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Unacceptable Flaws In the Pearl of Great Price.
By Jerald & Sandra Tanner
In our new book, Flaws in the Pearl of Great Price, we have compiled some very important information concerning (Joseph Smith's book of Doctrine called) the Pearl of Great Price, a book accepted by members of the Mormon Church (The LDS, and the FLDS but not the RLDS) as inspired scripture. It is, in fact, one of the four standard works of the church. Since most of the material contained in the Pearl of Great Price was supposed to have been given to the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith by divine revelation, it is considered more accurate than the Bible.
The "Book of Moses," contained in the first part of the Pearl of Great Price, purports to give an account of the Creation which God originally gave to Moses and later revealed to Joseph Smith. In the 1965 printing of Commentary on the Pearl of Great Price, by George Reynolds and Janne M. Sjodahl, page xi, we read: "we need go no further in our research than to compare the story of the Creation of the earth and Man, and the history thereof down to the time of the Flood as it appears in the Book of Genesis (Old Testament) with these same writings, unimpaired or unmarred by the incidents of time, contained in the Pearl of Great Price, the Writings of Moses. At first they both were the same; the one (Genesis) effaced by the wisdom and carelessness of men, the other as it was revealed by God through the Prophet Joseph Smith."
The second part of the Pearl of Great Price contains The "Book of Abraham." It was supposed to have been written on papyrus by Abraham himself about 4,000 years ago! According to Mormon officials, this same papyrus fell into Joseph Smith's hands and he began translating it in 1835.
The Pearl of Great Price also contains Joseph Smith's "inspired translation of a portion of the book of Matthew, his own story concerning how God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ appeared to him, and how an angel from God revealed that it some gold plates were buried near his home. Smith "translated" these plates and published the contents under the title, the Book of Mormon.
The Pearl of Great Price concludes with Joseph Smith's "Articles of Faith." The Pearl of Great Price was first published in book form in 1851 by Apostle Franklin D. Richards. Prior to Richard's compilation, portions of the text he used had been published in early Mormon publications. In 1880, the Pearl of Great Price was canonized and at that time became one of the four standard works of the church.
"DRASTICALLY CHANGED"
One of the problems (The writer is soft peddling the nature of these heretical writings.) relating to the Pearl of Great Price is the serious changes (See if the tripe written by Joseph Smith were "Inspired" the Mormon leaders would have been terrified to alter a single word but by the fact that they have time and again alters major portions of this "Revelation" shows that they themselves do not believe for one minute these words are inspired , rather they believe that this book is their organizations charter that can be and needs to be amended from time t time) that have appeared in the text since it was published in 1851. Like Paul Dunn's stories, new elements have been added to the text which ARE NOT in the original handwritten manuscript when it was first dictated. The portion of the Pearl of Great Price which has had the most drastic alterations made in it is the "Book of Moses." The Book of Moses is actually only a part of a far larger work known as the "Inspired Version" of the Bible. Mormon Apostle Bruce R. McConkie stressed that the Inspired Version was given to Joseph Smith by revelation:
"In consequence, at the command of the Lord and while acting under the spirit of revelation, the Prophet (Joseph Smith) corrected, revised, altered, added to, and deleted from the King James Version of the Bible to form what is now commonly referred to as the Inspired Version of the Bible (This is not the book of Mormon this is a separate Bible Translation written by a man who in court was proven to have no knowledge of Greek Hebrew much less Egyptian)…. The first 151 verses of the Old Testament, down to Genesis 6:13, are published as the Book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price. But (Not what is in the bible – this text is purported to have been) restored by the Prophet (Joseph Smith) the true (Smith inspired) rendition contains about 400 verses and a wealth of new doctrinal knowledge and historical data…. the marvelous flood of light and knowledge revealed through the Inspired Version of the Bible is one of the great evidences of the divine mission of Joseph Smith." (Mormon Doctrine, 1979, pp. 383-84)
Actually, the Inspired Version of the Bible has been the (a continual) source of much embarrassment for the Mormon Church leaders. It was never published during Joseph Smith's lifetime. In fact, his wife, Emma, retained the manuscript and would not give it to Willard Richards, who had been sent by Brigham Young to obtain it (She with many of the early leaders stayed in Mo. And formed the RLDS – rejecting Brigham Young and the LDS as Heretics)(see History of the Church, vol. 7, p. 260). Mormon Church leaders were never able to obtain the original manuscripts of the Inspired Version from Joseph Smith's widow. She, in fact, turned them over to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS)--an offshoot of the Mormon Church. This was a great blow to the Mormon leaders because they considered the Reorganized Church to be an "apostate" organization.
To the chagrin of the Mormon leaders, in 1867 the Reorganized Church published Joseph Smith's Inspired Version of the Bible. Brigham Young was very opposed to the idea of members of his church receiving the Revelation from an "apostate" organization. Apostle Orson Pratt, on the other hand, wanted to accept it, and this caused some conflict with President Young.
After the Inspired Version was published by the Reorganized Church, it became obvious that there were serious discrepancies between it and the chapters the Mormon Church (The LDS version) had published in 1851 in the Pearl of Great Price. According to James R. Harris, of the Mormon Church's Brigham Young University, Brigham Young felt that the Reorganized Church's publication was fraudulent (Despite them having the original notes which threatened the LDS's legitimacy): "The minutes of the School of the Prophets indicate that President Brigham Young regarded the Revision 'spurious' and that he brought Elder (Orsen) Pratt to some level of agreement with his position." (Brigham Young University Studies, Summer 1968, p. 374, n. 23) President Young, on the other hand, had "high regard" for the first edition of the Pearl of Great Price (see The Story of the Pearl of Great Price, by James R. Clark, p. 205). After President Young passed away, the church leaders completely repudiated his (Brigham Young's) ideas concerning the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of these books, for they (The LDS) changed the text of the Pearl of Great Price (Their made up version) to agree with the Reorganized Church's (RLDS version or the Pearl and the Joseph Smith's bible translation) printing of the Inspired Version. In his M. A. thesis written at Brigham Young University in 1958, James R. Harris acknowledged that "every major change in the American edition [i.e., the 1878 edition of the Pearl of Great Price] appears in identical form in the Inspired Revision." ("A Study of the Changes in the Contents of the Book of Moses From the Earliest Available Sources to the Current Edition" typed copy, page 225)
The fact that the Mormon Church leaders changed the text of the Pearl of Great Price to agree with the Inspired Version indicates that they felt the "apostate" Reorganized Church had a more accurate version of the scriptures than they did! They, therefore, put more trust in the publication by the Reorganized Church than they did in the word of President Brigham Young, the 2nd Prophet, Seer and Revelator of the church. It is rather interesting to note that Brigham Young died in 1877, and before a year had passed the new altered edition of the Pearl of Great Price was published. It is also significant that Orson Pratt, the apostle who disagreed with President Young over the accuracy of the Inspired Revision, was the editor of the 1878 edition.
In any case, in his M. A. thesis, James R. Harris freely admitted that the text of the Pearl of Great Price was "drastically" altered in 1878:
"Orson Pratt was the Editor of the first American edition of the Pearl of Great Price… The American edition was more drastically changed than any previous publication by a member of the Church." ("A Study of the Changes in the Contents of the Book of Moses typed copy, p. 226)
"From the standpoint of omissions and additions of words, the American Edition is the most spectacular rendition…. Some of tire words added to the American edition had impressive doctrinal implications." (Ibid., pp. 224-25)
Although James R. Harris admits that serious changes were made in the Pearl of Great Price, he feels that Joseph Smith himself made the changes in manuscripts he worked on before his death. In other words, he believes that when the Mormon leaders changed the text of the Pearl of Great Price in 1878, they were bringing it into conformity with changes Joseph Smith made in the manuscripts during his lifetime. Richard P. Howard, Church Historian for the Reorganized Church, has released information which gives support to Dr. Harris' idea. Howard, who has had access to the original manuscripts, shows that there were a number of different manuscripts involved in the production of the Inspired Version of the Bible and that Joseph Smith often revised his own revisions and left the manuscripts in a very confused state: "Many texts reveal that the process was not some kind of automatic verbal or visual revelatory experience on the part of Joseph Smith. He often caused a text to be written in one form and later reworded his initial revision. The manuscripts in some cases show a considerable time lapse between such reconsiderations…
"A considerable number of places in NT #2 [as Mr. Howard now numbers the manuscripts] show that initially Joseph Smith considered certain texts in the King James Version to be either correct or in need of slight revision, but that on later consideration he decided to amend them further. Since the manuscript pages were already written and filled to the extent that the later corrections could not be included, the problem was solved by writing the text out on a scrap of paper and pinning or sewing it to the appropriate manuscript page." (Restoration Scriptures: A Study of Their Textual Development, 1969, pp. 93, 96)
