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advent journal: the specificity of sacredness
I'm not sure the first time that it happened; over twenty years, I've lost count of how many times we have repeated the scene. Ginger always begins the conversation, and the statement generally comes out of nowhere:
"OK," she'll say, "name three reasons you love me."
And I name three specific things – three the-way-you-wear-your-hat kind of things — that pull me to her as to no other because it is in the details of life that love finds a place to live and grow. I know what love is because of those details, though I'm hard pressed to write a definition that explains it. We talk about love as a feeling, but that idea quickly runs out of steam. Madeleine L'Engle quotes Hugh Bishop of Mirfield (not to be confused with the other Hugh Bishops) who said, "Love is not an emotion. It is a policy" (45). It is, as Billy Joel sang, a matter of trust.
Many years ago before Ginger and I even met, I saw Alan Alda interviewed by Barbara Walters and she asked about his then twenty-five year old marriage, commenting that bonds like that didn't hold well in the Hollywood. "How did you do it?" she asked.
"We just kept our promises," he answered. "We said we would love each other through life and we have. Everyone is looking for a custom fit in an off the rack world."
The simplicity of the metaphor stuck with me as worth remembering. He wasn't saying just find someone and get on with it. He was saying when you decide to love, then love. Don't keep looking to find a better fit. Let the veracity of your commitment shape you to fit. Pick three things, and then three more things, and then three more until you have a lifetime of reasons for finding love in the one who has kept the promises with you. L'Engle says a similar thing:
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be prove, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Love is people, is a person . . . I am slowly coming to understand with my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person. It has a lot to do with compassion, and with creation. (43)
I was hardly through the paragraph before I was humming an old song by my friend, Billy Crockett called "Portrait of Love." The premise of the song saw Paul as an artist painting a picture of Jesus with the words of 1 Corinthians 13. The chorus says:
Never jealous, free of pride
Love will never be confine
And love will abide
Love is hopeful, love's not blind
Love is faithful, every time
Love is Someone, and
If you'll open your eyes, you'll find
That love is alive
I met with the other deacons around the Communion Table at the front of the sanctuary to practice before the service. We have been working on our consistency in serving the elements as a means of communicating how essential the Meal is for all of us. Making sure we are lined up as we need to be, or that we are clear about who will pass what, or that we move in some cohesive sense is not about being efficient or perfect as much as it one of intentionality our love for the congregation. We mean to be prepared to serve and share the meal. We mean to keep our promises in our little off the rack church, which means we have to be able to be involved in the moment and detached enough to see what we are creating together. L'Engle says it this way:
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion.
Sacredness requires specificity. The grand esoteric themes of theology have their place, but love takes root in those specific moments when we voluntarily and intentionally enter one another's pain. "God so loved the world" makes sense when love has a name and is lying in the manger. The Incarnation (big theological concept) comes alive in the person of Jesus, God with us in all our off the rackness, all our struggles, in all our, well, lives.
In the specific person of Jesus, God says, "Me, too" in a way that had not been said before. The stories in the gospels are full of specifics, Jesus making particular movements, though not spectacular ones, to offer compassion and healing. He stopped when the woman with the hemorrhage touched his coat. He asked Zacchaeus if he could come over to the house. He wrote in the sand to move the focus off the adulterous woman in John 8 to take the attention off of her for at least a moment. He offered Peter breakfast.
On the way to church this morning, I heard an interview on Weekend Edition Sunday with the authors of Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between. The book is a humorous and thoughtful look at how people regard the afterlife, the authors having chosen to tell jokes to get their points across. Here is the title joke:
Heidegger and a Hippo stroll up to the Pearly Gates, and Saint Peter says, "Listen, we've only got room for one more today. Whoever gives me the best answer to "What is the meaning of life?" gets in.
Heidegger says, "To think Being itself requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of things and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics."
But before the hippo can grunt one word, Saint Peter says to him, "Today's your lucky day, Hippy!"
The Incarnation is a mind-blowing theological concept. How do we explain God with skin on? We don't – we can't, anymore than we can define love. But when we look at the specific brush strokes of Jesus' encounters with those around him, we begin to get the picture, to see the portrait of Love. When we gather together at the Table and participate in the simple act of passing bread and wine to one another, we remember Jesus, as in we re-member the Body of Christ and put it back together again. Love lives in the looks, the touch, the simple words of affirmation, the daily acts of recalling the promises we've made and keeping them.
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Have you seen the movie Dan in Real Life? The middle daughter's boyfriend tells Dan, "love is not a feeling; it's an ability."
Lisa in Austin
Presbyterian Gal December 7, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I had an Israeli boss once who said "You have to find the bench in the park whose splinters bother you the least."
Love the Heidegger joke.
Anne Jernberg December 8, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Milton,
Your words always have such good timing in my life. This post was no exception. Thank you for sharing your mind and heart with all of us! You are one of my favorite theologians. You and Charlie Brown. 🙂
PS: Thought of you on Thanksgiving — and was craving one of your yummy rolls…


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Strongheart: The World's First Movie Star Dog
A Bank Street College Best Book of the Year &
Winner of Missouri 2016 "Show Me Award"
Leonard S. Marcus in the New York Times:
It turns out that a picture-book biography can have a hero with four legs and a fearsome bark. Emily Arnold McCully's "Strongheart" unearths the little- known (except to die-hard movie buffs) story of the dog who became a silent-film star before Rin Tin Tin. Strongheart - the screen name of Etzel von Oeringen - was a purebred German shepherd descended from a line of champion police dogs. Etzel had the chops to perform daredevil deeds on command, to tiuickly master new tricks and even to display a repertoire of three-hanky emotions for the camera. How did stardom come his way? McCully points to a devoted director/trainer who, with his screenwriter wife, built a powerful bond with the dog, then made the films that brought them their fleeting fame. McCully, the 1993 Caldecott Medal winner for "Mirette on the High Wire," has done a meticulous job of recreating the qiuicksilver world of that bygone media age. The megaphones, bobbed hair and jodhpurs are all here. And in Etzel, a dog born and bred to be strong and brave, she has given young readers a rare portrait of a Hollywood hero who was just as heroic off-screen as on.
The Wall St Journal:
In "Strongheart: The World's First Movie Dog" (Henry Holt, 40 pages, $17.99) we meet a remarkable real-life German-American character, this one a police dog with the wonderfully musical name of Etzel von Oeringen. Born in Germany in the latter days of World War I, Etzel had been "bred to be alert, brave, strong, and perfectly loyal," Emily Arnold McCully writes. That much he shared with others of his breed, perhaps, but Etzel also had charisma: Sent after the war to an American kennel, the dog so impressed a visiting film director and his screenwriter wife that they determined to use him in a silent movie. First, however, they had to teach the regimented Teuton to relax and play. Ms. McCully's jaunty prose and detailed ink-and- watercolor illustrations show scenes from this amusing training period, which culminated in Etzel's appearance in "The Silent Call." The movie so thrilled audiences that it launched the 1920s craze for canine matinee idols and for German shepherds themselves.
BOOKLIST: Strongheart: The World's First Movie Star Dog.
Born in Germany in 1917 during WWI, Etzel von Oeringen was trained by the police, but he became a popular Hollywood movie actor. Etzel was a German shepherd, renamed Strongheart after being adopted by an American movie producerÐdog trainer and his screenwriter wife. Strongheart's life in Germany had been all work, but once in the U.S., he learned to relax, play, and "act." The canine's physical abilities and facial expressions helped make him a crowd-pleasing star of six silent films. The colorful illustrations, in pen, ink, and watercolor, consist of a few double-page spreads, but it's mainly the small vignettes that reveal Strongheart's work and home life, beginning with an image of the fat, fluffy, sweet-faced puppy. The dog's participation in films led to... Rin Tin Tin and Lassie, and to a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Fans of dogs, movies, and dogs in movies will like this one. - Maryann Owen
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books: One early silent star whose fame has since faded is Strongheart, the German Shepherd, who dazzled audiences in the 1920s with his emotive acting. McCully gives a brief overview of the tiuadruped actor's life, starting with his birth and police dog training in Germany, moving on to his discovery by Larry Trimble, a movie director searching for a new canine star, and culminating in the dog's film career... it's a lively tale of doggy achievement as Strongheart captivates audiences, lives the high life, and fights off a bogus journalist; indeed, it's a story that itself would make a fine film.... scenes of his exploits are ... appealing, and the art effectively captures the flair of the period in costume and décor. The text's energetic style is suitable to reading aloud as well as reading alone, and animal- loving audiences will appreciate learning about an old-school canine star. - DS

