Have you ever thought of recording your screen? I bet yes since you are reading this article. Screencasting is a simple process and many people and companies use screencasts to sell products and provide video training to viewers. I use it too to produce some tutorials. I remember when I started screencasting, I had to fetch the whole web to find free tools for screencasting. Are you looking for a free tool to get started with screencasting? Yes, I bet it twice because we all like free stuffs.
I will show you the five easy steps to record a YouTube screencast.
Sign-in into your YouTube account (If you don't have one, sign up for a Google Account then sign-in to YouTube.) Click the upload button on YouTube which is at the upper left corner and chose Events under the Live Streaming menu. If this is the first time you are doing this then you need to verify your phone number before enabling streaming.
We are now on the "Create Even page". You can give a title to your YouTube screencast, set the privacy to whatever you want (Unlisted or Private) then you click on the "Go Live Know" button.
You will be redirected to Hangouts on Air page after clicking on the "Go Live Know" button. You can click on the camera icon to toggle webcam on or off. You can also turn the microphone off or on using its icon.
Done with the above steps and ready to start the YouTube screencasting so click on the screen share button in the left toolbox and select the window you want to record on your desktop. Please note that if you are using multiple virtual desktops for YouTube screencasting then this method will record only active program windows on the current desktop.
This is the last step to start your YouTube screencast. You just have to click on the Start Screen Share button then click on Start Broadcast to start recording your screen with YouTube. Remember that this is a private session on YouTube so.
This video will be recorded in 720p HD and I recommend that you should record it with a 16:9 ratio. The video can be downloaded easily to your Google Drive account and obviously shared in YouTube. You can now share your YouTube screencast with the whole world. You now know how to produce a good and free YouTube screencast.


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Original Songs by Jeremy Renner Pack a Prodigious Punch in New Campaign for Jeep – Adweek
Posted on 13/07/2019 13/07/2019 by unique news
Marvel fans recognize him as Hawkeye from the Avengers blockbuster franchise, but diehard followers know that Jeremy Renner has a not-so-hidden talent as a singer. He's serenaded more than a few late-night talk show hosts and audiences, often with parody songs of his action movie exploits, while tickling the ivories.
Renner, who has been teasing his latest rock-tinged venture on social media lately, will lend his voice to a new Jeep campaign debuting Wednesday. Three of his original songs will serve as backdrops for television commercials, and he stars in each of the spots, along with a 60-second mini-music video launching on Jeep's YouTube channel.
Renner is no stranger to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), having anchored a long-form digital video for Jeep sibling Ram Truck ("Make sure of it") in the run-up to this year's Super Bowl. He also narrated Ram's "Lead or be led" campaign that broke in February.
Partnering with the actor and singer-songwriter again made sense because Jeep "defies labels, and the same can be said about Jeremy Renner," according to Olivier Francois, FCA's CMO, who announced the campaign at a press event Wednesday morning at Renner's leafy, modern home tucked into the Hollywood Hills.
"I'm not sure if I'm speaking about Jeremy or Jeep when I say things like cool, rugged, immensely capable, iconic, famous, doesn't need any introduction," he said. "Both of them can still surprise you."
The project, which also includes a documentary of Renner's musical journey, came together within about a month, with Francois saying he was not looking for a traditional celebrity endorsement.
"I doubt Jeremy would've done a regular car commercial, but that's not what I wanted anyway," said Francois, who had recently listened to and immediately connected with Renner's original songs and found the link to Jeep to be "somewhat miraculous" and "totally serendipitous."
Jeep, focused on its "adventure, Americana, authentic" positioning, has leaned into popular music for years, notably with X Ambassadors and OneRepublic. Francois said he had a mashup of Queen and Imagine Dragons in mind for the annual "Summer of Jeep" campaign and its "massive" ad spend.
"I was not going to slap the latest radio hit on my commercial," he said. "That's like borrowing someone else's identity."
Renner, who gave tours of the home recording studio that sits poolside in his sprawling yard, said his match with Jeep was "congruent—circles overlapped," he said, calling the process "quick, amazing and chaotic" and that "It just made sense."
The work comes from Chicago-based HighDive and director Jeff Tomsic (Tag, Spy Guys), who said he prepped and shot all the content in just over a week. Locations included the Antelope Valley on L.A.'s desert outskirts, Malibu canyons and Hollywood nightclubs.
Each spot, "Party," "Diner" and "Ride Swap," aims to align the DNA of Jeep and Renner, who apparently prefers an out-of-the-way roadhouse to a swanky Hollywood cocktail party. (He's a jeans and T, rather than black tie, guy, showcasing what Billboard has called "something almost country Western in his swing.")
"We're trying to reach our consumer, especially millennials, through emotion and feeling, not just features and a slogan," said Francois, who handed Renner the keys to a new Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk (with the much ballyhooed 707 horsepower) during the press conference. "A good story well told sells better than that."
The songs, "Main Attraction," "Nomad" and "Sign," follow Renner's release in June of a tune called "Heaven Don't Have a Name." It's a remix of a song he initially recorded last year with Sam Feldt, with Billboard praising his "serious set of pipes."
If Francois has his way, the deal will extend beyond the current campaign. "If I'd had the budget to do 10 commercials, I would've used 10 of his songs," he said. "This is probably the first season of the story."
Hannity: Mueller testimony will be 'golden opportunity' for Republicans
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DTC Brands Are Targeting Consumers Where Their Attention Is—Their Phones – Adweek
Huguette Caland—leading artist of the Arab world—has died, aged 88
Bogotá's Artbo closes its 15th edition on a vigilant note
What and Why Millennials and Gen Zers Rent Instead of Buy – Adweek
Emmys 2019: Jenny McCarthy rocks edgy number to awards show with baby blue dress, studded belt and booties
Albertina's Albrecht Dürer drawings enjoy a rare outing
New details reported on Trump-Ukraine call as Dems clash with White House on complaint
Ikea Canada, a Champion of Reusing Old Items, Created a Heartwarming 'Stuff Monster' – Adweek

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Google Canada Reveals the Top Trending Searches of 2019 and the Decade
Google Canada has published its #YearinSearch for 2019, detailing the top trending searches of the past year. Below are the top trending searches in Canada of 2019:
1. Toronto Raptors
2. Kawhi Leonard
3. Canada Election Results
4. Luke Perry
5. Cameron Boyce
6. Game of Thrones
7. Bianca Andreescu
8. Don Cherry
9. Thanos
10. Hurricane Dorian
Google also shared the 10 trending 'Canadian Moments of the Decade', seen below:
1. Toronto Raptors win the NBA Championship for the first time ever
2. Bianca Andreescu becomes highest ranked Canadian tennis player of all time; wins two grand slams
3. Drake dominated pop music this past decade; the Toronto native beat the Beatles' 50 year record for the most top 10 singles on Billboard's Top 100
4. The Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash unites the nation in tragedy
5. Canadians from coast to coast tuned in to watch The Tragically Hip's final concert following Gord Downie's cancer diagnosis
6. Canada meets its target to resettle 25,000 Syrian Refugees
7. During his third mission to space, Colonel Chris Hadfield became the first Canadian Commander of the ISS, making him the first Canadian in history to command a spaceship
8. Justin Bieber is currently the most subscribed to artist on YouTube with over 20 billion views. Trending searches for Bieber peaked in 2011 when Never Say Never debuted.
9. Canada celebrates the heroes of the Fort McMurray wildfire
10. Canada arrives on the world stage like never before with the Vancouver 2010 Olympics
"The rise in prominence of Canadian sports continued throughout the decade," writes Alexandra Klein, Google Public Affairs & Communications, in a blog post. As for 2020 and into the future, trends indicate 75% higher searches for climate change in 2019 compared to 2015, along with searches on how to find a new job and how to start a family.


