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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Five Myths About Christianity, Islam, Middle Ages

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Five Myths About Christianity, Islam, and the Middle Ages
by H.W. Crocker III
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Does Islam need a Reformation? Not unless you think it would benefit from additional dollops of Puritanism; further encouragement to smash altars, stained glass, and other forms of "idolatry"; prodding to ban riotous celebrations like Christmas and Easter; and support for fundamentalist Islamic schools that insist on sola Korana and sola Sunnah. Indeed, it would seem that Islam has already had its reformers. Railing against the corruption of the West (let's call it "Rome" for short) have been such modern Islamic Luthers as the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the cave-dwelling Osama bin Laden, the voice of young Islam -- the Taliban (literally, the Islamic students) -- and the puritanical Wahhabi sect of Saudi Arabia, which is most assuredly modern as it was not even founded until the 18th century, the age of the Enlightenment.

What would a Reformation bring to Islam that it does not already have? The Calvinists imposed stiff penalties for infringements of dress codes and behavior, but these rules don't go beyond the sharia law of Saudi Arabia. Luther denied the divine right of the pope and affirmed the divine right of princes (uniting church and state, which were previously separate), but that doctrine is already well-established in Islam, where mosque and state are meant to be united. The Protestant reformers repudiated the Catholic Church for dallying too much with classical thinkers and decadent artists (like Raphael); many of them condemned the Catholic doctrine of free will (believing, as do the Muslims, in a kind of fatalism); and they damned Catholics for putting too much emphasis on Thomistic logic and reason, and not enough on the literal interpretation of the Scriptures.

No one accuses Islam of such sins. When it comes to taking Islam back to its pure, uncorrupted form, as embodied by the Prophet himself -- an assassination-approving, polygamous leader of jihads -- it would be hard to outdo bin Laden and his fellow reformers.

Granted, the West is not what it once was. Rather than Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel, we have Andres Serrano and his infamous Piss Christ. Instead of the optimism of the Renaissance, we have the modern (pagan) pessimism that sees Nature's gods plotting their revenge on over-populating, polluting humanity. Instead of a confident West seizing its imperial mission to spread peace, commerce, and Christian charity and morality, the modern West is ambivalent about asserting its own values. There are even some in the West -- including its Muslim converts -- who think the Mohammedans' stronger strictures against abortion, homosexuality, and secularism (if not Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, et al.) give them a certain moral superiority over such as the Dutch and liberals everywhere. Still, this remains, I trust, a minority view.

But let it suffice that clearly Islam does not need a Reformation. If the printing press, as it is often said, fanned the Protestant revolt against united Christendom, the Internet has just as surely fanned the Islamist revolt against the West. We've had quite enough jihadists posting their "I protest" theses on the Internet, thank you very much.

But if Islam doesn't need a Reformation, it would definitely benefit from a Counter-Reformation. Just think of it. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Kabul were to become a center of baroque art, if the street corners of Tehran were dotted with choral groups singing the hymns of Palestrina, if the vibrant artists' quarter of Islamabad were full of painters dabbling in the style of Rubens, Caravaggio, and Poussin? Ah, yes, if only. Alas, few expect this to happen within our lifetimes -- or ever.

Despite the alleged glories of Islam's past, we're told that militant Islam is now stuck in the Middle Ages. But Islam is no more stuck in the Middle Ages than it is stuck in the Renaissance or the Counter-Reformation. As Margaret Thatcher's official biographer (and Catholic convert) Charles Moore has written, "' Mediaeval' should not be a synonym for 'barbarous.' Ely Cathedral and trial by jury and Giotto are mediaeval." So, indeed, are the Magna Carta, Chaucer, and Dante. So are the great monastic orders, the invention of the university, and the development of science. So are chivalry, capitalism, and the idea of progress. We don't associate any of these things with modern (or for that matter, historical) Islam.

Granted, the Middle Ages represent a thousand years of history, and the early Middle Ages (roughly 500 to 1000 A.D.), sometimes known as the Dark Ages, certainly had their chiaroscuro moments. The rough playfulness of the Vikings was not universally admired. If you were a pope between the waning days of the ninth century and the opening of the eleventh, you had about a one in three chance of being murdered in office, and survivors could be exiled or deposed. And aside from a variety of barbarians, Magyars, and Mongols, there were the Muslims who in this period jihaded their way over half of Christendom, and were only kept from completely swamping the West by the valiant Charles Martel, who defeated them at the Battle of Tours (and at subsequent battles).

But chiaroscuro is both light and dark, and there was light in the early Middle Ages. It shone most brightly in the monasteries, which not only -- and famously -- preserved classical learning, but also led the West in innovation in agriculture, technology, and trade. The Church provided schools, charitable houses, and the theological rationale for abolishing slavery (as it was abolished in the medieval West, while flourishing in Islam, which was then enjoying its alleged "Golden Age"). Being still Roman, the Church took on many of Rome's administrative governmental duties as well.

The achievements of the "Dark Ages" were monumental. As the historian Christopher Dawson noted, "In reality that age witnessed changes as momentous as any in the history of European civilization; indeed, as I suggest in [The Making of Europe] it was the most creative age of all, since it created not this or that manifestation of culture, but the very culture itself -- the root and ground of all the subsequent culture achievements [of Europe]." Here, as Dawson adds, the Catholic historian has the advantage because he can better understand that these were "not dark ages so much as ages of dawn, for they witnessed the conversion of the West, the foundation of Christian civilization, and the creation of Christian art and Catholic liturgy."

The result was that Europe blossomed in the high and late Middle Ages (1000 to 1500). Wealth and learning spread, and in place of the ruins of Rome, medieval man created a society that was far more humane, far more respectful of women, far more elevating of the individual, far more bourgeois (that is, with a far larger middle class), and far more inventive than the glorious civilizations of the Classical world. The Middle Ages were a wonderful bloom of their own even before they flowered into the Renaissance.

Islam, it should be clear, is not stuck in any previous incarnation of the West, and it is certainly not stuck in the Middle Ages, the Catholic "Age of Faith," when monks, priests, farmers, merchants, kings, bishops, and knights created the dynamic civilization -- the admixture of Classical, Catholic, and Germanic culture -- that is the West. Even in his humblest estate, as a peasant, medieval man was not Taliban man. His assumptions were wildly different. He believed in a suffering Christ who came into the world as a helpless babe and died on the cross, rather than in a conquering prophet who thought it blasphemous to believe God would lower Himself to such indignities. Medieval man believed in honoring God and making merry and for this world gave not a cherry, to paraphrase the poet (and priest) William Dunbar, "the Chaucer of Scotland." While medieval man loved feasts, celebrations, gay colors, and merrymaking, he also believed that service, labor, and commerce were honorable; that self-improvement and progress were possible; and that God had created a world that every man could understand through reason, so that every common farmer -- no matter his vassalage to his feudal lord -- could find ways to improve his agricultural techniques, improvements that benefited himself as well as his lord, because every man was entitled to his own rightful share of his labors.

