Not even the New American Standard, known for being quite literal, makes a literal translation of a very important word Paul uses here – feet. The NIV and NASB use the word "under" but the image here is sitting at someone's feet (just as Mary did with Jesus – Luke 10:39) to be taught.
This is an image of discipleship. Over the years discipleship has been more tied to following than to sitting. Jesus had many followers who weren't disciples so being a disciple is more than being a follower. A disciple is someone who has dedicated themselves to the teachings of their particular instructor or rabbi so that they can imitate them or "follow in their footsteps" to to speak. So when you hear someone's disciple teach, you are most likely hearing the teachings of their rabbi because their words and actions are a direct reflection on what they received from their rabbi.
This is discipleship 101. When Jesus says that there is something they are to do or say that will tell the world who He is and shows they are truly His disciples it is going to boil down to the core essence of Jesus' teaching and the actions and values that underlie them.
Jesus pointed out one thing. I would have expected Him to say love God. Instead Jesus said, "love one another." That doesn't mean that anything else goes as long as you are loving about it. It does mean that this one thing is of central importance and that without it all the rest is pretty much useless.
Jesus ties in the success of their mission to the quality of love one disciple has for another.
That should either encourage us or frighten us because I see a lot of enmity in the body of Christ today. As a direct result, according to Jesus, I cannot help but connect that with the fact that so many churches are in decline and so few churches are actually reaching anyone more than 1 or 2 people each year at most. Not only are churches in decline but we also have a Christian message that lacks teeth…that can't seem to gain any traction…that the volume of the Gospel message is at a 10 but the volume of our bickering and arguing is at a 25. That just won't work because it doesn't reflect our Rabbi well enough to work.
I am convinced that a part of our problem comes from a gross misunderstanding of love in our world today that has bled over into God's people. Love has many definitions and I am not going to try to define it here but I will say a few things I know about love. Love will cost you something because love requires you to give. Somehow as Christians we have bought into a consumer mentality in regard to how we see the church and how we see others. Consumers can never truly love the entity that provides their desired items and services from because consumers are seeking to take and that is antithetical to love. If we view Christianity as a consumer and other Christians as a consumer would, we will truly bite and devour each other that ultimately leads to mutually assured destruction (Gal 5:15).
I see Christians take things from other Christians all the time and that isn't love. I see them try to take the dignity of others. I see them try to take the joy from others. I see them try to knock others down to exalt themselves. I don't know where people learn that (including myself at times) except that I do know they didn't learn that following and sitting at the feet of Jesus.
Love must define us. Jesus said so. If it doesn't, we are disobedient and will never have the effect in this world God expects from us.
So let us love well and let us expect up front for it to cost us something. Let us be willing to pay the price, to not always get our way, to humbly respect people we disagree with while still being able to have a loving conversation about our disagreements. Let us repent of any selfish way that is found within us and turn from self-focus to others-focus. I truly believe a renewed love for one another will ultimately lead the world to listen with fresh ears to a people who actually are truly different.
Thanks to Jerry Starling for his comment on the previous post that pointed my thoughts in this direction.
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here is a difference between the concept of loving one another and understanding and maintaining Biblical principles.
We can take any good thing and abuse it, even the scriptures…even love…even a desire to have correct understanding of scripture and correct practice.
I am sure you can lump more progressive minded people into a camp with a specific set of beliefs just as easily as someone could go the other way with it. That is very tempting to do…it is "low hanging fruit" so to speak. But to actually engage in a meaningful and biblical discussion that is done in love and respect on the topics you mentioned would be worthwhile.
I hope that makes sense and I appreciate you stopping by.
Some of the passages which seem to be forgotten deal with the relationship love=obedience. This is how we know we love God – by obeying His commandments. Loving our brother needs to fit in with this concept.
Wheaton is all shook up because one of their professors stated that she is convinced that the God of Islam and Christianity is the same God. She decided to express her love for Muslims by wearing a hijab. No problem with the Wheaton faculty. But the moment she made the God of Islam equal to the God of Christianity, the Board reacted – and rightly so.
We are called to love even the disobedient, the non-believer, the Muslim, and even our enemy. Help me understand what I am missing in saying that.
Love is never conditioned on obedience. Maybe I am reading you wrong here. Help me out.
What you are getting at isn't (I hope for you) actually a love issue but is an inclusion issue. If it is a love issue for you…that we love those who are obedient and that's it…then that is a much larger discussion and is quite problematic.
How do we know we love God? How do we know we love Christ? How do we know we love one another?
Never said that we should only love those who obey.
What I see happening (and have seen over the past 20 years) is that "loving others" has become more a matter of compromising our obedience to God by giving up certain important parts that define children of God. We are not only defined by how (and maybe this is a better word) we accept and/or treat others, but by holding to God's word, as well.
Because I love others, I share the message of the cross. Because I love others, they get my time, my attention, my talents, my shirt when necessary (May have to rethink that one, since Canada will be visiting here next week).
But by accepting them as members of groups which believe in a "Just ask Jesus in your heart, and all is well – and, by the way, when you get a chance, you may want to get baptized,too) love is lacking, seriously lacking in practice.
Again, your problem is not love but what constitutes inclusion into the community of faith. Again, it goes the other way too…one can be so legalistic as to require various markers of faith to really be "in" that were never required in the New Testament itself. This is a human problem, not a progressive/love problem…it just gets expressed in different ways based on a variety of factors.
Jesus not only tells us to love one another, he also tells us how much we are to love each other: "Love one another as I have loved you.. How much does Jesus love is? In John 15:9 he tells the twelve (and through them, is as well if we Revelation in him). "As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you . There we have it. We are to love each other with the same love that exists in the godhead.
Now what were you saying about love being "namby pamby religion"?
It is quite obvious that there many, still too many, members of the Church of Christ who fear love, who see it as a softness that takes away every sense of uniqueness, that takes away the courage to fight.
That is why the CoC, with a few exceptions, is ignored by most Christian communities whose depth keep their minds and hearts yearning and striving toward a deeper relationship with Christ, with one another, and with those they meet day in day out. In short, when it comes to "debating", their conclusion is, "We don't have time for all that".
All wings of the CoC that shut themselves off from the world, and from other members, become ineffectual and never realize the call and experience of being "the great physician". Oh, they will continue to educate, write and preach for themselves, especially in certain parts of the country. But, unfortunately, small vessels can hold a lot of pride.
Most Christian communities whose depth keep their minds and hearts yearning and striving toward a deeper relationship with Christ, with one another… define the relationship based more on "what seems to work best" than on what is the Biblical way.
The Baskin-Robbins mentality seems to grow and grow (More flavors, more choices – each can get what they like). Pick a group, any group, don't worry too much about what is believed.
"We" are following denominational practices more and more. "We," who have historically argued for the priesthood of all believers and against Clergy, now have at least 14 professional titles for those who work "full-time" with congregations. "We" now ask for Graduate degrees. "We" now offer salaries "commensurate with experience." "We" now believe that when one has more education, one must be better believers, more spiritual – and therefore better qualified to do the work God has assigned to each individual believer!
If you are saying that it is unbiblical to pay ministers then I would point you to a few verses.
First are the words of Jesus instructing his disciples to accept support for their work – Luke 9:1-5. Jesus himself had people who monetarily supported his ministry.
Paul said it was right – 1 Tim 5:17-18.
There is clear example and even teaching on this in the New Testament so I am not sure why you would go there.
To set the record straight on worship ministers, if they made 87k per year they would be the hands down, by far, highest paid group of ministers by quite a bit. The ACU survey has them at $57,750 but I shouldn't even have to bring that up because it is a moot point.
On the love, likemindedness and unity point. Love is essential to unity because we will never all agree on everything. Ever. Not on every conceivable point in an absolute sense. It just won't happen. I am sure you are aware of that. What is more, love is then required for us to maintain unity in Christ despite our disagreements. Things won't always go the way I want or the way you want but we still love each other anyway.
I hope you are not disparaging elderships and people who have devoted their lives to ministry. I hope you are not judging someone else's servant. We are told not to do that. I don't assume you are but it sure feels like it.
I hope the verses above are helpful to you in your studies as we all seek the truth in these matters. God bless.
I think indeed that it is unbiblical to have the kind of paid ministry system we are employing, yes. In the New testament we see MISSIONARIES paid, and sometimes, elders. But there was no such thing as a "staff." I did the studies of the passages, I did the studies of the words used, I did the study of the history of the development of professional ministry, I did the study of our "own" developments.
I do not disparage elderships – other than those who are more business managers than spiritual shepherds. I do not disparage anyone who serves others.
I am not judging anyone, and if the earlier response gave you that impression, I apologize.
What I am trying to do, is show how "we," under the guise of "love" have made too many compromises with the Biblical text. "We" seem to emphasize those "areas" where "we" agree – and prefer not to discuss those areas where "we" are called by God to be different. "We" no longer seem to have a distinct message because that has been deemed to be unloving.
Paul took the areas of agreement with Judaism in stride, and yet, made it very clear that there was a distinct, clear difference between him and his brethren of Judaism – using the term "brethren" in a different way than when describing his fellow Christians.
"We" seem to have lost the idea that speaking of the coming judgment should always be a part of the proclamation of the Gospel. "We" seem to have forgotten there is an inherent friction within Christianity and others – because that is not the loving thing to do.
I am glad we have autonomous congregations that on one hand add to the fact that not every church will agree with your interpretation or go along with you on that and that you can still find churches that do. Maybe you are just as much looking for the place that fits your view as much as you say others are doing it. Does that make you as Baskin Robbins consumer as you accuse others of being in your previous comment? I don't think so. It makes sense to worship at a place where we feel is trying to be biblical. That doesn't make you a consumer unless you make it an idol.
On paid ministers we will just have to disagree. You are standing in an extreme minority position on it in principle for a reason. Can it be taken too far? Of course it can.
A somewhat predictable response 😉 Of course, even as autonomous congregations "we" have used the written word since the days of the Restoration Movement to share views, be they good or bad. My first experience with "brotherhood" writing was reading Wallace's Review of the NIV, and that scared me. From there, the Firm FOundation, the Gospel Advocate, the Gospel Guardian, the Examiner etc., etc., etc.
The Religious Police was everywhere.
But the commonality of our claims, one of which was against Clergy, was still there. "We" now have succumbed… As far as salary is concerned, in a survey by ACU several years ago, salaries were already topping the $ 100k. How we can possibly justify that from a "Foxes have… but the Son of Man has not…" How "we" got there from tent maker missionaries… But I guess it is the "unlovable" thing to do to take issue with that, as well.
You are right in saying sometimes love is nothing more than an accommodating desire to be just like others. Yes. It happens. Adultery also happens even by people who attend Churches of Christ.
I am sure you realize the average salary among ministers is more like 50k.
Is a church (the people in it) that worships with instruments?
Is a church (the people in it) with paid ministers lost?
Is a whole church lost if they worship at a church that does issues you think are not biblical?
What constitutes being in and being out (who should be included)?
Do you agree with all of the practices and interpretation of the church where you now worship?
Re. Salaries… I looked at the latest available from ACU, and came up with different averages.
1. What constitutes being in and being out (who should be included)?
Being baptized into Christ's death (where forgiveness takes place) and being raised in newness of life. Pretty simple. God set that one.
2. Do you agree with all of the practices and interpretation of the church where you now worship? And 3. Is a church (the people in it) with paid ministers lost?
No. Should I let the differences be? Some, yes, others, no. I am a firm believer in "closed" communion, for example. The decision should not be up to the un-believer, but to the congregation. I announce that anytime I am asked to participate in the serving.
I firmly believe in a mutual edification ministry, with as many of the men involved as possible. Will they all be as good, polished, clear and logical as I am? No. 🙂 I can show from Scripture that money was spent on "benevolence (in the way the word is used in our times, rather than in KJV English) and missions. As a congregation, we are getting more and more in that direction. Does that mean that the next congregation over is damned? Of course not. Will the elders have some issues when called to account by God? I strongly believe so. (But then, also for the way the entire budget is spent – most congregations spend more on real estate and salaries than on benevolence and missions).
4. Is a whole church lost if they worship at a church that does issues you think are not biblical?
Hm, having come from the Jehovah's Witnesses, I would certainly hope it to be the case that where error is taught, practiced and accepted there will be a problem! Of course, since they do not meat the Biblical definition of church, I'm good.
Bringing it back to "us." Whenever a group of members of the church of God goes off, as a group, not a few individuals, yes, I believe them to be lost. I was in the U.S. when George Lucas went off with the Discipleship movement, and how it grew into nothing different than any of the cults so famous in those days. Were there some good things? Sure. But these can also be found among, let's say, the Mormon Church.
"We" have become people followers, rather than God followers. After all, someone with a Ph. D. cannot possibly be wrong, right? Yes, before you ask, I do believe in the value of education (I work for an educational institution, so I better!). But somehow, I cannot see Paul (educated as he was), looking for fellow missionaries with degrees (Advanced degrees preferred).
I appreciate your last paragraph especially. I think you are correct in saying that one of the biggest changes that has come is our failure to embrace the mission in a way that lines up with what we find in the New Testament. They never had a "build it and they will come" mentality. They were out looking for people. We have defined missions as foreign, as if everyone here is already ok. I think that paradigm shift in our "missions" ministry was once place we really messed up. We also failed to see the connection between evangelism and discipleship. Discipleship is the broader term that encompasses evangelism to spiritual growth and maturity. We opted for trying to baptize people rather than make disciples. I think, when that has happened (this hasn't happened everywhere but enough to be noticed) we missed the ball.


