The Thread lift is a non-surgical facelift procedure which tightens, smooths and contours the face and neck through the strategic placement of dissolvable Threads which are inserted beneath the skin. Youthful-looking firmness and suppleness is restored to areas where volume loss and sagging has occurred, while simultaneously stimulating the body's natural production of collagen and elastin in the targeted treatment areas. The procedure can be performed in-office, giving you immediate results that improve with time, and it requires minimal downtime.
Here at Ideal Skin MedSpa we offer SILHOUETTE INSTALIFT ™ and Eurothreads.
The Newest Non Surgical Procedure to Lift Sagging Facial Skin. What does this new minimally-invasive technique mean to you? It means an immediate actual LIFT that does not require surgery.
In one simple, short office procedure of about 45 minutes, you can walk out looking decades younger*!
EuroThreads are inserted subcutaneously showing instant results commonly associated with lifting, tightening, volumizing and contouring. EuroThreads counteracts loss of elastin while simultaneously stimulating the body's natural production of collagen where treatment has occurred.
How Does The thread Lift Procedure Work?
Threads are dissolvable threads that are placed under the skin to achieve lifting of the cheeks, the jowls and the neck bands. These threads are comprised of polydioxanone (PDO), the same material that has being used for surgical procedures for 30 years. The threads are inserted, and when the needle is withdrawn, the thread remains under the skin.
Actual image of SILHOUETTE INSTALIFT ™ thread.
Threads stimulate the formation of collagen, which gives the skin elasticity and diminishes the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. This improves the skin's quality and texture over time, while also lifting and adding volume to areas that have laxity. The suture material gradually breaks down over a period of 6-8 months; however, the results typically continue to last for up to a year and a half.
This varies among individuals, but the Thread Lift generally requires little to no downtime. Swelling, soreness, and minor bruising is common following the procedure.
What Are Areas Can Be Treated?
The duration of the Thread Lift varies, depending on the areas to be treated. The procedure can take as little as 15 minutes, while more complex procedures may take up to an hour or longer.
*Results may vary per individual.


A humidifier mist is one of the increasingly familiar household appliances in the country today. As its name implies, it increases the humidity or the moisture in the air you breathe in. It is important in combating the dehydrating effects of the air-conditioning unit, although some humidifiers are attached to the central air-conditioning of households. The humidifier mist fountain however, differs from these bulky models as they provide humidity by providing a high velocity flow of mist through an opening in the apparatus. They are often used for people who believe in aromatherapy as the mist might contain volatile oils believed to relieve a specific affliction.
There are usually different models of humidifier mist fountains. Some can be portable room units while others can be integrated in the HVAC. No matter what model you buy, humidifiers create water vapor that provides sufficient air moisture. However, do consider models that have additional features. They should be able to monitor relative humidity in the surroundings. In addition, they should be easy to clean and maintain. Some high-end designs use ultraviolet light to remove microbes from the water in the reservoir. Next, you need a model that is quiet enough yet energy efficient. Finally, look for one that has safety features. You never know who's going to use the humidifier mist at all times.
You need to be familiar with how the humidifier mist fountain works to fully appreciate its benefits.
There is usually a reservoir filled with water. The water here will provide the moisture needed to maintain the room's relative humidity. Before the humidifier is set on, the aromatherapists will put the scents in form of volatile liquids needed for a certain condition. The reservoir then dispenses the water into a basin.
A rotating disk in the basin flings water at the comb-like diffuser. They usually revolve at high speeds to create more water droplets for the diffuser.
The diffuser breaks the water into finer droplets. The smaller the droplets, the better the humidity it will provide. It also creates a cooling effect without the dryness.
A fan blows the fine droplets into a narrow opening. The narrow opening is necessary for the continuous delivery of mist.
Humidifier mist fountains are beneficial to health especially if the model you brought also creates negative ions. These negative ions create relief that can only be derived from large moving bodies of water like the ocean or massive waterfalls. Yet, like other household appliances, you need to clean them regularly, particularly the water in the reservoir and basin. They might get contaminated with bacteria and further pollute the air in your home, defeating their purpose. Remove the stagnant water if not in use. Keep them in a secure place always.


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Q: how to sort an array of struct in ascending order in c++ I have an array in c++.
struct radius
{double r; double angle; double x; double y;};

radius LOCAL[1000];

I want to sort the LOCAL array according to the value r in ascending order.
I have searched on the internet and most people suggested to use use sort().
But many use vector or non struct. (I don't want to use vector.)

A: std::sort takes two iterators, it's working for native arrays as well. All you need is to tell it how to compare two radius:
std::sort(std::begin(LOCAL), std::end(LOCAL), [](const radius &a, const radius &b){return a.r < b.r});

A: When using sort(), you can either provide a comparison function as third parameter, or you can define the < (less than) operator for the struct:
struct radius {
   double r; double angle; double x; double y;
   bool operator < (const radius& another) const {
       return r < another.r;
   }
};

Then you can simply call:
sort(std::begin(LOCAL), std::end(LOCAL));

By defining the less-than operator, your struct can also be put intoset.

A: #include <cstdio>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <algorithm>

#define N 1000

struct radius {
    double r;
    double angle;
    double x;
    double y;
    static bool compOnR(const radius& a,const radius& b) { return a.r < b.r; }
};

int main(int argc, char* argv[] ) {
  radius LOCAL[N];
  std::srand(1);
  for (size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i)
      LOCAL[i].r = std::rand();
  std::sort(LOCAL,LOCAL+N,radius::compOnR);
  for (size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i)
      std::printf("%f\n",LOCAL[i].r);
  return 0;
}

g++ sort.cpp -o sort;
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A: The qsort function does what you want. You can also use std::sort in C++
int radius_compar(const void * a1, const void* a2)
{
    radius* r1 = (radius*)a1;
    radius* r2 = (radius*)a2;

    // TODO: Implement proper floating point comparison
    return r1->r < r2->r ? -1 :
             r1->r > r2->r ? 1 :
             0;
}

qsort( LOCAL, sizeof(LOCAL)/sizeof(LOCAL[0]), sizeof(radius), radius_compar );

Importantly, check out this article about some details on floating point comparison.
Here's how to do it with std::sort:
bool RadiusLessThan( const radius& r1, const radius& r2 )
{
    // Note that this is not a safe way to compare floats
    // it's just for illustration.
    return r1->r < r1->r;
}

std::sort( LOCAL, LOCAL+sizeof(LOCAL)/sizeof(LOCAL[0]), RadiusLessThan );