He was, as we are, Western man, with everything that assumes. As the popular medieval scholar Morris Bishop put it, even today (or in 1968, when he was writing), "A highland farmer in Macedonia, a shepherd in the Auvergne mountains, live a life more medieval than modern. An American pioneer of the last century, setting out with oxcart, axe, plow, and spade to clear a forest farm, was closer to the Middle Ages than to modern times. He was self-sufficient, doctoring himself and his family with herbs, raising his own food, pounding his own grain, bartering with rare peddlers, rejoicing in occasional barn dances for all the world like medieval karoles." The American pioneer and the medieval peasant were us, and we were them, and neither one of us is Muslim. And for some of us, the idea of conversing with a man from the Middle Ages (or from the American frontier) is a much more attractive prospect than the thought of trying to converse with an iPod-attached, text-messaging 20-something whose life is lived in the aptly named "blogosphere."

The myth of the barbarous Middle Ages is part of the ignorance of our age. Protestants originally propounded the myth, secularists have promoted it, and the facts deny it. So let us sally forth like medieval knights to lance five of the biggest myths about the Middle Ages.

Myth One: Medieval Christendom was barbarous, while Islam was refined.

Since we've been talking about the Mussulmen, let's start with the myth that in the Middle Ages, Christendom was barbarous, while Islam was refined. Here's a simple test: Have you ever heard and enjoyed Gregorian chant? If you're lucky, you've done more than that; you've actually heard the work of medieval composers performed on period instruments. Both the music and the instruments are recognizably our own. It bridges naturally to what most people generically call "classical music." (Our system of musical notation dates from the Middle Ages, coming from the monasteries, and most especially from the eleventh-century Benedictine monk Guido D'Arezzo.) Mohammed, on the other hand, like his Talibanic followers, prohibited music. Allah, he said, commanded him to abolish musical instruments, and warned that "Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress" -- or, needless to say, a medieval troubadour.

Thanks to Danish cartoonists, we're all pretty familiar with Islamic attitudes about drawing or painting a likeness of Allah or his Prophet. The Prophet himself, however, actually forbade to his people any visual art that represented any form of fauna, from men to cattle, which puts rather a crimp on artistic freedom -- freedom that was widely enjoyed in the Middle Ages, let alone the Renaissance. While Islamic architecture is rather attractive -- to my taste, anyway -- it is not often noted that it took its inspiration from Byzantium, and in some cases was even built by Byzantine workers. Islamic literature -- aside from The Thousand and One Nights and a handful of other poems or stories -- is paltry compared with the Western stuff; and unlike the Western stuff, it is largely the work of dissenters and heretics. It seems that Muslim literateurs have always tended to play the role of Salman Rushdie to the reigning imams.

As for science, mathematics, and technology, the Muslims were quite good at preserving and adopting the Classical heritage of the Christians (and the achievements of the Zoroastrian Persians and Hindus) whom they conquered. They were rather less good at going beyond it, which is one very large reason why the West made progress and Islam did not. The other big reason is that while Western medieval churchmen taught natural law and that God had created a rational and orderly universe, Islamic theologians countered that nothing -- certainly not reason -- could limit the power of Allah; he was beyond all such constraints; and Muslim leaders were contemptuous of the West. In the twelfth century, Muslim philosophers emphatically turned against the pagan Classics. Practical Western man, on the other hand, cared not for Muslim religion, but he was certainly willing to accept and advance on Islamic learning, just as he accepted and advanced on Classical learning. The West's adoption of Arabic numerals (and the zero, which the Mussulmen got from the Hindus) is one striking example. Another is that when the Islamic philosopher Averroes wrote his glosses on Aristotle, they were more influential in the West than they were in the Islamic world. And the much-maligned Crusaders were no bigots -- they happily adopted Eastern foods and dress and trade.

It was not medieval man whose civilization faced a millennium of marching into the darkness; it was the Mussulman. By the end of the Dark Ages, Islam's "Golden Age" was just about finished. As Norman Cantor, the celebrated scholar of the Middle Ages, has written, "The Islamic world had not yet entered its deep decline in 1050… but by and large the greatest days of Islam had ended…. In the year 1050, in every country in western Europe, there were groups of people engrossed in some kind of novel enterprise. Europe no longer lagged far behind Byzantium and Islam in any way, and in some respects it had surpassed the greatest achievements of the two civilizations with which the Latin-speaking peoples now competed for hegemony in the Mediterranean." The West was always inventive -- even in the Dark Ages. It is part of our spirit, just as the supremacy of the Koran before all else is part of the spirit of Islam.

Then as today, fundamentalist Islamic schools drilled their students in rote recitation of the Koran. Catholic schools, then as now, taught religion, philosophy, mathematics (from accounting to higher mathematics), and Latin, among other subjects. It is a common Protestant jab that Catholics don't know Holy Scripture. It's a jab one can't make at a madrassa-educated Muslim.

In the Middle Ages, it is true, most Catholics knew Scripture from what they heard in church or saw represented in stained-glass windows or what they read -- or heard recited -- from such books as The Heliand, the Saxon Gospel wherein Christ the Champion enters Fort Jerusalem for the last mead-hall feast with His warrior companions. But they accepted the teachings of their authoritative Church and kept themselves busy building breweries, creating intoxicating liquors, laying roads, building towns, and inventing and mass-producing the stirrup, the horse harness, and the water mill (technically, the water mill was invented by the Romans, who made but slight use of it; it came into its own in the Middle Ages). They also created an agricultural revolution with three-field crop rotation and improved agricultural tools and technology, product specialization, land and naval transportation, and the sanctification of commerce.

The sole cultural advance that one might grant Islam over the medieval West is the invention of the harem. Nevertheless, even the male chauvinist might think that the harem rather shortchanges women. The rationalist might add that it creates social pressures that can be rather unhealthy (leaving lots of unattached, untamed men about). The churchman might reasonably add that the celibate monks, nuns, and priests made rather better use of their sexual sacrifice than did the eunuchs who guarded the harems. The Western clothier would suspect that the burkha was invented to hide some of the shortcomings (by Western standards) of the odalisques. And finally, medieval monarchs, like modern Western man, could always get around Church teaching by practicing serial hypocrisy rather than by stockpiling women in special quarters. This monarchical practice has filtered down into business management where overstocked warehouses (harems) have given way to "just-in-time inventory" (serial monogamy), another tribute to Western efficiency.

Myth Two: Medieval women were oppressed.

