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Products>Christian Foundations Series (7 vols.)
Christian Foundations Series (7 vols.)
by Donald G. Bloesch
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IVP; IVP Academic
Digital (Group)
Collection value: $90.93
The Christian Foundations Collection brings together all seven volumes of Donald G. Bloesch's Christian Foundations series. This comprehensive, systematic theology for the twenty-first century contributes significantly to late modern evangelical theology while exploring what an ancient faith has to say to perplexing new times. The Christian Foundations Collection will be of great help to all who want to hold to orthodoxy and honestly engage contemporary thought.
Throughout the Christian Foundations series Bloesch offers a fresh, biblical response to the trends permeating modern Christianity, including relativism, feminine-gender language for God, evangelical rationalism, and many more. Bloesch also presents new approaches to the long-standing issues of biblical authority, Christology, ecclesiology, and eschatology, among others. All the while, Bloesch remains in dialogue with the major theologians who went before him, such as Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Forsyth, and Barth.
Praise for the Print Edition
Christian Foundations will stand as a landmark in late twentieth-century evangelical theology.
— Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Bloesch is unfailingly irenic as well as erudite.… As a guide to the current evangelical discussions, … he is indispensable.
—George Lindbeck in Interpretation
Christian Foundations promises to be the evangelical summa of the twentieth century. Bloesch demonstrates once more a clarity, forthrightness, relevance and breadth of vision which will commend his series to a wide readership.
—I. John Hesselink, Western Theological Seminary
When completed, Bloesch's seven-volume magnum opus will constitute the most substantial theological contribution of any American evangelical since Carl Henry's magisterial God, Revelation and Authority.
I haven't read any theological work as biblically and historically rich, as intellectually satisfying, or as spiritually exhilarating as Bloesch's [Christian Foundations] since Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics.
—David Gill in Christianity Today
This splendid addition to Donald Bloesch's dogmatics delineates the meaning of his 'evangelical neo-orthodoxy' for the contested, slippery question of the meaning of the church. Soaked in Scripture and the history of theology, and insightfully evaluating a variety of alternative positions, Bloesch makes a strong case for a broadly evangelical understanding of the church that remains open to the ongoing dialectic of Word and Spirit.
—Gary Dorrien, Parfet Distinguished Professor, Kalamazoo College
Title: Christian Foundations Collection (7 vols.)
Author: Donald G. Bloesch
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Volumes: 7
Pages: 2,452
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A Theology of Word & Spirit: Authority & Method in Theology
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A 1994 Christianity Today book award winner.
In the inaugural volume of his seven-volume systematic theology, Christian Foundations, Donald G. Bloesch surveys his method. His approach is conversant with up-to-the-minute theological concerns but also vitally grounded in the Reformation emphasis on biblical revelation illumined by the Holy Spirit.
In A Theology of Word & Spirit Bloesch draws out the contemporary implications of the biblically founded theology of Augustine, Luther, Calvin and Barth. He also offers fresh and faithful discussions of relativism, the present church conflict over biblical authority, fideism and rationalism, feminine-gender language for God, narrative theology, and the hermeneutical problem.
Harvesting the fruit of a lifetime of devoted scholarship and passionate dialogue, Bloesch offers his assessments and reflections at a time of extraordinary change and challenge. In A Theology of Word & Spirit he points the way toward a confessional theology for the 21st century.
[A Theology of Word & Spirit is] a masterful reflection on the nature of scriptural authority and method.
—New Oxford Review
Bloesch argues convincingly for a theology of Word and Spirit, not of rationalism or mysticism. Like Luther and Calvin, Forsyth and Barth, his mentors, Bloesch believes that the power of the Word of God creates its own hearing. Christologically centered and biblically rooted, Bloesch is in continual dialogue with theologians past and present. He states that his desire in [A Theology of Word & Spirit] is to produce 'an enlivening and liberating orthodoxy,' and he has succeeded.
—Robert K. Johnston, Fuller Theological Seminary
With A Theology of Word & Spirit evangelical elder statesman Donald Bloesch launches his seven-volume magnum opus, a systematic theology based entirely on God's self-revelation. It is an evangelical theology for the entire church of God and boldly proclaims a Christocentric approach that avoids subverting the gospel to alien systems of thought. Those who have appreciated and benefited by Bloesch's theology in the past must read this volume (and the rest of the series) as it sums up his mature thinking and provides a ringing call to a return to a purely theological way of doing theology. Those who have not discovered Bloesch previously will find here a refreshing alternative to the current tendency to make theology into a tool for non-Christian ideologies and worldviews. This is a program for a purely theological theology.
—Roger E. Olson, Bethel College
The refreshing character of [A Theology of Word & Spirit] lies in its ethos as much as in its argument. Donald Bloesch's theology comes out of a believing heart, a lucid mind and a teacher's penchant for clarity and communication. Students of theology everywhere will profit greatly from this carefully nuanced guide through the labyrinth of contemporary theological approaches as well as the classical theological texts. Committed to the Anselmic tradition of credo ut intellagam (I believe in order to understand), Bloesch serves the evangelical world well by insisting on the central reality and authority of Jesus Christ as revealed in Word and Spirit through faith to faith. This is edifying as well as instructive reading. Few books on systematic theology leave the reader at the end, hungering for more, but this is an exception. I am left eagerly awaiting the next volume.
—Ray S. Anderson, Fuller Theological Seminary
>Bloesch … aims at a more 'constructive' engagement with the modern theological situation dating from Schleiermacher and reaching its peak, or at least one of its peaks, in Karl Barth. He moves with erudite ease from Pannenberg to Tillich to Tracy to Ellul to Dulles… Bloesch's project will be an admirable introduction to the Christian theological situation at the edge of the Third Millennium.
[A Theology of Word & Spirit] signals the appearance of a major theology by a leading evangelical who is immensely learned in the literature of theology past and present, and fully engaged in the life of faith today. Anything but a bland proposal, it is characterized by a striking view of theological method--being an adamant defense of revelational theism over against all efforts to ground the message intellectually, independent of faith. Here is an uncompromisingly confessional theology in strongest opposition to all forms of revisionism--liberal or evangelical. I can only compare it to the systematic theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg (also now being written) alongside which it will stand as the other major alternative for evangelicals. Bloesch proves to me that the Barthian project is far from dead or lacking in scholarly vitality. A great achievement is in the making.
—Clark H. Pinnock, McMaster Divinity College
Holy Scripture: Revelation, Inspiration & Interpretation
In Holy Scripture, Donald G. Bloesch sets out the pivotal evangelical doctrines of the Bible's revelation, inspiration and interpretation.
Wishing to "defend the orthodox evangelical faith from its friends as well as its enemies," Bloesch provocatively argues against both evangelical rationalism and liberal experientialism. And he proposes the alternative of biblical evangelicalism--which sees Scripture as the written Word of God but stresses that it becomes the living Word of God only through the illumination of the Holy Spirit.
In dialogue with Martin Luther, John Calvin, P. T. Forsyth, Karl Barth and Emil Brunner, Bloesch's Holy Scripture examines the implications of biblical authority for the twenty-first century. It surveys the role of the Bible as seen within the Bible itself and as that role has unfolded through centuries of Christian tradition. It also explains and critiques many highly contested issues, such as the value of biblical criticism, the meaning of myth, the plethora of hermeneutical options and the nature of truth.
Holy Scripture could well represent the high point of evangelicalism's dialogue with modern skepticism.
—The Covenant Quarterly
Bloesch has given us… much that is profitable, the heart of many years of effective theological reflection.
—Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
God the Almighty: Power, Wisdom, Holiness, Love
The doctrine of God is receiving renewed and vigorous attention in theology. Even a cursory examination of recent scholarship reveals what leading evangelical theologian Donald Bloesch describes as "a mounting controversy over the concept of God."
God is variously portrayed as vulnerable (Jürgen Moltmann, Clark Pinnock), as lover (Norman Pittenger, Ronald Goetz), as friend (Alfred North Whitehead, Sallie McFague) and as empowerer (Rosemary Radford Ruether). Bloesch agrees that many of these proposals have some biblical merit. But what is lacking, he argues, "is a strong affirmation of the holiness and almightiness of God."
So in this volume, while Bloesch offers cogent criticisms of the classical view of God, he skillfully seeks to hold in faithful tension "the polarities that are reflected in God's nature and activity--his majesty as well as his vulnerability, his sovereignty as well as his grace, his wholly otherness as well as his unsurpassable closeness, his holiness as well as his love."
This work will be read by all who are interested in the renewal of systematic theology in our time. It is an inspiring, balanced, instructive, rigorous inquiry.
—Thomas C. Oden, Drew University
This volume makes a valuable contribution to evangelical theology. It is well written, insightful, balanced, biblical, and worshipful, and the topic is supremely worthy of reflection.
