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Lucifer Season 4 Episode 4 Review: All About Eve
Lucifer's first girlfriend re-enters his life, and Linda and Amenadiel prepare for the changes their angel baby will have on their lives.
By | May 11, 2019 |
This Lucifer review contains spoilers.
Lucifer Season 4 Episode 4
"Maybe you read about it in a little book called The Bible."
No matter how much any of us want Chloe and Lucifer to end up together, it's virtually impossible to dislike the childlike exuberance of the Bible's first woman as she re-enters Lucifer's life after a few thousand year absence. And while Chloe struggles to rebuild her personal and professional lives after the falling out with her partner, "All About Eve" provides a delightfully introspective glimpse into the circumstances behind Eve's departure from Heaven and her desire to party on Earth with her ex.
Inbar Lavi (Imposters) takes on the iconic biblical temptress and plays Eve with a lovely sense of naivete completely out of place in contemporary Los Angeles. It seemed a foregone conclusion that Lucifer would not handle the breakup with the detective well, but when he walks into a packed Lux wearing only a bathrobe and a particularly unkempt appearance, the stage is set for a classic reunion. Music blaring, lights flashing, customers dancing, Lucifer visually locks onto one of the female partiers on the far end of the room. Wearing a heavenly white mini-dress Eve immediately recognizes the fallen angel whose actions led to her banishment from the Garden of Eden. "Hey, Luce. Long time no see." And off we go.
Political and social commentary masked as dialogue generally feels out of place, but Eve's contention that "I didn't choose Adam; I was created for him" lends credence to her sudden appearance back on Earth. However, the subtext buried in her account of the stories she heard from those entering Heaven leads to the conclusion that there's more here than she admits. Was she truly enticed by stories of excitement and danger on Earth, or dId Lucifer's Father surreptitiously send her to Earth in an attempt to return the Devil to Hell? Interestingly, Lucifer offers to procure her a suite at the Waldorf which clearly disappoints Eve implying she expected to stay with him in the penthouse. I think it's safe to say that the detective still preys on his mind and heart.
The murder investigation drives home the point that Chloe and Lucifer no longer work together, and pairing her with her ex-husband fits nicely with Lucifer's partnership with Eve. Nevertheless, once the details of luxury jewelry designer Pablo Silva's death begin to emerge, and we realize that Eve finds herself in the middle, coincidence seems unlikely. It's not clear why Lucifer avoids Chloe whenever their paths cross during the investigation, but when she and Dan question Bashir, the suspect's observation does more than lead to a debt payoff. "Are you that partner he's always gushing about?" You'd think Lucifer might want the detective to see him working with a beautiful young woman, but perhaps Lucifer has changed after all.
There still seems to be more to Eve than simply a reconnection with an old lover, and she bristles each time she hears the word partner used to describe Lucifer's relationship with Chloe. Her jealousy evokes an honest charm that's impossible to ignore, and when she and Lucifer end up in a bar fight together, the adrenaline filled experience draws the two closer together. Ordinarily, predictability in scripted drama implies weakness, but as soon as he's impaled with a pool stick, Chloe appears right on cue to explain why Lucifer suffers from this incident. Despite her spirited personality that at times borders on silly, Eve later notices he survives unharmed a gunshot to the face when in her presence and becomes almost human when in the company of the detective.
It's a lot of fun watching Chloe and Eve together, and even though she doesn't really provide Chloe with much to help the case, it gives the two of them a chance to size up the competition. Of course, we keep waiting for Chloe to realize with whom she's actually talking, but it's Eve's observation that the detective seems a bit sad that adds to the complicated developing triangle. Not knowing what each truly thinks about the other provides a narrative mystery that only adds to the fun.
However, it's the auction at which the Desert Mirage necklace appears that sets the stage for Eve to claim a more permanent place in Lucifer's life. Now it's not clear how, given her lack of experience on Earth, she deduces that one of the models backstage would be wearing the necklace, but the words Lucifer utters upon successfully acquiring the necklace could not be more pleasing. "Well done, partner." Though we've heard Lucifer speak the same phrase to Chloe on a number of occasions, here, it just doesn't seem right.
Despite losing the necklace and apparently the $10 million he bid on it, Lucifer and Eve plan to celebrate their rapidly developing alliance, but the evening doesn't go as planned when he learns that she still possesses the Desert Mirage. Coming on the heels of Chloe's betrayal, this lie puts Eve on dangerous footing, and we're now left to consider whether or not her explanation rings true. Describing her earlier union with Lucifer as "the best time of my life," it does makes sense for her to think that as long as they're working together to recover the necklace, they'll be in each other's life. She understands the rejection he feels and implies she experienced the same in her life, but it's her request to see his true face that cements the relationship.
It's easy to lose sight of just how significant the angel baby story arc can become, and Linda crystallizes the situation during a visit with her obstetrician. "I have a truly supernatural support team," one of whom goes a bit overboard when Maze knocks the gel from the doctor's hand as she prepares to conduct a sonogram. The fact that there's an element of truth in Amenadiel's words make them even funnier when he tells Linda he "was looking for wings" on the scan.
The humor continues after they arrive home and all Amenadiel can think about is his "baby warrior angel" while Linda sees a home full of baby hazards. Is there a funnier scene than the entire room encased in bubble wrap? And while the season has focused primarily on Lucifer's sense of betrayal, Maze's struggle to find meaning and purpose within the family leave her confused and often angry. Like Lucifer, she feels Chloe has pushed her away and tells the expectant parents she plans to move in here. "Auntie Maze is here to help with the baby whether you like it or not." It may not be an ideal situation, but Linda understands her best friend has reached an emotional crossroads and needs to be part of something meaningful.
And while Lucifer and Eve renew their relationship and Amenadiel, Linda, and Auntie Maze prepare for the birth of an angel baby, Chloe now must either tell Lucifer how she really feels about him or get on with her life and career. Maze's sense of betrayal by Chloe stems from her inability to understand Chloe's desire and motherly obligation to protect her daughter from what she perceives as danger. And though it can be perceived as a cruel parting shot, Maze is not wrong when she tells Chloe that Linda also knows the truth and "handled it much better than you."
Asking Linda for advice may be the single wisest thing Chloe does, and it's not a surprise that the doctor is totally frank with her. "Truth be told, I'm freaking out, Chloe," and though she's mostly referring to the child she has on the way, it's really much more than that. Linda has clearly put more thought into how the celestial family of which they are both members has changed her life for the better. It's very simple. "Do you want him in your life or not?"
With the Father Kinley storyline seemingly behind us, "All About Eve" sends Lucifer in a direction we've yet to really explore, and while Eve's true purpose still looms in the shadows, Chloe has a decision to make. I really like where we seem to be headed.
Dave Vitagliano has been writing and podcasting about science fiction television since 2012. You can read more of his work here. He presently hosts the Sci Fi Fidelity podcast.
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Lessons on How to Love China
Gao Zhisheng is a Chinese firebrand lawyer-turned human rights activist. He's taken up the cross for cases ranging from underground Christian sects to democracy activists, displaced homeowners and more. Gao's opponent in and out of court has traditionally been one face or another of the CCP, and he's been a thorn in the Party's side for years. Himself an ex-member of the Party and former PLA soldier, Gao says the day he tore up his Party membership card was the proudest day of his life.
A cursory look at some of Gao's statements gives an insight into just exactly what he is all about. In an open letter to the U.S. Congress in 2007, Gao declared:
"The only law that the communist regime treat with any seriousness is 'the constitutional law ensures the permanent reign of the Chinese Communist Party in China.'"
Gao is no stranger to run-ins with the law. He was imprisoned and tortured for several months, and was finally coerced into admitting to "inciting subversion" by appealing to top leaders on behalf of a certain banned religious organization. Now he's facing the same plight: Gao went missing from his Shaaxi home in early February 2009 and it is assumed that he's been taken into custody by Chinese authorities.
Now it's not just Gao Zhisheng that's gone, but his wife and children as well. His family had been under house arrest and Gao's 15 year-old daughter unable to attend school, spurring them to pay human traffickers a small fortune to carry them overland to Bangkok in January of this year. From there they flew to the United States, where they are currently seeking asylum.
Gao Zhisheng is neither the first nor last lawyer of his breed in China, but he is perhaps one of the bolder and, some might say, reckless human rights activists on the mainland today. Himself a victim of torture and imprisonment in the past, Gao understood well the consequences of his actions, once stating that "you cannot be a rights lawyer in this country without becoming a rights case yourself."
Western observers of China should always be careful not to commit the sin of allowing our own prejudices and preconceptions to color our view of events that are entirely domestically Chinese. It's instinctual for us to paint Gao Zhisheng as a flawless knight in shining armor.
A debate could be had over whether his particular brand of rights activism is preferable to more subtle approach. Zhang Sizhi, another lawyer known for advocating the rule of law in China, has argued that "If you go too far, you will only hurt the chances of legal reform, as well as the interests of your client." Gao clearly understood the likely consequences of his actions for him and his family: he once ominously noted that he is "not sure how much time [he has] left" to carry out his activism.
Regardless of whether Gao's career exhibited courageous daring or dangerously unsound judgment (which are certainly not mutually exclusive qualities), Gao Zhisheng's experience is a lesson for any patriotic Chinese with an idealistic streak: you can't have your cake and eat it too. Progressive reform has consequences for individuals. Period.
Anyone that studies, reads, and writes about China can't help but have an emotional reaction to Gao's story in general and his family's tragedy in particular. Foreign China observers, in general, are rooting for China: the rule of law and human rights are what we want to see. People that aren't interested in those things tend to not stick around very long.
The jingoistic climate of 2008 is settling down: Carrefour protests are over and the Olympics weren't thwarted by a certain wolf in sheep's clothing after all. 2009 has had a few rough patches so far but it's not unsalvageable. With any luck, people like Gao Zhisheng can teach other Chinese what it means to love China.
UPDATE: On another, related note, articles like this bug me. The heading mentions that Gao's wife "defected" to America, which has very specific implications. Nothing in the body seems to suggest that it was anything resembling a change in political allegience, which leads me to believe that someone thought that word looked a bit more sexy so decided to throw it in without thinking about what it meant.
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Concerning your update…I had the same irritation with the Telegraph using sensational (or as you say "sexy") words in a recent article about the Beijing professor who was demoted to a position teaching in a small Xinjiang university. Instead of saying that he had been "unfairly moved" or "drastically demoted" they decided that he had been "exiled".
Whoever's writing these titles needs to settle down.
I freaking hate bloggers who act all clever about Chinese human rights/anti-government activists. You're not sure if he's daring or reckless? I'm not sure if you're just condescending or an absolute arsehole.
Consider this: maybe he's neither daring nor reckless. Maybe he's just right. Correct. Absolutely 100% spot on. He's committed to improving human rights in his country. He knows it can't be done from inside the Party. He knows it is necessary to stand up in the courts and demand the respect that the law says his clients should get, over and over and over again. He also knows that this kind of campaign will involve great sacrifice, and he makes it.
And the result? People like you, with your intimate knowledge of Party politics, label him "reckless".
