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Biles says she will 'forever cherish' her challenging Tokyo Olympics
04 August 2021 | 3:40 pm
Simone Biles says she will always "cherish this unique Olympic experience" despite her time in Tokyo being derailed by a psychological condition known as 'the twisties'.
USA's Simone Biles competes in the artistic gymnastics women's balance beam final of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo on August 3, 2021. (Photo by Jeff PACHOUD / AFP)
Simone Biles says she will always "cherish this unique Olympic experience" despite her time in Tokyo being derailed by a psychological condition known as 'the twisties'.
Biles withdrew during last week's team competition, suffering from an inability to orientate herself in mid-air.
She subsequently pulled out of the all-around final, and the first three apparatus finals, returning to claim bronze in Tuesday's closing beam.
With team silver Biles leaves Japan with two minor medals, a far cry from the four golds and bronze from Rio five years ago.
"Not at all how I imagined or dreamed my second Olympics would go but blessed to represent the USA," she said in a post on Instagram.
"I'll forever cherish this unique olympic experience. Thanks everyone for the endless love and support.
"I'm truly grateful – leaving Tokyo with 2 more Olympic medals to add to my collection isn't too shabby! 7 time Olympic medalist."
The 24-year-old's pursuit of five gold medals to equal the women's record of nine was all but ended when she baulked in mid-air on her opening vault in the team competition, as the 'twisties' struck.
The disconnect between brain and body, with the consequent loss of spatial awareness, is a potentially lethal cocktail for a gymnast somersaulting at high velocity off a vault backwards.
Reflecting on her comeback heroics behind Chinese duo Guan Chenchen and Tang Xijing, Biles told NBC: "(The bronze) means more than all the golds because I've been through so much the last five years and the last week while I've even been here.
"It was just… It was very emotional," she said. And I'm just proud of myself and all of these girls as well."
She added: "I didn't really care about the outcome. I was so happy that I made the routine and then I got to compete one more time."
Social media was alight with heartfelt congratulations.
"Congratulations @Simone_Biles… the most important medal @Tokyo2020 @Olympics" tweeted Nadia Comaneci, who entered Olympic folklore at the 1976 Montreal Games with a 'Perfect 10' score.
"Not enough words to express how proud I am of you Simone!!!" coach Cecile Landi posted.
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Q: How do I get the data from this binary file? I have a file which contains the following binary data:
$BinaryData={2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,20,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,224,123,92,59,148,254,214,1,46,0,0,0,67,0,58,0,92,0,85,0,115,0,101,0,114,0,115,0,92,0,97,0,116,0,102,0,97,0,105,0,92,0,105,0,67,0,108,0,111,0,117,0,100,0,68,0,114,0,105,0,118,0,101,0,92,0,84,0,104,0,105,0,115,0,32,0,105,0,115,0,32,0,97,0,32,0,116,0,101,0,115,0,116,0,46,0,116,0,120,0,116,0,0,0};

It is interpreted according to the following picture:

I can look at the file data in the format shown in the picture using:
Partition[IntegerString[
    $BinaryData,
    16,2
],16,16]//Column

Using this I pull out the relevant content as follows:
{$FileSize,$DateDeleted,$FilePath}=Rest@TakeList[$BinaryData,{8,8,8,All}];

Now my question is how do I get the content converted from this binary form to the appropriate form. $FileSize is an integer representing bytes. $DateDeleted is a number that should be convertible to date somehow and $FilePath is a Unicode string representing file path.
I am new to parsing binary so I might be doing things wrong. Feel free to correct me.

A: The exhibited screenshot appears to conform to the Windows Recycle Bin information format prior to Windows 10.  But the content of $BinaryData looks like the Windows 10 version of that format.  The remainder of this post assumes the latter.
Processing $BinaryData Directly
We begin with some helper definitions:
$byteArray = ByteArray[$BinaryData];

parse[type_][bytes_] := ImportByteArray[bytes, type][[1]]

$offset1970 = 116444736000000000;
fromNtfsTime[timestamp_] := FromUnixTime[($rawTimestamp-$offset1970)/10^7, TimeZone->0]

We can then extract and interpret the NTFS timestamp:
$rawTimestamp = $byteArray[[17;;24]] // parse["Integer64"]
(* 132573151658540000 *)

$timestamp = fromNtfsTime[$rawTimestamp]

Next, we extract the length of the path (which includes a terminating zero word):
$pathLength = $byteArray[[25;;28]] // parse["Integer32"]
(* 46 *)

... and finally the path itself:
$pathBytes = $byteArray[[29;;28+(2*$pathLength-1)]];
$path = ImportByteArray[$pathBytes, "Character16"] // StringJoin
(* "C:\\Users\\atfai\\iCloudDrive\\This is a test.txt" *)

Verifying the Timestamp Conversion
If NETLink is available, then we can verify the timestamp conversion:
Needs["NETLink`"]
InstallNET[];
LoadNETType["System.DateTime"];

$offset1970 == NETBlock@NETNew["System.DateTime", 1970, 1, 1]@ToFileTimeUtc[]
(* True *)

NETBlock@System`DateTime`FromFileTimeUtc[$rawTimestamp]@ToString[]
(* "2021-02-09 03:32:45" *)

Processing The Original File In Place
Should we desire, it is also possible to dispense with the intermediate byte array and read the original file directly:
(* reconstruct the original file *)
$file = "test.dat";
Export[$file, $BinaryData, "Byte"]

(* read from the reconstructed file *)
Module[{stream, rawTimestamp, timestamp, pathLength, path}
, stream = OpenRead[$file, BinaryFormat->True]
; WithCleanup[
    SetStreamPosition[stream, 16]
  ; rawTimestamp = BinaryRead[stream, "Integer64"]
  ; timestamp = fromNtfsTime[rawTimestamp]
  ; pathLength = BinaryRead[stream, "Integer32"]
  ; path = BinaryReadList[stream, "Character16", pathLength] // StringJoin
  ; <| "timestamp" -> timestamp, "path" -> path |>
  , Close[stream]
  ]
]

If this code is run on a big-endian processor, then the option ByteOrdering -> -1 must be added to all of the calls to BinaryRead or BinaryReadList.

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If you plan to bring your dog to the park, please keep them on a leash of six feet or less at all times. This is for their safety, and it also shows consideration for other park visitors who may be afraid of wondering dogs.
Our parks are also home to species-at-risk. These species can be in danger when dogs are loose.
We want everyone to enjoy our parks, so bring your furry friend and enjoy a day in nature with the family.
Oh – and don't forget to pick up after Fido.


