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Historical reconstruction of Dhu-l Faqar
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Assalaamu `alaykum, all. Having a great love for Mawla `Ali (karramAllahu wajhahu) and swords in general, I thought I'd do some research into the famed Dhu-l Faqar; perhaps one day I might order a reproduction made to the specifications outlined below:1. Arab swords of the early Islamic era were similar in almost every way to either the Roman spatha or the Sassanid longsword, i.e. they were straight and double-edged (the saber was an innovation originating in Central Asia, not finding its way to the Persians or Arabs until much later). The highest quality were made in Yemen from imported wootz ingots (made in southern India). They were uniformly worn hung from a baldric; wearing a sword on one's hip on a belt was not customary (in fact it seems to have been looked down upon) for the Arabs.2. I have effectively ruled out its name referring to a bifurcation of the tip or serration of the edges (as we see on Shī`ī pendants and Indo-Pakistani interpretations). Bifurcation of the tip would make a sword structurally unsound (particularly with the desired impact area being roughly the upper third of the blade), and such a measure would be ludicrous to as ferocious a warrior as `Alī (`alayhi salām); such a sword would not have been one famously used by him. Serration of the edge (such as on the medieval Flamberge), while indeed effectively improving the performance of a cut-centric sword (as spathae were), was not innovated until much later in history. Thus I have determined that the name either has to do with cleaving/separating (the vertebrae, specifically), or referring to a particularly intricate fuller design it may have incorporated (fiqr is a word meaning fine engraving). As it was quite ordinary for spathae to have multiple (quite attractive) fullers, I'm leaning more toward translating its name as "Lord of Cleaving."3. By investigating Ibn al-Qayyim's "Zād ul-Ma`ād" and Imām Tirmidhī's "Shamā'il," I have determined the parts of Dhū-l Faqār's furniture which were made of silver, and they are as follows:-Bikrāh: these are the part of the scabbard which attach to the rings through which the baldric straps are fed.-Dhu'ābah: this would usually refer to the lanyard hung from the pommel (used for weapon retention and decoration), but since this is mentioned along with those features made of silver, I have to assume this refers to a ring through which the lanyard was strung.-Na`l: this is the decorative (and protective) endcap at the base of the scabbard, also called chape. Not to be confused with chappe.-Halqah: throat (chappe). As spathae featured both a chappe on the scabbard and the hilt, I shall thus apply it to both. Note that the chappe of a spatha's hilt tended to be incorporated into the larger (usually) shoulder-style rounded handguard.-Qabī`ah: pommel cap and handle accents.4. The blade will resemble in length, width, and taper, that of a typical 7th-century Roman spatha. It should have a roughly spatulate tip. I have decided on a U-shaped fuller; this would be a double-fuller which is joined at the tip (and matches a picture I found of the Fatimid iconography).5. As I mentioned, the best quality swords made by the Arabs were made in Yemen, which had considerable Persian influence at the time. So why isn't this sword being made in the Sassanid longsword style? I'm not assuming Dhū-l Faqār was a Yemeni-made sword, because there is a hadīth which mentions that one of the swords (not named, unfortunately) belonging to RasūlAllāh ﷺ (as Dhū-l Faqār originally did) was made in the style of the Bani Hanīfah. This tribe inhabited the Yamāmah region, which is part of modern-day Najd; far from Persian influence. Furthermore, all of the anatomical features mentioned above are indicative of Roman style. None of the Sassanid longswords I've seen has incorporated them as described, while every spatha has.So that's where I am now. I've still got a lot of research to do for ideas on the particular style of decoration I'm going to use for the mountings. I've seen some examples from the period that experts aren't sure are Byzantine or Arab, so it's safe to assume Byzantine and Arab weaponry incorporated similar, if not identical, motifs.So what's everyone think of my sword ijtihād so far? Input is welcome!
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Carne (1991 film)
Written and directed by Gaspar Noe, Carne is the story of a butcher who is trying to raise his mute daughter by himself as he is tempted by ideas of incest. The film is a prequel of sorts to the 1998 film I Stand Alone as it plays into a butcher trying to live a simple life despite his own hatred towards the rest of the world. Starring Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain, and Helene Testud. Carne is an eerie and entrancing short film from Gaspar Noe.
The film revolves the life of a butcher who is trying to raise his daughter while running a butcher shop that serves horse meat. It's a short film that plays into this unnamed butcher (Philippe Nahon) who has been raising his daughter (Blandine Lenoir) all by himself after his wife left just days after the baby was born. Much of the film is told through inner-monologue where the butcher copes with raising his daughter as she is grown into a teen as he becomes attracted to her. It plays into a man's inner struggle as well as his views on the world as he keeps to himself and do his work until an incident involving his daughter changes everything. One of which involved an innocent man and other moments that would force the butcher to re-think things in his life as he would get involved into a troubled relationship with a barmaid (Frankye Pain).
Gaspar Noe's direction is quite simple in terms of compositions but it is also quite extreme in the way he captures some of these intense moments such as the butcher bathing his daughter and drying her body that is definitely creepy. Noe's approach to close-ups and how he places the camera part of a person's face is shown plays into how out of step these characters are with the rest of the world. Noe's usage of zoom lenses for the close-ups are very eerie as it has an abrupt feel to it as it plays into the butcher being confronted by his surroundings. Noe's usage of low-angles are also mesmerizing to capture not just a man dealing with the changes in his life but also how a mistake would only force him to confront these new realities. Even as Noe would feature graphic depiction of a horse being killed and other things to play into the world of the butcher and how it would differ from the reality around him. Overall, Noe creates a discomforting yet captivating film about a man trying to live a simple life despite his circumstances.
Cinematographer Dominique Colin does excellent work with the film's very vibrant yet sepia-based photography that plays into the graininess of the 16mm film stock as well as do great work in capturing the color of red with great detail. Editor Lucile Hadzihalilovic does superb work with the editing to create some unique rhythm and dazzling cuts to play into the intensity of the drama. The sound work of Olivier Le Vacon is fantastic as it features sound effects for some of the transitions and close-ups while capturing some of its sparse moments including the digetic music in the film that features a song by Umberto Tozzi.
The film's brilliant cast includes a notable small performance from Helene Testud as a maid who looks after the butcher's daughter while Frankye Pain is wonderful as the demanding barmaid whom the butcher would be with. Blandine Lenoir is amazing as the butcher's daughter Cynthia as it's this very silent and entrancing performance that mostly has her watching TV and look very sad as if she has no clue about the world around her. Finally, there's Philippe Nahon in a phenomenal performance as the butcher as he does a lot of great work with his internal monologues as well as giving a restrained performance as someone that is just trying not to get angry.
Carne is a dark yet riveting short film from Gaspar Noe that features an incredible performance from Philippe Nahon. The film isn't just a fascinating prequel to I Stand Alone but also a very fascinating short film that plays into a man coming undone by a simple mistake as he was just trying to protect the only thing he loves. In the end, Carne is a remarkable film from Gaspar Noe.
Gaspar Noe Films: I Stand Alone - Irreversible - Enter the Void - Love (2015 film) - The Auteurs #48: Gaspar Noe
Labels: blandine lenoir, frankye pain, gaspar noe, philippe nahon
Brittani Burnham said...
This sounds really dark and uncomfortable. Great review! I've never heard of it.
thevoid99 said...
I think it's still available on YouTube. It's not an easy short to watch but certainly a thrill.
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Gartner says CIOs should explore 10 IT cost optimization techniques to overcome budget constraints in a volatile business environment
When a business executive asks their CIO to reduce operating costs, together they assess their IT spending and what is driving those costs. They need to calculate how IT costs impact the delivery of IT services, as well as their effect on business costs and revenues.