—Bibliotheca Sacra
God the Almighty shows a reputable evangelical theologian at the top of his form. Bloesch's engagement with a host of Protestant traditions, as well as Catholic and Orthodox voices, is a model for accomplishing evangelical theology.
Jesus Christ: Savior & Lord
With his customary encyclopedic reach and epigrammatic style, Donald Bloesch turns his attention to the hotly disputed, yet absolutely crucial, subject of the person and work of Jesus Christ. He brings a much-needed clarity to the current Christological debate, which, as Hans Küng noted, "has persisted since the dawn of the modern age [and] has not yet been resolved."
Drawing on more than forty years of devoted study, Donald Bloesch now brings a much-needed clarity to the discussion. Well apprised of the most recent developments, yet grounded in his own deep Reformed faith, Bloesch goes beneath current reconstructions of the Jesus of history to probe underlying issues of theological method, models of salvation, the plausibility of miracles, the language of faith and the doctrine of sin.
As Bloesch declares, "Christology constitutes the heart of theology, since it focuses on God's work of salvation in the historical figure Jesus of Nazareth, and the bearing that this has on the history of humankind. To know the nature of God we must see his face in Jesus Christ." This important book is a vital exercise in seeing Jesus Christ faithfully and truthfully.
The Holy Spirit: Works & Gifts
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In The Holy Spirit: Works & Gifts Donald Bloesch aptly brings together his grasp of historical and systematic theology as well as his deep concern for spirituality. The fruit of a lifetime of study and devotion, this book masterfully interweaves biblical study, historical overviews and reflection on contemporary developments and issues to shed light on faith in God, the Holy Spirit. On a topic that sadly threatens to divide the church, Bloesch strives to build bridges between the various traditions of Christian faith, especially between Reformed theology and the Pentecostal movement.
Building on the inaugural volume of this series, A Theology of Word and Spirit, Bloesch guards against the equal dangers of a subjective spiritualism and a cold formalism. He speaks out of the perspective of the Protestant Reformation with its emphasis on the complementarity of Word and Spirit and the priority of grace over works. But he also acknowledges the Pentecostal perception that the work of the Spirit involves empowering for witness as well as sealing for salvation. Bloesch likewise finds truth in the mystical tradition of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy that the Spirit calls us to holiness of life as well as to a decision of faith.
This wide-ranging and in-depth reflection on the presence, reality and ministry of the Holy Spirit serves as a landmark guide to those seeking a faithful theological understanding of the Holy Spirit as well as those searching for a renewing and empowering hope for the church of Jesus Christ.
The Church: Sacraments, Worship, Ministry, Mission
In this volume, Donald Bloesch explores with charity and balance the contours of ecclesiology. He forthrightly takes up the most controversial of issues ranging from matters of church authority, the sacraments and worship, the church's place in the plan of salvation, the church and the kingdom of God, to the issue of church reunion. Evangelical in spirit, ecumenical in breadth and biblical in depth, Bloesch's theology of the church calls for reformation and renewal according to the Word and Spirit of God.
Ecclesiology is the cutting edge of serious theological work in the twenty-first century. And this is one of the most important books on the church to appear in several decades. As always, Bloesch is irenic yet tough minded, reformed but also catholic, steadily orthodox and vibrantly evangelical! This book about the church is a wonderful gift to the church.
—Timothy George, Dean, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University; executive editor Christianity Today
In The Church Donald Bloesch has brought together evangelical faith and ecumenical vision to witness boldly to a needed twenty-first-century catholicity.
—Gabriel Fackre, Andover Newton Theological School
All Christians who want the church to be and to do what Christ intends will benefit from a prayerful consideration of this heart-stirring and thought-provoking proposal.
—Terrance Tiessen, Providence Theological Seminary
The Last Things: Resurrection, Judgment, Glory
In The Last Things Donald G. Bloesch takes up difficult and sometimes controversial themes such as the coming of the kingdom of God, the return of Jesus Christ, the life hereafter, the millennial hope, the final judgment, hell, heaven, purgatory and paradise.
Wrestling with biblical texts that often take metaphorical form, Bloesch avoids rationalistic reductionism as well as timid agnosticism. While he acknowledges mystery and even paradox, Bloesch finds biblical revelation much more than sufficient to illuminate the central truths of a Christian hope articulated throughout the history of the church.
The Last Things is not just a review of past Christian eschatology but a fresh articulation of the grace and glory of God yet to be consummated. The triumph of the grace of Jesus Christ and the dawning of hope beckon us to reach out in the power of the Spirit to receive that blessed future and the promise to renew the life of the church universal today.
In this volume, Bloesch brings to completion his magnum opus. As with the earlier volumes, readers will be stimulated to think more deeply as they interact with one of the great evangelical theologians of our day on the important issues of the last things.
—Millard J. Erickson
—Robert Webber, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
This book should be in the hands of evangelical and ecumenical pastors and teachers who want to see how classical Christian eschatology can speak a powerful contemporary Word.
About Donald G. Bloesch
Donald G. Bloesch (Ph. D., University of Chicago) is professor of theology emeritus at Dubuque Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. He has done postdoctoral work at the universities of Oxford, Tübingen and Basel and has written numerous books, including Faith and Its Counterfeits, Christian Foundations Series, Evangelical Theology in Transition, Theological Notebook Volume 3, Essentials of Evangelical Theology, The Future of Evangelical Christianity, The Struggle of Prayer and Freedom for Obedience. He is also a past president of the Midwest Division of the American Theological Society.
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Dr. Anthony Mazak
This is a great read for a old soul in Christ like me who pray, meditate, relate, and flow as I venture along this journey. I sense that life is the heart of the matter and not the mind of the matter. Dr. Donald G. Bloesch has done a awesome job describing Systematic Theology as being sweet, short, simple and to the point, just like love is for those who knows what love is. "Word Studies."
This is not so much a systematic theology as a proposal or agenda for systematic theology. The author is more interested in comparing trends in historic and contemporary theology than in constructing and detailing out Christian doctrine. He does a good job in explaining different schools of theology, including his own (moderate reformed with heavy Barthian influences), making this a worthwhile read, but new students of systematic theology seeking an actual foundation in doctrine would be better off starting with a standard textbook such as Louis Berkhof's Systematic Theology or Millard Erickson's. (To be honest, in order to do that properly in addition to the comparative work would have doubled the size of the volumes.) For the most part this is a fairly easy read for an academic work. As other reviewers here and elsewhere have noted, the latter few volumes are not as good as the earlier ones. I found the last three--on the Holy Spirit, the church, and eschatology--rather weaker. The eschatology volume in particular exhibited some methodological problems and bordered on incoherence, I'm sorry to say. Still, it's a very good set, and Bloesch deserves wider reading for his contributions to contemporary evangelical theology.
Ralph A. Abernethy III
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Whilst I didn't find the volumes on the Holy Spirit and on the Church, as good as the other volumes - this is a worthwhile read - and a reasonably easy read I believe :)
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I did a lot of work on I Can Has Cheezburger this weekend, and I now have it more or less usable, although a few UI features are still missing. I rewrote some of my views to take more advantage of Three20, which dramatically improved the performance.
I reduced the memory usage in the LOL Creator (which was always a problem) by not creating a full-sized preview, but only creating the full-sized image when saving or sending. For the preview, I now create the image only large enough to fit in the view (an iPhone camera shot is 1600×1200, although the screen is only 320×240).
Here's a sample of how it performs on an iPhone 3GS with a WiFi connection.
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1. Wash your chicken wings and pat them dry with paper towel.
2. Make the soy sauce marinade by mixing the dark soy sauce, sesame oil, and sugar together.
3. Place your wings in ziplock bags with the marinade and let it sit for about half an hour to an hour.
4. After letting the wings marinade, you can saute ginger and garlic in pan and pan fry the wings (keep the marinade for later) for about 5 minutes on both sides.
5. Then pour in the water and add in the leftover marinade. Cover the pan and let the wings simmer over low medium heat for about 20 minutes. You can give it a stir and flip the wings occasionally to make sure they are well coated on both sides.
6. Take one for a taste test and make sure it's cooked through. Enjoy!
This simple recipe is great for when you're in the mood for wings but not necessarily of the fried variety.
What are your favorite chicken wing recipes? Please let me know in the comments.
Simple and classic! Have you tried Coke wings before?
Wings are great – I will have to try this recipe (and the leftover soy sauce will definitely not go to waste here, either!).
hmm ill have to trust u on them being finger lickin' good! Thanks for including how to go about making the and stop being slack with ur blogging k!!


