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Animal health and well-being is a priority at Mineral BioSciences®. For over 40 years, we have researched, developed and patented a complex antioxidant with unparalleled bioactivity that has been proven to positively affect the health and vitality in animals, called BioVigor®.
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Ministry in Motion
Ministry Magazine
Archives / 1975
Editorial: Prophets and Prosperity
Would our lives be any poorer if Handel's Messiah, Michelangelo's Moses, and Milton's Paradise Lost had never existed?
Vienna Evangelistic Campaign
PLANNING has been under way for several years for a great evangelistic campaign to be held in Vienna for the spring of the same year as the first General Conference session to be held in Europe. This campaign would feature special methods and advertising techniques and be under the leadership of an American evangelist. . .
What Evangelistic Preaching Is Expected to Do
THE HEARTTHROB, the very life, the center, the core of real evangelistic preaching, is found in Dob bins' statement that "Christ is the center and circumference of disciple winning. This is the supreme lesson which John learned and which he would share with us. All the plans and purposes of Christianity gather about a Person. Unless Christ is at the center, all theology and ecclesiology eventually become false and futile. . .
Habakkuk— Questionings of Faith
ALTHOUGH the term appears only once, the book of Habakkuk essentially revolves around the theme of faith. Actually there can be two kinds of questioning in relationship to religious issues. There is the kind we ordinarily think of, those questions associated with skepticism and doubt. But there also has to be room for the questions that must be asked if faith is to grow. It seems to me that Habakkuk's questions fall in this latter category. . .
New Books on Biblical Archeology (part 2)
EACH YEAR The Ministry provides its readers with a brief review of the most recent books in the field of Biblical archeology, history, and geography. Last month we began a review of significant works published during 1973 and 1974. We continue with books dealing with specific geographical areas. . .
The Sydney Adventist Hospital
THAT SO GREAT a work is conducted by so "small" a people is a cause for wonder, frequently expressed, by visitors to the Sydney Adventist Hospital. . .
How the "Mustard Seed" Grew
EIGHTY YEARS have passed since the messenger of the Lord laid the foundation of our health food work in the year 1895. It was at a public address, in a powerful message, on the first Sunday afternoon of the Victorian camp meeting that Ellen White called the attention of God's people to the necessity for reform and to the great need of warning the world of the intemperance that would prevail to an alarming extent. . .
Medical Missionary in Australia
WHEN Ellen White began her work as the Lord's special messenger to the remnant she under stood that her divine commission included "much more than the word 'prophet' signifies" (Selected Messages, book 1, p. 32). . .
The Melody Lingers On. . . Seventy-five Years Later
IT IS Sunday afternoon. Outside, the summer sun is gently toasting the landscape a golden brown. It is not an oppressive day, but rather cooler than you could reasonably expect for this time of the year. . .
Entropy (Part 2)
AS DISCUSSED in last month's article, entropy is qualitatively equated to probability. This concept better explains the localized phenomenon referred to in the last article in the area of the refinery engine that produces gasoline, where the conditions have been contrived to make gasoline most probable, and the second law holds, allowing gasoline to form. . .
"Hold Fast What Is Good"
JUST HOW extensive and sound is the Biblical foundation for the Seventh-day Adventist belief that the writings of Ellen G. White are the product of a genuine manifestation of the gift of prophecy in contemporary times?
A Memorial of Divine Guidance
THE ESTABLISHMENT of Avondale College was a significant development in the rapidly expanding work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia in the final decade of the past century. It was raised up under the direct guidance of Ellen G. White, and from the first reflected very largely the ideals of Christian education that are today acknowledged as the norm of the church's educational philosophy. . .
Wonderful Beginnings
HOW much the Australasian Di vision owes to the personal counsels and inspired guidance of Ellen G. White, eternity alone will reveal. When the Lord's messenger arrived in Australia in 1891, a small but sturdy beginning had already been made by such forth right leaders as S. N. Haskell, J. O. Corliss, M. C. Israel, A. C. Daniells, and others. But -the coming of Sister White and her small group of associates meant much to that growing field. . .
Ellen White and Public Evangelism in Australia
THE influence of the Spirit of Prophecy upon evangelism in Australia is as difficult to assess as the love of Cod. Who can measure it? On January 3, 1875, before a distinguished congregation of Adventists in the United States, Ellen White was given a vision that proved in later years to be of tremendous interest to our people in Australia. It was the vision of the lights. In this she beheld an ever-enlarging work of evangelism depicted by jets of light shining like stars in the darkness, ever increasing until the whole world was illumined with their glory. . .
Australasian Diary, 1891-1900
LATE IN September, 1900 seventy-five years ago Ellen White returned to the United States after a fruitful nine-year sojourn in Australia. Hers was a busy, itinerant ministry during that near-decade of her life full of preaching appointments, council sessions with the brethren, and endless writing assignments. . .
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At Monsanto, we're all about sustainable solutions. That's why we're committed to getting the public involved in a global conversation about the methods we're using in order to help grow enough food for a growing world. Ask your own questions regarding anything from honey bee health, GMOs, to sustainability in agriculture and more.
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Montana World Affairs Council to Award in Student Energy Competition
The Montana World Affairs Council is excited to announce the winners of our Energy Leaders for Tomorrow essay and picture contest. Montana students in grades K-12 were invited to submit an essay or picture describing energy and its role in their life.
The Montana World Affairs Council hosted an Energy Scholarship Contest in conjunction with the Mansfield Center’s 2015 conference, the Asia Montana Energy Summit (AMES), to involve Montana statewide K-12 students in the Energy discussion.
The Council and AMES are excited to help build awareness in classrooms around the state to help Montana students develop a deeper understanding of the complex issues surrounding energy and its sources. Energy resources are an integral component of the Montana economy and along with the prevalence of resources; there is contention as to proper use and development.
Grades K-5 were asked to create a depiction of what energy resources in Montana means to them. The winners in are: 1st place Nathan Hoffman in 5th grade from Glendive, 2nd place Matt Yakawich in 4th grade from Missoula, and 3rd place Lucy Haggerty in 2nd grade from Bozeman.
Grades 6-12 were asked what the most important energy sector is in Montana’s economic future and why. The winners in are 1st place Ben Yakawich in 10th grade from Missoula, 2nd place Justin Martinell in 8th grade from Lima, and 3rd place Emilie Schroder in 12th grade from Lima.
All of the winners will be recognized at a reception with Lieutenant Governor Angela McLean on Wednesday, 29 April at SpectrUM as part of the Asia Montana Energy Summit. Participants in the competition will attend the reception and be recognized as well.
The Reception is co-sponsored by The Mansfield Center and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Helena Branch.
4/20/2015 Arnie Sherman Council on the Radio
Council President Emeritus Bob Seidenschwarz is joined by Arnie Sherman, former director of the Montana World Trade Center and current managing director of the Northern Rockies Regional Center, an EB-5 visa program in Montana. They will discuss the Asia Montana Energy Summit and reconciling energy with environmental issues. You can also view Arnie’s Council in the Classroom program on our website.
Human Power vs. Horsepower: the future of sustainable transportation- Teacher Resource Page
with Dr. Bradley Layton
2:15- Introduction: “unless you can measure something, unless you can talk about it in numbers, you really don’t know what you’re talking about…” 4:30- Personal introduction… 9:10- Human powered water and aircraft at MIT… 11:15- Discussion about different modes of transportation… 13:00- Human vs. horse power introduction… 15:45- Calories, Joules, and measurements of power energy… 21:00- How many joules do you need per day?… 27:00- Energy vs. power… 28:10- What is a Watt?… 30:50- How much power do you have?… 36:30- Conversion of Watts into horsepower… 38:00- Human vs. horse power conclusion… 40:00- Renewable energy projects at the University of Montana… 41:30- Overview of larger program/ homework for students… 45:00- Question & answer…
Human Powered Vehicles
Human powered vehicles, or HPVs, are vehicles that rely entirely on power supplied by human muscles for propulsion. The most common type (and largest subgroup) of HPV are bicycles, but there are many different types of HPVs; some can fly through the air or traverse water, and other groups of land-roving HPVs offer better postures, more protection from the elements, or have other advantages compared to standard bicycles. Mechanical engineers are working, in competitions and elsewhere, to create the best design for various types of human powered vehicles. Though many vehicles are built for hobby, or only with speed in mind, others see HPVs as an opportunity to create a more sustainable future. According to HPV enthusiast and entrepreneur Cameron van Dyke, “It is about questioning our country’s energy use, health, safety, and access to travel. … My hope is to get people to imagine new possibilities for the way we travel.”
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Not Just a Weird Hobby
Although much of the internet chatter around HPVs focuses on which incredibly uncomfortable machine can travel the fastest, engineers like Mark Archibald have more practical ideas in mind: “In developed countries, those types of vehicles, along with more conventional bicycles, can be used to relieve traffic congestion, improve public health, reduce air pollution and significantly lower transportation costs. In developing countries, human-powered vehicles can provide affordable basic transportation for personal transport, deliveries and even ambulance services… [HPVs] are affordable, clean and safe. They are faster and more comfortable than standard bicycles, and many offer protection from foul weather.”
-Via LiveScience.
From bikes to kayaks, human powered vehicles are everywhere. How many human powered vehicles have you used? Do you use any regularly?
What are some benefits of human powered transportation? What are some limitations? How might human powered transit be different in a city than it would be on the country side/suburbs?
Do you think human powered transportation will become more or less popular and widespread in the future? Why?
How can human power be augmented to create a more sustainable future, while maintaining convenience?
“The World’s Fastest Human Powered Vehicle” (engadget.com)
“9 Unusual Human Powered Contraptions” (Popular Mechanics)
“The Future People Push the Boundaries of Human Powered Transport” (gizmag.com)
Quattrocycle familiefiets (YouTube)
Human vs. Horse Power: how do we measure power?
Much of Dr. Layton’s talk is focused on the ideas of energy and power, and more specifically, how much energy and power we consume and expend in a day. To do this, he breaks down the mathematics of “human power” and compares it to a metric we are all familiar with: horse power. In the talk, there is a lot of discussion about unit conversion and the order of operations needed to calculate a human’s energy and power use. In his calculation, he finds that eight humans can produce a bit more than a horsepower of energy. So, in theory, a group of eight average humans could beat one average horse in a game of tug of war (although it doesn’t always work that way in practice). Click below for a more detailed look at the math behind that calculation, and additional resources with help with unit conversion.
Relevant Units:
1 cal= 4.184 J 1 Kcal= 4.184 kJ
1 W= 1 J/s 1 kW=1 kJ/s
Humans Power:
~2,500 Kcal/day= 10,500 kJ/day
10,500 kJ/day= .122 kJ/s
.122 kJ/s= .122 kW= 122 W
Horse Power vs Human Power:
1 horsepower= 746 W
1 “humanpower”= 122 W
122 W/person x 8 people= 976 W
8 “humanpower”> 1 horsepower
A human can produce roughly 1/8th of a horsepower. Does this number surprise you? Did you expect it to be higher or lower?
Does the knowledge of the amount of power that humans can produce change your perception of human powered vehicles? Why or why not?
Unit Conversion within the Metric System (Kahn Academy)
The Encyclopedia Britannica’s entry on Horsepower
Forum on Horsepower vs. Man Power (The Popular Machinist)
Human Powered Crane (YouTube)
Your ticket for the: Human Power vs. Horsepower: the future of sustainable transportation- Teacher Resource Page
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News 8 Aug 2017
Penultimate round at Toowoomba set for this Sunday
Motul MX Nationals press release:
The heavy hitters in the Motul MX2 category and the Thor MX1 class are gearing up for another huge weekend of racing with the penultimate round of the Motul MX Nationals set to take place at Toowoomba in Queensland this Sunday August 13.
So far this season the Motul MX Nationals has stormed into eight Australian towns, and provided entertainment for thousands of spectators, and this Sunday it will be Toowoomba’s turn to welcome the action.
MX Nationals Series Promoter Kevin Williams says this weekend’s event in Toowoomba is one of the most crucial on the calendar and that spectators may witness a champion being crowned on Sunday.
“This Sunday we head to Toowoomba and without a doubt our ninth round will produce some of the best racing of the season,” Williams shared.
“The MX2 class has just 14 points separating the leader from third place in the championship, and in the MX1 category, Dean Ferris, our defending champ mathematically speaking has the opportunity to wrap up the title at Toowoomba which hasn’t happened for a number of years.
“That means spectators who come out this Sunday could have the rare chance to see this year’s Thor MX1 champion crowned, which is the most special moment of the season.”
Key to the weekend’s event will also be the world class venue in which it is held in, Echo Valley Raceway. Williams has shared that after the club took out ‘Round of the Year’ in 2016, that he’s anticipating an epic track for riders this Sunday.
“In 2016, Toowoomba’s round of the championship was a clear standout – the club prepared the track to a standard that couldn’t be matched and as a result they were awarded with the ‘Round of the Year’,” Williams explained.
“The venue is special because it’s one of the few tracks left in Australia that’s a real deal motocross track. Echo Valley is as picturesque as they come with steep hills, huge drops and jumps, making those who take out a round there without a doubt the best riders in the country.
“We have already received word that the club has been busy preparing the venue for our arrival, and we’re sure that after our last seven outings that Toowoomba is going to give our other events so far this year a run for their money – we are very excited for Round 9 to say the least.”
Round 9 of the 2017 Motul MX Nationals is set to take place at Echo Valley Raceway in Toowoomba this Sunday August 13.
For more information on the Motul MX Nationals including ticket prices, venue information, race times and more, head to the series’ official website www.mxnationals.com.au
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Helping families achieve a brighter future through education!
What is Café Con Leche
Helping Pave the Road to Higher Education Since 2008
Café Con Leche allows parents to learn more about education and career opportunities for their children in a non-threatening setting. Facilitated by Gonzalo Robles, Educational Consultant, these forums take place in familiar places, such as schools, universities, community centers, neighborhoods and churches around the state. Robles encourages parents to discuss the fears and obstacles they face when making decisions about sending their students to a post-secondary educational institution and creating a “Culture of High Expectations” at home. Robles’ vision is to have families thinking and planning for college from the time their students enter elementary school. Café Con Leche was first developed by the Institute for Public School Initiatives (IPSI) at The University of Texas at Austin.
Café Con Leche Is…
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Cafe con leche is an AMAZING organization that I am very thankful to be a part of. I have seen it grow significantly and it has helped me in numerous of ways. Mr. Robles is an amazing person who has pushed me into doing my best and is someone who I look up to as a role model. This program has not only helped me but it has helped many of other individuals learn about post-secondary Education and has helped them do the things necessary to go to college. I am very grateful for this organization and hope to see it grow in our community even more!!
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Wonderful program! Cafe Con Leche The Road to College, promotes higher education at the middle school level. As a 6th grader it's encouraged to be in AP classes, have a good GPA and complete an interview. My son entered the program 6 weeks ago after completing the entry requirements and graduated with 20 other students earlier this week. He now will have a mentor though all years to continue growing him as an academic and leader. He's still my nerdo but has a confidence that is very pleasant 😍 if you're in the Wichita Falls area look up this program.
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Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan turns 54 today and Fans around the world are celebrating SRK Day. Wishes are pouring in for Shah Rukh Khan, who celebrates his 54th birthday on Saturday. The first Bollywood celebrity to wish him was none other than his long time best friend and filmmaker, Karan Johar.
Karan took to Instagram to share multiple pictures from the sets of the four films that they have shot together.
Just like every year, thousands of fans stood outside his mansion ‘Mannat‘ at midnight to wish the superstar. While Shah Rukh Khan enjoys a huge fan following, he is admired by many even in the industry.
As has long been a tradition between Shah Rukh and his fans, the actor once again appeared in his balcony to greet them on his birthday, however, this time, he met them all at midnight itself. Pictures from outside Mannat show him waving to his fans as they cheer for him and wish him on his birthday. With lot of flying kisses, he also expressed thankfulness for showering immense love and wishes on him.
Well, there is a reason why Shah Rukh Khan is called King Khan or the Bollywood Badshah! He is one of the richest Indian celebrities and yet one of the humblest stars. The actor has no qualms accepting his flaws and on the occasion of the megastars 54th birthday, we bring to you the days of Shah Rukh Khan’s life when the actor had to steal car tyres!
In an old interview, Shah Rukh Khan has confessed to a day when he had to steal someone else’s car tyre and the reason is hilariously relatable to so many of us. The Darr actor had confessed of stealing someone else’s expensive car tyre because he was driving to an undisclosed location and he had 2 flat tyres at the same time.
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Television Critics Association press tour/summer ‘08 kicked off this morning with a series of TV One panels. CEO Johnathan Rodgers said TV One is the "only network that targets African-American adults. We also reflect the breadth and the depth of African-American culture. We try to do programming that reflects positively on the lives of African-Americans."
The press obsessed a bit over the absence of Al Sharpton who was a no show. Finally, comedienne Sheryl Underwood - in house for DNC Afterparty, TV One’s upcoming discussion hour which will air nightly during the Democratic Convention - barked:
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With the Sharpton issue out of the way, the discussion settled into more cerebral matters: "post racial" vs. "post racist," the significance of Barack Obama as the first hip-hop generation president, affirmative action (Michael Eric Dyson, a Georgetown professor and Afterparty panelist, recommends reading Ira Katznelson’s "When Affirmative Action was White"), and other matters.
TV One will air extensive coverage of the Democratic Convention, co-hosted by Joe Madison (XM radio voice and Washington political reporter) and Arthur Fennell (former president of the National Association of Black Journalists, and Comcast CN8 anchorman). Rodgers said one of his goals for convention coverage is to snag "every member of the Congressonal Black Caucus…and get their opinion and input as to what…this means to African-Americans."
Across the TV One presentations, the excitement over the Obama candidacy was palpable.
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Said Reverend Marcia Dyson, who will also be a contributor on Afterparty: "The exoticism and excitement abut this whole campaign has been that it was usually just a white man’s game. But when Obama came in, Ralph Ellison, the ‘invisible man’ became ‘oh my god, he’s visible.’ So you can’t excuse his blackness because it’s so true. and so wonderfully black in America, who have demonized the black, but now it stands proudly in your face like marble."
The Obama candidacy seems to have kindled hope for racial reconciliation. Producer of TV One’s four-hour Murder in Black and White Keith Beauchamp observed: "Right now, with the possibility of having a black president, we need to start teaching ourselves tolerance, and begin that process of reconciliation… we need to talk about racism in this county. It’s still a taboo subject. Now, we have an opportunity to see what African-Americans have gone through and how we need to move forward into the future."
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TV One also unveiled a new season of the talk/discussion show Black Men Revealed and introduced the two new hosts - Doug and Ryan Stewart. Ryan Stewart said the Obama candidacy has "changed a lot of thought processes. I talk to schools three or four times a month, to middle school kids. And I think God for the position that Barack is in right now because it’s allowing me to really say - ‘y’all can be whatever you want to be, you really can achieve it.’ It’s not…about the rappers and the stuff that’s on TV portraying one segment of [the black community]. But you’ve got doctors, lawyers and astronauts. You’ve got a black man that’s in position not just to run for president…but to win the presidency…it gives me the fire power to go talk to kids….definitely Barack has opened up the door for a lot of change."
TV One strives to offer an honest view of the African-American community - balanced, positive, and intelligent. The channel is an antidote to the drumbeat of negative stereotypes. Because of crime rates in Oakland and Richmond, here in the San Francisco Bay Area we’re inundated with those negative stereotypes on the nightly local (broadcast) news.
Even though TV One is partnered with Comcast, TV One is still lost somewhere in the stratosphere of the dial - #483 here in Marin County/Northbay. (To be fair, Comcast helped launch TV One on basic cable in major African-American urban markets like Baltimore, Washington, Richmond [Va.], Atlanta, Oakland. This launch "got [the cable net] off to a roaring start," said Rodgers in a Multichannel interview back in 2006.)
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Bull Tamer Killed At Jallikattu Event In Tamil Nadu's Tiruchirappalli
HomeTamil NaduBull Tamer Killed At Jallikattu Event In Tamil Nadu's Tiruchirappalli
The state government says it has ensured tough screening of bulls and bull tamers to ensure the animals are not subjected to cruelty, intoxication and violence.
Tamil NaduWritten by J Sam DanielUpdated: February 05, 2018 00:12 IST
Jallikattu was banned by the Supreme Court in 2015 on grounds of animal cruelty. (PTI)
Chennai: A bull tamer was killed at a Jallikattu event at Manaparai in Tamil Nadu's Tiruchirappalli district, around 400 km from Chennai on Sunday, becoming the sixth victim of the dangerous sport that is making a comeback after a ban. The victim was identified as 25-year-old P Manikandan, a local mason.
Jallikattu was banned by the Supreme Court in 2015 on grounds of animal cruelty. But the government lifted the ban last year.
A police officer said, "The bull charged and kicked him when he tried to tame it. He was taken to the hospital immediately but he died on the way."
Earlier in January, a spectator was gored to death in Madurai's Palamedu, two in neighbouring Sivaganga district and one in Tiruchirappalli and Pudukkottai districts.
In 2015, the Supreme Court banned Jallikattu, disposing a petition filed by the father of a young man who was gored to death several years ago. The court had also raised the issue of cruelty to bulls and safety of spectators.
However, the Tamil Nadu government amended the central law that forbid Jallikattu and paved way for conducting the event as a cultural sport. The constitution bench of the Supreme Court would now take up the appeal that questions the legality of a state government nullifying a central law.
The state government says it has ensured tough screening of bulls and bull tamers to ensure the animals are not subjected to cruelty, intoxication and violence. Bull tamers too, officials say, are let into the arena in groups so that bulls are not traumatised by large number of men.
However, animal rights activists allege that animal cruelty still continues. They say multiple bull tamers simultaneously cling on to the bulls. Many pull the animal by their tails and the bulls, they say, are even blindfolded to turn ferocious so they can't be tamed. Organisers make bulls go without enough food and water for 15-to-24 hours ahead of their turn to be let into the arena, they say.
The re-constituted Animal Welfare Board of India has given a clean chit to Jallikattu. Many campaigners allege the body that vehemently stood for animal rights and zero cruelty to animals in the past has now been replaced by pro-Jallikattu members who, they say, turn a blind eye to animal cruelty. During the recent Jallikattu events in Madurai, many animal rights activists appointed as observers were asked to return and they allege they are not being sent to other events too. However, the Animal Welfare Board officials refused to comment on this.
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"Like an Avalanche (Live)" Music Video
by Hillsong UNITED from the album Live In Miami
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"A Song to Sing... (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Aftermath (Live)" from Live In Miami
"All I Need Is You" from I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One
"All I Need Is You (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Another In The Fire (Live)" from People (Live)
"As You Find Me (Live)" from People (Live)
"Bones (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Break Free (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Came to My Rescue (Be Lifted High)" from I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One
"Captain (Live)" from Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land
"Clean (Live)" from People (Live)
"Closer Than You Know" from Empires
"Consuming Fire" from More Than Life
"Deeper" from Look To You
"Echoes (Till We See The Other Side) (Live)" from People (Live)
"Empires" from Empires
"Empires (Live)" from Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land
"Even When It Hurts (Praise Song)" from Empires
"Fire Fall Down" from United We Stand Deluxe Edition DVD
"Fire Fall Down" from United We Stand
"Freedom Is Here / Shout Unto God (Medley) [Live]" from Live In Miami
"From the Inside Out (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Future Marches In" from Wonder
"Glimmer In the Dust" from Wonder
"Go" from Aftermath
"Go (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Good Grace (Live)" from People (Live)
"Greatest of These" from Wonder
"Heart Like Heaven" from Empires
"Heart Like Heaven (Falling) (Live)" from Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land
"Heartbeats" from Zion Acoustic Sessions CD+DVD
"Here Now (Madness)" from Empires
"Here Now (Madness) (Live)" from Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land
"Here's To The One (Live)" from People (Live)
"Highlands (Song Of Ascent) (Live)" from People (Live)
"Holy Ground (Live)" from People (Live)
"Hosanna" from All of the above
"Hosanna (Live)" from Live In Miami
"King Of Heaven " from Zion Acoustic Sessions CD+DVD
"Life" from Wonder
"Like an Avalanche (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Look To You" from I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One
"Love Is War" from Zion Deluxe Edition
"Love Is War" from Zion Acoustic Sessions CD+DVD
"Mercy Mercy" from Zion Acoustic Sessions CD+DVD
"Might Sound Wild (Live)" from People (Live)
"Mighty to Save" from I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One
"Mighty to Save (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Mighty To Save (Live)" from Hillsong: Let Hope Rise (Live/Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
"Mountain*" from Zion Deluxe Edition
"None But Jesus" from I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One
"Not Today" from Wonder
"Nothing But The Blood" from I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One
"Nothing Like Your Love" from Zion Acoustic Sessions CD+DVD
"Nova (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)" from Zion Deluxe Edition
"Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)" from Zion Acoustic Sessions CD+DVD
"Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) (Live)" from Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land
"Oh You Bring (Live)" from Live In Miami
"One Way" from More Than Life
"One Way" from I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One
"Only One" from Look To You
"Point Of Difference" from All of the above
"Prince Of Peace" from Empires
"Prince Of Peace (Live)" from Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land
"Rain / Reign" from Wonder
"Ready Or Not (Live)" from People (Live)
"Relentless" from Zion Deluxe Edition
"Relentless" from Zion Acoustic Sessions CD+DVD
"Revolution" from United We Stand Deluxe Edition DVD
"Revolution" from United We Stand
"Rhythms of Grace (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Rule" from Empires
"Rule (Live)" from Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land
"Salvation Is Here" from Look To You
"Saviour King" from All of the Above Bonus DVD Edition
"Say The Word" from Empires
"Say The Word (Live)" from Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land
"Scandal of Grace" from Zion Acoustic Sessions CD+DVD
"Search My Heart (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Shadow Step" from Wonder
"Shape of Your Heart" from Wonder
"Shout Unto God" from I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One
"So Will I (100 Billion X)" from Wonder
"Solution" from All of the above
"Splinters and Stones" from Wonder
"Starts And Ends (Live)" from People (Live)
"Stay And Wait" from Zion Acoustic Sessions CD+DVD
"Street Called Mercy (Live)" from Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land
"Take All Of Me" from I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One
"Take Heart (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Take It All" from I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One
"Take It All (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Tapestry" from Zion Acoustic Sessions CD+DVD
"The Stand" from I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One
"The Stand" from United We Stand Deluxe Edition DVD
"The Stand (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Til I See You" from Look To You
"Tómalo" from Unidos Permanecemos
"Touch The Sky" from Empires
"Touch The Sky (Live)" from Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land
"Touch The Sky (Live)" from Hillsong: Let Hope Rise (Live/Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
"Up In Arms" from Zion Acoustic Sessions CD+DVD
"Water To Wine" from Wonder
"What The World Will Never Take" from Look To You
"Whole Heart (Hold Me Now) (Live)" from People (Live)
"With Everything (Live)" from Live In Miami
"With Everything (Tim Yagolnikov Remix)" from The White Album [remix project]
"Wonder" from Wonder
"You (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Your Name High (Live)" from Live In Miami
"Yours Forever" from Across the Earth: Tear Down The Walls
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Ozark principal placed on paid leave abruptly resigns in middle of school year
Gina McBain, the assistant principal at Ozark East Elementary, has been named the interim principal at Ozark West Elementary. She started Jan. 6.
Ozark principal placed on paid leave abruptly resigns in middle of school year Gina McBain, the assistant principal at Ozark East Elementary, has been named the interim principal at Ozark West Elementary. She started Jan. 6. Check out this story on news-leader.com: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/education/2020/01/06/ozark-west-elementary-principal-paid-leave-abruptly-resigns-mid-year/2796171001/
Claudette Riley, Springfield News-Leader Published 3:37 p.m. CT Jan. 6, 2020 | Updated 11:21 a.m. CT Jan. 7, 2020
The longtime principal of Ozark West Elementary has abruptly resigned in the middle of the school year.
Sharon Underwood was placed on paid leave Dec. 13. Six days later, the school board accepted her resignation and a request to remain on paid leave through the end of the 2019-20 year. Her salary is $98,877.
Sharon Underwood (Photo: File photo)
"It's a personnel issue," said Craig Carson, assistant superintendent of learning. "I can't comment on the specifics."
Education: Ozark tops area districts — and much of Missouri — in reading, math
Underwood, 48, joined the Ozark district in August 2012 after three years as principal in the Palmyra district in northeast Missouri and five years as principal of a small Christian boarding school in Iowa.
"We wish her absolutely the very, very best in whatever she does next," Carson said.
In a message from Kent Sappington, executive director of elementary learning, parents were notified of her departure and the interim principal was named.
Ozark West Elementary School. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/Springfield News-Leader)
"When we return from Christmas Break, you and your students will see a new face at West Elementary," Sappington said. "Dr. Gina McBain will be assuming the role of West Elementary principal for the remainder of the school year.
"We expect this to be a smooth transition for students and our teachers and staff will assist students with this change."
McBain, who joined the district as a teacher in 2001, has served as assistant principal in Ozark since 2013.
"She has wonderful qualities that will fit in great at West," Carson said.
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The News-Leader attempted to reach Underwood but the phone numbers listed for her were not current.
At Ozark West Elementary, 40 percent of the 652 students enrolled qualify for free or reduced price school meals, a national measure of poverty.
Carson said the mid-year resignation is not expected to have much impact for families. "Teachers are the primary contact for students."
He said the principal position will be posted and the district will follow its regular process to fill the job. "We will open it up and do a search."
Underwood has a bachelor's degree from Missouri Baptist University, a master's degree from Lindenwood University, and a doctor of education in curriculum and instruction from Evangel University.
In May 2010, the Herald-Whig newspaper reported that Underwood agreed to leave the Palmyra district in the middle of her two-year contract as part of a mutual separation agreement.
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Mark Geyer denies social media claims about his daughter
NRL legend Mark Geyer has revealed the traumatic moment his family first heard of strongly denied claims linking his daughter to an NRL sex tape.
news.com.auMarch 6, 20198:31am
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Panthers' Tyrone May has been charged following yet another NRL sex tape scandal.
Mark Geyer has threatened legal action over claims online linking his daughter to a sex tape scandal.Source:News Corp Australia
NRL legend Mark Geyer has revealed the traumatic circumstances under which he and his family discovered unfounded claims on social media linking his daughter Montanna to a sex tape.
Geyer announced on Tuesday he engaged lawyers to respond to “false and defamatory” claims surrounding his 22-year-old daughter.
The Triple M star made a brief statement before his show The Rush Hour went to air on Tuesday night.
“To say that my family is devastated by the actions of persons on social media over the past 24 hours is a total understatement,” Geyer said.
“My innocent daughter has had her name, honour and integrity dragged through the mud by these completely false accusations.
“The are lies and defamatory in the highest order.”
It has been alleged that the strongly denied claims first appeared on the NRL Memes Facebook page — which has more than 300,000 followers — where a since deleted post claimed: “The bird in the Tyrone May video is Mark Geyer’s daughter. Happy days at Penrith”.
Montanna Geyer and Mark Geyer. Picture: Instagram/markmggeyerSource:Instagram
The Panthers legend has since told The Daily Telegraph exclusively that he first discovered the claims linking his daughter to an alleged sex tape featuring stood down Panthers star May when he heard Montanna crying upstairs at his family home in Penrith.
“It was my daughter, she had 1000 friend requests on Instagram because they think it’s her in the sex tape,” Geyer said.
“She came down hysterical. I asked her what’s wrong and she showed me.”
Geyer described the online trolls allegedly circulating the claims about his daughter as “f***ers”.
Panthers supremo Phil Gould on Tuesday took to social media to reach out to Geyer, labelling those that allegedly circulated the rumour “cowards”.
@markMGgeyer Your daughter Montanna is one of the sweetest young ladies I’ve ever met. She has the most beautiful soul. The thoughtless and gutless coward who tried to spread this most scurrilous rumour, will be exposed. Rest easy big fella. Give Monny a hug from all at Panthers
— Phil Gould (@PhilGould15) March 5, 2019
Geyer on Tuesday morning announced he has been told by his legal advisers at Brydens Lawyers not to provide further comment to claims made on social media about his family.
“I have today engaged Brydens Lawyers to act on behalf of my daughter, Montanna, for the purpose of taking action against those who have published false and defamatory material which has caused incredible distress for my family,” Geyer said in a statement released by Triple M.
“On the advice of the solicitors, I do not propose to make any further comment.”
The former Panthers forward took aim at an unofficial NRL page on Facebook that appeared to suggest his daughter is the unknown woman in an explicit video allegedly featuring an NRL player.
Montanna Geyer. Picture: FacebookSource:Facebook
Mark Geyer is a living rugby league legend.Source:News Corp Australia
It comes after it was first reported by Channel 9’s senior rugby league journalist Danny Weidler that Geyer and his family have been falsely linked to recent issues that have been reported at the Panthers.
The report claimed Geyer is “angry” and his family is “devastated” by the social media claims, which they say are false.
The tweet by Weidler was retweeted by Geyer.
Breaking : Panthers legend Mark Geyer has engaged lawyers to deal with social media speculation that he says is totally false and defamatory. His family has been wrongly linked to the issues that his old club are dealing with. Geyer is angry and his family devasted. @9NewsSyd
— Danny Weidler (@Danny_Weidler) March 4, 2019
The claims were allegedly made on a widely followed rugby league fan page on Facebook. The posts have since been deleted.
A social media account appearing to belong to Geyer was also seen on Monday night asking for the identity of the administrator of the fan page in the comments of the since deleted post.
“Can someone tell me where/who runs this page, and where they operate of???? NOW!!”,” the post read.
The comments reportedly made by Geyer on the Facebook page have also been deleted.
The 51-year-old is one of Penrith’s favourite sons after retiring in 2000 and went on to become a popular rugby league commentator and radio personality.
Geyer has regularly spoken about his family during his media career and in 2014 made headlines for an emotional live address about his oldest daughter Montanna.
The former rugby league hard man revealed at the time that he was “rocked” when his then-18-year-old daughter had an epileptic fit.
The father of five broke down on live radio, saying, “I thought I was going to lose her”.
Montanna was diagnosed with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy.
“On Sunday Montanna had a few friends over,” Geyer said, struggling to keep his composure.
“Luckily her friend was in the room with her when it happened. They got to sleep late, probably three or four, as girls do.
“She put her alarm on for seven o’clock in the morning because for her 18th birthday she got a skydive so they were going to go skydiving on Sunday.
“But Montanna … got woken up by her friend Erin and she went into a jerk which led to a seizure.
“When you see your daughter frothing at the mouth with foam coming out and you can’t do anything about it, it’s hard. It’s really hard.”
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Estrio
EsTrio is where the paths of three young Italian musicians cross. Violinist Laura Gorna, cellist Cecila Radic and pianist Laura Manzini are regarded as being among the best performers of the new generation. Their musical vision stems from a shared background, their education having taken place under the aegis of the great Italian school of the likes of Salvatore Accardo, Rocco Filippini and Bruno Canino, with whom they have been performing for years in a variety of occasions and chamber ensembles.
Through the years, Laura Gorna, Cecilia Radic e Laura Manzini have played with performers such as Bruno Giuranna, David Finckel, Rainer Kussmaul, Toby and Gary Hoffmann, Franco Petracchi. They have performed for the most prominent Italian festivals, societies and venues, such as Teatro alla Scala, Serate Musicali di Milano, Unione Musicale di Torino; Amici della Musica di Firenze, Vicenza, Palermo, Mestre e Padova; Teatro San Carlo e Associazione Scarlatti di Napoli; Auditorium Parco della Musica, Filarmonica Romana; Società dei Concerti di Milano; the Ravello, Camerino, and Sorrento festivals.
Their international experience has stretched far beyond European borders, from Japan to the US, to South America and the Middle East.
The breadth of EsTrio’s artistic interests has led them to collaborations with performers belonging to fields as diverse as jazz, theatre, choreography, ultimately resulting in projects such as Lieber Schumann - an introspective musical-theatrical exploration of the great composer’s chamber music performed at Unione Musicale in Turin, Serate Musicali in Milan and in 2008 in Bologna for Musica Insieme- and Intorno a Mozart, for which Estrio has commissioned pieces to a variety of emerging composers.
Photo: from the official Estrio website
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The opioid epidemic's effect on foster care families
Posted: 8:10 AM, May 29, 2019
The opioid crisis is having a huge effect on the foster care system.
John DeGarmo keeps busy as a father to six children.
He's also been a foster parent to dozens of other children, which brought the impact of the opioid crisis right into his home. Several of his foster kids were born addicted, including three children he adopted.
"They suffer with challenges in focusing, with reading, with learning skills with mood swings," DeGarmo said. "You know, it really affects the whole child."
