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Lo Sterminio di massa degli ebrei nella Polonia occupata dai tedeschi è un opuscolo pubblicato dal governo polacco in esilio nel 1943 per diffondere il testo del Rapporto Raczyński del 10 dicembre 1942. Fu la prima informazione ufficiale di pubblico dominio per l'Occidente sull'Olocausto nella Polonia occupata dai tedeschi.

Storia
L'opuscolo raccolse i rapporti e i documenti sull'Olocausto in Polonia. L'articolo più importante è il Rapporto Raczyński, inviato il 10 dicembre 1942 ai ministri degli esteri dei 26 governi firmatari della Dichiarazione dalle Nazioni Unite.

Basandosi sui dati raccolti dall'Ufficio per gli affari ebraici dell'Armia Krajowa, Raczyński descrisse le prime esecuzioni degli ebrei polacchi compiute dai tedeschi tramite fucilazioni e poi gasazioni letali. Si sapeva che gli ebrei rastrellati dal ghetto di Varsavia nella Grande Operazione furono deportati a Treblinka, Bełżec e Sobibor, correttamente descritti dallo stato clandestino polacco come "campi di sterminio". Raczyński riportò che un terzo dei tre milioni di ebrei polacchi era già stato ucciso, ma in realtà si trattò di una sottovalutazione.

L'opuscolo fu pubblicato nel 1943; conteneva anche il testo della Dichiarazione congiunta dei membri delle Nazioni Unite del 17 dicembre 1942 e un estratto di una dichiarazione del vice primo ministro Stanisław Mikołajczyk del 27 novembre 1942.

Lo scopo della pubblicazione del rapporto fu di attirare l'attenzione sulla soluzione finale e di dissuadere i tedeschi dal perseguirla ulteriormente.

Ricezione

Sebbene il documento contenesse informazioni dettagliate sulla persecuzione e uccisione degli ebrei in Polonia, il suo effetto fu limitato perché al di fuori dell'Europa occupata molti trovarono difficile credere che i tedeschi stessero sterminando sistematicamente gli ebrei.

Dopo un incontro del 1943 con Jan Karski, che aveva già compiuto molteplici viaggi sotto copertura nella Polonia occupata ed era fuggito per avvertire gli alleati, il giudice ebreo della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti Felix Frankfurter riferì di non poter immaginare che Karski stesse mentendo, ma allo stesso tempo di non potergli credere. Nonostante ciò, l'opuscolo diffuse la consapevolezza dell'uccisione degli ebrei e allarmò i politici di tutto il mondo.

I commentatori moderni hanno sollevato alcune questioni riguardo ai motivi per cui il rapporto non era stato pubblicato prima, dato che il governo polacco in esilio veniva tenuto al corrente degli eventi in patria principalmente dallo Stato clandestino e dal Bund del lavoro ebraico in Polonia. Emanuel Ringelblum, cronista del ghetto di Varsavia, accusò lo Stato clandestino polacco di rifiutarsi di trasmettere le informazioni sull'assassinio degli ebrei e di farlo solo dopo le loro ripetute esortazioni. Ma la sua contestazione principale era rivolta al governo in esilio, che era rimasto in silenzio sullo sterminio degli ebrei di Varsavia dal luglio al settembre 1942 nonostante le innumerevoli prove.

Secondo Ignacy Schwarzbart, uno dei due membri ebrei del governo in esilio, i polacchi temevano che portare l'attenzione sulla sofferenza patita dagli ebrei avrebbe distratto gli Alleati dalla sofferenza dei polacchi. Alcuni storici lo hanno accettato, altri sostengono che si è trattato più di shock e incredulità, altri hanno preso una posizione di mezzo.

Nel 2013 una copia del libro è stata venduta all'asta di Parigi per 21.000 euro.

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Voci correlate
 Rapporti Karski
 Il Libro Bianco Polacco
 Rapporto Pilecki

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Documenti storici sull'Olocausto
Olocausto in Polonia


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Met Office Tiptoeing Round The Truth
Friday 11th August 2017 |
Andrew Montford
Met Office can't bear to give facts on hurricanes
It's normal when somebody like Nigel Lawson appears on the BBC, for the corporation to follow up by giving somebody from the green side of the equation a chance for an unchallenged response. I think this is something to do with the unique way it's funded. Today was no exception, with yesterday's exchanges between Lawson and Al Gore being given a going over by Roger Harrabin and Peter Stott from the Met Office.
Harrabin had been tasked with looking at the claims about the relative levels of subsidy for fossil fuels and renewables, and this was not too bad. Harrabin noted that Lawson was correct in saying that renewables were much more heavily subsidised than fossil fuels in the UK, while saying that Gore's position that things were the other way round on a global level was also true. There was one amusing bit of Harrabin logic when he said that expenditure on energy saving had countered costs of renewables and therefore the UK was in the middle of the league table of European energy prices. A bit of a non sequitur there, I think.
Stott was much less satisfactory. In fact it left a rather unpleasant taste in the mouth.
John Humphrys opened with a good clear question: "So have we seen an increase in great storms?", to which Stott responded with a very slick demonstration of how you get ahead in the civil service: don't give clear answers to clear questions. He said that we were indeed seeing "more extreme weather", and claimed that the IPCC report refuted Lawson's claim that there had been no changes in extreme weather and that they were quite clear that we had seen "changes" in many weather extremes.
This was an (ahem) interesting approach, because Lawson was actually very clear that extreme weather changes all the time:
Extreme weather events have always happened. They come and go. And some kinds of extreme weather events of a particular time increase, whereas others, like tropical storms, diminish.
When Humphrys pressed Stott on which climate events the IPCC said had increased, Stott again seemed to struggle to give a straight answer, responding with an answer about a Met Office study of heatwaves. This was no doubt because it gave a stronger message than the IPCC's "medium confidence" that there has been an increase. He also said that we were seeing an effect on heavy rainfall events, which again is not really the impression that you get from the IPCC, which make the curious statement that there are "Likely more land areas with increases than decreases".
Still we learned nothing about the "great storms" that Humphrys had opened with, and which is most people's idea of what extreme weather looks like. These have unquestionably diminished, just as Lawson said.
But Stott said nothing of this. One could only be left with an abiding impression that he was damned if he was going to let the truth pass his lips.

