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"We have never been postmodern"; or, Notes toward a new concept of the chiasm
1. Baudrillard, that paragon and scapegoat of postmodern ephemerality, once proposed that
a certain form of thought is bound to the real. It starts out from the hypothesis that ideas have referents and that there is a possible ideation of reality. … The other form of thought is eccentric to the real, a stranger to dialectics, a stranger even to critical thought. It is not even a disavowal of the concept of reality. It is illusion, power of illusion, or, in other words, a playing with reality, as seduction is a playing with desire … This radical thought does not stem from a philosophical doubt, a utopian transference, or an ideal transcendence. It is the material illusion, immanent in this so-called 'real' world.
The fractures between thought and the real in the spectacular age were nowhere more evident than in the simulacra of war, according to which Baudrillard could argue that the (first) Gulf War "did not take place". We still, today, have not grasped the rhetorical strategy and intervention into the media terrain deployed by Baudrillard in this claim, which continues to be interpreted by friends and foes of postmodernism alike as the godfather of our contemporary "war on truth".
Baudrillard continues:
at all events, there is incompatibility between thought and the real. There is no sort of necessary or natural transition from one to the other. … It has doubtless not always been so. One may dream of a happy conjunction of idea and reality, cradled by the Enlightenment and modernity, in the heroic age of critical thought. Yet critical thought, the butt of which was a certain illusion … is in substance ended. … It has broken down under pressure from a gigantic technical and mental simulation, to be replaced by an autonomy of the virtual, henceforth liberated from the real, and a simultaneous autonomy of the real which we see functioning on its own account in a demented — that is, infinitely self-referential — perspective. Having been expelled, so to speak, from its own principle, extraneized, the real has itself become an extreme phenomenon. In other words, one can no longer think it as real, but as exorbitated, as though seen from another world — in short, as illusion.
It is with the second Gulf War that we see Baudrillard's thesis nakedly in the destruction of the twin towers (which, according to some, were not destroyed by planes): a pure event in its indiscernibility from a non-event.
Mitchell described that event as "a new and more virulent form of iconoclasm" because the destruction of the towers was "a globally recognizable icon, and the aim was not merely to destroy it but to stage its destruction as a media spectacle. Iconoclasm in this instance was rendered as an icon in its own right, an image of horror that has imprinted itself in the memory of the entire world". Thus every image of the twin towers is an image of an image: the event of 9/11, what "took place", is inseparable from its mediatization* or what Mitchell calls the "biopicture". "The terrorist is the figure of iconoclasm and the destruction of living images, literally in the form of human bodies, metaphorically in the destruction of monuments". The collective American fantasy in response has produced, from within, the very unspeakable and unimaginable horrors of the terrorist through the expansion of its juris-diction (as Mitchell observes, "the law against the representation of something in words or images must, in effect, always break itself, because it must name, describe, define — that is, represent — the very thing that it prohibits").
*Mitchell defines a "medium" as "the set of material practices that brings an image together with an object to produce a picture … understood as a complex assemblage of virtual, material, and symbolic elements".
Baudrillard's thesis is both epistemic and ontological: the claim is not that we can have no knowledge of the real but, rather, that we do not know (at least anymore) what the real is because the real (including the reality of consciousness) has become not the "product of discourse" but always duplicated, encoded, disseminated, imaged, simulated, and overdetermined.
There is some irony in the fact that the critics of postmodernism have themselves confused the hoax for the reality. There is no more important concept than truth, for example, in the late Foucault's work on the parresiac utterance as "the introduction, the irruption of the true discourse [that] determines an open situation, or rather opens the situation and makes possible effects which are, precisely not known. Parresia does not produce a codified effect; it opens up an unspecified risk" (here one could also analyze the logic of the differend in which the codification of discourse silences the articulation of a wrong). If postmodernism is to blame for the present quagmire of relativism and "alternative facts", it is perhaps not because we have read too much Foucault but because we have read too little.
2. "What does critique want?" (for M.K.) When Mitchell asked of pictures what they want, he was gesturing not only to an analogy between images and life, nor to the viral propagation of images but, rather, with the particular form and content of images within the present biopolitical regime of the reproduction of terrorism as the acephalic clone wherein the destruction of an image (e.g., the twin towers) is also the production of an image (e.g. Abu Ghraib).
This duality of iconoclasm and iconoclash mirrors our "double consciousness" with respect to images, as both a shadow thrice removed from reality and also autonomous from it. The question "what do pictures want?" arises in this chiasm of the lack and excess of the image: the lack of vitality in an image allows it to receive a hyper-reality through its communication, circulation, and dissemination until the real is transformed into what had "only" been an image.
2a. In a pair of lectures from 2004 and 2010, Latour worries that the general structure of critique (viz., of naturalism, truth, etc.) has ironically given its weapons to the "instant revisionism" of conspiratorial dogmatism against which, as its counterfeit double, no form of rationalism can mount an adequate defense. Instead of asking, however, what demands critique, we might also ask what desires are produced by the critical impulse. On the one hand, critique must be both timely — in its response to particular material, historical, local, and contingent conditions — and untimely; thus the aporia of critique since Kant: critique always gestures behind, beneath, or beyond the given (as ideological, phenomenal, etc.) toward what cannot be known an sich. When philosophizing with a hammer that demolishes the appearances to reveal the chaotic monster of energy beneath, we languish in negativity ("how hetero!" "how bourgeois!") and, thus, in nihilism.
On the other hand, as Nietzsche had reminded us, to speak of "illusion" requires us still to believe in truth. Latour accuses the critical gesture of disingenuity when it proclaims simultaneously that (1) any "fact" is merely the projected "white screen" of ideology, discourse, etc., while at the same time insisting that (2) all thought and behavior are determined by the brute facts of (in both senses of the genitive) objectivity. Latour thus suggests a new orientation ("composition") that leads not away (e.g., from facts toward their conditions) but toward facts, i.e., that not only debunks but assembles, toward the thingliness of things in a "renewed empiricism" that asks "how many participants are gathered in a thing to make it exist and to maintain its existence". The Thing is no longer opposed to objects but, given the collapse of the bifurcation of Nature, "they have to be gathered first in order to exist later as what stands apart [ob-ject]. … What the etymology of the word thing [as object and as juridical apparatus] … had conserved for us mysteriously, as a sort of fabulous and mythical past has now become, for all to see, our most ordinary present".
We should hear, however, not only the Heideggerean but Lacanian (and Levinasian, as Critchley has argued) resonances in this claim. The production of images and fantasies not only protects us from a direct exposure to the Thing but just is the sublimation of the death drive. Within our "most fundamental" metaphysical activity, however, the aesthetic contains a trace of the excess of the ethical, viz., in the fact that there is more to the life of an image (e.g., that of myself or others) than its reality as an image: that you and I are both an image (e.g., a digital image) and more than an image.
Just as Bergson had argued that possibility is not less than actuality but an addition to it, so too Latour asks whether we ought to add reality to matters of fact rather than subtract it (what is impossible, of course, is the isomorphic correspondence between the two). It is not merely that we must "fight for the facts" in the face of, e.g., climate change denial but we must ask what comes "after Nature" or, rather, after the postmodern collapse of the distinction between nature and politics. Latour's own "politics of nature" attempts to address this need to re-compose both science and politics given the irreversibility of critique (i.e., in the fact that the "simply true" cannot even serve as a regulative idea), despite the apparent reversibility of "progress".
Like the Bergsonian élan, the problem of subjectivity is not only one of lack but that of a figure of excess, in which we see the objective correlate in the basic ontology of modernity: production as over-production. As we know, scarcity is constructed as the abject remainder of excess and what we must confront today is the saturation of ontology by capital (as the primary objective cipher of excess). The dialectic of lack and excess is both intra- and inter-subjective. McGowan has recently argued that the point at which lack and excess become indistinguishable is the comic, in which we momentarily encounter this chiastic relationship:
our everyday life is distinctively humorless because it sustains itself by keeping excess and lack at a distance from each other. … The strict separation of lack and excess produces whatever stability our social existence has. The disturbance of excess remains confined to a separate domain where it doesn't intrude on everyday existence. It might be funny if one showed up at work after drinking ten shots of tequila, but if everyone did it, the work would cease to function efficient. The social order punishes those who bring excessive acts into the everyday world by taking away their jobs, their friends, and ultimately even their liberty to act excessively.
What, then, does it mean to grasp the truth of the subject (e.g., in its "care") when what appears to be its fundamental truth is contradicted at every turn by the real(ity principle), e.g., when the truth of desire is what must be disavowed ("I don't really want to be drunk at work")?
3. Toward a concept of the chiasm. We cannot approach this question without understanding the relationship between lack and excess. The postmodern sensibility presents us with (at least) two possibilities: dialectics or deconstruction.
On the one hand, after the end of history, we have now seen what escapes dialectics. Anthropogenic climate change, for example, is the dialectical catastrophe of history that has produced a real excess that escapes capture. But the central question for dialectics is whether that which escapes is immanent (thus totality) or whether there is an exteriority (or, better, an élan or tendency) that eludes dialectical construction (thus infinity).
The logical form of dialectics resolves contradictions at the point of self-reference by enclosing the transcendence of totality. Deconstruction excavates a second reflexivity internal to each contradiction: what appears as a binary is more like an Aristotelian contrary, in which the priority of the one term over the other can be reversed and, subsequently, the entire opposition displaced.
In both cases, the dialectical and deconstructive gestures would show the participation of lack and excess within the totality (which, thus, can be named as such in the absolute idea) or that excess is itself a lack that must be overcome. The chiasm of lack and excess would locate the point at which it is indiscernible which appears, thus neither equating them (i.e., as exchangeable in explanation) nor to resolve the contradiction (e.g., by demonstrating their interdependence) but to tarry at the point of freedom where the indiscernibility of the two suggests an escape (a clinamen?). Thus the chiasm is a triple appearance: lack, excess, and the third. According to dialectics, the third is nothing but the difference between lack and excess (the difference between lack and excess is thus immanent to the contradiction); but in the chiasm of lack and excess, the third appears because of the difference (and thus is emergent from the contradiction). If dialectics begins with two, chiastics begins with three.**
**There is, perhaps, a deconstructive relation between dialectics and chiastics, given that chiastics presupposes dialectics and yet cannot itself be the result of dialectical criticism. If there were a chiastic relation between dialectics and chiastics, we will have conceded too much to dialectics. Chiastics, then, are a sort of supplement to dialectics by which there is the possibility of reference from one to the other but preserving an incommensurability between them.
The double genitive is exemplary of a chiastic structure: the duality that is both distinct but wherein each has a trace of the other (like the taiji of Daoism). Certain polysemies are also chiastic in this sense: to be "significant" (in the sense of "important" but also to "function as a sign") rests on both the distinctness between the meanings of the word but only momentarily, as we can hear the trace of the one meaning in the other or, in other words, the indiscernibility of their identity and/or difference.
Thus the infamous problem of dialectics: whether we can speak of the identity of identity and difference or of the difference between identity and difference. The chiasm of identity and difference is not simply the possibility of their transposition but the fact that they become indiscernible at the point of reflexivity. It is precisely because it is possible to speak of the identity(n) of identity(n) and difference(n) — like the Gödel sentence as a chiasm of the mathematical and metamathematical — that there is an alternative to the dialectical resolution of the Third Man.***
***The tendency of Hegelian dialectics is from the either/or to the both/and (the same and the different are seen as the same from the point of view of semantic ascent, in an analogue to the problem of Forms). The tendency of Platonic dialectics, on the other hand, is toward pure multiplicity of an-archic principles beneath all hypotheses, including the idea of the good that is not the form of forms (the lack of which guarantees such multiplicity).
On the one hand, the identity of identity and difference is the dialectical totality of the absolute; on the other hand, the immanent production of a difference between identity and difference (e.g., the Badiousian event) can only be named after the fact (in "fidelity"). The chiasm of identity and difference is an indiscernibility that allows for the emergence of a concrete exterior within a determinate triadic relation that is neither wholly outside the relation (e.g., as a negation of the difference) nor a two-dimensional totality but, like the resolution of paradoxes, a three-dimensional relation (e.g., not the creation of but a triangulation of (an) identity).
There are, of course, different forms of indiscernibility: for example, there is that which is vanishingly small, that which is simply outside our capacities for perception and conception, or that which is too much for it (e.g., the sublime). Indiscernibility is itself a chiasm between lack and excess. We see this chiasm too in the indiscernibility of the dialectics of lack and excess both as logical and ontological: on the one hand, it is the concepts of lack and excess that are dialectically intertwined as well as the real itself as the dialectical relation between lack and excess (e.g., in the subject). This duality of the onto/logical is a chiasm, just as the dialectic of lack and excess is itself the chiasm of the qualitative and quantitative (i.e., lack and excess refer both to the quantitative and the qualitative, separately and yet simultaneously).
The supplement of chiastics to dialectics is especially urgent for our post-modern sensibilities that has rejected the possibility of grand narratives and the subsequent rise of "post-truth" wherein truth and falsity are indistinguishable. There is today an ethical imperative to see both beauty and barbarity, as well as both truth and falsity (clumsily proclaimed in the cliche that we must "see all sides"). What must be resisted, however, is the convertibility of the two: we must see the barbarous in the beautiful (as Benjamin famously said, to see that every document of civilization is also a document of barbarism) but not vice versa. Of course, through perversion, it is possible to equate beauty and barbarity by seeing the beauty in the barbarous. The chiasm forces upon us a choice that cannot be settled by the logical form of the problem: the third that arrives at the heart of the contradiction, in this case, is the face of ethics.
Ethics, as we have known since Kant, is the chiasm of freedom and responsibility, whose dialectical collapse in the Holocaust has resulted in the indiscernibility of active and passive nihilism in the present age (e.g., in the conflation of postmodernism with dogmatism and relativism). But while the indiscernible is not an escape from determination, our search for the determinations of that which exists must be Janus-faced, i.e., not only toward what has escaped our efforts at lucidity, transparency, and totality, but toward what has been forgotten — to what is but not present, that is to say, toward the future.
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"Dialectics at a standstill"
1. The formal and the transcendental: The distinction between the formal and the transcendental is beholden to a naïve opposition of subject and object. Both idealism and materialism attempt to introduce a third term into this opposition: the idealists say that not everything is a thing because there is negativity (which takes a number of ultimately equivalent formulations: things disappear, there is time and death, there is language), i.e., there are subjects; the materialists say that not everything is an idea because there is (something called) truth and discourse, i.e., there are objects. Between ideas and things, the dialectician erects the structure of subjectivity.
The dialectician asserts that the 'I' of any subject is neither an idea nor a thing, so there are at least three irreducible ontological terms. But perhaps we should acknowledge at least four:* that which appears (usually nominated as "fact" or "world"), that to which appearances appear or the "place" of such appearance (the "subject" or "thinker"), the appearance of that which appears ("cognitions", "representations", or "ideas"), and that to which appearances refer ("forms"). For the sake of simplicity, we might name these, respectively, object, subject, idea, thought. A series of relations among these four obtain.
i. {subject, idea} In cognition, we feel and experience. That of which we do so are objects {object, idea}.
ii. {subject, thought} Just as objects are that to which cognition is referred, there are multiple subjects because in thinking subjects must refer to thoughts (in Frege's sense of the word "thought"). Both thought and object exceed cognition.
iii. {subject, object} A world. Experience and thinking are always local.
iv. {idea, thought} Truth.
The naïve subject/object distinction, then, can be recast in two different orientations: either as {subject, idea} and {object, thought} or as world {subject, object} and truth {idea, thought}.
*"At least" four insofar as these do not, it seems, quite account for time.
2. Mediation without dialectics: There is no immediate unity of thought in being—neither in the divine intellect nor in the phenomenon of an 'I': this much is taken for granted. But not all mediation is dialectical. The disjunctions between expression and the expressed, for example, are often not the condition but the failure of meaning; something new emerges from the "infinite abyss of meaning" when the laws of sense dissolve or from the gaps and ruins of history. These have otherwise been called the minimal things (Gaché), the most subtle touch (what Derrida calls the "barely touching touch"), the objet petit a (Lacan), the void (Badiou), or perhaps even Bataille's "expenditure". What is at stake here is more than the naïve infinity of a reflection that, since Fichte, has failed in the task it sets for itself. What emerges not only from the failure of such reflection but even from the destitution of a world that refuses to be destroyed? How can the necessity of thought (including the sense of its imperative) be understood as more than a resistance against its dissolution (e.g., the persistence or conatus of life) but also as the construction of new objects (even from, but not requiring, the destruction of worlds)?
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Fragments II (22 JUN 2007)
1. Towards a definition of philosophy: The measure of a philosophy is its explanatory power. We ask, for example, if an ethics is either descriptive or possible in experience. Or: philosophy is precisely a critique of experience, in which case it is still theoretical—Adorno's philosophy must show what is not the case (mimesis). Art, on the other hand, is what is able to be other without being theoretical. Philosophy is always theoretical, even when it is otherwise.
So, perhaps, the definition of philosophy is always posterior. Philosophy is constituted by its effect and not its intention. All definitions, descriptions, objects, subjects, and identities, for example, are effects. What we have is an ontology (both the method and the content) of events.
2. Negation is a zero-sum game. Difference, on the other hand, is "positive" in the sense of a non-zero result. But already there is a conceptual problem…
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The lingering land dispute in Upper Sakponba area of Benin City has claimed the life of a community leader, Sunday Usuanlele, who was shot by unknown gun men at 20 Royal Street, Upper Sakponba Road area in Benin City.
According to eye witnesses account, trouble started yesterday afternoon (December 8) when unknown gunmen stormed the plot on Royal Street and railed bullets in the deceased stomach barely three days after an alleged threat to the life of the deceased by strange callers which the deceased allegedly lodged at the Police Station.
The gun men also shot at the son of the deceased who sustained injuries but is receiving treatment at Central Hospital Benin City.
According to Police sources, the case is currently being investigated and the perpetrators would be brought to book. Meanwhile, the deceased has been deposited in the UBTH mortuary while the injured in receiving treatment in the same hospital.
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A concerned relative, Mr. Okosun Allende, has cried out to government, security agencies and the United Nations over attempts on his brother's life, Mr. Ehimen Joshua Allende.
Speaking with Urokpota Reporters in Benin City, the Edo State Capital, Mr. Okosun Allende claimed that his brother, Mr Joshua Ehimen Allende, has been undergoing political persecution and threats to his life because of his political decision.
Mr Ehimen Allende, now at large, was the youth leader in Egor Local Government Area in February 2015 while Comrade Victor Enobakhare was still the Local Government Area council Chairman.
He said the political persecution and threat to Ehimen Allende's life started in February 2015 when some members in All Progressives Congress (APC) purportedly wanted to use unlawful means to remove Comrade Aguebor, the Ward 2 Chairman from office.
"Mr. Ehimen Joshua Allende, my younger brother, and his strong youth followers vehemently resisted the illegal move of the youth by refusing to cooperate with the unlawful removal of the Ward 2 leader. My brother Mr. Ehimen Joshua Allende was therefore in their blacklist of those they will eliminate to achieve their selfish aims." the relative stated.
Urhokpota Reporters gathered that between February and March, 2015, a series of assassination attempts were reported for Mr Ehimen Joshua Allende, according to Police and family sources.
"An assassin was sent to kill my brother in front of our house in February 20 (2015). The bullet that they shot missed target by five centimetres and hit the gate instead. He miraculously escaped." Ehimen's cousin said.
On March 10th, 2015, another assassination attempt was reportedly made against him close to University of Benin gate. They shot at him but the bullet hit a public bus and he escaped.
The third attempt on his life was in front of Assemblies of God Church at Oziegbe street off Iyaro Benin city. He again survived the attack narrowly and had to run away from the city for safety of his life.
But our source, who pleaded anonymity out of fear for her personal security, revealed that Ehimen Joshua Allende had gone into hiding and may have fled the country.
"Youth Leader (Mr Ehimen) life is no longer safe in Benin City and indeed in the country because those trying to kill him are highly connected. That is why he ran away from Nigeria. He went through the wilderness and may be in Italy now" Our confidential source revealed.
"Myself, I had to relocate from Benin City to the village because of this matter. Even after my brother ran away from Nigeria, the gang kept on sending us threat letters. My own family are still not safe." Ehimen Allende's relative lamented.
Confirmed report reaching Urhokpota Reporters indicate that the family land feud brewing in the Egharevba family has degenerated to a frightening dimension as violence has continued in the troubled family in Benin city.
A family member and grandson of Mr Egharevba, Kester Osamuyimwen Egharevba, has been shot in their family compound, making it the third shooting over the land dispute that has engulfed the family in recent times.
According to eye witness accounts, the shooting was carried out by masked men, who are suspected to be members of the Egharevba family. The young man has been rushed to the hospital for treatment.
When contacted for comment, the Police Spokesperson in the area said the matter is currently under investigation that the police will fish out the shooter.


