1. How do I know for sure that Jesus is Who the Bible says He is? After all, most of what we know about the historical Jesus is what is written in the Bible about Him.
To address the first question, our very calendar is a testimony to the historicity of Jesus. Flavius Josephus, a Jewish historian of the first century, documented the historicity of Jesus. Aside from this, the fact that Christianity exists at all testifies to the fact that Jesus was a historical figure. No one doubts the historicity of Buddha, Confucius, Mohamed, Plato, Socrates or Aristotle yet there is less documentation for these men than there is for Jesus and no one questions their historicity. The fact that the Christian church spread across the globe in spite of severe persecution for the name of Jesus gives testimony to the authenticity of Jesus. Furthermore, there are few, if any in modern scholarship, that question the historical Jesus.
Secondly, there is proof that one is obligated to recognize about Jesus outside the Bible itself. The empty tomb is proof. All other leaders of religious movements have died and have been buried and people can visit their graves, but Jesus' tomb is empty. I have been told that there are at least seven possible sites around Jerusalem where Jesus may have been buried, but they all have one thing in common – they are all empty. Jesus rose from the dead just as He said He would, and the empty tomb is proof that He did. This fact could have been easily debunked early on. All it would have taken was for the religious leaders of that time to drag Jesus' body out of the tomb and parade it around for all to see; but they could not because the tomb was empty. Skeptics have gone to great lengths to attempt to prove His resurrection as a hoax, but they are the ones that have come away looking foolish. Just recently an ossuary was supposedly discovered in Jerusalem that was supposed to have contained the bones of Jesus. Inscribed on the ossuary in Hebrew script were the words "Jesus Bar Joseph" – Jesus son of Joseph. The ossuary was quickly exposed as a forgery making the claimants look foolish indeed. The proof for Jesus is His empty tomb.
Finally, we can know that the Bible is true by the truth it reveals in matters of history and science. Although the Bible is not intended to be a textbook on history or science, it is nonetheless historically and scientifically accurate. For years, archaeologists have used the Bible to locate ancient sites mentioned in its text. Ancient civilizations mentioned in the Bible, like the Hittites, thought at one time not to have ever existed have been discovered just as the Bible says. Historical figures, like Belshazzar mentioned in Daniel 5, were once touted as biblical fallacies until recent archaeological discoveries, like the Nabonidus Cylinder, were found with those names inscribed on them. Likewise, science has been unable to refute the Bible on scientific grounds. The Bible proclaimed that the earth was a sphere before anyone had circumnavigated the globe or witnesses an "earthrise" from the surface of the moon. (Isaiah 40:22). The Bible claimed that the earth was "hung on nothing" before man ever escaped the bounds of the atmosphere and navigated the emptiness of space (Job 26:7). The Bible said that there were "paths in the seas" long before the ocean currents were ever mapped (Psalm 8:8).
More incredible than the Bible's historical and scientific accuracy, is the accuracy of its prophecies. The Bible contains numerous prophecies in the Old Testament that were fulfilled in Old Testament times. Some of these include God's promise to Abraham to make of him many nations (Genesis 17:4-5); the children of Israel would be slaves for 400 years (Genesis 15:13); much later they would be carried away captive to Babylon (Jeremiah 13:19) for 70 years (Jeremiah 25:11-12). Arguably, these could be taken as fabrications after the fact – they are not—but even more impressive are the prophecies concerning Jesus.
There are over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament concerning Jesus. Many of these prophecies deal with His first coming, and the remaining deal with His second coming. The Bible says that Jesus would be born of a woman (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14); He would be a descendant of Abraham (Genesis 18:18; 22:18), Isaac (Genesis 26:4) and Jacob (Genesis 28:14); He would be of the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:8-10); He would be a descendant of David (2 Samuel 7:16; Psalm 2); He would be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2); He would be brought out of Egypt (Hosea 11:1); minute details of His crucifixion were predicted long before crucifixion was known (Psalm 22; Isaiah 53); His resurrection (Psalm 16:10), and many others. It has been estimated that the probability of one man fulfilling only 8 of the prophecies ascribed to Jesus would be 1 in 1017 (1 followed by 17 zeros), and yet, Jesus fulfilled all of the prophecies concerning His first coming.
There is left the question regarding the integrity of the transmission of the biblical texts. The Dead Sea Scrolls have removed any doubt about the integrity of the Old Testament. As for the New Testament, we have over 5000 manuscripts (whole and in fragments), some dating as early as the beginning of the second century. These manuscripts have been examined and found to be consistent with our current Bible. In the few instances where variances do occur, they are usually minor and never have there been any variances found that raise a question of doctrine. Aside from that, there are many extra-biblical writings that quote directly from the New Testament so that if all copies of the New Testament were lost, most of it could be reconstructed from these alone. There is nothing in existence today of ancient writings that is so well documented and so well preserved as the text of the Bible. The Bible is trustworthy, and what it says about Jesus is true; the question is whether you are willing to trust what it says and submit to the Lord it proclaims.
Many people are often repulsed by Christianity because they view it as a system of regulations and restrictions designed to remove all the joy of living. They equate church affiliation with an endless list of "thou-shall-not's." Sometimes Christians themselves fall prey to this perception. I remember my oldest son once protesting my exhortation to live a holy life by saying, "Do you expect me to become a monk!" Leave it to teenagers to exaggerate and be overly dramatic! But in reality, that is how Christianity is often viewed. "If I become a Christian, I'll have to give up drinking beer, going to honky tonks, sleeping around, shacking up with my girlfriend. I'll have to quit going to the football games on Sundays. I'll have to cancel my subscription to my girly magazines" – and on and on the list would go.
This encounter with the Pharisee (in our verse) came during Passion Week, before Jesus was crucified. The religious leaders had swarmed around Jesus like a school of piranhas firing questions at Him in hopes of tripping Him up in order to find an excuse to have Him executed. Jesus masterfully fielded all of their questions so that they were confounded as to how to respond. Finally, this Pharisee approaches him with this profound question.
The Pharisees took pride in their adherence to the law of Moses. They knew the law so well, that they had devised clever ways to circumvent the law when it became too inconvenient for them. For example, the fifth commandment said, "Honour thy father and thy mother" (Exodus 20:12). Among other things, this commandment implied that children were to care for their parents in their old age. This, as you might imagine, would involve some expense. The Pharisees had devised a work-around where they would dedicate to God what they had set aside for the care of their parents. Of course, they were free to use it for themselves, but it got them out of the expense of caring for elderly parents. Jesus called them hypocrites (Matthew 15:3-9).
So now, this Pharisee approaches Jesus in all of his self-righteous arrogance, sure that he will stump this simple Galilean carpenter, and asks this most profound question that only someone of his high intellect and learning can answer. "Master," he begins with tongue in cheek, careful not to burst out in laughter, "which is the great commandment?" Perhaps he expected to hear one of the Ten Commandments like the fourth: "Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy" (Exodus 20:8). Jesus had often been accused by the Pharisees of breaking the sabbath. Perhaps he expected to hear something from the Talmud, a collection of rabbinical traditions. Jesus responded by quoting from the Shama: "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD. And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy might" (Deuteronomy 6:4-6).
Why would Jesus quote this passage rather than the first of the Ten Commandments – "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Exodus 20:3)? Likewise the second commandment says, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image …" (v. 4). And the third says, "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain … (v. 7). Why not one of these?
The answer lies in recognizing Who God is. The commandments are just so many rules, and as the saying goes, "rules are made to be broken." The Pharisees were expert in bending the rules. They had no love for God. To them, God was, for all practical purposes, an academic exercise. They did not deny God, but to them God was an impersonal being that must be appeased by strict adherence to His laws, which could be circumvented given the right conditions. So, they had the first commandment covered, they did not recognize any other gods and they disassociated themselves from anybody who did. They had the second commandment down; they disallowed any graven images. In fact, they would not allow Roman coins into the temple because they bore the image of Caesar, hence they had money changers at the door of the temple that would exchange Roman coins for kosher temple coins (for a price). They had become so proficient at not pronouncing the name of God (Yahweh) by simply replacing the Name with "LORD" (Adoni) that they literally forgot how to pronounce it! This was all bound up in legalism, and it expressed no love toward God.