Anita, who did not give her last name for privacy reasons, is another parent dealing with the aftereffects opioids have on children in the foster care system.
"My oldest came with a lot of issues," the foster parent said. "He slept of the floor for the longest time, would not sleep in a bed, no matter what I tried."
According to the latest figures, one in three children now enter foster care because of their parents' drug abuse.
The number of children in foster care has jumped for the fifth consecutive year, fueled by the opioid epidemic. And foster care advocates across the country say there's not enough foster parents.
The problem is such an issue it got the attention of congress.
Lawmakers passed a federal law last year that prioritizes keeping families together by putting more money toward drug abuse treatment and mental health counseling for struggling parents.
DeGarmo says it's needed help.
"The parents don't know how to handle their own addictions," he said. "As a result, they're caring more for themselves, they're focused more on their own struggles with the drugs and their children are being neglected."
The new law will allow states to being using federal funds starting in October.
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Here's The Easiest Way To Boost Your Creativity
Drake Baer
If you want to get your ideas flowing, go for a walk.
That's what Stanford University researchers Marily Oppezzo and Daniel L. Schwartz found in a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.
Study participants who went for walks saw an 81% increase in tests measuring divergent thinking, a thought process associated with creativity in which you generate lots of ideas.
But they saw a decrease in tests measuring convergent thinking, a more linear method of arriving at one solution.
The study lends some empirical validation to the long-held wisdom of the walk.
Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Virginia Woolf all made walks a part of their creative routines. In the business world, innovators like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jack Dorsey have favored the walking meeting. What's more, President Obama ends many of his work days with a walk around with White House grounds with his Chief of Staff.
Fittingly, Oppezzo and Schwartz had the idea for the study while they were walking. Schwartz likes to go for walks with his students when mulling over ideas; together they wondered if the practice had empirical validation.
"It's not a new idea," Oppezzo says. "We just couldn't find any empirical evidence showing this."
Validating the wisdom of the walk
In one experiment, participants took an alternate usage test, where they had four minutes to name as many new uses as possible for everyday objects, including a newspaper, a tire, and a button. You could say that a tire could be used as an inner tube, for example, but not a pinky ring.
In another creative experiment, participants were asked to think of analogies. Their goal was to find analogies with a similar "deep structure" in meaning. One example was a robbed safe. An empty wallet was a poor analogy, Oppezzo says, since that's so specifically similar. A better — and darkly poetic — analogy is a soldier coming home from war with post-traumatic stress disorder. "The soldier's role is to protect us," Oppezzo says, "but their mind was robbed by the experience of war, thus making it impossible to fulfill that duty," just like the safe was violated.
However, the effects of walking didn't help with more precise answers.
In a different experiment, participants took the remote association test. In this test, they were given three words (cottage, Swiss, and cake, for instance) and were asked to find the word that fits with all of them. (Cheese!) People did worse on that test after walking than if they sat beforehand.
While Oppezzo and Schwartz didn't test for the mechanism behind why walking leads to more ideas — that's for another study — they did form a few hypotheses. It might be that walking takes a fair amount of attention, so you don't have as much mental energy available to filter out uncommon ideas. It might also be that walking lets you make broader associations or spreads your area of focus.
How to walk more
Thankfully for us office workers, the positive effects of the walk aren't reliant on trotting around an idyllic California campus: The Stanford researchers found the same creativity-inducing effects when people walked on a treadmill in a dark, windowless room.
So even if you're stuck in a cubicle, you can insert walks into your workday.
"Given what we found, if you have a task that requires many ideas, going for a walk — even around an office — appears to give you a fresh perspective," Oppezzo says. "Also, if you can't do a walking meeting because it's awkward or you need to take notes, going for a walk beforehand seems to be a good prescription."
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Dressing Dolly: A look inside her CMA Awards wardrobe
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Dolly Parton says she never lets a rhinestone go unturned and we are giving you a look inside where Dolly keeps those jewels.
“I’ve actually changed this one a little bit,” Steve Summers explained while sketching quickly on a design.
Summers is Dolly’s Creative Director. He showed us the inspiration behind the looks you will see her wear on country music’s biggest night. Her CMA Awards wardrobe came to life right in front of our lens.
“These will be kind of opened and this will have feathers on it there and then this skirt a little fuller and these will have little feathers on it and the whole thing is gold and white it’s going to be a really beautiful dress,” he explained.
Summers says his team is trying something new on the country icon.
“It’s a brilliant idea. I just don’t know that we pulled it off right. I’ll know Tuesday if it did or didn’t and you will know when you watch the CMA’s if it worked,” he laughed.
The plan is for Dolly to wear a basic slip that Summers will build multiple looks off of throughout the awards show.
“It’s a basic slip, it’s 18 inches in the front and 20 inches in the back. It’s basically a silver, white concept. It will have a zipper up the back and then basically you put different tops on top of it,” said Summers.
Dolly will don around a half dozen looks, but each will have a backup or two.
“We will bring about 20 costumes at least. You have to do it, because you are one zipper away from catastrophe and it happens and it has happened to me and it happens often. I have been with her on stage when the zipper broke and you had to figure out what to do. I have been with her on stage when somebody spilled coffee on her outfit. I’ve been there for those things. I know and I plan worst-case scenario all the time and it does drive everybody around me crazy because they have to produce all this stuff.”
He laughs that his staff often calls him the Tasmanian Devil.
“It’s easy for me to say I have got to have two alternatives for this, it’s not easy for them to make them.”
Related: A look behind Dolly Parton’s iconic style
For the 53rd Annual CMA Awards, he says we will see fewer rhinestones on Dolly.
“When she says she wants it toned down a little bit, that means instead of 50,000 stones there is going to be 10,000 so there is going to be plenty (laughs) Dolly will sparkle forever, that’s a given,” he smiled.
Summers says she will sport a more angelic look in pastels.
“The inspiration that we did on this particular set of drawings is very flowy and very angelic, almost fairy-like. It will have sparkles on it, but it won’t have as much.”
Then he says there are the accessories; jewelry, gloves, and shoes.
“Christian Louboutin makes most of our shoes. I try to do blank shoes meaning it’s just one color that makes it simpler to go with things because these cost a fortune. Every pair of shoes cost a fortune and so I try not to make shoes to go with particular outfits if I don’t have to because you are talking about thousands of dollars just in shoes,” Summers explained.
He says it all has to tie in together, with Dolly’s big iconic blonde hair being the cherry on top.
“The beauty of Dolly is that she wears wigs because she doesn’t want to take the time to sit for the time it takes to do her own hair. If you are going to do 7 different looks on a show clothing-wise, she will want 7 completely different looks hair-wise,” said Summers.
Summers also has to keep in mind what kind of clothes Carrie and Reba will be wearing, what color the backdrop is, the curtains. Then there are details like where her mic pack will be hidden.
He also said when making clothes that Dolly will sing in, Summers puts elastic panels in her outfit so that her diaphragm isn’t restricted.
While Dolly has been dolled up at nearly every awards show, Summers says the CMA Awards are where her heart hangs.
“The CMA’s are really important to Dolly just because of the fact that it’s country music. That’s her base, that’s her fans, that’s her people, so it matters a lot to her that this is pulled off perfectly. These are her friends to that she is working with, these are girls she has worked with forever, so this is very important that we get this right from the get-go for her, this is personal.”
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Gaute Hagen: Supercomputing the universe’s building blocks
Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Gaute Hagen uses ORNL’s Summit supercomputer to model scientifically interesting atomic nuclei. To validate models, he and other physicists compare computations with experimental observations.
At the nexus of theory and computation, physicist Gaute Hagen of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory runs advanced models on powerful supercomputers to explore how protons and neutrons interact to “build” an atomic nucleus from scratch. His fundamental research improves predictions about nuclear energy, nuclear security and astrophysics.
“How did matter that forms our universe come to be?” asked Hagen. “How does matter organize itself based on what we know about elementary particles and their interactions? Do we fully understand how these particles interact?”
The lightest nuclei, hydrogen and helium, formed during the Big Bang. Heavier elements, up to iron, are made in stars by progressively fusing those lighter nuclei. The heaviest nuclei form in extreme environments when lighter nuclei rapidly capture neutrons and undergo beta decays.
For example, building nickel-78, a neutron-rich nucleus that is especially strongly bound, or “doubly magic,” requires 28 protons and 50 neutrons interacting through the strong force. “To solve the Schrödinger equation for such a huge system is a tremendous challenge,” Hagen said. “It is only possible using advanced quantum mechanical models and serious computing power.”
Through DOE’s Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing program, Hagen participates in the NUCLEI project to calculate nuclear structure and reactions from first principles; its collaborators represent 7 universities and 5 national labs. Moreover, he is the lead principal investigator of a DOE Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment award of time on supercomputers at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories for computations that complement part of the physics addressed under NUCLEI.
Theoretical physicists build models and run them on supercomputers to simulate the formation of atomic nuclei and study their structures and interactions. Theoretical predictions can then be compared with data from experiments at new facilities producing increasingly neutron-rich nuclei. If the observations are close to the predictions, the models are validated.
‘Random walk’
“I never planned to become a physicist or end up at Oak Ridge,” said Hagen, who hails from Norway. “That was a random walk.”
Graduating from high school in 1994, he planned to follow in the footsteps of his father, an economics professor, but his grades were not good enough to get into the top-ranked Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen. A year of mandatory military service in the King’s Guard gave Hagen fresh perspective on his life. At 20, he entered the University of Bergen and earned a bachelor’s degree in the philosophy of science. Wanting to continue for a doctorate, but realizing he lacked math and science backgrounds that would aid his dissertation, he signed up for classes in those fields—and a scientist was born. He went on to earn a master’s degree in nuclear physics.
Entering a PhD program, he used pen and paper or simple computer codes for calculations of the Schrödinger equation pertaining to two or three particles. One day his advisor introduced him to University of Oslo professor Morten Hjorth-Jensen, who used advanced computing to solve physics problems.
“The fact that you could use large clusters of computers in parallel to solve for several tens of particles was intriguing to me,” Hagen said. “That changed my whole perspective on what you can do if you have the right resources and employ the right methods.”
Hagen finished his graduate studies in Oslo, working with Hjorth-Jensen and taking his computing class. In 2005, collaborators of his new mentor—ORNL’s David Dean and the University of Tennessee’s Thomas Papenbrock—sought a postdoctoral fellow. A week after receiving his doctorate, Hagen found himself on a plane to Tennessee.
For his work at ORNL, Hagen used a numerical technique to describe systems of many interacting particles, such as atomic nuclei containing protons and neutrons. He collaborated with experts worldwide who were specializing in different aspects of the challenge and ran his calculations on some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
“Computing had taken such an important role in the work I did that having that available made a big difference,” he said. In 2008, he accepted a staff job at ORNL.
That year Hagen found another reason to stay in Tennessee—he met the woman who became his wife. She works in TV production and manages a vintage boutique in downtown Knoxville.
Hagen, his wife and stepson spend some vacations at his father’s farm by the sea in northern Norway. There the physicist enjoys snowboarding, fishing and backpacking, “getting lost in remote areas, away from people, where it’s quiet and peaceful. Back to the basics.”
Summiting
Hagen won a DOE early career award in 2013. Today, his research employs applied mathematics, computer science and physics, and the resulting descriptions of atomic nuclei enable predictions that guide earthly experiments and improve understanding of astronomical phenomena.
A central question he is trying to answer is: what is the size of a nucleus? The difference between the radii of neutron and proton distributions—called the “neutron skin”— has implications for the equation-of-state of neutron matter and neutron stars.
In 2015, a team led by Hagen predicted properties of the neutron skin of the calcium-48 nucleus; the results were published in Nature Physics. In progress or planned are experiments by others to measure various neutron skins. The COHERENT experiment at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source did so for argon-40 by measuring how neutrinos—particles that interact only weakly with nuclei—scatter off of this nucleus. Studies of parity-violating electron scattering on lead-208 and calcium-48—topics of the PREX2 and CREX experiments, respectively—are planned at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
One recent calculation in a study Hagen led solved a 50-year-old puzzle about why beta decays of atomic nuclei are slower than expected based on the beta decays of free neutrons. Other calculations explore isotopes to be made and measured at DOE’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, under construction at Michigan State University, when it opens in 2022.
Hagen’s team has made several predictions about neutron-rich nuclei observed at experimental facilities worldwide. For example, 2016 predictions for the magicity of nickel-78 were confirmed at RIKEN in Japan and published in Nature this year. Now the team is developing methods to predict behavior of neutron-rich isotopes beyond nickel-78 to find out how many neutrons can be added before a nucleus falls apart.
“Progress has exploded in recent years because we have methods that scale more favorably with the complexity of the system, and we have ever-increasing computing power,” Hagen said. At the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, he has worked on Jaguar (1.75 peak petaflops), Titan (27 peak petaflops) and Summit (200 peak petaflops) supercomputers. “That’s changed the way that we solve problems.”
His team currently calculates the probability of a process called neutrino-less double-beta decay in calcium-48 and germanium-76. This process has yet to be observed but if seen would imply the neutrino is its own anti-particle and open a path to physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
Looking to the future, Hagen eyes “superheavy” elements—lead-208 and beyond. Superheavies have never been simulated from first principles.
“Lead-208 pushes everything to the limits—computing power and methods,” he said. “With this next generation computer, I think simulating it will be possible.”
DOE’s Office of Science supports Hagen’s research. He is also a recipient of an American Physical Society fellowship.
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Recently, a student of mine (Felix Süßenbach, now at the University of Edinburgh) and I published a little study on gaze-cueing, and how it is moderated by the trustworthiness of the gazing person.
In a nutshell, although instructed to ignore the gaze, participants shifted their attention into the direction where another person looked at (–> this is the well-established gaze-cueing effect), but more so when the sender was introduced as being trustworthy (–> which is the new result)
We also found some exploratory evidence that the trait anxiety of participants moderates that effect, in a way that highly anxious participants did not differentiate between trustworthy and untrustworthy senders: Highly anxious participants always followed the other person’s gaze. For low anxious participants, in contrast, the gaze-cueing effect was reduced to zero for untrustworthy senders. (This exploratory finding, of course, awaits cross-validation).
The paper, raw data, and R script for the analyses are on OSF.
Süßenbach, F., & Schönbrodt, F. (2014). Not afraid to trust you: Trustworthiness moderates gaze cueing but not in highly anxious participants. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26, 670–678. doi:10.1080/20445911.2014.945457
Publisher’s website: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20445911.2014.945457#.VEn3GVu17sI
Abstract Gaze cueing (i.e., the shifting of person B’s attention by following person A’s gaze) is closely linked with human interaction and learning. To make the most of this connection, researchers need to investigate possible moderators enhancing or reducing the extent of this attentional shifting. In this study we used a gaze cueing paradigm to demonstrate that the perceived trustworthiness of a cueing person constitutes such a moderator for female participants. Our results show a significant interaction between perceived trustworthiness and the response time trade-off between valid and invalid gaze cues [gaze cueing effect (GCE)], as manifested in greater following of a person’s gaze if this person was trustworthy as opposed to the following of an untrustworthy person’s gaze. An additional exploratory analysis showed potentially moderating influences of trait-anxiety on this interaction (p = .057). The affective background of the experiment (i.e., using positive or negative target stimuli) had no influence.
This is a post-publication peer review (HIBAR: “Had I Been A Reviewer”) of the following paper:
Levi, M., Li, K., & Zhang, F. (2010). Deal or no deal: Hormones and the mergers and acquisitions game. Management Science 56, 1462 -1483.
A citeable version of this post-publication peer review can be found at SSRN:
Schönbrodt, Felix D., Why Using Age as a Proxy for Testosterone is a Bad Deal (March 26, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2028882 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2028882
In their article “Deal or No Deal: Hormones and the Mergers and Acquisitions Game,” Levi, Li, and Zhang (2010) claimed that they investigated the effect of testosterone on CEOs’ decisions in mergers and acquisitions. However, they did not measure testosterone levels directly. Rather, they tried to use CEO age as a proxy, based on a previously documented negative correlation between age and testosterone level. In this comment, I argue that it is not reasonable to use age as a proxy for testosterone, and that Levi et al.’s study does not tell us anything about testosterone. General remarks on using proxy variables are given.
In their article “Deal or No Deal: Hormones and the Mergers and Acquisitions Game,” Levi, Li, and Zhang (2010) investigated the research question of whether the hormone testosterone (T) has an impact on decisions in mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Based on experimental results that T has an effect on behavior in ultimatum games (Burnham, 2007), Levi et al. hypothesized that CEOs with higher T levels should show more aggressive/dominant behavior in M&As. To investigate this hypothesis, the authors assembled a data set with 357 M&As and several economic variables related to them (e.g., the size of the target firm, the board size, and several other economic indicators). As they could not assess the T levels of the CEOs directly, they “[…] have suggested an alternative: specifically, to proxy testosterone by age” (p. 1476). Therefore, as the authors admitted themselves, their reasoning was based on a central assumption: “The validity of this approach clearly depends on the extent of the association of hormone levels with age.” (p. 1476). To summarize their findings, a significant but small effect of age on M&A decisions was found: younger CEOs made more bid withdrawals and more tender offers than their older counterparts (which has been interpreted as more dominant behavior). As the story has received wide press coverage, for example, in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Time Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times, I feel the need to make some clarifications.
Empirically, Levi et al. have shown an effect of CEO age on the outcome of M&As. From the title to the conclusion of their article, however, they refer to the effect of testosterone (e.g., “[…] in M&As the testosterone of both parties could influence the course and outcome of negotiations,” p. 1463; “[…] we consider whether testosterone influences the likelihood that offers made are subsequently withdrawn,” p.1466; “This finding strongly supports an association between testosterone, as proxied by the bidder male CEO age, and M&As,” p. 1469).
In the following commentary, I argue that it is not appropriate to use age as a proxy for T level and that the conclusions of Levi et al. are taking it way too far. For the clarity of my arguments, I will focus only on the strongest reported effect. For all weaker effects, the same reasoning applies even more.
The Effect of Testosterone on Dominant Behavior is Rather Low
Is it a reasonable hypothesis to expect more dominant M&A behavior from CEOs with higher T levels? Early investigations with animals have shown a relation between testosterone level and aggressive or dominant behavior (e.g., Wingfield, Hegner, Dufty, & Ball, 1990). Recent review articles and meta-analyses on human testosterone, however, have shown that the effects in humans are rather small. For example, in a meta-analysis on the relation of male human aggression and T level (N = 9760; Archer, Graham-Kevan, & Davies, 2005; Book, Starzyk, & Quinsey, 2001), the weighted correlation was only .08. Other meta-analyses on the relation of T to dominance (weighted = .13) and to a challenge in a sports competition (weighted = .18) have supported this finding of a small effect (for an overview, see Archer, 2006). To summarize, if M&As are seen as competitive situations, indeed, an effect of T could be expected – but the relation is probably much less pronounced than common sense might suggest.
The Relation Between Age and Testosterone is Rather Low
The central assumption in their article is that T level can be proxied by age. How strong is that relation? A meta-analysis of 23 studies reporting the correlation between age and T level (N = 1900) revealed that the average correlation between these variables was -.18 (Gray, Berlin, McKinlay, & Longcope, 1991). That means only 3% of the variation in T level can be explained by age. Levi et al. refer to another study that shows a remarkably stronger correlation of -.50 (Harman, Metter, Tobin, Pearson, & Blackman, 2001).
All articles cited by Levi et al. report the correlation for a broad age range (e.g., 24 – 90 years, Ferrini & Barrett-Conner, 1998; 23 – 91 years, Harman et al., 2001). Given that 90% of CEOs in Levi et al.’s sample were between 46 and 64, a massive range restriction is present, which presumably lowers the correlation in that age range even more. Indeed, the scatter plots in Harman et al. (2001) strongly suggest that the correlation is mainly driven by the very young and very old participants.
But regardless of whether the true correlation is closer to -.18 or to -.50: Are these correlations high enough that age is warranted as a valid proxy for T level? As we will see in the next section, the answer is no.
A “Triangulation” of an Unobserved Correlation?
In their conclusions, the authors argue as though they had established a causal effect of T on M&A decisions. However, they had not even established a correlation between T and M&A behavior. Their approach seems to be something like a “triangulation” of an unobserved correlation by the knowledge of two other correlations. Indeed, there are dependencies and constraints in the relation of the bivariate correlations between three variables. If two of the three correlations are given ( and ), the possible range of the third correlation, , is constrained by following equation (Olkin, 1981):
Figure 1 graphically represents the relationship of variables given by this equation. The left plot shows the upper boundary of , the right plot the lower boundary of . As one can see, rather high values for either , , or both, have to be present to imply a positive sign (i.e., a lower boundary > 0) of .
The left panel shows the upper boundary of a correlation for the given correlations and , the right panel the lower boundary. The asteriks marks the position of Levi et al.’s study.
Given the observed estimates of = -.50 and = -.12, the range of possible values for goes from -.80 to +.92. (The position is marked by the asteriks in Figure 1.) If the probably more realistic estimate from the meta-analysis is used ( = -.18; Gray et al., 1991), the possible range for goes from -.95 to +1.00. These calculations clearly show that there is no argument to expect a positive correlation between T and M&A decisions. Actually, with the given data set, no conclusions about T can be drawn at all.
The Effect of Age on M&A Decisions: An Artefact?
Given these analyses, it should be clear that one cannot speak of a T effect based on these data. What about the age effect reported in this article? The authors wrote that, “[… m]otivated by the studies of population testosterone levels reviewed earlier, we use the age of 45 years as the cut-off to separate young male CEOs from the rest.” (p. 1467). This seems to be a problematic choice to me. First of all, none of the cited studies gives a hint about why the age of 45 should be a particularly meaningful cut point. None of the reviewed studies suggests a significant break or stronger decline of T at that age. Furthermore, that cut point leads to a very skewed distribution of 16 “young” vs. 341 “old” CEOs.
The strongest reported effect was that of the dichotomized variable “CEO is young” (i.e., younger than 45) on bid withdrawals. Based on the reported descriptive statistics and correlations, it can be computed that 5 young CEOs withdrew, whereas 11 did not. Concerning old CEOs, 40 out of 341 withdrew. This distribution led to the reported Pearson correlation of = .12 ( = .02). If only one young CEO would not have withdrawn, the correlation would have been nonsignificant ( = .08, = .13). If only three young CEOs would not have withdrawn, age and withdrawing behavior would be completely unrelated. Hence, as Levi et al.’s conclusions stand and fall on the decision of one single CEO, these results do not seem very robust to me. Why is age categorized at all? Methodological papers on the topic clearly suggest not to dichotomize if a predictor variable can be used on an interval or ratio scale (e.g., Royston, Altman, & Sauerbrei, 2006).
Referring to several meta-analyses, it could be shown that the relation between T and dominant human behavior is much less pronounced than suggested by Levi and colleagues. Likewise, the relation between age and testosterone, especially in the restricted age range of their sample, is presumably close to zero. From my reading of the empirical evidence, the article should be rewritten as “Age and the mergers and acquisitions game,” and it should be acknowledged that the age effect, although significant, has a small effect size.
Of course, age is not a psychological variable per se – it is always a proxy for a true causal factor: “And although it is unquestionably useful to find that a phenomenon covaries with age, neither age nor the related variable time is a causal variable; changes occur in time, but not as a result of time.” (Hartmann & George, 1999, p. 132). Hence, it would be feasible to spend one or two paragraphs in the discussion speculating about the potential causal role of testosterone (and several other age-related variables). In that article, however, from the main title to the conclusion, the authors argue that T is the causal factor. Although the authors try to rule out some alternative age-related factors, the main criticism remains: With the current data, there is no way to provide evidence for or against a T hypothesis. It’s simply the wrong story for the data.
Based on the same data set, several other articles could have been written in the same style, for example, “Bicep strength and the M&A game.” Why bicep strength? The theory of embodied cognition predicts that physical dominance is a predictor for psychological dominance in negotiations (Barsalou, 2008). As CEO muscle strength cannot be measured directly, one could use CEO age as a proxy for muscle strength ( =.55; Lindle et al., 1997). Physically stronger CEOs, as proxied by age, would therefore be expected to make more dominant choices in M&As. This ad hoc hypothesis has the same argumentative structure and the same empirical justification as the “testosterone story,” and the creative reader can think of a multitude of other age-related variables that might have an influence on negotiation decisions (e.g., generational cohort effects in moral values, fluid intelligence, different educational levels between age groups, time spent in marriage, or the grayishness of the CEO’s hair).
To summarize, Levi et al. conclude that they “[…] have been able to conduct that age appears to be proxying for testosterone rather than experience, horizon, or some other effect” (p. 1478) and that their finding “strongly supports an association between testosterone, as proxied by the bidder male CEO age, and M&As.” (p. 1469). In the light of the analyses given above, that conclusion is not justified.
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Reanalyzing the Schnall/Johnson “cleanliness” data sets: New insights from Bayesian and robust approaches
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I want to present a re-analysis of the raw data from two studies that investigated whether physical cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgments – from the original study (n = 40; Schnall, Benton, & Harvey, 2008), and from a direct replication (n = 208, Johnson, Cheung, & Donnellan, 2014). Both data sets are provided on the Open Science Framework. All of my analyses are based on the composite measure as dependent variable.
This re-analsis follows previous analyses by Tal Yarkoni, Yoel Inbar, and R. Chris Fraley, and is focused on one question: What can we learn from the data when we apply modern (i.e., Bayesian and robust) statistical approaches?
The complete and reproducible R code for these analyses is at the end of the post.
Disclaimer 1: This analysis assumes that the studies from which data came from were internally valid. Of course the garbage-in-garbage-out principle holds. But as the original author reviewed the experimental material of the replication study and gave her OK, I assume that the relication data is as valid as the original data.
Disclaimer 2: I am not going to talk about tone, civility, or bullying here. Although these are important issues, a lot has been already written about it, including apologies from one side of the debate (not from the other, yet), etc. For nice overviews over the debate, see for example a blog post by Vasudevan Mukunth, and the summary provided by Tal Yarkoni). I am completely unemotional about these data. False positives do exists, I am sure I had my share of them, and replication is a key element of science. I do not suspect anybody of anything – I just look at the data.
That being said, let’s get to business:
Bayes factor analysis
The BF is a continuous measure of evidence for H0 or for H1, and quantifies, “how much more likely is H1 compared to H0″. Typically, a BF of at least 3 is requested to speak of evidence (i.e., the H1 should be at least 3 times more likely than the H0 to speak of evidence for an effect). For an introduction to Bayes factors see here, here, or here.
Using the BayesFactor package, it is simple to compute a Bayes factor (BF) for the group comparison. In the original study, the Bayes factor against the H0, , is 1.08. That means, data are 1.08 times more likely under the H1 (“there is an effect”) than under the H0 (“There is no effect”). As the BF is virtually 1, data occurred equally likely under both hypotheses.
What researchers actually are interested in is not p(Data | Hypothesis), but rather p(Hypothesis | Data). Using Bayes’ theorem, the former can be transformed into the latter by assuming prior probabilities for the hypotheses. The BF then tells one how to update one’s prior probabilities after having seen the data. Given a BF very close to 1, one does not have to update his or her priors. If one holds, for example, equal priors (p(H1) = p(H0) = .5), these probabilities do not change after having seen the data of the original study. With these data, it is not possible to decide between H0 and H1, and being so close to 1, this BF is not even “anectdotal evidence” for H1 (although the original study was just skirting the boundary of significance, p = .06).
For the replication data, the situation looks different. The Bayes factor here is 0.11. That means, H0 is (1 / 0.11) = 9 times more likely than H1. A of 0.11 would be labelled “moderate to strong evidence” for H0. If you had equals priors before, you should update your belief for H1 to 10% and for H0 to 90% (Berger, 2006).
To summarize, neither the original nor the replication study show evidence for H1. In contrast, the replication study even shows quite strong evidence for H0.
A more detailed look at the data using robust statistics
Parametric tests, like the ANOVA employed in the original and the replication study, rest on assumptions. Unfortunately, these assumptions are very rarely met (Micceri, 1989), and ANOVA etc. are not as robust against these violations as many textbooks suggest (Erceg-Hurn & Mirosevic, 2008). Fortunately, over the last 30 years robust statistical methods have been developed that do not rest on such strict assumptions.
In the presence of violations and outliers, these robust methods have much lower Type I error rates and/or higher power than classical tests. Furthermore, a key advantage of these methods is that they are designed in a way that they are equally efficient compared to classical methods, even if the assumptions are not violated. In a nutshell, when using robust methods, there nothing to lose, but a lot to gain.
Rand Wilcox pioneered in developing many robust methods (see, for example, this blog post by him), and the methods are implemented in the WRS package for R (Wilcox & Schönbrodt, 2014).
Comparing the central tendency of two groups
A robust alternative to the independent group t test would be to compare the trimmed means via percentile bootstrap. This method is robust against outliers and does not rest on parametric assumptions. Here we find a p value of .106 for the original study and p = .94 for the replication study. Hence, the same picture: No evidence against the H0.
Comparing other-than-central tendencies between two groups, aka.: Comparing extreme quantiles between groups
When comparing data from two groups, approximately 99.6% of all psychological research compares the central tendency (that is a subjective estimate).
In some cases, however, it would be sensible to compare other parts of the distributions.For example, an intervention could have effects only on slow reaction times (RT), but not on fast or medium RTs. Similarly, priming could have an effect only on very high responses, but not on low and average responses. Measures of central tendency might obscure or miss this pattern.
And indeed, descriptively there (only) seems to be a priming effect in the “extremely wrong pole” (large numbers on the x axis) of the original study (i.e., the black density line is higher than the red on at “7” and “8” ratings):
This visual difference can be tested. Here, I employed the qcomhd function from the WRS package (Wilcox, Erceg-Hurn, Clark, & Carlson, 2013). This method looks whether two samples differ in several quantiles (not only the central tendency). For an introduction to this method, see this blog post.
Here’s the result when comparing the 10th, 30th, 50th, 70th, and 90th quantile:
q n1 n2 est.1 est.2 est.1_minus_est.2 ci.low ci.up p_crit p.value signif
1 0.1 20 20 3.86 3.15 0.712 -1.077 2.41 0.0500 0.457 NO
4 0.7 20 20 6.86 5.70 1.167 0.023 2.05 0.0125 0.047 NO
5 0.9 20 20 7.65 6.49 1.163 0.368 1.80 0.0100 0.008 YES
(Please note: Estimating 5 quantiles from 20 data points is not quite the epitome of precision. So treat this analysis with caution.)
As multiple comparison are made, the Benjamini-Hochberg-correction for the p value is applied. This correction gives new critical p values (column p_crit) to which the actual p values (column p.value) have to be compared. One quantile survives the correction: the 90th quantile. That means that there are fewer extreme answers in the cleanliness priming group than in the control group
This finding, of course, is purely exploratory, and as any other exploratory finding it awaits cross-validation in a fresh data set. Luckily, we have the replication data set! Let’s see whether we can replicate this effect.
The answer is: no. Not even a tendency:
1 0.1 102 106 4.75 4.88 -0.1309 -0.705 0.492 0.0125 0.676 NO
3 0.5 102 106 6.67 6.61 0.0577 -0.267 0.349 0.0500 0.737 NO
Here’s a plot of the results:
From the Bayes factor analysis, both the original and the replication study do not show evidence for the H1. The replication study actually shows moderate to strong evidence for the H0.
If anything, the original study shows some exploratory evidence that only the high end of the answer distribution (around the 90th quantile) is reduced by the cleanliness priming – not the central tendency. If one wants to interpret this effect, it would translate to: “Cleanliness primes reduce extreme morality judgements (but not average or low judgements)”. This exploratory effect, however, could not be cross-validated in the better powered replication study.
Recently, Silberzahn, Uhlmann, Martin, and Nosek proposed “crowdstorming a data set”, in cases where a complex data set calls for different analytical approaches. Now, a simple two group experimental design, usually analyzed with a t test, doesn’t seem to have too much complexity – still it is interesting how different analytical approaches highlight different aspects of the data set.
And it is also interesting to see that the majority of diverse approaches comes to the same conclusion: From this data base, we can conclude that we cannot conclude that the H0 is wrong (This sentence, a hommage to Cohen, 1990, was for my Frequentist friends ;-)).
And, thanks to Bayesian approaches, we can say (and even understand): There is strong evidence that the H0 is true. Very likely, there is no priming effect in this paradigm.
PS: Celebrate open science. Without open data, all of this would not be possible.
## (c) 2014 Felix Schönbrodt
## https://www.nicebread.de
## This is a reanalysis of raw data from
## - Schnall, S., Benton, J., & Harvey, S. (2008). With a clean conscience cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgments. Psychological Science, 19(12), 1219-1222.
## - Johnson, D. J., Cheung, F., & Donnellan, M. B. (2014). Does Cleanliness Influence Moral Judgments? A Direct Replication of Schnall, Benton, and Harvey (2008). Social Psychology, 45, 209-215.
## ======================================================================
## Read raw data, provided on Open Science Framework
# - https://osf.io/4cs3k/
# - https://osf.io/yubaf/
library(foreign)
dat1 <- read.spss("raw/Schnall_Benton__Harvey_2008_Study_1_Priming.sav", to.data.frame=TRUE)
dat2 <- read.spss("raw/Exp1_Data.sav", to.data.frame=TRUE)
dat2 <- dat2[dat2[, "filter_."] == "Selected", ]
dat2$condition <- factor(dat2$Condition, labels=c("neutral priming", "clean priming"))
table(dat2$condition)
# build composite scores from the 6 vignettes:
dat1$DV <- rowMeans(dat1[, c("dog", "trolley", "wallet", "plane", "resume", "kitten")])
# define shortcuts for DV in each condition
neutral <- dat1$DV[dat1$condition == "neutral priming"]
clean <- dat1$DV[dat1$condition == "clean priming"]
neutral2 <- dat2$DV[dat2$condition == "neutral priming"]
clean2 <- dat2$DV[dat2$condition == "clean priming"]
## Original analyses with t-tests/ ANOVA
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Original study:
# Some descriptives ...
mean(neutral)
sd(neutral)
mean(clean)
sd(clean)
# Run the ANOVA from Schnall et al. (2008)
a1 <- aov(DV ~ condition, dat1)
summary(a1) # p = .0644
# --> everything as in original publication
# Replication study
mean(neutral2)
sd(neutral2)
mean(clean2)
sd(clean2)
summary(a2) # p = .947
# --> everything as in replication report
## Bayes factor analyses
library(BayesFactor)
ttestBF(neutral, clean, rscale=1) # BF_10 = 1.08
ttestBF(neutral2, clean2, rscale=1) # BF_10 = 0.11
## Robust statistics
library(WRS)
# robust tests: group difference of central tendency
# percentile bootstrap for comparing measures of location:
# 20% trimmed mean
trimpb2(neutral, clean) # p = 0.106 ; CI: [-0.17; +1.67]
trimpb2(neutral2, clean2) # p = 0.9375; CI: [-0.30; +0.33]
# median
medpb2(neutral, clean) # p = 0.3265; CI: [-0.50; +2.08]
medpb2(neutral2, clean2) # p = 0.7355; CI: [-0.33; +0.33]
# Comparing other quantiles (not only the central tendency)
# plot of densities
par(mfcol=c(1, 2))
plot(density(clean, from=1, to=8), ylim=c(0, 0.5), col="red", main="Original data", xlab="Composite rating")
lines(density(neutral, from=1, to=8), col="black")
legend("topleft", col=c("black", "red"), lty="solid", legend=c("neutral", "clean"))
plot(density(clean2, from=1, to=8), ylim=c(0, 0.5), col="red", main="Replication data", xlab="Composite rating")
lines(density(neutral2, from=1, to=8), col="black")
# Compare quantiles of original study ...
qcomhd(neutral, clean, q=seq(.1, .9, by=.2), xlab="Original: Neutral Priming", ylab="Neutral - Clean")
abline(h=0, lty="dotted")
# Compare quantiles of replication study
qcomhd(neutral2, clean2, q=seq(.1, .9, by=.2), xlab="Replication: Neutral Priming", ylab="Neutral - Clean")
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Members > Elizabeth Adkins, DVM, MS, DACVO
Dr. Adkins is a Board Certified veterinary ophthalmologist and former clinical instructor at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently a staff ophthalmologist at the Hope Center for Advanced Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Virginia. Her clinical and research interests include ocular pharmacology, cataractogenesis and cataract surgery.
Discipline: Clinical Comparative Ophthalmology
Digital Mental Health Interventions for Depression, Anxiety, and Enhancement of Psychological Well-Being Among College Students: Systematic Review.
