Sunday, May 31, 2009

I worked in the afternoon and at night my project about running an email server on Linux Debian Lenny. It works already, with POSTFIX, APACHE2, DOVECOT, SQUIRRELMAIL, THUNDERMAIL, EVOLUTION MAIL... It is great that I was able to learn how to make all of this work. It is very useful to know this, since it could help me in the future in case I have a LAN network or even for administering my own email server for working on the Internet.

Jaime Montoya
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

I worked from 3:00 to 5:00 AM on the Flash presentations for this morning about data warehouse. I thougt it would take me longer to finish that, but it was fast and easy. In the morning I was in Distributed Computing class, and it was a morning of presentations.

Jaime Montoya
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Friday, May 29, 2009

In the morning I was vaccinated against measles (rubeola) and rubella at UNIDAD DE SALUD DR. TOMÁS PINEDA MARTÍNEZ, in the center of Santa Ana city. The vaccine was SR, which stands for Sarampión and Rubeola, in Spanish. So this would not be the MMR (Measles-Mumps-Rubella) but just MR I guess.

In the afternoon and at night I worked on a paper about data warehouses, which I finished at night.

Jaime Montoya
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

In the afternoon I worked on a paper due this Sarturday, about data warehouses, but before that, I received two guys from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I argued with them in a polite way, about things they teach that I don't agree with. At 5:30 PM I was in Computer Labs Administration class, and at night I had Ethics class.

Jaime Montoya
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

I studied with a friend during the afternoon stuff about subnetting and using Packet Tracer 5.1 for creating networks with routing protocols both static and dynamic. At night I had the test in Computer Networking Lab class, about using Packet Tracer 5.1. It was in couples, and I got 8.0 with my partner.

Jaime Montoya
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

At 12:45 AM I visited Yahoo! Answers and answered this question:

I want to get married but how?

I want to get married and start a new life for myself. I live in an awful place with few people of good quality to meet. I just seem to be isolated from opportunities to meet good women. I tend to run into man haters, judgment makers and other low life scum who seem more interested in dosh and things. I wont accept these kinds of people thus is the reason why I have no one. it seems like a man must be stupid, violent or a doormat to be appreciated. I dont know what to do to be honest. I am close to giving up on finding someone. I'd go anywhere in the world to be with someone who really appreciates me.

My answer:

You can pray wholeheartedly and ask God to give you the right woman for you. This is something the Bible says:

Proverbs 19:14 (New International Version)
Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

After that I read and listened to these chapters from the Bible, at Biblegateway.com:

1 Chronicles 22-25 (New International Version)

1 Chronicles 22

¹ Then David said, "The house of the LORD God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

Preparations for the Temple

² So David gave orders to assemble the aliens living in Israel, and from among them he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God. ³ He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more bronze than could be weighed. ⁴ He also provided more cedar logs than could be counted, for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought large numbers of them to David.

⁵ David said, "My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it." So David made extensive preparations before his death.

⁶ Then he called for his son Solomon and charged him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel. ⁷ David said to Solomon: "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God. ⁸ But this word of the LORD came to me: 'You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. ⁹ But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon, ^a]">[a] and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign. ¹⁰ He is the one who will build a house for my Name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.'

¹¹ "Now, my son, the LORD be with you, and may you have success and build the house of the LORD your God, as he said you would. ¹² May the LORD give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the LORD your God. ¹³ Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the LORD gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.

¹⁴ "I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the LORD a hundred thousand talents ^b]">[b] of gold, a million talents ^c]">[c] of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them. ¹⁵ You have many workmen: stonecutters, masons and carpenters, as well as men skilled in every kind of work ¹⁶ in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and the LORD be with you."

¹⁷ Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon. ¹⁸ He said to them, "Is not the LORD your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has handed the inhabitants of the land over to me, and the land is subject to the LORD and to his people. ¹⁹ Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the LORD your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD."

1 Chronicles 23

The Levites

¹ When David was old and full of years, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

² He also gathered together all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and Levites. ³ The Levites thirty years old or more were counted, and the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand. ⁴ David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand are to supervise the work of the temple of the LORD and six thousand are to be officials and judges. ⁵ Four thousand are to be gatekeepers and four thousand are to praise the LORD with the musical instruments I have provided for that purpose."

