Are pre-competitive consortiums a way to get better and cheaper drugs to developing countries? Is something like a Medicines Patent Pool targeted at HIV/AIDS anti-retroviral medicines feasible?
Pre-competitive consortia relate to general drug discovery and not particularly to developing countries. The goal is to reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of all drug development, open up new avenues of research and generally speed up drug discovery. This applies to all drug development, whether aimed at developing or developed country health needs. The Medicines Patent Pool is not a pre-competitive consortium but a downstream, post-competitive distribution vehicle. So far, the Pool has not been successful since it has not been able to convince industry of its benefits. A significant part of the reason for this is, in my view, that there is a lack of trust between the organisers of the Pool and industry. On the other hand, the concept of a post-competitive pool is completely feasible if it involves all partners — industry, academic, philanthropic and government.
In which areas (both geographical regions and areas of research) have pre-competitive consortiums worked? In which ones have they not? What is the difference?
Geography is not the key concept here but research area. IT has many pools including those for chip technology and DVDs. In many ways, one can consider open source to be a very open form of pre-competitive consortium. Consortia in the life sciences are less abundant but the Structural Genomics Consortia provides one shining example. Much of the difference between sectors is the life-cycle of the technology, industry structure and, in my view, most significant, industry norms. Some industries are open and other are closed. There are historical reasons for this but not necessarily functional reasons for it.
To what degree does Canada's stance on IP impact its foreign policy and its international reputation? Does Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade see this as an important part of its prerogative?
Very little. Canada has a world-class IP system. Apart from being listed by the USTR for not doing what the United States (U.S.) wants, Canada is regarded as having a high level of IP protection. Complaints in the U.S. centre on the fact that we have not ratified several WIPO treaties although we have no obligation to do so. This is mainly the result of lobbying from the movie and music industries and represents a failed business model rather than anything wrong with our IP system. Otherwise, while complaints always exist about this or that aspect of our IP laws, there really is very little. DFAIT sees IP as important, but the main impetus for action is likely coming from Heritage Canada, which deals with the U.S. music and movie industry.
If Canada used the amount of money it currently puts into official development assistance to instead lead international efforts to reform IP laws and norms, would it ultimately have a greater impact on the lives of citizens living in developing countries?
These questions are quite different. Canada's success in international development has been less than stellar according to a Senate report that came out in the last year or two. Our rules are complex, overly focused on Canadian firms and not enough on building capacity. The IDRC does a good job but has a very limited budget. One can contemplate that Canada could do much more and much better at development if it tried. Putting effort on IP reform would be a complete was of resources. What these countries need is to develop research management capacity so that they can set their own priorities for research and implement projects that meet those needs. Only once that is accomplished will expertise in commercialization develop. Right now, IP is the least of developing country concerns. Further, what developing countries need in IP is to develop IP strategies that meet their needs, not those that emulate the policies in Canada or the US.
What are international organizations stances on intellectual property? In general, do they lean toward protecting rights to spur innovation or to fulfilling a responsibility to developing countries?
This is a spurious distinction. Most international organizations favour the appropriate use of IP laws, the development of research capacity and appropriate models and methods of commercialization. IP is not the major driver (as it is really not anywhere), but research and innovation capacity and planning.


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Q: Can a pom file uploaded to a remote repository via mvn deploy have a classifier in its name? Can a pom file uploaded to a remote repository via mvn deploy have a classifier in its name?
For example, if I have artifacts Webapp-1.0.war and Webapp-1.0-CLASSIFIER.war can I easily have Webapp-1.0.pom and Webapp-1.0-CLASSIFIER.pom?
I'd like to be able to deploy artifacts with multiple classifiers to the same repository, but the mvn deploy goal always fails because it's trying to upload a pom that's already there.
I don't want to use mvn deploy:deploy-file if I can avoid it because I don't want to unnecessarily complicate my CI build, i.e., having to specify file/url as configuration parameters because the file and url will change depending on whether I'm deploying a snapshot/release version.

A: Your problem is the understanding of Maven. If you produce an artifact which has an classifier it means having a pom which describes creating the artifact with the classifier as well as an artifact without an classifier. In other words your problem can be solved by having a single pom file. Furthermore you can deploy an artifact and several artifacts with classifiers with a single call to the maven-dependency-plugin call like the following:
mvn deploy:deploy-file
-DgroupId=com.soebes.test
-DartifactId=x1
-Dversion=2.7.5-SNAPSHOT
-Dfile=TheMainArtifact.jar
-Dclassifiers=first,second
-Dfiles=firstFile,secondFile
-Dtypes=zip,xml
-DrepositoryId=RepositoryId
-Durl=URLOfTheRepository

With the above (into a single line) you can deploy several files with a single deploy command without changing the configuration of Neuxs or any other repository manager to allow redeploying (wrong way!).

A: I've run into this before too.  As far as I know, classified POMs aren't allowed.
The trick is to configure the remote repo to allow the POM to be updated while not allowing redeploy of other artifacts.
In Nexus, this is done through Repository Targets.  The pattern to match POMs in a repository is .*/(?!.*\.pom).*.  The target gets linked to Privileges, which may be assigned to Roles, which are then assigned to Users.  (Memory is a little fuzzy here, I got this working and then decided to use deploy:deploy-file instead.)

A: There's no such thing as a classified pom. For every groupId + artifactId + version there's exactly one pom, and this pom is also used for the attached/classified artifacts. So this means that for instance that the main artifact and all the attached artifacts have the same dependencies.
Most used attached artifacts are javadoc and sources, for which this makes perfectly sense.

