins (Pope County) found in Clinton (Van Buren County) and farther upstream. Tin was found in areas where no buildings made of tin existed. And hundreds of livestock and thousands of chickens were killed.
There were bizarre stories as well. At Clinton (Van Buren County), two people were huddled around a commode in the bathroom before the storm arrived. After the storm departed, the bathroom was gone and so was the commode...but the people were still there (and only had minor injuries). Also at Clinton (Van Buren County), a lady had small pieces of newspaper buried in her leg...and the print could be read just under her skin.
Taylor Campbell said:
Some impressive stuff has come out about that tornado (in addition to its >120-mile track). Arkansas' "other" (E)F5 candidate of relativity recent times, but unlike Vilonia there was nothing really egregiously lowballed/overlooked in the survey.
The Brimfield tornado drove a screwdriver into a tree.
What I also find interesting about this home is that it appears to be a slider home, despite being anchored to its foundation:
And might as well mention another 2011 tornado.
Barnesville stuffed paper into a tree:
And this is a garage door, which was apparently found several weeks after the tornado:
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TH2002 said:
Looking at the pics provided, it makes me wonder how well-connected to said anchoring that house's frame actually was, in order for it to basically slide right off of it regardless!
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Tennie said:
My guess is the wall studs weren't adequately connected to the sill plates (apparently the case with that one home the NWS didn't bother to survey in Chapman?)
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eric11 said:
Probably as powerful as the same kinds of winds that can drive pine needles into tree trunks or leaves into trunks (Tupelo and Smithville did stuff like this).
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Saragosa drove this fork into a completely debarked tree:
Greensburg did this with a license plate:
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KevinH
Does anyone have any pictures of windrowing?
KevinH said:
Andover is the most remarkable example I've ever seen:
A few others that come to mind - Niles-Wheatland:
Joplin near Duquesne & E 20th:
Hackleburg:
Rainsville:
Smithville:
The 7/13/04 Roanoke F4 also comes to mind because it was easily visible from ground level:
There are lots of other examples but these were just the ones that came to mind. I'll look through my collection later and find some better ones.


The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) is contesting the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) decision to furlough its Market News Service employees as part of the federal government shutdown.
The Market News Service publishes live hog and pork pricing information. NPPC said the industry considers the Mandatory Price Reporting daily reports essential because the information serves as a reference point for buyers and sellers. The agency stopped publishing the reports because market news was deemed "non-essential" under USDA's shutdown contingency plans.
"NPPC is looking at all available options, including asking the Obama administration to declare Mandatory Price Reporting 'essential' since it is mandatory," said David Warner, director of communications for NPPC.
The American Sheep Industry Association (ASI) joined in the request of USDA for a limited resumption of mandatory price reports for lamb to provide accurate market information and support for LRP-lamb insurance.
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OU daily e-mail on commandments is coming
By	Marcy Oster	 March 23, 2010 10:46 pm
(JTA) — A daily e-mail about the 613 commandments will soon be available under a new initiative by the Orthodox Union.
Taryag, the acronym for 613, will provide a daily e-mail with a concise but insightful explanation of a Torah commandment, according to an OU news release.
Rabbi Jack Abramowitz, OU associate director of the Pepa and Rabbi Joseph Karasick Department of Synagogue Services, will author the explanations.
The daily e-mails will become available after Shavuot; enrollment is at www.ou.org/taryag.
The OU already provides daily online lessons in Nach Yomi, the biblical books of the Prophets, and Shnayim Mikra, an online Torah-study program.