A: You can use qsort() function.
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

const int LOCAL_SIZE = 10;

struct radius {
    double r; double angle; double x; double y;
};

int ascending(const void *d1, const void *d2);

int main(void) {
    radius LOCAL[LOCAL_SIZE] = {
        { -1, },
        { 0, },
        { 7, },
        { 2, },
        { 6, },
        { 5, },
        { 8, },
        { 9.9, },
        { 138, },
        { -1666 }
    };
    qsort(LOCAL, LOCAL_SIZE, sizeof(radius), ascending);

    for (radius &d : LOCAL) {
        std::cout << d.r << std::endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

int ascending(const void *pd1, const void *pd2) {
    const radius *r1 = (const radius *)pd1, *r2 = (const radius *)pd2;
    if (r1->r > r2->r)
    {
        return 1;
    }
    else if (r1->r < r2->r)
    {
        return -1;
    }
    else
    {
        return 0;
    }
}

A: Besides the answers already provided,
in your structure definition, you can override the '<' operator too -
radius::operator<(const radius &y)
{
    if(this->r < y.r)
         return true;
    else
         return false;
}

and This should make the sorting function work just fine.
I am assuming that you won't be needing a different comparison function
on radius structure.

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EVE Valkyrie Looks Awesome – but is the Oculus Rift?
EVE Valkyrie Looks Awesome
Note: I use this discussion of Valkyrie to segue into a few issues that affect all games 'made' for the Oculus Rift. I might sound harsh, but that doesn't mean I'm not looking forward to Valkyrie or that I'm thankful for CCP's contribution to a genre that is badly in need of new titles – I'm definitely looking forward to Valkyrie and the Rift!
The ~45 second EVE Valkyrie trailer that debuted last year is probably the most exciting space game video I've ever seen (not to be confused with the game that I'm most excited about, which is obviously Homeworld: Remastered). The trailer is gritty, it has that hardcore Battlestar Galactica feel (and it should – the main voice is that of Katee Sackhoff!). It has immersion-giving battle chatter, similar to Homeworld. It looks totally skill-based. It starts out with the player being launched out of what I presume to be a capital ship from a launch tube, BSG style: how freaking awesome is that? Totally rad. Check it out if you haven't seen it, (while keeping in mind that the game has gone to an entirely new engine since this video was made, dramatically cranking up the visual 'holy shit' factor):
Oh, No. Will it require the oculus rift?
This was my concern as well, but thankfully the answer is no. While the Rift is the coolest piece of tech ever to happen to space games in theory, it hasn't been fully realized yet. However, there are still potential downsides.
I've used both of the devkits, and to quote what the Oculus staff were saying repeatedly at PAXaus 2014: "it's not ready yet, and won't be for probably years" (which clashes somewhat with their recent announcement that the rift could be available commercially in 2015) which I have to agree with: they were awesome, but these babies are not ready for prime-time yet. And neither are most gamers: can your machine drive an AAA title on not one, but two screens at a constant minimum of 70fps (as Oculus employees stated will be necessary)? If the answer is no, playing Valkyrie on a consumer-ready Rift wouldn't work for you. So will you be SOL when it comes to playing Valkyrie? The verdict is still out.
From what's been said in multiple interviews with CCP (more videos below) it appears to be designed for combat on the Rift, with controls tailored for VR users. This is one of the things that concerns me about Valkyrie. I want to play Valkyrie, and I want lots of other people to play it also. But how playable will it be without VR – because, realistically (and at Oculus's own admission at PAXaus 2014), VR is many years away from becoming mainstream, and may never become mainstream? Will players on VR have a distinct advantage?
We are going to focus on VR first, and the release date for Valkyrie will be related to the release date of the hardware – CCP Games, E3 2014
I love the 'look at feel' of Valkyrie, and I admire CCP for embracing new technologies such as the Rift. However, how many of us actually have machines that can drive a game based on the UT4 engine on dual 1080 screens at a minimum of 70 FPS to use the Rift? And will the Rift actually be available in the near future?
These are important questions in my mind because *IF* the Rift is available to consumers anytime soon (and that's a big if), will the small percentage of players that are willing to spend several thousand dollars on extra hardware to use the Rift (the 'average gamer' according to steam stats has a 2gb graphics card – this won't be sufficient to drive the Rift's dual 1080 screens at the 70 FPS minimum each that will be required) have a huge advantage over those not using the Rift?
Please don't take all of this as Rift bashing – like I said, I've used the dev kits, and I think, potentially speaking, they're totally rad. However, my primary concern with games is, well, their playability – and a big part of playability is accessibility! Food for thought, no?
Valkyrie: Spreadsheets in space it ain't
Thankfully EVE Valkyrie is not 'space accounting' like EVE online is.* Nope, this game is not for the noobs people that enjoy playing excel with a pretty skin, because Valkyrie is all about the combat – and what looks like some gritty, hardcore combat with that 'I-sense-a-suicide-coming' melodramatic awesomeness reminiscent of Battlestar Galactice.
CCP stated they were wanting a "foreboding" atmosphere, which they seem to have nailed – and I love it. Speaking of atmosphere, valkyrie was recently switched over the Unreal 4 engine. Talk about atmosphere: the difference is massive! Along with the engine switch came a HUD redesign, which was apparently a challenge given Valkyrie's 'made for VR' design looks awesome. It looks similar to Elite Dangerous's HUD IMO, but still has a that luscious 'dark' look and feel. Also, check those incredible particle effects (missile trails, explosions) the UT4 engine allows for (UT4 footage starts at ~7:15 in the below video). In summary? It's space combat. It's dark. It's skill based. Even with the potential issues arising from being made for VR, I'm sold. .
There are a lot of pretty visuals and a lot of discussion about Valkyrie + VR, but besides that, details are pretty scarce. The game will feature three fighter-class ships in three roles: Fighter, Heavy, and Support, with on-the-fly ship and weapon loadout changes. There will be weapons and ship customization which will apparently need to be unlocked (presumably through progression). There will be some form of progression in the form of character advancement and rank, which I definitely like.
EVE Online players will appreciate that Valkyrie is definitely a part ofEVE universe and not a standalone game world. and that some historical characters from EVE will take part in the story for Valkyrie, mainly Ran Kavik (voiced by Katee Sackhoff – nice touch, CCP!). We also know that the release date is tied to the release date of VR hardware (most probably the Rift, although support for Sony's Project Morpheus is being built into the game, which leads us to conclude that there will be a PlayStation 4 version).
And that's about all we know for now, but keep watch here for future coverage. I just hope it will be available this decade..
EVE Valkyrie: www.evevalkyrie.com
Release Date: Unknown
*Yes, that's my opinion. Don't like it? Go start your own space gaming site. With Hookers. and Blackjack. On second thought…
A Quick Look at Fractured Space
Limit Theory Development Update, Introduction, & Thoughts
Limit Theory is an upcoming indy space sandbox game that's entirely procedurally generated.
Homeworld Merchandise?
Fresh from Gearbox: Homeworld Merchandise is something they're "working on"!