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Immigration restrictions on health grounds to be relaxed
Monday, May 21st, 2012 / Rob
THE Federal govt is poised to relax immigration laws, which should lead to the admission of more immigrants with disabilities and medical conditions.
The govt is amending how it determines if impaired foreigners would unduly burden the Australian health system and the public purse.
More than one in 10 people on immigration blacklists are there because of health concerns – with analysis showing it has more to do with financial considerations than risk to Australians.
Of the 599 foreigners denied a visa on health grounds in 2010-11, after having a health examination, 392 failed on cost or prejudice of access grounds.
They were classified as being likely to cost governments more than $21,000 over five years — or three years for those aged 75 or older — or potentially stand in the way of Australians receiving treatments including organ transplants, blood and plasma products, and radiotherapy.
People with HIV, a heart condition or cancer have been blocked from entering Australia, as well as those with epilepsy, a mental illness or intellectual disability.
However, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship has foreshadowed an increase to the $21,000 health expenses threshold used to judge immigration applications, along with "wider reforms to the health requirement" in coming months.
The threshold has remain unchanged for a decade, and stakeholders have increased their campaign for reform, prompting the department to commission an external review by Allen Consulting. That confidential review has recommended a new formula that would increase the threshold.
The Australian has sought a copy of the external review, and a separate internal review, under under Freedom of Information laws but the department has delayed a decision.
However, a department spokesman this week confirmed Allen Consulting had recommended the threshold be raised and said an announcement was likely within months.
The reforms have taken so long — Allen Consulting reported to the department at the end of 2010, several months after a parliamentary inquiry demanded action — that some foreigners would have been denied entry under a threshold the department apparently accepts was too low.
The department reaffirmed the $21,000 figure in its latest manual for government-appointed medical officers, who are, controversially, required to ignore any evidence an applicant has insurance, a scholarship or other funds to pay their own way.
Some mining companies, in particular, have had to commit to paying medical bills of workers on 457 visas who would otherwise have been excluded from entry on health grounds.
The minister, Chris Bowen, can intervene, but the department does not collect data on the number of health cases that warrant his attention.
The parliamentary committee, chaired by Labor MP Michael Danby, was highly critical of the process, saying it reflected "old-fashioned approaches to disability in particular".
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The world of social media has revolutionized many things in our real world. It has introduced many new concepts that never existed before. One such concept is blogging. It is an effective way of speaking your mind out through small words that say a lot of pictures that speak louder than words. If it has led to the whole long list of bloggers that are probably adding to the sense of deprivation among the masses, we also have a silver lining, we also come across blogs that stir our souls and lives. One such blog is 'The Delhi Walla' by Mayank Austen Soofi. As the name suggests this blog is about Delhi, the magical centre of civilization for centuries. But it's not just another Delhi blog. Mayank Austen Soofi attempts to view little things and people in Delhi with a unique rawness that probably no one else has.
This blog is mystical and holds your heart in just the right place. Short sentences that are sometimes not even the sentences, powerful images that are derived from ordinary people and their lives around the multi-layered Delhi, and often the combination of both stirs your soul and evokes your senses in the most unusual and subtle way. No post will let you get away with it that easily.
Though originally from Nainital, Soofi has rejuvenated the layers and romance of the city of Ghalib and Nizam Uddin Aulia- Delhi. Thank you for enhancing a Pakistani's urge to visit Delhi and live an Austen dream. We wish these imaginary lines do not hold Lahore back from loving Delhi and vice versa.
Here are some of the most powerful works of 'The Delhi Walla'. Picking was obviously a lion's task hence we chose to go with the instinct.
Mayank's blog only makes us love Delhi more and hate the man-made boundaries that stop people of the same land from living the Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Here is to a brighter future and hope that no one has to hide the wish of visiting and living Delhi. More power to Mayank for showing us the city we love deep down.
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gaijinmark
Location: The real world, no alternative facts
I guess my creative juices have dried up
Anybody else though, feel free to join in!
Ender's Girl
Location: up hill and down dale
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:55 pm Post subject:
gaijinmark wrote:
Where is Ender's Girl when we need her?!!?
Uh, taking a Long Vacation
Sankyou Peggy, for calling my attention to this marvelous Concerto of witticisms that had me nonstop. I'm humbled to be part of such a Grand Tribe of pun artists here at J-Do. But I'm afraid I have nothing to contribute to the wordplay -- my punning abilities seem to have evaporated in the summer heat (yes it's summer here). Maybe they'll Come with the Rain... Or maybe they'll return in 2046. (Yeah, lame, I know ) But no matter, because you guys have Hit the Goal several times over. A Million Stars for each of you!
And sankyou g-mark for posting the news article. Caught speeding, was he? So who was the apprehending officer? Lieutenant Ninzaburo Furuhata?
Gomen, but it's been an exhausting week for me. Time to go back to my Sleeping Forest and ...
bmwracer
Location: Juri-chan's speed dial
^ Hey, you made it back in...!
brad2
Hi E.G...
yOU HAD THE LIST AT YOUR ELBOW DIDN'T YOU ??????????????????????
Loved it .
bmwracer wrote:
Yeah, thanks to you and Genma!
@Peggy - Guilty as charged! (But only because all the good ones were already taken, heh heh )
Guess what I found in the World News section of one of our national broadsheets this morning? I guess it's been a slow week for World News in general. This one has a few more details than the Sankei Sports article:
J-pop star Kimutaku caught speeding twice: Reports
TOKYO (AFP) - Ageing boyband star and Japanese pop culture icon Takuya Kimura has been caught speeding twice in four months, casting a shadow over a sponsorship deal with Toyota, reports said on Tuesday.
The heartthrob, whose increasingly middle-aged female fanbase spreads throughout Asia, was caught doing up to 120km an hour on a motorway with a speed limit of 80kmh in September 2011, the weekly Shukan Bunshun said.
The 39-year-old, who shot to fame as a member of fivepiece SMAP, was with his actress wife Shizuka Kudo in a Chevrolet Astro on the way to a popular surf spot when he was pulled over, the magazine said.
Kimura, known to his legion fans by the nickname Kimutaku, was again charged with speeding on a street in Tokyo in January, his agent said in a statement published in Japanese newspapers. His driver's licence was suspended.
(LMAO @ "ageing boyband star" and "increasingly middle-aged female fanbase" )
I found this on Bloomberg.com (of all places!):
SMAP Pop Star Stays in Toyota Ads After License Suspended
Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), Japan�fs biggest carmaker, said it will continue using SMAP singer Takuya Kimura in its advertising even after the pop star was suspended from driving after speeding offenses.
�gIt�fs unfortunate,�h Amiko Tomita, a spokeswoman for the carmaker, said today. �gWe strongly hope he follows road rules,�h she said, declining to comment further.
The 39-year-old celebrity known by his fans as Kimutaku appeared in TV and print ads for the Corolla Fielder and �gReBorn�h campaigns from October, according to Toyota.... (The rest of the article can be found here)
Ender's Girl wrote:
Vacation, eh? Sounds like you've got a Beautiful Life
(I was trying to figure out a way to work in "Space Battleship Yamato" but I kept having this vision of a pregnant Meisa Kuroki waddling across the bridge )
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:03 am Post subject:
I am going to take it as a compliment if they think I am middleaged.....
I only chose to be 35 because I remembered that being a very good year.....
Actually Kimura san has fans ranging in age from infants to ninety year old people and they also are women and men. He is a man for all seasons and ranges in audiences.
Actually I read somewhre that he was driving ten miles over the limit.
At least he was not drinking or smoking or TEXTING.
Uh, taking a Long Vacation .
With a stylish return. You should feel Pride in your post.
brad2 wrote:
Amen to that!!
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It's all good!
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It seems he was not driving a Toyota a the time so they didn't cut him off from all those commercials he does for them.
He was driving a Chevy. I think, and going to the coast with his wife Shizuka to do some surfing.
Day off for a change and that's when you get a ticket.
I SO wanted to work that in but didn't know how! You da man!
(I also gave up on Antarctica and Moon Lovers. Too hard )
Speaking of El Hubby, the past week has not been kind to him. His album failed to chart at #1, and he reportedly had tummy problems onstage at a concert.
Eve wrote:
Maybe... No, must be!
I actually thought Toyota would ream him out for driving a different car brand (and a Western one at that) -- "Hey KimuTaku, why you no drive our car, huh? Fast or slow, you drive our car, huh!"