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Sandy throws wrench into city stimulus plan
Annie Karni
Last October, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, flanked by City Comptroller John Liu and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, stood at City Hall and announced a plan to accelerate funding for more than $1 billion of infrastructure projects, including waterfront construction, road and bridge repairs and street construction. The idea was to take advantage of low construction costs and interest rates, and to create jobs in the lagging construction industry.
Sandy has changed that picture dramatically.
Cheap construction has given way to rising prices on goods like drywall and pine lumber, which are becoming scarce as FEMA tries to help New Yorkers clear debris and repair or rebuild about 70,000 destroyed and damaged homes. At Feldman Lumber in Brooklyn, prices for treated materials like plywood have already gone up about 15% and are expected to rise more, owner Robert Feldman said.
"Every union member is working," said Lou Coletti, president of the Building Trades Employers' Association, which represents 17,000 union contractors. His phone lines have been flooded with calls from contractors who want to participate in the city's "rapid repairs" program, announced last Friday, under which FEMA pays for contractors to do work on electricity and plumbing repairs and rebuild homes that can still be salvaged.
Mr. Coletti said the building trade unions were bringing in additional help from other parts of the country when they're needed, and even coordinating with national supply distributors. "No one wanted the construction industry to come back like this, but it has," he said, referring to the storm's destruction.
Despite the changed environment, a spokesman for Mr. Liu said "the plan remains the same" for moving up construction. "Relatively low construction costs was one of the factors, as were the historically low interest rates and the need to spur job creation," he said.
The Bloomberg administration, which on Monday announced an emergency plan to make $500 million in repairs to public schools and public hospitals damaged by Hurricane Sandy, said in a statement, "The accelerated projects are and remain independent of the emergency spending we must do now to repair infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Sandy."
A spokesman for Ms. Quinn did not immediately return requests for comment.
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Dow does not publish the price of each solar shingle. They are available through select roofers for NEW roof projects only. Based on news reports, the estimated cost for solar shingles and an energy converter box (see inverters) is from $15,000 to $20,000. That is for a for a 3kW PV system using about 300 solar shingles; It does NOT include labor and installation costs. The solar shingle price comes to at least $5 per watt, or more than double the cost of a traditional PV system. Compare this to low priced 3kW solar PV systems starting at $5,400. CONCLUSION: SOLAR PANELS COST 1/2 THE PRICE OF DOW POWERHOUSE SHINGLES.
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The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) unveiled its line of DOW POWERHOUSE, revolutionary photovoltaic solar cells in the form of shingles that can be integrated into NEW rooftops with standard asphalt shingle materials. As of 2013, Dow Powerhouse solar shingles are available in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Washington, D.C.
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Martin R. DeHaan, M.D. was an American Bible teacher, pastor, author, and physician. Founder of Radio Bible Class. His simple granite gravestone, testifies of that great truth which he so keenly believed and fervently broadcast around the world.
Dr. Martin R. DeHaan was a successful physician in western Michigan when he obtained a degree in theology. He left his medical practice to pastor churches and then formed a Bible study ministry.
Later he expanded the Bible study to radio and founded Radio Bible Class in 1938. Dr. DeHaan spoke to millions of listeners each week for some twenty-seven years on the Radio Bible Class. His academic training included a degree from Hope College, a medical degree from the University of Illinois Medical College, and further study at Western Theological Seminary. He was the author of more than twenty books and countless daily devotionals in Our Daily Bread, published by RBC Ministries of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Humility is something we should constantly pray for, yet never thank God that we have.
The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.
Why God should choose the meanest, basest, most unworthy individuals with absolutely nothing to commend them at all to God, except their miserable, lost condition, and then exalt them to become the sons of God, members of the divine family, and use them for His glory, is beyond all reason and human understanding. Yet that is grace.
No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word with all simplicity. A thousand years means a thousand years; a wolf means a wolf; a lion means a lion. If you read your Bible that way, a child can understand it.
The Bible claims for itself that it is a "living" Book and the only living Book in the world and is able to impart life to those who will believe with their hearts what it teaches.
The argument that the language of the Authorized Version is archaic and outdated might carry some weight if the new translations were really an improvement in clarity and easier to understand. However the very opposite is the case in most instances.