Just consider – my rather confrontational style aside – the possibility that he knows more about his job than you do. Consider the possibility that he's right. And now maybe locked up for being write. Then consider your tone the next time you choose to write about him.
Hey Phil,
I hope you can go back and read the piece again. I thought my tone was pretty supportive of Gao: that's the whole reason I wrote it. The title is "Lessons on How to Love China," and I thought this (along with the last paragraph) implies that I think Gao can teach people a lot. I thought that was clear.
I am not arguing that he is reckless or not reckless, only presenting the view of (one) other Chinese rights lawyer that thinks Gao's approach is too wild. Click on the NYT link in that paragraph to read it. I am totally unqualified to say which methods are best and which are wrong, I just thought it was fair to note that there are other ideas (from people on the same side of the fence as Gao) out there. It doesn't represent my personal feelings, nor does it detract from my admiration for people like Gao Zhisheng.
In retrospect I can see how this paragraph might be read in a way I didn't intend:
My point wasn't to blame Gao for what he did. I should say "lesson for any Western observers."
So, Phil, what you're looking for is a blogger who will, without "intimate knowledge" of Party politics or of Gao's job, confirm that he is doing everything perfectly? Isn't that somewhat ridiculous or, to put it another way, downright irresponsible?
Chris's piece makes it perfectly clear that 1) he's not claiming to be some human-rights law expert and 2) he supports Gao. If you didn't get that, it's because you didn't read it carefully, period.
It really is amazing, merely suggesting that it might be within the realm of possibility that someone criticizing the CCP might have, at some point ever, made some mistake attracts personal attacks like this. Honestly, Phil, what are you contributing to the dialogue here, other than making people who support your position look belligerent?
Philip Pan, in his book Out of Mao's Shadow, describes the debate within the weiquan movement as one between purists – like Gao – and pragmatists. When the government responds to legal challenges with intimidation, torture, extrajudicial imprisonment and other violence, the purists argue that it should be met with non-violent resistance. In other words, do not back down when the party's violent nature reveals itself and instead continue to challenge an unjust system even when it results in personal sacrifice. The pragmatists argue that they should not challenge the party directly and instead pick their targets more effectively (i.e. local officials) and encourage the government to live up to its own standards and make incremental gains rather than challenge the whole system.
It's really a debate about tactics, and one that goes on within activist groups all over the world. What makes the debate more heated is the potential of the actions of those who challenge the party more directly to have a negative effect on everyone else working for change. However, the risk and potential reward of these actions is hard to know, so it's impossible to know for sure where to draw the line between actions that are courageous and those that are irresponsible.
As outside observers, I think it is important for us to both support those who have made sacrifices for their ideals and respect the choices of those who say that people like Gao are "reckless." In the end it is up to the people involved to decide on what tactics should be used and what sacrifices they are willing to bear. I am someone who loves China but is not Chinese, so I would support all of those working to reform the system. But I would not presume to offer advice on the best way to go about doing that when I am not someone who has to face the real consequences of those choices.
@ Kingsley
"But I would not presume to offer advice on the best way to go about doing that when I am not someone who has to face the real consequences of those choices."
Yup. Exactly my feelings.
It just goes to show you can't be too careful.
No Way Sis says:
I would argue that opting for one approach over another would do more harm than good to the drive for liberty and rule of law. As foreigners, whatever we do or do not know about China, it is a fact that those with power do not give it up easily – wherever you are, whatever culture you're in. Some aspects of human nature are universal. So Gao Zhisheng's combative approach is needed as much as Zhang Sizhi's gentle nudging. As the Party would probably put it, "all out efforts must be taken" to win this fight for freedom. Besides, Zhang's approach of engagement has proven time and again to be a futile one – just look at Burma and Asean.
@ No Way Sis
Interesting point. They say Ghandhi was able to do what he did in British India because the British were "civilized" colonizers (i.e., they generally wouldn't resort to massacres, etc.). I am not trying to draw a comparison between the mainland today and British India because of course the differences are huge. But it's interesting to question whether the CCP is a "civilized" government in the same way people say the British in India were supposedly "civilized." I think the answer is obviously no. The potential might be there for a change in the medium-term future though, and how that evolves might have implications for whether Zhang or Gao's approach is best.
Yes, quite. But for me, it boils down to trust. And I do not trust the CCP. Of course it will accept gentle nudging, because it means it can kick reform into the long grass, buy people off, preserve its power. Thorns in the side are needed too.
Re media words and terms that bug. I shouldn't get too upset about them. They're minor details in comparison to detentions and people having to flee an unreasonable regime. Those are the things that should make you angry! Besides, I'm sure such terms will disappear when dissidents stop getting jailed.
I'm sure you didn't overlook the Amritsar Massacre when you spoke of British civility in India.
Nope, didn't overlook it; the British were monsters in India too. The reason people say they were "civilized" is (I guess?) because in historical context, in comparison to other colonizing powers, they were nicer.
perspectivehere says:
@Chris Hearne
A good post overall – very thought provoking.
I have a small nit with this statement about the British colonizers in India which is somewhat tangential to your post:
"in historical context, in comparison to other colonizing powers, they were nicer."
Uh, not sure you've considered the sacking and razing of Delhi in revenge for what the British call the "Indian Mutiny of 1857" (and some Indians refer to as the "First War of Indian Independence"). The British retaliation on Delhi is a not-so-widely-known atrocity graphically described in William Dalrymple's 2006 work "The Last Mughal".
In Dalrymple's words:
"Finally, on the 14th September 1857, the British assaulted and took the city, sacking the Mughal capital and massacring great swathes of the population. In one muhalla alone, Kucha Chelan, some 1,400 citizens of
Delhi were cut down. "The orders went out to shoot every soul," recorded Edward Vibart, a 19 year old British officer. "It was literally murder … The women were all spared but their screams, on seeing their husbands and sons butchered, were most painful… Heaven knows I feel no pity, but when some old grey bearded man is brought and shot before your very eyes, hard must be that man's heart I think who can look on with indifference…" Those city dwellers who survived the killing were driven out into the countryside to fend for themselves. Delhi was left an empty ruin."
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Mughal-Fall-Dynasty-Delhi/dp/product-description/074758639X
Interview with William Dalrymple:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/india/article739273.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2
Review of Dalrymple's book:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/nov/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview6
Also the wikipedia entry has some interesting bits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rebellion_of_1857#Retaliation_.E2.80.94_.22The_Devil.27s_Wind.22
"The December 1857 issue of Charles Dickens' Household Words contained an essay by Dickens and Wilkie Collins in which Dickens says,…. "I wish I were a commander in chief in India. The first thing I would do to strike that Oriental Race with amazement….should be to proclaim to them that my holding that appointment by the leave of God, to mean that I should do my utmost to exterminate the race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested; and that I was there for that purpose and no other, …now proceeding, with all convenient dispatch and merciful swiftness of execution, to blot it out of mankind and raze it off the face of the Earth."
Amaresh Misra, Indian historian and author, goes further to claim that this was a holocaust where British reprisals involved the killing of 10 million Indians spread out over 10 years.
""It was a holocaust, one where millions disappeared. It was a necessary holocaust in the British view because they thought the only way to win was to destroy entire populations in towns and villages. It was simple and brutal. Indians who stood in their way were killed. But its scale has been kept a secret," Misra told the Guardian."
See http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/24/india.randeepramesh
Not so nice and civilized. It's kind of hard to say which colonizers were "nicer" when much of this history has been obscured by colonial historians and we don't have a clear idea of what things they did. Doubtful that Gandhi would have survived the British massacre of Delhi in 1857.
I think the "reason for Gandhi's success" sounds like face-saving rationalization: "we British gave up India because we were too civilized" – when the more likely reason is that post-WWII Britain was in ruins and too exhausted to fight to hold on in the face of Gandhi's independence movement. Also I find that the Gandhi story is often trotted out to justify violence against a demonized enemy by diminishing Gandhi's achievement, so I suspect its just one of these unprovable assertions that don't mean anything.
On the other hand, I admit that I've no great knowledge on India other than reading Dalrymple. And I'm not saying all British were bad either – Dalrymple makes it clear there were genocidal fanatics among the British leadership and a bloodthirsty frenzy whipped up by the jingoistic British press in India and back home that led to the massacres. Not a shining example of a responsible free press.
@ perspectivehere:
I've gotta say I was totally ignorant about that incident, thanks for the heads up. Also I agree with you about the "face-saving rationalization" you talked about, though I would still argue that they compare favorably to a place like France (for example) that desperately clung to its colonies as long as possible, wasting lives and treasure in the process. The British as least knew when the game was over.
FranklinT says:
To me, the British and Gandhi example is not a good framework. This rights issue, whether people want to acknowledge this or not– is an "internal" matter, meaning the activist is of Cn origins (and even having a CN citizenship) VERY hard to make a case this is like Gandhi vs. colonial Brits. [Plus, the Brits have a track record and– well, in the words of "The Wire" –it was time to for them to fall.]
I think there's an American reference that can help to echo and reframe this debate: "If you didn't have Malcolm, ain't nobody would know Martin."
In terms of arguing the historical point– even in an open democracy (let's just assume pre-1960's USA was one), you must have opposite sides of the spectrum to frame "public" discourse. White People's fear of Malcolm X, drove them to embrance Martin Luther King Jr. and helped to support his rise and having a voice. You have to give people choices and show them the consequences of supporting either side. If supporting X leads to going to jail vs. supporting Y leads to less employment opportunities– you'll get a much different make up of supporters.
Samething in Cn, you have to have your extremists that are willing to go to jail, attack the fundamentals of society in order to have a contrasting group which is at first marginal, then get a place at the table and work towards compromise with the Gov.
In Cn's case, I would wager this group of "Martin's" will come from within the Party or be affiliated with them. It's unforseeable that you can simply rip the rug out of the Gov. This is not a tribal dispute, e.g. Congo.
Unless you are talking succession or some kind of far-off situation, there is no power that can remove or restructure a gov't that 1.) has relative legitimacy with its people (e.g. 300 million out of poverty, entering the WTO, lots of nice places to eat and house to buy) and 2.) has full and immediate control of its army.
So, we should look and identify the Martin's of Cn.
That's my 2-fen.
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Q: Gnupg gives "get_key failed" despite using a valid key I want to integrate PGP encryption into my web application, after looking for what to use(extensions, libraries, etc.) I decided to go with the gnupg extension for php. Now, I do have a PGP key in one of my desktop folders and I've tried to use it's fingerprint as a string for addencryptkey, the error I receive is get_key failed which I don't understand why, my PGP key is valid.
There are two very similar questions on SO:
php gnupg get_key failed error ,
gnupg get_key failed in php ,
Based on these, I've updated my code somewhat to no success, here's what it currently looks like:
  putenv("GNUPGHOME=/home/user/Desktop/Keys/.gnupg/");

