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Men Have Vision
What is a man? Brian Tome, pastor of Crossroads Church, talks about the qualities that make men unique. Tome recalls his youth and the irresponsibility that marked much of it. Tome explains that a man has a vision for his life while a boy lives day to day.
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With Brian Tome
Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, May 2nd. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson, and I'm Bob Lepine.
Pastor Brian Tome joins us today and says if we want to know what the Bible has to say about masculinity, there are better places to look than at the example of someone like Samson. We'll talk more about that today; stay with us.
And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us.
We're talking about a subject this week that—you shared a little bit, already, Ann, that you have some mixed emotions about calling men to manhood and the implications of that for wives and for moms and for single women in our culture.
Ann: I think every woman resonates with this. It stirs in them, "Yes, this is right, this sounds good." But there's another part of us, as women, that we've had to step into that role as protector, as provider, because maybe a man hasn't or hasn't been there. So women have had to become strong in this culture. To hear this, I've realized that I have some of that in me, that I have a protective shell around me that's had to be strong because maybe in the past I haven't had someone there to protect me.
Dave: You know what, Bob? I have to jump in, because I know where this comes from. I've been married to this woman for a long time; it's been awesome. Part of her strength—and she's a very strong woman, and I know strong women and she's at the top, which is awesome—but I think part of what Ann is feeling right now is, she was married to a passive boy, me, for almost a decade, I think. Even as I read through what a man is through Scripture, I started realizing, "I'm not a man yet, and I'm 25, 28 years old." That's why this conversation's so critical. I was that guy. So I know—some of that's just—
Ann: That's funny, honey; I wasn't even thinking of you, but—
Dave: I know. But I'm sitting here thinking, "That's part of what she's feeling; she had to be strong because her man wasn't."
I think the beauty that we get about today is I became a man. She was part of the process, she watched it. But when we got married, I thought I was a man, like so many do, and I wasn't.
Bob: So, as we have this conversation—and we're going to introduce our guest here in just a minute, but—Ann, do you think wives and moms, single women, want men to step up and reassert themselves as men and say, "I'll protect you," or do they want men to go, "You're a capable woman; you can protect yourself"?
Ann: I think women long for men to be beside them in the battle. I think women feel like we are in the battle, and we've been battling, sometimes, alone, and we want men there, because men are strong, and they carry a peace that we don't carry, which is beautiful.
So I think every woman listening is like, "I want that," but there's also another part of them that thinks, "Will my husband ever become that, or will—" you know, "I'm a single mom. Will my son ever experience a man that will pull that out of him?" So that longing is absolutely there.
Bob: We're talking about what makes a man a man this week, and Dave, we have your friend Brian Tome joining us. Brian, welcome back to FamilyLife Today.
Brian: Thank you, great to be here.
Bob: Brian his a pastor from Cincinnati, Ohio at Crossroads Church—
Dave: And I'll tell you, Bob (he's too humble to tell you this), it's one of the fastest-growing churches in the country.
Bob: A lot of people coming to Crossroads.
Dave: As a fellow pastor in ministry, it's such a joy to watch what God's done in you, Brian, and through you. You're a model for us. I mean, you started after us. It's like the student, you know, and we're the teacher, and it's like the student has gone way beyond the teacher; it's pretty cool.
Bob: Brian, as you sat down to write this book, The Five Marks of a Man, this was after a lot of years of processing this on your own and then presenting this to the congregation of Crossroads and then helping them grapple with these concepts. Was this because of your own lack of understanding about your own masculinity?
Brian: Yes, it was my personal needing to prove to the world myself that I was a man, and I didn't even know how to do that, didn't even know what a man was. I didn't want other males to go down the same barren road with no answers that I had gone through, just trying to prove and feel like we were men. That led me to deeper study and reflection, to try to help my son and give him a better start than I had.
A verse that I think is really important for us is First Corinthians 16, verses 13 to 14. Let me read it to you. It says this: "Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love."
Now, this is a great verse, and I think the five marks are all hinted at in here. First of all, "act like men," is in the plural. Men are team players; boys are individual MVPs. That's one of the marks.
It also talks here about being watchful, being watchful about having a vision. A man has a vision; a boy lives day-to-day, doesn't have anything he's living for.
"Stand firm in the faith." What is faith? Faith is something that you can't entirely prove; that's why it's called faith. You stand firm in it, and whenever there's something you can't entirely prove, you will be in the minority. Men take a minority position; boys always have to be in the majority.
"Let all that you do…" There's a sense of love that happens there, and we do this by working. You do when you work. Men work; boys don't want to work. All boys want to do is play.
And it is to be done in love. This happens—the greatest act of love was Jesus dying on a cross. What did He do on a cross for us? He protected us from having to pay for our sins forever. Men are protectors; boys are predators.
So I think that these five marks come up again and again; in every male that we all admire, they're all at least alluded to here in this passage, and every Bible hero at his best, when you see them, they have these five marks.
Bob: So, let's take some time going through these and just unpacking them for guys. You said that a boy lives day-to-day, a man has a longer-term vision. Just explain that a little bit.
Brian: Well, let's use my own loser life for a moment if we could. [Laughter]
I was in college for seven years, and I didn't train to be a doctor. Seven years! Seven years to get a four-year degree. That's part of what happens when your parents value education and they pay for your college. I would drop classes because I didn't want to go to the final, and have to repeat Accounting I again. I took Accounting I three times! Three times. I had a sterling 2.25 GPA in high school. Do you know why I did those things that I'm really embarrassed by? It's because I didn't have a vision.
My son one time was upset about the homework he was doing, and he said, "This is stupid. I don't know what I'm doing this. I'm never going to have to use this." I looked at him and said, "Yes, you're right, you're never going to have to use that." He looked at me like he had me busted. He was like, "Well, then why am I doing this?"
I said, "You're not necessarily going to use geometry, but what you're doing right now is you're getting a sheepskin that's going to open up opportunities to you in the future."
No one told me that. No one told me—I didn't like school, I didn't see what the point of it was. I didn't have a vision. School's all about a vision. I'm going to do something I don't want to do today so I can have a better tomorrow.
Dave: So Brian, if I'm a 12, 13, 14-year-old boy and I come to you as a spiritual man in my life, or a pastor, coach—you name it—and I say, "Give me the long game. I don't know what it is. What is a vision I should have? What's a vision a man has?" A boy doesn't have it, a man does. What is it?
Brian: Whatever your vision is right now, it's probably going to change, but you need to have something right now that's going to help you endure difficulty tomorrow. For some of us, it's a simple vision of, "I'm going to get through school," and then we get another vision. Others of us—I've talked with one guy that said, "My vision is going to be, I'm going to be the first person in my family who will never have a divorce." That's a vision.
We're not talking here about, "We're going to revolutionize the tech world and start the next Apple." Maybe you want to, and maybe you can do that; that's great. We're just talking about something in your mind that's going to take time to get there and gives you reason for why you're going through difficulty right now.
Ann: So it's goals. It's setting short- and long-term goals that will affect your life in the future.
Brian: Yes, though I've never set a goal in my life, so…
Ann: What's a vision? Why that word?
Brian: Well, just goal—I think goal does tell us, you know, "By this date, I'm supposed to have this many of that." I'm okay with that; I'm not saying we shouldn't do that. But there has to be a burn, there has to be an internal burn that just says, "That's where I'm going. I'm going to go through this briar patch here because that fuzzy thing—I think that's a mountaintop over there—I'm going to go to that, and therefore I'm going to go through the briar patch."
Bob: Well, and I would suggest to you here, too, that one of the differences between a man and a boy is a boy can have a vision where he's thinking, "This is the goal, this is what I'm aspiring to," but at the end of it, it's—I'm doing it for me. I'm doing it for my own self-satisfaction, for my own benefit. I'm not thinking of others, and I'm not thinking of the glory of God in the midst of this; I'm just doing this because when I get there, when I have the toy, I want the Ferrari, or I want the Condor, or I want this. You're still a boy if you have a vision but it's all about you.
Brian: Very insightful, I would like to just be one of rare people that says here right now, it's crazy how many of us think of Samson as a Bible hero. Samson is not a Bible hero. He is a boy. He is an utter boy. Everything is done for him; his sexual urges, his grooming habits. At the end of his life, he said, before he pushed over those pillars, he says, "Let me take vengeance for me," is basically what he says. It's not about the glory of God, it's not about the reputation of Israel; it's about him.
So yes, a boy can have some vision that sounds great about starting a new .com, but one of the marks of a man is a man who's a team player; a boy plays for MVPs. So, a vision must have others engaged and the recipients, or else you're being a boy.
Dave: So, when is a moment in your life where you have rejected, overcome passivity as a boy and taken a courageous stand or move to be a man?
Brian: The ones in the book I talk about were taking a stand to help those in generational poverty in the city of Cincinnati and having people in our church upset that we had bought property, and they thought it was going to hurt their property values, and seeing people picket our church. I mean, that was a minority position; took a stand. Took a stand—
Bob: Oh, wait. Generational poverty—what were you doing there?
Brian: We built a center called the Citylink Center; it was a ten-million-dollar facility that we built, and then we funded a million dollars a year ongoing, and we brought a bunch of social services into one house so those in poverty wouldn't have to go all over the city; there'd be a one-stop shop to help them and mentor them to wholeness.
Bob: Was it fearful for you to step out and say, "Let's do this"?
Brian: Well, yes; for one, where's the ten million dollars going to come from? Where's that going to come from?
Bob: There is that.
Brian: Second, when you have picketers out front picketing your church, that's not a fun time.
Bob: Mm-hmm.
Brian: But was being a minority, taking a stand.
How will I parent my kids is another one. I took my daughter and my son to a Reds game. They were seven and five. They're seven and five, we're at a Cincinnati Reds game. I gave them some money; I said, "I want you to go back and I want you to get me a Coke and a hot dog; get yourself anything you want, too."
They looked at me like, "What?" I said, "Just walk up this aisle, go back up the aisle, go there and stand in line."
Bob: Seven and five.
Brian: Seven and five. Now, if we were in the Bronx I don't know if I would have, but Cincinnati in 1997 was pretty serene. So they took off, and they came back with that hot dog and that Coke, and I'll tell you what, they grew that day.
The stuff that I would do to my kids, people judged me all the time. You have to get used to taking a stand, you have to get used to being in the minority position, because where the majority's going is not that good, and the fruit isn't that sweet.
Dave: It is interesting; you have a vision for boys to become men, for girls to become women; I mean, that's part of it in this minority position as well. It's interesting, in the section in the book about taking the minority position, you get into the whole thing of integrity as well. So, how does that play out? As you're raising these kids, and even you and me as a man, how do we live with wholeness?
Brian: Well, it starts with us. I'll just do my latest confession—this is just a morning, honestly, this morning repentance.
Bob: Like, today?
Brian: Yes, today; literally this morning.
Bob: Okay. Alright.
Brian: So yes, Brian Tome has boy moments. I live in this place where there's a bunch of acreage around it, and you're not allowed to hunt in the acreage. We kind of share the acreage, and you're not allowed to hunt in it. I've never hunted before, but all of a sudden I said, "I want to go hunt something and eat it, and I have this property right behind my house!" So I got this crossbow—
Bob: Did you do this this morning?
Brian: No, I didn't kill it this morning. I've killed and eaten two deer in the last six weeks; pulled them out of the woods, that stuff.
So, a friend of mine, just yesterday, who lives in the same plan, said, "Hey, just tell me how you're processing doing what's against the rules." I said, "Well, that's a good question. This isn't the section where there's the walk-in trails." That's what I said.
This morning I was reading—I had my quiet time in Romans 13, and it talks about honoring authorities, not violating your conscience, inviting the wrath of God. God just spoke to me really clearly [about] not honoring the authority of that land, because it shouldn't be happening.
So I'm emailing an apology, and a repentance email's going out. Man, that was a boyish move, man. Boys always have an excuse to bend the rules and to violate right and wrong, and right there I had done it.
Dave: Where does a man get the foundation to take a minority position?
Brian: I think we get inspired, Dave, by seeing other people do it. That's part of why I just confessed that. Not only is confession good for the soul, but maybe someone's going to listen to that and be inspired by it. I know I'm inspired when I see other people making strong confession and make strong moves. I mean, you talked about Kensington, the church where you cut your teeth and where you served. I would regularly come and just hang around Kensington Church, because I saw aggressive moves that you guys were making. It inspired me.
We need to see that with other men. We just need to be around other people who are lifting our highest level instead of pushing us down and lowering their expectations on us.
Dave: Which leads us further conversation about men needing men to become men.
Bob: That's something that you've needed in your own life, but you've been pressing your boys to have those kinds of relationships and the men at your church. You really feel this is a high value for every guy.
Dave: Oh, I'm like Brian in terms of I'm a vigilante on the stage with men. I'm like, "If you're coming here more than six weeks and you haven't found some men to do life with…" I'm yelling at them, you know. I'm like, "Come on!" I want to call them out of boyhood to manhood, because we have to. It's true for women as well, no question, but men so often isolate ourselves, and we don't become men. We have to aggressively pursue it, go, find the men you need to do life with, and they're going to change your life.
Ann: And we as women long for our men to be with other men.
Bob: Right.
Ann: We really want that—
Brian: You feel safe, actually. If your man's by himself, you feel very vulnerable.
Ann: Yes, exactly. But when he's surrounded by good men, we push that. We want our husbands to do it. A lot of times they just don't want to.
Bob: So, if a husband was to say to his wife, "You know, I'm going to get a copy of this book they were talking about on the radio, The Five Marks of a Man, and just get together and with three or four other guys and go through it," you're saying a wife would go, "I would love that"?
Ann: Our temptation is that we would be putting it beside the toilet. [Laughter] You know, "Please read this book! Please read it." Yes.
Bob: But even if the guy's saying, "That means I'm gone Thursday and you have to put the kids to bed and handle it yourself," a wife's going to go, "I want you to have that time doing that"?
Ann: Absolutely. Yes.
Dave: I'll add this. I've been doing life with seven guys for 20 years, my best friends. There is never one time in our marriage where Ann has said, "Don't spend time with those guys." She's pushing me out the door, because she knows I come back a better man, better husband, better dad.
Ann: He's inspired. You're right, Brian; he's inspired by other men doing what God's called them to do.
Bob: Okay, so, guys who are listening, get a copy of the book The Five Marks of a Man, get together with some other guys, and go through this a chapter at time and have conversations about what's in this book. Wives who are listening…do they get the book and put it by the toilet, or do they just pray, or what do they do? [Laughter]
Ann: I think that's up to you guys. What should we do? What would you say?
Dave: I've read a few books by the toilet—
Bob: Okay. [Laughter] They just wound up there? You went, "How did this book get here?"
Dave: "How did that get there?" My wife knows I spend some time there, so—
Brian: Well, one thing you definitely cannot do as a woman is you cannot make your husband feel like you're giving him an assignment. I wish we would respond better to challenge from our wives, but we generally don't, especially in the area of, "You need to be a better man," because that's how they'll interpret this. "Oh, you want me to have this book because I'm really not being a—"
Brian: So you just have to be careful.
Ann: I want to talk about that, too, the next time, because we as women need help in knowing how to do that.
Bob: Alright, we'll see if we can get a chance to unpack some of that. Right now, let me tell our listeners how they can get a copy of Brian Tome's book, The Five Marks of a Man: Finding Your Path to Courageous Manhood. We have it on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com, or you can call to order at 1-800-FLTODAY.
In addition to Brian's book, I want to encourage you to think about getting together with dads and sons this summer. If you have sons who are, I would say, 16 or older, plan 10 nights this summer when you are some of their friends and their friends' dads could all get together and have a cookout or do something and then sit down and watch each of the ten sessions that are part of the Stepping Up video series for men.
This is a great way for dads to interact with this material, but also for sons to begin to think about, "What does it mean that God made me a man, and how am I supposed to respond to that? How do I embrace biblical masculinity and live that out?"
We have copies of that video series available in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center; you can go online to order the kit that has the workbook and the videos and the copy of Dennis Rainey's book Stepping Up. Again, the information about how to order is available online at FamilyLifeToday.com. You can also order Brian Tome's book The Five Marks of a Man. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com for more information, or call 1-800-FLTODAY if we can answer any questions for you or if you'd like to order by phone. 1-800-358-6329. That's 1-800- "F" as in family, "L" as in life, and then the word, "TODAY."
You know, Brian talked today about the importance of having a band of brothers, a tribe, a group of guys you get with where you're—I hate to use the expression, but "doing life together," right? The President of FamilyLife, David Robbins, is here. You have a group like that, right?
David: I do. I really can't imagine life without them. We dominoed into each other's lives spiritually in college, where I saw one of my close friends really start passionately pursuing the Lord, and over time it drew me and there were a few others that dominoed after me into each other's lives. As we graduated, we just kind of made this pact that "we want to keep this going."
So, sure enough, every May we get together, and there's a cost to it. There's a cost to our wives, there's a cost to getting there, but it is so worth it. If anything, Meg pushes me out the door, going, "You need this. I see what happens when you come back."
We're coming up on our 20th year this year, and you know, we keep it pretty simple. We talk throughout the year on some video calls, but when we get together we simply call it "going around the horn," and each person gets a turn in the hot seat and has about an hour to really divulge anything good, bad, ugly in their lives. There's that safety and that vulnerability that's already established.
So we go there, and I just simply hear the conversation today and just go, if you don't have that, people want it. Every man wants it. Take the step of faith, take the risk, be the first to initiate; go there.
If you're the wife of a man, encourage him. Don't get in the way; push him toward it, especially if those friends intentionally push him towards Jesus.
Bob: How many guys are in your group?
David: We have six of us.
Bob: Okay. That's about a good size. You wouldn't want it much bigger than that.
David: You end up just being limited on time to really do to the deep places beneath the surface that you need to go to.
Bob: Yes, that's good. Thank you, David.
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And we hope you can join us back tomorrow, when we're going to talk about how important it is for our picture of manhood to be understood biblically and not conditioned culturally. Brian Tome will join us again tomorrow; hope you can be here as well.
Men Are Protectors
Brian Tome
Brian Tome is senior pastor of Crossroads, a multisite church that actively engages tens of thousands in combating generational poverty through the CityLink Center, building homes for girls rescued from sex slavery, and bringing entrepreneurs together to start the first faith-based business accelerator. An avid motorcyclist, Tome rides tens of thousands of miles and camps more than 30 nights every year. Through the materials found in The Five Marks of a Man and Man Camp, Brian has helpe...more