"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment" (Matthew 22:37-38). What makes this the greatest commandment is that it recognizes God as supreme in all things. He is Creator (Genesis 1). All creation belongs to Him. The heavens, i.e., the universe, belong to Him (Job 41:11; Deuteronomy 10:14). The earth belongs to Him (Exodus 9:29; Deuteronomy 10:14; Psalm 24:1; 50:12). All the wealth of the earth belongs to Him: the animal kingdom (Psalm 50:10), and all the mineral wealth (Haggai 2:8). All of the land belongs to Him (Leviticus 25:23). The kingdoms of the world belong to Him (Psalm 22:28), and we each, individually, belong to Him (Leviticus 20:26; Ezekiel 18:4). It is this last one, if the others aren't enough, that should give us pause for concern, for Ezekiel 18:4 ends with this phrase: "the soul that sinneth, it shall die." To break the greatest commandment is eternally fatal.
We often show contempt for God when we presume ourselves to be self-sufficient, and that all we have comes by our own efforts. When we come to that conclusion, God reminds us that when "thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth … thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth …" (Deuteronomy 8:17-18). When you understand that ALL belongs to God and nothing belongs to you, then you can begin to recognize and be sincerely thankful for all He has given you. That begins with your very existence – every breath, every beat of your heart, is a gift of God. Then you can thank Him for your parents and all your ancestors before you without whom you would not exist. You can thank Him for your spouse and for the children He has given to your charge – they are His and He has granted you oversight of their lives. You can thank Him for your health and your intellect that allows you to be gainfully employed or conduct your own business. You can thank Him for the nation in which you live. If you are a Christian, you can thank Him for your brothers and sisters in Christ that gather around you in spiritual and material support when you are in need. There are so many things that come from His hand for which you have to be grateful.
How can you love Him with all your heart, soul and mind? Your heart is the seat of your emotions. Your desire should be to have fellowship with Him, just as you desire to be with any person you love. I love my wife, and I want to be with her always. She is my best friend, and when she is away from me, there is an emptiness that only she can fill. Our desire for God should be no less heartfelt than that. To love God with your soul means that you yield every fiber of your being to His will. Does that mean to become a monk? Yes, if that is His will for you. Does it mean that you surrender your life to be a missionary in a third-world country where there is a danger of losing your life? Yes, if that is His will for you. But mostly what it means is that you are willing to serve Him exactly where He has placed you: to be the husband and spiritual leader of your family; to be a godly father or mother to your children; to stand up for your Christian beliefs even when it is inconvenient for you. To love Him with all of your mind means that you spend time reading His word rather than filling your mind with the useless and unfruitful noise of the this world. Paul said, "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things" (Philippians 4:8).
How can you know that you are keeping the greatest commandment? Jesus said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15). What Jesus is saying here is that, if you keep the greatest commandment (love Me with all your heart, soul and mind), you will keep My commandments. He also said, "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love" (John 15:10). When you love God/Jesus with all your heart, soul, and mind, His love inhabits you, which enables you to love Him more. When you love Him with all your heart, soul, and mind, you will find that those things you treasured before are not so valuable after all, and the things you thought you would lose by surrendering your life to Him, you will find that He replaces with greater blessings. The greatest commandment ensures that you have nothing to lose (because it's not yours to begin with), but you have everything to gain (because as your heavenly Father, everything that is His He gives to His children).
One of the irrefutable laws of physics is the First Law of Thermodynamics or the Law of Conservation, which states that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed — at least as it is observed today. However, the Bible makes it clear that matter and energy did indeed have a starting point. "In the beginning [time] God created the Heaven [space] and the earth [matter/energy]" (Genesis 1:1). Scripture also makes it clear that the Creator was Jesus. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same [Word] was in the beginning with God. All things [matter/energy] were made by him [the Word], and without him was not any thing made that was made" (John 1:1-3).
Our verse further emphasizes this truth: "He is before all things." Before there was matter/energy, before there was time, before there was space, there was Christ. Space and matter/energy can only be experienced in time, so it only makes sense that the Creator created time "in the beginning" for us to experience the rest of the universe. It also makes sense that the Creator must exist outside of time in order to create time; hence, "He is before all things" including time. The Greek word translated "all things" is pántoon, which simply means "all." This phrase could more accurately and simply be translated "He is before all" – not just things, but everything: time, space and matter/energy.
Not only did He exist before all, but He also created all. "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him" (v. 16). Very simply, there is nothing that exists that Christ did not create!
The second part of the Law of Conservation is confirmed by the second part of our verse: "by him all things consist." The verb "consists" is the Greek verb sunésteeken, which means to "set together" or "to constitute." He holds all things together. "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made" (Genesis 2:1-2). So, matter and energy are no longer being created. He made it all, and he maintains it all; so we sing "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created" (Revelation 4:11). By the way, we too were created for His pleasure. Would that He might find pleasure in us!
In June of 1967, The Beatles recorded a hit single entitled "All You Need Is Love." The main theme of the song is that there is nothing you can do that cannot be done by someone else, so why bother – "all you need is love." In May 2003, Dr. Pepper Schwartz published an article in Psychology Today entitled "Love Is Not All You Need." In the article she says, "Unlike some societies that think of passionate love as a nuisance that can undermine sound reasoning about whom and when to marry, we think passion is our truest guide." Of course she is talking about human relations, and the kind of "love" she addresses is physical and emotional and has little or nothing to do with God's kind of love.
To say that all we need is love because God is love, we must understand God's kind of love and then love in the same way that He loves. John tells us that "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him" (1 John 4:16). The Greek word translated "love" here (and in almost every other passage in the New Testament) is agape, and it refers to an unmerited love that is offered without expectation of reciprocation. Human nature precludes this kind of love. Human nature is basically selfish, and it is unwilling to give something without the expectation of getting something in return. In our human nature it is impossible to obey Christ when He says: "This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you" (John 15:12). Jesus' love is sacrificial. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his live for his friends" (John 15:13). When asked what the greatest commandment was, Jesus replied, "thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other greater than these" (Mark 12:30-31). The love rendered to God must be equally as selfless as the love God gives. The same caliber of love must then be rendered to our fellow man.
Were it possible for man to love as God loves, it might then be true that all you need is love. However, outside of God's indwelling presence in a person's life, it is impossible for man to love as God loves. Furthermore, God has other attributes besides love. He is also holy, which means that he is transcendent, set apart. He is so far removed from any other god that there is no comparison. In keeping with His holiness, He is also jealous of His position and unwilling to share His place with any other god. Above Jesus quoted the Shema, which begins, "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord" (Mark 12:29 quoting Deuteronomy 6:4). It is no wonder that God's first commandment is: "Thou shalt have no other God's before me. … for the LORD thy God am a jealous God" (Exodus 20:3, 5). In addition to His holiness, God is just. "Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?" (Job 8:3). "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth" (Jeremiah 23:5). Because of His justice, God cannot overlook sin. He must deal with it. "Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice" (Job 37:23).
Humanly speaking, Dr. Schwartz is nearer the truth: "[human] love is not all you need." As demonstrated above, humans are incapable of loving God or loving one another in the same way that God loves. Furthermore, God is set apart (holy) from humanity and from any god or any religious system the human mind can conceive. God is exclusive and will not share His place with any other. By the same token, He does not accept any religion that acknowledges a different god or gods, so more is needed than just love. The truth of the matter is that "all you need is Jesus." Jesus Himself said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me" (John 14:6). After His resurrection and ascension, His apostles continued the same message: "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). Indeed, there is nothing, humanly speaking, that can be done to earn God's favor other than accept His gift of grace (unmerited favor). "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is a gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).