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Annual planning meeting for Wheat Productivity Enhancement Program supported by USDA
The Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) and CIMMYT organized a two-day annual wheat planning meeting at the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) in Islamabad.
The Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) and CIMMYT organized a two-day annual wheat planning meeting at the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) in Islamabad. The meeting was in support of the Wheat Productivity Enhancement Program (WPEP), which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The objectives of WPEP are to improve wheat though rust surveillance, breeding, pre-breeding, seed production, agronomy and coordination and capacity building. Meeting participants focused on a review of the progress made in 2013-14, identifying emerging opportunities and developing work plans for the coming year.
Dr. Shahid Masood, PARC chief science officer and senior director; Dr. Iftikhar Ahmed, PARC chairman; David Williams, agricultural counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan; Dr. Imtiaz Muhammad, country representative for CIMMYT in Pakistan.
"The United States has a long history of collaboration with Pakistan in the agriculture sector; WPEP has made exceptional progress in the country to develop Ug99-resistant wheat varieties which will ensure food security," said David Williams, agricultural counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. He also commended the integrated research efforts of national and international partners for the enhancement of the nation's wheat yields.
David Williams, agricultural counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan, addresses the audience.
Imtiaz Muhammad, CIMMYT's country representative in Pakistan, shared the impacts of WPEP on national and international wheat research systems. He added that CIMMYT's efforts in the seed component of WPEP are substantial. WPEP has made significant progress; the release of Ug99-resistant wheat varieties (such as NARC-2011, PAK-13 and the upcoming Borlaug-14) will improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Pakistan.
WPEP has played a vital role in developing a wheat rust surveillance system, upgrading infrastructure and improving the research capacity in Pakistan. Collaborative and coordinated efforts through PARC and CIMMYT have enabled the country to develop a rust culture bank. It has built the capacity of provincial wheat breeding programs to secure wheat production against the potential threat of Ug99 races.
During the technical session, partners from across Pakistan agreed that developing Ug99-resistant wheat varieties to replace traditional varieties and making them available to farmers is a critical step in maintaining high yields in Pakistan. Participants acknowledged the support of the USDA, CIMMYT and PARC in wheat research.
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Differences among generations on a wide variety of outcomes are of increasing interest to organizations, practitioners, and researchers alike. The goal of this study was to quantitatively assess the research on generational differences in work-related attitudes and to provide guidance for future research and practice.
We conducted a meta-analysis of generational differences on three work-related criteria: job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to turnover. Our review of published and unpublished research found 20 studies allowing for 18 generational pairwise comparisons across four generations (Traditionals, Baby Boomers, Generation Xers, and Millennials) on these outcomes using 19,961 total subjects.
Corrected mean differences for job satisfaction ranged from .02 to .25, for organizational commitment they ranged from −.22 to .46, and for intent to turnover the range was −.62 to .05. The pattern of results indicates that the relationships between generational membership and work-related outcomes are moderate to small, essentially zero in many cases.
The findings suggest that meaningful differences among generations probably do not exist on the work-related variables we examined and that the differences that appear to exist are likely attributable to factors other than generational membership. Given these results, targeted organizational interventions addressing generational differences may not be effective.
This is the first known quantitative review of research on generational differences in the workplace.
The views, opinions, and/or findings contained in this article are solely those of the author(s) and should not be construed as an official Department of the Army or DOD position, policy, or decision, unless so designated by other documentation.
The authors wish to thank Michael McDaniel, Jose Cortina, Allison Brown, and the anonymous reviewers for their very helpful advice, guidance, and feedback on this manuscript.
*Hess, J. & Jepsen, D. M. (2009). Career stage and generational differences in psychological contracts. Career Development International, 14(3), 261–283. doi: 10.1108/13620430910966433.
International Labour Organization. (2010). LABORSTA [Database]. Retrieved from http://www.ilo.org/global/What_we_do/Statistics/lang-en/index.htm.
TIME. (1951). The younger generation. TIME, LVIII. Retrieved from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,856950-1,00.html.
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While wrapping up my demos for my presentation "Moving WF applications to Azure", I decided to repackage my demos using Windows Azure Accelerator to conserve the number of Web Roles I was using in Azure.
From the base address (i.e. <application>.cloudapp.net), create a IIS Site name. I just typed a random, non-active hostname for the Hostname, as I was intending to use the test link instead.
Create a Windows WF 4.0 project, and browse to it. The generated screen with a link to the WSDL is displayed.
Publish the WF Application to the IIS web site. It doesn't matter if the deployment is marked as an IIS application.
No amount of web.config changes will enable the metadata publishing, such as an example below.
Logging onto the Azure Web Role instance revealed the following IIS setup.
I'm guessing that the test sites use URL Rewrite, but somehow the web.config is not picked up.
Get a DNS Alias (CNAME) to point to my base cloud application, e.g. using a free domain name from no-ip.com.
Browse to the WF Service using the Site address instead of the test site address, and voila, the no configuration setup now works.
I hope this helps someone save a couple of hours of sleep. Now onto figuring out Azure Composite Applications.
– What is Window Workflow Foundation?
– What are the features, and how does one implement them?
– Why is it relevant to applications moving into Azure?
– What are my migration / development options for using WF in Azure?
The Windows Azure Team has released a security refresh for the v1.3 SDK aimed to fix the issue where by the client to determine the content of the state information passed by the web role.
If you have downloaded the V1.3 SDK prior to 3 Feb 2011, perform the quick check to see if you need to have it patched.
Scroll to Windows Azure SDK and note the version number. Anything less than 1.3.20121.1237 means that your web role(s) may be vulnerable.
Download the patch files from Microsoft (links below), and install in. Zip through the various EULA and install options. You may be prompted to shut down some services for the patch to go through.
Are Azure Static Class Variables shared across role instance?
No. Static class variables behave as they should, with it's value shared only within the instance it is instantiated in. Thus, static variables should not be used to synchronise or provide locks between role instances.
To confirm this behaviour, I created a simple web role with a button that sets a static class variable. A timer periodically triggers to attempt to retrieve the variable to displays it. The web role then deployed with at least 2 or more instances.
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Hazardous waste regulations were established to minimize human and environmental exposure to hazardous chemicals. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has written a comprehensive set of regulations that govern the management of hazardous waste from the point of generation to disposal. They also incorporate a record keeping/reporting/tracking system to verify and document that the waste is, in fact, managed appropriately. Finally, compliance with hazardous waste regulations is an enforceable law. Noncompliance can result in fines of up to $37,500 per day for each violation.
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If any of these limits are exceeded, facilities are subject to Large Quantity Generator (LQG) regulations or may request a short-term waiver from the LQG regulation under the 'episodic event' provision discussed below.
Accurately characterize each facility waste as hazardous or non-hazardous at the point/time of generation following EPA protocol contained in 40 CFR 262.11.
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Obtain an EPA Hazardous Waste Generator Identification Number by completing the EPA Form 8700-12.
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Note – A provision termed "Satellite Accumulation" exists in 40 CFR 262.15 which allows storage of up to 55 gallons of hazardous waste at the point of generation and under the supervision of the individual generating the waste for an indefinite period of time. If using this provision, the container should be labeled as discussed above but include "Satellite Accumulation" instead of the accumulation start date. When 55 gallons has accumulated, the "Satellite Accumulation" notation should be removed and replaced with the current date, the waste must be moved to a permanent hazardous waste storage area within three days and disposed of off-site within 180 days.
Additionally, the hazardous waste transport vehicle must be affixed with the appropriate DOT placards.
A Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest must accompany all shipments of hazardous waste. The manifest is a multiple copy form that must be signed by the generator, transporter, and disposal facility personnel. Each entity should keep its respective copy of the form. The original copy of the manifest must be returned to the generator by the disposal facility within 60 days. Both the generator and original copy of the manifest must be filed on site and be readily available for inspection for at least three years.
For waste subject to Land Ban restrictions, a Treatment Standard Notification (TSN) form must accompany the hazardous waste manifest. The transporter/disposal facility will assist in determining if a TSN is required. If so, a copy must remain on site and be readily available for inspection for at least three years.
Hazardous waste storage areas must be maintained and operated to minimize the possibility of fire, explosion, or release of hazardous waste.
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When hazardous waste is handled, all personnel involved must have immediate access to an internal alarm or emergency communication device.
If just one employee is present, immediate access to a device capable of summoning external assistance must be available.
Aisle space must be maintained to allow for fire protection and spill control in an emergency.
The generator must familiarize local police, fire departments, and emergency response teams regarding the types of waste handled at the facility. Documentation that such contact was made must be maintained on site and be available for inspection.
At all times, there must be at least one employee available, or on call, with the responsibility for coordinating all emergency response measures (i.e., emergency coordinator).
Fire: Call the fire department. For small fires, trained personnel may attempt to extinguish it.
Spill: Contain the flow of waste and clean up waste and contaminated materials/soil to prevent or minimize release to the environment.
For releases that threaten human health outside the facility or spills that could reach surface water, notify the National Response Center at 800-424-8802 and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources 515-725-8694.
Telephone number of the fire department.
All employees involved in waste handling and management must be thoroughly familiar with proper waste handling and emergency procedures (records of training should be kept on file).
A Contingency Plan should be written and kept on file to document compliance with these requirements.
Copies of hazardous waste generation rate/storage inventories, manifests, TSN forms, hazardous waste storage area inspection logs, and employee training documentation should be maintained on file in chronological order, and be readily available for regulatory agency inspection. Copies of laboratory data documenting the hazardous/non-hazardous status of waste, contingency plans, notification of emergency response agencies, etc., should also be available for review at the facility.
An episodic event is an activity, either planned or unplanned, that does not normally occur during generator operations and results in an increase in the generation of hazardous wastes that exceeds the calendar month quantity limits for the SQG category (i.e., more than 2,200 pounds in a month).
A planned episodic event is an episodic event that the generator planned and prepared for, including regular maintenance, tank cleanouts, short-term projects, and removal of excess chemical inventory (i.e., more than 220 pounds generated in a month).
An unplanned episodic event is an event that the generator did not plan or reasonably did not expect to occur, including production process upsets, product recalls, accidental spills, or "acts of nature," such as a tornado, hurricane, or flood.
May only claim one planned episodic event and/or one unplanned episodic event per year.
EPA must be notified using EPA Form 8700-12 within thirty days prior to a planned event or within 72 hours following an unplanned event.
Hazardous waste generated during the event must be shipped off-site to a permitted hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facility (TSDF), using a hazardous waste manifest, within 60 days.
Episodic waste containers must be labeled "Episodic Hazardous Waste" and marked with the start date of the episodic event. Containers must also be marked with the type of hazard associated with the waste and applicable RCRA waste code(s) (i.e., D001 for ignitable waste).
The SQG must maintain records of the event and manage the episodic hazardous waste in a manner that minimizes the possibility of fire, explosion, or release.
Note – Beginning on September 1, 2021, and every 4 years thereafter, SQGs must re-notify EPA of their hazardous waste generation status and current contact information using EPA Form 8700-12.