For you convenience, we provide a collection of links from all over the world coming from the audiophile society (printed and web magazines included), audio gear manufacturers and other useful audio web sites. Also, High fidelity manufacturers and other useful audio web sites are added. Additionally, for our Greek visitors, we provide a full list of the audio equipment distributors in Greece. If you know or have a site which we have not included, please just send us an email and we will visit the site and then add it to our list. Please understand that this is an interactive site, which means that we all help to make our information the best possible.


Christmas and New Year's leftovers have been eaten, so it's time to, well, get back on the horse and start cooking for a temporarily full house again.
Comfort food is cooking this week.
From-scratch falafel, that we make into patties, with dollop of yogurt/cucumber/dill sauce and a few squeezes of Sriracha sauce.
Zippy's Chili When You Are Far Away. Chili and rice always makes us happy.
Mayonnaise chicken, with a little Parmesan cheese thrown in.
Bacon cauliflower macaroni and cheese. By request of college kid who makes her mother happy by faithfully reading this blog. I guess we'll pay her tuition for next semester.
Salt and Pepper Shrimp. I can only eat a few, but man are they good!
Have a good week all! To my many pals who will be in Las Vegas at CES this week, take care of your tootsies and enjoy at hot chocolate at the Sugar Factory.


The New Member Orientation Tea is the perfect way to learn more about the upcoming year at The Monday Club. This is specifically intended for everyone who became a member of the club beginning in September. And ALL members are invited, too!
We will update with more information as the year moves forward. Please Save The Date - we don't want you to miss this!


Greatly inspired by Irish and Scottish whiskies, most French whiskies are produced using malted barley. In 2002 however, the Menhirs distillery, located in Plomelin in Finistère, caused quite a stir by launching the first French whisky produced from buckwheat. Dubbed Eddu (the Breton word for buckwheat), it represents a new style on an equal footing with single malts, pure pot still spirits, rye and bourbon. Such innovation has not been seen since the 19th century with the birth of blended scotch.


Meditation is the best medicine for gaining peace and for falling asleep without any prescription. It is a form of exercise that can be done anywhere and at anytime. Meditation helps in staying in the present without thinking about the past and without any thoughts controlling your mind while sleeping. Guided sleep meditation is a kind of meditation where one spends time focusing on what's important in the present. It teaches the right way to push the negative thoughts aside and helps in focusing on the positive ones.
How is guided meditation helpful?
Guided meditation for sleep helps you focus on your breathing and helps in paying attention to the present. There are certain ways through which guided meditation can affect the brain in a good way.
It helps in enhancing the brainwaves- By not sleeping properly at night one experiences beta waves. These beta waves are increased by the worrisome thoughts and also by stress that one takes because of their inability to sleep. The problem of not sleeping which is because of the beta waves can be controlled by meditating. Meditation helps in calming the beta waves and for increasing the other brain waves such as alpha, delta and theta which promote relaxation.
Focus on present and not on tomorrow- Guided meditation helps in focusing on the present instead of tomorrow. Meditating helps the mind in becoming peaceful and relaxed as one is able to manage their thoughts well. Controlling of thoughts is what one actually learns after guided meditation for sleep.
The melatonin production- Melatonin is known to be a hormone which is known for making one feel sleepy. At night brain releases melatonin which in return relaxes the body; those who meditate have higher melatonin level as compared to those who don't.
Meditation can be done at any time of the day but it is better to meditate before going to bed. This helps in feeling relaxed and it also helps in increasing the melatonin production. You just need to sit in the right position on the bed, turn off the lights, close the eyes and start breathing. One can even do counting while breathing.
Little bit of stretching along with breathing is the best way to keep the body and mind relaxed. For this one should close their eyes and then take a deep breath, while exhaling try touching your toes with your hands. This is the best way to release tension while stretching.
Visualise something that is quite pleasant, just close your eyes take a few breaths and then focus on something that can help you get over the stress. This is a great way of escaping your bad thoughts and bringing in the positive thoughts.
Hence guided meditation for sleep is the best way to feel relaxed and to build a positive outlook by keeping the negative thoughts aside.


Re-Mix of 1991 cassette tape, Blues/Rock band based out of Auburn,Al. The band went through several personel changes over the years and this is the only known recording of the original line-up.
This album was first recorded one weekend in Birmingham,Al. in the wee hours after playing gigs both nights. It's live to tape so NO overdubbing was used, it may be a bit rough but it does capture the real sound of the band.