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package nl.tudelft.lifetiles.graph.view;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.paint.Paint;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
import nl.tudelft.lifetiles.sequence.Mutation;

/**
 * Stack view class which contains a single stacked column of the diagram view.
 * Contains several rectangles proportional to the percentage of mutations in
 * the bucket.
 *
 * @author Jos
 *
 */
public class StackView extends Group {
    /**
     * Default color of a tile element.
     */
    private static Color defaultColor = Color.web("a1d3ff");
    /**
     * Vertical scale of the StackView.
     */
    private static final double VERTICAL_SCALE = 300;
    /**
     * Horizontal scale of the StackView.
     */
    static final double HORIZONTAL_SCALE = 50;
    /**
     * Scale used to create the spacing between the different stack views in the
     * diagram view.
     */
    private static final double SPACING_SCALE = 0.85;
    /**
     * Width of the rectangle.
     */
    private final double rectangleWidth;

    /**
     * Constructs a stack view, which contains a single stacked column of the
     * diagram view.
     *
     * @param quantities
     *            List with quantities of the total vertices and mutations.
     * @param width
     *            Width of this stack view based on the zoom level of the graph
     *            controller.
     * @param max
     *            The maximal scale of the quantity percentage, we just want to
     *            see the interesting information.
     */
    StackView(final List<Long> quantities, final double width, final Long max) {
        rectangleWidth = width * SPACING_SCALE;

        getChildren().add(drawPart(VERTICAL_SCALE, 0.0, defaultColor));

        List<Paint> colors = Arrays.asList(Mutation.INSERTION.getColor(),
                Mutation.DELETION.getColor(), Mutation.POLYMORPHISM.getColor());

        double offset = 0.0;
        for (int index = 1; index <= colors.size(); index++) {
            double height = VERTICAL_SCALE * quantities.get(index) / max;
            getChildren().add(drawPart(height, offset, colors.get(index - 1)));
            offset += height;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Paints a single part of the stack view.
     *
     * @param height
     *            Height of the stack part.
     * @param offset
     *            Offset of the stack part.
     * @param paint
     *            Color of the stack part.
     * @return rectangle presentation of the stack part.
     */
    private Rectangle drawPart(final double height, final double offset,
            final Paint paint) {
        Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle();
        rectangle.setLayoutY(offset);
        rectangle.setHeight(height);
        rectangle.setWidth(rectangleWidth);
        rectangle.setFill(paint);
        return rectangle;
    }

}

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The house crow carries an importance in Hindu religion as this bird is important in some rituals which are carried out after death of a person. Also this bird is mentioned in the folk tales along with house sparrow where the bird is always narrated as one who builds untidy nests.
The house crow, also known as Indian crow or grey necked crow.
The house crow is found in many parts of the world. It is strongly associated with human habitation. The bird can be seen mostly near market places and garbage dumps.
Both the sexes collect the nest material, but usually female builds the nest.
House crow has varied died. It is omnivorous. It can survive on nearly anything that is edible. It feeds on dead animal's flesh, seeds, nectar, invertebrates, small vertebrates, eggs, grains and fruits. In that cause it can be seen near market places and garbage dumps.
House crow is a small crow with slim body. Bill is black and slightly arched. It has two coloured appearance. Nape, neck, breast and under parts are grey. Face, crown, chin, throat are shiny black. Feet are black. Eyes are brown to dark brown. Male and female are similar in appearance. Juveniles have duller plumage and lacks the glossy black sheen of adults.
The house crow is considered to be a monogamous species. In India, it breeds at the beginning of the wet season from April to June The female lays 3-5 eggs/clutch. Eggs incubate in 16-17 days, which is done by female alone. The chicks are fed by both parents. House crow produce two clutches of eggs per breeding season.
Voice of house crow is harsh kaaa-kaaa.
House crow is a non-migratory bird.


We generally learn many things every week. We make it a practice on every weekend is a activity day. We learn life skills to subject that will help us in improving our creative skills. Here is one such session on photography.
Write something about Technology. No need to be fancy, just an overview.


So, I took Kenzie out for a walk in a neighborhood in the nearest town last week. I was planning on walking her there since there was very very little chance of a dog being free to come into the road (since it is a subdivision they all have fenced in yards, as opposed to the country roads around us, where dogs run free). Unfortunately I underestimated how big a deal it was that in the past 3 months (since I started working 80hrs a week), the only Reactivity training I had done was to do an occasional sound desensitization exercise. So, she was very stressed when I got her out of the car, but she was able to be redirected by the toy. We went with a friend (a mistake, as I was not able to give her 100% of my attention as she needed and deserved), and in the 30 minute walk, we ran across three dogs that were free in their front yards, none of which were aggressive, but one of them did follow us down the street a ways. I did NOT mean to put this much pressure on her and I felt SO bad. By this point we were on our way back, and she was no longer interested in the toy.I did not know just how bad off she was until I put her back in the car, and she just curled up into a tiny ball in the floorboard of the back seat. She only does this when she is REALLY scared. Poor puppy! As if all of that is not enough, as soon as we got home, she was so highly strung from our outing, that she was all of a sudden very scared of things that normally would not bother her. Over the next 24hrs and multiple reactions, she had gotten so tense that even the smallest triggers that had either never been a trigger, or had not bothered her for 5 moths...cow mooing, horse neighing, cat meowing, someone whistling (that was a new one), caused her to react to matter how quiet, even if they were on TV. When she heard one, she would JUMP up barking her head off. She would be inconsolable for the first minute, then calm down enough to stop barking, but she was obviously tense and "waiting" for it to happen again. I could not let her outside off leash, because she would run to the fence and bark at whatever was out there: Birds flying above, or some other animal that I could not see (it looked like nothing). I was no longer able to redirect her frustration (with a ball, toy, food or treats), which is how we had been dealing with reactions all spring. The more she reacted, the more tense she became. By the morning after out outing, the light bulb had finally gone on, and I knew what had happened and what I needed to do: stop her from reacting for 5 days minimum, by any means humanely possible, and give her lots of exercise, to give her a chance to "work out" the stress hormones, without giving her the opportunity to be flood with more. So we put her on a strict "on leash" policy when outside. I did not take her out of the yard/agility yard for any reason. We did not watch any shows that might have horses cows or dogs in them. We got up early to get extra exercise while it was still cool...which was made more difficult, because we were often kept up nights by her reacting to the cows coming to settle beside the house and of course...Moo moo moo-ing. Every time a cow mooed she jumped up barking frantically. I finally turned on the TV and played a 2hr musical really loud for her. It drowned out the cows enough for her and us to be able to sleep. I then just got up every 2hrs to restart it (I couldn't just put the TV on because commercials too often have sounds of dogs, cows or horses on them). Even though we have yet to have a day or night without reactions, she is making progress in that yesterday she only reacted twice, and last night only twice, and this morning only once, as opposed to 20 times a day in those first few days. Her eyes are still very big, which lets me know that the stress hormones are still very much present. Every night I massage her do calming T-touch. This morning we started a relaxation protocol which we will do once a day, every day, for fourteen days. Max is also on a leash mandate for now, since when he rushes the fence it causes her to react. The radio or TV is also always playing, 24hrs, and very loudly. The only time she gets the "hard" look out of her eyes is when I am doing t-touch on her.
Talk about a high price for one mistake...but it is my poor dog who is really paying the price. We may have lost some sleep and be wound tight from all of the sudden barking, but it is nothing when I think about how emotionally stressed my poor little dog is. I feel horrible, but as I tell my clients: "You can only do your best, and forgive yourself for the rest". There is no point in beating myself up over this: I feel bad, and will do everything in my power not to do it again, but that is as far as I will let myself go. I am not perfect, and never will be.
Whatever you do, do not push your dog past his/her threshold, but if you do, stop right then and call it a day, no matter what.
Do not take a friend or any other distractions with you when you are working with a reactive dog.
If you go more than a week without doing reactive training, you need to evaluate your dog, with no agenda in mind.


Tides are shifting in retail marketing. The final sale is no longer the end goal — certainly, it's important, but as competition for retail business intensifies, creating an exceptional consumer experience that increases lifetime value is taking priority.
Retail brands are rethinking the way they approach marketing to consumers. Rather than designing channel-specific strategies that segment the marketing message, we're seeing the focus move to a cohesive experience across all touchpoints. The strategy is called omnichannel marketing, and it's helping brands take a more holistic approach to customer relations.