J Med Internet Res. 2019 Jul 22;21(7):e12869
Authors: Lattie EG, Adkins EC, Winquist N, Stiles-Shields C, Wafford QE, Graham AK
BACKGROUND: College students are increasingly reporting common mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, and they frequently encounter barriers to seeking traditional mental health treatments. Digital mental health interventions, such as those delivered via the Web and apps, offer the potential to improve access to mental health treatment.
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to review the literature on digital mental health interventions focused on depression, anxiety, and enhancement of psychological well-being among samples of college students to identify the effectiveness, usability, acceptability, uptake, and adoption of such programs.
METHODS: We conducted a systematic review using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines (registration number CRD42018092800), and the search strategy was conducted by a medical research librarian in the following databases: MEDLINE (Ovid), EMBASE (Elsevier), PsycINFO (EbscoHost), the Cochrane Library (Wiley), and Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) from the date of inception to April 2019. Data were synthesized using a systematic narrative synthesis framework, and formal quality assessments were conducted to address the risk of bias.
RESULTS: A total of 89 studies met the inclusion criteria. The majority of interventions (71/89, 80%) were delivered via a website, and the most common intervention was internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (28, 31%). Many programs (33, 37%) featured human support in the form of coaching. The majority of programs were either effective (42, 47%) or partially effective (30, 34%) in producing beneficial changes in the main psychological outcome variables. Approximately half of the studies (45, 51%) did not present any usability or acceptability outcomes, and few studies (4, 4%) examined a broad implementation of digital mental health interventions on college campuses. Quality assessments revealed a moderate-to-severe risk of bias in many of the studies.
CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that digital mental health interventions can be effective for improving depression, anxiety, and psychological well-being among college students, but more rigorous studies are needed to ascertain the effective elements of these interventions. Continued research on improving the user experience of, and thus user engagement with, these programs appears vital for the sustainable implementation of digital mental health interventions on college campuses.
Discovery of and Interest in Health Apps Among Those With Mental Health Needs: Survey and Focus Group Study.
J Med Internet Res. 2018 Jun 11;20(6):e10141
Authors: Schueller SM, Neary M, O'Loughlin K, Adkins EC
BACKGROUND: A large number of health apps are available directly to consumers through app marketplaces. Little information is known, however, about how consumers search for these apps and which factors influence their uptake, adoption, and long-term use.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to understand what people look for when they search for health apps and the aspects and features of those apps that consumers find appealing.
METHODS: Participants were recruited from Northwestern University's Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies' research registry of individuals with mental health needs. Most participants (n=811) completed a survey asking about their use and interest in health and mental health apps. Local participants were also invited to participate in focus groups. A total of 7 focus groups were conducted with 30 participants that collected more detailed information about their use and interest in health and mental health apps.
RESULTS: Survey participants commonly found health apps through social media (45.1%, 366/811), personal searches (42.7%, 346/811), or word of mouth (36.9%, 299/811), as opposed to professional sources such as medical providers (24.6%, 200/811). From the focus groups, common themes related to uptake and use of health apps included the importance of personal use before adoption, specific features that users found desirable, and trusted sources either developing or promoting the apps.
CONCLUSIONS: As the number of mental health and health apps continue to increase, it is imperative to better understand the factors that impact people's adoption and use of such technologies. Our findings indicated that a number of factors-ease of use, aesthetics, and individual experience-drove adoption and use and highlighted areas of focus for app developers and disseminators.
Management of Ocular Human herpesvirus 1 Infection in a White‑faced Saki Monkey (Pithecia pithecia).
Comp Med. 2018 Jun 15;:
Authors: Bauer KL, Steeil JC, Adkins EA, Childress AL, Wellehan JFX, Kerns KL, Sarro SJ, Holder KA
A 20-y-old male intact white-faced saki monkey (Pithecia pithecia) presented with an acute ocular disease of the righteye.Clinical signs included periocular swelling, conjunctivitis, and anisocoria with a miotic right pupil. Conjunctival swabs werepositive for Human herpesvirus 1 (HHV1) according to PCR amplification with sequencing. Initial clinical signs resolvedwith supportive treatment, and the animal was managed chronically by using acyclovir (5 mg/kg PO twice daily) during flare-ups. After more than 2 y, the progression of clinical disease led to enucleation of the right eye. At 2 mo after surgery, acute presentation of severe neurologic signs, including ataxia and blindness, resulted in euthanasia. Histopathology, PCRanalysis, and sequencing results were consistent with viral encephalitis due to HHV1; coinfection with Pithecia pithecialymphocryptovirus 1 was identified. This report describes the first case of managed HHV1 infection in a platyrrhine primateand the first case of HHV1 in a white-faced saki monkey that was not rapidly fatal.
Exploring the potential of technology-based mental health services for homeless youth: A qualitative study.
Psychol Serv. 2017 May;14(2):238-245
Authors: Adkins EC, Zalta AK, Boley RA, Glover A, Karnik NS, Schueller SM
Homelessness has serious consequences for youth that heighten the need for mental health services; however, these individuals face significant barriers to access. New models of intervention delivery are required to improve the dissemination of mental health interventions that tailor these services to the unique challenges faced by homeless youth. The purpose of this study was to better understand homeless youths' use of technology, mental health experiences and needs, and willingness to engage with technology-supported mental health interventions to help guide the development of future youth-facing technology-supported interventions. Five focus groups were conducted with 24 homeless youth (62.5% female) in an urban shelter. Youth were 18- to 20-years-old with current periods of homelessness ranging from 6 days to 4 years. Transcripts of these focus groups were coded to identify themes. Homeless youth reported using mobile phones frequently for communication, music, and social media. They indicated a lack of trust and a history of poor relationships with mental health providers despite recognizing the need for general support as well as help for specific mental health problems. Although initial feelings toward technology that share information with a provider were mixed, they reported an acceptance of tracking and sharing information under certain circumstances. Based on these results, we provide recommendations for the development of mental health interventions for this population focusing on technology-based treatment options. (PsycINFO Database Record
Oncology drugs for orphan indications: how are HTA processes evolving for this specific drug category?
Clinicoecon Outcomes Res. 2017;9:327-342
Authors: Adkins EM, Nicholson L, Floyd D, Ratcliffe M, Chevrou-Severac H
Orphan drugs (ODs) are intended for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of rare diseases. Many cancer subtypes, including all childhood cancers, are defined as rare diseases, and over one-third of ODs are now intended to treat oncology indications. However, market access for oncology ODs is becoming increasingly challenging; ODs are prone to significant uncertainty around their cost-effectiveness, while payers must balance the need for these vital innovations with growing sensitivity to rising costs. The objective of this review was to evaluate different mechanisms that have been introduced to facilitate patient access to oncology ODs in five different countries (Australia, Canada, England, France, and Sweden), using eight oncology ODs and non-orphan oncology drugs as examples of their application. A targeted literature review of health technology assessment (HTA) agency websites was undertaken to identify country-specific guidance and HTA documentation for recently evaluated oncology ODs and non-orphan oncology drugs. None of these countries were found to have explicit HTA criteria for the assessment of ODs, and therefore, oncology ODs are assessed through the usual HTA process. However, distinct and additional processes are adopted to facilitate access to oncology ODs. Review of eight case-study drugs showed that these additional assessment processes were rarely used, and decisions were largely driven by proving cost-effectiveness using standard incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) thresholds. The predominant implication arising from this study is that application of standard HTA criteria to oncology ODs in many countries fails to take into account any uncertainties around their clinical- and cost-effectiveness, resulting in disparities in HTA reimbursement decisions based on differences in addressing or accepting uncertainty. In order to address this issue, HTA agencies should adopt a more flexible approach to cost-effectiveness, as typified by the Tandvårds-och Läkemedelsförmånsverket in Sweden, which takes into account the small patient numbers involved, limited budget impact, and high unmet medical needs.
An investigation comparing the efficacy of topical ocular application of tacrolimus and cyclosporine in dogs.
Vet Med Int. 2011;2011:487592
Authors: Hendrix DV, Adkins EA, Ward DA, Stuffle J, Skorobohach B
The purpose of this paper was to determine the efficacy and safety of topical tacrolimus, compared to cyclosporine, for treating keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) in dogs. This study was a two-phase, randomized, controlled, masked clinical trial. Phase 1 evaluated ophthalmic 0.03% tacrolimus in normal dogs. Ocular examinations were performed daily. Phase 2 evaluated the efficacy of tacrolimus in treating KCS. Half the dogs received 2% cyclosporine A; the others received 0.03% tacrolimus, both diluted in olive oil. Four ophthalmic examinations were done over 12 weeks. There was no significant difference between groups in phase I. In phase 2, there was no significant difference in Schirmer tear test I (STT) results between the two groups, and both groups had a significant increase in STT over time. Both drugs were effective in increasing the STT in dogs naïve to lacrimostimulants. Tacrolimus was effective in increasing the STT in 4 dogs currently nonresponsive to cyclosporine.
Canine anterior uveitis.
Compend Contin Educ Vet. 2010 Nov;32(11):E1
Authors: Wasik B, Adkins E
Canine anterior uveitis can be a debilitating, painful, vision-threatening disease. Several local and systemic diseases can cause anterior uveitis. Because the eye is limited in its ability to respond to injury, different diseases produce similar clinical signs, making an etiologic diagnosis difficult but imperative to improve the likelihood of a successful outcome. A thorough history and complete ocular and physical evaluations are necessary to ensure timely and accurate diagnosis. This article reviews the pathophysiology, most common causes, diagnostic recommendations, current therapeutic options, potential complications, and prognosis for canine anterior uveitis.
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Lands of Lore III
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Westwood Studios
Genres: RPG / Classic Role-Playing
Game Modes: Singleplayer
Lands of Lore III is more mainstream than any of its predecessors, having been specifically tailored to lure in new fans. There’s nothing terribly wrong with this return to Gladstone, but there’s nothing terribly right with it either, being a somewhat bland example of a CRPG. Copper Legré, the illegitimate son of Eric Legré, King Richard’s brother, loses his soul to hungry Rifthounds in the game’s opening. Over the next four discs he tries to get it back, while at the same time tracking down five mirror shards in five different lands of lore (from which the Rifthounds originated) to save the realm and prove his worth.
Side quests complicate matters; luckily the game keeps track of them all in a handy-dandy journal that even goes so far as to cross off the quests once they’re finished. Your journal also keeps tabs on monsters, treasures, spells, and items. Other helpful features in this extremely helpful game include an auto-map system, complete with colored pegs which you can label; blatant aural clues telling you when to eat and how to fight; customizable controls; three skill levels; no encumbrance (you can hold a limited number of different types of items, but as many of each type as you like); no character stats as such; shops that sell just about everything you’ll need, and so on. If this seems lightweight, remember the boast on the packaging: “Easy To Play. Hard To Resist.”
Accessibility is not such a bad thing, however, and some of the simplifying here works pretty well. The 3D graphics are fairly attractive, if dated, and never get too carried away with fancy tricks (which makes the exceptionally long load time for most levels particularly unforgivable). A clever guild system sidesteps traditional character classes; join as many as you want, but at the cost of never excelling in any given one. The game’s use of familiars is perhaps its strongest point. Choose one and it will help you out in all sorts of ways, depending on its specialties; wise players will complement their main “class” with a familiar from a different guild.
The lands of lore themselves, on the other hand, are rehashes of ancient scenarios, and chances are you’ve seen them all before. You’ve got your volcano world, your ice world, your underworld, your alien-hive world, and your post-apocalyptic world, plus (of course) your requisite castle, town, forest, and dungeon. Sigh. They’re all respectably executed (except for the volcano world, which makes you run an unbelievably stupid gamut of Mario-style platform jumps over bubbling lava), but they still reek of familiarity.
The game aims for mainstream mediocrity and hits the target dead-on. A simple system of alchemy, manageable puzzles, and lots of helpful magic items ensure that novices can dive right in. If you are new to classic role-playing games but feel they are too challenging and unpredictable, then go with Lands of Lore 3 – you can’t go wrong with it.
System Requirements: Pentium 75 MHz, 8 MB RAM, Win95
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This game DOES work, but it is not easy to make it work.
For one thing, you HAVE to write the contents of each ISO file on a blank CD. You can burn them using PowerISO when opening the ISO files. You only need CD1 to install and check to see if the game installs and runs.
Also, I was not able to run this on a Pentium IV with WinXP (it will NEVER run on Windows 7,8,10). The game did run fine on my Windows 98 computer.
Maybe this will work on a Win98 virtual machine but I haven’t tested it. In any case, the game does work.
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Live From LG's G3 Smartphone Launch
PCMag is in London and New York for LG's big G3 reveal. Follow along for all the updates.
By Chloe Albanesius
LG today is set to take the wraps off its next flagship smartphone, the G3.
The phone maker is hosting an official event in London, with smaller events planned in New York and San Francisco. PCMag's Stephanie Mlot is in London for the big reveal, while Sascha Segan is checking out what LG has on offer here in New York. Follow along with them on @PCMagLive, which is embedded below.
Things kick off at 1 p.m. ET, and the event will be live-streamed; watch live in the video below.
LG already gave us a glimpse of the G3 in a recent teaser video, which provided extreme close-ups of the device and ended with the "Simple is the New Smart" tagline. The phone is expected to sport a 2,560-by-1,440 Quad HD screen, which is an upgrade from the 1080p display on the LG G2.
LG has also revealed the QuickCircle, a folder-style case features a circular window on the front, which lets you quickly do things like check the time, place calls, send text messages, take photos, listen to music, and more.
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GameStop to Stream to Tablets
By Megan Geuss
The new-and-used games vendor GameStop announced Friday that it will begin streaming games to tablets and other devices in the vein of the "cloud gaming" services offered by OnLive and GaiKai (a site that's still in beta).
The gaming giant is rethinking a strategy that fatally wounded Tower Records and Blockbuster, and is considering letting users who sign up with the company's rewards program stream games to their tablets or other devices with large s
creens. The announcement came after GameStop purchased Spawn Labs, which will set up the logistics of cloud gaming service for mobile users.
Even more interestingly, GameStop says it may move toward selling a few tablets in its brick and mortar stores if all goes well, and even hinted at developing its own tablet in the future. Seems like everyone's hopping on the tablet bandwagon. How would a tablet developed by GameStop compete in a land of more popular all-purpose tablets? It seems that a precedent for that could be Sony's Xperia Play -- a smartphone made for gaming first, and made to do all the other tasks of a smartphone second. Certainly something to watch in the coming months.
Via electronista and PhoneDog.
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Today is the first day of deer season: 15 critical questions
By Marcus Schneck | mschneck@pennlive.com
How many hunters and deer are in Penn’s Woods today for the first day of the 2017 firearms hunting season for deer? How long is the season? What licenses are required? These and other questions about the season are answered here.
When is the 2017 deer hunting season?
In Pennsylvania, the statewide general firearms season opens Monday, November 27. It continues through Saturday, December 9. There is no deer hunting permitted on Sundays.
Why is the firearms season commonly known as deer season?
While there are many other deer-hunting seasons in Pennsylvania, including several like the archery hunting season for deer that are open earlier each year, the firearms seasons that opens the Monday after Thanksgiving is the longer running of the seasons. It’s the season that draws the most hunters and generates the bulk of the annual deer harvest in the state.
Generations of hunters have grown up with the tradition of the first day of the firearms season, a day off from school or work spent in the outdoors in pursuit of what most Pennsylvania hunters view as the primary trophy of the hunting season. To those hunters, it’s always been and always will be “deer season.”
How many hunters are in Pennsylvania's forests today?
More than 700,000 hunters were expected to take the woods today in pursuit of deer. That’s substantially less than the million that participated in first days a decade or so ago.
What deer are legal game during deer season?
In most areas, hunters may take only antlered deer during the first five days of the season. Antlerless and antlered seasons then run concurrently from the first Saturday, December 2, to the season’s close.
In Wildlife Management Units 2B (around Pennsylvania), and 5C and 5D (southeastern corner of the state), however, properly licensed hunters may take either antlered or antlerless deer at any time during the season.
Is this year special for any reason?
“There’s no doubt something special is happening,” said Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Bryan Burhans. “For the past few months, hunters have been sending us trail-cam photos of amazing bucks, maybe even new state records. Our field officers also are seeing plenty of bucks from farm country to the big woods. Some are real wall-hangers out there.
“Agency deer biologists believe there’s a chance we’ll see the state’s buck harvest increase for the third consecutive year. It’s an exciting possibility that banks on last year’s massive acorn crop and a mild winter paving the way for big bucks to get bigger and for more young bucks grow into legal racks.
What's the chance of bagging a trophy buck?
Larger-racked, older bucks are making up more of the deer harvest with each passing year.
Last year, 56 percent of the 149,460 bucks taken by hunters – the second-largest buck harvest in Pennsylvania since antler restrictions were started in 2002 – was made up of bucks 2.5 years or older.
Chris Rosenberry, who supervises the Game Commission’s Deer and Elk Section, said, “Older, bigger-racked bucks are more of the norm in the forests of Pennsylvania than they have been for at least a couple decades. There’s no doubt antler restrictions paved the way. It was a big step forward 15 years ago, and today we’re seeing the results for protecting young bucks.”
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Why are all the hunters wearing bright orange?
As a safety regulation, each hunter must wear at least 250 square inches of fluorescent orange material on their head, chest and back combined. An orange hat and vest will satisfy the requirement.
For safety’s sake, it’s also a good idea for nonhunters who might be afield during the deer season and other hunting seasons to wear orange.
Who's eligible to hunt deer?
A hunter during the statewide firearms season can harvest antlered deer if he possess a valid general hunting license, which costs $20.90 for adult residents and $101.90 for adult nonresidents.
Each hunter between the ages of 12 and 16 must possess a junior license, which costs $6.90 for residents and $41.90 for nonresidents.
Hunters younger than 12 must possess a valid mentored youth hunting permit and be accompanied at all times by a properly licensed adult mentor, as well as follow other regulations.
Mentored-hunting opportunities also are available for adults, but only antlerless deer may be taken by mentored adult hunters.
Those holding senior lifetime licenses are reminded they must obtain new antlered deer harvest tags each year, free of charge, to participate in the season.
To take an antlerless deer, a hunter must possess either a valid antlerless deer license or a valid permit. In the case of mentored hunters, the mentor must possess a valid tag that can be transferred to the mentored hunter at the time of harvest.
When was the first deer hunting season in Pennsylvania?
Hunting was permitted as a right of ownership on all lands covered by William Penn's Charter in 1683. A deer season of Sept. 1-Dec. 31 was set for the first time in 1869.
The first Pennsylvania hunting license was created in 1913. The price was $1.
The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners created the first antlerless deer season in 1923, and landowners were authorized to kill deer for crop damage. The first "statewide" antlerless deer season was held in 1928. It included 51 of the state's 67 counties.
How many deer live in Pennsylvania?
After decades of having every deer population estimate disputed by some groups of hunters and legislators, the Pennsylvania Game Commission stopped making those estimates in the early years of the 21st century. The commission now relies on measures of forest and deer herd health in making its annual allocation of doe licenses.
According to commission estimates, hunters last year killed 333,254 deer, up about 6 percent from 2015-16, when the commission estimated the harvest at 315,813 deer.
The buck harvest of 149,460 jumped 9 percent from the 2015-16 antlered harvest of 137,580. It was the largest buck harvest since the 2002-03 seasons, when antler restrictions were first implemented to reduce the number of younger bucks being killed each year.
Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.
Was there a time when deer were not as abundant in Pennsylvania?
In 1906 the Pennsylvania Game Commission began stocking deer on game preserves across the state to restore the population onto a landscape that had been 70 percent clearcut but was then regenerating quickly.
The first stocking included 50 deer purchased from a deer farm in Michigan and shipped by rail to Pennsylvania. That was followed by additional stockings of 1,200 deer over the next 19 years.
Marcus Schneck | mschneck@pennlive.com
What is chronic wasting disease?
Chronic wasting disease is an always fatal infection of the brain and nervous system of deer and other cervids like elk and moose. It is spread in the bodily fluids of the animals.
What is the status of chronic wasting disease in Pennsylvania?
According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, CWD has been detected in Disease Management Area 1 on a captive deer farm in Adams County during 2012 (DMA 1 has since been eliminated); in DMA 2 in multiple free-ranging deer in Bedford, Blair, Cambria, and Fulton counties from 2012 -2017, and captive deer farms in Bedford, Franklin, and Fulton counties during 2017; and in DMA 3 in two captive deer farms in Jefferson County during 2014 and a free-ranging deer in Clearfield County during 2017.
Why are some deer partially white?
A piebald deer exhibits additional areas of white in its hide than the average deer and is a relatively rare individual, although such animals are regularly reported across the very wide range of the species. Less than 1 percent of the white-tailed deer population is piebald.
The piebald coloring is generally asymmetrical across the body of the animal, giving a deer the look of a pinto pony.
It's one result of a genetic variation, or defect, that often produces other observable conditions in the animal, including short legs and lower jaw, an arching spine and a bowing of the nose that produces the condition known as Roman nose.
The piebald condition is not the same as an albino deer.
Although random breeding by piebalds in the general deer population will produce more "normal" deer than subsequent piebalds, the rate of the latter appears to increase when the piebald deer are protected. That makes the genes causing the piebald condition more common in the population.
Few piebalds survive long enough to pass on their genes to more than one additional generation. With the additional white on their bodies, the natural brown and gray-brown camouflage of a "normal" whitetail's coloring is lost and the piebalds become easier targets for natural predators.
Where can I share a photo of a deer I bag?
If you kill a deer this year and want to share a photo of yourself with that trophy, send it to Marcus Schneck at mschneck@pennlive.com. Include your name, your town, the point count on the antlers, and when and where you harvested the deer.
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People couldn't resist snapping pics with Travis Scott's gold head. (@glamdollsteph)
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott put Houston on the Instagram map at this Houston Rockets game. And then came the roses.
The Travis Scott head made quite the impression at Cactus Music. (Photo by Cactus Music)
Travis Scott knows how to take Houston by storm.
The head stood out at Minute Maid Park — @cactustravey
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott enjoyed a day out at Houston's River Oaks District.
Novelty always makes for good social media content — @astroworld12345
The head took hours to inflate — @laflamescott
These are some high honors — @youngbidloboysclub
Travis Scott Turns a Dead Amusement Park Into Music (and Crazy Merchandise) Gold
Houston’s Hometown Superstar Does Right by AstroWorld
BY Annie Gallay // 08.03.18
There are few things Houstonians love more than the old shuttered AstroWorld amusement park and hometown rap superstar Travis Scott. Put the two of them together and it’s bound to be big.
And maybe even golden.
Scott’s long anticipated new Astroworld album dropped Friday, paying off both the long wait and some unusual promotion.
Scott is a Houston regular, still the hometown guy in so many ways, a fixture at Houston Rockets and Astros games. Only, we’ve never seen him quite like this before.
To boost the already large Astroworld hype, he’s trying to get in your head. With his giant gold inflatable one.
A massive gold blow-up likeness of Scott’s head appeared outside Minute Maid Park last weekend. Monochromatic and open-mouthed, Scott’s inflatable head is the ideal Instagram photo op. Some have even taken artistic liberties, creating Scott gold head memes on social media.
Following its Minute Maid Park stint, the Travis Scott head migrated to Cactus Music. It set up shop there through Monday. Cactus Music employees say it took hours to inflate.
The heads have since high-tailed it out of here to tour the rest of the country. Other notable Scott head hotspots: New York’s Times Square and outside of Atlanta’s famous Magic City strip club.
The 17-track Astroworld is Scott’s first album since 2016’s Birds in the Trap Sing MckNight, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Fans are pumped for the long-awaited Astroworld. And why shouldn’t they be, with its appearances from Frank Ocean, Drake, The Weeknd, Swae Lee, James Blake, Kid Cudi, 21 Savage, Nav, Sheck Wes — and even a harmonica solo from Stevie Wonder?
Scott is also releasing a line of Astroworld merchandise — with new items appearing for sale on his website every day. Each batch of Astroworld merch is only available for 24 hours before a new set is released. Sadly, this AstroWorld hat is already sold out.
Travis Scott’s Houston Beginnings
Scott clearly remembers AstroWorld from his Houston childhood. He grew up in the Missouri City ‘burbs and attended private elementary and middle schools. He then graduated from Elkins High School before entering the University of Texas at San Antonio. Scott dropped out of college his sophomore year and moved to New York to pursue his music career.
Scott actually launched his music in the Bayou City as a record producer at 16, focusing on hip hop. During that time, he teamed up with a longtime friend and formed the duo The Graduates. The following year, they took on some more friends and became The Classmates.
Things have come full circle in a sense, with Scott paying homage to the city that shaped him. What better way to do it than with literal PR gold?
Of course, Scott is used to getting more and more attention these days. While he’s still a hometown Houston regular when he does things like taking his girlfriend Kylie Jenner on a sweet date worthy romp through River Oaks District, it draws national headlines. And this month, Scott and Jenner grace the cover of GQ magazine.
Still, Scott hasn’t forgotten Houston. It’s safe to say he’s done right by the beloved AstroWorld.
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BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDINGS IN THE THIRD QUARTER 2019 BY DISTRICTS
Administrative buildings
Gross building area - sq. m
Total 1 630 9 018 1 110 322 23 58 419 1 188 694 726
Blagoevgrad 111 216 30 775 - - 64 22 468
Burgas 99 646 71 255 .. .. 37 44 043
Varna 203 1 385 167 502 5 4 248 69 60 282
Veliko Tarnovo 44 87 15 810 - - 38 16 884
Vidin 5 5 996 - - 5 1 117
Vratsa 8 8 1 201 - - 42 23 535
Gabrovo 20 22 3 784 - - 11 7 171
Dobrich 25 41 4 563 - - 36 5 210
Kardzhali 47 521 68 844 - - 14 26 946
Kyustendil 18 28 3 439 .. .. 41 5 311
Lovech 18 19 2 279 - - 18 4 437
Montana 10 10 1 970 - - 18 5 632
Pazardzhik 82 222 30 725 - - 79 19 834
Pernik 52 122 17 233 .. .. 32 12 506
Pleven 21 70 7 687 - - 40 15 224
Plovdiv 187 859 109 900 .. .. 89 121 771
Razgrad 14 14 2 873 .. .. 30 14 773
Ruse 34 119 14 316 .. .. 45 18 730
Silistra 10 10 2 333 - - 29 10 187
Sliven 34 47 7 803 - - 30 13 333
Smolyan 9 10 3 097 - - 16 3 015
Sofia 132 228 34 511 - - 74 15 226
Sofia (stolitsa) 263 3 839 442 412 5 43 677 49 72 671
Stara Zagora 86 248 29 680 .. .. 146 36 507
Targovishte 9 76 6 902 - - 16 7 341
Haskovo 49 68 15 703 .. .. 41 76 582
Shumen 28 59 8 009 .. .. 53 23 585
Yambol 12 39 4 720 .. .. 26 10 405
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Data for issued permits of new buildings provide information about issued permits by type of buildings - residential buildings and their dwellings, administrative buildings and other buildings and their gross building area. The statistical information about issued building permits is a short-term indicator for the future development on construction business and used for analyzes the activities of construction enterprises.
Classification of Types of Construction (CC)
Sector coverage
The statistical survey covers all municipal authorities, which are issued permits of new buildings.
Statistical concepts and definitions
Indicators are harmonized according to the requirements of Regulation 1165/98 on EC concerning Short-term statistics.
The numbers of issued building permits are classified according to the Classification of Types of Construction (CC).
Building is a roofed construction site which can be used separately, and it is built for permanent purposes. Buildings are subdivided into residential and non-residential buildings.
Residential buildings are buildings in which at least half of the useful floor area is used for permanent residential habitation.
The residential buildings are subdivided into:
one-dwelling buildings - houses, villas, bungalows for living by one household;
two-and more dwelling buildings - buildings such as flat blocks, apartment houses, detached houses, semi-detached or terraced houses with two and more dwellings and they have a common entrance
residences for communities - residences and service residences for the elderly, students, children and other social groups, e.g. retirement homes, works? hostels, hostels for the homeless, etc.(exclude-hotels).
Dwelling - is one or more rooms for living and service floor area in a building with solid structure for own use. The dwelling must have an exit to a generally accessible part (stairs, yard or straight on the street).
Non-residential buildings are buildings which are mainly used or intended for use for non-residential purpose.
The non-residential buildings are subdivided into:
office buildings - buildings used as places for business and administrative purpose, e.g. banks, post offices, government department offices, conference and congress centers, law courts, parliament buildings;
other non-residential buildings - all other buildings not mentioned in the previous definition used for industrial, wholesale and retail trade, traffic and communication, public entertainment, agriculture, education purposes, hospitals, hotels and others.
Gross building area - a sum of all floors areas in external dimensions (including functional areas and covered thoroughfares for ancillary use).
Municipal authorities - which are issued building permits.
Statistical population
The survey is exhaustive and statistical population covers all municipal authorities, which are issued permits of new buildings.
National level: Data are aggregated and published total and by districts.
EC level: Eurostat is aggregated and published total of EC and by Member States.
From 2005 to the latest quarter of the reference year.
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Number, square meter.
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National Legal basis: The Law on Statistics(Article 20) states that all persons that manage or present legal persons, are obligated to provide the National Statistical Institute and the Bodies of Statistics with reliable data when filling-in forms and questionnaires on surveys included in the National Statistical Programme, for which mandatory participation is provided.
The survey is included into the National Statistical Programme and it is compulsory for enterprises which are included in the sample of survey. The Law on Statistics includes provisions relating to fines, which can be imposed for refusal, non-response and delay. They are laid down in specific Chapter 9 “Administrative and liability provisions” in Article 52.
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· COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics;
· REGULATION (EC) No 1158/2005 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics;
· COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1503/2006 implementing and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards definitions of variables, list of variables and frequency of data compilation;
· REGULATION (EC) No 1893/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains;
· COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 472/2008 of 29 May 2008 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards the first base year to be applied for time series in NACE Revision 2 and for time series prior to 2009 to be transmitted according to NACE Revision 2, the level of detail, the form, the first reference period, and the reference period.
The data are transmitted to Eurostat together with the national publication.
Confidentiality - policy
· Law on Statistics - Saved of statistical confidentiality is in accordance with the privacy of individual data specified in the Statistics Act, which are in accordance with EU legislation. In Chapter VI "Data Confidentiality and secrecy" are regulated confidentiality of individual statistical data, use them only for statistical purposes and obligations of the statistical authorities to ensure protection and preventions of individual data. In Chapter IX "Administrative Penalty Provisions" shows provisions non-compliance with the requirements.
· Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.
Confidentiality - data treatment
Article 25 of the Law of Statistics defines the criteria by which can not be distributed or published statistical information. Statistical information which aggregates data about less than three statistical units or about a population in which the relative share of the value of a surveyed parameter of a single unit exceeds 85 percent of the value of such parameter for all units in the population.
Confidential data, accordance with the Law of statistics not publish. In order not to identify individual data using the method of suppression or aggregation of information disclosed.
Release policy
The date for publication of statistical information is given in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute, which is available on NSI website. The data for building permits issued of new buildings by type and their gross building area are published 30 days after the reference quarter.
Release calendar access
The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480
The data are published on the NSI website, section Business statistics - Short-term Business Statistics -Other quarterly data in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers.
Frequency of dissemination
Accessibility and clarity
Data and press release about building permits issued of new buildings publish every quarter - 30-31 days after the end of reference quarter.
· Statistical Reference Book;
· Statistical Year Book.
On-line database
Data on for building permits issued of new buildings are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Short-term Business Statistics - Other qyarterly data: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4495. The data for preceding years are available in the Information System for online requests for statistical information - INFOSTAT - https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=99
Micro-data access
On request, according to the rules on individual data protection.
Documentation on methodology
· Eurostat Methodology of short-term business statistics. Interpretation and guidelines: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/short_term_business_statistics/documents/KS-BG-06-001-EN.pdf
· Methodology "Issued permits of new buildings": http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/ConstructionMethod_1_2_en.pdf
Regulation (EC) № 1165/98 and amending Regulation (EC) № 1158/2005 Short-term statistics obligate the European Commission (Eurostat) regularly (every three years) to report in the Parliament of Europe applicability of short-term data quality and revisions of the data. Quality report of Eurostat from 2011 Principal European Economic Indicators (PEEI in focus), containing information about the issued permits of new buildings in European countries.
The legal framework which regulates the production of data from Short-term business statistics states that statistical data compiled within the EU system must be of satisfactory quality and produced data are comparable between Member States. Verification of data is done through the process of conducting a statistical survey - from respondents, from experts in the regional statistical offices and from national experts in NSI. Identified inaccuracies and errors are removed timely and provide comparable data of good quality.
The quality of the short-term indicators is measured by each Member State in accordance with the general criteria. Calculation of the variables is carried out in accordance with EU regulations on Short-term business statistics.
User needs
Eurostat, state governing bodies, associations, businesses, media and other users.
Provide statistical data on building permits issued of new buildings on the required level of detail.
Accuracy and reliability
Overall accuracy
There is a maximum accuracy and reliability of the data on issued permits of new buildings. Common errors are errors in the measurement data, the respondent misunderstanding what information is required or incomplete performance. Most measurement errors are detected and corrected by arithmetic and logical controls embedded in Information System "Short-term business statistics" (On-line information system for collection, verification and processing of data from short-term business statistics). The system performs mandatory and planned control and warning in case there are errors, it displays a warning dialog inconsistencies found. The system does not allow the completion of the report until all outstanding correct mandatory controls.
Sampling error
The survey is exhaustive.
Non-sampling error
Actions for non-responders include: informing and sending reminders, when no-responding company may follows a phone call and / or direct contact to collect the data. The responding rate is average approximately 100%.
Timeliness and punctuality
Information about building permits issued of new buildings is published 30-31 days after the reference quarter.
All data rows, tables, and press releases are prepared and submitted for publication, accordance STS regulations and within the deadlines specified in the calendar for publication of data. NSI sent data to Eurostat on the day of national publication.
Coherence and comparability
Comparability - geographical
Data on building permits issued of new buildings are representative for the whole country, by districts and by municipalities.
Comparability - over time
Available time series of data about building permits issued for new buildings - from 2005.
Coherence - cross domain
Data about building permits issued for new buildings are compared from the variables of started construction of new buildings.
Coherence - internal
Observation is exhaustive, the data are final, and are in accordance with EU regulations on Short-term business statistics.
Cost and burden
No information on the relationship between cost of production of statistics data and user satisfaction. The purpose to reduce response burden is created on-line information system "Short-term business statistics" (IS STS).
Data revision
Data revision - policy
Data revision - practice
Statistical processing
The information is aggregated from the data in Questionnaire for issued and started construction of new buildings. Source of data is construction documents issued from technical services of the municipal authorities.
Frequency of data collection
For the convenience of respondents and getting better and timely information is created on-line information system Short term business statistics (IS STS) input data for issued permits for new buildings. The system controls are set to ensure the accuracy of the information. Possibility remains that the respondent submits quarterly report and a paper in the relevant regional statistical office (RSO). Delay on the part of businesses IS STS send reminders. Experts from RSOs phone calls to provide timely information or clarification of the data.
Validation data starts from the filling of reports by respondents. Control of the data can be accessed from the regional statistical offices and from the National Statistical Institute. An information system "Short-term business statistics" significantly contributes to the validation of the data submitted by set arithmetic and logical controls. Subsequent analysis of the experts, a phone call for additional clarification of data and elimination inconsistencies, minimize errors in the raw data and ensure accuracy of outputs at national level.
Data compilation
Data on building permits issued of new buildings are made by municipal authorities on the paper and send to RSOs or online through an information system "Short-term business statistics". After validating the data by RSOs and after the deadline for entering, experts of NSI made a final control, and aggregate output for total of country and by districts.
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Building Permits Issued and Construction of New Buildings Started in the Third Quarter of 2019
Monday, 4 November 2019 - 11:00
In the third quarter of 2019, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 630 residential buildings with 9 018 dwellings, of 23 administrative buildings/offices and 1 188 other buildings. The construction of 1 156 residential buildings with 7 021 dwellings, of 13 administrative buildings/offices and 666 other buildings was started.
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Building Permits Issued and Construction of New Buildings Started in the Second Quarter of 2019
Friday, 2 August 2019 - 11:00
In the second quarter of 2019, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 591 residential buildings with 8 456 dwellings, of 31 administrative buildings/offices and 1 168 other buildings. The construction of 1 203 residential buildings with 5 650 dwellings, of 24 administrative buildings/offices and 622 other buildings was started.