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"This is a great way to use that leftover turkey after the holidays. It's even better the next day. My mother handed this down, and it has always been a family favorite. We usually have this barbeque on a roll."
Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat. Place onion, celery, and green pepper in the skillet, and cook 5 minutes. Mix in the ketchup, brown sugar, chili powder, and Worcestershire sauce. Season with salt. Cook over low heat until bubbly. Stir in the turkey, cover, and simmer 30 minutes.
Make easy, hearty turkey chili with your leftover Thanksgiving turkey.
A lot tastier than I expected it to be, but it was pretty dry.
This seemed almost like BBQ shredded beef. Good flavor.
This was pretty good. The sauce had a nice flavor. The only thing I changed was no celery and I added about 1/4 cup water. I would have liked more sauce for the 4 cups turkey though.
I used red bell pepper -- but otherwise did not change a thing. We really liked it -- maybe I'll try it with ground turkey or beef as a sloppy Joe.
I didn't add bell pepper, and didn't change a thing! Awesome, So glad I found this recipe!


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Q: Communication Line Protection I intend to protect a BUS switches ICs, whose voltage on its pins cannot exceed 5.5V and 3.3V. The current cannot exceed 16mA.

The circuits needs to opperate from 3.3V to 5V. But automotive enviroment will need protection for continuous 14,8V at the input. So, I'm using a voltage-clamp to prevent against overvoltage, a resistor to prevent against overcurrent and a TVS diode to prevent against ESD.
The problem is to choose TVS diode.  A TVS with voltage breakdown  below 14,8V would burn at continous voltage. So, the voltage breakdown  needs to be greather than 14,8V. For a TVS with this value of voltage breakdown, I didn't find one with  clamping voltage smaller than 21,5V and I'm afraid that a resistor of of 360/0.5W will not be enough.
For 5V signal-line:
(21.5-5)^2 /360 =0.756 W
For 3.3V signal-line:
(21.5-3.3)^2 /360 =0.920 W
The question is:
I suppose the ESD events are very short in time, will it be enought to fry the resistor of 360/0.5W ?
The problems to choose greather values for resistance are the interference on communication line and the size of resistors that will ocupy more space on the PCB.

A:
I suppose the ESD events are very short in time, will it be enough to
fry the resistor of 360/0.5W ?

IEC 61000-4-2 ESD events will peak around 10 amps after about 1 ns and trail off becoming less than an amp after 100 ns: -

Image from here. I recommend you double check this by reading various on-line articles such as this. However, it's very unlikely that the resistor will suffer any damage given that the peak voltage it sees will be around 21.5 volts for far less than a microsecond.
I doubt that the zener diode will suffer any problem either. It's worth applying high-frequency decoupling capacitors on the Vcc rail to ground close to where the diodes are.
Have you considered that the 360 Ω resistor could probably be a few kohm?


