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|Garmisch to Bad Tolz
GPS Log here.
This morning, I got up extra early and headed out to the train station. Hoping to catch the 8:34 train, I barreled along in the morning with no traffic whatsoever on the road --- a cyclist truly owns the city this early in the morning! In fact, I got there so fast that I made the 8:11am train by running through the station (which gave me knee a bit of a twinge), which already had two cyclists aboard.
The ride to Garmisch was scenic, and I shot a few pictures through an open window. Getting off the train, I turned on the GPS and set my route. When I set my route two days ago, I didn't have any elevation information whatsoever --- my concern was to simply find the most out of the way road that I could. Imagine my surprise and delight when I discovered that I immediately started climbing in Garmisch Parternkirchen and it was a significant grade, causing me to shift to my 39x34 and stand up in parts. The road was lonely, rought, single track, and every bit as scenic as I had hoped for, mountains looming up behind and to the right of me.
Someone at the office had persuaded me to head towards Mittenwald, and after a little bit of paradise, I ended up on the main road towards Mittenwald, using some side roads, bike paths, and a few isolated roads, which it being Sunday, had a lot of Sunday drivers. I entered Mittenwald to find the road strewn with horse poop. It turned out that Mittenwald was having a parade --- horses and horse carriages took up the whole road, including an escort. I overtook the lot, and snapped a few pictures that didn't turn out, and missed a turn. Since I was doing a loop around the Mittenwald valley, I considered skipping the loop, but then spied my designated route winding around the mountain --- well, that clinched it --- I wasn't going to let a chance to do more climbing bypass me!
I pulled a U-turn, looped back and overtook the parade again, and started riding up along side the mountain into the Leutasch valley, which at 1000 meters actually had snow still. I was very sad when the road leveled out, because I then had to face a 10kph headwind. All things considered it was very light, but still very annoying. I pushed on for the better part of an hour against this wind, all the while enjoying the lovely scene around me --- mountain meadows, snow capped peaks and all that. This was what I took the train all the way out here to see, and I was not disappointed!
Finally, just when I had had about enough, the road finally turned up hill and away from the wind, and I found myself switch-backing once before cresting the summit of the pass into the Scharnitz valley. A left turn and I had a long fast descent, this time with a tail wind! The road surface was good and the corners were gentle so I did not touch my brakes at all until I rolled onto the main road just outside Scharnitz and had to deal with an inordinate amount of traffic.
Back into Mittenwald, I navigated through town and decided it was time to eat lunch. I wolfed down a sandwich, washed down with water, and then discovered that my GPS unit had decided to take a break as well. I reset the unit, but decided to take a path that I had spied on my earlier entry into Mittenwald, and ignored the belated bleepings of my GPS navigator as it realized that I was not behaving like it wanted me too. I was glad I ignored it, however, as the bike path I found climbed and climbed and granted me a lovely view of the surroundings, including the Barmsee, before descending into Krun. From Krun and Wallgau it was a gentle ride along a river towards the Walchensee, where I made a right onto the toll road, which did not charge for bicycles.
The Walchensee was big and lovely, and I stopped several times to take pictures of this peaceful looking lake. Past the lake, the road became a gentle descent that was unfortunately right into a headwind --- fortunately, I was well fueled before I headed into the Lenggries Valley, where the side roads I had chosen worked very well. Once into Bad Tolz, I decided that I would have some ice cream, so I rode down town and had one. Alas, that caused me to miss the train by about 5 minutes. I should have immediately then ridden over to Wolfrathausen, but I mistakenly thought there was a train every 30 minutes. Not to matter, for I met a number of German mountain bikers and had a good conversation while waiting for the train.
What a lovely day: 111km, 1067m of climbing.


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NBC has reportedly arranged an analyst meeting yesterday to help ramp up for the public launch of its Hulu video site, which is expected to happen this week. Launched in private beta last October after a messy breakup with Apple's iTunes Store, NBC's joint venture with FOX offers a mixed collection of new shows and archived classics for Web streaming, and even limited sharing. With everything Hulu has going for it, however, we still aren't sure the public is willing to put up with all its shortcomings.
When we got our hands on Hulu back in October, we found the quality of its video streaming to be pretty high. The ability to embed clips in other web sites was also an impressive and open move, though the site's constantly rotating and limited selection of episodes for many shows can cause these clips to eventually disappear (the clip we shared in our original piece, for example, is no longer available). Despite adding quite a few shows and networks to its catalog in the past few months, this Russian roulette-style catalog can detract from the fun of having access to all this content more or less for free. For many popular shows, current episodes are typically added to the site the day after they air on TV, but outside of that bubble, one can never know if the particular episode from a show's back catalog will be available on the site.
Another major complaint that NBC still shows no sign of addressing is Hulu's sandboxed nature. Videos are only available for streaming over the Web, and then only in the US, as IPs from anywhere outside the country are denied. Also, in an age where media players and services like the iPhone and TiVoToGo are finally turning heads in the direction of portable video, Hulu's inability to let users download or take video with them on a commute will be a deal-breaker for many.
In the bigger picture, however, Hulu in many ways signifies a potentially growing rift in the online video distribution space. While the major music studios have all settled on providing most—if not all—of their music catalogs to the industry heavyweights like iTunes Store and Amazon (not to mention DRM-free), NBC's bold attempt to get into the distribution game itself eliminates truly useful downloads for consumers who want to pay. By pulling its online content from iTunes Store and restricting it to NBC's own site, consumers lose an important choice in the way they enjoy their favorite shows.
Even with these glaring drawbacks to its against-the-grain distribution, Hulu will likely gain the press spotlight time it's trying to muster up with today's analyst gathering. Plus, Hulu's offering of TV in a browser for free (or with a few ads) will be difficult for a respectable number of consumers to argue with, at least initially. But as consumers' needs diversify, NBC may eventually need to rethink its selective availability and lack of options for portable devices.

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A month ago, I wrote here about about Nate Turner and statistical prediction. The post discussed forces big, slow, and predictable. It got me thinking about the opposite side of the spectrum: of forces short, swift, and unpredictable. So for the next couple of posts, I'm going to dig into this a bit, starting with politics.
In the next two weeks, election officials will finally decide Minnesota's senate race between Norm Coleman (R) and Al Franken (D). Out of 2.8 million votes cast, Coleman and Franken are now separated by about fifty votes. I would like to remain optimistic about this but let's face it: with such a narrow margin, it's almost guaranteed that the loser will bring charges of fraud, lost ballots, etc.