We have been fortunate at the Prevention Centre to have had five years of funding, supportive funding partners, and now funding for a further five years.
In this position, it is easy to forget the highly competitive nature of research funding in Australia and, consequently, the very high expectations on those awarded funding.
We take this responsibility seriously, believing we must continue to demonstrate that the quality and quantity of our research justifies our funding against the same international benchmarks that apply to others.
However, the challenge for us, like others working in the translation and implementation field, is there are other drivers to consider. We also need to meet our funders' expectations and ensure our work is relevant to them.
We have proselytised the need for, and benefits of, co-development and co-production of research as part of ensuring relevance in the context of knowledge translation and implementation. We have argued for the need of whole-of-system perspectives because complex problems usually require multi-layered solutions.
Effective long-term prevention frequently requires long-term social and environmental changes that require community support. This leads to an interesting set of challenges for us – balancing the need to demonstrate shorter-term outcomes with strategies that will require a longer time frame.
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An evening with Melinda Wittstock - Entrepreneur, Podcaster and CEO
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Introducing entrepreneur Melinda Wittstock
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Melinda's career as an award-winning journalist, executive producer, and TV anchor
Melinda Wittstock is a 5-time serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Podopolo, the world's first socially interactive and "gamified" podcast app and network where people gather to discover their favorite podcasts, connect with hosts and each other, and win rewards as they put lessons learned into action to enhance their lives and engage in world-changing social impact initiatives.
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Q: Keys without replacement probability A drunk reaches home and wants to open his front door. He has 5 keys on his key chain and tries them one at a time. He is alert enough to eliminate unsuccessful keys from the subsequent selections. Let X denote the number of keys he tries in order to find the one that opens the door. Set up a sample space and find the distribution of X. Find E(X). Give an interpretation of E(X).

A: Let the sample space be $\{i:\ 1,2,3,4,5\}$ where $i$ means that the drunk uses $i$ keys. The corresponding probabilities are
$P(\{1\})=\frac15$ because she finds the good key at once.
$P(\{2\})=\left(1-\frac15\right)\frac14$ because her first try is a failure but then she finds the right key.
$P(\{3\})=\left(1-\frac15\right)\left(1-\frac14\right)\frac13$ because ...
$P(\{4\})=\left(1-\frac15\right)\left(1-\frac14\right)\left(1-\frac13\right)\frac12$ because ...
$P(\{5\})=\left(1-\frac15\right)\left(1-\frac14\right)\left(1-\frac13\right)\left(1-\frac12\right)$ because ...
Then the expectation of the number of keys used
$$E[X]=\frac15+2\frac45\frac14+3\frac45\frac34\frac13+4\frac45\frac34\frac23\frac12+5\frac45\frac34\frac23\frac12=3.$$

A: An alternative approach: Since the drunk eliminates incorrect keys from further attempts, the algorithm effectively produces a permutation of the five keys.  The actual number of keys tried equals the position of the correct key.  By symmetry, the average position is the third key, so the average number of keys tried is also $3$.

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Panchanadha Kshetra Tiruvaiyaru is said to be surrounded by Siddhas, Yakshas, Gandharvas and Apsaras at all times. It?s history is as old as the Puranas and Vedas. Worshiped by Indra the king of the Devas and a long list of luminous sages it is famed that Goddess Lakshmi is in deep meditation in the temple even today. She created a pond Lakshmi Teertam in the temple and it is the water from this teertham that is used for the abhishekam of Lord Siva in the temple.
Tiruvaiyaru or Panchanada Kshetra as it?s name indicates is the holy place with five rivers.
Puranas say that Lord Siva used five holy waters which were The Ganga from his head, Parvati?s milk, Surya saram and Chandra saram and the foam from Rishabha?s mouth to annoit Nandikeswara as the head of the Siva Ganas and gave him the honour of guarding the southern entrance to Kailas. The five waters flooded to create the five holy rivers . All these rivers except Surya saram which is still seen as the Surya Pushkarni in the temple ,merged into the Kaveri at a later point of time.
Lord Siva is therefore called Iyarappan, or Panchanadeesan in this Kshetra.
Tiruvaiyaru is said to equal to Kasi in it?s sanctity in that Lord Siva and Parvati wait on the soul during it?s last earthly moments. It is considered a great blessing to be born, to live or to die in this sacred Kshetra. Significantly the temple has a Japesa mandapam also called the Mukthi mandapam.
The Kaveri at Tiruvaiyaru is a delight to watch. She gurgles here, dances there and yet in another place she roars forth. Legend says that Sage Agastiar along with King Kavera and his daughter Kaveri proceeded on a pilgrimage on the way to the ocean where Kaveri was to marry Samudra Raja(The king of the oceans). However on reaching Tiruvaiyaru and worshipping Panchanadeesa, Kaveri refused to move enchanted as she was with the place. Lord Siva appeared and suggested that Sage Agastiar take one Amsam of Kaveri and leave her Sadamsam in Tiruvaiyaru. Samudra raja is said to have come to see his bride Kaveri in all her glory at Tiruvaiyaru and the place where he stayed and worshipped the Lord is today, a pond called the ?Samudra Teertham? and it?s water is salty!!
Puranas extol the story of King Suradan who longed to have Kailasa dharshan. Sage Durvasar was King Suradan?s Guru.Chanting a sloka(beginning Namah: Somaya) he prayed to the Lord to grant darshan to his disciple.King Suradan is said to have had two visions of Kailasam at Tiruvaiyaru. The lord showed King Suradan the two Sikaras of Kailasam.
Appar as Thirunavukarasar was called was the oldest among the Nayanmars of Lord Siva was on his way to Mount kailash. As he reached the foothills of the Himalayas his arms and legs bleed badly due to the strain of the journey, he then started crawling on his chest .Pained at the discomfort that his Bhaktha was undergoing Lord Siva appeared in disguise to dissuade Appar from continuing the ardous journey. Appar refused to be dettered .The Lord then created a pond and asked Appar to dip into it. Appar did as he was told and wonder of wonders he was in a pond in Tiruvaiyaru where the Lord blessed him with Kailasa Dharshan (As described by Appar in the Tevaram ?Madar Pirai Kanniyane?).Appar saw the Lord as the all pervading force in all elements of nature.
Hence the name Bhuloga Kailasam.
Referred to as ?Kaveri Kottam? the temple has five huge prakaras spanning 14 acres of land. This temple is one of the saptha stana?s of Lord Siva. The Raja Gopuram is at the East. Inside this enormous structure there are separate temples for almost all deities. Lord Pranatartihara, also called Aiyarappan and Panchanadeesan and Goddess Dharmasamvardhani are the presiding deities. The Goddess is affectionately called ?Aram Valartha Nayaki?. The Stala Vriksha is the Bilva tree. Bilva leaves always have a special significance in Siva temples.
In this prakara there is a magnificent idol of Lord Dakshinamoorthy .Devotees do not circumbulate this prakara called the Dakshinamoorthy prakara as it is belived that Lord Siva?s tresses spread here behind him covering the entire prakara.
The second Prakara (that is used by the devotees to go around the Lord as the first prakara is not used) has a lovely idol of Lord Muruga who holds the bow and arrow. He is called Villendiya Vellavan.
The south Gopuram houses the Atkondar sannidhi where Atkondar who stands guard at the south Gopuram is said to have vanquished Yama on orders from the Lord to save Sucharita a staunch devotee of the Lord and a disciple of Sage Vashistar.
Near this one finds the Thenkailayam temple and near the North Gopuram we can worship the Olokamatha temple called the Vada Kailayam.
Innumerable paintings and sculptures line the entire gamut of the temple covering all the puranic stories related to the sthala.
On the Twelfth day Sapthastana Festival takes place wherein the Lord and Goddess take Nandi and his bride to the Saptha Stana sthalas.
Adi Festival is when Appar gets kailasa Dharshan .In the Panguni festival one can witness Nandi?s wedding .
All Chola kings starting from Suryavamsa Priyamvadan in the 9th century have been devoted to the temple .Stone inscriptions talk about the great deal of wealth and manpower that has gone into the upkeep of this temple.
Compositions ,saints and composers associated with the temple.
Ancient that the Kshetra is it has been sung about by almost all the saivaite saints.Tales of Thiruvaiyaru Stala can be found in the SkandaPuranam and Sekizhyar?s Periya puram.
Appar, Sundarar and Tirugyanasambandar have composed numerous Tevarams here. Arunagirinathar and Manikkavasakar have composed Tirrupugazhs and Tiruvaachagams on the deity.. As already mentioned the Lord here has been worshipped by the greatest of rishis Sage Goutamar and Sage Sadanandar, Sage Dhurvasar, Sage Vasisthar and Sage Agastiar among others. The oldest among the Music Trinity Shyama Sastri has composed many a master piece on Dharmasamvardhani. Durusuga(SAveri), Karunajooda(Varali). Yemani Migula (todi), are some of them.
Muthuswamy Dikshithar has composed Dharmasamvardhani (Madhyamavathi), Narmada Kaveri(Namadesi), among other kritis.
Among the Trinity Tyagaraja chose to stay at Tiruvaiyaru and his name stands immortalized today with the Kshetra. Here musicians gather in large number year after year during Bhagula Panchami to pay homage at his Sammadhi.
It was in this Kshetra that Tyagarajar composed most of his kritis. His house itself was a temple to Rama. In the kriti Muripemugalige in Mukhari he describes the beauty of Tiruvaiyaru and says that as Lord Panchanadeesa has chosen it as his residing place so has Rama who is surrounded by Sita, Lakshmana and Anjaneya who holds Rama?s feet dearly. Little wonder says the composer that Rama does not pay attention to his devotee Tyagaraja enchanted as he is by Tiruvaiyaru .
Tyagarajar has composed various kritis on Panchaneedesha and Dharmasamvardhani. Some of them being Baale Baalendu (Ritigowlai) ,Nannu Kanna talli (Sindhu Kannada), Illalopranatartihara(Atana), Yehi Trijagadeesha(Saranga) etc.
The Mela Raga malika is a magnum opus composition by Sri Maha Vaidhyanatha Sivan the musical celebrity of the 19th century(1844-1893) .This creation exquisitely exhibits the essential characteristics of the established 72 Mela Ragas as expounded by Govindacharya in the Sangraha-Choodamani. The composition is in praise of Lord Pranatarthihara who was the ishta devata of the composer .
The 72 ragas are divided into groups of 6 each into 12 chakras.Groups of 2 chakras are taken at a time in the composition and the landing point each time is in Sriragam.
Post trinity composers like Annai Iyya and Papanasam Sivan have also sung in praise of the Kshetra.
Tiruvaiyaru Kshetra is still the quintessence of our art and culture and stands out for the Bhakthi cult of South India.
Live concert recording of the December season 2001 and held at Kalakendra..
This is live recording of a concert held in Sri Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha and on 2 January and 2010..