However, they are unable to assess its impact on other business units (BUs) in the organization.
"CIOs who have successfully optimized IT costs have teamed up with other executives from other areas (business leaders) beforehand, particularly the CFO, to collaborate on corporate cost optimization initiatives."
CIOs can achieve cost savings within the information technology arena as well as across the organization by focusing initiatives on 10 IT cost optimization techniques.
https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/10-it-cost-optimization-techniques-for-private-and-public-sector-organizations
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Technique #1: Implementing Shared Services
Some CIOs need to leverage shared IT services across business units to drive economies of scale. For Gartner, many companies achieve cost savings and savings that can range from 15% to 20% of service costs in 18 to 36 months, and the biggest savings can amount to more than 25%.
Supporting business areas with good technology platforms, such as ServiceNow for example, facilitates the agility and ROI of a shared service center, as well as reducing costs.
Technique #2: Adopt a Cloud Adoption Policy
According to Gartner, opt for a cloud policy or cloud first offers features ranging from infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to software as a service (SaaS).
While many private and public sector organizations choose cloud services to increase agility, flexibility and scalability, they also experience cost efficiencies over time.
For cost savings, carry out strict cloud governance or risk seeing increases in infrastructure and application costs if governance is weak.
For this, the information technology area can support the business with governance through the implementation of CCOE Cloud center of Execellence or cloud center of excellence, bringing FINop best practices to the organization.
Technical support with the implementation of CMP platforms, Cloud Management platform, such as VMware CloudHealth, Snow Software Embotics and Morpheus data is the role of the information technology team, supporting the reduction of IT costs.
Technique #3: Consolidate Corporate Data Centers
As organizations expand their operations, the cost of maintaining a traditional data center will increase. This leads some IT organizations to move their data centers to hybrid cloud architecture.
In research by Gartner, it was found that through efforts to modernize and consolidate the data center, cost savings can vary between 10% and 20% of a data center budget, mainly enabling cost savings in new contracts with service providers , hardware, software and datacenter systems.
Technique #4: Rationalize and Standardize Corporate Applications
For Gartner, the portfolio of applications and systems represents a large part of an IT budget. CIOs who standardize and rationalize their application portfolios can reduce and control costs. Savings can range between 15% and 25% of the IT systems budget.
Technique #5: Improve IT Financial Transparency Practices
Gartner shows how important it is for companies to understand how IT services are being delivered and what the associated costs are for information technology operations (IT budget). Gartner refers to this as IT financial transparency, exercised by IT Executives.
Working closely with CFOs and the entire finance team to link accounting data with hardware, software and service assets (asset-based view) to technical costs and related costs for business services.
This transparency in corporate IT spending enables IT to deliver value to the business as a whole and optimize costs through IT services.
Costs with software licenses can be better managed with the implementation of good practices of SAM Software Asset Management or Software Asset Management.
Technique #6: Focus on spending IT demands for greater business cost optimization
According to Gartner, approximately 96% of corporate operating expenses occur outside of IT, which presents significant opportunities to reduce IT expenditures even in the short term.
By partnering with their BU peers across the organization, CIOs need to assess business processes, capabilities and capabilities to determine where IT can improve productivity, efficiency and effectiveness, thereby reducing overall spend.
Technique 7: Implement robotic process automation
Take advantage of technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze and identify patterns that can be used to make strategic business decisions.
These technologies can identify new insights from data and automate or augment processes that are inefficient for humans to perform.
Technique #8: Assess IT Asset Management Practices
CIOs often ignore asset management capabilities and this oversight leads to increased IT operating costs. Gartner claims that shifting IT Asset Management (ITAM) responsibility from "tracking" individual assets to corporate governance of IT assets and technology can achieve cost savings from 10% to 20%.
The costs of IT assets, software contracts and software licenses can be better managed by implementing best practices in SAM Software Asset Management or Software Asset Management.
Technically support with the implementation of SAM platforms, Software Asset Management, for example Snow Software, ServiceNow and Flexera Software it is also the role of the information technology team, supporting cost governance.
Technique #9: Evaluate Digital Transformation Ideas for Digital Businesses
Invite business areas to contribute ideas for cost optimization or new technology applications (New Technologies). Share any savings generated from these brainstorming sessions with the BU and then potentially initiate a continuous reinvestment cycle (investment in IT), possibly with the savings found from improving IT governance.
Such a partnership can increase visibility into the BU's IT spend and mitigate redundant IT expenses.
Technique #10: Optimize the workforce
Basically, the management of workforce is a process for optimize the service of employees, managing the skills and productivity of employees to align them with the company's goals
Use features of cloud-based productivity applications such as process automations or virtual assistants for mundane and common tasks to reduce personnel costs. Implement bots to increase workers' capabilities and enable a more productive work environment.
"By determining which of the 10 techniques to prioritize, the organization can achieve short-term cost savings, while also considering institutionalizing IT cost optimization as an ongoing discipline"
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and consulting firm focused on the IT market. Gartner, Inc, officially known as Gartner, is a global research and consulting firm providing information, advice and tools to leaders in the IT, finance, HR, customer service and support, communications, legal and compliance, marketing, functions. sales and supply chain functions.
Its headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. The company changed its name from Gartner Group, Inc to Gartner in 2000. It is a member of the S&P 500.
Research provided by Gartner, such as Global Information Technology Spending and Digital Marketing, has historically targeted cios, senior IT, marketing and supply chain managers. The acquisition of CEB, Inc. expanded its range and breadth of offerings to support all business functions across all industries and corporate sizes.
Gartner's clients include large corporations, government agencies, technology companies and the investment community. Its customer base comprises over 15,000 organizations in over 100 countries. The company's products and services include Research such as global IT spending, Executive Programs, Consulting, relational content and Conferences.
Founded in 1979, Gartner has more than 15,000 employees located in more than 100 offices worldwide.
The Magic Quadrant or Magic Quadrant (MQ)
The Magic Quadrant or Magic Quadrant (MQ) is a series of market research reports published by IT consultancy Gartner that rely on qualitative data analysis methods to demonstrate market trends such as direction, maturity and participants.
Its analyzes are conducted for a number of specific technology industries and are updated every 1-2 years: once an updated report is published, its predecessor is "retired".
Gartner's Magic Quadrants provide visual snapshots, in-depth analytics, and actionable advice that provide insight into a market's direction, maturity, and participants.
The Magic Quadrants compare vendors based on standard Gartner criteria and methodology. Each report comes with a Magic Quadrant chart that depicts a market using a two-dimensional matrix that evaluates vendors based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Ranking by Gartner's Magic Quadrant
Gartner ranks vendors on two criteria: completeness of vision and ability to execute:
It reflects vendor innovation, whether the vendor drives or follows the market, and whether the vendor's vision for the market will evolve as per Gartner's perspective.
Execution Ability
It summarizes factors such as vendor financial stability, market responsiveness, product development, sales channels and customer base.
These component scores lead to a supplier position in one of the four quadrants below:
Providers in the Leaders quadrant have the highest scores for their vision and ability to execute. A supplier in the Leaders quadrant has the market share, credibility, marketing and sales capabilities necessary to drive acceptance of new technologies, ie, a trendsetter.
These vendors demonstrate a clear understanding of market needs, are innovators and strategic leaders, generating the perspectives their customers will use when designing their infrastructure and strategies. In addition, they have a presence in the top five geographic regions, consistent financial performance and broad platform support.
A company in the Challengers quadrant participates in the market and performs well enough to be a serious threat to suppliers in the Leaders quadrant. They have strong products as well as sufficiently reliable market position and resources to sustain continued growth.
Financial viability is not an issue for vendors in the Challengers quadrant, but they do not have the size and influence of vendors in the Leaders quadrant.