As nice as it is that he still does this stuff with the missus, you know what would be REALLY cool? If he gets pulled over and then the cop peers into the car and sees... Kimura's animatronic plushie friend from the Gatsby commercials, sitting in the passenger seat!!! (Or on his lap, LOL) Naturally, it would be decked out in the same outfit and shades as Kimura, haha
You starting a future in ad copy?
Well I have never seen a surfboard on top of a Toyota rack. Plenty of Chevys used for hauling boards down here tho.
I thought it was nice also that he was with Shizuka still going surfing. No wonder they were in a hurry ...can't wait to catch a wave.
TempestRider
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 4:21 am Post subject:
hi! anybody watched Priceless?
yosora
priceless is a very nice, funny dorama
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:52 pm Post subject:
At last some news of a new drama for Kimura.
His leading lady will be Kou Shibasaki which is a plus. At least she can act and they have a pretty good chemistry together. It is a slightly sci-fi story. Kimura will play two roles. His first character will be murdered and then his second appearance will be an android from 100years into the future. Looking to solve the murder maybe and also trying to protect Kou who was Kimura's fiance in human days.
It sounds interesting at least. will come out in October.
The first drama I ever saw Kimtaku in was 'Good Luck' which also had Kou as his co-star. It was only the second drama I had ever seen and I knew nothing about him but I could tell right away this guy had 'it', that indefinable something that separates stars from actors.
The drama itself was a little disappointing. The ending was kind of rushed and really, for me, the best part of 'Good Luck' was Hitomi Kuroki.
I am really looking forward to watching this new 2013 drama - anyway the teaser looks promising
Takuya Kimura to star in TV Asahi drama
Kimura Takuya will star in TV Asahi's new drama, 'I'm home' and Ueto Aya will take on a heroine role.
This marks the first time for Kimura to star in a TV Asahi serial drama, and it's also his first time to co-star with Ueto in a drama.
'I'm home' is a live-action drama adaptation of Ishizaka Kei's award-winning manga of the same name which was serialized on "Big Comic Original" during 1997 ~ 1998.
In the drama, Kimura will play the protagonist "Ieji Hisashi."
5 years have passed since Ieji marries his wife "Megumi" and has a son with her, however, his memory of the past 5 years becomes foggy due to an accident. After the accident, his wife and son somehow look like they are wearing masks in his eyes. As Ieji can't even read their faces and emotions because of the masks, and he is not sure if he loves them, he becomes distressed.
On the other hand, he has memories about his former wife who he divorced 5 years ago, and their daughter. In order to find out his days of the past 5 years, he begins searching for his past self, with the mysterious 10 keys he posseses in his hands.
--What is the mystery behind the bunch of keys? Why did he divorce his former wife?, and...why is his current wife and son look like they're wearing masks to him?--
Ieji gradually solves the mystery by visiting people involved in his past.
'I'm home' will air on TV Asahi starting in April (every Thursday at 9:00 pm).
Source: Oricon
Seems as tho everything came to a standstill in 2013...ar least for me. Smap also seems to be in a standstill region. At least they did not die which is what happened to me. During a hospital visit for a minor operation. Tired and inattentive doctor sliced up my esophagus but good and I instantly died and was in the after life. Glorious event and I would have stayed there but another older surgeon decided he would save this poor old lady. First Doc was Korean and young. Second docto rwas Japanese and older. I love him now of course and life is good. 2014 and 2015 not so wonderful but now I am walking and taking and life is good. I must be here for some reason and I found I have a wonderful Guardian Angel who has watched over me.
I read on vaarious blogs that Smap has been very dislocated and Johnny does not seem to be helping them a lot. I guess the real story will never come to light. I cannot find anything to watch of Smap which makes me sad but I have a lot of their old shows and also several of their yearly concerts on disc. No matter who is coming up in Japan there will never be another group like SMAP.
^ Good to hear you are okay!!
When I hadn't seen you post for awhile I was wondering if anything had happened.
Yes, things are quiet for right now on the SMAP front. There was a lot going on there for awhile. They were breaking up, then they weren't, for now they aren't.
Glad you are back.
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I See You Everywhere, Even Though You're Long Gone
By Jennifer Hababag, March 14th 2014
I'm not writing about you because I did that with old flames, past flings, and forgotten loves, and you are not forgotten.
On the contrary, I think about you every day. It gets annoying, thinking of you. It disrupts my daily routine and lures me back to the unknown. Quite terrifying, honestly. Believe me when I say that I try hard to keep things at bay, but the universe has its way to reel me back like an unassuming fish swimming carelessly towards the bait. And I find myself hooked to you, line and sinker, before I can help myself.
I don't want to write about you because you're not just some character who comes and goes in my life only to leave a fascinating story that I will tell at parties or night outs with girl friends when I had too much to drink. You know I can't even finish half a cider, and there is no Mad Mex in Cairo to sober me up for the storytelling to even get started.
Now, don't freak out. Don't run away. I am not going to profess my big, massive, colossal emotional outbursts to the high heavens because it's too early for that. I will not even mention your piercing blue eyes because they are a light shade of green to begin with.
What I would, if I may, is say out loud that Leonardo DiCaprio is not a good distraction because seeing his hair parted in the middle instantly triggers a recent recollection. And it's not just my fascination with DiCaprio's fine hair but yours. It could also be a photo on my newsfeed of friends trying N2 Extreme Gelato for the first time. As soon as I hit the 'like' button, I am immediately taken back to you — to that exact moment I had salted caramel and you did not deny yourself cookies and cream.
Ah, the inevitable beginning. You said we'll go where the wind takes us and that's exactly what we did. You burst into my apartment with fresh blueberries and printed photos of Abu Simbel. You are charming and told me stories of your contiki tour. You had me at fresh blueberries. You had me the moment you walked through that door.
You had me at dashes, and semi colons, and IMHOs and IRLs that don't mean a thing to anyone else reading this now. But the subtext is there.
Sometimes, I wonder if eating all the felafel in the world will make you appear in Cairo even for a fraction of an apparition. What I do know is that sharing a cheap imitation of baba ghanoush with you is much more satisfying than any authentic middle eastern deli I am eating on my own.
I could be watching episode reruns of Dexter, I could be listening to the music of the 90s, I could be seeing disposable paper plates in the grocery section, and then telling my friends that 'I am going to the drink to get a bar' when you become most palpable. Most people won't get it. They won't understand try as they might, but I'm sure you would.
The Star has a different meaning because of you. To most people, it would mean one of those shiny, sparkly bits of twinkling bodies in the night sky. To me, it's black jack, the roulette, the pokie machines, the pretend bets and pretend winnings and pretend drinking! It's New Year's Eve and everything else that followed after that.
Fourteen bottles of wine, wogs, office pranks, 9,000 steps around the cbd, endless cigarette breaks, glow sticks, Berangaroo, even the little mouse in a corner on Pitt St. — these are things I consider mine because of you. It's the inside jokes and bits and pieces of anecdotes that would make perfect sense to no one but you.
It's all about the overpriced bottled water you bought, the pigeons crashing in your apartment, the old man that got bitten by an aggressive dog. It's the way I now have nightmares of life-size dolls and day dreams of plane crashes.
It's all of these nuisances — the accumulation of inane snippets that lead me back straight to your bait and hook. I don't know why it matters, or why your presence and absence is more poignant than the rest. What I do know is that the details of that summer weigh heavy on my skin that it is enough to last the whole fall. Maybe it's the fact that we didn't say goodbye but see you later.
And when the soon meets the later and my want outweighs my fear, maybe then I will speak up. Maybe then I will know. Maybe I'm waiting for winter — for things to freeze and thaw. But perhaps I won't write about you even after then because I don't need to remember. I am reminded every day no matter the season. You are alive and real, right here, right now, in my mind's little cinema, where I see you in colors that don't exist.
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Allen Park — The Detroit Lions re-signed a pair of exclusive-rights free agents on Monday, agreeing to terms with linebacker Steve Longa and defensive end Mitchell Loewen.
Longa, who has been with the Lions since signing to the practice squad prior to the 2016 season, missed all of last year with a torn ACL. The previous season he led the team with 11 special teams tackles.
Loewen was a late-season waiver claim, joining the team days before the season finale against the Green Bay Packers. He was inactive for the contest.
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In college, Loewen played six different positions — linebacker, tight end, fullback, offensive tackle, defensive tackle, defensive end.