⁶ David divided the Levites into groups corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

Gershonites

⁷ Belonging to the Gershonites:
Ladan and Shimei.

⁸ The sons of Ladan:
Jehiel the first, Zetham and Joel—three in all.

⁹ The sons of Shimei:
Shelomoth, Haziel and Haran—three in all.
These were the heads of the families of Ladan.

¹⁰ And the sons of Shimei:
Jahath, Ziza, ^d]">[d] Jeush and Beriah.
These were the sons of Shimei—four in all.

¹¹ Jahath was the first and Ziza the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons; so they were counted as one family with one assignment.

Kohathites

¹² The sons of Kohath:
Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel—four in all.

¹³ The sons of Amram:
Aaron and Moses.
Aaron was set apart, he and his descendants forever, to consecrate the most holy things, to offer sacrifices before the LORD, to minister before him and to pronounce blessings in his name forever. ¹⁴ The sons of Moses the man of God were counted as part of the tribe of Levi.

¹⁵ The sons of Moses:
Gershom and Eliezer.

¹⁶ The descendants of Gershom:
Shubael was the first.

¹⁷ The descendants of Eliezer:
Rehabiah was the first.
Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very numerous.

¹⁸ The sons of Izhar:
Shelomith was the first.

¹⁹ The sons of Hebron:
Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third and Jekameam the fourth.

²⁰ The sons of Uzziel:
Micah the first and Isshiah the second.

Merarites

²¹ The sons of Merari:
Mahli and Mushi.
The sons of Mahli:
Eleazar and Kish.

²² Eleazar died without having sons: he had only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.

²³ The sons of Mushi:
Mahli, Eder and Jerimoth—three in all.

²⁴ These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families as they were registered under their names and counted individually, that is, the workers twenty years old or more who served in the temple of the LORD. ²⁵ For David had said, "Since the LORD, the God of Israel, has granted rest to his people and has come to dwell in Jerusalem forever, ²⁶ the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the articles used in its service." ²⁷ According to the last instructions of David, the Levites were counted from those twenty years old or more.

²⁸ The duty of the Levites was to help Aaron's descendants in the service of the temple of the LORD : to be in charge of the courtyards, the side rooms, the purification of all sacred things and the performance of other duties at the house of God. ²⁹ They were in charge of the bread set out on the table, the flour for the grain offerings, the unleavened wafers, the baking and the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size. ³⁰ They were also to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD. They were to do the same in the evening ³¹ and whenever burnt offerings were presented to the LORD on Sabbaths and at New Moon festivals and at appointed feasts. They were to serve before the LORD regularly in the proper number and in the way prescribed for them.

³² And so the Levites carried out their responsibilities for the Tent of Meeting, for the Holy Place and, under their brothers the descendants of Aaron, for the service of the temple of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 24

The Divisions of Priests

¹ These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron:
The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ² But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, and they had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar served as the priests. ³ With the help of Zadok a descendant of Eleazar and Ahimelech a descendant of Ithamar, David separated them into divisions for their appointed order of ministering. ⁴ A larger number of leaders were found among Eleazar's descendants than among Ithamar's, and they were divided accordingly: sixteen heads of families from Eleazar's descendants and eight heads of families from Ithamar's descendants. ⁵ They divided them impartially by drawing lots, for there were officials of the sanctuary and officials of God among the descendants of both Eleazar and Ithamar.

⁶ The scribe Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded their names in the presence of the king and of the officials: Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites—one family being taken from Eleazar and then one from Ithamar.

