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TCRP A-15A [Completed]
Update of the First Edition, Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual
Research Agency: Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Alan Danaher
Until the publication of TCRP Web Document 6, Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual (TCQSM), First Edition, the transportation profession lacked a consolidated set of transit-capacity and quality-of-service definitions, principles, practices, and procedures for planning, designing, and operating vehicles and facilities. This is in contrast to the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) that defines quality of service and presents fundamental information and computational techniques related to quality of service and capacity of highway facilities. The HCM also provides a focal point and structure for advancing the state of knowledge. It is anticipated that the TCQSM will provide similar benefits.
The First Edition of the TCQSM is a start toward providing the transportation industry with a transit companion to the HCM. "Transit capacity" is a multifaceted concept that deals with the movement of people and vehicles; depends on the size of the transit vehicles and how often they operate; and reflects the interaction between passenger traffic and vehicle flow. "Quality of service" is an even more complex concept that must reflect a transit-user's perspective and must measure how a transit route, facility, or system is operating under various demand, supply, and control conditions.
TCRP Project A-15 was a start toward addressing these issues. The objectives of Project A-15 were to (1) define the content of a comprehensive TCQSM, (2) provide transit input to the HCM2000, (3) develop a prioritized research agenda for completing the TCQSM, (4) complete those portions of a TCQSM for which information was available and produce an interim document, and (5) conduct research on one or more high-priority research topics growing out of the research agenda. These objectives were accomplished by the project, which produced a First Edition TCQSM. The first phase of Project A-15 included market research on what potential users would like to see in a TCQSM, assembled and edited existing information on transit capacity, and results of original research on measuring transit quality of service. The TCQSM also introduces a new approach to measuring quality using a six-cell quality-of-service framework as shown:
Transit Stop Route Segment System
Availability Frequency Hours of Service Service Coverage
Quality Passenger Loading Reliability Transit/Auto Travel Time
Despite the contribution of the First Edition of the TCQSM, there are still gaps in coverage. Before the document can acquire stature, the gaps must be addressed and the professional community must be heard through a testing and public comment period. The purpose of this project is to fill known gaps in scope and update the First Edition in response to public comments.
The objective of this project is to develop an updated TCQSM, filling gaps in the current edition and expanding and enhancing the scope. The update will add material addressing quality of service and capacity implications of service for people with disabilities; passenger service times; system availability and coverage; and other characteristics.
Status: Completed. The Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual, Second Edition was published as TCRP Report 100. The panel also approved draft updates to the transit chapters of the Highway Capacity Manual 2000 to reflect the work in the TCQSM. Comments and questions concerning TCRP Report 100 can be sent to the TRB Committee on Transit Capacity and Quality of Service web board at http://webboard.trb.org/default.asp?boardid=87.
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opinion piece
How the HR Services sector will support workers post pandemic
The Covid-19 crisis has served to intensify many of the pressing challenges that the world of work was facing and is accelerating the need for practical solutions. Denis Pennel, Managing Director of the World Employment Confederation, looks at how the private employment services sector is re-inventing itself to better support workers in the new normal.
As the world emerges tentatively into a post-Covid new normal it faces a volatile external landscape. This poses some significant challenges for labour markets. It also presents the HR Services industry with a unique opportunity to radically enhance its role, reputation and impact.
Our industry stepped-up its activity to support workers during the Covid-19 crisis, placing thousands of people in key-worker roles each day. Now it is ready to rise to the next challenge and support them in navigating and succeeding amid a more flexible and fast-moving world of work.
While many of the pressing challenges facing the world of work pre-date the pandemic, the crisis has served to intensify them and accelerate the need for practical solutions.
World Employment Confederation (WEC) members offer a range of services that can support workers in this new normal. Top of the list is supporting the transition to new economies. The World Economic Forum Future of Jobs report estimates that by 2025, 85 million jobs will be displaced and 97 million added. Many sectors – including aviation, hospitality and retail – have been hit hard by the Covid crisis and are unlikely to recover to the same levels. Others – such as online customer service, light manufacturing, food distribution, logistics and care -are now in high-demand and have an urgent need for staff. Private employment services have a pivotal role to play in supporting workers through this 'jobs reset'.
Reskilling and upskilling will be critical in driving a sustainable recovery and enabling people to transition into high-in-demand sectors – both as full-time and temporary employees. Our sector will play a major role in the great re-skilling agenda that will underpin the transition to new post-pandemic economies and HR Services companies will support individuals in accessing new sectors.
A significant number of agency workers already receive training. Our WEC data shows that over 50% of agency workers in Japan, Mexico and USA receive training and the proportion is also high in India (49%), Italy (34%) and Brazil (33%).
Offering diverse working models and career management will also facilitate the transition. Different ways of working and types of contracts allow workers greater control over their working conditions while career guidance and collaborating with public employment services can help build bridges back into work for the unemployed.
The HR Services sector is well known for its innovative approaches and the new normal will provide an opportunity for us to enhance both the impact and reputation of our industry in driving social purpose and innovation.
Providing fulfilling work and progression opportunities can address the disenfranchised members of our society – the youth, women, migrants and other disadvantaged groups. The private employment services sector is already offering easier labour market access to these groups, which are also amongst those hit most hard by the economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis. In some regions, such as Asia and Latin American, offering decent and sustainable forms of work also contributes to reducing informal work and improving social conditions.
Reviewing social protection mechanisms will be another priority here. Increased transitions and flexibility in ways of working also need to be reconciled with some form of security. During the Covid-19 crisis, our sector was at the forefront of calling for government support to be extended to temporary and contract staff and we are committed to developing and implementing new safety nets to protect workers regardless of their employment contract. The WEC 2020 Social Impact Report analyses social protection levels across different labour arrangements. It finds on the whole that statutory coverage for agency workers is similar to those with open-ended contracts – but discrepancies still exist, especially with regards to eligibility criteria. Creating new labour contractual arrangements to reconcile flexibility and security will continue to be part of our social innovation mission.
Helping people to manage change is in our DNA. We offer people decent and fulfilling work opportunities, ensure employability and provide safety nets that protect people, regardless of their employment contract. We also reduce informal work by offering decent and sustainable forms of work.
As the world of work reinvents itself so the HR Services sector is committed to pushing the boundaries further, taking a lead in ensuring that social protection measures reflect the full diversity of working arrangements that labour markets will need in the post-pandemic era.
First publish by Staffing America Latina, February 2021
Over the years the private employment services industry has grown to provide a variety of labour market services. Its history dates back to the 19th century, but the industry truly ...
Social Innovation (Global)
To address the challenges that the structural shifts currently reshaping the world of work are creating, labour markets need to evolve to ensure that they remain open, inclusive and sustainable. ...

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PG&E was aware of a 2013 assessment that wide-ranging work was needed on an aging complex of transmission lines and towers in an area scorched by a fatal wildfire last fall but didn't schedule the necessary improvements until December 2018 — one month after the lethal inferno swept through the Butte County town of Paradise in November 2018, according to regulatory documents.
The power facilities that weren't upgraded for years after problems were identified stretch through Butte, Yuba and Sutter counties in Northern California and include 115-kilovolt transmission towers located on the Caribou-Palermo line. PG&E reported an equipment malfunction on the same line occurred 15 minutes before the deadly Camp Fire erupted on Nov. 8.
In 2010, PG&E caused a fatal gas explosion that killed eight people and destroyed a San Bruno neighborhood that is in Hill's district. Federal investigators determined the explosion resulted from a disastrous combination of PG&E's flawed record keeping, shoddy maintenance and lazy and ineffective oversight of the company by the state Public Utilities Commission.
The Caribou-Palermo tower malfunction was not the first indication of aging or faulty equipment in that area. Five transmission towers along the same line toppled during a windstorm in 2012. The replacement project was scheduled for 2013 but took until 2016 to complete, according to PG&E.
As part of PG&E's annual request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for rate changes connected with its transmission lines, PG&E in July 2017 proposed that considerable work be undertaken for the Caribou-Palermo line.
"The Caribou-Palermo 115 kilovolt circuit was analyzed as part of the 2013 NERC Assessment," PG&E stated, referring to an analysis by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, or NERC. The filing indicated the 2013 NERC study determined that more than 100 transmission lines lacked sufficient vertical clearance between the lines and the ground, between two lines or between the lines and structures.
"The completed analysis identified 127 spans with clearance issues out of the 455 spans on the electric transmission line," PG&E stated in the FERC filing.
PG&E stated in 2017 that it would embark on numerous repairs of the Caribou-Palermo system. The planned repairs and maintenance included new tower frames, steel poles, improved line tension and hardware upgrades.
On Nov. 9, PG&E revealed in regulatory filings that it had suffered equipment failures the day before on a tower located along Caribou-Palermo line outside of Paradise, where the fire is thought to have started. Workers in the area reported flames under the tower. Cal Fire investigators have zeroed in on the tower, collecting pieces of it as evidence, but have not issued an official cause of the deadly blaze that killed 85 people.
PG&E's filings in July 2017 with FERC didn't specify whether the tower that suffered the equipment failure was part of the planned upgrades on the complex of lines in December 2018, but PG&E spokesman James Noonan said Wednesday that the tower did not have a vertical clearance issue and was not included in the equipment scheduled for that work.
State PUC spokeswoman Terrie Prosper said the agency is also investigating the Camp Fire.
"These investigations include examination of the role that PG&E assets may have played in the ignition of the fire," she said. "The CPUC investigations of major incidents such as the Camp Fire typically include a broad range of issues pertaining to safety of utility operations and root cause of the incident, including historic maintenance and expenditures.
"If the CPUC finds that a utility violated California Public Utilities Code or CPUC rules and regulations, the utility is subject to fines of up to $100,000 per violation per day," Prosper said.
State PUC documents showed that energy officials had been warning about the fast-aging system of transmission lines for the better part of a decade.
The regulatory commission is also to blame for the problems with PG&E, said Loretta Lynch, a former PUC Commissioner.