After the fireworks are over, we will see a slow coming-to-terms by the losing campaign, a Kübler Ross-ian transition from bargaining to depression to acceptance. As this occurs, we will also see "what if" stories blossom like desert flowers. Pundits and reporters will talk about how small changes in events, message, or media would have produced a different outcome.
The last bloom of political "what if" stories followed the 2000 U.S. presidential election. With great wailing and gnashing of teeth, Democrats tried to make sense of an election in which Al Gore won the popular vote yet still lost the election to George Bush. Razor thin victories for Bush in a number of battleground states, most famously Florida where he won by 537 votes of 6 million cast, fueled speculation about the many ways the election could have turned out differently.
For many, the spoiler was Ralph Nader, leader of the Green Party, who drew votes away from Gore. For others, it was the dysfunctional Florida voting system. Still others blamed Katherine Harris, Florida State Attorney General, who confirmed the official vote count. Or the Supreme Court. Or Gore himself, who seemed so overstarched as a candidate that he even lost his own state of Tennessee.
In a sense, they are all correct. Any number of factors could have tilted the election in Gore's favor. In the language of the Academy, we would say that the 2000 presidential election was highly contingent: the outcome wasn't set in stone. It could have turned out differently.
As an idea, contingency has considerable heft across the disciplines of the Academy. On the science side, evolutionary biologists, have written extensively about the degree to which evolution depended upon contingencies of the environment, that the concept of fitness does not only apply to the fleetest fox or the brawniest buck, but sometimes to the dumb luck of being well adapted to an unforeseeable event. Steven Jay Gould writes about this in regards to the middle-Cambrian organisms discovered in the Burgess Shale Formation.
Better known to the rest of us are early mammals who managed to win the Darwinian lottery by being around when a comet the size of Manhattan plowed into the Earth 65 million years ago. Although the evolutionary implications of this event are still hotly debated, few doubt that something big happened to disrupt ecosystems all over the world, ultimately leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The K-T extinction event, as its called, makes clear an important point: even if history of life on earth is based upon slow, incremental changes to species over time, its evolutionary course was unpredictable. Life, like the Cretaceous comet of death, could have taken a different path. Had it done so, perhaps we would all be frightened weasel-like creatures, stealing our food in the shadows of brontosaurs and pteranodons. (For more on weasels and evolution, visit John Lynch's Stranger Fruit)
Contingencies do not have to be comet-sized, however, to have big effects. Such was the discovery of meteorologist Edward Lorenz who found that weather simulations produced wildly different outcomes based upon minute changes in initial conditions. From this, Lorenz coined the term "Butterfly Effect," the idea that the flapping of a butterfly's wings might change the atmosphere enough to create (or prevent) a tornado from occurring at some future time.
Lorenz's ideas are now a part of a larger corpus of work on chaos theory which shows the stunning effects of contingency (or as mathematicians call it, a 'sensitive dependence on initial conditions') in phenomena as disparate as air turbulence, irregular heart beats, and the eye movements of schizophrenics.
All of this happens at some distance from where I sit in the humanities, surrounded by books on art, maps, and social history. Yet contingency plays a critical role here too, something I'll take up in my next post.


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Urban Jungle a Tough Challenge for Google's Autonomous Cars
After catching the world and the auto industry by surprise with its progress with self-driving cars, Google has begun the latest, most difficult phase of its project – making the vehicles smart enough to handle the chaos of city streets.
But while the company describes its work with its typical tight-lipped optimism, academic experts in robotics are cautious about the prospects of fully autonomous vehicles. They estimate it will be decades until they can perform as well as human drivers in all situations – if they ever do at all.
Google's cars make extensive use of detailed maps that describe not only roads and restrictions such as speed limits, but the 3-D location of stop lights and curbstones to within inches. The company is now working to make its vehicles capable of seeing and understanding the kind of unexpected obstacles that don't appear on those maps and are particularly common in urban areas, said Chris Urmson, the director of the project, last week.
"Obviously, the world doesn't stay the same," said Urmson, speaking at a conference bringing together academics and auto-industry engineers working on autonomous driving. "You need to be able to deal with things like temporary construction, and so we've been putting a lot of effort into understanding the semantic meaning of the world."
For example, an autonomous car should be capable of recognizing that a school bus is different from other vehicles of a similar size and may behave differently, said Urmson.
Urmson showed video of a prototype Google car navigating through a real-life construction zone marked by flashing yellow arrow signs, and even stopping when a "construction worker"—actually a Google employee—waved a hand-held stop sign.
Having cars understand those types of hazards is crucial to Google because of a recent change in the direction of its project. The company's original prototypes were based on conventional vehicles, and a human passenger could use the steering wheel and brake pedal to intervene in the event of a glitch. But in May, Google said that humans couldn't be counted on to stay focused enough on the road (see "Lazy Humans Shaped Google's Autonomous Car"). It unveiled a new prototype without a steering wheel or pedals and said research would now focus on making vehicles that are 100 percent autonomous—leaving no room for error.
Academic experts at the conference say Google is taking on some of the hardest problems in artificial intelligence and robotics, essentially trying to replicate the ability of humans to effortlessly make sense of their environment. That's because driving safely relies on much more than just knowing to avoid big objects, such as people or other cars, or being able to recognize symbols such as a stop sign.
Humans make use of myriad "social cues" while on the road, such as establishing eye contact or making inferences about how a driver will behave based on the car's make and model, Alberto Broggi, a researcher at Italy's Universita di Parma, told MIT Technology Review.
Even if a computer system can recognize something, understanding the context that gives it meaning is much more difficult, said Broggi, who has directed several major European Research Council grants in autonomous driving. For example, a fully autonomous car would need to understand that someone waving his arms by the side of the road is actually a policeman trying to stop traffic.
When surveyed by the conference organizers, the 500 experts in attendance were not optimistic such problems would be solved soon. Asked when they would trust a fully robotic car to take their children to school, more than half said 2030 at the very earliest. A fifth said not until 2040, and roughly one in 10 said "never."
Several of them told MIT Technology Review they wouldn't be surprised if self-driving cars were, for many decades, limited to specific, well-controlled settings, such as construction sites and campus-like environments with low speed limits and minimal traffic.
Most big auto companies are exploring self-driving cars. One of them, Nissan, caused a stir last year when it predicted it would be selling them by 2020. Last week, though, Nissan used the conference to dial back that forecast, saying instead that cars by the end of the decade will be able to handle selected tasks, such as parking and freeway driving. Despite being bullish about its technology, Google doesn't make predictions about when fully autonomous vehicles might arrive.
John Leonard, an MIT expert in autonomous driving who attended the conference, says that he and other academics find themselves constantly battling the assumption that all of the technology challenges associated with robotic cars have been solved, with only regulatory and legal issues remaining. "It's hard to convey to the public how hard this is," he says.
