Accommodation for students in Tirunelveli is easy to find, inexpensive to rent, and convenient to travel to and from the college. There are two on-campus hostels, one each for male and female students. The Gents' Hostel is a two-storied building having 40 rooms on each floor, providing accommodation for 240 students.
A separate accommodation for Ladies is also available with a capacity of accommodating 120 students. Both these hostels are at a walking distance of about 5 minutes from the college building. Special safety measures are taken for the Ladies Hostel.


One does not magically cure themselves by going to a rehab center for addiction, though a treatment program certainly does work wonders for people. Rather, going to rehab is sort of like taking the first step towards a better life. It's a big step, that's for sure, but it's still just the first step.
What follows once one has completed treatment at a rehab center is what will truly make or break a person's sobriety. How the person composes themselves and how they manage their life outside of rehab is extremely important. So important, in fact, that the person's daily habits like their diet and their levels of exercise can have a strong impact on whether or not they maintain a stable, sober life.
Remember you, hopefully, will spend a lot more of your life out of rehab rather than in rehab or another controlled treatment internment.
Once someone has completed a treatment program, they need to give some care towards what types of daily habits and rituals they are going to take on. They need to take care not to adopt any bad habits, as bad habits beget bad habits.
The food that people put in their bodies, for example, will either help or hinder their recovery. We live in a society where processed foods, foods high in sugars, fats, MSG, and other chemical additives are the mainstay of grocery stores. Eating processed foods is not only bad for one's health, but it can be addictive to do so as well.
According to Healthline, up to twenty percent of people may be suffering from either full-on food addiction or addictive eating behaviors. The Healthline article talks about the topmost addictive foods, listing foods like pizza, chocolate, cookies, ice cream, chips, french fries, cheeseburgers, soda, cake, cheese, bacon, fried chicken, rolls, popcorn, breakfast cereal, gummy candy, steak, and muffins as being the most addictive foods consumed today.
And what do all of those foods have in common? They're highly processed (usually), and they contain high levels of either fat or sugar or a combination of the two.
Bad habits beget bad habits, so when a recovering addict takes on bad eating habits, what comes next? Bad sleeping habits? Staying up too late watching TV and snacking on bad food? Dropping out exercise regimens? Where does this path take someone who's in recovery? It takes them dangerously close to a relapse.
Everyone should follow a proper and healthy diet. This is not just for people who are in recovery. But people who are in recovery absolutely should follow a proper and healthy diet plan.
Foods rich in tyrosine amino acids. Tyrosine is the precursor to the natural "feel good" neurotransmitter dopamine. When an individual is going through the first stages of recovery, their dopamine levels are going to be particularly low, as they had been relying on drugs and alcohol to boost their dopamine levels. With no drugs or alcohol in their system, dopamine drops. Tyrosine is one way to get dopamine levels back up again. This helpful amino acid can be found in bananas, pork, lamb, lean beef, whole grains, and cheese.
Foods rich in L-glutamine. L-glutamine is another amino acid, this one with antioxidant properties. L-glutamine helps reduce sugar cravings, cravings which can be common in early recovery. Sugar consumption should be kept to a minimum, as sugar has been directly linked to anxiety, inflammation, depression, fatigue, etc., according to Natural News. Foods rich in L-glutamine are beets, Brussels sprouts, carrots, beans, celery, papaya, chicken, fish, dairy, and beef.
Foods rich in antioxidants. Antioxidants help to rebuild the immune system while also serving as a booster to the body's natural detoxification process. Foods rich in antioxidants are strawberries, onions, pecans, blueberries, artichokes, and leeks.
Foods which boost GABA levels. The GABA neurotransmitter is heavily influenced during drug use, and it takes some time for this area to return to a healthy normal following the cessation of drug use. GABA is responsible for promoting calm and relaxation, which can serve to fight against the anxiety, restlessness, and insomnia which often occur in congruence with the early stages of recovery. Foods which boost GABA levels are kefir, cherry tomatoes, shrimp, etc.
Foods rich in tryptophan. Tryptophan helps boost serotonin levels, serotonin being another essential neurotransmitter which produces happy, positive moods. Tryptophan is found in turkey, lamb, cheese, tuna fish, oat bran, beans, and lentils.
All of the above food groups and the essential nutrients that they contain are beneficial for all of us, but those of us in recovery need them even more so. Building a meal plan around whole foods which promote a healthy body and mind is key to a successful recovery.
Exercise is another crucial part of a successful recovery. Daily exercise is incredibly beneficial to the body. Exercise encourages blood flow, boosts respiratory and cardiovascular function, and releases endorphins. An endorphin release is sort of like a natural high, endorphins being a naturally-released chemical which reduces pain and which causes gentle feelings of euphoria.
Very Well Mind did an article on exercise as not only a tool to be utilized while addicts are in treatment but as a tool for people post-rehab as well. The article talks about how exercise acts to repeatedly reduce stress, anxiety, depression, etc. The article touches on how people who engage in exercise have lower urges to drink alcohol or to do drugs. So not only is exercise beneficial and supportive of good health in general, but it is also a great tool for those in recovery.
Building a stable and lasting recovery is all about striving to create a better version of yourself, each day, continuously. The more you grow and change for the better, the more you can rely on yourself to make good decisions which are conducive to a better life, not a harmful one.
When you make daily efforts in advancing your physical, mental, and spiritual health, you add padding to the armor that protects you from the threats and risks of anxiety, depression, poor self-confidence, failure, and potential relapse. Creating and maintaining a healthy diet and exercise plan is not the only part of building stability in recovery—but it certainly is a big part of it.


We close our season with our first ever musical comedy- a Wild West take on Wagner's operatic epic Ring Cycle. Five actors playing over thirty roles take us through three hilarious generations of two feuding Texas families in this Off-Broadway musical hit. A magical ring of gold has been causin' trouble for way too long and all heck is fixin' to break loose. Two sets of mismatched lovers meet on the day of their shotgun weddings, but before they can celebrate at a blow-out BBQ, they encounter lariat-spinning ladies, evil, narcoleptic dwarves and a synchronized swim team, among other oddities, as their quest for that troublesome ring unfolds with swinging music and rowdy humor.
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Q: Why does insertBeg not insert the node at the beginning I'm trying to use insertBeg to insert node at the start but I can't get it right
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

struct node {
    int data;
    struct node  *next;
}*init;

int length(struct node *n);
struct node *searchVal(struct node *n, int val);
struct node *createLinkedList(int data);
struct node *insertEnd(struct node *n, int data);
struct node *insertBeg( struct node *n, int data);
void printList(struct node *n);

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    init = createLinkedList(1);
    insertEnd(init, 6);
    insertBeg(init, 9);
    printList(init);
}

void printList(struct node *n) {
    if (n != NULL) {
        while (n->next != NULL) {
            n = n->next;
            printf("%d", n->data);
        }
    } else {
        printf("Empty List");
    }
}

