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Scripting News turns 30

there's a nice companion piece for Dave Winer's milestone in The Guardian #




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Scriptural Teaching On Predestination




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Sola Scriptura




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Unveiling the Scriptures - 1




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Unveiling the Scriptures - 2




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Unveiling the Scriptures - 3




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Unveiling the Scriptures - 4




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Unveiling the Scriptures - 5




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Unveiling the Scriptures - 6




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Unveiling the Scriptures - 5




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Unveiling the Scriptures - 6




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Divine Worship: the Small Entrance and Scripture

This is lesson three in Fr. Apostolos' series on Divine Worship; this installment addressing the historical development of the Small Entrance and the significance of the Readings in view of the centrality of Holy Scripture in the lives of Christian believers.




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When We Disagree with Holy Scripture

Fr. Apostolos Hill preaches on what to do when we come upon disagreeable passages in Holy Scripture, such as Abraham's statement to the Rich Man that he has already received his "good things" in his life and can expect nothing more.




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Encountering Christ in the Scriptures and the Eucharist

On the Sunday of St Thomas, we hear of the encounter of the Apostle with the risen Christ. Fr Thomas teaches us that we too must make every effort to encounter the resurrected Christ both in the Holy Scriptures and in the Eucharist.




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Interpreting the Scriptures




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Rebel, Mercenary, Conscript or Volunteer?




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You Know Neither the Scriptures, Nor the Power of God




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Why Sola Scriptura Doesn't Work

A blogger on Orthodox Christianity and subdeacon at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church in Bellingham, Washington, explains why the Scriptures must be read in the context of tradition.




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Daily Scripture Reading: Part One

In this episode, former CrossRoad assistant director Daniel Belonick discusses reading and understanding scripture with CrossRoad professor Fr. Theodore Stylianopoulos.




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Daily Scripture Reading: Part Two

Daniel Belonick continues his discussion with Fr. Theodore Stylianopoulos about daily scripture reading, this time focusing on how to approach passages that are difficult to understand.




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Scripture and Tradition

Fr. Eugen Pentiuc explores the intimate relationship between scripture and tradition. He emphasizes the centrality of the biblical text.




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https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/1/22559852/microsoft-windows-11-black-blue-screen-of-death-bsod-change

Microsoft is changing its famous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to black in Windows 11. The software giant started testing its new design changes in a Windows 11 preview earlier this week, but the Black Screen of Death isn’t fully enabled yet. The Verge understands Microsoft will be switching to a Black Screen of Death for Windows 11, matching the new black logon and shutdown screens.




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How Should We Describe the Human Condition?

The Cross of Christ addresses the human condition. On the Sunday before the Elevation of the Holy Cross Fr. Pat examines three traits of the human condition.




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Scripture and Tradition

Kevin Allen speaks with the William F. Orr Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Dr Edith M. Humphrey, on the relationship between the oral and written traditions of the Bible and how the various Christian faith traditions have made a relatively modern dichotomy between Scripture and Holy Tradition.




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The Scriptures

St. Paul talks about reading the Scriptures. So do you?




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'We scrum to dominate' - behind the eight-man Boks machine

What is the secret behind South Africa’s eight-man machine – arguably the most formidable and feared scrum in rugby?




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The Best Way to Get Call Transcriptions (+5 Alternatives)

If you’re looking for a robust tool that transcribes your calls in real-time, integrates with the most popular meeting platforms, and can even attend meetings in your place, Otter.ai is for you. In this post, we’ll share exactly how to use Otter, plus we’ll give you some alternative options for […]

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Steal These Free Call Center Job Description Templates

Recruiting and hiring call center employees can be a pain, but it doesn’t have to be so bad. For example, depending on the roles you’re looking to hire, you may not even have to write a job description—because you can just use ours instead.  Below, we’ve put together four of […]

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Scrum V's rugby history

All the Welsh captains, coaches and a host of stats and results for rugby in Wales.




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Scrum V

Lauren chats with Wales prop Nicky Smith after his return to the Wales squad this autumn.