While we're on the subject of the fairer sex, let's dispense with the feminist idea that the Catholic Middle Ages were an era of oppression against women. That's rather hard to square, on the face of it, with medieval devotion to the Virgin Mary; the medieval invention of courtly, romantic love; the practice of chivalry; and the existence of queens and princesses. In every case, we have men making pledges of loyalty, fidelity, honor, and protection to women -- women, it might be noted, with power and favor, whether it be royal, romantic, or divine.

The New Testament has a rather higher estimation of women than does the Koran. Jesus consistently treats women with respect. Christians, from the beginning, did as well. The idea of woman as a "sex object" is profoundly un-Christian in a way that it is not unpagan or un-Islamic. Christianity has no temple prostitutes or harems, no slave girls or houris. The New Testament never recommends scourging women, nor does it compare women to a field to be plowed (as the Koran does). In Islamic law, divorce is a matter of three words ("I divorce you"); women are property, and women have essentially two purposes (you can guess what these are).

In the medieval West, both polygamy and divorce were illegal. Women could govern from thrones or pontificate from the libraries of nunneries, and they could rule the roost of a middle-class home just as any other Western hausfrau has done over the last 2,000 years. Women were free to dress as they liked and could go to the tavern -- even brew the beer -- if they liked. They held jobs and learned crafts and trades. If peasants, they worked the land with their husbands. They could become saints and lead men into battle (like Joan of Arc). Especially if they were in religious orders, they were well-represented in elementary education, nursing, and the other "caring professions" (as we would call them today). If they were noblewomen, they inherited and wielded property (and received all due feudal obligations), joined their husbands on hunts (or on Crusades), and went to a court school where they were taught art, manners, and household management (everything from medicine to oenology, from sewing to accounting, from gardening to how to handle servants). They were also patrons of the arts. If women were barred from classical schools and universities, which they were, it was less on Christian grounds, strictly speaking, than on classical ones -- on the Aristotelian insight that women are the subordinate sex.

Just how "subordinate" women were might be seen in the bawdy -- and quite "liberated" -- Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. She should put paid to any idea that medieval women were oppressed. The Wife of Bath, after all, selects her husbands -- five in total -- on the basis of money (she boasts of picking the first three clean of cash before they died) or manly chests, including the handsome pallbearer of the fourth. She finds happiness with her fifth (and favorite) husband after trading blows with him and convincing him of her rights. (The fight starts when she angrily rips a page from the book he has been reading aloud, The Book of Wicked Wives.) In all this, she cites Scripture, noting that "I have the power during al my lif / Upon his proper body, and nat he: / Right thus th'Apostle tolde it unto me, / And bad oure husbandes for to love us weel." Her tale -- and life -- is rather more hilarious and scandalous than today's "medieval" Islam would allow. In the Western Middle Ages, however, she was a recognized type, as she would be if she were plopped down in your living room today.

Myth Three: Medieval culture was crude and ignorant.

Chaucer brings us face to face with medieval culture, and far from being crude and ignorant, we regard it as being a still-bright feature of our literary heritage. If medieval castles and cathedrals, art, crafts, and music aren't enough; if Beowulf, the Song of Roland, the Poem of the Cid, and the Morte D'Arthur don't speak to you; if Boethius, Boccaccio, Dante, Petrarch, and Machiavelli are as nothing; if you have no respect for St. Anselm, St. Francis, and St. Thomas Aquinas, to select a mere handful of the literary riches of the period, there's really not much more to say.

Myth Four: Medieval politics were despotic.

Similarly, medieval politics were neither crude and ignorant, nor totalitarian and despotic. Far from it; the Middle Ages -- from the start -- practiced separation (and conflict) between church and state. It was the Reformation, the desire of the state to absorb the Church, that combined church and state with the creation of state churches. Medieval politics supported a wide dispersion of power, which is what feudalism was, and why England's nobles -- led by the Catholic archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton -- were able to hold King John accountable with the Magna Carta. Medieval man believed in the great hierarchy of society, where every man and woman had rights and responsibilities and was individually responsible before God.

Medieval man was never threatened by totalitarianism. A totalitarian state was not even possible until the Reformation abolished the Church as a check on state power. Before that, feudalism preserved an extreme form of federalism, where even city-states (like Italy's merchant republics) flourished. In the Middle Ages, not only could a merchant launch his own business, but twelve-year-old enthusiasts could launch their own Crusade (the Children's Crusade), and a failed crusader like St. Francis could launch his own religious movement. The Middle Ages might be torn by war, conquests, political rivalries, knightly jostlings, and wars against the Albigensian heretics or the Muslim infidels. But politically, the Middle Ages were, if anything, a time when the dispersal of secular power was closer to anarchy than despotism, and the Church was generally on the side of political -- if not religious -- libertarianism in order to protect itself from ambitious monarchs and princes.

Myth Five: The Middle Ages were uniquely violent.

The Middle Ages were certainly violent enough, but they had no Hitler, Stalin, or Mao. The Middle Ages did have its inquisitors, but the various myths surrounding the inquisitions are nowadays pretty well debunked, and anyone who wants to can know from the relevant historical scholarship that the inquisitional courts of the Middle Ages did not strike fear into the people of Western Europe. Their scope was limited, their trials and punishments more lenient than those of their secular counterparts. Inquisitional punishment was often no more than penance, and throughout much of Europe, the inquisition never appeared at all. It was not a major feature of the Middle Ages. From its 13th-century imposition against the Albigensians through the Spanish Inquisition -- the most "notorious" inquisition, which operated under a royal rather than a papal charter -- the history of inquisitional courts runs over the course of roughly 600 years, expiring in early 19th-century Spain. In the 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition, for which meticulously kept records have been preserved, the grand total of those sentenced to death is perhaps 4,000.

When it comes to body counts, the thousand years of the Middle Ages can't come close to the hecatombs of the enlightened 20th century. If the wars of the Age of Faith are to be regarded as a scandal that discredits Christianity, what are we to surmise from the state-authorized genocides, mass murders, and class eliminations of the pagan national socialists and the atheistic communists, who managed in the course of 70 years, less than one man's lifetime, to kill incomparably more people -- by a factor of untold tens upon tens upon tens of millions -- than were killed in the entirety of the Middle Ages?

There was fighting aplenty in the Middle Ages. There were outrages on the battlefield, murders in cathedrals, and massacres in cities. But modern man is in no position to sit in judgment on medieval man as his moral inferior. In the Middle Ages, the national socialists would have been denounced as heretical, a papal Crusade would have been called against them, and today we would be reading books about how the Catholic Church violently and unjustly suppressed -- through inquisition and Crusade -- a "heretical" German movement that only wanted to wear shorts, hike through the forests, sing pagan songs, free the people from Romish superstition, advance secular learning and science, and break the political and religious power of Rome. We've heard that story many times before, as with the romanticization of the Cathars.