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SalonEra: Finding Lisette
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SalonEra partners with GRAMMY-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan to probe the question "Is Bach's music for everyone?" Drawing on tenor arias and interviews captured for Phan's BACH 52 project, Nicholas, Debra Nagy, and a range of community members reckon with the complex social history of Bach's music as well as its enduring resonance in their lives. Join us for this heartfelt and deeply personal exploration centered on one of the titans of baroque music: J.S. Bach.
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Latin American Music Nationalism is often understood as a 20th-century movement represented by composers such as Silvestre Revueltas (Mexico), Alberto Ginastera (Argentina) and Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil) among others. In this episode, SE favorite Karin Cuellar-Rendon and the Ximenez Quartet trace the early nation-building efforts of 19th-century Latin American composers Pedro Ximénez Abril Tirado (Bolivia-Peru), José Bernardo Alzedo (Chile), and Chiquinha Gonzaga (Brazil) who integrated elements of the European classical tradition with local musical genres.


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One running joke on Married... with Children is Al's hatred against the French. He thinks they are cowards and stink. Following Al's opinion, the show contains a lot of jokes about the French. On the other hand, the Bundys sometimes use French expressions. There is also an episode about a French exchange student ("Fair Exchange", 0406), played by Milla Jovovich. However, she is only allowed to stay with the Bundys because they got $500 per month to look after her; they even made her live in the garage during a cold winter. In 0622, Al imagines being in France, wearing a beret and drinking red wine. Sometimes French is mentioned in a neutral way (0409, 0415). Besides, Married... with Children did air in France, usually on Saturday mornings. Finally, the Bundy neighbours - the D'Arcys - have a French name, and even the first family dog was a briard, a French race.
Al as a Frenchman in episode 0622 ("The Good-Bye Girl")
Negative Statements about the French
Whose Room Is it Anyway? (0106)
Peggy: So, what are you gonna spend your refund on?
Marcy: Well we were thinking about taking a romantic trip to Paris.
Peggy: Oh, I've always wanted to go to Paris.
Al: Oh yeah Paris - where they hate Americans... where they won't let our bombers fly overhead, oh yeah, until they get invaded, and then they come crawling back, beret in hand, for us to bail 'em out - with "my" tax dollars! That's where your going??
Steve: No, no... we just said that... you know... to kid you. We hate the French.
Al: You know what I would do if I had a few extra bucks?
Marcy: Bomb the French?
Al: No, no, I was talking about a 'little' extra money.
Whose Room Is it Anyway? (0106) again
Al: "Oh, sure, our rights are not important? Anything a woman says is fine with us? Gee, when did men become such losers? It used to be so great to be a man. Women were there to please us. They'd look after the kids and we'd go out and have a good time. That's the natural order of things. What happened, Steve? I'll tell you what happened, Steve. Somebody told women they should start enjoying sex, too. That was the beginning of the end. Now they like it but it's work for us. Everything's work for us. It's this equallity thing, it's killing us. You know who I blame?"
Steve: "The French?"
[ Al nods his agreement ]
Johnny Be Gone (0113)
[ Al reads a an assembly manual ]
Al: "Ah! Here it is, er, Attention vous avez... Oh hell! More people we should have killed!"
[ He comes across another French instruction ]
Al: "Oh, my friends the French again".
Fair Exchange (0406)
Al: "A toast to the French. It's a foul little country but they sure do know how to write a check."
Look Who's Barking (0513)
[ Al is on the phone, trying to find the German chef Hans ]
Al: Listen, you French moron! We saved your cowardly wine soaked behinds in the war! In all the wars!! Every stinkin' war you've ever been in. Now you tell me where you're hiding Hans, before I... Hello!?!
[ He hangs up ]
They really are rude to Americans!
A Man's Castle (0515)
Al: ... running like a Frenchman from a cap gun.
All Night Security Dude (0516)
Spare Tire Dixon to Al: "I dropped you like third period French."
Looking for a Desk in All the Wrong Places (0605)
Al, to Jefferson: "She's got you running like a Frenchman in a thunderstorm."
The Mystery of Skull Island (0614)
News anchor: "Until further information is uncovered, scientists will continue to sift through the giant hole that was until yesterday the Republic of France."
England Show, Part 1 (0624)
Al at Speakers Corner: "Am I alone in hating the French?"
Crowd: "No!"
Al: "I thought not."
[ A family screams at the Bundy's and runs away ]
Peggy: "We're only Americans. Why'd they run?"
Al: "They must be French. It takes so little."
Upper-Unctonian: "We're not barbarians. We're not the French."
The Chicago Wine Party (0707)
A reporter about riots against a beer tax increase: As if they need to be told, all Frenchmen should stay in hiding.
Death of a Shoe Salesman (0710)
[ Al decides to take a spot to be buried next to Fuzzy McGee ]
Undertaker: Let me know if you DON'T want it. I hear Fuzzy is a big in France, I believed they called him "Le Grand Fuzz".
The Old Insurance Dodge (0724)
Peggy: Listen, Honey, I'm having a little trouble with the insurance company. Did you know that the French claim that the real Mona Lisa is theirs, just like we did?
Al: You know, it's a dark day when someone will believe the French over me!.
The Proposition (0726)
Kelly: "Mom, when you say 'we,' I hope you mean 'oui,' as in French for 'Hell yes we'll sell daddy and collaborate with the Germans.' Ergo, which is French for 'Yes take our country but please let us live to make our creamy sauces,' I say we take the $500,000 and bid daddy adieu, which is French for 'A deer,' 'A female deer.'
Legend of Ironhead Haynes (0821)
Al's voice booms out over the mountains: Don't eat the croissant!"