In particular, the scientists studied a key communication system called "Notch," which is used in nearly every tissue in animals. Malfunctions in the Notch pathway contribute to a variety of cancers and developmental diseases, making it a desirable target to study for drug development.
Cells carry out their conversations using specialized communication molecules called ligands, which interact with corresponding molecular antennae called receptors. When a cell uses the Notch pathway to communicate instructions to its neighbors—telling them to divide, for example, or to differentiate into a different kind of cell—the cell sending the message will produce certain Notch ligands on its surface. These ligands then bind to Notch receptors embedded in the surface of nearby cells, triggering the receptors to release gene-modifying molecules called transcription factors into the interior of their cell. The transcription factors travel to the cell's nucleus, where the cell's DNA is stored, and activate specific genes. The Notch system thus allows cells to receive signals from their neighbors and alter their gene expression accordingly.
"At first glance, the only explanation for how cells distinguish between two ligands, if at all, seems to be that they must somehow accurately detect differences in how strongly the two ligands activate the receptor. However, all evidence so far suggests that, unlike mobile phones or radios, cells have much more trouble precisely analyzing incoming signals," says lead author and former Elowitz lab graduate student Nagarajan (Sandy) Nandagopal (Ph.D. '18). "They are usually excellent at distinguishing between the presence or absence of signal, but not very much more. In this sense, cellular messaging is closer to sending smoke signals than texting. So, the question is, as a cell, how do you differentiate between two ligands, both of which look like similar puffs of smoke in the distance?"
Nandagopal and his collaborators wondered whether the answer lay in the temporal pattern of Notch activation by different ligands—in other words, how the "smoke" is emitted over time. To test this, the team developed a new video-based system through which they could record signaling in real time in each individual cell. By tagging the receptors and ligands with fluorescent protein markers, the team could watch how the molecules interacted as signaling was occurring.
"Cells speak only a handful of different molecular languages but they have to work together to carry out an incredible diversity of tasks," says Elowitz. "We've generally assumed these languages are extremely simple, and cells can basically only grunt at each other. By watching cells in the process of communicating, we can see that these languages are more sophisticated and have a larger vocabulary than we ever thought. And this is probably just the tip of an iceberg for intercellular communication."
The paper is titled "Dynamic Ligand Discrimination in the Notch Signaling Pathway."
Excellent research here that opens a whole new field of multi dimensional complexity in cellular communications.