"Therefore OT #13 represents a third draft manuscript of… Genesis 1-7, a second draft manuscript of Genesis 8-24:42a, and a first draft manuscript of the remainder of the Old Testament, although revised considerably by interpolations written in later years between the lines and on separate scraps of paper pinned to the manuscript pages." (Ibid., p. 106) "…the manuscripts indicate rather clearly that Joseph Smith, Jr., by his continued practice of revising his earlier texts as many as three times, demonstrats that he (Joseph Smith) did not believe that at any of those points of rerevision he had dictated a perfectly inerrant text by the power or voice of God…. It is thus unnecessary and could be misleading to appear to claim 'direct' revelation in the determination of the entire text of the Inspired Version as the preface written for the 1867 edition apparently implied." (page 151)
Richard P. Howard's admission that Joseph Smith rerevised his earlier text "as many as three times" is certainly a serious indictment against Joseph Smith's work and plainly shows that his "Inspired Version" is anything but inspired. The fact that he could not make up his mind shows that he was tampering with the Scriptures according to his own imagination rather than receiving revelation from God. Mormon writer Truman G. Madsen also admitted that Joseph Smith "often revised a passage, later added to or amended it, and then, in a third attempt, clarified it further." (Improvement Era, March 1970, p. 70)
The many changes that had to be made in the "inspired" renderings found in the Pearl of Great Price tend to undermine confidence in Joseph Smith's work. As we indicated earlier, the most drastic revision of the Pearl of Great Price was made in 1878. In our new book, Flaws in the Pearl of Great Price, we have photographically reproduced the original 1851 edition of the Pearl of Great Price and carefully compared it with the church's official 1989 printing. All of the changes that have been made have been noted in handwriting. The reader, therefore, can plainly see all of the words that were added, deleted or changed.
MOSES OR JOSEPH?
As one reads the first section of the Pearl of Great Price (the "Book of Moses") the question arises as to whether the words were actually spoken to Moses by God over 3,000 years ago or if they came from the fertile imagination of someone who lived in the 19th century. To those familiar with the Bible, the phraseology of the document has the ring of ancient scripture. Unfortunately, however, it sounds just too much like the King James Version, which was first published in 1611. Many of the verses, in fact, have been plagiarized from the book of Genesis. We have used the Mormon Church's own computer program, The Computerized Scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to help us locate the verses which have been borrowed from the Bible. In Flaws in The Pearl of Great Price, Appendix 2, we show a large number of verses that have obviously been taken from Genesis. The most serious problem, however, is that material has also been taken from the New Testament. In our book, Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book Of Mormon, we have dealt with the presence of New Testament quotations in Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon, and since the situation is analogous to that found in the Book of Moses, we quote the following from our book:
"It is very clear from the contents of the Book of Mormon that while the author was not a trained Bible scholar, he was rather familiar with the contents of the King James Version of the Bible. Although Mormon apologists are reluctant to face the facts, the evidence shows that Joseph Smith had the ability and the Biblical knowledge required to write the Book of Mormon. According to Smith's earliest account of his life, written in 1832, he claimed he began studying the Bible when he was only about 12 years old….9 (This is utterly incorrect Smith did not write the Book of Mormon Smith originally was hired on as a circus hand to work his sleight of hand for a scheme created by Judge Solomon Spaulding who also was a Lawyer, and Oliver Cowdery a prolific writer and newspaper editor of a half-dozen upstate New York Newspapers. The presence of these two men alone who become Joseph Smith's "two witnesses" and his chief "two prophets" alone should raise one's eyebrows. Judge Spaulding a lawyer appears to be the mastermind of the entire scam, and it appears that the man had spent quite some time combing federal and state law of the day to see how for he could go with a religious con without he or his prophet Smith being able to be arrested. And Cowdery was not only the scribe that was needed to pen the book of Mormon but this man was a publicist. he was the scheme's Madison Avenue machine of his day to see to it that 1) their prophet got all the good press he could get with his connections. 2) he was also the man that dreamed up many of Smith's early photo-ops.)
"From letters and comments we have received, it is obvious that many believers in the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon do not have a correct understanding of the plagiarism issue with regard to that book. They often point out that some portions of the Bible are similar or even identical to other portions and feel that this demonstrates there is no problem with the Book of Mormon using parts of the Bible. It is true, of course, that such similarities do occur. For instance, many of the words of Jesus are taken from the Old Testament. In Deuteronomy 8:3 the following words of Moses are given: '…man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth he live.' In Matthew 4:4 these words are attributed to Jesus: 'But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.' Since we have evidence that the book of Deuteronomy was in existence before the time of Christ from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint translation of the Bible made in [the] third century B. C., it is obvious that Jesus could have quoted from it. There are, in fact, many quotations from it in the New Testament, and this is the very thing we should expect to find…. in the examples we have cited from the Bible, all of the cases of copying can be explained by simply stating the obvious fact that the authors used some known and available work. The problem with regard to the Book of Mormon, however, is that it (Purports to contain the words of) ancient Nephites making extensive quotations from works (Old Testament and New Testament books) that were not even in existence at that time (that these supposed Nephites of the book of mormon lived) . In fact, in the 1st and 2nd books of Nephi, the writings of the New Testament are cited 600 years before they were written!…
"To those who really consider the matter, it should be obvious that the presence of many portions of the New Testament in the Book of Mormon is more (than a little) out of place —These (New Testament Passages) words alone would be enough to prove the speech (The entire book or Mormon) a forgery.
Further in the Book of Mormon we have also have Lehi quoting from the New Testament book of Revelation almost seven centuries before it was written! (The first quotation appears on the second page of the Book of Mormon and is dated 'About 600 B. C.' The book of Revelation is believed to have been written about A.D. 90.)
"It is clear that the author (Spaulding Cowdery and Smith) of the Book of Mormon was holding a King James Version of the Bible in his hand when he (They) produced it. (The problem with these three men is try as they might they were not men of Scripture – so when they first got out of the box they needed some bible preachers to mark their teachings and they hit the jackpot with Parley Pratt, Simon Rigdon and Orsen who wrote their restorative gospel – it is interesting to note that their early bible preachers did not quote the book of mormon in their sermons or writings they stuck to the bible – they only spoke or the Prophet the golden bible and the restoration of tongues prophecy and gifts in their meetings)
He (The modern author fancying himself to be Lehi), therefore, could not have lived in 600 B.C.. When all the evidence is examined, it is evident that he actually lived in 1830 (the writer is referring to Smith)–some 2,430 years after Lehi was supposed to have fled from Jerusalem." (Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon, pages 75, 79-81)
As we have already pointed out, Joseph Smith's Book of Moses is also filled with material that has been plagiarized from the New Testament. Moses 6:52, for example, has quotations from a number of New Testament passages. Below we have set this verse in regular type and added similar material found in New Testament verses in bold type inside brackets:
"52 And he also said unto him [Adam]: If thou wilt turn unto me, and hearken unto my voice, and believe, and repent of all thy transgressions, and be baptized [and be baptized–Acts 2:38], even in water, in the name of mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth [only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth-John 1:14], which is Jesus Christ [which is Jesus Christ–I Corinthians 3:11], the only name which shall be given under heaven, whereby salvation shall come [there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved–Acts 4:12] unto the children of men, ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost [ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost–Acts 2:38], asking all things in his name, and whatsoever ye shall ask, it shall be given you [Whatsoever ye shall ask… he will give it you–John 16:23]." (Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses 6:52)
In Flaws in the Pearl of Great Price, Appendix 1, the reader will find over 150 parallels (quotes and references) between the New Testament (And even far more damning is the quotes in the book or Mormon are not from the ancient Greek texts but from the modern King James Bible translation.) and the Book of Moses. There are undoubtedly other parallels that could be pointed out, but this should be sufficient to convince the reader of the modern origin of "Book of Moses." All of the evidence points to the inescapable conclusion that the Mormon prophet was not working with an ancient text dating back to the time of Moses; instead he was borrowing from the King James Version of the Bible. Joseph Smith's "Book of Moses" clearly bears all the earmarks of a spurious document and reminds us of the works of Paul Dunn. Like Dunn, Smith combined elements from more than one source to create his story of the early history of the world. He appropriated a large number of verses from the Old Testament, modified them to serve his own purposes and then added elements from a number of books in the New Testament.
In Mormonism–Shadow or Reality? we have a chart showing that there is a great deal of manuscript evidence for the Bible. Some of it, in fact, dates back even before the time of Christ! Joseph Smith's Book of Moses, on the other hand, is without documentary support. The only handwritten manuscripts for the Book of Moses are those dictated by Joseph Smith in the early 1830's.