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Angela Rye Set To Join BET For New Program
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It's about time! We are excited to learn that Angela Rye, Principal and CEO of Impact Strategies, CNN political commentator and NPR political analyst, will be joining forces with BET to deliver a new program, launching this month.
Rye is set to host and executive produce the quarterly news show, which is poised to dig deep into issues and stories affecting black America.
"Working with BET always provides a reminder of why I began to do this work," Rye said in a statement to Blavity. "It is essential that we have platforms where we can discuss our politics, our challenges, and our culture through our respective lenses. The upcoming special will provide a glimpse of what's to come with our partnership."
The first episode of the series is tentatively titled "Angela Rye's State of the Union," which will be a primetime rebuttal to President Trump's State of the Union address airing Wednesday, January 31 at 10PM PT.
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Lauren is the co-founder of Black Fitness Today, the digital magazine dedicated to empowering the black community - mind, body, soul, culture and money. She lives in Tucson, AZ, where she also manages the healthy food blog The Remix with Lauren, her husband and his brain that never stops churning, and their completely lit one-year-old daughter. You can reach her at lauren.bell@blackfitnesstoday.com
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How to Reach the Nirvana of Security and Innovation in the Cloud with DataOps
Delivering secure, production-quality data at the speed and scale of the cloud is one of the biggest challenges for enterprise data teams today.
By: Dhiraj Sehgal
For many organizations, the cloud has become a foundational enabler of their digital transformation initiatives. While cloud has made it possible for enterprises to scale and meet the demands of the business, it's also increased the velocity of running workflows and upped the risk of data breaches. In other words, businesses will either be bogged down in their cloud adoption and migration plans or risk exposing their sensitive data to bad actors without having the ability to deliver secure, production-quality data at the speed and scale of the cloud.
LogicMonitor's Cloud Vision survey predicts that 83 percent of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020. As more organizations adopt and migrate their data into cloud environments, software teams will need to find a balance between ensuring business innovation while protecting data privacy because at the end of the day, the key is to deliver secure, production-quality data to their software development life cycle to accelerate their application development.
Managing the Data Delivery Headache
There are two major data-related bottlenecks in cloud environments:
Long data provisioning cycles. Manual workflows prevent developers, testers, business analysts, and data scientists — those who are tasked with drawing meaningful insights or building new products and services for the business — from accessing fast, secure data for these initiatives. In addition, enterprise workload migrations can be complex with data ingestion and data source heterogeneity.
Risk of sensitive data exposure and violation of regulatory policies. Without the right technology that irreversibly obfuscates data, it can take weeks or months to mask sensitive information and create copies. As a result, it puts the organization at risk of non-compliance and slippage on project deadlines.
Powering Fast, Secure Data in the Cloud
To address the manual IT workflows in traditional software development, the DevOps movement arose to add automation to key parts of the delivery pipeline. But even though DevOps has played an integral role in automating infrastructure and the SDLC, organizations have yet to figure out how to automate data delivery. Data is vital to an enterprise's health and survival as we see companies, like Amazon and Google, turn data into a competitive advantage. For instance, retail firms match inventory data with customer order data to satisfy user whims for goods. Banks use customer transaction data to facilitate payments, and hospitals leverage patient data to deliver timely, quality care. Without harnessing the power of fast, secure data, organizations cannot fulfill their missions.
While the emergence of cloud technologies has introduced the ability to access data on-demand, it's added complexity to data governance as information is spread across on-premise and cloud environments. DataOps takes an innovative and effective approach to how data is provisioned, accessed, and controlled in the following ways:
By rethinking how data is copied and stored. Enterprises should be able to immediately provision environments from virtualized copies in the cloud without the need to backup, restore, setup, and validate.
By rearchitecting how data environments are provided, DataOps give users in the organization independence and freedom to work with data as they please. Enterprises should be able to deliver secure copies of data from heterogeneous data sources that are running on-premise or in the cloud with self-service access and control.
By incorporating a masking technique that provides data security and protects sensitive information.
Capturing More Value from the Cloud with DataOps
DataOps enables the rapid, automated, and secure management of data in an agile manner that is consistent with the continuous integration and continuous delivery software development model. Organizations that fail to embrace DataOps will struggle and face the threat of extinction under the deluge of their data.
In today's fast-changing, digital world, companies are faced with driving faster innovation and staying in compliance with the array of data privacy regulations around the world, including the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU, California Consumer Privacy Act, New York Privacy Act, and more. Businesses can't drive data-driven transformation while neglecting data security; simply put, you can't succeed in one without the other.
Out With the Old, In With the New: Breaking from the Status Quo to Accelerate Software Testing Cycles
Applications sit at the heart of today's enterprise businesses, and just about every application brings about new challenges and more complexity to development teams. Give up these three outdated practices to deliver high-quality software faster to market.
Secure All Software Environments, Not Just Production
For each production instance of an application, there are at least five, in some cases 10 or 20, instances existing in non-production environments. That's why it's critical for enterprise IT to pay closer attention to the vast majority of sensitive data existing within non-production environments.
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Delivering Greater Speed & Security to Cloud-Native Applications for Enterprise Software Teams
With new Delphix masking capabilities for data sources on AWS RDS, including PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and MariaDB, enterprise teams can leverage one platform to secure their data for non-production environments.


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Oculus creates publishing arm to entice game makers
Oculus VR has just announced that they are going to launch a publishing division, and hope to use to help bring over game developers.
Heading up this publishing division will be David DeMartini, who used to be Electronic Arts' VP, and he is eager to work with game companies big and small on developing software for the Oculus.
"I'm figuring out how to partner effectively with big developers, small developers, all the way down to the individual who just wants to make something great for the Rift," he said. Though he doesn't feel that games are the only things that can be on the Oculus. He added that "there are other cool things besides games that you can do with the platform: IMAX movies, live concerts, educational programs, that kind of thing."
The Oculus Rift represents the newest and most viable drive towards virtual reality and has raised over $75 million so far, has video game celebrities like Cliff Bleszinski supporting it, and so far the games and that demos that work on it do seem to provide an incredibly immersive experience. They do still have to tackle things like motion sickness when it comes to shooter games though.
Right now the development kit costs $300 USD, it only works on Windows, Macs and Linux PCs, and you can learn more about it here at their site.
[via The Verge, image via Sergey Galyonkin's flickr]
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Barcelona is perhaps one of the most popular cities in Spain, which in my mind is the country of paella and tapas. What not many people may know is that this city is the capital of Catalonia, and it is the second largest city in the whole country as well. That should give you a clue as to the number of things that you can do in Barcelona.
If there is one thing that you have to pay particular attention to, however, it is the architectural theme that seems to pervade the whole city. Many an expert has remarked that Barcelona showcases the work of Antoni Gaudi, and you have but to take a look around to notice it as well. Perhaps one of the most famous places that you have to visit is the La Sagrada Familia. The best words to describe this cathedral are "whimsical," "stunning," and "breathtaking." You should also visit Parc Guell, which was originally intended to be a housing project. It never took off, however, and now houses a park (or garden), which also showcases Gaudi's work.
When it comes to museums, Barcelona has a lot to offer as well. If you have time to visit only one museum, let it be the Fundació Joan Miró. This museum boasts the hugest collection of the works of Joan Miro, the master of contemporary Catalan art.
To get a broader experience of Spain while not leaving Barcelona, you should visit Poble Espanyol. This is a recreation of a Spanish village featuring various regional architectural styles as well as spanning styles from then 10th through the 20th century.
Of course, this is just a small sampling of what there is to see in Barcelona, but whatever you decide to do, make sure you drop by these places.


