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Q: SCCM OSD TS End User Summary Screen I am looking for a good way to make a summary to existing large build TS.
What I am working with is SCCM 2012r2 and what I need is a hint, how to capture all steps I want(some of them are in various groups) and put result of them in some sort of variable so at the end, someone who is building that PC will have a table showing lets say 30 of applications green and 4 of them red as a failure.
Can it be done in some easy way? I just need someone building the PC to see what app didn't install so he can install it manually or at least provide me more information before I'll dive into logs.
Thanks

A: I wouldn't say easy because it requires lots of steps and you have to do it per application manually basically but there is a TS Variable _SMSTSLastActionSucceeded which you could check after each installation step (you have to set the step to continue on error to make this work). So basically after you tried to install you check whether it worked and then set a TS variable of your choice to reflect the failure.
As a final step you implement a script that checks all your TS variables and outputs the result.
You could even use the addon OSDBackground to display your errors as the background image.
Some lengthy article how to implement a form of error handling can be found here however you would have to do this quite a bit different because in this example the ts fails at the first error and you want to continue and log but you should get the basic principles.

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Garner giving us grief
May 6, 2016 Michael Burge	Leave a comment
A writer's review of Helen Garner's This House of Grief.
HOW can an average Aussie bloke be present at one of the worst deaths imaginable – the swift drowning of his three sons inside his car in a deep, dark dam – without managing to recall a single coherent fact or memory about how or why it took place?
"Like a mirage that turns out to be drinkable water, Garner eventually notices something in the relentless evidence of the second trial."
With unassailable courtroom credentials loaded into her knitting bag, Helen Garner took on the unenviable role of witnessing both Robert Farquharson's trials and extracting answers from the experience.
As the resulting book opens, we know as little as she does about the case, having switched off to the patently horrific outcome; but almost immediately we're right within the inevitable tug-of-war between the prosecution and defence teams, privy to every piece of evidence that will decide the defendant's guilt or innocence.
There is no observing from the edges for anyone, and Garner leads us through plenty of opportunities to make early judgements.
Farquharson's past paints him first as a pitiable sook, a man who's missed out, been hard done by, and Garner runs with this thread to the point of describing the crime as having been caused by "the car that went into the dam", completely disassociating it from the man, the father, the one in control of the vehicle.
This segues into gripping sections where even the water in the dam takes form as a character in the drama, separate to and more powerful than the man who put his children in the path of a swift, liquid death.
But soon after, shocked by her need to imagine an alternate, mythical survival for the three boys, Garner shakes herself out of a funk and asks: Am I stupid?
Presenting herself as nothing more than a type of 'everywoman' observer is her greatest power as a writer, yet she reveals frailties and hypocrisies the whole way, which only adds to the transparency.
Sifting through the clarity of crime-scene photographs, dramatic recreations of the car's sinking, and striking word-portraits of key witnesses, Garner admits that something as ephemeral as a trick of light is capable of swaying a profoundly rigid courtroom.
But nothing definitive can be found in the evidence to leave the reader convinced about Farquharson's role in the crime. As a way to ground herself, Garner recounts knitting one red stitch into a green scarf – opposite colours representing forces of guilt and innocence that need to be reconciled.
Between trials, Garner goes on a fruitless search for a motive, within her vast experience of legal processes, her family and her heart, but it leads her right back to where she started, observing that Farquharson is nothing more than a "wretched man" who took the cruellest revenge imaginable on his estranged wife.
Wretched by default, or by design? That's the question the book asks at its very core.
TRIED AGAIN Robert Farquharson arriving for court at his 2010 retrial. (Photo: Luis Enrique Ascui)
Like a mirage that turns out to be drinkable water, Garner eventually notices something in the relentless evidence of the second trial and clings to the angle of the road, follows the slope of the field, and sniffs closely at the need for what the police label "steering inputs" as a way to comprehend the car's journey from the road to the bottom of the dam.
This is the "brutal simplicity" of archival police photographs that Garner admitted she was aiming for, in a later essay about This House of Grief – 'On Darkness' – published this year in Everywhere I Look (Text).
"What people find really hard to bear is the suggestion that they themselves might contain their share of human darkness, hidden inside their souls," she wrote in The Monthly in 2015, counterpointing any simplification with one of the greatest human blind spots.
While reading this book I found myself unconsciously responding to some of Garner's descriptions with an old actors' trick – taking the language the writer uses literally, particularly facial expressions, and using my own face to portray them, particularly when she writes about Farquharson.
The feeling I got was instant horror and actors' sympathy, evenly blended. This is the kind of place performers need to find to avoid playing arch villains. When you get the chance to play Hitler, you look this deeply, because such men never get close to thinking they deserve no empathy or understanding for their issues.
Garner came to regret taking on a book about this trial. She tried to avoid writing it, finishing and publishing it at all. Yet it represents seven years of her life and she is honest enough to include her affront at the defence team threatening to hold her in contempt of court for publicly speaking about the case.
We owe a great debt to the courageous witnesses to our high-profile criminal stories, most notably the likes of John Bryson for his account of the Chamberlain case in Evil Angels.
Without them, we are left to our own assumptions, prejudices and shortcomings. The innocent would languish in jail, or lie in graves without justice.
In this country, you've got to be aware enough about the worst reckoning life ever puts in your pathway, or you're guilty as hell for manifesting your amnesia. When the case is about the death of innocent children, you're either a hero, or a monster.
This House of Grief is a knockout journey into this human paradox, and the flawed court system we have allowed to grow around us.
It will bring out your most judgemental self, and ask you to raise your most forgiving, all at once.
This article appears in Michael's eBook Creating Waves: Critical takes on culture and politics.
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Daniel Birchall has been a Consultant Neuroradiologist at Newcastle Regional Neurosciences Centre since 1999, and has worked over the years both in a neurointerventional role and latterly as a diagnostician.
He has been, and is presently, Head of Service, and has developed his profile as an academic while maintaining a full-time clinical post.
He has also developed an interest in organisational function and in understanding ways of working, obtaining an MBA in recent years. His du Boulay lectures centre on human factors in Neuroradiology, particularly in relation to the cognitive, psychological, and behavioural aspects of our work as Neuroradiologists.
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In October 2017 he commenced part-time academia working closely with the Leeds Institutes of Cancer and Pathology and Biomedical Imaging. His main academic interests lie in radiological biomarkers for the diagnosis and management stratification of brain tumours. He is also a keen educator and has just completed his Masters in Clinical Education. His du Boulay lectures explore neuroradiological concepts of traumatic brain injury through the films of Rocky Balboa and advanced neuroimaging techniques through the James Bond film SPECTRE.
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Which Seattle candidates made the list of tech company endorsements?
By Dyer Oxley
New development in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood was spurred largely by the rise of the tech industry in the area. (Ted Eytan, Flickr
Washington's tech industry is speaking up ahead of the November general election, focusing on Seattle City Council races with a series of endorsements.
Amazon contributes over $1 million to PAC aimed at Seattle council races
This is the first time the Washington Technology Industry Association has opted to engage in political races and support candidates.
"Generally speaking, we are an apolitical organization, we're neither Republican nor Democrat," said WTIA CEO Michael Schutzler. "We are involved in local politics now because we want to work with the leadership of cities and the counties in a way that is constructive and productive. So what you are seeing is a reflection of the employee will to actively engage with our local governments so that we build a really successful economy for everybody."
The WTIA is a consortium of 1,100 technology companies in Washington. Its members include big names such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Zillow, and Expedia. But also smaller tech businesses, or companies like Nordstrom which employs a significant tech workforce. It acts as a co-op serving the growth of the local tech industry.
While the WTIA is "apolitical," it has decided to address the 2019 Seattle City Council race with endorsements for each district. It initially made endorsements before the council primary in August. All but one of its favored candidates made it through — Michael George for District 7. With the current lineup of endorsements, released this week, the WTIA is now backing Jim Pugel for the D7 position.
"He has a lot more experience in government functions than the other candidate," Schutzler said. "But it's also really clear that Jim understands how to collaborate with multiple organizations and multiple sectors, and the only support of substance for Andrew (Lewis) is just one group, and that is largely one labor group that has driven most of his fundraising. There is just a much wider group of organizations and different sectors of the economy that support Jim."
WTIA endorsements
Ahead of the 2019 general election, the WTIA is endorsing these Seattle council candidates:
District 1: Phil Tavel
District 2: Mark Solomon
District 3: Egan Orion
District 4: Alex Pedersen
District 5: Incumbent Councilmember Debora Juarez
District 6: Heidi Wills
District 7: Jim Pugel
Councilmember Debora Juarez is the only incumbent on the list. The other two incumbents, District 1 Lisa Herbold and District 3 Kshama Sawant, are not endorsed.
The WTIA interviewed 18 council candidates, initially. The association promotes that its endorsement priorities are candidates who support cultivating new talent, informed public policies, and a thriving tech community. But if there is one primary theme among its list of endorsed candidates, it's that they collaborate and work across diverse groups with varying perspectives.
"Crucially, Phil also has experience brokering complex negotiations and bringing people together to solve problems," the WTIA states about District 1 candidate Phil Tavel.
"Mark also earned high marks for working successfully with groups holding diverse perspectives. His ability to reach agreement on gun safety measures among organizations with disparate views on gun control demonstrated his ability to broker complex negotiations," it says about District 2 candidate Mark Solomon.
If there is one standout endorsement, it's Egan Orion for District 3. Orion faces incumbent Kshama Sawant, who the association argues is "hostile" toward tech. WTIA's full endorsement for Orion reads:
District 3, which includes Capitol Hill, the Central District, and Madison Park, is currently represented by Councilmember Kshama Sawant. Many believe it is time for a change in that district given the council member's hostility towards the business community, and the tech industry, specifically. We believe District 3 needs a council member who has deep ties to the community, is able to engage with a broad range of stakeholder groups, and has grit. No other candidate encapsulates that more than Egan Orion.
Egan has been a fixture in his community for over a decade and is perhaps most well known for saving Pridefestーan event that Egan continues to manage and is a banner event for Seattle. We were impressed with Egan's strong family and personal ties to his district, tech knowledge, and his strong desire to engage small business. We believe Egan will focus on getting things done for his city and his district, and, unlike the incumbent, focus less on self-branding for higher office. WTIA endorses Egan Orion for District 3.
Why is tech interested in the Seattle City Council?
Schutzler says that the WTIA began getting involved with the political world during Seattle's last election, when now Mayor Jenny Durkan was running for office. It was the first time the association considered evaluating candidates in the city where most of the tech industry operates.
"The city faces very significant challenges," Schutzler said. "Probably just shy of 90 percent of the tech companies in the state of Washington are in the Puget Sound, and of those the vast majority are in downtown Seattle. The people who work in tech, live and work in the city. Those really significant challenges the city faces – homelessness and housing, transportation, and transit – are of significant interest to the people who live and work in the city. And we just happen to be a much larger percentage of the workforce now than we were 10 years ago."