Leonard stands by a comment that earned him some online criticism in an MIT Technology Review story last year, when he predicted that he wouldn't see a self-driving Manhattan taxi in his lifetime (see "Driverless Cars Are Further Away Than You Think").
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Excerpts from the Book of Matthew:
from "The Holy Peshitta of the Assembly of Jerusalem."
Matthew 16: 13-20:
13 And when Yeshua came into the region of Caesarea of Philippi, he was asking his talmidim, saying: "What do men say concerning me, that I am a Son of Man?" 14 And they said: "Some say Yokhanan the Baptiser; but others, Eliyahu; and others, Yeremi'ya, or one of the prophets. "15 He said to them: "But who do you say that I am?" 16 Shimon Keipha answered and said: "You are the Anointed, the Son of the living God." 17 Yeshua answered, and said to him: "Blessed are you, Shimon bar Yokhanan*; because flesh and blood have not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 18 Also I say to you, that you are Keipha, and upon this rock, I will build my Temple, and the gates of Sheol shall not suppress it."
19 Turning to the twelve he said*: "I will give to all of you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven and anything that you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and the thing you loose on earth, will be loosed in heaven." 20 Then he commanded his talmidim that to men they should not say he was the Messiah.
16: 21-28:
21 From that time on, Yeshua began to make known to his talmidim that he was to go to Yerushalayim and to suffer much from the elders, and the chief priests and scribes, and he would be murdered, and that on the third day would rise up. 22 But Keipha took him and began rebuking him saying: "Far be it from you, Mari, that this should happen to you." 23 But he turned and said to Keipha: "Get behind me, accuser; you are a stumbling block to me because you do not think the things of God, rather the things of the sons of men."
24 Then Yeshua said to his talmidim: "He who wishes to follow after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow after me. 25 For, he who desires to save his life shall lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and loses his soul? What will a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 It is necessary for the Son of Man is to come in the glory of his Father, with all his holy angels; and then he will reward every man according to his works. 28 Truly I say to you, that there are some men who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man come into his Kingdom."
22 While they were travelling in Galil, Yeshua said to them: "The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of the sons of men; 23 and they will murder him; and on the third day he will rise." And they were very saddened.
20: 17-19:
17 And Yeshua was going to go up to Yerushalayim, and he took his twelve talmidim alone on [[the side of]] the road, and said to them: 18 "Behold! We are going up to Yerushalayim; and the Son of Man will be delivered up to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they will condemn him to death. 19 And they will deliver him over to the gentiles: and they will mock him, and will beat him, and will crucify him; and the third day, he will rise."
21: 42-46:
42 Yeshua said to them: "Have you never read in the Scripture: 'The stone that was rejected by the builders became the head of the corner; this is from the presence of Mar-Yah; and it is marvellous in our eyes'?*
43 "Therefore I say to you, that the Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a people who bear fruit. 44 And whoever falls upon this stone, will be broken; and anyone it falls upon it will crush."
45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees heard his parables, they understood that he spoke against them. 46 And they wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd, because they regarded him as a prophet.
1 And it came to pass, that when Yeshua had finished all these sayings, he said to his talmidim: 2 "You know that after two days is Pesach; and the Son of Man will be betrayed to be crucified."
3 Then the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people gathered together at the court of the high priest, who was called Qeiafa. 4 And they took counsel concerning Yeshua, so that they might take arrest him by deceit and murder him. 5 And they were saying: "Not during the festival, in case disorder should take place among the people."
11 For you will always have the poor with you; but you will not always have me. 12 But this one act, pouring the perfume on my body, she has done so as if it were for my burial. 13 Truly I say to you, that wherever this my gospel is preached, in all the world, also this thing that she did will be told as a memorial to her."
14 Then one of the twelve, named Yudah Skariota, went to the chief priests, 15 and said to them: "What are you willing to give me, if I will deliver him to you?" And they promised him thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from then on, he was seeking a chance to betray him.
20 And when it was evening, he was reclining among his twelve talmidim. 21 And while they were eating, he said: "Truly I say to you, that one of you will betray me." 22 And it made them very sad. And each of them began to say to him: "Mari, is it I?"* 23 And he answered and said: "He who dips his hand with me in the dish, that one will betray me. 24 And the Son of Man will go, as it is written concerning him. Woe to that man, by whose hand the Son of Man is betrayed. It would have been better for that man, if he had not been born." 25 Yudah the betrayer answered and said: "Rabbi, is it I?" Yeshua said to him: "You have said it."
28 This is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for the sake of many for the forgiveness of sins.
30 And they sang Hallel*, and went out to Har-Zeitim. 31 Then Yeshua said to them: "All of you will be offended by me in this night; for it is written: 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of his flock will be scattered.' 32 But after I have risen, I will go before you into Galil."
26: 37-39:
37 And he took Keipha and the two sons of Zavddai, and began to be sorrowful and wearied. 38 And he said to them: "There is sadness in my soul, even to death. Wait with me here, and watch with me." 39 And he went a little ways, and fell upon his face, and prayed, and said: "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass over me. However, not as I will, but as you will."
48 And Yudah the betrayer had given them a sign, saying: "It is he whom I kiss; seize him." 49 And immediately he went to Yeshua, and said: "Shalom, Rabbi;" and kissed him. 50 And Yeshua said to him: "Is it for this reason you have come, my friend?" Then drawing near, they laid their hands on Yeshua, and seized him.
1 And when it was morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took council against Yeshua, so that they might put him to death. 2 And they bound him, and took him and delivered him up to the governor Pilatos.
3 Then Yudah the betrayer, when he saw that Yeshua was convicted, repented. And he went and returned those thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders; 4 and said: "I have sinned, due to the fact that I have betrayed innocent blood." And they said: "What is it to us? See to your own issues." 5 And he threw the silver into the Temple, and leaving, he went and hanged himself.
9 Then it was fulfilled that which was spoken by the prophet [[Zechariah]], saying: "I took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the precious one, which they of the B'nai Yisrael had agreed upon;
10 and I gave them for the field of the potter, as Mar-Yah directed me."
18 For Pilatos knew that it was because of hate that they had handed over Yeshua*. 19 And while the governor was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, and said: "Have nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered very much today in a dream because of him." 20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they ask for Bar Abba, and to destroy Yeshua. 21 And the governor answered, and said to them: "Whom do you desire to be freed to you?" And theysaid: "Bar Abba!" 22 Pilatos said to them: "And Yeshua, who is called the Messiah, what should I do to him?" They all said: "Let him be crucified." 23 The governor said to them: "Indeed, what evil has he committed?" And they cried out all the more, and said: "Let him be crucified." 24 And Pilatos, when he saw that nothing was helpful, but rather that uproar was produced, he took water, and washed his hands before the crowds, and said: "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man; do as you will." 25 And all the people answered, and said: "His blood be upon us, and upon our children!" 26 Then he released Bar Abba to them; and scourged Yeshua with whips and gave him over to be crucified.