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Building Permits Issued and Construction of New Buildings Started in the First Quarter of 2019
Friday, 3 May 2019 - 11:00
In the first quarter of 2019, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 247 residential buildings with 7 832 dwellings, of 28 administrative buildings/offices and 1 149 other buildings. The construction of 871 residential buildings with 4 481 dwellings, of 17 administrative buildings/offices and 644 other buildings was started.
RazrStr2019q1_en_EF3TMAP.pdf
Building Permits Issued and Construction of New Buildings Started in the Fourth Quarter of 2018
Monday, 4 February 2019 - 11:00
In the fourth quarter of 2018, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 477 residential buildings with 11 682 dwellings, of 33 administrative buildings/offices and 1 319 other buildings. The construction of 935 residential buildings with 5 881 dwellings, of 11 administrative buildings/offices and 624 other buildings was started.
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Friday, 2 November 2018 - 11:00
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Thursday, 2 August 2018 - 11:00
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Thursday, 3 May 2018 - 11:00
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Friday, 2 February 2018 - 11:00
In the fourth quarter of 2017, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 296 residential buildings with 7 327 dwellings, of 30 administrative buildings/offices and 1 130 other buildings. The construction of 779 residential buildings with 4 215 dwellings, of 16 administrative buildings/offices and 570 other buildings was started.
RazrStr2017q4_en_CYARMW1.pdf
Thursday, 2 November 2017 - 11:00
In the third quarter of 2017, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 526 residential buildings with 7 135 dwellings, of 28 administrative buildings/offices and 1 221 other buildings. The construction of 982 residential buildings with 3 409 dwellings, of 27 administrative buildings/offices and 692 other buildings was started.
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Wednesday, 2 August 2017 - 11:00
In the second quarter of 2017, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 647 residential buildings with 5 815 dwellings, of 40 administrative buildings/offices and 1 968 other buildings. The construction of 1 281 residential buildings with 3 842 dwellings, of 25 administrative buildings/offices and 1 277 other buildings was started.
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Naples Holiday Shootout 2018
By Bob Corwin, 01/02/19, 1:45PM PST
Miami Country Day School, winners of the 2018 Naples Holiday Shootout American Division (PC: Bob Corwin)
Miami Country Day takes American title; St. Thomas Aquinas surprises in the National Division
By Bob Corwin
In its 20th year, the Naples Holiday Shootout did not lack for finals’ drama. Coming of its impressive triumph at the NIKE Tournament of Champions, Miami Country Day School of Miami, Florida, defeated Beaver Dam High School of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, 52-43 to win the American Division in a battle of nationally ranked teams. St. Thomas Aquinas High School of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, defeated Nease High School of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, 64-62 to win the National Division. The event, consisting of two eight-team divisions, was again held at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Florida, during December 27-29. About 23 colleges (mostly Division 1) attended at least one day of the event presented by the Florida Gulf Coast Sports Foundation.
Looking at the American Division final…
Miami Country Day School (Miami, Florida) 52-43 Beaver Dam High School (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin)
The difference in this game was the combination of superior Miami athleticism and depth. Most impressive about Beaver Dam was that its players carried out their roles (scorers scored and defenders defended) will discipline, showing great patience rarely taking bad shots. Beaver Dam led 13-10 after one quarter but Country Day controlled the second stanza, thanks to Koi Love’s nine points (mostly in the key) going to the break up 31-24. After three periods, the Miami lead was 48-34 as four different players chipped in points. To its collective credit, Beaver Dam dug in with solid, intense man-to-man defense holding Country Day scoreless for about next four minutes cutting the lead to 48-43. However, the team from Wisconsin could get no closer in the last four minutes. Miami Country Day was led in scoring by Koi Love (MVP, see below) with 19 points while Beaver Dam was led by Tara Stauffacher (All-tournament selectee, see below) also with 19 points (hitting five threes).
Looking at the National Division final…
St. Thomas Aquinas High School, winners of the 2018 Naples Holiday Shootout National Division (PC: Bob Corwin)
St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Fort, Lauderdale, Florida) 64-62 Nease High School (Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida)
This game was considered about “even money” coming in (unlike the American where Miami Country Day was favored). Nease was stronger in the middle while St.Thomas Aquinas had more perimeter firepower. As pointed out by the Aquinas coach, the real difference may have been three tough games (all losses) at the She Got Game Classic in Metro DC, while Nease was undefeated and largely untested as to close end-of-game battles coming into this contest.
Aquinas led 23-7 in the second period but a combination of foul trouble and poor shot selection combined with increased resolve by Nease brought the lead down to 29-20 at the break where Aquinas’s Halie Murphy (All-tournament selectee, see below) led all scorers with 14 points for the half (17 total for the game). Much of the second half belonged to Nease’s Camille Hobby’s dominant (All-tournament selectee, 23 points all in second half) post game. After three quarters, Nease led 44-43 with the lead up to 51-44 a few minutes into the final stanza. Here the Aquinas big-game experience kicked in tying the score at 51 with 5:17 left in the contest. The game remained within a few points until the finish. A Nease turnover with under 10 seconds left gave Aquinas’s Bella LaChance (MVP, see below) an opportunity to be the hero. Going coast to coast, LaChance (game high 27 points) scored the game winning lay-up as time expired.
Below in alphabetical order (with listed height, graduation year and school) are the All-Tournament Teams of the American and National Divisions. School location is in parenthesis.
American Division All-Tournament Team
Maria Alvarez, 5-7, 2019 Miami Country Day School (Miami, Florida)
Signed with South Florida, Alvarez continues to run offense and hit threes (13 for this three-game tournament).
Chaniya Clark, 6-4, 2021 Fort Myers High School (Fort Myers, Florida)
Clark is big and strong and set the single-game record for the event with 20 rebounds in a 74-72 win over Mercy of Louisville, Kentucky. Power 5 schools should be monitoring her maturation.
Sania Feagin, 6-4, 2021 Forest Park High School (Forest Park, Georgia)
A quality athlete, Feagin is considered one of the post prospects in the 2021 class. She helped lead her team to third place in the American Division scoring with a combination of face-up shots in the key and posting near the rim.
Koi Love (MVP), 6-0, 2019 Miami Country Day School (Miami, Florida)
Signed with Vanderbilt, Love continued her strong rebounding and double-digit scoring in the paint in leading her team to another Naples Holiday Shootout (last won in 2016) title.
Tara Stauffacher, 5-11, 2019 Beaver Dam High School (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin)
Signed with Wisconsin, Stauffacher is a strong perimeter shooter. She hit nine threes in Naples and posted double digit scoring in all three contests.
Maria Alvarez (left), Koi Love and Tara Stauffacher (all-tournament selections) at 2018 Naples Holiday Shootout (PC: Bob Corwin)
National Division All-Tournament Team
Zia Cooke, 5-9, 2019, Rogers High School (Toledo, Ohio)
Signed with South Carolina, Cooke is considered to be one of the top guards in the 2019 class. She can score from behind the arc, at mid-range and at the rim. Her efforts helped her team to third place at the Shootout.
Mya Giusto, 5-5, 2019, Gulf Coast High School (Naples, Florida)
Signed with Tampa, Giusto posted 25 in her team’s first round win over Sacred Heart of Louisville, Kentucky, and 20 points in her (shorthanded) team’s loss to Rogers High School of Toledo, Ohio, thus finishing fourth.
Camille Hobby, 6-3, 2019, Nease High School (Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida)
Signed with North Carolina State, Hobby is one of the top post-players in Florida. She is strong around the rim and has a nice face-up stroke in the key.
Bella LaChance (MVP), 5-6, 2020, St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
Orally committed to Vanderbilt, LaChance runs the offense and is also one of her team’s leading scorers (20+ in each of the three games at Naples).
Halie Murphy, 5-8, 2019 St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
Signed with St. Francis (PA), this lefty loves to spot up along the baseline. She posted double digits in her team’s last two wins at the Shootout.
Camille Hobby (left), Bella LaChance and Halie Murphy, 2018 Naples Holiday Shootout All-tournament team members (PC: Bob Corwin)
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Dutch National Ballet presents
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The nutcracker and the mouse king 2020
A heart-warming fairy-tale ballet to lighten the dark days of winter, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a choreography by Toer van Schayk and Wayne Eagling based on the Christmas classic, and one of the most successful Dutch theatre productions of all time.
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Watch how 'little Clara' and 'grown up Clara' prepare for their performance in The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
Eagling and Van Schayk's creative retelling of Hoffmann's Nutcracker transports the classic tale to Holland. Instead of Christmas Eve, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King unfolds on the Dutch feast of Sinterklaas around 1810 in Amsterdam, while ice skaters dash and twirl across the frozen canals.
The principals for Clara, Prince and Nutcracker in The Nutcracker and the Mouse King are announced. Be aware that all information is subject to change at any moment.
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Festive evening
In their canal-side house in Amsterdam, Clara Staalboom, her little brother Frits and their elder sister Louise are getting ready to celebrate Sinterklaas evening. Outside on the canal, skaters twirl around on the ice. Meanwhile, their guests arrive, including the eccentric Mr Drosselmeijer and his nephew, a young cadet. Clara's Sinterklaas gift is a nutcracker doll, while Frits gets a soldier's uniform complete with a sword. In bed that night, Clara dreams that she has grown into a lovely young woman and that her nutcracker doll comes to life as Drosslemeijer's nephew. Together, they take up arms against the forces of the mouse king, and then are whisked away in Drosselmeijer's magic lantern on a whirlwind tour of exotic lands.
Sets and costumes
Toer van Schayk also designed the sets and costumes for this Nutcracker production, transporting the audience to a world of merriment and magic. His staging is both a visual and technical tour de force in the history of Dutch National Ballet. The skaters on the Amsterdam canal, the living room that swells in Clara's dream and the walls that transform into a snow-dusted forest are all scenes sure to awaken and delight in the child in everyone.
Legend: nutcracker to guard against evil spirits
According to an old German folk legend, the gift of a nutcracker brought good fortune and protection. Nutcrackers symbolised strength and courage, and their sharp teeth (used to crack nuts) kept evil spirits at bay. They were also emblems of the cycle of life: the seed of the nut cracked between their jaws gave rise to a strong tree, which not only produced more nuts but also furnished the material from which woodcarvers fashioned new nutcracker dolls. Down the centuries, this German folk tale has inspired countless writers, composers and other artists. Most famous of all is the ballet version based on the fairy tale by E.T.A Hoffman. Ever since the original version by Marius Petipa and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky premièred in Russia in 1892, the Nutcracker has been danced on stage year in, year out – spreading from Russia and the English-speaking world to become a beloved Christmastime classic around the globe.
Choreography Wayne Eagling en Toer van Schayk
Music Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski
Dutch Ballet Orchestra
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Jonathan Lo
Since its inception in 1965, the orchestra has been proud to accompany its partners, Dutch National Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater. The working method is unique in the Netherlands. Dutch Ballet Orchestra, with Matthew Rowe as principal conductor, consists of a regular core of 45 musicians, supported where necessary by highly qualified guest performers. This gives the orchestra its unique character: flexible, dynamic and high-quality. Dutch Ballet Orchestra combines music and dance into a magical experience: from classical ballet to modern dance, and from music education to talent development. The orchestra’s mission is to create an optimal synthesis between music and dance, in order to reach dance-lovers and ballet music enthusiasts, as well as children and youngsters. The orchestra has received several international awards for its educational projects, including the Young Audiences Music Award in 2016 for Creatures, a collaborative project with dance company ISH.
Children's chorus
Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor
rehearsed by Anaïs de la Morandais
The Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor is the regular youth chorus of Dutch National Opera & Ballet and part of Nieuw Vocal Amsterdam, a classical voice training programme for ages 4 to 21. In the 2019-2020 season the Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor is singing in the operas Pagliacci, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Carmen and the ballet Nutcracker & Mouse King. The chorus is also singing during the Open Day and the Children's Choir Day.
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Old Time Radio is that most of it was broadcast live and anything could happen across a live microphone, and very often it did! Here are more than 12 hours of mistakes and bloopers from the Golden Age of Radio.
Bob Hope is one of the best loved entertainers of all time. He was in the business for a very long time, but Bob never forgot that he was there for the audience, not the other way around, especially when it came to the G.I.s who adopted Bob as one of their own.
Burlesques are saucey variety shows that often include a playful strip tease and bawdy, but topical jokes.
Escape the pressures of everyday life into the woods with this multi genre collection featuring camping.
Carlton Morse
Morse's greatest successes were One Man's Family and I Love a Mystery. This collection contains many of his mystery anthology and some rare Carlton E Morse recordings.
She was ready for Hollywood after her divorce when she was a meer 15 years old, Carole Landis' breakout role was Loana in One Million BC
Cass Daley
Best known for her singing voice and slapstick comedy, Cass Daley got her start in Ziegfeld Follies.
Childrens Show Bundle Pack
Many of our customers have reported immense joy in sharing the shows they remember as kid with their children and grandchildren. We want to encourage you to share the merriment and wonder of old time radio shows with the children of today with over 193 hours of classic recordings.
Christmas Recordings
Hundreds of hours full of holiday cheer!
The drama of life under the Big Top has always made for great radio stories from all genres.
Comedy Collection
Chuckle Along with a Crazy Compilation Comedy Shows--An OTRCAT exclusive!
Communists and Cold War
This extensive collection includes radio shows, news broadcasts, psa's, and debates about The Red Scare, McCarthyism, and The Cold War which pervaded politics, cultures, life and more in second half the the 20th Century.
Consider Your Verdict
Consider Your Verdict was a unique courtroom drama serial. Each episode took place in a courtroom and the listening audience was the jury. The program ran almost thirty years, and was so successful because it was such a believable program.
Depression Era Recordings
Old Time Radio Looks at the Great Depression, the economic crisis which began with the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and how it affected Americans everywhere.
Divas of Old Time Radio
This expansive collection of old time radio shows and musical appearances spans the time period from the 1930s-1950s with the radio shows and guest appearances of some of the well-known and influential female singers of their time.
DJ Madness
The original Disc Jockeys from the Age of Radio bring you their best and greatest music from their era.
Known for the sarong dress in The Jungle Princess and her exotic good looks, Dorothy Lamour made over 60 motion pictures and helped sell US Treasury Bonds
Drinking and Drunks
From bootleggers to drunk drivers to hungover postmen, this collection includes a variety of over-drinkers.
Eisenhower was a national hero after serving as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during WWII and in 1952 won the Presidential Election.
Before you bite the ears off your chocolate bunny, tune in and hear how your favorite old time radio stars celebrate Easter.
Epic Casebook
Clever South African Inspector Carr Investigates in this Popular Detective Drama!
Lovejoy was the no nonsense, square-jawed actor best known for his tough guy performances in detective radio dramas.
Whether you tune in to hear the drama of ordinary people competing for wonderful prizes or to challenge yourself against the competitors in the studio, Quiz Shows promise endless fun.
The first president of the United States and one of our country's founding fathers, George Washington was a popular character in radio.
Gerald Mohr
An anthology to Gerald Mohr, this extensive collection contains almost 300 radio appearances on various detective shows, horror-dramas, and radio comedies.
GI Jive (with G.I. Jill)
When YANK Magazine sponsored GI Jive, it was hard to tell whether the G.I.s tuned in to hear the hot requested music or the voice of pretty "GI Jill", played by Martha Wilkerson.
Glenn Miller and his Orchestra got America “In The Mood”, but when his country needed him he was ready to give it all for his fellow servicemen. In fact, Major Glenn Miller was lost over the Channel on his way to set up shows for servicemen stationed near the front lines.
Celebrate moving from the world of school into the world of work is a big step with old time radio and historical recordings.
The Grand Ole Opry did not quite invent Country and Western Music, but it did bring it to the ears of many Americans who may not have heard it otherwise.
Great Moments in Radio
Hear important Historical Events as they actually occurred on the Radio.
Halloween Scary Shows
Ghosts and goblins and spooks! You'll be too scared to even reach into the candy bowl when the Trick Or Treaters knock at your door if you are listening to the Halloween Scary Sampler.
Hawaii Old Time Radio Shows
Aloha! This collection includes old time radio shows from all genres from ting-ting steel guitar music to epic Hawaiian Adventure and detective stories to supernatural Tiki tales.
Heartbeat Theater
sponsored by the Salvation Army, gives dramatic accounts of regular people helping others through illness, tragedy, and heartbreak.Episodes illustrate problems can be solved with faith, optimism, and the help of good Samaritans.
A realistic adventure series featuring real-life sound effects and excellent scripts en par with other smart adventure shows like Suspense and Escape.
Hildegardes Radio Room
The blonde siren songbird is best known for her signature tune, "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup." Hildegarde's Radio Room included co-conspirators as Phil Regan, Burgess Meredith, Clifton Webb, Patsy Kelly, and Xavier Cugat.
Hitler (Adolf) Recordings
speeches from the most infamous man in history
Hollywood Bombshells
Sexiest sirens ever to grace the small screen, big screen, and radio let us heat up those Winter Nights with the Hottest Vintage Hollywood Bombshells.
Horses In Old Time Radio
Hold your horses! Plenty of one horse towns, wild horses, charley horses, play the ponies, and more straight from the horse's mouth at the microphone.
Best known for his role as "Sam Spade, Detective", Howard Duff had a long career in radio and film.
Howdy Doody Time
What time is it, kids? Take your seat in the Peanut Gallery, It's Howdy Doody Time!
I Love a Mystery
Several long awaited ILAM serials are now complete including Temple of the Vampires! With new Episodes, Photos, Interviews, Audition Recordings and much more.
Introductions and Theme Music
This collection includes theme music and announcer voice-overs from more than a thousand Old Time Radio programs.
Everyone's favorite penny pinching miser with more laughs and better quality sound.
Before Ralphy and "A Christmas Story", Jean Shepherd told stories on the radio about being in the Army, life in the big city, and growing up in Hammond, Indiana.
Jeanette Nolan
She was one of radio's busiest stars, with regular appearances on Lux Radio Theater, Cavalcade of America, The Great Gildersleeve, Young Doctor Malone, Let George Do It, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar and Suspense.
During the 1930s, she built a solid reputation on the London stage, Jessica Tandy made her American film debut in the Spencer Tracy vehicle The Seventh Cross.
He had a classic look earning him the nickname "The Great Profile." He was best known as a Shakespearean stage actor, in particular for his performances in Hamlet and Richard III. Barrymore moved his focus to silent film and later appeared in various old time radio shows.
John Nesbitt
Carefully crafted storytelling in The Passing Parade and the Wilson-Nesbitt Summer Show.
Although he was the "King of Late Night Television", many of Johnny Carson's guests had direct ties to Old Time Radio.
Jokes and Pranks Bundle
16 disks full of pranks and jokes!
Rather than having her face splashed across the screen and the tabloids, June capitalized on her voice talents to become "the cartoon queen".
Kent State Shootings
Radio Broadcasts are historical artifacts. In this collection, we present a timeline of the coverage of the shootings at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, including the political climate which led up to the incident, coverage of the shootings, and the aftermath for America.
Kentucky Derby Recordings (Horse Racing)
Close your eyes and imagine big hats and drinking Mint Juleps and as the horses run for the Roses during The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports - the Kentucky Derby!
Larry Dobkin
He worked in a number of radio shows but seemed to shine is Western Radio like Fort Laramie, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone, Frontier Gentleman, and Have Gun – Will Travel.
Legal Dramas
This original collection includes old time radio shows about law enforcers, law breakers, lawyers, and a "lawt" of good legal drama.
Before she became TV’s favorite redhead, Lucille Ball was a rising starlet who turned to radio work as a way to make ends meet.
Lux Radio (South African)
South Africas take on everyones favorite old time radio dramatic anthology Lux Radio Theater
Lux Radio Theater
Featuring the greatest Hollywood stars doing one-hour versions of their biggest motion pictures.
Lyndon Johnson Speeches
Johnson was the 36th President of the United States of America. His term as President was from 1963 when succeeded to the Presidency after the assassination for John F. Kennedy until 1969 when he was re-elected in 1964 by a large margin.
Mad and Insane in OTR
Mad scientists, crazed killers, nutty old codgers, and more insanity in this new OTRCAT compilation.
Medical File
South African original programming, featuring od and amazing stories inspired from true medical files.
Originally the product of seafarer's overactive and superstitious imaginations, mermaids are now an allegory for any time we associate a pretty girl with the water.
Milton Berle Show
Uncle Milty will always be "Mister Television", but he was side-splitting on radio as well. Tune into The Milton Berle Show.
Minnesota School of the Air
Minnesota School of the Air was part of the trend in the 1940s and 1950s of using the radio airwaves to educate. This show was in the same genre as NBC University of the Air, Indiana School of the Air, and many other states with the same idea.
Minstrel Shows
Minstrelsy is considered the first truly American form of entertainment, and as such provides the forms and traditions which would eventually form vaudeville and ultimately the Hollywood movies and TV shows which shape and inform the rest of the world's opinion of American culture.
Music Rarities
Collection of the best music rarities from the golden age of radio.
Born into a musical family, Nelson Eddy had over 600 radio appearances in his career and made many musical films with Jeanette MacDonald.
Nelson Olmsted
Known as the network's resident storyteller, Nelson Olmsted got his start making dramatized Edgar Allen Poe radio shows.
Celebrate the New Year all over again with your favorite old time radio stars, Burns and Allen, Milton Berle, Phil Harris and Alice Faye, Jack Benny and many more. Get out your noisemakers and top hat; it's an old time radio New Year celebration!
News Recordings 1960-1969
The Sixties were a period of dramatic political and cultural change including JFK presidency and assassination, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin Luther King, and the Apollo Moon Landing.
Nixon (Richard Nixon Recordings)
Richard M. Nixon was the 37th President of the United States of America, and one of the most controversial. In 1974, he became the only US President to resign from office.
Nukes and Commies Bundle
Thirty-one Great Old Time Radio volumes from the Cold War and Atomic era! Don't duck and cover, order this compilation today!
One of the noblest professions, the collection includes stories of brave nurses on the battlefield and everyday nurses who offer comfort and care.
With such greats as Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman, One Night Stand was a popular musical program that lasted for over two decades on the radio.
OTRCAT SAMPLER 04
We happily include these Sampler Disks with each order. They are a great way to introduce your friends to the fun of Old Time Radio. This edition includes selections from The Columbia Workshop and Lux Radio Theater.
New sampler cd with over 100 episodes from various series including Fun at Breakfast, Chesterfield Time, All American Sports Shows, Are you a Genius?, Batman Mystery Club, Comic Parade, This is our Enemy, and many new News shows by organized year.
Relive the nostalgia of parades yesteryear - both real and fictional. These are great celebrations!
Paula Winslowe
After making the leap from silent films to speaking films, Paula Winslowe debuted on radio on Dec. 30, 1936.
Pearl Harbor News
News of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 was spread around the globe due to the miracle of radio.
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Rhyming Reels Jack and Jill slot are based on the love story of Jack and Jill, with plenty of bonus features hidden within. The Rhyming Reels collection of slot games from Microgaming focuses on the characters behind folk tales and songs. This slot is a colourful five reel three-row video slot game that tells the tale of these star-crossed lovers and gives the player an insight into newly imagined parts of the story. In this version of the story, both Jack and Jill have had a makeover to look more modern and risqué. The player will see just what happened to set Jack tumbling down the hill which may put them in for a shock.
The game takes place in a book, as the background is made up of the pages. The reels sit in front of this, as do the settings below. Each symbol in the slot game is related to the story in some way, and there’s even a first aid kit to be used after Jack goes for his roll down the hill.
The entire series of Rhyming Reels video slots are fantastic, and they tell many familiar stories while awarding bonuses. Old King Cole and The Queen of Hearts also feature in their games from this developer and each story is more hilarious than the last.
This fun twist on a story gives it an element of maturity that makes it perfect for the slot market. To get started with the Rhyming Reels Jack and Jill slot game the player can decide how many pay lines they want to have active per spin and how much they’d like their bet to be. Once this is all decided, they can choose to spin manually or have the game do it for them in expert mode.
To make a win on one of these lines, there has to be three or more of the same symbol on the line. These will then multiply your original bet on the slot by the number set out in the pay table; that’s just for standard symbols though as there can be special ones that come in to set things off with a bang. Jack and Jill can be part of a pay line to make a win, and this magical couple will get the coins rolling when they have their secret meeting.
The Rhyming Reels Jack and Jill slot’s logo can step in for other regular symbols so you can still win if only two of them appear. Any win that incorporates this symbol will be doubled too, so it’s a good one to have on your side during a game.
The bucket is the scatter symbol within the Rhyming Reels Jack and Jill mobile slot and when three or more appear you’ll be on your way to a wold of winnings. These animated symbols will come to life when activated and give the player 15 free spins that will have any winnings at the end quadrupled. The slot offers fantastic winnings and bonuses as well as an entertaining storyline that will leave you in stitches.
There is no other bonus feature in this game.
Rhyming Reels has series of slot games, why not take Rhyming Reels Old King Cole and Rhyming Reels Hearts & Tarts for a spin today?
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A former Panama agent is guiding Trump's Homeland Security pick
The president previously decried the influence of foreign lobbyists.
Trump's first international hotel wants to ditch his name
Owners of the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama City are trying to get rid of the Trump name on their property, according to a report by the Associated Press.
Commentary: Americans should demand reforms that ensure government serves the people
Sarah Chayes, a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says politicians from both sides of the aisle are not taking seriously enough their duty to ensure they're not turning their government role into an opportunity to make a buck.
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega dead at 83
Manuel Noriega was propped up and later toppled by the United States.
Mossack Fonseca defends its conduct in selling shell companies
Panama says it's setting up an independent commission to review regulations governing financial and legal services, in the wake of a massive leak exposing the murky world of offshore finance. The Panamanian company at the heart of the crisis, Mossack Fonseca, says it's done nothing wrong.
Can offshore tax havens really be stopped?
The issues surrounding offshore tax havens are political, not technical.
Investigating Mossack Fonseca before the Panama Papers
Long before news broke on the Panama Papers, Ken Silverstein, a contribuing editor for Vice, was deep in an investigation of the law firm Mossack Fonseca.
You shouldn't be surprised a firm in Panama is involved in global financial corruption
They've been called "the Panama Papers." That's because Mossack Fonseca, the financial firm that helped thousands of clients avoid taxes and launder money is based in Panama. So what makes Panama the perfect spot for firms like these to operate?
Russian money launderers caught with 'pants down'
Leaked documents show that close friends of Vladimir Putin own multiple companies in offshore tax havens worth billions of dollars. One such friend is a famous cellist, a guy who once ran with Putin on the streets when they were teenagers.
Why are the 'Panama Papers' a big deal?
What's the big deal with the Panama Papers, and how is it relevant to ordinary folks?
Geo answer
For our Geo Quiz today we were looking for a Central American country that's a popular stopover for migrating hawks. Panama is the answer, and reporter Murray Carpenter takes us to a hawk watch in Panama City.
Arts, Culture & Media
Today's answer is Camino de Cruces in Panama. It's part of centuries old path that crosses the country from the Caribbean to the Pacific. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with biologist Roland Kays, who's following the trail with 4 of his friends.
Can new forests save old ecosystems?
Correspondent Julia Kumari Drapkin reports from Panama on the debate over the conservation importance of tropical forest that are growing back after being cut.
Panama's Message about HPV Vaccine Focuses on Cancer
The World reports on a program launched in Panama to vaccinate ten-year-old girls against HPV, a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, but the government isn't saying the virus is spread by sex, and that's raising some ethical concerns.
Mexican cartels going south
The World's Lorne Matalon reports on how Mexican drug cartels are expanding their operations into Central America.
Jaguar corridors in Panama
Julia Kumari Drapkin reports from Panama on efforts to protect jaguars, the biggest cats in the all of the Americas. She profiles one group's work to find the corridors that jaguars use to move between protected areas.
The World's daily geography puzzler.
Geo answer postcard
For today's Geo Quiz, we asked what direction you're traveling in if you're crossing the Panama by train from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The answer is northwest. Reporter Murray Carpenter recently took the train ride and sent us an audio postcard.
Panama! 3
We're going to hear a little music from Panama for today's Global Hit. It's from a CD is called Panama 3. It's part of a three CD collection of historic music from Panama released by Sound Way records. We hear from music critic Tom Schnabel.
Former Panamanian dictator appears before French judge
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega appeared before a French judge today after being extradited from the United States on money laundering charges. Marco Werman gets details from Christopher Dickey, Paris Bureau Chief for Newsweek.
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Sixth Circuit: Prisoner Must be Allowed Direct Appeal When Prison Delayed Appeal Mailings
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2011 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News October, 2011, page 46
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Appeals, Limitations. Location: Michigan.
by Matt Clarke
The Sixth Circuit held that Michigan had to allow the appeal of a prisoner’s criminal conviction when prison officials had delayed the mailing of his appeal documents until after the filing deadline had expired.
Following his criminal conviction in state court, John Andrew Dorn, a Michigan prisoner, refused appointed appellant counsel and told the trial judge that he would retain appellate counsel himself. Having not yet secured an attorney and being responsible for filing his claim of appeal, Dorn requested disbursement of the filing fee from his prison account on June 11, 1998.
On June 15, 1998, he gave the same prison official his claim of appeal, to be notarized and mailed with the disbursement. The filing deadline was June 22; however, the prison official waited until June 23, 1998 to mail the documents. Consequently, the state appellate court dismissed Dorn’s claim for lack of jurisdiction due to the late filing of his appeal.
Dorn filed a motion to reconsider or reinstate, explaining the facts to the court of appeals.
His motion was summarily denied “for lack of merit in the grounds presented.” He appealed that decision to the Michigan Supreme Court, but his application for leave to appeal was denied because the state Supreme Court “was not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed.”
Dorn filed for state post-conviction relief. His petition was denied with the notation that he was “rearguing issues that were brought in his various motions and applications for leave to appeal.” Dorn’s motion for leave to appeal the post-conviction decision was denied because it “fail[ed] to meet the burden of establishing entitlement to relief under [Michigan Court Rule] 6.508(D).” The Michigan Supreme Court also declined to hear Dorn’s appeal.
Dorn then filed a pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in federal district court. The court denied his petition, but certified an appeal as to whether he was denied an appeal of right.
The Sixth Circuit appointed Columbus, Ohio attorney Gene Crawford to represent Dorn.
The Court of Appeals reviewed the case de novo, finding that there had been no adjudication of Dorn’s claims on the merits in state court.
The Sixth Circuit noted that U.S. Supreme Court precedent placed on prison officials “an affirmative obligation to assure all prisoners meaningful access to the courts,” and relief had been granted when a prison’s ban on sending papers from the facility resulted in the dismissal of a prisoner’s appeal of right. See: Dowd v. United States ex rel. Cook, 340 U.S. 206, 208 (1951).
Finding that Dorn had given prison officials a reasonable amount of time to mail his appeal documents prior to the filing deadline, the Sixth Circuit found that the prison official’s actions amounted to a complete denial of Dorn’s right to appeal in violation of his constitutional right of access to the courts.
The Court of Appeals held that the “denial of the entire judicial proceeding itself, which a defendant wanted at the time and to which he had a right, ... demands a presumption of prejudice.” Further, Dorn had shown actual prejudice because his subsequently-filed appellate and post-conviction motions “contained additional hurdles that a prisoner must jump [through] before receiving consideration of his claims” that were not present in a direct appeal of right.
Therefore, the Sixth Circuit reversed and remanded the case to the district court with instructions to enter an order giving Michigan officials a reasonable time to provide Dorn his direct appeal, “failing which he shall be discharged” from custody. See: Dorn v. Lafler, 601 F.3d 439 (6th Cir. 2010).
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Massachusetts Prisoners Receive Expired Food Rejected by Schools
Tennessee Jail Detainee Shackled During Childbirth Awarded $200,000
California District Court Rips Feds for “False and Misleading Information” in FOIA Case, Then Does Nothing
California Inspector General Expresses Concerns About Out-of-State Private Prisons
Oregon Aggravated Murder Statute Creates Liberty Interest, by Mark Wilson
FBI Claims 2,500 Percent Increase in Child Porn Arrests
Montana Jail Agrees to Provide Addiction Treatment for Pregnant Prisoners
Pennsylvania Councilman Takes Private Prison Company’s Donation, then Opposes Detention Center
$10,000 Settlement in North Carolina Prisoner’s Pepper Spraying
Department of Justice Report on Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails
Los Angeles County Pays $400,000 to Settle Juvenile Jail Prisoner Wrongful Death Suit
90% Remittitur of $750,000 Strip Search Verdict Vacated; Plaintiffs Accept $440,385.08 on Remand, by Mark Wilson
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U.S. Supreme Court: State P&A Can Sue Another State Agency for Records, by David Reutter
PLN Sues Kansas Jail Over No-Publication Policy
Jail Guitar Doors, USA Offers Free Musical Instruments to Prisons, by Bruce Reilly
Florida’s Prison Industry Criticized for Failing in Mission, by David Reutter
Oregon Prison Guard Guilty of Contraband Smuggling
Report Finds Federal Prisoners Exposed to Toxic Metals in Recycling Jobs
ICE, CCA Settle ACLU Lawsuit Regarding Health Care for Immigration Detainees, by Derek Gilna
Sixth Circuit: Prisoner Must be Allowed Direct Appeal When Prison Delayed Appeal Mailings, by Matthew Clarke
CCA Psychiatrist’s License Restricted for Sexual Misconduct with Florida Female Prisoners
Louisiana Sex Offender Agrees to Surgical Castration, by David Reutter
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Oklahomans Pay for Release of Woman Whose Case Helped Start Marijuana Reform Movement, Jan. 9, 2020
California Jail Prisoner’s Broken Leg Nets $550,000 Settlement, Jan. 9, 2020
Texas Convict-Leasing Burial Ground Uncovered, Jan. 8, 2020
California’s Firefighting Prisoners in Short Supply, Jan. 8, 2020
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Texas Jail Administrator Fired for Tampering with Government Documents, Dec. 10, 2019
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Food Survey Reveals Washington State Prisoners’ Concerns and Complaints, Dec. 10, 2019
Georgia Supreme Court Announces Fundamental Overhaul of Jurisprudence Governing Appeals of Guilty Pleas and Out-of-Time Appeals, Dec. 18, 2019. Appeals.
Illinois Prisoner Wins Partial Victory on Appeal in Hernia Treatment Suit, Dec. 10, 2019. Hernias, Appeals.
Florida Victims’ Rights Law Creates Confusion, Limits Time for Appeals, Dec. 9, 2019. Appeals.
Indiana Supreme Court: Postconviction Petition Addressing Only Issues From New Trial, New Sentencing, or New Appeal From Federal Court via Habeas Proceedings Is Not a Second Petition Under State Law, Nov. 18, 2019. Appeals, Habeas Corpus.
Third Circuit Announces New Rule for Amending § 2255 Motions on Appeal, Oct. 16, 2019. Appeals.
Seventh Circuit Reverses Convictions Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c); Holds Underlying Offenses Do Not Qualify as ‘Crimes of Violence’, Oct. 14, 2019. Appeals.
Ninth Circuit Announces that District Court Cannot Sua Sponte Raise Waiver as Ground to Dismiss Motion for Sentence Reduction, Sept. 17, 2019. Appeals, Sentencing.
Maryland Court of Appeals: Sentence Imposed on Remand That Is of Equal Maximum Length as Former Sentence but With Longer Term Before Parole Eligibility Is ‘More Severe’, Sept. 17, 2019. Appeals, Sentencing, Parole.
First Circuit Rules Appeal Waiver Does Not Relieve Counsel of Duty to Consult About an Appeal, Sept. 17, 2019. Attorneys, Appeals.
Fifth Circuit Announces that Categorical Approach Applied to SORNA Doesn’t Permit Circustance-Specific Inquiry Into Offender/Victim Age Differential, Sept. 17, 2019. Appeals, Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
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Whistle-Blower U.S. Geophysicist Issues $10,000 Challenge
What Really Causes Global Warming: Greenhouse Gases or Ozone Depletion?
Nov 12, 2015, 08:40 ET
JACKSON, Wyo., Nov. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Peter L. Ward, a longtime U.S. geophysicist, issued today a $10,000 personal challenge to fellow scientists to quantify the real cause of global warming.
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The initiative, emailed this morning to more than 2,000 atmospheric scientists worldwide, challenges any scientist or team of scientists to demonstrate experimentally that the 15% increase in carbon dioxide observed from 1970-1998 caused more global warming than observed contemporaneous depletion of the ozone layer of up to 60%.
Ward's Climate Change Challenge comes weeks before the United Nations 2015 Climate Change Conference in Paris, where nations will attempt to agree on how to reduce greenhouse emissions to achieve the goal of slowing global warming.