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The Recliner Commentaries: Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?
In the last 30 years scholars have spent an enormous amount of time studying Jesus of Nazareth from a purely historical perspective, and there is a good chance that the real Jesus was not like you imagine. On one end of the spectrum there is the Jesus of popular Evangelical Christianity. Some Evangelicals seem to think of Jesus as their "co-pilot" or buddy, the epitome of understanding and tolerance. They often treat him as if he were a heavenly Santa Clause who exists solely to grant their wishes. "Sweet Jesus" or "Beautiful One" are words sometimes sung in worship of him.
The real Jesus was much more down to earth. He was an itinerant Jewish prophet, which meant that he and his disciples traveled from town to town along dirty, dusty, and sometimes muddy roads. Bathing was a luxury that Jesus and his disciples probably rarely enjoyed by today's standards, and they almost certainly did not shave or brush their teeth. They were often dirty, sweaty, and stinky. It is unlikely that "sweet" or "beautiful" were among the first words that came to mind when encountering Jesus on one of those roads. In other words, the image of a nicely groomed and squeaky clean Jesus is the stuff of pious imagination.
Suppose, however, we just allowed the earliest historical sources to speak for themselves. The following broad picture would emerge: Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher / prophet—on this virtually all scholars agree. Jewish prophets, like Elijah or Isaiah, for example, were known for calling people to turn from their sins back to God, and Jesus was no different in this respect. Among the sins he specifically condemned were "evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly." In Jesus' famous "Sermon on the Mount" he even addressed sinful attitudes like hypocrisy, self-righteousness, lust, hatred and refusal to forgive others.
There have undoubtedly been many fiery preachers, however, who have been lost to history. Among the things that made Jesus so memorable were the shocking claims that led to his death. In fact, because of these claims, Jesus was accused by Jewish authorities of blasphemy and was turned over to the Romans on charges of sedition!
According to our earliest sources, the blasphemy charges came from the fact that Jesus' words and actions implied that he thought of himself as nothing less than the embodiment of God! For example in one source, Jesus is said to have claimed God as his Father saying "I and my Father are one" and "Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father." That Jesus actually held this view is collaborated in other sources in which he is said to have claimed things for himself that in his culture were only believed to be true of God. For example, he claimed to be able to grant forgiveness of sin, and that he was "lord" of the Sabbath Day. He claimed that he would one day judge the living and the dead at the final judgment. The Jews in Jesus' culture believed these things were only true of God. That Jesus' contemporaries understood exactly what he was claiming is clear from the fact that on more than one occasion they unsuccessfully attempted to kill him for blasphemy because, in their words, "you, a mere man, claim to be God." In fact, the religious leaders charged him with blasphemy at his trial.
Of course the Romans who ruled the country would care nothing about Jewish religious concerns of blasphemy so the religious leaders needed something that would get the attention of the Roman governor. Instead of charging Jesus with blasphemy, therefore, they sent him to the governor on charges of sedition. Jewish people in Jesus' time were expecting a Messiah or Christ (a "king of kings") to deliver them from their oppressive Roman overlords. Since the Romans would probably have imprisoned or executed anyone publicly claiming to be a Messiah, Jesus was careful about how he approached this topic in public—but that is precisely who he claimed to be during his trials. The Jewish leadership, therefore, sent him to the Roman governor on charges of sedition, i.e. for claiming to be King of the Jews. The Roman governor ordered that Jesus be tortured to death by nailing him alive to a cross.
We might have expected that this would be the end of the story. After all, there was nothing out of the ordinary about the crucifixion of Jewish "trouble-makers"—literally thousands of Jews were crucified in the first century. More importantly, others had also claimed to be messiahs but when they were executed their movements always died with them. That is because many Jewish people thought the messiah would deliver Israel from foreign rule. It was simply assumed that an executed "messiah" could not possibly have been the real deal.
In Jesus' case, however, not only did his followers continue to believe even after his death, but the Jesus' movement actually grew significantly! In fact, these followers even began worshipping Jesus—something truly surprising in a monotheistic culture that believed in only one God!
All of this raises the historical question of why anyone would continue to believe in, much less worship, an apparently failed messiah who had been crucified. Crucifixion, after all, was considered a very shameful way to die so getting someone to believe in a crucified messiah would be a huge obstacle, not to mention a terrible marketing strategy!