A vendor in the Visionaries quadrant offers innovative products that address large-scale operational or financially important end-user issues, but has not yet demonstrated the ability to capture market share or sustainable profitability.
Visionary suppliers are often private companies and are typically acquisition targets for larger, established companies. The probability of acquisition often reduces the risks associated with deploying your systems.
Niche Manufacturers (niche players)
Vendors in the Niche Players quadrant are often focused on specific market or vertical segments. This quadrant can also include vendors that are adapting their existing products to enter the market under consideration, or larger vendors having difficulty developing and executing on their vision.
Gartner Critical Capabilities complement the Magic Quadrant analysis to provide a deeper insight into the products and services offered by multiple vendors.
Gartner's History
The company was founded in 1979 by Gideon Gartner. Originally a private company, Gartner Group was first publicly launched in the 1980s, then acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi, a London-based advertising agency, and then acquired in 1990 by some of its executives, with Bain funding Capital and Dun & Bradstreet.
The company went public in 1993. In 2000, the name was simplified to Gartner. Gene Hall has been the company's CEO since August 2004.
In the course of its growth, Gartner acquired numerous companies that provide related services, including Real Decisions — which became Gartner Measurement, now part of Gartner's consulting division — and Gartner Dataquest, a market research firm.
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In March 2014, Gartner announced that it had acquired the privately held Software Advice for an undisclosed amount. In July 2015, Gartner acquired Nubera, the business app discovery network that owns properties like GetApp (a peer-review site), AppStorm, AppAppeal and CloudWork. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In September 2015 acquired the peer review site Capterra, as in June 2016, Gartner announced that it had acquired the private company SCM World, based in London, UK, on January 5, 2017, Gartner announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire CEB, Inc. in a cash and equity deal valued at approximately US$ 2.6 billion.
As of March 2017, Gartner announced that it has agreed to purchase New York-based L2 Inc, which specializes in benchmarking the digital performance of brands. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Sharknado Reloaded: Yep, Still Impossible
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[♪♩INTRO] Somehow, there's another Sharknado movie, and somehow we still have science to talk about… with Sharknado.
I promise it's going to be good. So back in 2013, when this whole Sharknado phenomenon first started, we answered the obvious question with the obvious answer: No, a sharknado is not possible.
For, like, lots of reasons. But all the hype around Sharknado 5 — yes, five — got us thinking about the ending of that first movie again. Spoiler alert—ah, like you care—at the end of Sharknado, the main characters throw bombs from a helicopter to stop the carnivorous whirlwinds.
Which, as you might guess, also would not work. But the idea almost seems plausible, like, why not just blow up a tornado? A little bit of background for you first, in the original Sharknado, a hurricane over the Pacific Ocean creates a whole bunch of tornadoes -- waterspouts, technically -- filled with sharks.
And tornadoes are just swirling winds, right? So if you disrupt the winds and stop them from swirling, you should theoretically be able to kill the tornado. And what better way to disrupt a whole bunch of air than with the shock wave from a giant explosion?
Right? Well, this plan has some issues. And the first one comes long before our heroes even get off the ground.
The tornadoes in the movie are strong enough to lift sharks out of the water and sling them around Los Angeles like toothpicks. And there is unfortunately no way that you'd be able to hover a helicopter to throw bombs at a tornado if there's a tornado that strong next to you. Helicopters usually aren't even safe in normal thunderstorms, because there are unpredictable gusts of wind, and they need relatively stable air around their blades.
So the helicopter in the movie would be no match for the tornadoes it hovers near.
Sorry: the shark-nadoes. But even if we ignore the physics of how helicopters fly and say we're going to drive a truck into the tornado with a bomb, the end of Sharknado still does not hold up to reality -- because of the physics of tornadoes themselves. Scientists still aren't exactly sure why some storm systems produce tornadoes and others don't, but they do know what kinds of conditions need to be present before one can form. Mainly, they need currents of rotating air. When you think of tornadoes, you probably just imagine that one funnel spinning around a vertical axis, but there are lots of other air currents involved, moving in other directions, too. As a tornado forms, columns of warm, wet air quickly rise off the ground, dragging swirling winds along with them. When that warm air gets above the clouds, it spreads out and pushes the cooler, dryer air out of its way and back toward the ground. And the process repeats. The winds speed up and pull together as more warm air rises and more cool air falls. Eventually, they form the sideways whirlwinds that we imagine when we think of a tornado. But those vertical winds don't stop once the tornado gets spinning; they continue throughout the entire storm.
Even if a few bombs could stop the sideways winds on the outer layers of the sharknado, they'd still have to stop all those huge, vertical convection currents to keep the storm from roaring back to life. And a couple small explosions on the outside of a huge tornado or cyclone won't really do anything to stop the warm air rising in the center. If anything, the heat from the explosions might make the center of the storm even warmer, which would make it stronger instead of weaker. But like, only barely. Because that brings us to the third problem with this scheme: It would take a lot of energy just to stop the outermost sideways winds. Some of the strongest hurricanes and tornadoes on record had wind speeds of about three hundred to four hundred kilometers per hour. And huge air masses moving at those kinds of speeds have a lot of energy -- way more energy than a bomb or two filled with propane. It would take thousands of the bombs they use in the movie to even compete with the energy in a powerful tornado. Using a couple bombs per tornado, like they do in the movie, it wouldn't be a thing. And with the added extra weight of ten thousand extra bombs on board, I'm guessing the helicopter would have an awfully hard time getting off the ground in the first place.
However, the fact that a movie about shark-tornadoes gets its science wrong probably isn't a huge surprise. What may be more of a surprise is how much we can talk about science through the lens of Sharknado. I'm happy to keep doing it. Looking forward to Sharknado 5, everybody. #notsponsored, we're just excited. Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow! If, for some reason, you'd like to learn more about why sharknados definitely couldn't happen, you can watch our episode from a few years ago. And for all the others kinds of science that we talk about, it's not just sharknado here, you can go to youtube.com/scishow there's more videos there.
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As things got better, was it hard to say that he had no idea?
General CommentPretty good song, one of the best off the new album.
General CommentYeah, and if we don't buy the album, they'll be FORCED to make more music to make ends meet!
Ah, I'm gonna buy it, but I really have no issue with people who don't. That's what T-shirts and concerts are for -- it's not like album sales are a band's only source of income.
And now that I've brought up a lot of things this band hates, I'll just say that there's a few corrections I'd like to make..
so well we're already dead,"
..at least I think so. I don't know, "part and parcel" just doesn't do anything for me.. maybe if someone would explain why they think it should be that way, otherwise, it doesn't seem to fit in with the song. Not that "pardon, pardon, sir" does, mind you, but hey, that's what I hear.
how simple enough you taught me that the ground needs to be fed,"
The ground needs to be fed"
There was a fly trapped in a jar"
"so every single one of us hit the ground,"
General Commentits definately of part and parcel and that continues on with the theme first expressed in parting of the sensory. We are made with dead parts (we steal the carbon of dead things). Thus, we are literally already dead because we have stolen our organic material from dead things. The spoken word funk part has many typos too the first one that sticks out to me is the first line where Gary was tired and drunk and not on trial.
General Commentgary is not isaac's father. he is just a character in the story of we were dead. his name is mentioned in we've got everything as well.
"Gravity needs to be fed"
"Ground needs to be fed"
General CommentHey, tenserock, we get the idea, it pisses you off, now please SHUT UP ABOUT IT.
General CommentFor me, understanding the meaning of the human story part of the song involves visualizing the fly trapped in a jar story.
Imagine the horror of having no-one care about you, even those that put you in the jar in the first place don't care anymore and you've been left on the shelf. Contemplate that all you have is one wing, and that isn't enough to escape out of the jar. The open lid of the jar is torturing you. You're even thinking of how "I'm going to thank myself when it's finally over." Ultimately the fly has no chance and is doomed to die "We were already dead."