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SOS: Senior leads opioid OD response initiative
Daniel Conrad|October 3, 2017
NEWS 4 reporter Ashlei King speaks to Trinity senior Jonah Wendt about the national nonprofit he co-founded, Students for Opioid Solutions. photo provided by Manfred Wendt
Students for Opioid Solutions (SOS), a startup nonprofit co-founded by Trinity senior Jonah Wendt, aims to eliminate opioid overdoses on college campuses nationwide. As executive director of SOS, Wendt will encourage universities to enact proactive policies intended to reduce rates of student overdoses on opioid painkillers
Wendt, best known for his leadership positions in the conservative student group Tigers for Liberty, co-founded the organization after meeting Gerald Fraas, a junior at the University of Alabama, through the College Republican National Committee.
"SOS started on Sept. 11, 2017, when one of my friends that I met while interning at Capitol Hill gave me a call and pitched me this idea for an organization dedicated to changing opioid policies on college campuses," Wendt said. "The past year, once of his friends had actually died at the University of Alabama of an opioid overdose, so this was his way of trying to make a difference and save lives."
Opioids, a class of poppy-derived synthetic drugs that includes heroin as well as more common medications like Vicodin and OxyContin, are prescribed as powerful painkillers. They are sometimes misused for the euphoric effects they stimulate; the National Institute on Drug Abuse warns that they are highly addictive because our brains build a tolerance to their effects, which makes overdosing all the more likely for those who use the medications recreationally.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that over 15,000 Americans died from prescription opioid overdoses alone in 2015. In an August phone interview with the Rivard Report, San Antonio mayor and Trinity alumnus Ron Nirenberg called opioids the city's top municipal concern.
"We decided to start a grassroots student movement focused on changing opioid policies on college campuses, starting with passing SGA [Student Government Association] legislation to force administrations to change their policies," Wendt said.
Larry Cox, community awareness resource officer for TUPD, told the Trinitonian that opioid misuse is not currently a problem at Trinity. Wendt explained that the SOS recommendations are preventative in nature.
In a press release sent to the Trinitonian, SOS detailed five ways that student government representatives can respond to the opioid drug crisis. The organization urges school administrators to train residential life and campus police officers in the recognition of opioid overdosage and in the administration of Narcan, the brand name for naloxone, an emergency treatment for reversing the effects of opioid overdoses.
"Narcan is the antidote to opioid overdose, and reverses the effects," Wendt said. "And if you are not experiencing an opioid overdose, there is no effect."
The group also asks that schools report the number of opioid overdoses and deaths in annual drug and alcohol reports, guarantee amnesty for students who report overdoses and institute 'good Samaritan' policies that protect students who attempt to aid someone suffering from an opioid overdose.
As of Oct. 4, SOS has established contact points in the student representative bodies of 23 campuses in 15 states. Among those contacts is his own twin brother, Manfred Wendt, a senator in Trinity's own Student Government Association.
Among those contacts is his own twin brother, Manfred Wendt, a senator in SGA. Manfred has submitted a resolution detailing these policy recommendations to the SGA senate and intends to discuss them at Monday's meeting.
SOS has registered as a non-profit corporation in Alabama and is filing to become an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. In the meantime, Wendt has enlisted junior and economics major Luke Ayers, president of Tigers for Liberty and Tigers for Life and vice-president of the Catholic Student Group, as the legislative director for SOS.
"Once we establish those contacts with student government representatives, once the resolution is actually passed, [I make] sure we're following up to make sure the policies are actually changed by the school, and that we don't have a statement of support of these policies and then nothing happens," Ayers said.
In Ayers' view, the opioid crisis needs to be addressed in both societal attitudes toward addiction and drug use, as well as in administrative policies.
"I think changing the discussion and changing the cultural attitude towards that approach, for other substances and not just alcohol, is really important," Ayers said. "At the very least, we need to make sure that people aren"™t losing their lives to these addictions. If they want help, they"™re able to seek it."
Ayers recognizes that opioid misuse hasn't presented itself as a problem at Trinity, but still hopes to institute proactive policies to curb any chance of the crisis affecting campus.
"As far as I know there hasn't been any deaths on Trinity's campus on opioid overdoses," Ayers said. "But just because there hasn't been any now, doesn't mean it's not a big issue in other places. I think that the more we can be aware that this is happening, and aware of solutions to it, the better off we'll all be."
A growing advocacy group, SOS is seeking interns to aid its efforts in a variety of ways. For more information about the organization, visit opioidsolutions.org or email Jonah Wendt at [email protected].
SGA senator Manfred Wendt will present legislation to the public SGA meeting on Monday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m. in the Waxahachie Room of Coates University Center.


MAYFIELD VILLAGE, Ohio, Jan. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Progressive expects to hire more than 10,000 people in the coming year to support its rapid growth. The company has grown more than 50% in the last three years to $30 billion in revenue for 2018. Positions the company will offer include IT and analyst roles, corporate functions, customer care and claims roles.
The Common Shares of The Progressive Corporation, the Mayfield Village, Ohio-based holding company, trade publicly at NYSE: PGR.


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The Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro is thin, light, powerful and co-created by Ashton Kutcher
What do you look for in a tablet/laptop hybrid? Great design? A slim form-factor? Performance? Creative input from Two and a Half Men star Ashton Kutcher? Well, you've certainly got some oddly specific tastes, but as it should happen we have just the device for you.
The Lenovo Yoga 3 is here, and at a glance it looks like it could be one of the best devices on the market. Hybrids aren't everybody's cup of tea, but there's no denying that its laptop functionality makes it infinitely more powerful when used as a tablet.
The big selling point, in case you couldn't tell from the name, is the Yoga 3's flexibility. The screen can be folded all the way back on itself until lying flat against the base of the device. You can hold it as a tablet, or even invert it into the 'tent' position so it stands up on its own. It's a nice feature, and made all the more eye-catching by the unusual manner in which it's achieved.
The hinge on the Yoga 3 is what Lenovo call 'watchband' style, and it's easy to see why. It looks just like its namesake, and is composed of 800 individual pieces of aluminium and steel at six articulation points. It looks quirky, but it provides an excellent amount of strength.
Moving up the device you have the screen, which Lenovo calls 'QHD+'. Measuring 13 inches diagonally, it has a rather unusual resolution of 3,200 x 1,800. When the numbers are that high though we couldn't care less how unusual they are – it makes for an incredibly vivid display.
The processor on the inside of the Yoga 3 is an Intel Core M which can reach speeds of 2.6GHz, and quickly too. It has 8GB of RAM backing it up, complete with a 256GB solid-state hard drive. Needless to say, it's a very capable machine. Running Windows 8.1 it can handle anything your ordinary laptop would, whilst tablet usage is supremely smooth. That said, fully-fledged PC gaming is something you probably won't be doing much of. Due to the Yoga 3's size it's only equipped with NVIDIA's on-board graphics, so many games will be out of its remit.
It'll be considered a worthy trade-off for most though. The Yoga 3 is unbelievably streamlined – at just 1.19kg it's lighter than a MacBook Air, and it's exactly half an inch thick at its thickest point. For comparison, the MacBook Air is 0.69 inches deep at the same point. Not bad.
There's other nice little design touches too, like how the area surrounding the keyboard and mousepad has been changed to dimpled, rubberised plastic (compared to brushed metal on the Yoga 2) for greater levels of grip when holding the device as a tablet. They keyboard itself has a MacBook-ish quality to it, and is brilliantly backlit. Internally the device is fanless so you get a much quieter experience than, say, the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 – the Yoga 3's most obvious rival.
And just like its main rival, the Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro will cost you. There's no UK pricing yet, but it's set to start at $1,299 in the US, so expect it to be around the £1,000 mark when it lands ashore here. There are multiple storage variants of up to 512GB SSD if you should so desire, so expect the price to scale accordingly. All three colour variants, silver, gold and orange, should cost the same.
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Original Hudl gets big price cut as Tesco makes way for new Hudl2
Tesco wants to get rid of its remaining Hudl tablets as it makes room for the release of the new Hudl2. The original Hudl has consequently received a big price cut, bringing it down to the insanely budget price of just £79. The Hudl, which was released last year for £119, came packing a 7inch […]
London Zoo starts 24-hr live streams of its animal inhabitants on YouTube
Ever wondered what the meerkats at London Zoo get up to at night or what the otters are having for lunch? Well, now you can indulge your cute curiosities by watching selected inhabitants of the capital's biggest zoo at any time via YouTube. Google is working with London Zoo on the new project, which both […]
Microsoft's 3D printed telescope will bring deep space exploration to your Lumia smartphone
Microsoft claims that its new 3D printed telescope will bring deep space exploration to the masses and "reinvent astrophotography". The prototype device is called the Ultrascope and was invented by James Parr of the Open Space Agency (OSA). The 3D printed Ultrascope must be self-assembled and stands one meter tall with a base that measures […]
Honeywell voice-controlled thermostat heats UK in time for winter
Honeywell has launched the UK's first voice-controlled thermostat just in time for the cold winter months. Taking on other home automation systems, such as Google Nest, the £229 device uses far-field technology to allow users to operate it with simple voice commands from long distances. All you have to do to turn on the Honeywell […]


