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On our way to Napa we had to stop and take pictures at the Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco was such a beautiful city, and one I hope to visit again and longer than a day!
These pictures were taken in front of Ghirardelli Square, and one of my favorite parts of the city that we visited. I mean the smell of chocolate was unbelievable! There were so many cute shops and boutiques in this area as well. I love finding cute unique shops when we're traveling.
You can't come to San Francisco without taking a picture in front of the Painted Ladies.
China Town did not disappoint! I couldn't believe how big the area was. We took the trolley down here, and then we just wandered around for a good amount of time. There are so many fun shops to check out, and the sites and smells are just so great! It's easy to spend a lot of time in this part of the city.
This was our first winery stop. I picked this one because it had the most beautiful victorian house at the front of the property, and I was dying to go in.
This house was just so gorgeous, and I loved hearing about its history along with the rest of the property.
This next winery was as modern as it gets when you walked inside, from the design of the interior to the art they had displayed. The views from this winery were incredible! Nothing like enjoying a glass of wine while overlooking beautiful wine country!
I'm excited to finally share some photos from our trip to San Francisco and Napa. We were out west for my cousin's wedding in Napa. We stopped in San Francisco only for a day but absolutely loved it there. I loved the feel of the city and all the different areas we were able to visit. Napa was incredible, and again we were there for such a small amount of time. The wineries were so diverse and the restaurants in Napa were amazing! I definitely hope to go back to both San Francisco and Napa! We were there in December and the weather was perfect! Hope you guys enjoy!


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Search your credit report for errors and dispute mistakes. The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires each of the big three credit reporting agencies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — to provide you with a free copy of your credit report, at your request, every year. The credit reporting agency that supplied your report and the organization that provided the information are responsible for correcting inaccuracies. You should contact both. But if your efforts fail, you might have to consult a lawyer. Your credit worthiness is too important.
Pay bills on time. Your payment history, including delinquent payments, is the single biggest contributor to your credit score, accounting for 35% of the total, according to FICO.
Budget. Calculate income and expenses, and determine how much you have to pay down debts.
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The identities of as many as nine million Americans are stolen each year, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Identity thieves can do a number of things in your name, including rent an apartment, file tax returns, or get a credit card or telephone account. You might not even be aware of the theft until you get your credit report or a credit card statement and see charges you didn't make, or until a debt collector calls you.
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In 2017, credit reporting firms said they would remove tax liens from consumers' credit reports and stop reporting tax lien data. Civil judgments are also being taken off credit reports — all actions that could help boost credit scores. However, public bankruptcy information will still be reported.
In December, Experian said it would allow consumers to use cell phone and utility bill payment histories to bolster credit scores. Consumers with scores between 580 and 669 would benefit the most from its Experian Boost online platform, the credit reporting firm said.
And in October, FICO unveiled a new scoring system called UltraFICO in which consumers grant access to bank statements, including the length of time the accounts have been open and savings history.
The UltraFICO Score would be suitable for consumers falling in the "gray area" of credit scores (upper 500s to lower 600s), FICO said, or just below most lenders' comfort zone for loans. The aim is to ease approvals.
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For any consumer, it pays to have the highest credit score possible. Paying bills on time, managing your credit, checking your score and spending responsibly are keys.
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So this is what it feels like to miss out on a World Cup. I've been asked enough times since the final whistle in Milan that I figure I might as well come up with an answer.
Truth be told, it hurts less -- a lot less -- than losing a World Cup semifinal on penalties or a European Championship final on a Golden Goal. At least right now. Maybe it will feel different in the summer, or even just next month at the draw, when the excitement builds and you realize that you are not a part of the biggest spectacle in sports.
For now, there's just a numbness. An awareness that something bad has happened, but that it hasn't fully hit. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Maybe we'll just get caught back up in the weekly grind of club football and, because the game is perpetually renewing itself, get excited again.
You get a bloody nose, you get a spot of humiliation, you move on. Brazil had the 1-7 and, for old-timers, the Maracanazo. Germany won zero games at Euro 2000 and Euro 2004. (OK, they reached a World Cup final in between, but still... it's Germany!). France had Raymond Domenech.
In most cases you bounce back... eventually. But your chances of doing so are vastly increased if you take stock and learn lessons. In these situations, managers become scapegoats, sometimes unfairly so in the sense that blame ought to be shared around, but not in this case. Gian Piero Ventura was the wrong appointment on so many levels that it boggles the mind.
Ventura got the job largely because after two years of Antonio Conte, the Italian FA wanted someone mellower (and cheaper: he was paid one-third as much as the current Chelsea boss) in charge. He was 68 years old and presented as some sort of supreme man-manager, a sort of off-brand Carlo Ancelotti. He turned out to be nothing of the sort, particularly when it came to handling big players.
That should not have been surprising. In a 36-year coaching career, the biggest club he had ever managed was Napoli, except that was during their brief stint in the third division and he lasted all of 19 games before getting sacked. The second biggest were Torino, whom he took to seventh place in Serie A four years ago. With that resume he was expected to handle the transition between Italy's up-and-coming stars (and they do have plenty) and the veterans, including the three world champions, Daniele De Rossi, Andrea Barzagli and, of course, Gigi Buffon.
Needless to say, he sputtered.
When you coach one of the big national teams, broadly speaking you have one of two options. You either go down the Conte route with a strong identity and a fiercely loyal group. Or you manage situations, continually shape-shifting but knowing that you can pick the right guys on form at the right time because you're charismatic enough to get buy-in from whoever walks through the door and prepared enough to fit the pieces together.
Ventura did neither. He called up no fewer than 55 players in his 16 games in charge and lined them up in a whole range of formations. He avoided the 4-3-3 (probably the most logical choice given the players at his disposal) because, according to him, he didn't have time to work on it. So instead he served up schemes like the 4-2-4 horror show we saw in Madrid.
The more gifted players, those ones he was supposed to build the side around not just for the present but the future too, simply didn't perform under him either because they were too often ignored (Lorenzo Insigne) or used incorrectly (Marco Verratti). It got so bad that he ended up needing to consult the veterans -- Leo Bonucci, Buffon and De Rossi -- at every turn. By the end, every lineup and tactical plan was the result of a papal conclave, not the decisive choices of a manager who knew what he was doing.