/**
 *  returns length of node
 */
int length(struct node *n) {
    int count = 0;
    if (!n) {
        return 0;
    }

    struct node *ptr = n;
    while(ptr != NULL) {
        count = count + 1;
        ptr = ptr->next;
    }
    return count;
}

struct node *searchVal(struct node *n, int val) {
    struct node *pos;
    if (!n) {
        return NULL;
    }

    struct node *ptr = n;
    while (ptr != NULL) {
        if (val == ptr->data){
            pos = ptr;
            return pos;
        } else {
            ptr = ptr->next;
        }
    }
    return NULL;
}

struct node *createLinkedList(int data) {
    struct node *new_node;
    new_node = (struct node *)malloc(sizeof(struct node));

    if (new_node == NULL) return NULL;
    new_node->data = data;
    new_node->next = NULL;

    return new_node;
}

struct node *insertBeg(struct node *n, int data) {
    struct node *new_node;
    new_node = (struct node *)malloc(sizeof(struct node));
    if (new_node == NULL) {
        return NULL;
    }

    new_node->data = data;
    new_node->next = n;
    n = new_node;
    return n;
}

struct node *insertEnd(struct node *n, int data){
    struct node *new_node, *temp;
    new_node = (struct node *)malloc(sizeof(struct node));

    if (new_node == NULL) {
        return NULL;
    }

    new_node->data = data;
    if (n == NULL) {
        new_node->next = NULL;
        temp = new_node;
    } else {
        temp = n;
        while (temp->next != NULL) {
            temp = temp->next;
            temp->next = temp;
        }
        temp->next = new_node;
        new_node->next = NULL;
    }
    return temp;
}

A: insertBeg returns a node, which is supposed to be new header of the list
you have to accept that return type and set it as new header like the following:
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    struct node * newHeader;
    init = createLinkedList(1);
    insertEnd(init, 6);
    newHeader = insertBeg(init, 9);
    init = newHeader;
    printList(init);
}

You also need to edit the print function as follows, as you are missing out on a few nodes there:
void printList(struct node *n) {
    if (n != NULL) {
        while (n != NULL) {
            printf("%d", n->data);
            n = n->next;
        }
    } else {
        printf("Empty List");
    }
}

You can see the complete code here for reference: https://ideone.com/WX9TKF

A: The function insertBeg is correct and it returns new Initial Element of your linked list which you have marked as init.
Thus instead of
insertBeg(init, 9);

call in in your main function, put this
init = insertBeg(init, 9);

This will solve your problem.
Other than that your function seems fine.

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The Coyote Log Homes story begins in 1998 when Daniel and Shelley Albert, fresh out of university, embarked a cross-country bike trip from Alaska to Toronto.
Carrying nothing but backpacks and camping gear as they travelled across Canada, the small towns, unique homes, and beautiful landscapes they saw made them realize that they didn't want to live and work in the big city for the rest of their lives.
"Along the way we came upon many log homes, and in the beginning they were like any other building to me," says Daniel. "That is, until we actually stayed in one and I studied how it was constructed. I was instantly drawn to it and wanted to learn more about log homes."
Once the couple arrived back in Ontario, Daniel spent the next several weekends collecting driftwood and crafting a log bed from scratch, without any plans or previous experience.
From that moment he was hooked, and he officially started his log home building career when he enrolled in a Log Home Building program. Passionate about log building he took to the craft very quickly, and was soon hired by log builders in Shawville, Quebec and Cobden, Ontario.
"I've always loved working with my hands and working with wood," Daniel says. "Building log homes was the perfect fit for me. I finally found what I wanted to do in life."
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While working in Cobden, Daniel drove through Barry's Bay, Ontario on several occasions, passing by a lot for sale on Highway 60 that would eventually become Coyote Log Homes. In September 2001 he took the plunge and bought the property, starting his own log home building business from scratch.
"My Dad's a successful entrepreneur, and I always wanted to try to follow in his footsteps," Daniel says.
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Starting with just two employees in 2001, we now have a staff of more 15 log builders and labourers, and have formed valuable industry partnerships with prestigious log home builders and suppliers in British Columbia to provide our clients with the absolute best log building materials from across the country.
Growing by nearly 300% every year, Daniel Albert and Coyote Log Homes shows no signs of slowing down as we continue to provide custom-built handcrafted log homes and log cabins for sale across Ontario, Canada, the United States, and the entire world.
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The Japan Men's Under-19 National Floorball Team is the men's under-19 national floorball team of Japan, and a member of the International Floorball Federation. The team is composed of the best Japanese floorball players under the age of 19. The Japan under-19 men's team is currently ranked 15th in the world at floorball, and played in the B-Division at the most recent U-19 World Floorball Championships.

The team is currently prepping for the 2021 U-19 World Floorball Championships, which will be in Brno, Czech Republic.

Roster
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Team Staff
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Exclusive Executive Living for the discerning is now available in Manor Court. Enjoy this fully furnished 1 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment with fully updated kitchen and bathroom which feels like a "mini spa". Take a trip to the in house gym then enjoy city views while having morning coffee or evening wine. Have your business meeting in the well appointed meeting room or entertain guests by the pool or clubhouse. Full concierge service, 24 hour security, standby generator, elevators, in unit laundry are all available for your convenience.


Back in 2008, KK and I decided to make a mystery quilt for each other. We each provided one fabric and mystery instructions for the other person. We then had to add other fabrics to coordinate with the one provided and make a quilt for the other person. I made this quilt based on the pattern and floral fabric KK provided. The fabrics weren't really my favorite, but they worked well with the floral fabric.
Five years later, KK decided to finish her mystery quilt for me (no judgement here... I have UFO's older than that) and gave it to me last weekend.
I provided the border fabric and the pattern which was a fat quarter pattern I found somewhere.
Check out the scale quilting in the stars. KK did a great job machine quilting this quilt.
She used the same border fabric for the back and binding since I provided several yards.
As a quilter, I love receiving quilts for myself. I can really appreciate the time and talent it takes to make a quilt. That's one of the reasons I love participating in swaps.
That quilting is stunning! Both quilts are beautiful!
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China has confirmed a new human case of bird flu, the first in seven weeks.
Government-run media reported Wednesday that a 44-year old woman from southeastern Fujian province contracted the H5N1 strain of the avian flu virus.
The latest case brings to 23 the number of people in China who have contracted the deadly strain since it emerged in Asia in 2003 and spread globally.
Meanwhile, the World Organization for Animal Health reported a new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus in Burma. The Paris-based group said the strain that can infect humans was detected at poultry farms in the western suburbs of Rangoon.
Elsewhere in Asia, Vietnamese authorities said they will lift a ban on hatching ducks and other waterfowl on Thursday, despite a new outbreak of bird flu in the country's north.
Vietnam announced a massive, new poultry vaccination campaign in the coming week. Earlier bird flu outbreaks there have been controlled through culling and vaccinations.
The World Health Organization has recorded more than 270 human cases of avian influenza worldwide, leading to 167 deaths.