Many critics have stated that legalizing online gaming would be detrimental to land-based casinos. They argue that lawmakers should oppose any bill that would regulate any form of online gaming. However, a new statement from US Gaming Survey found that online gaming would most likely benefit casinos throughout the country.
US Gaming Survey conducted two polls of people in the casino industry. The vast majority of casino owners said they would not change the way they operated their casinos if online gaming was legalized. Jim Ryan, former CEO of Bwin.party, said that the changes won't have nearly as much of an impact on the casino industry as people suggest. Most respondents also felt the new legislation would probably increase revenue for land-based casinos.
Proponents of online gaming legislation have stated that regulation would help them reach a number of new customers who currently are not participating in online gaming. Many younger respondents who do not currently gamble or purchase lottery tickets have said that they would do so if a bill was passed that made it legal.
Advocates said that there is no reason to fear online gaming would detract from the revenues of land-based casinos. Most people who visit land-based casinos are doing so for the experience. They would probably continue to do so even if they had the option of playing over the Internet instead. This position was validated by the respondents in the two surveys.
The online gaming community hopes that this new survey will encourage more lawmakers to support legislation that would enable citizens to play poker and other games over the Internet. US Gaming Survey is a well-respected research group with over 30 years of experience. Gaming advocates believe that their research will carry considerable weight for lawmakers considering legalizing online gaming.
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You may have wondered why our logo, business cards, and other Financial Cornerstone Group materials include bamboo ...
Have you ever heard the story of how bamboo grows? It's a story about patience... and tenacity... and faith... and perseverance - NEVER giving up!
Something YOU can relate to. And something WE can relate to.
The story goes something like this:
A farmer plants a small seed in the ground, with great anticipation of growing a magnificent Chinese Bamboo Tree.
He waters it. He fertilizes it.
At the end of the first year, he visits the spot where he planted the seed, but finds nothing.
The second year passes. The farmer waters. He fertilizes. Still nothing.
Third year, same. Water. Fertilizer. Nothing.
At the end of the fourth year - not even a sprout. Despite the ridicule from his friends, family, and fellow farmers, the farmer keeps believing... and watering... and fertilizing.
Another year passes. The end of year 5 comes, and - wait. What? Could it be? He checks to make sure he's gone back to the same exact spot where he planted the seed, but everything looks different!
Sometime during the season (in a period of about six weeks), the farmer's Chinese bamboo tree has grown to a height of nearly ninety feet!
Question: Did the bamboo grow ninety feet in six weeks? Or five years?
You know the answer. It was growing all along, expanding its root system under the tender loving care of a faithful farmer who was committed, hopeful, determined, and willing to diligently do the hard work that would produce this magnificent result. Had that root system not been established during those five years, there would not have been nearly enough strength to support that kind of growth.
Now, the timelines in this story don't directly correlate to the experience of being an investor. Of course you would expect to see growth and progress much earlier along the way. We share this story of encouragement because the process of planning for a bright financial future and successful retirement is not a sprint, it's a marathon. It's about being the tortoise (every time you read "The Tortoise and the Hare", the tortoise wins!). The old cliché still holds true: slow and steady wins the race. It's about believing that the sacrifice and perseverance that go with saving, planning, choosing between needs and wants, and staying committed during both up and down markets, will be worth it, and will result in a bountiful harvest when you are finally ready to reap your harvest.
It is our sincere desire to help you stay committed, and to guide you in "watering and fertilizing" – nurturing your nest egg (financial plan) so it has the best opportunity to grow in a way that you will have much to celebrate when retirement finally arrives.


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Richard Weedt Widmark (Sunrise Township, Chisago megye, Minnesota, USA, 1914. december 26. – Roxbury, Connecticut, 2008. március 24.), amerikai színész. Háborús, cowboy- és kalandfilmek ismert sztárja. Hat évtizeden átívelő pályája során mintegy 75 játékfilmben szerepelt.

Élete

Származása, tanulmányai

Apja Carl Henry Widmark volt, svéd bevándorló, aki kereskedelmi utazó ügynökként dolgozott. Anyja Ethel Mae Barr volt. A család többször költözött, az apa munkahelye szerint. Richard az Illinois állambeli Princetonban és Henryben nőtt fel. Eredetileg ügyvés akart lenni, a középiskola után jogot kezdett tanulni, de érdeklődése a színészet felé fordult. A Lake Forest College-ban színészmesterséget tanult. 1936-ban végzett, ezután színészetet oktatott. A második világháborús katonai szolgálatot megúszta, mert egyik sérült dobhártyája miatt a hadsereg alkalmatlannak minősítette. A Lake Forest-i főiskolán ismerte meg Jean Hazlewood hallgatót, aki forgatókönyvírónak tanult. Hazlewood és Widmark 1938-ban együtt költöztek New York-ba, itt 1942. április 5-én összeházasodtak. 1945-ben megszületett első és egyetlen gyermekük, Anne Heath Widmark.

Színészi pályája

Widmark 1943-ban debütált a Broadway-n, F. Hugh Herbert Kiss and Tell című színművében, amelyet George Abbott vitt színpadra. A következő években színházi munkája mellett rádióadásokban és rádiószínházi előadásokban is beszélt. Első filmszerepét 1947-ben Henry Hathaway rendező A halál csókja c. film noir-horrorjában játszotta. Egy hidegvérű gyilkost alakított, aki a film egyik jelenetében egy tolószékes rokkant férfit könyörtelenül lelök a lépcsőn, a halálba. A film nagy kasszasiker lett, Widmark egy csapásra széles körben ismertté vált. Megkapta a legjobb színészutánpótlásnak járó, ekkor először kiadott Golden Globe-díjat, nevezték az Oscar-díjra, a 20th Century Fox-tól hét évre szóló szerződést kapott.

Első szerepének sikere nyomán sokáig gonosz karakterű szerepeket osztottak rá. Csak az 1950-es években tudta lerázni magáról ezt a klisét és mindent eljátszani képes, sokoldalú színészként elfogadtatnia magát. Egyre többféle műfajban főszerepelt, köztük világháborús filmekben, így pl. a Frogmen-ben (1951) és történelmi kalandfilmekben, így pl. a Destination Gobi-ban (1952). Az 1950-es és 1960-as évek divatos westernfilmjeiben is nagy sikerrel játszott főszerepeket, pl. A kettétört lándzsában (1954), a Cowboyháborúban (1959), a mexikói-texasi háborúról szóló Alamóban (1960), az Együtt vágtattak-ban (1961), vagy a Cheyenne őszben (1964).

Az évek múltával keresett karakterszínésszé vált, drámai szerepekben is megállta a helyét, az 1961-es Ítélet Nürnbergben c. filmben a német háborús bűnösöket vádoló katonai ügyészt alakította, vele szemben Maximilian Schell a védőt, Spencer Tracy a főbírót alakította. Játszott az 1953-as Zsebtolvaj c. krimiben. Ő volt a címszereplő az 1968-as Madigan c. bűnügyi filmben és folytatásában, a Madigan-krimisorozatban (1972-1973). Játszott az 1977-es Hullámvasút c. katasztrófafilmben, és az 1979-es Medvesziget-akció c. thriller-akciófilmben. Bár már többségében pozitív karaktereket alakított, de néha visszabújt a gonosz álarcába, így pl. az Sidney Lumet 1974-es Agatha Christie-adaptációjában, a Gyilkosság az Orient expresszen c. thrillerben, a nemzetközi sztárcsoport tagjaként ő alakította Mr. Ratchettet, a gyermekrablót és gyilkost.