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Q: Messages not appearing on message subfile on bottom of screen I have written a basic maintenance function in RPGLE, using DDS to create the display file.  I have a message subfile defined to show the message on line 24.  The message subfile control record has an overlay defined.  The messages are being written to the pgm (checked the job logs and can see the correct messages being sent to the correct program).  SFLPGMQ is defined as '*' (I also tried putting the full pgm name in as well - same thing).  The whole program is written entirely in fully free-format RPG.   I have the following formats:
HEADER  (No overlay defined) - This contains narrative on the first 4 lines.
SUBFILE  (Control record has overlay defined) - Subfile lines 6-21
FUNCKEYS (Display the set of allowed function keys on row 23 - Overlay defined)
MSGSFL  (Control record has overlay defined) - SFLMSGRCD(24)
When building the screen:
Write Header
Write Funckeys
Write MsgSflC
Exfmt SUBFILEC
The odd thing is - I have a very similar sort of subfile that uses a window.  My method is virtually identical to this program - but that works fine!
I have been pulling my hair out for a few hours now and cannot for the life of me understand what is going on!!!!   Please please someone put me out of my misery!
This is the DDS for the display file
A                                      DSPSIZ(24 80 *DS3)
A                                      INDARA
A                                      CF03(03)
A                                      CF06(06)
A                                      CF12(12)