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Library Workflow Redesign: Six Case Studies
Marilyn Mitchell, editor
Copyright 2007 by the Council on Library and Information Resources. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transcribed in any form without permission of the publishers. Requests for reproduction or other uses or questions pertaining to permissions should be submitted in writing to the Director of Communications at the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Library Workflow Redesign: Concepts and Results, Marilyn Mitchell
New Techniques in Library Technical Services at the Appalachian College Association, Anne Chase and Tony Krug
Reference and Information Services Redesign at The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges, Linda Gunter and Cindy Snyder
Technical Services Work Redesign across Two Libraries; Cooperative Work Redesign in Library Technical Services: Denison University and Kenyon College, Debra K. Andreadis, Christopher D. Barth, Lynn Scott Cochrane, and Karen E. Greever
Increasing Productivity through Workflow Redesign at Smith College, Christopher B. Loring
Managing Electronic Resources in the Tri-College Consortium, Norm Medeiros
Redesigning Services at The Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc., Loretta Parham and Carolyn Hart
Supplemental Information to Case Studies
Appalachian College Association
Click on the links below to download individual documents or click here to download all of the documents for this institution in one package. Documents are PDFs.
ACA Workshop Description
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ACA Tony Token Program Description
ACA Warren Wilson Report
ACA Bethany and Wheeling Report
ACA Bluefield Workflow Analysis
ACA (link removed)
ACA Montreat Managing Overdue Materials
ACA Bryan Report
ACA Guidelines for Enclosures
ACA Document Delivery Plan
https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub139/ACAappx10.pdf
The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges
Claremont Model for Information and Research Services Redesign
https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub139/CLappx1.pdf
Claremont Training Module Possibilities
Claremont Model for Information & Research Services Redesign, Progress Report 6/14/05
Claremont Initial Student Survey
Initial Student Survey Findings, Dec. 6, 2004
Claremont Focus Group Findings, Dec. 6, 2004
Honnold Mudd Library All-Staff Survey Findings, Aug. 22, 2005
User Survey, December 2005
The Robert W. Woodruff Library
Task Groupings Detail:
https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub139/RWWLappx1.pdf
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Marilyn Mitchell was library director at the University of Puget Sound from 1990 until her retirement in 2003. During her tenure, the library assumed a leadership role in campus technology and organizational change. She managed a major renovation project designed to promote maximum opportunities for workflow redesign and staff redeployment. She also chaired the Orbis Consortium (now the Orbis Cascade Alliance). Prior positions included assistant director for collection and automation services and assistant director for technical services at the Auraria Library, an innovative library serving the University of Colorado at Denver, the Metropolitan State College of Denver, and the Community College of Denver. She has a B.A. degree in history from Occidental College and an M.L.S degree from the University of Texas.
Anne Chase is director of library services at Berea College, one of six "work colleges" in the United States. Previous positions include director of the library at Lamar University-Orange in Texas, where she established the institution's first library; head of public services at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands; and director of library and computer services at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Ohio. Ms. Chase has been an active member of the Appalachian College Association Central Library since its founding.
Tony Krug is director of the Appalachian College Association's William G. Bowen Central Library of Appalachia. His work is based on nearly 40 years of library experience, most recently at Carson-Newman College, where he served as dean of library services from 1997 to 2002, and at Bethany College, where he was director of information services from 1988 until 1997. Before that, he served at Maryville University-St. Louis as director of libraries, and at Wabash Valley College in Mt. Carmel, Illinois, as associate dean of instruction for learning resources. His administrative library career began at the Olney Carnegie Public Library in Illinois, after library experience in various capacities at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. He has published numerous articles on the uses of technology in libraries and has consulted for libraries in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. He holds B.S. and M.L.S. degrees from Indiana State University and a Ph.D. degree from Southern Illinois University.
Linda Gunter is head of access services and a reference librarian at the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges. She was a member of the reference redesign team, working to enhance and streamline services for the libraries' users. She has held librarian positions in reference and cataloging at three other academic libraries.
Cindy Snyder is the services desk manager and a reference and instruction librarian at the Honnold/Mudd Library of The Claremont Colleges. She was project manager of the reference redesign team, which over the course of two years investigated innovative and efficient ways to provide reference and information services to the users at The Claremont Colleges.
Denison University/Kenyon College
Debra Andreadis is science liaison and technical support librarian at Denison University. She was a member of the task force created to plan and implement the work redesign project at Denison and at Kenyon College. She received M.S. degrees in ecology and in information sciences from the University of Tennessee.
Christopher Barth is executive director of library and information services and chief information officer at Luther College. He has also served as director of information resources, as librarian and technology consultant, and as instructor of history at Kenyon College. Among his areas of interest are implementation and evolution of merged library and information technology organizations, and the role of the Web and of library access tools in redefining information use and delivery. He holds an M.L.I.S. degree and M.A. degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a B.A. degree in history from Kenyon College.
Lynn Scott Cochrane has been director of libraries at Denison University since 2000. She has 35 years' experience in academic libraries in six institutions, including Penn State, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Tech, and Marymount University. Her library expertise includes planning, assessment, consortial collaborations, team building, and leadership development. She was an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America's School of Library and Information Science between 1994 and 1996. An active member of several professional organizations, she has chaired the Association of College and Research Libraries' College Library Section and been president of the Virginia Library Association. She writes and speaks about the National Archives' presidential library system. She received a Ph.D. degree in public administration and policy from Virginia Tech.
Karen E. Greever has been collection development librarian at Kenyon College since January 2006. Before that, she was technical services librarian at Kenyon for four years and acquisitions/serials librarian for three years. Before her arrival at Kenyon, she was an authority control/catalog management librarian at Ball State University for five years and a catalog librarian for one year. She received her M.S.L.S degree from the University of Kentucky. She has been a guest speaker for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies. She has written and spoken about acquisitions and cataloging workflow and processes, authority control, and collaborative collection development.
Christopher Loring is director of libraries at Smith College. Shortly after his arrival at Smith, he engaged the libraries in a strategic planning process that has led to greater emphasis on the use of new technologies, a programmatic effort to incorporate information literacy into Smith's open curriculum, and the creation of library spaces that are more responsive to student needs. Before coming to Smith in 2000, he held a variety of positions at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Libraries, including head of interlibrary loan, head of access services, and team leader for reference and consultation services. He holds an M.L.S degree and a master's degree in classical archaeology from the University of Minnesota.
Tri-College Consortium
Norm Medeiros is associate librarian of the college at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, where he oversees technical services, coordinates the library's digital initiatives, and serves as economics bibliographer. He has published widely in the area of electronic resources management, most recently House of Horrors: Exorcising Electronic Resources, which appeared in Managing Electronic Resources: Contemporary Problems and Emerging Issues (Chicago: American Library Association, 2006). Mr. Medeiros is an editorial board member of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services' quarterly journal, Library Resources & Technical Services, and U.S. editor of E-LIS, the international open archive of library and information science. He is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.
Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center
Carolyn Hart is assistant director of planning and assessment at the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center. She works closely with Woodruff's chief executive officer and library director in strategy development and assessment initiatives for the library. Hart previously managed the Dow Jones Resource Center as business librarian. More recently, she served as head of information and research services at that organization, overseeing such service areas as instruction, reference, orientation, curriculum materials, circulation and interlibrary loan, and the business resource center. An alumna of the Frye Leadership Institute and the Harvard Leadership Institute, Hart is a member of the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Loretta Parham is chief executive officer and library director of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center. Before assuming her current position, she served as director and university librarian for the Harvey Library at Hampton University, where she managed both the university library and three satellite branches. Her more than 30 years' experience in the library profession includes serving as deputy director of the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, and as a district chief of the Chicago Public Library. Parham was named a "Mover & Shaker for 2004" by Library Journal. She has written articles on Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCU) libraries and is coeditor of Achieving Diversity: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians. She is an alumna of the Frye Institute, the Harvard Leadership Institute, and Leadership Pittsburgh, and is an active member of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the American Library Association, having chaired and served on numerous association committees.
The proliferation of electronic information and tools has changed the way that readers and researchers do their work. It has also changed the way library staff members provide materials and services. Several years ago a group of liberal arts college librarians, realizing the need to streamline processes to serve changing needs, asked CLIR to help.
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we offered workflow redesign support to teams from six institutions that are part of consortia. We asked them to give us descriptions of their work, thinking that a publication on how some library staffs are changing their work patterns might be useful to other libraries that are undergoing the same kinds of changes. This monograph is the result of their work. These institutions were pioneers. Now the issue of workflow redesign appears to be on the minds not only of librarians in small institutions, but also of many librarians in research libraries. We hope that this publication can be the beginning of describing changing work patterns, and that it can be followed by additional publications, both in print and through the CLIR Web site, on imaginative ways of providing good services in a shifting environment.
Susan L. Perry