27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Yeshua into the Praetorium, and assembled the entire brigade against him. 28 And they stripped him, and clothed him with a purple robe*. 29 And they wove a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand, and they bowed down upon their knees before him, and they were mocking him, saying: "Hail, King of the Judeans." 30 And they spit in his face, and took the reed, and struck him on his head. 31 And when they had mocked him, they removed the robe, and put on him his own garments, and led him away to be crucified.
32 And as they went out, they found a man from Qurinya* whose name was Shimon; and they compelled him to carry his cross. 33 And they came to a place which is called Golgotha, which is interpreted The Skull. 34 And they gave him to strong vinegar drink mixed with gall. And he tasted it but did not desire to drink it. 35 And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes by casting lots. 36 And sitting down, they were watching him there. 37 And they placed over his head the reason for his death in writing:
38 And there were crucified with him two bandits, one on his right, and one on his left. 39 And those who were passing by were blaspheming against him, and were nodding their heads 40 and saying: "You who would tear down the Temple, and rebuild it in three days, deliver yourself if you are the Son of God, and come down from the cross." 41 Likewise the chief priests were mocking, along with the scribes and elders and Pharisees, 42 and they were saying: "He saved others, but his very life he is not able to save. If he is the King of Yisrael, let him come down now from the cross, so that we may see it and believe in him. 43 He trusted in God; let him save him now, if he is pleased with him, for he said: 'I am the Son of God.'"
44 Likewise the bandits that were also crucified with him, criticised him. 45 And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land, until the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour, Yeshua cried out with a loud voice and said: "Eli, Eli; why have you spared me?" 47 And some of those men that were standing there, when they heard this, said: "He calls for Eliyahu." 48 And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and offered it to him. 49 But the rest were saying: "Let him be; let us see if Eliyahu will come to save him."
50 And again Yeshua cried out with a loud voice, and gave up his spirit. 51 And immediately, the lintel of the Temple fell and broke into pieces; and the earth was shaken; and the rocks split. 52 And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who were sleeping arose, 53 and went out; and after his resurrection, they entered into the Holy City, and many saw them. 54 And the centurion, and those that were with him who were watching Yeshua, when they saw the earthquake and all that had occurred, became afraid, and said: "Truly, this was the Son of God."
57 And when it became evening, a rich man came from Ramatayim, whose name was a Yoseph, who was also a talmid of Yeshua. 58 This man drew near to Pilatos, and requested the body of Yeshua. And Pilatos instructed that the body be given to him. 59 And Yoseph took the body, and wrapped it in a shroud of fine linen; 60 and he laid it in his new sepulchre that had been hewn from rock. And they rolling a large boulder, they placed it against the entrance of the sepulchre, and departed: 6l And Miriam of Magdala and the other Miriam were there, who sat on the other side of the sepulchre.
62 And on the next day that was after sunset*, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together with Pilatos, 63 and said to him: "Our lord, we remember that this deceiver said, when he was alive, 'After three days, I will arise.' 64 Therefore, instruct that they guard the sepulchre until the third day; in case his talmidim come and steal him during the night, and say to the people that he has risen from the dead; and the last deception should become worse than the first.'" 65 Pilatos said to them: "You have guards! Go and guard it as you see fit." 66 And they went and appointed guards by the sepulchre, and set a seal on the stone and placed the guards on watch.
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Dutch readers can also find additional reading / Nederlandstalige lezers kunnen ook aanvullende lectuur vinden in:
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- Het begin van Jezus #3 Voorgaande Tijden
- Jesaja profeet en boodschapper van God
- Het begin van Jezus #4 Aangekondigde te komen Verlosser
- Het begin van Jezus #5 Aankondigingsteksten uit de Schrift
- Het begin van Jezus #6 Beloften van innerlijke zegeningen
- Het begin van Jezus #7 Een Nieuwe Adam, zoon van Abraham
- Het begin van Jezus #8 Beloofde Gezalfde zoon van God
- Het begin van Jezus #9 Een kwestie van Toekomst
- Het begin van Jezus #12 Gezalfd na Johannes de Doper
- De Knecht des Heren #3 De Gewillige leerling
- De Knecht des Heren #4 De Verlosser
- Verontrustheid van Jezus
- Hoe heeft Jezus zulk een plezier voor God gedaan
- Lijden goegemaakt door Jezus' loskoopoffer voor zonde
- Niemand heeft zulk een grote liefde als hij die zij leven gaf voor zijn vrienden
- Lam van God #1 Oude Tijden
- Lam van God #2 Jezus moest sterven
- Lam van God #3 Christus stierf als onschuldig Lam #2 Aanvaarding der Toewijzing
- Lam van God #3 Christus stierf als onschuldig Lam #3 Losprijs
- Lam van God #3b Christus stierf als onschuldig Lam
- Lam van God #3c Christus stierf als onschuldig Lam NT teksten
- God wil u gunst betonen
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- Fragiliteit en actie #15 Lossen of Verlossen
- Redding, vertrouwen en actie in Jezus #1 Bedekking Lijden
- Redding, vertrouwen en actie in Jezus #2 Te Doen
- Redding, vertrouwen en actie in Jezus #6 Samenhoren
- Redding, vertrouwen en actie in Jezus #7 Adverteren
- Zalving van Christus als profetische repetitie van de begrafenisrituelen
- Lijden goegemaakt door Jezus' loskoopoffer voor zonde
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42 Saying, He saved others, but Himself He cannot save. If He is the king of Yisrael, let
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43 He believed in Elohim, let Him deliver Him now, if He delight [in Him]: for He
said, I am the Son of Elohim.
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17: Let us see if his words are true: and let us test him by his departure.
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor
Friday, January 25, 2013
With the NPP's abstention from the two upcoming bye-elections in the Akatsi South and Buem constituencies, the NDC must be laughing all the way to claim an easy electoral victory. Not much money expected to be spent campaigning, certainly.
The candidate for Akatsi South has been selected without incident. But for Buem, the situation has turned ugly—too ugly—for comfort, which raises questions: Is somebody being batty? Or allowing the NDC's performance at Election 2012 to eat away his reasoning ability?
The NDC leaders have disqualified Kofi Adams, the spokesperson for the Rawlingses, from contesting the primaries. This action is not only sickening but it also reflects the shadiness with which the party's leaders approach politics. It is a clear instance of the off-colour politics that they do to create problems.