 ** Header
A          R HEADER
A                                  1  2'XXXXXXS1'
A                                  1 28'Maintain XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
A                                      DSPATR(HI)
A                                  1 63DATE
A                                      EDTCDE(Y)
A                                  1 72TIME
A                                  3  2'2=Edit   4=Delete'
A                                      COLOR(BLU)

 ** Subfile
A          R SUBFILE                   SFL
A  94                                  SFLNXTCHG
A            S_OPT          1A  B  6  3
A  51                                  DSPATR(RI PC)
A            S_TRANTYPE    30A  O  6  8
A            S_RRN          5S 0H

 ** Subfile control
A          R SUBFILEC                  SFLCTL(SUBFILE)
A                                      OVERLAY
A  91                                  SFLDSP
A  92                                  SFLDSPCTL
A  90                                  SFLCLR
A  93                                  SFLEND(*MORE)
A                                      SFLSIZ(17)
A                                      SFLPAG(16)
A                                  5  2'Opt'
A                                      DSPATR(HI)
A                                  5  8'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
A                                      DSPATR(HI)

 ** Function keys
A          R FUNCKEYS
A                                      OVERLAY
A                                 23  2'F3=Exit   F6=Add   F12=Cancel'
A                                      COLOR(BLU)

 ** No xxxxxxxx available
A          R NOTRANS
A                                      OVERLAY
A                                 10 10'*** There are no XXXXXXX defined ***'
A                                       DSPATR(HI)

 ** Messages
A          R MSGSFL                    SFL
A                                      SFLMSGRCD(24)
A            MSGKEY                    SFLMSGKEY
A            PGMQ                      SFLPGMQ

A          R MSGCTL                    SFLCTL(MSGSFL)
A                                      OVERLAY
A                                      SFLDSP
A                                      SFLDSPCTL
A                                      SFLINZ
A N12                                  SFLEND
A                                      SFLSIZ(2)
A                                      SFLPAG(1)
A            PGMQ                      SFLPGMQ(10)

Below is the essence of the building of the screen.  The screen displays everything correctly - except no messages at the bottom!
PGMQ is set to '*' at the start of the program
dcl-proc DisplayScreen;

    write HEADER;
    write FUNCKEYS;
    write MSGCTL;
    if S_RRN <> *zero;
       SflDspCtl = *on;
       SflDsp = *on;
       exfmt SUBFILEC;
    else;
       exfmt NOTRANS;
    endif;

end-proc;

Only 1 record can be selected at a time.  If more than one, a message should be displayed at the bottom - along with all the relevant records highlighted on field S_OPT.  The highlighting of all fields works fine - and the message appears in the job log!  SO I would expect them to appear in the MSGSFL!  I'm sure i'm doing something stupid - but cannot for the life of me see what!!