As we have noted earlier, the Reorganized LDS Church has the original manuscripts of the Inspired Revision. Richard Howard, RLDS Church Historian, spent a great deal of time examining these manuscripts and seems to have concluded that the "Christian" material and the idea of putting the narrative into the first person came from the mind of Joseph Smith:
"Viewing these subjects as he did from the vantage point of his own Christian background, Joseph Smith quite naturally would have tended to read into the symbolic pre-Christian language of the Old Testament certain uniquely Christian meanings. Therefore the content of all three of the documents comprising OT #1… reflects the nineteenth century theological terminology of (Judge Spaulding Oliver Cowdery and) the prophet Joseph Smith. For example, references to the Holy Ghost and to the Only Begotten–terms arising from the early Christian community–help one to see that even at this early stage of development the text in a sense represents Joseph Smith's studied theological commentary on the King James Version of the early Genesis chapters of the Bible.
"This has been most difficult for students to perceive because of his practice, throughout the first… and the second… documents of OT #1, of phrasing the language in the first person singular, portraying God himself speaking to Moses the very words which, in turn, were apparently being apprehended verbally by Joseph Smith and dictated to his scribe in 1830, nearly three thousand years later. However, Joseph's heavy reliance on the early seventeenth century Elizabethan English language and style of the King James Version throughout this second document makes this verbal inspiration approach to the language of the early Genesis chapters of his New Translation untenable. This becomes even more apparent when one considers the very complex, centuries-long process culminating in the King James text of 1611." (Restoration Scriptures, page 77)
As we have indicated earlier, the second part of the Pearl of Great Price contains the "Book of Abraham." It was supposed to have been written on Egyptian papyrus by Abraham himself about 4,000 years ago! According to Mormon officials, this same papyrus fell into Joseph Smith's hands and he began translating it in 1835. If the papyrus were really written by Abraham, its discovery was probably one of the most important finds in the history of the world. To say that the papyrus would be worth a million dollars would be greatly underestimating its value, for it would be older than any portion of the Bible.
For many years Joseph Smith's collection of papyri was lost and there was not way to check the accuracy of his translation. However on Nov. 27, 1967, the Mormon-owned Deseret News made a startling announcement that the collection had been rediscovered in the (New York) Metropolitan Museum of Art. The article went on to say: "Included in the papyri is a manuscript identified as the original document from which Joseph Smith had copied the drawing which he called 'Facsimile No. 1' and published with the Book of Abraham." The importance of this find cannot be overemphasized; it, in fact, made it possible to put to Joseph Smith's ability as a translator of ancient Egyptian writing to an absolute test.
Although the Mormon Church tried to slow down the dissemination of material with regard to the Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri, within six months from the time the (New York) Metropolitan Museum gave the papyri to the (LDS) church, the Book of Abraham had been proven (to be) untrue! The fall of the Book of Abraham was brought about by the identification of the actual piece of papyrus from which Joseph Smith claimed to "translate" the book.
The identification of this fragment as the original from which Joseph Smith claimed to translate the Book of Abraham has been made possible by a comparison with Joseph Smith's Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar–handwritten documents by Joseph Smith's scribes which we photographically reproduced in 1966. Noted Egyptologists Richard A. Parker and Klaus Baer have translated this papyrus fragment and found that it is in reality the Egyptian Book of Breathings. (And Subsequently) other Egyptologists have (also) confirmed that It (Joseph Smith's Papyri that the prophets claimed to be the book or Abraham) was nothing (of the sort) but the Book of Breathings. Even Mormon apologist Hugh Nibley has admitted this identification. In fact, he has even made his own re-translation of the text (ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics) (see The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment, p. 18-45).
It is obvious, therefore, that the papyrus Joseph Smith claimed was the "Book of Abraham" is (and at all times was) in reality an Egyptain funerary text (Papyri) known as the "Book of Breathings." (This Papyrus) is a pagan document, which is filled with magical practices and the names of Egyptian gods and goddesses. It has absolutely nothing to do with,(and never had a single word in it about) either Abraham or his religion.
As in the case of the "Book of Moses," Joseph Smith (simply) plagiarized extensively from the Old Testament in creating his "Book of Abraham." He modified many of the verses which he lifted from the King James Version of the Bible.
The RDLS or as they now call themselves the "Community of Christ" reject the writings of Joseph Smith that are embodied in the Pearl of Great Price. One would believe that that is somehow related to this glaring admission that the "Sacred Scroll that Joseph Smith Had received from an Angel and he only had a sketch of had been in fact hanging decade after decade in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Apparently Smith and his henchmen had seen a photo of the scroll of sent someone in person down to New York City to make a copy of it. Then they set to work gleaning bible passages and manufacturing a new book of the bible. "the bible" and palmed it off to his followers for the remainder of his life real books of the bible that were a show piece for his divine laws that were to govern all of the Mormon Church – then how can they still with a straight face say they believe Joseph Smith's tale of how he obtained and came to translate the "Golden Bible" which he later hailed as the Book of Mormon?
The question comes if the RDLS can see that Joseph Smith lied in his reception of this text, if the RLDS can see that Joseph Smith and his cronies manufactured an entire book of
The answer is that the leadership is damned if they do and damned if they don't. If they admit that the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith was an utter fraud they stand to lose the entire ranch. And if they don't confess the truth before God and Men they have accepted eternal damnation for the fake hollow church that they seek to shroud themselves with. In truth these men are seven-fold the merchants and hirelings of the denominations that they falsely railed against for 175 years. And they are just as evil and corrupt as their father Joseph Smith.
If these men and women had any love for God or their fellow-Mormons that are riding this ship down they would confess the whole thing – call for a week of fasting and prayer and say look we have a church we have really faithful and great people let us try to take this ship and do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord – they could site Jeroboam the son of Nebat
Strange as it may seem, he used quite a number of the same verses he had previously incorporated into his "Book of Moses." In many cases, however, he altered them in a different way than he had in his earlier work. Some of these changes were made because of his study of the Hebrew language, but a significant number were made because he had changed his views of the Godhead.
Toward the end of his life (June 16, 1844), Joseph Smith gave a speech in which he publicly taught that "the [Hebrew] word Eloheim ought to be in the plural all the was through–Gods." (History of the Church, Vol. 6, p. 476). The word Elohim is used many times in Genesis. It is found, for example in Genesis 1:3. It is interesting to compare this verse from the King James Version of the Bible with Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible with Joseph Smith's "translation" in the books of Moses and Abraham. In the Bible we read: "And God said, Let there be light…" Joseph Smith changed this to read as follows in Moses 2:3: "And I, God, said: Let there be light…" Notice that Joseph has added the word "I," thus making it even more apparent that the verse is referring to only one God. In the Book of Abraham, however, Joseph Smith completely reversed his position with regard to this matter, for in Abraham 4:3 we read: "And they (the Gods) said: Let there be light…" In our book, Flaws in the Pearl of Great Price, we photographically demonstrate how Joseph Smith continued to cast doubt on his earlier work (the Book of Moses) throughout the 31 verses of Abraham, Chapter 4. In this chapter Joseph Smith consistently translated the word Elohim as "the Gods." In the same book we also show that Smith added elements from other sources into his Book of Abraham. A good example is the fact that he put the "anti-black" doctrine, which was commonly held in his day, into the mouth of Abraham! Until 1978 the Mormon leaders banned blacks from the priesthood and would not let them be married in their temples. The Book of Abraham 1:21-27 was often used to support this discriminatory doctrine. The Book of Moses was also cited because it states that blacks were put under a curse.
While the Pearl of Great Price is filled with problems, the other two books of scripture which Joseph Smith produced are also laced with serious errors. Mormon apologists, of course, would like us to believe otherwise. Milton R. Hunter, for example, made this fantastic claim concerning Joseph Smith's works:
"The Prophet Joseph Smith produced for the world three new volumes of holy scriptures… and, in addition, he revised the Bible. No prophet who has ever lived has accomplished such a tremendous feat. There are only 177 pages in the old Testament attributed to Moses, while Joseph Smith either translated through the gift and power of God or received as direct revelation from Jehovah 835 [pages]." (Deseret News, Church Section, July 18, 1970, p. 14)
While we must agree that Joseph Smith produced a great deal of material that purports to be scripture, it does not appear that this material bears any evidence of divine inspiration. For those who would like to learn more about problems in Joseph Smith's "scriptures," the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants, we recommend our books, Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon and Major Problems of Mormonism. For a very detailed study of the changes, plagiarism and other problems found in the Pearl of Great Price the reader should have our new publication, FLAWS IN THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE….
http://www.alaskandreams.net/ekklesia/Flaws%20In%20the%20Pearl%20of%20Great%20Price.htm
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Q: How do I group collection elements using specific grouping condition? By example:

*

*For a list = (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)

*I want to group elements of this list, based on the following condition:

*If x is divisible by 4, sum it up with adjacent elements

*Expected result = (1, 2, 12, 6, 23)

In java, I'd iterate over collection using for loop:
List<Integer> out = new ArrayList<Integer>();
for (int i = 0; i < in.size() - 2; i++)
{
    if (in.get(i+1) % 4 == 0) {
        out.add(in.get(i) + in.get(i+1) + in.get(i+2)));
        i = i + 2;
    }
    else {
        out.add(in.get(i))
    }
}

Unfortunately, in Scala, I cannot do i = i + 2, because loop index is immutable. Is it like I have to use while loop for this purpose? Or maybe some clever functional way?

A: Just like in Java, you have to iterate over each element. However, instead of updating the result object each step, you return a new object each step based on the result of the previous step and the value.
The problem in your post can be solved with a fold. You give a result to start with and then apply each element to that result to get the final result.
val in = List(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)
in.sliding(3).foldRight(List.empty[Int]){ (row, result) =>
    if ((row(0) % 4) == 0) {
        result
    } else if ((row(1) % 4) == 0) {
        (row(0) + row(1) + row(2)) :: result
    } else {
        row(0) :: result
    }
} toList

Sliding gives a "sliding view" over the List. For example: (1,2,3), (2,3,4), … I used foldRight here, because it is more efficient to add a new element to the beginning of the List instead of at the end.
You could also write a recursive function yourself to solve this problem, which applies the same principle.

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Kaleidescape has updated its movie-server system with Scenes, which enables users to play more than 4000 classic moments from over 700 popular films.
Designed for when you just have time watch some favourite scenes rather than a full movie - or maybe when you want to show off your cinema system to friends - Scenes is based on a growing database of key moments picked by the Kaleidescape team.
The Scenes update is available now, via an automatic update to all Kaleidescape users.
Also on its way as an software update is CinemaScape, which allows Kaleidescape users with 2.35:1 (cinemascope) projectors/screens to automatically fill their screen with all their movie information, without any lens shift being needed.
Not only does this mean more of a user's movie collection can be on display (CinemaScape fits in 12 more titles) but that extra information - director, actors, genre, year of release, rating and runtime - can be shown all at once.
Meanwhile, Kaleidescape users will soon have a new way to control their movie collections - an iPad app due in the ITunes Store from next month.
The free Kaleidescape app will allow users to browse their while still watching movies on the main screen, plus monitor - and control - what's being played on all screens in a multiroom set-up.
We'll be talking to Kaleidescape more later this week about its plans for the UK, where it looks as if we'll follow the US move to allow consumers to back up their own Blu-ray and DVD content - something that could see movie servers becoming a hot new (legal) home entertainment option back in Blighty.


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Making everyday objects smarter to improve our daily lives
February 09, 2021 - Montreal, Quebec
Avatar console designed by the NRC and e2ip technologies
If you're in the hospital, you'll see different controls on your bed for adjusting the mattress angle, bed height or lighting. At home, switches and knobs on your appliances can set temperatures and timers, or select custom features. Even gas pumps at service stations have an array of buttons for choosing types of fuel or payment methods.
These small objects, which have a great impact on our lives, are used extensively and can be time-consuming and onerous to keep working properly, clean and in good condition. But this innovative, cost-effective solution developed by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and industry collaborator, Montréal-based e2ip technologies, is transforming the way we interact with things that surround us.
The new creation, called overmoulded smart parts (OSP) manufacturing, uses molecular ink, patented by the NRC and e2ip, to print electronic circuits and sensors onto 2D sheets of thin plastic that are formed and overmoulded in protective plastic to create "smart surfaces," a patent-pending NRC–e2ip developed process. The smooth surfaces, which are tough, water repellent and chemical-resistant, bring complex controls within easy reach. These easy-to-maintain and -clean devices can be built into bedframes, appliances, car doors and airplane seats, where they can be cleaned with a quick spray and wipe.
"The notion of using printed electronics to create control interfaces, instead of assembled circuits of wires, chips and other components, has been considered for many years but remained explorative and unscalable," says Eric Saint-Jacques, CEO of e2ip technologies, a company that provides advanced material-science solutions to world leaders in the aerospace, medical, industrial and transportation industries. He adds that "the science required to transform this notion into functional systems could only be accomplished with the NRC's leading scientists and resources. Working with NRC experts and facilities has been a transformative opportunity for e2ip to meet our customers' rising demand for innovative solutions."
"Over a 5-year period working on the materials-science challenge with the NRC's Security and Disruptive Technologies Research Centre in Ottawa and the manufacturing-process side with the Automotive and Surface Transportation Research Centre in Boucherville, we developed a fully validated prototype that has just entered production planning"
Mr. Saint-Jacques.
Pooling talent and brains for smart solutions
The NRC's Arnold Kell, a research officer with the Security and Disruptive Technologies team, says this process now provides the opportunity to interact with our surroundings in many ways through touch interfaces. "The development of overmoulded smart parts (OSP) hinge on the performance of molecular inks. Because the conductive traces produced from the inks can be stretched to twice their length and remain functional, OSPs with cutting-edge designs and unique functionality are now possible," he says. Dr. Kell adds that the "spirit of creativity" among various NRC research centres and intellectual property and business development teams, as well as e2ip's industry researchers, ensured the development of a truly original and disruptive solution to the challenge presented by industry.
Paul Trudeau, Senior Research Council Officer at the Automotive and Surface Transportation Research Centre, explains that production of the smart surfaces replaces traditional injection moulding with reaction injection moulding, which is a less traumatic approach. The liquid polymers can be injected at lower temperatures and lower pressures, so the internal printed hardware is not stressed during manufacturing. These injected clear liquids allow for controlled light transmission within the part, and possess excellent resistance to aging and ultraviolet exposure.
"The controls are housed within 2 inner skins that are overmoulded with resin, encapsulating the electronic components," adds Trudeau. The cost of such solutions can be 40 to 50% less than traditional configurations, while taking up less room and weighing a fraction of the weight.
A winning concept for the aerospace industry
To demonstrate the manufacturing process, the NRC and e2ip have designed a console dubbed "Avatar" for executive-class seats in high-end aircraft. It is an assembly of printed buttons, dials, displays and other functions housed in a single part that is only 2.5 mm thick. "There are no moving parts; everything is done with conductive sensors that give you feedback as you use them," adds e2ip's Mr. Saint-Jacques. "The seat-mounted device allows you to control stereo, video, Bluetooth and other functions with the touch of a finger."
Both collaborators were honoured when Avatar won the aerospace industry's Crystal Cabin Award in the Materials & Components category on March 30, 2021. The annual Crystal Cabin Award is the only international award for excellence in aircraft interior innovation and is an initiative of the Hamburg Aviation cluster. This award represents a great accomplishment that demonstrates how smart concepts can be transformed into innovative solutions through collaborative R&D.
From concept to construction, the project team continues to rethink the boundaries between technology and design to deliver an innovative human-machine interface, a user interface or dashboard that connects a person to a machine with smart-surface solutions. And such broad-based teamwork will ensure that the creative ideas continue to flow. "This disruptive technology will completely transform the surfaces we touch in our everyday lives and simplify how we interact with our physical environment," concludes Mr. Trudeau.