  $pgp = new gnupg();

  $pgp->addencryptkey("F0E2DF9C82ECE67935171F4939D8599A923820D9");
  echo $pgp->geterror();

In the folder specified in putenv, I have my public key saved in a .asc file. I can't see what the problem really is, unless it only works with keys stored on the server?

A: I just wanted to share my fix for this issue. Given that this is one of the more recent questions on this topic I thought it best to share it here.
At the time I was able to encrypt messages fine (PHP 7.4 with the GNUPG PECL extension).
To address the get_key_failed error, after setting up/importing my keys I copied my entire .gnupg directory to the root of my webserver (/var/www/html in my case) and updated its permissions so that it was accessible by the webserver.
putenv("GNUPGHOME=/var/www/html/.gnupg");

I assumed that this would fix it, however I then encountered a new error when attemping to decrypt a message:
Uncaught Exception: decrypt failed

The only way I could resolve this was by ensuring my key pair did not have a passphrase. Some comments on the PHP GNUPG docs suggest that that passphrase which is the second argument on adddecryptkey() is ignored regardless. However, in my case decryption only worked with a private key that didn't have a passphrase set.
This worked on my local instance (Ubuntu 18) and when deployed to an EC2 instance running Amazon Linux 2.

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This year my taxes are a little more tricky. I lived in 2 states in 2013, had relocation benefits through work, was in school, have a deductions from investments that will be applied to school, now have a home office and a totally different job. I know there will be way more to the process, but I have no doubt that she will do a great job! Now that I live in Indiana, I hope that she can still be my go-to gal for taxes moving forward!
Jenya is great! Last year I filed an extension and a friend recommended Jenya. I have a rental and a small business, so I didn't want to spend an arm and a leg at one of those places that charges you by how many forms you have. I just wanted it done right for a good price. I didn't even have to go in to her office. I just emailed her my documents and we discussed my return over the phone.


OH BROTHER: Tom, left, and James Lovesey are heading to South Africa next spring.
BROTHERS Tom and James Lovesey have been chosen to represent Great Britain in the Mirror World Championships in South Africa next spring.
Based on their performance in selector events, the Sarisbury Green boys gained automatic qualification to the British team.
Although the youngest helm to represent Great Britain in the Championships, Tom already has a World title to his name - he crewed for Josh Rumbol (Poole) in the 2005 Championships in Sweden where they became Junior World Champions.
The St John's College, Southsea, pupils first started sailing when they were three and five.
They then each sailed an Optimist and did a couple of years of the Kipper Programme at Warsash Sailing Club.
In 2004 they started sailing a Mirror together and now spend all their school holidays and most weekends training or competing.
With Tom helming and James crewing, they have progressed through the RYA Zone Squad to the RYA National Squad.
National squad training will be backed up with role reversal in the Zone squad where James will helm and Tom will crew.
Mum Clare Lovesey explained: "It's a bit unusual to do it this way but the boys would both like to be able to helm and crew a boat to a reasonable standard.
"By doing it this way we have access to excellent coaching from the experts to make sure we do it right and find out which of them in future might be the better crew or helm."
l The RYA has selected the largest Volvo Keelboat squad ever with 45 sailors now on board.
More than 80 sailors aged 16-24 attended the selections, held off Weymouth and Portland , last month.
Locals selected: Nick Cherry (Southampton), Nicky MacGregor (Poole), Jonny Marshall (Lymington), Dave Newey (Southampton), James Roche (Southampton), Jo Ryley (Lymington), Jez Fowke (Weymouth), Hannah Kemlo (Lymington), Andy Clark (Warsash), Ben Field (Southampton).


Peep Show: in real life, heterosexual Mark, left, would be likely to out-earn bisexual flatmate Jez.
It is, to put it mildly, a complex picture. Bisexual men are paid on average a third less than their heterosexual counterparts, a groundbreaking new study has revealed. But to complicate the issue, the study also shows that gay men and lesbians earn about the same as heterosexuals, as do bisexual women.
Professor Alex Bryson, of UCL's Institute of Education, analysed the historical earnings data of 20,000 employees in almost 2,000 workplaces in Britain. The results suggest, for example, that in real life, Peep Show's bisexual hero Jez Usborne would lose out financially to his heterosexual flatmate, Mark Corrigan.
In an article in the journal Work, Employment & Society, published by the British Sociological Association, Bryson explains that the average gross hourly earnings for bisexual men were £9.39, compared with £12.30 for heterosexual men, a gap of 31%. Conversely, average hourly earnings for gay men were £13.33, £1.03 more than for heterosexual men.
The study, which drew on the Workplace Employment Relations Survey conducted in 2011 and 2012, also showed that the average hourly earnings for lesbians were £9.87, similar to the £9.97 earned by heterosexual women. The average hourly earnings for bisexual women were £9.58.
Bryson then crunched the data further so that he could compare people of similar ages working in similar workplaces and jobs. Here again he found what he called sizeable wage gaps between the groups.
When comparing workers in similar occupations, the data showed that average hourly earnings for bisexual men were still 20% less than for heterosexual men, even if the workplace had an explicit equal opportunities policy on sexual orientation. That gap was found across all workplaces and occupations, and applied in London as well as non-metropolitan areas. In similar occupations, the average hourly earnings for gay men were 5% less than those of heterosexual men, but Bryson said that this result was not statistically significant.
While Bryson's study confirmed that there was no wage differential between gay and heterosexual men or between bisexual women and heterosexual women, it also found that lesbians were paid nearly 30% less than heterosexual women if they were not employed in a workplace that had an equal opportunities policy that explicitly refers to sexual orientation.
The study, the first of its kind carried out in Britain since the passage of anti-discrimination legislation in 2003 and 2010, drew on survey responses from 312 gay men and lesbians, 118 bisexuals, 18,635 heterosexuals and 986 people who declined to identify their sexuality. Bryson said the finding that there was no significant wage gap between gay and heterosexual men was "in contrast to most previous research in this area".
While the sample was small, he said the findings were still statistically significant. He pointed out that his work built on earlier qualitative evidence from other researchers that had shown that "the attitudes of both employers and employees towards bisexual employees lag behind the positive developments there have been with respect to perceptions of homosexual employees".
But he conceded that the study, which did not determine whether employers knew the sexuality of employees and could therefore not prove whether they were actively discriminatory, "raised as many questions as it answered".
"This is a call to get other people out there to do more research on this and see what they find," said Bryson.
A spokesman for equality group Stonewall said there was evidence that bisexual people were treated differently. "We have seen in our own research that bi people experience specific discrimination that differs from other lesbian and gay people.