It is not surprising, therefore, that most people did not believe in Jesus. His enemies thought he was blasphemer or demon-possessed or even crazy—which is exactly what one might expect of someone who made the kind of claims about himself that Jesus reportedly made. In other words, the story makes sense historically.
Those who continued to believe in Jesus after his death did so for several reasons. First, they were convinced that Jesus had done phenomenal signs and wonders. There are no ancient records of anyone denying that Jesus had done amazing wonders. His enemies claimed that his miracles were magic tricks or that he did them by the power of Satan. His followers countered that no one had ever done the kinds of amazing things Jesus had done!
Second, Jesus' earliest followers believed in Jesus because they were convinced that he had fulfilled Jewish prophecies that had been written down hundreds of years before Jesus' time. For example, they believed that Jesus' birth in Bethlehem, his lineage from King David, his miracles, and numerous events surrounding his death and burial were all fulfillments of ancient prophecies of a coming messiah.
Finally, his followers believed in him because they were absolutely convinced that he had come back to life after having been dead and entombed. Our sources do not portray this as merely a vision or a hallucination. They say Jesus' disciples conversed with him, touched him and even ate with him after his resurrection. Even highly skeptical scholars generally agree that Jesus' earliest followers were absolutely convinced that Jesus had risen from the dead (the skeptics are quick to add, however, that this is impossible since dead people never come back to life).
Christians later in the first century could also point to the fact that Jesus had predicted the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple, which actually came to pass forty years after Jesus' death. So for whatever reasons, Jesus' followers were so convinced that he really was who he claimed to be that they risked everything, including imprisonment, torture, and even death to follow Jesus.
So what were some of those commands? Jesus taught that people must repent of their sinfulness. They must love God even more than they love to live and they must love their neighbors—and even their enemies—as they love themselves. Jesus expected his followers to treat others as they themselves would want to be treated. His followers were to strive to live a lifestyle of compassion, love, generosity, forgiveness, worship and prayer. They were to be honest, ethical, moral and merciful. They were to encourage others, make peace and make disciples. They were to avoid sin like the plague and to sincerely repent when they failed!
But following Jesus went deeper than just obeying some rules. Jesus taught his disciples that love for God and his kingdom was to be their highest priority. Jesus taught that God's kingdom was even more important than their closest relatives and loved ones. On this much, even most critical scholars agree. What many critics miss, however, is that Jesus claimed to be the king of that kingdom. Putting the kingdom first, meant putting the King first—and Jesus and his followers believed that Jesus was that King.
With teaching like this, it is no wonder that Jesus' enemies thought he was crazy and it is no wonder that the Romans crucified him for sedition. It is also no wonder that those who believed in him would lay down their lives for him and await his promised return. Again, the story makes perfect sense historically.
But there is more. Jesus taught that unless people's righteousness exceeded that of the scribes and Pharisees they would not enter the kingdom of God. That was difficult for most of Jesus' contemporaries to comprehend because Pharisees were respected religious leaders who strived to keep all the rules—and some were apparently quite proud of it as they self-righteously looked down their noses at others!
For example, Jesus once told a story about a Pharisee and a tax collector who went to the temple to pray. In those days people looked up to Pharisees but they hated tax collectors who were hired to collect taxes for the Roman occupiers. In Jesus' story the Pharisee bragged about fasting twice a week and giving money to the poor. He thanked God that he was not like that sinful tax collector. The tax collector, on the other hand, beat his chest in remorse crying "God be merciful to me a sinner." Surprisingly, Jesus said it was the tax collector who was declared right with God and not the Pharisee! The moral of Jesus' story is that those who self-righteously come to God thinking they are good enough for God—are not good enough, and will not enter God's kingdom. Jesus taught that those who are "justified" or declared to be in right standing with God are those who come to God humbly confessing their sin and who follow Jesus in faith.
People often misunderstand the nature of this faith. The faith of which Jesus spoke was more than just mental agreement with some doctrines or dogmas. Faith involves the disposition or attitude of the heart. One of the early sources about Jesus contains a story of how Jesus was sharing a meal with a group of religious leaders when suddenly a woman came in. The woman was crying. Since she was described as a sinner in the story (four times!),and since no other reason for the tears were given, and since the ultimate result was forgiveness of her sins, readers are led to believe that the woman was sorrowfully repentant for her sin. The woman ignored the religious leaders and went straight to Jesus. Showing remarkable humility and devotion, she got down on her knees as she kissed Jesus' feet, anointed them with ointment and wiped them with her hair.