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I am piecing together a scripting language for gaming applications(something that will help in adding details on top of a "core" existing game structure: ways to add tutorial messages, particle effects, tween HUD elements in and out...) and keep coming back to a particular model that I've seen in a few game scripting environments over the years: Bringing an explicit timeline into the language, so that lines of code represent events in a frame of simulation, rather than a computation that can happen at "any" time.
The advantages of this model are easy to see: rather than maintaining the bookkeeping of a tiresome bundle of timers and event callbacks, the language becomes a descriptive storyboard for various actions. Both one-shots and tweened parameters(fades, bounces, etc.) can be defined beautifully in this way.
What I'm struggling with - and have been struggling with for the past few days - isn't really this aspect of it, but how to implement it in a beautiful, powerful way within a game engine. Crude approaches that only let the language trigger externally coded events are limiting; I considered an approach with a set of named "channels" that could aid in grouping, starting, and stopping timeline scripts in a concurrent fashion, which added some reflective behavior, but this gradually led me towards bolting on a computational type system(including numbers, strings, lists, hashes) that could encompass the capabilities of the channel groups.
In trying to add a type system, memory management reared its head; e.g., when one timeline instance ends, how should I destroy the variables it was using - given that there could be circular references? Garbage collection then comes into play as a possibility, and by this point I was getting way too complex to feel comfortable with the implementation. Ideally it should be possible to serialize the whole game state and recall it at any time; with such a large system the task becomes dire.
My current thought is to start building the language around access to the entity and component model, making the timeline scripts another kind of component, one where awareness of the other components is built in, and the access methods to traverse the graph of world state(looking up collision boundaries, searching indexes of actors or objects, etc.) are available, but computation in the traditional sense is limited. But I draw a blank once I start thinking of the details of how this system might work. My intuition says that computation is a secondary need since the host language can do it, but I find it really hard to break away and get new ideas.
Do you have any simple (toy) examples of what you are thinking of? Part of what you are describing sounds like a real-time language (ie constructs for time constraints / delays) but other parts sound more like the synchronous channels of Occam (which included a channel for time). I've seen some interesting work in the cross-over between the two but I don't think any of it has been published.
I like the idea too, but you really need to give examples.
Inform 7 - a language for interactive fiction.
Dedalus - Datalog (logic programming) with events at discrete time, space.
These might not be what you're aiming for, but they are likely to give you 'ideas', which is what you're asking for.
Time plays a major role in the Impromptu environment allowing accurate real-time scheduling of events and code. Impromptu is a dynamic environment designed for the creation and manipulation of running programs in live performance.
Check out the FAQ (accessible from the Resources link) as it has many examples.
When I had hacked up a mini language for testing my media server logic, I just added a "@ time command" construct, where time could be absolute (from start of the test) or relative (to the previous or parent event). Both could be used in a subroutine (or script). Using a small number of routines I could fire off hundreds of "media players" to stress the server.
Or you can abstract out timing events in some sort of time streams and just provide a triggering mechanism: "when event-occurs do-something..."


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Alex Trebek says he's in 'near remission' with his cancer
Posted 10:00 am, May 29, 2019, by CNN Wire
LOS ANGELES — Alex Trebek has shared a hopeful health update.
The "Jeopardy!" host — who announced in March that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer — told People magazine he's responding well to treatment.
So well, in fact, that the 78-year-old said he is in "near remission" according to his doctors. "It's kind of mind-boggling," Trebek said in the magazine's new cover story. "The doctors said they hadn't seen this kind of positive result in their memory … some of the tumors have already shrunk by more than 50 percent."
The survival rate for those with Trebek's kind of cancer is 9% and he said news that he may be beating the odds left him emotional.
"But they were tears of joy, not tears of depression," Trebek said.
The beloved game show host has been open about his struggles with depression since his diagnosis.
He recently talked about the difficulty of living with his disease with "CBS Sunday Morning."
Alex Trebek opens up about cancer battle
Trebek said that early on in his treatment he suffered from excruciating pain both on and off camera while working on "Jeopardy!"
"I was on the floor writhing in pain. It went from a 3 to an 11," Trebek said. "And it happened three or four times that day while we were taping. So, that was a little rough on me."
And while he has to successfully undergo several more rounds of chemotherapy before he can be declared fully in remission, Trebek said all of the support he has been receiving has been helping.
"I've got a couple million people out there who have expressed their good thoughts, their positive energy directed towards me and their prayers," he said. "I told the doctors, this has to be more than just the chemo, and they agreed it could very well be an important part of this."
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Sustainable Racial Equity: From Allies to Change Agents
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Systematic change is necessary if we are to realize racial equity and social justice. We often need help seeing how we can be effective advocates in the face of complex systems, policies, and institutions that perpetuate inequities. Join the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business for a purposeful conversation on stepping up our levels of engagement—in conversation, in protest, and in advocacy.
Panelists at the virtual event will include three recent Scheller College alumni (all received their MBA in Spring 2020) who held leadership positions in student clubs whose missions are aligned with diversity and inclusion goals. Rachel Firstman served in Women in Business, Blais Hickey in Net Impact, and Shannell Smith in Blacks in Business.
The speakers will share their perspectives on the following topics:
What does it mean to be an "ally" in the fight for racial equity?
What challenges do we face in building solidarity among those who care about racial justice?
How do we motivate ourselves and others to do more?
How can we work together to create lasting change?
Rachel Firstman (MBA '20, BSBA '16)
Prior to beginning the MBA program, Rachel worked first in investment banking for SunTrust then in pricing analytics for The Home Depot. While in the MBA program, Rachel served as the vice president of finance for the Women in Business student group. The proud "Double Jacket" will soon be joining E. & J. Gallo Winery in a full-time finance position.
Blais Hickey (MBA '20)
After receiving her undergraduate degrees in Environmental Studies and Global Studies from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Blais worked for five years at Atlanta Track Club. At Scheller College, Blais served as president of the Net Impact – MBA Chapter and earned a Certificate in Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management from the School of Public Policy. The running, cycling, and hiking enthusiast recently joined Nike's Global Operations Team.
Shannell Smith (MBA '20)
Shannell began her career in customer service and account management in the utilities industry. She decided to pursue her MBA to help her pivot toward her passion for creating more positive relationships between brands and overlooked, underrepresented, and exploited communities. At Scheller College, she served as president of Blacks in Business. Shannell, who is now associate brand manager at E. & J. Gallo Winery, recently founded a collective aimed at creating economic equity for Black America.
Arianna Robinson (MBA '18) Assistant Director – Business Operations, Scheller College of Business
Arianna executes, coordinates, and supports the Center's strategic projects, events, and ongoing programs and initiatives. She also manages the Center's finances, its marketing and communications strategy, and its team of graduate research and student assistants. Prior to joining Scheller College, she worked for the central office of a national non-profit organization focused on leadership development. She currently serves as advisor for two Scheller College MBA student groups: Blacks in Business and Net Impact.
Due to current distance-learning circumstances, this event will be hosted virtually. The virtual platform will be BlueJeans. Please see below for instructions to download this software and join the meeting.
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The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business was founded in 2013 to act as a catalyst and connector, bringing together students, research faculty, companies, and entrepreneurs to create an environment where business-driven solutions to sustainability challenges can take shape and thrive. In all, Scheller provides students unparalleled breadth in environmental sustainability, ethics, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and values-based leadership.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Sebastien Bourdais will have surgery Saturday night to repair a fractured pelvis suffered in a fiery crash during Indianapolis 500 qualifying.
Track officials said doctors at Indiana University Methodist Hospital reported that the 38-year-old has multiple fractures in his pelvis and a fractured right hip.
Team owner Dale Coyne said in a statement that Bourdais is "in good hands" at the hospital and that the team must wait for him to recover.
He was injured when the No. 18 car wiggled in the second turn, slid up the track and slammed head-on into the second turn wall. The car then flipped over, with flames and smoke billowing out, before skidding to a stop in the back straightaway.
Safety team members spent about 10 minutes getting Bourdais out of the car before putting him on a backboard. Track officials said he was awake and alert when he was transported by ambulance to the hospital. They said he never lost consciousness.
Bourdais had just completed two laps over 231 mph - the fastest laps of the day - when the car started to spin.
He won the season-opening race at St. Petersburg, Florida, and had the fastest time in Friday's practice.
Bourdais won four straight Champ Car season titles from 2004-07 and raced in Formula One in 2008-09. He's sixth on IndyCar's career victory list with 35.
Coyne will have to find a replacement driver for the May 28 race, but may not have to make the decision before the second round of qualifying is held.
Because only 33 cars are entered for the 500, any that do not qualify will be sent to the back of the field and will be arranged based on entrant's points.
One other driver, Zach Veach, also did not qualify Saturday. Veach crashed in practice earlier this week.