Dog the Bounty Hunter's wife, Beth Chapman, has started treatment to help eradicate throat cancer recently rediscovered by doctors ... and so far, so good, TMZ has learned.
Sources close to Beth tell us she's going through chemotherapy, which we're told started a couple weeks ago. Our sources say she and Dog have been traveling to L.A. to receive the treatments, and that she's been spending the majority of her time at their family home in Colorado in the meantime.
We're told the level of cancer remains the same -- very serious. The good news ... our sources say while the chemo has been tough, Beth is responding well and is in good spirits.
TMZ broke the story ... doctors found Beth's cancer had returned during an emergency surgery two months ago to clear a blockage in her throat that made it difficult for her to breathe. She beat the same cancer in 2017, but sadly it's back.
We got Dog out in Los Angeles shortly after the emergency surgery who let everyone know just how serious Beth's condition was ... and he thanked fans for their support.
Her family had planned to stay in Colorado as they considered their next steps.


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version of the Saturn I rocket, which replaced its S-IV second stage with the much more powerful S-IVB. Unlike the earlier Saturn I, the IB had enough throw weight to launch either the Apollo Command/Service Module (partially fueled), or the Lunar Module into Earth orbit. This made it invaluable for testing the Apollo spacecraft while the larger Saturn V needed to send it to the Moon was still being developed.


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I mean this one, i think it was pic of NQ, the hairstyle (short hair not long like Lu Ping's) and the academy outfit. CMIIW. But i am pretty sure it is from EN.
Road to sweetness is open, pictures posted, do you understand it?
Wow thx @lynne22, he really like to cook anywhere anytime, baking a cake consumed quite time, i believe as a chef he really happy when people enjoy his dish.
Absolutely! there is a video he did the bake, from scratch until the cake ready to be served.
Managed to upload some gif. Credit as tagged.
if u use chrome, u need to off the auto-translation.


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Q: How to display recent posts added in custom post types I have tried a code posted here>>Custom Post Type: Get most recent permalink
But the thing is-it is showing only one post from the recent and without get_the_title,,, can anyone help me to achieve, upto 10 posts' Title and permalink of custom post type.
I am googling from about 1 hour.. Please anyone help me

A: The answer is essentially in Codex!

Recent Posts

<?php
    $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(array('post_type'=>'book'));
    foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){
        echo '
' .   $recent["post_title"].'
 ';
    }
?>

The only thing I did was add an argument to search for the book post type instead of the default post type.
And this is probably a duplicate of this question anyway, but the system won't let me mark it as such.

A: Assuming you know how to use WP_Query, you can use following code to get recent 10 posts for any custom post type .
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'your-custom-post-type',
    'orderby' => 'date',
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'posts_per_page' => 10
     );
$query = new WP_Query( $args );


The 2017 National Gunfire Index is out, and includes some interesting findings about where and when people are firing guns.
ShotSpotter Inc., a California firm which uses acoustics-based, GPS-equipped technology to detect gunshots in 87 U.S. cities, published the comprehensive study.
The company reported 86,665 gunfire incidents in 2017 – an increase of nearly 16 percent in those cities. On average, that's nearly 10 incidents per hour and more than 237 per day across its network.
The number of gunshot incidents peaks between 10 and 11 p.m., followed by the 11 p.m. and midnight period, and then declining in the overnight hours. The lowest number of incidents are reported from 6 to 10 a.m.
ShotSpotter's study also shows that Mondays have become one of the busiest nights for gunfire. While the number of incidents from Tuesday to Friday increased incrementally from 2016 to 2017, there was significant increase on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. Ranked by number of incidents on average by day of the week: Saturday, 189; Fridays, 166; Sundays, 156; Mondays, 129; Thursdays, 127; and Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 115.
Among the cities using ShotSpotter technology to aid police are Camden, Trenton, Newark, Atlantic City, Wilmington and Pittsburgh. Philadelphia does not employ ShotSpotter, though it is used in a number of large cities, including Chicago, Detroit, Washington, St. Louis and Oakland.
By region, the Northeast (including Pennsylvania and New Jersey) sees the fewest gunshot incidents per square mile: 78. The highest is in the midwest with 358 incidents, followed by the South (204) and West (110).
The study also found that the West leads the list in average number of gunshots per incident with 3.9, followed by the South (3.7), the Midwest (3.5) and the Northeast (3.3). The average was 3.7.
The report notes that because data in the index was taken only from areas covered by ShotSpotter systems, conclusions drawn about cities outside the coverage areas may not be valid. The findings are shared with communities as well as federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.