A: I don't see any obvious problems with the code you've posted, so I suspect the issue is somewhere else in your mainline or edit routine that you didn't post the code for. My suspicion is that you're clearing the program message queue somewhere between writing the error messages and returning back to DisplayScreen process, so the messages never make it to the subfile.
--Rob

A: This looks just like what I use, with one exception. I put the program name (from the PSDS) into the program queue. Then when sending messages, I send them explicitly to the same queue. That way I know that they are all pointing to the same thing. You have not shown the routine that sends the message, but you need to make sure that you are not sending to something "down the chain" that is you need to send to the stack entry named with counter 0. I also only clear the message queue immediately after a read of the display file.
Here's the procedure I use to send messages to a display file:
// ------------------------------------
// Send Message to Display File (MSGID)
// Sends a message to the display file message subfile
//
// Parameters:
//  pgmq        - Program message queue. This must be the same as the pgmq
//                specified in the display file.
//  messageId   - The message id of the message to be sent
//  messageData - Message data for replacement values in the message. Format
//                of the message data is defined by the message. This is
//                optional, if missing, blanks are used.
//  messageFile - The qualified name of the message file containing the
//                message. The first 10 characters is the messafe file name,
//                the second 10 characters is the library. This is optional,
//                if blank, QCPFMSG in *LIBL is used.
// ------------------------------------
dcl-proc SendDspfMsg Export;
  dcl-pi *n;
    pgmq           Char(10) const;
    messageId      Char(7) const;
    messageData    Varchar(256) const options(*varsize: *nopass);
    messageFile    LikeDs(qualName_t) const options(*nopass);
  end-pi;

  dcl-ds msgf      LikeDs(qualName_t) Inz(*likeds);
  dcl-ds ec        LikeDs(errCode_t) Inz(*likeds);

  dcl-s msgData    Char(256) Inz('');

  if %parms() >= %parmnum(messageData);
    msgData = messageData;
  endif;
  if %parms() >= %parmnum(messageFile);
    msgf = messageFile;
  else;
    msgf.name = 'QCPFMSG';
  endif;

  qmhsndpm(messageId: msgf: msgData: %size(msgData): '*INFO': pgmq: 0: '': ec);
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A: This is what I usually do.....note the weird 12 or not 12 for the SFLEND keyword.
I was told to use that 20 years ago and always have done since....can't remember the reason though!
I also move asterisk in to PGMQ as below as the first line of my RPG
DDS:
A          R MSGSFL                    SFL
A                                      SFLMSGRCD(24)
A            MSGKEY                    SFLMSGKEY
A            PGMQ                      SFLPGMQ
A          R MSGCTL                    SFLCTL(MSGSFL)
A                                      OVERLAY
A                                      SFLINZ
A                                      SFLSIZ(2)
A                                      SFLPAG(1)
A  12
AON12                                  SFLEND
A                                      SFLDSP SFLDSPCTL
A            PGMQ                      SFLPGMQ

RPG:
C                   movel(p)  '*'           pgmq

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High up on the list of things to do before you die, below seeing the Northern Lights but above visiting Austria, is attempting The Bull Run. The fiesta of San Fermin, better known as The Running of the Bulls, takes place in Pamplona in the second week of July each year. The tradition began in northern Spain in the early fourteenth century. Whilst transporting cattle to sell at the market, the men attempted to speed up the process by running alongside them, cajoling them with a mixture of fear and excitement. Over the years, this custom changed into competition, with the brave and reckless alike making the pilgrimage to Pamplona to answer their urge for adrenaline.
This is where you join Tom, Justin and me, after a two week cycle from London through the heart of France and the peaks of the Pyrenees. We're making our way to the start of the course, walking down the backstreets of Pamplona at 7:30am with a croissant in one hand and a coffee in the other. Except Justin, who is also balancing a carton of sangria in between his chest and forearm. Ambulances are preemptively parked down every side alley, stretchers sitting expectantly beside them. The other five thousand or so participants are meandering towards the start too, dressed in the compulsory white top and trousers, decorated with the customary red belt and bandana. Their outfits are also accessorised with splashes of blood red sangria.
We gathered at the start of the L-shaped course with the other runners, exchanging stories and survival tactics. We quickly learnt that where we were standing, the turn of the L, was known as Dead Man's Corner. As the bulls' attempt to change direction at full speed they skid out, smash into the wall and squash anyone who's ignorant or insane enough to stand there. The beauty of the bull run is that you can make it as safe or dangerous as you desire. Justin was doing hamstring stretches at the apex of Dead Man's Corner. Tom had barricaded himself in a doorway using a Chinese girl as a human shield.
At two minutes to eight, a gong sounds and the mood switches. Simultaneously, we all realise that we've deliberately placed ourselves in a life-threatening situation. We start stretching and focusing, muscles tingling with fear and adrenaline. Then a second gong sounds to signal the bulls have started running. The narrow street descends into anarchy.
Pure, unadulterated chaos underwritten by danger. Acute fear leads to survival mode. It's every man for himself. We're all sprinting for our lives, arms and elbows held either side of our faces to stop someone else elbowing us. We look like frantic, sprinting chickens, egged on by the impending arrival of stampeding bulls. The air is filled with shouts and screams and stomping footsteps. The only thing we're thinking about is staying upright, with the occasional glance over our shoulders to check where the bulls are.
They arrive quicker than expected, parting the red and white sea of people with beautiful brutality. For these few minutes, we are no longer at the top of the food chain. The crowd frantically scatters in front of them then regroups after they've passed. We chase them down the remaining stretch of street into the main arena where a packed crowd is waiting to applaud us.
Inside the arena, we bask in the ecstasy of survival. I find Tom and we share the best hug of our lives. Over the course of an hour, six bulls are released into the arena one by one and the runners try to touch their horns for good luck. This felt curious to me, as it seemed to bring the majority of men who attempted it a pretty serious dose of bad luck.
Outside, we found Justin being carried aloft a crowd of drunken bull-runners. His white attire was almost exclusively blood red. I felt a tremor in my stomach and assumed he'd been gored. Then, I saw his right arm attempting to pour a supersized carton of sangria in the general vicinity of his face but mainly succeeding in drenching the crowd beneath him, who continued to carry him like a decorated war hero. I still don't know what he'd done to deserve it, but whatever it was, you don't find excitement like that during the Northern Lights. Or in Austria.


Board left at the Redhouse.
I've had word from Jeff that we have left a single 4*4 board at the Redhouse (it was hiding in the cellar!). He closes the doors and hands the keys back to Punch tomorrow at midday. He is there today cleaning up - so we can pick it up. Unfortunately I only have my small car at work today otherwise I would have done it. Is anyone able to pick it up and store it somewhere (you can bring it to me at the University if you want) until we can get it to the Mulberry Tavern?
Re: Board left at the Redhouse.
Aneurin wrote: I've had word from Jeff that we have left a single 4*4 board at the Redhouse (it was hiding in the cellar!). He closes the doors and hands the keys back to Punch tomorrow at midday. He is there today cleaning up - so we can pick it up. Unfortunately I only have my small car at work today otherwise I would have done it. Is anyone able to pick it up and store it somewhere (you can bring it to me at the University if you want) until we can get it to the Mulberry Tavern?
Picked it up this morning - its now in my lab at work - we will reunite it with its friends at some point.


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Q: Phonegap background service on iOS4? Can I get a phonegap application running on iOS 4 to have a background service when it's not the active app (e.g. check a url every hour and alert the user if there have been any changes)?
And if so, how?

A: Yes, you can do that, but Apple will probably disallow it. Background running is bound to VERY specific rules. For this kind of stuff Apple invented Push Notifications (from server).
You can read the developer documentation about that.