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What's happening on the C++0x front?
The wheels of the standards committee, I have said more than once, do grind slowly, but exceedingly fine. Apologies to probably Longfellow, though I might be mistaken. Anyway, progress continues on the next version of the standard and there are some details still to settle. Anthony Williams has written a nice summary of the October Mailing (in preparation for a November Meeting) along with some helpful links. He points out that generating move constructors (as compilers do today for copy constructors), as required by the Final Committee Draft (FCD) could break some existing code, so discussions are planned on restricting (or dropping) this implicit generation. I like knowing that people are putting this level of thought into language changes instead of just issuing a Breaking Changes list and expecting me to go edit my code accordingly.
He also highlights situations where people are deliberately throwing exceptions from a destructor (gasp! I know!) and their working code will break unless they change it say they intend to throw exceptions from their destructor. You would think that this was a tiny population of people, and that marking their code in this way is no big deal, but C++ philosophy is that working code with defined behaviour should continue to be working code with defined behaviour in the latest version of the language. As you can see, that can really be a challenge sometimes.
If you're a C++ person, I challenge you to read the papers Anthony links to. If you can't understand a word of them, you're missing a lot of what C++ is these days. While talk of "implicit invariants", rvalues, and a "throwing move" may take some effort to decipher, I think it's worthwhile. C++ is a language in which performance and correctness are both paramount. That's why the developers are expected to manage lifetimes themselves, explicitly state whether they want shallow or deep copies, and so on. Template libraries simplify much of this (shared_ptr and unique_ptr are the death knell for the characters d-e-l-e-t-e in my code) but understanding those lifetime issues, understanding rvalues and lvalues, understanding when temporaries are created and deleted are all fundamental to being a C++ developer. Understanding those things lets you write better C++ code than you otherwise would. I know there are other languages in which your understanding doesn't matter because it is always done the same way. I also know that the control offered by C++ enables performance gains in specific situations where the developer knows better. These things can both be true at once, and can make other languages a better fit for certain developers or for certain business problems. They are also what makes C++ a better fit for some developers and some business problems. But if you don't have those understandings, if you don't want to control your application at that level, then why are you using C++? Use something simpler that can't be controlled the way C++ can.
For those who are using C++ "on purpose", who are "unrepentant" as I say in other of my talks, knowing the language at this level is key to being good at it. Would you say that "Implicit Move Must Go" or not?
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Everybody Razzle Dazzle Peter Blake creates new commissioned artwork for Liverpool. Liverpool Biennial, 14-18 NOW WW1 Centenary Art Commissions and Tate Liverpool have co-commissioned one of the major figures of British pop art, Sir Peter Blake, to 'dazzle' a Mersey Ferry in partnership with Merseytravel and National Museums Liverpool.
This is the third in the series of Dazzle Ship commissions, following Induction Chromatique à Double Fréquence pour l'Edmund Gardner Ship / Liverpool. Paris 2014 by Carlos Cruz-Diez on the Liverpool Waterfront, and Tobias Rehberger's Dazzle Ship on the River Thames in London.
Sir Peter's design entitled Everybody Razzle Dazzle will cover the Mersey Ferry Snowdrop, surrounding the passenger vessel with a distinctive pattern that can be seen for the next two years, as it continues its commuter service, River Explorer and Manchester Ship Canal Cruises; making this the first of the Dazzle Ship commissions to be a working vessel. Peter Blake (b. 1932) is a leading figure in the development of British pop art and his work is synonymous with the use of imagery from modern culture, including comic books, consumer goods and advertisements. During his career he developed strong links with Liverpool and first visited the city during his National Service with the RAF (1951 – 53). His training required that he travel to Belfast, so he sailed by ferry from Liverpool's iconic waterfront. Highly evocative of Sir Peter's signature pop art style, the design is based on his use of and interest in colour, monochrome and shape.
Unlike other forms of camouflage, dazzle works not by concealing but by baffling the eye, making it difficult to estimate a target's range, speed and direction. Artist Norman Wilkinson, credited with inventing the technique, explained that dazzle was intended primarily to mislead the enemy; each ship's dazzle pattern, realised in monochrome and colour, was unique in order to avoid making classes of ships instantly recognisable to enemy U- boats and aircraft.
As well as being a moving artwork, visitors who board theSnowdrop can learn more about the history of dazzle and the role that the Mersey Ferries took in the First World War in a display developed by curators from National Museums Liverpool and Tate Liverpool.
An integrated education programme underpins the project and includes a digital resource for schools, online commissions by artists and writers, with opportunities for groups and individuals to visit and participate in the project. Everybody Razzle Dazzle and the accompanying display and education programme have been funded through Arts Council England's Exceptional Awards, which aims to fund projects that deliver great art for everyone.
Sally Tallant, Director of Liverpool Biennial, said: 'It is an honour to commission Sir Peter Blake to revisit the practice of 'dazzle camouflage' and to invite him to paint the Snowdrop – an iconic Mersey Ferry. This is the third vessel that we have co-commissioned with our partners and it is wonderful that we are able to undertake this ambitious project with the support of the Exceptional Awards programme from Arts Council England. Millions of people will have the opportunity to see and engage with the artwork and we are delighted to be able to bring this exciting project to Liverpool.'
Jenny Waldman, Director 14-18 NOW said, '14-18 NOW congratulates Peter Blake on this wonderful artwork, which follows the success of the 'dazzled' Edmund Gardner in Liverpool and HMS President (1918) in London. Snowdrop offers a completely new way for visitors to experience a dazzle ship and learn more about the rich maritime history of Liverpool and the Mersey Ferries during the First World War. We are grateful for the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies.'
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Amanda Page brings many years of experience as a professional leader in delivering clinical pathway redesign and major organisational improvement to ensure patients' experience high quality care and clinical outcomes. Her passion is driving change in pathways to confidently know that people, especially older people, will have a better experience when they are at their most vulnerable. Amanda is also our executive safeguarding lead and has ensured sound governance systems and processes are in place to assure the Governing Body and our public that our provider organisations meet their statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding.
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Medieval strains, Renaissance rhythms
John Pearce November 26 1979
Medieval strains, Renaissance rhythms John Pearce November 26 1979
John Pearce
If people are only as young as they feel, perhaps music is only as old as it sounds.—Peter Hannan, Vancouver recorder player.
Baffin Island, Sept. 3, 1978. The Archbishop of Canterbury is presiding over Evensong at Frobisher Bay. The synod of the Arctic and a congregation of native people are commemorating the first Protestant communion in North America, celebrated here by Martin Frobisher's chaplain in 1578. Appropriately, the music is by Frobisher's Elizabethan contemporaries. The players are the Toronto Consort, flown in by Twin Otter for the occasion. Later they give seven recitals of Renaissance music on Baffin Island before bemused but appreciative audiences. Twice they share the bill with native throatsingers and drum dancers.
This incongruous meeting of sounds was a reflection of the recent explosion
of interest in the vocal and instrumental music of Europe between 1050 and 1650 AD—a trend especially evident in the coming weeks, with Christmas concerts scheduled in Vancouver, Toronto and other centres of interest in "early music." Not long ago, lone academics seemed the sole devotees of this music, as they offered the tentative results of their archive-burrowing to pocket-size audiences. Now they find themselves respectable, popular — and no longer alone. Young professionals have joined them, many dedicated to commercial success in the field, and audiences who once thought Bach "early" are flocking to hear the music of Dowland and Praetorius, Machaut and Dufay. Several years ago, "early music," like "Indian art," was a grab-bag term. Now the styles and personalities of particular composers have come clear.
In Canada there were some early stirrings in the '50s and '60s, notably the Hart House Viols of Toronto, inspired by Wolfgang Grunsky and Christine Mather's Manitoba Consort. Today,
however, most major Canadian cities boast an early music ensemble, amateurs meet in each other's homes, and 15 Canadian universities offer courses in the playing and teaching of early instruments. The Toronto Consort claims a loyal following ranging from surgeons to truck drivers; the Ottawa-based Huggett family, highly successful popularizes, look fora 94-per-cent box-office on their annual home-town appearances at Ottawa's National Arts Centre; the Vancouver Society for Early Music has made a $20,000 investment in early instruments.
Why the interest? In part, it is that audiences and performers want to chart new courses—but not contemporary ones. To them, Stockhausen and punk rock seem about as attractive as Scylla and Charybdis. So there's sheer delight in uncovering an immensely varied repertoire, of great rhythmic and melodic richness, most of it centred on the voice or upon instruments emulating the voice. There's also a choice between medieval pieces, which sound more strident due to their mixture of timbres, and Renaissance music which opts for a gentler blend of sounds. The bottom line may lie with Leslie Huggett's characterization of Renaissance music: "It's toe-tapping, it's tuneful and it doesn't go on for too long."
For the musicians there's the novelty of about 40 unfamiliar instruments, with their Tolkien-like names: shawm, krummhorn, sackbut, rebec, bombard, cittern, vielle . . . There's also escape from the tight rein of the classics, especially when early manuscripts provide a mere skeleton around which to improvise.
Timothy McGee, ex-director of the Toronto Consort, is an impish enthusiast. Now a professor of music himself, he recalls with glee the days when he and friends tried to implement prevail-
ing scholarly theories of performance. The results were often farcial: real medieval instruments and real human lungs and fingers simply wouldn't do what the academics demanded. He's now writing a realistic, though probably controversial, book on the subject.
McGee and other members of the Consort, including Garry Crighton, David Klausner and Alison Mackay, have used the group as a research tool, especially for medieval music. The research necessary to support any early music performance is formidable, but the medievalists have to rely on supersleuthing and inspired guesses: many manuscripts don't even specify whether voices or instruments are to be used.
McGee is a carpenter, and each year he presides over a building workshop where anyone can learn to make a psaltery, a crwth or an S-shaped trumpet. Usually the aim is a precise replica, perhaps of a sackbut in a Nurenberg museum or a rackett housed in Leipzig. "Extinct" instruments pose a problem. One instrument maker reconstructed the four-stringed bowed vielle from close scrutiny of six paintings by Memling. All showed angels holding vielles from different angles. One problem: how tall is an angel?
Demand for early instruments has far outdistanced supply. Craftsmen are often two to 10 years behind with orders. One frustrated client wrote in desperation: "Please, I'm getting old." In Canada more than 15 makers, the majority in B.C., are working to high international standards. One is Edward Turner from Pender Island, who produces superb harpsichords, while in Woburn, Quebec, there's Bob Marvin, said to produce the best Renaissance recorders in the world. Business isn't always small-scale: Regina's David Sarsfield operates a substantial trade in early instruments by mail order.
Darryl Williams, a teacher who lives in Schömberg near Toronto, has all the business he can handle making viols. His instruments range from $1,200 (small) to $2,200 (larger, well ornamented). In Vancouver Ray Nurse charges $1,500 and up for his lutes. In the '60s he ordered a lute from Belgium, didn't like it, and tried to fix it himself. Intrigued, he went to England in 1967 to study with lute makers in Ely. It's no accident that 12 years later the venue for an international symposium of lute makers was Vancouver. Nurse is himself a lutanist and singer of high repute.
Vancouver has good claim to be the capital of early music in Canada; its Early Music Society has blazed a trail for similar societies in Calgary, Seattle
and San Francisco. Under the society's umbrella flourish the groups Hortulani Musicae, founded in 1968 by Nurse, David Skulski and others, and the Vancouver Towne Waytes.
Skulski, a bearded, genial, gnome-like musician, ex-president and ex-executive director of the society and director of the Waytes, explains that the Waytes set out to revivify a sociocultural tradition. The original Waytes, "sounders of the watch" employed by civic governments, gradually took on more ceremonial functions. The Vancouver Waytes imitate this tradition by appearing at banquets and formal occasions, though the City of Vancouver has yet to put them on the payroll. In addition they give regular concerts, tour schools and make records. One, a Renaissance dance record, comes complete with dancing instructions.
Perhaps the best known group in the field, the popular Huggett family, don rich period costumes for their Renaissance entertainments, which include readings and wry commentary as well as music and dance.
Some "serious" practitioners bridle at any mention of the Huggetts, rather
like an English professor asked to "place" James Michener. But the smiling, wholesome Huggetts have done sterling service for Renaissance music—and for the nuclear family—in their extensive tours of Canada and Europe over the past 10 years. The parents, Leslie and Margaret, shoulder much of the research; Andrew is the composer/arranger; Jennifer, Ian and Fiona concentrate on their instruments (everyone plays at least five). Leslie was
once a horn player under Sir Thomas Beecham and Margaret a music teacher, but the children, in their teens and early 20 s, have grown up inside Renaissance and baroque music. And if onstage they place as high a priority on entertainment as on rigorous authenticity, that hardly seems to lose them audiences.
Probably new ensembles will spring up over the next few years; summer workshops for performers are drawing increasing numbers of participants. One day the early music vogue will peak, but there's no sign of that yet.
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The connection terminal of the Divine Alpha includes chrome tri-wiring connectors to provide a perfect fit for the speaker wire. Butterfly nuts made of brass ensure a perfect signal transmission. The internal cables are from Supra in Sweden, produced for XTZ and consist of 99.99% pure copper.
All drivers of the Divine Alpha are protected by metal grills to avoid potential damage. The covers for the tweeter, the midrange driver and the bass drivers are permanently installed and optimally matched to the drivers.
We have chosen an ultra-fast ceramic tweeter (Cell C25-6-158), made for reproducing crystal clear sound, even at high sound pressure levels without any distortion. The tweeter is produced by the German company Accuton, and is an absolute reference class unit. It is shielded, with an internally damped cavity and a ventilated voice coil. The tweeter offers an extremely flat frequency response and a low resonance frequency.
Midrange Driver
XTZ Divine Alpha uses the Accuton C173-T6-090, one of the best (if not the best) midrange drivers in the world and can only be found in extremely high end loudspeakers. The C173-T6-090 is a ceramic driver with a light cone, equipped with a neodymium magnet. The driver is extremely stiff and at the same time light, which contributes to its high sensitivity. The two black dots are far from a design gimmick. Accuton (Thiel & Partner) has put them there for a reason as they suppress a resonance from the cone. The Accuton driver offers the highest quality and highest resolution; this is the reason that this driver is used in the best speakers in the world.
Woofer Driver
For the woofers, we selected two aluminum 10" drivers from the Norwegian company SEAS which has been producing drivers for the last 60 years. These woofers were further developed in partnership with SEAS and this led to a perfectly customized version which is optimized exactly for the Divine Alpha's cabinet. We have added a heavy copper ring above the T-shaped pole piece and a solid aluminum chrome plated phase plug to reduce the non-linear and modulation distortion and increase the overload margin. The woofer has a cone made from pure aluminum. The molded metal basket is a "high flow" type that is acoustically transparent that reproduces sound with great precision due to how it is formed in the molding process. This ensures that the basket is very stable and that it efficiently reduces resonances. The basket is completely non-magnetic, which contributes to the higher efficiency of the driver. A strong magnet combined with the light cone yields high efficiency and a good transient response. The gold-plated terminal reduces contact resistance and serves as an anti-corrosion coating. Large windows in the basket both above and below the spider reduce sound reflection, air flow noise and cavity resonances.
High Quality crossover
When XTZ produced the Divine Alpha a great deal of effort was put into designing the crossover filter. All passive components are of the highest possible quality to minimize any influence on the signal. We use an optimal selection of air wound coils (with low internal resistance) and coils with steel cores (these accept a high level of magnetic saturation), MKP capacitors and MOX resistors. The Divine crossover is basically a 3rd order filter for woofer and 4th order for the tweeter. The exceptionally good Accuton midrange driver led us to this solution. With its chosen roll-off, it contributes to both the low distortion and high power handling characteristics of the speaker.
The Divine Alpha is equipped with XTZ's Room Tuning concept which with simple settings can alter the speaker's sound character. Inserting the two bass plugs into the vented holes opens up different options that will create three different bass variations in the sound. The terminal is equipped with switches that allow adjustment of the tweeter and the bass in two ways or levels.
Alpha is also prepared to be actively driven. You can by-pass the passive crossover and build up to a 3-way active speaker system.
Floor Standing Tower
460W RMS, 920W max
1245 x 352 (418) x 588mm / 48.6" x 13.7" (16, 3") x 23" ( incl. feet)
Tweeter: 1x 25 mm dome tweeter (Ceramic) Midrange: 1x 180mm (7") cone driver (Ceramic) Woofers: 2 x 250 mm (10") cone driver (Aluminium)
24 – 30.000 Hz (+/- 3dB)
NOMINAL IMPEDANCE
4 – 8 Ohm
83 V/1 m), 89 dB (2
250 Hz / 2.500 Hz
XTZ 95.44
₹131,250.00 (Pair)
99.36 FLR
XTZ Spirit 11
M8 Tower