Rock bottom in that department came in the return leg against Sweden when, with the game deadlocked he tried to get De Rossi to warm up and he dismissed him and appeared to say: "What the f--- are you sending me on for? We need to win, not draw!"
Maybe Ventura thought that by sending on another veteran, he'd be spared criticism later. Or maybe he mistook De Rossi -- who is 6-foot-1 blonde and bearded -- with Insigne, who is 5-foot-5 dark-haired and clean-shaven. After all it's an easy mistake to make.
So on the manager front, the lesson is you either get a big personality with actual experience, preferably at international level (Ventura's amounted to 14 games in the Europa League) or you get a single-minded "system" coach with a strong identity who hopefully picks the right scheme. If you're really lucky, you get a guy who can do both.
In a perfect world, people would step down at the Italian FA too, starting with the man who appointed Ventura, Carlo Tavecchio (though I wouldn't hold my breath). For what it's worth, I'm not sure that a 74-year-old guy who spent most of his life in amateur football (let alone one who has been accused of making discriminatory remarks) ought to be in charge of such matters, but that's another issue. (Tavecchio is also the guy who, back in September, described not qualifying as "the apocalypse." Well, Carlo, Armageddon is here.)
At the very least, what Tavecchio should do is address Italy's perennial FIFA ranking problem. Not by, as he said he did, calling up Gianni Infantino to complain because Italy "won four World Cups" but by hiring someone who understands how the rankings work. It's a mathematical formula after all, you can get an edge by playing -- and winning -- the right friendlies at the right time. I wrote about it on Monday. (Scroll down to the second item.)
Beyond that, you hope not to see the kind of knee-jerk system overhauls some will no doubt advocate. This isn't Germany at the turn of the Millennium described in Raphael Honigstein's "Das Reboot."
There is a genuinely gifted generation of Italian footballers coming through. The fact that Buffon, De Rossi, Barzagli and (probably) Giorgio Chiellini appear to be making way for them should be treated as an opportunity to get them experience. From Roberto Gagliardini to Andrea Conti, Mattia Caldara to Alessio Romagnoli, Gianluigi Donnarumma to Federico Chiesa... there are plenty of reasons to be excited. And that's without counting the core who are already there and already productive like Verratti, Jorginho, Federico Bernardeschi, Leonardo Spinazzola and Andrea Belotti, all of whom are 25 or younger. Best of all, perhaps, is that most of these kids don't have the hangups of past generations. They don't live in fear of making mistakes.
There's no need for limits on non-EU foreigners or root-and-branch reviews or any of that other nonsense. After some lean years, the production line is flowing again.
What they do need is a real manager, not what they had in this past cycle and above him, the sort of leadership that learns from past mistakes. It may not seem like that right now, but there's a foundation on which to build, possibly a very strong one.
Qualifying for Euro 2020 begins in less than 500 days. I might as well start getting excited for that.


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Amid the acres of drones, gadgets, games, appliances and self-driving cars at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a John Deere sprayer fully spreads its boom across one of the largest displays in the sprawling Las Vegas Convention Center. It's the second year Deere has joined the largest tech show in the world as the company looks to build its cachet among the tech elite and tell the tech story of ag to a consumer audience.
The company's inaugural display in 2019 featured a combine, which drew a striking contrast to the rest of the gadgetry at the show.
"We really enjoyed last year where we got to talk about the space of agriculture to the broader tech community," says Julian Sanchez, Deere's director of precision agriculture. "We really got to tell the story of farming, and we got to tell the story of how farmers adopt technology, how farmers use technology, and how farmers want to farm productively efficiently and sustainably. So we're back to continue to tell that story."
This year, Deere lets the sprayer do the talking of how much of the tech shown off elsewhere at CES comes together in a single piece of ag equipment. Self-driving, remote sensing, GPS, precision imaging, machine learning – it's all there in a single piece of equipment.
But why does John Deere choose to invest heavily in a trade show devoted to consumer equipment?
"I always say farmers are consumers too, we just happen to have the biggest gadget of the show," Sanchez explains. "But, in a broader sense, I think it's important to educate the mainstream community on technology, and just the mainstream overall, about what agriculture really is, how important it is to the world and to food production, and how technology can play a key role in helping farmers achieve those levels of productivity."
The John Deere booth also shows off new sprayer nozzle technology designed to respond instantly to changes in wind to reduce drift by modulating droplet size. Participants can sit in the latest Deere tractor cab and can see how machine learning is helping Blue River Technology develop a sprayer that could reduce herbicide use up to 90% by targeting sprays at individual weeds.
Farmer Jeremy Jack of Mississippi was on-site to answer questions about ag tech in the Deere booth at CES. He says the ag display is generating interest from other tech companies about the needs and pain points for farmers.
"[The questions have] been around sensors and also data flow," Jack says. "Who owns the data? How does the data move around? How do you use the data? How easily does it move back and forth? And then all the different sensors. So, I think some of that comes from people that are tied into data servers or people that are working on sensors. So that's one thing that's really interesting here is a lot of the people at the show have some part of working in some type of the technology field, and they want to know how they can fit in agriculture today."
The CES display is also designed to draw the attention of investors and engineers.
"Maybe it engages some younger tech talent, and helping solve tech agricultural problems, or it engages other companies that are interested in helping world problems in agriculture," Sanchez explains.
More than 175,000 tech leaders from around the world will attend the 2020 CES which runs through Friday.


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Exclusion of Punjabi from the list of official languages of J&K came up in Lok Sabha on Monday and Tuesday. While Congress's Manish Tewari raised the issue on Monday, NDA ally Shiromani Akali Dal's Sukhbir Singh Badal raised it on Tuesday, and added that NC leader Farooq Abdullah would confirm it. At this, Abdullah said Punjabi was included in the list during his tenure as J&K chief minister. Badal then complimented Abdullah for his "excellent Punjabi". The NC leader added that Punjabi is spoken by many in J&K, and urged the government to consider the suggestion, and also adding Pahari and Gujari as official languages of the UT.