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ISU Idaho Museum of Natural History prehistoric bison skull to be transported to exhibit to South Dakota's Mammoth Site
Local News May 8, 2018
Pocatello, ID | Hot Springs, SD. – The Idaho State University Idaho Museum of Natural History will loan a large, prehistoric bison skull to the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota on May 12-13.
The giant bison, scientific name Bison latifrons, is one of the many diverse, prehistoric fossils in the Idaho Museum of Natural History's collections. The giant bison is the largest of all North American bison. It is about 8 feet at the shoulder and weighs about 4,400 pounds. The giant bison appears in fossil sediments in North America as early as 200,000 years ago and existed until about 20,000 years ago.
The giant bison skull is part of a partial skeleton that is housed at the ISU Idaho Museum of Natural History and will be transported to South Dakota. The skeleton is a male and is nicknamed "Howie" after Howard Emry, who found the specimen in 1975. The skeleton was excavated in 1975 by Emry, who is an amateur paleontologist who volunteered with the museum for more than 20 years.
The giant bison will be on display in South Dakota for a minimum of 10 years. This specimen and others in the IMNH collections have been used by national and international researchers to answer and capture new information, such as DNA analysis.
"Our museum's tagline is Discovering Idaho, One Story at a Time," said Mary Thompson, senior collections manager at the Museum of Natural History. "By lending this specimen to South Dakota, we can tell the story about what Idaho and North America were like 20,000 to 200,000 years ago."
Transportation of the specimen will be done by Jim Mead and Presston Gabel from Mammoth Site.
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Some have expressed the opinion that the International Dateline has led to observance of the weekly Sabbath on the wrong day in part of the world. They believe that Sabbath keepers in the nations east of Jerusalem, between Jerusalem (longitude 35 degrees) and the International Dateline (longitude 180 degrees), are observing the weekly Sabbath one day too early. Their belief is based on the assumption that those living eastward from Jerusalem should not begin observing the weekly Sabbath before Jerusalem does. They maintain that only those living westward from Jerusalem to the International Dateline are observing the Sabbath at the proper time. In their view, people in these countries should continue to observe the weekly Sabbath on Saturday, but those living eastward from Jerusalem should keep the weekly Sabbath on Sunday.
Let's consider how Sabbath observance in Australia would be affected by this proposed change. At the present, Australians begin to observe the weekly Sabbath 9 hours before it arrives in Jerusalem, allowing an overlap of 15 hours of shared Sabbath observance between Sydney and Jerusalem. Let us assume that Australians decide to postpone their observance of the weekly Sabbath one day and keep it from sunset Saturday evening to sunset Sunday evening. Doing so would theoretically correct the day "lost" due to the present placement of the International Dateline and would resolve the supposed problem of Sabbath observance beginning in Sydney before it begins at Jerusalem.
If such a change were instituted at the beginning of 2005, here is what would take effect: The sun at Sydney would set at 8:10 PM Saturday evening, January 1, beginning the first day of the week. When "Sabbath" observance began in Sydney it would be 11:10 AM Saturday morning in Jerusalem—the Sabbath day having begun there at sunset, 4:46 PM Friday evening. The Sabbath day in Jerusalem would end at 4:46 PM Saturday evening, corresponding to Sunday, 1:45 AM Sydney time. The new Sunday "Sabbath" of Sydney would overlap the Sabbath of Jerusalem from 11:10 AM to 4:46 PM Jerusalem time, a period of 5 hours and 36 minutes. Thus the present overlap of 15 hours of shared Sabbath observance would be reduced by nearly two thirds. Moreover, Sabbath keepers would be observing the first day of the week—not the seventh day.
Would moving the International Dateline to the vicinity of Jerusalem correct this problem, as has been proposed? Some would have the dateline run through the middle of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Others say that it should run along the eastern border of the State of Israel. Another view is that the dateline should run through modern Iraq, the proclaimed site of the ancient Garden of Eden. Supporters of these views claim that moving the International Dateline would enable those living at the longitude of Jerusalem to be the first in the world to begin Sabbath observance, and the rest of the world would observe the Sabbath as it came to them.
Would instituting this change in the International Dateline make the Sabbath arrive in Jerusalem before it arrives in Australia? Suppose the IDL were moved westward from the 180th meridian to the 35th meridian, which runs through the State of Israel. The Sabbath would still begin at sunset, Friday evening, January 1, at 4:46 PM in Israel. What time and day would it be in Sydney? Well, it would still be 1:45 AM, Saturday morning, which means that the Sabbath day would still begin in Sydney before arriving in Jerusalem. Why is this so? Because the world revolves counterclockwise on its axis once every 24 hours, and the weekly cycle of seven 24-hour days cannot be changed.
The only way for an Australian to begin observing the seventh day of the week after it arrives in Jerusalem is to travel to a point west of Jerusalem and remain there until the sun sets on Friday. The Australian could then begin observing the Sabbath after those living in Jerusalem. He cannot do so as long as he is in Australia. It is impossible to do so in Australia because Friday sunset reaches the Sabbath keeper in Australia before it does the Sabbath keeper in Jerusalem. The only way to make the Sabbath arrive in Jerusalem before it arrives in Australia would be to reverse the rotation of the earth.
Moving the International Dateline to Jerusalem cannot change the sequence of the days in the weekly cycle. Doing so would, however, throw Jerusalem into incredible turmoil! Imagine the hustle and bustle at sunset in Jerusalem. On the west side of the IDL it would begin the Sabbath, while on the east side of the line it would begin Friday. The west side of Jerusalem could travel to the east side and conduct business as usual. Likewise, 24 hours later, Saturday evening would arrive for the west side of Jerusalem while the Sabbath was just beginning on the east side. Jews could travel to the west side and business could go on as usual.
This scenario could occur anywhere on the earth if the International Dateline were located across a continent or large land mass rather than across an expanse of water, as it is now. Jewish authorities are well aware of this fact. They have already considered the issues involved in Sabbath observance in various parts of the world, especially for Jewish businessmen who must cross the International Dateline on a regular basis. The following article shows the problems that would result if the IDL were relocated, as some rabbis feel it should be.
Halacha addresses two aspects of the Dateline: The location and halachic implications of crossing the Dateline.
A. The Chazon Ish bases his opinion on the Baal Hamoer's (and other Rishonim) explanation of a complicated gemara in Rosh Hashana (20b, which discusses the appearance of the new moon in different regions of the world). The Dateline "technically" runs 90 degrees east of Yerushalayim, where the time is six hours later. This line is at 125.2°E (line B) and runs through Australia, China, and Russia.
However, if the Dateline in reality ran through the Chinese and Australian continents, the line could run through Main Street of Changchun, China, and Rawlinna, Australia. Families on one side of Main Street would recite kiddush while families on the other side recite havdala. It may be possible for those who want two days of Shabbos to cross from west to east after shalosh seudas and start Shabbos again. Those who want to skip almost all of Shabbos could cross Main Street from east to west and go from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. However, halacha does not allow for such a situation. Instead, we consider the eastern land masses of the Asian and Australian continents tafel, secondary, to the western land masses of these same continents. Therefore, eastern sections of Australia, China, and Russia observe the same day for Shabbos as the western sections (based on Yesod Olam - a student of the Rosh).
Therefore, the halachic Dateline of the Chazon Ish avoids going through land by gerrymandering along the Russian and Korean coasts, then along the 125.2°E longitude line, through the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Indonesia. Finally, the line cuts eastward, around most of the Australian coast, and south towards Antarctica. According to the Chazon Ish, Japan, New Zealand, and Fiji are on the same side of the Dateline as the United States. When the Japanese and New Zealand residents say it is Saturday, halacha says it is Friday. When they say it is Sunday, it is halachically Shabbos.
B. Rav Yechiel Michel Tucazinsky, the author of the Gesher Hachaim, in Sefer Hayoman B'Kadur Ha'aretz, bases his ruling onChazal's Judaic principle that Yerushalayim is "the center of the world." If so, the Earth "starts and ends" (i.e. the dateline) on the exact opposite side of the Earth, halfway around the globe at 144.8°W (line E). This line runs from the Gulf of Alaska through the Pacific Ocean east of Hawaii, placing Hawaii on the "other side of the Dateline" from the United States. Hawaii would then be nineteen hours ahead of Baltimore, rather than five hours behind, as it is on the same side of the Dateline as Asia. The day Hawaiians call Friday is halachically Shabbos, and the day they call Saturday is halachically Sunday.
C. "Mid-Pacific Poskim" - Several Poskim, including the Bnai Tzion (Rav Dovid Shapiro z"tl), are of the opinion that the halachic Dateline runs through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and closely resembles the Civil Dateline. According to these opinions, Japan and New Zealand are on the western side of the Dateline (similar to Asia), and residents of these locations observe Shabbos on the local Saturday. Hawaii is on the eastern side of the Dateline (similar to America), and residents observe Shabbos on their local Saturday.
The exact location varies among the Mid-Pacific Poskim. The Bnai Tzion's Dateline slants westward through the Bering Straits (between Alaska and Siberia), touching the Siberian coast, through the Pacific Ocean at approximately 177°E (west of Fiji), then turns east of New Zealand. Due to the slanting, the line intersects the Civil Dateline at three points. Other Mid Pacific Poskim, including the Atzei Sodeh (Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Siegel) and Rabbi B. Rabinowitz Thumim (in Hapardes Iyar 5714), are of the opinion that the line is at 169.7°W (Line D) - from the eastern tip of Siberia, directly southward through the Pacific Ocean, 10° east of the Civil Dateline.
What is the Halacha?One should consult with his Rav prior to crossing the Pacific Ocean, especially if he must stay over Shabbos in Japan, New Zealand, or Hawaii. The halachic ruling of Rav Moshe Heinemann, shlit"a, Rabbinic Administrator of the Star-K, is as follows: One should follow the majority of opinions in determining which day is observed as Shabbos, and also observe dinei d'oraisa shel Shabbos, Shabbos prohibitions of the Torah, on the day of the minority opinion. However, Rabbinic prohibitions, such as shopping and the handling of muktzah, are permissible on the day which the minority opinion considers Shabbos. In addition, performing even a biblically prescribed violation of Shabbos through a shinui, unusual manner, or through the action of a Gentile, would be permitted on the day which the minority opinion considers Shabbos.
The halachic ramifications of this psak (ruling) are as follows: In New Zealand and Japan, "Saturday" is Shabbos according to the Gesher Hachaim and the Mid Pacific Poskim. Therefore, the local Saturday should be fully observed as Shabbos, with Shabbos Prayers and kiddush, etc. (Incidentally, this is the day the Orthodox Jewish community in New Zealand observes as Shabbos.) However, according to the Chazon Ish, Shabbos is on the local Sunday. Therefore, one should not perform any melacha d'oraisa on Sunday. Nevertheless, on Sunday, one should daven regular weekday tefillos, donning tefillin during Shacharis.