We are told that a member of the party in the Buem constituency yesterday sought the court's injunction against the exercise. The belief is that the court injunction is linked to the disqualification of Kofi Adams. That is good news to me. At least, it exposes a major cause of the NDC's self-created woes.
I consider the extreme to which the NDC leaders have gone to disqualify Kofi Adams as politically unwise because of its implications and the impact on the party itself.
What is it about Kofi Adams that we haven't had before in Ghanaian politics? In the heat of the factionalism rocking the party and threatening an implosion, he was suspended over the contents of a so-called leaked audio tape recording that exposed clandestine attempts at undoing the NDC.
The National Executive Council rose up to the issue and stripped Kofi Adams of his post as Deputy General Secretary, leaving Asiedu Nketiah alone to have hold sway. Several public pronouncements indicated that the matter was to be investigated for Adams' fate to be determined.
Nothing concrete emerged to confirm that he was indeed the person caught on tape attempting to ditch the NDC; nor was any official action taken to dismiss him from the party. He didn't of his own volition resign from the party. It was just the post that he lost. Nobody took over from him to fill that slot in the party's echelons.
So, what is the basis for not allowing him to stake his luck in the primaries? Just because he was suspected of destroying the party from within and divested of his status within the party?
What is it about Kofi Adams' so-called "treachery" that is novel? None, to me. From all indications, he was downright critical in his public pronouncements about goings-on in the party, especially when the late President Mills became the butt of open ridicule and scathing criticisms over his leadership style.
Of course, he identified with the Rawlingses and tore into the Mills-led administration for its perceived failures, especially in the case of the Woyome judgement debt scandal and many others regarding sloppy performance at the Presidency.
Indeed, he can be described as a victim of circumstance—speaking for the Rawlingses who had turned themselves into matadors ready to gore ex-President Mills. He couldn't dissociate himself from the forces among which he was situated. But he didn't resign from the NDC all through those tumultuous times.
However, when President Mahama moved into the saddle to ride the horse of state, he turned coat. He quickly submitted to President Mahama's authority, even to the chagrin of Nana Konadu (if news reports on happenings in the Rawlings household were to be believed then).
He even went the extra mile to openly declare his support for President Mahama and the NDC, refusing to toe Nana Konadu's political line to join the National Democratic Party that was formed right where his daily bread was being buttered. He stuck to the NDC and openly campaigned for President Mahama in his own small way.
Here is my beef. In all that situation, the Rawlingses stood out as the worst internal destroyers of the NDC, but the party leaders couldn't take any action against them. They still regarded Rawlings as the founder and father of the party despite all that he did to destroy its fabric, hitting heads against each other, and going to the extent of uplifting the NPP and its Akufo-Addo as better than President Mahama and the NDC. Even after the elections, the Rawlingses eased themselves toward the President.
My question is: If the NDC leaders could still accept Rawlings for all that he did, what is it about Kofi Adams that irks them so much that they can't look beyond the surface to allow him stake his luck in the primaries for the bye-elections? Granted that he has bitten the finger feeding him, can these party leaders not consider his worth to accommodate him but will rather choose to destroy him and damn the consequences?
In truth, what I see happening here is a rare case of wickedness in politics. I am highly disappointed and will caution these leaders to act wisely if they don't want to re-start the internal wranglings.
Asiedu Nketiah, particularly, needs to know that he is not the only person around whom the NDC revolves. Every single member of the NDC matters in determining the destiny of the party. The future of the party rests on youthful, hardworking personalities like this Kofi Adams against whom they've all ganged up just because he miscalculated his steps in a period which demanded what he did or said.
I don't think that his actions or pronouncements hurt the party more than what all others have in one way or the other done. Take the National Chairman (Dr. Kwabena Adjei), for instance, when he told the judges that "there are many ways to kill a cat," which was a dangerous utterance that detracted from the NDC's worth.
Or the machinations attributed to Yaw Boateng-Gyang, which sought to create national security problems. What action did the national leaders take against those two for their impolitic goofs?
Even, Bede Ziedeng who deserted the NDC for Obed Asamoah's DFP and harmed its interests is back and rewarded with a Regional Minister's post. Obed Asamoah, who caused the NDC to lose over 100 million Cedis hidden under his bed in his McCarthy Hill residence and worked against the NDC, is back and deferred to.
The message I want to convey is simple: The NDC leaders shouldn't all too soon revive the intra-party dissensions. They need to know that their ill-considered action against Kofi Adams will annoy those who don't agree with them; and it will be the dangerous seed of discord to blossom into internal crisis sooner than later.
By taking this drastic action against Kofi Adams, they are re-igniting the kind of fire that threatened to consume the party in the post-Election 2008 period but was somehow doused to ensure its electoral victory in Election 2012. Nerves may be lax after that victory but can be stretched taut again at the least prompting.
Let's be honest to say here that much of what caused thepost-2008 fire resulted from this kind of sheer incompetence, greed, or a dangerous penchant for vindictiveness.
I'll place the circumstances surrounding the Buem Constituency bye-elections in its proper context to condemn the shortsightedness and plain mischief of the national, regional, and constituency executive officers of the NDC.
I am more than happy that a court has placed an injunction against the holding of the primaries to choose the party's candidate for the bye-election, which should have taken place today. The leadership of the NDC in the Volta Region may say that they cannot allow the injunction placed on the Buem primaries to stay. But it has already stayed; not so? What can they do to reverse it? Nothing for now!
It is pathetic that the NDC leaders cannot think outside the box to sustain the seemingly united front that the party has built after its success at Election 2012 and are doing acts and making unguarded pronouncements to pit Kofi Adams and his sympathizers against them.
As muscles begin being flexed just because the national, regional, and constituency leaders of the party can't make productive decisions to move the party forward, I am more than convinced that the fire will soon flare up to throw all of them into the panic mode again.
No amount of litigation will solve this simple problem. That is why the Volta Regional NDC chairman Akwasi Aboagye's message that the party's leaders are consulting their national leaders to immediately find lawyers to table strong arguments before the court to get the injunction slapped on their primaries annulled is nonsensical.
So also is Kwasi Aboagye's worry about the situation because this situation shouldn't have arisen, in the first place, had somebody in authority in the party worn his thinking cap at the right angle instead of placing it jauntily on his spinning head to be noticed as a lazy thinker.
How much more harm do these NDC leaders want to inflict on the party at this time when they should rather have been spending their time, energy, and resources on consolidating the gains made at Election 2012?