We thoroughly enjoyed interacting with readers during the first 22 episodes. The reader polls were a lot of fun and our readers did an incredible job channeling the story in the best possible direction. The story went exactly where we hoped.
However, we suspended the reader polls for the remainder of Mia and Stone's story. We hope that you will trust us to give you a satisfying ending that will keep you on the edge of your seats and craving more until the very end.


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package macromedia.asc.embedding;

import macromedia.asc.util.ByteList;

import java.util.StringTokenizer;

public class SwfMaker
{
	public static final int stagShowFrame       = 1;
	public static final int stagEnableDebugger2 = 64;   // this movie may be debugged
	public static final int stagDebugID			= 63;   // unique ID to match up swf with swd
	public static final int stagFileAttributes	= 69;
	public static final int stagDoABC           = 72;
	public static final int stagSymbolClass     = 76;
	public static final int stagEnableTelemetry	= 93;

	// Flags for stagFileAttributes
	public static final int swfFlagsUseNetwork          = 0x00000001;  // when this SWF is local, give it network access instead of local access
	public static final int swfFlagsSwfRelativeUrls     = 0x00000002;  // relative URL paths in this SWF are relative to SWF location rather than browser location
	public static final int swfFlagsNoCrossdomainCache  = 0x00000004;  // do not add this SWF to the Asset Cache
	public static final int swfFlagsAS3                 = 0x00000008;  // this SWF contains AVM+ bytecodes
	public static final int swfFlagsHasMetadata         = 0x00000010;  // this SWF contains stagMetadata somewhere
	// (this is not relevant to the player, but is relevant to search engines)
	public static final int kDefaultSwfFlags            = 0x00000000;   // these flags are assumed when no stagFileAttributes is present

	private int CoreAbs(int x) { return (x<0) ? (-x) : x; }

	class SRECT
	{
		public int xmin;
		public int xmax;
		public int ymin;
		public int ymax;
	};

    int bitPos;
    int bitBuf;
    ByteList buffer = new ByteList();

	int     pos;
	int		tagCode;
	int		tagPos;
	int		tagLen;
	boolean	tagIsBig;
    int     swf_version;

    SwfMaker()
    {
		pos             = 0;
	    tagCode			= 0;
	    tagPos			= 0;
	    tagLen			= 0;
	    tagIsBig		= false;
        swf_version     = 9;
    }

	void SetPos(int pos)
	{
		this.pos = pos;
	}

	void CheckSpace(int count)
	{
		buffer.resize(pos+count);
	}

    void PutData(byte data[])
    {
		CheckSpace(data.length);
		for (int i=0; i<data.length; i++) {
			buffer.set(pos++, data[i]);
		}
    }

    void PutByte(byte b)
    {
		CheckSpace(1);
		buffer.set(pos++, b);
    }

	void PutString(String str)
	{
        PutData(str.getBytes());
		PutByte((byte)0);
	}

    void PutWord(int d)
    {
		CheckSpace(2);
		buffer.set(pos++, (byte)d);
        buffer.set(pos++, (byte)(d>>8));
    }

    void PutDWord(int d)
    {
		CheckSpace(4);
        buffer.set(pos++, (byte)d);
        buffer.set(pos++, (byte)(d>>8));
        buffer.set(pos++, (byte)(d>>16));
        buffer.set(pos++, (byte)(d>>24));
    }

    void StartTag(int code, boolean isBig)
    {
	    //assert(tagCode==0);

	    tagCode = code;
	    tagPos = pos;
	    tagIsBig = isBig;

	    PutWord(0);
	    if ( isBig )
		    PutDWord(0);
    }

    void FinishTag()
    {
	    int savePos = pos;
	    int tagLen = pos - tagPos - (tagIsBig ? 6 : 2);
	    pos = tagPos;

	    if (tagIsBig) {
		    PutWord((short)((tagCode<<6) | 0x3f));
		    PutDWord(tagLen);
	    } else {
		    //assert(tagLen < 0x3f);
		    PutWord((short)((tagCode<<6) | tagLen));
	    }
	    pos = savePos;
	    tagCode = 0;
    }

    int CountBits(int v)
    {
	    int n = 0;
	    while ( (v & ~0xF) != 0 ) {
		    v >>= 4;
	 	    n += 4;
	    }
	    while ( v != 0 ) {
		    v >>= 1;
		    n++;
	    }
	    return n;
    }

    int CheckMag(int v, int mag)
    {
	    if ( v < 0 ) v = -v;
	    return v > mag ? v : mag;
    }

    void InitBits()
    {
	    bitPos = 8;
	    bitBuf = 0;
    }

    void FlushBits()
    {
	    if ( bitPos < 8 )
		    PutByte((byte)bitBuf);
    }

    void PutBits(int v, int n)
    {
        if ( n <= 0 )
            return;
        for (;;) {
            v &= 0xFFFFFFFF >> (32-n);	// mask off any extra bits, note this does not work for n == 0, hence check for zero above
            int s = n - bitPos;	// The number of bits more than the buffer will hold
            if ( s <= 0 ) {
                // This fits in the buffer, add it and finish
                bitBuf |= v << -s;
                bitPos -= n;	// we used x bits in the buffer
                return;
            } else {
                // This fills the buffer, fill the remaining space and try again
                bitBuf |= v >> s;
                n -= bitPos;	// we places x bits in the buffer
                PutByte((byte)bitBuf);
                bitBuf = 0;
                bitPos = 8;
            }
        }
    }

    void PutRect(SRECT r)
    {
	    InitBits();

	    int mag = CheckMag(r.xmin, CheckMag(r.xmax, CheckMag(r.ymin, CoreAbs(r.ymax))));
	    int nBits = CountBits(mag)+1;	// include a sign bit

        if (nBits<15) nBits = 15;

	    PutBits(nBits, 5);
	    PutBits(r.xmin, nBits);
	    PutBits(r.xmax, nBits);
	    PutBits(r.ymin, nBits);
	    PutBits(r.ymax, nBits);

	    FlushBits();
    }

	public boolean EncodeABC(ByteList abcData,
						     String options)
	{
		String className = null;
		int width, height, fps = 12;
        int useNetwork=0;

        boolean debug = false;
		int dAt = options.indexOf(",-g");
		if (dAt > -1)
		{
			// strip it and enable debugger tag
			debug = true;
			options = options.substring(0, dAt) + options.substring(dAt+3);
		}
        dAt = options.indexOf(",-usenetwork");
        if (dAt>-1) {
            useNetwork=swfFlagsUseNetwork;
            options = options.substring(0, dAt) + options.substring(dAt+12);
        }

        StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(options, ",");
		switch (tokenizer.countTokens())
		{
		case 2:
			width = Integer.parseInt(tokenizer.nextToken());
			height = Integer.parseInt(tokenizer.nextToken());
			break;
		case 3:
			className = tokenizer.nextToken();
			width = Integer.parseInt(tokenizer.nextToken());
			height = Integer.parseInt(tokenizer.nextToken());
			break;
		case 4:
			className = tokenizer.nextToken();
			width = Integer.parseInt(tokenizer.nextToken());
			height = Integer.parseInt(tokenizer.nextToken());
			fps = Integer.parseInt(tokenizer.nextToken());
			break;
		default:
			return false;
		}

        PutByte((byte)'F');
        PutByte((byte)'W');
        PutByte((byte)'S');
        PutByte((byte)swf_version);
        PutDWord(0);

		SRECT bounds = new SRECT();
		bounds.xmin = 0;
		bounds.ymin = 0;
		bounds.xmax = width*20;
		bounds.ymax = height*20;
		PutRect(bounds);
		PutWord(fps<<8);   // frame rate
		PutWord(1);       // # of frames  SDD ### Change to sensicle number

		StartTag(stagFileAttributes, false);
		PutDWord(swfFlagsAS3|useNetwork);
		FinishTag();

		if (debug)
		{
			StartTag(stagEnableDebugger2, false);
			PutWord(0x1975);
			PutString("");
			FinishTag();

			StartTag(stagDebugID, false);
			PutData( new byte[] { (byte)0xCA, (byte)0x49, (byte)0x96, (byte)0xC7,
								  (byte)0x57, (byte)0x8E, (byte)0x20, (byte)0x02,
								  (byte)0xDD, (byte)0x92, (byte)0xA6, (byte)0x3F,
								  (byte)0x18, (byte)0x78, (byte)0xC5, (byte)0xBC } );
			FinishTag();
		}

		StartTag(stagDoABC, true);
		PutData(abcData.toByteArray());
		FinishTag();

		if (className != null)
		{
			StartTag(stagSymbolClass, false);
			PutWord(1);
			PutWord(0);
			PutString(className);
			FinishTag();
		}

        // Show Frame
        StartTag(stagShowFrame, false);
        FinishTag();

		// Set the length
		int size = pos;
		SetPos(4);
		PutDWord(size);

		return true;
	}
};