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Dying in Boulder (or the perfect place to die if you have good karma!), as per the full title, has a bit of a karma problem -- to go along with a plot problem, a character problem, and, most of all, a credibility problem. The playwright, Linda Faigao-Hall, has taken on a challenging dramatic situation -- a deathwatch -- but, despite some intriguing touches here and there, doesn't make compelling drama of it. For all its exotic trappings -- including more than you ever wanted to know about Buddhist funeral rites -- it is, at heart, an ordinary dysfunctional family donnybrook in which the usual bill of complaints is aired.
The person dying in Boulder is Jane, a middle-aged artist afflicted with liver cancer. The plan is for her to pass on at home, where she is attended by Bayani, her spouse, a man of unearthly serenity, and Nikki, her very pregnant daughter. (Nikki's husband is on a business trip, in part because he and Jane have had prickly relations from day one.) The play begins with the arrival of Lydia, or Lyddie, Jane's sister, a film and television actress of some note -- although, now that she is in her late forties, the phone has pretty much stopped ringing. She is also surprisingly in denial about Jane -- who, the doctor insists, is likely to die within days, and is also horrified to learn that Jane, a Buddhist, has left behind instructions that include being cremated on an outdoor pyre, with half her ashes being scattered and the other half buried. Lyddie's mood doesn't improve when Bayani drags the coffin into the living room or, later, when Jane decides to try it on for size. The ultimate provocation comes when Lyddie learns she has been assigned the role of "death coordinator," a job that comes with the following instructions: "After you've washed and dried the body, dip the cotton balls with rubbing alcohol and daub every inch of her body very gently with them to close all her pores."
The problem with the plot is one that has plagued many other playwrights: Having established that a major character is dying, then what? Most of Dying in Boulder's first act is a situation comedy in which the humorless and aggrieved Lyddie is faced with one unorthodox funeral request after another from those darn Buddhists. There is, I suppose, the potential for some authentic fun here, but most of the humor feels rote, even half-hearted. Lyddie, dismissing her sister's religious practice out of hand, snaps, "She's a lapsed Episcopalian from Minnesota, for God's sake. The last time she did anything faintly Buddhist was back in the '70s when she thought Sri Chinmoy was cool." It's a line that has the form, but not the payoff, of an effective wisecrack; it also doesn't square with the Jane we see onstage. When Nikki tries to explain the funeral pyre, Lyddie snipes, "I know what a bonfire is, Nikki. You roast marshmallows in it while you're singing 'Kumbayah'." Even for television, that one isn't very good. There's also a passing joke about dharmadates.com and a mild bit of farce in which Max, the Buddhist monk who is Jane's sort-of death coach, accidentally drinks a glass of water containing Jane's morphine drops and passes out on the couch.
All this fooling around mostly delays the drama until the second act, when a cascade of revelations strips away any sympathy one may have had for Jane and Lyddie. Previously, in a flashback, we've seen Jane beg her sister for $20,000 to finance a folk treatment for her illness, consisting of bee venom in cactus juice. This is an interesting dilemma: Does Lyddie, who appears to be cash-strapped, nevertheless finance what is almost certainly a quack remedy? Or does she decline, and thereby separate Jane from her last shred of hope? It is treated cursorily, however, as the playwright shifts her attention, detailing a series of bullet points that include Jane's substance abuse problems, her toxically bad mothering, Jane and Lyddie's simmering rivalry, their parents' terrible marriage, and who did (or didn't) take responsibility for Mom and Dad when they declined. It all comes out too late for any real explanation, leaving Jane and Lyddie trapped in an unbecoming catfight.
The play keeps insisting on certain things, without offering much evidence. This is especially true of Nikki, who is supposed to be so devoted to Jane that even her marriage comes second. The script paints Jane as both a devoted Buddhist and a hellion in ways that don't fully track; it's hard to believe that she spent years running amok while in the company of the almost eerily detached Bayani. And Jane and Lyddie seem to exist mostly to carp at each other; was there ever a time when they shared a bond?
Ian Morgan's direction does its best to smooth over the script's less-credible aspects, but neither Jan Leslie Harding nor Bernadette Quigley, as Lyddie and Jane, respectively, manages a compelling character. As Bayani and Nikki, Fenton Li and Mallory Ann Wu wrestle with underwritten characters. Michael Rabe makes a solid impression as Max, especially when amusingly trying to tutor Lyddie in the Buddhist way of death, but drops out of the action all too quickly.
The production looks attractive, thanks to the set by Yu-Hsuan Chen, which takes in the living room and bedroom of Bayani and Jane's house. It has many telling touches, including the female nudes Jane has been working on; however, placing the family rock garden in front of the house set causes many scenes to be played far upstage, at some remove from the audience. Jennifer Hill's carefully wrought lighting design is at its most effective when highlighting the sculptures in the garden. Raven Ong's character-observant costumes and Fabian Obispo's sound design are both solid contributions.