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Scrum V Top 5: Sam Warburton on turning down Toulon

Former Wales and British and Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton tells of his chance to join French Top 14 side Toulon in 2013.




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Scrum V

Gareth sits down with captain Dewi Lake to discuss Wales' autumn opponents.




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Scrum V

Alex Cuthbert, Jonathan Davies and Tom Shanklin share their experiences of facing Fiji.




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Scrum V

Gareth and Lauren dissect Wales' defeat to Fiji with Richie Rees and Siwan Lillicrap.




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Scrum V

Mike Bubbins welcomes Wales legend Dan Biggar to his bar to pick his top five opponents.




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Scrum V Top 5 - Sam Warburton's top team-mates

Sam Warburton reveals his all-time top five team-mates.




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Edinburgh University students tell of discrimination on campus

Edinburgh University students have been talking about the kind of discrimination they have come across on campus.




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Wales childcare provider business rates scrapped

Registered childcare providers in Wales won't have to pay business rates, says the Welsh government.




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Bath cinema offers dog-friendly screenings

Owners can watch a movie with their dogs at The Little Theatre Cinema in Bath.




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The problem with superscripts and subscripts

When marking up a web page featuring text that requires superscripts or subscripts, we should use the semantically meaningful <sup> and <sub> elements. Examples include footnote references(1) and simple maths 1210=C12.

When browsers come across <sup> and <sub> elements, their user agent stylesheet usually applies rules like this:

sub { 
  vertical-align: sub;
  font-size: smaller;
  line-height: normal;
}

This makes the text smaller and shifts the baseline up or down. There’s two downsides to this. The first is that the baseline shift usually causes anomalous line spacing, that is to say lines are pushed up or down to make space for the sub- or superscript. Secondly the sub/superscripted characters look slightly off – effectively their font weight has been reduced compared with the surrounding text.

Many OpenType fonts ship with properly designed sub- and superscripts. These are specifically designed for the purpose – the glyphs are already small (no change in font size required), retain a comparable weight and have a different shape compared with regular characters, as befits a thoughtfully shrunk down glyph. Even if these characters are available in the current font, browsers will ignore them and continue to synthesise using CSS properties. There are sensible reasons for this, as we shall see.

It is very easy to get browsers to swap in the OpenType glyphs instead – just use the font-variant-position property. For browsers which support it (all modern ones) you can override the user agent stylesheet and implement font-variant-position as follows:

@supports ( font-variant-position: sub ) {
  sub {
    vertical-align: baseline;
    font-size: 100%;
    line-height: inherit;
    font-variant-position: sub;
  }
}

But there’s a potential problem. What happens if the characters in the text you need to superscript are not all available as OpenType alternates in the current font? According to the CSS Fonts Module Level 4 specification, browsers should synthesise the whole superscript, even if some characters are available as proper superscripts:

Because of the semantic nature of subscripts and superscripts, when the value [of font-variant-position] is either sub or super for a given contiguous run of text, if a variant glyph is not available for all the characters in the run, simulated glyphs should be synthesised for all characters using reduced forms of the glyphs that would be used without this feature applied.

Phew. Job done. You’d have thought. Unfortunately at the time of writing only Firefox supports this behaviour; WebKit and Chromium do not. If the webfont has loaded, the font you are currently reading contains the following superscript alternates: 0123456789(). That is to say no letters or other characters except the numbers 0–9 and a pair of parentheses. Now let’s consider the following markup:

2a<sup>2</sup> a<sup>2a</sup> a<sup>(2)</sup>
a<sup>(2a)</sup> a<sup>[2]</sup>

The superscripts vary, in that some of them contain characters which are all available, and others contain a mixture. The text should render like this:

Screenshot from Firefox 129b/Mac

This is how it renders in the browser you are currently using:

2a2 a2a a(2) a(2a) a[2]
As currently rendered in your browser

The chances are that none of the ‘a’s or square brackets are superscripted at all. I’ve filed this as a bug in Chromium and Webkit. I’ve also asked that font-variant-position be removed from Baseline until these bugs are fixed, as support is evidently incomplete, but also because that lack of support is harmful to the visual semantics, in other words it could change the intention and meaning of the text.