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Top 10 Albums Of 2011…So Far
By: TheUrbanDaily Staff
We're only a few months into 2011 but we've already been blessed with some really strong music releases. Raekwon, Talib Kweli, Saigon and Pharoahe Monch have set the bar high for the remainder of this years hip-hop releases. If you haven't heard them yet make sure you go and cop them.
Raewkon–Shaolin vs Wutang
The Wutang Chef's fifth solo album keeps the grit of this signature "Cuban Linx" franchise but invites unusual suspects like Rick Ross, Black Thought and Raheem DeVaughn to create a new and unique experience for his fans.
Talib Kweli–Gutter Rainbows
This is the album most fans were expecting when Reflection Eternal's Revolutions Per Minute dropped in 2010. With production by 88-Keys, M-Phazes and Ski Beatz is more raw and less experimental than the RPM but it is no less satisfying. Talib is still lyrical potent but feels more relaxed on the mic.
Saigon- The Greatest Story Never Told
The running joke for years was that Saigon's title was a self-fulfilling prophecy. With every delay fans of this Just Blaze-produced story thought it would never actually get told. But thankfully Saigon came through with the near flawless debut that everyone was hoping for. Even though 3/4 of the album is almost five years old it proved timeless in subject matter and sound.
Pharoahe Monch-W.A.R. (We Are Renegades)
The Queens-bread lyricist and singer pulls out all of the stops on his third solo project giving fans the "rappity-rap" album they've been wanting from him since his 1999 debut Internal Affairs. Styles P, Royce Da 5'9, Jean Grae and Jill Scott complete this warning from the future.
Keep checking back to see who we add to this list throughout the year!
More Top Tens
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Hip-Hop's 10 Best Voices (The Remix)
Top 10 Michael Jackson Songs
Top 10 Albums Of 2011…So Far was originally published on theurbandaily.com
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Autonomous underwater system for monitoring health of Venice Lagoon demos at #EXPO2015
by Thomas Schmickl
Monitoring the ocean for pollution, ecology and climate change effects is a costly and elaborate task, especially in a complex area like Venice, with its lagoon, its many channels, cable and pipe infrastructure, industrial areas, harbor, marshland, and mussel farms. An interdisciplinary team of European scientists is breaking new ground in underwater environmental monitoring with the EU-funded subCULTron project. With a budget of 4M Euros, they are developing the world's largest intelligent underwater monitoring system that coordinates, communicates and collects data autonomously. The first presentation of subCULTron prototypes takes place at EXPO 2015 in Venice on October 15 and 16.
subCULTron is coordinated by the Artificial Life Lab of the University of Graz, working together with scientists from Italy, Belgium, France, Germany and Croatia. The group is developing a swarm of 120 autonomous underwater robots that will collect environmental data to help provide insight on how the Venice waters are influenced by the complex interplay of industry, tourism, transport, and local inhabitants. One of the long term goals of the project is to find ways to prevent future damage in the region.
A smart monitoring-system based on bio-inspired autonomous robots
Scientists have chosen an autonomous swarm approach for this challenging task because such systems are known to be very robust, flexible and scalable, especially in unpredictable, changing environments. Bio-inspired algorithms derived from derived from social insects, fish or slime molds are used for the swarm communication, as these systems can work without any central unit of control, and the loss of individual robots doesn't lead to the failure of the whole system.
Another advantage of developing a self-organizing robot society is that the single robots are inexpensive and small compared to most conventional underwater robots, which makes it possible to build a larger fleet (in this case 120 robots) to maximize the sampling area and to collect large amounts of very diverse data in parallel.
How does the subCULTron swarm work?
The subCULTron swarm will consist of three different robot types that are designed and developed especially for the project and which represent cutting edge technology and software:
artificialMussels (aMussels) are novel autonomous robots that sit on the ground after being deployed in the water to collect various data over a long period of time, establishing a dedicated sensory network. When necessary, they will also be able to move as a group, exploiting given energy sources, e.g., turbulences or water currents.
artificialFish (aFish) are fast and agile underwater robots that are used to monitor the ground and to search for given targets. They also bridge communication from aMussels to artificialPads (aPads).
aPads are robots that float on the water surface, inspired by lily pads on a pond. They complete the communication chain from aMussels on the seabed via aFish to aPads and finally to the scientists in the lab.
The goal is to have these three different robot types running efficiently by exploiting advanced energy harvesting techniques developed by the project team.
What novel knowledge is expected from the subCULTron swarm?
Thanks to the large number of swarm-robots, the autonomous communication system and the novel robot types, an enormous amount of environmental data about the Venetian underwater world will be collected in parallel. The hope is that this data will yield new insights into the effects of human intervention on the natural water habitat in and around Venice, helping to preserve this world heritage site from the effects of climate change.
Biologists and ecologists should also benefit from insight gained into ecological systems, and it is hoped that the tech industry will be able to build on subCULTron to innovate technology for underwater applications.
subCULTron goes to EXPO 2015
From October 15-16, subCULTron 2015 scientists will demonstrate their first robot prototypes live in small pool experiments at the Venice EXPO 2015.
WHEN: 15th-16th of Oct. 2015
WHERE: AQUAE VENICE 2015 Pavillion
ADRESS: Via Galileo Ferraris, 5 , Venezia Marghera
LINK: (http://www.aquae2015.org/where/?lang=en)
tags: c-Research-Innovation, cx-Environment-Agriculture, cx-Exploration-Mining, cx-Mapping-Surveillance, EU, Italy, swarms, underwater robots
Thomas Schmickl is an Associate Professor at Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria, and a lecturer at the University for Applied Sciences in St. Pölten, Austria.


Monolith Soft's partnership with Nintendo has now brought three games that I have absolutely loved. While Xenoblade Chronicles X falls a bit behind on the rankings, I've found myself finding it almost impossible to decide which of the other two I like best as both are first at the top of my favourites of all time list. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has almost everything I love about RPGs, from an excellent and intuitive battle system to an amazing cast and story, fascinating world, and brilliant music. Shout out also to the game's great voice acting cast, particularly Catrin-Mai Huw, the amazing Welsh voice of Nia.
I do like a good murder mystery, and the Danganronpa series is nothing but that (ignoring the spin-offs anyway). The first two games brought a crazy new style to the idea, helped by Masfaumi Takada's soundtrack, and immediately grabbed my attention and didn't let go. Though Danganronpa V3 brings a slightly new direction, it achieves much the same that its predecessors did and has perhaps the best cast of the three. The ending is an almost perfect encapsulation for the series, superbly bringing forth questions that I was starting to have leading into its release. All that said, let's not use Psyche Taxi again please.
One of the games from the previous generation that I felt didn't get enough love was Tears to Tiara II, a visual novel-RPG hybrid from Aquaplus with assistance from Sting. So I was very happy to hear that Atlus was localising the Utawarerumono duology. This is the second part of that duology, the first appearing somewhat below due to some serious pacing issues, though the two combined should slot in about here. It's an incredible tale with a cast of hugely memorable characters and a straightforward, but thoroughly engaging tactical RPG system that lends to a great experience that I thoroughly recommend, even with the glacial opening half of the first game.
Iron Chef plus gem-matching plus side-scrolling action is a bizarre combination, but somehow Trinket Studios has made it work brilliantly. Battle Chef Brigade is a showcase in how developers can bring strange ideas together in very fun ways. It's not a very long game, but I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it and can see getting sucked into another experience that builds on it (it's definitely one that asks for head-to-head multiplayer).
While I am a huge fan of certain visual novels, there are many that have just bored me. Collar x Malice falls into the former category. Though billed as an otome game, I would heartily recommend it to anyone looking for a narrative experience, as the romance aspects are less of a focus than the fascinating story it tells. I generally don't bother replaying visual novels with multiple routes, but here I felt compelled to play all of them just so I could learn everything behind the story.
Any other year as this could easily be in the top three. Nihon Falcom, albeit a junior team, combining elements of Trails of Cold Steel, Ys, and Persona? Yes, please. Though it's an obvious combination of those ideas rather than being too original, it has all of the charm one expects from a Falcom title and kept me interested throughout. Though the eX+ console version has more content, those who play the original Vita release shouldn't feel shortchanged.
Mario Golf on the Game Boy Color was a favourite of mine. Its story campaign was incredibly engaging, and I'm very sad to see that recent games haven't tried to emulate it. That was before Golf Story. Though it isn't quite as deep as Camelot's effort, Golf Story is great fun with entertaining writing and challenges, and brings a strong game to the course.
Though the first game of the Utawarerumono duology has some serious pacing issues, it's deserving of a place in the top ten purely for how well it sets up the second half. The excellent payoff provided by the second game wouldn't be nearly as good without all the painstaking groundwork set up here, and though non-conclusions are often a pain for RPGs, this game ends on perhaps the greatest one I've seen and for those who get to it. There's no option but to want to find out what happens next.
The DS family has been great for puzzle games, with Professor Layton games being one of the stronger series to emerge. After a good number of titles featuring Herschel, it's good to bring in a new lead, and his daughter Katrielle is a fine one to pass the mantle to. Though it doesn't do too much else to differentiate itself from the previous games, Layton's Mystery Journey marks a fun new entry and is well worth checking out.
The PSP and Vita have introduced me to many good things, one of them being the Ys series. Nihon Falcom's long-running action RPG series feels right at home on the handhelds. Though XSEED Games released Ys Origin, a distant prequel to the series, for PC in 2012, DotEmu's decision to bring it to first PS4 and then Vita gave me a good reason to check it out, and I'm very glad I did.


Best way to end a week. Courtesy of FailArmy.
Best way to enter into summertime. Courtesy of FailArmy, of course.
Here are the best videos of the first week of July, courtesy of Fail Army. Just sit back and enjoy!