But medieval man has had to suffer many such slurs, from the myth that he believed the world was flat (a myth foisted against him by anti-Catholic propagandists in the 19th century) to the myth that Islamist homicide bombers are "stuck in the Middle Ages" rather than part and parcel of 21st-century Islam. The Middle Ages were more glorious and commendable than many seem to know. Medieval man deserves our toasting tankards; better medieval man than MTV or al-Jazeera man. Cheers.

H. W. Crocker III is the author of Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church: A 2,000-Year History. His prize-winning comic novel The Old Limey and his book Robert E. Lee on Leadership are available in paperback; his latest book is The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War. This article originally appeared in the July/August 2006 issue of Crisis Magazine.

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JOHOR BARU: Due to lack of awareness, thousands of Malaysians who have Systemic Lupus Erthematosus (SLE), better known as Lupus, usually learn they have contracted the disease at its final stages.
According to Malaysian SLE Association Johor chapter president Alimah Abdullah, about 40,000 Malaysians suffer from lupus and only half of them detect the disease at an early stage.
Lupus can affect any part of the body and is identified as a systemic autoimmune disease, which essentially means the immune system attacks the body’s cells and tissue, resulting in inflammation and tissue damage.
Educating the public: Pagalavan (right) conducting a seminar about lupus at the Columbia Asia Hospital in in Nusajaya, Johor Baru.
“Not many people are aware of the early symptoms of lupus and this includes high fever, body aches and rashes appearing on the skin,” said Alimah adding that patients would usually head to a clinic for a normal medical check-up when they encountered such symptoms.
Alimah, when met during an SLE awareness campaign at Columbia Asia Hospital said the disease was a silent killer and the association aimed to increase awareness to allow early detection.
“In Johor alone, we have recorded a total of 2,000 cases and most of the patients are women,” she said adding that the Johor chapter was established by Lupus patients about two years ago.
“Most Lupus patients also tend to suffer from depression as many feel helpless when they are diagnosed with the disease.
“Through the association however, we provide counselling to patients to better educate them and build a support system for sufferers,” she said adding that the association also organised public forums on the disease.
Columbia Asia consultant physician and rheumatologis Dr L. Pagalavan, who is also the association’s advisor, urged those who showed early symptoms of lupus to get proper diagnosis.
“Those who suffer from lupus often go undetected as normal clinics do not have the proper equipment to conduct tests for the disease,” he said adding that many patients usually end up being misdiagnosed with normal fever or rashes.
“It is only when they come to a hospital that they know they have SLE,” he said.

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Dear Web Developers, Stop making login systems

It seems to be a rite of passage to author a login system - or several login systems - over the course of one's life as a web developer.  Some systems are more elegant than others but I have to ask:  Is it really necessary?

Let me provide some background.  I was mulling one day and realized that every website I've ever come across has one of two problems:
  1. Multiple login systems all over the place with multiple registration mechanisms (the result of using open source products or just bad programming habits).
  2. Some homegrown, half-baked solution riddled with security issues and poor UI design choices that breaks in half the browsers out there and irritating every user who uses the system.
Or some mix of both problems.  And don't think it is just limited to cheesy little one-off implementations.  Major big-name websites that people actually use every day are all in the same boat with the little dinky one-off sites.

Then I got to thinking about how many man-hours are wasted every year dealing with login systems.  It takes about half an hour to build a login system (one of the cheesy one-off varieties that have zero security - salting and hashing passwords isn't good enough, BTW).  But that's where the problems start - you discover shortly after that there are spammers, hackers, script kiddies, trolls, etc.  So if you deal with those folks, that's about three months of development time over the lifetime of the system.  But if you don't deal with those folks, your websites will be hacked or spammed to death in short order.  If every programmer, approximately 12 million people in the world (and growing), constructs at least one login system every couple of years, that's roughly:

12,000,000 * 3 * 31 * 24 / 2 = 13,392,000,000 hours

This says to me that approximately 13.4 billion man-hours are wasted each year dealing with login systems.  Okay, so not every programmer writes for the web or authors a login system, but we're still talking about an estimated minimum of two billion hours wasted each year.

This utter waste of time ends now.

Over the past 6 1/2 months, I've been working on a brand new platform:

Single Sign-On Server/Client

This offers a complete generic login system within a complete SSO server and client pair.  This system is so much more than just your average login system:  Under the hood is a powerful system that scales out with high-availability and offers all sorts of useful security features.  Usually with scalability comes end-user complexity but I've done my best to cover over the complexities with a nice administration interface and fairly simple installers.  Whatever I was not able to deal with in the admin interface, I thoroughly documented.

For your next project, consider using this SSO server and client instead of rolling your own login system.  You'll save time, money, and hair.

  1. While I understand your argument, and there is a good chance I'll use a solution like your SSO for projects I make, creating my own half-baked login system has taught me more about security than anything else.

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An adventure in writing a PECL extension for PHP

Okay this isn't so much a guide on how to write a PECL extension as it is to discuss my recent experience in writing a PHP extension, publishing it, and documenting it. My hope is that by reading through the struggles I went through, that others can benefit.

Writing an extension for PHP requires serious skills and patience. Extension writing is a complex macro dance and really requires good planning to pull off successfully. In my case, I wanted to introduce native named synchronization objects into PHP. This is something I've felt has been missing from the language for far too long and I didn't see anyone else doing work in the area. The first thing I did was write a cross-platform library in C++:

Cross-platform C++ library

Writing a C/C++ library as a proof-of-concept is a good start to writing a PHP extension. I highly recommend it. Developing a separate library allowed me to work out most of the kinks in the logic apart from the Zend engine. After I solidified…


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Bernard’s Psychfest Comedown event, 24 September

The Merchant, Slater Street, Liverpool, L1, 24 September, 2pm

Following on from the scorched-mind-world of Pzyk Fest ’17, Bernie Connor and Gareth Potter bring you a very special afternoon of left-field music;
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It’s the first weekend of Spring, but here in Boston it was turned cold again, with the potential for snow in the next 24 hours, so I thought that I would get one more “winter-ish” recipe in. Surprisingly, I have never posted this recipe, even though beef stew is one of my staple dishes. I usually make a big batch as it freezes well. And it makes the flat all nice and cozy. Onwards to spring, but first, enjoy some Bœuf Bourguignon, Kat style.
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It feels like this stuff is over my head, but I really want to make this work so I want to do this.

I have about 1GB of swap and 150MB for /var so is that enough?
Then I have to do # sysctl ddb.console=1, make my machine freeze on purpose with the ifconfig ath0 command or pulling out my wireless card (both cause my system to freeze up), press Ctrl+Alt+Esc (I'm not sure what a "serial console" is), and then do some ddb(4) commands (not sure which ones yet, I was hoping you could help with that), and make it log everything about the freeze with dmesg. Then examine the logs with gdb. What do I need to modify in the kernel in order for gdb to work?
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Thirteen more Russians joined the legal push to beat their country's doping ban and take part in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Thursday, taking the total number of appeals to 60 one day before the opening ceremony.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport, which was already dealing with 47 Russian appeals, said six athletes plus seven doctors, coaches and support staff had joined the list of last-ditch cases. “The applicants are challenging the IOC's refusal to invite them to participate in the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Winter Games,” a CAS statement said.