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Q: creating and displaying objects during runtime using swing I am trying to create a simple GUI for a BST tree allowing insertions and deletions. However, I am having a lot of trouble inserting components onto the GUI during runtime.
What I thought of doing was to "refresh" the GUI every time an insertion or deletion happened. I created a method called printBst that creates Jlabels to display the numbered indexes as shown below, but they are not showing up.
I've tried to revalidate and validate the GUI afterwards but it still doesn't work. Anyone have any ideas?
package source;
import javax.swing.*;
import source.BST.BSTnode;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class Frame2 extends JFrame implements  ActionListener{
    BST bst;
    JPanel displayPanel, buttonPanel, totalGUI;
    JButton insertButton, deleteButton, resetButton;
    JTextField insertField, deleteField;

    public JPanel createContentPane (){
        bst = new BST();
        totalGUI = new JPanel();
        totalGUI.setLayout(null);

        displayPanel = new JPanel();
        displayPanel.setLayout(null);
        displayPanel.setLocation(10, 80);
        displayPanel.setSize(400, 300);
        totalGUI.add(displayPanel);

        buttonPanel = new JPanel();
        buttonPanel.setLayout(null);
        buttonPanel.setLocation(10, 0);
        buttonPanel.setSize(800, 80);
        totalGUI.add(buttonPanel);

        insertField = new JTextField(1);
        insertField.addActionListener(this);
        insertField.setLocation(0, 10);
        insertField.setSize(150, 30);
        buttonPanel.add(insertField);

        insertButton = new JButton("Insert");
        insertButton.setLocation(160, 10);
        insertButton.setSize(150, 30);
        insertButton.addActionListener(this);
        buttonPanel.add(insertButton);

        deleteField = new JTextField(1);
        deleteField.addActionListener(this);
        deleteField.setLocation(320, 10);
        deleteField.setSize(150, 30);
        buttonPanel.add(deleteField);

        deleteButton = new JButton("Delete");
        deleteButton.setLocation(480, 10);
        deleteButton.setSize(150, 30);
        deleteButton.addActionListener(this);
        buttonPanel.add(deleteButton);

        resetButton = new JButton("Reset");
        resetButton.setLocation(640, 10);
        resetButton.setSize(150, 30);
        resetButton.addActionListener(this);
        buttonPanel.add(resetButton);

        totalGUI.setOpaque(true);
        return totalGUI;
    }

    public void printBst(BSTnode node, int x, int x2, int y) {
        if (node != null) {
            JLabel current = new JLabel(""+ node.data);
            current.setLocation((x+x2)/2, y);
            current.setSize(100, 30);
            current.setHorizontalAlignment(0);
            displayPanel.add(current);
            printBst(node.left, x, (x2+x)/2, y+60);
            printBst(node.right, (x2+x)/2, x2, y+60);
            System.out.println("here");
        }
    }

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        if(e.getSource() == insertButton)
        {
            bst.insert(Integer.valueOf(insertField.getText()));
            displayPanel.removeAll();
            printBst(bst.root, 0, 800, 0);
            totalGUI.revalidate();
            validate();
        }
        else if(e.getSource() == deleteButton)
        {
            bst.delete(Integer.valueOf(deleteField.getText()));
            displayPanel.removeAll();
            printBst(bst.root, 0, 800, 0);
            totalGUI.revalidate();
            validate();
        }
        else if(e.getSource() == resetButton)
        {
            bst.clear();
            displayPanel.removeAll();
            printBst(bst.root, 0, 800, 0);
            totalGUI.revalidate();
            validate();
        }
    }

    private static void createAndShowGUI() {

        JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("[=] JButton Scores! [=]");

        Frame2 demo = new Frame2();
        frame.setContentPane(demo.createContentPane());

        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setSize(900, 400);
        frame.setVisible(true);

    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                createAndShowGUI();
            }
        });
    }
}

A: Make sure you call revalidate() and repaint() after you remove components from displayPanel ie:
displayPanel.removeAll();
printBst(0, 800, 0);
displayPanel.revalidate();
displayPanel.repaint();

Also, note that:
printBst(0, 800, 0);

results in invalid (not in bounds) coordinates inside displayPanel, which size is defined as (400, 300) The top-left corner of a window is 0,0. Try the following and you should see your label somewhere in the middle of the panel:
printBst(0, 400, 0);

Absolute positioning can be very difficult to manage. Check out A Visual Guide to Layout Managers and see if you can find an appropriate layout to help you.
You may also consider ready to go frameworks that can give you 2D canvas to work on. For example JGraph, JFreeChart or Piccolo2D.


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Fortnite's next season begins with the battle royale's first single-player narrative sequence
Zero Point missing out.
News by Tom Phillips Deputy Editor
Updated on 9 Mar 2021
Fortnite will kick off its new season with Zero Crisis Finale, a first-of-its-kind solo experience for the game's battle royale mode.
The single-player mission will bridge the gap between seasons and be available from 16th March, whenever you first log into the upcoming Chapter 2 Season 6.
Alternatively, you'll be able to watch the experience online in cinematic form. Details of when this will premiere will be announced shortly.
Zero Crisis Finale is a big experiment for Fortnite, which has previously required you log into the game at specific times - or watch via streams - to see its climactic seasonal live events. These are always spectacular to view, though the game has struggled in the past as increasingly huge numbers of people attempt to log on at the same time. (Fortnite's most recent live finale, its Galactus event, notched up 15.3m concurrents.)
While it seems likely live events will still continue, the single-player nature of Zero Crisis Finale is well-timed to offer a big chunk of Fortnite lore after a long season of build-up, and at a point when the game is poised to reveal answers to some of its island's biggest mysteries.
"When you first launch into the new season, you'll play through the conclusion of Agent Jones' mission in the Zero Crisis Finale," Fortnite says. This means we'll finally see what happened next after Jones jumped into Fortnite's Loop back in December.
"The aftermath of this event is sure to shape Reality as we know it."
Back at the season's beginning, Jones was forced onto the Island as its reality-powering Zero Point began to collapse. In recent weeks, the Zero Point has begun to destabilise (again), meaning something big will need to happen to stop a repeat of Fortnite's black hole incident back in 2019.
Until next week, developer Epic Games has warned players they have just a few days left to earn everything in the season's current battle pass. Gold Bar currency will also be reset next season, Epic has said, so spend it now while you can.
Deputy Editor
Tom is Eurogamer's deputy editor. He writes lots of news, some of the puns and makes sure we put the accent on Pokémon.
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Q: Macro doesn't work when copied into another workbook I had to make an exact copy of a workbook in order to translate it, and the macros do not work because its source is the original workbook (according to the debugger). How can I make these macros work in the new workbook? can I change the macro code in the new workbook?