"Reducing carbon dioxide emissions will not reduce global warming," maintains Ward, a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Geological Survey and head of the nonprofit Science Is Never Settled. "Unfortunately, the recommendations that will emanate from the U.N. Paris Climate Conference will, therefore, be ineffective and not worth the huge expense."
He calls his Climate Change Challenge an investment in his children's and grandchildren's future, noting, "I've decided to invest $10,000 of my children's inheritance in this challenge because the cost of getting global warming wrong is too high a price to pay for future generations."
Ward spent the past decade researching more than 500 million years of climate data for his newly released book, What Really Causes Global Warming? Greenhouse Gases or Ozone Depletion? The book details how explosive volcanic eruptions cause net cooling by reflecting sunlight and how effusive volcanic eruptions cause net warming by emitting chlorine and bromine that deplete ozone.
"We can continue to burn fossil fuels to meet escalating demands for energy provided we minimize pollution," according to Ward, adding that his challenge will demonstrate that "Science is never settled. If it were, we would still believe the world was flat."
He concludes, "If we don't get this right, we will pay more for fossil fuels, waste billions of dollars, and, in the end, not achieve our goal of reducing global warming."
For more information, visit at WhyClimateChanges.com and #WhyClimateChanges. The Climate Change Challenge is described at WhyClimateChanges.com/challenge/. For an interview with Ward, contact Lonni Miller at 973-686-3660 or Email
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Arians: Bucs Decision On Winston Won’t Come Quickly
With the season over after a 7-9 record, the number one question surrounding the Tampa Bay Bucs is what will they do with quarterback Jameis Winston, who is set to become a free agent. The Bucs can choose to re-sign him, place the franchise tag on him, or let Winston walk in free agency.
For fans looking for quick answers to this question, you will have to wait a little longer. Bruce Arians cut right to the chase at his press conference with the media on Monday, saying that it’s going to take some time before a decision is made.
“I’ll save your breath about asking me about Jameis,” Arians said. “There’s not going to be a decision made for a while. So that’s a moot point right now.”
Arians cited that there is a lot to evaluate when it comes to Winston, and even when a decision is made, it won’t be made public.
Bucs HC Bruce Arians – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR
“I would think in a few weeks we’ll have a decision in which way we want to head.” Arians said. “We will let it out? Probably not because you lose your leverage on that one, too. Stay tuned.”
Winston had one of the more interesting seasons for a quarterback this year. Winston became just the eighth quarterback in NFL history to throw for 5,000 yards in a season, and was second in the league with 33 touchdowns. But Winston also led the league with 30 interceptions while becoming the first quarterback in league history to join the 30-30 club for throwing at least 30 touchdowns and 30 interceptions in the same season.
“The mechanics improved dramatically,” Arians said. “Everybody talked last year that he can’t hit a deep ball, he might be the best in the league. I think that and repetitive mistakes, how many of there were those, and all those things go into it. It’s frustrating to see the growth was great, but to see the regression in some areas was very frustrating.”
The decision on Winston isn’t exactly black and white. For all the positive statistics that Winston has put up to help the Bucs win, his turnovers have also contributed to some losses this year, including the last two games against the Texans and Falcons. The turnovers have been an issue for him for his entire career. In other words, there’s been a lot of good and a lot of bad over the year with the Bucs quarterback.
“I think that’s where you sit down with him and talk it all over,” Arians said. “All of us, Clyde [Christensen], Byron [Leftwich], myself, Jameis, look at it and evaluate it. Is 5,031 [yards] good enough to win a championship, or is the 31 and whatever many fumbles losing the championship? So that’s where you go with it.”
As far what exactly Arians has to evaluate with Winston, there’s a lot of factors involved in it.
“Everything,” Arians said. “Every snap. Run game, passing game, interceptions, completions, the whole thing. There’s still a lot of evaluation to go into it. We’ll sit down as a group and talk about each guy individually here Thursday and evaluate where we want to head.”
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BigSombrero Dec. 30, 2019 at 2:07 pm
Smart coach.
Odds of Winston being retained are 99.9% but he wants to give everyone time to let their emotions subside. Winston showed improvement in many areas in a new offense.
I have full confidence these coaches will not blow it up. This team is on the verge of dominating. They need some balance and this off season they will get it through the draft and free agency.
A first mock from the sportingnews has the Bucs taking Jonathan Taylor at 14. That would be exactly what the team needs. 7000 yards from scrimmage and 55 touchdowns. He is a 3 down workhorse RB that defenses will respect.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-mock-draft-2020-dolphins-panthers-bengals-cowboys-raiders-redskins-lions/4hf53r8awx571nr4v1xr4k4cp
Dman Dec. 30, 2019 at 3:46 pm
Can’t see taking a RB without fixing the O line.
Line isn’t the problem. If the Bucs had Todd Gurley, Melvin Gordon, Ezekial Elliott, or Saquon Barkley, their stats would be the same or better with this line.
MrThrityTwo Dec. 30, 2019 at 8:07 pm
Line isn’t the problem!
Come on man – the OL is brutal
geno711 Dec. 30, 2019 at 10:17 pm
I agree with you. The line has been fine this year. Jensen has been way better this year. Give Jameis and Perriman credit yesterday but the line play was strong yesterday.
Name me a game in the last 8 games where Tampa clearly lost the game at the line of scrimmage. I see none. Our defensive line made the other team one dimension every game and we put way more pressure on the opposing team quarterback pass rushing than they put on us and Jameis.
Those 5000 yards came because of Jameis elite arm talent, Godwin, Evans and that offensive line. We scored points people. We got yards.
Pro Football Reference has a pocket time stat for 2019.
Minnesota lead with 2.6 seconds. Indy and Dallas were next at 2.5 seconds. Tampa tied another 7 teams at 2.4 seconds. That means they are giving their quarterback time.
EricNV Dec. 30, 2019 at 11:10 pm
The line is a big problem, particularly the right side, although Cappa made big strides. We need a starting RT who can be mentored by Dotson, or a starting LT who can force the Bucs to move D Smith to RT or at least send a message to Smith that he’s replaceable. Maybe if Jameis isn’t running for his life on most plays he can pull his head out and make better decisions
We already have a capable RB in R.J. II. Bucs need to feed him the ball much more often and lessen the load on Winston
BigSombrero Dec. 30, 2019 at 11:50 pm
@ericnv I’m not sure RoJo or Dare scares anyone except BA with those fumbles. Barber is a free agent. That’s the cupboard.
High priced free agents include Gordon, Henry, and Mack. Personally, I hope the Bucs save a few bucks and take a college kid early.
Spitfire Dec. 30, 2019 at 11:59 pm
Come on now man, you gotta know that isn’t true. For one thing, if Prescott was here, he’d be out of football by now, if Elliot was here, he’d be Doug Martin at best. A good Oline makes an Offense and Dallas has one of the games best. Barkley is about the only RB in years that could overcome a bad line, but even he may be done soon it looks like.
geno711 Dec. 31, 2019 at 8:02 am
Rojo ended up with 4.2 yards per carry (Barber only 3.1) Rojo has to improve on pass protect and pass receiving but he is very young (only 22). I think he can take a step up. I do not think he will be elite but would be happy with the Buc’s waiting on a running back and taking best player available in those early rounds.
There are other running backs available besides Gordon and Henry. Mack is not available.
Kenyan Drake, Jordan Howard, Lamar Miller, DeAndre Washington. Lots of others as well.
I agree with Big Sombrero on a lot of things. Not always on running backs. If I remember on running backs last draft, you were a fan of Darrell Henderson. That running back is a mess (he only carries the ball in his left arm).
Dman Dec. 31, 2019 at 8:24 am
Our RB’s are in the top 3 in the league in getting hit in the backfield. Barber gets his yards after contact – again among the top in the league in yards after contact. Our game planning for the running game stinks, but get reliable O lineman and we’d be fine with the backs we have.
Rating: +1. From 1 vote.
I don’t want to spend a first round pick on a RB. Too much bust potential.
I want the guy who is responsible for Taylor’s great stats. Center Tyler Biadasz. He could shore up the O-line and help our current rbs. Draft another o-lineman in the second and get our rb in the third.
htownbucfan03 Dec. 30, 2019 at 4:35 pm
Pete Wood I get what ur saying but Taylor made his o line look very good also that kid is legit
BigSombrero Dec. 31, 2019 at 3:18 am
Here is Wisconsin vs Michigan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-FQCjcz_1E
1st drive was all Taylor. No problem.
2nd drive was all Taylor. Domination.
Everyone knows he’s getting it and he still too fast to stop. For a guy this big, it’s shocking that he is a track athlete at Wisconsin also. His feet are crazy special. He picks the hole so smooth and he’s gone. If this guy is available, the Bucs should run to the podium.
I got 4 names for all the ‘experts’ who want to draft a Right Tackle or a Center in round 1.
Jonah Williams – 0 snaps 2019 for Bengals
Andre Dillard – benched after 6 games in the middle of the season
Tytus Howard – IR week 12 but Houston already forced to trade Miami for Tunsil.
Jawaan Taylor – BUST
Thats 0 for 3 last year on ALL FIRST ROUND TACKLES last year.
Yes, even Jonah Williams. Turns out he wasn’t the next Joe Frickin’ Thomas. He wasn’t even 1/10th as good as Dotson or Donovan.
I have used some of the same arguments about the weakness of that draft class for the offensive line. I was happy the Buc’s did not go for an offensive lineman last year like a lot of fans clamored for. However, it was because the talent was not there last year.
One of the deepest position in the draft this year is offensive line. So going for the best player available, I would be happy with an offensive lineman.
BigSom – I completely agree that Taylor is a stud – he’ll likely be playing on Sunday’s for a long time. But it’s hard to ignore the right side of our line. I was all for taking Hunt [despite his now revealed abuse issues] and Mack for that matter. I’d replace Dare OG with a either a FA or a mid round RB, bring back Barber. My take is beef up the line and actually have an offensively game plan that includes a running game.
Naplesfan Dec. 30, 2019 at 4:07 pm
A first round pick wasted on a running back is a sucker bet. Only rarely does that bet ever pay off. The NFL is loaded with failed teams that draft kickers in the first round.
Correction – the NFL is loaded with failed teams that draft running backs in the first round. Giants anyone?
You’re so wrong about that. Here come the FACTS…
The best year for running backs in recent history was 2017. Bucs took BPA TE OJ Howard in the 1st and fans were overjoyed. Consider this though:
30 RB’s were drafted for the 1st time in 20 years.
Bucs (finally) took the 17th RB off the board in round 5: Jeremy McNichols(pick 162). The 16 RB’s drafted before him include 10 players that have succeeded to some extent at their drafted position(not special teams aces like TJ Logan): Fournette(4), McCaffery(8), Cook(41), Mixon(48), Kamura(67), Hunt(86), James Conner(105), Tarik Cohen(119), Jamal Williams(134), Marlon Mack(143). Only one RB drafted after McNichols has found success: Aaron Jones(182).
11 hits out of 30 in the deepest class 20 years is 36%.
When I look at all the OTHER years of drafting RB’s, the numbers fall off the map after round 1. I considered the 8 other classes from 2011-2019.
56 RB’s drafted in the first 3 rounds over those 8 years.
9 of 11 first rounders that were successful picks include Jacobs, Barkley, Michel, Elliott, Gurley, Gordon, Martin, Ingram, and Trent Richardson. David Wilson and Rashad Penney have had little or no impact.
82% hit rate for round 1 RB’s.
45 RB’s drafted in rounds 2-3 from 2011-2019 and 14 have had impactful careers so far. I even included Charles Sims and Eddie Lacy even though their success was minimal when compared to the expectations and success of 1st rounders that I considered above.
31% success rate for rounds 2-3.
I prefer the Bucs get a top RB. It’s too important for the success of the team to gamble that they can just get easily pluck an effective one late in the draft. RB Taylor has 7000+ career scrimmage yards and 55 touchdowns.
http://www.drafthistory.com/index.php/positions/rb
@bigsombrero
I tend to go with theory that some years in draft you have better choices at a position and you should focus on that position. For instance, the year Mike Evans was drafted was loaded with productive receivers.
Interestingly, that 2017 year was loaded for running backs.
Fournette, McCaffrey, Cook, Mixon, Kamara, Hunt, Conner, Cohen, J Williams, Mack, A Jones, C Carson.
I think this year is loaded with wide receivers and Offensive lineman. Well you know which position we may go for more out of those two. A lot also depends on which defensive players we re-sign.
But ultimately, here is one vote for o line (rt tackle) over running back. A good o line player will help make our team better for 10 years. A running back 5 years. Plenty of 2020 drafted right tackles will be good in the .
twspin Dec. 30, 2019 at 5:13 pm
Bucs in all probability will not take Taylor if he is there. But you can bet a paycheck..He is..the real deal. I’d take him
BUC 727 Dec. 31, 2019 at 11:54 pm
This my last comment on this site. The hate here is real. I get it. If I had gone to UF or Miami. I would have had lingering nightmares from his college days. The truth is, Jameis is a special QB. He is also an exceptional young man. Yet he has given his heart, soul and body to a city that has not appreciated him. Before this season, he never threw for 5000 yards or thirty TDs. He also never threw more than 18 picks. Maybe, just maybe, no risk it no biscuit takes a little time to adjust to. Check this; both starting wideouts are in the pro bowl. Career bust wideout BP looks like a HOFer with both starters out injured.
My biggest problem with the Arians offence is it’s aversion or ignorance utilizing what was the best TE combo in the league.
I lived in Jax from 1993 to 2003. I have a Leftwitch #7 jersey. I also think that Byron is a good OC. Yet, Byron thinks that Jameis is his clone, big mistake. Byron was a system QB and Jameis is a true gunslinger. A totally different mindset. Example, first pass intermediate in or out route. Defense sitting in coverage. Result, pick. First pass downtown; defense sitting on in or out route, hitch and go …TD or at least a defense stretched a bit. Bottom line, sitting in the stands or on my sofa, I knew what the Bucs first pass of a drive was going 90% of the time. (Drops the mic).
sunshineben Dec. 30, 2019 at 2:16 pm
bucs should be making plans to move on from Winston.. along with the fan base !!
Unless Bridgewater wants to play in Tampa next year we’re better off retaining JW.
stlbucsfan Dec. 30, 2019 at 2:17 pm
Who cares Bc the ultimate decision maker, Jason Licht, has no clue what he’s doing. He’s drafted Austin Sefarian Jenkins and OJ Howard in the first and second rounds, ASJ is gone and OJ appears to be a gimmick player afraid of contact. 1st and 2nd round picks down the toilet. The OL didn’t have a single 100 yard rusher until yesterday despite been the highest paid unit in the division. Jameis can throw but it’s anybodies guess on what team will catch the passes. We “fixed” the secondary over the summer and then trotted our the same starting secondary the ended last season as the worst secondary in the league lol. I get the young guys may not have been ready but was sitting the best way to get them up to speed? Drafted Rojo and now we might need another RB lol. We are about 6 1st or 2nd round CBS deep and might finally Have 2 good ones and the list goes on. 6 seasons and the DL has 1 drafted player that appears to be a high end NT. The waste of draft capital is the sole reason why we are this bad. Way more misses than hits yet we wonder why it’s 6 seasons and nothing but moral victories. Oust this clown already stop picking apart the faulty parts and realize it’s the manufacturer that’s to blame.
76Buc Dec. 30, 2019 at 2:27 pm
SIGN BRIDGEWATER! OBTW, why is everybody talking Jameis. The kicker lost the game (again)! What do we do about Gay? I know Licht won’t can him because he would lose face, but we ne a kicker that can kick 30 – 40 yard FGs.
I’d sign Bridgewater in a heartbeat over Jameis any day. But the Saints ain’t letting him go. I bet
he would play great for our Bucs. Just the kind of QB we need.
Gay’s nemesis is the south end of Raymond James. In particular the winds there. He’s a solid kicker. Lots of kickers miss and lose games for their teams. He’s better than the rest of the clowns who have kicked for the Bucs since 2016. Give him some competition in August and he’ll shine again, especially if he makes the south end uprights at Raymond James his home for the next 8 months.
CrackerBall Dec. 31, 2019 at 12:29 pm
Teddy Bridgewater has a noodle arm – not exactly what you want for a vertical-styled offense.
76Buc Jan. 3, 2020 at 6:01 pm
Yep. Noodle arms like Montana and Brady.
CrackerBall Jan. 5, 2020 at 3:54 pm
Wasn’t aware that Montana or Brady ran a vertical-style offense.
e Dec. 30, 2019 at 2:28 pm
The team will go through every throw in the offseason; single out the highest and lowest percentage throws, TD & INTS, tweak the offense to give Jameis a better chance for success. The “risk it-no biscuit” style of offense is just that; there is a lot of ups and downs. How about working in some screens and outlet passes and some other lower risk plays? Get the TEs more involved in the offense. I believe the Bucs should resign Jameis and draft someone to push him. The Jameis haters want him gone, but who is realistically going to walk in a pick up the offense in the offseason without having to go through another year of adjustments? He has been a solid citizen and his teammates believe in him. The Bucs are the second youngest team with a 25 year old QB. Let this team grow. Arians is changing the culture. Don’t blow it up now.
I’d like the see the OC work some pump fakes into Jameis’s repertoire. Get both the LBs and secondary in coverage going one way and throw opposite to get them to quit focusing on Jameis’ eyes so often.
e Dec. 31, 2019 at 10:23 am
Yes! It seems like a lot of those nightmare pick-sixes shows Jameis never looking down the other side of the field.
A lot of risk for too few biscuits.
GrayBalls Jan. 5, 2020 at 3:47 am
WRONG!!!! 33 TDs and 5000 yds makes for a ton of “biscuits”. Unfortunately, quite a few burnt ones in the basket, too
Gatordoc1 Dec. 30, 2019 at 2:48 pm
Anyone know when the Bucs have to apply the franchise without losing anyone (Winston, Barrett) to free agency? That is the real time table to know where they are going with Winston primarily. Barrett is the most important re-signing. Good edge rushers are about as important as quarterbacks. Also, can we have a gentleman’s (or gentlewomen’s) agreement that we cannot just say “sign a free agent” without naming him? The idea that good or even adequate quarterbacks are on the side of the road with signs they will play for food is a GIANT delusion. Look how many teams have bad quarterback play (Hell, Tannehill beat out Mariota, and THE DOLPHINS! didn’t want him).
March 10th, 2020 is the deadline.
https://operations.nfl.com/football-ops/league-governance/2019-20-important-nfl-dates/
Thank you. Now I can just enjoy the playoffs (and a few beers…) until March
Cheers then!
surferdudes Dec. 30, 2019 at 3:03 pm
Matt, isn’t there another option besides franchise tag, resign, like the transition tag? For some reason you didn’t bring that up, perhaps you should.
toucan Dec. 30, 2019 at 3:11 pm
The kicker is directly resonsible for 2 losses this season.Yesterday’s loss and the loss to the hapless Giants. Take out those anomalies and the Bucs are 9-7. Jameis last pick 6 may have been tipped but as Arians stated “Brate was covered”. I am a “WWBD” guy.What Would Bret Do?The comparisons to Favre continue. I recall an OT a few years ago with the Packers.
The first play called was a fly route down the left sideline. Favre hurled the ball 50 yards in the air. It was complete and the receiver ran into the end zone for the win.Yesterday Perriman looked like the fastest guy out there.My choice would have been the same play as Favre was given.
The 75 yard touchdown to Engram on the first play to start the 3rd quarter didn’t have anything to do with the loss to the Giants, did it?
The only reason kickers matter is when the offense fails to score touchdowns. Claiming that losses are solely due to kickers is silly. Football is a team sport, and the goal of every offense is to score touchdowns. If you do that well, kickers are a complete non-issue. Which is why they don’t get paid very much. If kickers were the sole reason for winning or losing games, instead of, say, quarterbacks, then the going pay rate for kickers would be north of $30M a year, and the going rate for quarterbacks would be under a million per year.
The numbers tell the story. The bottom line is in fact the bottom line.
Please Glazers if you’re listening. Crawl out of your vault and spare us more misery. Just say to the fans who are left, we’ve had it too, we’re done, he’s not coming back. Don’t let Licht waste anymore of your money, and our time, let him go. We’ve been more then patient, but the empty seats you are see aren’t going to filled if you bring this clown back.
Rating: 0. From 26 votes.
That’s the truth about empty seats. A lot of fans hate Winston, win or lose. I hope he comes back, but it ain’t up to me.
Naplesfan Dec. 31, 2019 at 7:47 am
“hater” is the word that knuckleheads apply to intelligent people who see through their bullshit.
They can’t possible pitch us another offseason of hope with Marvin Licht calling the shots.
Well, the decision on Winston is a very big decision with a lot of implications for the salary cap and the team’s ability to retain other quality free agents who are going to expect to get paid this year. It is also a big decision as to keeping the fan base happy (as if the Glazers care! … even though they should care). It also has to do with Jason Licht and his future, or not, with the Bucs.
It also has to do with what kinds of deals that the Bucs can make with available free agent quarterbacks, and also our scouting assessment of the available quarterbacks this coming draft. The Bucs are in no position to draft at the top, thank god! .. because that only begets bad decisions (zero out of two in 44 years). Far better to draft somewhere in the middle of the first round – the Bucs are slated for somewhere around pick #14, it appears – where great judges of quarterbacking talent (cough cough cough .. we ARE talking about Jason Light here!) can usually find talented quarterbacks who aren’t nearly the risk of a no. 1 or 2 pick.
So no, we may find out what Winston’s fate is come opening of free agency .. or perhaps not until shortly after draft day.
A lot of things have to be balanced, but we’re certainly going to st
buddah Dec. 30, 2019 at 4:21 pm
to be fair, Licht chose every starting player on the defensive line and the two starting rookie cornerbacks and safety Edwards who looks like a keeper. I can take him or leave him, but he hasn’t been the disaster that was named Dominick. Yes, he has made his share of mistakesbut the defense ranked 6th in DVOA on Football Outsiders is largely his picks.
As for Jamies, the beat goes on. I’m not sure this defense is quite so happy with him after the last two weeks.
I got no problems with our Bucs keeping Jameis on a franchise tag. But I would NOT..pay him big bucks.
Give him a yr and let him know definitively this is make or break. I wish We could lure Bridgewater away from the Saints. I get this sinking feeling..we have seen the Best of Jameis but Not..the worse! I hope I’m wrong, But I do not see us going to a superbowl with him. Jameis is probably destined to become a nice career backup for some team. And he will win a few games here and there. He’s just not consistent.
Don Dec. 30, 2019 at 5:23 pm
Nor should it. Quite frankly, if they don’t kick the tires on Bridgewater it’ll be gross negligence on their part. Ultimately, I’m good on a one-year commitment (or cap friendly two-year deal) to Winston if they’ve decided there is absolutely no better option available. But this team has an embarrassment of riches at the skill positions on offense. A smart offseason upgrading the offensive line via FA/Draft would make Tampa utterly lethal on offense. The only thing that could, potentially, hold that back is Winston.
drdneast Dec. 30, 2019 at 6:10 pm
Reminded me do much of the Giants game..Bucs get a lead and Lefto goes into a shell and forgets Winston’s the one that got them the lead.
I’ll tell u what else contributed to the loss. 1st and goal on the Falcons 6 and someone, I forget who makes a mistake and back they go 10 yards.
Later in the game Winston scrambles and runs for a first down and Donovan Smith hit with a 10 yard holding penalty.
Matt Gay missing all 3 field goals.
And finally, Winston throws an INT on a play the Falcons CB saw coming and was able to jump the route because he had seen the pattern.plenty of tome before.
Nice call Lefto.
And lets not forget the first INT where Watson ran the wrong route.
Yes, Winston certainly contributed to the loss.
AlbJack65 Dec. 30, 2019 at 7:08 pm
I like to talk NFL football with people, especially the Bucs(college football holds very little interest for me, I haven’t watched a game in several years). I’ve spoken to a lot of people in the Tampa Bay area about Winston over the last 5 years. There seems to be a consistent underlying trend. I would venture to guess that roughly 75% of the anti-Winston people I have spoken to over the last 5 years have a VERY STRONG southern accent. Make of that what you will.
Football is a sport where If you are good, That’s what you are. This team has been 5 yrs patient with Mr. Winston. He was a No 1 pick in the NFl Draft. He has been tutored by some of the best NFL QB coaches around. There may be some haters. That’s everywhere in all professions. But I bet you if Jameis was a winner and good player, even those with the southern accents would probably be comment-less. Performance does that. I just don’t think Jameis is the QB to take us to the promise land. Time to move on.
You’re a race baiting asshat. STFU and getthefuckoutta here with your racist talk!
Naplesfan….I’m a “race-baiting asshat? I made a comment about what I’ve observed from many Bucs fans. I made no mention of race whatsoever. YOU did. Why?
twspin Jan. 1, 2020 at 4:04 pm
If you are not race-baiting then you are..towing the line. People with Strong Southern accents don’t like Jameis? Football is sport which I have always thought should mimick real society. In football, People luv winners. Accents nor anything else matters. Just winning. Those people with the strong southern accents probably don’t like Jameis for the same reasons us real football fans don’t like him. And that be..lack of consistency.
matador Jan. 4, 2020 at 5:12 pm
What I make of it is that you’re a moron. Including fumbles recovered by the other team the guy has given up possession of the ball approximately 130 times in less than five full years of games. Those same fans you’re slandering want Bridgewater to replace him.
Not recovered
Winston gives TB something we haven’t had in years or ever…. An OFFENSE that can score !
We have a weak over paid OL. A 30th ranked pass Defense. No running game. A kicker who misses 14 easy points to two losses. We lost our #1, #2 and #4 WR for our last 2 games. On top of one tough Schedule.
Take a good look at Alex Smith for a QB who doesn’t turn the ball over… Good luck that.
Or Daniel Jones or Josh Allen or for that matter Marcus Mariotta for a low turnover low scoring QB…
Guess how many games we win with our D these last 4-5 years? Even less than we won.
No Winston and get ready for that.
Franchise tag Winston, work on the picks, play call around his bad tendencies (shock!) and enhance the OL / running game. We spend WAY to much for a subpar OL.
I’m ready for that…
BUC-ASS-BOB Dec. 31, 2019 at 7:21 am
56 QB started 5 or more games in 2019 Only QB in NFL with worse QB rating than Jameis Winston 2019
Take you time and think about that Brucie
Mitchell Trubisky
Eli Manning Benched
Mason Rudolph benched
Andy Dalton last place
Dwayne Haskins Benched
Mark, QB Rating is a ridiculous made up stat invented by ESPN in 2011.
MikeJ813 Dec. 31, 2019 at 7:34 am
Hey Buc fans, longtime reader of PW. 1st time poster, been a season ticket holder for 4 years now. Really appreciate the banter on this site between us bucs fans just wanted to add some insight to our current situation:
Some things to consider: I’ve read alot of people saying jameis has had 5 years to right the ship, i believe this falls heavily on licht. Take a look at jameis’ last 5 years, Licht drafts a QB first overall. In 5 years licht has failed to build a serviceable defense until the second half of year 5, in 5 years kickers have lost us about 2-3 games a year, in 5 years we’ve had little to no running game, in 5 years we’ve had no stability on the coaching staff i believe 3 coaches in the last 5 years. Now i am in no way going to excuse the 30 INTs because you just cant have that but all that being said name another QB in the history of the NFL that has started right away without a veteran to sit behind with all of those factors holding them back that has been successful winning in their first 5 years. a 25 year old QB who has had to overcome all off those obstacles created by their GM who is supposed to build a team around their 1st overall pick is not someone i would want to walk away from so soon. Looking at this year at the beginning of the season folks here predicted 5-11, 6-10, 7-9, 8-8 at best with the tough schedule we had. We end 7-9 which should’ve been 10-6 and people are ready to blow the team up?? Let the emotions simmer after a tough season and realize this team is super close to being a household name in the league with plenty of young talent no need to start over.
sorry for the long winded comment but i think we should all R E L A X Go Bucs!
also forgot in 5 years failed to build an elite Oline while the online is one of the highest paid this year. this year was the first year the Oline was actually serviceable
Horse Dec. 31, 2019 at 12:54 pm
Arian’s, Licht, Glazers; maybe this will help?
Door #1; release Winston on your schedule, not his. All other door options include the releasing of Winston.
Door #2; make a trade with the Raiders for Derek Carr.
Door #3; sign Eli Manning for a year all guaranteed and still draft a QB in the first or second round and give pick a chance to adjust to the game speed.
.Door #4: Give Griffin a shot to start and draft a QB in either round 1 or 2.
Door #5; sign QB Bridgewater can I at least a three-year contract as he’s perfect for this offense.
plopes808 Jan. 1, 2020 at 9:25 am
As much good as we’ve seen out of Winston, I think we would be foolish to get rid of him without giving him another year under BA and co. That said, there was also a lot of bad that he will need to overcome. One point people haven’t really been talking about is at the moment, Jameis’ value is as low as it may ever get. We could use that to our advantage and offer him a cheaper 2-3 year deal with incentives about turnovers and pay far less than the tag. If he doesn’t take it, we can tag him as a last resort and see what year 2 brings. If he can cut the turnovers in half it will go a long way toward him staying but will also drive up his value. Either way though, we need to come up with a backup plan and I don’t believe Griffin is it.
I’d love to get Bridgewater, but realistically I can’t see NO letting him go. Swinging a trade for Carr could be good, depending on the price tag. I can also see signing Dalton for a year or 2 to mentor a rookie if we draft one early but I can’t really get on board with Eli.
I still think our best bet is to stick with Jameis and build the trenches though. We’ve seen a turnaround from the defense that has kept us in games but if BA can turn Jameis around we could be unstoppable. I would really hate to see us move on at this point and see him go on to play at a high level for another team as so many have done before him.
On a side note, the decision to stick with Jameis may also have selfish reasons. I’ve purchased 4 player jerseys for myself and my kids. LVD, GMC, Kwon, and Jamies. So…as you can see, the track record isn’t looking very good aside from David. I’ve accepted the fact that my jersey purchases have been like Kryptonite for these players so I will not be buying any others. I will stick to the custom jerseys as to not curse anyone else.
owlykat Jan. 1, 2020 at 11:00 am
There has to be a reason Jameis threw more picks with BA than previously and the answer is BA’s system contributes to more interceptions for any QB in the first year in BA’s system. However, in the second year in BA’s system the QB throws a significantly less number of interceptions. BA has already made Jameis able to throw deep accurately even when throwing to a short receiver, and BA has also made Jameis a lot more dangerous in the red zone, which is why Jameis could throw for 30 TDS this year. So I don’t think that it will be that hard with Jameis in his second year under BA to cut his interceptions in half and get us to the playoffs next year. It is worth the gamble to franchise tag him this year. Once that happens the fans will come back and cheer for Jameis. BA is smart enough to say no risk it no biscuit in keeping Jameis! Jameis can get a big biscuit for some team; we need it to be our team.
SOXX Jan. 3, 2020 at 11:42 pm
Could of been one of the great seasons if we had a solid QB. Its rare when you have 3 great receivers on the same team like we did this year. I’m a big fan of BA’s offense but the mental lapses from our QB cost us dearly. That last play made me realize maybe Jameis doesn’t see the field all that good. So I say lets give someone else a shot.
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Tom Reardon | March 6, 2014 | 9:30am
With age comes wisdom. Like the common sense notion that the best way to tackle an event as big and complex as tonight's Viva PHX music festival is to have a plan, and a good one at that.
And given the sheer number of bands and venues involved (more than 70, in fact, spread out across 15 different stages around downtown Phoenix), there might be certain logistical problems for the over-40 set. There are so many great acts, yet so little time, and a certain amount of distance to travel between gigs. Good thing we have a few tips and where you should be and when.
Face it, you're not a teenager anymore, and this ain't Lollapalooza 1991. Even for those who haven't settled down or started doing the family thing yet, there isn't as much pep in your step as there used to be, which isn't a low blow by any means. It's the truth.
You might be in great shape with cat-like reflexes, but that doesn't mean you have time to waste on bands you might not enjoy or care about. You simply cannot be in two places at once, and for those who may not get out as much as they'd like, we've got you covered.
First off, as with any festival where walking is de rigueur, we recommend you put on some comfy yet stylish shoes and hydrate all day before the show (especially since you're likely to knock a few back over the course of the evening). And secondly, be sure to make use of not only the light rail whenever possible, as well as any of the myriad pedicabs that will be flitting about.
What follows is a rundown of suggested venues and acts to check out in order to ensure your rock will be maximized while you roll through downtown.
5 p.m.: The Vig Fillmore Some of you will want to show up on time so that you can say you were at Viva PHX from the very beginning, while others will arrive fashionably late. Our advice: get to The Vig early. You're completely in your element here, rubbing shoulders with others in a similar age bracket, and snag snazzy drink or craft beer that screams, "I read relevant magazines."
The Zubia Brothers are icons of local music, fantastically talented, and more than capable of rocking your socks off. The Vig also offers tasty eats, so of show up early enough, you get there early, you can get both some grub and some groove on.
6:30 p.m: Crescent Ballroom The uninformed will be loading up the Viva PHX schedule on their smart phones for the lowdown on where to head next. You, however, are already well prepared after reading this guide and have already started taking a brisk walk through a one of Phoenix's oldest neighborhoods over to the Crescent to attend a set by L.A. band In the Valley Below, whose set starts at 7 p.m. at the Crescent Ballroom.
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The duo will provide a nice palette cleansing with their lush, yet danceable pre-indie rock grooves. Singer Angela Gail slightly resembles a goth-y Zooey Deschanel and their sound is reminiscent of dark-tinged, yet bouncy '80s Euro-pop with giant hooks that will reel you in and get your toes tapping. If you need a kid friendly, all-ages alternative to In the Valley Below show, you only need to go right outside as the Crescent outdoor stage will feature DJ Hartbreaks, who will be spinning mellow grooves with an R&B flavor starting at 6:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.: Monroe Street Stage Take a quick walk down Second Avenue to the Monroe Street Stage for a dose of L.A. brat pop band Holychild. Fans of Bananarama and Luscious Jackson should dig their uppity and utterly pop sound, whose superbly produced recordings have garnered them some well-deserved national attention. This stop is also all-ages, so no problem keeping the kiddos both entertained and by your side. You'll likely be surrounded by teens and 20-somethings, but don't be alarmed. They are totally self-absorbed and will not harm you, unless you are easily offended by being ignored.
8 p.m.: Hotel San Carlos Meanwhile, the lounge inside the vintage hotel will be hosting bands all evening, including jazz-rock hybrid Something Went Awry. Fronted by local drummer and instrumentalist Spencer Ferrarin, the four-piece act specializes in an eclectic mix of distortion-laden hot licks and guitar solos with playful keyboards playing and percussion. Their sound vacillates between metal, prog, jam band crunch, and avant-garde jazz ambience in a potent fusion that's influenced by Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and "all things funky."
8:45 p.m.: Phoenix Alley Stage/Hard Rock Cafe At this point, you can head for either the Phoenix Alley Stage for Orange County's GRMLN or over to the Hard Rock Cafe to catch Anchorage's Avid Dancer. It's really boils down to a matter of taste and how much you want to walk.
Some folks who still like to skateboard a bit and fancy themselves a little bit dangerous will dig on GRMLN, who's got the lo-fi, punky noise thing going on; while those who might want to mellow it out slightly should consider Avid Dancer and taking in something that you'll probably read about in NME sooner rather than later.
9:30 p.m: Coffee One By this point in the evening, you might have to decide whether to pack it in or keep it going. For those who brought their brood, it might be time to call it a night, if you haven't already. But for you musical soldiers with mojo to spare, it's off to Coffee One and chill out with NYC's David D'Alessio or Philadelphia's Adam Arcuragi, two of the East Coast's more gifted singer-songwriters. Grab a revitalizing beverage and recharge while enjoying the craftsmanship of these talented troubadours before moving on to your next stop, which -- without a doubt -- has to be the Crescent's outdoor stage.
10:20 p.m.: Crescent Ballroom Whether you're going to check out infamous rap legend Sir Mix-A-Lot for either the nostalgia or irony factor, or just to join in the inevitable mass singalong that will ensue when he dives into "Baby Got Back," you definitely want to bust your hump up back up to the Crescent for his set. It's one of the "can't miss" parts of Viva PHX and affords you the chance to get your groove on with the rest of the "posse," which will be on Van Buren this time, instead of Broadway.
10:45 p.m.: Decision Time If the irony or nostalgia factor has faded by this point (or you've grown tired of busting moves or watching others pull twerking failroads), it might be time to plan your next move.