“They request that CAS overturn the IOC decision and allow them to participate in these Games.” In December, the International Olympic Committee suspended Russia over a state-sponsored doping conspiracy culminating in its hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

But the IOC left open a loophole when it said a large group of “clean” Russian athletes could take part under a neutral flag as “Olympic Athletes from Russia”.

The CAS drew criticism last week when it lifted life Olympic bans imposed on 28 Russians. But when 15 of them applied to take part in Pyeongchang, the IOC refused to give them invitations.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Disney's Mighty Ducks At McDonald's

What toy did you get in your Mighty Ducks McDonald's Happy Meal? Emilio Eztevez? Joshua Jackson? Nope, because this was all about the animated TV series.

The Mighty Ducks cartoon from 1996 was sort of a mad mix of The Mighty Ducks movies, Howard the Duck, Darkwing Duck, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Beverly Hills 90210.

This series shared little in common with the 1992 live action film besides the name and the logo on the team jersey.

The Mighty Ducks cartoon followed the adventures of a team of alien, hockey playing ducks living in the human world. And they also fought a race of alien dragon bad guys.

My favorite thing about the show was the theme song, performed by Mickey Thomas from Jefferson Starship.

The leader of the Mighty Ducks is Wildwing, voiced by Ian Ziering (of Beverly Hills 90210 fame). This masked duck was also the mascot for the real Disney hockey team, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, which debuted in 1993.

Wildwing's younger brother is Nosedive, voiced by Steve Mackall. Nosedive reminds me of Steven Weber's character "Brian" from the "Cheers" TV show spin-off, "Wings."

Mighty Ducks aired in syndication and Saturday Mornings on Disney's then-newly purchased ABC network.

Had this show been developed a year later as part of the 1997 "Disney's One Saturday Morning" on ABC, I wonder if it would have been a "kids in school" version of the Mighty Ducks along the lines of "Recess" and "Pepper Ann." I'm glad it wasn't, because I really like the outrageous premise of the Mighty Ducks from another galaxy.

Mallory, voiced by Jennifer Hale (a prolific actress who is currently the voice of Cinderella for Disney) looks a bit like an adult version of Gosalyn from Disney's 1991 TV series, "Darkwing Duck."

Duke L'Orange (voiced by Jeff Bennett) gets the award for the best named character on the show.

Gentle giant Grin is voiced by Brad Garrett (from "Everybody Loves Raymond").

Like all smart geniuses, Tanya (voiced by April Winchell) wears glasses.

Step back in time to November 1996 and see the Ducks in action.

It's hockey! It's ducks! It's a setup for another flashback!

Here we see how the space dragons were taking over the planet belonging to the space ducks. We don't see him here, but Tim Curry is the voice of Lord Dragaunus.

Wait, the ducks are in a comic book and are looking for comics at the same time? That, like, makes you think.

A Saurian (that's what the space dragons are called) henchman named Chameleon (voiced by Frank Welker) is up to no good.

In Anaheim, California, the Mighty Ducks played hockey at a rink called The Pond.

Wildwing wears a mood mask that changes color.

Disney Ducks were insanely popular on TV in the Eighties and Nineties.

The Mighty Ducks each have their own numbered jersey. I understand Wildwing's "00" and Duke's "13" but I don't know the significance of the others.

An "Ice A Zoni" Zamboni? Love that.

No Hockey Game is complete until there's a fight.

The Mighty Ducks don't have to worry about losing teeth.

This is a comic that doesn't take itself too seriously.

When you are talking about hockey playing space ducks, though, things could never be taken too seriously.

Did they ever play "Disco Duck" on that organ? Probably.

Disney sold the Mighty Ducks Hockey team in 2005. I guess these animated cold ducks will spend a lot of time chilling on ice.

After a long day of cleaning up the streets, the Mighty Ducks are now ready to fight grime (with Mighty Ducks Bubble Bath).

Revving up his motorcycle and popping a wheelie, Wildwing is the baddest rubber duckie I've ever seen.

  1. Hmmmmm, this is another one that was "after" my time. Was the Mighty Ducks cartoon part of "The Disney Afternoon" line-up?

  2. Hey TokyoMagic! The Disney Afternoon "brand" was finished by the time Mighty Ducks was airing in syndication. Eventually, the block of syndicated Disney shows became "Disney's One Too", banking on the success of "Disney's One Saturday Morning."


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An initial account of the restoration currently under way

COMPOSITION: The structure of the panel and the composition chosen by Pontormo for this painting imbue the scene with a strongly vertical feel, with the painting devised and conceived to be seen from the viewpoint of an observer gazing upwards. It is not clear whether Christ is being carried to the Virgin or being carried away, but in any event one's attention is captured by the swooning Virgin; in fact virtually every figure in the composition is emotionally involved in her malaise. Seeming indifference to her predicament is displayed only by the two characters looking directly at the observer, in other words the supposed self-portrait of the artist (sporting a turban and a simple scarf) and the angel with curly hair supporting the body of Christ in the foreground. The setting is an artificial "stage set" hill, a ploy devised by Pontormo to justify the figures being placed so high up.

SUPPORT: The Deposition is made up of six poplarwood planks displaying a subradial cut. The panel is joined together by three original (probably) larchwood cross-pieces inserted through a shim about one-third the thickness of the planks themselves. The knots in the wood were already present when the panel was being worked on, prompting Pontormo's carpenter to replace certain irregular areas with differently-shaped dowel plugs going right through the wood.

On the painted side of the panel, a slight depression in the neck of the kneeling angel shows where a "bow-tie" dowel has replaced a knot.
Small rectangular pieces of wood (which show up under X-ray) where the planks join one another are designed to strengthen and block the joints during glueing. A similar system is found on the Carmignano Visitation and was fairly common across the board in 16th century Florence. Chemical and stratigraphical analysis is currently being conducted to discover the makeup of the glue used to both fasten the planks together and in the painting itself.
A split in the joint which can be seen towards the top of the painting will be made good with the addition of an insert during restoration.

DRAWING: The painting was thought out with immense care, and indeed there exist numerous drawings not only of the panel but of the Capponi Chapel in its entirety, for instance the four drawings of the Patriarchs that adorned the chapel vault until it was renovated in the 18th century. To paint the panel, Pontormo used the cartoon method, which consists in tracing the drawing from a sheet with charcoal on the back directly onto the sized panel. We can often tell when the cartoon method was used rather than free-hand drawing because the outline is less incisive and continuous; in fact occasionally it even breaks off before being taken up again.