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Week 10 of the NFL betting season features a number of big spreads, including the Kansas City Chiefs (-17), who might end up closing as the biggest favorite of the season. We also have three other games with a favorite of 10 or more and a couple of those are in our weekly parlay picks.
Pick #1: Miami Dolphins at Green Bay Packers (-8.5)
The Packers are coming off back-to-back tough losses, but the good news is both were on the road. On Sunday, they return home, where they are 3-0-1 this season. What's even better is they get a visit from the Dolphins, who have doing their best to tread water since their opening 3-0 start.
Miami has lost four of six with the road losses have been bad. They've lost by an average of 20 points per game. Quarterback Brock Osweiler – who has been filling in for the injured Ryan Tannehill – started hot when he led the Dolphins to a win over the Bears.
However, he has just 380 passing yards in the last two weeks with no touchdowns and one interception while completing 59% of his passes.
The Packers are going to be focused here because their playoff hopes are on the line. After facing the Patriots and Rams the last two weeks, this should feel like a much easier task. Take the Packers -8.5 at 888Sport.
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Last Thursday night, the Raiders showed us that they've tapped out. They were smoked by the one-win San Francisco 49ers, who were led by an undrafted free agent quarterback making his first start. Worse yet, Nick Mulllens shredded the Raiders en route to a 34-3 win.
The Raiders just have no life to them. Their defense is atrocious, giving up 34.2 points per game over their last five. What's even uglier is that the Raiders have mostly played bad teams. They've only faced two teams with a winning record.
The Chargers are on a roll right now, having won five straight. This should be a breeze for them. Bet the Chargers -10 at 888Sport.
Pick #3: Washington Redskins at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (-3)
A lot of people will look at the division-leading Redskins this week and be enticed to bet them as an underdog. While their opponent – the Bucs – have a number of issues, I'm selling on the Redskins. Yes, they've had a good start to the season by winning five of their first eight games but you can see their flaws. They weren't able to stop Matt Ryan and the Falcons offense in any way, shape or form last week as they gave up 38 points.
My bigger concern is their offense, which could be down four starters this week. Guard Brandon Scherff is expected to be out after tearing his pec in Week 9 and the unit also lost left guard Shawn Lauvao to what appeared to be a season-ending injury.
Left tackle Trent Williams is already out about a month and right tackle Morgan Moses left Sunday's game too, although we don't know his status. They also lost deep threat Paul Richardson for the season.
The Bucs have a slew of flaws but they seem to play better under Ryan Fitzpatrick. And given the Redskins challenges along the offensive line, the Bucs should be in position to earn their fourth win of the season. Take the Bucs -3 at 888Sport.
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The Lions first game without Golden Tate didn't go so well as they totaled just nine points in Minnesota. The stats were ugly as they averaged just 3.0 yards per play and lost by 15 even though they ran 24 more offensive plays than the Vikings.
The problem with the Tate trade was two-fold: It signaled to the team that they're not competing this season and secondly, it didn't address their other glaring concerns. The offensive line has had issues opening up lanes for the running game and on Sunday, they broke down even more so by allowing a whopping 10 sacks.
This is an indoor team that will be traveling outdoors to Chicago to face one of the league's better defenses. I just don't see the Lions putting up a lot of points. The Bears will run the ball and try to be efficient but I don't see this being a high-scoring game that gets to the 50s. Bet the Under at 888Sport.
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Cmp/Att
TDs/I
2019 4 47 35/65 372 4/4 8/2 0 31
2018 5 72 1/2 7 0/0 11/-8 0 -0
2017 5 62 4/6 42 0/0 4/-3 0 2
2016 6 32 134/200 1445 6/0 7/-2 0 96
2015 11 26 224/369 2606 19/7 15/44 0 211
2014 14 25 243/439 3334 12/13 24/39 0 219
2013 3 57/96 615 5/3 6/16 0 52
2012 2 30/53 330 1/2 1/6 0 21
2010 5 59 7/15 122 1/1 10/-8 0 9
2019 Stats | IND Week
TM Snap % - - - - - - - - 79% 100% 3% - - - - 5% - 48%
rshYds - - - - - - - - 6 0 -2 - - - - -2 - 2
rushes - - - - - - - - 1 2 2 - - - - 3 - 8
rshTDs - - - - - - - - 0 0 0 - - - - 0 - 0
pasYds - - - - - - - - 168 204 0 - - - - 0 - 372
pasTDs - - - - - - - - 3 1 0 - - - - 0 - 4
INTs - - - - - - - - 1 3 0 - - - - 0 - 4
FScore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 11 -1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 30
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TM Snap % - - - 5% - - - 3% - 12% - - - - - 12% 6% 7%
rshYds - - - -3 - - - -2 - 2 - - - - - -2 -3 -8
rushes - - - 3 - - - 2 - 1 - - - - - 2 3 11
rshTDs - - - 0 - - - 0 - 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
pasYds - - - 0 - - - 0 - 7 - - - - - 0 0 7
pasTDs - - - 0 - - - 0 - 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
INTs - - - 0 - - - 0 - 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
FScore 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 -1
2017 Stats | SFO Week
TM Snap % 100% 100% 100% 99% 100% 25% - - - 13% 5% - 3% - - 6% - 55%
rshYds -5 0 9 3 0 0 - - - 0 - - -2 - - -1 0 4
rushes 1 0 1 1 2 0 - - - 0 - - 2 - - 2 0 9
rshTDs 0 0 1 0 0 0 - - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 0 1
pasYds 193 99 332 234 353 34 - - - 37 - - 0 - - 0 5 1287
pasTDs 0 0 2 0 2 0 - - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 0 4
INTs 1 1 1 1 0 0 - - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 0 4
FScore 8 3 30 11 25 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0 0 -1 0 82
2016 Stats | CHI Week
TM Snap % - 27% 100% 100% 100% 100% 42% - - - - - - - - - - 83%
rshYds - 0 2 -3 -1 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - -2
rushes - 0 2 3 1 1 0 - - - - - - - - - - 7
rshTDs - 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - 0
pasYds - 78 317 302 397 302 49 - - - - - - - - - - 1445
pasTDs - 0 2 2 2 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - 6
INTs - 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - 0
FScore 0 3 24 22 27 15 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96
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Brian Hoyer 2018 Outlook
As the Patriots' official website noted, all the potential drama surrounding New England's QB position -- which many anticipated might surface during this offseason -- evaporated when the Patriots dealt Jimmy Garoppolo to San Francisco on Halloween. Tom Brady will remain the starting quarterback here for the foreseeable future, and given the crop of mediocre passers available in the draft, New England will be sticking with solid veteran backup Hoyer despite the seventh-round selection of LSU's Danny Etling. The Purdue transfer completed just under 60 percent of his passes with the Tigers over two seasons, throwing 27 touchdowns compared to seven interceptions in that span. He's a flyer and a long-term backup, at best. And that means Hoyer is locked in behind Brady until further notice.
Hoyer said that his priority in free agency was finding a team where he believes he'll earn the starting job, and after talking to newly-hired HC Kyle Shanahan he believes the 49ers are that team. "I'm going to have a really good opportunity to go in and be the starting quarterback, and that's all I'm looking for at this point in my career," Hoyer said. Hoyer said Shanahan hasn't promised him anything, but he believes that having played for Shanahan before gives him a leg up on any other quarterback the 49ers might bring to camp. ... Hoyer has started 27 games in the last three seasons, so it's not like he's unaccustomed to starting. But for most of his career he's become the starter only because another quarterback ahead of him on the depth chart either got hurt or played poorly. In San Francisco, he thinks he can take the reins from the first day, and lead the 49ers going forward. With only Matt Barkley and rookie C.J. Beathard behind him, that sounds like the most probable outcome.