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I'm trying to add {:include_blank => "Please select"} in line select.
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I'm getting haml error or stay without changes. Who can explain what i'm doing wrong?

A: %label Please choose the language you speak
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You can provide default "option" tag before the each loop.
You can use form helper methods (select), where you can pass an array and a prompt value.
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/ PPP in the News / Train line to connect Naia 3, Fort, Makati
Train line to connect Naia 3, Fort, Makati
Source: Inquirer
Monorail project may be done through PPP program
MANILA, Philippines—A new commuter train line may soon connect the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) terminal 3 to the Fort Bonifacio and Makati central business districts, according to the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA).
BCDA Chairman Felicito Payumo said the government firm was recently approached by a foreign group that was studying the construction of a new monorail system.
Speaking before members of the American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham), Payumo said the project would be implemented through the public-private partnership concept being espoused by the Aquino administration.
If it pushes through, the new train line would be called the Makati-Taguig-Pasay Monorail Alignment, which is meant to address the growing demand for efficient mass transport systems over the next five years.
Payumo said the projected monorail system would link up with the Metro Rail Transit (Taft to North Avenue), the Light Rail Transit line 1 (Baclaran to Roosevelt) and the Philippine National Railways (PNR) system, which cuts across Metro Manila toward the Southern Luzon regions.
"The interconnection is envisioned to form a loop around the projected service areas covered by the three rail transit systems," a BCDA statement issued Monday quoted Payumo as saying.
The BCDA said it would like to spearhead the project's implementation since most of the areas it would cover—the Villamor Air Base in front of Naia 3 and the Fort Bonifacio area—were BCDA developments.
Payumo said designers for the proposed project favored an elevated monorail because of the narrow streets of Makati and Taguig City.
But the BCDA said the project was still being studied and more details would be announced once a more definite deal with the project's proponents has been signed. The BCDA likewise declined to name the foreign company that proposed to build the new train line.


I use my iPhone 5s for all kinds of things. I text, I talk, I look up information for our homeschool, I use apps, and my children play educational apps all on this one little device. I need a military tough case, or my phone just doesn't stand a chance! We were given the opportunity to review the Cyclops Case for Apple iPhone by Trident Case and have been pleased.
With a name like Cyclops, this thing better be tough! It is designed to be used with the Apple iPhone 5 or 5s. Made of shock-absorbing Thermo Plastic Elastomer, it meets Military Standards for drop, vibration, dust, sand, and rain.
Audio is redirected to the front of your phone, so you can continue to listen to music or watch movies and have clear, crisp audio.
Power ports and audio jacks are protected with very sturdy covers that you can easily open when you need access.
The Cyclops Case comes with a built-in screen protector, and it is extremely light-weight. I can put it in my back pocket with no issues at all.
Another cool feature of this case is that it is biodegradable. You can recycle it or compost it!
The Cyclops Case is available for $39.95 and is appropriate for any age!
I received my pink case in the mail and put it on my iPhone right away. It was very easy to figure out how to put on the phone. I have had the case for six weeks now. I have an 18 month old son who gets his hands on my phone often. It has been thrown, dropped, stepped on, and slid all over the place.
The slim design allows me to put the phone in my pockets with ease. I often keep my phone in a pocket rather than my purse so I can access it easier.
My other kids used my phone for some of their educational apps and it stayed protected from them, as well. The screen protector does not interfere at all with the touch screen capabilities.
Overall, I really like this case for my iPhone. It protects it well, it's slim, and I love the pink and black design that I got. My only issue is the screen protector. I find that it gets dirty very easily and it is hard for me to clean. I have had this problem with every iPhone case I have owned. It also gets stuff under the screen protector that means I have to often take it apart and clean the screen. It is a little tricky to take apart, but comes easy once you get the hang of it.
Like I said, I really like this case. It's cute, slim, and definitely military tough. The screen protector issue is relatively minor, and something I have experienced with every case I've had. For only $39.95, I think it's worth it!


There are 4 key components to every successful business, no matter the type or industry: Revenue, Marketing, Sales and Team. Today's guest, Allison Maslan, designed the blueprint that enabled her to build 10 successful companies in 10 disparate industries on those four principals. Listen and learn how simple business success really can be, when you break it down to it's bare structure. Also get some great free information at estierand.com/43 such as Allison's 17 Scale Strategies and other gifts..


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AKA: フェイク
Genre: Action suspense police drama / romantic comedy
Length: OAV, 60 minutes
Distributor: VHS and R1 DVD from Media Blasters
Content Rating: R (mature themes, sexual innuendoes and situations, some violence)
Also Recommended: City Hunter, NightWalker
Notes: Based on the shounen-ai manga of the same name by Matou Sanami.
Ryou (aka Randy) and Dee are partners in one of New York City's toughest districts. These homicide detectives are infamous for their talent on the beat and always get their man, both on and off the job. Well...at least Dee *wishes* he could get his man. When not chasing criminals, Dee is chasing Ryou, much to Ryou's chagrin.
In this one-shot OAV, Ryou and Dee get away from it all by going on a European vacation, but soon after arriving discover the dark secret of the resort. There is a serial killer on the loose. The target: Japanese tourists. When other tourists go missing, Ryou becomes determined to find the killer, but little does he know he is next...
Yet another surprise gem from the folks at AnimeWorks. I heard about Fake about a year ago, and it was described as "The Gay Lethal Weapon." Comparing it to Lethal Weapon is accurate, as Fake has all the scathing comedy and well-paced action of the original movie. This OAV has you on the edge of your seat wondering what will happen next, when you're not falling off of it from laughing so hard!
Yes, so Dee and Ryou are gay, but unlike many other entrants in the yaoi genre, it's not the primary focus of the anime. Dee's pursuit of Ryou is more akin to Shampoo's pursuit of Ranma - Ryou doesn't want to give in to Dee, but deep down he can't help but like the fact he's being chased. And what Dee goes through so that he can have his "romantic getaway" with Ryou, from bribing their street punk charge Bikky into staying home to BEGGING the Chief to let him have his paid vacation at the same time is downright hilarious. Things don't get any easier for poor Dee once he gets Ryou alone, anyway, as soon all of his scheming comes to naught when the killings start.
What seriously impressed me with Fake is that they focus the story on the two of them solving a rather complicated murder-mystery. It's a well-conceived story, at that. No one is as they seem...everyone involved has their secrets, and the true killer isn't who you'd think it is. Fake keeps you guessing at every plot turn who the real killer is and what the true motives are. All very serious, and not very pretty, when you get down to it. The comedy is necessary to break tension without losing the focus of the story. Not an easy task, but Fake pulls it off spectacularly.
The characters are fun and well fleshed-out, my favorite being Dee. He really is a decent person, and he does care about Ryou. If only Dee wasn't so aggressive in his demeanor; then he would really have a chance at catching his heart's desire. The animation and art for the series is top-notch, and the soundtrack is appropriate, complete with a catchy theme song.
Not too much is explained yet as far as some of the background characters go. For example, why does Bikky live with Ryou, besides just to keep Dee at bay? If the further adventures of Ryou and Dee are as good as this one, I think I just might have myself a new all-time favorite here!
(But I guess I'll have to get the manga to find out -sob-)
Gripping storyline, well-paced action and suspense, not to mention outrageous comedy, all in one package! Take away two stars if you like your cop dramas more like NYPD Blue than Ally McBeal. Anyone with any kind of hang-up about homosexuality, especially when played for laughs, may want to stay away from this (but they'd really be denying themselves a real treat). —
Recommended Audience: Teens and up. This is a very realistic murder-mystery. Some deaths are depicted onscreen, and there are serious attempts made on the lives of some of the main characters. Allusions to rape also limit this one to older audiences. The very blatantly gay Dee may also not sit well with some viewers who have hang-ups about yaoi.
Fake © 1996 Sanami Matou / Biblos • Placet