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Here's the scenario: You've been invited to an end of summer Lobster bake. What do you bring your host as a thank you for including you in this memorable end-of summer 2014 event?
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Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the US, but it makes up for it in spirit, history, and clams. With over 400 miles of shoreline, numerous large homes, and some unique gastronomic delights, Rhode Island should be at the top of every traveler's "must-see" list.
To make the most out of this tour Action tour guide will plan the best schedule and describe the most suitable timings to visit the areas and stroll around.
Open the Mystery Box of Rhode Island with Action Tour Guide:
If you've never visited Rhode Island, you might believe that the primary attraction is Providence – and while this city is fantastic and well worth your time, you'd be losing out on some of the state's most beautiful areas if you simply remained there. The Audio-guide will reveal the hidden facts that Rhode Island is packed with hidden and not-so-hidden jewels worth exploring, from beaches and museums to the Newport Mansions and the award-winning Roger Williams Park Zoo.
The most entertaining ideas and spots Action Tour Guide has clipped up for you are:
Witness the "WaterFire Providence"
The Providence WaterFire dubbed one of the "top 20 events in North America" by National Geographic Magazine, is a modern art project in downtown Providence between May and October. Through an audio guide, learn about all of the unique multi-sensory attractions, including volunteer fire tenders cruising down the river and lighting more than 80 floating bonfires. The watery exhibit is complemented by new-age music, which adds to the confusion of the onlookers.
Visit the International Tennis Hall of Fame
This is a must-see sight for tennis fans, as well as non-tennis fans. A significant collection of rackets and balls, as well as a representation of the progression of tennis style over time, may be found here. Enjoy learning about history and facts; this app automatically plays audio about what you see, plus stories, tips, and advice. You may be interested in learning about the museum grounds, including 13 full-size tennis courts still in use today.
Take a trip to the Roger Williams Park Zoo.
With over 500,000 visitors each year, it's safe to say that the Roger Williams Park Zoo is one of Rhode Island's most top tourist attractions, and getting in is the most challenging thing you've ever done.
The Action Tour guide's instructions will get you into the zoo, which contains over 100 species from all over the world, and will easily keep you engaged for a whole day.
Walk the Newport Cliffs
Let's Hangout and talk about the Newport Cliffs!
We'll inform you about the requirements for the next trek, which will take some physical conditioning but will be well worth the effort. Many of the big homes are visible from the walk, but to appreciate them, you need to take our guided tour to see the inside.
Head to the Beach
If you are looking for a calm and relaxing beach, Action Tour Guide has the best plans, and it will lead you towards the Third Beach in Middletown. But if you are a thrill-seeker, just let the app know your location and interests; it will take you to Easton's beach in Newport, a surf beach just under a mile long with an excellent snack bar.
Admire the Newport Mansions
The nine homes that Action Tour Guide is about to show will undoubtedly impress you. Listen to the history-telling Audio-guide to know about The Breakers, a 70 room, renaissance-style house.
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum
Who doesn't want to witness the art schools and most reputable art scenes of this country?
Turn on the Audio-Guide with GPS-Navigations and be immersed in engaging, accurate, and entertaining stories about an extensive collection of paintings, sculptures, photography, and various other media produced by artists past and present.
Fort Adams State Park
Are you fond of fishing, sailing, or a tranquil picnic? You are in the right hands to turn all of your imaginations and likings into happening reality. Action Tour Guide offers an incredible view of Newport Harbor, Narragansett Bay, where you can pleasantly experience all of these things.
Other things and places to visit in Rhode Island are:
Catch a show at the Providence Performing Arts Centre
Beavertail Lighthouse Museum
Varied Nightlife in Newport
Drive the ten-mile Ocean Drive
Touro Synagogue
Redwood Library and Athenaeum
The Swiss Village
The Mohegan Bluffs
Pizza Strips
The McCoy Stadium
Ride the Crescent Park Looff Carousel
Pick (and eat) your Fruit
Go Rock pooling
The Action Tour Guide loves to offer you a vast-spectrum tour so that you won't miss a single spot and regret it later. Just download the app ahead of time, over data or WiFi, ensure that the phone battery is fully charged, or take an external battery pack.
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Rhode Island's most top tourist attractions
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package be.wegenenverkeer.atomium.server.spring;

import be.wegenenverkeer.atomium.api.AtomiumEncodeException;
import be.wegenenverkeer.atomium.format.Entry;
import be.wegenenverkeer.atomium.api.FeedPage;
import be.wegenenverkeer.atomium.api.FeedPageCodec;
import be.wegenenverkeer.atomium.format.*;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Propagation;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;

import javax.ws.rs.core.CacheControl;
import javax.ws.rs.core.EntityTag;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Request;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;