"I would not like to be the only woman on the court." These words reflect the philosophy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman appointed to the Supreme Court. In her growing-up years, she learned the obligation of sacrifice, the impetus for education, a staunch approach to improving the world for women, and the importance of character. This self-written play, including images, will portray, in first-person, the events and cases of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her legal aims and objectives, her harmonious marriage, her friendship with Scalia, and her devotion to her position, in spite of health problems. Lauded and criticized, she continues to be a compelling liberal force on the bench and at age 84, still makes her mark in judicial proceedings. This play will include Ginsburg's reasons for not retiring and an analysis of her majority opinions.


A reader just wrote to tell me, "Your book Oakeshott on Rome in America has gone to number one at Amazon.com... in the category 'Books on Oakeshott, Rome, and America.'"
"America," "Oakeshott", and "Rome" are all big topics. If you put an AND between each of them, the importance only compounds!


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Surfing for faith
It wasn't that long ago that the internet came into existence
One's faith is determined by the belief in one person or a collective. One's faith can grow and expand onto others quickly, some take centuries to flourish, some are done in secret and some right out in the open. Whatever one's faith is, it sure doesn't seem to agree with other faiths, so humanity has to start believing in themselves, other than trying so hard, or so little, to be part of the collective.
Yes, I'm talking social media beliefs. Take, for example, the belief that Facebook would bring many people together and unite them. It turned out that people just gathered together in their own groups and believed in their own world. As yin and yang go, these groups collected into millions of groups each with the capacity to create their own society of believers. In fact, the great unification theories and dreams of the past have just divided the pie into crumbs instead of slices, creating an even more bewildered society. The choices for those who don't believe in anything are dwindling and now even the family is kept together with piles of sticky likes and emojis.
I catch myself offering a thumbs-up and saying "drama" for just about every little disturbance in real life and looking for the next wi-fi hotspot as I search for some new tidbit or major occurrence somewhere far away and still feel that I'm part of the world.
It wasn't that long ago that the internet came into existence. Now we cannot live without it for very long. In fact, when the power is off and the signal isn't reaching your modem, or whatever the problem is, it's a feeling that seems be similar like coming out of a coma.
Speaking of coming out of comas, has anyone watched a daytime soap opera recently? Half the time, the lead actor is in a coma, yet still gets adoring fans longing for their star to wake up and get some acting done, but that was a generation ago.
Fixation on television is about the same. We tend to cluster around a few channels, even though hundreds are available at the click of a button. The lazyboy is the official throne for those mesmerized by their large-screen, high-definition, surround-sound system. But when it comes to hockey, nothing beats live action.
Hockey is a sport for those diehard fans who don't have time to conduct long conversations and type on a small hand-held phone. Why bother when it's all-natural 3D complete with smell-o-vision and super virtual reality, and you can quaff beer without worrying about the next inbox from some poor person asking for the score in some place other than where the action is. Scoff all you like, but nothing beats real action. That goes for swimming, any outdoor activity and even walking to the phone when it rings on your landline.
The other night when we couldn't play bingo and there wasn't enough drama to make popcorn for. So we actually watched a movie on the DVD player on a 10-year-old plasma screen. The resulting laughter and family time was worth every second and the leftover Valentine's chocolates tasted just fine.
It's time for our beliefs to come back home and live there. Not to say that others are wrong or anything, but what makes us happy is just about the perfect thing to promote as good as any other belief.
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The Bible and Interpretation
The Social Context of the 19th Century Historical Jesus
Many Germans in the last part of the 19th century held the position that German Christianity should get rid of any Jewish influence ; Jesus ought to become more German. In order to make a plausible argument for this position some scholars turned to the suggestion of a mixed population in Galilee. They proposed that Jesus was not a Jew, but that he descended from this mixed population. The ultimate result was that Jesus maybe was an Aryan (Heschel 2007)! What made this such a dangerous idea was the growth of racial thinking in the end of the 19th century. From this viewpoint Jews did not only belong to a specific religious group, but to a separate race. This position was held by respected New Testament scholars in the 20th century, and they became actually supporters of the policies of killing Jews by the Nazi regime.
See Also: Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism: A New Quest for the Nineteenth Century Historical Jesus (I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2018).
By Halvor Moxnes
The 19th century studies of the historical Jesus seem to be of little interest today. They belong to the early phases of the studies of the historical Jesus and are read only by the historians of that research. Thus, these studies belong to the internal history of theological scholarship, which of course does not attract much interest beyond the specialists. Historical Jesus studies were for a long time the domain of Western theology. Most of its practitioners were from Northern Europe and North America. Since these groups were dominant, they tended to perceive of their own Jesus studies as universal, independent of local interests. The authoritative history of Jesus scholarship in the 19th century was Albert Schweitzer's magisterial work, The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1906/1913), which still is regarded by many as an example of objective analysis. In Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism, I have attempted a new quest for the Historical Jesus in the 19th century (Moxnes 2012), reading studies of Jesus in light of the social and political context of nationalism in that century.
Together with most theologians today I hold that all theology by necessity is contextual. The initial documents in the New Testament were shaped by the contexts of experiences of their authors and hearers/readers. In the same way modern historical studies are formed by the contexts of the authors and their audiences. The contextual theologian, Stephen B. Bevans, says that the context of modern theologians has at least four aspects: "present human experience, social location, one's cultural identity and change within a context (globalization, democratization" (Bevans, n.d).
I suggest exploring 19th century histories of Jesus in light of these aspects as examples of contextual theology. I will discuss three representatives of early Historical Jesus studies, two Germans, Friedrich Schleiermacher and D.F. Strauss, and one Frenchman, Ernest Renan.
The 19th century in Europe was a period of colonial expansion and empire-building when white Westerners came in closer contact with ethnic and religious "others." In several regions in Europe the political situation changed from absolute monarchies and states based on princely rules to nation states based on participation by the people. That transition also reflected more recognition of "the people" as the source of cultural identities. Furthermore, natural sciences started raising the question of "the origin of the species". That question was also addressed by the humanities, in terms of the beginnings of language and culture. As part of this general trend also the question of the origin of Christianity was raised, with the idea of going back to the historical Jesus, beyond the Christ proclaimed by the churches. After this brief sketch of some of the contexts of the 19th century, I will discuss how these three Jesus scholars responded to these contexts.
Jesus and his mission to the totality of the Jewish Land.
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) probably was the most influential theologian of the 19th century, since he shaped modern protestant thinking. He was a professor at the Berlin University (later known as the Humboldt University after its founder), where he gave his lectures on the historical Jesus regularly from 1819 until 1832 (Schleiermacher 1864, Moxnes 2012, 61-93). Schleiermacher framed them explicitly as a biography with the purpose of writing the life of Jesus as the life of a human person. His goal was to place Jesus within the context of his own time; he said that he wanted to place Jesus in interaction with "his time, age and people." Schleiermacher's purpose was to make the lectures relevant for his contemporaries; he wanted Jesus to be "an exemplary character" for his audience.