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Results for this USA Today/Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 27-30, 2010, with a random sample of 1,021 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., selected using random-digit-dial sampling.
The prevailing view among Americans is that the Republican Party has become more conservative since Barack Obama took office. Among the 54% who say so, most believe it is for reasons other than the Tea Party movement's influence, and they are divided on whether the shift is a good or a bad thing.
Slightly more Americans identify as Democrats or lean Democratic (44%) than identify as or lean Republican (41%) in September to date. This re-establishes a Democratic edge after the parties were even in August, but is well below the 17-point advantage Democrats held when President Obama took office.
Forty-eight percent of registered voters favor Republican candidates and 43% favor Democratic candidates on Gallup's generic ballot measure of midterm congressional preferences. Republicans have led or tied the Democrats since the beginning of August.


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Klinisk biomekanik er navnet for kiropraktoruddannelsen i Danmark. Uddannelsen har hjemme på Syddansk Universitet i Odense.

Uddannelsen er en lang videregående uddannelse, som er opbygget med en 3-årig bachelor, og en 2-årig kandidat. Ved færdiggørelse af kandidatgraden gives titlen candidatus manutigii, og ret til at benytte den beskyttede titel "Kiropraktor". Efter kandidat-uddannelsen skal man igennem et års turnus-uddannelse for at få såkaldt "tilladelse til selvstændigt virke", som søges hos Styrelsen for patientsikkerhed.

Bachelor
Bacheloren i klinisk biomekanik er bygget op i 3 spor: Biomedicin-sporet (113 ECTS-point), akademiker-sporet (32 ECTS-point) og professions-sporet (35 ECTS-point).

Denne opdeling svarer til opbygningen af bachelor-uddannelsen i medicin samme sted. Der er samlæsning på de to uddannelser på både biomedicin-sporet og akademiker-sporet. Det betyder at både undervisning og eksamen for fagene, svarende til 145 ECTS-point, er den samme for de to uddannelser.

Uddannelsen giver en grundlæggende, men dyb viden omkring menneskekroppen, med særlig fokus på de biomekaniske aspekter og tilstande som har indvirkning på muskel- og skelet-sygdomme. Der undervises også i undersøgelse og behandling af diverse sygdomstilstande i bevægeapparatet.

En bachelor i klinisk biomekanik giver adgang til kandidat-uddannelsen i klinisk biomekanik.