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Q: Https Post : MalformedURLException on App Engine When I am sending POST request to an url with authentication from GAE, I am getting MalformedURLException on urlConn.getResponseCode() function.
This problem arises only on the deployment server and does not arise when I run the code on local server.
Invalid URL specified: https://user:passtoken@twilix.exotel.in/v1/Accounts/user/Sms/send
java.net.MalformedURLException: Invalid URL specified: https://user:passtoken@twilix.exotel.in/v1/Accounts/user/Sms/send

at com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.URLFetchServiceImpl.convertApplicationException(URLFetchServiceImpl.java:120)
at com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.URLFetchServiceImpl.fetch(URLFetchServiceImpl.java:43)
at com.google.apphosting.utils.security.urlfetch.URLFetchServiceStreamHandler$Connection.fetchResponse(URLFetchServiceStreamHandler.java:417)
at com.google.apphosting.utils.security.urlfetch.URLFetchServiceStreamHandler$Connection.getInputStream(URLFetchServiceStreamHandler.java:296)

My code:
String urlString =
      "https://user:passtoken@twilix.exotel.in/v1/Accounts/user/Sms/send";
URL url = new URL(urlString.toString());
String userpass = "user:passtoken";
String basicAuth = "Basic " +
    javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(userpass.getBytes());

urlConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
urlConn.setRequestMethod("POST");
urlConn.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", basicAuth);
urlConn.connect();
responseCode = urlConn.getResponseCode();    //Throws Exception

Everything works fine when I try to set my url as https://httpbin.org/post
Is this a bug of GAE or some problem with my code?

A: It looks like the problem is with the ampersand symbol.  Since you are already putting the credentials in the HTTP Request, they should not be needed in the URL as well.  Try changing the first line to this instead.
String urlString = "https://twilix.exotel.in/v1/Accounts/user/Sms/send";


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Brachyleptura champlaini  — вид жуков-усачей из подсемейства усачиков. Распространён в восточных США. Встречаются в лесистых местностях и лесах (например, дубравы) близ водоёмов. Имаго посещают цветки, например, цефалантуса западного, Spiraea alba.