By choosing biography as the form for his life of Jesus Schleiermacher used a literary form that was very popular among the bourgeois elite in Germany in the 19th century. From the 18th century this social class became very influential, and biographies served to establish the bourgeois as ideals for people and to form their character. In addition to biographies of contemporaries, biographies of historical persons became popular. Schleiermacher presented Jesus as a model to be imitated. However, Schleiermacher met with criticism by theologians that he presented Jesus as a human being. He defended himself, not by using specifically theological arguments, but by describing Jesus as "a great man," a term well known by 19th century audiences. It was a popular theory in the 19th century that history was driven forward by heroic individuals. Schleiermacher used this idea, but made it more democratic, in that he emphasized that not only did Jesus influence people, Jesus was himself influenced by the people. Thus, by describing Jesus in terms of a human biography, he broke with the dogmatic picture of Christ who was above people.
During much of the 19th century scholars discussed whether John or the Synoptic gospels was the most reliable source for the history of Jesus. One should think that this was a purely literary question, but it turned out also to be influenced by its context. Schleiermacher held that the Synoptics were mere "chronicles," that is, collections of separate events. In John, however, he found a story that corresponded to his ideal of history: it presented a unity with an "inner meaning" to it. Schleiermacher found this inner meaning in Jesus' relationship to the Jewish people, which he called a "nation." This relationship was a result of what Jesus' perceived as his main mission: to proclaim the gospel to the totality of the Jewish people. This perception of Jesus' "inner calling" corresponded to his external activities. Since he was sent to all the Jewish people, his travels must take him to all parts of the land: Jerusalem, Judea and Galilee. Schleiermacher spoke of this as the "totality of the Jewish land."
Here Schleiermacher saw a correspondence between Palestine at the time of Jesus and Germany of his own time. The Romans had split up the kingdom of Herod the Great and divided various territories of the kingdom between his three sons. Likewise, Germany at the time of Schleiermacher did not exist as a single state. There were many different states, ruled by various rulers. However, among philosophers and poets the idea of Germany as one people, one language and one land took hold, before the actual political unification in 1871. Schleiermacher took part in this first phase, arguing for the unity of the German lands, in a similar way as he presented Jesus' mission to the totality of the Jewish land.
Jesus and a split nation
David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874) was a young theologian when he published The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined (Strauss1835-36, Moxnes 2012, 95-120). His main thesis was that the Gospel stories were not history, but myths that originated among early Christian communities. The result was that the book effectively undercut the very idea that it was possible to write a life of Jesus! Albert Schweitzer recognized the book as the most significant book on the historical Jesus in the 19th century. It became a reference point for modern New Testament studies, and prefigured the work of Rudolph Bultmann (1884-1986) on demythologization.
The book caused an immediate uproar; It had not only theological, but also strong political repercussions. Strauss' thesis struck at the intersection between religion and politics. His criticism of the historical Jesus affected both Christology and the monarchy. The idea of Christ as a heavenly king had served as a legitimation of the power of kings and princes. Strauss' book came at a time with intellectual and symbolic changes in the conception of politics. There was a transformation from seeing politics linked to God/Christ and monarchy to see it in terms of citizenship and people. It is doubtful that this was Strauss' intention. But his main idea, that the image of Jesus in the gospels was myths created by local communities, was picked up by the radical nationalist movement in Germany as an argument against state authority. Therefore, the conservative political establishment in Prussia attacked the book. They perceived Strauss' language as a criticism of the underpinning of the monarchy, especially of Hegel's philosophy that promoted the idea that authority was vested in the sovereign, not in the people.
Thirty years later Strauss wrote a much more traditional book where he accepted the possibility of writing a biography of Jesus, The Life of Jesus for the German People (Strauss 1864). This was a more popular book than the first; that is reflected in the title of the English translation: The Life of Jesus. For the People.
But this translation does not catch the "for the German people" in the German title, which placed the book within the context of German politics at the time. In the introduction to the book Strauss describes how the study of the historical Jesus was a fulfilment of the original intention of the Reformation. The unification of Germany was an important part of that intention, and that identified Strauss' historical Jesus as a Protestant project.
Also in the case of Strauss the question of the sources for the life of Jesus had political consequences. Strauss was influential in the discussion of whether the Synoptics or John's gospel were the best sources for the historical Jesus, a discussion which ended with the Synoptics as the majority decision. This result turned out to have great consequences for the presentations of Jesus. At issue was the construction of the geographic locations of Jesus' ministry. In John's Gospel Jesus walked across all the various regions of Palestine, for Schleiermacher, that meant that he belonged to "the totality of the Jewish land." The Synoptics placed Jesus for most of his ministry in Galilee, which welcomed him, whereas the end in Jerusalem signaled rejection and death. On this basis Strauss and many later scholars built their Lives of Jesus around a conflict between Galilee and Jerusalem. This was a contrast that could be transferred to many areas: between a peasant population and Pharisees and Scribes, between South and North, and eventually between Galileans and Jews.
For Strauss this contrast was also transferred to North and South in Germany, that is, between the Protestant North and the Roman Catholic South. Strauss had identified the search for the historical Jesus with the Reformation. His Jesus "for the German people," in fact, was Jesus for the Protestant German people. Therefore, Strauss' writings about Jesus played into the biggest political discussion of the time: the model for the unification of Germany. Should it be a "small German" (kleindeutsch) union based on the Northern, mostly Protestant states, or a "large German" (grossdeutsch) union, with its centre in the Catholic Austria? Strauss' Northern, Galilean Jesus of course served to support the "small German" model that became a reality when the German Empire was established in 1871.
There was another aspect of the distinction between Galilee and Judea/Jerusalem that turned out to have grave social and political consequences. Strauss found one of the reasons for the openness of the Galileans to accept Jesus in their mixed population, and in the lack of recognition from the "full Jews" in the South. The notion of a mixed population in Galilee was a hypothesis by historians of the Assyrian Empire and its politics in ancient Israel. They suggested that when, in 722 BC the Assyrians deported Jews from the Northern Kingdom to Babylon, they moved other ethnic groups into Galilee. In the 19th century many scholars regarded mixed "races" to have an advantage over "pure" races. As a result, while Galileans were supposed to be open-minded, people from Jerusalem, who were "pure" Jews, were regarded as close-minded.
After Strauss these ideas took a nasty turn. Many Germans in the last part of the 19th century held the position that German Christianity should get rid of any Jewish influence ; Jesus ought to become more German. In order to make a plausible argument for this position some scholars turned to the suggestion of a mixed population in Galilee. They proposed that Jesus was not a Jew, but that he descended from this mixed population. The ultimate result was that Jesus maybe was an Aryan (Heschel 2007)! What made this such a dangerous idea was the growth of racial thinking in the end of the 19th century. From this viewpoint Jews did not only belong to a specific religious group, but to a separate race. This position was held by respected New Testament scholars in the 20th century, and they became actually supporters of the policies of killing Jews by the Nazi regime.
Reading the descriptions of Jesus travels in the Synoptic gospels seems like an innocent activity. But the history of interpretation has shown that the contrasts between Galilee and Jerusalem can be brought out of their literary context and developed into political positions with very dangerous consequences.
Jesus as the ideal European
Among the 19th century Lives of Jesus Strauss' Life of Jesus, Critically examined had the largest influence on historical Jesus studies in the next generations. But The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan (1823-1892) (Renan 1863/ 1927, Moxnes 2012, 121-147) had the largest popular impact. It sold in large numbers and it is still regularly reprinted. It was easily accessible, written in the form of a biography and travel narrative. It caused strong reactions, both protests and acceptance. Many scholars, for instance Albert Schweitzer, dismissed it is a lightweight. Many church members found its description of Jesus and his disciples wandering around Galilee in endless sunshine lighthearted and blasphemous.