It has been a wild year, so full and so changeable. I guess that is always the way. My grandmother always used to say "you must take the good with the bad, but look for the good". Life is always a mixed bag... you choose what you take from it.
The dry summer made it hard for a lot of crops to really thrive, and put an strain on us having to carry water for every plant and creature. But as you can see our basil did amazingly well and now the freezers are full of pesto. Mari is the Pesto Queen.
The army of baby ducks that were Perran's spring present have grown and were overwhelming us for much of the summer. I never knew ducks could eat so much, nor be so loud! Finally three found a new home and there has been peace and quiet ever since.
Dylan has had a some building commissions: woodsheds and a really neat camping a-frame. The mill has meant he can create wonderful structures from our own hardwoods, and mill just the right sized boards for his projects. I huge old Butternut fell in early Autumn. I was out harvesting garlic, and heard a few tell-tale, cracking groans from the old beast. He crashed down with an almighty thump and if I had not run like a rabbit from the garlic patch I'd have been grazed by his top branches. We know have a beautiful supply of butternut milled up.
Dylan has been out in the woods splitting seasoned wood and filling firewood orders as fast as he can. As soon as a chill hits the air, everyone wants wood. We also have a new dump truck which is taking the pain out of firewood delivery.
And after all the dry summer, with only a rare flush or two, this last icy rain storm brought out the biggest flush of mushrooms we have had yet. I harvested three baskets full, maybe 8 or 10lbs. of log grown shiitakes.
We have been harvesting herbs for tinctures and teas before the frost can get them, a few more are still standing. Soon the garden will be put to bed and its loving bounty preserved for the cold time. The warm and cozy time, the time of making crafts, hugging the fire and sharing stories is drawing closer as the winds grow colder. Cup of tea, anyone?