Kandidat
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Strengthening the Black Sea Grain Agreement Short of War
Michael Petersen and James G. Foggo III
The agreement to open the Black Sea to Ukrainian grain shipments previously blockaded by Russia floats on rough seas. Russia has shown itself to be an unreliable partner, striking the port of Odesa less than 24 hours after inking the deal. Among Russia experts, there is little consensus that the agreement will prove lasting. On the War on the Rocks podcast, Michael Kofman noted that Moscow is likely to abide by the deal only temporarily. There is also evidence that Turkey is allowing itself to drift more closely into Russia's orbit, raising doubts among observers that Ankara can be counted on as a neutral third party. The West ought to have a Plan B that keeps the agreement alive as long as possible.
Accordingly, on Aug. 1, the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College and the U.S. Navy League's Center for Maritime Strategy sponsored a table-top exercise examining options for sustaining Ukrainian grain shipments in the Black Sea. Participants included subject matter experts on Russia, strategy, diplomacy, and maritime law; civilian mariners; and active-duty and retired naval officers. Here we share the results.
We found that if Russia chooses to reimpose its blockade, coalition efforts to break it without escalating to a shooting war will be extremely difficult. We also found there are other, less risky ways the grain deal can be reinforced, such as properly incentivizing civilian shippers and insurers, bolstering a Western military presence, and managing escalation risk with a coalition that includes non-NATO states. These measures could deter or delay Moscow from seeking to leverage the deal or abrogating it outright.
How Can Russia Sink This?
Under the agreement negotiated in Istanbul, Ukraine can ship grain from the ports of Odesa, Yuzhny, and Chernomorsk. Grain ships guided by Ukrainian pilots are navigating through a safe corridor in the Black Sea, where they are jointly searched by Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian inspectors. The entire operation is monitored by a Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul, with representatives from Ukraine, Russia, and Turkey. The deal is renewable every 120 days.
Currently, Russian grain and fertilizer shipments are also now flowing around the world and outpacing Ukrainian cargoes in the Black Sea, so it is unsurprising that Russia is holding to the agreement in the short term. But as the returns diminish, there is good reason to believe that Moscow won't abide by this deal for long. Most grain importing countries have recently been able to purchase adequate staple grains, and wheat prices have dropped to pre-war levels, removing some incentives for recipient nations to pressure Russia. In addition, as sanctions-induced shortages continue to bite in other sectors, Moscow's cost-benefit calculus may shift.
There are several ways Russia could imperil the agreement. For example, leadership in Moscow may attempt to use the deal as leverage for the removal of some sanctions, much as they seem to be attempting with energy supplies. They may also simply decide on a scheduled non-renewal of the agreement. Worse, Russia may allow the agreement to stand, but undercut it with attacks on landward grain trans-shipment points or other parts of the supply chain not included in the deal. Finally, a more nefarious option is a Russian attempt to kill the deal in a deniable way for political benefit: by covertly deploying drifting mines or conducting a clandestine attack against a grain ship, then blaming Ukraine. The Russian Navy has already proven itself willing to attack civilian vessels on several occasions. If Moscow chooses to kill the deal and return to blockading Ukrainian shipping, there is little anyone can do without taking on significant escalation risks.
All Eyes on Ankara
Turkey played the central role in the negotiations and will continue to do so in the agreement's implementation. In addition to brokering the deal and hosting the Joint Coordination Centre, ship inspections are conducted in harbors determined by Ankara at the entry to and exit from the Turkish Straits. International conventions governing navigation of key European waters have also given Ankara power over any potential military action in the Black Sea. It has implemented Article 19 of the Montreux Convention, closing the Straits to Russian and Ukrainian warships and warning all states not to send warships through them. In the process, it has positioned itself for better and worse as guarantor of this deal.
The only other access point to the Black Sea is the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. This canal links the Black Sea in Romania with the North Sea at Rotterdam. According to the 1948 Convention Regarding the Regime of Navigation on the Danube River, non-Danubian naval vessels are not allowed to navigate the river. Danubian nations wishing to send naval forces through the canal must have the permission of each state they wish to pass through. Serbia's position astride the river and its cozy relationship with Russia make it unlikely that any countries on the northern half of the canal, such as Germany or the Netherlands, can make the transit.
But Turkey remains the fulcrum balancing the agreement, and it will be under tremendous pressure if Russia shows signs of backing out. Ankara's open attitude regarding Moscow's blandishments requires careful monitoring, and it is necessary to find ways to encourage Turkey to retain its stance as a more-or-less neutral third-party guarantor of the agreement. There is no way in for non-riparian warships to enter the Black Sea without Ankara's unlikely permission. As a result, U.S. and allied warships cannot simply take matters into their own hands and steam into the Black Sea to conduct escort operations and counter-blockade by direct confrontation, as others have proposed.
Civilian Maritime Requirements
Providing assurances to civilian commercial shipping companies is critical. A major challenge they face is ensuring that there are enough qualified mariners to crew the ships either stuck in Ukrainian ports or willing to sail through an active war zone. A second issue is finding insurance for vessels making the transit in and out. War-risk and breach insurance prices skyrocketed in February, and through late July, insurance companies were largely unwilling to accept the risk of insuring vessels that were likely to be fired upon. Only recently, Lloyd's of London announced that it would provide some coverage, but significant risk remains and costs are high.
Indeed, a critical issue on both subjects boils down to expense. The need to pay increased wages, bonuses, and insurance premiums may very well disincentivize companies by pricing them out or limiting return on investment. A solution to this challenge is for wealthy nations who support humanitarian aid to Ukraine but are wary of providing too much overt military support, such as Germany and France, to pay the insurance premiums and bonuses to sailors. Insurance companies themselves likewise are likely to want grain ships moving. If ships are stuck in port, they would be paid off as losses.
Civilian shipping and insurance companies will also require security assurances if Russia endangers the grain deal. Insurance companies in particular would likely expect merchant ships to have naval escorts or accompaniment in the Black Sea and possibly the Mediterranean. They are also likely to demand measures to reduce the risk of ships striking mines or other more surreptitious measures of attack. In short, military measures may be unavoidable.
Military Escorts for Grain Ships?
Again, the critical limiting factor regarding escort operations in the Black Sea is Turkey's refusal to allow any warships through the Straits. Because of this limitation, only Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey itself are currently able to conduct escort or accompaniment. But the Romanian and Bulgarian navies lack the capability and the capacity to carry them out. If it becomes necessary to escort or accompany ships in the face of Russian resistance, only Turkey has the forces able to do so. Even so, much of Turkey's naval force is concerned with other challenges.
Non-Black Sea nations may be able to provide assistance in other forms to bolster any potential Turkish efforts. Potential mission areas include mine counter-measures; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; search and rescue; and salvage operations. These missions do not require maritime transport to access the Black Sea. Airborne mine countermeasures and expeditionary mine countermeasures teams operating in the safe transit corridor can reduce the risk of floating mines or covertly placed moored mines.
Airborne and space-based observation is already underway. A significant U.S. presence in Romania and regular intelligence flights over the Black Sea by U.S. collection aircraft are providing situational awareness in the region. Augmenting this effort with maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft over the safe corridor can provide improved submarine detection as well as search and rescue capability. In addition, airborne early warning aircraft can provide 24-hour coverage of potential threats over the western Black Sea. Electro-optical systems on these aircraft may also be used in a strategic communications campaign designed to check Russian misinformation.
But these operations also need more teeth to credibly demonstrate to Russia the prospective cost of breaking the grain deal and to forestall a potential naval standoff. The Truman carrier strike group has been operating in the Mediterranean since winter. It can provide overwatch and force protection for ships and intelligence aircraft from a position in the Aegean Sea, warning off, among other threats, Russian pilots who stray too closely to coalition assets. But a single carrier strike group's resources are finite, and it may be necessary to surge forces to protect grain shipments. These surge forces might be supplied by the French, Italian, and British aircraft carriers, which would also provide a strong signal of international unity. NATO's Maritime Command, headquartered in the United Kingdom could play a critical role in brokering a maritime coalition of the willing among European nations.
Such an international response would require significant organizational measures to create a common operating picture among multinational partners. The Joint Coordination Centre, set up to monitor cargo transit operations, is not a candidate as a coordinating body. The intelligence risk of Russians co-located in this center would endanger its effectiveness. Instead, the international community can learn from Combined Maritime Forces model in Bahrain. This organization includes 34 member states and is focused on regional counter-piracy and maritime security. The Black Sea equivalent can be based in Istanbul. Here, information could be shared, a common operating picture developed and disseminated for military and civilian vessels, and responses coordinated.
Escalation Risk
If escort and other military operations are introduced, escalation is a dangerous possibility. The Biden administration and its potential coalition partners ought to (and surely would) have a frank discussion about levels of strategic and operational risk they are willing to adopt before embarking on any response to Russian malfeasance. However, it bears noting that direct confrontations between the Russian military and NATO do not directly lead to war. It is political decision-making following the interactions that may or may not lead to war. There is room for diplomacy.
At the same time, risk mitigation measures also exist. In the first place, Washington would not go it alone. Russia's hunger blockade has already had far reaching implications across the globe, the recent crisis in Sri Lanka notwithstanding. To deny Russia propaganda advantage and reduce the chances for unintended escalation, Washington can seek to involve non-NATO states as the leading organizers of the response. An obvious supra-national candidate for running these operations might be the World Food Program. A clear candidate for operational leadership may be India, which enjoys a friendly relationship with Russia, but has also expressed concern about its own food security. As others have suggested, recipient state groups such as the African Union, Gulf Cooperation Council, or Organization of Islamic Cooperation could lease grain ships for exports from Ukraine. This step may potentially incentivize shippers and create more downsides for Russia to target those ships should it decide to leave the deal using violence.
Strategic communications may also help by indirectly pressuring Moscow to abide by the agreement. Establishing the story of the success of the mission and laying the groundwork with the public on who is being a responsible actor and how the mission is being accomplished may allow at-risk recipient nations friendly to Moscow to argue for continuing to allow grain flows. Clear, shareable, and swiftly releasable information along with a strategic communications narrative that demonstrates Russian culpability and knocks down any Russian attempts at blame shifting may avert a dangerous naval standoff and disincentivize Moscow's exit from the deal.
It is not good policy to assume that the grain agreement will hold. It sails on rough seas because Russia's interests in abiding by it are ephemeral. As the world watches grain ships in the Black Sea with bated breath, policymakers should be working to shore up the agreement. While the interwoven measures noted here can provide a good starting point from which to do so, they are also indicative of the complex nature of the challenge. It will take time to inaugurate them. Preventing Russia from using the deal to extract sanctions relief is a critical priority, but Moscow must also be convinced that a coalition of nations is willing to defend the agreement, and that leaving it has costs of its own.
Michael B. Petersen is the director of the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College.
Adm. (ret.) James G. Foggo III is the dean of the U.S. Navy League's Center for Maritime Strategy and former Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa.
The opinions presented here are their own, and do not reflect those of the U.S. Navy or Department of Defense.
Image: Kira Rudik, Ukrainian Parliament