However, if you're into old-school turntablism, or remember the glory days of the Bombshelter DJs at such bygone joints as Nita's or the Green Room, stick around outside the Crescent for an epic set by former Valley resident and all-around mashup king Z-Trip. If not, hit the bricks.
11 p.m.: Last Exit Live/FilmBar You can either go local or national here. You'll argue, both internally and possibly with your companions, whether to either catch a band you might not get to see again anytime soon, or maybe support a friend-of-a-friend's band.
If you're a locavore, it's off to Last Exit Live for Zero Zero. One part sultry electronica, one part guitar hero, and equal parts substance and style, all rolled up into one package. The venue also boasts stellar acoustics and sound, so you audiophiles who appreciate a good soundman will be extremely pleased.
Otherwise, you are heading to FilmBar for Chicano Batman. Don't argue, just go. It will be the cherry on top of your sundae. What better way to finish a stellar evening then hitting up a swanky cinema to watch SoCal's coolest lounge band. Spy rock meets Latin rhythm with smooth Spanish vocals drizzled over the top. As a bonus, impress everyone at the water cooler on Monday with tales of staying out past midnight and catching the band with the coolest name at the festival.
Midnight: FilmBar Feeling tired? Don't stop yet. You've made it this far, and besides, sleep is for the weak. Wooden Indian, the local noisemakers with a wildly psychedelic tinge, will take over the theater at the witching hour. Plus, FilmBar has an awesome selection of wines and craft brews, not to mention DJs in the lounge. And since the crazies start to come out after midnight, staying put makes sense. If you choose to drink, make sure you have the number of a good cab company or the Uber app on your phone to in order to get home safe.
1:30 a.m.: Home Post on Facebook about all the bands you saw and brag about how you can still hang with the young crowd before passing out triumphant that you gave Father Time the finger.
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LOS ANGELES — It’s been 176 days since soccer was first played on the grass at Banc of California stadium.
At the time, the future felt indestructible. The team was 5-1, that lone loss coming at the hands of a lion, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and his newly-christened home with the Los Angeles Galaxy. There was a magic to the team, a sense of breathless excitement that built with each impending second counting down to the first kick off.
The North End glimmered with sweat and beer and potential, still shaky on its chants, but rowdy as always. When captain Laurent Ciman sent a free kick sweetly sailing into the net in the 75th minute, the stadium was an explosion of noise, but mostly of excitement. The team was here, and it delivered on a promise years in the making.
“From the beginning, we felt this connection with the fans,” head coach Bob Bradley said. “They could feel that the team, the stadium, the community was theirs.”
But promising starts can quickly cave, giving way to losing streaks and scoring droughts. LAFC suffered a string of five games without a win and endured the blow of two draws and a loss in three iterations of El Tráfico. It lost Ciman, too, when the 33-year-old captain moved home to play in Belgium.
Yet the fledgling club fought on. Carlos Vela shouldered the captain’s band and led the team in goals and assists. The team quietly bagged records and victories — most double-digit scorers for an expansion team, championships at the youth academy level, a clinched playoff berth with weeks left in regular season play.
And still, the feeling of Banc of California stadium remains the same — hopeful, vibrant, proud. In its inaugural year, the LAFC fanbase has held onto that magic from beginning to end.
“To have this fan support quickly, in one season, become the class of the league … it’s beyond belief,” Vela said.
The club’s flurry of fan support was represented in every way. Crowds sold out Banc of California time and again, with the stadium ranking No. 8 in total attendance in MLS, despite playing in a stadium with thousands of seats less than other teams, such as Atlanta United. LAFC fans bought merchandise in droves — Vela’s jersey was the second-most sold in the league, only coming behind that of Ibrahimovic. The 3,252 fans who populated the North End quickly gained a reputation of their own, setting a tone as a supporters section.
It helped that at home, LAFC fans could assume success, or at least the absence of defeat. The team won 12 of the 17 matches played on its home turf and dropped only one home game in its first season, a stunning 2-0 loss to Sporting KC in August. But for the team, that loyalty feels hard-fought and well-earned. The players of LAFC feel that no matter what, even in a torrential downpour or down by two points, their fans will have their back.
“They were there for us and supporting us no matter what happens,” defender Jordan Harvey said. “It’s a key component to our team and the success that we’ve had so far.”
This was the club’s goal from the start. Los Angeles is a city with too many sports teams. In a city that’s home to LeBron James, that is playing host to its second-straight World Series, that will soon be the site of an Olympic Games, it’s hard to imagine carving out a space for a new team. Yet LAFC faced this challenge and conquered it, embedding itself in a downtown hungry for soccer.
This, perhaps, was the greatest victory of the club’s first season in the MLS. Winning records and playoff berths are signs of success, but a passionate fan base goes even further in entrenching a team in its new city. And the roar of the crowd in Banc of California stadium — in a loss or a draw or a rainstorm — is a strong sign that LAFC is here to stay.
“It’s something special,” Bradley said. “When we look into the stands at Banc of California stadium, we know that we are doing something together with the community of Los Angeles.”
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Technology in today’s society moves at an extremely rapid pace. Some of the most powerful machines on earth remain so only for a few hours because new machines are constantly being invented to replace old ones. Many people have ever heard of supercomputers, but very few can fully comprehend their processing power.
The average person most likely thinks of a supercomputer as a giant machine with tremendous amounts of processing power. In reality, supercomputers are much more than just a bunch of machines hooked together. Supercomputers have the ability to divvy work into loads for different numbers of processors based on how many processors are requested. This capability allows supercomputers to perform tasks from data storage to calculations, such as finding the digits of pi. Supercomputers are so useful, because while a normal CPU would take 1500 years to calculate the sixty billionth digit of pi, researchers at University of Newcastle have used their supercomputer to do it in just weeks. Since all computers use binary where numbers like 12 are actually “1100”, such a feat is unimaginable unless completed by the most powerful of processors.
One of the relatively new supercomputers in the United States is the Comet supercomputer located at the UCSD Supercomputer Center. Only those who work with it know its potential, as few other institutions around the globe have the opportunity to own such a state of-the-art machine. One of the best protected systems in the world, Comet houses information and processes commands for many different institutions. Several California Universities use Comet to store medical records, and Neuroscientists from all over America have access to Comet to run Neuron models as well.
Comet and other similar supercomputers differ from the average home computer because of their superior inter-machine communication capabilities. The numbers of nodes and cores, which is essentially how many computers (CPU’s) are being used to run a certain project, is different for every running model. Based on the number of nodes and cores used, models can be run faster or slower. Studies done by Gokul Swamy and Linette Pan in the SDSC Research Internship revealed the number of cores vs. speed to be a logarithmic function rather than a linear relationship as previously expected. In other words, increasing the number of computers running a model does not a have a direct linear relationship on speed of project completion. This relationship plays a huge role in the speed at which projects are completed using supercomputers, and helps explain why supercomputer processing abilities are at all time lows. Despite the slowed growth rates, supercomputers are still advancing at a steady rate and increasing in number every month.
Each supercomputer is so important, it has a team of computer scientists constantly monitoring the systems to ensure nothing breaks. In fact, UCSD SDSC has a facility that can withstands earthquakes by putting supercomputers like Comet on moving plates. All buildings housing supercomputers utilize water cooling to reduce energy spent on keeping the computers from overheating by instead using water to cool the floors and ceilings, leaving the building at room temperature. This method was revolutionized by the UCSD Supercomputer Center and have slowly been endorsed by facilities around the nation and beyond. In fact, these new techniques of keeping the supercomputers running are sometimes almost as complex as the supercomputers themselves.
Comet and other powerful supercomputers though universally beneficial, are currently unrealistic for the average person. However, new ways of making simpler supercomputers have arisen, including combining several Raspberry Pi’s, compact CPU’s, to create smaller supercomputers(also viewable at SDSC). In the modern age, computers are commonplace objects but with this new technology, future generations will have more processing power than we could ever imagine. The power accessible in just one machine is almost unimaginable, with future supercomputers hopefully being able to prevent car crashes and even predict natural disasters. Supercomputers like Comet are the future of technology and eventually all hospitals will be able to store records like Comet to provide easily accessible data for billions around the world.
Acknowledgements: Subha Sivagnanam and Amit Majumdar Co-PI at UCSD Supercomputer Center, and Gokul Swamy REHS Intern at Del Norte High School
Image Source: http://www.peimag.com/top-10-most-powerful-supercomputers-in-the-world/
About the Author: Linette Pan
Linette is a high school junior from California, USA.
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War photography promotes action, not glamourization
Tessa Warburton
Brittany Giliforte
War photography often gets a bad rap because it stems from suffering—but passing it off as exploitation discounts the powerful impact images.
Photos shape our perceptions of events and allow people to experience things they otherwise couldn’t.
Starting in World Wars I and II, photos began to depict the harsh realities of war, showing demolished landscapes, knee-deep mud, and wounded men. These images helped debunk the glamorized notion of war and sacrifice. Similarly, during the Vietnam War in the 1960s, technological advancements allowed photographers to capture more intimate, first-hand shots on the battlefield. As a result, the world was faced with horrific images of war, torn-apart towns and child soldiers.
While horrific, these images served a purpose. They fueled anti-war protests around America because they highlighted what was seen as senseless violence and unparalleled hardship caused by war.
Far-removed from conflict zones, war can feel like an abstract concept to most. It can be easy to let social issues fade into the background when they’re not directly affecting you. But photos re-focus the idea of war around the individuals involved, whether combatants or innocent bystanders.
The aim of war photography isn’t to profit from pain but to share it in the hope that exposing suffering will spur action.
In 2016, on the same day British Prime Minister David Cameron refused to consider accepting more Syrian refugees into England, an image of a perished three-year-old Syrian refugee on a beach surfaced in the mainstream media. The boy and his family had been trying to reach Europe from Turkey, and the photo triggered widespread anger toward the idea that governments could idly sit by and watch young children die.
The image prompted people all over the world to pressure their governments to give refuge to disadvantaged individuals. It showcased the harsh reality of resettlement prevention—namely, people trying to reach safety though dying because of it.
When considering refugees or war, it’s easy to get lost in the greater politics of the situation, but photos often reveal what’s at the heart of these issues: people.
Some deem these types of images too violent for mainstream news. But that’s not the fault of photographers. If searching for less violence in photos, we should consider advocating for less violence in the world around us.
At the end of the day, images of war and suffering speak for themselves. They shouldn’t be silenced.
Tessa is The Journal’s Assistant Photo Editor. She’s a second-year English major.
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Comparative Study of Seismic Fragility Curves for a Pile Supported Wharf Using Capacity Spectrum Method and Time History Analysis
Dhara Rushir Shah(1*), Bharat Shah(2)
(1) Faculty of Technology, CEPT University, India
(2) Applied Mechanics Department, L. D. College of Engineering, India
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In this study, seismic fragility curves are developed for an existing pile-supported wharf located at Mundra, Gujarat using Capacity Spectrum Method and linear Time History Analysis. Curves are developed for three levels of ground shaking i.e. Serviceability Earthquake (SE) with 72 years return period, Design Based Earthquake (DBE) with 475 years return period and Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCE) with 2475 years return period. The wharf is modeled in SAP 2000. Pushover analysis is performed to obtain the capacity curve of the wharf. Damage states are established as per PIANC. Site specific spectrum is constructed using geotechnical report of port site with reference to ASCE7-05 and correspondingly 10 seismic events are selected, normalized and scaled to 0.1g,…1.0g to represent demand. Maximum displacements at deck are obtained to create response matrix. Based on the damage states and the response matrix, fragility curves of the wharf are constructed. It is observed that the port site has much higher ground motions than specified in the Indian standard. The Indian standard thus underestimates the fragility of wharf, stating it to be functional for DBE and MCE. The site-specific spectrum clearly finds the wharf deficient, requiring urgent repairs to be serviceable and to resist future seismic events.
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James 2 Commentary
James 2 Resources
Updated: Wed, 11/13/2019 - 10:44 By admin
See also Overview Chart by Charles Swindoll
Faith for Living
Works The Place of Works:
Outward Demonstration of Inner Faith Outreach
Jas 1:1-18 Jas 1:19-2:13 Jas 2:14-25 Jas 3:1-12 Jas 3:13-4:12 Jas 4:13-5:12 Jas 5:13-19
Trials &
Temptations Word &
Works Faith &
Works Tongue Wars Future Others
Fulfill
and our
Faith tested by its reaction to partiality (James 2:1–13)
A. The rebuke for partiality (James 2:1–4)
1. The prohibition of partiality (James 2:1)
2. The illustration of partiality (James 2:2–3)
3. The question of condemnation (James 2:4)
B. The result of partiality (James 2:5–11)
1. The inconsistency in their conduct (James 2:5–7)
a. The divine choice of the poor (James 2:5b–6a)
b. The hostile actions of the rich (James 2:6b–7)
2. The breach of God’s law (James 2:8–11)
a. The relations to this law (James 2:8–9)
(1) The commendation upon its fulfillment (James 2:8)
(2) The sin in its violation (James 2:9)
b. The breaking of this law (James 2:10–11)
(1) The principle stated (James 2:10)
(2) The principle illustrated (James 2:11)
C. The appeal for consistent conduct (James 2:12–13)
1. The statement of the appeal (James 2:12)
2. The vindication of the appeal (James 2:13)
Faith tested by its production of works (2:14–26)
A. The character of a useless faith (James 2:14–20)
1. The uselessness of an inoperative faith (James 2:14–17)
a. The question concerning inoperative faith (James 2:14)
b. The illustration of inoperative faith (James 2:15–16)
c. The application made to inoperative faith (James 2:17)
2. The barrenness of orthodox faith without works (James 2:18–20)
a. The assertion of an objector (James 2:18a)
b. The challenge to the objector (James 2:18b–19)
(1) The demonstration of faith by works (James 2:18b)
(2) The character of faith without works (James 2:19)
c. The appeal to the objector (James 2:20)
B. The manifestation of saving faith through works (James 2:21–25)
1. The working of Abraham’s faith (James 2:21–24)
a. The evidence of Abraham’s faith (James 2:21)
b. The results of Abraham’s working faith (James 2:22–23)
(1) The perfecting of his faith (James 2:22)
(2) The fulfillment of the Scripture (James 2:23a)
(3) The friendship with God (James 2:23b)
c. The conclusion from Abraham’s example (James 2:24)
C. The union of faith and works (James 2:26) (From Hiebert - James Commentary)
James 2:1 My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.
Amplified MY BRETHREN, pay no servile regard to people [show no prejudice, no partiality]. Do not [attempt to] hold and practice the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ [the Lord] of glory [together with snobbery]!
Phillips Don't ever attempt, my brothers, to combine snobbery with faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ!
Wuest My brethren, stop holding your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of the glory, in connection with an act showing partiality [to anyone].
NET James 2:1 My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
GNT James 2:1 Ἀδελφοί μου, μὴ ἐν προσωπολημψίαις ἔχετε τὴν πίστιν τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τῆς δόξης.
NLT James 2:1 My dear brothers and sisters, how can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others?
KJV James 2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
ESV James 2:1 My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
ASV James 2:1 My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
CSB James 2:1 My brothers, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
NIV James 2:1 My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism.
NKJ James 2:1 My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality.
NRS James 2:1 My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ?
YLT James 2:1 My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,
NAB James 2:1 My brothers, show no partiality as you adhere to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
NJB James 2:1 My brothers, do not let class distinction enter into your faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord.
GWN James 2:1 My brothers and sisters, practice your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ by not favoring one person over another.
BBE James 2:1 My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
do not hold your faith: Ac 20:21 24:24 Col 1:4 1Ti 1:19 Tit 1:1 2Pe 1:1 Rev 14:12
in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ : Ps 24:7-10 1Co 2:8 Tit 2:13 Heb 1:3
with an attitude of personal favoritism: Jas 2:3,9 3:17 Lev 19:15 De 1:17 16:19 2Ch 19:7 Pr 24:23 28:21 Mt 22:16 Ro 1:11 1Ti 5:21 Jude 1:16
James 2 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries
CONDEMNATION OF AN
ATTITUDE OF FAVORITISM
What James is calling for in this passage is our Christian BEHAVIOR to match our Christian BELIEF.
J Vernon McGee entitles James 2:1-13 as "God Tests Faith by Attitude and Action in Respect of Persons." That's a good summary of this section.
My brethren - It is surprising that the phrase "my brethren" appears on 22x in the all of the Bible and 8 of those uses are in the epistle of James. (Jas. 1:2; Jas. 2:1; Jas. 2:14; Jas. 3:1; Jas. 3:10; Jas. 3:12; Jas. 5:12; Jas. 5:19). Similarly, the related phrase "my beloved brethren" occurs only 5 times in Scripture and 3 of the uses are by James (Jas. 1:16; Jas. 1:19; Jas. 2:5). James is addressing his readers as a fellow believer and in using "beloved" emphasizes that what he is saying is motivated by love for them.
Jamieson - The equality of all Christians as "brethren," forms the groundwork of the admonition.
Brethren (80)(adelphos from a = denotes unity + delphus = a womb) ) in classic Greek described the son of the same mother but in the spiritual sense is actually one born by the Spirit and in the the family of the same Father. And what James addresses now is a "family issue."
Do not hold - James is issuing a present imperative with a negative which means "do not be holding" meaning stop practicing partiality, "don't make it a practice!" of showing favoritism. James is calling for a halt to a practice that was already in progress in some assemblies. What James is commanding is better seen by rephrasing and paraphrasing the passage "As believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism." So if any of his readers are demonstrating favoritism, they must cease from this forthwith! Paul uses the related verb (prosopolempteo) in James 2:9 and clearly calls this favoritism a sin!
Paul of course is not saying that we should never show honor to members of the body. As MacArthur says "Paul wrote the Thessalonians to "appreciate" and "esteem... very highly" their pastors (1 Thess. 5:12-13). "The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor," Paul told Timothy, "especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching" (1 Tim. 5:17)." (MacArthur New Testament Commentary – James) Similarly Peter says "Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king." (1 Pe 2:17+)
Your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ - The NET Bible = "if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ." The NLT paraphrases it in the form of a question "how can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ" if you are demonstrating as attitude of favoritism? Goodspeed also phrases it as a question -- "Do you try to combine faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with acts of partiality?" While it is possible this was in the forth of a question, reading it as a command is favored by most commentators and is a bit more forceful than a question.
Our glorious Lord Jesus (Iesous) Christ (Christos) - More literally "our Lord Jesus Christ of the glory."Some commentators think this is a reference to the Shekinah glory of God (cf Ex 40:34, Nu 14:10, 1 Ki 8:11, 2 Chr 7:2 - see resource below). In either event James is appealing to those who "are actively adhering to the One in Whom "the faith" centers." (Hiebert).
Lord Jesus (Iesous) Christ (Christos) - His full Name is found only here and James 1:1 in this letter and in that passage on a par with God! There are of course other allusions to Jesus Christ (See James 2:7, James 5:7, 9, 14-15) John associates glory with Jesus in John 1:14+ "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." (See also Heb 1:3+).
Lord (Master, Owner)(2962)(kurios from kuros = might or power, related to kuroo = to give authority) primarily means the possessor, owner, master, the supreme one, one who is sovereign (used this way of Roman emperors - Act 25:26+) and possesses absolute authority, absolute ownership and uncontested power. Kurios is used of the one to whom a person or thing belonged, over which he has the power of deciding, the one who is the master or disposer of a thing (Mk 7:28)
Paul Apple makes an excellent point that a "Proper View of Christ Leads to a Proper View of Others. Once we truly see how "glorious" Christ is, there will be no room for distinctions on the human plane because we all pale in comparison to the glory of Christ. Look at how our Lord (in all of His Majesty) treated others and we will see that there is no room for "personal favoritism" on our part. Surely the disciples are not above the Master when it comes to showing compassion to all men without distinction." (Commentary)
Bruce Barton - Early Christians developed descriptions for Jesus that expressed the depth of their trust in him. They could be called reflective names, since they resulted from reflections on Jesus. Paul gives us a number of his reflective names for Jesus:
his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord (1 Corinthians 1:9)
Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 1:24)
the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15)
the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead (Colossians 1:18)
our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13) (Life Application Bible Commentary – James)
J Vernon McGee observes that "Here is a strong assertion of the deity of Christ. I know of no one who was in a better position to determine the deity of Christ than a younger brother of the Lord Jesus who was brought up in the same home with Him. Frankly, I think James (HALF BROTHER OF JESUS, UNBELIEVER AT ONE POINT in Jn 7:5 BUT BELIEVER AFTER 1 Cor 15:7) is in a better position to speak on the deity of Christ than some theologian sitting in a swivel chair in a musty library in New York City, removed from the reality of even his own day. Such a man is really far removed from the reality of the first century and the home in which Jesus was raised. Therefore, I go along with James, if you don't mind. He is the "Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory." (Thru The Bible)
Glorious (1391)(doxa from dokeo = to think) in simple terms means to give a proper opinion or estimate of something. Glory is something that is a source of honor, fame, or admiration. It describes renown, a thing that is beautiful, impressive, or worthy of praise. It follows that the glory of God expresses all that He is in His Being and in His nature, character, power and acts. Doxa is the word used by the Septuagint (Lxx) translation of Ex 24:16 - "The glory (Septuagint = doxa) of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; and on the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud." It is worth noting that God's glory is past (Ex 24:16), present (Jn 1:14+, fulfilling the prophecy of Isa 40:5), and future (Titus 2:13+ at His Second Coming, also fulfilling the prophecy of Isa 40:5) and in the New Heaven and New Earth (Rev 21:23+).
Paul writes about "the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." (1 Cor 2:8)
Jamieson has an interesting thought on glory in James 2:1 - The glory of Christ resting on the poor believer should make him be regarded as highly by "brethren" as his richer brother; nay, more so, if the poor believer has more of Christ's spirit than the rich brother.
Shekinah glory cloud
Faith (pistis) is more literally "the faith" (ten pistin) so points to objective aspect of faith, that is, what is believed or what one place their faith in. In this passage "the faith" speaks of fatih in the objective sense rather than the subjective sense. In other words, Subjectively faith is the personal persuasion, conviction, belief in the truth, veracity, reality of something. "Clearly objective genitive, not subjective (faith of), but "faith in our Lord Jesus Christ." (A T Robertson) Objectively faith is that which is believed (usually designated as "the faith"),that is the doctrine believed which ultimately is embodied in the Gospel. Are you confused? The main point is these are believers and James underscores this by identifying himself with the readers when he says Jesus is "OUR" glorious Lord Jesus Christ. They did not just say "Jesus Christ is Lord," but "Jesus is MY Lord."
Jamieson on faith (the faith) - that is, the Christian faith. James grounds Christian practice on Christian faith
Matthew Henry adds that "The character of Christians fully implied: they are such as have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ; they embrace it; they receive it; they govern themselves by it; they entertain the doctrine, and submit to the law and government, of Christ; they have it as a trust; they have it as a treasure."
Related Resource:
Study of "the faith (pistis)".
If we would seek to imitate Jesus (which we are in fact commanded to do - 1 Cor 11:1+ recalling that Jesus ministered to a wealthy Jewish leader as well as to poor beggars, to virtuous women as well as prostitutes, etc) we would avoid all hints of demonstrating partiality or favoritism. Our Lord did not look at the outward appearance; He looked at the heart (cf 1 Sa 16:7) In fact perfect impartiality is one of God's great attributes (Ro 2:11, Eph 6:9, Col 3:25) and if you are a Gentile, you should be especially thankful He did not demonstrate partiality toward you. Peter learned this great truth as the door of salvation was flung open to the Gentiles in Acts 10-11, Peter "Opening his mouth, Peter said: “I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality (prosopolemptes) but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.." (Acts 10:34-35+). I love what John MacArthur said writing that "The Gospel is a great leveler, available with absolute equality to everyone who believes in the Savior it proclaims."
THOUGHT - Indeed, we are all on the same level at the foot of Jesus' Cross, which is a good place to continue to remain even after we are saved, for grace flows down (James 4:6+)!
Bruce Barton comments that "In general, social distinctions did not exist in the early church. Masters sat beside their slaves during worship; sometimes a slave was the leader of the assembly. But from its beginnings, the church had many poor, outcasts, and those of little class or influence. So when a rich person was converted, the church members needed to guard against making more of a fuss over him or her than they would at the conversion of another poor person." (Ibid)
Wiersbe - We have this same problem with us today. Pyramid climbers are among us, not only in politics, industry, and society, but also in the church. Almost every church has its cliques, and often, new Christians find it difficult to get in. Some church members use their offices to enhance their own images of importance. Many of the believers James wrote to were trying to seize spiritual offices, and James had to warn them (James 3:1). (Bible Exposition Commentary)
With an attitude of personal favoritism - The Greek word for personal favoritism (prosopolepsia) is near the beginning of the sentence for emphasis. Note also that the noun is in the plural indicating that practically speaking there is more than one way to show partiality (just a look, withhold one's hand of fellowship, don't invite them to dinner, etc, etc). What James is saying that if one says he has faith in Jesus, then the action of showing personal favoritism is not compatible with one who has saving faith, which is reasonable considering that most of his readers have a Jewish background and would be very familiar with this Old Testament description of God.
MacArthur applies James 2:1 - Tragically, many otherwise biblical and faithful churches today do not treat all their members the same. Frequently, those who are of a different ethnic background, race, or financial standing are not fully welcomed into fellowship. That ought not to be. It not only is a transgression of God's divine law but is a mockery of His divine character. (Ibid)
McGee adds "What James is telling us here is not to profess faith in Christ and at the same time be a spiritual snob. Don't join some little clique in the church. All believers are brethren in the body of Christ, whatever their denomination. There is a fellowship of believers; friendship should be over them as a banner. James is addressing the total community of believers -- the rich, the poor, the common people, the high, the low, the bond and free, the Jew and the Gentile, the Greek and the barbarian, male and female. They are all one when they are in the body of Christ. There is a brotherhood within the body of believers, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the common denominator. Friendship and fellowship are the legal tender among believers." (Ibid)
Guzik points out that "We do well to remember that James wrote to a very partial age, filled with prejudice and hatred based on class, ethnicity, nationality, and religious background. In the ancient world people were routinely and permanently categorized because they were Jew or Gentile, slave or free, rich or poor, Greek or barbarian, or whatever.i. A significant aspect of the work of Jesus was to break down these walls that divided humanity, and to bring forth one new race of mankind in Him (Ephesians 2:14-15)." (Enduring Word Bible Commentary – James)
Wierse is so right when he says "We are prone to judge people by their past, not their future....We do not enjoy sitting with certain people in church because they "are not our kind of people." Jesus was the Friend of sinners, though He disapproved of their sins. It was not compromise, but compassion, that caused Him to welcome them, and when they trusted Him, forgive them." (Ibid) (Bold added)
Personal favoritism (4382)(prosopolepsia from prósopon = face + lambáno = receive) literally means "face taking", “receive face” (e.g., judging the book by its cover, judging the person by externals, not internals), the accepting of one's person. The idea is looking to see who someone is before deciding how to treat him. The idea is judging by appearance and on that basis giving or not giving special favor and respect. It pertains to judging purely on a superficial level, without consideration of a person’s true merits, abilities, or character. The Oriental custom of greeting was to bow one's face to the ground. If the one being greeting accepted the person, the one doing the greeting was allowed to lift his head again. The accepting of the appearance of a person was a Hebraic term for "partiality". In summary, the idea behind prosopolepsia is that one judges on the basis of externals or pre-conceived notions, and shows partiality or favoritism. In practice it as here in James it meant to make unjust distinctions between people by treating one person better than another.
Robertson adds that prosopolepsia is "made from prosōpon lambanein (Luke 20:21+; Galatians 2:6+), which is a Hebrew idiom for panim nasa, "to lift up the face on a person," to be favorable and so partial to him."
Hiebert adds a helpful note on prosopolepsia - This compound noun that literally means "a receiving of face" is based on the Septuagint (Lxx) rendering of a Hebrew phrase meaning "to lift up the face" (Lev 19:15; Ps. 82:2). The compound noun does not occur in secular Greek or the Septuagint and is apparently a term developed early in the Christian church. It came to be a well-known term to denote the partiality of a judge raising the face of someone to his unjust advantage. It denotes "a biased judgment based on external circumstances such as rank, wealth, or race, disregarding the intrinsic merit of the person involved." This was a common failing of Oriental judges, and the Old Testament strictly prohibited it (Lev 19:15; Deut. 1:17; 2 Chr 19:6-7; Pr 24:23). The early church, with its strong sense of justice and personal worth, was keenly aware of this evil practice. (Hiebert's Commentary – James).
Brian Bell - What does “respect of persons” actually look like?
1. Discrimination - the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually.
2. To be bias, bent, to have a tendency - an inclination of temperament or outlook, especially a personal and sometimes unreasoned judgment.
3. Prejudice, from the words pre + judge: preconceived judgment or opinion; an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge.
4. Judgments based on evil motives. (Sermon)
Impartial - God's Attribute
John Phillips on the impartiality of God/Jesus - God is neither partial nor prejudiced in His dealings with the human race. The color of a person's skin, the size of his bank balance, the number of degrees he has after his name, or the place he holds in the social hierarchy leaves God completely unimpressed. The Lord Jesus was as polite to the woman at the well (John 4) as He was to Nicodemus (John 5). He was as gracious to the woman who touched the hem of His garment as He was to Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue. He was as open to poor, blind Bartimaeus as He was to the rich young ruler. He had no "respect of persons." He was as honest and forthright with the Syro-Phoenician woman as He was with Pilate. He treated everyone with the same love, the same interest, and the same care and concern. He was not condescending when He was dealing with the publicans and sinners, and He was not cowed or compromising when He was dealing with those who occupied the seat of power. He gave the outcasts and the untouchables the same gentle, loving compassion that He extended to the scribes and the Pharisees. Sometimes the Lord did not approve of peoples' behavior, but He looked beyond that to the individuals and their deepest needs and treated them with dignity no matter what. (Exploring the Epistle of James: An Expository Commentary)
DOES YOUR CHURCH SHOW FAVORITISM? Ask these questions:
How closely does our congregation reflect the socioeconomic and racial neighborhood in which we gather?
In our church, people may not be ushered to good or bad seats, but in what other ways might we be favoring the rich or discriminating against the poor?
Would a poor person feel welcome in our church? Would a rich person feel welcome in our church?
In what ways do we consciously or unconsciously favor some people over others in our church? Why do we do this?
How can our ministry reach out to all people without any hint of discrimination?
What can we do to be completely free from being impressed by the wealth or power of others? (Life Application Bible Commentary – James)
The wealth of an individual is no measure of the worth of that individual.
The real measure of a person’s wealth is how much he would be worth if he lost all his money.
King Oscar - I remember reading a story about a plainly dressed man who entered a church in the Netherlands and took a seat near the front. A few minutes later a woman walked down the aisle, saw the stranger in the place she always sat, and curtly asked him to leave. He quietly got up and moved to a section reserved for the poor.
When the meeting was over, a friend of the woman asked her if she knew the man she had ordered out of her seat. “No,” she replied. Her friend then informed her, “The man you ordered out of your seat was King Oscar of Sweden! He is here visiting the Queen.” - Our Daily Bread, December 3, 1993
Sin Of The Skin
Do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. —James 2:1
Most people hate to be accused of racism. But racial bias is all too prevalent. Even Christians have had a long history of ethnic prejudice. In the first century, Jewish believers were reluctant to accept their Gentile brothers. In recent years, racial discrimination has been a dominant issue.
Prejudice can run so deep that it sometimes takes a tragedy to make a person see how wrong it is to discriminate on the basis of physical differences. Several years ago I read about a bigoted truckdriver who had no use for African-Americans. But one early morning, his tanker truck flipped over and burst into flames. A week later, he was lying in a hospital bed and looking into the face of a black man who had saved his life. He learned that the man had used his own coat and bare hands to smother the flames that had turned the trucker into a human torch. He wept as he thanked the man for his act of unselfish heroism.
We shouldn’t need a tragedy to open our eyes. We need only look to Calvary. There our Lord gave His life for people of every language, race, and nation. The universal scope of His sacrifice shows His love for every human being.
Have mercy on us, Lord, if we have fanned the fire of prejudice that You died to put out.By Mart DeHaan (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
Join hands, then, brothers of the faith,
Whate'er your race may be;
Who serves my Father as a son
Is surely kin to me. —Oxenham
Prejudice is a lazy man's substitute for thinking.
No Partiality
A man attended a church regularly for several months, but he was always ignored. Because no one knew who he was, and he looked out-of-place with his old and worn-out clothes, no one ever took the time to speak to him.
One Sunday as he took a seat in church, he intentionally left his hat on. As the pastor stood on the platform and looked out over the audience, he noticed the man with the hat right away. So he summoned one of the deacons and asked him to tell the man that he forgot to remove his hat. When the deacon spoke to the man, he responded with a big smile and said, “I thought that would do it. I have attended this church for 6 months, and you are the first person who has ever talked to me.”
There is no place for prejudice or favoritism in the family of God. We who have been born again through faith in Jesus are equals in God’s sight. And that equality should be evident in the way we treat other believers.
We must be hospitable and courteous to all, regardless of their race, social status, or appearance. When we show favoritism, we sin against people whom God loves and for whom Christ died. Let’s be gracious to everyone and be careful to avoid showing partiality. By: Richard DeHaan (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
All those who know and love the Lord
Must show by word and deed
That they will not discriminate
But welcome those in need.
—D. De Haan
Prejudice builds walls; love breaks them down.
A Misleading Impression
God shows personal favoritism to no man. —Galatians 2:6
Today's Scripture: James 2:1-13
He wasn’t wearing a shirt, and his car looked like it was a refugee from a junkyard. Yet the unkempt man who stopped to help them on the Chicago expressway was, to my friends, angelic.
While traveling the busy highways of Chicago, Ken and Sue’s van blew a tire. As they edged toward the shoulder of the expressway, with cars flying past, they quickly prayed for help. That’s when the man in the rusty car waved and yelled to them that he would help.
Most of us are reluctant to trust complete strangers, so my friends were understandably wary of this scraggly man. Yet they soon found out that he was a mechanic who himself had been stranded just days earlier. He grabbed his tools, got to work on their car, and quickly had them back on the road.
We often judge people by the way they look or dress, or by what kind of car they drive. Sure, we must be careful whom we trust, but that doesn’t mean we should dismiss everyone who doesn’t dress like a television news anchor.
People come in all sizes, colors, and conditions. Before we set aside those who don’t match our personal standards, we need to remind ourselves that our Creator doesn’t play favorites (Gal. 2:6). Neither should we. By: Dave Branon (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
First impressions are misleading
For we do not know the heart;
We can often be mistaken
Since we only know in part.
—Fitzhugh
Always look at others through the eyes of Christ.
MERCY OVER JUDGMENT
READ: James 2:1–13
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom. James 2:12
When my children were squabbling and came to me to tattle on one another, I took each child aside separately to hear their account of the problem. Since both were guilty, at the end of our chat I asked them each what they felt would be an appropriate, fair consequence for their sibling’s actions. Both suggested swift punishment for the other. To their surprise, I instead gave them each the consequence they had intended for their sibling. Suddenly, each child lamented how “unfair” the sentence seemed now that it was visited upon them—despite having deemed it appropriate when it was intended for the other.
My kids had shown the kind of “judgment without mercy” that God warns against (James 2:13). James reminds us that instead of showing favoritism to the wealthy, or even to one’s self, God desires that we love others as we love ourselves (v. 8). Instead of using others for selfish gain, or disregarding anyone whose position doesn’t benefit us, James instructs us to act as people who know how much we’ve been given and forgiven—and to extend that mercy to others.
God has given generously of His mercy. In all our dealings with others, let’s remember the mercy He’s shown us and extend it to others.— Kirsten Holmberg (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
Lord, I’m grateful for the great mercy You’ve shown me. Help me to offer similar mercy to others as a measure of my gratitude to You.
God’s mercy prompts us to be merciful.
A PREJUDICED USHER
If you show partiality, you commit sin. James 2:9
In his autobiography, Mahatma Gandhi wrote that during his student days he read the Gospels seriously and considered converting to Christianity. He believed that in the teachings of Jesus he could find the solution to the caste system that was dividing the people of India.
So one Sunday he decided to attend services at a nearby church and talk to the minister about becoming a Christian. When he entered the sanctuary, however, the usher refused to give him a seat and suggested that he go worship with his own people. Gandhi left the church and never returned. “If Christians have caste differences also,” he said, “I might as well remain a Hindu.” That usher’s prejudice not only betrayed Jesus but also turned a person away from trusting Him as Savior.