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REVIEW: 'Watchmen,' Episode 6 – "This Extraordinary Being"
by Lizzy Garcia 11/25/2019 11/06/2021
Watchmen returns with "This Extraordinary Being," the sixth episode of the season. Previously, Watchmen ended with a dramatic conclusion as Looking Glass, aka Wade Tillman, (Tim Blake Nelson) was captured by the Seventh Kalvary and Senator Keane (James Wolk) who it was revealed is working with him. While captured, the Kalvary proved to Wade the extraterrestrial attack from thirty years ago is not what it seems and revealed the truth in the form of a video recorded by Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias, (Jeremy Irons) to then-President Richard Nixon.
Following his release, Wade returned to the Police Station and spoke to Angela Abar (Regina King) about the pills she requested he look into. After learning they are nostalgia, an illegal drug that implants memories, Wade makes the decision to no longer hide Angela's secrets and instead turn her into Laurie Blake (Jean Smart). However, Angela swallows the entirety of the pills prior to being taken into custody.
"This Extraordinary Being" starts with a look at the fictional TV show within the show that details the lives of real vigilantes within the world, "Minutemen." Prior to this point, I had been mostly uninterested in the moments featuring this fictional show but the scene with Hooded Justice (Cheyenne Jackson) being questioned by two FBI agents about his sex life and work as a crime fighter is the first time I have cared about the character. The ensuing fight is also extremely well choreographed and while fights in small spaces can be challenging to create, unless you are Daredevil, the direction is never too choppy and the characters realistically make use of the settings around them to create a dynamic and interesting scene.
From there, "This Extraordinary Being" transitions back to the present picking up almost immediately after the previous episode. While speaking to Angela, who is now in a jail cell, Laurie explains exactly what Nostalgia, the pills Angela took does. The pills initially started as a treatment for dementia and are have your memories within them, however that limited the market so more people started taking them leading to OD, addiction, and more problematic issues leading them to be outlawed. Having taken so many of her father's pills at one time, Laurie tries to get Angela to sign a release in order to get her stomach pumped but before she can, Angela begins to experience extreme psychosis, a mental disorder characterized by a disconnection from reality, as she begins to see black and white visions of the past and is input directly into her grandfather's, Will Reeves (Louis Gossett Jr.) memories.
During this time, Angela starts the scene fully colorized but fades in with everything around her becoming black and white until she becomes a younger Will Reeves. This goes back and forth with Angela slipping in and out only to be replaced by the younger Will. The memories start with Will's induction into the NYPD and his repressed anger over the senseless racist violence during the Black Wall Street Massacre of 1921 massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he watched both of his parents die.
The episode also highlights another real historical event, which has become a theme throughout the series. During the flashback, Will Reeves attempts to arrest a man for starting a fire at a Jewish bakery only for his fellow officers to let the man go after flashing each other the white power sign. While at a newsstand, Will sees not only news pertaining to a Nazi march in NYC but also Action Comics, the famed Superman stories which were created by two Jewish immigrants. The show draws parallels between Will's story and Superman's. Both Will and Superman were saved by their parent's sacrifice.
Following his shift, Will heads home only to be ambushed by some of his fellow officers. The violence and racism Will experienced is jarring but also incredibly real. Nazis existed in New York, and probably still do, and people with white supremacist views have always held positions of power. However, following the attack Will overhears a woman in danger and still with a noose around his neck and the cloth over his head, he creates a makeshift mask in order save her.
"This Extraordinary Being" is a character study of Will Reeves who up until this point has more or less been a mystery. The episode also begins to connect a lot of dots between the real historical events the show has portrayed and how it fits into Watchmen's world of vigilantes and masked cops.
"This Extraordinary Being" is the best episode of the series thus far. Watchmen, the graphic novel, existed to show a world not far off of our own, a world where desperate people are forced to turn to desperate measures because of the political unrest and fear they face due to the Cold War. Watchmen, the HBO show, has recreated that once more but updating it for a modern audience.
Today's world is dealing with the repercussions of a resurgence of white supremacy because these men and women are unafraid to crawl out from under their rock. Watchmen, like the original graphic novel, feels uncomfortably familiar and so far no episode has created this cognitive dissonance better than "This Extraordinary Being."
Watchmen is streaming on HBO with new episodes dropping every Sunday at 8pm CT/9pm EST.
Watchmen Episode 6 - "This Extraordinary Being"
Rating - 10/10
Lizzy Garcia
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1. Bit. Trip Runner
Bit. Trip Runner is Arcade, Rhythm Side Scrolling Puzzle-Platform video game by Gaijin Games. The game takes you to an amazing world divided into three parts Impetus, Tenacity and Triumph. It offers 11 levels of awesome game-play and allows you to defeat a Boss in every level. Being an amazing character named Commander Video, running, jumping and going through a series of challenging obstacles is what makes this game fun. Bit Trip Runner offers Fast,-paced and the most exhilarating gameplay mixed up with cool music. Your task is to simply run across the moon on various platforms, kick down the walls in your way, slide under the slugs and jump over all of the obstacles and enjoy running to the finish line in every blasting level. Be aware of the Mines in your way because if you smash into them, you'll have to go over and start the level again. With an extremely addictive and quite challenging gameplay, beautiful visuals and loads of fun game levels, Bit Trip Runner is one amazingly cool Music and Puzzle-Platform video game to play and enjoy.
2. Bit. Trip Beat
Bit. Trip Beat is a Arcade style Puzzle, Platform and music video game by Gijin Games. This brilliant Action-Adventure, Casual and Indie Platformer lets you enjoy amazing game-play packed up with great music, graphics and challenging puzzles. Once again, you get to play as Commander Video and you are tasked to fulfill your colorful journey by running, jumping, and going through amazingly challenging obstacles.Inspired by most of the Classics of this specific genre, Bit. Trip Beat lets you be part of a beautiful world where you'll continuously run on amazing beats and all you got to do is to go through a number of different types of obstacles in order to reach down to the finish line. Once you are through to the finish line, you can jump onto new and a bit more difficult level and enjoy all the thrilling elements of the game. With super cool visuals, great background music, epic boss fights, and an immersive game-play Bit. Trip Beat is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
3. Electronic Super Joy
Electronic Super Joy is a brilliant new Action, Puzzle Platformer and indie video game by Michael Todd Games. it takes you to an amazing musical world where you'll have to Run, Jump, Fly and go through amazingly challenging obstacles all set up on some really difficult platforms in three different and quite unforgiving worlds. Electronic Super Joy offers over fifty challenging levels, 8 hours of purely entertaining gameplay, amazingly blasting Boss battles, loads of enemies, and features like low gravity, rotating worlds, humongous monsters and brimming missiles etc. With a great setting, engaging game-play, great visuals, regular content updates and loads of other exciting things, Electronic Super Joy is a best Puzzle and Platform video game to play and enjoy.
4. Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien or also known as Bit. Trip Runner 2 is an award-winning sequel to the wonderful Bit. Trip Runner. This Action Puzzle Platform and Music game offers a similar game-play as its predecessor, packed up with new and quite fantastic gaming environments, more fun filled levels, brand new moves and background music along with enhanced graphics and revamped game mechanics etc. Just like its Bit. Trip Runner, you'll have to Run, Jump, Slide and go through some challenging obstacles to complete the game objectives. With 5 brilliantly designed game worlds, 120 levels of pure awesomeness, amazing boss battles and eight unique character choices, Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
5. Super Hexagon
Super Hexagon is a cool Action, Puzzle Platform and indie video game developed and published by Terry Cavanagh games. The game offers vivid graphics, super engaging game-play, minimal design and puzzles related to the Hexagons. Your task is to go through challenging puzzles and amazing obstacles and complete the game objectives in order to clear the game levels. Super Hexagon offers wonderful visuals, an engaging and immersive game-play, along with simple layout and easy controls. For an amazing puzzle-platform gaming experience, you should totally try this game out. It's fun playing Super Hexagon.
6. Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians is a story of Mr. Beatbuddy who wakes up from a deep sleep and starts off his journey to save his friends and his own immortality. This superb Action- Puzzle Platform and indie video game features colorful environments in which you have to act as Mr. Beatbuddy and your duty is to go through some challenging game levels build on difficult obstacles and puzzles in order to complete the game objectives. With and amazingly beautiful and living game world, amazing rivalries, epic boss battles and a amazing soundtracks that actually keeps you kikkin' are the most prominent features of this wonderful game. Do give it a try and enjoy the ultimate Puzzle and Platform fun.
7. Melody's Escape
Melody's Escape is an amazing Action, Musical Puzzle-Platform video game that mimics the characteristics of the popular video game Bit. Trip Runner and provides with a wonderfully similar gameplay. This super cool game offers a chance to run, jump, slide and go through a series of obstacles on different platforms while being kicked by the music from your own music library. With advanced music detection algorithms, cool mechanics, amazing game-play and loads of other cool things, Melody's Escape allows you to enjoy an amazing new side of puzzle-platform and music gaming. Melody's Escape offers great character choices, captivating visuals, a series of sophisticated obstacles and platforms, challenging puzzles and a wonderful game-play etc.
8. Fermi's Path
Fermi's Path is a wonderful new Puzzle, Platform and Action video game that takes you to an amazing journey inside an Atom. The game allows you set yourself up into the character of a Subatomic particle named Fermi and embark on an amazing journey into the Subatomic Space. This brilliantly Music-driven game allows you to go through a number of obstacles and eradicate all the incoming particles. Fermi's Path offers various level of game difficulty, a unique level editor to make your own game levels and challenge yourself and your friends, amazing ever evolving obstacles, cool weapons and upgrades, wonderful visuals, an immersive game-play and lots of other fun things. Try Fermi's Path out and you'll love every bit of this dazzling game.
Love is a great Action, Puzzle-platform video game by Fred Wood Games that offers beautiful retro graphics, challenging puzzles, and various modes of game difficulty. Your task is to go through a number of different game worlds while facing challenging puzzles, obstacles and epic enemies. You must complete all the challenges and clear all the obstacles in order to complete the game levels. Love offers 16 fun filled game levels, amazing music tracks to act upon, beautiful retro visuals, loads of cool upgrades, a level editor, and a great immersive and challenging game-play. Love is a superb Puzzle and Action video game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try, it's fun playing.
10. The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor
The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor is a mix of Role-playing, Music, Rhythm, Fantasy and Party-based elements offered by Puuba and Kasedo Games. The game comes with both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and features Split-screen for the better co-op experience. The setting takes place in the fantasy environment and brings various musically empowered villains and heroes. The game puts you in control of a party contains up to eight graduated masters of musical combat arts. After select the heroes, you can activate the huge variety of spells and abilities, nukes and buffs, with your performance and moves. Like other RPGs, you must improve the stats of your characters, find powerful equipment, and mix the multitude of abilities. The game introduces a variety of quests with different locations ranging from the rockstar haunted castle to a medieval party yacht. The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor includes superb features such as Replayability, Improve your Characters' Stats, an Epic Quest, Rhythm Role-playing Game, and more. With excellent mechanics, wonderful graphics, and smooth controls, The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor is the best game to play and enjoy.
11. Geometry Dash Lite
Geometry Dash Lite is a Side-scroll Runner, Platform, Music, and Single-player video game created by Robert Topala and published by Robtop Games. The game revolves around rhythm-based platforming gameplay and introduces more than twenty-one levels and up to thirty million online levels available made by players. Each level introduces a unique background music and a set of obstacles. It brings a level editor, secret coins, user-created levels, and a variety of icons for you. The game introduces three shops and vaults in the game. In the game, you can use a clicking or tapping system to command different vehicles that react. The primary objective of the game is to accomplish the stage by reaching its end. During the gameplay, if the vehicle crashes at an obstacles, the player will has to state the game from the beginning. There are 21 levels available, from which 18 are accessible from the start. The game rewards the player with points for each completed level. Geometry Dash Lite offers core features such as Fly Rockets, Practice Mode, Unlockable Icons, Customize your Character, and more. Try it out.