⁷ The first lot fell to Jehoiarib,
the second to Jedaiah,

⁸ the third to Harim,
the fourth to Seorim,

⁹ the fifth to Malkijah,
the sixth to Mijamin,

¹⁰ the seventh to Hakkoz,
the eighth to Abijah,

¹¹ the ninth to Jeshua,
the tenth to Shecaniah,

¹² the eleventh to Eliashib,
the twelfth to Jakim,

¹³ the thirteenth to Huppah,
the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,

¹⁴ the fifteenth to Bilgah,
the sixteenth to Immer,

¹⁵ the seventeenth to Hezir,
the eighteenth to Happizzez,

¹⁶ the nineteenth to Pethahiah,
the twentieth to Jehezkel,

¹⁷ the twenty-first to Jakin,
the twenty-second to Gamul,

¹⁸ the twenty-third to Delaiah
and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.

¹⁹ This was their appointed order of ministering when they entered the temple of the LORD, according to the regulations prescribed for them by their forefather Aaron, as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

The Rest of the Levites

²⁰ As for the rest of the descendants of Levi:
from the sons of Amram: Shubael;
from the sons of Shubael: Jehdeiah.

²¹ As for Rehabiah, from his sons:
Isshiah was the first.

²² From the Izharites: Shelomoth;
from the sons of Shelomoth: Jahath.

²³ The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, ^e]">[e] Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third and Jekameam the fourth.

²⁴ The son of Uzziel: Micah;
from the sons of Micah: Shamir.

²⁵ The brother of Micah: Isshiah;
from the sons of Isshiah: Zechariah.

²⁶ The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi.
The son of Jaaziah: Beno.

²⁷ The sons of Merari:
from Jaaziah: Beno, Shoham, Zaccur and Ibri.

²⁸ From Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.

²⁹ From Kish: the son of Kish:
Jerahmeel.

³⁰ And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder and Jerimoth.
These were the Levites, according to their families. ³¹ They also cast lots, just as their brothers the descendants of Aaron did, in the presence of King David and of Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites. The families of the oldest brother were treated the same as those of the youngest.

1 Chronicles 25

The Singers

¹ David, together with the commanders of the army, set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun for the ministry of prophesying, accompanied by harps, lyres and cymbals. Here is the list of the men who performed this service:

² From the sons of Asaph:
Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah and Asarelah. The sons of Asaph were under the supervision of Asaph, who prophesied under the king's supervision.

³ As for Jeduthun, from his sons:
Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, ^f]">[f] Hashabiah and Mattithiah, six in all, under the supervision of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied, using the harp in thanking and praising the LORD.

⁴ As for Heman, from his sons:
Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shubael and Jerimoth; Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-Ezer; Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir and Mahazioth. ⁵ All these were sons of Heman the king's seer. They were given him through the promises of God to exalt him. ^g]">[g] God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

⁶ All these men were under the supervision of their fathers for the music of the temple of the LORD, with cymbals, lyres and harps, for the ministry at the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman were under the supervision of the king. ⁷ Along with their relatives—all of them trained and skilled in music for the LORD -they numbered 288. ⁸ Young and old alike, teacher as well as student, cast lots for their duties.

⁹ The first lot, which was for Asaph, fell to Joseph,
his sons and relatives, ^h]">[h] 12 ^i]">[i]
the second to Gedaliah,
he and his relatives and sons, 12