Három évtizeden keresztül, az 1970-es évek végéig Hollywood egyik legtöbbet foglalkoztatott sikerszínésze volt. Idősebb korában, az 1980-as években nyugodtabb, megfontoltabb szerepeket is elvállalt. Volker Schlöndorff rendező 1987-es filmjében, a Vének szövetségében egy fehér seriffet alakított, aki egy rasszista gyilkosság hátterét igyekszik tisztázni. Utolsó filmszerepét, Stiles szenátort Herbert Ross rendező 1991-es politikai thrillerében, a Kétszínű igazság-ban játszotta, amely arról szól, hogy az ifjú káderek, politikai karrierjük érdekében hogyan árulják el egymást és egykori ideáljaikat.

Társadalmi, politikai elkötelezettsége

Bár színészi pályája során Widmark legnagyobbrészt fegyveres, erőszakos figurákat alakított, polgárként viszolygott a fegyverektől, elítélte az erőszak minden formáját és több fórumon is támogatta a fegyverviselés korlátozását.

Egész életében elkötelezett tagja maradt az amerikai Demokrata Pártnak.

Magánélete

1942-ben Widmark feleségül vette Jean Hazlewood (1916–1997) forgatókönyvírónőt, akivel még főiskolai évei alatt ismerkedett meg. Egy leányuk született, Anne Heath Widmark író–képzőművész, aki 1969–1982 között Sandy Koufax (1935) kosárlabdajátékos felesége volt. Widmark első házassága 55 éven át tartott, Hazlewood 1997-ben Alzheimer-kórban elhunyt.

Widmark szenvedélyes lovas volt, az 1950-es években egy ranchot vásárolt a Missouri állambeli Green City-ben, itt élt a következő két évtizedben. Nagyobb összeggel támogatta a közeli repülőtér építését, amelyet halála után róla neveztek el.

1999 szeptemberében ismét megnősült. Egy előkelő társasági hölgyet, Susan Blanchard-Jacobsont (1928) vette feleségül, Dorothy Hammerstein (1899–1987) belsőépítésznő leányát, Oscar Hammerstein (1895–1960) színházi producer fogadott leányát, aki 1950–1956 között Henry Fonda harmadik felesége volt.

2001-ben Widmark teljesen visszavonult. Vidéki házában élt a Connecticut állambeli Roxburyben, kerülve a zajos hollywoodi társasági eseményeket. Egészsége megromlott. 2007-ben elesett, ez tovább rontott állapotán.
 Hosszú betegség után, 2008 március 24-én hunyt el roxbury-i otthonában, 93 évesen.

Elismerései, díjai
1948-ban megkapta a legjobb kezdő férfi színésznek járó Golden Globe-díjat. 2005-ben elnyerte a Los Angeles-i Filmkritikusok Szövetségének Életmű-díját (Career Achievement Award). Hollywoodban, a Hírességek Sétányán csillagot kapott.

Fontosabb filmszerepei

 1947: A halál csókja (Kiss of Death); Tommy Udo
 1948: Névtelen utca (The Street with No Name); Alec Stiles
 1948: Road House  Jefferson T. 'Jefty' Robbins
 1948: Yellow Sky     Dude
 1949: Down to the Sea in Ships    First Mate Dan Lunceford
 1949: Slattery's Hurricane   Lt. Will Slattery USNR
 1950: Az éjszaka és a város (Night and the City); Harry Fabian
 1950: Pánik az utcán (Panic in the Streets); Clinton Reed parancsnok
 1950: Nincs kiút (No Way Out); Ray Biddle
 1951: Halls of Montezuma; Anderson hadnagy
 1951: The Frogmen; John Lawrence alezredes
 1952: Red Skies of Montana; Cliff Mason
 1952: Ne is kopogtass! (Don't Bother to Knock); Jed Towers
 1953: Destination Gobi; Samuel T. McHale
 1953: Zsebtolvaj (Pickup on South Street); Skip McCoy
 1953: Foglald el a fennsíkot! (Take the High Ground!); Thorne Ryan őrmester
 1954: Inferno (Hell and High Water); Adam Jones kapitány
 1954: A bűn kertje (Garden of Evil); Fiske
 1954: A kettétört lándzsa (Broken Lance); Ben Devereaux
 1955: A pókháló (The Cobweb); Dr. Stewart "Mac" McIver
 1955: A Prize of Gold; Joe Lawrence őrmester
 1956: Hatok bandája (Backlash); Jim Slater
 1956: Versenyfutás a napért (Run for the Sun); Michael "Mike" Latimer
 1956: The Last Wagon; Comanche Todd
 1957: Szent Johanna (Saint Joan); Károly francia trónörökös
 1957: Time Limit; William Edwards ezredes
 1958: A törvény és Jake Wade ( The Law and Jake Wade); Clint Hollister
 1958: A szerelem alagútja (The Tunnel of Love); August "Augie" Poole
 1959: The Trap; Ralph Anderson
 1959: Cowboyháború (Warlock); Johnny Gannon
 1960: Alamo (The Alamo); Jim Bowie ezredes
 1961: The Secret Ways; Michael Reynolds
 1961: Együtt vágtattak (Two Rode Together); Jim Gary főhadnagy
 1961: Ítélet Nürnbergben (Judgment at Nuremberg); Tad Lawson ezredes
 1962: A vadnyugat hőskora (How the West Was Won); Mike King
 1964: A vikingek kincse (The Long Ships); Rolfe
 1964: Menekülés Ashiyából (Flight from Ashiya); Glenn Stevenson alezredes
 1964: Cheyenne ősz (Cheyenne Autumn); Thomas Archer százados
 1965: A Bedford incidens (The Bedford Incident); Eric Finlander tengerészkapitány
 1967: Távoli nyugat (The Way West); Lije Evans
 1968: Madigan, mozifilm; Dan Madigan rendőrnyomozó
 1969: A törvény éber őre (Death of a Gunfighter); Frank Patch seriff
 1970: Holdfényháború (The Moonshine War); Dr. Emmett Taulbee
 1972: Amikor a legendák meghalnak (When the Legends Die); Red Dillon
 1973: Az azték pap átka (A Talent for Loving); Patten őrnagy
 1972-1973: Madigan, tévésorozat; összes epizódban; Dan Madigan rendőr őrmester
 1974: Gyilkosság az Orient expresszen (Murder on the Orient Express); Mr. Ratchett / Lanfranco Cassetti
 1974–1975: The Lives of Benjamin Franklin, tévé-minisorozat; Benjamin Franklin
 1975: Az utolsó nap (The Last Day); tévéfilm; Will Spence
 1976: To the Devil a Daughter; John Verney
 1976: Kémek csatája (The Sell Out); Sam Lucas
 1977: Twilight's Last Gleaming; MacKenzie tábornok
 1977: A dominó elv (The Domino Principle); Tagge
 1977: Hullámvasút (Rollercoaster); Hoyt
 1978: Kóma (Coma); Dr. Harris
 1978: Rajzás (The Swarm); Slater tábornok
 1979: Medvesziget-akció (Bear Island); Otto Gerran
 1980: Halál a buszon (All God's Children), tévéfilm; Parke Denison bíró
 1982: Bolond mozi mozibolondoknak (Movie Madness); Stan Nagurski
 1982: Ki kém, ki nem kém (Hanky Panky); Ransom
 1982: S.A.S. kommandó (Who Dares Wins); külügyminiszter
 1984: Széllel szemben (Against All Odds); Ben Caxton
 1985: Blackout; Joe Steiner
 1987: Vének szövetsége (A Gathering of Old Men); tévéfilm; Mapes seriff
 1988: A texasi vonatrablás (Once Upon a Texas Train); tévéfilm; Owen Hayes százados
 1989: Hideg és szemtelen ( Cold Sassy Tree), tévéfilm; Enoch Rucker Blakeslee
 1991: Kétszínű igazság (True Colors); James Stiles szenátor
 1992: Lincoln; tévé-dokumentumfilm; Ward Hill Lamon hangja