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Etiqueta: connection
Unexpected friends
Publicado el septiembre 18, 2014 septiembre 15, 2014 Publicado en A2, B1, B2, Reading, textEtiquetado como connection, explanation, friendship, relationshipDeja un comentario
You may not have anything in common. On paper it might seem you'd never be friends. But you just… "click."
How does that work? Well one of the reasons is vulnerability.
Allowing yourself to be vulnerable helps the other person to trust you, precisely because you are putting yourself at emotional, psychological, or physical risk. Other people tend to react by being more open and vulnerable themselves. The fact that both of you are letting down your guard helps to lay the groundwork for a faster, closer personal connection. When you both make yourselves vulnerable from the outset and are candid in revealing who you are and how you think and feel, you create an environment that fosters the kind of openness that can lead to an instant connection — a click.
Vulnerability is also the element of clicking you have the most control over and can therefore use to improve how often and how deeply you connect with others.
There's a heirarchy of vulnerability in the types of communication we have, each one being more open and more likely to lead to a solid connection:
Statements with no emotional content: "How are you?"
Share information, maybe personal information, but no strong opinions or emotions are involved: "I live in New York."
Statements show opinions, but they're not core beliefs:"That movie was really funny."
Emotionally based. It's personal, says something deeper about who you are and is focused on feelings:"I'm sad that you're not here."
The most emotionally vulnerable level. Peak statements share your innermost feelings. "…feelings that are deeply revealing and carry the most risk in terms how the other person will respond." These statements are rare, even with people we are very close to: "I guess at heart I'm terrified I'm going to lose you."
Does this really work? Yes.
What makes people connect quickly and deeply is the emotional, personal form of information exchange that promotes feelings of understanding. You can even use it to accelerate the creation of bonds with strangers. It's just a matter of asking the right questions.
Arthur Aron, a psychologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is interested in how people form romantic relationships, and he's come up with an ingenious way of taking men and women who have never met before and making them feel close to one another. Given that he has just an hour or so to create the intimacy levels that typically take weeks, months, or years to form, he accelerated the getting-to-know-you process through a set of thirty-six questions crafted to take the participants rapidly from level one in McAdams's system to level two.
(You can read some of the questions used here.)
But how effective can this be really? In under an hour it can create a connection stronger than a lifelong friendship.
What he found was striking. The intensity of the dialogue partners' bond at the end of the forty-five-minute vulnerability interaction was rated as closer than the closest relationship in the lives of 30 percent of similar students. In other words, the instant connections were more powerful than many long-term, even lifelong relationships.
Having online daters discuss controversial and taboo subjects like STD's and aborton is more effective in building a connection than "safer" topics: Instead of talking about the World Cup or their favorite desserts, they shared their innermost fears or told the story of losing their virginity. Everyone, both sender and replier, was happier with the interaction. Click points out that studies have shown self-disclosure promotes sexual satisfaction and relationship/marital satisfaction. It even helps online daters:
…Match.com members who made an active choice to share more personal information about themselves in their profiles and in communication with others were more likely to experience success in the dating process.
It even makes us feel closer to computers. When Harvard students interacted with a program that opened up to them (it admitted feeling guilty about crashing so often) they liked it more and felt it was more helpful.
This concept resonates with a lot of people. In fact, one of the most popular TED talks of all time is Brené Brown's presentation on vulnerability.