Примечания

Усачики
Насекомые Северной Америки
Животные, описанные в 1913 году

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PDCEducation – Learn Better. Do Better. Be Better.
Productivity, like most things in life, is a work in progress where you will always find room for improvement. So if you are feeling unproductive, don't despair and instead focus on the things you can change to get the results you want. Here are just some of the things you can do today that will help you become more productive.
Take a leaf out of many successful people's book and begin your day earlier than the time you usually start with work. Starting your day at least an hour or two earlier allows you to prepare in a more relaxed pace. It also gives you plenty of time for other activities that will set you off to a good start for the day.
Not everything you think you need to do should be on your to-do list. You need to have a game plan. Focus on the most important tasks that will impact your short and stretch goals. With only a finite number of hours accomplish things at any given day, you have to determine your priorities.
Plan your day with at least 30-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon. You can either divide the time into 10-minute chunks or take one full thirty-minute break. But no matter how busy things get, make sure to have a break and step away from your work area to refresh your mind and body.
Set a fixed time to read and reply to emails, check social media accounts, and whatever non-work related online activity you have to do. Turn off all notifications and put your phone in silent mode. If possible, use online tools and apps that let you work on your computer with minimal distractions. You might be surprised as to how much time you can save when you identify and manage distractions early on.
Set a deadline or switch off time. This not only adds a sense of urgency to your to-do list. It also develops the self-discipline that promotes work-life balance. By setting a fixed time when you have to stop working, you challenge yourself to make the most of the work time you have to accomplish the things you set out to do for the day.
Use the time after work to unwind and review your day. You need time to relax and replenish your energy if you want to avoid getting burned out. You can make the most of your downtime to review what you have accomplished for the day and what you may need to improve on tomorrow.
An oscillating tool is perfect for removing bumping or loose paint. Just use the steel scraper blade to the tool, and you're good to go. After getting rid of the old paint, remember to smoothen the wood or metal that's underneath the paint you removed. You can use a random orbital sander or a sanding pad for this. Actually, if you're using wood, you can even use the oscillating tool to sand the material (more of this later). I recommend using rough-grit abrasive sandpaper first before you gradually switch to finer ones. Doing this will save you a lot of time.
Yes, an oscillating tool can also smoothen wood and wood fillers. That's just how impressive of a machine it is. All you need to do is to fasten the sanding attachment for the job. Now you can clear up overcoat finishes with ease! You can also switch from one kind of sandpaper to another, thanks to the hook-and-loop abrasives available. If you want to smoothen broad surfaces, trust that large, triangular-shaped pad. It's one of the most reliable sanding accessories. Of course, use the pointed sanding ones when you need to flatten out cracks and tight corners. Don't worry about narrow spaces; the oscillating tool has a compact size ready to overcome small areas.
Want to install new flooring? Your oscillating tool can help you with that task. If you attach the flush-cutting blade on the device, you can quickly slice through the doorjambs, giving you ample time to do other tasks. Because we don't really want to spend a lot of our time on corners, do we? With a scrap of flooring as your guide and with this multitasking tool, you can create clean and straight cuts to help you install new flooring without any difficulty.
As mentioned earlier, this tool also comes with a flush-cutting blade, which means you can correctly make flush cuts in wood, drywall, and metal using that half-moon blade. Cutting will never be the same and will never be as easy as it was before. The blade, which has an increased surface area, allows you to hold the multitool straight to a line as you cut through the material. Who said cutting have to be difficult anyway?
Since we're already talking about cutting, then let me segue from flush cuts to cutting almost anything—plastic, copper, even old galvanized metal pipes! Splitting can be done without hassle as long as you use the correct blade. Obviously, the oscillating tool is versatile. With the several blades it comes with, you can cut through tubes with ease, even if they're behind walls, inside cabinets, in ceilings, or under the floor!
Check out HealthyHandyman today. They offer an oscillating tool & more.
Want to be better at cleaning your pool? Get yourself a robotic cleaner! Let it do the cleaning your pool requires from you while you do other chores.
You no longer have to worry about unsafe and imbalanced chemicals in your pool water. That's because a robotic cleaner features state-of-the-art brushing tech that scrubs every side and edge of your pool wall efficiently, removing all the pollutants, dust, algae, and evenly distributing pool chemicals. As a matter of fact, you can even use fewer chemicals after having a robotic cleaner since the latter can keep the pool water clean and safe for swimmers. Because let's just be honest—having a lot of pool chemicals in the pool doesn't sound completely safe for anyone.
Robotic pool cleaners from https://pooljudge.com/best-pool-cleaner/ don't demand much of your time when it comes to maintenance. They're easy to maintain, thereby giving you more time to do other relevant tasks in the office or at home.
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Case Study: One monitoring and alerting system for multiple sites with varied device and user requirements
How one company invested in one solution for all its sites and lone worker/device requirements
Onsite system for lone workers
This company had recently consolidated its business structures to capitalise more on its size through things like central purchasing arrangements. At the same time, its operations still spanned a number of different sites, each with its own speciality and particular environment. The company had been considering a lone worker system with indoor positioning for a long time, a situation which became more pressing after a workplace 'man down' accident.
The staff member was able to activate their phone and all was well. If the staff member hadn't been able to, however, and had remained hidden up in a gantry, the story might have been different. The head of health & safety was keen to get a solution in place as soon as possible. The initial requirement was for the main site, an onsite system for 5-10 lone workers, with immediate alert activation and indoor positioning.
One solution for multiple sites and varied devices
During the discovery process with the customer, we at Isle Systems learned that all of the customers' sites were different, which meant that the lone worker requirements and the device requirements were varied too. The company also saw that they could run one over-arching Isle Systems solution – to take care of the monitoring, alert management and communications – and centrally manage all their sites, which delivered significant financial and efficiency savings.
Furthermore, because the Isle Systems solution is very flexible and can support a range of different devices, the company was able to instruct each site to choose the devices which best suited the operational conditions and requirements of their own site. One system, multiple sites, different devices.
A range of technologies to handle escalating alerts
Isle Systems have been providing lone worker monitoring, alerting and communications solutions for over 12 years, and during this time we've developed a pretty intimate understanding of the science behind supporting the lone worker. It's a very varied, very complex and no customer situation is the same, which is why we cater to a broad range of requirements.
One complicating factor that emerged from the discovery process was that the customer's sites contained a lot of metal and heavy machinery, which caused issues with poor signal. The Isle Systems technology is different when it comes to delivering alerts to responders: it's not reliant on any one communication protocol and falls back to other protocols. Others rely on a data connection, so if you're in a 'marginal' signal situation this presents a problem, as it's a single point of failure in what is a highly critical business process.
Furthermore, short range devices only work within circa 200 metres and need boosters and repeaters, which can be very expensive to install and maintain. This is much less of a problem with mobile phones. The Isle Systems alerting process uses WiFi data, then mobile data, then SMS, all before triggering a phone call. This offered the customer a considerably more flexible and resilient approach.
Site-by-site tailored solutions and project management
The main site invested in the back office, cloud-based alert monitoring, management and communications platform. For its own site it also invested in 'ruggedised' devices for 30 users and battery powered beacons (simple to deploy and low maintenance costs) for the indoor positioning. The main site then delegated the analysis and selection of devices to the other sites, based on their own specific requirements. For example, in one other site, mobile phones are not permitted, so that site invested in dedicated lone worker devices for 50 users, with 30 beacons.
We're still in the prolonged roll-out of devices for the other sites. The implementation process and project management is the same for each site, even if their specific devices are not. Isle Systems provides spreadsheets for the site to fill in the user and responder information, their numbers and their specific devices. Isle Systems then processes the data and installs the software on the devices, and provides the materials and documentation.
Our approach is about making our solutions work for the way you work rather than having to mould your work practices around a new system. The customer also wanted to be as self-sufficient as possible in this project, so we took a 'train the trainer' approach to allow them to manage their own rollout themselves.
Lone worker peace of mind
The customer's evaluation committee universally agreed that the Isle Systems solution offered the best solution both to cater to their immediate requirements and to expand their protection through the other sites over the long term. The customer now has peace of mind from having the system in place, and they can bring on other sites when they're ready, with the freedom of selecting devices to suit each environment. They can simply add people in as they go and manage this process themselves.
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Pew Research Center reports and data on the Millennial generation, those born after 1980 and the first generation to come of age in the new millennium.
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A record 64 million Americans live in multigenerational households
The number and share of Americans living in multigenerational family households have continued to rise. In 2016, a record 64 million people, or 20% of the U.S. population, lived with multiple generations under one roof.
Millennials approach Baby Boomers as America's largest generation in the electorate
As of November 2016, an estimated 62 million Millennials were voting-age U.S. citizens – moving closer in number to the 70 million Baby Boomers.
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Comparing Millennials to Other Generations
Our interactive graphic compares the generations today and in the years that each generation was young (ages 18 to 33) to demonstrate this sea change in the activities and experiences of young adults that has occurred over the past 50 years.
FeatureMarch 16, 2018
How Millennials today compare with their grandparents 50 years ago
Our analysis finds that Millennials stand apart from the young adults of the Silent generation when it comes to education, employment and home life.
Fact TankMarch 1, 2018
Millennials projected to overtake Baby Boomers as America's largest generation
Millennials are expected to overtake Boomers in population in the U.S. in 2019 as their numbers swell to 73 million and Boomers decline to 72 million.
Fact TankOctober 26, 2017
5 facts about Muslim Millennials in the U.S.
While Millennials make up 32% of all U.S. adults, they account for roughly half of American Muslim adults. Read five facts about Muslim Millennials.
5 facts about Millennial households
Millennials trail Baby Boomers and Generation Xers in the number of households they head. But Millennial-run households represent the largest group in some key categories, such as the number in poverty or the number headed by a single mother.
Most Americans – especially Millennials – say libraries can help them find reliable, trustworthy information
Many Americans say they'd benefit from help in finding trustworthy information online, and about eight-in-ten adults say public libraries can help.
Gen Zers, Millennials and Gen Xers outvoted Boomers and older generations in 2016 election
Generation Zers, Millennials and Generation Xers cast 69.6 million votes in 2016, a slight majority of the 137.5 million total votes cast.
Fact TankJune 21, 2017
Millennials are the most likely generation of Americans to use public libraries
About half of U.S. Millennials have visited a public library or bookmobile in the past year.
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Fear of Palestinian majority drives attacks on single democratic state
January 26, 2018 at 1:02 pm | Published in: Article, Debates, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
Demonstrators hold Palestinian flags during a protest against Israeli restrictions on Palestinians in Ramallah, West Bank on 11 September 2017 [Shadi Hatem/Anadolu Agency]
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For those who always saw a so-called two-state solution as a means of preserving Israel as a 'Jewish and democratic' ethno-state, goodbye is the hardest word to say.
As the Israeli government consolidates a de facto, single state that all its predecessors since 1967 helped forge, those urging 'separation' from the Palestinians are sounding desperate – especially in their attacks on calls for a single democratic state, to replace today's apartheid status quo.
Three op-eds recently published by Israeli newspaper Haaretz in the space of a week are a case in point – and they all share something in common: fear of a Palestinian majority.
On 11 January, Haaretz columnist David Rosenberg lashed out at the idea of one democratic state, which he described as "no solution at all". The "Palestinian version" of a single state "sounds appealing to Western ears", Rosenberg acknowledges, "a country where everyone has equal rights".
"But", he continued, "behind that lovely vision is the expectation that demographic trends would soon lead to a Palestinian majority", adding that this "would certainly be the case if the new state allows even a limited Palestinian right of return". Tellingly, however, Rosenberg does not clarify why a Palestinian majority undermines the 'lovely vision' of a democratic state. It's just assumed.
Palestine: What's next after the collapse of the two-state project?
In a piece published by Haaretz the same day, Eric H. Yoffie, American rabbi and former president of the Union for Reform Judaism, slammed what he called "dangerous" calls for a single state from both "the Jewish hard right and the Jewish hard left".
Here, Yoffie disingenuously lumped together, on the one hand, the vision of a formally and proudly apartheid single state proposed by those on the pro-annexation Israeli right, and on the other hand, those advocating a solution shaped by the principles of civic self-determination and equality.
Opposition to the former is a given. But what's so terrible about the latter? Because it would mean an end to "the Jewish state of Israel" (my emphasis) through the "unification of two hostile cultures". For Yoffie, there is no possibility of a democratic single state: "the Jewish minority in Israel/Palestine [will be subjected] to chaos, powerlessness, and eternal civil war".
A few days later, meanwhile, yet another op-ed, this time by Hebrew University-based academic Gadi Taub, warned that "the option of a non-Jewish democracy is purely theoretical".
In reality, "an Arab majority" means "an Arab government", Taub wrote, "which according to a relatively optimistic forecast would resemble the corrupt dictatorship of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas" but would probably "be much worse, something like the Hamas regime in Gaza".
Israel Labour leader says two-state solution will preserve 'Jewish spirit of our nation'
Rosenberg, Yoffie and Taub are not alone in viewing a Palestinian majority as an apocalyptic prospect – it is an anxiety that animates many an advocate of 'separation'; as former Labour and Meretz politician Yossi Beilin put it in 2012: "I want a Jewish majority in [Israel] forever. If there is no line between us and them there will be a Jewish minority controlling a Palestinian majority".
Or take Amos Oz, also writing in Haaretz, in 2015: "If there will be one state here, it will be an Arab state, from the sea to the Jordan River. If there will be an Arab state here, I don't envy my children and my grandchildren". Again, Oz feels no need to explain why this would be so terrible.
Such attacks on the vision of a single democratic state betray an inability to decouple self-determination and ethnic statehood, and, to put it bluntly, racism: Palestinians, or just 'Arabs', are deemed intrinsically incapable of democracy.
The echoes of white South Africans' fears before the end of the apartheid regime are clear, and instructive. There, the argument that self-determination (for whites) necessitated domination ultimately lost, because it was both unsustainable and deemed morally unacceptable internationally.
Israeli settlements an obstacle to two-state solution, says UN Secretary General