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Upper Sonachan Farmhouse is a traditional, detached house tucked away in a secluded private loch-side estate overlooking majestic Loch Awe.
Upper Sonachan Farmhouse is a traditional house set in a commanding position overlooking majestic Loch Awe, near Inveraray (11m).
Its large open plan living area has a cosy wood-burning stove at its centre with comfortable seating around it and a modern kitchen area with dining alongside. There is a twin bedroom and shower room downstairs, while upstairs are three further bedrooms and a family bathroom. Outside there are stunning views of the loch to enjoy and 180 acres of private land to explore.
There are two pub restaurants in easy walking distance of the house. Loch Awe offers fishing, dinghy sailing, motor boating and canoeing and mountain bikers can take to the many nearby forestry tracks. Inveraray has a golf course, leisure centre, supermarkets, riding stables and cycle hire, as well as the original Loch Fyne Oyster Restaurant. There are shops, supermarkets and restaurants at Lochgilphead (30m) and Oban (30m), which is a major port for ferries to the Hebridean Islands.
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FACT CHECK: Is This a Photograph of a 'Human Zoo' at the 1958 World's Fair?
Expo '58 in Brussels featured a reconstructed African village populated by real people shipped over from the Belgian Congo.
A photograph shows an African child on display in a "human zoo" at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels, Belgium.
A photograph shows white tourists interacting with an African child who was part of a zoo-like "Congo village" exhibition at the Expo '58 world's fair in Brussels, Belgium.
The exhibition wasn't billed or advertised as a "human zoo" (the term is mostly used by critics to point out the inhumanity and racism of such displays), nor were the Congolese people who populated the mock village kept confined there or forced to participate against their will.
The history of the subjugation of darker-skinned peoples by Western Europeans is exemplified not only in the transatlantic slave trade that thrived from the 16th through the 19th centuries, but also in the phenomenon of global colonialism, which lasted even longer.
The colonies of Africa were among the last to gain independence from European rule, most not until the mid-20th century. Among them was the Belgian Congo, a Central African territory claimed by Belgium's King Leopold II for his personal exploitation in 1885. Leopold's 23-year misrule over his so-called "Congo Free State" was so flagrant that his own government wrested control of it from him in 1908. It would remain a Belgian colony until 1960.
Leopold II introduced his countrymen to a colonialist tradition that would come to be known, in retrospect, as "human zoos." These were public showings ("ethnological exhibitions" was what they were called at the time) of indigenous people plucked from their homelands, shipped across oceans, and put on display — usually in recreated "native" habitats, but also, in some cases, literally in cages — for the edification and amusement of mostly European audiences. They were very popular attractions at international expositions (world's fairs) during the late 19th century and early 20th centuries, when smaller versions of the same could also be found in museums and traveling shows, in the United States as well as Europe, featuring so-called "primitive" peoples from many different parts of the world, including the Americas.
"When Leopold heard they were getting sick because of candy they were eating that was tossed to them by the crowd, he put up an equivalent of a 'Don't Feed the Animals' sign at a zoo, saying, 'the blacks are fed by the organizing committee,'" [Adam] Hochschild said in a documentary based on his book [King Leopold's Ghost].
Indeed, 61 years later, in 1958, the spectacle would be repeated as if nothing had been learned in the intervening half-century. Among the exhibits seen by visitors to that year's Brussels World's Fair ("Expo '58") was a reconstructed Congolese village populated with hundreds of "inhabitants" brought over from Africa.
Amid all the presentations of the future at the Brussels Universal Exposition are many exhibitions of distinctively national and regional character. Here, for example, is a Congo native farm set up on the grounds. During exhibition days natives work here, creating swords and tools with Iron Age methods, and weaving designs that vie for beauty with the most advanced shown in any of the many pavilions.
In the photograph, white exhibition-goers are seen interacting with a black child standing alone in an enclosure marked off by crude fencing. It's unclear from the grainy image what the precise nature of that interaction was, but the standard description is plausible: Visitors were feeding the child as one might feed an animal in a zoo.
The description "human zoo" is clearly apt in a figurative sense — the human beings on display were gawked at and to some extent treated like zoo animals, but the exhibition wasn't billed or promoted as such. The Congolese people who took part in it did so voluntarily and weren't confined there. That they were free to go is demonstrated in what ultimately became of the Congo village display — it was abandoned.
But housed in a dedicated building isolated from the Expo from which they could be bused in and out, the Congolese complained of cramped accommodation, the strict limitations on visitors or excursions from the building, and, of course, daily abuse at the fair.
By July, the Congolese artists and artisans, and their families, could take no more and some went back home. The human zoo, as the Congolese recognized it to be, closed down, and the rest of the fair carried on.
Film footage and photographs of the mock village (including the now-infamous image of white tourists gawking at the Congolese child) were featured in a 60th anniversary retrospective aired by Belgium's Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Organization (VRT). As noted in VRT's online commentary, Expo '58's colonialist trappings apparently had the unintended consequence of accelerating the Congo's push for independence.
Children had given bananas to the Congolese and passers-by had insulted them. This had already occurred in 1897 and the press took issue with it on both occasions. This time, in 1958, the authorities decided that the Congolese should not be exposed to such treatment. De Standaard concluded therefore that by placing Africans before a white public, this type of Exhibition led to a misunderstanding and belittling of the artists equating them with animals in a zoo.
As it happened, members of the Congolese intelligentsia also attended the fair as invited guests of the Belgian government. Among them, reportedly, was a political activist named Patrice Lumumba, who, upon returning to Africa, helped found the Congolese National Movement, which immediately pressed for decolonization.
Led by Lumumba, who would become the nation's first prime minister, the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared its independence from Belgium on 30 May 1960.
The Guardian. 16 April 2018.
The Battle Creek Enquirer and News. 30 May 1958.
The Brussels Times. 4 December 2018.
National Public Radio. 26 September 2018.
Pluvinage, Gonzague. Expo 58: Between Utopia and Reality.
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Newtown: A Public Health Law Perspective
June 14, 2017 June 14, 2017 The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Events, Healing in the Wake of Community Violence, Mental Health, Public Health, Wendy Parmet
This post is part of a series "Healing in the Wake of Community Violence: Lessons from Newtown and Beyond," based on an event of the same name hosted at Harvard Law School in April 2017. Background on the series and links to other blog posts are here.
By Wendy E. Parmet
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main
—John Donne, 1624
Like John Donne's famous Meditation XVII, Newtown, Kim Snyder's documentary about the aftermath of the 2012 massacre at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut, forces us to reflect on the inter-connectedness of human life. As Newtown shows with power and poignancy, the victims of that awful massacre were not islands. They were a part of a continent comprised of their families, friends, community, and indeed, all who recall the awful day they were killed.
This inescapable reality, that our lives and deaths can affect and even traumatize others, is perhaps sufficient to proclaim that gun violence is a public health problem. None of the over 30,000 Americans who die each year from gun violence (most by suicide), are islands. Nor are any of the over 78,000 Americans who are injured by firearms. All are part of the continent. Gun violence affects us all.
But gun violence is a public health problem for another, equally important reason. As with other public health problems, from obesity to HIV/AIDS, the risk that individuals face with respect to firearms is influenced significantly by factors that lie outside their own control. This is not simply because the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre did nothing, and could do nothing, to cause their own death. It is also because different populations face different levels of risk. Race, age, income, gender, geography and a host of other variables determine one's risk of dying or being injured by firearms.
The population-based nature of the threat—the fact that the risk of firearm violence varies dramatically for different populations—presents a paradox evident throughout the film. Although Newtown teaches us that the tragic loss of a few can cause trauma to many, it leads us to this understanding by showing us the faces of three children who died and sharing the memories of their grief-stricken parents and neighbors. This very intimate portrayal of the Newtown families opens the door to our (emotional) recognition that gun violence has a broader, community-wide impact. In effect, by seeing the pain of discrete individuals, we are able to understand the trauma of wider populations.
Still, the focus on individual victims, or even a single community's pain, can mislead us about the scope and nature of gun violence. From a population perspective, the Newtown victims were highly atypical. They lived in Connecticut, one of the safest states in the United States in terms of gun violence. They were also white. According to the Brookings Institute, between 2011 and 2013, black men were more than four times more likely than white men and approximately eight times more likely than white women to be killed by guns. For whites, the vast majority of gun deaths (over 77%) come from suicides; for blacks, the vast majority (over 82 %) are homicides. Moreover, the type of lone-shooter mass shooting that occurred in Sandy Hook remains, thankfully, extremely rare. Indeed, its rarity probably helps to explain why it is so disturbing, as we tend to become desensitized to more common, everyday risks.
To think more broadly about gun violence, to adopt a public health perspective, we need to look beyond Newtown and ask why different populations face different risks. Asking that question will lead us to think about the social, economic, and environmental factors, the so-called social determinants of health, that influence population health.
Importantly, law is one social determinant that can affect the health risks faced by varied populations. In the case of firearms, laws pertaining to the sale, ownership, and use of guns almost surely play a large, albeit complex, role in explaining the prevalence of gun-related morbidity and mortality in the U.S. For example, although the U.S. has similar rates of violent crime and attempted suicides as many other wealthy countries, it has dramatically higher rates of firearm homicides or suicides. Many public health experts believe that lax gun regulations in the U.S. may help to explain some of that difference. To say that is not to state that any particular gun law (including the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Second Amendment) increases or decreases the rate of firearm violence. Rather, it is simply to assert what the parents of Newtown understood: laws can affect the social environment. This means that legal changes have the potential to alter the risks that populations face, either in good or troubling ways.
In 1988 the Institute of Medicine defined public health as "what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions for people to be health." As Snyder's documentary makes clear, the families of Newtown recognized this, as they sought to heal their wounds by working for collective change in the nature of law reform. Their efforts did not bear fruit in Washington, as federal gun control efforts died in Congress. But in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, the state of Connecticut passed legislation that barred the sale of high capacity gun magazines and expanded the number of guns covered by the state's assault weapons ban. Thus individual grief and community trauma can lead to collective mobilization and ultimately law reform. Perhaps, therefore, it isn't surprising that researchers have found a 15% increase in the number of firearms-related legislation introduced in the 12 months following a mass shooting. Interestingly, so-called blue states responded by toughening their gun laws while red states relaxed those laws.
Still, dangers arise when we use the tragedies of discrete individuals such as in Newtown to guide public health policymaking, as we so often do (consider the common practice of naming a law for an individual victim). As noted above, mass shootings are, epidemiologically speaking, anomalous. They do not offer a representative picture of gun violence in the U.S. For public health policymakers and lawyers, this presents a significant challenge: how to use the emotional power and mobilization for law reform sparked by tragedies such as the Sandy Hook shooting to develop solutions that address larger, population-level risks. Kim Snyder's film doesn't answer that question, but if anything can push us to seek it, it's her film.
Watch Wendy Parmet's full presentation, "Newtown: A Public Health Perspective," on the Petrie-Flom Center's website.
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Vicarious Traumatization in the Wake of Community Violence: Healing the Helpers