The host, a Pharisee named Simon, was indignant: If Jesus were a prophet, surely he would know this woman was a sinner and he wouldn't allow her to touch him! Jesus pointed out that when he had come in to Simon's house, Simon had not even extended the basic courtesies of hospitality to Jesus, whereas this woman had wet Jesus' feet with her tears, wiped them with her hair and anointed them with oil. Jesus said, "Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much." Then he told the woman that her faith had saved her.
But wait! What faith? Nothing in this story said anything about faith.
The story leads readers to understand that this woman's sorrow or repentance over her sin coupled with her loving devotion to Jesus is the very definition of the kind of faith necessary to enter the kingdom about which Jesus had preached so often. The actions of the woman were outward expressions of a heart of faith. The concept of faith, therefore, is very simple. It is about a relationship in which we—like the woman in the story—respond to Jesus in genuine repentance for our sin and with a heart of loving devotion to Jesus.
Like salt, faith is very simple. But just as a simple substance like salt can be broken down into the elements from which it is composed, so also saving faith can be analyzed and broken down into parts.
First, saving faith includes repentance. Repentance is a "no excuses" attitude that involves coming to grips with the fact that our sin is not just a mistake, or the result of our environment, or someone else's fault. Repentance involves a humble and sorrowful acknowledgement that we have willfully sinned against a holy God, combined with a desire to live a life that pleases God.
Second, saving faith involves recognition that our sin has destroyed our relationship with God and no amount of good deeds on our part will ever make it right. If we are going to be saved from the wrath of God at the final judgment, about which Jesus warned, it will only be by God's mercy and grace. Like the story of the Pharisee in the temple, as long as we think we are good enough for God, we will not enter God's kingdom.
Third, Jesus believed that his death would bring about forgiveness of sins for his followers. Jesus and his followers seemed to believe that Jesus was fulfilling an ancient Jewish prophecy—written hundreds of years before Jesus' time—about a "servant" of God who would be "pierced for our transgressions" or sin, and whose death would "justify many." Faith involves recognition that Jesus' death on that cross was not just Roman cruelty but was the "ransom" to pay the penalty for our sin so we could be "justified" or declared right with God.
Finally, faith involves a heart response of loving devotion to Jesus as the only one who can fix our broken relationship with God. This "love" is not some kind of gushy sentimentalism that imagines us snuggling up in Jesus' lap or some such nonsense. It is more like the undying devotion a soldier might have toward a respected general or leader—a devotion that would motivate the soldier to willingly follow that commander anywhere, even into the heat of battle. This kind of faith involves swearing allegiance, so to speak, to Jesus as the King and highest authority in our life.
First, find a Bible-believing church. You need to be associated with other believers to grow in your faith. Let the pastor know you are a new Christian and want to grow.
Second, ask your new pastor to baptize you. We don't get baptized in order to be saved—the only thing required for salvation is faith, but the idea of an unbaptized Christian would have been unthinkable to the earliest Christians. Baptism is the initial outward expression of your faith and a public indication that you are serious about your commitment to Christ.
Third, start developing a life of prayer. Prayer is not nearly as complicated as many people make it out to be. Prayer is just talking to God like you would talk to a friend. You don't need to use special religious language. You don't even need to talk out loud. Just talk. You can talk to God anytime, anyplace, about anything.
Forth, start reading the earliest sources about Jesus for yourself. You'll find most of them conveniently collected in the New Testament of the Bible. If you get a good "study Bible" the footnotes will help you better understand what you are reading. Your new pastor can recommend a good study Bible.
Finally, as you read your Bible strive to put into practice what you learn about living in obedience to Jesus the King. We don't strive to please God in order to be saved. We strive to please God in gratitude and loving response to his saving grace.
 Nearly all scholars agree that the earliest sources about Jesus—all written in the first century AD when Jesus lived—are 1) the letters of the apostle Paul, 2) the Four Gospels collected in the New Testament, 3) a lost Gospel we now call Q, though some scholars doubt this ever existed 4) other letters collected in the New Testament, 5) two short blurbs written by the Jewish historian, Josephus and 5) the letter of Clement of Rome to the Corinthians. Nearly all scholars agree that all of the so-called "lost gospels" come from at least 100 to 400 years after Jesus' time and are of little to no value in reconstructing the life of the historical Jesus.
 Matthew 10: 15; Luke 12:48.
 Luke 7:37; 39; 47, 48.
 Colossians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:1; Hebrews 3:20-21.