Dickson's series of novels include the Childe Cycle and the Dragon Knight. He won three Hugo awards and one Nebula award.
The Childe Cycle is an unfinished series of science fiction novels by Canadian writer Gordon R. Dickson. The name Childe Cycle is an allusion to "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", a poem by Robert Browning, which provided considerable inspiration for elements in Dickson's magnum opus.
The Dragon Knight is a series of fantasy novels begun in 1976 by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. The first book, based on the short story "St. Dragon and the George", was loosely adapted in the 1982 animated movie The Flight of Dragons by Rankin/Bass. The title here refers in part to an in-universe nomenclature, wherein the story's dragons use the name "george" as a synonym or substitute of "human", after 'St. George the Dragon-Slayer', and in part a reference to the latter.
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Sandra Louise Miesel is an American medievalist, writer and science fiction and fantasy fan. Her early work was science fiction and fantasy criticism, fields in which she has remained active. She is a literary analyst; has described herself as "the world's greatest expert" on Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson, and has written front and back matter for many of Anderson's books.
The Hugo Winners was a series of books which collected science fiction and fantasy stories that won a Hugo Award for Short Story, Novelette or Novella at the World Science Fiction Convention between 1955 and 1982. Each volume was edited by American writer Isaac Asimov, who wrote the introduction and a short essay about each author featured in the book. Through these essays, Asimov reveals personal anecdotes, which authors he's jealous of, and how other writers winning awards ahead of him made him angry. Additionally, he discusses his political beliefs, friendships, and his affinity for writers of "hard science fiction". The first two volumes were collected by Doubleday into a single book, which lacks a publishing date and ISBN.
The complete bibliography of Gordon R. Dickson.
Ends is a collection of science fiction stories and poems by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Baen Books in 1988 and as a companion volume to Dickson's Beginnings. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Astounding, If, Galaxy Science Fiction, Destinies, Science Fiction Stories and Amazing Stories The poems first appeared in The Final Encyclopedia.
Lost Dorsai is a science fiction novella by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1981 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award in 1980.
The Spirit of Dorsai is a collection of two science fiction stories by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Ace Books in 1979. The collection includes linking material and the stories are part of Dickson's Childe Cycle. The first story, "Amanda Morgan", is original to this collection. The other, "Brothers", originally appeared in the anthology Astounding, edited by Harry Harrison.
Hoka! is a collection of science fiction stories by American writers Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickson. It was first published by Wallaby in 1983. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
Dickson! is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by NESFA Press in 1984 and was issued in honor of Dickson's appearance as guest of honor at the 42nd World Science Fiction Convention. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines SFWA Bulletin, Astounding, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Science Fiction Stories. The book contains introduction to each story by Sandra Miesel.
Steel Brother is a collection of science fiction stories by Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Tor Books in 1985 and reprints most of the stories from Dickson's 1984 collection Dickson!, with one substitution and one added interview. The stories originally appeared in the magazines SFWA Bulletin, Astounding, Galaxy Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Science Fiction Stories. The book contains the introduction to each story by Sandra Miesel from the previous collection, though they are not credited.
Beyond the Dar Al-Harb is a collection of three fantasy and science fiction stories by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Tor Books in 1985. The title story is original to this collection, and features "Red Jamie", a character from the Thieves World series previously in Dickson's collaborative novel Jamie the Red (1984). The others appeared in the magazine Worlds of Tomorrow and the anthology The Day the Sun Stood Still edited by Robert Silverberg.
The Dorsai Companion is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Gordon R. Dickson, part of his Childe Cycle series. It was first published by Ace Books in 1986. The collection includes a number of articles by Sandra Miesel.
Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! is a collection of science fiction stories by Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickson. It was first published by Baen Books in 1998 and reprints the authors' earlier collection, Earthman's Burden, expanding with two additional stories from Hoka!. The story "Don Jones" originally appeared in Earthman's Burden. The other stories originally appeared in the magazines Other Worlds, Universe and Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Hokas Pokas! is a collection of science fiction stories, as well as the novel Star Prince Charlie, by American writer Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Baen Books in 2000. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Poul Anderson, edited by Roger Elwood, first published in hardcover by Chilton in June 1974. A paperback edition retitled The Book of Poul Anderson followed from DAW Books in June 1975, and was reprinted in June 1978, December 1978, and October 1983. Most of the pieces were originally published between 1947 and 1971 in the magazines Astounding Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog, Riverside Quarterly, and Other Worlds Science Stories. The others are original to the collection.
Nebula Award Showcase is a series of annual science fiction and fantasy anthologies collecting the stories that have won or been nominated for the Nebula Award, awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers founded in 1965 by Damon Knight as the Science Fiction Writers of America.
1 2 "Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame" Archived 2013-05-21 at the Wayback Machine . Mid American Science Fiction and Fantasy Conventions, Inc. Retrieved 2013-03-22. This was the official website of the Hall of Fame to 2004.
1 2 Gordon R. Dickson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2013-04-22. Select a title to see its linked publication history and general information. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
↑ "Gordon R. Dickson -- Science Fiction Writer, 77". The New York Times. February 16, 2001. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
1 2 "Dickson, Gordon R." Archived 2012-10-16 at the Wayback Machine . The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved 2013-03-22.
Kumar, Kavita (February 1, 2001). "Obituary: Gordon R. Dickson, 77, science fiction writer". Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
Levinson, Paul (February 1, 2001). "Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Archived from the original on October 9, 2009. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
"Gordon R. Dickson biography". Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.


Intel supercharged the performance of its 8th-gen mobile processors by cramming them full of more cores and threads than ever before, and we've spotted a rare deal on a laptop packing one of the new chips. You can get a 13-inch Dell Inspiron 13 i7370 for $599 at the Microsoft Store. Dell itself is currently selling this laptop for $749.
The Dell Inspiron 13 i7370 features the Intel Core i5-8250U, a speedy 3.4GHz chip with four cores and eight threads. It also comes with a 13.3-inch 1080p multi-touch display, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, and Windows 10 Home. This laptop doesn't have a discrete graphics card, but it includes Intel's integrated UHD Graphics 620, which holds up just fine for watching high-definition videos.
We haven't reviewed this particular laptop, but we did like its close cousin, the similarly equipped Inspiron 13 5000. That laptop earned a rating of 4 out of 5 stars.


it's my first time in this forum and i seek help!
I have my Korg triton studio 88 and I would like to export some combi sounds to an Ipad 9.7 (2017). Is there any way that can be done?
It would be possible to record audio from the Triton Combis onto the iPad but it will need a dedicated iPad recording dock or an iPad compatible recording audio interface to do this, and suitable audio cables. This would simply be an audio recording.
If, on the other hand, you want to use the iPad as a sound generator in its own right and play them using a MIDI keyboard, then there are apps like Korg Gadget, and Korg Module. Korg Module can be added to with sound libraries, one of which is "Triton, the best of". I'm not aware of this add-on being able to accept the actual Combi files themselves from the Triton Studio.
Yes i'm aware of that app korg Module but i need my own combis from the triton. I guess the only way to put on stage the combis'sounds without the triton studio keyboard (which is soooo heavy ) is with the triton rack. For now i have installed the samplewiz app from Rudess and I sampled some combi sounds but high notes got pitched too much and the sound is pretty compromised.


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Alfred Eugene Livingston, 23, of Worthington passed away Dec. 7 1941 while serving aboard the USS Oklahoma on at Pearl Harbor. Born Greene County Worthington, IN on August 30, 1918. His remains were positively identified in April of 2007 by the Central Identification Laboratory at Hickman Air Force Base, Hawaii...
Commissioners vote to return courthouse lawn to its original state (Local News ~ 07/03/07)
The Greene County Commissioners by a 2-1 split vote this morning decided that the Greene County Courthouse lawn will remain green after the ongoing contruction/renovation project is completed. The commissioners -- with Kathy Crouch making the motion and Bart Beard seconding -- determined that financially the parking lot was not within their means at this time...
Raymond Dale (Obituary ~ 07/03/07)
Raymond Dale, 64, Linton passed away on Tuesday, July 3 at Methodist Hospital in Linton. Arrangements are pending at Welch & Cornett Linton Chapel and will be posted on this website and at www.welchcornett.com as soon as they are available.
Linda Boston Hughes (Obituary ~ 07/03/07)
Linda Boston Hughes, 62, of Round Rock., TX and formerly of Jasonville passed away April 26. Born Feb. 4, 1945, she was the daughter of Charles Winston and Margaret Benefield Boston. She worked in the business office for Sears in Round Rock, TX. She was a 1963 graduate of Jasonville High School...
Joseph A. Sullivan (Obituary ~ 07/03/07)
Joseph A. Sullivan, 68, of Linton, passed away Monday, July 2, 2007, at Greene County General Hospital. Born in Indianapolis on Oct. 30, 1938, he was the son of Patrick and Claira (Hornburger) Sullivan. On March 29, 1964, he married Kay A. Ax, who survives...
Attorney, former county prosecutor Joe Sullivan passes away (Local News ~ 07/03/07)
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      This tutorial is written by Alex Yixuan Xu with reference to Getting Started With p5.js by Lauren McCarthy, Casey Reas, and Ben Fry. Copyright 2016 Maker Media, MDN JavaScript documentation and W3Schools JavaScript tutorials. If you see any errors or have comments, please let us know.