In Hawaii, "Saturday" is Shabbos according to the Chazon Ish and the Mid Pacific Poskim. Therefore, the local Saturday is fully observed as Shabbos. (This is the day the small Orthodox Jewish community in Hawaii observes as Shabbos.) The day known locally as "Friday" is Shabbos according to the Gesher Hachaim, and one should not perform melacha d'oraisa on that day. Cooking for Shabbos should be done on Thursday.
Determining the majority opinion on the Aleutian Islands or South Pacific Islands, including Fiji and American Samoa, is complicated and beyond the scope of this article. However, in the following locations, Shabbos is observed on the local Saturday, and a "second day" is not necessary: Australia, China, Mainland Russia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland Alaska (below the Arctic Circle; there are halachic concerns above the Arctic Circle - for a full discussion, see "When Does One Pray When There Is No Day"), and Manila, and other areas of the Philippines west of 125.2°E.
II. Crossing the Dateline:Repeating or skipping a day by crossing the Dateline poses various concerns in many aspects of halacha, including davening, sefira, Holidays, and laws of family purity. The guidelines are as follows: Halachos relating specifically to the time of day are not affected by crossing the Dateline. For example, if one davens Shacharis on Monday morning on a plane flying westbound, and crosses the Dateline "into" Tuesday morning, one does not daven Shacharis again. The person has already fulfilled his obligation and is not required to perform these mitzvos until the sun sets and rises again. However, mitzvos that are dependent on the day of the week or month are affected by crossing the Dateline. For example, if one crosses the line westbound from 1:00 p.m. Thursday to 1:00 p.m. Friday, one must begin preparing for Shabbos as it is Erev Shabbos and Shabbos will begin in several hours. If one flies westbound from 1:00 p.m. on Monday, the 16th of Tammuz, and crosses the halachic Dateline to 1:00 p.m. Tuesday on the 17th of Tammuz, one fasts until nightfall.
The author wishes to thank Rabbi S.D. Siegel, author of Atzei Sadeh, Rabbi Yisroel Taplin, and Mr. Chaim Brumer for their invaluable assistance: http://www.star-k.org/articles/articles/travel/515/when-does-one-pray-when-there-is-no-day/.
As this article shows, differing opinions are held by the followers of Judaism as to proper observance of the Sabbath in a number of countries in the world. In some countries Jews are required to extend some of their Sabbath practices beyond the Sabbath day, either beginning with Friday or continuing through Sunday, the first day of the week.
Should Sabbath-keeping Christians also be observing the Sabbath on the first day of the week in some parts of the world? Is the present placement of the International Dateline causing them to violate the Scriptural commands for Sabbath observance? Should the International Dateline be moved, as a number of leading rabbis have argued?
As Christians, we do not need to resort to the opinions of rabbinical authorities. We should look to the records of Scripture to guide us in resolving the question of Sabbath observance in those areas that are in doubt. What is the example of Sabbath observance that we find recorded in Scripture? The Sabbath command clearly requires observance of the seventh day of the week from sunset to sunset. Do the Scriptures require that Sabbath observance begin in Jerusalem before it begins in any other part of the world?
The book of Daniel offers more Scriptural evidence to support the calculations of the Hebrew Calendar. Let us examine the account in Daniel 10, which records that a prophetic revelation was given to Daniel in the "third year of Cyrus king of Persia" (Dan. 10:1). This verse refers to the third year of Cyrus' reign over Babylon, which was 536 BC. The following verse records that Daniel was fasting at the time the prophecy was given: "In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks" (verse 2).
Daniel also describes this period as "whole weeks" (verse 3). A more literal translation of the Hebrew text would read "weeks of days." This Hebrew expression refers to whole or complete weeks, which run from the beginning of the first day at sunset to the end of the seventh day at sunset. Thus Scripture reveals that the three weeks of Daniel's fast were indeed whole weeks, counted from the first day of the week through the seventh day.
Continuing in Daniel 10, we find that the fulfillment of the three weeks was "the four and twentieth day of the first month…"(verse 4). Because the twenty-fourth day of the first month, or Nisan, ended the three full weeks, we know that this day was a weekly Sabbath. Counting backward from Nisan 24, we can determine that Daniel began his fast on Sunday, Nisan 4. Thus Daniel 10 establishes the weekly cycle of days for the month of Nisan in 536 BC. By checking the calculated calendar data for 536 BC, we can determine whether the weekly cycle of days matches the account in Daniel 10.
Hebrew Calendar calculations for 536 BC place Passover, Nisan 14, on Wednesday, April 11. Counting backward ten days, we find that the calendar places Nisan 4, the first day of Daniel's fast, on a Sunday. Counting forward from Passover, we find that the calendar places Nisan 24 on a weekly Sabbath, April 21. Here is clear and undeniable evidence that the weekly cycle of the calculated Hebrew Calendar matches the weekly cycle of the Old Testament.
The account in Daniel 10 clearly contradicts the claim that the Hebrew Calendar is invalid because the weekly cycle has been broken. The words that Daniel was inspired to write in 536 BC testify today that the calculated Hebrew Calendar is in perfect accord with the weekly cycle of Scripture.
This account is significant because Daniel was dwelling in Babylon, which was more than 500 miles east of Jerusalem. Consequently, at the beginning of each weekly Sabbath, the sun would set at Babylon before it set at Jerusalem. Yet Daniel was reckoning the days of the week by the cycle of the Hebrew Calendar. He did not alter the weekly cycle in order to begin observing the Sabbath after it had arrived in Jerusalem. Rather, he observed the Sabbath on the seventh day of the week exactly as he had done in Jerusalem before being taken to Babylon.
Here then, is Scriptural evidence that the prophet Daniel observed the Sabbath in Babylon before it was observed in Jerusalem! The prophet Ezekiel, a contemporary of Daniel, wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that Daniel was a righteous man (Ezek. 14:14). The Scriptures do not condemn Daniel because he observed the Sabbath in Babylon before it had begun in Jerusalem.
Each week, sunset Friday night came to Babylon before it came to Jerusalem. The weekly cycle has not changed since that time. The earth still revolves on its axis in a counterclockwise motion, as it did at the time of Daniel.
Just as Daniel observed the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath day when he was living east of Jerusalem, so Sabbath keepers today in Australia and New Zealand are correctly observing the seventh day as the Sabbath. The records of Scripture show that the seventh day is the Sabbath day in countries that lie east of Jerusalem, as well as in lands that lie west of Jerusalem. The Sabbath in Australia and New Zealand is the same Sabbath day that is kept in Jerusalem, the United States of America and the rest of the world.
A person who dwells in any part of the world, whether east or west of Jerusalem, should have no problem determining which day is the Sabbath. However, a traveler who crosses the International Dateline may encounter a problem. Travel eastward across the IDL results in loss of a day, and travel westward results in gaining a day. This difference in time is the result of traveling on a planet that is perpetually rotating in an easterly direction. It is this physical reality which led to the establishment of an imaginary line at the 180th meridian called the International Dateline.
The International Dateline is not an arbitrary device, as some have been led to believe. It is an acknowledgement of an undeniable fact of astrophysics involving the movement of the earth in relation to the sun. Due to the rotation of the earth in a counterclockwise direction, one who travels in an easterly direction will gain time, and one who travels in a westerly direction will lose time. This fact became self-evident in the days of the early mariners who discovered that when they circled the world, they either gained or lost a day.
What appears to be the earliest reference to the circumnavigator's paradox is found in the works of the Syrian prince and geographer-historian Isma'il ibn 'Ali ibn Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Taqi ad-Din 'Umar ibn Shahanshah ibn Ayyub al Malik al Mu'ayyad 'Imad ad-Din Abu 'l-Fida (1273 - 1331). In his Taqwin al-Buldan ('The ??? of the Lands'), Abu 'l-Fida described how a traveller, depending on his direction of travel, would either lose or gain a day at the completion of his circumnavigation [Rudolf Wolf, Handbuch der Astronomie, Ihrer Geschichte und Literatur (Zurich, 1890), vol 1, pp. 465-466; I still have to check the original source].
Nearly sixty years later, the same phenomenon was observed by the crew members of the fleet of the English explorer Francis Drake (c. 1545 - 1596), when in September 1580 they arrived back again in Plymouth after a long westward voyage around the world that had started in late 1577.
"And we found a difference in reckoning the days between us, who had come from the city of Manila, and the Portuguese who had come from that of Macao, an island of China. These Portuguese, having left Lisbon and navigated constantly eastward, had reached Japan as the furthest point of their journeying. During their voyage, the sun having risen for them constantly earlier, they had gained twelve hours of a natural day. We, on the contrary, having left the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain and navigated steadily westward and having lost daylight constantly because the sun kept rising later, had lost twelve hours. So when we discussed it with them, we found that we had reached a difference of one day. And when they said it was Sunday, we counted up to Saturday. Had I pursued my voyage around the entire world without having met those Portuguese, by the time of my arrival in Europe, whence I first had departed, I should have lost exactly a whole day of twenty-four hours.
For I, having moved constantly from the east toward the west, changing meridians and therefore making the day later for myself, would have encountered this difference of one day as caused, as I have said, by the later or earlier rising and setting of the sun in the diverse meridians, which continue changing daily for those who navigate toward the east and toward the west. And it is true that in the Philippine Islands on that same day when the Spaniards and their Church are celebrating Holy Saturday, those who are in Japan - that is, the Portuguese and their Church - are eating meat, because for them it is the day of the Resurrection. So that if they were moving swiftly enough to reach Manila the next day, as is said to have happened to some navigators, they would celebrate the same Easter or other solemnity twice. And if they were to arrive on the day when those people celebrate the feast, it would befall them to return on Holy Saturday. On the other hand, if those from Manila should set out on the day when they solemnize Christmas and reach the island of Macao, where the Portuguese are, they would find those others at the second feast of Saint Stephen, and would thus celebrate one and another solemnity on the same day. And if they were able to arrive on the day before Christmas by their count, they would be able to eat meat without having fasted on the preceding day.
As the records of ancient mariners show, the rotation of the earth makes the existence of an International Dateline an absolute necessity. Since the one that has been established stretches across a vast expanse of ocean with relatively little land involved, it has served its purpose well. There is no reason to move it. In fact, the rabbis of Judaism have pointed out the potential dangers in placing the IDL in populated regions of the world, as some have proposed.
There is no Scriptural basis for moving the International Dateline to Jerusalem or changing the observance of the Sabbath day in countries that lie east of Jerusalem. Records in the Old Testament show that faithful Sabbath keepers in Babylon were following the same weekly cycle they had used in Jerusalem, although Babylon was located east of Jerusalem. Sabbath keepers living today in Australia and other such regions should follow the Scriptural example and continue to observe the seventh day of the week.
The International Dateline 1884, John Vennik.