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Q: Book about applied linear algebra to the 3D world? I have no problem understanding the basics of the linear algebra, but I also know that the linear algebra it's still an analytical approach to real world scenarios that can be solved with matrices and vectors.
Since I'm studying linear algebra exclusively because of virtual 3D world applications, I was wondering if there is a resource that can really help me to figure out what a certain operation on a matrix means or what is the real application of a particular property for a vector.
For example I know that if a given square matrix has all zeros in a diagonal ( Conference matrix ), I can assume that, if that matrix is being applied to an euclidean space in the 3D world to a 3D object, that 3D object is aligned with the main axis.
In other words I'm looking for a book that keeps an analytical approach based on mathematical properties and offers practical geometrical applications for them.
Since the main and hardest part it's about matrices, I can also accept books only about matrices, the important thing is keeping it practical about geometries and euclidean 3D.

A: Try this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_matrix#Examples_in_2D_graphics
Some matrices include rotation, translation, shearing.
For virtual 3D world applications, you should look at computer graphics textbooks, like Computer Graphics with OpenGL by Hearn and Baker.  This book discusses in detail the transformation matrices to move vertices around, and how to project onto the computer screen, project an object's shadow onto the ground using matrices.  Fun stuff!

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    @optional(expr)

Creates multiple method signatures to allow optional arguments before required arguments.
For example:

    f(a=1, b=2, c) = ...

becomes:

    f(a, b, c) = ...
    f(a, c) = f(a, 2, c)
    f(c) = f(1, 2, c)
"""
macro optional(ex)
    esc(Expr(:block, optional(ex)...))
end

function optional(ex::Expr)
    funcs = Expr[]
    if ex.head == :function || ex.head == :(=)
        sig, body = ex.args
    else
        throw(ArgumentError("Expected expression to be a function"))
    end

    # Determine the optional arguments that occur prior to the last required argument
    dynamic = Int[]
    last_required = 0
    for (i, arg) in enumerate(sig.args)
        if isa(arg, Expr) && arg.head == :kw
            push!(dynamic, i)
        end

        if isa(arg, Symbol) || arg.head == :(::)
            last_required = i
        end
    end
    dynamic = filter(i -> i < last_required, dynamic)

    # Return early if we don't have to generate additional methods
    isempty(dynamic) && return Expr[ex]

    # Generate a new signature which converts the dynamic arguments to required arguments
    default = Array{Any}(length(dynamic))
    new_sig = Array{Any}(length(sig.args))
    for (i, arg) in enumerate(sig.args)
        if i in dynamic
            name, value = arg.args
            new_sig[i] = name
            default[findin(dynamic,i)] = value
        else
            new_sig[i] = arg
        end
    end

    # Generate the primary function
    push!(funcs, Expr(ex.head, Expr(:call, new_sig...), body))

    # Generate the
    func_call = copy(sig)
    for (i, argument) in enumerate(func_call.args)
        isa(argument, Expr) || continue

        if argument.head == :parameters
            for keyword in argument.args
                keyword.args[2] = keyword.args[1]
            end
        elseif argument.head == :(::)
            func_call.args[i] = argument.args[1]
        elseif argument.head == :kw
            if isa(argument.args[1], Symbol)
                func_call.args[i] = argument.args[1]
            else
                func_call.args[i] = argument.args[1].args[1]
            end
        end
    end

    # Generate additional methods which call the primary function
    while !isempty(dynamic)
        i = pop!(dynamic)

        deleteat!(new_sig, i)
        func_call.args[i] = pop!(default)

        push!(funcs, Expr(:(=), Expr(:call, new_sig...), Expr(:block, copy(func_call))))
    end

    return funcs
end


Starting our third season of farmers market cook classes designed to teach people fun things to do with foods they bought at the Portola Valley market.
Darn, you still need a recipe for Sunday brunch. Something different, but homey too. Oh gosh, and the new friend is a vegetarian.
We ground up tempeh (plant-based soy protein) in a food processor and marinated it in vegetable stock, soy sauce, and our local market wine, Thomas Fogarty Chardonnay. This mixed with Gallardo blanched potatoes and Whiskey Oak Steak seasoning, turned into our vegan Potato Tempeh Sausages.
Then an easy mix of cottage and ricotta cheese (the best you can find) made up the filling for our Cheese Blintzes (here made with gluten free flour and almond milk.