THE COLOURS: The colours are blended with lighter tones and shading is reduced to a bare minimum; in fact it is mostly absent, prompting Giorgio Vasari to say that: "...for, thinking always of new things, he executed it without shadows, and with a colouring so bright and so uniform, that one can scarcely distinguish the lights from the middle tints, and the middle tints from the darks": In other words the hues he adopted are so light and so similar in their intensity that the parts in full light (the lights) are virtually impossible to distinguish from those with a hint of shade (the middle tints), or those with a hint of shade from those in full shadow (the darks).
Picking up on Vasari's words, most of the pigments, which are very similar to those used for the four tondos in the chapel's squinches (which I myself restored in 2013) and, in part, for the Carmignano Visitation (restored in 2015), are almost all blended with white lead. That is why the work lights up regardless of where the light is coming from, although Pontormo's own light comes from the right to create such singular effects as, for example, the face of the handmaiden behind the Virgin who is struck by slanting right, or the woman's face which is grey because it is in shade, the light merely brushing her hair. Tones of light blue and steel blue dominate the picture, in which azurite is blended with white lead, black and lapis lazuli, especially in the central part of the composition where it highlights the figure of the Virgin, her crumpling and billowing robe taking up three-quarters of the painting.
The same is true of the sheath-like skin of the curly-haired angel supporting Christ's body, while the foreshortened figure holds Christ's neck as though it were a ball. In the background, the removal of the layers of varnish applied in earlier restorations has revealed the sky painted with a velatura consisting only in lapis lazuli and white lead, while a solitary cloud lit up by the reflection of the sun's rays emerges from beneath the warm, pinkish hue of the sizing.
The overall effect points to painter who is never slapdash, a painter who does not so much paint as modulate his drawing almost like a sculptor. The flesh is a blend of white lead, vermilion and a touch of red ochre, while the curly locks are a blend of white lead and yellow and red ochre. The way the flesh is rendered gives the observer the feeling that he is looking at a painting and at figures not painted by human hand.
The pink of the garments is reminiscent of crushed cyclamens, finished with madder lacquer on the few areas of shade. The palette, which is the same as the one the artist used for his Visitation, is typical of Pontormo's mature work from the second half of the 1520s, after he had turned thirty.
Mary Magdalen's hair, which we see from behind, is deliberately left unkempt, hanging down her back like serpents' tongues. There is no dividing line between her flesh and the candy pink of her gown. The colours seem to be tattoed on the skin like overalls that neither define nor create folds, producing the lizard-like effect we see, for example, on the figure of St. John at the top of the picture. Pontormo did not want to break the flowing continuity of his forms, thus none of the garments has cuffs of any kind. Michelangelo's nudes on the Sistine ceiling are likely to have struck Pontormo's imagination and to have influenced him in this instance.
That may be one of the reasons why the picture began to enjoy a certain popularity in the 19th century, before which date it was generally dismissed as an eccentric painting of little worth. Today it is rightly acknowledged as the very symbol of Florentine Mannerist painting. The greens are obtained with a blend of copper, malachite and white lead with copper resinate for the shading, as we can see, for instance, on the tape emerging from the sleeve of the curly-haired figure on the left, while the robe of the figure carrying Christ is in malachite green without the copper resinate used to create shade and folds. The orange is a mixture of white lead, yellow and red ochre, and cinnabar, while the red is usually vermilion.

CLEANING: The last time the panel was moved was in 1936, when it was sent to an exhibition in Paris after Professor Vermeghen had restored it in 1935. Subsequent restoration in the 1960s and '70s was confined to applying varnish and to retouching older repainting that had deteriorated. We are currently completing removal of the layers of varnish and the retouching on candle burns in an attempt to get back to what is known as the "respectful film", in other words a very thin film of varnish beneath which the colours still remain pure and are preserved over time. Daniele Rossi


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Friday, January 11, 2013

Baltimore vs. Bullock’s Orioles

While reviewing my blog, I am surprised how little I have had to say about Baltimore or Bullock’s orioles. These species are common across North America, with the Baltimore (above from Minnesota) breeding in the East, and the Bullock’s (below from Arizona) in the West. Across the Great Plains, where their ranges overlap, the two species interbreed—even though, as you can see in these photos, the two populations look quite different.  In 1983, citing this hybridization, ornithologists merged the two populations into a single species, the Northern Oriole.

Much to the delight of North American bird listers, the merge of the Baltimore and Bullock’s orioles only lasted a little over a decade.  During this time a number of discoveries were made. The zone of hybridization between the two species is relatively narrow, only some 150 to 200 miles wide. Hybrids are only very rarely found outside this zone and pure types are often observed, even in the zone’s center. Ornithologists concluded that, although lots of hybrids can be found within the stable hybrid zone, gene flow is restricted across the zone.  Perhaps hybrids are formed only where the appropriate mates are not easily encountered. Furthermore, because of the hybridization, ornithologists have always assumed the two species are closely related. To their surprise, a number of biochemical studies indicate Baltimore and Bullock’s orioles are not each other’s closest relative. Baltimore Orioles are more closely related to Altamira Orioles, while Bullock’s are closest to Streaked-backed Orioles (Rising and Flood 1998).

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The shocks for this monster are additional lengthy for more absorption of impression, and they're nitride-coated. The chassis is mild-bodyweight and stiff so that it glides around rocks, branches and anything else you toss at it.

But the most significant seller stays which the TR-III features a sensible driving encounter because its tracks is often driven independently supplying the best achievable really feel as far as functions go.

On the point of strike the really popular scale crawling scene could be the ECX Barrage. The Barrage is really a 1.9 sized crawler having a scale design chassis and system.

Nevertheless, in case you end up in the marketplace for an off-highway crawler, the sole option that you should significantly contemplate is the line of solutions launched by Exceed RC.

Previously the only real way to develop a contest able rock crawler was to purchase bits and parts of numerous diverse kits here and there. This extensive and often irritating system could just take so long as a number of months just to find the appropriate components together...

The best purchases Allow me to share the Losi and Axial types, both equally of which gives you an enormous taste of RC rock crawling pleasurable with out forcing you to tackle much more than it is possible to chew.

The first products package deal contains a rechargeable battery and also a cost to recharge it. Additionally, it incorporates two radio channels While using the frequency of two.four GHz. It includes Bead-lock rock tires that are the best rock crawling tires and 4 aluminum capped oil loaded shocks.

I omitted these plugs fully by soldering the related wires alongside one another. I also eliminated the on/off switch and soldered its direct wires jointly. Now the Wraith is driven on Once i plug inside the battery.