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Q: What PHP/Perl CMS for a corporate site? I am going to create a corporate site with around 150-200 pages. Several pages have three category levels (I mean a URL like products/myproduct/overview)
The client's employees should be able to edit all the pages very easily, manage the navigation and left blocks as well.
What CMS (opensource, if possible) can I use? PHP, Perl would be good but I am open to .NET if necessary.
Thanks!
Dav3

A: A list of Perl CMS's can be found under applications on the Perl5 wiki.
Also looking at your requirement you may find a Wiki to be an option?  In particular MojoMojo because this differs from the standard wiki approach by allowing directory structures thus making your category levels products/myproduct/overview possible.
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A: Perl: if you're happy coding up the admin backend and (possibly) have used CGI::Application, Mark Strosberg's Titanium framework is nippy and lightweight but as powerful as you need it to be or - if you want something more popular - try Catalyst. For an example (can't show the backend, which uses Markdown) this site is built on Titanium.
PHP: If you don't want to code up the backend a CMS is the way to go. The latest version of Joomla should do what you want, although you'll probably have to hobble the WYSIWYG editor and editing options (and provide a little training) to prevent users from doing (say) things like pasting an entire Word document into the editing window! For an example (again, can't show backend) this site uses the latest version of Joomla.
But everyone's going to have their favourites here...

A: Bricolage 2 - You'll get permissions, alerts, ldap authentication, publishing process, and a whole bunch of great features with it. Or if you'd rather write the whole thing by yourself, use Catalyst.

A: If you want to go with a PHP CMS then I can only recommend Drupal.
http://drupal.org/

A: Cyclone3 CMS is very interesting, including GUI based on Firefox.

A: Going with Perl Catalyst will be good.
In PHP I would recommend using SilverStripe CMS:http://silverstripe.org/
Its powerful and easy to extend.


Washington: Researchers have claimed that "Cinderella effect" - which states that it is biologically inevitable that parents care less for stepchildren because they do not spread their genes - may not be true all the time.
The study found that if there is a reasonable chance of increasing wealth in the parents' environment then no difference is made between one's own children and stepchildren.
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research researcher Kai Willfuhr said that they are now able to prove that the Cinderella effect is not an inevitable reflex of stepparents.
Willfuhr and Alain Gagnon from the University of Montreal investigated if and how strongly parents neglected their stepchildren by looking at the mortality of children in historic patchwork families from the 17th to 19th century.
They compared the Krummhorn region of East Frisia (Germany), which was a densely populated area with little space for demographic development, and the growing Canadian settlements in Quebec.
For both areas, they calculated how the children's chances of survival changed when a stepmother moved in.The conclusions showed that only in Krummhorn, which offered fewer opportunities for demographic growth, the stepmother had a negative influence.
In Krummhorn children from a father's first marriage died more often before the age of 15 if a stepmother moved in.
This effect was not seen in Quebec, even though the tragedy of Aurore Gagnon, a young girl who died from wounds inflicted by her stepmother and her father in 1920, is still fresh in Quebec's collective memory.
The " Cinderella effect," therefore, does not inevitably seem to occur. The stepmothers must have treated their children in East Frisia and Canada completely differently.


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Andrew Peck (15 October 1836–March 21, 1918) was an American businessman who founded Peck & Snyder, a purveyor of sporting goods, in 1866. The company is considered to have been one of the earliest baseball card distributors in America.

Biography

Early life
Andrew Peck was born in New York City on 15 October 1836. He had no memory of his mother, who died when he was very young. His father left him at the Protestant Half Orphan Asylum when he was five years old, and afterwards died. Peck was then transferred to the Leake and Watts Orphan House. He apprenticed to a shopkeeper in Sharon Springs, New York at the age of fourteen, where he worked for almost two years. He moved out because of "cruel treatment" and sought to support himself independently.

He travelled throughout New York state during his late teens, often finding work at general stores before being employed at Fisher and Bro. Publishing House. During this time, he joined the Eagles Baseball Club, where he met his close friend Henry Chadwick.
At the beginning of the American Civil War, Peck enlisted with the Union Army. He served with the Army of the Potomac, which was known for its love of baseball. He served in the army for the duration of the war.

Peck & Snyder
Peck returned to New York in 1865, where he began selling baseball equipments and games as a street vendor. He was one of the first baseball equipment vendors in New York, and one of only six major baseball equipment vendors in the city in the 1860s. Chadwick would visit daily to encourage Peck, and his business soon grew.
In 1866, he went into business with W. Irving Snyder, founding Peck & Snyder Base Ball and Sportsman's Emporium. In addition to producing some of the earliest baseball bats and baseballs, the company also sold the first canvas tennis shoes. It has been credited with creating the first baseball cards, but there were in fact earlier baseball trading cards produced by sporting goods companies. The company was later bought out by A.G. Spalding. He remained actively involved with the business, which was then under the Spalding umbrella, until 1889.

Later life and death
During the 1880s, Peck also made several trips to Europe where he became interested in various sports. He tried to encourage interest in European sports such as golf and tennis in the United States, building the first three tennis courts in America. By the end of his life, Peck was involved in several companies in the Tri-state area, and owned considerable real estate in Brooklyn. He was a noted collector of literature, owning the finest collection of Masonic literature in the United States.

He died of natural causes on March 21, 1918.

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Okay, so it's not terribly original, but I felt that maintaining a consistency with the blog was important. From this point forward, all my e-titles will be listed on Amazon as "Published by Post Modern Pulp Books", and the PMP BOOKS logo appears on all the print copies. Notice is also given on the page with the copyright and so on in both the print and digital versions of everything.
These days, with the power that various DIY resources and social networking provides you, anyone can become their own small press, and I feel it helps to reaffirm that those of us who are not going down the traditional publishing routes can still create and distribute legitimate products without the stigma of it being handled through a "vanity press" or similar venue.
The Killer Instincts cover will get the logo in September when I begin to roll out other e-formats after the KDP Select license agreement runs out.
I recently posted a fan short from Youtube, Punisher '82. It appears that those filmmakers aren't the only ones who want to give us more of Frank Castle's high-velocity form of vigilante justice.
I've had a pair of Matt Helm thrillers on my pulp paperback bookshelf for several years now, but I never too the time to give them a read. For one, both of the books are fairly well worn, and I always get nervous reading paperbacks that are too brittle or stiff for fear of damaging them. Of course, if that's the case, they're just taking up space, right? Sooner or later you have to take the chance and give it a delicately-handled read.
After James Reasoner, in his blog review of my novel Killer Instincts, compared my main character in some ways to the earlier Helm adventures, my curiosity was definitely stirred. So, having some free time recently, I grabbed the earlier of the two books, THE SHADOWERS, and gave it a read over the course of two evenings.
THE SHADOWERS is the seventh of the Matt Helm stories written by Donald Hamilton. The main character is a "counter-agent" for an unnamed, shadowy branch of the US government, tasked with finding and eliminating or neutralizing enemy spies. In this book, Helm returns to work after a tragic accident ends the life of his current occasional love interest. He's assigned the task of guarding a female scientist from a possible assassin, and in order to do so, Helm will have to "fall in love" with her and get married, since it is unknown how long this bodyguard duty will last. The nonchalant manner in which Helm agrees to this romantic charade - even when he is informed that they will legally become wedded to each other - speaks volumes to the character's total commitment to his profession. I won't give away any spoilers, but let us just say that the insights this book gives us into the mind of Matt Helm, secret agent, are very revealing.
Overall, I found THE SHADOWERS to be an excellent read. Hamilton's use of the first-person perspective works perfectly because the book is so character-centric. We are subsumed into Helm's consciousness, dunked headfirst into the cold, hard, brutal world of Cold War-era espionage. Helm is a man of ruthless violence, who will do anything and commit to it wholeheartedly if it will see the job done. He is cruel, he is calculating, and he is without scruples. That he is ultimately human, with a human being's feelings and regrets, is something that we are shown because we have the unique perspective of living in Helm's head with him during his assignment, but to the outside world, he is little more than a clockwork machine controlled by the toymakers in Washington.
Although out of print for a long while now, it appears that most of the Helm books can be found online for a reasonable price through Amazon or other booksellers. I've also seen a report that they'll be reprinted starting sometime next year. If you can get your hands on them, I definitely recommend doing so. I've just ordered the first novel in the series, DEATH OF A CITIZEN, and hope to pick up more as time goes on.
COMMANDO: Operation Arrowhead now Available on Amazon!
I'm happy to announce that my World War Two Commando novel is now available for the Kindle via Amazon. Within the next couple of days, I'll be setting up a Gumroad.com page where folks who prefer PDF or EPUB file formats can buy the book directly in a multi-format bundle. In the next week or two, I will have C:OA available in trade paperback via Amazon's Createspace publishing service.
"Corporal Thomas Lynch won fame at the Battle of Arras, and felt the shame of defeat at Dunkirk. A year later, as a member of Britain's elite No. 3 Commando, Lynch wants nothing more than to go back over the Channel and kick open Hitler's Fortress Europe, guns blazing.
Lynch readily accepts the challenge, but when the mission goes awry from the very beginning, and the motives of the partisan leader become suspect, the Commandos begin to wonder about their role in the mission: trusted allies with the partisans, or worms dangling as bait for a hungry fish?
COMMANDO: Operation Arrowhead is a military action - adventure novel written in the spirit of classic war movies such as The Guns of Navarone, The Dirty Dozen, and Where Eagles Dare, mixed with military adventure fiction such as Len Levinson's The Sergeant and The Rat Bastards series."
Just wanted to post this quick review today before the weekend rolls around. PRIMAL: Origin is a short story written by Jack Silkstone, an intelligence and covert operations expert with real time in the field. He's created an interesting premise with Origin; a trio of intelligence and couner-terror experts who go off the reservation, funded by a Middle Eastern business magnate who abhors terrorism and what it does around the world, who wants to lend some of his finances and resources towards creating a private, covert organization that can fight a global war on terror, writing their own rules and going after the guys that the governments can't (or won't) touch.
Origin is the story that leads up to this premise, and although I might be leaking a few spoilers, Silkstone considers this short story a prequel to his PRIMAL series, so what happens at the end of the story isn't that much of a surprise. I think it's great to see a series like this, something that hearkens back to the Pinnacle and Gold Eagle days of men's adventure fiction, as well as to television series like The A-Team or Knight Rider, stories about men and women operating above the law in order to uphold the law: maybe not to the letter, but the spirit.
My to-be-read pile is filled to overflowing and I'm working my best to get COMMANDO: Operation Arrowhead out the door in the next week or two. But rest assured, I'll be reading the next story in Silkstone's series, PRIMAL: Unleashed shortly.
Author and blogger Brian Drake has written a really insightful review of Killer Instincts. One of Brian's main points in the review is that in KI, the story isn't about the showdown between William and the Paggiano family, the story is about William's transformation from aimless college kid to cold-hearted killer. In short, the journey is the destination here.
Of course, I think Brian says it a lot better than I can. Check out the review on his blog, Brian Drake at Large.