But I think that a different reading is possible, taking into consideration the context of Renan. He wrote the book while he was in Syria and Palestine on an expedition to collect material for the Museum of Louvre, protected by French warships. Such expeditions were typical of European colonialism, Their purpose was to build classical collections in European capitals, to secure the cultural heritage from classical Greece, Rome, the Holy Land and Egypt. The great European powers claimed their rights to be the true heirs of classical societies. They did not think that the present inhabitants of these societies represented their ancient cultures.
It was this contrast between classical heritage and present conditions that Renan found when he travelled in Syria and Palestine. Renan was in a unique position to describe this contrast and to influence political and cultural perceptions. He was a prominent philologist and played a central role in establishing a classification of the languages of the world in two main groups: the Indo-European (or Aryan) group and the Semitic group. The Indo-European group included the classical languages of Greek and Latin, and modern European languages. The Semittic group (e.g. Hebrew and Arabic) represented the Orient. Renan defined the Indo-European languages as "living languages" whereas the Semitic languages were "dead." These definitions applied also to the people speaking these languages, and that put Europeans and Westerners in a superior position to the Orientals. In his influential book Orientalism Edward Said has argued that it was Renan who established Orientalism, that is, a description of the Orient as "the other," perceived as the negative image of the West (Said 1978, 131-50).
So where does Jesus belong in Renan's classification scheme? We noticed that German theologians in the last part of the 19th century attempted to separate Jesus from a Jewish heritage by claiming that as a Galilean he came from a mixed, maybe even Aryan background. Renan, too, discusses the mixed population in Galilee where people of various races converted to Judaism. He concludes that it is therefore "impossible to raise here any question of race, and to seek to ascertain what blood flowed in the vain of him who has contributed most to efface the distinction of blood in humanity "(my italics, Renan, 1927, 83). This cryptic message is illuminated by a later passage where Renan describes Jesus' controversy with the Jewish leaders in the temple. Renan describes the position of the leaders as that of "the pride of blood," that is, of their race and identity that separated them from other peoples. Jesus represents the opposite; Renan says: "He proclaimed the rights of man, not the rights of the Jew; the religion of man, not the religion of the Jew." And Renan concludes: "the religion of humanity, established not upon blood, but upon the heart, was founded" (Renan, 1927, 218).
Renan finds that Jesus represents "man" and "humanity" in inclusive terms, not limited to a particular group or race. In a later, very influential lecture on "What is a nation?" from 1882 Renan presents similar views: a nation is not based on the particularity of race, which is a model of the past; progress, on the other hand, includes all of humanity (Renan 1996). In this perspective Jesus represents the future ideal, so to speak "the European man."
From the viewpoint of Orientalism, which saw the Orient as «the other, » Renan describes Jewish leaders at the time of Jesus as typical representatives of what he considered negative: they were fanatical and single-minded. This is reflected also in the way Renan described the nature of Judea as he observed it during his travels: the mountains were dark and foreboding. This was in contrast to the nature of Galilee that was filled with light. Jesus' own religion was inspired by this open and smiling nature: his was a God of love. To Renan, Jesus was close to nature and to the original meaning of life. In that way Jesus represented a challenge to Europe, he challenged the negative sides of civilization: an artificial lifestyle, distanced from natural life. However, at the same time Jesus represented the progress of humanity that Renan saw as typical of Europe.
Conclusion: what has the social context made us see?
It was Albert Schweitzer who in his review of historical Jesus scholarship in the 19th century gave it a bad name. His main criticism was that Jesus scholars in the 19th century painted Jesus in their own image. Later scholars in this field accepted his criticism and set up as a goal that historical Jesus scholarship should be objective, and not influenced by subjective biases. Today most scholars will agree that an objective position is not possible; we all see and write from a particular place and we are influenced by our various contexts. Therefore, instead of lamenting over the subjective images of Jesus by 19th century scholars, we should ask: what has a larger awareness of their contexts made us see? Bevans pointed to several aspects of contexts: "present human experience, social location, one's cultural identity and change within a context (globalization, democratization)." "Change within a context" may take first place. Here we may think of the dramatic changes that led to political rearrangements in Europe, especially nationalism. The process towards nationalism both culturally and politically affected the social location of populations. There was a change in the relations that people had to kings and princes in the states where they lived: people were no longer considered as subjects, but as citizens, not only with responsibilities but also with rights. The historical Jesus could be seen as an initiator of this process. Nationalism was also important for expressions of cultural identity. Here images of Jesus played important roles. In Germany there was a desire to make Christianity more German; this wish supported presentations of a non-Jewish, Galilean Jesus. For Renan, a Galilean Jesus became the ideal for a religion that represented a new humanity, breaking with the particular identity of Judaism.
It is always easier to see the influence of context at a distance, but these examples from the 19th century should make us aware of the influence of context in historical Jesus research even today.
Stephen B. Bevans, "Contextual Theology," n.d. (article for the forthcoming New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology), https://www.eiseverywhere.com/file_uploads/ff735620c88c86884c33857af8c51fde_GS2.pdf, downloaded 05.15. 2018.
Susannah Heschel, The Aryan Jesus. Christianity, Nazis and the Bible (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
Halvor Moxnes, Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism. A New Quest for the Nineteenth-Century Historical Jesus (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012).
Ernest Renan, The Life of Jesus (New York: Modern Library, 1927). French orig. Vie de Jésus, 1863.
Qu'est-ce qu`une nation? What is a Nation? Transl. W.R. Taylor (Toronto: Tapir, 1996). French orig. 1882.
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Lennar trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LEN."
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Lennar declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 9th. Investors of record on Friday, January 24th will be given a dividend of $0.125 per share on Friday, February 7th. This represents a $0.50 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.79%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 23rd. This is a boost from Lennar's previous quarterly dividend of $0.04. View Lennar's Dividend History.
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I had this really cute fabric that I really wanted to use. I came up with this really simple project that anyone with basic sewing skills can make in no time at all. A fabric basket was the perfect solution for the print in this fabric. I made it the perfect size to store a bunch of my fabric remnants and to decorate my house for Christmas all at the same time. Unfortunately, I had nearly completed the project before I realized my print was upside down. Nevertheless, I am going to show you how to make this terrific fabric basket with the warning that if you have directional fabric make sure you are sewing it in the right direction.
I had a remnant of this fabric but if you need fabric for this project feel free to head over to Hobby Lobby or Fabric.com to get exactly what you need. You only need about 1/3 yd of fabric and 1/3 yd of lining to complete this project so remnants are the perfect size. I would recommend home decorating weight fabric for this project but quilting cotton will work as well. I actually used a knit fabric with double interfacing for my project because I liked the print but I would not recommend this particularly although it did work pretty well for me.
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Place the outer basket inside the lining basket so that the pieces are right sides together.
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Turn the basket by pulling the outer fabric through the opening you left in the lining. Stuff the lining into the outer basket. Top stitch around the circumference of the basket so that the lining lays flat. Sew the opening in the lining closed using ladder stitch and you have completed your fabric basket.