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St. Michael's & All Angels Church, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England - St Michael and All Angels Church, Aston Clinton.
Nave and Chancel built in the 12th Century - South Aisle and Tower added late 13th century - North Aisle added 14th century - Tower was rebuilt 1800s.
The oldest surviving building in the village is the church of St Mary, which is probably Saxon in origin. The current structure has a 13th century tower and pillars. The font is 14th century with a carved Jacobean cover. There is an altar tomb of the Tyrwhitt family, lords of the manor until the mid 17th century (a role subsequently assumed by the Elwes family). A tapestry of "Christ blessing little children" hangs in the church. Its manufacturer, Thomas Tapling of London, who was born in the village, donated it. He also endowed the Parish Reading Room (now demolished), hoping to provide all the villagers the opportunity of an education.
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Detroit, MI - where Grace was raised.
Dr. Valentine Seaman - This portrait hangs in a room just off the board room of the New York City Hospital. It was painted by Lewis T. Ives.
Barcombe church is situated some distance from the centre of the village. This came about following the ravages of the plague in the 17th century, when surviving villagers rebuilt their community at Barcombe Cross, a mile from the original hamlet around the church.
The present building stands on the site of a Saxon church, and the oldest part of the structure is the north wall which was built in the 11th century. Research has revealed that the chancel and east wall are 12th century, the tower as 13th century and the font as 14th.
Home of John Gibbs - Courtesy of "British Listed Buildings"
The building of the church was begun in 1309, the tower was begun in 1450 and completed at 232 feet between 1510 and 1520.
Coll�giale Notre-Dame, Vernon, France - Courtesy of Spedona.


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Amazon's 'Echo' is a standalone Siri-like virtual assistant for the home
In a surprise announcement on Thursday, Amazon revealed a new first-party hardware product class in "Echo," an Internet-connected virtual assistant stuffed into a tubular standalone speaker.
Amazon Echo's feature list includes more than a few similarities with Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Now, including support for online queries, voice-activated ask-and-answer functions and extensibility into mobile apps. But unlike competing virtual assistants, Echo is a purpose-built, stationary device meant to be used in the home.
Activated by a user-assignable key word, which apparently is set to "Alexa" by default, Echo can fetch information from the Web, play music, set alarms and conduct basic PDA functions like updating a to-do list.
Echo's AI lives in the cloud and meshes with Amazon's AWS network to bring live updates and advanced capabilities like adapting to a user's speech patterns.
On the hardware side, Amazon baked in far-field microphone technology that uses seven beam-forming sensors and noise cancellation to detect commands from across the room. The system is smart enough to parse out sound from its own speaker to listen for user input while playing music.
The speaker setup is a 360-degree sound design with a 2-inch tweeter situated in Echo's base, a 2.5-inch woofer just above and a bass reflex port. Volume is controlled via a ring at the top of the pedestal.
As for music, Echo connects with Amazon Music, Prime Music, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn accounts and supports Bluetooth audio streaming from mobile devices.
For now, at least, Amazon is keeping mum on the prospect of integrating Echo with its huge e-commerce business, but the step would be a short one if and when that day comes. As seen in the explainer video, Echo can already add items to a virtual shopping list on the Echo app for FireOS and Android. Users of Apple devices can access Echo functions through a browser-based UI.
Amazon is taking requests for invitations to buy Echo at a price of $199, or $99 for Amazon Prime members. A release date has not yet been announced, but the reservation site says invitations are slated to go out in the "coming weeks."
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I asked for an invite. At $99 I think it's worth a shot.
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Will be interested to see how they execute it, but this could be a really neat idea. Amazon have done some nice hardware. Fire TV is a nice piece of kit for the money, Fire Phone while not an iPhone competitor really was nicely built and if iterated nicely could become a really nice device (and the build quality of it is really nice).
Comment on MacRumors: "Hahahahahaha. Go home Amazon, you're drunk."
It probably sends whatever it hears to Amazon 24/7 (for better "targeting" its users) from where it is likely directly accessed by gov :)
eightzero
It looks interesting, perhaps even practical and useful. Not $200 (or even $100) useful to me, but YMMV.
AppleTV might have some similar features in the future. That this is a standalone product is neat though.
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Q: Faker.js random word with choices I'm trying to use faker.js to generate some random words, but I want it to choose between a few choices.
faker.random.word()

I tried something like this
faker.random.word({constraints: ['','','']})

This didn't work, and I could be way off since this was just a straight up guess. I tried looking for documentation on it but couldn't find any. Any suggestions?

A: You can generate a number between 0 and the number of words you have and access the words using an array
const words = ["foo", "bar", "baz"]
const randomNumber = faker.datatype.number({
    'min': 0,
    'max': words.length - 1
});
console.log(words[randomNumber])

A: I have not seen anything like this in faker module but you can using uniqueNamesGenerator module, check the documentation
const { uniqueNamesGenerator } = require('unique-names-generator'); ;

const colors = [
  'Green', 'Red', 'Yellow', 'Black'
]

const characterName =  uniqueNamesGenerator({
  dictionaries: [colors],
  length: 1
});

console.log(characterName)

A: i was looking for same issue in php , the php way is this :
echo $faker->randomElements(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']);

['c']

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Home Happening Now Firm Linked to Pelosi's Husband Got a Coronavirus Bailout Loan
Firm Linked to Pelosi's Husband Got a Coronavirus Bailout Loan
Per Breitbart, a company connected to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) husband received a loan from the Trump administration's $669 billion Paycheck Protection Program, a Small Business Administration-led fund designed to provide financial relief to businesses in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Bloomberg reports a company tied to the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed up among hundreds of thousands of recipients of loans from the $669 billion Paycheck Protection Program.
Paul Pelosi is "a minor, passive investor" in the firm, EDI Associates, said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Nancy Pelosi. "He was not involved in or even aware of this PPP loan."
On Monday night, Hammill said that Paul Pelosi's stake was 8.1%.
The loan to the limited partnership that has an investment in a California hotel turned up in disclosures for the program that were released earlier Monday by the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration. In addition, three foundations associated with congressional caucuses were listed as loan recipients.
The partnership is listed as a recipient of a loan between $350,000 and $1 million. The company was listed in Nancy Pelosi's latest House financial disclosure report filed in May 2019, for the year 2018. Paul Pelosi is a businessman and investor.
EDI Associates, which is listed in Pelosi's disclosure form as located in Sonoma, California, is identified as a limited partnership with an investment in the El Dorado Hotel. The value of the asset on the form — identified as belonging to Pelosi's spouse — is listed as between $250,001 and $500,000.
A number of other companies tied to federal lawmakers have surfaced in previous media reports as having accepted loans from the program, which is part of the $2 trillion CARES Act that Congress passed to counter economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic.
Pelosi had previously been a major critic of what she cast as the Trump administration's concealment of PPP loan data. Last month, after the administration agreed to release some loan-level details, she praised the decision.