¹⁰ the third to Zaccur,
his sons and relatives, 12

¹¹ the fourth to Izri, ^j]">[j]
his sons and relatives, 12

¹² the fifth to Nethaniah,
his sons and relatives, 12

¹³ the sixth to Bukkiah,
his sons and relatives, 12

¹⁴ the seventh to Jesarelah, ^k]">[k]
his sons and relatives, 12

¹⁵ the eighth to Jeshaiah,
his sons and relatives, 12

¹⁶ the ninth to Mattaniah,
his sons and relatives, 12

¹⁷ the tenth to Shimei,
his sons and relatives, 12

¹⁸ the eleventh to Azarel, ^l]">[l]
his sons and relatives, 12

¹⁹ the twelfth to Hashabiah,
his sons and relatives, 12

²⁰ the thirteenth to Shubael,
his sons and relatives, 12

²¹ the fourteenth to Mattithiah,
his sons and relatives, 12

²² the fifteenth to Jerimoth,
his sons and relatives, 12

²³ the sixteenth to Hananiah,
his sons and relatives, 12

²⁴ the seventeenth to Joshbekashah,
his sons and relatives, 12

²⁵ the eighteenth to Hanani,
his sons and relatives, 12

²⁶ the nineteenth to Mallothi,
his sons and relatives, 12

²⁷ the twentieth to Eliathah,
his sons and relatives, 12

²⁸ the twenty-first to Hothir,
his sons and relatives, 12

²⁹ the twenty-second to Giddalti,
his sons and relatives, 12

³⁰ the twenty-third to Mahazioth,
his sons and relatives, 12

³¹ the twenty-fourth to Romamti-Ezer,
his sons and relatives, 12

At 10:00 AM I had a meeting at the Embassy of the United States in San Salvador, about the UGRAD scholarship I got. It was very interesting, and it finished at almost 2:00 PM. They gave us instructions about filling forms for the student VISA J1 application. After that we had the opportunity to talk with a guy who was studying in the United States from January and who came back a few days ago. He studied in New York with a UGRAD scholarship too. We asked him many questions about many different things, including academic and everyday life. We also talked with other persons there at the Embassy, and we are having great assistance, everyone is super kind with us, etc. It feels like we have a preferencial position, they are helping us and assisting us with everything we need. This scholarship is a big deal, and it is given by the Department of State of the United States of America, and also with World Learning, which is the institution that is organizating everything about this scholarship for us. Yesterday I received my Pre-Departure Orientation Manual, and this is what is says in the cover:

Congratulations on being selected to participate in the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD).

Funded by the United States Department of State, Office of Academic Exchange Programs, the Global UGRAD Program is conducted in collaboration with the Public Affairs Office of U.S. embassies throughout the world.

The U.S. Department of State chose to sponsor you, along with students from 20 countries in Asia and Latin America, to participate in this scholarship program because of your academic merit and ability to initiate and support positive change as a young leader in your country. You have demonstrated a commitment to development and a belief that economic, political, and social advancements are key factors contributing to a prosperous future. We hope that you will join the network of State Department alumni to cooperate in future programs.

Keep in mind that you are a global "ambassador" of your country while in the U.S. Your participation in this program involves considerable investment of U.S. government funds and time. Through their taxes, Americans provide the funding that makes your scholarship program possible. We encourage you to experience all that is possible while you are here.

On behalf of the U.S. Department of State, the Public Affairs Offices of the U.S. embassy in your country, and World Learning, we wish you a successful experience in the United States.



So I am already a grantee of the 2009-2010 Global Undergraduate Exchange Program. As I said, I think this is really a big deal and I am happy for this blessing I have and I am willing to learn and use this scholarship in the best way that I can of course. I also signed yesterday the TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION of the 2009-2010 Global Undergraduate Exchange Program East Asia and the Pacific and the Western Hemisphere, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and Administered by World Learning. I agreed with all of the terms and conditions. They expect from us things that are really obvious, like remaining in good academic standing, attend classes, not to work with a paid/monetary remuneration (only the free community service), and obvious things like that. I will travel to Washington, DC, at the end of the program. It is obbligatory. In the TERMS AND CONDITIONS it says that "Academic year students must participate in the end-of-program workshop in Washington, DC. Participants who do not participate in the workshop in its entirety, without prior consent of WL (World Learning), may have funds deducted from their stipends, or have their participation and visa status terminated. WL will notify participants of the exact dates for this event during the course of the program." I have been to Houston, California, and Nevada, since I visited my family in 2004. But I have never been to the eastern area of the United States, so this will be very exciting and nice for me, since I will have visited both the eastern, central and western areas of the United States. I still do not know where they are going to send me to study, but one of the guys participating in this program will go to American University, in Washington DC, which is one of the best ones in the United States, as far as I heard. Let's see where they send me.

At 5:00 PM I had a test in Computer Networking Lab class, and after that at night I had Ethics class.

Jaime Montoya
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Monday, May 25, 2009

I went to run for exercising in the morning. After that I got my hair cut. In the morning I burned four DVDs, and I watched 5 Takes Mexico, from the 5 Takes Latin America series. In the afternoon I helped a friend and his group with a project they have for a circuit controlled by the parallel port of the computer. At 4:45 PM I was in Computer Labs Administration class. At night I studied Computer Networking Lab class for about one hour and fifteen minutes, since I have a test in this class tomorrow at 4:45 PM.