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Florin Valeriu Răducioiu est un footballeur roumain né le  à Bucarest. Il évoluait au poste d'avant-centre. Dans l'histoire du football, Florin Răducioiu est le premier joueur ayant évolué dans les cinq championnats majeurs européens (Angleterre, Italie, Espagne, Allemagne et France).

Carrière en club
Formé au Dinamo Bucarest, Florin Răducioiu est lancé dans le grand bain par Mircea Lucescu à 17 ans. Il devient titulaire incontestable à partir de la saison 1988-1989 et participe grandement au doublé coupe-championnat la saison suivante. À l'été 1990 Lucescu quitte le Dinamo et Răducioiu également en signant en faveur de l'AS Bari qui évolue en Serie A.

Il passe la saison suivante à Vérone mais le club est relégué en Serie B. Pour la saison 1992-1993, il s'engage en faveur de Brescia, qui est entrainé par Lucescu. Il va y réaliser une très belle saison ponctuée de 13 buts en championnat mais il ne peut empêcher la rétrogradation du club en Serie B.

Cela lui permet de se faire repérer pas les grands clubs Italiens et il signe au Milan AC. Malheureusement pour lui les trois places de joueurs extra-communautaires sont très chers à Milan, il est en concurrence avec Dejan Savićević, Zvonimir Boban, Marcel Desailly, Jean-Pierre Papin ou encore Brian Laudrup. Du coup il enrichit son palmarès mais joue très peu.

Le mondial 1994 lui permet de se relancer et il signe à l'Espanyol Barcelone où il effectue deux saisons de bonne facture. Après six mois décevants à West Ham lors de la saison 1996-1997, il retourne brièvement à l'Espanyol mais ne peut rester en raison de la situation financière fragile du club. Il joue ensuite en Allemagne au VfB Stuttgart lors de la saison suivante mais ne s'y impose pas.

Il retourne alors à Brescia en Serie B pendant deux ans pour retrouver temps de jeu et confiance. Après un bref retour au pays au Dinamo Bucarest, il signe à Monaco en . Pendant ses six premiers mois il participe au maintien du club en . À la fin de la saison Claude Puel est licencié et remplacé par Didier Deschamps. Răducioiu n'entre pas dans ses plans et ne joue quasiment plus. Après un bref passage en Ligue 2 à l'US Créteil-Lusitanos il raccroche les crampons.

Carrière en équipe de Roumanie
Le  Florin Răducioiu fait ses débuts en équipe de Roumanie à 20 ans lors d'un match amical contre Israël. La sélection est alors en préparation en vue de la coupe du monde en Italie de cette année-là.

Coupe du monde 1990
Malgré son faible vécu en équipe nationale, il est retenu pour le mondial. Dans le groupe de l'Argentine tenante du titre la Roumanie finit deuxième de son groupe derrière le Cameroun mais devant l'Argentine et l'URSS. L'équipe de Roumanie atteint donc les huitièmes de finale où elle se fait éliminer par l'Irlande aux tirs au but. Sur le plan personnel Răducioiu joue trois des quatre matchs sans marquer de but.

Coupe du monde 1994
Răducioiu participe grandement à la qualification de la Roumanie pour le mondial aux États-Unis en inscrivant 9 buts au cours de ces éliminatoires. lors de celle-ci la Roumanie se montre séduisante et réaliste, son attaquant y est pour beaucoup. Il inscrit 4 buts en 4 matchs disputés, deux contre la Colombie au premier tour, deux autres, insuffisants, contre la Suède en 1/4 de finale. Il s'agit du meilleur résultat de l'équipe Roumaine en compétition internationale. Alliant vitesse et flair, le blond Roumain aura été l'une des stars de cette compétition.