12. Wraithslayer
Wraithslayer is an Action, Side-scroll, and Single-player video game developed by Devin Cole and published by SmashGames for Multiple Platforms. The game takes place in a horror world where the player is bound to a single battle against a monster called a Wraith. During the gameplay, the player avoid the relentless attacks of the monster while gathering orbs to weaken the enemy will offer the player a nightmarish and challenging fight. The game introduces a quite simple controls and features only few buttons for jumping, diving, and dashing. In the game, the player needs to be creative with his movement if he want to take down the enemy. During the gameplay, the player will discover a randomly generated attacks and the enemy picks randomly from a massive series of moves to demolish the player. Wraithslayer includes prominent features such as Randomly Generated Attacks, Simple Controls, Multiple Modes, and more. Check it out, if you love playing Platform Games.
More About The Floor is Lava: Challenge Nuclear Jelly
The Floor is Lava: Challenge Nuclear Jelly is an Arcade, Side-scroll, and Single-player video game developed by Demium Games for Android and iOS. The game offers robust gameplay similar to the Geometry Dash video game. It introduces a new character who needs the player more than ever before. According to the plot, there's been a meltdown, and only the player can help him to jump, fly, and hop his way out of the nuclear plant. During the gameplay, the player needs to be careful because the floor is full of lava. There are many challenging levels, and each level introduces a set of obstacles to avoid and a challenging task to complete. The game doesn't require any Wi-Fi connection to play, and the main objective of the player is to earn the highest points by jumping from platform to platform and overcoming obstacles. With challenging gameplay, detailed graphics, and brilliant one-finger control, The Floor is Lava: Challenge Nuclear Jelly is a tough game for hardcore players.
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The visit of the Japanese prime minister underlines a core component of Biden's foreign strategy.
In a private meeting in Tokyo last year, President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Biden conveyed a message that was both calculated and sincere.
Although the US was aware of Japan's desire to adopt a more assertive defense and security posture, Biden made it plain that everything he could do to support or shield such an effort should be put on the table.
The outcome of the one-on-one meeting was characterized by another eight months later. This time, the Oval Office served as the background.
As he sat next to Kishida in front of the cameras, Biden stated, "Let me be quite clear. The alliance has the full, unwavering support of the United States.
Kishida's visit represents for Biden and his national security staff the fulfillment and continuation of a fundamental initiative pursued since the first days of the administration. At a time when geopolitical dangers and tensions have collided with a strategy to change the security posture of allies in Europe and the Indo-Pacific, it is one that goes beyond a single bilateral relationship.
While also being more transparent about its territorial aspirations, China has swiftly increased its military capabilities. The biggest armed confrontation in Europe since World War II began as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. All the meantime, North Korea has stepped up its missile tests and other provocative behavior.
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HIGHSHOT – On January 13, 2023, US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida enter the White House's colonnade on their approach to the Oval Office.
Inside After five days, the White House has vowed to carry on with business as usual.
A geopolitical environment that is trending toward instability has given Biden the chance to assist allies in enhancing their security and defense capabilities. National security adviser Jake Sullivan described this opportunity as a modernization of a key idea from President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy.
In a CNN interview, Sullivan stated that "peace through American power" was Reagan's philosophy. "Peace through the strength of America and our allies," says Biden.
The foundational effort has yielded noticeable, if occasionally inconsistent, advancements with Germany, Australia, and, most obviously, Japan as the administration enters its third year.
In response to mounting threats from regional rivals, especially China, Kishida released a new national security strategy in December that indicates the country's largest military buildup since World War II, boosting defense budget and departing from its pacifist constitution.
The choice signaled a significant shift for the country as well as the US security coalition in the Indo-Pacific region.
A senior administration source told CNN, "We believed that we could get significant movement, but I don't think that anybody thought it would be this far, this fast."
It also happened at a time when Kishida was dealing with domestic political difficulties that Biden was more than prepared to try to solve.
According to senior administration sources, Kishida's visit provided a glimpse inside the two years of meticulous planning by Biden's team, which helped to establish the conditions for dramatic changes to strengthen US relationships at a time when tensions were rising.
Before Putin crossed the Ukrainian border, we started laying the groundwork for all of this, Sullivan told CNN. This has, above all, been a top diplomatic priority.
At the outset of the presidency, Biden issued the order, and Sullivan served as its primary architect. As officials pressed their colleagues to expedite expenditure and revisions to their own security and defense spending programs, the administration worked to strengthen existing relationships, both bilaterally and regionally.
With a clear statement of support, political cover, or, in the case of Kishida, a sought-after White House meeting, they would make sure that it was understood that the US would be there to help in any process undertaken, whether through improvements to defense capabilities, changes in US force posture, or Biden himself.
Security policies have changed in ways that may have previously unnerved allies worried about rising regional tensions or upset enemies eager to match action with escalation. This is because geopolitical events have coincided with that approach.
However, the strategy has been able to circumvent a recent readiness to question earlier regional risk assessments. Allies haven't overlooked that, according to Sullivan.
According to Sullivan, "We're providing them the assurance that as they go out on a limb, we are not going to cut off that limb."
CH-46 helicopters are seen taking off at the U.S. Marine Corps base in Futenma, located in Okinawa, Japan, in this photo from August 16, 2012. The long-awaited relocation of the American military installation received the approval of Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima on Friday, December 27, 2013, which was a significant step toward enabling the US to proceed with its plans to consolidate its soldiers in Okinawa and relocate some to Guam. Nakaima granted permission for the Japanese Defense Ministry to recover land along the shore of Okinawa for a new military facility. It would take the place of the American Marine Corps base now located in Futenma, a busier area of Okinawa's main island. Greg Baker/AP Photo
In an effort to discourage China, the US and Japan deepen their military ties with an improved Marine battalion.
Before Kishida's visit, the US and Japan announced a significant improvement in their military ties and a repositioning of US forces in the area, including the stationing of a newly redesigned Marine unit with cutting-edge intelligence, surveillance, and anti-ship missile capabilities.
According to one official, it is one of the biggest changes to the US military's posture in the area in recent years, highlighting the Pentagon's intention to move away from the Middle East of the past to the Indo-Pacific of the present.
Additionally, it conveyed a strong message about how long the US would continue to support Japan's strategic pivot, which administration officials made clear would be a crucial part of their long-term regional policy.
In terms of the long-term effects, the source added, "This is a big gain in net security capability in an area that (is) geographically important."
Maintaining and strengthening the long-standing crucial partnership with Japan was a priority issue from the beginning for a president and an administration that was utterly fixated on China. Yoshihide Suga, Kishida's predecessor, was invited by Biden to attend the first state visit of his administration.
The US, Japan, India, and Australia's informal alliance, known as the Quad, was decided to be promoted to the leader level. Japan was consulted by the US over its Indo-Pacific policy. According to sources, administration officials have searched for potential areas of collaboration across economic and technological sectors.
However, if China's activities had begun the gradual change in Japan's general posture, Russia's actions sped it up to a new level.
Japan has been a dependable partner in the US effort to gather allies in opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Kishida has been clear about how he feels about Russia's conduct in the Indo-Pacific as well as in relation to Europe.
In a keynote speech in Singapore in June, Kishida provided broad contours of the security strategy shift he was considering, saying, "I myself have a tremendous sense of urgency because Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow."
By the time Kishida met Biden in November in Cambodia, he had already given the US president the specifics in a previous one-on-one conversation.
He also stated during their private meeting in Tokyo that he would accept Biden's offer. The idea would need an immediate statement of support from the Biden administration.
Biden concurred, and shortly after Kishida made his plans public, Sullivan issued a formal statement describing it as a "bold and historic gesture."
Soon after the announcement on December 16 Kishida also asked for a White House invitation.
The White House made public announcements about Kishida's visit on January 3.
Less than two weeks later, Kishida arrived in a black SUV while Biden was waiting outside the White House.
Soon after, as the two sat side by side in the Oval Office, Biden stated, "I don't think there has ever been a time when we have been closer to Japan in the United States.
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Stone Pit and Lock-Up
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Article in The Mercury Oxford Gazette c. 1956
Hassall's reply to the article in The Mercury Oxford Gazette c. 1956, with copy of the 1362 document
Translation of Windsor Castle accounts from 1363 and Abingdon treasurer's accounts 1383-4
Accounts from Abingdon Abbey 1383- 84
Summary re Wheatley stone
Wheatley limestone quarries
Taunt photo of the quarry, stone pit and lock-up with the church in the back ground taken in 1887. Also a 2-page press article on the Wheatley and other Round Houses.
This building was a temporary prison built in 1834 in the corner of the parish stone pit, where bull¬baiting continued after its suppression elsewhere. It was built of stones out of the parish pit. The date 1834 is quite certain as there are details about it in the minute book of the Vestry, as the body which then ruled the parish was called. The Lock-up was only used as such for six years.
The Parish Pit or Village Pit was a major limestone quarry, providing some high quality stone for many Wheatley buildings and for the building of Windsor Castle, Wallingford Castle, Merton and Magdalen Colleges. As a pit, it was used for all sorts of unsavoury purposes, including bullbaiting, badger-baiting and cock-fighting and for burning waste. As a consequence of the latter, it was plagued by rats and snakes. It remained a pit until the late 1940s when it was filled in and became the recreation ground. But if you go left to the row of trees, you will see the original depth of the quarry, and the cliff-face created.
The stone quarries (see map sourced from W. Hassall, Wheatley Records, p.18) provided work for many people. Not only were quarrymen needed but masons to prepare the stone and carters for transport over a wide area. It is known that Wheatley stone was used in the construction of Windsor Castle in the 14th century.
Merton College chapel was largely built from Wheatley stone in the 1290s, see W. Hassall, Wheatley Records, p.22 and Plate 12.. There is a document from 1362 regarding the appointment of William Cok to supply stone for Windsor Castle. Accounts from Abingdon Abbey in 1383- 84 show that the transport route was to Sandford and then by barge along the Thames. It is interesting to note that there were varying qualities of stone bought for different uses.
Headington quarry appears to have usurped Wheatley as a source of stone for Oxford buildings by 1400. It is a reasonable assumption, however, that Wheatley quarries were used for the many existing stone buildings in Wheatley which date from the 16th to 19th centuries, with the new Church built by Street in 1856 being the last major stone building which used Wheatley stone.
Map by Jack Turner showing Roman aspects of Wheatley which also identifies the Charlgrove (his spelling) or Chalgrove pit at the west end of Westfield.
Map and pdf on 'Wheatley limestone quarries' by Michael Heaton showing this and other pits on an OS map (with geological map inset).
See Victoria County History on record 1536 for more detail on where and when the Wheatley limestone was used.
Church Road, Recreation Ground, Quarry and Lock-up
The Lock-up
The Lock-up 2001
The Lock-up Survey 2001
The Lock-Up or Round House
Quarry face
Wheatley Quarry
Stone Quarry
Bernard Hickey painting