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I'm installed a thin client web in my server by using insweb.bat.
In directory deployment of my thin client, a file tc.ear is generated.
My question is : how can I test the connexion to my thin client ?
Building tc.ear (or tc.war) is half of the effort for a J2EE Web Tier. Now you must deploy tc.ear to your web application server (WAS). Teamcenter supports several J2EE WAS like JBoss, WebLogic or WebSphere. Once the WAS is installed and configured then you deploy the tc.ear to it and it becomes available. For instance, by accessing the address http://webserver:8080/tc/webclient where, webserver is the name of the server running your WAS; 8080 is the default port number for JBoss; tc is the name of your web application (tc.ear).
I use Microsoft IIS as WAS.
How can I deploy the tc.ear in IIS ?
Is like OTW for installation of 4 tiers rich client ?
The tc.ear generated by INSWEB is a J2EE solution while IIS is a .NET solution. You want to deploy the corresponding web tier that matches what was installed for the application tier. For instance, if J2EE Pool Manager was installed then you would create tc.ear and deploy it to a J2EE WAS. But if you installed .NET Server Manager then you should also install the .NET Web Tier.
Don't abandon INSWEB completely (yet) since it is still useful for building the OTW 4t Rich Client (Distribution Instance) but you won't need the tc.ear solution for the .NET stack. Install the .NET Web Tier by running TEM on the same server running IIS.
When I launch the thin client by web, an error appears (see the file error.jpg).
I don't see where is my error.
I got a .war file with TC 11.2 installation. Does that make a difference?
Previous Tc versions generated an EAR file (Enterprise Archive) and newer versions just generate a WAR file (Web Archive). The EAR actually contains the WAR and adds a unique ID so that multiple files with the same name can be deployed simultaneously. Those requirements were no longer necessary so Siemens simplified it to just generate the WAR.