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Wednesday 3rd June 2020 – Beethoven at 250
25th May 2020 UncategorisedKeith Roberts
Wednesday 3rd June 2020
Sandy Burnett
To mark the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven's birth, Sandy will guide us through the life of this brilliant, cantankerous visionary and astonishingly original composer, a man who tore up the rule book of classical music. With visual images and examples of his music, Sandy will show us why Beethoven described himself as a 'poet in sound'
Sandy is one of the UK's most authoritative broadcasters in the field of classical music. His varied career has seen him as author, bassist, conductor, broadcaster and presenter, sharing his passion for music.
After studying music at St Catharine's College in Cambridge, Sandy worked as music director for the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and in London's West End.
Sandy became a regular presenter on BBC Radio 3 for more than a decade, and also worked for Irish radio station RTÉ Lyric FM.
When he is not on our airwaves, Sandy is the author of the Idler Guide to Classical Music, and presenter of a related online course covering a thousand years of classical music from the medieval to modern eras. He also devises and leads cultural lecture holidays across Europe.
Sandy became an accredited lecturer with The Arts Society in 2017.
This meeting will be streamed online at 11:00am on Wednesday 3rd June 2020.
Members will receive an invitation by email to join the lecture.
3rd September 2019 UncategorisedKeith Roberts
A very warm welcome to a new year at The Arts Society Royal Leamington Spa – your Society. I very much hope that you enjoyed the summer (with a bit of luck it may be that we still have some summer to go!) and managed to dodge the worst of the wind and rain!
The strap line for the national Arts Society is 'We inspire, we do, we give' and, as one of the largest and most active of the societies in the UK, we plan to do just that in our society. We will aim to 'inspire' you through the lecture programme, the day visits, the days of special interest and the short breaks; enable you to 'do' through our volunteering work and 'give' through the various donations that we make over the year to a variety of worthy causes and organisations.
Members have been sent your hard copy of the programme card for the 2019/ 20 season which sets out the lecture programme for the year. I hope you will agree that it looks like another outstanding programme which I hope you will enjoy; if, for any reason, you do not receive your programme card please let the membership secretary know.
Our first lecture is on Wednesday 4th September and, hopefully, I may have the opportunity to see you and/or meet you there.
If you are planning to come to that lecture there are two matters I should make you aware of:
If on arrival at the Spa Centre, you think there has been a change in our secretary from Margot Radomska to Keith Roberts, please do not be concerned – Margot will be away on her annual visit to friends and family in Poland and Keith is standing in for her at that lecture; normal service will be resumed for the October, and subsequent, lectures.
The 'click in' process that we adopted last year to register you when you attend a lecture has proved very efficient and has substantially reduced pre-lecture congestion in the downstairs lobby area. Accordingly, we will continue with that process with one small change; previously your name and membership number were on your programme card and so the majority of members showed that to register their attendance. For this year you will see that your name and membership number are not on the programme card but are on your national membership card and so it is that card that you will need to bring with you for each lecture you attend; if you forget to do so then you will need to register at the desk as before.
The membership desk will still be manned to deal with guests, visitors or any membership related enquires that you may have.
Your programme card also has details of the planned day visits, days of special interest and short breaks and when tickets for these are on sale. It also has details of other events that are planned for the 2019/20 year such as the new members coffee morning (Thursday 10th October 2019), the Leamington Music concert (Friday 18th October 2019) and the biennial dinner at Wroxall Abbey (Saturday 20th June 2020).
If other events arise during the year, I will, of course, let you know about these both in my newsletters and updates and in my announcements before the lectures.
If you have told us that you are happy to receive communications from us by email then you will receive this letter, a brief synopsis of each of the lectures planned for the 2019/20 season and an up to date copy of the guidance notes for members by that means; if not, the synopsis and guidance notes will posted in hard copy form.
I very much hope that you enjoy as much as possible of what is planned for 2019/20.
If there is anything that you want to discuss or if you have any queries or concerns, please do contact either me or any other member of the Committee.
Shaun Pitt
Wednesday 2nd September 2020 – Catherine de Medici: the Story of Three in a Marriage
9th June 2019 UncategorisedKeith Roberts
Catherine de Medici: the Story of Three in a Marriage
Henry IV and Catherine de Medici
Fine Art Images/ Heritage Images/ Getty Images
Wednesday 2nd September 2020
Caroline Rayman
This is the sad life story of an unfortunate young woman who left Florence to become the Queen of France, and the unhappy life that followed.
She was a brave woman who suffered every indignity at the French Court, but survived all her enemies.
Caroline has lectured for many years to universities and art organisations in America and on cruise ships. She was an official guide at the British Museum and has published articles on samplers.
This is the first lecture of the 2020/ 21 season.
Wednesday 1st July 2020 – The Art of Taking Tea
The Art of Taking Tea
Afternoon Tea, 1886.
Chromolithograph after Kate Greenaway
Credit: Welcome Collection
© Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) terms and conditions https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Wednesday 1st July 2020
Gaye Blake Roberts
This lecture will explore the extraordinary story of the development of drinking tea in Britain from its introduction, through the importance of the Far Eastern trade, to the general usage of tea in modern times. It will examine the changing styles and uses of tea wares and will also look at the implications of how the beverage altered the habits of the nation.
Gaye Blake Roberts is Curator of the Wedgwood Museum, having worked previously at the V&A and the Coalport China Works Museum. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Museums Association.
Gaye has lectured extensively throughout Britain, Italy, Australia and the USA and has often appeared on national radio and television.
She has contributed to catalogues for major exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, the V&A and other international museums and has written a number of specialist books on ceramics and the creativity and innovation of Wedgwood.
Note that this meeting will not now take place in the Royal Spa Centre due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation. It may be rescheduled for a later date.
Instead, please click here to see details of our online lecture on 1st July.
Wednesday 6th May 2020 – Peggy Guggenheim
Peggy Guggenheim
Guggenheim Museum, Venice
Image by Waldo Miguez from Pixabay
Wednesday 6th May 2020
Alexandra Epps
Peggy Guggenheim, the 'poor little rich girl' who changed the face of twentieth century art.
Not only was Peggy Guggenheim ahead of her time but she was the woman who helped define it. She discovered and nurtured a new generation of artists producing a new kind of art. Through collecting not only art but the artists themselves, her life was as radical as her collection.