Jaime Montoya
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I exercised at home before 8:00 AM. I studied stuff about routing protocols for like one hour and a half in the morning, and the same quantity of time in the afternoon. At about 4:10 PM I visited Yahoo! Answers and asked this question:

Is it correct to say "gather together"?

I read this sentence:

I hope it gathers together a lot of the important things that anybody interested in poetry - who already knows something about it - would find valuable, and also, of course, I hope it’s a magnet for people who don’t yet know very much about poems, or feel unconfident about poems. I mean, I think it’s an important thing.

Gather means to cause to come together. Is it correct to say "gather together"? It seems redundant.

After that I answered this question:

Moving to el Salvador. Apply for residency.?

Someone I am engaged to just got deported/ is being to el Salvador. I'm a us resident and want to leave here. I've sold everything. I have a place to live once I get there. I need to be there in 2-7 weeks. I know I can get my passport expedited and have it In 2 weeks... Now the visa... I see I can get 30 up to 120 days. I want more. To apply for residency it says I need to live there 5 years. How can I do that with only 120 day stay? Can anyone recommend a good lawyer to help In Virginia? Can I rent an apartment there with my passport? Drive?

My answer:

If you are a US citizen, by getting married with the Salvadorian person, I think the process will be much easier than if you are not married. If you are not a US citizen, think it twice because being only a US resident, you could lose your residency and also have legal problems in El Salvador, and you could need to go back to your country of origin. Your couple/husband is already here in El Salvador, deported, so he is the right person to investigate how the law works here in El Salvador with a certified lawyer. You are responsible for investigating the way the law works in the United States so that you do not lose the rights you already have in USA, if possible. But if you cannot become a US citizen fast, and you are in such a hurry that it does not matter to lose any US residency or rights you have, so your priority is to know about the Salvadorian immigration laws. This link could be useful to you:

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw...

From 5:00 PM until about 6:50 PM I studied stuff about routing protocols and related things for my tests this Tuesday and Wednesday in Computer Networking Lab class. After that I ate dinner and I burned four DVDs of a collection of eight DVDs about traveling in Latin America.

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Saturday, May 23, 2009

I had Distributed Computing class in the morning. From 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM I studied stuff about Computing Networking Lab class (routing protocols and things like that), since I have two exams in this class next week. After that I answered this question on Yahoo! Answers:

Why is my dad being so mean?

When I had my first daughter, my dad was besotted with her. She was and still is, his little princess. She can't do anything wrong.
My second daughter is 6 months old and he is completely opposite. He has even said she doesn't like him !!!!!
My eldest was in a mood today and he said it was because she was feeling left out and whispered in her ear ' you're the best grand-daughter out of you two' .... this is his attitude all over.
I felt really upset at this and my husband just wants to go round there and thump him.
I wonder if it's because over the last couple of years my dad has been diagnosed with myasthenia ( he is too weak to feed/change my new baby ) and is taking it out on her ???

Additional Details

My husband wouldn't really thump him.. he's just feeling really angry

My answer:

If possible, you should talk to your dad about this situation (try to find the time and place that you consider ideal for this conversation with your dad). After talking to him, if he still does not improve/change his attitude, you need to be wise and try to contribute to peaceful relationships, like a peace maker, especially when this is a familiar matter. You will not want to have your family against each other. Sometimes other people in our family have wrong attitudes that are very obvious, and we cannot change them. Sometimes we need to be very patient persons. May you be wise and take the best decisions.

Then I read and listened to these chapters from the Bible, at Biblegateway.com:

1 Chronicles 19-21 (New International Version)

1 Chronicles 19

The Battle Against the Ammonites

¹ In the course of time, Nahash king of the Ammonites died, and his son succeeded him as king. ² David thought, "I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father.
When David's men came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him, ³ the Ammonite nobles said to Hanun, "Do you think David is honoring your father by sending men to you to express sympathy? Haven't his men come to you to explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?" ⁴ So Hanun seized David's men, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks, and sent them away.