/**
 * Zodat @Transactional correct wordt geproxied.
 */
@Component
public class AtomiumServiceHelper {

    @Value("${atomium.cacheDuration:2592000}") // default: cache for 30 days
    private int cacheDuration;

    @Autowired
    private FeedPageCodec<?, String> encoder;

    /**
     * Update atom volgnummers (in aparte transactie).
     *
     * @param springFeedProvider feedProvider
     * @param <E> Entry waarop de feed wordt gebaseerd
     * @param <T> TO zoals deze in de feed moet verschijnen
     */
    @Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
    public <E, T> void sync(SpringFeedProvider<E, T> springFeedProvider) {
        springFeedProvider.sync();
    }

    /**
     * Eigenlijke bepalen van de atom feed voor wijzigingen in de entries.
     *
     * @param springFeedProvider entry provider
     * @param page pagina
     * @param request request
     * @param isCurrent wordt de feed opgevraagd langs "/"?
     * @param <E> Entry waarop de feed wordt gebaseerd
     * @param <T> TO zoals deze in de feed moet verschijnen
     * @return atom feed data
     */
    @Transactional(readOnly = true, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
    public <E, T> Response getFeed(SpringFeedProvider<E, T> springFeedProvider, long page, Request request, boolean isCurrent) {
        // entries voor pagina bepalen (ééntje meer om te weten of er nog een volgende pagina is)
        List<E> entriesForPage = springFeedProvider.getEntriesForPage(page);

        if (entriesForPage.isEmpty()) {
            return Response.status(404).entity("Pagina " + page + " niet gevonden.").build();
        }

        boolean pageComplete = entriesForPage.size() > springFeedProvider.getPageSize();
        OffsetDateTime updated = springFeedProvider.getTimestampForEntry(entriesForPage.get(0));

        // updated time known, check/calculate eTag
        CacheControl cc = new CacheControl();
        cc.setMaxAge(cacheDuration);
        Response.ResponseBuilder rb;
        EntityTag etag = new EntityTag(Integer.toString(updated.hashCode()));
        rb = request.evaluatePreconditions(etag); // Verify if it matched with etag available in http request
        if (null != rb) { // rb is not null when eTag matched
            return rb.cacheControl(cc).tag(etag).build();
        }

        // feed bouwen
        FeedPage<T> feedPage = new FeedPage<>(
                springFeedProvider.getFeedName(),
                springFeedProvider.getFeedUrl(),
                springFeedProvider.getFeedName(),
                new Generator(springFeedProvider.getProviderName(), springFeedProvider.getFeedUrl(), springFeedProvider.getProviderVersion()),
                updated
        );

        String pageUrl = "/" + page + '/' + springFeedProvider.getPageSize();

        List<Entry<T>> entries = entriesForPage.stream()
                .map(entry -> toAtomEntry(entry, springFeedProvider))
                .collect(toList());

        feedPage.setEntries(entries);

        List<Link> links = new ArrayList<>();
        links.add(new Link("last", "/0/" + springFeedProvider.getPageSize()));
        if (page >= 1) {
            links.add(new Link("next", "/" + (page - 1) + '/' + springFeedProvider.getPageSize()));
        }
        if (pageComplete) {
            links.add(new Link("previous", "/" + (page + 1) + '/' + springFeedProvider.getPageSize()));
            feedPage.getEntries().remove(0);
        }

        links.add(new Link("self", pageUrl));
        feedPage.setLinks(links);

        // response opbouwen
        try {
            rb = Response.ok(((FeedPageCodec<T,String>)encoder).encode(feedPage));
            if (!isCurrent && pageComplete) {
                rb.cacheControl(cc); // cache result enkel als pagina volledig en niet via de "recent" URL opgeroepen. Zie figuur 7-2 in Rest In Practice.
            }
            rb.tag(etag);
            return rb.build();
        } catch (AtomiumEncodeException jpe) {
            throw new AtomiumServerException("Kan stream niet converteren naar JSON.", jpe);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Entity to atom entry.
     *
     * @param entity entity
     * @param springFeedProvider feedProvider
     * @param <E> entity type
     * @param <T> to type
     * @return entity omgezet naar een TO
     */
    <E, T> AtomEntry<T> toAtomEntry(E entity, SpringFeedProvider<E, T> springFeedProvider) {
        return new AtomEntry<>(
                springFeedProvider.getUrnForEntry(entity),
                springFeedProvider.getTimestampForEntry(entity),
                new Content<>(springFeedProvider.toTo(entity), ""));
    }

}

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Fulla Backpack on Wheels With A Drink Bottle 16"
Fulla 16" pink and purple backpack school book-bag on wheals from Newboy.
It has six 3 different compartments and two side pockets.
It measures 16" inches (38 cm) tall, 12" inches (30 cm) wide and 6.5" inches (17 cm) deep.
It come with a free Fulla drink bottle.


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Myrmicaria melanogaster is een mierensoort uit de onderfamilie van de Myrmicinae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1900 door Emery.

Myrmica


Q. When and where will the book be available for purchase?
A. Lost Vegas is available at Lulu.com. Click here to buy a copy. You can also buy it on Amazon.com.
Q. Will there be an e-version of the book?
A. The e-book version is available for Kindles. Click here to buy a copy for your Kindle via Amazon.com. Or, you can click here to buy a PDF version of Lost Vegas via Lulu.com.
Q. Will there be an e-Pub version of the book for iPads, etc?
A. If you have a Kindle app for your iPad, click here to purchase a Kindle-ready version via Amazon.com.
Q. Can I get an autographed copy?
A. None are for sale online, but shoot me an email and we can work something out.
Q. Can I get a free copy?
A. No. I've been writing for free on Tao of Poker and other blogs for many years and I have never asked for a cent. Here's your chance to make it up. It's taken me five years to write this book, I have to earn a living somehow.
Q. Can I get a review copy?
A. Review copies are available if you qualify. Please contact me at pauly AT taopoker DOT com.
Q. Will there be a hardcover version?
A. At the present moment... no. However, if there is a significant amount of interest, I will consider launching a hardcover collector's version in a few months.
Q. How do I contact you to do an interview?
A. Shoot me an email at pauly AT taopoker DOT com. We can arrange something.
Q. I live in a country outside of America. Can I get a copy?
A. Yes. The shipping might be pricey, but Lost Vegas is available for delivery to most places on Earth.
Q. When will the French version be available?
A. Inculte is publishing Lost Vegas in French. Benjo wrote the translation. It will was at the end of May 2011.
Q. Will there be other translated versions?
A. I'm in the process of negotiating a Spanish version and a German version. At the present moment, Lost Vegas will only be available in English and French.
Q. Will there be a sequel to "Lost Vegas"?
Any other questions? Please send me an email. Thanks.