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Highlights from the WISA Impact Seminar "Water Reuse, Recycling & Reclamation in South Africa: Where are we, and what does the future hold?"
by WISA | Oct 19, 2021 | Branches and Divisions, General, Membership
The recent 7 October 2021 WISA Impact Seminar "Water Reuse, Recycling & Reclamation in South Africa" provided a current overview on the hot topic of water reuse in South Africa. Thirteen presentations from local and international experts explored different water reuse and recycling applications, cutting edge research and technology development. The seminar highlighted the multiple dimensions of water re-use including water quality and risk management, health risks, public acceptance and support, emerging contaminants and monitoring and technology validation. Water re-use in urban, agricultural, industry and mining applications for both potable and non-potable uses was profiled, emphasizing the breadth of the sector and the range of skills involved.
The bright present and promising future of water reuse: seminar insights
Chris Swartz kicked off the event by setting the scene of the past, the present and the future of water re-use in South Africa. His presentation tracked the small beginnings of the water re-use sector in the 60s, which centered on research and pilot scale activities, to the increasing attention since 2005 and some current examples in Cape Town and the mining sector. The presentation concluded that the future of water re-use will be rooted in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and will focus on evolving monitoring systems, training of personnel, implementing self-regulating programs and developing public private partnerships, amongst other.
Dr Kevin Winter inspired attendees with a vision for how contaminated water from informal settlements could be re-used, with his presentation on work at the site of the Water Hub in Franschhoek. He provided an overview of using nature-based treatment in the form of six large vegetated and unvegetated biofiltration cells constructed from infrastructure on an old wastewater treatment works to treat and reuse water for food production and fish breeding. The contaminated water from an informal settlement flows down a river running through the Water Hub site, where some results indicate a near 100% reduction in E.coli levels after treatment through the biofiltration cells.
The topic of risk assessment in water re-use was covered during two presentations. Professor Thomas Pettersson from the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden spoke on using quantitative microbial risk assessment methodologies for risk assessment using two case studies in Windhoek, Namibia and Morbylanga, Sweden. Bettina Genthe provided a chemical perspective, sharing results on using the Health Risk Assessment process to determine the safety of water for chemicals.
On the industrial water re-use side, Maronel Steyn presented an atlas on the potential for bulk scale industrial effluent reuse in South Africa by the CSIR.
A panel discussion was opened by a presentation by Dr Edward Archer on the challenges and opportunities for water re-use strategies regarding contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), during which he warned of the complex cocktail of CECs in water systems that can impact water reuse potential.
The public acceptance and support aspects of water re-use were touched on through an insightful presentation by Dr Sarah Slabbert titled "Towards a water reuse literate public". Her presentation covered the WRC produced "A Communication Strategy for water re-use in South Africa", showcasing the general guidelines for communicating with the public and the five associated building blocks of plan and sustain, showcase, incentivise, use multiple media and listen. A re-usable infographic was shared as part of the presentation.
The seminar ended with two city of Cape Town focused water re-use projects on groundwater and treated wastewater linked to The Cape Town Water Strategy. David Allpass shared aspects of the City of Cape Town New Water Program: Augmented reality; the Cape Flats Aquifer abstraction and Managed Aquifer Recharge groundwater scheme. Brendon Theunissen presented on the City of Cape Town – Faure Water System which is taking treated effluent from the Zandvliet wastewater treatment works and treating it for re-use at the Faure advanced water purification plant.
Water re-use is of vital importance in the face of changing climates, extreme weather conditions and water scarcity. The seminar provided a range of insights into water re-use and its promising potential and bright future in South Africa. As one of the presenters noted for water re-use, this is a very exciting point in history in how we are thinking about and working with water in a new way.
WISA and the WISA Water Reuse Committee Western Cape Chapter would like to thank the presenters, chairpersons and the event sponsors the Energy & Water Sector Education Training Authority (EWSETA), Integral Laboratories, the Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority (LGSETA) and Proxa Water.
Jessica Fell – WISA Water Reuse Division (WC) and Future Water institute, University of Cape Town