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17/11/2013 LordBeariOfBowLeave a Comment on It's just not cricket, old boy!
It's just not cricket, old boy!
I'm not really interested in sport, although I must admit I love Baseball which is probably a bit odd.
It's just not cricket old boy, what! It's every Englishman's duty to follow and understand cricket. I did once many long years ago, I even enjoyed it at times although in truth I usually only took notice of it during the "Ashes" series.
For those philistines out there amongst my followers (do I have any left?) the "Ashes" are or were five games played between Australia and England every couple of years; alternating between the two countries.
These games were once played in the true spirit of sportsmanship, hence the expression 'it's not cricket' one did not argue question or abuse the umpires, their decision was final and every player, and I do mean every player accepted this without question.
Back in the 20th century the players were paid precious little, just enough to cover their costs, some received payment others did not. The English 'Gentlemen' received nothing but the honour of representing England; and as they were such jolly good types the English Captain was selected from their ranks.
Those that were paid of course were simply the 'Players', until 1962 there was an annual game in England, 'The Gentlemen v The Players'.
In the late 1970's this all changed with the advent of World Series Cricket a breakaway professional cricket competition started up by one Kerry Packer, an Australian media mogul, he owned the major television network in Australia and he wanted to televise all the cricket matches.
At the time the biggest and best games were aired on the ABC advertisement free; and Kerry saw there was to be a packet made in TV ad revenue; no flies on Kerry P. he was a smart business man. He signed up the best player from England, the West Indies, Australia New Zealand and started his own competition.
It only took a couple of years and he broke down the old school and the games never been the same since. And that's when I lost all interest in cricket.
Once upon a time a cricketer would stride out to the crease sleeves rolled up bat on his shoulder and have a go; with WSC the player would stride out to the crease; safety helmet, visor, shoulder pads, thigh pads and any other pad you can name plus fancy dress and try to entertain the crowd. If they scored some runs they would hug and jump with joy. If somebody caught a ball or took a wicket the rest of the team would race up and slap his back shake his hand do everything but kiss. Absolutely ludicrous.
And it still goes on to this day! Is it any wonder I don't give a damn about the game anymore?
But I really enjoy Baseball, I know it's a Yankee game but so what? Supposedly it had its roots in the old English game of 'Rounders'. It was, I believe, played here in Australia long before cricket, brought in by the Americans who flocked here during the gold rush days of the early /mid 18th century. It gained quite a foothold.
There was some consideration given to Australia joining our American cousins early in the 20th century to play in the World Series, but from what I can understand the MCC in England brought great pressure to bear to stop Australia joining; probably from the fear that the 'Ashes' series and cricket in general would be placed in jeopardy. The powers to be here said "Yes sir" tugged their forelocks and said no thanks to the Yanks
Well I know what I prefer, 3 or 4 hours of Baseball with a definite result at the end not a game spread over 30 hours and five days with no result, matched fizzled out to a draw, or washed out at the end. What a complete and utter waste of time.
I had actually started out to prattle on about football codes and became diverted so I'll save that up for another time.
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Locating Tall el-Hammam on the Madaba Map
by David E. Graves and Scott Stripling
The Madaba Mosaic Map indicates a prominent but unnamed site near the upper-left edge, just above the Jordan River. Various attempts have been made to identify it with Tall Iktanu, Tall Kefrein, Tall Nimrin, Tall Rama, and Khirbet Sweimeh. This article demonstrates that the better candidate for this site is Tall el-Hammam which boasts superior size, perfect location, abundant water, and Early Roman/Byzantine remains.
Categories: Authors, Biblical Geography, Biblical Research Bulletin, Biblical Studies, David E. Graves, Scott Stripling, TSU Press
The Bible, History, and Objectivity
by Steven Collins PhD
God's representation of reality, the Bible, has been given for the purpose of allowing us to see what mere human observers cannot: the hand of God in the whirlwind.
Categories: Authors, Biblical Research Bulletin, Biblical Studies, Steven Collins, TSU Press
The Home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites: Is Yahweh's Promise a Significant Historical Synchronism?
Categories: Biblical Studies, Steven Collins
Biblical Studies Old Testament
A Response to Bryant G. Wood's Critique of Collins' Northern Sodom Theory
My "northern Sodom" theory has been batted about the scholarly community since I first began to publish on the subject in 2002. In the fall of that year, I presented a paper to the Near East Archaeological Society wherein I provided a detailed refutation of the traditional "southern Sodom" hypothesis held by several scholars, including B. G. Wood. Since that time, I have continued to challenge southern Sodom advocates regarding the many serious "cracks" in the southern theory, encouraging them to come up with a substantive refutation of my theory, if they could muster one. Up to the present time no one has attempted a detailed critique of my northern theory in print, until now. In my opinion, the fatal weaknesses inherent in Wood's criticisms of my position reveal the untenable nature of the southern Sodom hypothesis.
Categories: Authors, Biblical Archaeology, Biblical Geography, Biblical Research Bulletin, Biblical Studies (Old Testament), Steven Collins, TSU Press
Testing the Factuality of the Conquest of Ai Narrative in the Book of Joshua
by Peter Briggs
Summary of the problem. The gamut of views concerning the conquest of Ai narrative in the 7th and 8th chapters of the Book of Joshua can be summarized as follows: the narrative is factual, having the weight of eye witness testimony; or, it is an aetiological legend, compiled long after the fact, either just before or during the Babylonian exile for the purpose of justifying Israel's presence in the land of Canaan; or, it is a pernicious myth, deceptively and skillfully fabricated to correspond with the material time-space context in which it is alleged to have occurred. Is there a method that is capable of objectively arbitrating among these three views?
Categories: Authors, Biblical Research Bulletin, Biblical Studies (Old Testament), Hermeneutics/Linguistics, Peter Briggs, TSU Press
It was an Egyptian-less land with a significant Hittite presence that Yahweh promised to deliver into Israelite hands, and this scenario fits uniquely into a rather narrow time-slot during the 14th century BCE.
Categories: Biblical Archaeology, Biblical Research Bulletin, Biblical Studies (Old Testament), Steven Collins, TSU Press
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The Logic of True Narrative Representations
by John W. Oller, Jr. and Steven Collins PhD
This paper proves that TNRs are the only representations that are (1) relatively determinate with respect to their embodied meanings, (2) well-connected to the matter-space-time continuum, and (3) fully generalizable to all possible contexts (real or imagined) with respect to their relatively well-determined content. It follows that if the Bible is a TNR, then the genuine facts of history cannot contradict it, nor it them. If TNR-theory is correct, it is possible, as a result, to set subjects such as hermeneutics and biblical archaeology on a strictly logical footing.
Categories: Authors, Biblical Research Bulletin, Hermeneutics/Linguistics, John W. Oller, Jr., Steven Collins, TSU Press
Explorations on the Eastern Jordan Disk
Before my research into the biblical parameters for the location of Sodom, few scholars had paid much attention to the area specified by Genesis 13:1-12 as the actual place: the eastern Kikkar of the Jordan River, just north of the Dead Sea. This paper applies those parameters, in the form of a criterial screen, to various "Sodom candidate" sites, and reveals that Tall el-Hammam is the most reasonable choice for the infamous city.
Categories: Authors, Biblical Archaeology, Biblical Research Bulletin, Steven Collins, TSU Press
How Low Did the Once-Great Egyptian Eighteenth Dynasty Sink?
After 158 years of empire-building, Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty entered a bizarre, sixty-year period of implosion, seemingly slow at first, but ever-accelerating toward ultimate collapse. It is my contention that the demise of the once-powerful Eighteenth Dynasty was largely, if not entirely, due to the events surrounding the Israelite Exodus from Egypt.
Tall el-Hammam is Not Sodom
Categories: Biblical Archaeology, Biblical Geography, Uncategorized
Tall el-Hammam Is Sodom: Billington's Heshbon Identification Suffers from Numerous Fatal Flaws
In this article, S. Collins responds to an article by C.E. Billington published in the Spring 2012 issue of Artifax magazine titled "Tall el-Hammam is Not Sodom." Billington rejects Collins' identification of Tall el-Hammam as Sodom because the date of its destruction is too late (between 1750 and 1650 BCE) to conform to Billington's early placement of Abr(ah)am, ca. 2166-1991 BCE. He also attempts to support a more southern location for Sodom via textual geography. Finally, Billington suggests that Tall el- Hammam is perhaps a 'western' Heshbon. Collins refutes these ideas as categorically untenable.
Categories: Authors, Biblical Archaeology, Biblical Geography, Biblical Research Bulletin, Steven Collins, TSU Press
Tall el-Hammam Is Still Sodom: Critical Data-Sets Cast Serious Doubt on E.H. Merrill's Chronological Analysis
In this article, S. Collins responds to an article by E.H. Merrill published in the Autumn 2012 issue of Artifax magazine titled Texts, Talls, and Old Testament Chronology: Tall el-Hammam as a Case Study." Merrill rejects Collins identification of Tall el-Hammam as Sodom because the date of its destruction is too late (between 1750 and 1650 BCE) to conform to Merrill s early placement of Abr(ah)am, ca. 2166- 1991 BCE. While Merrill takes a literal, base-10, arithmetic approach to the patriarchal numbers in Gene- sis, Collins suggests that every available line of evidence from ANE archaeology, history, culture, litera- ture, climatology, and socio-economics demonstrates that the patriarchs fit best in the period following 1800 BCE, which also conforms to the terminal MB2 destruction of Hammam/Sodom.