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Aries 2024 Love Horoscope
2023 year in relation to love for Aries will be stable and is unlikely to be very surprising. Lonely representatives of this sign will gladly start romances in winter or early spring, but after the first passions cool down, they will be able to experience disappointment or indifference and go on a further search for their love. Aries in love this year can go to change their marital status, the stars will be supportive in this. In the event that the wedding is already actively planned, you should very carefully review the list of guests in order to surround yourself on such an important day only with those people who are sincerely happy for the couple, wish them happiness and love, because envious people and ill-wishers are always somewhere nearby.
Those Aries who are married should think very carefully before succumbing to the temptations of having an affair at work or on vacation. The fact is that this year will become a kind of test in this regard. Innocent flirting can end in betrayal, and it can destroy even the strongest family, you need to carefully consider whether the love adventure of a broken family is worth it. Also, Aries should not tell outsiders about their family affairs, because very often envious people hide under the masks of well-wishers and friends, who can then use all these words against the person himself.
For some, the family life of married Aries may seem so calm and measured that you even want to change something. In this case, nothing needs to be done, because the stars provide an excellent opportunity to enjoy the closeness of a loved one and not be distracted by problems. It will be quiet and calm only if the husband or wife does not belong to the fiery signs of the zodiac. In the event that just such an alliance is concluded, the flame in the house can blaze with great force. It will seem to the second half that you need to change your usual way of life or something else. Such impulses are notable for their short duration, and a reasonable Aries will just need to find the strength and patience in himself to put out the fire and return harmony to the family again.
If the scandal reaches its peak, then the family may be on the verge of divorce, and the year may demonstrate this very clearly, so you need to be attentive to your partner. If you get married in 2023 year, then the stars promise to give your marriage longevity and prosperity, you should think about it and take advantage of such a great opportunity. Astrology shows a person how his life can develop, but all decisions must be made by the person himself, always remembering that there are no trifles and everything that happens can make a significant imprint on his destiny.
Aries Career Horoscope 2023
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I have switched from "message" style to "RPC" style encoding of the WSDL in response to advice on the MSDN web site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnservice/html/service12052001.asp. Apparently Java uses RPC more frequently. Maybe it will make a difference.
The multiRef was not interpreted by the .NET web service the way the Java client was expecting, and the result was that none of the arguments actually got passed into the web method.
After researching on Google for a while, it appeared that using links with multiRef is a rather "advanced" topic and some implementors do not support it.
Still researching how to solve the problem. See future web blogs for solution (hopefully).


60 watt LED bulbs are different to their predecessors in that they are far more energy efficient than ever before and are also kinder to the environment. They are of course produced by a number of manufacturers and even though we are specifically looking at the 60 watt variety there are still options available to you when deciding upon which one to purchase.
First, it is important to point out that even though it gives out 60 watts, the power that is used to generate the light is much lower with an industry average of around 10W to 15W depending on the manufacturer. These bulbs will actually generate around 830 lumens, which is the industry measurement for the amount of light that is emitted, and it has to be said that these bulbs are now one of the most efficient on the market.
In general, you are looking at the LED versions using up to 85% less energy than earlier models without it having a negative impact on the amount of light that is produced and they are expected to last up to 25 times longer than conventional bulbs meaning they really do represent value for money. What this means is that you can expect to save a reasonable amount of money during the life span on this bulb just by it using less electricity to work and this alone is a fantastic reason to go and change your old bulbs for the latest LED versions.
Finally, they are available in the normal fittings and this means both bayonet and screw caps with there being no real difference between the price for both. This does of course mean that these bulbs can be used in a variety of settings and it is best to look at their most common uses around the home to give an idea as to how adaptable they actually are.
These bulbs are most commonly used in your standard lamps or as the main light in different rooms around your house. They work perfectly with dimmer switches to allow you to soften the mood and they do give off more than enough light for you to consider using them instead of the age old 100W bulbs that were more common in previous years. Due to the fact that they can be used in a whole host of lamps and light fittings it does mean that you are spoilt for choice when it comes to these LED bulbs and you can be sure of them doing a fantastic job in your home.
60 watt LED bulbs are, therefore, capable of producing more than enough light, but do so using a fraction of the electricity that was used in older versions. They are available with different fittings and will last up to 25 times longer than older bulbs and will save you money every single time they are switched on, so look at changing to these new LED bulbs now.
Power: 60W; Input voltage: AC 85-265V; Frequency range: 50Hz-60Hz; Light source: Epistar 2835 LED chips; Light output (Lumens): 7300lm; Luminous efficiency: >130lm/W; Power factor: >0.9; CRI (Ra>): 70; Beam angle: 360°; Color temperature: Cold white (6000-6500K), warm white (2900-3200K), natural white (4000-4500); Material: Aluminum; Fin heatsinks; Base: E27\E26\B22\E40; Size: Φ90*298mm; Warranty: 2 years.
Power: 60±4W; Input voltage: AC 85-265V; Frequency range: 50Hz-60Hz; Light source: Epistar 5730; Light output (Lumens): 5200lm; High efficiency constant current driver; Power factor: >0.95; CRI (Ra>): 80; Beam angle: 360°; Start-up time (s): 2; Color temperature: Cold white, warm white, natural white; Material: Aluminum + PC Cover; Size:Φ110*290mm (E26), Φ111*313mm (E39); Base: E26/E27/E39/E40; Life span: 35000 Hours; Weather protection: IP34; Working temperature: -25°C~+55°C; Warranty: 3 years. Also available in 70W.


I am a transformational life and relationship coach specializing in helping young women struggling with unfulfilling relationships regain their confidence and self-worth to have the love they deserve. My life's purpose is to empower people to live to their full potential, embrace their authenticity and shine their light vibrantly.
Also, as a Reiki practitioner I am able to heal people's energy. My educational background consists of a Bachelors Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in psychology, philosophy and political science. I also have a Juris Doctor Degree from Whitter Law School. After graduating law school and pursuing the legal field, I knew I had to follow my real passion, which is inspiring people to raise their consciousness and self-love level.
As a certified coach through the Coach Training Alliance, I create and lead coaching programs that guide people to mastering their psychology and confidently embarking on new life endeavors. My passion for psychology, quantum physics, and in-depth understanding of spiritual wisdoms enable a holistic transformation for my clients.
I am in the process of publishing books, speaking on stages, and empowering more people to live and love vibrantly.


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Thousands of people took to the streets of London on two wheels Sunday to enjoy traffic-free routes past some of the biggest landmarks.
Led by mayor Boris Johnson, the 50,000 cyclists enjoyed fine weather on the 15km journey past Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square and the Tower of London.
Mr Johnson said the Skyride event 'encourages people to feel safe on bicycles'.


Ever been hit so hard and fast by a head cold or sinus infection that it stopped you from what you needed to be doing that day? Work, taking care of the kids, running errands, etc? Yeah that happened to me…again. When you're working full time and being a single parent (at the moment) full time, plus trying to have a social life and keep up with the holidays, stuff like this catches up to you and it always comes at the worst time.
I had taken off work to go to a doctors appointment (yes I still believe in Western Medicine), run errands before my annual Christmas Party, get my hair and nails done and do it while my son was at daycare. Unfortunately some little nasty bug/virus got to me and I was out for the count.
Instead of getting all my errands done and getting a little pampered I was in bed resting and using my oils like c r a z y. No over the counter meds? Nope. NONE.
Within 24 hours, I was back up and running and slaying the day with my son in freezing cold rain. Yepp, I felt like superwoman again.
These oils are amazing and it's so nice to use something that is NATURAL and not synthetic. NO side effects short or long term either. Just healthier happier me.
It's taken me a while to figure out oils and how to use them appropriately and I am still learning each and every day. Not every oil and oil blend works for everyone the same way, so what works for me may not work for someone else. Figuring out what works for you is the best way to learn.
To beat this cold I used several different oils and used them several different ways. I diffused Thieves and Purification and then I switched to Peppermint, Lavender & Lemon. I took several capsules a day mixed with Lemon, Frankincense, Thieves and olive oil and lastly, when I had a headache I applied Frankincense, Peppermint and Lavender to my forehead and temples. Then I inhaled the rest – such a great smelling combination!
When my nose was super runny, I applied Lavender topically around my nose and instantly it went away. Then I added some Peppermint to open my airways. Love me some Peppermint!
Really I could list a lot more but I'll stop there.
You can also find a lot of these oils in the Vitality section which means you can take them orally. The vitality oils are smaller and cost less so it's something to consider if you're starting out or just want to keep some in the kitchen for cooking and quick access.
The capsules I use are from Young Living and can be found here.
If you're interested in learning more about oils send me a message. I'd be happy to tell you more or answer any questions or concerns you might have. You can also check out my YLEO website here.
What are some of your favorite oils and how do you use them when you're sick?
Sarah is a full time working mom who grew up in the D.C. Metro Area and has a passion to help others live their best lives through natural alternatives. She loves spending time with her husband and son and traveling when possible to see her Mom. Good food, friends, family and wine (or margaritas) are a must. Life is too short and we all could use a little drop of happiness.
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Following the excitement of March Madness is the 2019 WNBA Draft, taking place at 7:00 p.m. on April 10th at the Nike Headquarters in New York City.
Picking first will be the Las Vegas Aces, who won the draft lottery last August. This marks the third year in a row the franchise has had the first pick (previously as the San Antonio Stars), where they selected both Kelsey Plum and A'ja Wilson. The order of the remainder of the first round and the following two rounds is the inverse order of the team's respective regular season standings.
The big star in this year's draft is Point Guard Sabrina Ionescu. However, she still needs to declare whether she will remain at Oregon for another year or make the jump to the WNBA. Ionescu currently holds the title for the NCAA's all-time leader in career triple doubles in both men's and women's leagues.
The general consensus for the second and third picks go to Asia Durr and Teaira McCowan, respectively. Durr is currently playing for Louisville as a guard, creating amazing offense. McCowan is a center from Mississippi State who averages 18 points, 14 rebounds (which is the second most in the nation) and 2.5 blocks per game.
All the action can be seen live with the first round being broadcast on ESPN2, and the remaining two rounds on ESPNU.