⁵ When someone came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, "Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back."

⁶ When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench in David's nostrils, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents ^a]">[a] of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram Naharaim, ^b]">[b] Aram Maacah and Zobah. ⁷ They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and charioteers, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba, while the Ammonites were mustered from their towns and moved out for battle.

⁸ On hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting men. ⁹ The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance to their city, while the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.

¹⁰ Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans. ¹¹ He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother, and they were deployed against the Ammonites. ¹² Joab said, "If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to rescue me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will rescue you. ¹³ Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight."

¹⁴ Then Joab and the troops with him advanced to fight the Arameans, and they fled before him. ¹⁵ When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans were fleeing, they too fled before his brother Abishai and went inside the city. So Joab went back to Jerusalem.

¹⁶ After the Arameans saw that they had been routed by Israel, they sent messengers and had Arameans brought from beyond the River, ^c]">[c] with Shophach the commander of Hadadezer's army leading them.

¹⁷ When David was told of this, he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan; he advanced against them and formed his battle lines opposite them. David formed his lines to meet the Arameans in battle, and they fought against him. ¹⁸ But they fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and forty thousand of their foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach the commander of their army.

¹⁹ When the vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him.
So the Arameans were not willing to help the Ammonites anymore.

1 Chronicles 20

The Capture of Rabbah

¹ In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, Joab led out the armed forces. He laid waste the land of the Ammonites and went to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and left it in ruins. ² David took the crown from the head of their king ^d]">[d] —its weight was found to be a talent ^e]">[e] of gold, and it was set with precious stones—and it was placed on David's head. He took a great quantity of plunder from the city ³ and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.

War With the Philistines

⁴ In the course of time, war broke out with the Philistines, at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaites, and the Philistines were subjugated.

⁵ In another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod.

⁶ In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha. ⁷ When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him.

⁸ These were descendants of Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his men.

1 Chronicles 21

David Numbers the Fighting Men

¹ Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel. ² So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, "Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are."

³ But Joab replied, "May the LORD multiply his troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all my lord's subjects? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?"

⁴ The king's word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem. ⁵ Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah.

⁶ But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king's command was repulsive to him. ⁷ This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel.

⁸ Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing."

⁹ The LORD said to Gad, David's seer, ¹⁰ "Go and tell David, 'This is what the LORD says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.' "

¹¹ So Gad went to David and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Take your choice: ¹² three years of famine, three months of being swept away ^f]">[f] before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD -days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.' Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me."

¹³ David said to Gad, "I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men."

¹⁴ So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead. ¹⁵ And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah ^g]">[g] the Jebusite.

¹⁶ David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.

¹⁷ David said to God, "Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I am the one who has sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? O LORD my God, let your hand fall upon me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people."

¹⁸ Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁹ So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.

²⁰ While Araunah was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the angel; his four sons who were with him hid themselves. ²¹ Then David approached, and when Araunah looked and saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground.

²² David said to him, "Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price."

²³ Araunah said to David, "Take it! Let my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give all this."

²⁴ But King David replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing."

²⁵ So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels ^h]">[h] of gold for the site. ²⁶ David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. ^i]">[i] He called on the LORD, and the LORD answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.

²⁷ Then the LORD spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath. ²⁸ At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there. ²⁹ The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the desert, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon. ³⁰ But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

At about 11:00 PM I asked this question on Yahoo! Answers:

What does "sort-of" mean in this sentence?

I read this sentence:

I think if you laid it end to end it would be about a sort-of 150 page book – but it’s all good stuff!

Does "sort-of" mean "kind of" in this sentence? Thanks.

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Friday, May 22, 2009

I worked on a paper about data warehousing from midnight until about 4:30 AM. At 8:59 AM I received this email from my UGRAD scholarship adviser, with the subject "UGRAD reunión de trabajo el próximo martes 26 de mayo de 2009":

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Estimados amigos a fin de preparar sus documentos para solicitar la visa les invitamos a una reunión de trabajo el próximo martes 26 de mayo de 2009 de las xxxxxx a.m. a las xxxxxxx,

Lugar: Embajada de Los Estados Unidos
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Para poder asistir a tiempo necesitan estar en la entrada de la embajada una media hora antes en el portón Diplomático frente a la Prensa Grafica.