I say, give Kofi Adams the chance to prove his mettle. It is not as if he can't uplift the NDC's flag wherever he is. He has all the benefits of common sense and political astuteness to do well if given the chance. Disqualifying him from participating in the primaries is the work of evil minds in the NDC.
Even, the Prodigal Son had the gift of commonsense to return to his roots when reality struck. Kofi Adams isn't a "Prodigal Son" because he didn't desert the NDC for anywhere. He has stuck to the party all this while. He is just a small fry who must not be hit with a sledge-hammer. He deserves better than being treated like a bugbear. The real bugbears have stuck to the NDC like leeches, sucked its blood, but are still well treated. Why not Kofi Adams too?
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Ahead of its official reveal at the LA Auto Show, the official details on the BMW Concept 7 Series ActiveHybrid have finally been released after months of us sitting on the edges of our seats, waiting with bated breath. The ActiveHybrid (as opposed to the other name considered, "LazyHybrid") is a "preview of potential" for things to come from BMW and shows off a mild hybrid operating from a motor integrated transmission, which was jointly developed with Chrysler and General Motors. The motor "assists" a 400 HP, 450 lb-ft, 4.4 liter V8 with its own 20 HP and 155 lb-ft of torque providing oil barons with cognitive dissonance the feel-good benefit of 15% better fuel economy. Complete details in an uncompromisingly self satisfied press release below.
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BMW Concept 7 Series ActiveHybrid: The BMW of hybrids As an integral part of the BMW EfficientDynamics strategy, the BMW Concept 7 Series ActiveHybrid previews the potential of BMW ActiveHybrid technology in a luxury sedan. In typical BMW fashion, this new concept car combines a significant reduction of fuel consumption and emissions with a level of driving dynamics never seen before even in this class of hybrid cars. The BMW Concept 7 Series ActiveHybrid is an intelligent symbiosis of BMW's new twin-turbo V8 engine and electric drive as a mild hybrid concept. A compact electric motor, integrated into the transmission housing, replaces the conventional alternator as well as the starter. Power to run all electrics on-board the car is generated by means of Brake Energy Regeneration. The combination of internal combustion engine and electric motor take the twin-turbo 4.4-liter V8's already potent 400 horsepower and 450 lb-ft of torque and supplies an additional 20 horsepower and up to 155 lb-ft of torque as needed. The drivetrain technology featured in the concept car allows enhanced driving dynamics together with a reduction of fuel consumption and emissions by 15 percent in the EU test cycle compared to the same car running on a combustion engine alone. At the same time the use of BMW ActiveHybrid technology does not require any compromises in driving qualities and features of the BMW 7 Series. Energy is stored in a compact lithium-ion battery housed in the luggage compartment. An Auto Start Stop function helps to ensure optimum efficiency in all driving situations. The hybrid technology showcased in the BMW Concept 7 Series ActiveHybrid is perfectly suited to the new benchmark in the full-sized performance luxury sedan segment just as the two-mode hybrid technology used in the BMW Concept X6 ActiveHybrid, also on display in Los Angeles, is well matched to the world's first Sports Activity Coupe. BMW Group In America BMW of North America, LLC has been present in the United States since 1975. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in 2003. The BMW Group in the United States has grown to include marketing, sales, and financial service organizations for the BMW brand of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, the MINI brand, and the Rolls-Royce brand of Motor Cars; DesignworksUSA, an industrial design firm in California; a technology office in Silicon Valley and various other operations throughout the country. BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC in South Carolina is part of BMW Group's global manufacturing network and is the exclusive manufacturing plant for all Z4 models and X5 Sports Activity Vehicles and the upcoming X6 Sport Activity Coupe. The BMW Group sales organization is represented in the U.S. through networks of 338 BMW passenger car centers, 335 BMW Sports Activity Vehicle centers, 142 BMW motorcycle retailers, 83 MINI passenger car dealers, and 30 Rolls-Royce Motor Car dealers. BMW (US) Holding Corp., the BMW Group's sales headquarters for North, Central and South America, is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.
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It is Sunday morning, March 13th, 2011. My plan was to bake Hamantachen today, allowing for enough time to ship them to New York and Florida. I am still going to bake, but things feel different. In the background the radio is turned to NPR, reporting on the situation in Japan. There is a tradition of giving Tzedakah before Purim, and so as we approach the holiday, I hope you continue to bake, and to give…. http://www.redcross.org
Wishing you a Chag Purim Sameach.
Note: I posted this recipe last year, and the comments I received on the dough ranged from those who said it was much too soft to work with, to those who felt it was perfect. The trick is to play with it, add flour as needed, and enjoy!
The Purim of my childhood was not very memorable. I do not remember dressing up costume, attending Purim carnivals or going to hear the reading of Megillat Esther. I do not remember my mother making hamantaschen or delivering Mishloach Manot. Purim was not part of the fabric of my childhood. My first encounter with hamantaschen was watching my mother-in-law, Lillian Saiger, make them in her home in Toronto. It made quite an impression on me. I was 21 years old, a newlywed, still in college, and living in a foreign country. My in-laws were living in the same home that my husband's maternal grandparents had owned. The hub of that house was the kitchen, with windows that faced a backyard filled with lilac trees. It was a house with history and part of that history included baking hamantaschen. Lil made enough hamantaschen to ship to her children, some of whom were already living outside of Toronto. She made her own filling, a combination of dried fruits that she stewed and pureed and then gently placed in the center of these circles of dough that she had rolled out and cut. She pinched three corners together and baked the cookies until they were golden. They were soft, warm and delicious. I remember that the hamataschen were kept in a tin, placed in a cupboard next to the breakfast room table. We would have them with coffee every day, until they were all gone. I don't have any idea if they actually lasted till Purim. We eventually moved to Los Angeles and had three children of our own. Each Purim, we dressed the kids in costumes, delivered mishloah manot and took them to hear Megillat Esther. Each year I would make hamantaschen and place them in a tin to have with coffee. They may not be exactly the same as my mother-in-law's ( I don't think she actually used a recipe) but they are close. Thank you Lil!
P.S. Keep them in a tin.
Lil's Hamantaschen
2 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup canola oil
2 Tsp. baking powder
2 3/4 cups flour
1/4 cup orange juice
Mix dry ingredients in bowl. Combine eggs and oil and mix well. Slowly add orange juice and then mix into dry ingredients. Put mixture onto floured board and handle until soft and pliable.
6 oz. dried apricots
6 oz. dried pitted prunes
1 1/2 cups raisins
3-4 Tbs sugar
1/2 Tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup water or orange juice
In a small heavy bottomed pot combine all ingredients over low heat and cook until fruit is soft, about 20 minutes. Add water if needed. Process mixture in Cuisinart for about 30 seconds until mixture looks like a dark jam. Roll dough out on floured board till about 1/4 inch thick. Cut out small circles and place a teaspoon of filling in the center. Pinch sides together to form a triangle. Brush with beaten egg and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until brown.