But for all that the characters litigate the past, they don't really achieve the spiritual cleansing that Jane seeks, nor does Dying in Boulder ever make her situation seem to matter. A lot gets said, but not enough to reveal these characters and their complicated history; the play also does Budhhism no favors by playing its tenets largely for laughs. "Death's awesome! Dying's cool!" Max says. He needs to get out of Boulder more often. -- David Barbour
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text: Charmy 419 Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) Hey all, A little while back Indalecio made a post asking for everyone's top 10 favorite monsters and why they liked them. I'd like to continue that trend by asking for everyone's top 10 favorite Overlord cards! Specifically, these are the top 10 Overlord cards you'd buy with XP, therefore I am not including the cards in the basic decks, nor am I including Overlord cards that are earned as part of rumor or campaign rewards. You could also mention whether you prefer Basic I or Basic II. I'll start! --- Basic Deck: Basic I I've gone over the why in other threads, but it comes down to liking the reliability of this set. Basic II requires attribute tests that target specific hero archetypes, which means your Overlord cards can fail to work. Additionally, its' overall effectiveness is at the mercy of which heroes the players use. No warriors? A warrior with 4 Observation? Well, Blinding Speed is now kinda crap... Some Overlords don't have a problem with this, but I need cards I can count on. I get endlessly frustrated when I play a Basic II card and end up getting nothing for it, especially when it costs me a quest. However, I will say this: having been on the receiving end, Basic II is way more fun for the heroes. They feel they have a chance to survive and overcome the OL's cards through their heroes' statistics and good fortune, while a properly played Basic I can feel like an inevitable freight train of defeat for the heroes, especially in race quests. So yeah, Basic II for fun, Basic I for winning! -- 1) Call of the Ravens (Unkindness I) Oh raven flock, how I love thee... Let me count the ways... I've made these points in several other posts, but I'll reiterate them here. This is the first card I buy every single campaign. Amusingly, it is also the only Unkindness card I ever get. I think the rest are pretty lousy, to be honest... However, each time I play I discover a new way to use the basic familiar. The utility of this card is undeniable. Unlike every other card purchase you don't have to decide what to throw out of your deck to accommodate this card. You don't have to worry about it taking up a space in your hand. It is essentially adding a permanent new ability to the Overlord, kind of like when a hero purchases a new ability himself. Imperial Assault added these sorts of cards to the Imperial player, and I would love to see more of these in Descent. It is very satisfying to have an ability you can always count on that isn't subject to card draw, or can be discarded by some heroic feat (Mok) or countered by some skill (Marshall). Not only is the Raven a solid monster in its own right, with stats perfectly on par with mid-tier minions, the extra manpower can appear next to any monster on the map to carry tokens, open doors, complete objectives, block hallways, and finish off weakened foes. No marching from a reinforcement point required! It also hits hard enough and moves fast enough to be tricky to ignore, and there are many ways to lessen or even negate the costs of using it. If you achieve this, then even if the heroes spend just one attack to kill the raven, it has been a win for you. The heroes are down one precious action and you are down nothing. And if they miss... well.. Even the summoning of the monster has utility. The obvious one is killing a monster with 1 health left and getting one with 4, but there are lots more. If reinforcements are allowed at start of turn and nothing has died yet, kill something with the Raven, and then get a free troop. You can use it to trigger abilities like Undying to clear negative conditions from a monster, or detonate a Master Fire Imp while it is near other heroes. You can use a Master Flesh Moulder to heal any injuries and get a continuous stream of replacement flocks until the moulder is defeated. Whenever I read a piece of text anywhere that says, "When a monster is defeated...", or "When a monster takes damage..", I immediately stop and think, "Would triggering this at my discretion with a Raven benefit me?" I could go on and on, but I think I've made the case. Best card ever. --- 2) Airborne (Infector I) Even if I don't play heavy Infector, I still pick up Airborne. Like many Infector cards, once played, it thins out your Overlord deck, which means those Frenzies and Dashes come up more often. That alone is good. However, more importantly, missing sucks. Really sucks. Airborne makes missing suck less so that the blue X doesn't haunt my dreams. Even without other Infector support, there are many times where just one extra shield meant the difference between a dead monster and a living one, and if that happens even once in the quest, I feel this card has paid for itself. Another trick is to perform ranged attacks from across the map that your monsters have no hope of getting enough range for in order to rack up free infection tokens and pressure the heroes into advancing. It is also a way to safely set up the 3 infection tokens needed for a Dark Host on a specific hero, no matter how good their stats or armor is! Cheesy, but fun! --- 3) Imploding Rift (Shadowmancer I) The best trap in the game for cost vs. effectiveness. Even a non-Shadowmancer should get this card. Catching just one hero in this trap is pretty brutal for the heroes and can ruin a critical play such as a room-wiping Army of Death. You will always find a use for this trap, even if it simply forces a hero to rest for a turn. Also, unlike Web Trap, it can't be completely countered by classes like the Knight, for whom Immobilize is naught but a trifling inconvenience. You'll always find this one in my deck. ---- 4) Blood Rage (Warlord I) I have an aggressive play style that aims to bring down the heroes fast and often. I know its not always the best strategy and I may not purchase this card vs. certain hero compositions, but I still get it more often than not. A defeated hero can result in serious action loss, not to mention threat/card gains, and Blood Rage is great at helping you do this. This card is also great at making heroes panic whenever a monster with low health remains on the board nearby. They may go out of their way to kill it off to prevent the rage, distracting them from the objective. Another favorite tactic is to soften up a monster with my Raven Flock and then finish it off with Blood Rage, negating any repercussions the health loss may have incurred. ---- 5) Dark Remedy (Universal) I like to call this "Immobilize-Begone", because that is pretty much the primary reason I purchase this card. 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Its fairly obvious why this is good, so I'll just say watch out for heroes that aren't affected by Immobilize thanks to their hero abilities or class skills. Few things are more frustrating than "Immobilizing" that pesky Berserker only to find he can still somehow charge across the map and whirlwind your goblins to pieces anyway --- 8) Bloodlust (Warlord II) As I said earlier, I like knocking out heroes. With Bloodlust in my deck, I like it even more. This is another card that thins out and speeds up the Overlord deck, meaning those Frenzies and Dashes come back faster. If I ever go double Bloodrage, Bloodlust is sure to follow. -- 9) Plan Ahead (Universal) When I plot out my strategy for a quest, I want to make the assumption I have certain Overlord cards in my hand at a given point, usually Dash. However, cards being the fickle creatures they are, this sometimes does not happen. Plan Ahead helps me cheat fate and make it seem like I always have what I need, when I need it. And hey, if it helps me get my Airborne card out earlier in the quest too, so much the better! --- 10) Dragonbone Pendant (Enchanter I) Its no secret I like to play with hordes of small monsters, and this card complements that style quite nicely. Throw this on a Bandit group along with a Dual Training Frenzy and a Word of Misery and the odds of the heroes coming out the other end without multiple bodies on the floor, robbed of their healing and stamina potions, are pretty slim. And if you do somehow fail to down someone, it will stick around for another turn for more shenanigans! == Wow, I just realized that this list is almost exclusively 1 xp cards.. I guess I find the cost of specialization to be too high compared to picking and choosing the best from the low hanging fruit. However, if I do specialize, it usually ends up being Warlord or Infector. Now I look forward to hearing from you guys! What do your Overlord decks look like? 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Third parties could form to highlight
single issues in a given election or
provide a long-term forum for minority
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direct primary
nominating convention
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Welcome back to another week of Top Ten Tuesday!
For those of you that don't know, Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018, where Jana posts in advance topics for us and we then make a post about them.