Esta reunión es obligatoria a fin de apoyarles en el trámite de sus visas americanas J1. Además todos firmaran los documentos oficiales de la aceptación de su beca.

Si los amigos de oriente tienen problemas en asistir favor llamar para buscar un mecanismos alternativos, todos confirmen por este medio.

Traigan con ustedes su pasaporte

Saludos Cordiales

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At 5:00 PM I visited Yahoo! Answers and answered this question:

How do you link a html code to a site?

I'm using this html code



I'm putting that in my myspace profile for the button to go to a paypal donate page but all it does is give me an error page. So I'm thinking that I put the url in the html the wrong way. This is the site the page is supposed to go to https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr...

The button is supposed to look like this http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj290... When you click on the button it's supposed to go to the paypal site I just showed above but I get an error message. I am putting it on the myspace page. Could myspace be causing this error?

Oh I just noticed that in the html code, the whole link isn't showing. I guess it's too long. Could that be the problem? I don't know of a shorter link to the paypal page.

My answer:

Maybe the link has some security configurations and you cannot access it from a link created by yourself with HTML. I do not know, but if all you need is to know the syntax or format of links with images in HTML, follow this model that works for me:

<a href="http://bbc.co.uk" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jaimemontoya.com/images/... name="bbc" title="British Broadcasting Corporation" alt="British Broadcasting Corporation" border="0"></a>

After that I read and listened to these chapters from the Bible, at Biblegateway.com:

1 Chronicles 16-18 (New International Version)

1 Chronicles 16

¹ They brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings ^a]">[a] before God. ² After David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD. ³ Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each Israelite man and woman.

⁴ He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, to make petition, to give thanks, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel: ⁵ Asaph was the chief, Zechariah second, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom and Jeiel. They were to play the lyres and harps, Asaph was to sound the cymbals, ⁶ and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

David's Psalm of Thanks

⁷ That day David first committed to Asaph and his associates this psalm of thanks to the LORD :

⁸ Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.

⁹ Sing to him, sing praise to him;
tell of all his wonderful acts.

¹⁰ Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

¹¹ Look to the LORD and his strength;
seek his face always.

¹² Remember the wonders he has done,
his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,

¹³ O descendants of Israel his servant,
O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

¹⁴ He is the LORD our God;
his judgments are in all the earth.

¹⁵ He remembers ^b]">[b] his covenant forever,
the word he commanded, for a thousand generations,

¹⁶ the covenant he made with Abraham,
the oath he swore to Isaac.

¹⁷ He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

¹⁸ "To you I will give the land of Canaan
as the portion you will inherit."

¹⁹ When they were but few in number,
few indeed, and strangers in it,

²⁰ they ^c]">[c] wandered from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another.

²¹ He allowed no man to oppress them;
for their sake he rebuked kings:

²² "Do not touch my anointed ones;
do my prophets no harm."

²³ Sing to the LORD, all the earth;
proclaim his salvation day after day.

²⁴ Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

²⁵ For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise;
he is to be feared above all gods.

²⁶ For all the gods of the nations are idols,
but the LORD made the heavens.

²⁷ Splendor and majesty are before him;
strength and joy in his dwelling place.

²⁸ Ascribe to the LORD, O families of nations,
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength,

²⁹ ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name.
Bring an offering and come before him;
worship the LORD in the splendor of his ^d]">[d] holiness.

³⁰ Tremble before him, all the earth!
The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

³¹ Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"

³² Let the sea resound, and all that is in it;
let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them!

³³ Then the trees of the forest will sing,
they will sing for joy before the LORD,
for he comes to judge the earth.

³⁴ Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.

³⁵ Cry out, "Save us, O God our Savior;
gather us and deliver us from the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name,
that we may glory in your praise."

³⁶ Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Then all the people said "Amen" and "Praise the LORD."