A: The best way to achieve this would be to create a plugin for PhoneGap, which runs natively on the phone.  PhoneGap recommends that any heavy lifting be done by native code.
Check out the IOS documentation for background tasks, it should tell you what is allowed, and what is not.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/BackgroundExecution/BackgroundExecution.html

A: Why don't you use onPause and onResume events. They are quite helpful.


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Psyche kroont Amor (Frans: Psyche Couronnant l'Amour) is een schilderij van Jean-Baptiste Greuze dat ontstond in de periode 1785-1790. Sinds 1873 maakt het werk deel uit van de collectie van het Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Rijsel.

Voorstelling
Rond zijn veertigste was Greuze een van de bekendste schilders van Parijs, succesvol met portretten en genrestukken. Zijn ambitie reikte echter verder dan dat. Om een volwaardig lidmaatschap van de Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture te verkrijgen, zond Greuze een schilderij van Septimius Severus en Caracalla in. De ontvangst van het werk was bijzonder lauw. Diep beledigd wendde Greuze zich voor langere tijd af van klassieke thema's en stelde zelfs niets meer tentoon op de Salon. Pas aan de vooravond van de Franse Revolutie werd zijn interesse voor historische onderwerpen nieuw leven ingeblazen door een opdracht van de graaf van Artois, Cupido leidt de onschuld weg. Dit was een groot en complex schilderij, waarvan een aantal voorbereidende en afgeleide werken van bekend zijn.

In dezelfde periode ontstond Psyche kroont Amor. Greuze koos hier een hoogst originele weergave van de bekende mythe van de beeldschone koningsdochter Psyche en Amor, die al veel kunstenaars geïnspireerd had. Psyche houdt een krans boven het hoofd van de liefdesgod, waarbij vooral de enigszins sentimentele en lome gezichtsuitdrukkingen opvallen die zo typisch zijn voor Greuze. Het bestaan van het schilderij kwam pas aan het licht na het overlijden van zijn dochter Caroline, die alle werken in zijn atelier geërfd had. Onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat Greuze het doek nooit heeft afgemaakt, wellicht doordat er geen koper te vinden was of doordat de omstandigheden door de revolutie zo veranderd waren dat een frivool onderwerp niet meer geschikt leek.

De schrijver Conrad Busken Huet liet zich bijzonder enthousiast uit over dit werk in Het land van Rubens.

Herkomst
 1805: nagelaten aan Caroline Greuze, dochter van de kunstenaar.
 januari 1843: na haar dood gekocht door Meffre.
 november 1845: gekocht door Charles de Morny.
 mei 1852: gekocht door Alexandre Leleux, eigenaar van de regionale krant L'Echo du Nord.
 1873: nagelaten aan het Museum voor Schone Kunsten.

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Literatuur
  (1992). Masterworks from the Musée Des Beaux-arts, Lille. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art pp. 135-37

Externe links

Werk gebaseerd op Grieks-Romeinse mythologie
Schilderij in het Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Rijsel)
1780-1789

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After a pair of games in eastern Canada, the Florida Panthers (25-12-4) take to the other end of the Great White North with a 9:30 game against the suddenly better Edmonton Oilers (17-22-3). Florida will be trying to extend their NHL season-long 11-game winning streak against the Oilers, who are 8-2-0 in their last 10 against the Cats.
After watching the Oilers lose Saturday night's game against Tampa Bay in a game they completely dominated – Tampa had all the puck luck in the world, scoring three goals in the third on shots that all bounced off Oilers — I've come up with a couple of areas Florida should focus on in an effort to get to a dozen consecutive wins.
Don't run-and-gun: Edmonton is young and talented, icing highly skilled forwards, some who were No. 1 overall or lottery selections. That youth likes to get out and go to demonstrate their abilities. Florida doesn't need to get caught up in matching the fast pace of the game and should just take the opportunities presented. Hey, I'll take Jonathan Huberdeau or Sasha Barkov against Cam Talbot or Anders Nilsson in a breakaway all day over Taylor Hall against Roberto Luongo or Al Montoya, but the Panthers don't need to play at Edmonton's pace.
Stay within the system: Coach Gerard Gallant has utilized a tight defensive system that clogs up the neutral zone, creates traffic in the shooting lanes on attempted shots and allows breakouts to get possible odd-man rushes. If Florida can demonstrate their system works better than first-year Edmonton coach Todd McLellan's, the young Oilers and Barkov-like Leon Draisaitl (by far my favorite non-Cat player from the 2014 draft) may become frustrated and slip into some bad habits. This could lead to breakdowns and offensive chances.
Don't get caught up in the streak: The team and Gallant have handled the winning streak and its attention like true pros instead of newcomers being fawned over as media darlings – actually, like they've acted like they've been here before. That said, there's no reason to press and gamble against Edmonton. A look at the standings says Florida is five points ahead of second-place Detroit in the Atlantic, and for once Florida isn't chasing the divisional leader. Going to overtime in Rexall Place against a Western Conference club and being assured of at least one point in the standings isn't the worst thing in the long run.
EMPTY-NETTER: Florida immediately treks to Vancouver for a game Monday night against the Canucks. I watched all of the Vancouver's game Saturday against Tampa – an overtime loss to the Canucks – and this version of Luongo's old club isn't that special. The Sedin twins didn't stand out in the loss to the Bolts, and none of the veterans, including winger Radim Vrbata (who may be a rental target for a playoff team, maybe in South Florida), stood out at all.
What Vancouver does have is a nice young core. Jake Virtanen has exceptional speed and flair to his game, and Bo Horvat is fun to watch, too. Also, former Panther goalie Jacob Markstrom, once thought to be the netminder of Florida's future, played a strong game against Tampa (aside from his flopping effort on Nikita Kucherov's game-winner), though it would be hard to picture him as Vancouver's future No. 1.
Staggeringly, Vancouver has scored two goals or less in 26 of their 42 games, not exactly the high-flying numbers put up by the team over the last decade or so. Florida's defense could be the difference.
It will be a hard test in British Columbia, but don't be confused into thinking this is the Vancouver that Luongo suited up for.
Dale's Deal Done, what's up next for #FlaPanthers?
With the ink just drying on the contracts of GM Dale Tallon, new assistant GM Tom Rowe and coach Gerard Gallant, the suddenly second-place Florida Panthers (21-12-4) can turn their attentions to the play on the ice and try to finish this season's second half as strongly as the first.
The suggestion and subsequent answer might put to rest the biggest fear of Florida fans, who've watched numerous odd-man rushes by the Panthers and man-advantages produce nothing more than an extra pass or whiff on a shot or…an extra pass. Really, overpassing and poor shooting have doomed the Panthers' offense for the longest time (Billy Joel at BB&T Center reference).
A December to Remember has transformed the Panthers, who were in sixth place in the Atlantic at 9-9-4 in late November and 16 points behind Montreal, into what clearly looks like a playoff team. Even without last year's top goal scorer Nick Bjugstad, the Panthers have reeled off a 13-3-0 sizzling streak that has had them perched atop the division on two occasions.
There are two approaches to take here.
First, Tallon could leave the club as is – you know, the old "If it's not broke, don't fix it" method. One key would be getting Bjugstad healthy and back in the lineup, and that looks imminent. You might see him against his home state Minnesota Wild on Sunday.
And while fans may not want this – and their complaints are loud ones – the club wants to work Dave Bolland back into the mix in a fourth-line role with Derek MacKenzie and either Quinton Howden, Connor Brickley or Shawn Thornton. The Panthers are paying Bolland all that cash for production, and they really want it in the playoffs.
The other option – and the one I'm all for – is adding on like on Amazon.
If Tallon and the organization feel they have something special – and last month would indicate that may be the case – then why just settle for getting in the playoffs? Dale didn't do it last time the Panthers were playoff bound. He added John Madden, Jerred Smithson and Wojtek Wolski, who all made contributions down the stretch and in the postseason.
The numbers say add. Florida is 16th in scoring at 2.60 goals per game, tied with Nashville and Calgary. On the back end, the defense has been stellar: The Cats are allowing just 2.24 per game – third in the league and a reflection of the strong play of Roberto Luongo and everyone in front of him buying in to Gallant's system.
And if the organization feels it has something special, then add. Maybe bring in a scoring winger and instead of just getting into the playoffs they secure a better spot and get home-ice. Then maybe play not just one round like against New Jersey, maybe a couple.
Those playoff Cats that won the Southeast Division four years ago lost a league-high 18 games after regulation, cashing in on the loser point like it was a winning scratch-off ticket. The Panthers these days are 6-4 in overtime and 5-1 in shootouts. They don't just get to the extra session, they win more often than not.
For starters, Tallon should look at Winnipeg, Columbus, Vancouver (Radim Vrbata played for Dale), Edmonton (glut of forwards now with Leon Draisaitl breaking out) and Anaheim to see if something can't be worked out to bring in a 2nd line winger who can bury shots and boost scoring. Florida has the cap space and assets to do it.
Tallon and company just have to figure out how special this team is.