Dosa is on the menu today with this crispy restaurant style dosa recipe. Dosa, a delectable crepe made from rice and urad daal, can be had plain or as "Masala Dosa" with the addition of Potato Masala. Be sure to also check out our recipes for Potato Masala, Sambhar, Coconut Chutney and Dry Chutney Powder to make a complete meal.
Combine Long Grain Rice and Ponni Rice, wash until water runs clear and soak in ample water (minimum 8 hours or overnight).
Combine Urad Daal, Chana Daal and Methi, wash until water runs clear and soak in ample water, separately from rice (minimum 8 hours or overnight).
Drain water from both Rice and Daals, keeping the two separate.
Add Daals in a grinder and using approx 1¼ cups of Water (added little at a time), grind to a smooth paste.
Remove Daal paste into a large container with lid, leaving approx ½ cup paste inside grinder.
Add Rice and grind to a smooth paste using approx 1 cup Water (added little at a time). Rice will still seem a little gritty after grinding.
Add Rice paste to the Daal Paste, add Uniodized Salt and mix well. (Note: If using Iodized Salt, wait until after fermentation to add salt).
Cover and keep container in a warm place to ferment the batter (minimum overnight or up to 24 hours, depending on climate).
Once fermented, gently mix the batter.
When ready to make Dosa, remove a few scoops of the batter into a smaller bowl and add just a pinch of Baking Soda. Mix well.
Preheat a seasoned pan, drizzle a few drops of oil and wipe off with a paper towl.
Depending on the size of the pan (skillet), drop a small ladle full of batter in the center of the pan. Using the flat back of the ladle or the flat back of a steel bowl, spread the batter outward in a circular motion. Dosa should be spread thin.
When the wet look of the batter is gone, drizzle a little Oil onto the dosa.
When brown spots are seen coming through the dosa, loosen the edges and roll the dosa.
For Masala Dosa, after drizzling Oil, sprinkle Dry Chutney Powder over dosa and place Potato Masala along the center of the dosa. Loosen the edges and roll the dosa.


The planet Syrene is gripped by Separatist rebellion. Pavlov's Dogs, a team of Russian spetsnaz lead by Lieutenant Petya Pavlov, are dropped into a world at war.
The Khorsky Incident begins at Hammerfall.
Part I of III in the Khorsky trilogy, and a novel-length prelude to the Khorsky Incident.


'The Dirty Five' was inspired by an old photograph my great-granddad, Jim Marshall, sent home during training at Redcar camp. Around the edges of the photo, he'd left a pencil message 'Yours Sincerely The Dirty Five'. Reading that was the start of a journey into this part of my family history. This is a song about five young working class Barnsley lads who stuck together, keeping each other's spirits up with their jokes and jaunty songs right until the end.
Album version of 'The Dirty Five' and more songs inspired by family stories from around the Great War can be heard on my latest album 'Sing Beneath The Sun'.
It was an honour and a very moving experience to perform at Imperial War Museum North in July for the launch of 'Lest We Forget?'. I've edited more of Jim's wartime photographs into the footage here. Some in particular make it plain; many of them were just lads, boys sent to fight an old man's war.


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Native to the tropical regions of Central and South America, the peace lily (Spathiphyllum) is grown as a houseplant for its attractive foliage and unusual blooms. With hundreds of species, this plant grows to heights of 1 to 4 feet depending on the cultivar. Foliage varies from deep green to variegated varieties. Blooms held above the foliage feature a showy white or pink spathe or bract that encloses the actual flower. The bract folds gracefully over the flower creating the illusion of a hood. This relatively carefree houseplant requires weekly watering. Lack of water results in brown or dying leaves.
Remove brown leaves by hand. Grasp the stem of the leaf and follow it back to the main stem of the plant. Gently pull the leaf downward to detach. Dead leaves typically remove easily, but if the stem resists your tug, use scissors.
Clip leaf stems as close the main stem as possible with a pair of sharp scissors. Trim away dried brown leaves along the stem. Use care not to cut the main stem.
Check soil for dryness, as this is often the cause of dead or dying leaves.
Fill a bucket or pail with water and allow to set until the water reaches room temperature.
Place the plant pot into the water so the entire pot is covered and allow to soak to thoroughly saturate the soil. Bubbles rising to the surface indicate that the soil is overly dry and air is escaping as water replaces pockets of air.
Remove from water when bubbles cease and allow excess water to drip from the pot.
Resume normal care, watering the plant thoroughly until water runs free of the bottom the pot once or twice a week.
Water peace lily with water at room temperature.
Peace lily grows in low light, but requires moderate light to bloom.
Fertilize sparingly. Use a balanced fertilizer every two to three months.
Avoid direct sunlight. Peace lily leaves burn easily.
Peace lily is toxic and should be kept out of the reach of small children and pets.


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Q: Custom Dialog size to match Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog If I have an Activity that has it's theme set to Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog, it will scale great. It will fill the screen on phones in portrait mode almost entirely but in landscape mode it won't stretch unreasonably long. For example, in this picture from Google, you can see the dialog not filling the whole screen.

It won't either collapse to match the width of the title like what will happen if you have your own Dialog build by having a class that extends the Dialog class.
This is what will happen with my layout.

What properties do I need to apply to the LinearLayout to make it scale pretty?

A: Just add two values to your custom theme.
<item name="android:windowMinWidthMajor">@android:dimen/dialog_min_width_major</item>
<item name="android:windowMinWidthMinor">@android:dimen/dialog_min_width_minor</item>

E.g.
<style name="MyDialog" parent="ThDialogBase">
        <item name="android:windowFrame">@null</item>
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/transparent</item>
        <item name="android:windowIsFloating">true</item>
        <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
        <item name="android:windowMinWidthMajor">@android:dimen/dialog_min_width_major</item>
        <item name="android:windowMinWidthMinor">@android:dimen/dialog_min_width_minor</item>
</style>

A: You can use Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog.MinWidth for sizing your layout properly.
From the documentation:

public static final int Theme_Holo_Light_Dialog_MinWidth
Variant of Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog that has a nice minimum width for a
  regular dialog.

The way to use this would be through passing a ContextThemeWrapper in place of Context (using this) to your custom Dialog's constructor:
YourCustomDialog cDialog = new YourCustomDialog(
                        new ContextThemeWrapper(this,
                              android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Light_Dialog_MinWidth));

This is how Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog.MinWidth is defined:
<style name="Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog.MinWidth">
    <item name="android:windowMinWidthMajor">@android:dimen/dialog_min_width_major</item>
    <item name="android:windowMinWidthMinor">@android:dimen/dialog_min_width_minor</item>
</style>

From dimens.xml:
@android:dimen/dialog_min_width_major:
<!-- The platform's desired minimum size for a dialog's width when it
     is along the major axis (that is the screen is landscape).  This may
     be either a fraction or a dimension. -->
<item type="dimen" name="dialog_min_width_major">65%</item>

@android:dimen/dialog_min_width_minor:
<!-- The platform's desired minimum size for a dialog's width when it
     is along the minor axis (that is the screen is portrait).  This may
     be either a fraction or a dimension. -->
<item type="dimen" name="dialog_min_width_minor">95%</item>

As it seems, the dialog's width in the picture you posted is around 65%. In the portrait mode, it would be 95%.
Honestly, the width doesn't look like 95 % in portrait mode, but it's better than before :):

A: In my custom dialog I use following properties and set dialog width to match parent and it's width scale properly.
 <item name="android:windowBackground">@null</item>
 <item name="android:windowIsFloating">false</item>

A: Two Scenarios
a. If you need it to fill the screen completely set your parents minWidth and minHeight to 1000dp
LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:minWidth="1000dp"
    android:minHeight="1000dp"

b. If you need it to scale without filling the whole screen. Set one of the children of your LinearLayout within a RelativeLayout and set the relative layouts width to match_parent.

A: Can you try to change your Dialog dimension at runtime, like this:
DisplayMetrics metrics = getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
int width = metrics.widthPixels;
yourDialog.show();
yourDialog.getWindow().setLayout((6 * width)/7, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);

or
Dialog yourDialog = dialogFragment.getDialog();
yourDialog.getWindow().setLayout((6 * width)/7, (4 * height)/5);

if you use Fragments.