Commandment #2: It's wrong to be French.
Driving Mr. Boondy (0902)
Bud, to German Heidi: "Pretend like my pants are France and invade me!"
Business Sucks, Part 1 (0905)
Kelly: Some warbreaks out in some country I can't even pronounce.
Bud: That could be France!
Kelly: I said "country".
How Bleen Was My Kelly (1005)
[ Peggy tries to find someone who makes less money than a shoe salesman. ]
Bud: Check "French deodorant salesman."
Dud Bowl II (1009)
TV News Reader: Hundreds of organisations are claiming credit for the bombing of the Al Bundy Scoreboard, including The National Organisation of Women, The National Organisation of Fat Women and The Government of France.
The Agony and the Extra C (1019)
Peg: Al, I'm in Paris. Everyone here is just so rude and smelly. I'm thinking about you all the time.
T*R*A*S*H (1114)
Al: Well family, I'm off to fight the forces of evil.
Peggy: Mmm, that's nice dear.
Al: Hey! Will someone pay attention here, they're having me go out to fight horrible people - probably the French! You may never see me again!
Breaking up Is Easy to Do, Part 1 (1116)
Peggy: Why won't you go to therapy!?
Al: Maybe it's 'you' who don't know 'me'! Because If you knew me, Peg, you would know there are certain things I do not do:
I do not floss, I do not eat vegetables, I do not like French Pastry, I do not like the French...
Damn Bundys (1120)
[ Al is playing "hang-man" with Napoleon in Hell. ]
Napoleon: Could it be the letter "P"?
Al, laughing: Hang-man, I win! It's "French fries" you idiot! You're not too smart, are you Nap?
[ Nap puts his hand in his coat, then Al puts his hand in his pants. ]
Neutral Statements about the French
Thinnergy (0102)
Al watches a French chef on TV.
Kelly Bounces Back (0506)
The show is about the new Allanté.
I Want My Psycho Dad, Part 1 (0913)
Kelly: Oh well, like they say in France, 'comme ci, comme di.'
[ Bruce is subtly commenting on Pegs awful cooking ]
Bruce: Oh no, that was wonderful, it's just that... I hate to see you slaving away in the kitchen. From now on we eat 'out'.
Peggy: Ooooh! Can we go to one of those fancy French places?
Bruce: Oh, my Darling, if this year and 'Yugo Palooza' sale goes as well as I expect, I'll be taking you to dine in Paris. Ever made love in the Eiffel Tower?
Peggy: Ah, well, no... but once, I frenched a guy in the Sears Tower!
The Bundys Speaking French
Au contraire - Bud (0403), Al (0520)
Au revoir - Kelly (0406), Kelly (0518)
Au revoir mes amis - Al (0925)
Bonmots - Kelly (0610)
C'est moi - Jefferson (0704)
Déjà-vu - Al (1007)
Du jour - Al (0317)
Faux pas - Al (0623)
Fin - At the end of Al & Kelly's movie (0925)
Grand - Al (0720)
Je ne sais quoi - Peggy (0718)
Les miserables - Al (0925)
Mais oui - Al (0622)
Moi - Peggy (0703), Al (1009)
Mon chérie - Bud (0904)
S'il vous plaît - Al (0519, 0607)
Vive la coeur des deaths - Al (0520)
Vive la France - Steve (0106)
Voilà - Kelly/Bud (0318), Bud (0421, 0913), Al (0311, 0504, 0505, 0719)
Al's "in lieu" in 1011 is not French, that would be "au lieu". Kelly also tries to say more French expressions, but she fails; e.g. "viola" ("voilà").
Many thanks to Ade Bundy, Ralph Morse, Bob Whitaker, Lars Mørk and "Marriedaniac".


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Professor Ken Regennitter
AJJF Professor 1966
January 14, 1928—November 9, 2009
Ken first studied karate and judo while in the Navy during the Korean War. Discharged in 1951, he returned to Kansas City and joined Midwest Judo Academy.
This school was affiliated with the Kodokan, but Ken would later learn that his training included jujitsu as well as judo since the school was founded by Master Okazaki's student, Rudy Palguata.
In 1960, shortly, after a visit to (Prof.) Bill Beach's school in Florida, Ken joined the AJJF and began teaching jujitsu as well as judo. He was promoted to Godan and made Professor by the AJJF in 1966.
Ken promoted students to black belt in judo, karate, kung fu and kendo. He held medals in AAU judo, karate and jujitsu and was on the 1964 USA/AJJF Olympic Judo Team in Japan.
Ken became involved with the AAU in 1956 as a judo competitor. He was instrumental in obtaining recognition for jujitsu from the AAU and served as AAU Judo Chairman, Karate Chairman, Jujitsu Chairman and is was on the AAU Board of Directors.
Ken also served as Director of region 3 since 1960 and was a life member of numerous judo and jujitsu martial arts organizations.
Professor Regennitter retired from the AJJF and lived in Kansas City, Kansas up until his death on November 9, 2009 in Shawnee, Kansas.
Reprinted from Danzan Ryu: An Unbroken Tradition (1992) by permission of the author, Mary L. Boland.


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Q: matlab image processing 3d i have 100 b&w image of smthing.the probllem is i want to scan each image in 0&1 formatin mby n format and then place each image to one over one and again scan and save them in mbynby100 form.
how i do this and from where i should start
_jaysean

A: Your question is vague and hard to understand, but my guess is that you want to take 100 M-by-N grayscale intensity images, threshold them to create logical matrices (i.e. containing zeroes and ones), then put them together into one M-by-N-by-100 matrix. You can do the thresholding by simply picking a threshold value yourself, like 0.5, and applying it to an image A as follows:
B = A > 0.5;

The matrix B will now be an M-by-N logical matrix with ones where A is greater than 0.5 and zeroes where A is less than or equal to 0.5.
If you have the Image Processing Toolbox, you could instead use the function GRAYTHRESH to pick a threshold and the function IM2BW to apply it:
B = im2bw(A,graythresh(A));

Once you do this, you can easily put the images into an M-by-N-by-100 logical matrix. Here's an example of how you could do this in a loop, assuming the variables M and N are defined:
allImages = false(M,N,100);  %# Initialize the matrix to store all the images
for k = 1:100
  %# Here, you would load your image into variable A
  allImages(:,:,k) = im2bw(A,graythresh(A));  %# Threshold A and add it to
                                              %#   the matrix allImages
end