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Due to the increase in complexity level of engagement required these can be substantially hiher in compensation.
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Paid Social – this is a category of it's own however, this is incredibly important as it specifically targets exact demographics and psychographics for individual users. It is uses PPC, PPA, and PPV models based on campaign types and platforms. Most analytics tools will show this traffic as "Social" and they will not segment between paid vs organic social.
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Google's song-composing artificial intelligence (AI) might not measure up to Mozart or Liszt anytime soon, but it's made impressive progress recently. In a blog post and accompanying paper ("Music Transformer") this week, contributors to Project Magenta, a Google Brain project "exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process," presented their work on Musical Transformer, a machine learning model that's capable of generating relatively coherent tunes with a recognizable repetition.
As the team explains, producing long pieces of music remains a challenge for AI because of its structural complexity; most songs contain multiple motifs, phrases, and repetition that neural networks have a tough time picking up on. And while previous work has managed to channel some of the self-reference observable in works composed by humans, it has relied on absolute timing signals, making it poorly suited for keeping track of themes that are based on relative distances and recurring intervals.
The team's solution is Music Transformer, an "attention-based" neural network that creates "expressive" performances directly without first generating a score. By using an event-based representation and a technique known as relative attention, the Music Transformer is able not only to focus more on relational features, but generalize beyond the length of training samples with which it's supplied. And because it's less memory-intensive, it's also able to generate longer musical sequences.
In tests, when primed with Chopin's Black Key Etude, Music Transformer produced a song that was consistent in style throughout and contained multiple phrases sourced from the motif. By contrast, two previous algorithms — Performance RNN and Transformer — provided the same primer either lacked a discernable structure completely or failed to maintain a structure.
The team concedes that the Music Transformer is far from perfect — it sometimes produces songs with too much repetition, sparse sections, and odd jumps — but they're hopeful it serves as a muse for musicians in need of inspiration.
"This opens up the potential for users to specify their own primer and use the model as a creative tool to explore a range of possible continuations," the team wrote.
Code for training and generating Music Transformer is forthcoming, they say, along with pre-trained checkpoints.


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My Chemical Imbalance
By Kim Pierce
GENRE: Lesbian Erotic Romance
Thirty-two-year-old Rihanna Perry has the job, son, and husband of her dreams. But her world is torn apart when her husband leaves her for another woman. After the combination of the breakup and a major surgery, Rihanna's mood changes from the way it used to be: she's never been happier in her life. Soon she's staying up all night, flirting with men and women (even at work), smoking weed, and starting writing projects she doesn't finish. On top of everything else, Rihanna discovers that telepathy is real, and attempts to learn the skill of reading minds for the first time.
Rihanna won't accept that her long ago diagnosis of bipolar disorder has come back to haunt her. After prompting by her best friend, Rihanna finally goes to the local mental hospital for help. She eventually accepts the fact that she's been suffering from a manic episode. After being put on medication, she barely has a chance to recover from the mania when she's thrown into the worst depression she's ever experienced.
Medicine alone doesn't help, so Rihanna must undergo electroconvulsive therapy and a six-month stay at the state mental hospital. Will she ever be stable again?
Note: may contain sexually explicit scenes of a homoerotic nature.
When I came back to work Monday, all thoughts of Ethan and his buddies went away. It seemed like maybe they were still watching me, but I didn't care anymore. My attention was on Jerod. Even though I'd told him I couldn't date him, he was still tempting me with his mind. All of a sudden I realized that everyone else in the room must be listening, too. As a matter of fact, how long had I been blaring my thoughts across the world without realizing people could hear?
"Ever since you got hired," an older woman across the room in a different department said, without even turning to face me. "But we know you hadn't learned to control your thoughts yet, and we love you anyway."
My mind reeled. Why couldn't I control my thoughts like everyone else?
I unwittingly recalled a dim memory. I'd been diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was eighteen, but that was all bullshit. The symptoms of bipolar disorder include major mood swings, and I hadn't had anything like that happen in a long time. But back when I twenty-one I supposedly had a manic episode-major hyperactivity and euphoric mood-which resulted in a stay at a mental hospital and Electro-Convulsive Therapy, also called shock treatment. The ECT was probably what had damaged my brain, along with all the stupid pills the doctors made me take. I'd quit taking medicine for bipolar disorder a long time ago, realizing that the medicine was actually causing my problems, not making them better. It seemed the damage from the ECT had finally healed, and now I could communicate telepathically just like everybody else.
I walked into the next room to make copies, not even feeling negative thoughts. I felt great, not crazy.
As I sat at my desk, Jerod asked, "What are you doing this weekend?"
"Wow, he's saying it out loud," I thought, forgetting everyone in the room could hear me telepathically.
"Amy and I thought you and Jeremiah might like to visit and see the baby."
"Oh!" I said. "That would be great. It's my weekend with him, too, since Jeff is going on a weekend getaway with his whore."
On Saturday at noon, Jeremiah and I pulled up to Jerod and Amy's in my black vehicle, The Mom Van. It was great for road trips, and had lasted longer than any of my former cars without breaking down. For me, it was like a truck for moms.
The Hatches were outside sitting on a blanket, with toys strewn everywhere. I got Jeremiah and his own bag of toys out of The Mom Van and sat on the blanket with them.
"Look at how well T'Ara's sitting up!" Amy said.
"She's beautiful," I said, enjoying Amy's first-time-parent joy. Amy was almost as tall as Jerod, with long strawberry-blonde hair. Jerod being black and Amy being white had resulted in their curly-haired, and of course, precocious little girl with light brown skin.
"Look, Mommy!" Jeremiah said. "Look at all the toys!"
"Those are "T'Ara's toys. Here are yours."
So far everything was going well. Jeremiah ran all over the yard, T'Ara crawled all over the blanket, and we adults renounced Jeff soundly.
Amy went inside to get snacks for the kids and it happened again.
"Would you like to have some fun with Amy and me?" Jerod asked.
Shit. "What kind of fun?"
"You know. You've told me some about your past. Maybe you could have a threesome with Amy and me."
For a second I actually considered it, while playing toys with Jeremiah and keeping an eye on T'Ara, who was slobbering all over a teething ring. As if sensing something was awry, Jeremiah scrambled onto my lap.
I scooted closer to Jerod, still holding my son, and put my head on Jerod's shoulder. He didn't move away.
"I just want attention," I said out loud. "I'm probably going to act weird for a while, but then I'll be okay."
I scooted back over to my previous spot on the blanket as Amy came out with the snacks, and a beer for Jerod. It was so beautiful outside. It made me think of earlier times when I really was the third member of a relationship, sitting outside and getting high. Now I wouldn't even smoke a cigarette around children, and I was sober-at least most of the time.
"You'll make a perfect wife," I told Amy as she handed the beer over.
"I'd be the perfect lover, too," she thought.
I almost dropped my jaw in surprise. They both wanted me. This was difficult to resist, but I had to.
"I don't want to ruin the friendship."
After another hour or so, Jeremiah and I left for home. I gave Amy a hug just to see what it felt like, and for a second forgot about not sleeping with either of them, captivated by Amy's perfume. Jerod didn't look up at me or say goodbye, which I found odd. He sat on the blanket, chugging beer. Typical male stuff, I guess.
Back at work, Jerod was stand-offish when I said hi. I must have done something wrong, but I couldn't figure out what. Hopefully all my paperwork had been done right.
At my first break, Jerod said, "Rihanna, we need to talk."
I grabbed my cigarettes and stood, glad he was talking to me again.
When we got outside, Jerod frowned. I lit my cigarette, feeling complete, in the moment, everything was beautiful
"Why did you hit on us Saturday?"
I choked while inhaling. None of this made any sense. He and Amy had been the ones hitting on me and I resisted. But I was too embarrassed to say that out loud.
"I wasn't hitting on you," I insisted.
"You put your head on my shoulder and said, 'I just need attention. I'll be weird for a while, but then I'll be okay."
I was impressed that he had memorized my statement verbatim. "I did say that, but I didn't mean anything sexual." I'd never been so confused. "Your fiancée was there; our kids were there. How could you think I would ever do anything to hurt our friendships?" There, I'd said out loud what I had told both of them over the weekend in my mind. Didn't he remember?
"What about that hug you gave Amy?"
This was getting ridiculous. "It's not the first time I hugged her." Then I remembered how good she smelled and felt a little guilty, but that hadn't been on purpose.
Jerod sighed and looked relieved. "All right. But next time let me know you're not hitting on us." He left me still smoking. I wondered how I was going to make sure he knew I wasn't flirting with him and Amy for the rest of our friendship. Should I announce it before every conversation?
I needed to start dating someone, or at least get a friend with benefits, so everyone would stop thinking I was hitting on them. I knew just the person to search for. I knew she was on Facebook, though I'd never befriended her. The next Saturday afternoon, while Jeremiah was at Jeff's, I sat in my room and sent a message to her on my phone. I hadn't seen her or talked to her for seven years, but somehow I knew what would happen.
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Photography can be taught as a vocation or as an art. It may focus on digital possibilities and challenges, or provide retrospective view on analog images. It may look for balancing in acquiring technical skills and developing creativity. Nevertheless, teaching about and foremost with photographs has productive possibilities across all disciplines and subjects, although it may take various forms. In this sense we can say that the photograph is post-disciplinary and as such merits discussion across different areas of interest.
At the Helsinki Photomedia Conference, 26-28 III 2018, we organized the workshop titled Post-disciplinary pedagogical routes through the photograph. The aim of the workshop was to inspire participants to reflect on their pedagogical visual (photographic) practices, to think what they can improve, and foremost, to learn from each other. As such, participants would have gained new motivation and ideas by sharing and collecting across disciplinary divides for various kinds of photography-inspired activities in the classroom and beyond.
The workshop I co-organized with my colleagues, dr. Carolina Cambre from Concordia University, Montreal, and dr. Edna Barromi-Perlman from Haifa University, Israel. As one of the modes of participation I applied collage, asking participants to present visually their challenges related to visual pedagogy and, in particular, to teaching with and about photographs. Below are some pictures from the collage making process (photo credit: Edna).