Categories: Biblical Archaeology, Biblical Geography, Biblical Research Bulletin, Chronological Methods, Steven Collins
Terms of Distruction of the Cities of the Plain
Categories: Biblical Archaeology, Steven Collins
The Architecture of Sodom
If Sodom existed, then was destroyed, during the Middle Bronze Age, then something of its architecture can be known by comparing statements from the text with known standard features of typical MBA cities.
The Geography of Sodom and Zoar
Categories: Biblical Archaeology, Biblical Geography, Steven Collins
The Geography of the Cities of the Plain
Using Historical Synchronisms to Identify the Pharaoh of the Exodus
It is the purpose of this study to suggest a placement of the Old Testament Exodus/Conquest narratives alongside a corresponding segment of Egyptian history during the Eighteenth Dynasty, whereupon an optimal number of historical synchronisms are realized.
Which Site is Sodom? A Comparison of Bab edh-Dhra and Tall el-Hammam
In this article, S. Collins responds to an article by C.E. Billington published in the Spring 2012 issue ofArtifax magazine titled "Tall el-Hammam is Not Sodom." Billington rejects Collins' identification of Tall el-Hammam as Sodom because the date of its destruction is too late (between 1750 and 1650 BCE) to conform to Billington's early placement of Abr(ah)am, ca. 2166-1991 BCE. He also attempts to support a more southern location for Sodom via textual geography. Finally, Billington suggests that Tall el- Hammam is perhaps a 'western' Heshbon. Collins refutes these ideas as categorically untenable.
A Chronology for the Cities of the Plain
by Steve Collins PhD
Biblically, the timeframe for the existence of the Cities of the Plain ranges from the early patriarchal period of Genesis 10 to the time of Abram and Lot in Genesis 13-19. Taken at face value, the biblical chronology would thus require the Cities of the Plain to exist during the Middle Bronze Age. Southern Dead Sea sites such as Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira belonged to the Early Bronze Age, and were destroyed hundreds of years before the time of Abram. This is problematic for the identification of these two southern sites as Sodom and Gomorrah.
Categories: Chronological Methods, Steven Collins
The Length of the Israelite Sojourn in Egypt
If one adopts the short sojourn scenario (Jacob to Moses is approximately 215 years), then numerous conclusions about biblical chronology and its correspondence with ancient Near Eastern history and archaeology, which are based on a 430-year Israelite sojourn in Egypt, must be abandoned.
A Late Nineteenth-Century Missionary-Scholar's Position on the Location of Sodom and Gomorrah: Excerpts from The Land and the Book
by William M. Thomson
Many biblical scholars who frequented the Dead Sea region during the 19th century favored a location for Sodom and Gomorrah northeast of the Dead Sea. They did so on the basis of clear statements in Genesis 13:1-12 as to their location on the Kikkar of the Jordan. Once they had visited the entire region, it became obvious to geographical thinkers like W.M. Thomson that the Cities of the Plain belonged to the Jordan Valley proper, not the southern end of the Dead Sea.
Categories: Authors, Biblical Geography, Biblical Research Bulletin, TSU Press, William M. Thomson
Canon Tristam Fires a Lethal Shot at the Southwern Sodom Theory
Categories: Biblical Geography, Henry Baker Tristram
Forty Salient Points on The Geography of the Cities of the Kikkar
Categories: Biblical Geography, Steven Collins
If You Thought You Knew the Location of Sodom and Gomorrah…Think Again
What we now know about the archaeology of the eastern Kikkar, particularly from excavations at Tall Nimrin and Tall el-Hammam, is well enough to put an end both to the Albrightian legend of the southern Dead Sea location, and the Finkelsteinian legend about aetiological legends.
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Reassessing the Term hakikkar in Nehemiah as Bearing on the Location of the Cities of the Plain
In this paper I demonstrate that in no instance in the OT does kikkar refer to a geographical-topographical feature other than the southern Jordan Valley, north of the Dead Sea, and areas contiguous with it.
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Rethinking the Location of Zoar
Zoar is typically located near the southern tip of the Dead Sea. However, a careful analysis of key biblical passages signals that it must be outside the territories of Moab and Edom, which makes the southern Dead Sea location questionable. Zoar is designated as the southern boundary of the Reuben tribal allotment, and, therefore, should be placed somewhere near the Arnon Gorge, north of the Moabite Kingdom boundary.
Categories: Biblical Geography, Biblical Research Bulletin, Steven Collins
The Demographics of Ancient Israel
by David M. Fouts
It is the purpose of this paper to examine the archaeological data that contribute to the understanding of population demographics for ancient Israel from the earliest periods until the first century A.D. It will be demonstrated herein that, given the data that we now possess, at no time in the ancient history of the land of Palestine would there have been more than 1,000,000 inhabitants.
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Tradition seems to provide the only support for a southern Dead Sea location for the Genesis Cities of the Plain. The biblical text clearly supports their location north of the Dead Sea, on the east side of the Jordan River, in a circular, alluvial area known in the Old Testament, particularly in Genesis, as the Kikkar. This paper provides a detailed textual analysis of this geography.
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I'm motivated peeps. I haven't been this motivated since taco bell took away the fresco menu at my location. This morning on my usual morning routine I headed to QT to pick up a coffee and get my roomie a diet coke (closer than Starbucks on work at home days and they have a new Pumpkin Spice flavoring that's pretty tasty). Fine, right? It was a good QT trip, even talked to a nice police officer as we joked about the fountain soda machine and wished each other good days. Then we held hands and skipped out the door together in perfect civilian/servant harmony. Okay, that didn't happen but ironically I left feeling pretty good about the nice exchange. So good in fact, I decided to pop across the street to Sonic for a little morning pick me up. This is where things go down hill rapidly.
After receiving my delicious breakfast burrito (of course, what else?) I proceed home with all my morning treasures. Now, this won't mean much to you until I get the pictures and OH YES THERE WILL BE PICTURES, but the Sonic is on the corner of Sulphur Springs and Big Bend. So, to leave you can turn left on to either Sulphur Springs (an easy two lanes of traffic that is not very busy) or Big Bend (a busy four lanes with a turn lane right past an intersection). I proceed to leave the Sulphur Springs way, look both ways there is no traffic, make a left onto SS and proceed onto Big Bend at which point I notice a police officer behind me. Hmm I think, he kinda just ran that light behind me.... didn't take long to find out why as a few 100 yards down Big Bend and his lights pop on and this is where I'm pretty sure I threw up a little. I don't get pulled over, I've only been pulled over twice my entire life and one time was not my fault (I'm talking to you Delanty siblings) and I don't do well with authority as we all know.
I had a feeling it was either my headlight (but how did he see) or a rear corner light (I've got lots of light problems right now). *Please, please let it be a light.* Sadly, it was not a light. Apparently, you are not supposed to turn left across two lanes of slow traffic, but rather risk your life across 4 lanes (and a turn lane) on a very busy section of Big Bend to go left. I thought, ok, surely he will just slap me on the wrist, tell me not to do it again and send me on my way, I mean that must be the reason for my nice exchange with another SLC police officer moments before at QT, right? Wrong. Police Officer Kharma = FAIL.
Only moments after he AGREED with me that it was more dangerous to turn left across all of the Big Bend lanes rather than where I turned, said he didn't understand the no left either, and all but admitted to doing it himself, he handed me a good old moving violation and told me to drive safely. DRIVE SAFELYYYYYYYY???!!!! Really, cause that's what I WAS DOING when you gave me a ticket for it and told me to instead risk my life and others crossing 4 lanes of busy Big Bend traffic. Yes, I did "fail to obey a no left turn sign" BUT I might have saved lives. Okay, I am being just a teeny bit dramatic, but tell me peeps - do I have any case here? (Also, the sign is kinda bent over to the left a bit, but in fair disclosure, is there).
Also, any advice would be greatly appreciated. Is it even worth it to try and fight this or is it as black and white as sign/left turn? I think I know the answer, but damned if I'm not motivated to try.
Happy Freaking Friday to me.
Sorry, but this is pretty funny. Especially you Twilight fans out there.
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Lync - Remembering The Fireballs (Part 8) LP, a photo by Tim PopKid on Flickr.
Lync is one of those bands that I want everyone in the world to hear, though it seems to me as the years pass, fewer and fewer people are aware of their greatness. Lync was Sam Jayne's 1st band before he started up Love As Laughter. This album compiles all 4 of Lync's 7"s, a cassette only compilation track and a handful of unreleased tunes.
This comp has never really been a record that I've been searching for all that intensively as I have all of the Lync 7"s and a got the CD version of this for free when it came out. Then the record went out of print. I've been keeping my eye out for it for a while, but when it shows up on eBay it always sells for a bit more than I'm willing to pay for it. Finally, it showed up for $6 in one of my very favorite online distros, so I happily add it to the collection. I think at some point I will also take a collection picture of my Lync 7"s. Those are some of my most cherished records in my collection.