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Legendary Producer Bob Rock Rocks on with Celestion Guitar Speakers and Impulse Responses
"The Celestion Impulse responses are a sonic revelation…They're a must-have for pro studios and home recordings alike. This is just the beginning of the possibilities, and I'm looking forward to more speaker profiles from Celestion."
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Los Angeles, CA (November 12, 2018) — Sometimes people's names just fit. Take Canadian Music Hall of Famer Robert Jens Rock, who has lent his production acumen to so many albums by today's hardest-hitting and most successful bands that saying, "This record needs to Rock," might as well be how they come to work with him. His lifelong use of Celestion guitar speakers was a natural springboard into his recent adoption of Celestion Impulse Responses — the digitally downloadable versions of classic Celestion tones — meant for use in today's profiling amps, modeling software, and convolution-processing audio plug-ins.
"For most guitar sounds, whether it's been for James Hetfield of Metallica or Mick Mars of Mötley Crüe, the drivers in the amps have been Celestion," says Rock about two of the heavy metal juggernauts with whom he's most readily name-checked. "Whether the head is a Boogie or a Marshall, it's always Celestion in the cabinet. I like the low-powered Greenbacks in a four-by-12" configuration. Same with the Creambacks. Sometimes I also like a single 12" Red in an open cabinet. When tracking, I also like to get the guitar player really involved with getting the sound, and with Celestion speakers that process is very quick."
Sometimes, however, Rock needs to be even quicker, as when auditioning sounds for demos. "I first heard about the Celestion IRs [impulse responses] through my friend Alexander Dumble, who makes the boutique Dumble amplifiers," Rock explains. "I then learned more about them from Rick Skillman at Celestion, and loaded all the IRs into my Kemper Profiler amp. I have go-to sounds, and with the impulse responses, I always find something that makes it more real."
Often, Rock has to refine a guitar track that was recorded quick-and-dirty, for which he finds the IRs invaluable "There's this amazing thing that just happened. I was mixing this stuff that had average, in-the-box guitar sounds. The engineer I work with, Adam Greenholtz, loaded all the IRs into a plug-in so we could audition them in the mix. I put the Celestions on the guitars and — oh my God! It was like re-amping, only really easily. I've had to re-amp some truly horrible guitar sounds along the way. With these IRs, you can take a bad guitar sound and make it actually quite good."
"The Celestion Impulse responses are a sonic revelation — great choices for my Kemper Profiler and my in-the-box plug-ins," Bob sums up, "They're a must-have for pro studios and home recordists alike. I want to see [IRs for] the seriously vintage stuff, like pre-'Rola' speakers. That's what we call 'Bob food!' But to use Celestions for 40 years and now have this? Thank you Celestion. You rock!"
An important element to essential British guitar tone since the birth of Rock & Roll, Celestion Guitar Speakers are famous for their lively and vocal midrange character with plenty of sparkle and chime. With worldwide headquarters in Ipswich, England, Celestion design, develop and manufacture premium guitar and bass loudspeakers, and high-quality professional audio drivers for sound reinforcement. These world-renowned speakers are used onstage and in clubs, theatres and other venues the world over. Contact Celestion at: info@celestion.com and visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/celestion.
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About Celestion Impulse Responses
Celestion IRs, which capture the essential behavior of the cabinet in the specific space in which it was recorded, including the frequency and phase response of single drivers as well as the interaction of multiple speakers, offer the user significant benefits. In both recording and live production, Celestion IRs enable the desired tone to be precisely and consistently reproduced regardless of the music recording or live sound environment. And IR users can escape the limitations of a single mic and cabinet setup and explore a universe of possibilities to create the perfect tone. Once you find a tone that you love, it can be precisely recreated, in the studio or on the road, time after time. And the IRs allow Celestion customers to audition specific models before purchasing one or more physical speakers.
Celestion IR digital downloads are available in uncompressed, industry standard .WAV format at 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz and 96 kHz sample rates at 24 bit depth, in lengths of 200 and 500 milliseconds Once the files are downloaded and unzipped, users simply load the IRs into a convolution plug-in in their DAW or into other processing hardware. These formats will work in all known hardware capable of loading IRs, and for the most popular hardware Celestion have already grouped together the correct formats. Guitar processor manufacturers supported include Atomic Amps, Fractal Audio Systems, Kemper, Line 6, Logidy, Positive Grid, Two Notes, Headrush and Yamaha. The Celestion IR files may be downloaded in the sample rate and length appropriate for the hardware being used or as a complete package of all rates and lengths. Certain third party hardware requires the files to be converted into a proprietary format before use.
Celestion Plus.


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The free weekend outdoor concerts at Yerba Buena Garden's grassy lawn in downtown kick off this month. The series showcases an eclectic mix of classical, jazz, and world music, plus traditional and modern dance performances from cultures around the world. This month includes shows by renowned Arabic musician Bassam Saba (May 22, 1-2:30 pm) and a Taiwanese dance performance (May 9, 1-2:30 pm.) Come June, Yerba Buena offers lunchtime (12:30-1:30 p.m.) concerts as well, drawing gaggles of office workers looking for an outdoor mid-day break. Mission, Folsom, 3rd and 4th streets.
This street fair of independent designers in Hayes Valley features clothing, house wares, jewelry, kids clothes, and more by 130 local designers, many of which you might know from etsy.com. Check out these gold arrow necklaces by Oakland artist Nous Savon, vintage-inspired house wares by India Rose, and 1.by.liz clocks made from recycled bicycle parts. This is definitely not your mother's arts and crafts fair. Hayes Street and Octavia, Sunday May 23rd, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., free.
Wake up your taste buds with Curry Up Now's new food truck featuring a rotating menu of Indian street food with a California-Mexican twist (up for a chicken tikka masala burrito, anyone?). You can find the truck during lunchtime rounds in the Financial District. For current locations, follow Curry Up Now on Twitter. From $4.25.
During the month of May, you can get half-priced tickets to Wicked, the Tony and Grammy award-winning Broadway musical. The show ends September 5, 2010, so act fast. Purchase through shnsf.com, ticketmaster.com, and Ticketmaster Charge-By-Phone and use the promo code 4WEST. You can also get tickets in person at the Orpheum Theater Box Office1192 Market Street, 415/ 551-2000, tickets start at $44.