In 2007, Israeli demographer Arnon Soffer told The Guardian: "We have to do everything to keep Israel as a Jewish state…They [Palestinians] use words like 'democracy', but if they are in power, it is the end of democracy. We have to stop being naïve".
As discussion of, and calls for, a single democratic state grow, this kind of apologia for the status quo will be heard more often. But then Israel's political class will be in the situation they have always feared, and are ill-equipped to deal with: a globalised struggle of apartheid vs. democracy.
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Which Bible Can We Trust?
The TEXTUS RECEPTUS, original Greek text from which the Authorized King James Bible was translated, has been the target of textual critics since 1611. Yet copies of it substantially exist today without error. This is the Bible you can trust. All this talk about older and more dependable manuscripts, like the theory of evolution, hangs upon an UNPROVEN HYPOTHESIS.
Any version of the Bible which omits Acts 8:37, or "Through His blood," in Col. 1:14, evidently has for its foundation a corrupted manuscript. This corruption can be traced to 200 A.D., when there lived one of the world's foremost theologians whose name was Origen. Being a TEXTUAL CRITIC, he is supposed to have corrected numerous portions of the sacred manuscripts. Evidence to the contrary shows that he changed them to agree with his own human philosophy of mystical and allegorical ideas. Thus certain original MSS. became corrupt and it is evidently from this source the revised Bibles of this generation have come. Read pages 900-902, Vol. 16, 1936 edition Encyclopedia Britannica and you will see that Origen taught the "LOGOS" is "KTISMA," meaning the Lord Jesus Christ is a created being. Thus, he could easily omit Acts 8:37 and other texts which testify to Christ's deity.
Should You Choose The Bible of Your Choice?
The Bible is a supernatural gift from God and has been both inspired and preserved by the Holy Spirit. By inspired I mean that the Holy Spirit so moved upon the hearts of men that they recorded the very words that God wanted written in the Holy Bible. The Bible would be no more accurate or authoritative had God written the Scriptures with His own hand. "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost" (2 Peter 1:21).
God has safeguarded the Bible in the past from the wicked poison of human reasoning and He will continue to do so in the future. God is not the author of confusion and therefore He has only inspired and preserved one Bible. "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away" (Matthew 24:35).
It has been estimated that there are nearly one hundred versions of the Bible available in the English language today. However, this multiplicity of Bibles does not alter the fact that God has inspired and safeguarded one Bible. This one Bible is written in the Greek language in the New Testament and is called the Textus Receptus or Received Text. The Old Testament has been preserved in the Masoretic Text and is written in Hebrew. The Textus Receptus of the New Testament and the Masoretic Text of the Old Testament combine to give us the complete Word of God. The King James Version of the Bible stands alone as the one Bible in use today which has been faithfully translated from these God- given manuscripts. All of the modern versions are based wholly or in part on corrupt texts.
Modern translations are not just simply different versions of the King James Bible written in contemporary language. These perversions are different Bibles entirely. Their foundation is not the God-preserved Textus Receptus of the New Testament. Instead, they are based on contaminated, Christ-denying manuscripts which had been rejected by the early church fathers.
This turning away from the true Bible to a wicked counterfeit is largely the work of humanistic scholarship. Men who call themselves textual critics have placed their thoughts and ideas above those of God and have presumed to improve upon that one Bible which has been given by God. One can only conclude that they have been so blinded by their compromise and delusions of self-importance that they forget God has already given us His Word. The duty of every believer today is to take the one Bible which God has given and proclaim its glorious message of salvation to a sin-sick world.
"I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel . . . As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed" (Galatians 1:6, 9). Almost 2000 years ago men were preaching another gospel no doubt from another Bible. However, never since the Bible was given has it been under such Satanic attack as it is in our generation. Humanistic scholarship has deviated from the Textus Receptus in about 6000 places. This has the same effect as questioning the inerrancy of the Holy Bible in 6000 places. Charles H. Spurgeon stated it very well when he said, "The craving to alter the Word of God is accursed. This is the crime of the present day. The Lord preserve us from it."
The Old Testament of the King James Bible was translated from the Masoretic Text. This text was in use during the time of Christ and He quoted from them many times. If the Masoretic Text was acceptable to Christ then it certainly should be accepted by every child of God. This text was kept pure by the Hebrew priests who were given the responsibility of caring for it.
The New Testament of the King James Version was translated in 1611 A.D. from the Greek manuscripts known today as the Textus Receptus. The scholars who did this work were giants in their field. They were far superior to the self-proclaimed scholars in Biblical criticism who are responsible for the rash of modern perversions.
The Textus Receptus from which the King James Bible was translated is a faithful reproduction of the original manuscripts, which were penned by the writers of the Scriptures. The T.R. or Traditional Text as it is also called has been traced back to the early church.
From the birth of Christ to 100 A.D. the original manuscripts were written in the Greek language.
The New Testament was compiled by 400 A.D.
by 170 A.D. -- 20 N.T. books had been accepted by the early Christians.
by 400 A.D. -- all 27 books of the N.T. had been accepted by the early Christians as they were guided by the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit guided so that only the genuine books were included.
The Holy Spirit also guided in the selection of the pure manuscripts.
The Holy Spirit so guided that false gospels and manuscripts were set aside.
the original manuscripts were lost but the Received Text that was produced during this time was a faithful reproduction of the original autographs.
452-1453 A.D. -- The Textus Receptus was used by the Greek Church during this time under the direction of the Holy Spirit.
1516 A.D. -- Erasmus edited the first printing of the Greek N.T.
This was in agreement with the Textus Receptus.
1526 A.D. -- Tyndale's New Testament in English was printed. He was burned at the stake in 1536 because he had the Bible printed in English.
1550 A.D. -- Stephens Greek N.T. (Textus Receptus).
1611 A.D. -- The King James or Authorised Version of the Bible was translated from the Greek Textus Receptus in the N.T. and Hebrew Masoretic Text in the O.T.
1611 A.D. -- To the present. Infidels and assorted enemies of the Bible have attacked our Bible in every way known to man, but God's Word shall abide forever.
The "other Bibles" which are so prevalent today are as dependable as quicksand. They will vary even from printing to printing as the constantly changing whims of man directs. However, each new Bible will continue down the same path of confusion and error. You cannot produce good fruit from a rotten tree.
THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE "OTHER BIBLES"
From the birth of Christ to 400 A.D. False prophets wrote polluted gospels and other books of the Bible at the same time that the true books of the New Testament were being written. Paul makes mention of this in 2 Cor. 2:17, "For we are not as many, which corrupt the Word of God .... "Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit these tainted manuscripts were cast aside and were not included in the Textus Receptus.
331 A.D. Constantine ordered that an "ecumenical Bible" be written that would be accepable to every stripe of Christian that was under his jurisdiction. A man by the name of Eusebius was assigned to direct this undertaking. Eusebius was a follower of Origen who rejected the deity of Christ. He claimed that Christ was a created being. The Jehovah's Witnesses of today believe the same thing. This error is called the Arian heresy.
1481 A.D. The Vatican manuscript was discovered in the Vatican Library. This is a corrupted manuscript which repeatedly casts aside the deity of Christ. It reflects the Arianism of Origen and is thought by some to be one of the surviving manuscripts done be Euscbius at the command of Constantine. The date of its writing coincides with the "ecumenical Bible" of Constantine.
1844 A.D. The Sinaitic manuscript was discovered at Mt. Sinai in the monastery of Saint Catherine. It agrees closely with the Vatican manuscript and minimises the deity of Christ and is Arian in nature. It is safe to suggest that these two manuscripts were two of the fifty that were written for Constantine.
1881 A.D. The Westcott and Hort Greek Text was introduced. This text departed from the Textus Receptus and follows the Vatican and Sinaitic corruptions. Most scholars from every spectrum of Christianity have knowingly or otherwise promoted the Westcott and Hort text from that time to the present.
The Jehovah's Witness Bible entitled the "New World Translation of the Scriptures" was translated from the text of Westcott and Hort. Their friendship with Westcott and Hort is not surprising. They reject the deity of Christ and gain strength from this corrupt text.
Most, if not all, of the modern translations of the Bible follow the path of the two worst manuscripts which are in existence. They almost seem to loathe the Textus Receptus. This is evidenced by the fact that most Bible colleges, seminaries and schools use some Greek text other than the Textus Receptus. Nevertheless, the new versions are founded on faulty texts and are not acceptable for any purpose.
GOD'S BIBLE COMPARED WITH "ANOTHER BIBLE"
In our God-inspired and preserved Bible the meaning of this passage is very clear. Those who have been born again (by receiving Christ) should feed on the Word of God that they might grow in the Christian life. Christian growth has nothing at all to do with initial salvation. Salvation takes place first and then the newborn child of God is to grow. Please note that all of the following new versions leave the door open for a gradual salvation, i.e., one of works.
"Be like newborn babies, always thirsty for the pure spiritual milk, so that by drinking it you may grow up and be saved."
"And as newborn infants, form a longing for the unadultered milk belonging to the word, that through it you may grow to salvation."
The wording may be slightly different in each of these new Bibles, but it should be obvious that they all have the same corrupt source. No amount of polish can correct an untrustworthy text.
New World Translation: Verse omitted.
The entire verse is in italics. Their explanation for this omission is as follows: "Italics indicate certain familiar words or passages found in the King James Version, but generally omitted now because they are not adequately supported by more recent scholarship." Would any care to hazard a guess as to who the more recent scholars are?
The verse is included with the following footnote. "Most ancient manuscripts omit this verse." Since when is 5% of the manuscripts considered a majority?
The verse is included (in a manner of speaking) with the following footnote. "This verse is omitted in many manuscripts, some ancient."
John 6:69 -- Christ is omitted in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Acts 9:20 -- Christ is changed to Jesus in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Acts 15:11 -- Christ is omitted in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Acts 16:31 -- Christ is omitted in 1, 2, 31 4, 5, (italicised in 6).
Romans 1:16 -- Christ omitted in 1, 2, 4, 5, (italicised in 6).
Romans 16:24 -- entire verse about Christ emitted in 1, 2, 5, (verse italicised in 6).
1 Cor. 5:4 -- Christ omitted twice in 1, 2, (omitted once in 3), 4, 5, (omitted once and italicised once in 6).
1 Cor. 9:1 -- Christ omitted in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
2 Cot. 11:31 -- Christ omitted in 1, 2, 4, 5, (italicised in 6).
Eph. 3:14 -- Lord Jesus Christ omitted in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (italicised in 6).
Col. 1:14 -- blood omitted in 1, 2, 4, 5, (italics in 6).
1 Thess. 2:19 -- Christ omitted in 1, 2, 4, 5, 6.
1 Thess. 3:11 -- Christ omitted in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (italics in 6).
1 Timothy 1:1 -- Lord omitted in 1, 2, 4, 5, 6.
1 Timothy 5:21 -- Lord omitted in 1, 2, 4, 5, 6.
2 Timothy 4:1 -- Lord omitted in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Titus 1:4 -- Lord omitted in 1, 2, 4, 5, (italics in 6).
Hebrews 3:1 -- Christ omitted in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1 John 1:7 -- Christ omitted in 1, 2, 4, 5, (italics in 6).
2 John 3 -- Lord omitted in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Rev. l:9b -- Christ omitted in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (italics in 6).
Verses quoted and emissions listed are by no means exhaustive. They are merely given to show the common bond which exists between all of the new Bibles. They stand or fall together. One cannot accept one and reject another.
It should be plain for all to see that Satan's strategy is to lure even God's own people away from the true Bible. Without the inerrant Word of God there would be no salvation. "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17).
I thank God for my salvation and I thank Him for preserving His Written Word for my use and for all who will rest in Him. I am convinced that the King James Bible I hold in my hand is a completely faithful reproduction of the Word of God. I can hold my Bible in my hand and say without fear that I am in possession of the Word of God that has been passed down from generation to generation by the providential protection of my Heavenly Father.
The King James Version is the only English Bible in use today which is taken from the Textus Receptus. Therefore, this must be the only Bible used by pastors, Bible students, churches, missionary groups, educational institutions or Christian laymen.
In that it is the only authoritative and trustworthy Bible, it should be studied consistently and systematically. Every born-again believer in Jesus Christ should start the day by meditating in the only Word of God and by talking to God in prayer.
Every born-again, Bible-believing Christian should endeavor to enlighten others about the dangers of the modern counterfeit Bibles. This must be done if we are to heed the admonition to "earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3b). God wants you to join with us in sounding the alarm against those who would rob this generation of the only Bible. "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever" (Isaiah 40:8).
All over the world there is an alarming increase in the worship of Satan by outright willful submission to him through occult practices. He is now loosing his forces on the civilized world which has known the Gospel for centuries but which is not presently heeding that Gospel. We may look for an increase in satanic miracles and strange behavior as multitudes resort to witchcraft, astrology, spiritism, and fortune telling.
There can be no Christianity without an inspired and authoritative Bible. C. H. Spurgeon once said, "The turning point of the battle between those who hold 'the faith once delivered to the saints' and their opponents, lies in the true and real inspiration of the Holy Scriptures. This is the thermopylae of Christendom. If we have in the Word of God no infallible standard of truth, we are at sea without a compass, and no danger from rough weather without can be equal to the loss within. 'If the foundation be removed, what can the righteous do?' And this is the foundation loss of the worst kind."
The Bible is a supernatural Book. It is God's voice speaking, not only in the sense that the Word springs from Him, but from the standpoint also that it is expressed by Him in His own vocabulary.
The fundamental claim of the Bible in relation to its inspiration is found in five passages: Luke 1:70, "As He spake by the mouth of His Holy prophets which have been since the world began," 1 Cor. 2:13, "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth." 2 Tim. 3:16, "ALL Scripture is given by inspiration of God." Heb. 1:1-2, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son." 2 Pet. 1:21, "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
It is important in these days of open attack upon the Bible and increased versions of the Bible to make clear what we mean by divine inspiration of the Scriptures. We do not mean what the modernists mean who claim a kind of "human genius" residing in all great writers; nor do we moan as Barth and Brunner and modern neo-orthodox and neo-evangelicals who hold that the Bible is the Word of God because some passages reveal a word from the Lord. This teaching tells us that the Bible contains the Word of God but is not essentially and verbally and wholly the inspired Word of God.
While there is open opposition from outside the true Church in lands like Russia against the Word of God and against those who read it, there is also opposition from within religious circles through the modern day versions of the Bible, RSV, Good News for Modern Man, Living Letters, New English Bible, Amplified Version and a host of others.
I need not remind you that most of these versions have been prepared by committees whose members reject the infallible inspiration of the Scriptures, the deity of Christ, the blood atonement of Christ, and other essential doctrines. I need not emphasise that many of these versions are ecumenical efforts to unite Protestantism and Romanism into the great whore church of Revelation 13 to 17, the ecumenical church of Antichrist.