I rarely post a recipe without making it at least twice (oftentimes more than that even) and this simple and super yummy cajun stroganoff is no exception.
I've made it five or six times over the last month or so: serving it to company, taking it into a friend with a new baby, and just a couple of times for our own weeknight family dinner pleasure.
Let's talk chicken sausage for a minute, shall we?
I'm referring to the pre-cooked, non-crumbling variety of chicken sausage. I've seen chicken (or turkey) sausage in the U-shape links that would work here. I generally pick up a package of the Aidell's brand (no affiliation) at Costco (I'm partial to the pineapple and bacon) and keep it in my freezer.
My aunt clued me into a tasty last-minute dinner using this type of chicken sausage and it's saved our bacon a time or two already: In a large skillet, I drizzle in a little olive oil and then toss in the sliced sausage, cubed potatoes (Yukon or red), chopped cabbage and a healthy dose of salt and pepper.
Cook it up until everything is nicely golden and tender (put the lid on and let it steam a bit, too) and dish it up. Totally old-fashioned and homey but very tasty (my kids drizzle it with ketchup, of course).
Back to the recipe at hand, this stroganoff is fabulous. The flavors are simple but perfect with the tender chicken and sausage, and FYI: the creamy sauce is drinkable.
We love this over hot, cooked egg noodles (be a rock star and make your own? maybe?) but you could also serve it over rice or quinoa or whatever your little heart desires.
This was good! My only complaint it made lots of dishes. I loved the addition of the sausage and it's nice to have a stroganoff that doesn't use canned soup.
I use the Aideli cajun sausage it added a little spice that my family loved. I felt I was back in the South. Thank you!
Hi Mel! I made this as instructed and served it over egg noodles. I wasn't sure about this one but my entire family LOVED it! So easy and tasty, perfect comfort food as the cold weather has decided to re-appear here in the Northeast! Thanks again for another quick and easy meal for my family!
Me again! I had a lot of leftovers, so I added some sauce from this on some pizza dough (your quick and easy one) added a bit of cheese, then topped it with the chicken, mushrooms, and sausage for a different pizza. I think it was yummy!
This was so good! I got a 12″ skillet finally and I've been making tons of your skillet meals. I made your Mac and cheese and all of my kids were inhaling it. Yum!
Yum…I love everything about this dish!
When do you incorporate the sausage/mushroom mixture back into the sauce? When the chicken is cooked through and before adding the sour cream?
The last two sentences of instruction #5 instructs to "Cook for 5-6 minutes until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce is bubbly and thickened. Then add the mushrooms and sausage back to the skillet and heat through. Instruction #6 instructs to then move off heat and add sour cream".
I hope your family enjoys this dish as much as my family enjoys so many of Mel's dishes.
Sorry about that! Yes, I add it back right before adding the sour cream (I add it and heat through before tasting for salt and pepper). I just edited the recipe. Thanks for the catch!
Hooray for yummy, easy dinners! I just started menu planning for company that will be coming for 6 days at the end of June. This recipe, along with so many other recipes of yours, sounds perfect. Thank you!
Man, this looks good! I love saucy foods like stroganoff, and we are pretty big fans of Cajun seasonings. I'm the only one in my family who would eat the chicken sausage, however, so do you think the seasonings would need to be increased to make up for lost flavor if I add more chicken breast and leave out the sausage?
I'd probably just taste as you go along to see but I think it should be ok.
That Costco sausage sounds amazing. I'm totally trying it. Might actually enjoy a sausage for the first time in my life!
This looks so creamy and delicious – what a perfect comforting dinner!
Thank you Mel for the nice recipe. Have a good day!


You awake from your holiday hibernation, heat up some coffee or tea, turn on a cranky computer to sort through a backlog of emails. Feeling accomplished after accepting some Linked-In requests and correctly identifying some spam, you remember that you do indeed teach courses and point your browser to Blackboard Learn…and then…the horror…. CHANGE!
The new design is mobile friendly. Data analytics reveal a steady increase in mobile access of Blackboard. Nationally, 56% of students access Blackboard with a mobile device and our old interface was not conducive to mobile access.
The new interface separates Organizations from Courses and Faculty from Student tabs to make it easier to organize your work.
The old design had not been updated since 2012 and the list of issues with accessibility as well as inconsistencies with new product designs were growing by the day.
There are other changes as well including, we are sure, some unwelcome ones and we welcome your feedback, but overall the changes really were designed to create a better and more accessible experience for you and your students. Speaking of your students, remember their access to courses starts today!
Faculty across the nation are struggling with how to address, or not address, election results and new administration priorities in their classrooms. Some students are excited about where the nation is headed and are concerned about retribution for speaking up. Other students are deeply concerned about themselves or loved ones and what new policies may mean for their lives. Instructional faculty can be in a difficult position as students will come to your class after the inauguration with varied expectations, compounded by the fact that you have your own opinions about where the nation is headed. One place we can set up norms and guidelines is in the syllabus which is why I am bringing this to you now, before your Spring syllabi are finalized.
In the campus "Free Speech Training" many of us attended I learned an important lesson that may help in syllabus creation—we can have a civility policy. Regulating speech is extremely difficult and for good reason, but there is a good argument to be made that maintaining an atmosphere of civility is critical to the educational environment of the classroom. San Jose City College encourages such wording and the campus has drafted some possible language that might be a good starting point for your own policy. Look for some material specific to Chico in the coming weeks.
When I was involved with the Chico Great Debate we hosted conversations on hot button issues every semester. One debate featured Tea Party Activists and Occupy Wall Street protesters engaging over use of public land. We also hosted contentious debates on affirmative action, private security forces, the death penalty, and everything in between. There were always moments of tension, but setting the expectation of civility prior to the debates made a difference for us, and it can for the classroom as well.


Thissio is a neighborhood in the city of Athens, located to the west of Monastiraki and the Acropolis. While Monastiraki was raised as the commercial area of the old Greek Capital, Thissio was built to have a certain elegance about it. Considered by the Athenians one of the most beloved destinations within the city to grab a coffee or take a stroll, there are many things to do in Athens while in Thissio!


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extern UrlDecodeFn* const URL_DECODE;

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Retired Orange County Deputy Sheriffsreleased the video on Facebook, where it racked up nearly five million views and 104,000 shares in little more than a day.
Memo to Infowars: the OC Sheriff is going to evict the homeless people off the riverbed on January 22, 2018. The OC Register and the local TV news report this. This article made a major fact of omission and should have reported this. They should run a correction to include this. But of course, we know that journalistic integrity is not valued by Infowars and therefore people who read the infowars piece are not getting the complete story or a detailed backstory of what caused the riverbed problem.
that he uses. "Stable Genius" strikes me as a nonsensical idiom.
back in the electric chair like the days of old in the South.
genius" who would go out of their way to fix the problem.
both the right and left revere for his stand on his civil rights.
So this "least racist person" is another tall tale invented by Trump.


Bulky pockets must be avoided. I never carry cash in a wallet, just cards and motor-vehicle credentials. And I am all for slim credit card holders, which will also accommodate your license, registration, and insurance card, although when cabbing it I often simply drop a credit card into my jacket pocket and carry folded bills in my hip pocket. I have never been a money-clip kind of guy, but if I were, I think I would carry one of those sterling-silver paper clips. Fancy money clips are generally too pimpy to achieve even minimal irony.


Hokaze Kon is an otherwise normal boy who, one day, receives an inter-dimensional summons to the world of Mirror. He appears just in time to save the life of Princess Ecarlate, whose enemies are trying to prevent her political marriage. Kon, who knows nothing about Mirror nor the way home, attaches himself to Ecarlate's entourage.