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Hello, my name is Michael Wickerson, arts educator and designer at the Kansas City Art Institute, and I am the co-founder and director of Wickerson Studios with my wife, Beth Allison Wickerson, developer at Signal Theory. We have been hosting an alternative forum for the arts out in Kansas City, Kansas for the past ten years.
Following a 4 years stint in the city running the Beth Allison Gallery in the crossroads, we decided to move our artistic interests to a 14 acre woodland and rolling hill property in the 435 loop; close enough to the city but recluse enough to make some "noise".
In the wake of entering another decade of facilitating a wide range of talented national and international artists, we have decided to focus on the growing need of artists to incorporated digital technologies into their creative efforts.
Wickerson Studios is now entering a new decade of facilitating art fabrication, performance and design with a keen eye for introducing digital technologies into traditional methods and processes.
Our venture title: Wickerson Studios is a business incubator for the arts that facilitates materials and processes for artists wanting to commercialize their work.
Problem –
After two decades of co-directing a gallery, running a metal casting foundry, and operating and firing ceramic kilns for individuals and groups, we have decided that we would like to find a way to incorporate more digital modeling technologies into the hands and minds of the artists we have facilitated. Although we have assisted several digital photographers, videographers, retail businesses and independent artists in the past, we have only begun to tap into the interests of architects, engineers, and programmers.
We have hosted international conference workshops, facilitated full-scale musical and theatrical performances, worked internationally with a variety of creative individuals, and even made the cover to KC Studio magazine in 2014 (Fire Over Kansas), however we are interested in moving beyond the analogue into the digital.
By incorporating metal casting, kiln firings, and architectural fabrication in both timber and adobe construction into the contemporary digital realms of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, we will be able to extend and develop our business through offering new digital services including parametric and computational modeling processes.
We are determined to continue to mentor undergraduate art students, educate art alumni, organize public workshops, and even grant certificates for professional artists with a new focus on computer skills.
The past services we have provided have fulfilled the need for an alternative school of the arts that have been open to a wide range of disciplines from the traditional plastics arts to the more temporary theatrical and performative ones.
We now feel that the ability of reaching into the digital realm on the virtual, augmented and mixed reality levels appeals to the next generation of visual artists, designers, architects, program developers and engineers wishing to cooperate and collaborate with sculptors and performance artists.
Solution –
Our solution involves renovating Wickerson Studios and developing the digital studios to facilitate a computerized maker-space that houses the hardware and software capable running onsite rapid prototyping 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC milling machines and even robotic multi axis arms.
In such a close proximity to the preexisting foundry, kilns and metal shop, creative individuals will be able to conceive, design, and fabricate on a collaborative level with a variety of people skilled in traditional processes along side the people who are capable of coding, programming, and dealing technically and precisely with digital equipment.
Market Opportunity –
In regards to the market opportunity, there are many post graduate professionals in the arts and design fields that lack the resources required to continue their research after completing there studies.
They may very well find themselves in limbo, caught between graduating and finding creative employment or enrolling in graduate studies. Until recently, we have assisted individuals in their more traditional efforts, however they have been limited and required to find the time and money to sign up for specific workshops and courses in surrounding maker spaces to explore newer technologies.
Differentiation –
Wickerson Studios intends on offering individualized courses and tutorials that mentor and enable individuals to fully explore their particular project interests that may tap into the expertise of professionals skilled in foundry operations, metal working, and construction, along side digital modeling, programming, and scripting.
From bronze casting to algorithmic modeling, Wickerson Studios will be able to work with product designers, architects, engineers, and artist alike.
Why us –
We have spent our lives in the arts and have an enthusiastic passion for all that is creative. I am a skilled foundry-man and programmer and Beth is an professional developer and photographer.
As we raise our three children on the land, we have always prided ourselves on the imaginative world we have been able to bring to our family, our friends, and our extended creative arts community.
We fully intent on growing and developing our own particular interests along side facilitating the imaginative realms of our peers and colleagues in the national and international arts community.
Director of Wickerson Studios
Michael Wickerson promotes sculpture by research through material processes and digital logic. This dynamic research operates on a variety of scales, from algorithmic modeling, computer aided design, technical and gestural drawings, metal fabrication and casting, to full scale architectural buildings made from timber and adobe out in rural Kansas. The complexity of working this way creates an organizational structure that emerges from a physical hands on approach and, in turn, informs and develops the direction any future digital designed based projects may take. Our contemporary society provides an open forum for activating and applying these skills on a multitude of levels, ranging from modeling and programming, art production to physics simulations, and architecture to engineering.
Wickerson's work experience in the United States, Canada, and Holland includes A. Zahner Company, Metalabs, and the Kansas City Art Institute, where he currently works. In 2000 he graduated with a Master's degree in Sculpture form the L. L. Oudette Sculpture Studio at York University in Toronto Canada after having previously studied in Art and Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. His work has been featured in a series of international galleries and art centers, such as the Leedy Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, among others. Wickerson has appeared as a guest speaker at the Kinetic Sculpture Symposium at the Nerman Museum and the Guild It program at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City. He hosted the Iron Pour at Wickerson Studio for the 2017 International Sculpture Conference in Kansas and has been invited to lead casting workshops and lectures at the Life Nourishing Arts Center in Toronto Ontario for International Sculpture Day each year.
Wickerson has most recently been invited to travel to Holland and Poland to collaborate with Naked Architecture and JR Imageworks in order to continue the production of a series of digital analogue prints that began in 2013 at Wickerson Studios entitled, "Fire Over Kansas". This ongoing international project has crossed the Atlantic Ocean several times in many different forms and has explored the work of a collection of internationally recognized artists and designers. The project continues and final prints have already been exhibited in The Netherlands, Krakow, New York and Kansas City.
Assistant Research on Digital Sculpture
Joseph Canizales of Salvadoran and Honduran descent was born in 1998 in Miami, Fl. He currently is a sculpture major at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, MO pursuing a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree. In 2016 he graduated from Design and Architecture Senior High in Miami where he studied Industrial Design for years. During High School he was involved in the Arts for Learning Lewis Arts Studio summer art program as a mentor for elementary and middle school students giving advice and criticism to assist in the development of student's artwork and organize art activities and field trips to museums. He also was a part of non-profit organization Smile art where he led art and activities for disabled individuals. He is a recipient of the 2018 McKeown Grant where he received $1,000 where he traveled to Utah's National Parks to study the topography and geology furthering his studio practice. Currently he works at Wickerson Studios as an assistant designer and fabricator, a student leader for KCAI's foundations department, a student advisor for the KCAI sculpture department and is Technician at David T Beals Studio where he assists and mentors KCAI's student body with the usage of CAD and CAM processes.