Jegyzetek

Források

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Bred in Captivity, Endangered Black Rhinos Give Birth in Wild
2 females born in England have
Posted Oct 9, 2016 9:07 AM CDT
In this 2013 file photo, Ayana, a female black rhinoceros, snacks on twigs from her cage at the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa. (Bryon Houlgrave/The Des Moines Register via AP)
(Newser) – British conservationists say two critically endangered eastern black rhinos bred in captivity in England have given birth in the wild in Africa—a development likely to please Prince William. The Aspinall Foundation said Sunday that the two females bred at its wildlife park in southern England and released near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania have given birth after mating there with a male who had also been bred in captivity, reports the AP. The two females named Grumeti and Zawadi had been given a sendoff by Prince William when they departed for Tanzania in 2012. William has been active in recent years in trying to protect wildlife in various African countries.
The foundation says each female has given birth in recent weeks to healthy babies. Conservationists say only about 700 of this sub-species of rhinos remain in the wild. Many have been killed by poachers seeking rhino horn. Foundation chairman Damian Aspinall says the births represent a "vital" breakthrough in the bid to protect this endangered species. "Reintroduction combined with robust protection is an incredibly effective conservation tool, helping to protect habitat as well as repopulate a nearly extinct species," he said. "This is what modern conservation should be about and is the culmination of decades of effort and commitment by the Aspinall Foundation." (A Texan won a lottery to kill a black rhino for $350,000.)
Next on Newser: Squirrels Prove It: Females Do All the Work, Guys Goof Off
Oct 9, 2016 10:27 AM CDT
Great news. Now if they can just keep the Chinese away from them...
conservation is a myth. Man only destroys.
Humans can do this too. Look at Chicago.


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Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
McNeese State University is ranked as one of the top public universities in the United States and one of the finest regional universities in the South.
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In 1939, Louisiana opened the Lake Charles Junior College, a division of Louisiana State University and the forerunner of McNeese State University. The following year, the school changed its name to John McNeese Junior College to honor John McNeese, a renowned Southwest Louisiana educator and the first superintendent of schools in Imperial Calcasieu Parish.
Located in one of the fastest growing areas in the state, the local petrochemical, agricultural and hospitality industries, as well as hospitals and public and private schools throughout SWLA, rely on McNeese to provide well-qualified employees. Our graduates also go on to successfully start their own businesses, from law offices to veterinary practices.
The residential student experience is a great complement to academic achievement and career preparation. Rise Real Estate Company provides contracted management services to McNeese in directing day to day operations of housing and residence life on the campus.
Health Services is located in the Watkins Infirmary on the McNeese campus. We provide acute care medical services to all enrolled McNeese students. Staff include registered nurses, and doctors maintain daily clinic hours on the premises.
Living on campus enriches the collegiate experience like nothing else. Residential life offers students quick access to campus resources and support services, a close-knit residential community and the convenience of all-inclusive housing amenities.
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Alpha Psi omega is a national Theatre Honor Society.
McNeese State University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097, P-404.679.4500, www.sacs.org, to award associate, bachelor, master, and specialist degrees.


Jesus died in the dark. In the middle of day, when the sun was supposed to shine, from noon to three, a deep darkness shrouded the whole land. The sun wouldn't shine.
Yet, that Friday, it seemed darkness had overcome the light, overwhelmed the light, snuffed out the light. The light of the world – the innocent, sinless, Lamb of God, who came to take away the sins of the world – was crucified by evil men.
They'd conspired. They'd told lies. They'd taken advantage of the weakness and greed of one of Jesus' own trusted inner circle. And, now, the miracle worker and so called, "King of the Jews," was defeated. Darkness won, or so it appeared.
It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining.
We often, rightly, associate darkness with evil. Evil deeds are done under the cover of darkness. But the darkness on Good Friday was NOT the darkness of evil. Though dark deeds were done, this darkness was something else.
What was this darkness? This was the darkness of the Father's grief, watching his beloved son suffer and die. This was the darkness piercing the heart of God, as the Holy Trinity experienced the separation and death of the Son. This was creation reacting to the evil done to its creator. The sun, itself, refused to shine on this dark day.
Lent, and especially Holy Week, is a darker season of the Christian year. During Lent, reflect on Jesus' journey to the cross, and his sacrificial death for our sins. Lent is for repentance, confession, self-denial, and self-examination. Compared to Christmas and Easter, Lent is meant to be darker.
But, this particular Lent, here in Coral Springs and Parkland, has been much, much darker than usual. Some have referred to the February 14 tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School as the "Valentine's Day" tragedy. It was also Ash Wednesday – the first day of Lent. Some will always associate the Stoneman Douglas tragedy with future Valentine's Days. Not me. I'll always remember it on Ash Wednesdays. For me, Ash Wednesdays will never be the same.
That Ash Wednesday night, as we gathered in the immediate aftermath, we marked our foreheads with ashes, in the form of a cross, as a reminder of our sin, mortality, and absolute dependence on God. "From ashes you have come. To ashes you will return." But, that night, as the dead were still lying where they'd fallen, as the injured were being treated, and many parents were still separated from their children, and as the names of some of the dead had not yet been announced, the cross-shaped ashes we wore also represented our terrible grief and lament.
For the families and friends of the seventeen who died, for the families and friends of the seventeen who were injured, and for our whole community, these forty days of Lent have been undeniably dark. Darkness has covered the land, here, too.
It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining… Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last.
As Jesus hung on the cross, in the darkness, he was bearing on his shoulders the darkness of sin, and the brokenness and evil of the entire history of this world. In some way, defying comprehension, Jesus' death, even includes the darkness of our own recent and the dark and difficult days that have followed, here, for us.
If Scripture teaches us anything, it's that God is with us when darkness crashes over us.
And, in his final moments Jesus said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last.
At last, at about 3:00 in the afternoon, his ordeal was over. The Son of God was dead. For the moment, darkness defeated the light.
There is a phrase used at many funeral and memorial services, that says something like, "Into your hands, O merciful Savior, we commend your servant…" adopted from the final words on Jesus' lips. I didn't attend the funerals of the seventeen who died, but I'm certain some version of that phrase was said – pastors, priests, and rabbis committing the souls of the innocent to our heavenly Father, just as Jesus offered his.
Undeniably, Jesus' ordeal was horrific. Starting with an arrest; then a long, sleepless night– full of hate, ugliness, condemnation and abuse; dragged to Caiaphas, to Pilate, to Herod, and then back to Pilate; the abuse and mockery of cruel Roman soldiers; rejection from the crowds shouting, "crucify him!"; a severe beating, nearly killing him; a crown of thorns shoved down on his head; a long walk to Golgotha, carrying his own cross on shoulders already flayed by the soldier's whip. All before he was nailed to the cross.
When he came to Golgotha, long nails were driven through his hands and feet, affixing him to the cross. And, then his cross was raised, leaving Jesus dangling from just three nails, driven through his flesh. For six, long, excruciating hours, he suffered unspeakable agony, as life slowly drained from his body. Few deaths are as gruesome or humiliating as crucifixion.
And, while he hung on his cross, his disciples abandoned him and the leaders of his own religion mocked him.
As darkness covered the land, he may have wondered if God abandoned him too.
But, as Jesus' final moments came, Jesus appeared to be at peace.
As Jesus died, he was in control. The casualty of terrible human cruelty, yet Jesus was no victim. Dying in the darkness, yet nothing could extinguish his light. Dying because he chose to give his life for us, sacrificially. Satisfied, that he accomplished what he came to do.
And, Jesus said these words in a "loud voice" – not an embarrassed whisper, or pathetic whimper, or mumbled in weakness. He wasn't a scared child, calling out in the dark. In his strongest voice, Jesus proclaimed, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit"; spoken in strength and confidence in the one who would receive his Spirit. Even as his physical strength faded, his faith in God was unwavering. As he was betrayed, abused, abandoned and killed by everyone else, HE KNEW he could entrust his spirit, in that vulnerable moment, into the faithful hands of his Heavenly Father. He surrendered his spirit to God, and he breathed his last.
Most images of Jesus on the cross, depict him with head lowered, and eyes closed. In other words, most crucifixes portray a dead Jesus. But, for the majority of the time Jesus hung on the cross, he was alive. I'm sure he was in agony. I'm sure he was too weak to hold up his head. I'm sure his eye-lids drooped after that long sleepless night, and as weakness overcame him, as he hung in the darkness.
But, Jesus faced his destiny with eyes wide open.
Jesus faced his accusers with eyes wide open.
Jesus faced his cross with eyes wide open.
In the darkness of Good Friday, his eyes were focused and clear.
And, in his final moments, Jesus embraced his death, with eyes wide open.
Moments, later, he would open his eyes again, and behold the face of his Father.
I wonder when the sun shined again. Did the sun return that day, after Jesus was taken down from his cross, or did the darkness remain, as afternoon passed into the night? Was it dark, when they laid Jesus in his tomb? Did the sun rise with the dawn on Saturday morning, or did dark clouds linger that day too? Whether the sun literally shined, or not, until the empty tomb was discovered on Easter morning, while Jesus lay dead in his grave, the world was dark a place.
But, Easter morning, the darkness lifted.
For a dark moment in history, darkness appeared to win. And, undeniably, for some, the darkness of this year's Ash Wednesday will never pass, not in this life. The darkness of grief will always be with them, in this life. And, that is tragic. This life, this world, as we know, can be filled with terrible darkness.
But, light has overcome the dark. Death was confronted in the darkness, and was defeated. We may endure too many dark Good Fridays, in this life. But, the dawn of Easter is coming.