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package com.facebook.buck.zip;

import static com.facebook.buck.zip.ZipOutputStreams.HandleDuplicates.THROW_EXCEPTION;

import com.facebook.buck.event.ConsoleEvent;
import com.facebook.buck.io.MorePaths;
import com.facebook.buck.io.ProjectFilesystem;
import com.facebook.buck.log.Logger;
import com.facebook.buck.model.Pair;
import com.facebook.buck.step.ExecutionContext;
import com.facebook.buck.step.Step;
import com.facebook.buck.step.StepExecutionResult;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
import com.google.common.hash.Hashing;
import com.google.common.io.ByteSource;
import com.google.common.io.ByteStreams;

import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.nio.file.FileVisitResult;
import java.nio.file.FileVisitor;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.SimpleFileVisitor;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;

/**
 * A {@link com.facebook.buck.step.Step} that creates a ZIP archive..
 */
@SuppressWarnings("PMD.AvoidUsingOctalValues")
public class ZipStep implements Step {

  private static final Logger LOG = Logger.get(ZipStep.class);

  private final ProjectFilesystem filesystem;
  private final Path pathToZipFile;
  private final ImmutableSet<Path> paths;
  private final boolean junkPaths;
  private final ZipCompressionLevel compressionLevel;
  private final Path baseDir;

  /**
   * Create a {@link ZipStep} to create or update a zip archive.
   *
   * Note that paths added to the archive are always relative to the working directory.<br>
   * For example, if you're in {@code /dir} and you add {@code file.txt}, you get
   * an archive containing just the file. If you were in {@code /} and added
   * {@code dir/file.txt}, you would get an archive containing the file within a directory.
   *
   * @param pathToZipFile path to archive to create, relative to project root.
   * @param paths a set of files to work on. The entire working directory is assumed if this set
   *    is empty.
   * @param junkPaths if {@code true}, the relative paths of added archive entries are discarded,
   *    i.e. they are all placed in the root of the archive.
   * @param compressionLevel between 0 (store) and 9.
   * @param baseDir working directory for {@code zip} command.
   */
  public ZipStep(
      ProjectFilesystem filesystem,
      Path pathToZipFile,
      Set<Path> paths,
      boolean junkPaths,
      ZipCompressionLevel compressionLevel,
      Path baseDir) {
    this.filesystem = filesystem;
    this.pathToZipFile = pathToZipFile;
    this.paths = ImmutableSet.copyOf(paths);
    this.junkPaths = junkPaths;
    this.compressionLevel = compressionLevel;
    this.baseDir = baseDir;
  }

  @Override
  public StepExecutionResult execute(ExecutionContext context) {
    if (filesystem.exists(pathToZipFile)) {
      context.postEvent(
          ConsoleEvent.severe("Attempting to overwrite an existing zip: %s", pathToZipFile));
      return StepExecutionResult.ERROR;
    }

    // Since filesystem traversals can be non-deterministic, sort the entries we find into
    // a tree map before writing them out.
    final Map<String, Pair<CustomZipEntry, Optional<Path>>> entries = new TreeMap<>();

    FileVisitor<Path> pathFileVisitor = new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {
      private boolean isSkipFile(Path file) {
        return !paths.isEmpty() && !paths.contains(file);
      }

      private String getEntryName(Path path) {
        Path relativePath = junkPaths ? path.getFileName() : baseDir.relativize(path);
        return MorePaths.pathWithUnixSeparators(relativePath);
      }

      private CustomZipEntry getZipEntry(
          String entryName,
          final Path path,
          BasicFileAttributes attr) throws IOException {
        boolean isDirectory = filesystem.isDirectory(path);
        if (isDirectory) {
          entryName += "/";
        }

        CustomZipEntry entry = new CustomZipEntry(entryName);
        // We want deterministic ZIPs, so avoid mtimes.
        entry.setFakeTime();
        entry.setCompressionLevel(
            isDirectory ?
                ZipCompressionLevel.MIN_COMPRESSION_LEVEL.getValue() :
                compressionLevel.getValue());
        // If we're using STORED files, we must manually set the CRC, size, and compressed size.
        if (entry.getMethod() == ZipEntry.STORED && !isDirectory) {
          entry.setSize(attr.size());
          entry.setCompressedSize(attr.size());
          entry.setCrc(
              new ByteSource() {
                @Override
                public InputStream openStream() throws IOException {
                  return filesystem.newFileInputStream(path);
                }
              }.hash(Hashing.crc32()).padToLong());
        }

        long externalAttributes = filesystem.getFileAttributesForZipEntry(path);
        LOG.verbose(
            "Setting mode for entry %s path %s to 0x%08X",
            entryName, path, externalAttributes);
        entry.setExternalAttributes(externalAttributes);
        return entry;
      }

      @Override
      public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs)
          throws IOException {
        if (!isSkipFile(file)) {
          CustomZipEntry entry = getZipEntry(getEntryName(file), file, attrs);
          entries.put(entry.getName(), new Pair<>(entry, Optional.of(file)));
        }
        return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
      }
      @Override
      public FileVisitResult preVisitDirectory(Path dir, BasicFileAttributes attrs)
          throws IOException {
        if (!dir.equals(baseDir) && !isSkipFile(dir)) {
          CustomZipEntry entry = getZipEntry(getEntryName(dir), dir, attrs);
          entries.put(entry.getName(), new Pair<>(entry, Optional.empty()));
        }
        return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
      }
    };

    try (
      BufferedOutputStream baseOut =
          new BufferedOutputStream(filesystem.newFileOutputStream(pathToZipFile));
      CustomZipOutputStream out =
          ZipOutputStreams.newOutputStream(baseOut, THROW_EXCEPTION)) {

      filesystem.walkRelativeFileTree(baseDir, pathFileVisitor);