The “prejudiced usher” described in today’s Bible passage welcomed a wealthy visitor but insulted a poor one. Perhaps he felt he was doing his job and only carrying out the wishes of the members in the church. But he displayed bad manners, and he was guilty of a sin as serious as murder and adultery (James 2:9-11).
When people visit your church, do you warmly welcome them regardless of their race or social status? —Haddon W Robinson (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
God’s love that drew salvation’s plan
embraces every class of man;
it breaks the toughest racial wall
because it offers Christ to all. —D De Haan
Prejudice distorts what it sees, deceives when it talks, and destroys when it acts.
"The Underbird"
You are of more value than many sparrows. —Luke 12:7
Today's Scripture: James 2:1-9
Charlie Brown, the comic strip character, identified with the underdog, probably because he always felt like one. In one scene he was building a birdhouse when the cynical Lucy came by. “I’m building it for sparrows,” Charlie told her. Lucy said, “For sparrows? Nobody builds birdhouses for sparrows.” “I do,” replied Charlie Brown. “I always stick up for the underbird.”
At times Christians may overlook the “sparrows,” the little people in their worlds. They may ignore those they view as less valuable.
James said it’s wrong for a Christian to practice partiality (James 2:1). It’s a sin to show personal favoritism (v.9). The reasons may be social, economic, educational, or ethnic, but there’s no excuse for disrespecting people with our attitudes and words.
Jesus didn’t do this. He crossed all kinds of traditional barriers to talk with tax-collectors, sinners, non-Jews, people of mixed races, the poor, as well as the rich. He came to identify with each of us, and to pay the price on the cross for all our sins.
When a sparrow falls, the Father takes note of it. But He cares much more for people, including the “underbird.” Perhaps we need a little more Charlie Brown in us. By: David C. Egner (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
Lord, help me to love the way that You love
The humble, the lowly, the meek;
And help me to care the way that You care
For sinners, the outcasts, the weak.
Nobody wins when we play favorites.
Cemetery Walk
My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. —James 2:1
On my way home from high school I often walked by one cemetery and cut through another. I was intrigued by the grave markers, for they revealed the social status of each person who had died. Near the cemetery entrances were crypts, gray stone buildings with ornate iron scrollwork and the family name prominently displayed. Pillars and large ornamental markers were nearby, then rows and rows of headstones. Small, flat, stone markers marked the graves of the poor.
As I recall those days, I’m reminded of a cemetery in Germany called God’s Acre. A young nobleman named Zinzendorf (1700-1760) opened his estate to religious refugees from Moravia. He gave them the freedom to worship God as they wished. In time, that little enclave became a worldwide missionary movement.
Each person buried in that cemetery, prince or pauper, count or coal miner, had an identical plain white headstone. This underscored their conviction that all believers in Christ are spiritually equal in their standing before God. They took seriously the teaching of James 2:1, that we are not to treat one another with “partiality.”
Lord, help us to treat our brothers and sisters in Christ as equals, giving honor to all. By: David C. Egner (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
In Jesus Christ we all are equal,
For God's Spirit makes us one;
As we give each other honor,
We give glory to His Son. —Fitzhugh
The ground is level at the foot of the cross.
Looks And Life
Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. —1 Samuel 16:7
During the first few hours of their 30th college reunion, Mary Schmich and her friends talked mostly about how old their classmates looked. But as the event progressed, their focus began to change. Later, in her Chicago Tribune column, Mary wrote: “Once you get used to the fact that time has robbed every single one of you of something—or added it in the wrong places . . . you stop thinking about looks [and] start talking about life.”
So much of our time and attention are devoted to physical appearance that it’s easy to consider it the most important aspect of our lives. But the Bible reminds us that God wants us to see ourselves and others differently.
When the Lord sent Samuel to anoint a new king over Israel (1 Samuel 16:1), God reminded him to look deeper than physical characteristics: “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature . . . . For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” (v.7).
God’s Word has some harsh condemnation for those who show favoritism based on appearances (James 2:1-2). When we begin to see people through God’s eyes, our focus will change from looks to life.By: David C. McCasland (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
God looks not at the outward form
But what is in the heart;
The beauty He is pleased to see,
His Spirit can impart.
Our mirrors reflect the outward appearance; God’s mirror reveals the inward condition.
No More Prejudice
Today's Scripture & Insight: James 2:1-10
A 2010 survey by Newsweek contained some startling statistics: 57 percent of hiring managers believe an unattractive (but qualified) job candidate would have a harder time getting hired; 84 percent of managers said their bosses would hesitate before hiring a qualified older candidate; 64 percent of hiring managers said they believe companies should be allowed to hire people based on appearance. All are clear examples of unacceptable prejudice.
Prejudice is not new. It had crept into the early church, and James confronted it head-on. With prophetic grit and a pastor’s heart, he wrote: “My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality” (James 2:1). James gave an example of this type of prejudice—favoring the rich and ignoring the poor (vv.2-4). This was inconsistent with holding faith in Jesus without partiality (v.1), betrayed the grace of God (vv.5-7), violated the law of love (v.8), and was sinful (v.9). The answer to partiality is following the example of Jesus: loving your neighbor as yourself.
We fight the sin of prejudice when we let God’s love for us find full expression in the way we love and treat each other.By: Marvin Williams (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
Thinking It Over
Who helped you determine what is the right way to
treat people? Was it based on external things?
What are some ways you can love people as Jesus did?
Looking up to Jesus prevents us from looking down on others.
GOING TO CHURCH WITHOUT SOCKS
Do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, The Lord of glory, with partiality. --James 2:1
In his Prison Fellowship newsletter, Chuck Colson tells of a pastor who was putting the final touches on his sermon early one Sunday morning when he heard a knock on his study door. There stood three ragged boys who had received gifts from church members. Their home was ravaged by drugs and prostitution. They had never been in a church before and wanted to look around. So the pastor gave them a quick "tour." Fifteen minutes later they were back, asking what time the service started. "Can people come to your church if their socks don't match?" asked the oldest. The pastor assured them they could. "What if they don't have any socks?" Again, the pastor reassured them. "That's good," said the boy, "because my socks don't match, and my little brother hasn't any." That morning those boys came to church and were warmly welcomed. Since then the church has helped the entire family. Just as the gospel is open to everyone, everyone should feel welcome in our churches. Wealthy and poor, child and aged, police officer and ex-con, handicapped and athlete are all objects of Christ's love. They are all potential members of His body. May there be no barriers in our churches nor in our hearts toward anyone! Author: David C. Egner Lord, may some weary souls find rest Because Your people took them in And helped them see the love of Christ That frees us from our guilt and sin. --David C. Egner (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
Lord, may some weary souls find rest
Because Your people took them in
And helped them see the love of Christ
That frees us from our guilt and sin.
-DJD
Poor is the church that values programs more than people.
"Do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality." -- James 2:1
Many years ago, when my father, Dr. M. R. De Haan, was president of Radio Bible Class, a well-known minister came to our office. Initially I was awed by the presence of this distinguished visitor. My impression soon began to change, however, as I listened to him talk about himself. He seemed to exemplify what the apostle Paul said a Christian should NOT do, that is, "to think of himself more highly than he ought to think" (Ro 12:3). When my father asked the noted pulpiteer about another preacher in the same town, he ridiculed the man's ministry to those who lived "on the other side of the tracks." I've never forgotten that incident. What about our attitudes? Is there favoritism in our churches? Are we as interested in the "down and outer" as much as the "up and outer"? Do we greet those on the bottom rung of the social ladder with the same enthusiasm we show to those who have riches and enjoy worldly prestige? Christians should never neglect a needy soul. The Lord is not pleased when we show undue favoritism to some and snub others. Is the word "welcome" printed on your church bulletin? Does it apply to everyone? -- Richard W. De Haan
No one is excluded from the circle of God's grace,
We cannot get beyond His love and care;
Why then do we close our minds and turn away our face
From all who in the gospel have a share?
-- Hess
A heart that is open to Christ will be open to those He loves.
James 2:2 For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes,
Wuest For if there comes into your synagogue [the meeting-place of Christian Jews] a man whose hand is conspicuously loaded with gold rings [and] in brightly shining clothing, and there comes in also a poor man in dirty clothing who is dependent upon others for support,
Phillips Suppose one man comes into your meeting well-dressed and with a gold ring on his finger, and another man, obviously poor, arrives in shabby clothes.
NET James 2:2 For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,
GNT James 2:2 ἐὰν γὰρ εἰσέλθῃ εἰς συναγωγὴν ὑμῶν ἀνὴρ χρυσοδακτύλιος ἐν ἐσθῆτι λαμπρᾷ, εἰσέλθῃ δὲ καὶ πτωχὸς ἐν ῥυπαρᾷ ἐσθῆτι,
NLT James 2:2 For example, suppose someone comes into your meeting dressed in fancy clothes and expensive jewelry, and another comes in who is poor and dressed in dirty clothes.
KJV James 2:2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
ESV James 2:2 For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,
ASV James 2:2 For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing;
CSB James 2:2 For example, a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in.
NIV James 2:2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.
NKJ James 2:2 For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes,
NRS James 2:2 For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in,
YLT James 2:2 for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,
NAB James 2:2 For if a man with gold rings on his fingers and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and a poor person in shabby clothes also comes in,
NJB James 2:2 Now suppose a man comes into your synagogue, well-dressed and with a gold ring on, and at the same time a poor man comes in, in shabby clothes,
GWN James 2:2 For example, two men come to your worship service. One man is wearing gold rings and fine clothes; the other man, who is poor, is wearing shabby clothes.
BBE James 2:2 For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,
if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring: Es 3:10 8:2 Lu 15:22
nd dressed in fine clothes: Ge 27:15 Mt 11:8,9
there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes: Isa 64:6 Zec 3:3,4
A CONCRETE EXAMPLE
OF FAVORITISM
For (gar) is a term of explanation. This supports the interpretation above that this is a direct command and not a question, for if it were the latter, the "for" would be more difficult to explain. What is James explaining? He has just issued a rebuke (in the form of a command) and is now explaining what this might look like.
If - This introduces a third class conditional statement, indicating that the illustration is hypothetical but possible and one in fact the readers may have seen or themselves carried out. James is shooting straight at the conscience of his readers!
A man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes - "A gold-fingered man" like the James Bond movie! And "In bright (lampros = shining brilliant) clothing," probably referring to the glittering color of his clothes. In short he would be hard to miss! The phrase "a gold fingered man" clearly does not mean a single ring on a man's finger but to a man whose fingers were loaded down with gold rings or multiple rings on one finger. The point it that this man was clearly a man of wealth and his expensive attire added to that impression.
THOUGHT - How do you react when you shake a man's hand in church and notice he is wearing an expensive Rolex watch?
MacArthur adds this note on lampros - It is used of the "gorgeous robe" that Herod and his soldiers mockingly placed on Jesus before they sent Him to Pilate (Luke 23:11) and of the "shining garments" of the angel who appeared to Cornelius as he was praying (Acts 10:30).(Ibid)
Hiebert on fine clothes - The reference is probably to the shining white garments often worn by wealthy Jews.
Hughes quips "The man almost glows! (Cf. Acts 10:30.) How great he looks with his Caribbean tan and the white linen Gatsbyesque suit and the panama. We are impressed! (Preaching the Word – James: Faith That Works)
Robertson on gold ring - The word occurs nowhere else, but Lucian has chrusocheir (gold-handed) and Epictetus has chrusous daktulious (golden seal-rings). "Hannibal, after the battle of Cannae, sent as a great trophy to Carthage, three bushels of gold-rings from the fingers of Roman knights slain in battle" (Vincent).
Hiebert has an interesting note on rings in the ancient world - The wearing of a ring was customary among the Jews (Luke 15:22), but in Roman society, the wealthy wore rings on their left hand in profusion. A sign of wealth, rings were worn with great ostentation. There were even shops in Rome where rings could be rented for a special occasion. No doubt this ostentatious practice also spread to the provinces and would be known to James's readers. The practice of wearing rings as a manifestation of luxury and display invaded the churches. Clement of Alexandria (c. 155-c. 220) in his Paidagogos felt it necessary to urge Christians to wear only one ring because it was needed for purposes of sealing. The Apostolic Constitutions (c. 381) warned Christians against fine clothing and rings, since these were all signs of lasciviousness. (Ibid)
Barclay adds - "We adorn our fingers with rings,' said Seneca, 'and we distribute gems over every joint.' The early Christian theologian Clement of Alexandria recommends that Christians should wear only one ring, and that it should be worn on the little finger. It ought to have on it a religious emblem, such as a dove, a fish or an anchor, and the justification for wearing it is that it might be used as a seal. (New Daily Study Bible – The Letters of James and Peter)
Your assembly (4864)(sunagoge from sunago = lead together, assemble or bring together) refers to a group of people “going with one another” (sunago) literally describes a bringing together or congregating in one place. Eventually, sunagoge came to mean the place where they congregated together. The word was used to designate the buildings other than the central Jewish temple where the Jews congregated for worship. Historically, the Synagogues originated in the Babylonian captivity after the 586 BC destruction of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar and served as places of worship and instruction. In the present context while this could mean a synagogue, the main idea is that it was the place where believers were assembled.
Hiebert - Here the reference (sunagoge) is to the place of assembly, as is evident from the mention of assigned seats. The readers are Christians (James 1:1; 2:1), and the pronoun "your" makes clear that it is not a non-Christian Jewish synagogue, since the readers are viewed as being in control of arrangements....At the time when James wrote, the Jewish Christians apparently continued to speak of their place of assembly as their "synagogue," so James used the term that would be most familiar to them.(Ibid)
Robertson - It may seem a bit odd for a Christian church (ekklēsia) to be termed sunagōgē, but James is writing to Jewish Christians and this is another incidental argument for the early date....In the fourth century an inscription has sunagōgē for the meeting-house of certain Christians.
McGee - He was ostentatious, if you please. His clothing is contrasted with that of the poor man. Someone has said, "Some go to church to close their eyes, and others go to eye the clothes." We have made Sunday a time when we Christians put on our Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. A great many people come to church overdressed. There is a dash and a splash and a flash about them. There is a pomp and pomposity. It's glitter and gaudy, and vulgar and vain, also. This rich man makes his entrance into church with flags flying and a fanfare of trumpets. There is parade and pageant. It is as if he drives up in his gold Cadillac, getting out as his chauffer opens the door for him. He walks in, strutting like a peacock. He is like the rich man the Lord Jesus spoke of in the true story of the rich man and Lazarus: "There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day" (Luke 16:19+). He "fared sumptuously" means that life was one continual party for him. (Ibid)
And there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes - James repeats the verb "comes" which would indicate he is presenting these as two separate events. This man is poor (see ptochos below) to the point of being a beggar.
Poor ( (4434)(ptochos from ptosso = crouch, cringe, cower down or hide oneself for fear, a picture of one crouching and cowering like a beggar with a tin cup to receive the pennies dropped in!) is an adjective which describes one who crouches and cowers and is used as a noun to mean beggar. These poor were unable to meet their basic needs and so were forced to depend on others or on society. Classical Greek used the ptochos to refer to a person reduced to total destitution, who crouched in a corner begging. As he held out one hand for alms he often hid his face with the other hand, because he was ashamed of being recognized. Used 4x by James in this section to emphasize how desperately poor this man was. Jas. 2:2; Jas. 2:3; Jas. 2:5; Jas. 2:6
Dirty (4508)(rhuparos from rhupos = filth) means literally dirty, filthy, foul. In the only other NT use in Rev 22:11+ rhuparos is used figuratively of "dirty behavior", morally impure, degenerate, a morally filthy person. "“Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy.”
Showing Favoritism - Why it is wrong to show favoritism to the wealthy:
It is inconsistent with Christ's teachings.
It results from evil thoughts.
It insults people made in God's image.
It is a by-product of selfish motives.
It goes against the biblical definition of love.
It shows a lack of mercy to those less fortunate.
It is hypocritical.
It is a sin.
Life Application Study Bible.
James 2:3 and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, "You sit here in a good place," and you say to the poor man, "You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,"
Amplified And you pay special attention to the one who wears the splendid clothes and say to him, Sit here in this preferable seat! while you tell the poor [man], Stand there! or, Sit there on the floor at my feet!
Phillips If you pay special attention to the well-dressed man by saying, "Please sit here - it's an excellent seat", and say to the poor man, "You stand over there, please, or if you must sit, sit on the floor",
Wuest and you look upon the one wearing the clothing which is brightly shining with respectful consideration, and say, As for you, be sitting down here in this place of honor, and say to the poor man, As for you, stand in that place or be sitting down beside my footstool
NET James 2:3 do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say, "You sit here in a good place," and to the poor person, "You stand over there," or "Sit on the floor"?
GNT James 2:3 ἐπιβλέψητε δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν φοροῦντα τὴν ἐσθῆτα τὴν λαμπρὰν καὶ εἴπητε, Σὺ κάθου ὧδε καλῶς, καὶ τῷ πτωχῷ εἴπητε, Σὺ στῆθι ἐκεῖ ἢ κάθου ὑπὸ τὸ ὑποπόδιόν μου,
NLT James 2:3 If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, "You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor"-- well,
KJV James 2:3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
ESV James 2:3 and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, "You sit here in a good place," while you say to the poor man, "You stand over there," or, "Sit down at my feet,"
ASV James 2:3 and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool;
CSB James 2:3 If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, "Sit here in a good place," and yet you say to the poor man, "Stand over there," or, "Sit here on the floor by my footstool,"
NIV James 2:3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, "Here's a good seat for you," but say to the poor man, "You stand there" or "Sit on the floor by my feet,"
NKJ James 2:3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, "You sit here in a good place," and say to the poor man, "You stand there," or, "Sit here at my footstool,"
NRS James 2:3 and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, "Have a seat here, please," while to the one who is poor you say, "Stand there," or, "Sit at my feet,"
YLT James 2:3 and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may say to him, 'Thou -- sit thou here well,' and to the poor man may say, 'Thou -- stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool,' --
NAB James 2:3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say, "Sit here, please," while you say to the poor one, "Stand there," or "Sit at my feet,"
NJB James 2:3 and you take notice of the well-dressed man, and say, 'Come this way to the best seats'; then you tell the poor man, 'Stand over there' or 'You can sit on the floor by my foot-rest.'
GWN James 2:3 Suppose you give special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say to him, "Please have a seat." But you say to the poor man, "Stand over there," or "Sit on the floor at my feet."
BBE James 2:3 And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;
and you pay special attention Jude 1:16
you say to the poor man: Jas 2:6 Isa 65:5 Lu 7:44-46 2Co 8:9
THE DESCRIPTION CONTINUES
NOW THE REACTION
And you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes - So now James has both the rich man and the poor man standing in the assembly. The verb pay special attention is epiblepo means to look upon intently, play close attention, with the implication of showing special respect for the rich man. James uses this verb in the second person plural which pictures the eyes of the entire assembly are gazing on this rich man! Hiebert comments that "The repeated reference to his clothes underlines that their favorable response was prompted solely by his external appearance, "only the outward and the perishing attracting attention."
And say, "You sit here in a good place," - Here's a good seat for you! Note he is not cordially offered just any place but a good place, the Greek word kalos which pertains to meeting a relatively high standard of excellence and/or expectation. Perhaps it was the seat with a cushion!
This illustration recalls the sin of the scribes and Pharisees who loved the "chief seats in the synagogues" (Matthew 23:1-6).
Hiebert on seating - The fourth-century Apostolic Constitutions ordered that the bishop should place the deacons in charge of seating the people and directed that if the service already was in progress, the bishop would not interrupt the service to direct a rich visitor to "an upper place."
Craig Keener has an interesting historical note - Jewish legal texts condemn judges who make one litigant stand while another is permitted to sit; these hearings normally took place in synagogues (James 2:2). To avoid partiality on the basis of clothing, some second-century rabbis required both litigants to dress in the same kind of clothes. (IVP Bible Background Commentary)
And you say to the poor man, "You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool" - Notice the order. The rich man is attended to before the poor man and brusquely told to stand and specifically "over there" (so you won't be conspicuous!) Or he could set literally "under my footstool." So stand out of the way or sit on the floor in a somewhat degrading position.
See Jesus' instructions when He observed the behavior of people arriving for an important social event - Read Luke 14:7-11+, cf His words in Mt 25:35.
Robertson on down by - For this use of hupo "down against" or "down beside" see Exodus 19:17 hupo to oros ("at the foot of the mountain") and hupo se ("at thy feet") (Deut. 33:3). Conquerors often placed their feet on the necks of the victims (Luke 20:43+).
MacArthur - To ask another person, especially a visitor or guest, to sit down by my footstool was therefore a double show of disrespect. The person on a bench or in a chair not only would not give that seat to the visitor but would not even allow him to sit on his footstool.
Bruce Barton - The Jews had a practice of seating the most important people nearest the sacred scrolls. Other people would be seated in the back. This unhealthy practice was still carried on by some Christians. Those with the most important jobs or roles would get preferred seating. James speaks out against this. It is our relationship with Christ that gives us dignity, not our profession or possessions.The Christian answer is not reverse discrimination—treating the poor like royalty and the rich like scum. Our goal is to treat people without consideration for their status. No one is unworthy to be seated. (Ibid)
Jon Courson - If you knew that in ten minutes you would have a half-hour meeting with Donald Trump, would you comb your hair, brush your teeth, think about what you would say? What if you knew that in ten minutes you would meet with a homeless man? Would you expend the same kind of energy? This is what James is getting at. We're all vulnerable; we're all guilty of treating people differently, depending on how we view them outwardly. But almost without exception, the irony is that the people we try to impress the most are those who care about us the least—while the people who really would be open to receiving from us are those for whom we think we don't have time. On the high-school campus, so often the goal is to see the quarterback or the head cheerleader saved. The real key, however, is to go for the kid who sits in the back of the cafeteria all alone, for he's the one who is most often the one ready to listen. The same holds true where you work. We tend to get all excited about the people we highly esteem financially or professionally, economically or intellectually. But it's the poor people who will be most responsive to the gospel and most welcoming of us. Because we so often waste our time trying to impress people who are impressed with themselves, we need to change our perspective. That is what James is championing. "Why is it," he asks, "that when someone comes into your congregation who is dressed in fine clothes, who has a name, or who is esteemed highly, you give him the best seat in the house?" Oh, how we need to be aware of our own fleshly tendencies. (Jon Courson's Application Commentary New Testament)
Kent Hughes on James' hypothetical event - But even if the event were hypothetical, subsequent church history has documented that this sin repeats itself in the church. We do not even have to look back to the so-called Dark Ages to find it. Because the eighteenth-century Church of England had become so elitist and inhospitable to the common man, in 1739 John Wesley had to take to graveyards and fields to preach the gospel. And thus we have poignant accounts of his preaching to 30,000 coal miners at dawn in the fields, and the resulting saving power of the gospel evidenced by tears streaming white trails down their coal-darkened faces. Wesley was no schismatic, but because there was no room in the established church for common people, he reluctantly founded the Methodist-Episcopal Church. (Preaching the Word – James: Faith That Works)
Read a story about William Booth (of Salvation Army fame) written by Richard Collier and which relates to favoritism of James 2...
But time and again, in the vast cold barracks of Broad Street Chapel, Booth noted one thing lacking. Their sermons done, revivalists like Caughey and Marsden, following time-honoured Methodist procedure, would urge people to the communion rail--called also the mourner's bench, a kind of Protestant confessional--in public acceptance of Christ. Yet the poorest and most degraded never came forward. Nor were they present even at Booth's own street sermons.
Booth, of course, knew where they congregated--down in "The Bottoms," one of Nottingham's cruellest slums, where men shunned church as they shunned prison. These lost sheep he now set out to find.
Those who made part of Broad Street congregation never forgot that electric Sunday in 1846: the gas jets, dancing on whitewashed walls, the Minister, the Rev. Samuel Dunn, seated comfortably on his red plush throne, a concord of voices swelling into the evening's fourth hymn:
Foul I to the fountain fly,
Wash me, Saviour, or I die
(from Rock of Ages)
(ED: YOU HAVE TO LOVE BOOTH'S TIMING - AS THESE WORDS ARE BEING SUNG, BOOTH IS BRINGING INTO THE CHAPEL A HOST OF FOUL MEN AND WOMEN!) The chapel's outer door suddenly shattered open, engulfing a white scarf of fog. In its wake came a shuffling shabby contingent of men and women, wilting nervously under the stony stares of mill-managers, shop-keepers and their well-dressed wives. In their rear, afire with zeal, marched "Wilful Will" Booth, cannily blocking the efforts of the more reluctant to turn back. To his dismay the Rev. Dunn saw that young Booth was actually ushering his charges, none of whose clothes would have raised five shillings in his own pawnshop, into the very best seats; pewholders' seats, facing the pulpit, whose occupants piled the collection-plate with glinting silver.
This was unprecedented, for the poor, if they came to chapel, entered by another door, to be segregated on benches without backs or cushions, behind a partition which screened off the pulpit. Here, though the service was audible, they could not see--nor could they be seen.
Oblivious of the mounting atmosphere, Booth joined full-throatedly in the service--even, he later admitted, hoping this devotion to duty might rate special commendation. All too soon he learned the unpalatable truth: since Wesley's day, Methodism had become "respectable."
The service done, Booth found himself facing a drumhead meeting of deacons under the Rev. Dunn and their instructions left no room for doubt. In future, if Booth brought such a flock to chapel they would enter by the side door--and sit in their appointed seats.
Head bowed, Booth accepted the rebuke--but in many ways, it would seem, this first gesture came to symbolise the entire credo of the army of men and women who would one day hail him as its founder. (Read the full account of The General Next to God online)
James 2:4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?
Amplified Are you not discriminating among your own and becoming critics and judges with wrong motives?
Phillips doesn't that prove that you are making class-distinctions in your mind, and setting yourselves up to assess a man's quality? - a very bad thing.
Wuest are you not divided in your own mind [expressing a doubt as to the requirements of the faith you have in the Lord
NET James 2:4 If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?
GNT James 2:4 οὐ διεκρίθητε ἐν ἑαυτοῖς καὶ ἐγένεσθε κριταὶ διαλογισμῶν πονηρῶν;
NLT James 2:4 doesn't this discrimination show that your judgments are guided by evil motives?
KJV James 2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
ESV James 2:4 have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
ASV James 2:4 Do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
CSB James 2:4 haven't you discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
NIV James 2:4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
NKJ James 2:4 have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
NRS James 2:4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
YLT James 2:4 ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.
NAB James 2:4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil designs?
NJB James 2:4 In making this distinction among yourselves have you not used a corrupt standard?
GWN James 2:4 Aren't you discriminating against people and using a corrupt standard to make judgments?
BBE James 2:4 Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
have you not made distinctions among yourselves: Jas 1:1-27 Job 34:19 Mal 2:9
become judges with evil motives: Jas 4:11 Job 21:27 Ps 58:1 82:2 109:31 Mt 7:1-5 Joh 7:24
JAMES' CONCLUDING
APPLICATION QUESTION
The question in this passage is based on the hypothetical example James had just presented in James 2:2-3. James is pithy and likes to prick the conscience so he zeroes in on the evil attitude of favoritism. Like a judge he announces his verdict in the form of a question - guilty of discrimination. Favoritism is always bad but it is especially bad in God's Church because it gives a wrong impression of the character of our Father Who is perfectly Impartial.
THOUGHT - As a personal testimony I (as a successful physician) have definitely experienced this discrimination (I was on the "positive" side of it) and it was very apparent to me what the pastor (no names will be mentioned) was doing attempting to curry favor with me. Although this has been over 20 years ago, I can still recall the very uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach. I did not want to be shown favoritism and it made me very uneasy. Unfortunately I did not yet understand the message of James 2 or I would have taken it to the pastor. The upshot is that discrimination can actually work adversely both ways - toward the rich and toward the poor! Pastors, elders, church leaders, assiduously avoid the temptation to show favoritism to the "rich and famous" in your flock. It is not even theologically logical for before God in Christ Jesus we are ALL in effect "rich and famous!" Amen? Amen!
Have you not made distinctions among yourselves - This is rhetorical and expects an affirmative response as does the second part of the question if the reader is honest in his answer! Yourselves conveys the idea of "in your own minds" (and sadly in dependence on the fallen fleshly thinking of the old man).
These passages in James 2:1-13 raise the ugly issues of outward show versus inward spirituality, temporal versus eternal. Which do you prefer? Sadly too many in the church today prefer outward show and temporal values.
Have you not made distinctions (1252)(diakrino from diá = separation, "thoroughly back and forth" + kríno = distinguish, decide, judge) basically means to separate wholly, to judge "back and forth" between two and thus divide between two. Positively it can refer to close-reasoning (discrimination) or negatively as here in James 2:4 to "over-judging" or going too far. The primary idea of diakrino is that they would be differentiating between rich and poor by separating. In other words they have discriminated and made unjustified divisions in their assemblies, in effect making social distinctions. Robertson says "They are guilty of partiality (a divided mind) as between the two strangers."
Gilbrant has an interesting thought on the use of diakrino in this passage - When these believers made prejudicial distinctions between classes of people they wavered between the thinking of the world which made class distinctions and the faith they claimed to possess which forbade showing partiality." (Complete Biblical Library – Hebrews-Jude)
James used this same verb in James 1:6+ writing that one "must ask (James 1:5) in faith without any doubting (diakrino), for the one who doubts (diakrino) is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind."
Brian Bell has an interesting comment on the closely related word diakrisis (derived from diakrino) writing that "This type of judging (James 2:4) is wrong because of the motive or attitude behind it. Right Discerning! = Hebrews. 5:14+ "Solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern (diakrisis) good and evil. a) diakrino (prefix added) meaning, “to separate, to distinguish, to select.” b) It’s the idea of distinguishing on the basis of comparison, coupled with careful thinking c) The mark of a mature Christian is the ability to discern good from evil, strengths from weaknesses, to be concerned for the welfare of those we correct. (Sermon)
Constable explains that "The usher made two errors. First, he showed favoritism because of what the rich man might do for the church if he received preferential treatment. He should have treated everyone graciously, as God does. This reflects a double-minded attitude, thinking like the world in this case while thinking as God thinks in other respects (James 1:8).Second, the usher, who represents all the believers, manifested evil motives in judging where to seat the two visitors. His motive was what the church could obtain from them rather than what it could impart to them. The Christian and the church should seek primarily to serve others rather than getting others to serve them (cf. Mark 10:45). (James 2 Expository Notes)
And become judges with evil motives - Some translate this as "Judges with vicious intentions." Again the affirmative is expected. If they demonstrated favoritism as in this illustration of a rich man and a poor man they would in effect have made themselves judges and bad ones at that because their motives were evil.
James speaks against judging others again in chapter 4 - "Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it." (Jas 4:11+)
MacArthur Study Bible - James feared that his readers would behave just like the sinful world by catering to the rich and prominent while shunning the poor and common.
ESV Study Bible - Christians are not to “judge” each other (Matt. 7:1-5; Rom. 14:4; 1 Cor. 5:12), and to do so can only mean one’s mind is consumed with evil “thoughts” (Gk. dialogismos, which can mean “opinions,” “reasoning,” or “conclusions”).
Judges (2923)(krites from krino = to judge) were those who decided making their decisions based on examination and evaluation, in this context, the way the person appeared! We never do that do we? (Compare Lev 19:15+).
Evil (wicked, bad) (4190)(poneros from poneo = toil) means evil including evil, malignant character, pernicious and denotes determined, aggressive, and fervent evil that actively opposes what is good. Poneros is not just bad in character (like kakos), but bad in effect (injurious)! That is a vivid description of what personal favoritism does! In short, partiality is vicious, injurious and destructive!
Motives (reasonings) (1261)(dialogismos from diá = through + logizomai = reckon) means literally they were reasoning through and doing so with relative thoroughness and completeness but sadly not with integrity.
Brian Bell - So why can’t I show partiality? Because it’s impossible to judge another person’s motives simply on the basis of outward appearance or any other external force. No one can determine the heart of another especially in a 1st-time encounter. That is why James says it’s wrong! Judges with evil thoughts (motives) - It might be in hopes of selfish gain; or to maintain class distinctions; or simply out of pride & contempt. In his autobiography, Mahatma Gandhi wrote that during his student days he read the Gospels seriously and considered converting to Christianity. He believed that in the teachings of Jesus he could find the solution to the caste system that was dividing the people of India. So one Sunday he decided to attend services at a nearby church and talk to the minister about becoming a Christian. When he entered the sanctuary, however, the usher refused to give him a seat and suggested that he go worship with his own people. Gandhi left the church and never returned. “If Christians have caste differences also,” he said, “I might as well remain a Hindu.” WOE! (Sermon)
As Charles Swindoll says "James couldn’t be clearer. This kind of prejudice is sin. If there’s one place where class distinctions should be broken down, it’s in our places of worship. Discrimination over color, political persuasion, financial status, fashion, or appearance doesn’t belong in the church, either inside or outside its doors, in private or in public." (Swindoll's Living Insights New Testament Commentary – James)
Life Application Study Bible - Sometimes we do this (MAKE DISTINCTIONS) because: (1) poverty makes us uncomfortable; we don't want to face our responsibilities to those who have less than we do; (2) we want to be wealthy, too, and hope to use the rich person as a means to that end; (3) we want the rich person to join our church and help support it financially. All these motives are selfish, stemming from the view that we are superior to the poor person. If we say that Christ is our Lord, then we must live as he requires, showing no favoritism and loving all people regardless of whether they are rich or poor.
William MacDonald - Probably the most glaring example of it in the church today is the discrimination shown against people of other races and colors. Black believers have been ostracized in many instances or at least made to feel unwelcome. Converted Jews have not always been accepted cordially. Oriental Christians have tasted discrimination in varying degrees. It is admitted that there are enormous social problems in the whole area of racial relations. But the Christian must be true to divine principles. His obligation is to give practical expression to the truth that all believers are one in Christ Jesus. (Believer's Bible Commentary)
Craig Keener historical note - Roman laws explicitly favored the rich. Persons of lower class, who were thought to act from economic self-interest, could not bring accusations against persons of higher class, and the laws prescribed harsher penalties for lower-class persons convicted of offenses than for offenders from the higher class. Biblical law, most Jewish law and traditional Greek philosophers had always rejected such distinctions as immoral. (Ibid)
John Phillips - After C. S. Lewis became a Christian, he decided that it would be appropriate for him to join a local church. There he found himself in the company of that very collection of his neighbors he had formerly sought diligently to avoid. The local grocer came sidling up to him to unctuously present him with a hymnbook. He looked around him and noticed that the man over there had boots that squeaked, the woman in front of him was wearing a ridiculous hat, and the man behind him sang off-key. He found himself drawing the unwarranted conclusion that these peoples' faith must somehow be ridiculous. Only later did he learn that some of these people were, in fact, devout, well-taught, and valiant Christians—believers whom Satan himself had reason to fear. It is a great mistake to judge people by their appearance. (Exploring the Epistle of James: An Expository Commentary)
ILLUSTRATION - Treating rich visitors with great respect and Treating poor visitors with no respect (at least one's he thought were poor!). -- In 1884 a young man died, and after the funeral his grieving parents decided to establish a memorial to him. With that in mind they met with Charles Eliot, president of Harvard University. Eliot received the unpretentious couple into his office and asked what he could do. After they expressed their desire to fund a memorial, Eliot impatiently said, “Perhaps you have in mind a scholarship.” “We were thinking of something more substantial than that...perhaps a building,” the woman replied. In a patronizing tone, Eliot brushed aside the idea as being too expensive and the couple departed. The next year, Eliot learned that this plain pair had gone elsewhere and established a $26 million memorial named Leland Stanford Junior University, better known today as Stanford! (Today in the Word)
Charles Swindoll has a great illustration of not showing favoritism entitled "General Seating No Longer Available"
When I was stationed on the island of Okinawa, our general liked to sit down front during chapel services. There was always a place reserved for him and his entourage of aides—all those guys that waited on him hand and foot. He would usually arrive about five minutes after the worship started, and you could just hear all of them marching in step to go sit down in that one spot that everybody knew belonged to them.