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Jeremiah 51
The Utter Destruction of Babylon
1 Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,[1] (Isa 21:1; Jer 4:11)
(Isa 21:1; Jer 4:11)
 2 and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble. (Jer 2:28; Jer 15:7; Mt 3:12)
(Jer 2:28; Jer 15:7; Mt 3:12)
 3 Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his armor. Spare not her young men; devote to destruction[2] all her army. (Jer 50:14; Jer 50:21; Jer 50:29)
(Jer 50:14; Jer 50:21; Jer 50:29)
 4 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets. (Jer 49:26)
(Jer 49:26)
 5 For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the Lord of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans[3] is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel. (Isa 54:5)
(Isa 54:5)
 6 "Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her. (Ge 19:15; Jer 50:8; Jer 50:15; Jer 51:45)
(Ge 19:15; Jer 50:8; Jer 50:15; Jer 51:45)
 7 Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad. (Ps 75:8; Jer 25:15; Re 14:8; Re 17:4)
(Ps 75:8; Jer 25:15; Re 14:8; Re 17:4)
 8 Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed. (Isa 13:6; Isa 21:9; Jer 46:11; Jer 48:20; Re 18:9; Re 18:11; Re 18:19)
(Isa 13:6; Isa 21:9; Jer 46:11; Jer 48:20; Re 18:9; Re 18:11; Re 18:19)
 9 We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies. (Isa 13:14; Jer 50:8; Jer 50:16; Jer 51:6; Jer 51:45; Re 18:5)
(Isa 13:14; Jer 50:8; Jer 50:16; Jer 51:6; Jer 51:45; Re 18:5)
 10 The Lord has brought about our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God. (Ps 37:6; Jer 23:6; Jer 50:28)
(Ps 37:6; Jer 23:6; Jer 50:28)
 11 "Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for his temple. (2Ki 17:6; Isa 13:17; Jer 46:4; Jer 50:28; Jer 50:45; Da 5:31)
(2Ki 17:6; Isa 13:17; Jer 46:4; Jer 50:28; Jer 50:45; Da 5:31)
 12 "Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the Lord has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. (Isa 13:2; Isa 21:5; Jer 50:2; Jer 51:11; Jer 51:27; Na 2:1)
(Isa 13:2; Isa 21:5; Jer 50:2; Jer 51:11; Jer 51:27; Na 2:1)
 13 O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut. (Jer 51:36; Re 17:1; Re 17:15)
(Jer 51:36; Re 17:1; Re 17:15)
 14 The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you. (Ps 105:34; Isa 16:9; Jer 22:5; Joe 1:4; Joe 2:25)
(Ps 105:34; Isa 16:9; Jer 22:5; Joe 1:4; Joe 2:25)
 15 "It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. (Jer 10:12)
 16 When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses. 17 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. 19 Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name. 20 "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms; (Da 7:7; Da 7:19; Da 7:23)
(Da 7:7; Da 7:19; Da 7:23)
 21 with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer; 22 with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman; (2Ch 36:17; Isa 13:16; Isa 13:18)
(2Ch 36:17; Isa 13:16; Isa 13:18)
 23 with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders. (Jer 51:28; Jer 51:57)
(Jer 51:28; Jer 51:57)
 24 "I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord. (Ps 137:8; Jer 50:15; Jer 50:29)
(Ps 137:8; Jer 50:15; Jer 50:29)
 25 "Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the Lord, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain. (Re 8:8; Re 18:8)
(Re 8:8; Re 18:8)
 26 No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the Lord. (Ps 118:22; Isa 28:16; Jer 25:12; Jer 51:62)
(Ps 118:22; Isa 28:16; Jer 25:12; Jer 51:62)
 27 "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts. (Ge 8:4; Ge 10:3; 2Ki 19:37; 1Ch 1:6; Jer 4:5; Jer 6:4; Jer 25:14; Jer 50:41; Jer 51:12; Jer 51:14; Na 3:17)
(Ge 8:4; Ge 10:3; 2Ki 19:37; 1Ch 1:6; Jer 4:5; Jer 6:4; Jer 25:14; Jer 50:41; Jer 51:12; Jer 51:14; Na 3:17)
 28 Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion. (Jer 34:1; Jer 51:11; Jer 51:23; Jer 51:27; Jer 51:57)
(Jer 34:1; Jer 51:11; Jer 51:23; Jer 51:27; Jer 51:57)
 29 The land trembles and writhes in pain, for the Lord's purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. (Jer 8:16; Jer 50:45)
(Jer 8:16; Jer 50:45)
 30 The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken. (Isa 19:16; Isa 47:14; Jer 50:37; La 2:9; Na 3:13)
(Isa 19:16; Isa 47:14; Jer 50:37; La 2:9; Na 3:13)
 31 One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side; (2Ch 30:6)
(2Ch 30:6)
 32 the fords have been seized, the marshes are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic. (Jer 51:41)
 33 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come." (Isa 17:5; Isa 21:10; Joe 3:13; Re 14:15)
(Isa 17:5; Isa 21:10; Joe 3:13; Re 14:15)
 34 "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.[4] (Ps 74:13; Jer 50:17; Jer 51:44)
(Ps 74:13; Jer 50:17; Jer 51:44)
 35 The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon," let the inhabitant of Zion say. "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," let Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry, (Isa 44:27; Jer 50:34; Jer 50:38; Jer 51:13)
(Isa 44:27; Jer 50:34; Jer 50:38; Jer 51:13)
 37 and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant. (Isa 13:22; Isa 25:2; Jer 18:16)
(Isa 13:22; Isa 25:2; Jer 18:16)
 38 "They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs. (Am 3:4; Na 2:11)
(Am 3:4; Na 2:11)
 39 While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the Lord. (Isa 21:5; Jer 51:57)
(Isa 21:5; Jer 51:57)
 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats. 41 "How Babylon[5] is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations! (Isa 13:19; Jer 25:26; Jer 51:32)
(Isa 13:19; Jer 25:26; Jer 51:32)
 42 The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves. (Isa 8:7; Jer 51:55)
(Isa 8:7; Jer 51:55)
 43 Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes. (Jer 50:12; Jer 50:40)
 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen. (Ezr 1:7; Isa 2:2; Isa 46:1; Jer 31:12; Jer 50:2; Jer 51:34; Jer 51:58)
(Ezr 1:7; Isa 2:2; Isa 46:1; Jer 31:12; Jer 50:2; Jer 51:34; Jer 51:58)
 45 "Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every one save his life from the fierce anger of the Lord! (Jer 12:13; Jer 51:6)
(Jer 12:13; Jer 51:6)
 46 Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler. (Isa 37:7; Mt 24:6)
(Isa 37:7; Mt 24:6)
 47 "Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. (Jer 50:2; Jer 50:12)
(Jer 50:2; Jer 50:12)
 48 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the Lord. (Isa 44:23; Jer 50:3; Re 18:20)
(Isa 44:23; Jer 50:3; Re 18:20)
 49 Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth. (Jer 51:24)
 50 "You who have escaped from the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember the Lord from far away, and let Jerusalem come into your mind: (Jer 44:28)
 51 'We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.' (Ps 44:15; Jer 7:19; La 1:10)
(Ps 44:15; Jer 7:19; La 1:10)
 52 "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan. (Job 24:12; Jer 51:47; Eze 26:15)
(Job 24:12; Jer 51:47; Eze 26:15)
 53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the Lord. (Isa 14:13; Jer 49:16; Jer 51:25)
 54 "A voice! A cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! (Jer 50:22)
 55 For the Lord is laying Babylon waste and stilling her mighty voice. Their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is raised, (Jer 5:22; Jer 51:42)
 56 for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken in pieces, for the Lord is a God of recompense; he will surely repay. (Isa 59:18; Jer 50:15)
(Isa 59:18; Jer 50:15)
 57 I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts. (Jer 46:18; Jer 51:23; Jer 51:28; Jer 51:39)
(Jer 46:18; Jer 51:23; Jer 51:28; Jer 51:39)
 58 "Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire." (Isa 45:2; Jer 50:15; Jer 51:44; Jer 51:64; Hab 2:13)
(Isa 45:2; Jer 50:15; Jer 51:44; Jer 51:64; Hab 2:13)
 59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster. (Jer 28:1; Jer 32:12)
 60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon. (Jer 36:2; Jer 50:1; Jer 51:1)
(Jer 36:2; Jer 50:1; Jer 51:1)
 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: "When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words, 62 and say, 'O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.' (Jer 50:3; Jer 51:26)
 63 When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, (Jer 19:10; Re 18:21)
(Jer 19:10; Re 18:21)
 64 and say, 'Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. (Jer 51:58; Jer 51:63)


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Researchers can now reference a human protein blueprint that's more than 90 percent complete. A new report from the Human Proteome Organization released in October highlights 17,874 novel proteins identified between 2010 and 2020. The effort draws on contributions from nearly 50 teams across 6 continents.
The organization launched the Human Proteome Project in 2010 as a follow-up to the Human Genome Project. The human proteome reflects thousands of gene modifications expressed in the genome. The project aims to better characterize and treat human disorders at the protein level. As part of that, it seeks to identify the entire human proteome and make proteomics as central to research as genomics.
Studying conditions at the protein level is fundamental for defining and treating them, because proteins are responsible for all human biology, function and behavior, says Mark Baker, a lead investigator with the project and professor of proteomics at Macquarie University in Australia.
"It's really important to know not only the genome of a person but how their proteome's working, if they've got a disease, for example, like cancer," Baker says.
Pulling proteins:
The new analysis brings the estimated total of known human proteins to 19,773. Classifying these proteins may help clinicians better detect molecular processes involved in health and disease, and diagnose and treat cancers, neurodegenerative diseases and neurological conditions such as autism.
The researchers identified and classified novel proteins based on five increasingly rigorous levels of evidence. Some 9.6 percent of the proteins, or 1,899 of them, failed to pass the most stringent level but may be added to the project's catalog in the future with more careful sampling of rare cells and improved sample detection limits, the authors say.
The project has already helped to reveal genes that may be involved in cancer. It has also helped researchers to subclassify cardiovascular disease and to accurately and rapidly detect infectious agents, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Going forward, it may also lead to new research angles for Alzheimer's, autism and other neurological conditions.
Clinicians and scientists studying various types of autism would look at what protein changes emerge from the mutations involved, Baker says. From there, they could investigate the proteins encoded by the genes, and make animal models to test treatments targeted at these proteins. Virtually all drugs target proteins and their function, not genes, he says.
The project anticipates having 95 percent of the human proteome mapped between 2024 and 2027. Several labs are working to improve the project's protocols, and the team plans to develop new technology to improve its ability to detect proteins.
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New training materials for health providers who prescribe or counsel patients about opioids for pain relief, are now available on NIDA's website. The two courses, entitled Safe Prescribing for Pain and Managing Patients Who Abuse Prescription Drugs, include video vignettes modeling doctor patient conversations on the safe and effective use of opioid pain medications. The materials are part of the NIDAMED initiative, to help physicians, medical interns and residents, and other clinicians understand and address the complex problem of prescription drug abuse.
The educational modules are currently being offered for continuing medical education (CME) credit on the Medscape website. Over 20,000 clinicians have already completed these courses since their launch on October 1, 2012. The modules—now available on the NIDA website (not for CME credit)—can be adapted for use in the syllabi of academic medical schools.
The training materials are funded by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). Read more here. For more information, contact the NIDA press office at media@nida.nih.gov or 301-443-6245.