The human story is the same sort of predicament, although the circumstances are obviously completely different.
You've all put very intelligent suggestions. This is solely what the song means to me. I don't expect anyone else to feel the same way.
General CommentI haven't read all the comments, but have you guys ever heard the term "dropping like flies?" I don't know, but it seems the two are tied together.
Great Song for a Great cd. Anyways Issac mentions Gary in this song and the song before it (We've Got Everything) so I think Gary may have some meaning or reference to something i dont know yet. This cd is amazing they are somewhat back to their roots I got the leak but remember to actually BUY THE CD.
it is part and parcle meaning that we are composed of the carbon of other dead things. we are the parts of other creatures packaged to become somthing else. it is a link to the song parting of the sensory.
General CommentGary could be his dad and i know that i got the lyrics way way way wrong but its pretty illegible. great song anyways.
i also like steam engenius.
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Home » Opinion: Conservation easements, a chance to save America's best farmland
Opinion: Conservation easements, a chance to save America's best farmland
05/27/14 9:14 AM By Guest Author
WASHINGTON, May 27, 2014 – Our country's population is projected to increase by at least 75 million in the next 50 years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This will require our nation to greatly increase its infrastructure, housing, and, of course, expand our food and feed production. The troubling aspect is that while all of this dramatic growth is taking place, the United States is losing farm, ranch and forest land at an alarming rate, with three acres a minute being lost to development.
In 2006, Congress provided critical tools – in the form of an enhanced federal tax deduction for conservation – that encouraged landowners, including a great number of farmers and ranchers – to donate the development rights to their properties in exchange for a significant tax benefit. These land donations were known as a conservation easements, and were a win-win situation for rural economies and conservationists, since farmers and ranchers were still allowed to work their lands, earn a living and contribute to the tax base while preserving valuable food production acres and grazing lands for future generations.
Unfortunately, this important tax incentive expired last year, resulting in lost opportunities for land conservation. The good news is that there is broad-based, bipartisan political support in Washington to make the conservation tax incentive permanent in the form of pending legislation before Congress. But we must act now.
Since the enhanced incentive was first passed, conservation easement donations increased by 35 percent, to a million acres a year, with great growth potential in the future.
Land trust easements have had such an impressive rate of growth because they not only allow the land to be used while it is being conserved – whether it is for farming, ranching, hunting or hiking – but actually conserve land at a very affordable rate. The cost of federal land purchases for national parks or forests has averaged around $12,000 per acre, versus $400 for enrolling it into an easement.
Land trust easements have become a huge opportunity for working lands, which has permanently changed the face of conservation. Land protected by easements remains private land, which can also be passed on to heirs or sold by its owners. The only difference is that once the easement is granted, the public has the security of knowing that this parcel of land will always be available for farming or open space.
Additionally, unlike federal or state parks, easements are managed by private land trusts, at no additional cost to the taxpayer. The nation has some 1,700 of these organizations that manage these land trusts in all 50 states. Many of these organizations go through an accreditation process to ensure that they can fulfill their duty to oversee the protection of the land put into their care into perpetuity.
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There has never been a better window of opportunity to make the enhanced incentive permanent than right now. The bill in the House, H.R. 2807, has nearly enough co-sponsors to guarantee its passage. Political support for the Senate bill, S. 526, is quite strong as well. But this Congress has a very limited number of legislative days left before it adjourns for good.
There are very few issues before us today that are black and white. But given the demographic projections of the U.S. population growth, what is crystal clear is that the time to increase the pace, quality and permanence of land conservation is now. By locking the enhanced incentive in place permanently, we can and will preserve farmland and open spaces for our progeny. Contact your elected officials and help make this happen.
By Rand Wentworth, President, Land Trust Alliance
The Alliance is a national conservation organization that works to save the places people love, and is based in Washington, D.C.
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Q: The Locus of Complete Intersection Points Let $X$ be an algebraic variety over an algebraically closed field. Consider the two subsets $X_0\subseteq X_1 \subseteq X$:
$$X_0 = \{a\in X| a \mbox{ is a scheme-theoretic complete intersection in }X\},$$
$$X_1 = \{a\in X| a \mbox{ is a set-theoretic complete intersection in }X\}.$$
Question: what do we know about these sets?
I am looking for any positive information, possibly for some restricted classes of varieties. Here are some precise questions:
(1) Is $X_k$ open, closed, locally closed, constructible, etc.?
(2) What are the varieties with $X_k=\emptyset$?
(3) What are the varieties with $X_k=X$?

A: This should be difficult in general. However there are some easy remarks to get going:
First, if $p$ is a CI point, then $X_p$ is regular. That is because when you localize, the number of generators can only drops, and it is still have to be at least $n=\dim X$. So they are equal.
Now let's try to answer number 3), when $X_0=X$? The above remark says that $X$ is non-singular. But it is more, it says that the Chow group of points is trivial.
Consider $X$ projective. Clearly the  property $X_0=X$ depends on the embedding. For example, with $P^1= \text{Proj} \ k[x,y,z]/(xy-z^2)$, the point $(x,z)$ is not CI. So we just consider $X= \text{Proj}\  S/I$ with $S=k[x_0,...,x_d]$. Then a point $p$ in $\text{Proj} S$  is defined by $d$ linear forms. Modulo $I$, the number of generators drops to $n$, so $I$ must contains $d-n$ forms, and by dimension reasons, $I$ is generated by those. So $X$ must be $P^n$. (indeed, here we only needs to assume that $X_0$ is non-empty, so this also answers Question (2)).
It is harder when $X$ is affine. Except in dimension one, then we are looking for a smooth affine curve with trivial Picard group, so it must be rational curve.
I don't know much about the sCI case, or when $X_1=X$. If $X$ is smooth, we are forcing the Chow group of points to have rank one, and this should be restrictive.
As for number (1), there is a paper by Weibel, where he conjectured that for affine $X$, the set $X_0$ is a countable union of closed subsets, and solved it for dimension at most $3$.

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Review | Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . .
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio for providing a clip of the Cinder audiobook! So enjoy the sneak peak ya'll!
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Rising from the ashes of the globally devastating World War IV, mankind has rebuilt and reestablished cities, countries, and civilization. Now over a century later, the Eastern Commonwealth finds itself ravaged from within by a plague that seems to have no cure and threatened from without by the promise of war with their Lunar neighbors. The Lunars, the inhabitants of the moon, and the people of Earth have long been at odds with each other, as the Lunars are known to be users of "magic," ruthlessly ambitious and notoriously cold-hearted. But when the Lunar sovereign, Queen Levana, proposes a peace treaty that would ease tensions between Luna and Earth, Prince Kaito must consider whether or not it is in the best interest of his people to make such an agreement. It is into this complex, highly political and troubled world that Meyer places her little cinder girl.
In her heroine, Lihn Cinder, Meyer has achieved a fantastic balance between toughness and vulnerability that I really connected with. With no memory of her past before the age of 11, Cinder is placed under the guardianship of Lihn Garan, and taken to live with he, his wife and their two young daughters. But when Garan dies shortly after assuming custody of Cinder, Cinder is reduced to the status of servant, as Adri, Garan's wife, never wanted her in the first place. Now sixteen, Cinder works as a mechanic at the New Beijing weekly market repairing damaged netscreens and household androids so that her stepmother and step-sisters can maintain the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed. An orphan and a cyborg, her position within society is a tenuous one. Feisty and intelligent, Cinder is still mostly human, and she knows her value even if it's not widely recognized by others. She stands up for herself, despite what she is, letting who she is shine through. Which is ultimately what the Cinderella story has always been about for me. Under the dirt and the ash, though she's poor and despite the fact that she's a effectively a second-class citizen — while these things have an effect and consequence, and hold some measure of importance – these things do not make up who Cinder is. And Cinder is a great reminder that a person's true worth comes from the strength and integrity of their character.