      // Write the entries out using the iteration order of the tree map above.
      for (Pair<CustomZipEntry, Optional<Path>> entry : entries.values()) {
        out.putNextEntry(entry.getFirst());
        if (entry.getSecond().isPresent()) {
          try (InputStream input = filesystem.newFileInputStream(entry.getSecond().get())) {
            ByteStreams.copy(input, out);
          }
        }
        out.closeEntry();
      }

    } catch (IOException e) {
      context.logError(e, "Error creating zip file %s", pathToZipFile);
      return StepExecutionResult.ERROR;
    }

    return StepExecutionResult.SUCCESS;
  }

  @Override
  public String getDescription(ExecutionContext context) {
    StringBuilder args = new StringBuilder("zip ");

    // Don't add extra fields, neither do the Android tools.
    args.append("-X ");

    // recurse
    args.append("-r ");

    // compression level
    args.append("-").append(compressionLevel).append(" ");

    // unk paths
    if (junkPaths) {
      args.append("-j ");
    }

    // destination archive
    args.append(pathToZipFile.toString()).append(" ");

    // files to add to archive
    if (paths.isEmpty()) {
      // Add the contents of workingDirectory to archive.
      args.append("-i* ");
      args.append(". ");
    } else {
      // Add specified paths, relative to workingDirectory.
      for (Path path : paths) {
        args.append(path.toString()).append(" ");
      }
    }

    return args.toString();
  }

  @Override
  public String getShortName() {
    return "zip";
  }

}

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This case involved an explosion that resulted from a pilot light igniting the contents of a "bug bomb" that burned three of Mr. Marks' clients. Despite Federal law against his clients which otherwise should have had the case thrown out of Court, Mr. Marks succeeded in overcoming legal obstacles that were stacked against him and the case settled for substantially more than it otherwise should have.
This case involved loss of a limb and partial paralysis to Mr. Marks' client. The reason that this case is significant is because Mr. Marks was able to find liability against the defendant's employer and, therefore, brought in a much bigger insurance policy.
This case involved a mentally challenged mother who did not know she was pregnant and wound up giving birth in an emergency room by herself. Her baby developed significant brain damage. Mr. Marks represented the birth parents and, after the baby was adopted, the adoptive parents were so impressed with the attention that Mr. Marks gave to the case and their baby that they decided to hire him to represent the baby as well.
This case involved a frozen shoulder after surgery performed on Mr. Marks' 28 year old client by an orthopedic surgeon who offered no money to settle the case and was convinced that he did nothing wrong.
Numerous settlements ranging from $100,000 to $500,000 in many other personal injury cases involving all types of fact situations.
Numerous policy limit settlements with additional contribution from the defendant.
High-end settlements in soft tissue injury cases.


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General description of the work of a Consultant in Family Planning
The Consultant in Family Planning deals with contraception, termination of pregnancy and sterilisation issues. He/she deals with family planning issues that may be too complicated for the patient's own GP to deal with.
problems related to contraception implants ( eg Implanon)
failure of contraception
failure of sterilisation
problems related to vasectomy
problems related to IUCD devices
The Consultant in Family Planning often is a GP who has specialised in Family Planning. Alternatively he/she may he a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology who has a special interest in Family Planning.
If the Consultant in Family Planning is from a GP background he/she may have MRCGP or FRCGP (Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners) after his/her name. He/She is also likely to have DFFP (Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning) after his/her name.
If he/she is a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology then he/she will have MRCOG or FRCOG (Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetrician and Gynaecologists) after his/her name.
The Consultant in Family Planning may be a Lecturer or Professor in Family Planning at a Medical School. He/She may be an Examiner for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.


Forget what you've heard about mean girls; new research from Florida State University finds girls are far more likely than boys to notice instances of bullying and interpret them as emergencies.
Those findings were recently published in the Journal of Early Adolescence. Lyndsay Jenkins, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Florida State University College of Education and lead author on the study. Amanda Nickerson, PhD, director of the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention at the University of Buffalo, coauthored the study.
Jenkins' study delves deeper into the role of gender and bullying by using the Bystander Intervention Model created by social psychologist Bibb Latane and John Darley as the basis of the study. The model includes five steps to examine the actions of bystanders in bullying. Those steps are noticing the event, interpreting the event as an emergency, accepting responsibility for intervening, knowing how to intervene, and then intervening.
Researchers surveyed nearly 300 middle-school students in rural Illinois. While they found that girls engaged more in three out of five steps in the intervention model, they found the steps of accepting responsibility and knowing what to do was evenly distributed among boys and girls.
The team also examined social skills of empathy, cooperation, and assertiveness, and how each related to the five-step model of intervening. They found kids with greater empathy were more likely to engage in the last four steps of the model, but less likely to actually notice the bullying initially. More assertive children were more likely to know how to intervene. However, kids who were more cooperative were less likely to get involved.
The team also found girls had significantly higher scores for empathy and cooperation. Boys and girls had similar scores of assertiveness.
Jenkins says this research should be duplicated in more diverse school environments and scholars should examine cultural influences, school climate, and social norms to better understand the issue of bullying in their schools.
To learn more about Jenkins' research on bullying prevention, visit https://education.fsu.edu/research/bullying-prevention.


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Fons Mallorquí puts in the spotlight the Arab and Mediterranean cinema
In the framework of the activities of the 25th anniversary of Fons Mallorquí, an Arab and Mediterranean Film Cycle is organized every Thursday from 3 to 24 May at Cineciutat.
For some years now, the Mediterranean is the scene of one of the direst consequences of wars and poverty: migration and forced displacement of thousands of people. The reality of people who have to flee their home countries is very harsh. In some cases, situations of displacement and refuge last for many years, and they suffer constant violations of human rights in their exodus and escape routes.
With the aim of giving visibility to the different causes that lead a person to flee from its place of origin and to know the consequences and the risks that this implies, Fons Mallorquí is organising the Arab and Mediterranean Film Cycle, with the collaboration of Cineciutat and Sodepau.
This cycle opens, for the first time, a window on the Arab cinema in Mallorca. Quality movies have been selected that reflect the dreams, worries, contradictions and conflicts of people who cross the Mediterranean, with an eye to the most rabid news. This offers a deep look that helps us to better understand the present.
The programming of the cycle includes experiences of exile, migration and refuge, and it does so from a point of view that, unfortunately, is unusual: that of its protagonists.
TAGS: Fons Mallorqui, Migration, refugees
Fons Mallorquí is training municipal staff on SDGs in Burkina Faso
Fons Mallorquí presents the campaign "Committed with the 2030 Agenda"
Asistencia humanitaria
Reslog – fostering local governance resilience in Akkar governorate in Lebanon


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Sure, serving beers and wines are a given, but make your Korean cocktail party even more special by serving a great-tasting soju cocktail. The grapefruit soju cocktail, for instance, has a neutral taste and mixes well with other alcoholic beverages. The tangy yet refreshing taste of this cocktail will surely be welcomed by your guests.
This dip is so easy to make and is also very versatile in terms of its taste. The cheesy kimchi dip will just enhance the flavors of your bread, crackers, and seasoned vegetables because of the perfect combination of the spiciness of the kimchi and the gooeyness of the cheese.
Nothing beats the feeling of being able to dig into the finger-lickin' goodness of Korean chicken wings. You can prepare different versions of course, and for sure guests will like the sweet, spicy, sweet and spicy chicken wings that you will serve. These juicy chicken wings are also so savoury you don't even need gravy anymore!
Here's another delicious cocktail for a chill and relaxed evening. This drink is so light and zesty that it will surely appeal to cocktail participants who just want to take it easy and not drink too much hard liquor. Yuja bears similar characteristics with organs and lemons and is often used to make teas. But now you know that you can actually make a refreshing cocktail out of it!
Another filling yet not so overwhelming food item that you can serve in a Korean cocktail party is the widely popular spam musubi. This dish, which combines a savoury slice of salty and juicy spam and deliciously steamed rice, is just an awesome complement to all the delicious drinks served in cocktail parties.
Do you have any ideas to share on what to serve during a Korean cocktail party? Post them all below in the comments section. Meanwhile, Korean BBQ Online has your back for all of your Korean BBQ needs. We are the only Korean BBQ delivery in Sydney that offers the finest, the most delicious variety of premium meat. Check us out today!