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Satan tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden right? Nope. That's one of many phantom passages that people think are in the Bible.
Actually, that's not in the Bible
By John Blake, CNN
(CNN) - NFL legend Mike Ditka was giving a news conference one day after being fired as the coach of the Chicago Bears when he decided to quote the Bible.
"Scripture tells you that all things shall pass," a choked-up Ditka said after leading his team to only five wins during the previous season. "This, too, shall pass."
Ditka fumbled his biblical citation, though. The phrase "This, too, shall pass" doesn't appear in the Bible. Ditka was quoting a phantom scripture that sounds like it belongs in the Bible, but look closer and it's not there.
Ditka's biblical blunder is as common as preachers delivering long-winded public prayers. The Bible may be the most revered book in America, but it's also one of the most misquoted. Politicians, motivational speakers, coaches - all types of people - quote passages that actually have no place in the Bible, religious scholars say.
These phantom passages include:
"God helps those who help themselves."
"Spare the rod, spoil the child."
And there is this often-cited paraphrase: Satan tempted Eve to eat the forbidden apple in the Garden of Eden.
None of those passages appear in the Bible, and one is actually anti-biblical, scholars say.
But people rarely challenge them because biblical ignorance is so pervasive that it even reaches groups of people who should know better, says Steve Bouma-Prediger, a religion professor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
"In my college religion classes, I sometimes quote 2 Hesitations 4:3 ('There are no internal combustion engines in heaven')," Bouma-Prediger says. "I wait to see if anyone realizes that there is no such book in the Bible and therefore no such verse.
"Only a few catch on."
Few catch on because they don't want to - people prefer knowing biblical passages that reinforce their pre-existing beliefs, a Bible professor says.
"Most people who profess a deep love of the Bible have never actually read the book," says Rabbi Rami Shapiro, who once had to persuade a student in his Bible class at Middle Tennessee State University that the saying "this dog won't hunt" doesn't appear in the Book of Proverbs.
"They have memorized parts of texts that they can string together to prove the biblical basis for whatever it is they believe in," he says, "but they ignore the vast majority of the text."
Phantom biblical passages work in mysterious ways
Ignorance isn't the only cause for phantom Bible verses. Confusion is another.
Some of the most popular faux verses are pithy paraphrases of biblical concepts or bits of folk wisdom.
Consider these two:
"God works in mysterious ways."
"Cleanliness is next to Godliness."
Both sound as if they are taken from the Bible, but they're not. The first is a paraphrase of a 19th century hymn by the English poet William Cowper ("God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform).
The "cleanliness" passage was coined by John Wesley, the 18th century evangelist who founded Methodism, says Thomas Kidd, a history professor at Baylor University in Texas.
"No matter if John Wesley or someone else came up with a wise saying - if it sounds proverbish, people figure it must come from the Bible," Kidd says.
Our fondness for the short and tweet-worthy may also explain our fondness for phantom biblical phrases. The pseudo-verses function like theological tweets: They're pithy summarizations of biblical concepts.
"Spare the rod, spoil the child" falls into that category. It's a popular verse - and painful for many kids. Could some enterprising kid avoid the rod by pointing out to his mother that it's not in the Bible?
It's doubtful. Her possible retort: The popular saying is a distillation of Proverbs 13:24: "The one who withholds [or spares] the rod is one who hates his son."
Another saying that sounds Bible-worthy: "Pride goes before a fall." But its approximation, Proverbs 16:18, is actually written: "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
There are some phantom biblical verses for which no excuse can be offered. The speaker goofed.
That's what Bruce Wells, a theology professor, thinks happened to Ditka, the former NFL coach, when he strayed from the gridiron to biblical commentary during his 1993 press conference in Chicago.
Wells watched Ditka's biblical blunder on local television when he lived in Chicago. After Ditka cited the mysterious passage, reporters scrambled unsuccessfully the next day to find the biblical source.
They should have consulted Wells, who is now director of the ancient studies program at Saint Joseph's University in Pennsylvania. Wells says Ditka's error probably came from a peculiar feature of the King James Bible.
"My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation," Wells says. "Ancient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, 'and the next thing that happened was…' The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as 'and it came to pass.' ''
When phantom Bible passages turn dangerous
People may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well.
Two examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say.
Those details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity.
Most people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since.
But the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden.
"Genesis mentions nothing but a serpent," says Kevin Dunn, chair of the department of religion at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
"Not only does the text not mention Satan, the very idea of Satan as a devilish tempter postdates the composition of the Garden of Eden story by at least 500 years," Dunn says.
Getting biblical scriptures and stories wrong may not seem significant, but it can become dangerous, one scholar says.
Most people have heard this one: "God helps those that help themselves." It's another phantom scripture that appears nowhere in the Bible, but many people think it does. It's actually attributed to Benjamin Franklin, one of the nation's founding fathers.
The passage is popular in part because it is a reflection of cherished American values: individual liberty and self-reliance, says Sidnie White Crawford, a religious studies scholar at the University of Nebraska.
Yet that passage contradicts the biblical definition of goodness: defining one's worth by what one does for others, like the poor and the outcast, Crawford says.
Crawford cites a scripture from Leviticus that tells people that when they harvest the land, they should leave some "for the poor and the alien" (Leviticus 19:9-10), and another passage from Deuteronomy that declares that people should not be "tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor."
"We often infect the Bible with our own values and morals, not asking what the Bible's values and morals really are," Crawford says.
Where do these phantom passages come from?
It's easy to blame the spread of phantom biblical passages on pervasive biblical illiteracy. But the causes are varied and go back centuries.
Some of the guilty parties are anonymous, lost to history. They are artists and storytellers who over the years embellished biblical stories and passages with their own twists.
If, say, you were an anonymous artist painting the Garden of Eden during the Renaissance, why not portray the serpent as the devil to give some punch to your creation? And if you're a preacher telling a story about Jonah, doesn't it just sound better to say that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, not a "great fish"?
Others blame the spread of phantom Bible passages on King James, or more specifically the declining popularity of the King James translation of the Bible.
That translation, which marks 400 years of existence this year, had a near monopoly on the Bible market as recently as 50 years ago, says Douglas Jacobsen, a professor of church history and theology at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.
"If you quoted the Bible and got it wrong then, people were more likely to notice because there was only one text," he says. "Today, so many different translations are used that almost no one can tell for sure if something supposedly from the Bible is being quoted accurately or not."
Others blame the spread of phantom biblical verses on Martin Luther, the German monk who ignited the Protestant Reformation, the massive "protest" against the excesses of the Roman Catholic Church that led to the formation of Protestant church denominations.
"It is a great Protestant tradition for anyone - milkmaid, cobbler, or innkeeper - to be able to pick up the Bible and read for herself. No need for a highly trained scholar or cleric to walk a lay person through the text," says Craig Hazen, director of the Christian Apologetics program at Biola University in Southern California.
But often the milkmaid, the cobbler - and the NFL coach - start creating biblical passages without the guidance of biblical experts, he says.