I have already transformed into FPV and its was a blast to push through immersive FPV video clip goggle. Contemplating acquiring a 2nd 1. In this article my youtube hyperlinks: Good crawler! trending_up Worth

What they connect with it might be a bit redundant with “real looking” and “scale” inside the name and it might be a little bit pricy at $forty bonuses six, but there is no denying This is certainly amazing. Plus as far as the associated fee goes, the jacks are marketed being a pair, so you could split the price with a […]

The worm gear acts as being a crack when no power is equipped. When electric power is supplied, axle torque is optimized Hence the car or truck will not be thrown off-equilibrium though climbing. A small gear assembly presents added ground clearance beneath the axle housing.

Complex rock crawling is focused on finding your car or truck above not possible hurdles. This activity is stuffed with radical, objective-developed devices. Rock racing is in fact a full-scale racing sport Along with RC. There are various components of rock racing, even so the gist is it brings together elements of offroad pace along with preposterous obstructions (and mud, and sounds).

They may be all great in their very own approaches, but each one also has its weaknesses. The best start line for you will depend on your Choices for such things as kit vs RTR, Lexan vs hardbody, terrain and driving design, and budget.

This is certainly greatly cost effective rock crawler in marketplace, but nevertheless efficiency is much more than normal. Really nice RC rock crawler thinking of it's value.

For individuals who will likely be navigating difficult terrains, center on the suspension models. Increase a front and rear High definition Steering Knuckles so as to add a lot more toughness to complement its 6x15mm outer bearing.

All electronics about the Evening Crawler 2.0 are water-resistant, so you are going to hardly ever have to worry about the Full report servo, motor or ESC when Mother Mother nature is at her worst.

The Maisto Rock Crawler features each front and rear articulated suspension. This causes it to be perfect for climbing. Most of the time the suspension in toy quality RC vehicles will not be great. That's not the situation with this particular 1. It is possible to get one particular wheel at the very least a few inches prior to A different wheel will come up.

Be certain to check out our rock crawler areas section! You will find the entire substitution and upgrade elements that you have to keep your crawler in motion from light kits, chassis, roll cages, components, and much more, all at RC Planet's certain very low price tag.

This Outstanding crawler includes water-resistant electronics as a result ideal for driving in snow. This causes it to be your best collection.

The body is vacuum-shaped for just one, tough piece that resists effect but manages to stay light-weight. It also utilizes a tri-channel frequency for your transmitter, so that you can Participate in with other RC cars although using it.

Posts: 3 Re: Best rock crawler I such as the losi comp crawler, plus the axial, but I wanted the venom.. Share Share this post on

this can be a broad query. for electric, have a look at holmes hobbies. he sells a lot of the best motors on the market. i run a handwound 55t in my axial comp rig. it really works well on 3s, however, if I had been shopping for A different It will be a 35t handwound.

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The Everest-ten can be modifiable for RC homeowners with a little sense of adventure and independence. Its battery is quite available, along with the battery tray can certainly be opened to be able to change the seven.

This time around, the decision was designed to create things a wee little bit more compact, while nonetheless providing a superior amount of performance. Enter, Yeti Jr.™ Rock Racer 1/18th Scale Electric powered 4WD - RTR. We’ve taken all you’ve arrive at adore and recognize while in the Yeti chassis, but shrunk it down ...

On the other hand, there aren’t numerous toy grade RC autos we could consider that do exactly what the Rock Crawler can perform. The Maisto Rock crawler can deal with all the categories of difficult terrain, and may also rather actually climb rocks.

The Axial Yeti XL™ Monster Buggy - a completely new group, a different frontier, a brand new dimension. From the start on the idea from the design and style stage, we drew on our brand philosophy to establish and provide one thing various to the R/C monster truck arena.

Posts: two,one hundred fifty Who would make the best rock crawler That being the case, I might absolutely steer you faraway from the TF2 Find out more as a first scaler/crawler. The inventory setup is quirky to mention the the very least, and it's going to take some weighty modifications (either greatly massaging the leaf set up or switching out to some joined suspension) to obtain it even to the very same ballpark being an SCX10's capabilities. It can be dialed in pretty well in case you understand what you're looking for and Anything you're performing, however it would have pissed off me as a starting point without having some practical experience with one other rigs 1st.

And Group Losi might have stopped there, and still impressed us, but they went a step further to slap on adjustable LED lights to make sure that crawling actions won't be hindered by darkness, and a strong 35T motor; someway taking care of to cram all of that technological goodness right into a outstanding chassis that arrives shockproof.

CR-01 - quirky cantilever suspension is astonishingly able crawler bone inventory, 3 very neat scale-searching human body solutions, many pleasurable to push, but Make is often laborous because of about challenging layout, areas assist and 3rd occasion possibilities additional minimal than Axial, ought to go 4WS to get respectable turning radius

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Friday, March 27, 2009

alberta newspapers awash in national awards.

The mainstream media has taken quite a beating over the past year, and while it's really easy to focus on the negative (especially when people are losing their jobs), it's important to recognize some of the great journalists and newspapers that are continuing to report, write, and publish print news in our communities.

Earlier this month, the Canadian Community Newspapers Association announced the winners of their annual awards. Congrats to the Alberta award winners, which included the Wainwright Star Chronicle, Elk Point Review, Jasper Booster (which has since shut down), Vaxhaull Advance, MacLeod Gazette, South Peace News, Taber Times, Hinton Parklander, Peace River Record-Gazette, Bonnyville Nouvelle, Banff Crag & Canyon, Rocky Mountain Outlook, Canmore Leader, St. Albert Gazette, Okotoks Western Wheel, Fast Forward Weekly, SEE Magazine, Sherwood Park News, Sylvan Lake News, Athabasca Advocate, Strathmore Standard, Provost News, Wainwright Edge, Drumheller Mail, and Lethbridge Community College's Endeavour.

While they have yet to announce the winners, three writers, one photographer, one cartoonist, and a team of reporters are among the Alberta nominees for the 2009 Canadian Newspaper Association National Newspaper Awards:

Beat Reporting: Michelle Lang, Calgary Herald, for health and medicine coverage

Arts and Entertainment: Elizabeth Withey, Edmonton Journal, for stories of three Canadian artists, two in music and one author

Feature Photography: Ian Martens, Lethbridge Herald, for a shot of a full moon as a backdrop for a wedding photograph being taken by another photographer

Editorial Cartooning: John B. Larter, Calgary Herald

News Photography: Ted Rhodes, Calgary Herald, for a photo of a distraught woman who has just learned her son was the victim of a murder.

Breaking News: Calgary Herald team’s coverage of the Lall family murders

Michael in Calgary said...

Once again, Calgary proves its superior capabilities to its lesser, more Northern sister city, Edmonton.

But seriously, congrats to them all.

Ken Chapman said...

My business partner Satya Das has been a judge for the National Newspaper Awards for years. He says there is always interesting stuff he gets to look at.