A: Depending on the macro and how it is programmed.
If the macro use absolute paths like the place where the file is locate you need to change the macro.
You can programm macro in different styles. To use it for different workbooks you can programm it with the ActiveWorkbook object. So if you open a workbook and start it, it will use the active one. You can even use it when you open the file with the macro and then change to a other workbook, because then that workbook is the active one.
You need to look at the macro how it is programmed. Like you said, if you close all workbooks, copy the file, start the new file and it still reference the old one then there should be a absolute path in the macro code.
Open the macro with the macroeditor and look for something like this:
Dim WB As Workbook

WB is an Variable here so it can be any other name, too. For the example I go here with the WB. When you found the workbook variable look for some like this:
Set WB = Workbooks.Open("c:\somewhere\file.xlsm")

There you need to place the path with the new location or change it to
Set WB = ActiveWorkbook

or
Set WB = ThisWorkbook

The different between this two is just that ActiveWorkbook always use the active one, so can use it for more then one workbook without the need to import it to the new file . If you choose ThisWorkbook the marco will always reference the Workbook with the macro belongs, too.
I hope that is what you needed.
EDIT
After reading the unformated code, there you go:
    Workbooks.Open ("F:\Advisory\AAA Ficheros de Propuesta\Master Files\Propuesta Integral - Master File\Datos de Cliente\Positions.xlsm")