Program Flow

This tutorial outlines some various techniques for controlling the sequence and timing of events in your code, which is known as program flow.

Branching

We can use conditional statements to control the program flow. Conditional statements perform different actions based on tests for different conditions. JavaScript has the following conditional statements:

Use if to specify a block of code to be executed, if a specified condition is true

Use else to specify a block of code to be executed, if the same condition is false

Use else if to specify a new condition to test, if the first condition is false

In the following example, change the value for variable i to change the color of the rectangle. If i equals to 0, the condition for the if statement is satisfied, and the filling color is red. In this case, the program continues to draw the rectangle skipping the else if and else statements. If i equals to 1, the condition for the if statement is not satisfied, and the program moves on to check the condition for the else if statement. Since else if condition is satisfied, the filling color is green. If neither the if nor the else if conditions are satisfied, the program runs the else statement, and the filling color is blue.

Loops

Loops can execute a block of code repeatedly. p5 supports several different kinds of loops in JavaScript:

for - loops through a block of code a specified number of times

for/in - loops through the properties of an object

while - loops through a block of code while a specified condition is true

do/while - also loops through a block of code while a specified condition is true

The for loop sets up a variable (usually i or x) that is then incrementally changed for each loop. It has the following structure:

        for (statement 1; statement 2; statement 3) {
            code block to be executed
        }

Statement 1 is executed (one time) before the execution of the code block. It sets the starting value for the variable

Statement 2 defines the condition that must be true for the code block to be executed.

Statement 3 is executed every time  after the code block has finished running if statement 2 evaluated to be true.

In this example, variable i is initially set to 0. Every time the for loop runs, i is displayed on the screen and 1 is added to i. Note the for loop will only run until i equals to 4 because after this the condition that i be less than 5 will be false.

The for/in statement loops through the properties of an object:

In this example, as the for loop cycles through each property of the person object, the property value is added to myText string.

The while loop cycles through a block of code as long as its specified condition is true.

This example gives the same result as the for loop example above. Sometimes while loops and for loops can be used interchangeably.

The do/while loop is a variant of the while loop. This loop will execute the code block once, before checking if the condition is true, it will then repeat the loop as long as the condition is true.

noLoop(), loop() and redraw()

The draw() function in p5 runs as a loop. The code inside the draw() function runs continuously from top to bottom until the program is stopped. The draw() loop may be stopped by calling noLoop(), and can then be resumed with loop(). If using noLoop() in setup(), it should be the last line inside the block.

In this example, noLoop() is called in setup(), so the code within draw() will only run once at the start of the program. Since loop() is placed in mousePressed(), the draw() block will resume looping when mouse is pressed. When mouse is released, noLoop() is called again and hence the draw() loop stops.

The function redraw() executes the code within draw() one time. This functions allows the program to update the display window only when necessary, such as when an event registered by mousePressed() or keyPressed() occurs. In structuring a program, it only makes sense to call redraw() within events such as mousePressed() outside of the draw() loop. The redraw() function does not work properly when called inside draw(). In addition, you can set the number of loops through draw by adding a single argument (an integer) to the redraw() function.

This example is similar to the previous one, where noLoop() is called in setup() and the code within draw() will only run once at the start of the program. However, when mouse is pressed, redraw() is called and draw() will only loop once. To make smooth animations, it is easier to work with noLoop() and loop().

Asynchronicity in p5.js

In JavaScript, events may occur concurrently with the main program flow. This is considered as asynchronicity in programming. In p5, for example, when we use loadImage() in setup(), the browser begins the process of loading the image but skip onto the next line before it is finised loading. The following example demonstrates such asynchronicity.

let img;
function setup(){
  createCanvas(100, 100);
  img = loadImage("/assets/learn/program-flow/images/clouds.jpg");
  noLoop();
}

function draw(){
  background(200);
  image(img,0,0);
}

When you run this program, you'll notice that the drawing canvas is grey with no image displayed. This is because loadImage() begins to load the image, but does not have time to finish this task before the program continues on through the rest of setup() and on to draw(). Even with the noLoop() function that stops p5.js from continuously executing the code within draw(). The image() function is unable to display the image as it is not properly loaded.

Introduction to Preload

To help with this issue of asynchronicity, p5.js has the preload() function. Unlike setup(), preload() forces the program to wait until everything has loaded before moving on. It is best to only make load calls in preload(), and do all other setup in setup().

let img;
function preload(){
  img = loadImage("/assets/learn/program-flow/images/clouds.jpg");
}

function setup(){
  createCanvas(100, 100);
  noLoop();
}

function draw(){
  background(200);
  image(img,0,0);
}

preload() ensures that the image has been loaded before running the other code.

Loading with a Callback

An alternative to preload() is to use a callback function. A callback function is a function that is passed as an argument to a second function, and that runs after the second function has completed. The following example illustrates this technique.

function setup(){
  createCanvas(100, 100);
  loadImage("/assets/learn/program-flow/images/clouds.jpg", drawImage);
  noLoop();
}

function draw(){
  background(200);
}

function drawImage(img){
  image(img, 0, 0);
}

In this example, the second argument in loadImage() is the function we want to run after the load is complete. Once the image has loaded, this callback function, drawImage(), is automatically called. It has one argument which contains the image that was just loaded. There is no need to create a global variable to hold the image. The image is passed directly into the callback function, as the parameter name chosen in the function definition.

Loading JSON & APIs

The JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format is a common system for storing data. Like HTML and XML formats, the elements have labels associated with them. One way to load JSON file is to use loadJSON() function in preload().

The following request at https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_hour.geojson returns data of recent earthquakes in the world from USGS.

Alternatively, loadJSON() can also take a callback. To use data from an API, you may need a callback function as, like with an image, the data takes time to load. API (Application Programming Interface) requests are commands that request data from a service. A lot of APIs will return data in JSON format. Some need you to authenticate with the API to use it (e.g. register as a developer and get keys). You can't always use preload() when getting data from APIs because the data might change while you sketch is running and you will want your program to respond accordingly.

loadJSON() can be used in a few ways:

loadJSON(path)

loadJSON(path, callback)

loadJSON(path, callback, datatype)

loadJSON(path, callback, errorCallback)

loadJSON(path, datatype, callback, errorCallback)

loadJSON(path, jsonpOptions, datatype, callback, errorCallback)

        where:

path - String: name of the file or url to load

jsonpOptions - Object: options object for jsonp related settings

datatype - String: "json" or "jsonp"

callback - Function: function to be executed after loadJSON() completes, data is passed in as first argument

errorCallback - Function: function to be executed if there is an error, response is passed in as first argument

In this example, the loadJSON() function is placed in setup() and takes a custom callback function showEarthquake(). This means when the program finishes loading the JSON file from the USGS earthquakes API, the function showEarthQuake() is called. The place and magnitude of the most recent earthquake listed by the API is stored in local variables within showEarthquake and are then displayed on the screen.