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Emilian Bratu (n. 8 august 1904, București, d. 30 martie 1991, București) a fost un inginer chimist român, membru titular al Academiei Române (1974). Profesorul Emilian Bratu a fost fondatorul primei școli de inginerie chimică din România.

Biografie
Emilian Bratu s-a născut la 8 august 1904 în București, unde părinții săi, intelectuali transilvăneni, se stabiliseră înainte de 1900.

Educația
Primele 4 clase de liceu le-a urmat la Sf. Sava, apoi, din cauză că liceul nu avea clase de real, s-a mutat la liceul Gheorghe Lazăr pentru următorii 3 ani și apoi la Matei Basarab unde va continua clasa a VIII-a și va susține bacalaureatul.

Între anii 1922 – 1923 a satisfăcut ca voluntar T. T. R. serviciul militar la Școala militară de geniu din București.

Își continuă studiile la Școala Politehnică din București (1922 - 1927), secția industrială, pe care a absolvit-o în toamna anului 1927 cu mențiunea "foarte bine". Figura reprezentativă a învățământului tehnologic chimic în Școala Politehnică din acea perioadă era Profesorul Dr. Ing. Paul Staehelin, de origine elvețiană care, așa cum avea să-și amintească peste ani fostul său discipol Emilian Bratu, avea o excepțională pregătire teoretică și tehnico-inginerească în industria chimică, inclusiv privind fazele grele ale unei creații industriale (proiectarea și punerea în funcțiune), dovedită prin finalizarea unor proiecte importante și din industria românească a timpului.

La recomandarea profesorului  Staehelin urmează o specializare în chimie fizică și electrochimie la Școala Politehnică din Viena (1928).

În vara anului 1928 revine la Școala Politehnică din București ca asistent la disciplina Tehnologie Chimică și Electrochimie, condusă de Profesorul Staehelin, post pe care îl ocupă până în anul 1941, realizând lucrări de laborator și de cercetare, în special în domeniul condiționării apelor potabile și industriale și al depoluării apelor reziduale.
Continuă specializarea în domeniul pirolizei metanului la Școala Politehnică din Karlsruhe (1929), în laboratorul lui Carl Engler. În 1930 lucrează în atelierul lui Andreas Hofer din Mülheim asimilând tehnica presiunilor înalte. În același an lucrează și în laboratorul de Electrochimie condus de profesorul K. Arndt la Școala Politehnică din Berlin – Charlotenburg.
În vara anului 1931 începe, sub îndrumarea profesorului Emil Abel și a Docentului Otto Redlich de la Insitutul de Chimie fizică al Școlii Politehnice din Viena, o lucrare experimentală de măsurare cu mare precizie a forțelor electromotoare pentru  lanțuri electrochimice interesante din punct de vedere termodinamic.

Teza de doctorat - Disociația electrolitică a apei grele
Între anii 1932 și 1935, în timpul vacantelor și al concediilor de studii,  tot la Viena și cu aceeași îndrumare, pregătește teza de doctorat cu titlul "Űber die elektrolytische dissoziation des schweren wassers" ("Prepararea izotopului greu al hidrogenului și determinarea constantei de disociere a apei grele"). Examenul («rigurosum») de doctor îl promovează la 28 octombrie 1935, iar în martie 1936 obține diploma de Doctor în Științe Tehnice. Lucrarea are în străinătate un deosebit răsunet fiind menționată în cunoscuta Enciclopedie Landolt-Börnstein.

Activitatea didactică și de cercetare
Timp de doi ani (1939-1940) își desăvârșește pregătirea practică la Uzina Malaxa București unde are în sarcină proiectarea, utilarea, organizarea și conducerea institutului de cercetare al uzinei.
Profesorul Emilian Bratu a fost creatorul și îndrumătorul primei școli de Inginerie Chimică din România. Numit conferențiar, în 1940 i se încredințează cursul de "Fizica industrială", curs transformat în anul următor, la propunerea sa, în cel de "Aparate și instalații  utilizate în industria chimică". Este de remarcat, că în puține țări europene se preda, la acea epocă, un asemenea curs.

În perioada 1928–1941, activitatea de cercetare a profesorului Bratu este axată pe elaborarea unor metode de analiză a gazelor industriale și a unor procedee de epurare a apelor reziduale.
În 1941 apare un "Ghid de laborator pentru lucrări practice de Chimie Industrială" pentru care Profesorul Bratu primește premiul "Gh. Lazăr" al Academiei Române (1942), lucrare caracterizată prin concizie, sistematizare și claritate deosebite, având și elemente de originalitate.

Între anii 1944-1947 predă cursul "Aparate și Instalații în Industriile Alimentare" la Facultatea de Agronomie din București, demonstrându-se astfel că noțiunile fundamentale și metodele Ingineriei Chimice sunt comune tuturor industriilor de proces.
În 1948 devine profesor suplinitor, fiind titularizat în 1951 și atestat în 1955.
În 1951 profesorul Bratu publică, prin Institutul de Documentare Tehnică, manualul "Coroziune în Industria Chimică".
În 1953 primește Premiul de Stat și editează "Manualul Inginerului Chimist", vol. III, iar în 1954 vol. IV, contribuind cu 12 capitole referitoare la bazele Ingineriei Chimice și la operațiile unitare din Industria Chimică.
Între 1954–1957, la litografia Ministerului Învățământului și Culturii, scoate manualul "Procedee și Aparate în Industria Chimică" în 4 volume care, ulterior, sunt reunite și tipărite la Editura Tehnică în 2 volume, I – 1961 și II – 1962, sub titlul: "Operații și Utilaje în Industria Chimică", manual de referință pentru studiul Ingineriei Chimice la toate facultățile de Chimie Industrială  din țară, fiind premiat de Ministerul Educației și Învățământului.

O a doua ediție a cursului revizuit  va apărea în 1969 (vol. I) și în 1970 (vol. II), ca ultima ediție să apară în 1984 (vol. I, vol. II) și în 1985 (vol. III), sub denumirea "Operații Unitare în Ingineria Chimică". Acest manual este utilizat și de actualii studenți de la Facultatea de Chimie Industrială și constituie încă o sursă de referințe.

Timp de peste 30 de ani profesorul Emilian Bratu a fost șeful catedrei de Inginerie Chimică la I.P.B., a fost, în mai multe rânduri, decanul facultății de Chimie Industrială de la I.P.B. și a condus, inclusiv după 1974, anul pensionării, peste 30 de doctorate.

