Good afternoon. This is an unmanned website. All of the content updates automatically and was current at the time you arrived here. The server and Greenwich Mean Times at the bottom of the page sync with the server and update continuously while this page is loaded. If you're here for the content, keep reading. If you're looking for information on the technology, it's at the bottom of the page. Otherwise... Today is Sunday, the 20th day of May and the 141st day of the year. This is a leap year, so there are 225 days remaining in 2012. On the Jewish calendar today is the 28th day of Iyyar in the year 5772.
This is believed to be the date in 325 A.D. on which the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea was called to order. The conference lasted 47 days, until July 25th, and it was held in the city of Nicaea, which is now known as İznik, in northwestern Turkey. It had been 325 years since Jesus had been crucified, but Christianity was still a small and relatively unorganized religion.
The Council of Nicaea established that Jesus was the son of God and that he was also of one being with God. The beliefs were codified in the Nicene Creed, the creed or profession of faith that is most widely used in Christian liturgy. The Nicene Creed has been normative to the Anglican Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox churches, the Roman Catholic Church including the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Old Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church and most Protestant denominations.
Today's Birthday Boys and Girls
Today is the birthday of Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison (1768), John Stuart Mill (1806), Emile Berliner (1851), Jimmy Stewart (1908), George Gobel (1919), Anthony Zerbe (1936), Stan Mikita (1940), Joe Cocker (1944), Cher (1946), Bronson Pinchot (1959), and Busta Rhymes (1972).
On Wall Street
The process of retrieving stock info involves many links between the sources and what you're reading on the screen. At the moment, there's a technical issue up the line with the DJ average. Occasionally, the data appears as random characters. If there's numerical data on the screen, it's accurate. The other indicies are working and accurate. The New York Stock Exchange is currently closed. At closing on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrials were up by /A to 0.00. The NASDAQ was down by 34.90 to 2778.79. The S&P500 index closed at 1295.22, down by 9.64. Note: During trading hours all data is in real time. The data is preserved at the end of the trading day. It remains until the next opening bell.
Earth and All Spheres
The overall weather conditions at Love Field were reported as partly cloudy at 2:53 pm CDT. The temperature was 87.0 F° (30.6 C°), and the the relative humidity was 36%, pushing the heat index up to 86 F° (30 C°). More [...]. For the seven-day forecast [click here]. We are under a new moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 0 days, 3 hours, and 25 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Tuesday, June 19th at 12:43 am CDT.
in the 62nd day of spring, which arrived in the Northern Hemisphere on March 20 at 12:14 AM CDT. On the date of the Spring Eqinox, the sun rose at 7:22 AM and set at 7:30 PM CDT. For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are 6:16 AM and 8:14 PM, giving us 13 hours and 58 minutes of daylight. Spring will end with the Summer Soltice, which will occur on June 20th at 6:09 PM CDT. Daylight Saving Time always begins on the second Sunday of March at 2:00 AM when we start recording time as 3:00 AM. For the U.S. and its territories, Daylight Saving Time is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and Arizona. The Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, even in Arizona, due to its large size and location in three states.
The Technology
This site is a working demonstration of on-demand scripting with server-resident PHP code. The code tightly integrates computed data with text, spewing forth natural-sounding narrative output with flawless grammar and syntax. The birthdays, history section and the text below--which all change daily--are from databases created in-house. The financial and weather data are imported on-demand at page generation time. All the other information, including calendar, sun, moon and star stuff, is rendered by several hundred lines of custom code at the time the page request reaches the server. THIS SITE IS SELF-MAINTAINING. The daily content updates at midnight CST. The weather target is -96.852/32.847.
Art imitates life. Occasionally, prime time television gets pretty close.
This country has always been a beacon to the world for liberty and justice. That's why we keep our borders open. But we're also a beacon for another kind of people, for criminals and con men; we rely on the law to protect us from them. Sometimes, that's not enough. Do we need more law, less freedom? Do we cross out parts of the Constitution? I've learned that's not the answer. The answer is that each one of us is responsible to everyone else. Not one of us can afford to turn a blind eye. By respecting the laws we do have, by living up to the true meaning of the word "citizen," we preserve our common good.
Sam Waterston as Jack McCoy at the closing of the
final episode of the ninth season of Law and Order
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