Sometimes we use setInterval() to control the frequency of requests made to the API. setInterval() can also take a callback function. If you call setInterval() in setup(), it will run repeatedly for the duration of the program at the interval set.

In this example, the earthquake data is grabbed from the API every 5 seconds and is displayed on the screen.

More Callback Functions

In addition to the loadImage(), loadJSON() and setInterval(), there are other functions in p5 that accept callbacks. Typically, functions that involve loading data of some kind accept callbacks, or should be put in preload(). For example:

loadFont()

loadSound()

loadStrings()

loadTable()

loadXML()

loadBytes()

loadModel()

DOM functionality makes it easy to interact with other HTML5 objects, including text, hyperlink, image, input, video, audio, and webcam. Some DOM creation methods also accept callbacks:

createImg()

createFileInput()

createVideo()

createAudio()

createCapture()

Interactivity and Event Listeners

Callback functions are functions that can be passed as an argument into another function and be executed after the first function is complete. An event listener or handler is a type of callback. It is called whenever an event occurs such as when the mouse is pressed, or a key is pressed etc.

Mouse functions like mousePressed(), mouseClicked(), mouseReleased(), mouseMoved(), etc. can be used as event listeners. They can be attached to certain elements in a sketch.

mousePressed() - Code inside this block is run one time when a mouse button is pressed

mouseReleased() - Code inside this block is run one time when a mouse button is released

mouseClicked() - Code inside this block is run once after a mouse button is pressed and released over the element

doubleClicked() - Code inside this block is run once after a mouse button is pressed and released over the element twice

mouseWheel() - Code inside this block is run once when mouse wheel is scrolled over the element

mouseMoved() - Code inside this block is run one time when the mouse is moved

mouseOver() - Code inside this block is run once after every time a mouse moves onto the element.

mouseOut() - Code inside this block is run once after every time a mouse moves off the element

In this example, a canvas element is created and an event listener mousePressed() is attached. Function changeGrey() will only run when the mouse is pressed over the canvas, and will will change the background color to a random grey. If the mouse is pressed anywhere, even outside of the canvas, the diameter of the ellipse will increase by 10 pixels. The custom function changeGray(), in this instance, is placed within the mousePressed() function and is to be triggered when mouse is pressed over the canvas element. If the mouse is not pressed, false is passed and changeGrey() will not run.

The above mouse functions can be attached to an element like the canvas or can be used without specifying an element. The keyboard functions keyPressed(), keyReleased(), keyTyped(), and mouse function mouseDragged() cannot be attached to a specific element.

mouseDragged() - Code inside this block runs once when the mouse is moved and the mouse button is pressed

keyPressed() - Code inside this block runs once when any key is pressed

keyTyped() - Code inside this block is runs once when a key is pressed, but action keys such as Ctrl, Shift, and Alt are ignored. The most recent key pressed will be stored in the key variable.