This week's prompt is: Books I Hope to Find Under My Tree
I get almost 100% of my books from our local library. I'm thrifty-frugal that way and although I do love books, I don't need to own them to love them. I figure my tax money pays for all those books – and they don't need to be stored in my home. The exception to this is when I find a cookbook I can't live without. (Rare, but it happens.) So, I'm going to switch this prompt up a bit.
Books I Would Give As A Gift
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Financial Peace: Restoring Financial Hope to You and Your Family
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Synopsis: Get out of debt and stay out with the help of Dave Ramsey, recently seen by millions of Today Show viewers. His practical regimen, first set forth by The Financial Peace Planner, which will be published by Penguin in January 1998. Loaded with inspirational insights that come from personal experience, this set of books is the most valuable purchase a debt-ridden reader can make.
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
My love for this book started in high school home economics class – we used an old version but the recipes and the format were so easy to use. I got an updated version as a gift for a birthday shortly after I was married and loved it even more. The ring binding, the glossy pages, the bright colors and OH! All the information!! It's chock full of info on how to cook just about anything! I love the quick references on how to cook veggies and meats. This book is my go-to wedding gift or newlywed couple gift. My copy has been used so much the cover is starting to fall apart but I don't want to give it up because it has all my notes penciled in the edges.
Synopsis: Since 1930, the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book has been a trusted staple in kitchens across America. The 17th edition is fully updated and revised to reflect both the best of today's food trends and time-tested classics. With more than 1,000 recipes and a photo for each one, the book covers both traditional dishes such as Brownies and new favorites like Cold Brew Coffee. This newest edition has a fresh organization to reflect how we cook today–recipes have flavor variations, options to swap out ingredients, and ways to make them healthier. Clear directions and how-to photos teach techniques; identification photos clarify the broad range of today's ingredients; charts for meat and poultry give at-a-glance cooking times; and "cheat sheets" throughout present information in easy-to-access bites. And, for the first time, the book is now a handy, lay-flat hardcover, perfect for today's kitchens.
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
I never asked for this book but I am beyond grateful another mother gave it to me as a shower gift. It simply works. I read every word during those very early days and what resulted was pure magic. This is THE book to get new moms in my opinion.
Synopsis: In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parents for centuries –an automatic "off-switch" for their baby's crying.
No wonder pediatricians across the country are praising him and thousands of Los Angeles parents, from working moms to superstars like Madonna and Pierce Brosnan, have turned to him to learn the secrets for making babies happy.
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Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
I read a handful of potty training books at the beginning of this year. This one contained all the right info and it worked perfectly. I wouldn't hesitate to gift to parents getting ready to tackle this big milestone with this book.
Synopsis: Jamie Glowacki—potty-training expert, Pied Piper of Poop, and author of the popular guide, Oh Crap! Potty Training—shares her proven 6-step plan to help you toilet train your preschooler quickly and successfully. [read more]
The Big Blue Book of Beginner Books
We got this as a gift for our three year old. He LOVES the stories inside, as well as the RED book. These BIG book compilations is where we discovered PJ Funnybunny and Stop That Ball! along with so many others our son loves. These books are papa's favorites to read nighttime stories from. I'd give it as a gift to any young toddler in a heartbeat.
Synopsis: What could make a better present than a classic Beginner Book? Six of them—for less than the price of two! We've taken the complete text and art of three beloved P.D. Eastman titles: Go, Dog. Go!, Are You My Mother?, and The Best Nest; Robert Lopshire's Put Me In the Zoo (the first of his books featuring the character Spot); Marilyn Sadler and Roger Bollen's It's Not Easy Being a Bunny (the first PJ Funnybunny story); and Mike McClintock's charming, cautionary tale A Fly Went By, and bound them together in one sturdy hardcover omnibus. A perfect introduction to reading that will whet young readers appetites for additional books in the Beginner Book series.
Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health
This man helped revolutionize my health. I believe what he says in these pages to be true. He's making a big difference for a lot of people. He's breaking down the walls of lies surrounding our healthcare – and the bunk we've all been fed for the last 40+ years. This book can save lives. It is NOT what the mainstream says to be doing for optimal health and will probably upset a few people — but anyone who takes their health seriously needs to take a look in these pages. He's really onto something here.
Synopsis: Has your doctor lied to you?
Chances are he has, and most likely unknowingly. If you've been misled by bad medical advice your health will suffer. It is time you discover the truth. Medical research is expanding so quickly that only the most dedicated doctors can keep up with it all. Is your doctor that dedicated?
Lies My Doctor Told Me reveals the truth behind the lies told by well-meaning doctors. Whether it's recommending a low-fat diet, or warning you to avoid the sun, these medical lies can cause really harm to your health.
Does your doctor still recommend that you avoid cholesterol and eat lots of whole-grains? What about a paleo diet or ketogenic diet, have they been mentioned in an office visit? So much of the nutrition and lifestyle advice doctors give is just plain wrong, and that can be dangerous. This book will help you sort through the medical myths and the outright lies, and begin to develop a health partnership with your doctor.
This book will teach you:
- the truth about whole wheat's effect on the human body
- whether milk is good for you
- the facts about fat intake on your heart health
- how the Food Pyramid came into existence
- the dangers and benefits of hormone therapy
- the truth about salt
- how doctors think about prevention and nutrition
- much more
Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day
I love the Clutterbug lady. (Probably partly because I adore her decorating style and color choices.) If I had a friend in need of some organizing motivation, this would be the direction I'd send her and the book I'd start her on. I read the whole thing cover-to-cover and it was very motivational. A short read packed with lots of good info. I'd also have to recommend the Clutterbug YouTube channel as well. Cas is very entertaining!
Synopsis: #1 Amazon Best Seller! Real Life Organizing offers clutter free storage solutions and advice that can help you create a Pinterest worthy home on a small budget: Learn how to organize your home, simplify life and have more time for the things you love. Organizational expert Cassandra 'Cas' Aarssen, the guru from YouTube's ClutterBug channel, reveals her tips, tricks and secrets to a clean and clutter free home in just 15 minutes a day. [read more]
The Nightingale
Simply a great novel. I very much enjoy all of Kristin Hannah's stories but this one was spectacular. Anyone who likes World War 2 historical fiction will certainly enjoy this one.
Synopsis: In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are.
France, 1939
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When France is overrun, Vianne is forced to take an enemy into her house, and suddenly her every move is watched; her life and her child's life is at constant risk. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates around her, she must make one terrible choice after another.
Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets the compelling and mysterious Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. When he betrays her, Isabelle races headlong into danger and joins the Resistance, never looking back or giving a thought to the real–and deadly–consequences.
Small Great Things
This is just fiction – but it rocked my perceptions of race and what I do, as a white woman, take for granted. I was hooked from the very beginning and found the end to be a little unbelievable but it was all wrapped up and justifiable. This was my first Jodi Picoult book and won't be my last. I want all my girlfriends to read this. It broke my heart and taught me a thing or two all in an entertaining story.
Synopsis: Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene?
Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy's counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family—especially her teenage son—as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other's trust, and come to see that what they've been taught their whole lives about others—and themselves—might be wrong.
With incredible empathy, intelligence, and candor, Jodi Picoult tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn't offer easy answers. Small Great Things is a remarkable achievement from a writer at the top of her game.
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
I read this a long time ago and found it incredibly helpful to interpret relationships. It doesn't just apply in romantic relationships but in all areas of life. There's a lot of practical application and information we should all understand about each other. And yes – it's particularly helpful to husband/wife relationships. But he's come out with a whole series of these for other parts of your life as well. Check them out here.
Synopsis: Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that's the challenge! How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?
In the #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you'll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman's proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today.
The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships today, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work.
And that's my list of great books to gift. Have you given or received any of these? Are there any you think I should check out? Please let me know!!


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The Silvercrest SAS87 will be making its appearance in the middle aisle of Lidl on 29 December, but 'middle of Lidl' special buys can be a mixed bag. We got our hands on one in advance, to find out if it will keep you fit, or frustrate.
If you're planning to commit to a new fitness programme in 2020, or even just to get a little bit more active, you might be toying with the idea of a fitness tracker. But, if you've never owned one before, it's likely you won't want to splash out on a top-of-the-range Samsung, Garmin or Fitbit. Could the Silvercrest SAS87 Activity Tracker be just what you're after?
Read on to find out what this tracker offers in terms of features, and how that compares with other cheap trackers on the market.
Prefer to buy a fitness tracker that's been thoroughly tested by Which?? Head to our full list of fitness tracker reviews to find out which ones aced our tests and which ones disappointed us
Lidl Silvercrest SAS87 Activity Tracker – key specs
Brand: Silvercrest
Colour: Black
Weight: 28g
Screen type: Tap-screen
Phone compatibility: iOS 9.0 or later and Android 5.0 or later
On sale from: 29 December, while stocks last
Lidl Silvercrest SAS87 Activity Tracker – what features does it have?
You wouldn't expect anything too spectacular from such a cheap wearable, but we were pleasantly surprised to see that it does have heart-rate monitoring and sleep tracking.
You'll also get motivational reminders to move if you've been sedentary for a while (you can turn these off if they just become a nuisance), but if you're a swimmer, remember to take it off when you hit the pool, as its waterproof rating is only IP67 – it can handle being splashed or dropped briefly in water, but nothing beyond that.
Look and feel
Designwise, the Silvercrest SAS87 is appealing. The strap and screen look more premium than you'd expect from a £20 tracker.
It doesn't have a touchscreen; instead there's a tap-button which you use to cycle through the displays and see stats such as progress towards your daily goals. You can then get more data through the accompanying HealthforYou app (which also pairs with Lidl smart scales, if you own those and want to see all your data in one place). Some of the previous Lidl trackers we've tried out haven't had screens at all, so this is a definite step up.
We don't often put Lidl products through our lab tests, because they simply don't stick around in stores for long enough. But we do get hands-on with them and try them out in the office and at home, so we can give you our impressions based on our expertise.
Head to our Lidl Silvercrest SAS87 first look review to read our full thoughts.
Is a cheap fitness tracker the right choice?
Generally speaking, a cheap fitness tracker will give you the basics: step count, calorie burn, distance tracking (based on step count) and notifications for calls, social media updates and texts.
These features are pretty ubiquitous. What you probably won't find on a cheaper tracker, are a touchscreen – many just have tap-screens, and some don't have a screen at all, or a colour screen – many are monochrome. Few have built-in GPS, exercise-specific metrics (expecting 'running' as a catch-all term for all exercise), a sophisticated accompanying app or the ability to reply to calls, social media updates and texts.
Fortunately, we are starting to see more advanced features on cheaper models – features like heart-rate monitoring, water resistance for pool swimming, daily goal setting and sleep tracking.
The screen and strap on a cheaper tracker are likely to be of lesser quality and than on a more expensive one, and have text and icons that look quite dated.
If you're a bit sceptical of fitness trackers, and you're not sure if you'll really get on with one, then a cheap tracker can be a good way to dip your toes in the water before fully committing. That said, if a model is uncomfortable to use and miles off in terms of accuracy, then it will just have the opposite effect, and deter you from using trackers.
Our reviews can help make sure you're picking up a bargain that will genuinely help you achieve your goals.
Which? reviews of cheap fitness trackers
One thing's for sure – you won't find many fitness trackers as cheap as the Silvercrest SAS87. But we've rounded up a couple of other options if you want to get in shape without spending a fortune.
All the below models can be used for tracking your steps, distance and calories. Here's what you'll get beyond the basics:
Huawei Band 3e – £24
Huawei has produced a number of quite cheap fitness trackers, and the Huawei Band 3e is quite an unusual one. It doesn't offer much in terms of smart notifications and features, nor, on the other end of the scale, to competitive runners (there's no GPS or heart-rate monitoring). Yet it does offer a surprisingly wide range of running data, including foot strike pattern, average ground contact time, average swing angle and suggestions on posture and positioning to help you avoid injury and improve your performance.
To get all this, you'll have to take it out of its wristband and clip it to your shoe – which obviously precludes checking your stats, or the time, as you go along.
It's one to consider if you're a keen beginner who's happy to take your phone out running with you for the GPS.
Samsung Galaxy Fit e – £31
If you want more of an all-rounder, the Samsung Galaxy Fit e might appeal. Until recently, Samsung hadn't produced any trackers that were so cheap, but this one acts as direct competition to the likes of Huawei (above) and Xiaomi (below).
The Samsung Galaxy Fit e has heart-rate monitoring and sleep tracking. And it's water-resistant to 50 metres, meaning you're safe to keep it on in the pool.