Kind, intuitive, discerning, quick-witted, and a good judge of character with a genuine love for his people, Prince Kaito is everything a good future emperor should be. He manages to be authoritative and regal without being arrogant. His friendliness won me over and and it's easy to understand why even Cinder – careful, guarded Cinder – would be drawn to his charismatic personality. Though there wasn't quite as much romance as I usually prefer, the development of the friendship/romance between Kai and Cinder makes sense in the context of the story – the duty Kai has to his people and the reality of what Cinder is. It's a tad more complicated than a simple rags-to-riches story.
In terms of the supporting cast of Cinder, Meyer did an excellent job of rounding out all of her characters, and in particular, I found Iko, Dr. Erland, and the Lunars to be really interesting. Iko is Cinder's household droid, and the closest thing Cinder has to a best friend. To be honest, when Iko first appeared and I realized what her role would be in this story, I may have thought "Oh no…" and may have even rolled my eyes a little. However, Iko really grew on me. She became this incredibly endearing little sidekick who had hopes and dreams all her own, and I really came to enjoy her character. Second, Dr. Erland, the lead scientist working on the plague cure, I found to be one of the most interesting characters in the book. He's one of those characters who raise interesting ethical and moral questions, a character who holds a lot of depth, and I would love to know more about him. Lastly, the Lunars in general held a certain fascination for me, because of the way they are described – devious, murderous, ambitious – not to mention they live on the moon. But in particular, Queen Levana and her thaumaturge, Sybil Mira. These two women are very intimidating characters. Powerful, strategic and cunning, they are definitely forces to be reckoned with, and characters that at once made me wary and excited. Excited? Yes. I really do love an intelligent and formidable villain.
One of the over-arcing themes I found extremely interesting is the question of human rights that plagues the Eastern Commonwealth. At what point does a person become less than human when altered by the technological advancements of modern medicine? In that same vein, in Cinder's world androids are commonplace. But by creating androids who learn, evolve and begin to interpret the world around them independently, mankind has in effect created a new form of sentient being. Should these beings have rights? And what about those caught in between? Those who are part-human, part-android – the cyborgs? By becoming part machine, have they lost some essential, irretrievable piece of their humanity? By prolonging their lives through science, cyborgs have gained a second chance at life, when by all rights they should be dead. But at what cost, when they are regarded by human society as a whole to be "less than?" Both cyborg and android rights are severely limited, legally they can be viewed as property, and their fate controlled by those who have guardianship over them. The moral implications of medical interference and the resulting social consequences are just extremely interesting and I found Meyer's modern, futuristic interpretation of the European social hierarchy to be extremely creative, very thought-provoking and relevant.
Overall, with fascinating thematic elements, clever storytelling and a fantastic, updated heroine, Cinder is a fresh, enchanting and futuristic reimagining of a beloved fairytale classic.
Author: Marissa Meyer
Title: Cinder
Series: Lunar Chronicles (Book #1)
Published: January 3rd 2012 by Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover, 387 pages; Kindle; Nook; Audiobook
Website: www.marissameyer.livejournal.com
Source: e-ARC provided through NetGalley
Filed Under: Featured, Reviews
Oh yay! I have a copy of this that I need to get read soon and my feelings about it are ALL over the place 😛
But I LOVE fairy tales and am super excited to read this one! Your review is great! Must read soon!!
If you're a fan of sci-fi/cyberpunk and a fan of fairytales, chances are good you'll like this one. Chances are good even if you're not a fan of sci-fi. 😉 I hope you give it a try!
JessiM says
Characters are always really important for me in a story and it sounds like they are more than satisfying in Cinder. Great review!
Jessi @ Reading in the Corner
Thanks so much for stopping by Jessi! Yes, Cinder does have wonderful characters… which is always important to me as well… if you couldn't tell… lol
Angel says
Wonderful review Dani! I especially loved your last paragraph–it was insightful and perfectly articulated. I'm glad you liked the book!
Thank you Angel I was looking for your review earlier, but didn't see it. Will you be posting it closer to the launch? I can't wait to read your thoughts!
Yes, I'll be posting it in January! I'm part of the blog tour and believe you me, I'm just as antsy for people to see it.
Kaye @ Watercolor Moods says
So glad that you enjoyed it! And thanks for visiting my review as well! I was trying to write a long reply back, but in a nutshell: YES, Cinder is awesome. I am fond of the Ella Enchanted movie, so no worries there, but I do love the book a bit more.
Hope you're having a good evening!
lol… long reply not needed. So glad we agree on the awesomeness of Cinder. And I DID have a good evening, thank you! Finished two books I was in the middle of. All in all, a very productive evening.
Amber Hughes says
I've had this book on my TBR list, even though it's different from the kind of books I usually read. I thought it sounded really interesting. After reading your great review, I'm putting it higher on my list
Oh yay! It is different, and wonderfully so. If you happen to be on NetGalley, you can request an eGalley of it there. Thank you so much for stopping by Amber
Giselle says
Awesome review Dani I'm fascinated by this premise I really want to give it a try!
Xpresso Reads
Oh you totally should! I'll be interested in reading your thoughts if you do review it!
Ron C. Nieto says
Oh my! I had gotten the idea about this being some kind of retelling of Cinderella, but… Wow. Your review has definitely sent this into my Must Read list.
Thank you so much for sharing!
Ron @ Stories of my life
You should definitely give this one a shot if you get the chance. It's on NetGalley if you're interested in requesting it. Thanks for stopping by Ron!
Christy (Love of Books) says
Gah, this sounds so cool! I have it, but still need to read it.
Do it! DO IT!
Danielle West says
This sounds awesome! Perfect to gift to my cousin after she gets a new kindle
Demijel (@demibeans) says
This book was wonderful! I agree with your entire review actually~ I think I'll actually be buying a finished copy when it comes out 😀
Jewel says
I've read so many reviews that gave this book a high rating. It's on my TBR list & i guess I should hurry up & get myself a copy & read just how great it is.
Thanks for your review Dani. I hope I like it as much as you did.
Sophia Chang says
I just won an audiobook of this from MacMillan so I'm glad to see your positive review of this!!
Mary Preston says
I do love Fairy Tales & I did wonder about CINDER. Thanks for the great review.
aparajita says
u r getting me even more excited to read this…love the review and that audioclip
Sara Kovach says
Very well-done review – thorough. I have read Cinder & really enjoyed it. Your review hit it right on!! I cannot wait for the next in the Chronicles to come out.
I enjoyed reading your review, especially regarding the characters.
Wow, that was an intense review. Ok I am going to go buy a copy now! Thanks!
Yay! I hope you enjoy it!
Vivian M says
Read Cinder a while ago and I loved it! Awesome retelling! Great review
Suz Reads says
Great review! I loved it and agree with you that her combo of toughness and vulnerability was perfect!


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Black bands you might want to step it up!
Despite their ongoing troubles, The Ohio State University marching band still has the magic.
The debut performance for the 2014 football season was a tribute to several TV shows, which included choreography that payed homage to "Batman," "The Simpsons," "The Addams Family," "The Office," and "Game of Thrones," among others.
Watch the self proclaimed "best damn band in the land" show out above!
Black bands don't have the funding or technology to do these type of choreography. Their money is for scholarships. Ohio State operate with millions in their budget. It no different with football.
Plain & Simple. their corps style promotes that kind of drill concept.
the choreographers are the best in show to me.