keyReleased() - Code inside this block is runs once when any key is released

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FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2019, file photo, Todd Stansbury, right, shakes hands with Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson as they wrap up a news conference in which Stansbury was introduced as the school's new athletic director in Atlanta. Oregon State University filed Wednesday, Dec. 18, a lawsuit against former athletic director Stansbury, claiming he owes the school more than $1.5 million after walking away from his contract to take the new job at Georgia Tech, the Oregonian/Oregon Live reports. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State University is suing its former athletic director, claiming he owes the school more than $1.5 million after walking away from his contract to take a new job at Georgia Tech.
The Oregonian/Oregon Live reports OSU on Wednesday filed the breach of contract lawsuit against Todd Stansbury in Benton County Circuit Court.
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Radio 4 on the Lunar Eclipse at Christ's Crucifixion
Radio 4 yesterday morning had a piece about eclipses, with the host, who sounded like Melvin Bragg, talking to a group of astronomers, one of whom was a lady solar astronomer. They talked about how exciting eclipses were, how they were inspired in childhood to study them, and how important eclipses were in astronomy. They mostly talked about solar eclipses and how they were originally believed to be a supernatural being eating the Sun. The earliest records of solar eclipses were kept by the ancient Chinese, who believed they were omens from the gods. The Babylonians, however, began to realise that they occurred regularly, and passed this knowledge on to the Greeks. Aristotle realised that the Earth must be circular from watching the Earth's shadow fall across the Moon during lunar eclipses. The Earth's shadow was circular, therefore, he reasooned, the Earth itself must also be circular. The astronomers also made the extremely important point that you should never look directly at the Sun. If you were looking at it, you should use special lenses to protect your eyes. Alternatively, you could poke holes through a piece of card to act as a pinhole camera, which would project the Sun's image.
But what I found really interesting was what they said about eclipses possibly being responsible for the darkness that fell at noon when Christ was crucified. One of the astronomers said that it has been suggested that this darkness was caused by a solar eclipse. However, solar eclipses occur regularly, and there would have been no such eclipse at the time Christ is believed to have been crucified. However, there was an eclipse of the Moon on Friday, 6th April, 33 AD. Which sounds very much like the date of Our Lord's passion. The astronomers and the host described this as 'spooky'. It is. If you're a Christian, it does make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. It seems to corroborate somewhat the description of the events of Christ's death in the Gospels, but it must be said that an eclipse of the Moon wouldn't cause the darkness earlier in the day. Nevertheless, it does suggest a connection.
Tags:Babylonians, Chistianity, Eclipses, Gospels, Jesus Christ, Radio 4, the Moon, The Sun
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Geoffrey Alderman Accuses Tom Watson of Anti-Semitism for Talking about Christ's Arrest
Geoffrey Alderman, a professor of Jewish history and columnist for the Times and the Jewish Telegraph, has made an official complaint to Jennie Formby accusing the deputy leader of the Labour Party of anti-Semitism. Why? In his Easter message, Watson referred to Christ's arrest by a squad of Roman soldiers under the direction of the servant of the High Priest. Alderman states that
'the allegation that Jews were Christ-killers, implicated in if not actually responsible for the death of Jesus, is widely regarded as an anti-Semitic trope'.
He then correctly states that it was condemned by the Pope at Vatican II in the 1970s.
While it's amusingly ironic to find Watson, who has given so much aid and support to those fabricating false claims of anti-Semitism against decent, anti-racist people, both Jewish and non-Jewish, of anti-Semitism himself, the accusation is wrong and should be denied and rebutted.
Firstly, Alderman is absolutely correct that the accusation that Jews are Christ-killers has been responsible for much prejudice and often horrific persecution of Jews down the centuries. However, this does not mean that the description of Christ's arrest and trial by the Sanhedrin and Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea at the time, are fictional and anti-Semitic themselves. Alderman's accusation is therefore wrong and should be strenuously denied and refuted.
As Mike has said in his piece about the accusation, all the Gospels state that Christ was arrested by the Romans under the direction of the High Priest, tried before the Sanhedrin, before being passed in turn to Pontius Pilate for judgment. I realise that many people do regard the Bible as completely fictitious, and that there have been books written against the inclusion of the Jewish authorities in Christ's arrest and execution in order to counter what many believe to be a source of anti-Semitism. These attempts are based on descriptions of the power of the Sanhedrin in the Talmud, which claim that the Temple authorities could not hold such trials and had no power to issue the death penalty for blasphemy unless the name of God was explicitly pronounced. However, while some of the Oral Law is ancient, dating back to the time Ezra according to scholars of Judaism, the Talmud itself was compiled over a period of centuries from the Second Century AD onwards. Jewish scholars have said that there is difficulty in assessing the truth of the passages about the Sanhedrin, as it is not clear which are historically accurate, and which an idealised picture of how the Jewish sages at the time of Talmud's composition felt it should have operated.
Christ's execution is mentioned by the Syrian Stoic philosopher, Mara bar Serapion, in a letter that may date from 73 AD. The letter discusses the disasters that befell the Athenians after they executed Socrates, and the Samian after they killed Pythagoras. He asks rhetorically
or what did it avail the Jews to kill their wise king, since their kingdom was taken away from them from this time on?
The 'wise king' is believed to be a reference to Christ. See Kevin O'Donnell, Introduction to the New Testament (Hodder and Stoughton 1999) 78.
There is also a garbled reference to Christ's crucifixion on a charge of sorcery and leading Israel astray in the Talmud, see O'Donnell, above, 78.
Similar events are also recorded by Roman historians. There's a passage in the Jewish historian, Josephus, I believe, which records how the Sanhedrin brought before the Roman governor a man, who had been prophesying the destruction of the Temple. They demanded the man be executed. Instead, the governor simply had the man flogged and then sent away.
This was an extremely dangerous and politically volatile time. The Temple hierarchy was bitterly resented by many Jews both for the corruption of some of its priests and officials, and their collaboration with Israel's Greek and then Roman overlords. The books of Maccabees in the Apocrypha records the heroic resistance to Greek rule by Judas Maccabaeus. He and the Jewish people were provoked into rebellion by the attempts of Antiochus Epiphanes, the Greek general, who ruled the province under Alexander the Great, to stamp out their faith. Mothers were forbidden to circumcise their sons, the teaching of the Law was forbidden and copies burnt and the Temple was turned into a temple to Zeus. Although the Temple was restored and the Jews allowed to practise their faith freely once again, the situation remained tense. There were tensions between the Pharisees, the Jewish sect that stressed absolute obedience to the Law, and which believed in spirits and the resurrection of the dead, and the Sadducees, who did not, and who seem to have been largely aristocratic. Josephus records another Jewish uprising just before the time of Christ, which was crushed with the execution of 19,000 Pharisees.
The Talmud also contains passages, which are believed to date from this time, which rail against the corruption of the Temple clergy and High Priest. One is a heartfelt account by the author of how he was beaten by Boethus, a member of the Temple hierarchy, while other priests and leading officials used their office to extort money from ordinary Jews.
Moreover, it needs to be remembered that Christ and His disciples were almost all Jews. St. Matthew's is the most Jewish of all the Gospels, and its writer frequently assimilates Christ's teaching with those of the great Jewish sages. He was therefore part of a Jewish Christian community, which continued to observe the Mosaic Law.
It therefore seems very clear to me that the accounts of Christ's arrest and trial are historically accurate and reflect the very bloody tensions within 1st century Judaism. And while they have been used to foment anti-Semitism, they are not themselves anti-Semitic. It's clear reading them that the Sanhedrin and Pontius Pilate were responsible for Christ's death, not the Jewish people as a whole.
I went to the same Anglican church school as Mike, and as he says, we were very definitely not taught to hate anyone because they were of a different religion. Indeed, the clergy and Christian laypeople, who taught at the school had a horror of religious violence and bigotry. Mike and his year were taken on visits to a synagogue and mosque. This didn't happen to my year, but we were taught about Judaism in RE lessons. I also remember going down the stairs just as one of the RE teachers was going up them with a bearded gentleman carrying a menorah and other Jewish sacred objects, presumably to show them to one of the other classes. And some of the older pupils I know were taught about the Holocaust and its horrors.
I also believe that the myth that the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ has largely been laid to rest. Many of the Christians I know have very positive attitudes towards Jews and Judaism because of their religion. Where anti-Semitism does exist, I believe it largely comes from other reasons, like all the stupid, murderous conspiracy theories that try to tell you the Jews hate Whites and are importing Blacks to destroy the White race and enslave gentiles. And so, like Mike, I'm left wondering why Professor Alderman has chosen to accuse Tom Watson of anti-Semitism because of this. And so I agree completely with Mike's conclusion:
Tom Watson is a wrong 'un, no doubt. But to demonise him by trying to stir up animosity between Jews and Christians is completely unacceptable and I hope everyone of both religions condemns his words.