Finally I’ve proposed that full support for font-variant-position is included in Interop 2025. If you want to see this happen give my proposal some love.

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This Cinema's Screening The Muppet Christmas Carol Every Day In December Up To Xmas Eve

41 times in all.




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Festive Film Screenings: Where To Watch Christmas Movies In London This Year

Pop-up cinemas screening Christmas classics.




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News roundup: deck.js, Yahoo Kills off Maps API, Patterns for Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture

Listen to this week's podcast (September 9, 2011) Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture is a lengthy article by Addy Osmani detailing some basic principles of writing a large-scale JavaScript application. It's inspired by a classic Nicholas Zakas talk outlining some of the same principles ...




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News roundup: JavaScript under attack!

Listen to this week's podcast (Podcast edit: I mistakenly mention Respond.js, which is actually a media query polyfill - I'm actually talking about Responsive images) Google Dart By far the biggest news of the week isn't JavaScript, but rather a language called Dart (formerly Dash?), which certain factions within Google hope will replace ...




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News roundup: 11-11-11! insertAdjacentHTML, classes in JavaScript?, twilight of Flash and Silverlight, Yahoo! Cocktails

Listen to the podcast for November 11, 2011 insertAdjacentHTML Mozilla has a nice overview of insertAdjacentHTML, a DOM function that's intended to supplement innerHTML. It's a bit less destructive and plays nicely with content that's already in the DOM. For instance, whereas innerHTML completely blows away whatever is inside the ...




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News roundup: iOS Orientationchange Fix, JavaScript Patterns, jQ.Mobi

Listen to this week's podcast (January 20, 2012)! iOS Orientationchange Fix jQuery Mobile's Scott Jehl has released iOS-Orientationchange-Fix (read his blog post). This has been a persistent annoyance on iOS since its release. You may be familiar with the mobile viewport tag, which allows you to properly fit sites to ...




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Normas para la escritura científica


La ciencia en español no se escribe como en inglés

El lenguaje científico se distingue porque trata un campo concreto del saber y porque se suele dirigir a especialistas o profesionales de ese campo del saber, por lo que usa una terminología específica. Además de que los vocablos utilizados resulten extraños a un hablante lego en la materia, el significado de esos vocablos es preciso y objetivo, y puede ser distinto al que se conoce en el lenguaje común.

Hace ya años que el inglés se ha erigido como idioma de comunicación en las ciencias experimentales. Como consecuencia, cualquier investigador científico que quiera estar al día y divulgar sus conocimientos se verá obligado a leer, escribir y publicar básicamente en ese idioma, con lo que el hábito de comunicarse en inglés acaba corrompiendo su idioma materno con expresiones y usos anglicistas innecesarios, que se transmiten luego al resto de la población igualmente entendida con la que se interrelaciona—profesores, periodistas, científicos—, con lo cual entran fácilmente en circulación. El descuido con el que se trata el tema de la escritura científica en español es, por tanto, enorme a pesar de que también existen organismos y colecciones de reglas que orientan en el correcto empleo del español a la hora de traducir o crear un documento científico.

En las páginas de este pequeño manual interactivo se pretende ofrecer, tanto a profesores como a estudiantes, un marco conceptual y descriptivo en torno al lenguaje científico, de acuerdo con los parámetros de la ciencia. Nada nos gustaría más que servir de referencia para el estudio, producción y corrección de cualquier tipo de texto científico. Autor: Gonzalo Claros.

[Al pie se encuentran enlaces con más recursos, aunque no todos funcionan, y el archivo en PDF para imprimir].




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Translating notary terms 4: Is “deed” a good translation for escritura pública?

“Deed” is sometimes used as a translation for escritura pública. Is it a good translation? What is a deed? A deed is a formal legal document. In England and Wales, transfers of land, mortgages, powers of attorney, some business agreements and wills must be executed as deeds. In the US, deeds are only required for […]