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September 28, 2008 by RJH
Ronan: As you note, Barker's argument depends on accepting the existence of the Deuteronomist(s). This is one of the foundations of the Documentary Hypothesis and undermines the notion that the Pentateuch represents the "Books of Moses." Is this reconcilable with orthodox Mormon teaching?
Kevin Christensen: I think so. The Mormon teaching encouraging us to be open to further light and knowledge is more fundamental than reflexive calls for adhering to any orthodox notions about particular texts. So the existence of the Deuteronomists doesn't need to be reconcilable with traditional Mormon teaching about our texts. It only needs to be reconcilable with the content of LDS texts. That calls for ongoing re-reading and reconsideration not only of texts, but of our framing assumptions.
Suppose that the further light and knowledge we get from re-reading our texts in light of what we learn about the Deuteronomists' efforts turns out to be enlightening, rather than threatening to faith? Barker says that "the Exile in Babylon is a formidable barrier to anyone wanting to reconstruct the religious beliefs and practices of ancient Judaism." (The Great Angel, 12). Many scholars continue to labor at reconstruction using a wide range of sources unavailable to anyone in Joseph's day. The Book of Mormon also provides a look across that formidable barrier in its first chapters. What are the implications for us if Joseph Smith's restoration converges with Margaret Barker's reconstruction, given that their methods and sources are so different?
The book of Deuteronomy has been associated with the Book of the Law which was discovered during a renovation of the temple during the reign of King Josiah. It shows signs of being aligned with the interests of the people who installed Josiah as King. See Marvin Sweeney, King Josiah of Judah: Lost Messiah of Israel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) p. 166. It also shows internal tensions, such as a passage in Deuteronomy 4:12 denying that God could be seen, and Deuteronomy 5:4 referring to face to face conversation, let alone the vision in Exodus 24:10-11. Barker cites a study by Mettinger that states that "The concept of God advocated by the Deuteronomists is strikingly abstract. The throne concept has vanished and the anthropomorphic characteristics of God are on their way to oblivion. Thus the form of God plays no part in the D work of the Sinai theophany. (Deut. 4.12)" (Mettinger, The Dethronement of Sabaoth, cited in The Great Angel, 100). Barker comments that "This warns us more clearly than anything else that the tradition which emphasizes the throne of God…must be understood in light of something other than the Deuteronomic point of view that has come to dominate our reading of the Old Testament." (Barker, Ibid.)
The Book of Mormon opens with an anthropomorphic throne theophany. And the throne is important in Jeremiah 17 and throughout 1 Enoch and Isaiah 6. Barker cites throne visions in Daniel, Matthew and Revelation.
In Deuteronomy as we have it, there are important variant texts, most famously, the differences between the DSS version of Deut. 32:8-9, the Masoretic Hebrew, and the Septuagint. The older version refers to El Elyon dividing the nations among his sons, Yahweh's portion being Israel. In 1 Nephi 11:6, the angel commends Nephi for believing in the Son of the Most High God. The Hebrew would have to be El Elyon. What does that imply for Nephi's version of Deuteronomy 32:8-11?
And there is evidence for layers of accretion in the current Deuteronomy, starting from a core of Laws, additions provided at the time of Josiah, and further additions later. (See for example, William J. Doorly, Obsession with Justice: The Story of the Deuteronomists, 110-111.) There are passages like the Deut. 17:14-20, which depict Moses as providing legal restrictions on kingship long before Israel had a king. The particular restrictions appear to target Solomon. When were they included in the text?
And again, what about the absence of the Day of Atonement from the sacred calendar in Deuteronomy 16? We ought to be able to ask questions about issues rising from the texts we have, and to follow the evidence where it leads. If we don't even ask the questions, it is unlikely that we'll get to the further light and knowledge to which they could lead us. If we don't ask the questions, we won't recognize the answers for what they are even if we have them.
It is true that LDS teaching materials traditionally notice the mention that the Brass Plates contained the five books of Moses (1 Nephi 5:11). We mention that 1 Nephi 22:20 and 3 Nephi 20:23 quotes the Messianic prophecy from Deuteronomy 18. And we notice the Deuteronomic insistance that if the covenant people are righteous they will be blessed and prosper in the land. And there is the presumption that Jeremiah is aligned with Josiah, and presumably, the reformers.
But is this enough to imply that Nephi had the same edition of the Books of Moses than we do? Friedman makes a good case that the sources of the Pentateuch were pre-Exilic, but he does not claim that the Hebrew version that we now have is pre-Exilic. Quite the contrary. He identifies the redactor who put it all together as Ezra, which means post-Exilic.
What can we learn about the content of the Brass plates from the Book of Mormon? How does that relate to the findings of the current generation of scholars? Were the Brass plates the result of records passed down from generation to generation? Or were they produced for King Josiah, as John Welch suggested, or as I suggest, during the reign of Jehoiakim, when the Egyptians were in charge and the Reformers in disarray? What happens if, instead of presuming that the Book of Mormon agrees with the traditional views on an identical text of the Bible, that we suppose that 1 Nephi 13 is correct about certain plain and precious things being removed. What about the blindness in Lehi's Jerusalem referred to in Jacob 4:14? Is that the same as the blindness referred to in 1 Enoch 93:7-8, and Jeremiah 5:21 and Ezekiel 12:2? Are they related to the rejection of Wisdom in Proverbs 1 and the pre-Exilic trauma that Dever finds in the archeology? Is that blindness related to the explicit denials of the possibility of vision contained in Deuteronomy 4:12 an 30:11-14?
Remember that those lost plain and precious things are going to come back from two sources. First the Book of Mormon, and then, texts that will come through the gentiles. Barker's reconstruction of the lost tradition is built on how these later texts relate to the Bible.
The first important LDS study was John Sorenson's Dialogue essay on the "Brass Plates and Biblical Scholarship," in which he suggested that the Book of Mormon shows characteristics of the E source, associated with the Northern Kingdom. Noel Reynolds has an interesting essay in By Study and By Faith suggesting that the Book of Mormon presupposes a creation account more like the Book of Moses than Genesis. Ben McGuire did an important study at FAIR showing that Nephi's elaborate allusiveness to the story of David and Goliath in his account of the adventure with Laban is exclusive to a more ancient story than appears in the King James Bible. More recently Ben McGuire has observed that the quote and allusion to Deuteronomy in the Book of Mormon all come from the Proto-Deuteronomy core of the book, rather than the later accretions. The point is that the text of the Book of Mormon provides explicit and implicit clues pointing towards a different edition of the Torah and the prophets than came down as the Masoretic Hebrew.
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Ronan says:
Let's try to focus discussion on D and the DH, lest we pre-empt future posts.
David Clark says:
What can we learn about the content of the Brass plates from the Book of Mormon?
Potentially quite a lot. The problem is that if one accepts something like Ostler's expansion thesis then you end up with a shaky methodology unable to make convincing arguments. The basic question becomes, "Is that an expansion by Joseph Smith or is that authentic 'old stuff'?" One runs the risk of being accused of selecting evidence that fits one's preconceptions while ignoring evidence that does not, labeling it expansion.
I am not taking a position one way or another, I simply do not have the expertise to adjudicate if Barker is convincing or out to lunch. Nor do I know enough about ancient Israel to know if possible parallels to the Book of Mormon are solid. I do know that I like the expansion theory, it solves a lot of problems. Do you see a conflict here, at least a methodological one?
Julie M. Smith says:
"The Mormon teaching encouraging us to be open to further light and knowledge is more fundamental than reflexive calls for adhering to any orthodox notions about particular texts."
This is a great insight.
"In 1 Nephi 11:6, the angel commends Nephi for believing in the Son of the Most High God. The Hebrew would have to be El Elyon. What does that imply for Nephi's version of Deuteronomy 32:8-11?"
Two presuppositions here:
(1) A very literalistic view of Joseph Smith's translation–one that I am not entirely sure that I am comfortable with.
(2) Why would Nephi's use of it have to do with Deut 32 as opposed to any other text using that title, such as Genesis 14? (Which, given later use of Mel. material in the BoM, might fit better anyway?)
I'm glad for this series of posts because I've been suspicious of what we might call the LDS canonization of Barker, right there next to C. S. Lewis. I'm intrigued and not entirely dismissive, but at the same time, this post starts to feel like the reconstructions of the community that produced Q: sure, looks interesting and maybe explains a lot, but are we entirely comfortable with how speculative it, by necessity, is?
Guess I took too long posting, since David Clark covered my (1) much better than I did.