On the downside, there's no built-in GPS. And we did find the strap quite rigid when we tried it out, so we'd advise trying it out in store before buying if you can.
Read our full Samsung Galaxy Fit e review to find out more – and see how it compares with the next level up Samsung Galaxy Fit (£89)
Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 4 – £32
Another quite simple fitness tracker, this time from Chinese brand Xiaomi. You won't find it on the high street, so you'll need to order it from Amazon or another online retailer.
It's fairly generic looking, so it's hard to get excited about its appearance. It does have heart-rate monitoring and sleep tracking, though and, in contrast to the Samsung Galaxy Fit e, we found this one comfortable to wear. However, there's no built-in GPS here either.
Its predecessor, the Xiaomi Mi Band 3, was a decent budget option, but had a few flaws, including a screen that was easily scratched. Read our Xiaomi Mi Band 4 review to find out whether Xiaomi has improved the screen for this one.
Honor Band 4 – £33
Another surprisingly feature-packed budget model. The Honor Band 4 offers heart-rate monitoring, sleep tracking (including the ability to detect common sleep problems, which you can then report to your doctor, for proper investigation) and VO2max predictions.
It also goes beyond water resistance to give you swim metrics.
As with some of the others here, there's no built-in GPS.
Tempted? Read our full Honor Band 4 review before you buy.
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Budget Subcommittee Agenda
Standing Committee of the City Council
Minneapolis Community Development Agency Operating Committee
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Regular Meeting
October 19, 2017 - 9:30 am
Room 317, City Hall
Members: Council Members John Quincy (Chair), Elizabeth Glidden (Vice-Chair), Kevin Reich, Cam Gordon, Jacob Frey, Barbara Johnson, Blong Yang, Abdi Warsame, Lisa Goodman, Alondra Cano, Lisa Bender, Andrew Johnson, and Linea Palmisano (Quorum: 7)
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Today, landlords are required to provide a complete the legionella risk assessment. Back in the system health and safety sectors only considered commercial premises to comply a legionella risk assessment. However, in 2012 a legislative order that includes residential lettings to have the legionella risk assessment is approved.
Legionnaires' is similar to pneumonia, it's an infectious disease caused by a legionella bacterium. Such bacteria are usually seen in lakes and rivers including water systems. One factor that can put risk to residential property is because of hot water systems, the temperature of the water influences the bacteria to grow and multiply infecting portions of the water system and is used as water consumption in tenants. It can also lodge in showers, toilet cisterns, taps, unused pipe work and hot and cold water tanks. It can infect humans by inhaling water vapor from an infected hot shower.
It is necessary to carry out a legionella risk assessment to know any possible dangers caused by the bacteria and to plan remedial actions if necessary. Landlords must comply the legionella risk assessment and should follow the ACOP L8 Code of Practice to ensure that the property is protected from health risks caused by the bacteria.
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Black Heroes of Mathematics Conference – a virtual conference hosted from Great Britain
Black Heroes of Mathematics Conference – a virtual conference hosted from Great Britain
The British Society for the History of Mathematics, The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the London Mathematical Society, are holding a two day conference on Black Heroes of Mathematics. Registration is free.
The Vision of the conference is "To celebrate the inspirational contributions of black role models to the field of mathematics".
There will be a balance of technical talks by internationally renowned black speakers that include some detail of career paths and experience to provide a testimonial dimension. We plan to achieve a balance of career stage and gender. Our speakers include Professor Edray Goins [Pomona College], Professor Nkechi Agwu [CUNY], Professor Tannie Liverpool [University of Bristol] and Dr Angela Tabiri [AIMS Ghana] to name a few.
We plan two sessions 26 October 2020 [morning and afternoon] and two sessions on 27 October [afternoon and early evening] to suit our audience and our line-up of international speakers. The second session each day will be a questions and discussion session hosted by Dr Nira Chamberlain, President of the IMA. We plan that pre-recorded talks will be available during the first session each day [these will be pre-released by a few hours]. The questions and discussion sessions each day will be hosted in real time.
We are requesting that all talks are accessible to the wide audience that we hope to attract.
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Invited Speakers:
Professor Nkechi Agwu (CUNY) Dr Spencer Becker-Kahn (University of Cambridge) Professor Edray Goins (Pomona College) Dr Howard Haughton (King's College London) Professor Tannie Liverpool (University of Bristol) Dr Angela Tabiri (Aims Ghana)
Tentative Programme:
26th October 10:00am Welcome – Dr Nira Chamberlain 10:10am Dr Angela Tabiri 10:40am Break 10:50am Dr Howard Haughton 11:20am Break 11:30am Professor Tannie Liverpool 12:00pm Break 13:00pm Panel Discussion 14:30pm Finish
27th October 14:00pm Welcome – Dr Nira Chamberlain 14:10pm Dr Spencer Becker-Kahn 14:40pm Break 14:50pm Professor Nkechi Agwu 15:20pm Break 15:30pm Professor Edray Goins 16:00pm Break 18:00pm Panel Discussion 19:30pm Finish *Please note that times are subject to change
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I remember too much well the climax of some discussions here about prof Hurtado's views on mythicism. In particular, this:
Peter Kirby wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2017 4:37 pmI am looking at the context, I am looking at intention, and I am looking at connotation. Here's some of what I know about Hurtado's emphasis in these posts. Note that I believe some of these statements are correct, but they're also highly revealing of intention, connotation, and emphasis.GakuseiDon wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2017 3:45 pmWell lets do that now. Dr Hurtado writes that for Philo, "the Logos is not really a separate ontological being, not really an "archangel.""Peter Kirby wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2017 3:37 pmI did not say that. I did not say that Hurtado was wrong about this not "really a separate ontological being" wording. I haven't said that Hurtado is right or wrong about the not "really a separate ontological being" statement.GakuseiDon wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2017 3:30 pmSo for you, Philo describes the Logos as really a separate ontological being
It seems that for Hurtado, an archangel is a separate ontological being, a being that exists within the class of "archangels". Whether he is right to use that definition or not, that seems clearly the definition he is using. Based on that definition:
For Philo, is the Logos really a separate ontological being?