Alexandra Epps is an Official Guide and Lecturer at Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Guildhall Art Gallery. She lectures at Pallant House Gallery and is a Qualified Guide to the City of London, offering lectures and walks about many aspects of the arts for societies, corporations and private individuals.
She is a Member of the City of London Guide Lecturers Association and Co-author of the book Lord Mayor's Portraits 1983-2014 (2015).
Alexandra's background is in design, having practised as a graphic designer running her own design consultancy for many years. She holds a BA from Saint Martins School of Art, and an MA from the London College of Printing.
Note that this meeting will not now take place due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation. The lecture has been rescheduled for the 2020/ 21 season.
Wednesday 1st April 2020 – Raphael: A Master in the Making
Raphael: A Master in the Making
The Transfiguration by Raphael
[Public domain image]
Siân Walters
Raphael, one of the three giants of the High Renaissance in Italy alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, moved from humble commissions in Urbino to become one of the leading artists at the court of Pope Julius II in Rome. This lecture explores how he achieved this extraordinary rise in status.
Siân is a highly qualified and experienced tutor and events organiser, and lectures regularly for the National Gallery, The Arts Society, The Art Fund, Friends of the Royal Academy and many other galleries, colleges and arts societies. She was a lecturer at Surrey University for many years and in 2016 was named a Highly Commended finalist in the World's Best Guide Awards. Siân is a firm believer in making art history fun!
Note that this meeting will not now take place in the Royal Spa Centre due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation. Instead, the lecture will be streamed live on the internet. Full details will be emailed to members shortly.
Wednesday 4th March 2020 – Charles Dickens – The Man, His Life, and His Characters
Charles Dickens – The Man, His Life, and His Characters
Charles Dickens by Crowdy & Loud, after G.L. Lea, or after Mason & Co (Robert Hindry Mason) photogravure, published 21 December 1901 (1863) NPG x28075
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Wednesday 4th March 2020
Bertie Pearce
Charles John Huffam Dickens brought into the world a staggering array of wonderful characters with orphans, starving children, misers, murderers and abusive school teachers among them.
People such as Mr Micawber, Fagin and Abel Magwitch remain in one's literary psyche long after the books are put down.
Largely self-educated, Dickens possessed the genius to become the greatest writer of his age with fifteen major novels and countless short stories and articles.
In this lecture Bertie Pearce looks at the life and places of Dickens through his characters. The talk is interspersed with readings of his works. A truly Dickensian experience.
Bertie has a BA (Hons) in Drama from Manchester University, and a Diploma Internationale from the École Internationale du Théatre, Jacques Lecoq. He is a member of the Inner Magic Circle, with Gold Star. Past experience includes lecturing and performing on cruise ships, and to U3A, historical societies, festivals, schools and colleges. In addition, he has toured the world with a magic cabaret show and a one man show entitled All Aboard and has written articles for newspapers and magazines on entertainment and theatre.
Wednesday 5th February 2020 – Art of the Islands: An Introduction to Early Medieval Art in Britain and Ireland c. 500-850
Art of the Islands: An Introduction to Early Medieval Art in Britain and Ireland c. 500-850
The Ardagh Chalice
Photograph © National Museum
of Ireland
Wednesday 5th February 2020
Michelle Brown
The different cultures present in these islands before the Norman conquest produced stunning metalwork such as the Sutton Hoo and Staffordshire Hoard, the Ardagh Chalice and the Tara brooch, magnificent manuscripts such as the books of Durrow and Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels, and sculptures such as the Ruthwell Cross and the enigmatic Pictish carvings.
This illustrated lecture will trace the interaction of these cultures – Celtic, Pictic, Anglo-Saxon and Viking – across the various artistic media, setting them within the historical context.
Michelle holds a BA in History and History of Art, Westfield College, and a PhD in History, UCL. She is Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies, SAS, University of London, Visiting Professor at UCL and Baylor University, and Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo.
She was formerly a Course Tutor in History of the Book (SAS), Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, and lecturer at Birkbeck and Morley Colleges.
Her recent publications include The Book and the Transformation of Britain, c.550-1050 (2011) and Art of the Islands: Celtic, Pictish and Anglo-Saxon Visual Culture (Bodleian, 2016).
Wednesday 6th November 2019 – Secret Art in the Passport: How we use it to fox the forger
Secret Art in the Passport: How we use it to fox the forger
Wednesday 6th November 2019
Martin Lloyd
From the wax seal to the microchip, man has exploited the skill of the artist and artisan in his attempt to manufacture a forgery-proof document.
Taking you through three centuries of passport design, this lecture explains the overt, and uncovers the covert, to illustrate the defences built in to the passport and the tricks the forger uses to defeat them.
Martin Lloyd has been lecturing to various groups, including U3A, National Trust, historical societies, Gresham College and business groups since 2008. He previously worked for HM Immigration Service, and has broadcast on local and national television and radio.
Wednesday 2nd October 2019 – Brilliant British Humour in the Forgotten Art of the Picture Postcard 1909-1939
Brilliant Britsh Humour in the Forgotten Art of the Picture Postcard 1909-1939
Wednesday 2nd October 2019
From the Edwardian era to the outbreak of World War II, millions of artist-drawn humorous postcards were produced, not just for entertainment but to bolster morale, to inspire, instruct, motivate and persuade.
Discover the popular themes and styles of the period by the masters of the medium such as Mabel Lucie Attwell, Dudley Buxton, Donald McGill and Fred Spurgin, and the reasons why their popularity waned with the British public.
James Taylor studied at the Universities of St Andrews and Manchester.
He is a former curator of paintings, drawings and prints, and co-ordinator of various exhibitions, at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich and has worked as a lecturer on board cruise ships.
Publications include Maritime Painting: Images of Sail, Sea and Shore (1995); Yachts on Canvas: Artists' Images from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day (1998); The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Extraordinary Adventure Aboard FitzRoy's Famous Survey Ship (2008); Careless Talk Costs Lives: Fougasse and the Art of Public Information (2010) and Your Country Needs You: the Secret History of the Propaganda Poster (2013).
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Q: SQL Count rows and display in order Let's say i have a table named animals with with columns named "id" and "name" and "type". The last column is filled with cow, chicken, horse, pig, elephant, hippo etc.
What i want is a query that counts the number of types and displays them in order like this...
chicken 45
cows 40
horse 5
etc...
Now i only want to show the 10 with the highest amount. I use this query...
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM animals ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 0, 10");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{