Euro 1996
Il inscrit encore cinq buts lors des éliminatoires pour l'Euro 1996 et la Roumanie se qualifie en finissant en tête de son groupe devant la France. Le tirage au sort de la phase finale n'est pas clément avec les Roumains puisqu'ils retrouvent la France, l'Espagne (quart de finaliste du mondial 1994) et la Bulgarie (demi-finaliste du mondial 1994). La Roumanie perd ses deux premiers matchs contre la France et la Bulgarie sur le score de 0-1. Lors du dernier match Răducioiu marque le seul but roumain de la compétition au cours de la défaite 1-2 devant l'Espagne. C'est son dernier but avec la sélection nationale.

Palmarès
  Roumanie
 40 sélections et 21 buts entre 1990 et 1996
 Participation à la Coupe du monde 1990 (huitième de finaliste)
 Participation à la Coupe du monde 1994 (quart de finaliste)
 Participation à l'Euro 1996 (éliminé au )

  Dinamo Bucarest
 Champion de Roumanie en 1990
 Vainqueur de la Coupe de Roumanie en 1986 et 1990
 Demi-finaliste de la Coupe des coupes en 1990

  AC Milan
 Champion d'Italie en 1994
 Vainqueur de la Supercoupe d'Italie en 1993
 Vainqueur de la Ligue des champions en 1994 (ne joue pas la finale)
 Finaliste de la Coupe Intercontinentale en 1993

  VfB Stuttgart
  Finaliste de la Coupe d'Europe des Vainqueurs de Coupe en 1998

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Footballeur international roumain
Footballeur italien
Naissance en mars 1970
Joueur du Dinamo Bucarest
Joueur du SSC Bari
Joueur de l'Hellas Vérone
Joueur du Brescia Calcio
Joueur de l'AC Milan
Joueur du RCD Espanyol (football)
Joueur du West Ham United FC
Joueur du VfB Stuttgart
Joueur de l'AS Monaco
Joueur de l'US Créteil-Lusitanos
Naissance à Bucarest


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Young leads Hawks past Grizzlies as Morant injures left knee
November 26, 2021, 10:28 p.m. ·2 min read
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Trae Young had 31 points and 10 assists to lead the Atlanta Hawks to a 132-100 victory Friday night over the Memphis Grizzlies, who lost star point guard Ja Morant to a left knee injury.
Clint Capela finished with 23 points and a season-high 17 rebounds, while John Collins scored 21 points. Young was 12 of 16 from the field, hitting three of his four 3-point attempts.
The Hawks won their seventh straight, best active streak in the Eastern Conference. They scored their most points in a game this season.
John Konchar led Memphis with 17 points, all in the fourth quarter when both teams had gone to their reserves. Jaren Jackson Jr. had 14 for Memphis, while Dillon Brooks scored 12.
Morant left the game in the first quarter with what the team announced as a left knee injury and did not return. He had missed his only shot and converted a pair of free throws for two points.
While that was tough for the Grizzlies, so were the Hawks. Atlanta shot 56% in the first half, going 5 of 8 on 3-pointers. Meanwhile, Memphis struggled from the field, shooting only 39%.
The Hawks led 62-48 at the half behind 16 points from Young.
Memphis couldn't mount a rally with its sparkplug point guard in the locker room. Meanwhile, Young was converting shots and Collins was adding a great supporting role. The Hawks opened the third quarter with a 26-4 run as Memphis missed its first 12 shots.
That stretched the Hawks' lead to 36. Atlanta outscored Memphis 43-17 in the quarter, and the Grizzlies were on their way to their third loss in four games.
Hawks: Coach Nate McMillan won his 699th game. …The 43 points in the third quarter was the most in a period this season for Atlanta. The previous high was 40 in the third quarter against Phoenix on Nov. 6. … Young's 31 points marked the fourth straight game with at least 30 points.
Grizzlies: G Desmond Bane saw his streak of games scoring at least 20 points end at three. … Jackson recorded a block in the first half, his 15th straight game with a block. ... Nine of 10 losses have been by double digits. The average of the nine previous losses was 19.88 points, a margin that will only get worse with the 32-point defeat to Atlanta. … De'Anthony Melton, who missed the previous three games with a sore right groin, returned to action.
Hawks: Host the New York Knicks on Saturday.
Grizzlies: Host the Sacramento Kings on Sunday
More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports
Clay Bailey, The Associated Press
NHL Notebook: Ottawa Senators ready to get back in the fray after 'frustrating' pause
The Ottawa Senators are probably getting sick of each other. The good news? At least they're no longer sick. Having emerged from their second COVID-19 outbreak this season, the Senators will have played just once in 3 1/2 weeks because of coronavirus-related postponements when they visit the Calgary Flames on Thursday. "It's getting a little old," Ottawa winger Zach Sanford said of skate after repetitive skate with teammates following a recent practice. "You play the game to play games and compe
Michael Jordan scores 63 points in a 135-131 double-overtime playoff loss to the Boston Celtics. Jordan broke records held by Elgin Baylor, Bob Cousy and Wilt Chamberlain. But Jordan couldn't stop Boston from making its own bit of history. The Celtics tied a single-season league record of 33 consecutive home victories, including playoffs, set by the Minneapolis Lakers in 1949-50. Boston wound up sweeping the playoff series in three games. The Associated Press is republishing verbatim the story o
Can the Raptors slow down Giannis Antetokounmpo?
The Toronto Raptors are 2-0 vs. the Milwaukee Bucks this season but Giannis Antetokounmpo didn't play in either of those games and Scottie Barnes and Gary Trent Jr. haven't been cleared to return to the lineup yet.

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I came to the Riviera Theatre Saturday night expecting to be an impartial observer to the beginnings of late aughts nostalgia. The sentiment that began to bubble when Obama left office is now a wave, cresting as flash-points from the era mark a decade.
I had taken part in these retro celebrations before, but always without a memory of first contact; the other attendees remembered the music at its release, had found it at a more tender age, when they had more hair and less belly, and, maybe, a better life.
In August of 2008, the Gaslight Anthem released The '59 Sound, an album of catchy punk that trafficked in finding a glimmer of hope in desperate times. The New Jersey band couldn't avoid the Springsteen comparisons, as it drew just as much from working class folklore as he did; they hadn't been around for the industrial boom, and couldn't help but imagine how good of times it must have been.
The band took a hiatus in 2015, but reformed this year to celebrate 10 years since its breakthrough album. The tour that includes The '59 Sound in full opened in Toronto and will close with three nights in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Its stop in Chicago drew a mass of people, former and current punks, most inching from their mid to late 20s.
The crowd in the standing room pushed back up to the bar, and in the balcony there was little but the odd open seat. Canadian Matt Mays took the stage before the Gaslight Anthem. Mays, coming off his latest album Once Upon a Hell of a Time , turned his heartfelt tunes up a few levels for a genuinely adrenaline-pumping set.
The electricity in the room didn't quite sting until the first notes of '59 Sound opener "Great Expectations" rang out, and I was swept up as the balcony took to its feet. The guitar lick followed by burst of drums and vocals was the closest thing I've felt to time travel, like the memory of certain foods from childhood. The title track and "Old White Lincoln," still the band's two biggest hits, followed. The energy they generated powered the rest of the show, filled with the deeper cuts from the album.
The band makes nostalgic music in the first place, and everyone in attendance appeared to be feeling very vividly the yearning that frontman Brian Fallon expressed. Every word was sung along with by at least a dozen people, with almost unanimous participation during the better-known songs, the ones more prone to fist-pumping.
The view from the balcony at Riviera Theatre.
For the first time I didn't need to imagine the nostalgia that saddles bands whose biggest days are behind them. I didn't have to picture what it would have been like to hear the songs for the first time, to have them soundtrack pivotal moments, because a few Gaslight Anthem songs did that in my teens. Almost against my will, the band catapulted me back to those times, and left me to realize that this was just the first of many.