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About Sterling Property Management, Inc.
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Last month, I took on the NaPoWriMo challenge: to pen thirty poems in thirty days. The exercise was to write a poem every day, and I nearly stuck to that. Poets work on an honor system, which involves pretending that we sat down to write a poem every day, instead of five in one day, or five poems for the entire month.
As a writer I try not to compare my writing with others, rather, I read as a reader. After the month of April was finished, I decided to check out some of my fellow NaPoWriMo-ers (at least, those that linked their web-published works to the NaPoWriMo site.) I thought during this project that I was constantly falling behind; that there was this demand for my words. As I clicked through more and more poetry blogs and sites, I realized many of the fellow writer's did that whole artist thing … posting for the first few days, leaving off the last three, continuing past the month of April. Very few posted complete April collections.
I get it. The process itself was not an easy one. I kind of catalog it in "Writing," how at first it was exciting, ideas falling out of the sky really, just by opening up my eyes to look around the room. By week three, it was more like: Dammit I have to finish a copywriting job, edit twenty more pages, unload the dishwasher, call my mom, give the baby a bath and finish the three poems I started four days ago …. Crap! And write today's poem.
That isn't to say that daily poetry writing is all bad. Some poems are a force; they just come right through you; the written equivalent of bursting into song. Other poems, like "Ritual," just whisper themselves to you while you're in the middle of the act itself. Others are woooorrrrk … it may be a great spark of a concept that never takes off; the words just lie there like dry seeds. Some experiments with topics (mothers, or love or tacos) soon fizzle with a sing-song like mediocrity. Many poetic starts just stayed in my notebook, not even making it to a Word file.
And yet. NaPoWriMo was a satisfying process, not just accomplishing the feat of writing 30 poems in a month, and not just jump starting creativity. Now, as I read back over the verse, it reads like a lovely little catalog of my days … my regular, everyday life is there, along with the spectacular thoughts and feelings that come with them. It is a sort of picture album of poems; which I am taking great pride in creating.


IL St Rt 47 passes through the following towns.
IL St Rt 47 multi-plexes with the following route in Grundy County.
U.S. Rt. 6, in Morris, from Bedford Road to Green Acres Drive.
IL St Rt. 47 instsects the following routes.
Illinois State Route 113, near Mazon.
U.S. Rt. 6, at Morris.
At Morris, IL St Rt 47 crosses the Illinois River. The bridge was replaced from a truss bridge to a four-lane wide highway. Pictures of the old bridge and new one are at the link below.
New River Bridge at Morris.
NB IL St Rt 47 south of the Grundy/Kendall County Line.
NB IL St Rt 47 north of Morris.
NB IL St Rt 47 north of I-80.
A construction sign on SB IL St Rt 47.
A BGS one mile from the interchange on EB I-80.
A BGS on EB I-80 at IL St Rt 47.
SB IL St Rt 47 south of I-80.
NB IL St Rt 47 north of U.S. Rt. 6.
SB IL St Rt 47 north of U.S. Rt. 6.
A street marker on the stop light mast at Division and Green Acres Drive.
A street sign in Morris.
A junction marker on EB U.S. Rt. 6/NB IL St Rt 47.
EB U.S. Rt. 6/NB IL St Rt 47 in Morris.
A junction marker on WB U.S. Rt. 6/SB IL St Rt 47.
NB IL St Rt 47 south of U.S. Rt. 6.
NB IL St Rt 47 crossing the CSX Railroad in Morris.
NB IL St Rt 47 at Chapin Street in Morris.
NB IL St Rt 47 at Jefferson St in Morris.
SB IL St Rt 47 at Main Street in Morris.
NB IL St Rt 47 at Illinois Ave in Morris.
NB IL St Rt 47 south of the Illinois River.
NB IL St Rt 47 north of Pine Bluff Road.
SB IL St Rt 47 south of Morris.
SB IL St Rt 47 at Dupont Road, 4 miles south of Morris.
NB IL St Rt 47 north of IL St Rt 113.
SB IL St Rt 47 at IL St Rt 113 north of Mazon.
SB IL St Rt 47 north of IL St Rt 113.
SB IL St Rt 47 at IL St Rt 113.
A construction warning sign on NB IL St Rt 47.
SB IL St Rt 47 south of IL St Rt 113.
NB IL St Rt 47 at Spring Road.
NB IL St Rt 47 north of Mazon.
NB IL St Rt 47 on the northside of Mazon.
NB IL St Rt 47 at Mazon.
SB IL St Rt 47 south of Mazon.
NB IL St Rt 47 south of Mazon.
NB IL St Rt 47 near Gardner Road.
NB IL St Rt 47 near Goodfarm Road.
NB IL St Rt 47 north of I-55.
A construction sign on SB I-55.
A construction sign on NB I-55.
A construction sign on NB IL St Rt 47.
NB IL St Rt 47 near I-55 at Dwight.
NB IL St Rt 47 in Northbrook Drive in Dwight.
NB IL St Rt 47 at the Grundy/Livingston County Line.


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Meet the lead team who set the vision of Gospel Ramah Church.
Bishop Tshalo Katshunga05 July 201527 March 202005 July 2015
Super UserSenior Pastor
Bishop Tshalo is a Leadership Coach, Advisor, Conference Speaker, Teacher, devoted husband and father. He travels extensively across the world inspiring society with his message of courageous leadership, pursuit of excellence and repudiation of ineffectiveness. He currently oversees the Gospel Ramah Family of Churches and is Founder and President of...
PASTOR BEATRICE KATSHUNGA05 July 201527 March 202005 July 2015
Pastor Beatrice is the Executive Pastor of Gospel Ramah Church, an intercessor, a counsellor and a teacher. She is passionate about prayer and fully confident in its power. This passion has led her to establish Keepers of God's Fortresses, an organisation committed to interceding for families, churches and the nations...
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1. We believe in the scripture of the Old and the New Testaments in their original writings as fully inspired of God and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and life. 2 Timothy 3:16-17; Isaiah 40:8; Hebrews 4:12-131; Peter 1:23-25; Romans 10:17; Joshua 1:8; Psalm 19:7-8; James 1:22-25
2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:18-19
3. We believe that Jesus-Christ was begotten of the Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man. John 6:28-33; Luke 1:29-35; Luke 2:1-7
4. We believe that God created man in His own image(Genesis 3); that man sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of sin which is death, physical and spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which issues (in case of those who reach moral responsibility) in actual transgression involving personal guilt.
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus-Christ died for our sins(1 John 2:2) a substitution sacrifice(Isaiah 53:4-6,12) according to the Scriptures and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
6. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, His ascension into heaven, and His present life as our High Priest and Advocate. Luke 24:1-12,13-49; Luke 24:50-53; Acts 1:6-11; Hebrews 4:14-16
7. We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus-Christ for eternal reward to the just and eternal damnation for the unjust. Matthew 25:31-46
8. We believe that all that repent of their sin and receive the Lord Jesus-Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit(John 7:38-39) and thereby become children of God. John 1:12; Romans 8:14-15
9. We believe in the baptism of water by immersion. Matthew 28:18-19
10. We believe in the baptism of the Holy spirit(Matthew 28:18-19), who empowers and equips believers for service, with natural or spiritual gifts.
11. We also believe in the breaking of bread as a reminder of the Lord's death and return. Luke 22:19; 1 Cor 11:23-26
12. We believe in the priesthood of all believers, that means everyone has received passion, gift(s) and unique wiring to promote the work of ministry.
Our vision is to provide a place of rest, restoration and release and to create a culture of practical love in our communities. Gospel Ramah Church wants to establish a network of teaching ministry worldwide. Our mission is the complete restoration of man to God's intended design.
1. Total dependence on God (through fervent prayer).
2. Develop Christian character in our lives.
3. Display love and care for one another.
4. Provide and export effective training.
5. Be sensitive to the move of the Holy Spirit.
Meaning/Description
The name Ramah is taken from the book of Samuel in the Bible. For us, it represents the following:
1. PLACE OF Supernatural birth (the BIRTH OF SAMUEL ; 1 Samuel 1v19-28, 2v11)
2. PLACE OF CHARACTER BUILDING- 1 Samuel 12v1-4
3. PLACE OF REFUGE- 1 Samuel 19v14-18
4. PLACE OF TRAINING- 1 Samuel 19v2
5. PLACE OF TRANSFORMATION- 1 Samuel 19v19,24


More than 700 of the 1770 known private and business letters from Beethoven belong to the collection of the Beethoven-Haus. The original documents featured as part of the Digital Archives are accompanied by a table of contents and a description of the source.
In addition, 335 letters are presented in an audio format. When choosing which letters should be turned into audioletters, criteria such as content and recipients were considered. Letters to publishers were given priority, followed by letters to friends and patrons, family members, colleagues, techers, civil servants and physicians. These letters provide a more personal insight into Beethoven's life as a person, artist and businessman.
Besides the correspondence between other people, there are other text documents such as files and certificates, receipts, catalogues, album sheets and so on, which are used for researching Beethoven's life.


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Israeli-Palestinian Settlement Reached, Steve Harvey Announces
by Roger Pumper
© Carrienelson1 | Dreamstime.com - Steve Harvey Photo
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have reached a final-status agreement, with both sides making significant concessions that will bring the century-long conflict to an amicable end, television host and State Department spokesman Steve Harvey announced Wednesday in a press conference.
"The Palestinians were completely reasonable in giving up the right of return of their refugees, while the Israelis had no problem dividing Jerusalem and giving up control of the Jordan Valley," Harvey announced. "In the end, even Hamas and [right-wing Israeli Minister] Naftali Bennett were on board."
The peace agreement wasn't the only good news announced by Harvey at the press conference. Harvey also revealed that a settlement has been reached to end the war in Syria, with the country uniting behind the rule of the moderate, pro-Western rebels.
After making these announcements, Harvey left the podium, seemingly ending the press conference. As of press time, however, Harvey had unexpectedly returned to the podium, apparently to make a follow-up announcement. The Mideast Beast will post updates as new information becomes available.
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