"EXTREME" levels. Also you must see off several bosses, as well as taking out elephants of different kinds. Levels 1 & 2 have a fixed crosshair to get you within the pace of the game, but after the you take the aim, with your crosshair! Good luck!
I enjoyed elephant game 2 a lot, but this one i'm not so high on. Frustratingly challenging, especially the later bosses, like the final and his henchman. I had to repeatedly click play to even hit those two once!
Not as good as SMASH!! but still pretty good.
How do u beat el capone?
This time you must compete to stay in the game! At the end of each round you may be kicked out or advance based on your score.


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Eagle Herbs formulas that call for ginseng (人参, 人蔘, rénshēn) often include real ginseng, not the cheaper alternative called Codonopsis pilosula (党参, dǎngshēn)*.
Codonopsis root is not a true ginseng, though it does roughly the same thing for the digestion as ginseng. It is cheaper which is good for those who want to save money, but it also requires a larger dosage to achieve the same effects as true ginseng.
I can't say how long Codonopsis has served as a low-cost replacement for ginseng, but traditional formula recipes often call for Codonopsis, only ginseng.
At Eagle Herbs, we sometimes go with the more pricey ginseng for all of our formulas that call for this ingredient. Ginseng is quite a magical and chemically complex herb, however sometimes a formula is better served when using Codonopsis (Dang Shen) or its cousin Tai Zi Shen.


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Milwaukee District Office
310 West Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1160
(414)297-1501 Fax: (414)297-1685
Mr. Mike Biel, President
Plumbers Local 183
W175 N5700 Technology Drive
Menomonee Falls, WI 53051-5673
Dear Mr. Biel:
This office has recently completed an audit of Local 183 under the Compliance Audit Program (CAP) to determine your organization's compliance with the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). As discussed during the exit interview with Business Manager Chris Schoenbeck, Business Agent Corey Gall, Attorney John Brennan, and CPA Jim Weber, and you on March 4, 2009, the following problems were disclosed during the CAP. The matters listed below are not an exhaustive list of all possible problem areas since the audit conducted was limited in scope.
The audit of Local 183's 2007 records revealed the following recordkeeping violations:
1. Bank Records
Local 183's accountant, Jim Weber, stated that he disposes of bank statements for the escrow account at ||| |||| after receiving them. I addition, Local 183 did not retain at least seven bank debit memos documenting withdrawals from the escrow account. As stated above, bank records for all accounts must be kept.
2. Union Purpose for Disbursements
Local 183's disbursements records did not always include explanations of the specific union business requiring the disbursement. For example, regular purchases of refreshments were made from Otto's Beverage, including a total of $432 for the months of January, March, and May 2007, but the vendor receipts do not identify the event or event date for which the purchase was made. Another example is the disbursement of $1,297 to Pennsylvania State University in December 2007. Records included a photocopy of the check and invoice, but the invoice was not imprinted with the name of the item(s) purchased. QuickBooks records show the check was booked to an account for training/school supplies, but there was no specific identification of what types of supplies were purchased, how many, or the name or date of any training.
Records must identify the business purpose for all disbursements. As stated above, if vendor documents are not sufficiently descriptive, they may be annotated with the additional information.
3. Written Inventory
Local 183 did not maintain a written inventory of items purchased, sold, or given away. For example, Mr. Schoenbeck stated that there was a large quantity of items purchased in 2006 for the 100th anniversary and that some were on hand at the start and end of the audit period of 2007. On March 10, Mr. Schoenbeck showed me the remaining items, which currently consist of about 100 caps valued at $15 each, about two dozen t-shirts valued at $10 each, a dozen wallets valued at $15 each, and numerous shot glasses and regular glasses valued at about $3 each. However, there was no written inventory which identified the quantity on hand at the start or end of 2007.
The value of any union property on hand at the start and end of each year must be reported in Item 28 (Other Assets) of the LM 2. Therefore, an inventory or similar record of the property on hand must be maintained to verify, clarify, and explain the information to be reported in Item 28. (Since no records were maintained, it would be sufficient to provide an estimate in Item 28 when completing the amended 2007 LM-2. The amended report is discussed further below.)
The audit disclosed a violation of LMRDA Section 201(b), which requires labor organizations to file annual financial reports accurately disclosing their financial condition and operations. The LM-2 Labor Organization Annual Report filed by Local 183 for fiscal year ending December 31, 2007, was deficient in the following areas:
1. Acquire/Dispose of Property
Item 15 (During the reporting period did your organization acquire or dispose of any assets in any manner other than by purchase or sale?) should have been answered "Yes" because Local 183 gave away 50 Brewer's game tickets, $100 worth of Starbucks gift cards, kitchen magnets, $1,700 in Home Depot and Best Buy gift cards to apprentices, and $1,000 in other gift cards to retirees during the year. The type and value of any property received or given away must be identified in the additional information section of the LM report along with the identity of the recipient(s) or donor(s) of such property. For reporting purposes, each recipient need not be itemized. Recipients can be described by broad categories, if appropriate, such as "members" or "retirees."
2. Cash
Local 183 reported in Item 22, Cash, that it had $104,733 and $113,859 at the start and end of the audit year, respectively. These figures correspond to the total of the various fund entries shown on the Balance Sheets in the Checking/Savings category in QuickBooks. However, the Balance Sheets also list, in the category of Other Assets, certificates of deposit at ||| |||| totaling $77,328 and $106,309 at the start and end of the period which were not included in the amounts reported in Item 22. The LM-2 instructions for Item 22 state to include all the labor organization's cash on hand and on deposit, including checking accounts, savings accounts, and certificates of deposit.
3. U.S. Treasury Securities
The American Funds statements show that at the end of the audit year Local 183 had $406,599 invested in a U.S. Government Securities Fund. The balance in that fund appears to have been erroneously reported in Item 26, Investments, but it is required to be reported in Item 25, U.S. Treasury Securities. However, Local 183 reported zero in Item 25.
4. Sale of Supplies
Receipts records show Local 183 took in approximately $1,700 in cash from the sale of t-shirts and sweatshirts during 2007. These receipts should have been reported in Item 39, Sale of Supplies, but zero was reported there.
5. Vacation Fund Receipts and Disbursements
During the interview at the beginning of the audit, Mr. Schoenbeck stated that Local 183 manages the vacation fund contributions of members. The union receives this money along with the employer dues checkoff, it is deposited into the escrow account, and at the end of each month it is disbursed to the members by transfer to the personal savings accounts or by cashier's checks. These receipts and disbursements, which average close to $50,000 per month, were not reported as receipts and disbursements on the LM-2.
Page 4 of the LM-2 instructions states that labor organizations must report the financial information for all funds, including any special purpose funds or accounts such as vacations funds. Local 183 may report its vacation funds using either Item 47 (From Members for Disbursement on Their Behalf) and Item 64 (On Behalf of Individual Members), or the information may be reported in Item 48 (Other Receipts) and Item 55 (Benefits).
6. Purchase of Investments
In Item 60/Schedule 4 (Purchase of Investments and Fixed Assets), Local 183 erroneously reported a disbursement from its general checking account of $25,000 to purchase a certificate of deposit. The LM-2 instructions state on page 37 that the purpose of Statement B is to report the flow of cash in and out of the labor organization during the reporting period. Transfers between separate bank accounts or between special funds do not represent the flow of cash in and out of the labor organization. Therefore, such transfers should not be reported as receipts and disbursements.
7. Direct Taxes
Local 183 pays regular wages to two full-time employees and several part-time employees, withholds taxes from those wages, and remits its share of FICA taxes to various tax authorities. However, the response to Item 65, Direct Taxes, is zero. Page 40 of the LM-2 instructions state to enter in Item 65 all taxes assessed against and paid by your organization, including your organization's FICA taxes as an employer.
8. Officer and Employee Expenses
The audit revealed that officers both charged to union credit cards and were reimbursed for expenses totaling at least $59,000, which included meals, auto expenses, and out-of-town expenses that should have been reported in Schedule 11 (All Officers and Disbursements to Officers). However, Local 183 reported no amounts in Columns F (Disbursements for Official Business) or G (Other Disbursements) of Schedules 11 (All Officers and Disbursements to Officers) and 12 (Disbursements to Employees).
Direct disbursements to officers and employees for reimbursement of expenses they incurred while conducting union business must be reported in Column F of Schedules 11 and 12. In addition, indirect disbursements made to another party (such as a credit card company) for business expenses union personnel incur must be reported in Column F of Schedules 11 and 12. However, indirect disbursements for business expenses union personnel incur for transportation by public carrier (such as an airline) and for temporary lodging expenses while traveling on union business must be reported in Schedules 15 through 19. Any direct or indirect disbursements to union personnel for expenses not necessary for conducting union business must be reported in Column G of Schedules 11 and 12.
In addition, the LM-2 instructions require the identification of all officers in Schedule 11, yet the president, vice president, sergeant at arms, and general executive board members are not listed. The instructions also require the reporting on Line 8 of taxes withheld, payroll deductions, and all other deductions taken from the disbursements to officers, yet none were reported.
9. Allocation/Itemization of Receipts and Disbursements in Schedules 14 through 19
Local 183 did not properly report numerous transactions, including "major" transactions, in Schedules 14 through 19. A "major" transaction includes any individual transaction of $5,000 or more or total transactions to or from a single entity or individual that aggregate to $5,000 or more during the reporting period and which the local cannot properly report elsewhere in Statement B. The audit found that on Local 183's LM-2, there are instances where transactions were not allocated to the proper schedules, itemization pages were not properly completed, and individual transactions were not correctly itemized.
Refer to pages 23-34 of the LM-2 instructions for information on completing Schedules 14 through 19. The Detailed Summary Page summarizes transactions regardless of dollar amount for the category of Other Receipts (Schedule 14) and six disbursements categories (Schedules 15-19). For transactions from/to a single individual or entity that aggregate to $5,000 or more, an itemization page for the proper schedule must be used. In addition, each individual transaction of $5,000 or more must be listed individually on the itemization page. When an itemization page is required, the full name and business address is required to be reported in Column (A) and the type of business or job classification is required to be reported in Column (B). Any individual transactions of $5,000 or more are required to be itemized, with the union purpose, date, and amount required to be reported in Columns (C), (D), and (E). Disbursements must be allocated to Schedules 15-19 based on the union purpose (rather than by individual check amount).
10. Failure to File Bylaws
The audit disclosed a violation of LMRDA Section 201(a), which requires that a union submit a copy of its constitution and bylaws with its LM report when it makes changes to its constitution or bylaws. During the audit Mr. Schoenbeck provided a copy of undated bylaws that he said were quite old. OLMS records show that this document has never before been filed. I have kept the copy provided by Mr. Schoenbeck, and Local 183 can now consider that its bylaws have been filed with OLMS.
Local 183 must file an amended Form LM-2 for fiscal year ending December 31, 2007, to correct the deficient items discussed above. As you know, the filing procedures, the filing software, and the LM-2 instructions are available on the OLMS website (www.olms.dol.gov). The amended Form LM-2 must be electronically filed as soon as possible, but not later than March 31, 2009. Before filing, review the report thoroughly to be sure it is complete and accurate, and properly signed with electronic signatures.
Mr. Schoenbeck stated that the salaries for the business agent, recording secretary, and clerical employee are paid based on authorizations that are recorded in older meeting minutes, and these were not reviewed during the audit. Local 183 must keep a record, such as meeting minutes or bylaws, which identifies the current salary that is authorized by the entity or individual with the authority to establish salaries. I also note that Local 183 bylaws provided during the audit are undated. Mr. Schoenbeck advised that they are quite old and the union has intended to update them for quite some time. I highly recommend that copies of the salary authorizations and other pertinent authorizations from the older meeting minutes be identified and kept at hand along with the bylaws. In addition, I also recommend that any updated bylaws be dated and include provisions for all forms of compensation paid to the officers and employees of Local 182.
I want to extend my personal appreciation to Local 183 for the cooperation and courtesy extended during this compliance audit. I strongly recommend that you make sure this letter and the compliance assistance materials provided to you are passed on to future officers. If we can provide any additional assistance, please do not hesitate to call.
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cc: Chris Schoenbeck, Business Manager
John Brennan, Attorney
Jim Weber, CPA