Before we do our thing, though, I thought I'd take the long view of the five candidates for Best Picture. And what strikes me is that each nominated movie, in its own way, reaches for a sense of the epic — five different contemporary versions of the epic, in fact. You've got old-fashioned storytelling on a mythic scale, of course, in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" — the middle episode in a superb cinematic project I'm trusting will sweep up awards, as it should, when the final installment is released next winter. You've got a dramatically violent, anti-mythic depiction of one neighborhood in 19th-century New York City (in which, arguably, the modern American character was forged) in Martin Scorsese's ambitious, hell-for-leather historical drama "Gangs of New York." Roman Polanski makes enormous historical horror vivid through the experience of one man against a background of 6 million others in "The Pianist." Taking its cue from "Moulin Rouge," "Chicago" pumps up the movie-musical form to oversized proportions, emphasizing bigness and brashness and bedazzlement in every element from lighting to choreography to film editing — a story set in the 1920s, told for our era of collagen-lipped excess. And even "The Hours" attempts a grand, unifying theme, attempting to bind generations of women (and the sons they damage) in a museum-quality portrait of misery.
Hmmm, interesting. I see now that in favoring "The Pianist" as Best Picture among this quintet, I'm instinctively staying true to an aesthetic preference I mentioned last week when we were discussing the candidates for Best Actress: I tend to admire the quiet and the un-grand (which is why I love "About Schmidt") over the noisy and sumptuous.
Now's your chance to ask me how I square that taste with my adoration of "The Lord of the Rings." Or about who designed the sweatshirt I'm going to wear on Oscar night. Or to come up with an epic Best Picture theory of your own, and lay it on me.


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"More Than Near"
The greatest gift God gives to us in the Lord Jesus Christ is the gift of Himself, that is, His living, abiding, and heart-fulfilling presence both with and within us. Nothing compares to this grace of all grace, and a long eternity will not suffice for grateful, loving adoration and thanksgiving of so good and great a Lord.
I can see a light in the darkness,
I can hear a Voice in the void.
I can touch the hem of a garment,
and most of all I can know
that He is here.
His heart is more than near,
for He is here.
I can sense a peace in stormy wind,
I can walk upon a path of grace.
I can rest my heart always in Him
as by faith I look into His face.
yes, He is here.
I can see a day that soon will come,
a sun anon will rise
when the course of all things will have run,
and I look into His eyes.
He will be here,
His heart much more than near.
He will be here.
No matter how dark, how silent, how alone, or how stormy life may seem, the Lord of born again believers in Christ abides at hand, and in heart. Nothing changes this truth, nor can it be changed. "I will be with thee" proclaims the promise sounding and resounding from the faithfulness of God's integrity and the promise of His Word (Isaiah 43:2). He dwells in the very heart of us, and despite our presently limited awareness as we "see through a glass darkly", the Lord Jesus constitutes the great fact of our existence (I Corinthians 13:12). He is indeed here, much more than near, and a day comes when "I shall know even as also I am known" (I Corinthians 13:12). We look forward to that, even as we look faithfully in the present moment to see the Light that shines in darkness. Yes, we can see, we can hear, we can touch, and we can know.
"I am with you alway."
(Matthew 28:20)
"I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."
(Hebrews 13:5)
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
(Hebrews 2:9)
"The Offense of the Gospel"
"No Pardon For Excuses"
"The Nevers" Conclusion Never Changing
"The Nevers" Part 6 Never Away
"The Nevers" Part 5 Never Selfish
"The Nevers" Part 3 Never Untruthful
"The Nevers" Part 3 Never Untrustworthy
"The Nevers" Part 2 Never Alone
"The Nevers" Part 1
"Words of the Mouth, Meditations of the Heart"
"The Four Questions"
"With Somebody"
"The Lord Is Good"
"For Love"
"Secret Faults"
"Reminders of Grace"
"A Whole Heapin' Helpin' "
"The Journal Of Our Hearts"
"Reality Or Delusion?"
"The Power of Weakness" Addendum
"The Power of Weakness" Conclusion
"The Power of Weakness" Part 4
"The Power of Weakness"


16 oz. Tritan tumbler with our exclusive State of the Tiger design and an orange lid.
Navy Can Cooler with White and Orange Clemson Man on one side and "A CLEMSON man needs no introduction" on the reverse side. The Clemson Paw is on bottom.


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Tamron launches the 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 APS-C lens for Sony a month ahead of expectations
Aug 26, 2021 by John Aldred Leave a Comment
Well, either the rumours were wrong or Tamron's hand was forced by all the leaks lately, but they've now officially announced the new Tamron 18-300mm f/3.5-6.34 Di III-A VC VXD APS-C mirrorless lens. Initially, it's available for Sony E mount and it will be coming for Fujifilm X at a future date.
It is possible that the rumoured September 24th announcement date wasn't entirely inaccurate, though. Today seems to be an announcement and pre-orders opening up. So, it's possible that September 24th is when it actually starts shipping. At least for the Sony version.
A listing appeared on the B&H website yesterday, with most of the details of the lens, but without a price. The price was rumoured to be $699 and that's proven to be true and is the price now published on the B&H website and other retailers. The rest of the specs aren't really that much of a secret, though, as those were leaked a few days ago after it was apparently sent to retailers.
Focal Length	 18-300mm
Lens Mount Sony E / Fuji X
Format Compatibility APS-C
Optics 19 elements in 15 groups
Minimum focus distance 15cm (wide) / 99cm (Tele)
Maximum Aperture f/2.5-6.3
Minimum Aperture f/22-40
Angle of view 77° 24' to 5° 30'
Aperture blades 7, rounded
Stabilisation Yes, VC
Dimensions 75.5 x 125.6mm (Sony) / 75.5 x 125.8mm (Fuji)
As rumoured, the new lens is $699 and it's available for pre-order now in Sony E mount version. There's no word on exactly when we'll see the Fuji X version, although that one's not offered up for pre-order at all and doesn't list a price. I expect that when it does become available, however, it will be the same as the Sony version.
The Tamron 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD lens features moisture-resistant construction to prevent water ingress and is Tamron's attempt to bring their "all-in-one" philosophy to Fuji shooters (eventually). It offers a whopping 16.6x zoom ratio with a minimum focus distance of just 15cm and a linear focus motor that Tamron boasts as having "some of the best performance in its class".
At the moment, the Tamron 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD is available to pre-order now for $699 in Sony E mount. I think it's perhaps likely that the September 24th date previously rumoured is when it will start to ship. There's no word yet on exactly when we'll see the Fuji X mount version, but they say it's coming.
Tamron 18-300mm APS-C autofocus lens for Sony & Fuji announcement expected September 24th Expectations: A Two-Way Street (Or Assistant's Expectations From Photographers) Photo and specs of Tamron 70-300mm f/4.5-6.3 leak days ahead of the announcement Tamron's new 18-300mm is the first 3rd party autofocus zoom lens for Fuji X systems
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When shooting stars, what approximate shutter speed to use to avoid streaks?
500 divided by your lens' focal length
200 divided by you ISO value
1000 divided by your lens' focal length
500 divided by your ISO value
What do we call the phenomenon in the picture?
Inflection
What happens when you change the aperture from f/16 to f/8
The iris blades close up
More light enters the camera
You should increase ISO
You get more depth of field
The symbol in the red circle means
The camera is safe for underground
The sensor focal plane
How far can a lens protrude the camera body
Center of weight for camera
What does the lens compression do when you use a telephoto lens?
Makes the subject appear elongated
Makes the background appear closer to the subject
Makes the background appear further away from the subject
Makes the subject appear further away from the camera
By the Sunny 16 Rule, on a clear, sunny day you should:
Place the aperture at f/16, and match the shutter speed to 1/ISO
Place the aperture at f/16 and the shutter speed at 1/160 s
Place the aperture at f/16 and ISO at 100
Place the aperture at f/16 and the shutter speed at 1/500s
What is moiré?
The reflection of the camera flash from shiny surfaces
A halo in over-processed images
A pattern the sensor creates when shooting fine repeated details
Another name for digital noise
What does the shortcut Ctrl/Cmd+R do in Photoshop?
Shows a Ruler
Selects the Eyedropper tool
Rotates your image
Toggles foreground and background color
What does ASA denote in film photography?
The size of film
The type of film
The film's sensitivity to light
The film format
Which one is caused by a rolling shutter?
Warps and distortions in fast-moving subjects
Flickering in a video
Underexposed images
What is zone focusing?
Dividing your scene into zones, choosing one to be tack-sharp and setting focus on it
Focusing on the subjects furthest away from your lens
Pre-focusing for a certain distance to achieve acceptable sharpness in fast-paced situations
Focusing on the subjects nearest to your lens
Which keyboard shortcut do you use to change the overlay grid modes in Lightroom?
What is the formula of the Inverse Square Law?
The intensity of light is doubled when you cut the light-to-subject distance by half
The intensity of light is two times lower than its distance from the subjects
The intensity of light equals the square of its distance to the subject
The intensity of light is inversely proportional to the square of its distance from the subject
The lighting that creates a triangle of light on a subject's cheek is called…?
Triangle lighting
Butterfly lighting
Split lighting
Rembrandt lighting
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A breakpoint is a point in the code where your program is halted by the ARM Debugger. When you set a breakpoint it is marked in red in the left pane of the breakpoints window.
stops at the specified point only when an expression is true.
select Disassembly... from the View menu to display the Disassembly window.
You can also set breakpoints on individual statements on a line, if that line contains more than one statement.
Class View (if C++ is installed).
Double click on the line where you want to set the breakpoint.
Click the OK button in the dialog box that appears.
Position the cursor in the line where you want to set the breakpoint.
A new breakpoint is displayed as a red marker in the left pane of the Execution window, the Disassembly window, or the Source File window.
If you position the cursor on the word world and click the Toggle breakpoint button, hello() is executed, and execution halts before world() is executed.
To see all the breakpoints set in your executable image select Breakpoints from the View menu.
Display a list of function names in the Function Names window by selecting Function Names from the View menu.
Select Toggle Breakpoint from the Function Names window menu or click the Toggle breakpoint button.
The breakpoint is set at the first statement of the function. This method also works for the Low Level Symbols window, but the breakpoint is set to the first machine instruction of the function, that is, at the beginning of its entry sequence.
Double click on a line containing a breakpoint (highlighted in red) in the Execution window.
Click the Delete button in the dialog box that appears.
Single click on a line containing a breakpoint (highlighted in red) in the Execution window.
Right click on the line.
Select Toggle breakpoint from the pop-up menu that is displayed.
Click the Toggle breakpoint button in the toolbar, or press the F9 key.
Select Breakpoints from the View menu to display a list of breakpoints in the Breakpoint window.
Select the breakpoint you want to remove.
Click the Toggle breakpoint button or press the Delete key.
Select Delete All Breakpoints from the Execute menu to delete all breakpoints that are set in the currently selected image. Delete All Breakpoints is also available in relevant window menus.