Pentru merite științifice deosebite profesorul Emilian Bratu a fost ales în 1963 membru corespondent al Academiei Române, iar în 1974-membru titular. În perioada 1977-1990 este președinte al Secției de Științe Chimice din prestigioasa instituție. Contribuțiile sale științifice fundamentale au rămas repere pentru progresul științei în România.
Recunoașterea dobândită, exclusiv ca urmare a activității sale științifice, s-a manifestat de-a lungul timpului atât prin diferitele și importantele atribuții deținute (șef de sector în cadrul ICECHIM, consilier în Ministerul Chimiei, coordonator a două volume din prima ediție a Manualului Inginerului Chimist, decan al facultății, conducător de doctorat, membru corespondent al Academiei Române (1963) și membru titular al acestei prestigioase instituții (1974), președinte al Secției de Chimie a Academiei Române, membru în colegiile de redacție ale Revistei de Chimie și Revue Roumaine de Chimie), cât și prin distincțiile conferite în acea vreme (Premiul de Stat, Ordinul Muncii, Meritul Științific, Profesor Universitar Emerit).

Colaborarea cu profesorul Costin Nenițescu
Emilian Bratu și Costin Nenițescu au fost doi profesori de elită ai Facultății de Chimie Industrială. Cei doi savanți au fost buni prieteni care s-au respectat profund pe parcursul întregii vieți. Ambii, de formație germană, au intuit de timpuriu necesitatea introducerii în România a disciplinei de Inginerie Chimică în învățământul politehnic superior, pornind de la perspectivele externe favorabile ale dezvoltării unei industrii chimice bazate pe rezervele de materii prime autohtone. Au luptat împreună pentru afirmarea chimiei în Politehnică, lor datorându-li-se, în cea mai mare măsură, introducerea în 1938 a denumirii de "Chimie industrială" pentru facultatea din Politehnică.

Astfel, în anii 1940 – 1950, Prof. C. D. Nenițescu a sprijinit strădania Prof. Em. A. Bratu pentru înființarea și consolidarea, la București, a Catedrei de Procedee și Aparate, devenită ulterior Catedra de Inginerie Chimică, fiind prima catedră de acest fel din țară și printre primele din Europa. Pe de altă parte, în primii ani ai deceniului cinci, Prof. Em. A. Bratu a răspuns solicitării prof. C. D. Nenițescu de a ține o prelegere privind progresele ingineriei chimice, în special în domeniul aplicării criteriilor de similitudine în domeniul reacțiilor chimice, în fața colectivului didactic și a colaboratorilor în cercetare în domeniul Chimiei Organice, conferință care s-a bucurat de un deosebit interes.

Contribuții științifice
Activitatea științifică a profesorului Emilian Bratu se extinde pe mai multe domenii: chimie analitică, în prima fază, tehnologie și inginerie chimică.

Lucrările din domeniul fizico-chimiei apei grele își conservă actualitatea, constanta de disociere figurând în culegerile internaționale de date. Din același domeniu fac parte și lucrările referitoare la coeficienții de activitate ai gazelor, elaborarea unor ecuații generale pentru presiunea vaporilor saturați și a echilibrului în sisteme lichid-vapori.
Cercetările referitoare la epurarea apelor reziduale, fabricarea unor compuși chimici, ca și analiza unor gaze au un caracter tehnologic.

Opera științifică a profesorului Emilian Bratu este axată pe problematica majoră a ingineriei chimice. Separarea toluenului din benzină prin distilare azeotropă cu metil-etil-cetonă, printre lucrările incipiente ale noului domeniu, s-a bucurat de aprecieri unanime și a fost recunoscută oficial prin acordarea Premiului de Stat. Emilian Bratu și-a legat numele de studii erudite consacrate elucidării mecanismelor unor operații unitare și a metodelor de calcul a unor mărimi utile în activitatea de proiectare a utilajelor industriale. Din numeroasele realizări se pot aminti: determinarea refluxului optim al coloanelor de rectificare, dimensionarea schimbătoarelor de căldură spirale, tehnica pentru măsurarea structurii stratului fluidizat, studiul transferului de căldură și de masă la evaporarea picăturilor în mediu gazos ș.a.

O mențiune trebuie făcută în legătură cu activitatea științifică din ultimele decenii de activitate. În această perioadă profesorul Emilian Bratu a inițializat și realizat, împreună cu doctoranzii săi, un număr apreciabil de cercetări privind intensificarea fenomenelor de transfer de masă și căldură, în scopul creșterii performanțelor utilajelor industriale. Tehnicile de intensificare sunt bazate pe pulsarea fazelor fluide sau vibrarea unor părți din structura utilajelor. Rezultatele investigațiilor sunt sintetizate în câteva zeci de articole publicate în reviste de specialitate și sub formă de comunicări prezentate la manifestări științifice naționale și internaționale. Nu pot fi trecute cu vederea valoroasele sale contribuții în domeniul intensificării operației de absorbție în coloane pulsate, creșterea capacității de separare a coloanelor de rectificare cu umpluturi vibrate, intensificarea proceselor în strat vibrofluidizat, creșterea vitezei de evaporare a picăturilor într-un gaz pulsat ș.a.

Lucrări publicate și comunicări

Perioada 1928 – 1940
 Em. Bratu, P. Staehelin, Electrochimia și electrometalurgia în România, Buletinul Soc. Politehnice nr. 11 (1931)
 Em. Bratu, E. Abel, O. Redlich, Die elektrolytische Dissoziation des schweren Wassers; vorläufige Mitttelung, Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie, 170, 153 (1934)
 Em. Bratu, Izotopul greu al hidrogenului. Apa grea, Buletinul Soc. Politehnice nr. 2 (1934)
 Em. Bratu, E. Abel, O. Redlich, Die elektrolytische Dissoziation des schweren Wassers, Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie, 173, 353 (1935)
 Em. Bratu, Industria Chimică, Enciclopedia României, vol. III, 1938
 Em. Bratu, Méthode au pentoxyde d´iode pour la détermination de l´oxyde de carbone en faibles concentrations,   Bulletin de mathématique et de physique VIII (1938)
 Em. Bratu, P. Staehelin, Procedeu și aparatură pentru epurarea apei cu fosfați, pentru îndepărtarea durității, ferului, manganului și oxigenului, brevet german nr. 58203 IVb/85 b
 Em. Bratu,  Ghid de laborator pentru lucrările practice de chimie tehnologică, Monitorul oficial (1941) lucrare distinsă de Academia Română cu premiul  "Gheorghe Lazăr" în 1942.