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Joint Statement from the UK's Five Bidding Cities
On 23rd November, the European Commission announced "it will not be possible" for UK cities to host the 2023 European Capital of Culture competition. Since then the UK's five bidding cities – Belfast, Dundee, Leeds, Milton Keynes, and Nottingham – have held regular joint discussions to find a positive resolution and way forward, including conversations with the DCMS, the UK Government's sponsoring department for the competition.
Throughout this period the cities' preferred outcome has been for the EU to review and reverse its initial decision and for the bidding process to continue. However, given that all diplomatic approaches to date have not resulted in any change in position we have now reluctantly concluded that our participation in the competition is not possible.
From the outset of this period the DCMS declared their continued commitment to working with the five UK cities to help them realise their cultural ambitions and a number of possible solutions have been explored, including a parallel non-EU competition. None, however, were felt likely to meet the social and economic impacts and benefits anticipated from the ECoC designation.
At the time of the Commission's announcement the UK Government declared its intention to work "with our friends in Europe to promote the long-term economic development of our continent, which may include participating in cultural programmes.". The five cities now look forward to continued dialogue with the new Secretary of State for Culture to see how best each city's cultural ambitions can be supported to help deliver this positive, international agenda.
The investment of hope from thousands of citizens in each bidding city has led to an understandably heightened expectation of the tremendous impact cultural intervention can make to a city's economic, cultural and social objectives, and we look forward to working with UK Government to help realise these to their greatest effect.


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15 Most Interesting Facts About the World Wide Web
Updated: December 3, 2022 by Cleophas Mulongo
The World Wide Web or simply Web has been with us for almost thirty years. With all these years, there must be a great history of it. Lots of historical activities have taken place within it and quite a number of them are worth remembering. Also, there are some mind-boggling titbits about the World Wide Web. Here are the 15 interesting facts about world wide web that you should know.
Interesting facts about the World Wide Web
1. The first proposal for the World Wide Web was written in 1989
A British engineer and a scientist by the name Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal of what would become the World Wide Web in 1989. Currently, the engineer is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
2. Mosaic web browser was launched in 1993
1993 is believed to be a very important year in the history of the World Wide Web. It was the year which the Mosaic web browser was launched. This was a graphical web browser that was developed by a team of experts at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. Mosaic is one browser that is heavily credited for the huge popularity of the world wide web.
3. The first website went live on August 6 1991
Berners-Lee and a team of other engineers who worked at CERN launched the first ever website in 1991. the domain name of the site is http://info.cern.ch and its landing page had only 153 words. This was historic as it marked a new beginning of the World Wide Web where hypermedia information can be easily accessed.
Also, Read: 10 Interesting Websites on the Internet
4. The Freedom Ring
In 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web technology will be available to everyone free of charge. The declaration meant that the main components of this technology will remain in the public domain. This means that anyone regardless of the location will be free to use these components.
5. Archie was the first search engine
Archie was the first-ever search engine. It went live in 1990. From there, other search engines such as Google, and Yahoo were developed.
6. Web Surfing
The term " Surf the internet" was invented by a New York librarian who was going by the moniker Net-mom. Later on, surfing the internet became an acceptable term ins the World Wide Web.
7. The internet is not Web and the Web is not internet
Most people assume that the two mean one thing. Even those in the tech world seem to have the same thought. The truth of the matter is the two are completely different things. The internet was already there long before the World Wide Web came into existence.
8. Billions of people surf the web daily
It is estimated that at least more than 3 billion of the worlds population surf the web daily. The high number of people who surf have been boosted by the improved accessibility of the internet worldwide.
9. China rocks the web most followed by India
According to the most recent statistics, China leads as a country with the most active web surfers. It is then followed by India then America.
10. There are more than 1.8 billion websites
This is according to the 2018 survey that was released by Netcraft Web Server Survey. However, only a small fraction of those websites receive visitors.
11. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. This consortium was founded by Tim Berners-Lee.
12. Pornography forms the biggest chunk of the World Wide Web. This is despite the fact that the first website that used .xxx domain went live in 2011.
13. The first photo was posted on the web in the year 1992.
14. NeXT computer that was used by Tim Berners-Lee automatically became the first web server. It was also the first computer to write the web browser
15. The number of devices connected to the web exceeds that of the human population.
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