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Disappeared Expat Silk King had CIA Connections
Denis D. Gray at the AP has a rundown on a new book out about the fascinating exploits of alleged spy Jim Thompson in Southeast Asia. A well known titan of the silk industry, Thompson disappeared in 1967 after going for a walk in the Malaysian highlands. Rumors abound about his death, including that he was eaten by a tiger or killed by the CIA. If those are the rumors surrounding your death, there's a good chance your life was pretty eventful.
From the article:
Credited with the revival of a now booming silk industry, Thompson attained legendary status, enhanced by a bon vivant lifestyle at a time when Thailand was still truly exotic - and by his mysterious death. But little has been known about Thompson's intensely political, darker side - his freelance backing of Asia's insurgencies, clashes with Washington's Cold War warriors and his connections to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which to this day reportedly refuses to release his complete file.
Thompson is something you don't see anymore, a larger than life character straight out of a Hemingway novel who was born into a rich family, graduated from Princeton and spent time partying in New York City before volunteering for the army. He soon found himself in Southeast Asia, where he grew enamored of Thai, Cambodian and Laotian insurgencies.
"Jim was an idealist, a romantic, an anti-imperialist and there was no more idealistic time than just after the war," a former US diplomat is quoted as saying in the book, authored by Joshua Kurlantzick, a Southeast Asian expert with the Council on Foreign Relations.
He reportedly grew disaffected with American efforts in Southeast Asia in the 1960's, and at a time when clandestine government actions in Southeast Asia were abundant, is alleged to have had his hand in many a pie. Somewhere along the way he found time to start "The Thai Silk Company, reviving a largely moribund industry, helping thousands of poor villagers in the process and introducing Thai silk to the world," the article states.
The only question now is who is going to play him in the movie that Hollywood execs better be scrambling to make at this very moment.
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Bubba is becoming increasingly immobile. More and more he is having problems walking and we are helping him to his feet most of the time. Unaware of his limitations, he wanted to come on a walk with us today, so despite my best judgement, we took him along. Once Bubba gets some momentum going, he does pretty well. But on this walk Carl ended up with the job getting him home after he had difficulty walking through the tall grass. I know it wears him out, so I covered him up with a blanket as he napped afterwards.
The dogs and I really do enjoy the walk up the hill in back of us. The two 10 acre parcels that adjoin our property was put back on the market to sell in late October. With 2 significant price reductions, I wonder how much longer we will be able to have it all to ourselves without feeling like we're trespassing.


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What Happens When You Give 1000s of Stickers to 1000s of Kids?
Last month, artist Yayoi Kusama turned an ordinary room in the Queensland Art Gallery into a giant canvas by painting everything white. Then, over the course of a couple weeks, children who visited the museum were given colored dot stickers and encouraged to transform the space into what you see in the photos below. The Obliteration Room is part of Kusama's Look Now, See Forever exhibition that runs through March 12 at the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia. (via thisiscolossal.com)


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A study published in the online journal Hepatology reports a potential new NADPH oxidase (NOX) inhibitor therapy for liver fibrosis, a scarring process associated with chronic liver disease that can lead to loss of liver function.
"While numerous studies have now demonstrated that advanced liver fibrosis in patients and in experimental rodent models is reversible, there is currently no effective therapy for patients," said principal investigator David A. Brenner, MD, vice chancellor for Health Sciences and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. "This new study provides important validation of the role of NOX in liver fibrosis, and suggests that a NOX inhibitor could provide an effective treatment for this devastating disease."
Most chronic liver diseases are associated with progressive fibrosis, which is triggered by the loss of liver cells and the activation of inadequate wound healing pathways. In addition, oxidative stress – which results from an inappropriate balance between the production and clearance of highly reactive molecules involved in cell signaling called reactive oxidative species (ROS) – leads to aberrant tissue repair in the liver.
When the liver is injured – for example, through hepatitis or alcohol abuse –HSCs are activated to become myofibroblasts, cells which play a crucial role in wound healing and the body's response to inflammation by recruiting immune cells called macrophages to the injury site. This process, triggered by intracellular signalling pathways involving NOX, can result in an abundance of scarring and eventually result in the loss of organ function.
By inhibiting NOX, the researchers theorized that myofibroblast activation and macrophage recruitment could be interrupted, preventing further fibrosis and potentially allowing regression of established fibrosis.
They assessed the effectiveness of treatment with GKT137831 – a NOX1/4 inhibitor developed by Genkyotex SA of Geneva, Switzerland – in mouse models, and found that treatment with this NOX inhibitor suppressed ROS production, as well as NOX and fibrotic gene expression.
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According to Brenner, the next steps include a clinical trial with this drug in patients with liver fibrosis.
Additional contributors include Tomonori Aoyama, UC San Diego and Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo; Yong-Han Paik, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Sumio Watanabe, Juntendo University; Benoît Laleu, Francesca Gaggini, Laetitia Fioraso-Cartier, Sophie Molangpo, Freddy Heitz, Cédric Merlot and Cédric Szyndralewiez, GenKyoTex SA, Geneva.
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The School of Obedienceby Andrew Murray
Fleming H. Revell Company New York~ out of print and in the public domain ~
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During online Internet searches of the Library of Congress database in Washington D.C., performed on 12-8-05, no evidence of a current copyright was found for this publication.
To the Members
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And All Christian Students
Throughout the World
This Volume Is Prayerfully Dedicated
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These addresses on Obedience are issued with the very fervent prayer that it may please our gracious Father to use them for the instruction and strengthening of the young men and women, on whose obedience and devotion so much depends for the Church and the world. To all of them who read this I send my loving greeting. The GOD of all grace bless them abundantly!
It often happens after a Conference, or even after writing a book, that it is as if one only then begins to see the meaning and importance of the truth with which one has been occupied. So I do indeed feel as if I had utterly failed in grasping or expounding the spiritual character, the altogether indispensable necessity, the divine and actual possibility, the inconceivable blessedness of a life of true and entire obedience to our Father in Heaven. Let me, therefore, just in a few sentences gather up the main points which have come home to myself with special power, and ask every reader at starting to take note of them as SOME OF THE CHIEF LESSONS to be learnt in CHRIST's school of obedience.
The Father in Heaven asks, and requires, and actually expects, that every child of His yield Him whole-hearted and entire obedience, day by day, and all the day.
To enable His child to do this, He has made a most abundant and altogether sufficient provision in the promise of the New Covenant, and in the gift of HIS Son and Spirit.