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Saturated With Tenderness
By Kim Nicolini
Posted on 14 August 2011 6 November 2011
Posted in Photography, Visual
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, currently at the Walker Center for the Arts in Minneapolis, pulls together a terrific collection of photos which interrogate the role of the camera in the disintegrating boundaries between the private and the public. This show, which originated at the Tate Modern, raises a lot of provocative questions about the relationship between propriety and photography. When I saw it in the Bay Area earlier this year at the SFMOMA, Nan Goldin's 45 minute slideshow of her Ballad Of Sexual Dependency photos, made an especially powerful impression.
Goldin's project documents the private lives of her friends in the post-Stonewall New York art scene starting in 1979. Her camera was as intimate a member of the scene as any of the club girls, junkies, transvestites and glam queens that she photographed. She put that community of outsiders under surveillance. But the voyeurism of the Ballad of Sexual Dependency is not hers — she was part of that community, after all — so much as ours, the museum-goers and readers who get to see her work without having to get to know her subjects.
Nan Goldin, "Cookie in Tin Pan Alley, New York City, 1983"
I first discovered Nan Goldin back in 1981, when I was nineteen years old. I was a kid fresh off the streets, a kid who had spent my teen years in the sex industry and punk scene of San Francisco. I had no high school education and had just begun studying at community college while trying to go "straight." For some reason I was compelled me to take an interest in art, so I began visiting galleries and learning about artists.
That's how I found Nan Goldin at the Frankel Gallery. Up until that time in my life, all of my cultural education had come through movies. I watched movies compulsively as a child — all the classic film noirs on television and anything and everything I could see in the movie theater — and Goldin's photos seemed to be a cinematographic representation of a life that was familiar to me, both from the content of the photos and the way they evoked motion pictures in their form.
I was very influenced by film, because I did not go to high school. I went to the movies. Sometimes I went to the movies two or three times per day. I saw every movie from the 1940s and the 1950s.
— Nan Goldin
On some unconscious level, maybe I was searching for ways to put my experiences of the fringe life of the streets into art and transcend them through art. In any case, I stumbled onto Nan Goldin's collection in its very early days and I was utterly floored by it. It struck a chord like nothing I'd experienced in a long time, especially since I saw the show within spitting distance of the very streets I had walked as a teenage runaway.
Her photographs of sexual outsiders, junkies, musicians, lovers and drunks sang a familiar song for me. This was a world I knew — a world of sex, drugs, alcohol, violence, and human vulnerability — and Goldin's portrayal of seemed so beautiful, unflinching, and real. In her photography, I found a kind of mirror of my interior life and all the messed-up history bottled up inside as I tried to navigate my way into the "straight" world.
Of course, later on I would learn that Nan Goldin's world wasn't exactly my world. As much as her work was grounded in the alcohol, violence, drugs, sex and death of sexual outsiders in the city, she occupied a position of privilege within that post-Stonewall scene that allowed her to photograph the people in her life, herself included, and promote her work to get early recognition in galleries and museums.
I know she has been criticized for being exploitive and taking advantage of the people in her life, for doing what some consider easy, but these criticisms don't hold water for me. Just because Goldin had the opportunities to photograph the scene and get her work shown does not mean that her photography doesn't hold value. I'm damn glad her photos were hanging in the Frankel gallery when I stumbled into it nearly three decades ago. And I'm glad that Goldin continued the project for nearly two decades and eventually assembled it into the slideshow that I saw in San Francisco this year.
Nan Goldin, "Sharon with Cookie on the Bed, Provincetown, MA, 1989"
Whenever I go back to San Francisco, the city where I was born and the city where I lived on the streets, it's an intense experience of self-reflection. Seeing Goldin's slideshow at the SFMOMA allowed me not only to see art the I have admired for many years in a new light — literally, too, as projected transparencies — but also allowed me to further ground myself inside my own personal history of the city and of the subjects in Goldin's photography.
Accompanied by a music soundtrack and organized into themes (junkies, cross-dressers, drunks, sex, etc.), images Goldin's audience first got to know through modestly enlarged prints or plates and are now presented in monumental size. I don't know the actual dimensions, but my guess is that they are about ten feet high. Seeing the photos projected in such large scale was stunning, the subjects captured with such intimate vulnerability and beauty in gorgeously saturated color.
I sat down and gobbled up each image. Bars, trashed apartments, bathrooms, beds and gyms — all of the settings provide the perfect stage as Goldin's subjects flicker across the wall to the soundtrack. They stare out of the wall in naked human honesty. I was overwhelmed by their beauty and could not stop watching, sitting riveted for the entire 45-minute duration. And I came back to see it two more times in shot succession.
On one viewing, I was with a gay friend who also survived the sex industry and drug addiction. Our shared history of needles, sex work and survival made our experience of Goldin's slideshow all the more powerful. Both of us were moved to tears by our sense of identification with the stunning and bare beauty of Goldin's photographs, by our own personal identification and the banks of memory and loss that we carry inside ourselves as survivors.
Nan Goldin, "Joey at the Love Ball, NYC, 1992"
Seen en masse the photographs in Ballad of Sexual Dependency become an elegy for punk queer art angels who in their "otherness" seem to be stand-ins for the potential of human beauty, not ugliness. Much of the elegiac and angelic quality of the photos is a result of Goldin's process, shooting color film in available light. The images are radiant, the slow exposure allowing the color to seep into the image with intense saturation. There is no flash to distract by washing out highlights. The color is transcendent and luminous.
It's strange now to think that Nan Goldin originally intended to shoot in black-and-white film and only ended up using color by accident. ("I accidentally used the roll of color film in my camera. I thought it is black and white, but it was color. ") What a blessing that Goldin put that roll of color film in her camera! Through color she composes such tender images of human vulnerability even when that tenderness is filtered through drugs, sex, violence and death.
This brings me to the comparison that many have made between Nan Goldin and Diane Arbus. Certainly there is similarity in their photographic subjects. Arbus photographs "freaks" in their environs and so does Goldin. But their work is starkly different in what it delivers. Arbus's freaks are put on display and encased in her cool formal style. There is no sympathy or vulnerability. They are presented like specimens for us to gawk at as they gawk back, the pristine black and white formal composition of her photos functioning almost like display cases for a lab presentation. Her subjects stare out of the frame, imprisoned by the frame like animals on exhibit.
Diane Arbus, "Transvestite at a Drag Ball, New York City, 1970"
On the other hand, Goldin's figures explode out of the frame in super saturated color and vitality. They are open and vulnerable. They ask us to recognize their beauty and humanity:
The drag queens hated the work of Arbus. It was not allowed in the house, because they hated the way she photographed drag queens. She tried to strip them of their identity. She did not respect the way they wanted to be. Arbus is a genius, but her work is about herself. Every picture is about herself. It is never respecting the way the other person is. It is almost a psychotic need to try to find another identity, so I think that Arbus tries on the skin of other people. I have written a lot about Arbus.
Diane Arbus, "A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, NYC, 1966"
To be sure, the difference between Goldin and Arbus is a result of style and process. Both photographers make choices to determine the outcome of their work. Arbus's work is formal, almost clinical in its composed formality. Goldin's work, by contrast, has a spontaneous feel, like she's capturing the human spirit emanating from the lights of clubs, apartments, hotel rooms, and streets. Her images are like snapshots of the human spirit, and their humanity cannot be denied. The blurriness of her images from shooting slow camera speed in low light also adds to the angelic effect of Goldin's subjects.
It's important to acknowledge that both bodies of work were executed with the intention of eliciting a certain emotional response from the viewer. Goldin's offer identification, and in their naked vulnerability, they ask us not to cast judgment but to recognize beauty. Arbus's work also asks us to recognize beauty, but it's beauty that comes from the formal compositions of her human subjects, the beauty of the exquisite formality of her process over the beauty of the subjects themselves. Arbus takes the "botched" beauty of midgets, giants, twins, transsexuals and others and binds them within a structured formality that is meant to offer artistic redemption. Still, it's important to remember that despite the difference in the underlying "emotional" content of Goldin and Arbus's work, both photographers are artists making distinct choices to deliver a certain impact.
Many critics accuse Goldin's work of being "easy." Maybe it is easy, carrying her camera around with her and snapping photos while living in the post-Stonewall underground. But just because something is easy does not mean that it's not valid. There's merit in doing what it takes to record the rhythm of everyday life, however "easy" that may be, because today's snapshot could become tomorrow's historical artifact.
Goldin's work holds great importance today for documenting the cultural history of a world that barely survives. The underground life her photographs depicts, queer in many senses, most likely could not be recreated today in the 21st century. Post-AIDS epidemic and post-Bush 1 and 2 presidencies, there is not much fringe culture of that sort left to document. That time is over.
What queer culture has survived into this new century has simultaneously assimilated the codes of mainstream America while also being contained and rejected by it. The tension between acceptance and rejection within queer culture and the fact that so many transgressive queers were wiped off the planet with AIDS transformed Goldin's photographs into a remarkable historical treasure. That's why it makes sense to see them enlarged larger than life in a slideshow. What once seemed disposable and easy is now endangered and sometimes very, very hard to look at:
It is about keeping a record of the lives I lost, so they cannot be completely obliterated from memory. My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them. The people are gone, like Cookie, who is very important to me, but there is still a series of pictures showing how complex she was. Because these pictures are not about statistics, about showing people die, but it is all about individual lives. In the case of New York, the most creative and freest souls in the city died. New York is not New York anymore. I've lost it and I miss it. They were dying because of AIDS.
Nan Goldin, "Misty and Joey at Hornstrasse, Berlin, 1992"
For my friend and me, looking at Goldin's slideshow was an intensely emotional experience since we had both survived the culture depicted. I was literally living on the streets in 1979. The world of sex, drugs, violence and queer punk culture in Goldin's photography was the world I occupied inside the bathroom at San Francisco's famed Mabuhay Gardens, the place I'd go to lose myself in the droning sounds of early punk throbbing from the stage. The photos of junkies shooting up was the world of my body as I walked the streets to get my next fix. I was a toxic cocktail in the late 70s and early 80s just like Goldin's cast of characters.
My friend also survived heroin, sex work, and being queer, and lived to tell the story. We both sat in front of the slides and were transfixed by the images that played before us, thinking about all the people we used to know who are now dead while we felt the burden of being survivors. We recognized the beauty in Goldin's work while also reflecting on our own personal relationship to the subjects.
Seeing the slideshow in San Francisco, just city blocks away from the very streets I walked as a teenager and the residential hotels where I shot dope with the community of junkies, provided me with another kind of "coming home" and closure in my life. It allowed me to remember that surviving what I survived didn't mark me as a "loser" but rather a survivor who was able to take those experiences and formulate them into art and writing, just like I'm doing here.
Nan Goldin, "Joana with Valerie and Reine in the Mirror, L'Hotel. Paris, 1999"
If I had not seen Goldin's photos at the SFMOMA, I wouldn't have remembered that nineteen-year-old girl fresh off the streets who for some reason took an interest in art. I still haven't figured out what it was that made me go fresh from the streets to visiting galleries and museums and spending my entire adult life making art and writing. Maybe visiting galleries was one of my early steps to reclaim my home — many of them in San Francisco were on the same streets where I had worked — and taking up art and writing was an unconscious way for me to process my experiences. Certainly seeing Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency back in 1981 was a major influence on where I would eventually go with my own art and writing. Goldin's work gave me a window to see how I could put my own experiences into some kind of creative form. Through Goldin's work, we are reminded that beautiful things can come from ugly experiences, and that is something we all need to remember.
Nan Goldin quotes from "Interview With Nan Goldin" in FotoTapeta.
Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency is showing at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis now through October 16, 2011.
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Since 1997 Fructis (L'Oréal group) is a leading brand in the market of hair-care products. Now the company has launched a renewal campaign of this product, which includes, among the other innovations, a new bottle's design.
The new bottles, in addition of the design change, are now made of PET. These new bottles are supplied by Serioplast, which has an in-house facility at the L'Oréal plant in Settimo Torinese.
The use of PET has led to the complete rethinking of the empty bottle's supply. Serioplast has therefore commissioned to Fava a new bulk conveying system that modifies and partially replaces the existing one.
The belt conveyors collect the bottles from the new 5 PET high-speed blow moulders (10.000bph each) and either feed directly the filling lines or load the pallettisable container (big bags).
The conveyors between the blow moulders and the filling lines have been designed to maximize the flexibility of the system. Also a 'dynamic buffer' has been implemented: it optimizes the functioning of the system without the need of large volumes of storage.
The big bags, inside which the bottles are stored in bulk, are handled by automatic LGV shuttles. The shuttles bring them to the automatic emptying hoppers and the beginning of the filling lines.
The big bags have to be filled with a predetermined number of bottles, therefore there is the need to count exactly the number of bottles starting from an 'in-bulk' condition. For this purpose, Fava has designed and manufactured two big bag loading systems composed of conveyors and counting station. The camera of the counting station recognizes the bottle's shape and is able to count the bottles on the bulk conveyor.
Each loading station feeds two big bags. When the first big bag is filled with the pre-determined number of bottles, it switches automatically to the other, allowing the replacement of the first one.
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Following the reorganization of its in-house facility at the L'Oreal plant in Settimo Torinese, Serioplast has assigned to Fava the execution of a new Venturi pneumatic conveyor for the 'Frank Provost' HDPE bottles.
The empty bottles are collected from the blow moulder and transferred to the existing silos where they are stored. The silos are connected to the filling line through a bulk conveyor system.
The Venturi pneumatic conveyor combines compact overall dimensions with flexibility and low cost.
This is the first time that this type of transport is implemented in Settimo Torinese. After the implementation of the new bulk conveyor system and counting station for the new Fructis PET bottles, it completes the entire reorganization of Serioplast in-house facility in Settimo Torinese.
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