That might be the problem


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The Homosexuality Question, Part II: Jesus DID Say Something
Posted on August 11, 2012	by thomsense
"This is pretty much everything the bible has to say about gay stuff…" is how I started the last paragraph of part I, but that's a little bit disingenuous. There are other passages within the bible that are of interest to LGBT's but they are not as explicit and directive as the six quotes I examined. There are several (possible) love affairs, most notably David and Jonathan, and Ruth and Naomi. Also, there is the matter of this weird word, "racha" (often written "raca") found in the Sermon on the Mount and nowhere else. What is it?
The New International Version of the Bible leaves the word untranslated in its place (as does the KJV): Matthew 5:22: "But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, 'Raca,' is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell." What about the other translations? The New Living Translation uses the word "idiot". The English Standard Version uses "fool". The New American Standard Version uses "good-for-nothing". In a real stretch, the Aramaic Bible in Plain English uses a phrase "I spit on you".
It's pretty obvious that this word "racha" is some kind of a slang word, pejorative and dirty. And because it wasn't a "nice" word, no one ever wrote it down, except in this one Biblical spot! In fact, no other ancient textual source of the word was found until 1934. from igfculturewatch:
Further, in 1934 a papyrus was published from Hellenistic Egypt of the year 257 before the Christian era that contains the word rachas in an unspecified derogatory sense, but a parallel text suggests that it had the meaning kinaidos ("faggot"). It would thus have been a loanword from Hebrew in the vulgar speech of the Greek settlers in Egypt.
A-HA! Now things are starting to make some sense! Why would Jesus say "stupid" in his second prohibition and "you fool!" in his third? The answer is that he would not! Jesus is telling us in Matthew 5:22, in his second prohibition, not to call people out as faggots, plain and simple as can be.
Okay, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of LGBT's. Jesus "racha" comment does tell Christians to get off LGBT's backs about the persecution stuff, but doesn't condone LGBT's themselves. But there is another spot in the Bible that does better, Matthew 8:5-13:
When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. "Lord," he said, "my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly."
Jesus said to him, "Shall I come and heal him?"
The centurion replied, "Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, "Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would." And his servant was healed at that moment.
What? That doesn't sound like much of a LGBT endorsement? Once again, it's all in the translation. The original word used that was translated as "servant", is "pais". What is a pais? Basically a squire…with benefits. Not all Romans used their pais like that, but Luke corroborates that in this particular instance, the Roman Centurion mentioned in Matthew probably did. In Luke 7:1-10, the story of the Centurion and his pais is told again, but this time, the servant is referred to as "entimos doulos". From St. John's MCC Community website:
"The word doulos generically means 'slave;' it could not mean son or boy. Entimos means 'honored', so the combination would produce the contradiction of 'honored slave,' meaningless unless it applied to a 'junior or younger male partner.' Thus the meaning of pais in Matthew is limited to the partner in a same-sex relationship (reputedly, the shield bearers for Roman soldiers were their lovers).
In other words, Matthew and Luke both tell a tale of one half of a LGBT couple being told that he had "the greatest faith in all of Israel" for believing Jesus could heal his lover, sight unseen! Unlike the woman who had been accused of adultery, Jesus never told the Centurion to "go and sin no more". This LGBT endorsement sounds a bit better now, doesn't it?
…And this is all without even getting into the "born eunuch" controversy…yet.
EDIT 8/21/12 I didn't find this link until after I published this blog, but it does a GREAT job expanding on the story of the Centurion and his pais, and even brings gay marriage into the conversation: When Jesus Healed a Same-Sex Partner
Part I: The Homosexuality Question Answered: Not a Sin
The Homosexuality Question, Part III: Pro-Marriage Equality…Because the Bible Tells Me So?
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slrman says:
When you're debating about something that was written 2,000 years ago, copied, recopied, and translated and then translated again, centuries afterward, you cannot assume no mistakes were ever made no "edits for their own good" were ever made or that the entire thing is nothing more than BS. Plenty of other places have clearly been shown to be wrong, or simply made-up fables.
Mostly, the babble has been "interpreted" in those translations and copies so it would seem t mean whatever the person doing the work wanted it to mean. All of it was done so badly that the contradictions were not even edited out.
Essentially, it's all nonsense, so who cares what it says?
thomsense says:
slrman you are right. The Bible has been endlessly massaged over the centuries, and mistakes both accidental and intentional have been made. But that doesn't make it BS. That makes it an incredibly resilient set of documents, to survive today with as few mistakes in it that it's got, and with such continuing popularity.
"Who cares what it says?" About a billion people! If you really want to get into the heads of a billion of your fellow humans, including a substantial number number of your countrymen, then you could hardly do better than to read and study their holy book a little.
"As few mistakes as it's got?" It IS bullshit. It is so full of contradictions and outright lies that even a casual study of it in an objective manner would reveal that it is nonsense.
Billions of people believe it? So what? Lots of people believed the earth was flat. Did that make it true? The truth is the truth even if no one believes it. A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it.
I have read the babble many times. That's how I became an atheist. You would do well to read it yourself.
Yes, it does contain a few independently verifiable historical places and events. Does that make any of the rest of it true? Not a bit. Here's how that works.
On the 11th of September, 2001, two commercial aircraft flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing thousands.
Some people believe that this was an act of terrorism by an Islamic fundamentalist organization.
It was really the power of my god (he who must not be named) directing those planes to warn the people of the USA and the world to abandon their wicked ways and praise the only true god.
The first sentence is unquestionable historic fact. The last sentence is a delusional lie but is impossible to prove to be false. The "truth" of all "holy books" is based upon this same technique.
The babble is BS. I can provide you with many contradictions, myths, and outright lies from it. How many do you want?
Read, study and RESEARCH the bible. You should look at definitions, and culture to understand what was happening in the bible. It doesn't merely have "a few mistakes" as you declare. It is completely filled with contradictions, and retractions. Jesus himself was created (if we decide to go along with the bible being a truth) to correct God's mistake. What mistake? He gave us 10 commandments to follow. You break one you break them all. And gosh darn wouldn't you know it? We humans are flawed. So what happened? Everyone went to Sheol. You know the place that Jesus went to rescue those who belonged in Heaven.. yet didn't make it because God didn't know we couldn't perfectly follow all or any commandments. God obviously didn't know that if we messed up we had no way to redeem ourselves… ooopsy! Enter Jesus. He died for all our sins.. every man woman and child, with his death we are forgiven… done deal, what is the need of worship, and obeying and having an uptight existence for fear of Hell's Damnation when he died, forgiving all my sins, cleaning the slate, how can it get dirty again if he cleaned it 2000+ years ago? Another, angels were created with free will but without the capacity to commit sin…. enter Lucifer, angel of music, SINNED. Job 15:14-16 judging humans with contempt..judge not lest ye be judged, aka SIN. God can create on good, it is the Devil who corrupts and preverts his works for evil purposes.. God CREATED LUCIFER…. who (according to this barely flawed book) claims is entirely and wholly EVIL… hmmm. 2 Timothy 3:16: "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION, and for training in righteousness." His word is absolute is it not? The beginning and the end the whole, the absolute undeniable truth… except the bible states, scripture can be CORRECTED and REPROOFED, for training in righteousness coincidentally defined by God, which apparently is subject to change. Leviticus 18:22 the supposed anti gay verse.. you ready? Not translated in it's whole. translated, in it's entirety it states, "man shall not lie with another man, on the bed of a woman", which would be done to insult her implying she wasn't good enough, just as Reuben slept with his fathers wife in his father's bed to insult him. The word Qadesh which somehow Christians think means homosexual.. (heads up.. that word didn't exist then) and it's literal translation means shrine prostitute, since Sodom worshipped false gods and had sexual rituals at the shrines.. the word Sodomites referred to Qadesh, the inhabitants of Sodom. Sodom in Hebrew (Cedom) means to scorch or burn. 1 Cor 6:9 translated malakos as effeminate, it really means soft, and is referring to catamites. A catamite is a young boy who is kept for sexual use, by their guardian an older male.
Sorry, your "few mistakes" has seemed to pile up to a bit more than just a few, and even if there were only a "few" they are so huge, that they actually collapse it entirely. Seems to me YOU need to do a bit more studying.
Great point about billions of people believing, so it can't be wrong.. Hitler accomplished the same thing.. I can only assume you think he was on the same plain as the bible and God. I mean how can SO MANY people believe something that isn't true?
AS I have often posted, "Beliefs, no matter how sincerely held, do not alter facts."
Unfortunately, the religious not only demand to have their own beliefs, but insist they have their own facts, too. Furthermore, they demand that everyone else adhere to those "facts" no matter how ludicrous they are. If someone objects, they cry "persecution!" and threaten them with hell. If they had real facts, they would not need to use the carrot and stick of false promises of heaven and empty threats of hell.