Do you ever feel like a failure as a follower of Christ? There are days I do. My walk with Jesus so often feels like an emotional roller coaster. One day I'm madly in love and would follow him to the ends of the earth, whereas the next day I'm once again stuck in the selfishness of my humanity. This up and down leaves me living with feelings of fear and defeat.
But I rest in this; I am not alone. As a matter of fact, one of the greatest Old Testament men lived the same way. David.
In my mind, this conjures up an image of someone that was near perfection; it makes me feel inadequate and unlikely to ever bear that title. Yet when I read through the Psalms, I realized that David isn't so unlike me and you. There is a recurring theme in David's Psalms: High on the mountain of God, low in the pit of despair. David battled with his emotions and circumstances the same as you or I.
You see, right out of the gate David is facing a battle. His enemies are hot on his tail, shouting in his ear that even God can't save him. But it's David's response that demonstrates how he earned his title.
His circumstances are breathing down his neck and what does David do? He takes a nap! David was so confident in God's ability to sustain him that he had no room for fear or worry. He knew as long as he continued to live and breath, God would be his champion.
You see, David was not known as a man after God's own heart because he was a superstar Christian who never faltered, rather he earned this title because no matter how many valleys he faced, he always climbed back up the mountain to rest in God's presence.
Are you facing circumstances that seem impossible? You are not alone, David stood exactly where you are today, on the verge of winning or losing but when he chose to trust God he found victory beyond compare.
Take time and read through the next 34 Psalms. My bet is that by the time you get to the end you too will be able to take a nap, falling asleep to the tune "Victory in Jesus"!


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2. "Unlimited at Night" pertains to data used between 2am – 5am.
4. The subscribers can avail the above plans effective from 1st January 2017.
8. 25% additional 4G WiFi data benefits will be provided to students on providing a valid identity card, as per process.
11. The above plans can only be availed by customers possessing a LTE compatible handset.
15% discount on bill value for auto-debit is interesting.
They have mentioned that data balance will deducted for making video calls and for using jio apps. But no word about voice calls.
Our expectation keep on increasing day by day (Human nature).
The only thing we expected was cheaper data. We wouldn't mind if they charged for voice calls like other operators.
Priorities differs from person to person. Like my wife is always on calls and is happy - but like you I also need data and not bothered about calls.But in India if we go by population there are more voice users than data users (since every user who procures a mobile connection primarily uses it for calls only. Only users like us (including me) are data hungry. Since Jio network is data based network, they want to push/convert the regular voice users also towards data user (by providing TV channel, music etc.) in future.
The only thing we expected was cheaper data.
Isn't it better than others ? - I think Jio has forced others to reduce data tariffs since last 6months or so because of its moderate pricing as of now. We can expect cheaper data in future only if competition prevails. So IMHO Reliance is playing safe - Live and Let Live (Not Live & Let Die - 007 ).
As a senior Jio employee pointed out, just enjoy the feebies till 31 Dec and expect some corrections in the plans later.
we should understand that, one needs to have/buy a 4G VoLTE smartphone to avail RJio Welcome-offer and later .
since the voice population is predominant, Voice & SMS [including Roaming] have been offered Free!
Tariff announced by Mukesh-bhai is not final & binding!
Pls. don't look too much into future, enjoy RJio True4G till 31Dec2016 and my sources at RJIO HQ informs that, we will be rewarded with a pleasant surprise on New Year Day!
Lets wait for the "Pleasant Surprise" New Year's Gift!
Meanwhile eNjoY "4 months TENSION FREE 4G data & voice" 2015 farewell Gift!
One more question : Is 4 months enough for Airtel, Vodafone & Idea to draw a competitive tariff for 2017 ?
Is it Jio's revenue Blow to them ?
Jio is clever enough to motivate user to upgrade to 4G handset (Now damn cheap) with this free subsidy (4 months cost saving) since Jio is 4G ONLY network.
Sooner we will see IP TV adapter/box (connecting through mifi device) for watching our favorite TV show in place of setup box of DTH. (Already Miracast/wireless display adapters are in use).
I am already using android TV box for Jio TV and Jio Music. Unfortunately Jio on demand does not work on it.
I just got curious .. Since it is IP Telephony based, will data balance will be used for even voice call?
No Volte working with data off.
If you can provide in detail how you are using the android box for jio TV. Any one aware of the jio play browser link?
Did your preview offer got converted into Welcome Offer?
Is your PC connected to a jio 4g network?
Without 4g volte phone jio calling will not work only data will work.
option given by JIO for non volte phones is JIO Join app which has a big draw back.when phone is not in use, jio join goes into offline mode.in offline mode if anyone calls ,they will hear switched off or not reachable message.this I tested in ASUS ZenFone 2 laser many times and is confirmed.
Reason why I purchased LAVA X11 VoLTE.
Works flawlessly with voice as well as video calls with crystal clear image and voice quality.
I suggest everyone to go for VoLTE and also check support for Band 3/5/40.
Not in use meaning when data is off??
Please post a review of lava x11.
I know someone using Xolo Era X with Jio. VoLTE, Band 2/5/40 with 2 GB memory. Available on amazon for about 5K.
Will post a review in appropriate section and provide link.
Xolo Era X and Lava X11 are almost identical models (Xolo is a sub brand of Lava Iinternational). I prefered Lava though the price was 1500 higher than Xolo.
Both offer better specs at moderate price. Means better value for money.
Build quality, Camera and accesories are better in Lava since it is their premium brand as compared to Xolo which is to cater a specific price conscious market share.