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Judge Frees Illegal Immigrant MS-13 Member Because Of 'Rights Violations'
By Gage Cohen | June 22, 2017 | 5:59 PM EDT
A tattooed member of the notorious MS-13 street gang. (Photo: FBI/Public Domain)
(CNSNews.com) – An Obama-appointed federal judge in Virginia early this month released a Honduran teen who sold drugs, illegally crossed the U.S. border, and was a member of the violent street gang MS-13.
U.S. District Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon ordered the 17-year-old to be released because his "rights had been violated" after he crossed the Rio Grande and turned himself in to U.S. Border Patrol, the Washington Post reported.
"The judge ruled that, by holding the illegal alien gangbanger without a hearing, the government violated his rights to due process and family unity," according to Judicial Watch.
The former gang-member's identity has not been revealed due to his status as a minor.
The teen claimed to have sold drugs and witnessed several murders during his time with Mara Salvatrucha, the gang better known as MS-13, but that he had never participated in a killing. He will be living with his mother and half-siblings in their home in Kentucky.
During the Obama administration, more than 150,000 minor aliens entered the country illegally by way of the southern border.
The Department of Homeland Security has said that unaccompanied alien children (UACs) pose several threats to the United States, and that violent street gangs like MS-13 actively recruit new members in units where UACs are held.
"Both the MS-13 and the 18th Street gangs embarked on a recruiting frenzy at the various facilities housing the newly arrived illegal aliens," said Judicial Watch, citing law enforcement sources.
"The UACs also brought in dangerous diseases – including swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis – and occupied the nation's military bases as shelters."
Gang members were also reportedly using phones provided by the Red Cross to communicate.
The Justice Department's National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) has said that MS-13 and other violent street games are responsible for "the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs."
"A year after the Obama administration began allowing droves of UACs to remain in the U.S., the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed that the MS-13 emerged as a top tier gang in the Lone Star State thanks to the influx of illegal alien gang members that crossed into the state the previous year," Judicial Watch reported.
"Last month, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sent a letter to the ORR [Office of Refugee Resettlement], demanding to know if it had released any unaccompanied minors with admitted gang ties," according to the Washington Post.
"This teen may be the first known case, but he is not the only one. In a statement to The Washington Post, the agency said it had released 'a small number' of children with 'minimal' gang affiliation to live with relatives."
In April, Attorney General Jeff Sessions voiced concern about UACs and gang members crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
"If they come as undocumented minors, the federal government transports them wherever in the interior they say they'd like to go," he said. "The bad guys know how this system works, and they have exploited it."
Gage Cohen
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In October 2011, Resorts World New York City Casino (Resorts) opened adjacent to Aqueduct Racetrack. According to NYRA's Franchise Agreement (Agreement), a percentage of Resorts' Video Lottery Terminal (VLT) revenue is directed to NYRA for enhanced purses, operational support, and capital expenditures. The Agreement directs that NYRA receive VLT funding until 2033 unless the franchise is terminated before that time. However, the FOB stressed the need for NYRA to develop a plan to become profitable without reliance on VLT subsidies.
Translation: VLT subsidies make NYRA – which in addition to Aqueduct, includes more prestigious Saratoga and Belmont – profitable. Without them, Thoroughbred racing in NY is failing. (Cheap Finger Lakes also stays in the black through racino cash; all seven harness tracks, too. In fact, I hold that sans racinos, those eight would have been shuttered by now.) Failing – at a clip of about $22 million/year.
End the corporate welfare, NY. And if Horseracing can no longer subsist on its product alone – and it clearly cannot – let it go the way of myriad other American industries that time passed by. As a further incentive, the Empire State will no longer be in the business of sanctioning equine cruelty/killing. Imagine that.
When are governments going to stop spoon-feeding this despicable cruelty circus, and death camp?
The figures in this report are astounding!
These millions would be better spent on crucial things such as infrastructure, healthcare, and education in the state of New York.
Instead, these millions are going to support an antiquated, and failing business model that is based on the exploitation of a voiceless sentiment being resulting in death either on the racetrack or in the slaughterhouse.
These casinos and government are supporting a cruelty circus, and death camp.
It's got to stop and stop now.
For example, Ontario Canada has got to be the most outrageous example of taxpayers money being wasted. For 12 years the horse racing industry received 345 million per year from casino revenues. This was a back room, all boys club deal struck by then Premier Harris – very good buddy of Frank Stronach.
It took a change of government hands to perform an audit. Lots of the 345 million per year were unaccounted for. An investigation, and inquiry quickly ensued.
It was announced that the government was ending the gravy train to the horse racing industry in Ontario.
It was also announced that Ontario horse racing couldn't survive without handouts. I guess the 345 million per year for 12 years was not enough for them to figure out how to turn their business around. They were too busy spending the money.
Enter their savior Premier Wynne who allegedly received millions in election donations from pro-horse racing people during her election campaign. She paid the piper dearly and reversed the previous decision to stop all funding by reinstating funding to the horse racing industry, compliments of the Ontario taxpayer, to the tune of 100 million per year!
Not only did she do an about turn, but she EXTENDED the funding from 5 years to 8 years to ensure that it will continue even if she's elected out of office!
Her press conferences to relay this information was held during the day in remote locations, and were announced at the last minute so that people didn't even have a chance to question her decision. Then the bombshell. She was, evidently, instrumental in BLOCKING the ongoing investigation into where the 345 million per year went since it was unaccounted for.
Wow, she's got to be one of the most corrupt politicians that our province ever elected in.
I can't wait until she's voted out. I sincerely hope that any new politician who can't be bought will reverse her decision and finally end all financing to this money sucking money pit they call Ontario Horse Racing.
100 million per year would virtually cancel the debt. If the 345 million per year for 12 years went to Ontario projects for Ontario residents we would have no issues.
Shame on her. Shame on all government either in the U.S. or Canada who continues to financially support this cruelty circus, and death camp at the expense of many others who have nothing to do with it.
Neither taxpayers or casino money should go to support this despicable industry.
Decoupling is the quickest route to end this industry. But mark my words…horsemen are fighting hard. I think the best way is to contact your legislature's and inform them of your support to decouple. Most politicians have no idea of the cruelty of racing, educate them if you can. Most citizen's do not know the scope of money hand-outs this industry receives. Enlist the help from horseracingwrongs, to help power your message. Patrick's work is cold hard facts, facts that need to be distributed into the right hands. I would like to say that the cruelty and death this industry inflicts upon it's horses, would be enough to end it. But until people are informed and educated that will not happen. And remember where your vote needs to be, for those who support to decouple.
Agreed 20+ Insider – Decoupling is the key to ending this endless money trough to this despicable industry. Second, the government needs to CANCEL the Interstate Horse Racing Act. This act was supposed to be temporary to, yet again, bail out this sinking industry. It provides unprecedented lax rules and lack of oversight on the transfer of billions of dollars across state lines for wagering.
Third, educate which this blog, thanks to Patrick and participants, is doing very well at it.
Four, write your local governments. Make your opinion count. They need to be educated as well.
I also agree that the horse racing industry fights back hard. They always seem to bail themselves out via governments. They are probably donating to the coffers of these elected officials because I can't see how a government can virtually ignore critical issues of their residents to placate this cruelty circus, and death camp.
100% agreed. Who in the hell do they think they are? They obviously think that taxpayers should be their private ATM machines by giving them billions in wagering money!
Oh, and by the way, we don't want any oversight from the government – just give us the money so that we can continue to abuse horses and have them die on our tracks.
Come on people – we must stop this insanity.
Is there a change of view emerging from Wayne Pacelle, chief executive of the USA Humane Society?