Tom maybe you should take a look at Southern University. .. besides being represented on SI.com and ESPN.com they've also been ranked by the NCAA. But I guess that's still not good enough. ..
All of that is goodI I feel your play what you represent. I'm just saying, did they do "Good Time"?
I marched in an HBCU Band from '86-90′ @ ASU…trumpet player. And even I know it's a shame that HBCU bands still use the same format till this day. (1) Start with an old skool jam, (2) next a slow jam, (3) a fast-paced song for the dance girls, (4) block band/funk 4 corners with dancing, and (5) take it off the field. HCBUs might not have the budget for elaborate props, but they can update the music, the field designs, and the dance routines.
WOW!!! North Carolina A&T State University Blue n' Gold marching band can bring it too!! 2014 Honda Classic is a glimpse at what we can do.


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Kimpton pays tribute to Cayman's natural and cultural heritage
Loop News Created : 15 November 2019 Community
Kimpton Seafire Resort + Spa, the 266-room resort on Seven Mile Beach pays tribute to Cayman's natural and cultural heritage in many ways, from the art and artefacts found throughout the hotel to the use of native plants and trees throughout the property.
Developed by Dart, Kimpton officially opened three years ago, on 15 November 2016, the first new hotel in Grand Cayman in more than a decade. In this short period of time, Seafire has joined the ranks of hotels rated best in the world, recently taking third place in Conde Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards for the Caribbean and voted 36 worldwide.
"We are delighted to celebrate our third anniversary with such positive recognition of our efforts," said Steven Andre, general manager of Kimpton Seafire Resort + Spa.
Three years also happens to be a significant milestone in landscape design, being the time it takes for plants to mature.
"We describe the growth pattern in the first three years as sleep, creep, and then leap," said Dart's senior manager landscape design and horticulture, Whit Connors. "If you look back at photos from the opening, you will see just how much Seafire's natural environment has blossomed and grown."
The Seafire resort, which includes The Residences at Seafire, is planted with over 32,000 plants and trees, the majority of which were propagated in Dart's nursery. The use of native and indigenous plant material creates a distinctive sense of place and has become a hallmark of Dart developments.
"Caymanian trees and shrubs have design and environmental benefits as they are naturally more resilient, and because the buildings are set so far back from the beach, we could get creative, playing with topography and introducing secluded corners for guests' privacy," said Connors.
As Seafire was the first hotel opened by the Kimpton brand outside North America, Andre says he is especially happy with how the resort has been embraced by the Cayman community. "Like all Kimpton hotels, we aspire to be locally loved," said Andre.
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The cost of a college education is never considered cheap, no matter if you attend offline or online. However, online courses can be more expensive than their offline counterparts at times, as universities try to make up for the missed opportunity costs of parking on campus, room-and-board, textbooks, etc. Also, the level of your courses, whether it be for a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree will also determine the cost of the courses you take. The choice of university where you choose to attend online classes can also affect the cost of your education. Online courses will sometimes be more expensive at universities that have better or more prestigious reputations than those that are not as well-known or well-recognized because employers look more favourably upon those graduates who have completed their degrees at universities that are more well-known or have more prestige. Because of this, your current employer may be willing to reimburse you for all or part of your tuition, especially if the courses relate to your current occupational field and if you plan on staying at your current place of employment.
In fact, 40% of students that are attending corporate training programs are having their employers pay for all of their tuition. The cost per credit can vary greatly from university to university, some costing as little as $150/credit to as much as $500/credit. With a difference as much as $350/credit, the costs of taking a course at one university can greatly exceed the costs of taking a similar course at another university. Of course, you need to be aware of whether that cost is justified based on the reputations of the universities and the quality of the instruction at each, then decide whether the higher cost is worth it or not.
Consider also that tuition at for-profit institutions like the University of Phoenix and Kaplan University is usually less expensive than that at not-for-profit institutions like Saint Leo University and Lehigh University, BUT you might be eligible for in-state grants by attending a not-for-profit institution, whereas you wouldn't be eligible if you attend a for-profit institution. Something else to consider when deciding between attending for-profit and not-for-profit institutions: For-profit institutions are considered more flexible scheduling-wise and more focused on job-specific curriculums than not-for-profit institutions, but not-for-profit institutions are more likely to be regionally accredited, transfer credits more easily, and are usually considered to have more name recognition and be considered more prestigious, which could help to make the difference when interviewing for a position with a company. The difference in the costs of private colleges versus public colleges can also be substantial, due to the fact that private universities don't receive financial support from state and local governments like public universities do. Private institutions have to rely on tuition, fees, gifts, corporate contributions, and endowments.
Public universities receive a large proportion of their budgets from state or local governments because they are government-run. Besides the cost of the online courses themselves, you also have to take into consideration what you will need to complete these online courses, including a powerful enough computer and a stable Internet connection. High-speed Internet connections, which usually cost more than dial-up, may be advantageous to quickly download the course materials and be able to play back the video and audio lectures more fluidly without as many interruptions. By considering all these factors, you can determine which university will provide you with the programs you wish to take and the benefits you wish to receive at the lowest possible cost.


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The Gospel according to H. L. Hix
by Hix, H. L. on November 23, 2020 | No Reviews or Comments
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First we have to talk about the elephant in the room – though that might not be the
most polite term for Jesus! For many millions of people around the world, Jesus is the
Son of God, the divine source of their salvation, his story told in the familiar four
gospels of the Bible, and any tampering with that story understandably will be met
with suspicion, distrust, even hostility. So let's begin with what this book isn't. Hix covers this in detail in his Introduction to The Gospel, which you can read here, but for now it's enough to say that this isn't Jesus Christ, Superstar, or The Last Temptation of Christ. Nothing in this Gospel secularizes or desacralizes Jesus Christ. You don't get less of the divine Jesus here, you get more.
That's because Hix has gone back to the original source materials, both the canonical
and non-canonical gospels and histories and stories of the life of Jesus, and created out
of them a single, more comprehensive and nuanced narrative. A good analogy is to
film editing. Most movie directors shoot far more film than ever makes it into the
version we see on the screen, and much of that film ends up on the editing room floor,
the result of commercial decisions that may be far removed from what the director
intended for the film. Occasionally the director gets the chance to re-edit the film to
restore that lost material, producing a "Director's Cut" that may be very different
from the commercial film release. So we can think of The Gospel as an ultimate
"Director's Cut" of the story of Jesus, with all of those bits that didn't make the
official version (edited by early church leaders to serve a specific agenda) at last
restored. Something for those enthusiasts who want to dig deeper, to know more.
But that's not all he's done. Among the other virtues of his The Gospel, Hix has restored the meanings of essential words as they would have been understood by contemporary
audiences when the source materials were first spoken and written, overcoming what
he calls "translation inertia", the tendency to retain a translation over time even after
the sense of the word has changed for current readers. Thus "Lord" becomes "Boss",
and the apostles "apprentices", changes that allow for an entirely novel understanding
of the role of Jesus and of believers' relationship to him. Also of crucial importance,
Hix has eliminated gendered language wherever possible, in the process inventing new
terms that decouple our understanding of Jesus and divinity from the limitations of
gendered human bodies and relationships. Thus "Son" becomes "Xon", for example,
a form of literary transubstantiation that renders the divine even more transcendent,
and in the process opens the Gospel and its promise of salvation to greater inclusivity.
Gospel, of course, means "good news." And the very good news of The Gospel
according to H. L. Hix, for believers and for non-believers alike, is that what has been
called "the greatest story ever told", the life of Jesus, just got even greater.
Praise for The Gospel according to H. L. Hix
Slangy, familiar, yet freshly strange, all embracing, challenging, reverently irreverent,
H. L. Hix's The Gospel is a faithfully non-canonical narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus. The Story lives. The Dance never ends. Fear not. Amen. —Joy Williams, author of Ninety-Nine Stories of God.