Aden Ridgeway was born in Macksville in northern NSW in 1962. He is a proud member of the Gumbayyngirr people. His life has seen him rise from the treadmill of poverty and growing up on an Aboriginal reserve. His early experiences have resulted in strong family traditions and he is the very proud father of two adult sons and a younger daughter.
Harpreet comes from an extensive background of working with marginalised communities implementing successful and innovative health promotion programs, initiating systems change and knowledge management.
Tim has 25 years' experience working in journalism, politics, public affairs and marketing, and remains a hands-on consultant working on specific projects in both Cox Inall and Cox Inall Ridgeway.
In 2007, Tim and Aden Ridgeway established Cox Inall Ridgeway with Tim taking on the Managing Director role.
Tim is responsible for business strategy for both businesses and supporting team leaders on major projects.
He remains a hands-on consultant working on specific projects in both Cox Inall and Cox Inall Ridgeway.
Yatu is a descendant of the Dunghutti and Anaiwan peoples of the Northern Tablelands of NSW. She has worked in the Australian Public Service and for a number of media outlets, across issues of Indigenous Affairs, mental health and sustainability.
Hayley has an extensive background of working within the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector in New South Wales (NSW). Specialising in the area of Quality, Accreditation and Governance.
Hayley has worked closely with Aboriginal Medical Services throughout NSW in order to support them through the process of accreditation across a number of quality frameworks for both Clinical and Organisational accreditation.
William is a proud Aboriginal man with traditional ties to the Kamilaroi and Dunghutti Nations of NSW. William was born in the Western Suburbs of Sydney, which has the largest population of Indigenous people in Australia.
A proud Kamilaroi and Jerrinja woman of NSW, Jasmine has almost a decade of experience working in the Aboriginal community controlled health sector. Jasmine has extensive experience working in Aboriginal tobacco resistance and control across NSW and is also an emerging Aboriginal artist, graphic designer, and founder of NSW based business JS Koori Designs.
Summer is a Yorta Yorta Woman who grew up in Lake Macquarie near Newcastle. She has worked in health at the National level and has strong professional connections across the country in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service sector.
Catherine has a background in planning and implementing community engagement programs with Aboriginal communities in NSW and nationally. She has worked extensively with Aboriginal community controlled health services, government and non-government agencies, specialising in health promotion, community consultation, communications and research.
Jeremy was born in Sydney in 1993, his family is from Emmaville, Armidale home of the Ngarabal people of Inverell. Jeremy is a proud member of the Kamilaroi nation.
Jeremy works as a graphic designer, he has worked on many Indigenous projects with groups such as WEAVE, Head space and the womens healing circle in Redfern. He is currently studying a Bachelor of 3D Arts and Animation and is working on the creation of his own video game in his spare time.
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U.S. Border Patrol's Use of Excessive Force Continues to Go Unpunished
Promised change has been slow to come to the allegedly dysfunctional federal law enforcement agency.
Dana Driskill
US- Mexico border separating Tijuana and San Diego. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Many people, including the President, say that the U.S. immigration system is broken. Last year, the Obama administration promised to crack down on Border Patrol agents who use excessive force; however, "no shooting cases have been resolved, no agents have been disciplined, a review panel has yet to issue recommendations, and the top two jobs in internal affairs are vacant," according to the Los Angeles Times.
Despite criticism from Congress and advocacy groups, as well as complaints by families affected, the United States' largest federal law enforcement force has been unable to make significant reform, highlighting the extreme difficulty of the task at hand. Border Patrol critics maintain that in the last five years the agency has illegally shot and killed more than 20 people on the Southwest border and none of the agents have undergone criminal prosecution or disciplinary action.
Gil Kerlikowske, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, told the Los Angeles Times that he was currently reviewing 14 shooting cases for possible violations of agency rules on use of force.
"I'm not sure we will reach a level of satisfaction with the public on every one of those cases," Kerlikowske said. "But we will be much more thorough, much more accountable, and we will be much more transparent … going forward."
Kerlikowske, upon seeing how frequently fatal shootings were occurring and the lack of accountability, created new limitations for agents to fire their weapons and stressed the importance of seeking alternatives to shooting. Despite these changes in department protocol, lethal shootings still occurred in 2014. The Los Angeles Times reports that in May a border agent shot and killed a U.S. citizen who was allegedly smuggling marijuana, and in October, a different agent shot and killed a Mexican man following an altercation near Tucson.
One of the most disturbing incidents of agent misconduct occurred in March 2014, when Border Patrol agent Esteban Manzanares kidnapped three Honduran women who surrendered to him, raped them, and attempted to kill them before turning his gun to himself. Politico published a an investigative report of this crime and the internal Border Patrol culture that facilitated it titled "The Green Monster," referring to the agency's green uniforms, in November 2014.
In fact, between 2005 and 2012, nearly one CBP officer was arrested for misconduct every single day—part of a pattern that Ronald Hosko, former assistant director of the FBI's criminal investigation division, calls "shocking."
During Obama's first term, the sheer number of allegations was so glaring that, according to two CBP officials, DHS under Secretary Janet Napolitano ordered Customs and Border Protection to change its definition of corruption to downplay to Congress the breadth of the problem.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Kerlikowske created an internal affairs panel to review allegations of excessive force back in September, but it took three months for the panel to meet and there have been no public recommendations for changes in procedure: training, rules, or discipline.
And justice for the families of those gunned down by Border Patrol looks unlikely, as well.
"We are concerned that there isn't a sense of urgency at revisiting the cases that weren't properly investigated," Chris Rickerd, a border security expert for the American Civil Liberties Union, told the Los Angeles Times.