This provision can alone, but can most certainly, be enjoyed, and these promises fulfilled, in the soul that gives itself up to a life in the abiding communion with the THREE-in-ONE GOD, so that His presence and power work in it all the day.
The very entrance into this life demands the vow of absolute obedience, or the surrender of the whole being, to be, think, speak, do, every moment, nothing but what is according to the will of GOD, and well pleasing to Him.
If these things be indeed true, it is not enough to assent to them: we need the HOLY SPIRIT to give us such a vision of their glory and divine power, and the demand they make on our immediate and unconditional submission, that there may be no rest till we accept all that GOD is willing to do for us.
Let us all pray that GOD may, by the light of His Spirit, so show His loving and almighty will concerning us, that it may be impossible for us to be disobedient to the heavenly vision.
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The train to Portland and back
Hidden in recent stimulus bills were $$$ not only for the California bullet train but also funding for the Coast Starlight, Amtrak's long-distance passenger train between Seattle and Los Angeles. The Coast Starlight passes through the Bay Area via Sacramento, Davis, Martinez, Emeryville, Oakland, San Jose, and thereby southward. (map)
I just returned from a weekend jaunt to Portland and back on the Coast Starlight, and it was a smooth, convenient ride coming and going. The highlight had to be the snowy portion over the Cascades in Oregon yesterday between Eugene and Klamath Falls, with endless vistas of Ponderosa Pine trees covered with thick gobs of snow that had fallen that morning. (Just like in this picture.) Neither the loudmouthed cowboys in the dome car nor a weird family of 20 with matching customized aqua-blue t-shirts were able to spoil the ride.


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SNL: How Did Anna Kendrick Do as Host?
Anna Kendrick handled hosting duties at Saturday Night Live for the first time this weekend, in an episode that offered a few memorable moments among mostly mediocre sketches.
Highlights included the sure-to-go-viral music video "Dongs All Over the World," starring Kendrick, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Sasheer Zamata and Cecily Strong, as well as George R.R. Martin (Bobby Moynihan) stopping by "Weekend Update" to discuss the new Game of Thrones book he's working on.
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Check out some of the night's better sketches below:
Fox and Friends:SNL's lampooning of Fox and Friends is always dependable, and this sketch about Obamacare, featuring Kenan Thompson as Neil deGrasse Tyson, is no exception. Corrections include "Michelle Obama has never done porn" and "Noah is not found footage."
"Dongs All Over the World": Tired of being jilted by their boyfriends, five women travel across the world in an attempt to conquer all the dongs.
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Weekend Update: George R.R. Martin: A "burnt-out" George R.R. Martin stops by "Weekend Update" to talk about the difficulty he's having writing the next two books in the Game of Thrones series. "What do you do with your time?" Cecily Strong wonders.
French Dance: On the French teen soap "Les Jeunes de Paris," spontaneous dance parties often break out in the show's setting, a hip café.
Big Joe: Bobby Moynihan plays a trapped miner who's hoping Big Joe (Taran Killam) can save him.
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Here comes another big show to Las Vegas.
The NFL on Tuesday detailed its draft plans for April 23-25 on the city's glittering Strip, complete with a red carpet stage on the lake in front of the Bellagio hotel with boats ferrying players and VIPs to the action.
The league knows it has a long ways to go to match the previous road shows, particularly in Philadelphia and Nashville. It believes it has found the right place in the Nevada desert.
"The success of the planning and execution of draft relies heavily on the support and enthusiasm of the local leadership and communities," says Peter O'Reilly, the NFL's executive vice president of club business and league events. "Fortunately, we have had exceptional partners along the way to help us grow the draft to what it is today. Las Vegas is no different. This is a city that understands the importance of attracting and delivering large-scale events and has a talented team in place to help support those efforts."
Those efforts will center around a prime area of the Strip across from Caesars Palace and in front of the Bellagio hotel. The main stage for the draft will be constructed beginning April 3 next to Caesars Forum. It will include a viewing zone in front of the High Roller observation wheel to watch the first-round selections on Thursday night, the second and third rounds on Friday night and the remaining four rounds on Saturday.
That stage also will host daily performances by a variety of entertainers throughout the three days.
Teams will make their selections at the Caesars Forum conference center in what the league and city are dubbing Selection Square.
Adjacent to the main stage will be the NFL Draft Experience where fans can participate in interactive games, view the Vince Lombardi Trophy, attend autograph sessions with NFL players and former players. There also will be a stage at the Experience for performances by local talent, all available without charge.
A red carpet area will be constructed beginning April 8 at the fountains of Bellagio, one of the city's more famous attractions.
Portions of the Strip will be closed to vehicular traffic during the three days of the draft. That's a big deal in Las Vegas usually reserved for New Year's Eve and for the city's marathon. The Strip will turn into a giant gathering area outside Bellagio and Caesars.
The league notes that it is working closely with local government agencies as well as the resort properties, businesses and their employees to build the draft locations with the least amount of impact to traffic as possible. The NFL is working with Las Vegas officials to identify additional parking and transportation options for both locals and visitors attending the draft.
For decades, the NFL had a virtually nonexistent relationship with Las Vegas. But then the Raiders announced they were moving there from Oakland, and sports betting became legalized in much of the country.
Voila, Vegas was on the league's map. Don't bet against it hosting a Super Bowl in this decade.
One of the newest attractions will be the Raiders' stadium, located just off the Strip.
"The driving factor for the league selecting Las Vegas to host the 2020 draft is the Raiders (and the NFL) entering the market and the Raiders playing their first game there just months later," O'Reilly says. "The draft is an incredible way to help make a splash in the Raiders' new home, and while we won't host the draft itself at the Stadium, we're working closely with the Raiders to highlight Allegiant Stadium both locally and nationally during each day of the draft."
The NFL began moving the draft around in 2015, going to Chicago for two years, then Philly, then Dallas and Nashville. Most of the league's cities, particularly those that won't likely host a Super Bowl, have shown interest in having it. Next year, Cleveland gets the assignment, and Kansas City has it in 2023. The 2022 "selection meeting" is still up for grabs.
"Each new draft city offers a unique landscape to produce an exciting and unforgettable draft," O'Reilly notes. "We focus on embracing the city's personality and iconic locations to intertwine the event and broadcasts with the host city to make it feel local and connected. Whether it is Nashville's Lower Broadway, the Rocky Steps in Philadelphia or Chicago's Grant Park, each has afforded us the ability to celebrate these cities and create an event that captures the spirit and energy of our hosts."
Of course, only fans who think their teams did well in the draft will likely be singing "Viva Las Vegas."
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