For Philo, is the Logos really an archangel?
https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2017 ... st-hurrah/https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2017 ... -scholars/He is not expert in the very subjects on which he writes in these books, and his mishandling of the evidence shows this all to clearly.The reasons are that advocates of the "mythical Jesus" have failed to demonstrate expertise in the relevant data, and sufficient acquaintance with the methods involved in the analysis of the relevant data, and have failed to show that the dominant scholarly view (that Jesus of Nazareth was a real first-century figure) is incompatible with the data or less secure than the "mythical Jesus" claim. This is true, even of Richard Carrier's recent mammoth (700+ pages) book, advertised as the first "refereed" book advocating this view.There is no evidence whatsoever of a "Jewish archangel Jesus" in any of the second-temple Jewish evidence. We have references to archangels, to be sure, and with various names such as Michael, Raphael, Yahoel, and Ouriel. We have references to other heavenly beings too, such as the mysterious Melchizedek in the Qumran texts. Indeed, in second-temple Jewish texts and (later) rabbinic texts there is a whole galaxy of named angels and angel ranks.First, Paul never refers to Jesus as an angel or archangel.https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2017 ... tal-flaws/For a survey of the various types of "chief agent" figures in second-temple Jewish tradition, including high angels, see my book, One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism (3rd ed.; London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015; original edition, 1988). None of these figures, however, gives a full analogy for the programmatic place of Jesus in the devotional practices of earliest Christian circles.I focused on three claims that Richard Carrier posits as corroborating his hypothesis that "Jesus" was originally a "celestial being" or "archangel," not a historical figure, and that this archangel got transformed into a fictional human figure across several decades of the first century CE. I showed that the three claims are all false, which means that his hypothesis has no corroboration.There is no evidence of "a Jewish archangel Jesus". All known figures bearing the name are portrayed as human and historical figures. Furthermore, contra Carrier, Paul never treats Jesus as an archangel, but instead emphasizes his mortal death and resurrection, and mentions his birth, Davidic descent, and Jewishness, cites teachings of Jesus, and refers to his personal acquaintance with Jesus' siblings.There is no example among "all the savior cults" of the Roman period of a deity being transformed into a mortal being of a given time and place (such as he asserts happened in the case of Jesus).My posting was intended simply to illustrate, especially for "general" readers outside the relevant fields, why the "mythical Jesus" view is regarded as bizarre among scholars in the relevant fields, scholars of all persuasions on religious matters, and over some 250 years of critical study.https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2017 ... lly-upset/So, ignoring the various red-herrings and distortions of the "mythicist" advocates, the claims proffered as "corroborating" their view have been shown to be erroneous.If you want to read a blogger going ape-shit, troll through Richard Carrier's recent belligerent, intemperate response (here) to my posting in which I showed that his three claims that supposedly corroborate his "mythical Jesus" view are all incorrect.Well, to test this, let's return to one of his key claims and arguments, the one where he says that Philo of Alexandria mentions an archangel named "Jesus". I have read those pages of his book (200-205) where he discusses the relevant passage in Philo (De Confusione Linguarum, 62-63; Philo citing and allegorizing a passage in the OT book, Zechariah 6:11-12).Furthermore, Philo doesn't designate this figure in Zechariah an "archangel."Clearly Hurtado aims to show that Carrier is out to lunch and fails to base his arguments on the text itself.Surely, surely, one doesn't have to go through the 700 pages of Carrier's tome treating every one of his various arguments. The one key claim that I've treated here is sufficient to show that he bases his larger zealous claim about a "mythical Jesus" on specious arguments, resulting from a lack of adequate expertise in the relevant sources.
Let's review again the exchange in which an answer is solicited from Hurtado.
GakuseiDon wrote:Thanks for the interesting post, Dr Hurtado. You write that for Philo, the Logos is 'not really an "archangel."' However, Philo does indeed call the Logos an "archangel". Philo writes:
"And even if there be not as yet any one who is worthy to be called a son of God, nevertheless let him labour earnestly to be adorned according to his first-born word, the ****eldest of his angels****, as the great ****archangel***** of many names; for he is called, the authority, and the name of God, and the Word, and man according to God's image, and he who sees Israel."
Can you explain what you mean by Philo not really calling the Logos an archangel?When presented with the passage where Philo calls the Logos an archangel -- a fact which it would be extremely foolish to deny -- Dr. Hurtado has no idea where it is in the corpus of Philo! He believes that it comes from a different text than De Confusione. This completely confirms what MrMacSon said, guided only by good instincts and tiny clues, which is that Dr. Hurtado read the earlier passage without referring to the later one.Hurtado wrote:Don: Yes, in another of his writings (NB: contra Carrier, not in the De Confusione passage), Philo can refer to the Logos by the labels you cite. Indeed, he can even refer to the Logos as "a second god" (deuteros theos), but then quickly qualifies this with "so to speak." The Logos is an "archangel" (remembering that for ancient Greek speakers the word "angelos" = messenger, or spokesman), for the Logos is the expression of the ineffable biblical deity toward the world/creation. One has to study carefully the multitude of Philo's references to the Logos to put it all together, for he was a complex writer. But the Logos isn't really a separate ontological being, like we imagine an "angel/archangel". And, contra Carrier, nowhere does Philo refer to an archangel named "Jesus".
The most that I could claim (without real evidence) is that Hurtado was aware of Philo calling Logos an archangel, in a vague way as one of many possible 'names' that might have been used, but that he forgot the reference. Alternatively, Hurtado wasn't sure on this point -- all he was really sure about was that Philo's Logos was not an archangel as we understand it, not a separate whatever-the-bobber.
This is what Hurtado, as you point out, originally claimed -- that Philo's Logos was not an archangel as we understand it. Of course, Hurtado is sure to have an opinion on Philo and on Philo's beliefs about the Logos.
Here's what I do know:
Hurtado's intent is to portray Carrier as incompetent and as making claims that have no corroboration and no basis in the evidence. In service of this goal, Hurtado "mishandles the evidence" by saying only that Philo's Logos wasn't really an archangel. Does he hope that the reader won't find out that Philo called the Logos an archangel, or at least that his argument will seem more impressive by not discussing it? This kind of dastardly behavior is certainly possible, GakuseiDon, so thanks for warning us about this possibility.
Hurtado was wrong about the contents of De Confusione.