Perioada 1942 – 1948
 Em. Bratu, Die Aktivitätskoeffizienten der Gase, Mitteilungen der Technischen Hochschule Bukarest XIII, 346 (1942)
 Em. Bratu, Grafic pentru calculul tehnic, Revistele tehnice AGIR – Chimie, nr. 2 (1947)
 Em. Bratu, Une équation générale pour la pression des vapeurs saturantes Buletinul Institutului Național de Cercetări tehnologice, II, 36 (1947)
 Em. Bratu, Th. Piatkowski, P. Teodorescu, Méthode directe pour la fabrication du jaune de chrome à partir de la chromite, Buletinul Institutului național de cercetări tehnologice, II, 50 (1947)
 Em. Bratu, Th. Piatkowski, V. Bezazian, Extragerea cuprului din resturile de la arderea piritei, Buletinul Institutului național de cercetări tehnologice, II, 43 (1947)

Perioada 1948 – 1973
 Em. Bratu, I. Rășenescu, Benzen și toluen din benzină prin distilare azeotropică, Revista de chimie ASIT, II 54, (1948)
" - Manualul inginerului chimist vol. III și IV (1953 - 1954) Coordonator pentru întreaga lucrare și autor a 12 articole
 Em. Bratu, Curs de procedee și aparate în industria chimică, 4 volume, litografiat  la Ministerul învățământului și culturii (1954 – 1957)
 Em. Bratu, Echilibrul lichid – vapori al sistemelor binare. Ecuație pentru coeficienții de activitate, Buletinul I.P.B. (1956)
 Em. Bratu, Calculul schimbătoarelor de căldură spirale, Sesiunea de comunicări I.P.B.(1958)
 Em. Bratu,  Grafic pentru calculul funcțiilor de forma aαbβcγ…/mμnνpπ, Revista de chimie nr. 4 (1959)
 Em. Bratu, O. Floarea, Separarea prin licuație a paranitroclorbenzenului din amestecul de la nitrare, Sesiunea de comunicari stiintifice a IPB (1959)
 Em. Bratu, Operații și utilaje în industria chimică, vol I și II, Ed. Tehnică, București (1960 – 1961)
 Em. Bratu, Similitudine, Revista de chimie, 12, nr. 4, 195 (1961)
 Em. Bratu, Sur le reflux optimum dans les colonnes de réctification , Revue de chimie, VII, nr.2, 699 (1962)
 Em. Bratu, Ingineria chimică, Revista de chimie, 15, nr. 8, 514 (1964)
 Em. Bratu,G. Atanasiu, Rectificarea azeotrop – extractivă (AZEX), Conferința Națională de Chimie, Timișoara, (1966)
 Em. Bratu, Em. Danciu, Date experimentale și corelarea lor pentru echilibrul izobar lichid – vapori la sistemul propenoxid, aldehidă propionică și cetonă, Revista de Chimie, 26, 12, 1007 (1975)
 Em. Bratu, Gheorghița Jinescu, E. Ruckenstein, Circulația solidului și amestecarea particulelor solide în stratul fluidizat, Sesiunea științifică a I.P.B. (1968)
 Em. Bratu, A. Dimian, O. Floarea, R. Mihail, Transfer de masă și căldură la evaporarea picăturilor în mediu gazos, Revista de chimie 20, nr. 7, 423 (1969)
 Em. Bratu, L. Baraf, La puissance nécessaire pour mélanger en utilisant les agitateurs de type à rame,  Revue roumaine de chimie, 14, nr. 11, 1445 (1969)
 Em. Bratu, Operații și utilaje în industria chimică, vol I și II, ediția a II-a , Ed. Tehnică, București (1969 – 1970)
 Em. Bratu, Gheorghița Jinescu, E. Ruckenstein, Couche fluidisée vibrée, Congresul XXXIV de chimie industrială de la Warșovia, (1964)
 Em. Bratu, Fr. Gothard, Procedeu de separare a componenților amestecurilor prin rectificare în coloane cu umplutură de mare eficacitate, Brevet de invenție 48049 (1966)
 Em. Bratu, Z. Tudose, L'absorbtion dans les colonnes pulsées, Revue roumaine de chimie, 11, 5 (1966)
 Em. Bratu, Fr. Gothard, Eficacitatea coloanelor de rectificare cu umplutură, vibrate, Revista de chimie, 18, 11, (1967)
 Em Bratu, Intensificarea proceselor de transfer, Conferința republicană de chimie fizică, generală și aplicată, București (1968)
 Em. Bratu, Fr. Gothard, Transferul de masă lichid – vapori la coloane cu pereți udați sub influența vibrațiilor, Conferința republicană de chimie fizică, generală și aplicată, București (1968)

Distincții
În iunie 1969 i s-a conferit titlul de Profesor universitar emerit al Republicii Socialiste România "în semn de prețuire a personalului didactic pentru activitatea meritorie în domeniul instruirii și educării elevilor și studenților și a contribuției aduse la dezvoltarea învățămîntului și culturii din patria noastră".

Note

Legături externe
 Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent – B
 http://aleph.ub.tuwien.ac.at/F/XQI86TGVYBJ7BDG2LN5HT6C2XD58CPCR9YIQ493PEX6NC2FTJ6-16242?func=full-set-set&set_number=045821&set_entry=000002&format=999
http://www.agir.ro/univers-ingineresc/ingineri_mari_personalitatiemilian_bratu1904_-_1991fondatorul_scolii_romanesti_de_chimie_industriala__805.html
 http://www2.chim.upb.ro/index.php?goto_id=40  Catedra inginerie chimica
 http://www.academiaromana.ro/membri_ar/membri_b.htm membrii academiei
 http://www.academiaromana.ro/com2004/pag_com04_0907.htm comunicat centenar

Nașteri în 1904
Decese în 1991
Ingineri chimiști români
Membri titulari ai Academiei Române
Profesori universitari români


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Orchid Scouts embark on treasure hunt for Delaware's rarest flowers
Adrienne Bozic, left, and Heather Titanich collect orchid data. Courtesy of Mt. Cuba Center
Adrienne Bozic hand pollinates orchids. Courtesy Mt. Cuba Center
The Cypripedium acaule, commonly known as the pink lady's slipper orchid, is native to Delaware. Courtesy of Mt. Cuba Center
The Galearis spectabilis, commonly known as a showy orchid, is a native orchid species in Delaware. Courtesy of Mt. Cuba Center
The Goodyera pubescens, also known as the downy rattlesnake plantain, is a native orchid in Delaware, and one that is easier to find in the winter because of its overwintering leaves. Courtesy of Mt. Cuba Center
Orchid scouts Lynn Cherry and Joan Giannini Isover have an adventure documenting Delaware's native orchids. Courtesy of Mt. Cuba Center
The Cypripedium parviflorum, or yellow lady's slipper orchid, is a rare species of orchid in Delaware. Courtesy of Mt. Cuba Center and Rick J. Lewandowski
The Platanthera ciliaris, commonly known as the yellow-fringe orchid, is a native, and rare, species of orchid that can be found in Delaware. Courtesy of Mt. Cuba Center
Spiranthes makes up a group of orchids, some of which are native to Delaware. Courtesy of Mt. Cuba Center
Stephen Pyne hand-pollinates Galearis orchids. Courtesy of Mt. Cuba Center
An orchid native to Delaware blooms in a greenhouse at Mt. Cuba Center. Jennifer Corbett, The News Journal
Adrienne Bozic, an Orchid Fellow at Mt. Cuba Center, is working to conserve native orchid plants. Jennifer Corbett, The News Journal
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This sewing kit contains everything you need to create your own Max Ecklefeckin Cat character. Max is a dapper looking feline in black and white with spotty bow tie and bell.
An eccentric black and white cat, there is a story to Max Ecklefeckin and his friends on Acorn Crescent. Clara kits are designed and made with pride in Cornwall using high quality components including superior wool blend felt.
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It's Max Ecklefeckin here -how are you?
I have just come from Number 8 Acorn Crescent where I was fed some very tasty salmon for lunch. Number 11 and Number 15 will have some treats for me later, everyone loves me!
This afternoon I will have to spend some time grooming my black and white coat and take a little exercise, I don't want to get podgy with all this hospitality I am being given, and it would be very rude to refuse all my delicious treats!
My friend Mr Poop the pigeon says I am eccentric, just because I am a bit of a collector of things from many places including rummaging through sheds and dustbins. And, oh yes, my favourite place is a skip. I could tell you a tale or two about what people throw into a skip, and maybe I will one day.
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I love living at Acorn Crescent everyone is so friendly, in fact it's purrrfect!
Well I'm feeling a little tired now, I think a cat-nap is in order and then I'm off to Number 11 for afternoon tea.