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CNN Takes Over Twitter Account – Hopefully This Will Be A Rare Exception
Branding, Social Media Marketing
Competing with Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) for one million followers on Twitter, CNN has made a remarkable move to acquire an existing account (@cnnbrk). Outside the US probably hard to understand – with less than one million Twitter users in most countries – the topic hit the media already big time.
Ashton Kutcher and CNN are currently followed by the most subscribers on Twitter, but the @cnnbrk account wasn't even fed with content by the US news channel so far. It belonged to a private person, who did not have any relation with CNN. The account owner was now approached by CNN and invited to negotiations. Allegedly the "owner" has been paid up to one million dollar, which is denied by CNN. But it remains unclear whether Twitter names can be sold at all. According to Twitter's support website that's not possible.
Think about it: one million followers are more than 10% of all Twitter members and if this mark is soon to be reached by a couple of brands, it will be a pretty amazing number of people following a single brand…
This example shows that well positioned Twitter accounts can be a huge asset and can influence the brand reputation substantially. As such each brand should pay attention to use their most important keywords as Twitter channels or at least "reserve" them, as they would do with domain names, if they don't want to end up in a legal and/ or financial fight to claim back their brand names from Twitter (or whomever).
As said in the headline, I really hope this will be a rare exception and will not lead us to thousands of "fake" Twitter accounts, just because people hope to make money out of it (as seen before with domain names).
Confirmed: CNN Acquires CNNBrk Twitter Account (techcrunch.com)
CNN acquires leading Twitter account (news.cnet.com)
Ashton Kutcher Vs. CNN On Twitter (cbsnews.com)
Ashton Kutcher challenges CNN to Twitter popularity contest (cnn.com)
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Digital Promise and Ciena Launch New Global Design Challenge
Educators to submit student-led solutions that address sustainable development goals and apply for award to continue projects
WASHINGTON, D.C. — September 14, 2021
Jamie Moody
Crystal Williams
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cwilliams@digitalpromise.org
Digital Promise and Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) are excited to announce the launch of the Ciena Solutions Challenge, a new global design challenge where educators around the world can submit student-led projects for funding and exhibition.
The Ciena Solutions Challenge invites middle and high school students globally (i.e. education level equivalent to ages 11-19) to design solutions that address the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals within their communities. Digital Promise and Ciena will provide professional learning and mentoring opportunities to educators and students participating in the Challenge. Starting on September 15, educators can apply for a Sustainability Award of $2,500 USD to sustain and scale student projects. If selected, the funding will be granted to the educator's educational institution.
"The next generation of problem-solvers need opportunities to design solutions that tackle real world challenges in their local communities. The Ciena Solutions Challenge aims to engage and inspire students to reimagine a better world while gaining critical hands-on experience with digital skills and advanced technologies." said Gary Smith, president and CEO of Ciena. "This collaborative partnership with Digital Promise is a key part of our Digital Inclusion program and we look forward to seeing the creativity and innovation that students bring to this initiative."
"The Ciena Solutions Challenge offers learners opportunities to connect to their learning in ways that are authentic and personal, to learn through inquiry, collaborate with their community and take positive action to make a difference in their local communities," said Jean-Claude Brizard, president and CEO of Digital Promise. "The Ciena Solutions Challenge exemplifies what Powerful Learning experiences can look like, and offers educators and students support and recognition for making a positive impact in their communities."
Learn more about the Ciena Solutions Challenge by joining the educator roundtable on Wednesday, September 15 at 12 p.m. ET. Educators from the United States and Canada will share how the Challenge supported them to build positive relationships with students, engage students in virtual learning, and help students find an authentic purpose for learning.
About Digital Promise
Digital Promise is a nonprofit organization that builds powerful networks and takes on grand challenges by working at the intersection of researchers, entrepreneurs, and educators. Our vision is that all people, at every stage of their lives, have access to learning experiences that help them acquire the knowledge and skills they need to thrive and continuously learn in an ever-changing world. For more information, visit the Digital Promise website and follow @digitalpromise for updates.
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Ciena's Digital Inclusion program aims to mobilize the company's global workforce, leverage its innovation leadership, and collaborate with customers, suppliers and other partners to bridge the digital divide. Ciena has committed to fund $10 million (USD) over a five-year period on programming that promotes digital inclusion through greater connectivity, access to technology and digital skilling, with a goal of expanding opportunities for 100,000 underserved students in our global communities.
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this morning in minnesota, when i left the house, the temperature was right around -10°. we've warmed to almost 20°. key largo is in the lower 70°s today. it's time to relive some of that warmth.
when i booked airfare, i apparently decided to really maximize the time that jason and i would get out of this trip. we woke up around 2am to leave the house around 3am to get to the park'n'fly by 3:30am to make it to the airport by 4am to get through security and find our gate by 5am for a 5:30am departure to miami. and we did make it on this rough schedule! but it was so early in the morning. i got something like four or five hours of sleep; jason's sleep is a different story.
we were totally running on adrenaline by the time we got to miami, which is fine. i was pretty excited about all of these crazy deep sea fish sculptures at that airport. i don't even care if they were real or not. i kinda want one for my house.
after we got lost but found coffee, we got lost again and ended up finding a little area i had read about but hadn't actually figured into our rough itinerary: key biscayne. and ocean! i pretty much instantly took off my shoes to wade into the freezing waves.
we found a nice little peruvian restaurant for lunch: el gran inka. they served peruvian corn as an appetizer, salted and buttery. good snack! j also ordered an inca kola, which apparently is a big deal (hard to find). it was like if mountain dew and cream soda were mixed together.
this place was definitely in winter-home-retirement-community-land, though. it looked like a giant mall and the area sort of lacked any personality.
except it still had exotic-to-us birds, which is exciting for the girl that likes to point out every bird.
we also found a small nature center, that i probably wouldn't have stopped at if i had known what it was and that it cost $7 to check out. maybe if there had been more to do or see. or if we had packed a picnic for the beach (but maybe you can't eat on public beaches). it was nice enough, though, and we got a couple wildlife stories from the naturalist working that day. he told us that, annually, more people are killed by falling coconuts than sharks. true? whether it is or not, i was covering my head underneath every coconut tree for the rest of the trip.
the lobster was totally photobombed by a manta ray.
south beach in miami, on our way back onto the correct highway so we could get ourselves to key largo.
i don't remember where this photo is from. it must be just as we were getting into the keys.
so, on the map, as a minnesotan, the drive from miami to key largo looks like it will take an hour and a half, maybe two hours. it took us upwards of four hours (detours excluded). nuts! and it was because of the stone crab festival that it took so long: it was a two-lane highway for most of the drive. we passed a lot of fresh orchid green houses and vegetable stands. i'm jealous that there are people living in this country that can have fresh things like this year-round. i'm |-thisclose-| to calling it quits with minnesota.
anyway, we had been thinking going to check out the festival but as we passed and saw the insane crowds, we decided we weren't up for it. we were getting really tired and ready to just be still and pass out somewhere. as dusk set in, we found our hotel for the night (and our room was huge — basically a two-queen bed studio apartment) then found the nearest okay-sounding place for dinner.
we found the conch house, which had apparently been on man vs food. we ate a bunch more seafood and got a slice of key lime pie to bring back to the hotel. all very tasty! it felt like it was kind of private, too, even though it was set right on a major road. i would visit again.
the next morning, i finally got to enjoy a little bit of the view from our second floor deck on the hotel.
it was a little too chilly for the pool, but if i'm ever in key largo again i'm looking this place up! they were in progress with building their own restaurant, too. wouldn't have to drive anywhere!