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Independent disaster recovery planning expert Paul Kirvan discusses why your disaster recovery planning process must include your phone system.
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What should be included in the disaster recovery planning process for a telephone system?
Assuming the phone system in question is either an older time-division multiplexing, or TDM, switch or a smaller "key" or "hybrid" type of system that supports fewer than 30 stations, the most important piece of information is whom to contact at the system vendor or third-party switch maintenance firm.
Older systems may no longer be supported by their original manufacturers. This is typically done to force users to a more modern, e.g., voice over IP, or VoIP, system. As such, it may be difficult to find usable spare parts, such as circuit boards and phones that fit the system in question. It may also be difficult to find technicians who have been trained to maintain specific systems, especially if they are no longer being manufactured.
Older systems may have different requirements for backup power systems, such as batteries and uninterruptible power systems, or UPS. Ancillary systems, such as call detail recording, or CDR; automatic call distributor, or ACD; and interactive voice response, or IVR, systems may be unique to the system installed and therefore may be difficult to maintain.
Your disaster recovery planning process must address these important items in your telephone system:
Details on network services connecting into the phone system, both for local and long-distance calls, and access to special networks.
Details on the switching equipment and associated peripherals.
Requirements for primary and backup power systems.
Availability and sources of spare parts.
Backup copies of the switch's operating system and database of station and switching features.
Documentation that describes system operations and features, as well as how to activate or cancel them and how to troubleshoot problems.
System maintenance and repair organizations.
Sources of the parts and supplies that operate with the system.
The last item can often be addressed through what is called the secondary market for telecom equipment, which includes dozens of firms that stock parts and supplies for current production systems, but more importantly, for systems that are no longer in production and/or are no longer actively supported by their manufacturers. Some firms supply parts for a variety of manufacturers and systems, while others specialize in one or two brands (e.g., Avaya and Northern Telecom). These organizations are also a good source of technicians who specialize in maintaining the systems in question.
Your DR planning process must also include these tasks:
From a networking perspective, identify service routing options from local telephone companies. These call diversion options can quickly route incoming calls on the main phone number to an alternate number in case the phone system is suddenly disabled.
Conduct a periodic DR test of the system as part of your disaster recovery planning process, typically by powering off the system and then turning it back on to see if everything reboots properly.
See if the system supports power-failure transfer lines, which automatically connect outside lines to designated stations for temporary service in a power outage. This is an often-unused feature that can be valuable in a power outage.
Keep a supply of spare circuit boards for stations, trunks and common control equipment. Rotate the station and trunk circuit boards in the switch to ensure they are working properly.
Make sure that you have all the available service bulletins for technical troubleshooting.
Keep the room where the equipment is located locked and secured; limit access to the room only to authorized technicians. Keep backup copies of system documentation in a secure area not in the same building as the system.
Periodically inspect wiring from the service-entry area to the main wire frame and to various cable distribution points in your building. Test your backup power systems at least monthly.
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For me to live my passion, I have to be rigorously honest with myself.
To do this I have to see things the way they are, not just the way I want them to be.
I'm not sure any one can see things the way they are. We always find ways to project our own expectations on life. Maybe at best we can peal away some of the layers of illusion and personal expectations.
Maybe if we can peal away a few layers we can see what motivates some of our actions. We can see the emotions behind our thoughts and actions…the emotions that trigger our thoughts, actions, and the words that come out of our mouth.
One of the emotions that motivates me is anger. Anger seems to come in many flavors and disguises.
When I get angry or I notice another person's anger, two quotes come to mind.
These quotes remind me of the role that anger plays in my life.
For me, these two quotes act like a giant mirror. They force me to look inside myself. They remind me that the cause of my anger is not outside of me. The cause is inside of me.
When I get angry I try to remember that "I am not angry at ____ for the reason I think" and I try to notice how my current anger relates to the current person and situation.
Am I getting mad at this person because of something that happened years ago?
Is my anger at a level 10 and the situation only calls for a level 2 response?
When I feel anger wash over me I try to remember I am not this anger and I try to dig deeper. I try to find out what is behind this anger?
Do I succeed all the time? No.
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Q: General formula for $\arctan$ The question is to express
$$
\arctan a_1+ \arctan a_2 + \dots + \arctan a_n
$$
as $\arctan(\cdot)$ I tried using the formula for the corresponding $\tan$ series but couldn't generalise to all cases.The principal branch is taken as $(-\pi/2,\pi/2)$.
Any ideas?

A: Use the addition formula $$\arctan a_1 + \arctan a_2=\arctan\left(\frac{a_1+a_2}{1-a_1a_2}\right)\quad (\text{mod}\,\pi)$$ In general, working in modulo $\pi$:
If $n=2k, k\in\mathbb{N}$: $$\sum_{n=1}^{2k}\arctan a_n=\arctan\left({\sum_{j=1}^k\left[(-1)^{j-1}\left(\sum_{\text{cyc}}\prod_{i=1}^{2j-1}a_i\right)\right]}\over{1-\sum_{j=1}^k\left[(-1)^{j-1}\left(\sum_{\text{cyc}}\prod_{i=1}^{2j}a_i\right)\right]}\right)$$
If $n=2k+1, k\in\mathbb{N}$: $$\sum_{n=1}^{2k+1}\arctan a_n=\arctan\left(\frac{\sum_{j=0}^k\left[(-1)^j\left(\sum_{\text{cyc}}\prod_{i=1}^{2j+1}a_i\right)\right]}{1-\sum_{j=1}^k\left[(-1)^j\left(\sum_{\text{cyc}}\prod_{i=1}^{2j}a_i\right)\right]}\right)$$

A: Hint: Let $z_n=1+ia_n$ then $\arctan a_n=\arg z_n$ and
$$\arctan a_1+ \arctan a_2 + \dots + \arctan a_n=\arg(\prod_{k=1}^n z_k)=\arctan \dfrac{{\bf Im}\ {w}}{{\bf Re}\ {w}}$$
where $\displaystyle w=\prod_{k=1}^n z_k$.

A: Hint:
From the addition formula,
$$\tan(\arctan a+\arctan b+\arctan c)=\frac{\dfrac{a+b}{1-ab}+c}{1-\dfrac{a+b}{1-ab}c}
=\dfrac{a+b+c-abc}{1-ab-bc-ca}$$
and
$$\tan(\arctan a+\arctan b+\arctan c+\arctan d)
\\=\frac{{\dfrac{a+b+c-abc}{1-ab-bc-ca}}+d}{1-\dfrac{a+b+c-abc}{1-ab-bc-ca}d}
\\=\dfrac{a+b+c+d-abc-bcd-cda-dab}{1-ab-bc-cd-da-ac-bd-ca+abcd}.$$
A regular pattern seems to emerge. We can write a recurrent form
$$\tan\left(\arctan\frac{p_{n-1}}{q_{n-1}}+\arctan a_n\right)=\frac{\dfrac{p_{n-1}}{q_{n-1}}+a_n}{1-\dfrac{p_{n-1}}{q_{n-1}}a_n}=\frac{p_{n-1}+q_{n-1}a_n}{q_{n-1}-p_{n-1}a_n}$$
and
$$\begin{cases}p_n=p_{n-1}+q_{n-1}a_n,\\q_n=q_{n-1}-p_{n-1}a_n.\end{cases}$$
From an operational point of view, this is equivalent to Nosrati's formula, where the product will be computed incrementally. The fully expanded formulas are complicated and computationally inefficient.