See: https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2019/07/29/this-anti-semitism-complaint-against-tom-watson-should-not-stand-up/
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Russell Brand Takes Down Jacob Rees-Mogg
I realise that Russell Brand probably isn't everyone's favourite comedian ever since that stunt he and Jonathan Ross pulled leaving sneering prank messages about Andrew Sachs' granddaughter on the old fellow's answerphone a few years ago. I also don't agree with his anarchistic stance encouraging people not to vote. However, in his Trew News videos on YouTube he has produces some very incisive critiques and demolitions of contemporary capitalism, right-wing politics and bigotry.
In this video he takes on Jacob Rees-Mogg, now the darling of the Tory party, many of whom would just love him to take over the reins from Theresa May, whose own failings are increasingly obvious. And they definitely prefer him to Boris after BoJo showed his complete lack of scruple and personal loyalty by stabbing Cameron and then Gove in the back over Brexit.
They like Mogg, because he's soft-spoken and courteous. But as Brand points out here, his opinions are absolutely toxic. Brand shows the clip of Mogg wrong-footing John Snow when Suchet was interviewing him about May's Brexit speech. Suchet stated that many people thought here speech was a shambles. So Mogg says 'It seems a bit harsh to compare her speech to a butcher's slaughterhouse.' This throws Snow for a moment, who clear wasn't aware that that was what the word originally meant, and throws it back to Mogg, saying that it seems a harsh thing for him to say. Only for Mogg to tell him that this is what Suchet himself has said, as that's what the word means. Brand rightly mocks Mogg for this piece of rhetoric.
In fact, the word shambles actually means the stalls butchers occupied in medieval market places. Bridgwater in Somerset had its shambles, and a fish shambles as well, in the Cockenrow, the name of which means 'Cook's Row', and refers to the shops in that part of town selling cooked meat. The medieval shambles at Shepton Mallet has survived, and you can visit it with the benches on which the medieval tradesmen used to display their wares, above which is mounted a small tiled roof.
In discussing the etymology of the word, Mogg is clearly being pedantic, simultaneously using his knowledge to play down just how awful and uninspiring May's speech was, while also showing off his superior knowledge in the hopes that this will impress everyone with the depth of his aristocratic education. In fact, the word's etymology is immaterial here. The word is simply used commonly to mean a mess. Of course, if you wanted to make the point in a more elevated and highfalutin manner, Snow could have said 'I was using the term synchronically', which is modern philologist's parlance for what a term means now. I doubt Mogg's own knowledge of the theory of linguistics goes that far, and it would have thrown his own rhetorical strategy back at him. But unfortunately, thinking about such responses is usually the kind of thing you do on the way home after it's all over.
Brand then goes on to talk about Mogg's appearance on Breakfast TV, where he showed himself against gay marriage and abortion, even after rape. Brand is like many others – impressed by Mogg's honesty, while at the same time horrified by the views he holds.
And then he attacks Mogg's performance on LBC Radio, where he declared that the growth in food banks was 'uplifting', and goes on to talk about how the state couldn't provide everything. Brand states that what brings this argument down is the fact that most of the people forced to use food banks are actually working. They're just not paid enough to live on.
He also rebuts Mogg's claims that his views are based in Christianity. They aren't. Most of Christ's message in the Gospels is about being nice and kind. Mogg, however, prefers to see Christ as being harder towards the poor and sick. To support his point about Mogg's highly selective interpretation of Christian morality, he cites and shows a letter published by one of the papers, that makes this point.
In fact, Mogg's views on food banks are more or less standard Tory rhetoric. Many Tories will say something about preserving a welfare state to give some provision for the poor, but will then do exactly what Mogg did, and then say that the state can't provide everything. When challenged about cuts to the welfare state, they'll probably make some comment about needing to target the support to those who really need it, rather than scroungers.
This is all highly mendacious. The cuts don't just attack scroungers – they create real poverty amongst those in genuine need. And nobody expects the state to do everything. They just expect them to provide real support for the poor and the disabled. This support is not being provided, and the Tories are intent on destroying the welfare state piecemeal, so that no-one notices. Rees-Mogg's comments about retaining some kind of welfare state are a sham, whether he believes it or not, are designed to gull people into believing that the Tories really do want to look after ordinary people. They don't.
As for Mogg being delighted with the charity and generosity shown by people giving to the food banks, this was actually one of the reasons Thatcher wanted to abolish the welfare state. She thought that, with the state unable to provide for the poor there would be a resurgence in private generosity as people rose to the task of giving themselves, rather than relying on state aid. But as Lobster noted in a piece in its editorial, The View from the Bridge, a little while ago, this didn't happen, And Thatcher realized it. As for the state being unable to provide adequately for the poor, the opposite is true. Conservative, religious Americans do give generously to charity. They're often more generous than secular liberals, according to polling done a few years ago and cited in the book, The Truth about Evangelical Christians. But this personal generosity is completely inadequate for tackling the deep, widespread and grinding poverty that's now spreading across America thanks to nearly forty years of Reaganite neoliberalism.
Brand gives Rees-Mogg his professional appreciation as a comedian. He states that Mogg is a comedic character. He makes the point that he seems mostly compounded from Maggie Thatcher. That's certainly where Mogg got his mistaken and disgusting views about the efficacy of private charity over state aid. Just as Thatcher got it from her mentor, Keith Joseph. And if Mogg was the creation of a comedian sending up the Tories, he would be highly funny. He comes across somewhat as a mix of the Slenderman, the sinister internet meme, and Lord Snooty from the Beano. Or was it the Dandy? Looking at the photo Mike put up, showing Mogg trying to lift his leg over a style reminding me of nothing less than the Monty Python sketch, the 'Ministry of Silly Walks'. Brand goes on to the compare Mogg to Trump. Mogg's a comedic figure in exactly the same way Trump is. But only from a distance. Brand says that if he lived in America, which has to deal with the problems Trump is creating, he wouldn't find Trump funny at all. The same with Mogg. Like Trump, he can appreciate Mogg as a comic character, but in reality, as a politician, Trump and Mogg are anything but funny.
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Swedish Church Threatened for Supporting Muslims
French Revolutionary Card celebrating religious freedom.
There's been a lot of alarm recently about the massive growth of the German anti-Islamic organisation, Pegida. The group's name is an acronym for 'Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West', in German, Patriotische Europeaer Gegen der Islamisierung des Abendlandes. In Germany the groups boasts tens of thousands of members, and has staged mass demonstrations and marches across the country. These have provoked in their turn large counterdemonstrations from liberal Germans fearing a return of the xenophobia that plunged their country in the Third Reich and culminated in the genocide of the Jews and the projected extermination of other groups judged genetically or racially inferior, like the Slavonic peoples of eastern Europe, Gypsies and the disabled. Angela Merkel herself has denounced Pegida and its bigotry. Pegida is not content to confine itself to Germany, however. It is expanding across Europe and plans to stage a rally in Newcastle on this side of the North Sea.
This story comes from Christian Today, a Christian news website, from the 10th a few days ago. The pastor at St. Petri's church in Malmo was so alarmed at a Pegida demonstration in his city, that he staged a service the previous night (the 9th) supporting the city's diverse population and its Muslim citizens in particular. Andres Ekhem, the Pastor, stated that he wanted to express solidarity with them and also "express joy for our city and our Muslim friends".
"There is strong support for diverse cultures in Malmö and it is important that the church is there to support that," he said.
"You can choose to stay silent and let them give a voice to something you don't accept. Or, we can choose to show what we believe in, which is a multi-religious society where everyone is given the freedom to preach their own religions." Pastor Ekhem received some criticism for his service, including 'more or less clear threats', according to an interview he gave with Sydsvenkan.
Pegida's Cant about Kant
One of Pegida's slogans is Kant Statt Koran: 'Kant instead of Qu'ran', referring to the great 18th century German Enlightenment philosopher, Immanuel Kant. Kant is one of the most brilliant European philosophers, and his ideas are still very influential today. He was one of the first to suggest that the Earth and the solar system were formed by condensing out of a primordial gas, an idea that has been confirmed by contemporary science and the study of the evolution of stars. He also believed that the human conscience pointed to the existence of God. The pangs of conscience one felt, he argued, were like someone knocking at your door. The implication is that in the case of the human soul, that someone is the Almighty.
You wonder what Kant, a man of the Enlightenment, would think of Pegida. Many of Enlightenment philosophers were religious sceptics, either Deists, like Voltaire, or outright atheists, like Mably and Diderot. The philosophes were revolted by the horrors committed by the Wars of the Religion in the 16th and 17th centuries, which pitched Protestant against Roman Catholic, and the adherents of Protestant sects and denominations against each other. They strongly argued for religious freedom and toleration.