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Bridge works
By Dan Pine | November 26, 2004
Maybe it's a little long for a bumper sticker, but for 200 years, one aphorism has struck home many Jews: "The world is a narrow bridge. The key to crossing is to be unafraid."
Rabbi Nachman of Braslav never could have imagined his words inspiring a CD and companion book. Nevertheless, here it is: "The World is a Narrow Bridge," a 14-track album paired with a volume of short essays, all about loss and healing.
The project is the brainchild of L.A.-based Jewish music maven Craig Taubman. Linking the book and CD was a good idea from a marketing standpoint: Both share the same packaging design, and there's always an audience for uplifting material like this. It was also a good idea artistically and spiritually, as several of the songs and essays prove piercingly poignant.
The CD features songs by Taubman, Neshama Carlebach, Debbie Friedman and actress/Jew-by-choice Mare Winningham, among others. The book boasts a diverse line-up of writers, including Leonard Fein, Kirk Douglas and Theodore Bikel. Also included are known Bay Area rabbis Amy Eilberg (recently moved to Minnesota), Eric Weiss and Sheldon Marder, and storyteller Joel Ben Izzy.
Among the musical performances, the standouts are Carlebach and Shirona Kaufman (the latter a Connecticut-based cantorial soloist). The two have exquisite voices and, singing in Hebrew, both convey maximum kavanah (spiritual intensity). Carlebach sings "Nachamu Ami" by her late father, Jewish music legend Shlomo Carlebach. It's a niggun-like tune dramatically elevated by the singer's own harmonies. Accompanied by piano, Kaufman sings "Mima'amakin," based on a text from Psalm 130. Her shattering performance alone is worth the price of the CD.
Also noteworthy, Debbie Friedman's setting of "Mi Shebeirach," now a liturgical standard in synagogues around the country. She has a genius for creating simple melodies that add up to much more than the sum of their notes. This tune perfectly exemplifies that.
For those who prefer classical music to pop, Cantor Alberto Mizrahi's choral performance of "Ana Adonai" provides ample chills — the good kind.
Not every song is a hit. Some — such as "Private Plenty" by Sally Fingerhutt and "Seraphim and Seagulls" by someone named Dana — are too precious by half. And for those who admired her musical talent displayed in the film "Georgia," Mare Winningham's flaccid rendition of "Well It's Gone" comes as a disappointment.
A musical goulash like this can't help but leave some listeners flat. However, the "Narrow Bridge" book is a jewel with something for everyone. Many essays, especially those about death and dying, will easily elicit tears. Best among those are Scott Fried's autumnal recollections of his father; Diane Arieff's story of chiding a cranky teenager caught in the act of being rude to her mom; and Robin Kramer's belated eulogy for her mother.
The latter recalls a trip to the Western Wall, which provided a catalytic moment for a grieving daughter. "I bent forward, my forehead touching the Wall," writes Kramer. "At once, its ancient stones — heated by amber slants of sun — drew me nearer, into my mother's kind presence, sparking in me a flash flood of tears. The words of the Kaddish seemed to rise up to stroke my hair."
The book covers a lot more ground than the topics of loss and healing. Tzedakah, ritual, prayer, love and community all get their due. But there's nothing to pluck the heartstrings like a meditation on the loss of a loved one.
Among the best, Ron Wolfson of the University of Judaism describes the "odd couple" relationship between Joe Rothkop, a 90-year-old Jewish invalid, and Boysie, his 20-year-old Filipino caregiver. The two developed a close rapport, and when Joe was near death, the younger man says to him in Yiddish, "Gey shlofen, (go to sleep) Joe."
Not every essay is a tearjerker. Rabbi Elaine Zecher writes of her triumph over cancer by running the New York Marathon. Bay Area storyteller Joel Ben Izzy recounts a Chinese folk tale about turning curses into blessings.
Cynics might argue that "Bridge" simultaneously overreaches and underachieves: A lofty goal like spiritual healing can't be accomplished merely by scanning a CD or breezing through 300-word essays.
Or can it?
The net effect of "The World is Narrow Bridge" is undeniably uplifting, making it a worthwhile investment. While the old commercial fine print — "each sold separately" — applies, the "Bridge" set is best enjoyed as a package deal. The key is to pony up the dough for both and not be afraid.
"The World is a Narrow Bridge" book and CD are available online (book: $20. CD: $15) at www.craignco.com, or call (800) 627-2448.
Dan Pine
Dan Pine is a contributing editor at J. He was a longtime staff writer at J. and retired as news editor in 2020.
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Heart rate variability (HRV) refers to the beat-to-beat alterations in heart rate. The origin of heartbeat is located in a sino-atrial (SA) node of the heart, where a group of specialized cells continuously generates an electrical impulse spreading all over the heart muscle through specialized pathways and creating process of heart muscle contraction well synchronized between both atriums and ventricles.
The SA node generates such impulses about 100 – 120 times per minute at rest. However, in a healthy individual, the resting heart rate (HR) would never be that high. This is due to continuous control of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) over the output of SA node activity. Its net regulatory effect gives real HR. In a healthy subject at rest, it ranges between 60 and 80 beats per minute.
The autonomic nervous system is a part of the nervous system that non-voluntarily controls all organs and systems of the body. As the other part of nervous system ANS has its central (nuclei located in brain stem) and peripheral components (afferent and efferent fibers and peripheral ganglia) accessing all internal organs. There are two branches of the autonomic nervous system - sympathetic and parasympathetic (vagal) nervous systems that always work as antagonists in their effect on target organs.
For most organs including heart, the sympathetic nervous system stimulates organ's functioning. An increase in sympathetic stimulation causes an increase in HR, stroke volume, systemic vasoconstriction, etc.
In contrast, the parasympathetic nervous system inhibits functioning of those organs. An increase in parasympathetic stimulation causes a decrease in HR, stroke volume, systemic vasodilatation, etc.
A heart response time to sympathetic stimulation is relatively slow. It takes about 5 seconds to increase HR after actual onset of sympathetic stimulation and almost 30 seconds to reach its peak steady level.
The heart's response to parasympathetic stimulation is almost instantaneous. Depending on actual phase of heart cycle, it takes just 1 or 2 heartbeats before heart slows down to its minimum proportional to the level of stimulation.
At rest, both sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are active with parasympathetic dominance. The actual balance between them is constantly changing in attempt to achieve optimum considering all internal and external stimuli.
There are various factors affecting autonomic regulation of the heart, including but not limited to respiration, thermoregulation, humoral regulation (rennin-angiotensin system), blood pressure, cardiac output, etc. One of the most important factors is blood pressure. There are special baroreceptive cells in the hear and large blood vessels that sense blood pressure level and send afferent stimulation to central structures of the ANS that control HR and blood vessel tonus primarily through sympathetic and somewhat parasympathetic systems forming continuous feedback dedicated to maintain systemic blood pressure. This mechanism is also called baroreflex, which increases HR when blood pressure decreases and vice versa. This mechanism is also targeted to maintain optimal cardiac output.
The heart rate variability analysis is a powerful tool in assessment of the autonomic function. It is an accurate, reliable, reproducible, yet simple to measure and process. The source information for HRV is a continuous beat-by-beat measurement of interbeat intervals. The electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) is considered as the best way to measure interbeat intervals. ECG is an electrical signal measured with special conductive electrodes placed on chest around heart area or limbs. It reflects minute changes in electrical field generated by heart muscle cells originating from its SA node. ECG signal has a very specific and robust waveform simple to detect and analyze. Because of that cardiac rhythm derived from ECG is the best way to detect not only true sinus rhythm but all types of ectopic heartbeats, which must be excluded from consideration of HRV analysis.
It is found that lowered HRV is associated with aging, decreased autonomic activity, hormonal tonus, specific types of autonomic neuropathies (e.g. diabetic neuropathy) and increased risk of sudden cardiac death after acute MI.
Other research indicated that depression, panic disorders and anxiety have negative impact on autonomic function, typically causing depletion of parasympathetic tonus. On the other hand an increased sympathetic tonus is associated with lowered threshold of ventricular fibrillation. These two factors could explain why such autonomic imbalance caused by significant mental and emotional stress increases risk of acute MI followed by sudden cardiac death.
Aside from that, there are multiple studies indicating that HRV is quite useful as a way to quantitatively measure physiological changes caused by various interventions both pharmacological and non-pharmacological during treatment of many pathological conditions having significant manifestation of lowered HRV.
Predictor of risk of arrhythmic events or sudden cardiac death after acute MI.
Clinical marker of diabetic neuropathy evolution.
Nevertheless, as the number of clinical studies involving HRV in various clinical aspects and conditions grows, HRV remains one of the most promising methods of investigating general health in the future.
At the Da Vinci Holistic Health Centre we use the Orthostatic Test when measuring HRV. During the test, the patient rises from a supine to a standing position. Normally this causes an immediate increase in heart rate and reaches its maximum level at about 15th heartbeat after beginning to stand. It is followed by a relative bradycardia that reaches its maximum around 30th heartbeat. The phenomena can be quantified as 30:15 ratio, which is the ratio of the longest R-R interval around 30th heartbeat to the shortest interval around 15th heartbeat.
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Here's some of our history.
Simon Bornhoft has been coaching windsurfing since 1983.
He's run thousands of UK sessions and hundreds and hundreds of overseas holidays.
Simon Bornhoft wrote the latest RYA windsurfing books, ebooks and coaching methodology and lead the training of the top trainers in the RYA. He's written for over 20 years for Boards Magazine and about 10 different countries have translated his coaching articles and books. Most importantly he is dedicated to assisting recreational windsurfers in their quest to get the most out of our amazing sport.
Young kids to become excellent freestylers.
Fast learners to carve gybe in a week.
Slow learners to break through lingering plateaus.
Helped 80 year olds carve gybe 75L board!
Produced 1-2-1 features with some of the best windsurfers on the planet – Robby Naish, Josh Stone & Bjorn Dunkerbeck.
Coached a Richard Cooper to windsurf around the UK.
Produced various 'fly on the wall' coaching series taking real windsurfers through each stage of progression.
Produced technique articles for most international windsurfing magazines.
We've run 10 Boards and Bands Xmas parties with over 160 WINDWISE clients at each party.
We've had clients from virtually every different country and we are growing year on year!
Each year, we run approximately 50-60 days of UK windsurf coaching.
Margarita, Moulay, Mauritius, Cape Verde, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Hurghada, Safaga, Dahab, El Tur, Moon Beach, Ras Sudr, Marasa Alam, Alacati, Fuertaventura, Essaouira, Kos, Barbados, St. Lucia, Perth, Brisbane, Lancelin, Prasonisi, Vassiliki, Antigua, British Virgin Islands, Maui and we have some other secret places lined up for the future!
Hayling, Pagham, West Wittering, Southend, Bigbury, Barrow-in-Furness, Gwithian, Daymer, Poole, Weymouth, Exmouth, Queen Mary, Datchet, Bray, Stithians, South Wales, Plymouth, Tiree & Ireland.
Introducing the concept of using core skills and key principles throughout the sport.
Highlighted the key principles that so many people now us in windsurfing coaching.
Changed the concept of teaching planing gybe techniques and developing complimentary light wind exercises.
Introduced Skills Training and breaking moves down into very specific component parts.
Simon Bornhoft introduced the concept of building moves up with muscle memory and skills based training. So using skills training like Non-Planing Carve Gybes, Clew First Beach Starts, Upwind Downwinders, Nose Sinks, Flat Water Wave Riding, Switched Stance, Sail 360's, Shifting & Switching and Rig Rotators you can make up pretty much every move in windsurfing and show how the whole sport links together.
Here's some back ground on where some of the core skills, principles, terms and phrases either came from or we emphasized.
Vision "Look where you want to go"
The importance of Vision came about in the early 80's when SB was training for a freestyle event. An observing ballerina quite rightly pointed out the importance of 'spotting' when going for a pirouette on the rail. Since then SB wrote in numerous magazine features heavily reinforcing the importance of Vision for skill development and coaching.
This was reinforced with SB's 1-2-1 magazine feature with Bjorn Dunnkerbeck for the Secrets of the Pro series.
Opposition "If the mast/rig moves one way the body moves in the opposite direction"
This is the foundation of windsurfing and was reinforced after 1-2-1 sessions with Josh Stone who was the architect of modern freestyle. After diagnosing his sailing, the importance of 'dancing with the rig' as Josh put it, became a driving force in virtually every aspect of windsurfing.
How we sheet the rig in, I.e, hips not arms, is all about using your harness and pulling down on the boom. Whilst this is pretty obvious, we feel it needs to be massively accentuated.
7 shaped Stance Range "How the body works on a board"
How we use our body is key to our success on a board. Simon Bornhoft heavily promoted the analogy of using a '7 'shaped stance range (with changing the pressure points) and how variations of this stance link into different areas of the sport.