I'm amazed that nobody has really done this, not in this way. H. L. Hix, a first-rate
poet and critic, has translated and edited the gospels with a deft hand, harmonizing the
story in a way that brings the astonishing voice of Jesus to the fore. This is a brilliant
piece of writing, make no mistake: a combination of Hix and the great gospel writers,
whoever they were. I will gratefully keep this on my shelf beside the Bible. —Jay Parini, author of Jesus: The Human Face of God & The Way of Jesus.
I found myself like those at Emmaus whose eyes are opened suddenly, aware at last of all they have sealed their hearts against. I have been waiting all my life for someone like H. L. Hix to bring together the various gospels, canonical or not, into a singular account of the life and teachings of Jesus. What is this strange and wondrous book before us—newly translated, compiled, and composed for the first time as a single text, as new telling—if not good news? —Eric Pankey, author of Apocrypha and Dismantling the Angel.
Enjoy The Gospel, and discuss it with someone. To put it differently, just try to read this without imagining yourself in a discussion about it either among Biblical scholars
(my first thought was that the Westar Institute, Sojourners, and the like ought
consider this text), or people who are unsatisfied with church doctrines (I'm hosting a
picnic next week), or clerical staff in a diocese that could use a little shaking up, or a
book group that selects books that unsettle expectations. The Introduction delivers a
most succinct and entertaining narration of the pragmatic ramifications of the legacy
of the Gospels that made it into the Bible, and why it is most appropriate to resist the
foregone conclusions that dominate contemporary expectations of what they are. If
only Biblical studies as a field enjoyed such engaging clarity. Perhaps in addition to
source, form and redaction criticism, we can now speak of Hix criticism.
Hix also argues for the value of his constructive wagers with refreshing brevity and
boldness. He tells us he is doing what was done in the writing of the Biblical Gospels:
He's writing a Gospel. The Gospel. His transparency with regard to the sources
illuminates his remarkable breadth of knowledge pertinent to source and form
criticism. Hix's mastery and obvious delight in weaving a narrative arc by drawing
from forty-eight additional sources to the Biblical Gospels, an arc that begins with the
birth of Mary and concludes with the resurrection, elevates the reading to a kind of
artistry that specialists will particularly enjoy. May Thunder: Perfect Mind find
xerself (see below) appearing again and again on our contemporary climate crisis
landscapes.
Three particularly relevant strategies that Hix uses include: staying true to simple
Greek words rather than translating them with specialized English words, and in light
of this first effort, he translates an immanent xe (see next item) in the sky we know
rather than a transcendent God in heaven that we cannot know, and finally he "tilts"
gender. Biblical scholarship has been described up to this point as offering three
paths: progressive feminist (such as Mary Daly's Wickedary), gender neutral (avoid
pronouns at all cost) or retention of He, Father, and Son, claiming Biblical inerrancy.
Hix delivers another alternative with the introduction of fother (mother + father), and
perhaps with a nod to Generation X or Z, the xon of humanity replaces the Son of
Man, and the pronouns he, him, and his become xe, xer, and xers (where the x is
pronounced as zh). These three very serious forms of strategic play transform the
reading and thus reflection on The Gospel. This book should be entertained by
people interested in the enduring power of Biblical narratives. It should be discussed
by people who want to challenge the theological, class and gender hierarchies of
Christian doctrine and institutions. And those interested in the audacity of The Gospel as it challenges and transforms narrative will find herein a worthy jest for serious contemplation. —Mary L. Keller, Westar Fellow and author of the forthcoming Spirit of Climate Change
H. L. Hix was born in Oklahoma and raised in various small towns in the south. After earning his B.A. from Belmont College (now Belmont University) and his Ph.D. (in philosophy) from the University of Texas, Hix taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and was an administrator at the Cleveland Institute of Art, before joining the faculty of the University of Wyoming, where, after a term as director of the creative writing MFA, he now teaches in the Philosophy Department and the Creative Writing Program. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai University, Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at Yonsei University in Seoul, and the "Distinguished Visitor" at the NEO MFA. He teaches in the low-residency MFA at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
H. L. Hix's previous work includes a retelling of the Book of Job, as "A Manual of Happiness" in First Fire, Then Birds, and a redaction and translation of a sayings gospel, as "Near Fire" in Rain Inscription.
U.K. Readers can purchase The Gospel at Amazon U.K.
Also available for purchase from the Publisher, Broadstone Books.
Topics: Belief, Bibles and Bible Study, Biblical Archaeology, Church History, Early Christianity, Evolutionary Christianity, God, New Thought/New Age, Progressive Christianity 101, Social & Environmental Ministry, and Spiritual Exploration & Practice. 8 Points: Point 1: Teachings of Jesus, Point 4: Act As We Believe, and Point 5: Non-Dogmatic Searchers. Resource Types: Books and Read.
The Bible and The New York Times
by Rutledge, Fleming
Broken We Kneel: Reflections on Faith and Citizenship
by Bass, Diana Butler
Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir
by Chittister, Sister Joan
Review & Commentary


Do you remember the day, the moment, you met the Son of God for the first time? No matter how long we've walked with Christ, there's always more to discover and learn about Him. To truly know Jesus and follow His example, it's essential that we continually study and contemplate His words and the incredible aspects of His character.
That's why I'm excited about my new book, Face to Face with Jesus: Seeing Him as He Really Is! It includes 200 mini-chapters (one page each) all about Jesus, King of Kings, my Savior and my best friend. Each entry includes Scripture, a devotional thought, and an inspirational quote.
I recently received my advanced copy and have read about 50 of them. I don't often read my own books, as by the time they come out I'm tired from all the work! But I've found God is speaking to me through the Scripture and quotations, and I hope He speaks to you, too.
I believe there's something unique about Face to Face with Jesus and that it can encourage people who like reading short entries with biblical substance. Please pray with me that God would use the book to touch the lives of all those who read it.
Among other things, it's an unusually beautiful book and would make a great Christmas present—especially because it's about the Jesus whose birth we celebrate!
God always knew the exact moment he would send Jesus Christ to the earth. When the gospel was manifested in Christ, God made sure the world had experienced enough of life without the Messiah to see their desperate need for the "good news of happiness" (Isaiah 52:7 NLV).
Jesus was the Lamb, the Passover, Priest, Prophet, King, the Bread of Life, the Word. Without history and the Scriptures, we would never have understood the depths of the Godhead.
God designed the world in such a way that he knew to send Messiah at just the right time.
The God who gave us his Son delights to graciously give us "all things." These "all things" are in addition to Christ, but never instead of him—they come, Scripture tells us, "along with him." If we didn't have Christ, we'd have nothing. But because we have Christ, we have everything.
Asaph says, "Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you" (Psalm 73:25). This may seem an overstatement—there's nothing on Earth this man desires but God? But Asaph is affirming the central desire of our hearts is for God.
And when we realize what it means to have Jesus, we'll never be disappointed.
David asked God, "List my tears on your scroll—are they not in your record?" (Psalm 56:8). David believed his suffering mattered, that God counted it as precious, so precious that the Lord kept track of every tear.
This gives special meaning to the promise that God will wipe away every tear from his children's eyes. We're again promised in Revelation 7:17: "God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." This means God's hands will touch the face of each child, removing every tear.
Remember, God not only made tear ducts but has them. Jesus as the God-man shed tears (John 11:35). When Jesus wipes away tears with his gentle, omnipotent hand, I believe our eyes will fall on the scars that made our suffering his so that his eternal joy could become ours.
By a miracle of grace, Jesus touched me deeply, gave me a new heart, and utterly transformed my life. Forty-nine years later, He's still unveiling Himself and changing me into His image and likeness.