What is not generally realized, however, is the fact that these revisers are true successors of Jehoiakim, the King of Jerusalem, whose mutilation of Scripture is given in Jeremiah 36:22, 23. A message from the Lord was dictated by Jeremiah to Baruch, son of Nerah, who carefully wrote it in a roll. Jehoiakim came to know of this divine oracle and sent Jehudi to get it and read it to him. As Jehudi read, whatever did not please the king he would cut out with his penknife and cast into the fire, burning on the hearth. Jehoiakim continued with his mutilation of the written Word of God until nothing was left but a heap of smoldering ashes.
Surely such a record constitutes a warning not to tamper with the Word of God. Yet many modern versions have used the penknife of liberalism and the penknife of the ecumenical movement to tamper with the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God. Yes, but the end is not yet in sight. As modern versions and perversions continue to cut out, rearrange, and change Scripture to suit themselves God's eye is upon it all and His Word shall never pass away.
The increasing efforts of men to do away with the Authorised King James Version of the Bible are directed against the authority of the Bible. Under the guise of "better translations," "clearer readings," "church authority," "Christian tradition," "later manuscripts," and "helps for the reader" the corrupters of the Bible with their many perversions have sought to undermine the deity of Christ, the blood atonement, and other doctrines that offend the natural man.
You will notice that the modern versions have as their goal the "return to the original Greek texts." The New American Standard Bible, for example, is based on Nestle's Greek New Testament. Nestle's text, as the Westcott and Hort text, is the classical Greek of Alexandrian scholarship, written in Italy. It is not the koine Greek of New Testament scholarship, written in Asia Minor. Nestle's "original Greek" is built on the theory of Vaticanus (the Catholic manuscript which contains the seven corrupt books of the Apocrypha, never recognised by Jesus or Paul, and shows its source of corruption as Rome itself) as the most perfect text. Therefore "going to the Greek" to correct the Authorised King James Version involves running to Romanism to correct a Bible-believing Protestant translation.
Even since Adam fell there has been a bias in his descendants to listen to the Devil who repeats today what he said in the Garden of Eden, "Hath God said?"
The textual critics of our day, profoundly trained, called higher critics, are also saying, "Hath God said?" The more lofty textual scholars have so falsely put together the knowledge they have gained that our generation now doubts if there is a Bible it can completely trust and say with assurance, "God hath said."
The Bible teaches "In the beginning God." This is true of the Bible itself, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God" (2 Tim. 3:16). As the Spirit of God "moved upon the face of the waters" in the day of creation (Gen. 1:2), so "Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit" (2 Pet. 1:21). God is the Creator of the universe, the creator of man, and the Author of the Word of God, the Bible.
It is possible to know that behind all the marvellous creation of the universe there is a God, a Creator, but let us never forget that the God of creation is also the God of revelation.
Paul makes clear in 1 Cor. 2:9-14 that we can only receive and understand this Word as a supernatural revelation (vs. 10), given by supernatural illumination (vs. 11,12,14).
God has given us the inspired scriptures for a definite purpose as recorded in 2 Tim. 3:16, 17 so that man could have a sure authority and standard for his reproof and correction and for "furnishing" him for right and good living by a perfect rule. Paul made clear in speaking of the total unity of the Bible which would shortly be completed that "when that which is perfect is come" (1 Cor. 13) that is, the full and completed New Testament, then other temporary aids allowed to the earthly church would "be done away."
The early church believers not only "received the word with all readiness of mind," but they gave it the place of final authority, and searched "the scriptures daily, whether those things were so" (Acts 17:11). In their search for truth they did not turn to the evaluations of human reason, nor to the traditions and declarations of the church, but to the written Word of God.
The wonder of the Book grows upon us as our experience is enlarged, for the more deeply we search it, the more we feel that the Bible is not merely a book, but The Book. It alone is the universal Book, the eternal Book, the Book for all time. It is the voice of the Lord. It stands alone, unapproachable in its grandeur, as high above all other books as heaven is above earth, or as the Son of God is above the sons of men.
One of the first things about this Book that evokes our wonder is the very fact of its existence, for there was never any order given to any man to plan the Bible, nor was there ever any concerted plan on the part of the men who wrote to write the Bible. The way in which the Bible grew is one of the mysteries of our time. Little by little, century after century, it came out in fragments, written by various men, without any concerted arrangement. One wrote a part in Arabia, another in Syria, a third in Palestine, another in Greece and Italy, and the first part was written hundreds of years before the man who wrote the last part was born.
Here is a Book that took at least fifteen hundred years to write, spanning sixty generations of this world's history. It enlarges our conceptions of God and gives us new ideas of His infinite patience as He watched the strain, the haste and restlessness of man across the feverish years, while slowly the great Book grew. Here a little, there a little, history, prophecy, poetry and biography, it came forth before a needy world in its finished completeness.
There was no pre-arrangement by men. It is not as if Matthew, Mark, Luke and John met in committee and after solemn conference and seeking for the leading of the Spirit, Matthew undertook to write of Christ as the King, and Mark agreed to write of Him as the Servant, Luke undertaking to delineate Him as the Man, and John determining to crown it all by writing of Him as the Son of God. It was not as if Paul and James met and after talking and praying about it agreed that Paul should write of the doctrinal and James of the practical aspects of the Christian faith. There is no trace of such a thing. They simply wrote as they were moved by the Spirit to meet a present need, to teach some glorious truth, to express some earnest longing, and from the aggregation of their writings came this miraculous unit that we call the New Testament.
The Bible, though regarded as a Book, is in fact a library of sixty-six volumes written by between thirty and forty different authors, in three languages, on totally different topics and in extraordinarily different circumstances. One wrote history, another biography, one wrote on theology, another poetry, another prophecy, others on philosophy, jurisprudence, genealogy, ethnology, and narratives of wonderful journeys. Here in the Bible we have them all, in a little Book that a child can carry in its little hand. The strangest thing of all is that, although their subjects are so diverse and difficult, and although it was impossible for the man who wrote the first pages to have the slightest knowledge what others would write 1500 years later, yet this collection of writings is not only unified by men in one Book, but so unified by God, the Author, that we can never think of it today as anything else but one Book! And one Book it is indeed -- the miracle of all literary unity.
Another marvellous thing about this Book is that it is the only book in the world read by all classes and all sorts of people. Literary people rarely read a child's book, and children do not read books of philosophy and science. There is but one Book that is read by the wisest of men, read to the little child, and read by the old man as he trembles on the brink of another world. Professor Dyson Hague asked the nurse what she was reading to his daughter, and she replied, "I am reading the story of Joseph in the Bible," and the child added, "And please do not stop her, father." She was listening with delighted interest to a story that had been written in Hebrew three thousand five hundred years before. Not far away from the same room where the child was listening, there sat one of the greatest of modern scientists, Sir William Dawson (a humble believer in the Lord Jesus Christ), reading with profound devotion and higher delight the pages of the same marvellous Book. Here is a phenomenon -- one of the ablest of modern scientists delights in reading a Book which is the joy of a little child in the nursery!
The Book was not written in the seats of learning, either at Athens in Greece or at Alexandria in Egypt, but in Palestine. Some of the writers were not distinguished for their scholarship. Some did not speak even their own language perfectly. Peter was betrayed by his Galilean dialect, and he and John were described in Acts 4:13 as "ignorant and unlearned men". Many of the men who wrote the Bible were of that character. One was a farm-hand, another a shepherd, others were fishermen. They were men of no literary reputation, and yet by the mysterious power of God the Book has become the standard of language of the most literary nations of the world.
The Bible has withstood ages of ferocious and incessant persecution. Century after century men have tried to burn it and to bury it and to extirpate it. Kings of the earth set themselves and rulers of the church have taken counsel together to destroy it. Diocletian the Roman Emperor inaugurated in AD 303 a terrific onslaught upon the Book. Bibles were destroyed, Christians were slain, and the Emperor boasted that the very name of the Christians was blotted out, and yet after a few years, the Bible came forth as Noah from the ark to repeople the earth, and in AD 325 Constantine enthroned the Bible as the Infallible Judge of Truth in the great council of the Church held in that year.
Later the Church of Rome denied the Scriptures to the people and for ages the Bible was practically an unknown book. Martin Luther was a grown man when he said that he had never seen a Bible in his life. No jailor ever kept a prisoner closer than the Church of Rome kept the Bible from the people.
The worst opposition of all has been during the last two hundred years, with rationalism and modernism seeking to undermine the authority, inspiration and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures. It was Voltaire's boast that within one hundred years of his death not a Bible would be found save as an antiquarian curiosity. Many more than one hundred years have passed, and other pens and other voices have joined in the attack, but the Bible remains and is being more widely distributed and used than ever before.
You need no historical critic for God's own Word. The Holy Spirit, who is the Author of the Book, makes it speak to our souls in such power as to give divine conviction. Men may arise to unsettle and destroy, but the Spirit of Christ comes to validate and confirm, with a certainty that is incommunicable by mere reason, and is impervious to the assaults of doubt. Spurgeon spoke of a poor woman who was challenged by an agnostic to prove that the Bible in her hand was God's Word. She pointed to the sun and said, "Can you prove that there is a sun in the sky?" The unbeliever answered, "Of course, the proof is that it warms me and I see its light." "That is it," she replied, "and the best proof that this Book is the Word of God is that it warms and lights my soul."
We do not gild gold. We do not paint rubies. We cannot brighten diamonds. Neither can any artist add any final touch to this finished Word of God. It stands as the sun in the sky and this proud age can add nothing to it. It has the glory of God and any attempt to improve it can but disfigure it. It speaks with authority and breaks upon you as the Voice from heaven. Five hundred times in the Pentateuch, three hundred times in the following books and twelve hundred times in the prophets, the declarations are prefaced or concluded with such expressions as "Hear the Word of the Lord", or "Thus saith the Lord". No other book dares thus to address itself to the universal conscience. No other speaks with such a binding claim or presumes to command the obedience of all mankind. The Book speaks to the inner conscience with the authority of God Himself.
Men think of the Bible as a Book that was inspired, and this is true, but it is also true that it still comes sweeping into the hearts of men today, and the same breath of God that gave it life makes it living and spiritually energising today. This is a most remarkable and unique feature of the Bible -- I feel that it is mine. Its promises are mine. The 103rd Psalm is not ancient Hebrew, it is a present day message to my soul. The other day I took up an old Bible that my mother gave me, in which years ago I had marked Genesis 28:15 when I was in great trouble and had to leave my wife and children and travel in quest of health in distant lands. One day as I opened the Bible at random these words came before my eye. Shall I ever forget the flood of comfort that swept over my soul as I read that verse? "Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again to this land." All the critics in the world could never persuade my soul that those words were a mere echo of some far-off relic of a Babylonian legend or oriental myth. No, no! That was a message to me, and it swept into my soul as a voice from heaven and lifted me up. No man will ever shake me out of the conviction that that message was God's own Word to me -- inspiring because inspired.
It changes mens' lives and alters their destinies. It inaugurates world-wide movements. A single text transformed Luther and launched the greatest of modern epochs. It comes today into communities of unrighteousness as a regenerating force.
The supreme wonder of the Book is Christ, Who is its fulness, its centre, its great subject. Of the whole Book it may be said, "The glory of God does lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof". As long as men live upon the face of the globe, the Book that tells of Christ the Revealer, Redeemer, the Risen, Reigning, Returning Lord will draw men's hearts like a magnet, and men will stand by it, and live for it, and die for it.
Do not think that we ought to read this Book as we read any other book, or study and analyse it just as we do any text book in literature or science. No! When you come to this Book, come to it with reverence. Read it with a plea for the Spirit's help. "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." Other books are of the earth. This is from heaven, it is the living Word of the Living God, Supernatural in origin, divine in authorship, regenerative in power, infallible in authority, personal in application, inspired in its every part.
(Summarised and selected from "The Wonder of the Book"
Let us make ourselves very clear where we stand in relation to the Authorised Bible, God's Word. We believe the A.V. Bible was translated by 47 scholars, men of God appointed to carry out this vital work. These men under the inspiration of The Holy Spirit translated from the Greek into English words, placing commas, etc., where necessary, thereby giving us the true meaning in our language. There is no room for alteration to words or commas, etc., as they stand in the A.V. Bible. So vital is this that God has distinctly warned against tampering with His Word. He has placed in our A.V. Bible these warnings. In Deut. 4:2a, "Ye shall not add unto the Word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it .... "; In Prov. 30:6a, "add thou not unto His Words" and in Rev. 22:18, 19, "(18) For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto l hese things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: (19) And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
Let us here give one example of tampering with God's Word, and how vital commas are in our English translation. In Heb. 10:12, the A.V. reads, "But this man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;" Some translations have placed the comma after sins making it read "After He had offered one sacrifice for sins, forever sat down on the right hand of God" thus making the return of Our Lord impossible. This of course makes Roman Catholic doctrine, leaving the priests free to celebrate "mass" as often as they please, in spite of Our Lord Jesus Christ having offered one sacrifice for sins forever. Heb. 10:12.
We can be sure the A.V. is God's infallible, inerrant, and no less inspired word than was the original Greek and Hebrew from which it was translated. Would God have neglected the preservation of His Pure Word?, if so, He certainly could not hold us responsible. He would have left us without a Bible in which we could place our trust, further more as few of us read and understand Greek, what an impossible position we would find ourselves in, in relation to our salvation.
When we are confronted by some new doctrine, etc., we must do as the Bereans did, Acts 17:11. "Search the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so." In addition, we must, under the guidance of The Holy Spirit learn to "rightly divide the Word". 2 Timothy 2:15.
We would further draw the attention of those who would seek to alter or improve (as they imagine) the A.V. by using some Greek text which does not agree with the A.V. if so there is only one place for the text, the waste paper basket, as you are probably using one of the many corrupt Greek texts, possibly Westcott and Hort's. This has been altered and differs in something like five or six thousand places from the Received text from which the New Testament of The A.V. Bible was translated into English. We stand or fall on this Bible, God's Word given to us in English.
Remember! God wrote only one Bible.
Paul said he did not adulterate the Word of God but presented it in all its purity. However, man today has corrupted it by adding to it through the rapid production of new translations, paraphrases, versions, perversions and amplifications of the Scriptures. The best that can be said for them all is that they are helping to increase sales in most Bible Book Stores and helping the publishers to make large profits. The Christians are left without their money and end up in greater confusion than ever.
With grateful acknowledgement to our many friends in The Lord Jesus Christ, who, by their prayers and support have enabled us to carry on the fight against the Apostasy in the Churches, and the Masterpiece of Satan, the perversion of The Word of God.