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RAF Wildenrath was een RAF steunpunt dat in januari 1952 operationeel werd.  Het was een van de 4 rotatie bases die vanaf de beginjaren '50 van de vorige eeuw door de RAF in het uiterste westen van Duitsland werden gebruikt. De andere rotatie bases waren:
RAF Laarbruch vanaf oktober 1954
RAF Brüggen vanaf mei 1953
 RAF Wildenrath vanaf januari 1952
RAF Geilenkirchen vanaf mei 1953

De locaties van deze bases lagen nagenoeg tegen grens van de Nederlandse provincie Limburg en omdat ze niet ver uit elkaar lagen kwamen ze allen onder bevel van NAVO 's  2e Allied Tactical Air Force (2ATAF).

Op RAF Wildenrath waren de volgende eenheden gelegerd:
14 squadron van 1960-1970
17 squadron van 1962-1970
19 squadron vanaf oktober 1976
92 squadron vanaf april 1977
60 squadron vanaf  mei 1974
25 squadron van 1971-1983

14 Sqn vloog met de BI8 Canberra in de nucleaire aanvalsrol; hun oude opstellingen zijn goed zichtbaar ten zuiden van de oude hoofdpoort.
17 sqn vloog met de PR7 Canberra in de trainingsrol.
19 en 92 sqn vlogen met de Phantom FGR.2 in de luchtverdedigingsrol.
60 squadron was de verbindingsvlucht en vloog eerst met de Hunting Percival Pembroke en vanaf medio jaren '80 met de Hawker Siddeley Andover. Het squadron fungeerde niet alleen als basisvlucht voor alle bezoekende NAVO-toestellen maar maakte, als ze over de luchtwegen naar Berlijn vlogen, ook verkenningsfoto's van Russische en Oost Duitse eenheden.
25 sqn was belast met de basis luchtverdediging en uitgerust met het Bristol Bloodhound-raketsysteem; de eenheid had een vlucht van 2 secties operationeel.

Wildenrath is nu veel kleiner en gemengd met Javelin Barracks/Elmpt Station, het vroegere RAF Brüggen. Voor het grootste deel wordt Wildenrath door militairen bewoond; er staan legeringsfaciliteiten voor het NAVO-hoofdkwartier en voor Javelin Barracks/Elmpt Station. De startbaan bestaat maar wordt niet gebruikt en is ongeschikt voor vliegoperaties. Er is geen poging gedaan om de basis om te bouwen in een commerciële luchthaven zoals Niederrhein/Weeze, het vroegere RAF Laarbruch. Bijna alle grote gebouwen zijn gesloopt. Er is nog een kleine NAAFI shop beschikbaar op de plaats waar vroeger de YWCA stond. De bioscoop werd in 2005 gesloopt. De gemeenschap beschikt verder over een jeugdclub, kapper, pub/club/bar en een bibliotheek. Tot 2006 bestond een YWCA shop en café maar dit werd opgeheven toen de YWCA de krijgsmacht verliet.

De startbaan en het bijbehorend complex worden nu gebruikt door Siemens AG als auto- en treintestbaan en heet nu Wegberg-Wildenrath Test Center.

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UAE building 'Hope' to land on Mars https://www.visitdubai.com/en/business-in-dubai/why-dubai/news-and-insights/uae-building-hope-to-land-on-mars 20180207T150849 20180207T150849 20180829T105136:636711366960800425 News & Insights Dubai is playing a key role in the region's first foray into outer space, which is planning to send the first Arab spacecraft on a science mission to Mars by July 2020. The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) is planning to send the first Middle-Eastern built spacecraft on a scientific research mission to Mars by July 2020. The project is on track, with engineers on the local and international level working together to ensure the mission's success. The UAE Space Agency collaborates with the US and Japan
Dubai is playing a key role in the region's first foray into outer space, which is planning to send the first Arab spacecraft on a science mission to Mars by July 2020.
The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) is planning to send the first Middle-Eastern built spacecraft on a scientific research mission to Mars by July 2020. The project is on track, with engineers on the local and international level working together to ensure the mission's success.
The Emirati team is recruiting local graduates alongside seasoned Emirati engineers and scientists to work on this mission, with an expected 150 Emiratis joining the crew by 2020. The Mars probe Al-Amal, or 'Hope', is being built to collect comprehensive data on the red planet never recorded before. Objectives for the quest include tracking the climate on Mars, understanding why and how Mars is losing its hydrogen and oxygen into space and providing around-the-clock weather and planet monitoring and sending that data back to Earth.
This would be the first time comprehensive data about Mars will be gathered, setting a precedent for the region in space. It will also pave the way for the UAE's vision to build the first city on Mars by 2117.
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An interesting paper on the cultural dimensions of epilepsy among the Guaraní people of South America has recently come to our attention.
The representation of epilepsy as a state of human being and the perception of this in a vision that involves the entire community allow an interpretation of Guaraní attitudes toward PWE [people with epilepsy]. Guaraní PWE are rarely condemned, misjudged, or isolated as in other cultures. Apparently, PWE do not represent a threat to the Guaraní, who seem to hold the attitude of helping and protecting PWE. As noted, the restrictions and prohibitions cited by the Guaraní appear to derive from the need to take care of PWE, as heavy work, traveling alone, and being involved in problems are believed to worsen the condition or trigger seizures in PWE.
You can read more at the October 2011 paper "Sociocultural dimension of epilepsy: An anthropological study among Guaraní communities in Bolivia" (but unfortunately the article's paywalled).
Via Mind Hacks. Image: Tetrakyts/Wikimedia.


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Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Approaching the unspeakable through the diminutive (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father.
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Canadian Real Estate Association Cuts 2012 and 2013 outlook.
OTTAWA - The Canadian Real Estate Association cut its sales forecast for this year and next on Monday as it reported slower sales for November in the wake of tighter lending rules that came into force in the summer. The industry association now expects home sales this year to slip 0.5 per cent compared with 2011 to about 456,300. That compared with a forecast in September that called for sales this year to rise 1.9 per cent to 466,900 units. CREA also said it now expects sales next year to drop two per cent to 447,400 compared with earlier expectations for a drop of 1.9 per cent to 457,800 in 2013. "Annual sales in 2012 reflect a stronger profile prior to recent mortgage rule changes followed by weaker activity following their implementation," said Gregory Klump, CREA's chief economist. "By contrast, forecast sales in 2013 reflect an improvement from levels this summer in the immediate wake of mortgage rule changes. Even so, sales in most provinces next year are expected to remain down from levels posted prior to the most recent changes to mortgage regulations." Finance Minister Jim Flaherty moved in July to tighten mortgage rules for the fourth time in as many years in order to discourage Canadians from taking on too much debt. Among the changes, Flaherty made mortgage payments more expensive by dropping the maximum amortization period to 25 years. However, the minister said the while the tighter rules had some influence, they weren't the only cause. "The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions has tightened guidelines as well and I think there's an increasing awareness among the Canadian public that excessive debt is unwise in a time of historically low interest rates," Flaherty said Monday. "That interest rates only have one way to go and that is up and eventually they will go up so people ought to be prudent in the amount of debt they take on at low interest rates." CREA said the average price for 2012 is expected to be $363,900, up 0.3 per cent compared with a September forecast of $365,000, up 0.6 per cent. For 2013, CREA said it expects prices to gain 0.3 per cent to an average $365,100. That compared with earlier expectations of a drop of one tenth of one per cent to $364,500 in 2013. The downgrade for the outlook for the year came as home sales edged down 1.7 per cent month over month in November and were back where they stood in August. The decrease followed a drop of about one-tenth of a per cent in September. BMO deputy chief economist Doug Porter said for all the attention it has received, the market's performance has been far from exciting this year. "It increasingly looks like most major markets are indeed undergoing a policy-induced correction," Porter wrote in a note to clients. "But, for now, the landing looks to be soft in most cities, with the rather obvious exception of Vancouver." However, economist David Madani of Capital Economics said the belief that the Canadian market was enjoying a "soft landing" because prices have not fallen sharply was misplaced. "The continued decline in existing home sales support our view that a potentially severe housing correction is underway," Madani said. "Assuming that sales continue to trend lower heading into next year, then sharper demand and supply imbalances will eventually lead to widespread home price declines. We still think that house prices will decline by 25 per cent over the next year or two." Actual, or non-seasonally adjusted sales, were down 11.9 per cent from November 2011 while the national average home price in November was $356,687, off 0.8 per cent from November 2011. Sales were down on a year-over-year basis in three of every four local markets in November, including most large urban centres. Calgary stood out as an exception, with sales up 10.6 per cent from a year ago. Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver contributed most to the small decline at the national level. A total of 432,861 homes have traded hands over the MLS system so far this year, down 0.2 per cent from levels reported over the first 11 months of 2011 and 0.8 per cent below the 10-year average for the period. The MLS Home Price Index, which is not affected changes in the mix of sales, showed prices up 3.5 per cent nationally on a year-over-year basis in November. However, it was the seventh consecutive month in which the year-over-year gain shrank and marked the slowest rate of increase since May 2011. The MLS HPI rose fastest in Regina, up 11.6 per cent year over year in November, though down from 13 per cent in October. Among other markets, the HPI was up 4.6 per cent year over year in Toronto, 1.9 per cent in Montreal and 7.1 per cent in Calgary. In Greater Vancouver, the HPI was down 1.7 per cent year over year. Craig Wong, The Canadian Press Dec 17, 2012 15:43:00 PM
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Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon. How much it can fill your room, depends on the windows !
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,... Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit, shall lure it back to cancel half a Line. Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Because He loves beauty, Allah invented the World with ultimate perfection, and since He is the All-Beautiful, He loved none but His own Essence. But He also liked to see Himself reflected outwardly, so He created (the entities of) the World according to the form of His own Beauty, and He looked at them, and He loved these confined forms. Hence, the Magnificent made the absolute beauty --routing in the whole World-- projected into confined beautiful patterns that may diverge in their relative degrees of brilliance and grace.
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