With 3 weddings in the second half of 2013, we hadn't been able to take a travel break since Fratelli ! So when a small cause for celebration came up last week, we decided to splurge on ourselves a bit and drove down to Mango Beach House in Kihim (Alibaug) this weekend.
There is a very pretty swimming pool which is designed to be the centre of activities with a lounge/bar area in one corner of the swimming pool. They don't serve booze themselves but they can source beers or other basic stuff from nearby Chondi town. The resort has the usual table tennis tables and carom board, but you are most likely to settle down in the full size hammocks for a quick snooze or some leisurely book reading.
With just 10 rooms, the place encourages you to get to know the other guests – we chatted with almost all guests in the resort – some at the pool, some at the lounge and some on the beach. The beach is 150m away from the resort, accessible though a small road. But the beach is best used only for some walks – the water is downright filthy and washes up a lot of trash to the beach. However, the sand is white and you can walk for long stretches along the beach in either direction, enjoy beautiful sea breeze and beautiful sunsets.
You can either drive to Kihim or take the ferry. For people who don't want the hassle of driving out of Bombay during the weekends, and those want to enjoy the ride across the harbour, there are hourly ferry services from Gateway of India to Mandwa jetty. Tickets are around 80-110 per head,. There are even options of motorboats – they can seat 6-8 people and can make the run in 20 min, but they cost much more. Ferries take an hour.
From Mandwa jetty, you have options of ST buses going to Alibaug. You get off at Chondi and walk the rest of the way. Or you hire auto rickshaws, who drop you off at the resort. Or you can call up the resort beforehand and they will help you find Innovas to ferry you from the jetty to the resort.
If you are driving like us, there is a new road which connects Palm Beach Road at CBD Belapur via Uran Road to Chimer and to NH17. It lets you byepass the Panvel highway and Karnala sanctuary route. They roads meet up somewhere before Pen, so no avoiding the Pen and Vadkhal nakas. The road is very new and there isn't much traffic at all. We took this new route on our way back and reached home in about 2.30 hours. While going, it had taken us 3.30 hours via the usual Panvel Karnala road.
Mango Beach House is a gem of a resort, with its wide open areas, luxurious rooms, beautiful little swimming pool & superb food. It also has its own in-house spa to relax those weary muscles of yours. We both had a Swedish massage each and the masseuses are very good. Rates are slightly lower than those at Bombay. The resort staff is very eager to please, but because of the size of the resort, they are sometimes a little pressed. But for us it was the charm of the place, where everything is very relaxed, without the cold efficiency of a resort. The only slightly downer is the price. At Rs 9500 for a night (all meals included), it is about Rs 2000 more than what it should have been to be competitive.
Alibaug is an amazing place to get way from the hustle and bustle of a city book your Holiday home here.


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#ifndef CPP_QUANTIZE_WU_H_
#define CPP_QUANTIZE_WU_H_

#include <stdint.h>

#include <vector>

#include "cpp/utils/utils.h"

namespace material_color_utilities {

std::vector<Argb> QuantizeWu(const std::vector<Argb>& pixels,
                             uint16_t max_colors);
}
#endif  // CPP_QUANTIZE_WU_H_


text:
import codecs
import unittest
from nose.tools import eq_
from hamlpy import hamlpy

class TestTemplateCompare(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_nuke_inner_whitespace(self):
        self._compare_test_files('nukeInnerWhiteSpace')

    def test_nuke_outer_whitespace(self):
        self._compare_test_files('nukeOuterWhiteSpace')

    def test_comparing_simple_templates(self):
        self._compare_test_files('simple')

    def test_mixed_id_and_classes_using_dictionary(self):
        self._compare_test_files('classIdMixtures')

    def test_self_closing_tags_close(self):
        self._compare_test_files('selfClosingTags')

    def test_nested_html_comments(self):
        self._compare_test_files('nestedComments')

    def test_haml_comments(self):
        self._compare_test_files('hamlComments')

    def test_implicit_divs(self):
        self._compare_test_files('implicitDivs')

    def test_django_combination_of_tags(self):
        self._compare_test_files('djangoCombo')

    def test_self_closing_django(self):
        self._compare_test_files('selfClosingDjango')

    def test_nested_django_tags(self):
        self._compare_test_files('nestedDjangoTags')

    def test_filters(self):
        self._compare_test_files('filters')

    def test_filters_markdown(self):
        try:
            import markdown
            self._compare_test_files('filtersMarkdown')
        except ImportError:
            pass

    def test_filters_pygments(self):
        try:
            import pygments
            if pygments.__version__ == '1.6':
                self._compare_test_files('filtersPygments16')
            else:
                self._compare_test_files('filtersPygments')
        except ImportError:
            pass

    def test_nested_if_else_blocks(self):
        self._compare_test_files('nestedIfElseBlocks')

    def test_all_if_types(self):
        self._compare_test_files('allIfTypesTest')

    def test_multi_line_dict(self):
        self._compare_test_files('multiLineDict')

    def test_filter_multiline_ignore(self):
        self._compare_test_files('filterMultilineIgnore')

    def test_whitespace_preservation(self):
        self._compare_test_files('whitespacePreservation')

    def _print_diff(self, s1, s2):
        if len(s1) > len(s2):
            shorter = s2
        else:
            shorter = s1

        line = 1
        col = 1

        for i, _ in enumerate(shorter):
            if len(shorter) <= i + 1:
                print 'Ran out of characters to compare!'
                print 'Actual len=%d' % len(s1)
                print 'Expected len=%d' % len(s2)
                break
            if s1[i] != s2[i]:
                print 'Difference begins at line', line, 'column', col
                actual_line = s1.splitlines()[line - 1]
                expected_line = s2.splitlines()[line - 1]
                print 'HTML (actual, len=%2d)   : %s' % (len(actual_line), actual_line)
                print 'HTML (expected, len=%2d) : %s' % (len(expected_line), expected_line)
                print 'Character code (actual)  : %d (%s)' % (ord(s1[i]), s1[i])
                print 'Character code (expected): %d (%s)' % (ord(s2[i]), s2[i])
                break

            if shorter[i] == '\n':
                line += 1
                col = 1
            else:
                col += 1
        else:
            print "No Difference Found"

    def _compare_test_files(self, name):
        haml_lines = codecs.open('templates/' + name + '.hamlpy', encoding = 'utf-8').readlines()
        html = open('templates/' + name + '.html').read()

        haml_compiler = hamlpy.Compiler()
        parsed = haml_compiler.process_lines(haml_lines)

        # Ignore line ending differences
        parsed = parsed.replace('\r', '')
        html = html.replace('\r', '')

        if parsed != html:
            print '\nHTML (actual): '
            print '\n'.join(["%d. %s" % (i + 1, l) for i, l in enumerate(parsed.split('\n')) ])
            self._print_diff(parsed, html)
        eq_(parsed, html)