Woody Woodward says:
you lost me on this one spot, it did not come through to me as making a good connection…here it is:{ meaningless unless it applied to a 'junior or younger male partner.' Thus the meaning of pais in Matthew is limited to the partner in a same-sex relationship} would you elaborate on this a bit for me. I would love to be able to share this in a way that is convincing. thanks. Woody
Within the link I provided at the end called "When Jesus Healed A Same-Sex Partner", there is this:
"But pais does not mean "servant." It means "lover." In Thucydides, in Plutarch, in countless Greek sources, and according to leading Greek scholar Kenneth Dover, pais refers to the junior partner in a same-sex relationship. Now, this is not exactly a marriage of equals. An erastes-pais relationship generally consisted of a somewhat older man, usually a soldier between the ages of 18 and 30, and a younger adolescent, usually between the ages of 13 and 18. Sometimes that adolescent was a slave, as seems to be the case here."
This passage asserts that pais equals a same-sex relationship between unequals without going into the entimos doulos argument at all, which was really only supplementary to the point anyway. Hope this helps!
It all sounds like pretty this, vague stuff. Much as the christian "interpretations" they try to push onto people to justify their own actions.
One would thing that a "divinely inspired" text would be clear, concise, and unmistakable. Or maybe their god was really a semi-literates moron? That would explain a lot of things, wouldn't it?
Ruth and Naomi were mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, not a lesbian couple. You think Naomi was cheating with the wife of her own son? Or maybe took up with her as soon as her son dropped dead?
You could make an argument for David and Jonathan perhaps, but calling Ruth and Naomi a lesbian couple makes it sound like you never actually read the Book of Ruth.
" so the combination would produce the contradiction of 'honored slave,' meaningless unless it applied to a 'junior or younger male partner.'
Is that supposed to be a serious statement? No, "honored slave" can mean "honored slave" – that's not meaningless phrase. You don't realize that some slaves had higher positions than others? You think if someone is called an "honored slave" it follows that they're gay?
Look, I support same-sex marriage, full inclusion is all places, etc. But the attempts to stretch words till they break in order to claim New Testament or historical church support are rather embarrassing.
You're right, that attempts to "stretch" scripture can be embarrassing, and perhaps I've done that here in my blog. But "entimos doulos" from Luke was actually not the substantive passage here, "pais" was, from Matthew. Luke was only the supportive passage. I am interested to hear what you have to say about that, in particular.
As for Ruth and Naomi, while I can say that I've read the passages a few times, I cannot say that I've read it recently. I was not doing a blog on them, and therefore addressed them as possible lovers, not actual, of which there is some proof. Thank you for granting to me that there is significantly more proof for David and Jonathan! This is no more or less than the truth! There IS a lot less evidence to tie Ruth and Naomi together as an LGBT relationship than there is to tie either David and Jonathan, or Daniel and Ashpenaz. Perhaps I will do a blog on these possibly LGBT relationships in the future! Though right now, after delivering the trilogy, I feel like my head has given birth to a watermelon…
One more update: today I realized I wrote "probable" when I meant to say "possible", regarding the lesbian and gay couples of the Bible. While I've reviewed the proofs before and think "probable" is accurate, I wasn't willing to make that claim, stir up that controversy, and have to defend it! "Possible" is WAY easy to defend, for all couples I mentioned, and I have revised the blog.
Hmm, but Jesus apparently uses "racha" elsewhere to describe the Pharisees . . . so if he was warning against hate speech, he also used it : /
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Matthew_5:22?
The interpretation of the centurion who asks for his slave to be healed is very interesting, though! I always thought that seemed out of character for a centurion . . .
Thank you for your comment Kate! Thanks for the complimentary (I'll take "interesting" as a compliment, any day!) comment on the story of the Roman Centurion, and thank you for your link! After reading through it, and what you had you say, I had a few questions.
Your link disposed of the issue of "racha" meaning "faggot" in a rather offhand way. "Most scholars reject this view" reminds me of a recurring skit on this Canadian comedy show I used to watch in the early 90's "Kids In the Hall". The name of the skit was "30 Helens Agree", and they had a group of 30 women, out in a field, all presumably named Helen, saying some to the funnest things, in unison. But I'll admit I haven't yet checked out the link they've got right after their offhand disposal, so perhaps it's in there; why, exactly, "Most Scholars reject this view". As far as I'm concerned, Why would Jesus use a word that meant empty-headed in the second prohibition, and "you fool!" in the third? That makes absolutely no sense and until you can address that issue about your interpretation, my eyebrows remain firmly ensconced somewhere inside my bangs.
The other thing I noticed about your link, is that I couldn't find anywhere in it that described "Jesus apparently uses "racha" elsewhere to describe the Pharisees . . . " as you wrote. Not a problem, of course. But you've left me burningly curious, what is the source of that oh-so-tantalizing thing you've said?? I've not heard of that before and want to know about this occurrence of Jesus using the word against the Pharisees! I want to know! Pretty-please!
Hi Thom! In the link I sent you, it says "Jesus uses the term himself in Matthew 23:17 when he is deriding the Pharisees." It's the first paragraph under "insults." I certainly intended "interesting" as a compliment and thank you for sharing that story.
Now, if you want to reserve doubts about the Koine Greek qualifications of Ask.com, I'm right there with you : )
I just looked it up, and got to this webpage (http://biblos.com/matthew/23-17.htm), where the romanized expression of the "fool" word in Matthew 23:17 is listed as mōroi, not racha or raca. But that's just one source. If you find another that says different, I'm all ears!
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I have a cousin whose mom didn't want to or couldn't call him what he is ..GAY. He bought a house and has shared and lived in that house with his " close friend " for just about 20 years now, but throughout all these years his partner has only been referred to as his " close friend ". KievJoy, If you know plenty of men who put their "close friends " before their wives you might want to clue those wives in as to what kind of "close friends" they are!
robw77 says:
David may have been anointed by Samuel but Jonathan was Saul's heir. And David became king after Jonathan was killed. A statement about modern men putting friends before wives does not address the context…at that time, men would be expected to respect other men more than women. The reason that David would make the statement would be to point it out in the context where they would not be expected to…which would be spousal. Also… if you want to compare it to modern times, the episodes with Saul and Jonathan and David and Jonathan hiding in the field is exactly the experience that many gay men have with their irrate straight parents and their commitment to the love of their life.
It is obvious that heterosexual writers through the centuries have sought to tell these stories and play down relationship overtones. The reason the David/Jonathan account survived is because there had to be a justification for him to become king (besides the fact that God wanted him to be) and his relations with Jonathan were those justifications.
Wow Rob, all this David and Jonathan stuff sounds like a blog post! Get on it, Dude!
LOL… We'll see… I really want to do the Fox News/supportive family conflict piece first. That's the one playing though my head right now…
Then you've got a backlog. Lucky you! You are the most prolific of us, ya know.
KievJoy says:
Sorry to disagree with you, but I think from the story as a whole it's clear that Jonathan understood that David would be next king. Saoul was the first king, so it wouldn't have been as in today's age when there is a set line for ruling. even with Devid's sons God made it clear who would rule next and the eldest wasn't the one. I know plenty of men, even in this day and age who put their friends first and they ain't gay. I am not anti-gay, but just because two men are the best of friends, putting each other first does not necessarily make them gay. I also know a few men who are gay who treat their gay partners like dirt.
hmmm…where have I heard that term…" very close friends" before when referring to two men?
The issue of homosexuality aside, the Bible does not give indication that David and Jonathan or Ruth and Naomi were having "love affairs". Ruth provided for Naomi and later married Boaz, she loved Naomi as a daughter loves her mother.
David and Jonathan were very close friends. Only someone who mentally adds a host of speculation would come to the conclusion that they were having an affair.
You are right, in that the Bible does not give conclusive indication that either David and Jonathan, Naomi and Ruth (Daniel and Ashpenaz, and a few others too!) are gay lovers. But in the case of David and Jonathan, especially…How do you think that David got Jonathan's throne??
Jonathan was as God fearing as David and knew that God had given David the throne. Also in the last battle with Saul, Jonathan was killed. David getting the throne had nothing to do with their love for each other.
Actually, if you read the passages about Jonathan and David, it does not take much speculation at all to see that the affection between them was "more than good friends". "Having an affair" may be a crass way to describe it, but their intimacy was defined as being greater than "buddies". David made the point at Jonathan's death that Jonathan loved him greater than he had loved any woman. Since women were not thought of at the same "friend love" level as equals, he could only have been making reference to a partnering kind of love.
Also– Kievjoy, David was not in line for the throne… he needed to have Jonathan essentially declare him an intimate to the level of being an heir for him to get it.
David was annointed by Samuel at the command of God when he was still a shepherd boy. I think Jonathan knew and accepted it. As for loving David more than a woman, I know plenty of men who put their friends before their wives.
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