³⁷ David left Asaph and his associates before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister there regularly, according to each day's requirements. ³⁸ He also left Obed-Edom and his sixty-eight associates to minister with them. Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun, and also Hosah, were gatekeepers.

³⁹ David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon ⁴⁰ to present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering regularly, morning and evening, in accordance with everything written in the Law of the LORD, which he had given Israel. ⁴¹ With them were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest of those chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the LORD, "for his love endures forever." ⁴² Heman and Jeduthun were responsible for the sounding of the trumpets and cymbals and for the playing of the other instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.

⁴³ Then all the people left, each for his own home, and David returned home to bless his family.

1 Chronicles 17

God's Promise to David

¹ After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am, living in a palace of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent."

² Nathan replied to David, "Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you."

³ That night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:

⁴ "Go and tell my servant David, 'This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in. ⁵ I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another. ⁶ Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders ^e]">[e] whom I commanded to shepherd my people, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?" '

⁷ "Now then, tell my servant David, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: I took you from the pasture and from following the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel. ⁸ I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name like the names of the greatest men of the earth. ⁹ And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning ¹⁰ and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies.
" 'I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you: ¹¹ When your days are over and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹² He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. ¹³ I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor. ¹⁴ I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever.' "

¹⁵ Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation.

David's Prayer

¹⁶ Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said:
"Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? ¹⁷ And as if this were not enough in your sight, O God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men, O LORD God.

¹⁸ "What more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant, ¹⁹ O LORD. For the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made known all these great promises.

²⁰ "There is no one like you, O LORD, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. ²¹ And who is like your people Israel—the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? ²² You made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, O LORD, have become their God.

²³ "And now, LORD, let the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house be established forever. Do as you promised, ²⁴ so that it will be established and that your name will be great forever. Then men will say, 'The LORD Almighty, the God over Israel, is Israel's God!' And the house of your servant David will be established before you.

²⁵ "You, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. So your servant has found courage to pray to you. ²⁶ O LORD, you are God! You have promised these good things to your servant. ²⁷ Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, O LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever."

1 Chronicles 18

David's Victories

¹ In the course of time, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its surrounding villages from the control of the Philistines.

² David also defeated the Moabites, and they became subject to him and brought tribute.

³ Moreover, David fought Hadadezer king of Zobah, as far as Hamath, when he went to establish his control along the Euphrates River. ⁴ David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung all but a hundred of the chariot horses.

⁵ When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of them. ⁶ He put garrisons in the Aramean kingdom of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to him and brought tribute. The LORD gave David victory everywhere he went.

⁷ David took the gold shields carried by the officers of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem. ⁸ From Tebah ^f]">[f] and Cun, towns that belonged to Hadadezer, David took a great quantity of bronze, which Solomon used to make the bronze Sea, the pillars and various bronze articles.

⁹ When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, ¹⁰ he sent his son Hadoram to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold and silver and bronze.

¹¹ King David dedicated these articles to the LORD, as he had done with the silver and gold he had taken from all these nations: Edom and Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and Amalek.

¹² Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. ¹³ He put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became subject to David. The LORD gave David victory everywhere he went.

David's Officials

¹⁴ David reigned over all Israel, doing what was just and right for all his people. ¹⁵ Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder; ¹⁶ Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech ^g]">[g] son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was secretary; ¹⁷ Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites; and David's sons were chief officials at the king's side.

In the early hours of the night I asked these questions on Yahoo! Answers:

What if I use "on" in this sentence? Does it change the meaning or is it awkward?

A person started his answer to a question with this sentence:

"Well, it depends who you are...."

I would have said:

"Well, it depends ON who you are." Is it correct to use ON there? Is it innecessary or awkward? Thanks.

What is the difference between using "listen" and using "listening" in this sentence?

The sentence is:

Next, we asked Andrew Motion to talk about what you can do at The Poetry Archive beside LISTEN to poems.

Does the sense change or is it incorrect to use LISTENING?:

Next, we asked Andrew Motion to talk about what you can do at The Poetry Archive beside LISTENING to poems.

Jaime Montoya
webmaster@jaimemontoya.com
www.jaimemontoya.com