I thought this question was important to ask of Kevin, given its implications. Not only is Moses' authorship assumed by most Mormons, the alternative — the DH — is often decried with vitriol (cf Bruce R McConkie).
I remember hearing Barker's talk at the LoC and thinking that by accepting her thesis, apologists were losing something as well as gaining something. One example: Joseph's Book of Moses. The creation story of Genesis is presented as a revelation to Moses and follows in Moses with little diversion from the biblical account, including a seamless division between Gen 1 and Gen 2-3. Trouble is, the DH sees a very important seam exactly there and one wonders, if the DH is true, why that seam is present in a presumably revealed ur-text (Moses)?
So, if you accept Barker's D, you have to accept JEP, thus potentially undermining Moses while supporting the Book of Mormon. Can you have your cake blah blah blah?
Now, there are ways out of this. One can, for example, see Moses as revelatory midrash, and not as ur-text, etc., but Book of Mormon scholars need to do more work here before accepting Barker whole-cloth.
BTW, I would like to thank Kevin for responding to my questions. His and Barker's work is fascinating and worthy of engagement. Thanks Kevin!
Nitsav says:
There are ways to accommodate Moses. Most people think, since it's now printed that way, that it's a unity, but it sure didn't come that way.
First, the creation account in Moses is not an independent witness to Mosaic authorship. As part of the JST, Joseph started with Genesis, and went from there.
"Examination of the original manuscripts of the JST shows that, soon after the initial writing, Joseph further modified and revised these early chapters in a number of ways. This included a complete rewriting of the early chapters of Genesis,… Although the translation of the early chapters of Genesis was initially revealed and recorded between June 1830 and February 1831, it is clear that the Prophet Joseph Smith continued to revise and modify this material until his death in 1844. -Robert J. Matthews,
"How We Got the Book of Moses," Ensign (January 1986): 43-44.
"The [Joseph Smith] translation [including the Book of Moses] was not a simple, mechanical recording of divine dictum, but rather a study-and-thought process accompanied and prompted by revelation from the Lord" -Robert J. Matthews, "A Plainer Translation" Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible: A History and Commentary (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1985), 39.
The creation accounts were never published in JS lifetime, and BY (who dismissed the creation accounts of Genesis as "baby stories") never saw them, to my knowledge.
I don't think it's unreasonable to view the creation accounts as prophetic midrash, and other parts, perhaps, as ancient.
That said, it also depends on what exactly JS was restoring. Was it an actual **text**? Or is it historical pseudepigrapha, JS putting revealed ideas, doctrines, and actual events into a Mosaic framework?
For example, imagine that I today write down all my family lore, oral accounts. One thousand years from now, someone digs it up and translates. Is the text ancient? Sure. Are the events of text historical? Perhaps, but not necessarily.
Different parts of Moses may be different things. It's not an all-or-nothing decision.
Nitsav,
Oh, I agree, but I could quote you recent scholarship from respected Mormon professors who would utterly disagree. Which is kind of my point.
Too true Ronan. Though there are others…
Actually, the AAUP discussion has gotten me thinking. If BYU has orthodoxy requirements, they need to be up front about them. If a new hire has to affirm Mosaic authorship (or at least, not write anything undermining it), that needs to be spelled out somewhere.
Fascinating, Ronan. I don't know enough about this to comment further, but I am intrigued by the whole issue of Barker and the implications of her research. I really appreciate these posts.
I've never heard of CES espousing an "unity of Moses" view of the JST. That strikes me as weird on the face of it. (Why just what got published as Moses? What about the Melchezedek stuff?) And on methadology alone it seems problematic.
That said, I must say that the transition between Genesis 1 & 2 is very interesting in Moses and I agree one can't simply discount that as commentary since it seems to suggest an unity. But whose unity? Ezra and the compilers of the Torah? (Assuming one buys into theories about Ezra's role) What about some pre-exilic ur-text and its constitution? And even if one buys into the particular details of the documentary hypothesis with regards to Genesis I'm not sure one has to say there's a single Priestly editor rather than a priestly tradition or traditions with those two emphasis.
(One could, I think, point to Mormon history to see different traditions of theology that have different authoring figures but maintain a general constitution through time yet remain within the same body of Mormonism)
The point being that the fact Joseph restores a text says little about the genealogy of that text. Just look at how the fairly orthodox treat Abraham. One of the mainstream traditions is that it is a 1st century text brought to life and perhaps "corrected" by Joseph Smith. Few (and I think this includes the CES) necessarily require Abrahamic penmanship to treat it as either scripture or having some historical grounding in the Abraham events.
BTW – I vaguely remember a book by the Religious Studies department at BYU (nee CES) that dealt with the JST and had a lot of history on the Book of Moses. It would have come out in the early 90's or late 80's. Anyone know this book and if an online version is available somewhere? It'd be interesting relative to the CES question.
Not being at BYU I, of course, can't really speak to what the religion department professors believe in the least. So I'm really curious as to what the beliefs are. The closest I could find offhand was Richard Draper's article in the Ensign
Ronan, you seem to suggest BY never read these. I confess I have a hard time seeing that. Yes it's possible and yes, as you pointed out, there may be no positive statement about the texts by BY, but it just seems hard to believe given the evolution and development of the text that BY was ignorant of it. Admittedly BY was dead when the edition of the PoGP with it in was published. But the work on that was being done prior to BY's death. The 1851 edition by Franklin Richards did have parts of the Book of Moses in it and it seems hard to believe BYU didn't know of that.
Great series Ronan. As you know, what intrigues me most about Barker's work is her focus on the Melchizedek material, particularly its meaning for the Josaic reforms and the Lehi context of preaching against the religious apostasy that the Book of Mormon describes in Jerusalem in 600 BC.
Keep 'em comin'.
mmiles says:
Is that the same as the blindness referred to in 1 Enoch 93:7-8, and Jeremiah 5:21 and Ezekiel 12:2? Are they related to the rejection of Wisdom in Proverbs 1 and the pre-Exilic trauma that Dever finds in the archeology? Is that blindness related to the explicit denials of the possibility of vision contained in Deuteronomy 4:12 an 30:11-14?
May I suggest a separate post for these questions?
Great stuff. If you were to suggest an essential Margaret Barker for the beginner, what would suggest?
mmiles, go for this.
http://farms.byu.edu/publications/papers/?paperID=6
Kevin Christensen says:
For mmiles suggestions for a separate post on the "blindness" passages, I explored that theme in some articles posted at the Meridian (thanks to an introduction there provided by Orson Scott Card). Howard Hopkins has these conveniently linked at his http://www.thinlyveiled.com website, along with links to several of Margaret's essays.
Julie asks a good questions about Deut. 32:8-9 and translation issues. In glancing through the recent Anchor Bible volume on Jeremiah, I noticed that the author identified an allusion in Jeremiah based on the word "inheritance." But given the allusion, which version? Sons of El, or children of Israel? It's an interesting question. Without a direct quotation, you have to look at themes and contexts, counsel visions, and throne theophanies, and suggestions of the cosmic covenant, which imply the Day of Atonement.
In The Older Testament Barker shows that divine titles like the Holy One of Israel, the Lord of Hosts, and El Elyon turn up in passages with distinctive themes and contexts. When the same themes and contexts appear around the Book of Mormon uses, that suggests conscious intent, whether by translator or author. She also shows that the state of the Hebrew texts demonstrates that those themes and contexts were controversial, so again, the Book of Mormon treatment deserves close attention given the context it claims for itself.
I like Kevin Barney's term "complex" translation, which he uses get away from either/or thinking on the issue.
The best entry text for Margaret's approach is probably Temple Theology: An Introduction. It is short, about 100 pages, and sketches the outlines very effectively. However, it was The Great Angel that attracted LDS interest in the first place. Typically Nibleyophiles. I heard the same one word review from several different scholars. "Wow!"
And Ronan, thanks, and you are most welcome.
Kevin C.
Just an other request for any basis for CES seeing Moses as unified and authored by Moses? As I suggested I'm skeptical but am open to being wrong. (It's been a long time now since college)
I'd note that the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, while perhaps more reflective of FARMS theology than necessarily CES theology, has a nice section on the JST. Given that it's now hosted at LDS.org I think it has a been more importance in CES as well. (And I know lots of CES folks who would use the EoM extensively when it first came out) While it doesn't explicitly address the issue of the "unity of Moses" it's hard to come away from a reading of it and the discussion of process believing there would be any such unity.