echo "
" . $row['type']. "
";
}

The code above shows only the types like
horse
chicken
chicken
cow
chicken
cow
cow
horse
etc...
I don't know how to use the counter and sort in highest value.

A: Please Try the following query:
Select type, count(type) as type_count FROM animals GROUP BY type ORDER BY type_count desc LIMIT 0, 10

A: try this :
select name, count(name) as total from animals
 group by name order by total desc limit 10

A: Try:
select
    top 10 type, Count(*)
from
    animals
group by
    type
order by
    count(*) desc,type


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These adjectives indicate that something has patterns or marks which are either raised slightly above the surface, or are marked into the surface.
The paper on the walls was pale gold, embossed with swirling leaf designs.
The heavy dark table is inlaid with lighter wood.
The walls of these rotting buildings are freshly pockmarked with bullet holes.


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Manchester United vs Arsenal Odds, Time, and Prediction
By Jessie Carter
Michael Carrick is undefeated as Man United's caretaker manager
Arsenal has only one loss since August
Arsenal seems to struggle against teams from the top half of the table
The biggest game in the Premier League this Thursday is the clash between Manchester United and Arsenal at Old Trafford. The league's largest stadium is the place where the Red Devils are winless for four Premier League rounds. That's also the place where Arsenal has won only five games in this century.
Manchester United vs Arsenal Odds
All odds are per FanDuel as of November 29.
Manchester United -105
Draw +270
Arsenal +270
Over 2.5 -134
Under 2.5 +110
Where and When to Watch
Date: Thursday, December 2
Time: 3:15 PM ET
Location: Old Trafford in Manchester, England
Man United's Counter Attacks Working Like Charm
Manchester United has a new boss. Ralf Rangnick has been appointed their interim manager until the end of the season. However, until he arrives, Michael Carrick will continue to lead the team in the role of the caretaker manager. The Manchester United vs Arsenal game will be his third in this position. The previous two saw Carrick's boys beat Villarreal 2-0 in the Champions League and play 1-1 with Chelsea in the Premier League.
In both of those games, we saw the Red Devils playing on the back foot. They let their opponents have the ball and looked for their chances from counter-attacks. It worked both times, but the game with Chelsea was a prime example of this sort of tactic.
In the draw with Chelsea, we saw Jadon Sancho scoring his first-ever goal for Man United. He did it from a counter-attack after stealing the ball from Chelsea's midfielder Jorginho in the center of the pitch. The Blues did fight back but failed to score more than one goal. Still, they did have plenty of opportunities. In fact, Chelsea's players had 24 goal attempts. The ones playing for Man United had only three.
Arsenal Playing Top Soccer Right Now
The Gunners have been playing excellent soccer over the last couple of weeks. In fact, they've suffered only one defeat in the Premier League since August, winning most of their games along the way. The defeat in question happened two rounds ago when they lost to Liverpool 4-0 at Anfield. The Gunners bounced back straight away, beating Newcastle 2-0 in the following game.
As a result, Arsenal is now flying pretty high. The Gunners are currently sitting in fifth place in the Premier League table. Still, the question is, how long will they stay there? The thing is that their schedule is going to get ugly in the near future, starting with the game with Man United.
The reason why this needs to worry them is that they don't seem to do well when playing against teams packed with superstars. In addition to losing to Liverpool earlier this month, we also saw them lose to a couple of heavyweights back in August – Chelsea, Manchester City, etc.
Does the same fate await them at Old Trafford? Probably, as the player quality is definitely on the side of the hosts. Plus, the Red Devils are probably very motivated because they haven't won a Premier League game on their turf since September 11.
Pick: Manchester United to win; over 2.5 goals.
Jessie Carter, Journalist
Jessie is our resident sports specialist with over 4 years of experience in sports journalism. She's worked with several prominent online sports news outlets in the past and has accrued specialist insight across a wide range of sports markets. Combined with her own love and excitement of sports, having competed at a national level during college, she aims to improve sports coverage value for our readers at GamblingNews.
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Greensleeves arranged as a duo for Violin and Guitar. The original music is said by some to be written by Henry VIII who was besotted by Anne Boleyn, however historians don't consider this possible, as the style of music was not introduced until after his death.
Greensleeves arranged for Violin and Piano, in the key of C minor. The original music is said by some to be written by Henry VIII who was besotted by Anne Boleyn, however historians don't consider this possible, as the style of music was not introduced until after his death.
Shenandoah could have been a song of a fur trader who was in love with the daughter of a Native American chief named Shenandoah. Some people say it was a logging song. It later became a sea shanty, being the perfect tempo to sing whilst hauling in the anchor. For Violin and Piano.
Romanza Espanol, or Spanish Romance, a beautiful and well known guitar piece arranged as a duo for Violin and Piano.
Spanish Romance is a well known guitar piece, this version is a duo for Violin and Easier Guitar.
Spanish Romance is a well known guitar piece, arranged here for Violin and Guitar duo.
Tsyganochka, a Russian folk tune, is used as the theme known as Two Guitars. Arranged here for Violin and Piano.
Amazing Grace was originally an Appalachian folk tune known as New Britain, but became famous after the words of Amazing Grace were set to it. Arranged as a quartet for 4 Violins. About 1 minute, 40 secs.
America, the Beautiful: 4 verses for Voice and Piano.
Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot, a poem by Robert Burns which became the well known New Year's song. It is also sung at graduations,weddings, funerals, Burns suppers, and often at The Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. Voice and Piano.
Battle Hymn of the Republic: 5 verses for Unaccompanied SATB.
Battle Hymn of the Republic: 5 verses for Voice and Piano.
Londonderry Air, also known as Danny Boy, and I Cannot Tell. The melody existed before any of the words known to us today, and has been recorded by many illustrious singers. Arranged for Voice and Piano.