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Q: QGIS - Python errors not reporting to Python Console Ive been writing a number of small plugins for use in QGIS, and have found that during development having the traceback calls reporting to the python console plugin to be quite useful.
I Use QGIS on three machines, but have found that now on two of these, all the python errors/tracebacks are going through the generic Python Error Dialog - this only occurs if there is an error on startup of the plugin on the machine which reports the traceback to the python console.
Does anyone know how I may be able to set the behaviour back to reporting to the python console instead of the dialog box?

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sys.excepthook = sys.__excepthook__

at the start of your script

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During a periodic review of Libya before the United Nations Security Council the International Criminal Court (ICC) denied a petition from Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, to drop an outstanding arrest warrant issued against him. The review took place Nov. 2.
The warrant stems from "crimes against humanity" charges during civil strife and the subsequent foreign intervention resulting in the overthrow, torture and assassination of the elder Gadhafi in October 2011. The arrest warrant against the son was issued June of the same year.
"As a fugitive from justice both in Libya and before the ICC, Mr. Gadhafi does not have procedural standing to challenge admissibility," said ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, announcing the rejection of the request.
Mr. Gadhafi, 47, filed an admissibility challenge in early June saying his case is inadmissible before the ICC because of double jeopardy after being tried and convicted in a Tripoli, Libya, court in July 2015 for the same charges.
Mr. Gadhafi and eight others were sentenced to death in the proceeding widely criticized as flawed. Former Libyan intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi and ex-Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, were also given death sentences.
The case has been locked in a tug-of-war between the ICC and Libyan officials over jurisdiction, said analysts. Ms. Bensouda argued the ICC doesn't recognize Mr. Gadhafi's Libyan trial and conviction that was conducted via video conference in absentia which is illegal in Libyan law, the prosecutor contended.
Mr. Gadhafi was imprisoned in 2012 in Libya's western city of Zintan by local militia who refused to hand him over to Tripoli officials. According to the ICC report he was reportedly released on amnesty in April 2016 and is believed to still be in Libya. Under amnesty regulations the conviction was overturned.
"My office maintains that Mr. Gadhafi must be arrested and surrendered to the court," declared Ms. Bensouda.
But critics say the ICC lacks credibility and dismisses the whole saga as faulty because the 2011 U.S.-NATO intervention was done on the basis of a lie that Muammar Gadhafi was murdering and persecuting Libyans to quell uprisings.
"The ICC case against Saif al-Islam Gadhafi must be seen in context of the illegal NATO assault on Libya, including the public murder of his father and the destruction of the Libyan state," Australia-based political economist and activist Tim Anderson, told The Final Call via email. "That is a great crime that cannot be forgotten," he added.
The ICC charges against the Gadhafis were "pretexts for the aggression against Libya, and for the U.S. and NATO backed Salafist crimes against the Libyan people," said Mr. Anderson.
Warrants were also issued for Muammar Gadhafi and Mr. Sanusi. The warrant against Muammar Gadhafi was withdrawn, in November 2011, weeks after his assassination. Later in July 2014 the court's Appeals Chamber ruled Mr. Senussi's case was inadmissible before the ICC. The warrants were requested by the UN Security Council for events specifically in the first 10 days of uprisings that began mid-February 2011.
A copy of the ICC warrant described Saif al-Islam Gadhafi as the "most influential person" in his father's inner circle, who exercised control over crucial parts of the state apparatus, including finances and logistics and exercised powers of a de facto prime minister.
Some ICC watchers noted that the Libyan case also points to a double standard where the ICC focuses on defendants predominately from Africa.
"You have nations in Africa who have already begun to withdraw from the ICC," said Don DeBar, anti-war activist and senior producer of Community Public Radio.
The ICC mechanism has been hypocritical, Mr. Anderson points out. Ignoring western powers responsible for atrocities and killing worldwide in interventions and meddling.
"Ignoring for example, the NATO powers aggression against at least eight middle eastern countries, in the past 20 years. Not one NATO leader has been prosecuted for the crimes against Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Yemen or Syria," said Mr. Anderson.
Libya previously challenged the admissibility of the case being tried at the ICC in the Hague arguing that its national judicial system was actively investigating Mr. Gadhafi on the same accusations. Libya wanted to try the cases against Gadhafi era officials on Libyan soil..
Furthermore, according to the ICC, Libya is not a signatory to the Rome Statute that governs the court which poses a complication for an arrest. The ICC has no police force and relies on the signatories of the Rome Statute to enforce warrants of arrest in all cases.
Before the Western intervention, Saif-Islam Gadhafi was widely touted as the successor of his father. Libyan insurgents backed by The U.S., France, Britain, Italy and NATO forces overthrew Muammar Gadhafi after he led for 42 years. Since the intervention Libya has been in a state of instability and division and considered a failed state. Many of the Gadhafi era leaders were killed, exiled or incarcerated.
In 2014, Libya split into rival factions with General Khalifa Haftar emerging as a dominant figure in the east, aligned with a regional parliament and government. It opposes the internationally accepted government based in Tripoli headed by Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj. Although absent a stable government, it was announced earlier this year that Saif-Islam Gadhafi was planning to stand in presidential elections, slated for December 10 but postponed now until 2019.
The post intervention collapse of Libya was widely predicted. In the aftermath the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam said they have "let the dogs of destruction out," predicting the years of chaos and mayhem that followed. Last year, the U.S. and other countries closed their embassies in Tripoli due to security concerns.
Among the Libyans, the ICC is not a trusted entity on any side and is under a cloud of being part of the problem, not a broker for solution and justice.
"The ICC was handed a fabricated brief to help cover up NATO's criminal destruction of a brave and progressive, small African nation. No one should lend them the slightest credibility in this endeavor," advised Mr. Anderson.