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KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari obtained on Monday nomination papers to contest the upcoming elections, the first of his political career, from his party's traditionally dominant National Assembly constituency in Lyari — NA-246.
The NA-246 constituency which earlier fell in Central district, the stronghold of the MQM, has now become part of Lyari, South-I, after final delimitation of 2018.
Bilawal's mother, Benazir Bhutto, and his father, Asif Ali Zardari, had emerged victorious in the general elections of 1988 and 1990, respectively, from Lyari.
The young chairman of the party moved an application before the Additional District Judge-III, South, Karachi, Ramesh Kumar, who is the returning officer, through senior lawyer Farooq H. Naek.
Bilawal intends to contest the forthcoming election for a National Assembly seat on NA-246, Karachi, South-I, to be held on July 25, the application stated.
Therefore, the RO was requested to issue the nomination form for election on the NA seat to the aspiring candidate.
Mr Naek also showed the computerised national identity card of Bilawal to the RO, who issued the form.
PPP's another candidate Shahjahan Baloch and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal's (MMA) candidate Syed Abdur Rasheed also obtained nomination forms to contest the poll from the same constituency.
The returning officers have started issuing election nomination forms to the candidates aspiring to contest the upcoming general elections falling in six districts of the metropolis.
The additional district and sessions judges (ADJs), senior civil judges and judicial magistrates (SCJ&JMs), who have been appointed by the election commission as the ROs, have started issuing the election nomination forms to the candidates upon showing their CNICs.
Twenty-five candidates belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Jamaat-i-Islami have obtained nomination forms to contest the polls from NA-247. JI Karachi chief Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman intends to contest from NA-247.
Over 10 candidates, including PPP's Nadir Magsi, PTI's Khurram Sher Zaman, PML-N's Khawaja Salman and others were issued nomination forms for NA-240.
Pak Sarzameen Party's Hafeezuddin obtained forms to contest on the provincial assembly seat, PS-114, while Muzammil Qureshi obtained forms to contest on the NA-243 seat.
Former senator and PPP leader Nabeel Gabol's son, Nadir Gabol, obtained the election form to contest on the PS-108 seat.
PPP candidate Advocate Qadir Khan Mandokhel obtained nomination forms to contest the polls on the national and provincial assembly seats — NA-248 and PS-113.
Shaukat Khokhar, a candidate of the Christian Peoples Alliance, obtained nomination forms to contest the upcoming general elections on the National Assembly seat, NA-244, while another candidate, Jamaluddin Rajput, obtained forms for the Sindh Assembly seat from Mehmoodabad, PS-104.
More than 25 candidates belonging to the MQM's Bahadurabad faction also obtained nomination forms to contest the polls on the national and provincial assembly seats in Karachi.
The forms were obtained for Mehfooz Yar Khan, Faisal Sabzwari, Kunwar Naveed Jamil and others.
Different political personalities obtained nomination forms in Hyderabad, Tando Allahyar, Matiari and Tando Mohammad Khan districts on Monday.
Around 77 forms were obtained in the Hyderabad district for three national and six provincial assembly constituencies.
Likewise, 67 forms were obtained in Matiari district by different political figures such as Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman, Jalal Shah Jamote, Shah Mohammad Shah, Naseer Memon, Shagufta Jumani, Makhdoom Mahboob Zaman and others.
In Tando Mohammad Khan, Ejaz Shah and Adul Karim Soomro obtained forms for one NA and three PS seats.
In Tando Allahyar, former MNA Abdul Sattar Bachani, former Sindh minister Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi, Dr Irfan Gul Magsi, Zia Abbas Shah, Mohsin Magsi and Khair Mohammad Khokhar obtained forms for one NA and two provincial assembly seats.
Imdad Pitafi, Raees Ghulam Qadir Mari, Dr Bux Ali Pitafi and Makhdoom Ali Mohammad Walahari also obtained forms.
A.D. Bhutto, the manager of former president house at Naudero, obtained three nomination papers [one in Urdu and two in English] for Bilawal from additional sessions judge Sham Lal for NA-200. He also obtained forms for Faryal Talpur and Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari for PS-10 [Ratodero].
Amin Shaikh, Larkana's PPP general secretary, obtained papers for PS-11 for Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, president of PPP Sindh chapter, and his daughter Nida Khuhro. PPP-Workers' Moazzim Ali Abbasi also received a form for the same seat.
Abdul Rauf Korai, a lawyer, obtained nomination papers for NA-201 [Dokri].
Bilawal will arrive in Larkana on June 6 and is expected to submit his nomination papers for NA-200 on June 8, party sources said.
If the nation want to progress,get rid of these corrupt leaders in the next election.
When constituencies will be run by people with no substance and loyalty.
Can't Pakistan produce 1 sincere leader?
It is funny and ironic that slums of Lyari will be represented by a person who has never lived in Lyari, instead lives in a palatial house in Clifton.
...and the Zardaris are complaining about delimitation?
This is the reason why Pakistan was, is and will remain a poor country.
This is the reason no dam was ever built for half a century: destroying the economy with it.
I have never seen a country more blind to her own destruction. Think about this the next time you sit without electricity.
I feel Sorry for the people of Lyari, for the last 40+ years PPP is really using these people.
After the alliance of PPP with more powerful sources. It has turned into a political party of saints overnight. Now that there is unconstitutional ban on the real stakeholders of Urban Sindh and the entire electoral is rigged including incorrect census and delimitations. PPP is dominating in Urban Sindh where they hardly have any votes except Layari.


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Divi style can be set up effortlessly. You don't need to be a coder or programmer to utilize the theme. If you are downloading Divi style to use it with WordPress, then you would see several new products on the control panel menu. You would have to go to Appearance, gain access to Themes and after that Add New to Upload the Divi style after installing it on your system. The numerous products in the menu will permit you to set up the Divi style.
The control board of Divi theme has undergone an improvement recently. It is now much more elegant and simple to use. The layout was already easy to begin with. The interface is significantly better with the current upgrade. All essential alternatives and settings are set out nicely for you to deal with anything from uploading a logo to picking a color palette, incorporating social media or choosing the variety of posts that would be displayed on a specific web page. The control board almost uses one-click management of the majority of features of the website. The control board also allows you to choose the navigation of the site. You can configure designs or choose global settings and manage posts, pages, adverts as well as regulate seo. You might likewise decide to utilize an SEO plug-in if you want.
Unlike a few of the older Elegant Themes that look dated and jaded, Divi theme looks fresh and cutting-edge. The entire interface seems advanced and the visual appeal is absolutely striking. It would be safe to say that Elegant Themes has not come up with as sophisticated and visually visual a theme in years. You may want to inspect the demo if you wish to have a glance of how Divi style looks before you opt to pay the Divi cost.
Appearance is a cosmetic quality and although it is essential, yet it is not as considerable as the functions. Divi theme examples show how helpful the numerous features are, whether we highlight the full-width designs or appealing icons, big sliders or responsive website style. You can have full-length one page designs. You can incorporate WooCommerce to have an ecommerce website or online store while using WordPress. There are lots of such ecommerce themes that are compatible with Divi so creating an online shop is not a difficult difficulty. There are prebuilt layouts for online stors you can access after Divi theme download. There suffice alternatives to have a definitely difference ecommerce site.
Divi home builder plugin can be used to establish every kind of website, be it a sales page, a blot with numerous designs, a portfolio site or among a creative firm. The Divi home builder plugin has a drag and drop functions. The Divi Drag and Drop Page Builder is in fact one of the more well known functions amongst web designers and web designers. The drag and drop home builder was there considering that its initial release but it has been considerably enhanced with the Divi 3.0 upgrade.


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