Do We Miss the Humor of Christ When We Read the Gospels?
In our culture, most humor is based on joke telling, verbal ambiguities, and physical comedy. Jewish humor often employed witty hyperbole—clever, startling, over-the-top statements—to get a laugh. Though some comedians today do this and we laugh, when we see Jesus use the technique in the Gospels, we usually don't get it.
What Would You Say to Someone Who Doesn't Believe Jesus Is God?
Someone can say they disagree with John 1:1 or that interpretation, but they are disagreeing with what the Bible clearly says. We know this because Jesus' deity is evident not only in this verse, but also repeatedly in the gospel of John.
In this two and a half minute clip, Randy Alcorn answers the question, "When did you put your faith in Christ?"


Dwell by Cheryl: "Animal Instinct"
It was a super busy weekend. I had a successful install and photo shoot of another boy's room. I can't wait to share the result. I'm getting pretty good at the boy's rooms, but I'm itching to decorate an over the top little girl's space. Any takers?
My next project is a family room and I'm beginning to put together a plan of attack. I read recently that every room can benefit from a little animal print and I think I'm starting to agree. Animal print ain't what it used to be.
Typically you say "animal print"and people instinctively think Wild Kingdom, but you'd be surprised at it's versatility.
Just remember a little goes a long way. Throw pillows, rugs or art work are easy options. Here are a few of my favorites.
The perfect way to add a designer touch to your dwelling.
Have I mentioned that I love comments! Leave me one. Simply click the words Click Here to Join the Conversation just below this post. Need help? Read this.
I love your blog! And I love the little touches of "Animal Instinct" in the pics above. Maybe you can incorporate some animal prints in my design plan when you work on my home one day! ;).
Adero, it would be my pleasure! Thanks.
Where are the bearskin rugs? I thought they were always in style?! (I kid...) Nice incorporation of prints.


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Movie "Trainspotting" - DVD Movies Encyclopedia
Movie genres: [Comedy] [Crime] [Drama]
Directed by Danny Boyle
Short description of the movie "Trainspotting"
A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them...
Starring actors in "Trainspotting" movie:
Renton Ewan McGregor also starred in the next movies:
"Eye of the Beholder" in a role of Stephen Wilson;
"Moulin Rouge!" in a role of Christian;
"Black Hawk Down" in a role of Spec. John Grimes;
"Big Fish" in a role of Ed Bloom (Young);
"Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" in a role of Obi-Wan Kenobi;
"Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" in a role of Obi-Wan Kenobi;
"Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" in a role of Obi-Wan Kenobi;
"Robots";
"Valiant" in a role of Valiant;
"Shallow Grave" in a role of Alex Law;
"Stay" in a role of Sam Foster;
"Stormbreaker" in a role of Ian Rider;
"Young Adam" in a role of Joe Taylor;
"A Life Less Ordinary" in a role of Robert Lewis;
"Miss Potter" in a role of Norman Warne;
"Little Voice" in a role of Billy;
"Cassandra's Dream" in a role of Ian;
"Scenes of a Sexual Nature" in a role of Billy;
"Deception" in a role of Jonathan McQuarry;
"Incendiary" in a role of Jasper Black;
"The Island" in a role of Tom Lincoln;
"Angels & Demons" in a role of Camerlengo Patrick McKenna;
"Down with Love" in a role of Catcher Block;
"The Men Who Stare at Goats" in a role of Bob Wilton;
"I Love You Phillip Morris" in a role of Phillip Morris;
Ewen Bremner
Spud Ewen Bremner also starred in the next movies:
"Snatch." in a role of Mullet;
"Pearl Harbor" in a role of Lt. Red Winkle;
"Black Hawk Down" in a role of Spec. Shawn Nelson;
"Around the World in 80 Days" in a role of Inspector Fix;
"The Rundown" in a role of Declan;
"Judge Dredd" in a role of Junior Angel;
"Death at a Funeral" in a role of Justin;
"Fool's Gold" in a role of Alfonz;
"Wide Open Spaces" in a role of Austin;
Sick Boy Jonny Lee Miller also starred in the next movies:
"Hackers" in a role of Dade Murphy/'Crash Override'/'Zero Cool';
"Plunkett & Macleane" in a role of Macleane;
"Creating a World: Aeon Flux" in a role of Oren Goodchild;
"The Flying Scotsman" in a role of Graeme Obree;
"Endgame" in a role of Michael Young;
"Dracula 2000" in a role of Simon Sheppard;
Tommy Kevin McKidd also starred in the next movies:
"Kingdom of Heaven" in a role of English Sergeant;
"The Last Legion" in a role of Wulfila;
"Made of Honor" in a role of Colin McMurray;
"Hannibal Rising" in a role of Kolnas;
"Dog Soldiers" in a role of Pvt. Cooper;
Begbie Robert Carlyle also starred in the next movies:
"The 51st State" in a role of Felix DeSouza;
"Plunkett & Macleane" in a role of Plunkett;
"The Full Monty" in a role of Gaz;
"The 007 World Is Not Enough" in a role of Renard;
"Eragon" in a role of Durza;
"28 Weeks Later..." in a role of Don;
"Flood" in a role of Rob;
"Stone of Destiny" in a role of John MacCormick;
"Ravenous" in a role of F.W. Colqhoun;
"24: Redemption" in a role of Carl Benton;
"I Know You Know" in a role of Charlie;
"The Tournament" in a role of Joseph Macavoy;
"Angela's Ashes" in a role of Malachy;
"The Beach" in a role of Daffy;
"The Unloved" in a role of Father;
Diane Kelly Macdonald also starred in the next movies:
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in a role of Reporter;
"Finding Neverland" in a role of Peter Pan;
"Nanny McPhee" in a role of Evangeline;
"Entropy" in a role of Pia;
"No Country for Old Men" in a role of Carla Jean Moss;
"In the Electric Mist" in a role of Kelly Drummond;
"The Merry Gentleman" in a role of Kate Frazier;
Swanney Peter Mullan also starred in the next movies:
"Ordinary Decent Criminal";
"Shallow Grave" in a role of Andy;
"Young Adam" in a role of Les Gault;
"The Last Legion" in a role of Odoacer;
"Session 9" in a role of Gordon Fleming;
"Boy A" in a role of Terry;
"Stone of Destiny" in a role of Ian's dad;
Mr. Renton James Cosmo also starred in the next movies:
"Babe: Pig in the City" in a role of Thelonius;
"Braveheart" in a role of Campbell;
"Highlander" in a role of Angus MacLeod;
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" in a role of Father Christmas;
"The Last Legion" in a role of Hrothgar;
"The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising" in a role of Dawson;
"Emma" in a role of Mr. Weston;
"The Lives of the Saints" in a role of Mr. Karva;
"The Four Feathers" in a role of Col. Sutch;
Eileen Nicholas
Mrs. Renton Eileen Nicholas also starred in the next movies:
"Half Broken Things" in a role of Mrs Dawson;
Susan Vidler
Susan Vidler starred only in the movie "Trainspotting"
Pauline Lynch
Pauline Lynch starred only in the movie "Trainspotting"
Gail Shirley Henderson also starred in the next movies:
"Bridget Jones's Diary" in a role of Jude;
"Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" in a role of Edythe Dubarry;
"Wild Child" in a role of Matron;
"Marie Antoinette" in a role of Aunt Sophie;
Stuart McQuarrie
Gavin/US Tourist Stuart McQuarrie also starred in the next movies:
"Young Adam" in a role of Bill;
"Black Book" in a role of Martin Cowan;
"Hush" in a role of Thorpe;
Mikey Forrester
Irvine Welsh starred only in the movie "Trainspotting"
Dale Winton starred only in the movie "Trainspotting"
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