"You can see this manifest today in living room Bible studies across North America where lovely Christian people, with no training whatsoever, drink decaf, eat brownies and ask each other, 'What does this text mean to you?''' Hazen says.
"Not only do they get the interpretation wrong, but very often end up quoting verses that really aren't there."
John Blake - CNN Writer
Filed under: Belief • Bible • Books • Christianity • Faith
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To hilreal
I just copied and pasted from the Bible (KJV) where the Bible tells that the serpent is satan so in return the serpent in the garden is satan. That is the only point I was trying to make.
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Texan86
NO! Stop with the video. I cant take it anymore!
I would rather people misquote the Bible than rely on a so called 'bible expert' to tell us what it says. John Blake are you really blaming Martin Luther for bringing the bible to the masses? What a backwards awful approach you have.
Not sure "blaming"is the right word Michael, but as a result of Martin Luther and the Gutenberg Press, the masses got the bible. Prior to that, the Catholic Church deemed it heretical if anyone, besides a member of the clergy, owned a copy of the bible. As far as the experts go...I am somewhat in agreement. While I do think people need some guidance on the passages of the bible (or any other religious text for that matter), I think where most have gone wrong...especially amongst the fundamentalists of any faith...is that they have allowed the experts to define the bible without really reading it and coming to a clear understanding of the messages contained within on their own. If you call yourself a Christian, I believe that you should be your own Biblical expert. How can you claim to truly participate in a faith if you do not fully understand its tenets? You are not going to get an understanding of it via the out of context snippets you get from the preacher. May the divine, it whatever form you worship it in, bless you profusely...
Actually, the author is rather correct. One of the problems that Protestants had with Roman Catholicism was that only the Priest was supposed to read and interpret the Bible for his parishoners. I know of a former Catholic who left the church because she was told that she shouldn't interpret the Bible herself.
fundies
I prefer Monty Python interpretations of the Bible and any other book claiming to be the word of God.
richunix
Life of Brian cica 1979 great movie, the church hated it.
When I was a Christian I didn't understand the Bible. When I finally read and understood the Bible, I realized what a horrifying and violent deity it described and stopped being a Christian.
You should read up on the Demiurge. Maybe you are a Gnostic Christian.
Smart. The bible talks about a wrathful, untrusting and unloving God. The Koran is no better. Love me or be destroyed? Pass.
GoodMan, this is why the Gnostics believed that the "God" of the old testiment was actually an evil God who created an evil world. The God of Jesus being a higher, good and loving, yet more distant God.
Good call BK, i did the same. Don't have time to torment myself here, if I have spent all eternity getting tortured somewhere else. Just didn't seem practical.
By more distant, did you mean not freaking here ever, then yes. But I guess not being here is better than us killing animals for sacrifice and murdering each other or being murdered by GOD himself. I mean we kill each other plenty well in God's name without help. And God is Jesus by the way, one in the same, he felt bad and changed the rules I guess.
vo1citw
You say that you understood, but obviously you did not. Sounds like you quit half-way into it.
Actually, what you said is impossible. If you were TRULY a Christian, you would have had to have been "born again". If you are born again, you are lead by the Holy Spirit and you will eventually find the truth.
Wingo, the Bible is no different than the writting of the previous GOD's, just a different take. .... As Colin put it in a understable format.
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Just as an aside, the Romans called Christians and Jews "Atheists" for just this reason.
So very true.
TheWiz71
@well – where do you get that from? The Romans persecuted Christians for political, not religious reasons, and no-one ever accused them in not believing in a god. They were persecuted because they refused to make sacrifices to the Roman Emperor as if he were a god, which was considered not so much an irreligious act, as an act of political sedition, akin to refusing to pay taxes (which could get you crucified under Roman law).
oldbones2
Prov also says 'fathers provoke not your sons to anger'. I think most of these folks have itchy ears. That's in the Bible too, look it up.
so the bible is contradicting itself, guess we should all figure it out for ourselves then, what a tragedy.
Yes, the Bible is contradictory, because, guess what – it was written by humans over several millenia, during many different cultural, political, and religious shifts. Yes, I believe it is inspired by God in varying ways and to varying degrees, but it was human hands who put pen to paper (for lack of a better term, considering they didn't write on paper) – and human beings are limited and fallible. Contradiction does not necessarily mean error, though.
I think atheists do more than their share of mindless bashing. What so many so arbitrarily dismiss as "fairy tales" reflects thousands of years' worth of spiritual (and in some cases actual historical) experiences of countless individuals over a great many generations. Among those so ready to believe (or at least not ready to completely discount) such "fairy tales" were Mendel (the father of genetics), Milton, Newton, Jefferson, Bach, Augustine, Aquinas, Tommy Douglas, Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu, to name just a few. Hardly gullible types.
Nobody said it wasn't a persistent delusion. But the argument that smart men have believed it doesn't prove a darn thing. Many smart men (and women) don't believe it too.
We don't "BASH", we try to show the folly of those who believe in foolish gods/demons as if they are real. Sorrry TheWiz71, no one has ever parted any Sea, The Red Sea or the correct name The Sea of Reeds, not even a pond. Brought back anyone from the dead (after 3 days's), walked on water, accended to any heaven BAR NONE! These are the very same stories that all the major Religion share both past and present.
I agree. My point is that it is completely over-simplistic to just dismiss out of hand something as vital to the development of western civilization as the Bible. It has had influence for a reason – because there is truth to be found in it. Notice I didn't say "facts" (although I do think there are some actual historical moments that are depicted). But truth is always open to interpretation. Anyway, my point was simply to get at the radical atheists who just mindlessly dismiss scripture as something akin to Grimm's tales, and who dismiss theists and believers as gullible and thoughtless.
@richunix – see my post above. Many of the Biblical accounts, especially the Creation story must be read as parables, not fact, illustrating spiritual truths. Regarding your quick dismissal of the Resurrection of Jesus, what proof do you have that it is a fallacy? If you take the three synoptic gospels as seperate, but related, works (as they were originally written, not as a whole as we often think of them), if you consider the Resurrection appearances in the Book of Acts (once again, a seperate work, although written by the author of Luke), and the references made by St. Paul in his various letters to the resurrection of Jesus (not to mention his sudden conversion from being a persecutor of the church to one of its most active evangelists on meeting the risen Christ), while not proof in and of themselves, they do add up to some pretty compelling evidence, which cannot just be dismissed as myth. As a matter of fact, there is enough evidence that the resurrection cannot be simply dismissed in a "well, it's all just a fairy tale" sort of way either. Not saying it is all so compelling that one must believe it, but it cannot be ignored out of hand, either.
Traylor
Most Bible stories are parables and metaphors and were never intended to be understood as factual. They need and deserve to be understood for their spiritual and philosophical value, as they are the foundation of modern western civilization. Atheists who dismiss the Bible as useless fairy tales are just as wrong as fundamentalists who insist every Bible story is a historical fact.
Right on Traylor. Couldn't have said it better (or more succinctly) myself.
@Maximusvad Well spoken
Perception, it means everything. Nice quote.
These articles are pathetic. Spare the rod, spoil the child is a CONCEPT, not a quote. Here are the quotes:
bullet	Prov 13:24: "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes (diligently)."
bullet	Prov 19:18: "Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying."
bullet	Prov 22:15: "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."
bullet	Prov 23:13: "Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die."
bullet	Prov 23:14: "Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell (Shoel)."