One could read the EoM entry on Moses and infer that the revelations to Moses included Gen 1 & 2. This passage probably is the strongest thing I've been able to find for an unity of Moses:
Latter-day scripture attests to Moses' hand in the composition of the Pentateuch (1 Ne 5:11; 19:23). He had access to, and edited, prior prophetic records, including those of Adam and Enoch, which were once apparently included in the works composing the earliest form of the Pentateuch, now found in Moses 2-8 (cf. 1 Ne 13:20-40).
The author appears to be buying into a kind of restoration of some ur-text of the Pentateuch. But the author also appears to be suggesting Moses didn't write Genesis 1 & 2 but they were earlier records. Which argues somewhat against the normal sense of an unity of Moses.
Now I will say that the above paragraph is stronger than I'd have written but I think it allows for something like the DH albeit in a slightly different form. (i.e. dating the P & E sources back earlier than most do)
Robert F. Smith says:
Re Kevin Christensen's part one introducing Margaret Barker, it might be worth noting that Barker is a former President of the Society for Old Testament Study — a very important British/Irish learned society with a long list of significant publications in biblical studies. See online at http://www.sots.ac.uk/
Father Lehi's archaic and clannish behavior does comport with Barker's version of the Deuteronomistic theory, e.g., Lehi doesn't hesitate to build an altar and sacrifice where and when he pleases (I Nephi 2:7, 5:9, 7:22) in violation of Deut 12:13-14, but in line with earlier Exodus 20:21-24 (see Bernard Levinson, Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation [Oxford, 1997]; Barker, The Older Testament: The Survival of Themes from the Ancient Royal Cult in Sectarian Judaism and Early Christianity [SPCK, 1987]).
It is nice to see your comments here. I've long admired your FARMS papers and preliminary reports. And I've wondered what you've thought of Margaret's books.
Thanks for these comments and much else.
Kevin Christensen
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Dad used to take two when he went to the bank in Ruidoso. One for him, one for Mom. But later on, when the dementia started creeping into his mind, he would stand next to Mom (who had to take over the banking duties at that point) and place his restless hands in the bowl of lollipops, not remembering their purpose or his previous enjoyment of the candy.
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Many of us learn best from games, preferably games that are fun. This section introduces three games, each of which has been devised by security researchers and used in a variety of commercial situations.
All work with agile development techniques, and all three are free to download but need some preparation, so I recommend you take a look before inviting all your colleagues to a session.
First, is our own Agile Security Game. It is the least technical of the three, designed for players of every type and level of technical expertise. Created by people in Security Lancaster to cover app programming and project management, the game has players take on the role of product managers for a secure app product. Players select from a variety of choices which security functionality to implement and find out if their choices foil the attacks. The game requires a coordinator, and needs cards printed out and cut out in advance. We've used it in a variety of situations, and players have found it both fun and educational.
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Laurie Williams devised Protection Poker, in which players carry out a risk assessment for a project described in the game. It's really designed for use within a project as a complement to Extreme Programming's Planning Game, but Laurie has also provided a presentation with a sample project so that it can be used as an exercise independent of a specific project. Protection Poker is slightly more technical than the game above, but is still suitable for a range of players.
The presentation is here on StickyMinds (which requires a free login). The game details and instructions are at https://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Security/ProtectionPoker/.
Adam Shostack of Microsoft has given us 'Elevation of Privilege'. This game's cards have more professional graphics and it provides a format for a workshop to analyse the threats in one's own projects. Elevation of Privilege is rather more challenging in terms of technical skill required than the other two games here and uses quite sophisticated security jargon, but would be within the abilities of developers and testers with some software security knowledge.
The game itself was an integral part of Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle (in the days when SDLs were fashionable), so has been widely used. Adam's book 'Threat Modelling' describes the context and explains the technicalities, and you can download the game from Microsoft at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/SDL/adopt/eop.aspx .
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Retirement is a major component of any well designed financial plan. Retirement plans can be confusing because they are frequently made up of a number of different components such as Social Security, private savings, company pension plans, 401(k) plans and individual retirement arrangements (IRA). Even among IRAs there are different types, such as SEP IRAs and SIMPLE IRAs, that are available to different segments of the working population.
Congress first authorized individual retirement arrangements, sometimes referred to as individual retirement accounts, or IRAs, in 1974 as part of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. These original IRA programs were only available to working taxpayers whose employer did not offer a qualified retirement program. This tax-advantaged savings program proved so popular that Congress expanded it to cover virtually every taxpayer who had earned income. Eventually new varieties of IRAs were introduced for individual taxpayers, including the Roth IRA. In 1996 Congress authorized tax-advantaged SIMPLE IRA programs for employers with a limited number of employees under the Small Business Job Protection Act. Congress also authorized SEP IRA programs for employers of any size.
The federal government is fond of using acronyms as a means of distinguishing similar items, such as IRA, SEP IRA or SIMPLE IRA, but it can be confusing to ordinary taxpayers. An IRA is an individual retirement arrangement. IRA may also refer to an individual retirement account, which is the specific financial account where the taxpayer's retirement funds are held. SEP refers to a Simplified Employee Pension program. SEP IRA is the specific employee retirement account that is funded by the SEP. SIMPLE is short for Savings Incentive Match PLan for Employees.
A Simplified Employee Pension plan can only be set up by the employer. Each eligible employee has their own IRA account associated with the SEP, and each eligible employee must be covered equally by the plan. The employer is the only one who can make contributions into the employee's IRA account, but the employee is 100 percent vested in the account as soon as the contribution is made. This means once the money is in the employee's IRA, the money belongs to the employee. There are certain restrictions that apply, including early withdrawal tax penalties if money is taken out of the account prior to the employee reaching 59 1/2 years of age.
SIMPLE plans are similar to SEP plans in that they are both established by employers for the benefits of their employees, but SIMPLE plans are limited to companies with 100 or fewer eligible employees. Under SIMPLE plans, an IRA is established for each eligible employee, but funding the account may include a combination of employer and employee contributions. SIMPLE plans allow employees to elect to contribute a percentage of their income into their IRA on a pre-tax basis. The employer is required to match the employee's contribution, up to three percent. The employer may also elect to make a non-elective contribution to all eligible employees' accounts rather than making matching contributions. Once SIMPLE IRAs are funded, the account is 100 percent vested to the employee.
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The balance between yin and yang energy is used to describe how polar or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn. Most people familiar with yoga, are familiar with yang yoga asana practice, as this tends to be more common in Western culture. Yang yoga asanas stimulate the muscles in the body, encouraging strength and great physical health. Yang can be considered our yoga of physical movement, or our flow yoga asanas. While yin asanas are the balance to our yang asana practice and is performed in stillness, to open the connective tissues of the body in a deep stretch.
Most yin postures are floor postures and are usually held for a longer period of time than yang postures. They can be held typically from two to five minutes and some even longer. This extended hold encourages our joints, tendons and other connective tissue within the body to open, lengthen, strengthen and is quite detoxifying. Yin yoga is a wonderful balance to an active lifestyle, whether it includes other forms of yoga or not.
Yin yoga has recently been rediscovered and contains the ancient, and some say the original, asana practice. The sages who pioneered the path of yoga used asanas to strengthen the body, so that they could sit for long periods in contemplative meditation. So many students are finding yin yoga asanas to be the perfect compliment and balance to their more active, yang asana practices.
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