if __name__ == '__main__':
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Staff Spotlight: Ashleigh McLean
Volunteer Teaching English in Italy & Austria Summer 2023
Ashleigh McLean was born in Adelaide, Australia and moved to the UK with her family in 1999. While studying at the University of Liverpool, she spent a year living in Austria, improving her knowledge of the German language, and co-founded The English Camp Company with Nathanial Poerio. After graduating with a BA in German and International Development, she moved to Italy to devote her time to The ECC. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and her dog Alba, cooking new recipes, and travelling.
What position do you hold at The English Camp Company? What has been your career path so far?
Ashleigh: My name is Ashleigh McLean and I am the Co-Founder of The English Camp Company. The ECC was founded while I was in university; after graduating from university, I have since been organizing summer camps through The ECC.
Did YOU teach abroad?! If so, where and what inspired you to go?
Ashleigh: Yes, in the summer of 2005 I taught English in Romania at a residential summer camp for 6 weeks. I had so much fun that I wanted to continue my summer job of teaching English in Europe. I then taught English in summer camps in Italy for 3 consecutive summers before founding The English Camp Company.
What does the future hold for The English Camp Company - any exciting new programs to share?
Ashleigh: We are always continuing to strengthen and improve our summer program for our tutors. We currently have most of our camps in Italy and a few in Austria, so we hope to be able to expand in Austria in the future.
What about the future of the teach abroad industry? How do you think international education will change over the next 10 years?
Ashleigh: The teach abroad industry is extremely positive. Many people are now realizing the importance of Mother Tongue Language teachers, and I think this will only increase.
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Luce's Lookout: A Woodstock trail with a 100 mile view.
A 100 mile view of the Green Mountains with Killington peak to the right behind the pine top.
The Lookout is on the October Country Inn's must-do-hike list. It is well known Woodstock trail, and provides a great and rewarding opportunity for a half-day's outing. Although the Appalachian trail provides the access to this stunning viewpoint, The Lookout itself is on private land outside of the Appalachian trail corridor.
A short spur tail leads to the Woodstock trail.
The Cabin at The Lookout.
Once you get to The Lookout, upon breaking out of the woods at the end of a short spur off the Appalachian trail, you'll find a weathered old cabin perched in a small rocky clearing. There's a steep, wooden stairway that leads to an observation deck built on top of the cabin. From this deck, you get nearly 360 degrees of 100 mile Green Mountain views. Be sure and bring a lunch. This is a great spot for it.
To get to The Lookout from the Woodstock area, first drive to the trailhead for the Woodstock trail which is off Greengate Road.
It's about 3.5 miles from Woodstock.
From the October Country Inn, go to the center of Woodstock. Take Route 12 North about 3.5 miles to Wayside Rd. Turn left and follow this dirt road. You will come to a pond on your right. Turn right at this intersection. After 1.7 miles Wayside Road will bear to the left at the intersection with School House Hill Road and then turn into Greengate Road but you wouldn't know it if you weren't paying attention to the streetsigns. Another mile on Greengate Road and the road makes a sharp bend to the right.
Edie and Patty walking through the woods on the Applachian Trail
On your left at this point, there's an area that's suitable for parking, and you'll see a rutted, rocky, uphill trail leading into the woods beside a small brook. Now almost unrecognizable as a road, this trail used to be Lookout Farm Rd.
The spur trail is the roughest part.
This trail gets rather rough in spots due to severe erosion. It will intersect with the Appalachian trail in about .4 of a mile. Before that, you will come to an intersection with an old gate leaning off to one side. Keep to your left. The trail comes into the AT at an angle forming a "Y" intersection, and you'll bear to the right, following the AT in a southerly direction. Take a moment to look around. There's a sign that marks this intersection so that you don't miss it on your return.
Following the AT is pretty effortless. White blazes adorn the trees bordering the trail, and the trail itself is well worn, relatively flat, and easy to follow.
Sign on the AT marking The Lookout spur trail.
After almost a mile, the AT starts to climb in a more serious way, and soon after that makes a sharp turn to the left. The spur trail to The Lookout goes off to the right at this point. There's a sign on a tree that marks The Lookout spur trail. A short .1 mile walk up the spur trail and you're there.
The Woodstock trail provides a breathtaking view.
Enjoy the view, and remember that this is private property that the owner's have graciously allowed access to the public in order to enjoy this great spot. Please respect it.
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R. Kelly was hit with 11 new counts of sexual assault charges Thursday by Cook County prosecutors, the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune report, adding to the growing list of legal troubles facing the embattled singer.
It is not immediately clear whether the new counts are in addition to the existing charges, or replace some of them.
The charges reportedly stem from a January 2010 incident involving one victim, and include four counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, two counts of criminal sexual assault by force, two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against a victim between the ages of 13 to 16.
The outlet reports that the new felony counts come with a possible sentence of up to 30 years in prison, and that Kelly is due in court June 6.
"We'll see what the charges are, and we'll proceed accordingly," his attorney Steve Greenberg told the Sun-Times. "I know this much: it's old. They're allegations from years ago."
Greenberg elaborated on Twitter, writing: "#RKelly was NOT charged with a new case. He was recharged in an existing case, same alleged victim and time (a decade ago) It changes nothing. These are the same conduct, just charged differently, same alleged victim, same time frame, same facts. We expect the same results."
Neither a rep for Kelly nor a spokesperson for the Cook County State Attorney's Office immediately returned PEOPLE's request for comment.
The new charges against the "I Believe I Can Fly" singer, 52, come three months after he was hit with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against four alleged victims, three of which were specifically referred to as under the age of 17.
The Chicago Sun-Times notes that the initials of the victim in the 2010 case match one of the four victims listed in the February charges.
An arrest warrant was issued for Kelly at the time, and he surrendered to Chicago police hours later.
He was released from jail three days later after paying 10 percent of his $1 million bail amount, the Cook County Sheriff confirmed to PEOPLE.
According to the Associated Press, a judge told Kelly that the hefty sum represented $250,000 for each of his four alleged victims.
One of those four victims filed a civil sexual abuse lawsuit against the singer in February, claiming that he began abusing her in 1998, when she was 16, according to the Chicago Tribune.
He lost the lawsuit by default in April after neither he nor his lawyers filed an answer to the suit, or made an appearance in court.
"We don't care about the lawsuit. The lawsuit means nothing to us," Kelly's publicist Darrell Johnson told the Sun-Times.
Kelly's criminal lawyer Steve Greenberg told PEOPLE, "The lawsuit is ridiculous. It's based on repressed memories. It'll get vacated and we'll be back to square one."
In May, the default judgment was indeed vacated by Judge Moira Johnson, and will proceed with a new date of June 19, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Meanwhile, Kelly was also briefly jailed in early March following a child support hearing in Chicago.
The singer made headlines amid his legal trouble with an emotionally charged interview with Gayle King in early March in which he broke down in tears as he denied the allegations facing him.
"Forget how you feel about me! Hate me if you want to, love me if you want, but use your common sense!" he told King during the CBS This Morning interview. "How stupid would it be for me with my crazy past and what I've been through to be like, 'Oh right now, I think I need to be a monster and hold girls against their will, chain 'em up in my basement and don't let 'em eat and don't let 'em out?'"
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Q: How wrong is it to have a unique and normal index on the same column? I have the following table structure
CREATE TABLE `table` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `date_expired` datetime NOT NULL,
  `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `foreign_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `date_expired` (`date_expired`,`user_id`,`foreign_id`),
  KEY `user_id` (`user_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

As you'll notice, I have duplicate indexes on user_id: date_expired & user_id. I of course want the unique index because I want to ensure the data is unique.
The reason for the duplicate indexes is because without the user_id index, my main search query takes 4 seconds. With the extra index it takes 1 second. The query is joining the table on user_id and checking date_expired.
The table only has 275 records.

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*How bad is it to have a unique and normal index on the same field?

*How bad is it to have larger indexes than data when the table is purely ids?

A: I believe if you created your unique index as (user_id, date_expired, foreign_id), you'll get the same benefit of having a normal index on user_id with just the unique index. MySQL can use the first columns of any index to pare down the number of rows in the join in the same manner as an index on user_id.
See MySQL's index documentation for more information.
Are you referring to the id auto_increment column elsewhere in your schema to save space? Since your unique index covers all of the other columns in your table, it is in essence a primary key itself and could be dropped if you're not.
You can check what keys your query is using by prefixing it with EXPLAIN.

A: I don't understand what do you mean by duplicate indexes. You have three indexes in the table:

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*One for the primary key 'id' (which implies unique)

*Another unique one for the combination of 'date_expired', 'user_id', and 'foreign_id'

*And a third one over 'user_id' only

so there's no duplication, you have three different indexes that'll do different things. You need number 3 to speed up queries related to user_id which is what you are seeing. So there's nothing wrong with this particular table, you aren't duplicating anything. Regarding the second question, it depends on your needs, but certainly it's not bad to have more space used up in indexes than in the data.
What would be bad, for example, is to have a UNIQUE ('user_id') and later a KEY('user_id') (I'm not even sure if MySQL will allow that) because one index would contain the other and there's nothing to gain.

A: Having several indexes including one field is not bad at all (essentially, they do index different things). It has a slight impact on write perfomance, but that's the typical trade-off you have with every index in first place.
Having indexes eating up more space than the data itself is not bad if space is cheap. In your case, it should be cheap given the fact that you have a really small amount of entries.
The question I would ask in your position is: How does the indexing of such a small table so severly affect my query runtime? Perhaps you are doing something wrong (I think about lots of possibly redundant querys to this table), as a single one should be nowhere near this time range with this small number of entries).