bullet	Prov 29:15: "The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame."
I don't care how many times it is stated. Beating a child is horrendous and wrong.
Valek Palek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SYty-xAjEw
Maximusvad
The Bible has always been a plagarized anthology. Most of the great pagan philosophers are quoted in the Bible and given in the name of the Biblical prophets. It was a masterpiece created to control the masses and is still working after 2000 years. The Greatest lie ever told. It is so abused by so many of the corrupt and greedy that it is starting to degrade in its original function. The Bible- Morality for sociopaths...tool of politics. No I am not an Atheist. I am a Pantheist. I have read 2 different versions of the Bible and I would be very surprised that any woman who has read the Bible could still maintain a Christian/Muslim or Hebrew based faith.
I think everyone has forgotten that the bible is the living word it speakes to the reader . Read a chapter or book put it down
and come back the next day and see if you recvie the same meaning as you read a day ago .
Wingo, yes, you will get a different message. Look at these inconsistencies, for example.
Who incited David to count the fighting men of Israel?
(a) God did (2 Samuel 24: 1)
(b) Satan did (I Chronicles 2 1:1)
In that count how many fighting men were found in Israel?
(a) Eight hundred thousand (2 Samuel 24:9)
(b) One million, one hundred thousand (IChronicles 21:5)
How many fighting men were found in Judah?
(a) Five hundred thousand (2 Samuel 24:9)
(b) Four hundred and seventy thousand (I Chronicles 21:5)
God sent his prophet to threaten David with how many years of famine?
(a) Seven (2 Samuel 24:13)
(b) Three (I Chronicles 21:12)
How old was Ahaziah when he began to rule over Jerusalem?
(a) Twenty-two (2 Kings 8:26)
(b) Forty-two (2 Chronicles 22:2)
How old was Jehoiachin when he became king of Jerusalem?
(a) Eighteen (2 Kings 24:8)
(b) Eight (2 Chronicles 36:9)
How long did he rule over Jerusalem?
(a) Three months (2 Kings 24:8)
(b) Three months and ten days (2 Chronicles 36:9)
The chief of the mighty men of David lifted up his spear and killed how many men at one time?
(a) Eight hundred (2 Samuel 23:8)
(b) Three hundred (I Chronicles 11: 11)
When did David bring the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem? Before defeating the Philistines or after?
(a) After (2 Samuel 5 and 6)
(b) Before (I Chronicles 13 and 14)
How many pairs of clean animals did God tell Noah to take into the Ark?
(a) Two (Genesis 6:19, 20)
(b) Seven (Genesis 7:2). But despite this last instruction only two pairs went into the ark (Genesis 7:8-9)
When David defeated the King of Zobah, how many horsemen did he capture?
(a) One thousand and seven hundred (2 Samuel 8:4)
(b) Seven thousand (I Chronicles 18:4)
How many stalls for horses did Solomon have?
(a) Forty thousand (I Kings 4:26)
(b) Four thousand (2 chronicles 9:25)
In what year of King Asa's reign did Baasha, King of Israel die?
(a) Twenty-sixth year (I Kings 15:33 – 16:8)
(b) Still alive in the thirty-sixth year (2 Chronicles 16:1)
How many overseers did Solomon appoint for the work of building the temple?
(a) Three thousand six hundred (2 Chronicles 2:2)
(b) Three thousand three hundred (I Kings 5:16)
Solomon built a facility containing how many baths?
(a) Two thousand (1 Kings 7:26)
(b) Over three thousand (2 Chronicles 4:5)
Of the Israelites who were freed from the Babylonian captivity, how many were the children of Pahrath-Moab?
(a) Two thousand eight hundred and twelve (Ezra 2:6)
(b) Two thousand eight hundred and eighteen (Nehemiah 7:11)
How many were the children of Zattu?
(a) Nine hundred and forty-five (Ezra 2:8)
(b) Eight hundred and forty-five (Nehemiah 7:13)
How many were the children of Azgad?
(a) One thousand two hundred and twenty-two (Ezra 2:12)
(b) Two thousand three hundred and twenty-two (Nehemiah 7:17)
How many were the children of Adin?
(a) Four hundred and fifty-four (Ezra 2:15)
(b) Six hundred and fifty-five (Nehemiah 7:20)
How many were the children of Hashum?
(a) Two hundred and twenty-three (Ezra 2:19)
(b) Three hundred and twenty-eight (Nehemiah 7:22)
How many were the children of Bethel and Ai?
(b) One hundred and twenty-three (Nehemiah 7:32)
Ezra 2:64 and Nehemiah 7:66 agree that the total number of the whole assembly was 42,360. Yet the numbers do not add up to anything close. The totals obtained from each book is as follows:
(a) 29,818 (Ezra)
(b) 31,089 (Nehemiah)
How many singers accompanied the assembly?
(a) Two hundred (Ezra 2:65)
(b) Two hundred and forty-five (Nehemiah 7:67)
According to Revelation 12:9, the Bible does identify Satan as the serpent recorded in Genesis. Therefore, Kevin Dunn, chair of the department of religion at Tufts University in Massachusetts, shouldn't be teaching at a university if he doesn't know the Bible that well. Just my opinion.....LOL
Amen!!! Ha Ha.
CBinKY
Wow... that argument is laughable – because it assumes they were written at the same time. At most, those two books were written 2000 years apart. So telling a bible scholar that the serpent in the original story was satan because a later book written 2000 years later clarified it, is kinda sad.
shofar
I think you are the one who doesn't;t know the Bible. revelation was written more than 500 after Genesis. In Genesis there is no mention of Satan. Another thing in your confusion is that you see the Bible as one Book, but in reality it is a compilation of many books written by different people in different eras. This is exactly the ignorance the Author is talking about.
9And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world— he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him
IIn Revelations, the Bible refers to an Ancient Serpent which could mean the one in the Garden of Eden, but does not necessarily HAVE to.
The Bible always interprets and clarifies itself. Revelation explains who the serpent was. Revelation 20:2 also help us to see that Satan is the dragon and serpent. So, the author of this article is correct. Genesis does not tell us the serpent is the devil. But, the rest of the Bible does. So, picking and choosing what we want to believe does not lead to truth. The entire Bible has to be used.
Remember the Book of Revelation was written based on the dreams of the Monk John....wow....
Also, Jesus stated that Satan was the "father of the lie." The first lie recorded in the Bible is the one told by the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. When Satan used a serpent to speak to Eve it was a cunning thing to do because Eve would probably not been deceived by an Angel telling her these things, (you will not die, you will be like God). Also, snakes don't talk, so when she sees this snake suddenly able to speak and he's talking about the altering power of the Tree of Knowledge, it would seem possible, that maybe this snake ate from the tree and is now able to speak? Pretty cunning strategy. And it worked because it says that Eve was "deceived." From Genesis on the bible gradually reveals details as to God's purpose. Even in the Garden he uttered the first prophecy. That the seed (Jesus) of the woman, (NOT Eve by the way) would be "bruised in the heal" by the serpent. This happened when Jesus was put to death by those who Satan influenced and/or outright controlled (like Judas). However, that same prophecy also stated that the serpent would be bruised in the head. The original word used in [this] case actually means to pummel into a jelly-like state. This shows the "serpent" would be completely destroyed by the Seed (Jesus) which is yet going to happen.
To CBinKY and shofar: 2 Timothy 3:16 states, "All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness". Therefore, the book of Revelation as well as Genesis are both considered part of God's Word (aka the Bible) regardless when they were written. Many times you will find in the Greek scriptures references of the Hebrew scriptures; some actually quoting from them like Jesus and the apostoles Peter and Paul, for example. Again, read the Bible closely....THE WHOLE BIBLE....before making a statement.
Gungy
Seems like a lot of play on words. The meanings behind most of these phrases, the lessons being taught; those lessons are in the bible and most other religious texts. I wish I hadn't wasted my time reading this article... or writing this post, LOL! Have a good day to all.
Pbsat
First off, the author himself should read the Bible before attempting to write something like this. Loaded with incorrect quotes and information. Beware!
The Old Testament did not use the word "whale", but Jesus himself in Mattehw 12:40 (KJV) said, "For as Jonas was three days and tree nights in the whale's belly....."
If Jesus said it was a whale, it INDEED, WAS A WHALE.
If Jesus said it was a whale, it INDEED, was WHALE.
Chris Pfeifer
The usage of "destruction" in Proverbs 16:18 can equate to "fall". The bible is not subjective and is not open to interpretation of the content, but there absolutely is figurative language. This author is very likely taking his sources' words out of context, as he has the bible itself, because some of these items are clearly in the Word. SOME. Satan's fall came before Genesis (angels came before humans), even though Genesis is the first book of the bible (the Old Testament canon, as you well know, is not ordered chronologically).