The philosophes' hostility to revealed religion eventually led in turn to the abolition of Christianity and its vicious persecution in the name of the Goddess of Pure Reason during the French Revolution. When the Revolution broke out, however, its supporters believed it would usher in a new age of complete freedom of conscience. The new rights, liberties and virtues inaugurated by the Revolution was celebrated in a series of playing cards. These included the card right at the head of this article. It says 'Liberty of Cults', and includes some of the holy books of the great Abrahamic faiths. Along with the Christian Gospels, there is the Talmud for Judaism, and the Qu'ran for Islam.
This pack of cards was also way ahead of its time in celebrating racial equality. Both rationalist philosophes and evangelical and reforming Christians, like the Quakers, Methodists, and the evangelical wing of the Anglican Church, were revolted by the cruelty inflicted on Africans by the slave trade. The French Revolutionaries initially freed the slaves in their colonies, only for it to be put back by Napoleon. This card is entitled 'Egalite des Couleurs' – Equality of the Colours, and shows a Black man with a gun. Alongside is the word 'Courage'. The message is clear. Far from being degraded savages, who deserved their enslavement, Black people were every bit as courageous and deserving of freedom as Whites.
These cards together show the new ideas of racial and religious liberty and equality, which were part of the intellectual ferment of Kant's age. Looking at them, I doubt whether Kant would have had much time for the bigotry and xenophobia of groups like Pegida.
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The Historical Accuracy of the New Testament: A Reply to Atomic Mutant
I had this comment from an atheist blogger, Atomic Mutant:
'It's pretty hard to someone in Israel getting the layout of Jerusalem wrong, but that doesn't mean, that the events described have really happened. The four gospels are NOT independent accounts, please do some research about how they are based on Mark and the Q source. And of course, the people then did NOT often live to become 50, 60 or older, so no, most eye witnesses were long dead when even the first gospel was written. And it's stil just a text by a religious fanatic, nothing more. The fact that noone else seems to have noticed these important events (and details like the murdering of thousands of children) sheds more than a little doubt on this story…'
Let's deal with criticisms, point by point.
Point 1:
The four gospels are NOT independent accounts, please do some research about how they are based on Mark and the Q source.
Actually, I'm well aware of the issues surrounding 'Q' and the supposed primacy of Mark's Gospel. In fact, the issue of 'Q' has been debated since it was first suggested way back in the 18th century. Despite this and the loud noises made by the Jesus Seminar, the Q document has never been found. Some of the people I've spoken to have suggested that it may never have physically existed, but been a piece of oral tradition. As for Mark, it's believed to be based on the preaching of St. Peter. In the Patristic period, however, it was regarded as a condensed version of Matthew, and there are still some scholars, who defend Matthew as the first Gospel. N.T. Wright, the former Anglican Bishop of Durham and New Testament scholar, deals with these issues and that of form criticism in general in his book, The New Testament and the People of God. So yes, I have done my research.
As for the Evangelists drawing on 'Q' or 'Mark' invalidating the statement that they are independent Gospel accounts, each Gospel writer deals with the material in a slightly different way to produce four slightly different, but complementary, views of the Lord's life and ministry. There was an article I believe in one of the Biblical studies journals that took the line that the form of Gospels suggests that they are indeed memorates, people's memories committed to writing.
Now let's deal with point 2:
And of course, the people then did NOT often live to become 50, 60 or older, so no, most eye witnesses were long dead when even the first gospel was written.
This is simply wrong. The average life expectancy was low – perhaps about 30. It certainly does not mean that nobody lived well-beyond that age. People certainly could life to 70 or more. If you want an example from the Middle Ages, there's William the Marshal. Most people in the Middle Ages also had short lives. The average was possibly 30, though in the later Middle Ages it could rise to about 40 or so. Nevertheless, William the Marshal fought off a French attack on Lincoln in the early thirteenth century when he was in his 70s. It also does not mean that the Gospel writers did not take their accounts directly from the eyewitnesses. John's Gospel opens with the statement that it was taken from the disciple, who stood at the foot of the Cross. So that falls as well.
And it's stil just a text by a religious fanatic, nothing more.
This is a bit of temporal chauvinism, nothing more. It assumes that because he describes religious event, he must automatically be wrong. Most people in the Graeco-Roman world lived in a conceptual world filled with the supernatural. You can find omens and other supernatural events in pagan Graeco-Roman histories, such as Josephus. The idea that the Greeks were all highly rational, sceptics has long ago been attacked. See for example the book, The Greeks and the Irrational. You've just taken the assumptions of our own time, and decided that because the Gospels don't fit contemporary received opinion about how the Cosmos works, they must be wrong.
The fact that noone else seems to have noticed these important events (and details like the murdering of thousands of children) sheds more than a little doubt on this story…'
There's little historical material surviving from ancient Palestine, full stop. Just about the only source we had for a very long time, outside of the Bible and Talmud, is Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews. And many Romans or Greeks simply wouldn't have been interested in what a wandering Jewish rabbi taught or was believed about Him. As for Herod killing thousands, nowhere in the Bible does it state how many he killed in Bathlehem. It needn't have been very large. Most villages in the ancient world had populations of about 200. In such a number, how many would actually have been small boys? Probably very few. Now Josephus states that Herod was autocratic, murderous and cruel. He had three of his sons executed. He also states that the old tyrant committed many more atrocities, which he does not describe. Then you have to take into account the class biases of ancient historiography. Ancient and medieval histories concentrated on the actions of great princes, statesmen and members of the ruling classes. By and large they were not interested in what happened to the lower orders. Josephus may well have not written about the Massacre of the innocents, simply because that, as they were members of the peasant and artisan classes, they simply didn't matter as much as what he did to his family.
So, I really don't see these criticism as being valid.
Tags:Atheism, Gospels, Herod, History
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The Historical Accuracy of the New Testament
You regularly hear attacks on the historical accuracy of the Bible, and particularly the New Testament. These consist of statements like 'You can't believe all that. It's all made up'. The opponents and critics of Christianity have been arguing like this since ancient Rome. There is, however, a lot of evidence supporting the Gospel's historical accuracy. These are a few of the arguments. Whole books have been written defending the Gospels. I've tried to make this as short as possible, so that they can be printed and distributed on a single sheet of paper as part of church activities or private study.
Trusting the New Testament
The Gospels are bioi, Graeco-Roman biographies. St. Luke begins his Gospel in the way Greek and Roman authors began serious historical or scientific texts – stating that they have examined the previous sources and then compiled their own account.
The Gospels were written between AD. 64 and the 90s, when many of the witnesses to Christ's life and ministry were still alive.
The Gospels provide four independent accounts of Christ's life and ministry. They were composed earlier, and there are far more copies of them, then contemporary secular Roman biographies of the Roman Emperors. Indeed, some of these are known from only a single coin. A fragment of John's Gospel has been dated from the late 1st century to c. 125 AD. It has been suggested that it may even have come from the scriptorium of the Evangelist himself. This contrasts with the earliest extant copy of one of the biographies of the Caesars, which dates from the 9th century.
The New Testament frequently refers to named individuals, who were still alive at the time they were written. Graeco-Roman culture distrusted purely written accounts of events and facts, and preferred eye-witness testimony where possible.
Ancient Jewish culture stressed the importance of memorising texts. Rabbis' disciples were expected to memorise their masters' teachings.
Anthropological evidence states that the dates when the Gospels were written is too soon after the events for mythological or legendary material to have entered the Gospel stories.
The Gospels also reflect 1st century Jewish life. Many of the questions put before Christ are about issues discussed and debated in contemporary Jewish society, such as the question of divorce. Christ's commandment 'Hear, O Israel, you shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy mind and with all thy soul, and thy neighbour as yourself' is a kelal, a rabbinical short summary of the Law. One of the questions asked during 1st century rabbinical debates was 'Can you summarise the Law while standing on one leg?' Christ's commandment above is an example of the answer to just such a question.
The description of Jerusalem in St. John's Gospel corresponds to the layout of the town, especially the Pool of Bethesda and the Temple forecourt as revealed by archaeology. Furthermore, types of the tomb in which Jesus was buried, which were closed by a stone have also been discovered. Christ is also described as deidaskalos – teacher – which is also known from archaeology to have been used of 1st century rabbis.
Tags:Archaeology, Atheism, Gospels, History, New Testament
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Digital Diamonds is proud to present Digital Decade, an ambitious release celebrating ten years of activity in the underground electronic music scene. Compiled by Ben Rama, this release features 10 exceptional remixes of memorable tracks from the label's extensive back catalog, expertly crafted by Digital Diamonds artists past and present. As one of the scene's most active proponents of psychedelic techno it is no surprise to find this style strongly represented here. Alongside several more progressive-leaning tracks that don't shy away from melodies, this well-round release will appeal to fans from across the spectrum. Mastering by Sonic HQs Freiburg, Germany, with artwork by Tim Schienke.
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