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Boxer picks up sport to keep other kids from bullying him
News | December 28, 2005
Matt Schuman
When La Salle's Mario Munoz was only 5 or 6, he was tired of being pushed around.
"I kind of got bullied a lot and my mom wanted me to learn self-defense, so she put me into karate," Munoz said.
Those bullies probably wouldn't want to mess with Mario any longer. These days, Mario is even more dangerous with his hands than he is his feet.
While karate was fine with Munoz, the seventh grader at North Valley Middle School decided he wanted something a little more physical. So he turned to boxing.
"It is more physical and you get to move and hit people as hard as you can — if you are able to hit them," Mario said.
The 12-year-old has proven he can hit them and hit them hard.
For the fifth-straight year, Mario is a State Silver Gloves champi-
on. He earned the title in the 12-13, 85-pound junior division by beating Israel Fernandez of the Pueblo Stylers at the state tournament held Dec. 11-12 at the Pueblo Fairgrounds.
He was not alone. Mario is a member of the Hard Knocks Boxing Team in Milliken. The team sent four boxers to the tournament and all four won titles.
La Salle's Damion Romero, 13, won the 12-13, 119-pound division by beating Gabriel Miramontes of the Pueblo Dukes boxing club. Kersey's Alfonso Hernandez, 15, won the 14-15, 95-pound division over Edgar Antillon of the Pueblo Stylers and his younger brother Fonzy, 11, won the 10-11, 70-pound weight class with a victory over Carlos Fernandez of Pueblo Parks and Recreation.
All four winners have qualified for the 2006 Region VIII Silver Gloves Championships to be held Jan. 5-8 at the Norwalk Arts and Sports Complex in Norwalk, Calif.
While Mario has won five state titles in a row, this is the first time he has been old enough to participate in regionals, which will bring the best young boxers from the states of Colorado, Califorinia, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada.
"That was my main goal was to win and to go to California and now I am able to do that, so it is like a dream come true," Mario said.
That dream started with a lot of hard work with his coaches at Hard Knocks. All four boxers used to be part of the Salazar Boxing Club, which merged with Hard Knocks a year ago. The move has helped both clubs and the boxers.
Not only do the kids have the benefit of a bigger facility, but the expertise of four different coaches including longtime Greeley boxing coach Reuben Salazar, who started Salazar Boxing, and Hard Knock President Glenn DePriest.
The kids with Salazar used to have to practice in the garage of Salazar's home in Greeley, but now have the benefit of the Hard Knocks indoor facility.
"It's a lot better," said Damian, who started boxing three years ago and has won the state Silver Gloves twice. "It's warmer, we have more bags and weights. We have got everything here."
Mario for one, is glad to be out of the cold.
"We used to be in a little two-car garage," he said. "It only had one little heater and it didn't work that good."
All four boxers hope for plenty of heat both inside and outside the ring when they head to California.
Alfonso will be going to regionals for the first time while his little brother will be trying to defend his regional title of a year ago.
"I hope to God I just finish (the tournament) first," Alfonso said. "I'll just want to do the best I can and hope I win. Let the best boxer win."
The Hard Knocks boxers were not the only ones to do well at the State Silver Gloves. Greeley's Rodarte Boxing Program had seven boxers qualify for regionals and earned two prestigious honors at the tournament.
Rodarte Boxing coach Jeff Rodriguez was named Coach of the Year and his son Robert was named Boxer of the Year.
Robert, a 112-pounder, will be one of the seven Rodarte boxers heading to California. Joining him will be Rudy Rodriguez at 65 pounds, Ricky Rodriguez and Cassandra Mendoza, both at 95 pounds; Nate Sanchez at 106 pounds, Manuel Rodriguez at 147 pounds, and Denise Rodriguez at 152 pounds.
WHO: Weld County boxers
WHAT: 2006 Region VIII Silver Gloves Championships
WHEN: Jan. 5-8
WHERE: Norwalk Arts and Sports Complex, Norwalk, Calif.
AGE DIVISIONS: Juniors: 10 -11; Intermediate: 12-13; Seniors: 14-15
SCHEDULE: Jan 6, noon-6 p.m., Preliminaries Double Session
Jan. 7, noon-6 p.m., Semifinals Double Session
Jan 8, 11 a.m., Finals