Check this out and disregard a few of the specifics you read in this article: http://www.gotquestions.org/Satan-fall.html
This is a good article to help people say, "I should look this up for myself", but it is not completely accurate.
The quote the author attributed to Ben Frankin was actually quoted BY Ben Frankin, and was first coined by Algernon Sydney. Pretty ironic that in an article whose sole purpose is to highlight others' ignorance, the author highlights his own so clearly.
SurelyUjest
And of course Now I will point out how you left the "L" out of Franklin not once but twice....must be Monday!! LOL
Actually I was refering to Al Frankin's cousin Ben, not the "founding father".
mrsmoothalways
Gen 3:1 "Now the serpent". No mention of a serpent? Either this article is gravely mistaken or someone is trying to pull a dumb one on us. Who are these so-called scholars, that come on here telling us what the bible says, and don't know themselves
Neeneko
Ahm, the line you quoted has a 'but' in it... so it does not mention anything BUT the serpent.
I think that you miss understood what he was saying. He is agreeing that the verse says there was a serpent. He is pointing out that that is all that is said, there is nothing about satan.
The way I read that is Genesis mentions nothing except for the serpent. As to what is being suggested other than the serpent in the other sentences he states that people believe the serpent is Satan and he states the bible does not directly support this.
He didn't say it mentions nothing "about" a serpent; he says nothing "but" a serpent, i.e., nothing about Satan. The fact that someone who fancies himself a scholar knows nothing about symbol, figurative language, or traditional interpretation shows that he is willfully distorting Scripture, though. The idea that Satan is the serpent is so basic and obvious that only an academic could miss it.
seriouslybro
Dude, come on. Do you know how to read?
EnPe
Or your reading comprehension is less than par. The article plainly states that genesis ONLY mentions a serpant NOT satan.
"...nothing, but a serpent." means that the book mentions a serpent, but not as Satan. There is a snake, but the snake is not Satan is what he is saying.
strangelove74
Sigh...read what you quoted from the article once again. "Nothing but a snake." BUT a snake. Not, "Nothin' 'bout no snake." The point was that many people say the snake was Satan. Genesis does not say anything about Satan. In fact, there is "nothing but a snake" that is involved. I don't mean to be snarky, but I do hope you read your Bible with more care than you read this article.
This author is saying "nothing but a serpent" meaning the Bible doesn't mention the devil, but ONLY mentions the serpent.
readcarefully
You may want to read the passage from the article you quoted more carefully – "Genesis mentions nothing BUT a serpent." The point was that Genesis does not say that the serpent was Satan. A perfect example of how people can misread and misinterpret any writing, including the Bible.
idesign17
The article says it mentions nothing BUT a serpent, meaning the the bible does not mention Satan, only the serpent. I think you misunderstood that sentence.
finch25
Exactly, he mentions nothing "but" a serpent. In other words it only mentions a serpent, not the Devil. You are the one who needs to get it right.
He said that genesis mentions nothing BUT a serpent. Meaning that it never mentions that the serpent is anything other than a serpant and never out right says it is the devil. However, in Revelations 20:2 it does says "He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan...."
I think you misunderstood the phrase. It says that it doesn't mention the name "Satan," but rather a serpent. The person isn't saying that serpent doesn't appear in Genesis.
Khyren
You should reread what you typed.
Check out the quote you copied "Genesis mentions nothing BUT a serpent,"
As in, it DOES mention a serpent, BUT not satan.
He is not claiming that the bible doesn't mention a serpent, but that it doesn't ever say that the serpent is satan:
"Most people know the popular version – Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since.
"Not only does the text not mention Satan, the very idea of Satan as a devilish tempter postdates the composition of the Garden of Eden story by at least 500 years," Dunn says."
Here is another *very popular* phrase that can not be found in the Bible: "God's unconditional love". In fact, the bible lists a whole bunch of conditions for entering and remaining in God's love. Modern Christians are deluded and have crafted many arbitrary doctrines that serve to make them feel good and cheapen the relationship with God.
Trewth
God loves everyone. Always will. If you love your child you will correct them when they do wrong. Love includes disclipline.
@Trewth, yes but we don't insist they worship us and then burn them for eternity in flames if they don't buy into absurd demands.
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IF YOU HAVE ever lost someone you loved very deeply, you will know the surreal madness that makes you see your loved one amongst strangers in the street, in traffic, in the shape of a head, a distinctive movement of an arbitrary stranger. You will remember how the ridiculous minutiae of your life slowed to a momentous lethargy and you will recognise how your memories of the silliest of details when you heard the horrible news, remains irrevocable. The Cenotaph of Dan wa Moriri brings the horror of loss to stage with a intense wisdom, a light hand and a sophisticated sense of levity. It is nothing short of sheer masterpiece.
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Zinc lozenges may triple the rate of recovery from the common cold, according to a new meta-analysis of three studies. However, the promising results come with a caveat: the studies looked at doses much higher than are commonly recommended by doctors, and the authors say that not all zinc lozenges on the market are effective.
For the new review, published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Finnish researchers combined data from three randomized clinical trials, in which about 200 people who had cold symptoms took either zinc acetate lozenges or a placebo. Daily doses of zinc ranged from 80 to 92 mg a day—substantially higher than the recommended daily intake in the United States, which is 11 mg for men and 8 mg for women.
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In the United States, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recommends a tolerable upper intake level (UL) of 40 mg a day for people not taking zinc under the care of a doctor. Too much zinc can cause nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, stomach cramps, diarrhea and headaches, and large doses over a long period of time can lead to low copper levels, low immunity and low levels of HDL "good" cholesterol.
However, no one in the studies reported serious side effects, and the authors point out that zinc has been shown to be safe and well tolerated in quantities up to 150 mg a day for months at a time in clinical trials unrelated to the common cold. It's also prescribed long-term at 150 mg a day for patients with Wilson's disease, a rare genetic condition in which the body can't process copper properly.
For these reasons, short-term doses of up to 100 mg a day are unlikely to be harmful for most people, says lead author Dr. Harri Hemilä, a researcher in public health at the University of Helsinki in Finland.
Merrill Christensen, professor of nutritional science at Brigham Young University, is more cautious. (He was not involved in the new review.) In a larger meta-analysis of zinc for the common cold from 2012, side effects including nausea were common.
Christensen says that people should aim to get the recommended daily amount of nutrients, including zinc, for overall health. But he also recommends staying below the upper limit set by the government and getting as many nutrients as possible from whole foods. "Problems occur when people start popping supplements," he says.
There's another catch, too: Many zinc lozenges on the market contain ineffective amounts of the active ingredient, says Hemilä. Some also contain ingredients such as citric acid, which interact with zinc molecules to make them less available in the body.
"The most positive effects have been found when common cold patients have started to take zinc lozenges within 24 hours after the onset of symptoms," Hemilä says. "The benefit is possibly less if treatment is started later." People should avoid formulas that contain citric acid, he adds, and aim to take a total of 80 to 100 mg of elemental zinc per day.
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And while zinc lozenges are often known for having a bad taste, Hemilä says that not all formulas taste the same—and that those used in his meta-analysis were not considered unpleasant. People who find the taste unacceptable may want to try a different brand, he says.