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'21 Lexus LC 500 Convertible unveiled at private media event at LA Auto Show.
'21 Lexus LC 500 Convertible Delivers Open-Air Fun
The ragtop version supplements the coupe's impressive performance with chassis and suspension tuning, HVAC enhancement for open-air driving and Android Auto.
Doug Newcomb | Nov 20, 2019
We were smitten when we test drove the 471 hp, V-8-powered Lexus LC 500 nearly three years ago at a media event in Seville, Spain. We came away impressed with the car's hot-as-Hades performance, sexy sheet metal and award-winning interior – and a brush with the local policia.
Perhaps the only thing that could have made our experience behind the wheel of the LC 500 better was being able to drop the top to let in the Spanish sunshine. With the unveiling of the '21 Lexus LC 500 Convertible at the 2019 Los Angeles auto show, the appeal of the luxury brand's performance flagship is even brighter and has us longing for next summer, which is when it will go on sale.
The LC Convertible's ragtop mimics the coupe's low-slung roofline and it uses a folding mechanism that includes a tonneau cover when tucked away. Lexus says the design negates gobbling up of trunk and cabin space caused by a bulkier hard top and lowers overall weight.
The four-layer soft top, available in black or beige, is designed so the supporting frame isn't visible through the fabric, while the material optimizes structural tension to reduce wrinkling and increase sound insulation. The roof can be opened or closed while driving at speeds up to 31 mph (49 km/h) and can open in around 15 seconds and close in around 16.
Lexus says the vehicle's designers used "computer-aided engineering analysis and real-world driving evaluation to match the driving qualities of its coupe counterpart" and enhanced chassis rigidity by adding and relocating several structural components. The suspension also was tuned to balance the weight variation between the coupe and convertible.
What hasn't changed is the impressive front-engine, rear-wheel-drive performance provided by the naturally aspirated, direct-injection 5.0L V-8 rated at 471 hp and 398 lb.-ft. (539 Nm) of torque mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission.
To allow drivers to drop the top year-round, the Lexus Climate Concierge's Upper Body Heating feature automatically manages the HVAC, seat heaters, neck heaters and steering-wheel heater to keep the cabin at an ideal temperature whether the top is up or down. The HVAC system even directs warm or cold air to the back of the driver's hands when gripping the steering wheel.
A transparent polycarbonate wind deflector helps limit air from intruding into the cabin for easier top-down conversing between occupants, and an optional wind screen helps further reduce wind buffeting at higher speeds. Active noise control blends sound insulation and absorption techniques to further quiet the cabin.
To make sure the ride isn't too quiet and the LC Convertible's lusty V-8 roar can be heard above wind and road noise, a system similar to one in the Lexus LFA ports exhaust sounds into the cabin. A computer-controlled valve also balances exhaust back-pressure and therefore exhaust tone and volume at higher engine speeds.
While the LC 500 Convertible gets the same infotainment systems and amenities as the coupe, including a 10.3-in. (26-cm) split-screen display and Apple CarPlay, it also adds Android Auto. Amazon Alexa capability via the Lexus+Alexa app lets owners access functions such as audiobooks, Amazon Music, weather info, news and more via voice and also control compatible smart-home devices.
The LC Convertible will come standard with Lexus Safety System+ that includes a full complement of driver assists, while active roll bars deploy when a rollover is detected. When not deployed, the roll bars are hidden from view to retain the convertible's svelte silhouette.
The version of the LC 500 Convertible unveiled in Los Angeles is the Inspiration Series, a special edition limited to 100 units and offered in Structural Blue with white semi-aniline leather interior trim, a unique blue top, chrome 21-in. wheels and gray headlamp, side intake and taillamp accents.
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Daily Journal Selects Daniel Pfefferbaum to its 2017 "Top 40 Under 40" List
On April 12, 2017, the Daily Journal recognized Robbins Geller partner Daniel J. Pfefferbaum to its "Top 40 Under 40" list. The publication honors top young attorneys annually, 20 for Northern California and 20 for Southern California, in all fields and practices. In the profile article showcasing Pfefferbaum and his work, the publication highlighted the Trump University cases, commending the attorney for "stepp[ing] well outside his legal specialty to represent former Trump University students pro bono in two fraud class actions against Donald J. Trump asserting false advertising, unfair business practices and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act violations."
"The litigation predates Trump's campaign, but it was intensely fought even before he was a candidate," Pfefferbaum told the Daily Journal. "It was scorched-earth tactics all the way. When he made his [presidential candidacy] announcement, it ratcheted up the exposure."
Obtained shortly before trial was set to commence last November, the settlement, approved on March 31, provides $25 million to approximately 7,000 consumers, which means that individual class members will be eligible for upwards of $35,000 in restitution. "We are extremely proud of these results," Pfefferbaum told the Daily Journal, adding that the settlement "is historic for a consumer class action because the plaintiffs will recover so much."
Pfefferbaum has been no stranger to successful wins and accolades throughout his career. He has been a member of litigation teams that have recovered more than $100 million for investors, including Garden City Emps.' Ret. Sys. v. Psychiatric Sols., Inc. ($65 million recovery). Pfefferbaum has also been named to Benchmark Litigation's Under 40 Hotlist for the last two consecutive years and was also selected by Northern California's Super Lawyers Magazine as a Rising Star in the area of securities litigation for the years 2013-2016.
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New "injection moulded" technology could revolutionise vinyl manufacturing
Amar Ediriwira
Faster, greener, better?
Symcon, a Dutch company specialising in CD manufacturing, has announced that it is developing the technology to press records via injection moulding. It hopes the new process will cut production costs, improve sound quality and reduce the environment impact of conventional record pressing.
The project, named Green Vinyl Records, has received a grant from the European fund for innovation.
"With this method, the plastic is injected straight into the grooves, which copies the grooves on the stamper better than the conventional method, in which the vinyl is being pushed onto the grooves at an angle," Symcon's Harm Theunisse explained to Discogs.
Usually steam is used to heat up the PVC puck to 180 degrees before it is pressed between two stampers. The force used in this process causes wear on the stampers, which can be used for 1500 to 2000 records each on average. The injection moulded method avoids steam, supposedly saving up to 65% energy, and applies no pressure to the stampers, enabling them to be used for longer periods of time without affecting quality.
Symcon believes that injection moulded records could be turned around as quickly as two weeks, compared to the current timeline of twelve to sixteen weeks from cutting floor to shop.
Although the process has come some way, there are still a number of challenges ahead, which you can read about in full here.
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Volcanic Islands and Solar Panels on the 38th Parallel
While ash from the volcano in Iceland eclipsed the sky in much of Northern Europe, David and Janet Carle explored the volcanic Azores islands in the Atlantic, looking at worldwide water issues along the 38th parallel. In Sao Miguel they visited a geothermal plant that provides 40% of local power, and tested the waters in a thermal mineral pool. On mainland Portugal they visited the barragem (dam) on the Guiadiana River, which creates the largest reservoir in Europe and that required an entire town to be moved to higher ground. After crossing through Spain and back into Portugal, they saw the the world's largest solar energy generator, many storks, and a "solar donkey".
The Carles will update their blog, Parallel Universe: 38° N, as they continue along the 38th parallel, and their travels will form the basis for a forthcoming UC Press book. David Carle is the author of several UC Press books on California air, water, fire, and soil.
From Janet and David Carle's blog Parallel Universe: 38° N:
Volcanic Islands of the Atlantic—The Azores
The first thing we learned was how to pronounce the name of the islands—"eh-shurs" in Portuguese. The second thing was getting our heads around the fact that we are WAY out in the Atlantic, 940 miles from the Portuguese mainland, and thousands of miles from Assatague Island, the closest land to the west. One can't go more than a few miles without a glimpse of the ocean, a constant reminder that this is an island in a very big sea…. Read More
A Really Big Barragem
We flew from the Azores to Lisbon, 2 hours late perhaps because of all the air delays due to volcanic ash in northern Europe. Got our rental car and drove south to rejoin the 38 degree latitude line at Sines (pronounced "seench.") and stayed in a small fishing town nearby called Porto Covo. Sines is the birthplace of Vasco de Gama, the seafarer who actually FOUND the ocean route to India from Europe…. Read More
The Transported Town and Solar Donkey
From the little town of Moura, where we appeared to be the only tourists, we visited the Barragem ("dam," see last blog) up close and personal. The countryside is lovely, rolling hills carpeted with wildflowers of every color and hillsides of olive trees. The dam itself isn't huge, but the reservoir behind it is the largest in Europe. Much land was inundated in the process of filling the lake….Read More
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La Salle High School head coach Ealar Gallagher and assistant coach Mike DiFiori have accepted assistant coaching positions at Bishop Amat.
Gallagher, who guided the Lancers to the CIF-Southern Section Mid-Valley Division championship game in 2006, will be Bishop Amat's offensive line coach, while DiFiori, Amat's former head coach, will serve as the linebackers coach.
Question: Who would be a prime candidate for the La Salle head coaching position?
This was one of the topics which was brought up, so here we go.
Personally, I like St. Francis's Friedman Field. It has a nice intimate feel to it with the field being close to the stands. Arcadia's is also good one, especially when the fans pack 'em in. San Gabriel's apparently is going to be re-done this year so the Matadors will be playing all their games on the road. Two of the other ones I liked, although there is no press box, are Temple City and Monrovia. Good old-style stadiums.
Above: Don't you wish every area stadium looked like this one? I do.
Question: What are your favorites?
Here are a couple of Dallas area stadiums I found. I couldn't find one with a good view of stadium seats and luxury boxes, but you get the idea.
Above: John Clark Field in Plano, Texas.
Above: Highlander Field in Dallas. I lived close to this one for about a year. Lots of stadium seats. Most JCs in the area would love this stadium.
Alhambra long-distance runner places second in 1,600 before coming back to win the 3,200 at Pasadena Games.
SO: Miller 7 (LC) W: Miller (4-2) L: Shelburne (0-2).
Ellingsworth (4-2) L: Milosavlijevic (1-3).
My quick thoughts: Kilbury came up with the clutch pitches when he needed them and Brian Dearth was equally outstanding in a classic pitcher's duel.