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for a variety of actions — selections, transformations, schema changes, etc. Sentry does this by examining a query plan and checking whether each step in the plan is permissible.
What Sentry doesn't have is cell-based security, for which Charles perceives relatively little demand. I agree, but also note that traditional RDBMS implementations of cell-based security — notably Oracle Label Security — can have unpleasant performance consequences. From there, I segued the discussion to Accumulo. Unlike Hortonworks, Cloudera sees Accumulo demand strictly in the Federal government, where Accumulo is baked into some major reference architectures.
Encryption at rest is important for compliance, for example for credit card numbers.
Masking is also of particular interest for credit card numbers.
Audit arises frequently for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and also in financial services (not necessarily for compliance).
View-based security — a big point of Sentry — is usually to satisfy internal (i.e. non-regulatory) policies.
@Greg – I encourage you to re-read Curt's post and then your product documentation. Sentry is focused on fine-grained authorization by securing views of data such as a selection of columns or a range of rows in the Hive metastore as well as securing select SQL operations as they're applied to those views. This is totally unrelated to the encryption you're referring to.
Apache Sentry (incubating) is open source and I encourage your colleagues to consider incorporating it into a future release of your own products and perhaps even contributing patches. Much as Cloudera will review & incorporate the HDFS, MapReduce and HBase features that Intel proposes to add under the umbrella of "Rhino" (once they are committed upstream of course).
A talk description for the Intel Developer Forum next month. Emphasis mine. However, I have no idea how granular the bolded part is.
Big data and data analytics are helping businesses to become smarter, more productive, and better at making predictions. These tools also present numerous security, compliance, and performance challenges. The Apache* open source projects do not provide adequate mechanisms for data protection or access controls, which are necessary for typical enterprise production use. The Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop* software provides significant enhancements to deal with these gaps.
I implemented a 25 node hive-hadoop cluster in production last month. I have been struggling with implementing Cloudera Sentry for past 3 weeks. I read the documentation but its still not working. Basically I can do the LDAP authentication from a beeline client. But I am not clear if I need to create ROLES thru Hive CLI or just Sentry config files. Either way the authorization is not working. Many questions were answered well by CDH users group but I still cant get it to work. Where can I find help ?
Would data security for Hive count in this case?


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