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Book Review: The Clinical and Forensic Assessment of Psychopathy: A Practitioner’s Guide

Carl B. Gacono, Ph.D. Editor
Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Personality and Clinical Psychology Series (Irving B. Weiner, Editor)
available at www.erlbaum.com

Review by David S. Prescott, LICSW
ATSA Forum, Spring 2001

Although the core elements of psychopathy have been recognized in numerous cultures across the centuries, it has only been ten years since the publication of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist – Revised (PCL-R). This standardized measure has proven to be a robust predictor of criminal recidivism, possesses strong psychometric properties, and has many potential applications. Its current two-factor structure emphasizes both affective and interpersonal elements of the disorder as well as its associated behaviors. It therefore provides more useful information than the diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder.

This comprehensive and user-friendly volume will be of primary importance to practitioners who may have contact with psychopaths, including those who evaluate and treat sexual abusers. Recent research has been disturbing: Seto and Barbaree found that, among 224 adult sex offenders, higher levels of psychopathy combined with apparently good treatment progress were associated with serious recidivism. A number of studies have shown that psychopaths with measurable sexual deviance recidivated in significantly higher numbers than their non-psychopathic counterparts. There have been no studies to date showing treatment to reduce recidivism.

Dr. Gacono has assembled this volume thoughtfully. An extensive overview of the construct includes discussion of the information processing and emotional experiences of psychopaths as well as an introduction to the PCL-R and its Screening Version. Diverse clinical applications follow, ranging from legal and ethical issues to clinical interviewing and report writing. Serin and Brown provide a succinct chapter on risk assessment that will serve as a reference standard for forensic evaluators.

A key feature of this volume is an emphasis on psychopathy throughout the individual’s life span. Paul Frick presents his most comprehensive chapter to date on the emergence of psychopathic traits in childhood and describes the development of his “Psychopathy Screening Device”. Forth and Mailloux present new and fascinating information that has accrued in the development of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist – Youth Version. Among other findings noted here was a retrospective study where non-violent psychopathic offenders were as likely to be violent in the follow-up period as psychopaths previously know to have been violent.

Also of interest is a section on special applications. Michael Seto and Martin LaLumière contribute a chapter on psychopathy and sexual aggression. The interrelationships among sexual deviance, mating effort, and antisociality are explored with a review of the literature. The authors also address Risk assessment and management and describe the use of the Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG) in predicting violent behavior.

Seto and LaLumière further address the controversial topic of treatment for psychopathic sex offenders. They point out that many treatment programs for sex offenders have emphasized such areas as social skills, victim empathy, and responsibility that are better suited to non-psychopaths. Referring to other areas of criminology they argue for the development of specialized cognitive-behavioral treatment that addresses areas of antisociality related to general recidivism, such as procriminal attitudes and peers as well as learning prosocial strategies within a framework of tight supervision.

Other areas of special interest include modified scales for use in hostage negotiations. Paul Babiak contributes a chapter on “psychopathic manipulation at work” that expands his earlier work on understanding how sub-criminal psychopaths operate in organizations. Other chapters include discussions of criminal lifestyles and substance abuse. Finally, the four appendices include practical information such as an alternative semi-structured interview schedule for the PCL-R, a sample forensic evaluation by Reid Meloy, and numerous references.

Dr. Gacono stresses numerous benefits of assessing psychopathy, including training front line staff in residential settings, the presentation of new areas of inquiry for evaluators, diagnostic refining, the informing of supervision decisions, and the development of specialized programs. He emphasizes the need for high standards of training and assessment. His thoughts are particularly timely given the potential misuses of the Hare scales.

Psychopathy has been an elusive and emotionally charged concept. Getting started in its assessment is labor-intensive and accomplished best with specialized workshops. The strength of this volume is its ease of access into an area of mental health where solid knowledge and rigorous assessment standards are essential. In 1996, Robert Hare described psychopathy as “a construct whose time has come”. With the addition of this book, Gacono rightly claims that “Psychopathy is a construct that is likely here to stay”.

References available on request.

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Career Guidance Cell

Career Counseling and Guidance Cell endeavors for the the holistic development of every student in the campus so that they can serve their community, society and motherland.

Keeping in view Students Focused Approach, the Cell provides career as well as psychological counseling to students. The counseling cell of the college begins with a significant role from admissions days by rendering valuable career guidance to students to help them to choose the right subject combinations in conjunction with their aptitude and attitude. Throughout the year, career counseling programs are carried as when the students needs any guidance from Career Counseling Cell.

Beside career, the cell also provides psychological counseling to students, addressing any behavioral problems or any other psycho-social problems/issues that they might have in their life in coordination with Department of Students Welfare. Career Counseling Cell is ready for any kind of help and guidance to students for any other problem that they might face, thereby smoothening their journey in the college and preparing them for their future life ahead to serve society, community and motherland.

1) During admission days, the Career Counseling Cell team remained active to help the needy     students in the selection of their courses.

2) Career Counseling Cell extended its cooperation to Jalandhar Chapter of NIRC of ICSI in organizing “Student Induction Programme” scheduled to be held on 30th June to 7th July,2014 but was postponed due to technical reasons.

3) Extended helping hand to “TIMESPRO”(THE TIMES OF INDIA GROUP) to conduct walk-in-drive for the Banking Programme on 25th and 26th July in association with Training and Placement Cell, D A V College, Jalandhar in which 14 students were selected.

4) A page on Face Book “Career Counseling and Guidance Cell” was launched on which various articles/information is posted regarding career awareness among college students. Till date 17 articles are posted.

5) Students keep on visiting the office to secure a solution to their queries regarding career. Around 300 students have visited the office so far.

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Dr A K Sharma

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New age technology

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Changing the name of my blog

As my blog gets linked to more resources, I was thinking that perhaps I should get more creative in the title of my blog. Right now it's simply, "Dawn's blog", which is comfortable, to the point, and personal. However, it doesn't really identify much about my blog except that the author's name is Dawn.

The reason I started blogging is so that I could have a means to promote and update people on the progress of my books, and I could write opinions and devotionals and poems. Now I've created a music album, so will be updating about that as well. I strive to communicate truth from God's Word in a written format, and rather than having something that I have to write on any particular schedule, I simply write "as the Spirit leads." Sometimes I write about something that is heavy on my heart, or I want to give some information about a book signing, share photos, etc. I like to share resources that I believe would be helpful, or share something great I read or heard from the preaching of my pastor. My desire as I write my blog, as well as my books and music, is to be down to earth, practical, and kind in my approach, not trying to be "preachy", but rather to be edifying and encouraging. I hope you as my readers find this to be the case.

Having said that, I am hoping for some ideas from my readers on a good title for my blog. "Christian Corner" comes to mind, "Standing Strong", or something like that. I'd appreciate any input!

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