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Větrov () je malá vesnice, část obce Nadějkov v okrese Tábor. Nachází se asi 1,5 km na severozápad od Nadějkova. Je zde evidováno 7 adres. V roce 2011 zde trvale žilo 28 obyvatel.

Větrov leží v katastrálním území Nadějkov o výměře 5,89 km2.

Historie
První písemná zmínka o vesnici pochází z roku 1497.

Galerie

Reference

Externí odkazy

Vesnice v okrese Tábor
Nadějkov
Sídla ve Vlašimské pahorkatině

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Sublimation printing is dye printing. This type of printing covers the entire sock. With the proper material our printer uses heat to transfer the dye onto products like mugs, license plates, shirts and much more. Just like screen printing, our products using this method can be washed over and over without cracking, fading or peeling. These start at $25 each.


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Q: Select from multiple tables matching multiple criteria I am working with 3 tables, trying to pull a list that match certain criteria.
I need a list of companies from the companies table, that have an active opportunity (iactive is 1 in opportunities table) AND have a record in the notes table of type order or order2.
 Companies Table
+------+------------------+
| cid  |     ccyname      |
+------+------------------+
| 1c   | Bobs Fish        |
| 2c   | Sheep Counters   |
| 3c   | Old Timers       |
| 4c   | Roasted Nuts     |
+------+------------------+

   Notes Table
+------+--------+--------+
| nid  |ntype   |cid     |
+------+--------+--------+
| 1n   | order  |3c      |
| 2n   | quest  |1c      |
| 3n   | order2 |2c      |
| 4n   | cancel |2c      |
+------+--------+--------+

Opportunities Table
+------+--------+--------+
| oid  |iactive | cid    |
+------+--------+--------+
| 1o   | 1      | 1c     |
| 2o   | 0      | 3c     |
| 3o   | 1      | 3c     |
| 4o   | 1      | 2c     |
+------+--------+--------+

With this example the results should be:
     Results
+----------------+--------+
| ccyname        |  oid   |
+----------------+--------+
| Old Timers     | 3o     |
| Sheep Counters | 4o     |
+----------------+--------+

Which would give me only companies that have both an active opportunity and an order or order2 note.
I have tried building this a few different ways, but I always end up with just one result or with too many. Could I get some help?
This is on SQL Server 2005.
Thanks,
John

A: SELECT DISTINCT(ccyname), oid
FROM Companies AS c
INNER JOIN Notes AS n ON c.cid = n.cid
INNER JOIN Opportunities AS o ON c.cid = o.cid
WHERE n.ntype IN ('order','order2')
AND o.iactive = 1;

Caveat: Not Tested.

A: SELECT
    C.ccyname, O.oid
FROM
    Companies C
    JOIN
    Opportunities O AND O.cid = c.cid
WHERE
    O.iactive = 1
    AND
    EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Notes N
        WHERE N.ntype IN ('order', 'order2') AND N.cid = c.cid)

A: SELECT DISTINCT cid, ccyname
FROM Companies c
INNER JOIN Notes n ON n.cid = c.cid AND n.ntype = 'order2' OR n.ntype = 'order'
INNER JOIN Opportunities o ON o.cid = c.cid AND o.iactive = 1


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Q: SSJS for resource href in themes We have multiple applications sharing single css for themes. So we want to move this common CSS and resources into common database, and refer them in themes dynamically.
I can refer these css using following hardcoded path :
<resource>
    <content-type>text/css</content-type>
    <href>/.ibmxspres/domino/common/designstore.nsf/custom_layout.css</href>
</resource>

This way it is working fine. But we want to fetch the database path from configuration. So that '/common/designstore.nsf' path don't have to be hard coded in themes.
I tried putting designstore db path in sessionScope variable beforeRenderResponse of a Xpage. And referred scope var in themes.
<resource>
    <content-type>text/css</content-type>
    <href>#{sessionScope.commonCSSPath}</href>
</resource>

Where sessionScope.commonCSSPath = "/.ibmxspres/domino/common/designstore.nsf/custom_layout.css"
Please let me know if we can compute the db path in resources, or any other way to refer CSS files from other databases using computed path.
Thank you in advance.

A: Try calculating the href value using Javascript instead of EL:
<resource>
    <content-type>text/css</content-type>
    <href>#{javascript:sessionScope.commonCSSPath}</href>
</resource>

I am not sure if the timing of beforeRenderResponse and when a theme kicks in, makes it possible to reference a sessionScope variable. Let us know how it goes.
--
Update:
I use the following in a theme to determine the rendered property of a field and it works:
<control>
    ...
    <property>
        <name>rendered</name>
        <value>#{javascript:document.isEditable()}</value>
    </property>
</control>

I also use a function to determine the value property where the function is a SSJS function that looks up a value in a profile document:
<control>
    ...
    <property>
        <name>value</name>
        <value>#{javascript:getNecessaryValue("SetupProfile", "fieldWithValue")}</value>
    </property>
</control>

Hopefully this can inspire you to achieve what you want.


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After once dominating the Silicon Valley suburb of Mountain View, SGI has packed up and moved to Sunnyvale - the latest shift in the company's resurrection agenda.
Not too long ago, SGI owned numerous, massive complexes on either side of the central Mountain View artery Shoreline Boulevard. Those buildings have since been turned over to various organizations such as the Computer History Museum, Google and a host of start-ups. The purple coloring favored by SGI still coats a number of the structures.
Last month, SGI closed the last of its Mountain View offices - a space it shared with start-ups - and moved to 1140 E. Arques Avenue in Sunnyvale. We're told the new single story building is a nice space with a gym and plenty of room to move.
SGI shifted to Sunnyvale as yet another cost saving measure taken since it emerged from bankruptcy. The hardware maker is in the midst of shifting its business to focus on the broader corporate data center market rather than just high-end graphics customers.
Mountain View has claimed many stars over the years, starting with the original Shockley Labs - considered by many to be the birthplace of Silicon Valley. The likes of Netscape, Verisign, Fairchild Semiconductor, Veritas and PayPal have called or still do call Mountain View home.
SGI was by far the most aggressive Mountain View resident, crawling into so many flashy buildings. Many of the old SGI structures are marked by space age facades and that damn purple.


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