Well, we had a fine Christian chaplain who was a real maverick, a strong preacher, and a courageous fellow. He was one of the only chaplains I knew who was genuinely born-again. One Easter Sunday morning the chapel was packed. There were guys outside who couldn’t get a seat. The chaplain wanted to make as much room as possible for all the troops, so he packed them in wherever there was space. He told the ushers, “Bring ’em down.” And guess who sat in the general’s seat? A private. Now in the Marine Corps, trust me, no one else sits where generals are supposed to sit—especially buck privates! But this Easter Sunday he did. Then in came the general. He surveyed the chapel and saw there was no place available. The general obviously didn’t like that, because our fine chaplain was sent off that island in less than three months’ time. The chaplain paid a big price for a valuable virtue. He refused to show partiality, even if it meant seating an on-time private over a tardy general. But God works in mysterious ways. I found out months later that our chaplain who got booted off Okinawa wound up being stationed in Hawaii. How good is that! (Swindoll's Living Insights New Testament Commentary – James, 1 & 2 Peter)
Illustration of Partiality - Pastor Stuart Silvester told me of a conversation he had with an acquaintance who frequently flew his small private plane in and out of Toronto International Airport. He asked the pilot if he ever encountered problems taking of and landing a small craft at an airport that was dominated by so many large jets. His friend responded, “My plane may be small, but I have the same rights, the same privileges, and the same access to that airport as anyone else—even the jumbo jets!” Beloved you can see the application - the small planes can fly at the same level as the jumbo jets around here. The poor man should be as welcome as the rich man in the church of Jesus.
Talk About Prejudice! - An African-American minister Raleigh Washington said the following "When I was born, I was black. When I grew up, I was still black. When I go out in the cold, I'm still black. When I go out in the sun, I get more black. When I'm sick, I'm black, and when I die, I'm sure I'll still be black. But I found out that when white people are born, you're pink. When you grow up, you become white. When you go out in the cold, 'lOU turn blue. And when you stay out in the sun, you turn reg. When you're sick, they say, "You look green," and when you die, you turn purple. Now what I want to know is why do they call blacks "colored people?"
Sad Illustration of Favoritism - The late Max Cadenhead, when he was pastor of First Baptist Church in Naples, Florida, riveted his congregation one day with a bold confession. "My message today is on the parable of the Good Samaritan," Max announced. "Let me start with an illustration. "Remember last year when the Browns came forward to join the church?" he asked. Everyone nodded ; the Browns were a very influential family. "Well, the same day a young man came forward and gave his life to Christ. I could tell he needed help and we counseled him." No one nodded; no one remembered. "We worked with the Browns, got them onto committees. They've been wonderful folks," ' Cadenhead said to muffled amens. "The young manOwell, we lost track. "Until yesterday, that is, as I was preparing today's message on the Good Samaritan. I picked up the paper, and there was that young man's picture. He had shot and killed an elderly woman." Chins dropped throughout the congregation, mine included, as the pastor continued. "I never followed up on that young man, so I'm the priest who saw the man in trouble and crossed to the other side of the road . I am a hypocrite." More of that kind of sober honesty in the church would be very healthy. For God's kingdom is just the opposite of ours. We go after the rich or the influential, thinking if we can just bag t his one or that one, we'll have a real catch for the kingdom . Like the folks profiled by the apostle James, we offer our head tables to the wealthy and well-dressed and reserve the back seats for those we consider unimportant.
BIBLE ILLUSTRATION - The Lord even had to remind Samuel in 1 Samuel 16:7 “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world [to be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
Amplified 5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and in their position as believers and to inherit the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?
Phillips For do notice, my brothers, that God chose poor men, whose only wealth was their faith, and made them heirs to the kingdom promised to those who love him.
Wuest Listen, my brethren, beloved ones. Did not God select out for himself those who are poor in the world’s estimation to be wealthy in the sphere of faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
NET James 2:5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
GNT James 2:5 Ἀκούσατε, ἀδελφοί μου ἀγαπητοί· οὐχ ὁ θεὸς ἐξελέξατο τοὺς πτωχοὺς τῷ κόσμῳ πλουσίους ἐν πίστει καὶ κληρονόμους τῆς βασιλείας ἧς ἐπηγγείλατο τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτόν;
NLT James 2:5 Listen to me, dear brothers and sisters. Hasn't God chosen the poor in this world to be rich in faith? Aren't they the ones who will inherit the Kingdom he promised to those who love him?
KJV James 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
ESV James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
ASV James 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?
CSB James 2:5 Listen, my dear brothers: Didn't God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him?
NIV James 2:5 Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?
NKJ James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
NRS James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
YLT James 2:5 Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?
NAB James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
NJB James 2:5 Listen, my dear brothers: it was those who were poor according to the world that God chose, to be rich in faith and to be the heirs to the kingdom which he promised to those who love him.
GWN James 2:5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Didn't God choose poor people in the world to become rich in faith and to receive the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
BBE James 2:5 Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?
Listen, my beloved brethren: Jud 9:7 1Ki 22:28 Job 34:10 38:14 Pr 7:24 8:32 Mk 7:14 Ac 7:2
did not God choose the poor of this world: Jas 1:9 Isa 14:32 29:19 Zep 3:12 Zec 11:7,11 Mt 11:5 Lu 6:20 Lu 9:57,58 16:22,25 Joh 7:48 1Co 1:26-28 2Co 8:9
to be rich in faith: Pr 8:17-21 Lu 12:21 1Co 3:21-23 2Co 4:15 6:10 Eph 1:18 3:8 1Ti 6:18 Heb 11:26 Rev 2:9 3:18 21:7
heirs of the kingdom: Mt 5:3 25:34 Lu 12:32 22:29 Ro 8:17 1Th 2:12 2Th 1:5 2Ti 4:8,18 1Pe 1:4 2Pe 1:11
which He promised to those who love Him, Jas 1:12 Ex 20:6 1Sa 2:30 Pr 8:17 Mt 5:3 Lu 6:20 12:32 1Co 2:9 2Ti 4:8
REAL RICHES ARE
In this next section (James 2:5-11) James will advance three arguments against the practice of favoritism and each argument is in the form of a question which expects an affirmative answer. James really knows how to draw his reader into the text but forcing them to answer! This is a good practice when teaching the Bible - rather than lecturing (often in one ear and out the other), interacting (including interrogating), which tends to engage the hearers.
Listen, my beloved (agapetos) brethren (same address in James 1:16+, James 1:19+) - James is kind (motivated by love) but firm and once again addresses them as his fellow believers adding that they are beloved, the very adjective God used of His own Son (Mt 3:17). They are dear to him. Beloved is used (other than of Jesus) only of Christians who are united with God and with each other in this divine love. Agapetos speaks of love called out of one’s heart by preciousness of the object loved. Believers are greatly loved (held dear) by God Himself! James is saying that he is motivated by this quality of love and desires the best for them. Beloved, is that how you are loving your brothers and sisters in Christ?
THOUGHT - There may be another reason James began this sentence with the attention grabbing verb Listen. The same Greek verb akouo is found in the Septuagint (Lxx) of the famous Shema of Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear (Septuagint - akouo) O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! And so this verb would have been very familiar to the Jewish believers who very likely had heard and/or recited the Shema every morning and evening as was the typical practice in orthodox Jewish homes.
Listen is akouo in the aorist imperative a command in essence saying "Give me your full attention! This is important!" It is interesting that only James uses Listen as an attention grabber in all of the epistles. The other uses are in the Gospels and Acts. One of the uses in Acts 15:13+ is in the context of the Jerusalem Council where Luke records that "After they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying, “Brethren, listen to me. (Mt. 13:18; Mt. 21:33; Mk. 7:14; Lk. 18:6; Acts 2:22; Acts 7:2; Acts 13:16; Acts 15:13; Acts 22:1; Jas. 2:5)
Did not God choose the poor of this world (kosmos) [to be] rich in faith - Answer? Yes! Note the paradox - the poor will be rich (of course not every poor person will be saved and there is no merit with God because of their poverty). The very ones they treat with contempt God treats with amazing (unmerited) grace! God's order is frequently to invert the world's order - the weak will be strong, more blessed to give than receive, the low (humble) will be lifted up (exalted), etc, etc. Little wonder that the unbelieving world often considers Christians as crazy!
James' point is that when they show partially to the rich and thus sin against the poor they are go against the very ones whom the Lord had specially chosen
THOUGHT - As a successful physician, I was relatively well off by the world's standards when I was born again at age 39. So I am especially sensitive to passages like James 2:5ff and eternally grateful that the Spirit birthed me into God's Kingdom. The words of Jesus are a continual, precious reminder to me of the my having been made rich in faith at age 39...
And Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Lk 18:24-25+)
Choose (1586)(eklego from ek = out, out of, out from + légo = select, choose, cf eklektos) literally means to select out, single out or choose out of. The idea in eklego speaks of the sizable number from which the selection is made. It implies the taking of a smaller number out of a larger. We will not here address the too often contentious topic of election except to say the verb eklego means to choose out for oneself, but does not imply rejection of those not chosen.
Hiebert comments that "When men become Christians, it is not due to their own unaided decision to accept the gospel but to the fact that God has chosen and drawn them unto Himself (John 15:16; 1 John 4:10; Rom. 9:11)." (Ibid)
Guzik - When we choose people by what we can see on the surface, we miss the mind of God. Remember that Judas appeared to be much better leadership material than Peter.
What is conditional election?
How are predestination and election connected with foreknowledge?
Poor ( (4434) see preceding note on ptochos. Note that this is the same noun Jesus used in the Beatitudes but the meaning there was poor in spirit, while here the reference is to the economically poor. The world considers the financially poor to be "inferior," but clearly that is not God's view, even as this passage teaches. While there are clearly exceptions, the general rule is that those persons who enter the Kingdom of God by grace through faith are more often poor than rich. Paul clearly states the same general idea writing
For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; 27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, 28 and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, 29 so that (HERE IS THE PURPOSE OF GOD'S CHOOSING THE FOOLISH, WEAK, BASE, THINGS THAT ARE NOT) no man may boast before God. (1 Cor 1:26-29)
Meyer has an interesting analysis - “The rich man may trust Him; but the poor man must. . . . the poor man has no fortress in which to hide, except the two strong arms of God.”
Abraham Lincoln said "God must love the common people because He made so many of them."
So here the promise to the poor is that they will be rich in faith, they would receive the divine gift of faith to believe in the Gospel and then faith to persevere to the end of their life when they step off into eternal life.
Paul described some of the present riches of "poor" believers including the fact that He has been blessed "with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ" (Eph. 1:3+). Peter adds that "His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him Who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust." (2 Peter 1:3-4+)
Rich (4145)(plousios from ploutos = wealth, abundance, riches) is an adjective which defines that which exists in a large amount with implication of its being valuable. Literally plousios generally refers to having an abundance of earthly possessions that exceeds normal experience. Here is James clearly it refers to a poor believer who has an abundance of heavenly blessings because they are rich in faith. Compare a similar use of plousios in Jesus' description of the believers in Smyrna declaring "‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich)" (Rev 2:9+). Plousios is a "key word" in the epistle of James with 5 of the 28 NT uses - Jas. 1:10+; Jas. 1:11+; Jas. 2:5+; Jas. 2:6+; Jas. 5:1+.
Faith (4102)(pistis) means trust, the "state of believing on the basis of the reliability of the one trusted." It has well been said that faith is not believing in spite of evidence—that’s superstition—but obeying in spite of circumstances and consequences. Swindoll makes the important distinction about Christian faith - The term implies both knowledge and action. One may receive knowledge of a certain truth and may even offer verbal agreement, but “trust” or “confidence” is not said to be present until one’s behavior reflects that truth.
Puritan Thomas Manton wrote that faith "is the open hand of the soul, to receive all the bounteous supplies of God." I would add that it is even God's Spirit Who "prys" our hand open, so to speak! Indeed, salvation is "from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen" (Ro 11:33+)
And heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him - Answer? Yes! Who are those who love Him? Those who have been born again and received His Spirit, "because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who was given to us." (Ro 5:5+) Now the Holy Spirit bears as part of His spiritual fruit this supernatural love (Gal 5:22+) in believers who are filled with the Spirit (Eph 5:18+), walk by the Spirit (Gal 5:16+) and are led by the Spirit (Gal 5:18+).
Heirs (2818)(Kleronomos from kleros = a lot - lots were cast to divide property or select an heir + nemomai = to possess, to distribute among), literally refers to one who obtains a lot or portion. It is one who receives something as a possession or a beneficiary (the person named as in an insurance policy to receive proceeds or benefits). An heir does not attain that status through meritorious effect but through a personal relationship with God through faith in His Son's fully atoning sacrifice. Of course here (as in most NT uses) applies primarily to the realm of spiritual inheritance. The emphasis is on the heir's right to possess. And so kleronomos signifies more than simply one who inherits something but also includes the idea of taking into one's possession. In this context the poor become possessors of God's glorious kingdom.
Paul alludes to the believer's status now as an heir writing " if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him." (Ro 8:17+).
Gilbrant - God chose those whom the world classified as poor in order that He might make them rich—not as the world considers riches, but rich in faith. See Luke 12:21; 16:11; 2 Corinthians 8:9. The richness included future blessing as "heirs of the kingdom." There are present (Romans 14:17) and future (Matthew 26:29) blessings of the Kingdom. (Ibid)
Kingdom (932)(basileia from basileus = a sovereign, king, monarch) denotes sovereignty, royal power, dominion. Basileia is the realm in which a king sovereignly rules, in this context King Jesus. Kingdom is one of those concepts which has "how but not yet" ("here but still future") aspects. For every believer in Christ, the "now" aspect is the rule of Christ in our hearts. The "then" (future) aspect most likely refers to the rule of Christ in the Millennial Kingdom, when Christ reigns as King of the earth, preceding the coming Kingdom in the New Heaven and New Earth. Recall James is writing to Jewish readers and they would be especially attuned to the prophetic promises of Messiah's future earthly reign which is the answer to the disciples' question just prior to His ascension when they asked Him "“Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” (Acts 1:6). Clearly these Jewish disciples were looking for a Kingdom and Jesus did not refute their belief. See commentary on the nature of the Kingdom they were anticipating in their question in Acts 1:6.
It has been well said that the only kingdom that will prevail and persist in this world is the kingdom which is not of this world! Amen!
Promised (1861)(epaggello from epi = intensifies + aggello = to tell, declare) means to proclaim, promise, declare, announce. BDAG says it means "to declare to do something with implication of obligation to carry out what is stated."
Love (25)(agapao related study agape) means to love unconditionally and sacrificially as God Himself loves sinful men (John 3:16), the way He loves the Son (John 3:35, 15:9, 17:23, 24). Note that agapao is a verb and by its verbal nature calls for action. This quality of love is not an emotion but is an action initiated by a volitional choice. Here in James 2:5 apagao is in the present tense (calling for habitual practice only possible as one continually relies on the Holy Spirit) and active voice (conscious choice of one's will). James used agapao in James 1:12+ declaring a promise - "Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him." Hiebert in fact feels "the crown of life and the coming kingdom are practically synonymous expressions, both relating to the eschatological future."
MacArthur adds that agapao "expresses the purest, noblest form of love, which is volitionally driven, not motivated by superficial appearance, emotional attraction, or sentimental relationship." (1 & 2 Thessalonians. Moody Press)
Phillips writes that "It is the height of folly to despise poor people, especially in the church. We ought, rather, to sing with Hattie E. Buell the song of the Christian poor, "A Child of the King":
I once was an outcast stranger on earth,
A sinner by choice, and an alien by birth!
But I've been adopted, my name's written down,
An heir to a mansion, a robe and a crown.
Charles Swindoll observes that James gives 3 reasons to show that favoritism should not be practiced by believers - "a theological reason, a logical reason, and a biblical reason. A Theological Reason (James 2:5). God shows no partiality, so neither should His children. The apostle Paul develops this theological principle in 1 Corinthians 1:26-29....A Logical Reason (James 2:6-7)...indiscriminately showing favoritism toward the rich and mistreating the poor made no sense at all!....A Biblical Reason (James 2:8-11). Finally, James points his readers to Scripture, which excludes all partiality." (Ibid)
F B Meyer - Hath not God chosen the poor of this world?
There is nothing that men dread more than poverty. They will break every commandment in the Decalogue rather than be poor. But it is God’s chosen lot. He had one opportunity only of living our life, and He chose to be born of parents too poor to present more than two doves at his presentation in the temple. All his life was spent among the poor. His chosen apostles and friends were, with few exceptions, poor. He lived on charity, rode in triumph on a borrowed steed, ate his last meal in a borrowed room, and lay in a borrowed grave. “Hath not God chosen the poor of this world?” Why is poverty so dear to God?
It is in harmony with the spirit of the Gospel. — The world-spirit aggrandises itself with the abundance of its possessions. Its children vie with each other in luxury and display. The spirit of Christ, on the other hand, chooses obscurity, lowliness, humility; and with these poverty is close akin.
It compels to simpler faith in God. — The rich man may trust Him; but the poor man must. There is so much temptation to the well-to-do classes to interpose their wealth between themselves and the pressure of daily need; but the poor man has no fortress in which to hide, except the two strong arms of God. He waits on Him for his daily bread, and gathers the manna falling straight from the sky.
It gives more opportunities of service. — The rich are waited on, and pay for servants to wait on those they love. The poor, on the contrary, are called to minister to one another, at every meal, and in all the daily round of life. Herein they become like Him who was, and is, as one that serveth, and who became poor, that through his poverty we might be rich.
CHILDREN OF THE KING
Hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom? James 2: 5
At prayer meeting last night during "testimony time," one of the ladies related an experience she had in a supermarket. She noticed that the woman at the cash register seemed excited and elated. When she arrived at her station, this clerk blurted out, "Wouldn't you like to touch me? I just shook hands with a movie star!" Mentioning his name she continued, "He passed through this very line a few minutes ago. Wouldn't you like to touch my hand?" "No, thank you," the other replied, "but wouldn't you like to touch me? I'm better than a movie star. I'm a child of the King!" She went on to explain that she was one of the "heirs of the kingdom of God" through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The world doesn't pay much attention to Christians. In fact, those who really believe the Bible and talk about being "born-again" are often snubbed. Yet, our relationship with God through Christ sets us apart from all others. By faith in Him, we have been born into the family of God. We are "heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ" (Rom. 8:17). Heaven is our real home. We are just passing through this world while our mansions are being prepared for our eternal habitation. "The cattle upon a thousand hills" belong to our Father. United to Him, the Ruler of the universe, we become true royalty.
When things look dark and the world mistreats you, take heart, believer. The day is coming when your true identity will be revealed at the ". . . manifestation of the sons of God" (Rom. 8:19). We may not amount to much in the eyes of men, but God views us as His dear children and "heirs of the Kingdom"! (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
A tent or a cottage, why should I care?
They're building a palace for me over There;
Though exiled from Home, yet still I may sing:
All glory to God, I'm a child of the King.
—H. E. Buell
No man is poor who is heir to all the riches of God!
James 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?
Amplified But you [in contrast] have insulted (humiliated, dishonored, and shown your contempt for) the poor. Is it not the rich who domineer over you? Is it not they who drag you into the law courts?
Phillips And if you behave as I have suggested, it is the poor man that you are insulting. Look around you. Isn't it the rich who are always trying to "boss" you, isn't it the rich who drag you into litigation?
Wuest But as for you, you dishonored the poor man. Do not those who are wealthy exploit, oppress, and dominate you, and they themselves drag you into law-courts?
NET James 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?
GNT James 2:6 ὑμεῖς δὲ ἠτιμάσατε τὸν πτωχόν. οὐχ οἱ πλούσιοι καταδυναστεύουσιν ὑμῶν καὶ αὐτοὶ ἕλκουσιν ὑμᾶς εἰς κριτήρια;
NLT James 2:6 But you dishonor the poor! Isn't it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
KJV James 2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
ESV James 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?
ASV James 2:6 But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
CSB James 2:6 Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don't the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?
NIV James 2:6 But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?
NKJ James 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?
NRS James 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court?
YLT James 2:6 and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;
NAB James 2:6 But you dishonored the poor person. Are not the rich oppressing you? And do they themselves not haul you off to court?
NJB James 2:6 You, on the other hand, have dishonoured the poor. Is it not the rich who lord it over you?
GWN James 2:6 Yet, you show no respect to poor people. Don't rich people oppress you and drag you into court?
BBE James 2:6 But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
But you have dishonored the poor man: Jas 2:3 Ps 14:6 Pr 14:31 17:5 Ec 9:15,16 Isa 53:3 Joh 8:49 1Co 11:22
Is it not the rich who oppress you: Jas 5:4 Job 20:19 Ps 10:2,8,10,14 12:5 Pr 22:16 Ec 5:8 Isa 3:14,15 Am 2:6,7 4:1 5:11 8:4-6 Mic 6:11,12 Hab 3:14 Zec 7:10
personally drag you into court: Jas 5:6 1Ki 21:11-13 Ac 4:1-3,26-28 5:17,18,26,27 13:50 16:19,20 Ac 17:6 18:12
JAMES INDICTS
HIS READERS
But you - In contrast (term of contrast) to the way God treats the poor! You is emphatic which sharpens the contrast. So the contrast is God chose the poor BUT you dishonored the poor! The point is clear that when a believer dishonors the poor, he is treating them essentially exactly the opposite of the way God treats them!
Have dishonored the poor man - But telling the poor man to stand out of the way or to sit on the floor, either of which would signify their degrading, contemptuous treatment of the poor man. In this section the fascinating irony which they should have grasped (if their spiritual eyes had been opened and they were not relying on their fleshly logic) is that the rich man was much less likely to become a believer in Jesus Christ than the poor man.
John Calvin - To dishonor the poor is to dishonor those whom God honors, and so to invert the order of God.
Dishonored (treat shamefully) (818)(atimazo from a = without + time = honor) means to be treated with indignity, cause to be disgraced or degraded, to be treated shamefully, to suffer shame or to be dishonored (treated in a degrading manner). To dishonor is to bring reproach or shame on; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation. To treat with disrespect. This is the very word that Peter and the other apostles used after being beaten by the Jewish council "So they went on their way from the presence of the Council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame (atimazo) for His name." (Acts 5:41+)
Poor ( (4434) see preceding note on ptochos
JAMES ASKS
James now proceeds to evaluate the absurdity of their favoritism of the rich man by asking three questions, all of which expect an affirmative reply.
Is it not the rich who oppress you? Answer? Yes! The NIV renders it "Is it not the rich who are exploiting you?" Amplified has "Is it not the rich who domineer over you?" Wuest has "Do not those who are wealthy exploit, oppress, and dominate you." Phillips has "Isn't it the rich who are always trying to "boss" you." Oppress is in the present tense picturing this as the continual practice of the rich to whom they are showing favoritism! The Greek word (katadunasteuo) gives us the picture of a potentate exercising his sovereign power over those under his control in a way that is hurtful, exploitative and oppressive! The only other use of this verb describes those "who were oppressed by the devil" (Acts 10:38+) giving us some idea of the nature of the oppression James attributes to the rich man!
Barton - The rich exploiting the poor was not a new development; there are references to this throughout the Old Testament (Jeremiah 7:6; 22:3; Ezekiel 18:7; Amos 4:1; 8:4; Malachi 3:5)...In first-century Palestine, landowners and merchants often accumulated wealth and power, forcing the poor people from the land and causing them to become even poorer. (Ibid)
William Barclay - "in the society which James inhabited the rich oppressed the poor. They dragged them to the law courts. No doubt this was for debt. At the bottom end of the social scale men were so poor that they could hardly live, and moneylenders were plentiful and extortionate. In the ancient world there was a custom of summary arrest. If a creditor met a debtor on the street, he could seize him by the neck of his robe, nearly throttling him and literally drag him to the law courts. That is what the rich did to the poor! They had no sympathy; all they wanted was the uttermost farthing. It is not riches that James is condemning. It is the conduct of riches without sympathy."
And personally drag you into court? Answer? Yes! Here James speaks of the legal harassments of the believers by the rich who they favored! Of course, James is not indicting every rich person, but stating this as a general (and well known) rule.
Rich (4145)see note above on plousios
Oppress (2616)(katadunasteuo from katá = down, against + dunasteúo = to rule or dunastes = a ruler or potentate) means to exercise inordinate power or dominion over others, to tyrannize. In two NT uses (here and Acts 10:38+) it conveys the sense of tyrannize, oppress harshly. Hiebert adds that "The term, frequently used in the Septuagint (Lxx) of the exploitation of the poor and needy (Jer. 7:6; Ezek. 22:29; Amos 4:1; Zech. 7:10), does not denote religious persecution but social and economic exploitation by the unprincipled rich who were "lording it over" them...It is an inveterate social evil that has plagued human relations in all ages."
Dragged (1670)(helko) means to drag or draw toward without necessarily the notion of force as in suro. In Acts 16:19+ and Acts 21:30+ helko is used of physically dragging the victims, but here in James 2:6 it is used in a more figurative sense (although some writers see a physical component) in that the rich are forcing them to come into court. Drag here is in the present tense picturing this as the continual practice of the rich.
MacArthur - Aren't the rich the ones who take advantage of you financially and drag you into civil court to sue you and take all you have? Aren't they the ones who belittle you and depreciate your human value? (Ibid)
As Constable says "How inconsistent it is to despise one's friends and honor one's foes!"
Hiebert - The rich were using the courts to exploit the poor, either through appeal to unjust legal enactments or by their power with the judges to deprive the poor of their just rights. (Ibid)
Craig Keener notes that "Roman courts always favored the rich, who could initiate lawsuits against social inferiors, although social inferiors could not initiate lawsuits against them. In theory, Jewish courts sought to avoid this discrimination, but as in most cultures people of means naturally had legal advantages: they were able to argue their cases more articulately or to hire others to do so for them." (Ibid)
Wiersbe: "The religious experts in Christ's day judged Him by their human standards, and they rejected Him. He came from the wrong city, Nazareth of Galilee. He was not a graduate of their accepted schools. He did not have the official approval of the people in power. He had no wealth. His followers were a nondescript mob and included publicans and sinners. Yet He was the very glory of God! No wonder Jesus warned the religious leaders, 'Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment' (John 7:24, NIV)."
James 2:7 Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called?
Amplified Is it not they who slander and blaspheme that precious name by which you are distinguished and called [the name of Christ invoked in baptism]?
Phillips Isn't it usually the rich who blaspheme the glorious name by which you are known?
Wuest Is it not they themselves who revile and defame the honorable name [Christian] which was given you?
NET James 2:7 Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to?
GNT James 2:7 οὐκ αὐτοὶ βλασφημοῦσιν τὸ καλὸν ὄνομα τὸ ἐπικληθὲν ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς;
NLT James 2:7 Aren't they the ones who slander Jesus Christ, whose noble name you bear?
KJV James 2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
ESV James 2:7 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?
ASV James 2:7 Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called?
CSB James 2:7 Don't they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you at your baptism?
NIV James 2:7 Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong?
NKJ James 2:7 Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?
NRS James 2:7 Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name that was invoked over you?
YLT James 2:7 do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was called upon you?
NAB James 2:7 Is it not they who blaspheme the noble name that was invoked over you?
NJB James 2:7 Are not they the ones who drag you into court, who insult the honourable name which has been pronounced over you?
GWN James 2:7 Don't they curse the good name of Jesus, the name that was used to bless you?
BBE James 2:7 Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?
Do they not blaspheme: Ps 73:7-9 Mt 12:24 27:63 Lu 22:64,65 Ac 26:11 1Ti 1:13 Rev 13:5,6
the fair name: Ps 111:9 Song 1:3 Isa 7:14 9:6,7 Jer 23:6 Mt 1:23 Ac 4:12 Php 2:9-11 Rev 19:13,16
by which you have been called: Isa 65:15 Ac 11:26 Eph 3:15
BLASPHEMY BY
Do they not blaspheme the fair Name by which you have been called? - Answer? Yes! The fair name would be Christ (or Jesus), for they are called Christians (Acts 11:26+). Literally it reads the Name "which has been called upon you" which would mark their personal relationship to the Name.
Hiebert explains that "The expression is a Hebraism (Name by which you have been called) denoting that they belong to the one whose name they wear (Deut. 28:10; 2 Chron. 7:14; Isa. 4:1; Jer. 14:9; Amos 9:12). So Christians belong to Christ. The New English Bible renders it "the honoured name by which God has claimed you....The expression is a gentle reminder that they belong to Christ Jesus and are not at liberty to practice partiality, for it dishonors that honorable name."
Hiebert on this question which is the third and final question says "This question concerning "the rich" establishes that they were not Christians. The passage best suits the view that they were wealthy Christ-rejecting Jews. Their blasphemous utterances against Jesus Christ may be viewed as expressed in the court in order to intensify the hostility of the judge toward the Christians, but it need not be confined to the courts. It may well be their reaction to the testimony of believers to Christ in daily life.
Blaspheme (987)(blasphemeo) means literally to speak to harm and therefore to bring into ill repute, to slander, to defame. "Blasphemy involves much more than taking God’s name in vain, though that is at the heart of it. A person blasphemes God when he takes His Word lightly and even jests about it or when he deliberately defies God to judge Him." (Wiersbe)
Fair (2570)(kalos) is good with emphasis on that which is beautiful, handsome, excellent, surpassing, precious, commendable, admirable. In classical Greek kalos was originally used to describe that which outwardly beautiful. Play this great old classic "Beautiful Isn't He."
NET Note on by which you were called - "that was invoked over you," referring to their baptism in which they confessed their faith in Christ and were pronounced to be his own. To have the Lord's name "named over them" is OT imagery for the Lord's ownership of his people (cf. 2 Chr 7:14; Amos 9:12; Isa 63:19; Jer 14:9; 15:16; Dan 9:19; Acts 15:17 ).
Kistemaker - Christians revere the name of Jesus—a name that James describes as noble. They are the ones who have to listen to rich people blaspheme the name of Jesus. If they keep silent while the rich slander that noble name, they themselves sin against the command not to take the name of God in vain (Exod. 20:7; Deut. 5:11). By keeping silent these people who belong to Jesus give assent to slandering the name of Jesus. They have turned against him by showing deference to the rich. (Baker New Testament Commentary – Exposition of James, Epistles of John, Peter, and Jude)
James 2:8 If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," you are doing well.
Amplified If indeed you [really] fulfill the royal Law in accordance with the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as [you love] yourself, you do well.
Phillips If you obey the royal law, expressed by the scripture, 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself', all is well.
Wuest If indeed you fulfill the royal law of the scripture, namely, You shall love with a divine and self-sacrificial love your neighbor as you love yourself, you are doing splendidly.
NET James 2:8 But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
GNT James 2:8 εἰ μέντοι νόμον τελεῖτε βασιλικὸν κατὰ τὴν γραφήν, Ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν, καλῶς ποιεῖτε·
NLT James 2:8 Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
KJV James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
ESV James 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
ASV James 2:8 Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
CSB James 2:8 Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.
NIV James 2:8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right.
NKJ James 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well;
NRS James 2:8 You do well if you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
YLT James 2:8 If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well;
NAB James 2:8 However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
NJB James 2:8 Well, the right thing to do is to keep the supreme Law of scripture: you will love your neighbour as yourself;
GWN James 2:8 You are doing right if you obey this law from the highest authority: "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."
BBE James 2:8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:
If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture,: Jas 2:12 1:25 1Pe 2:9
YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,: Lev 19:18,34 Mt 22:39 Mk 12:31-33 Lu 10:27-37 Ro 13:8,9 Ga 5:14 Ga 6:2 1Th 4:9
you are doing well.: Jas 2:19 1Ki 8:18 2Ki 7:9 Jon 4:4,9 Mt 25:21,23 Php 4:14
FULFILLING THE
ROYAL LAW
James quotes from Leviticus 19:18+ which says " ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD." This is the supreme or highest law governing all human relationships.
If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture - The "IF" is a first class conditional statement assuming that it is true. The idea is "since" or "because" you are fulfilling the royal law. Notice the source of this Law is not from the machinations of fallen men, but from the Word of God, according to the Scripture, for Who else would decree such a high and holy law! The phrase according to the Scripture would also in effect serve to validate or authenticate that the book of Leviticus from which this quote came is Holy Scripture. And once again we see how tho Old is the New "concealed" (at least relatively speaking) and the New is the Old revealed.
Hiebert on royal law - The expression "a royal law" occurs only here in the New Testament. Varied reasons for the designation have been suggested: "(a) as describing the law of love as sovereign over all others (cf. Mt. 22:36-40; Ro 13:8-9; Gal. 5:14); (b) as fitted for kings and not slaves (cf. vv 5, 12); (c) as given by the King." Huther dismissed the last suggestion as "far-fetched." The first is the most common suggestion. (Ibid)
MacArthur explains it this way - "The meaning therefore is: If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture—and you are—then, as the law requires, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Royal carries the ideas of supreme and sovereign, indicating the absolute and binding authority of the law. When a sovereign king gives an edict, it is incontestably binding on all his subjects. There is no court of appeal or arbitration. According to the Scripture indicates that God's sovereign, royal law and His biblical commands are synonymous. What James calls the royal law is, in essence, the sum and substance of the complete Word of God, summarized in Matthew 22:37-40 as perfectly loving God and loving one's neighbor. Paul says, "Love is the fulfillment of the law"(Rom. 13:10; cf. vv. 8-9). When one loves God with perfect devotion, he does not break any of His commands. When one loves his neighbor perfectly, he never violates another person. Thus perfect love keeps all the commands, thereby fulfilling the whole law. (Ibid)
Henry Morris on the royal law - This law was first set forth in Scripture in Lv 19:18. It was cited by Christ as a parallel law to that of loving God (Mt22:39 Mk12:31 Lu10:27). It is also quoted in Mt 5:43; 19:19 Ga5:14 (where Paul says it sums up the whole body of the Mosaic laws as they deal with human behavior and relationships). Thus, the Bible cites it specifically eight times. No wonder it is called the royal law.
Are fulfilling (carrying out, accomplishing) (5055)(teleo) is an interesting verb to use here because it means to complete something, not merely to end it, but to bring it to perfection or its destined goal. The present tense would picture this as a process, because we will never carry it out perfectly in this short life. It is no accident that this same verb is used of the perfect fulfillment of God's love for sinful men because teleo was one of the last words uttered by Jesus on the Cross when He declared "Tetelestai" which is the perfect tense (speaks of its lasting effect!) of teleo and means "It is Finished!" And all God's people shout "Thank You God. Thank You Jesus. Hallelujah! Amen!"
J Vernon McGee writes that "If you want to please God, to obey Him, and to discharge your responsibility, James makes it very clear what you are to do: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." That is the summation of the whole manward aspect of the Mosaic Law." (Thru The Bible)
Wiersbe asks Why is "love thy neighbor" called "the royal law"?
(1) For one thing, it was given by the King. God the Father gave it in the Law, and God the Son reaffirmed it to His disciples (John 13:34). God the Spirit fills our hearts with God's love and expects us to share it with others (Ro 5:5). True believers are "taught of God to love one another" (1 Th 4:9).
(2) But "love thy neighbor" is the royal law for a second reason: it rules all the other laws. "Love is the fulfilling of the Law" (Ro 13:10). There would be no need for the thousands of complex laws if each citizen truly loved his neighbors.
(3) But the main reason why this is the royal law is that obeying it makes you a king. Hatred makes a person a slave, but love sets us free from selfishness and enables us to reign like kings. Love enables us to obey the Word of God and treat people as God commands us to do. We obey His Law, not out of fear, but out of love. (BEC)
Royal (937)(basilikos from basileus = king) means royal, kingly, of a king. Zodhiates - belonging to a king (Acts 12:20, a territory; Jn 4:46, 49, a nobleman, a person attached to a court; Sept.: Nu 20:17; 21:22; 2 Sa 14:26; Esther 8:15). Befitting a king, of kingly dignity (Acts 12:21, a robe; James 2:8, noble, excellent, preeminent, referring to law)." (Ibid)
Basilikos - 5x - king's (1), royal (2), royal official (2)
Jn 4:46; Jn 4:49; Acts 12:20; Acts 12:21; Jas 2:8
Basilikos in the Septuagint (Lxx) -
Nu 20:17; Nu 21:22; 2 Sa 14:26; Est. 1:19; Est. 2:9; Est. 2:23; Est. 8:12; Est. 8:15; Est. 9:3; Job 18:14; Da 1:3; Da 1:5; Da 1:13; Da 1:15; Da 2:5; Da 2:49; Da 6:7; Da 8:27
YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF - Note that this commandment is to love your neighbor is the antithesis of our fallen natural tendency to show partiality or prejudice (the root of prejudice means "pre-judge!). Of course the only way to keep this (second) great commandment is by being continually filled with and controlled by the Spirit Who Alone can bring forth this quality of selfless, supernatural love from a human heart (Gal 5:22, Ro 5:5). Note what this verse clearly teaches -- men do NOT need to learn to love themselves. It is a basic trait of every human to love themselves for as Paul clearly states "no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it." (Eph 5:29+). So what this OT quote teaches us is that we know how to love ourselves and are to show that same quality of love to others. When we do that, we are in effect fulfilling the royal law and clearly will have no problem with the sin of favoritism or impartiality! Paul gives a similar teaching in Philippians
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests (WHICH COMES NATURALLY TO ALL MEN), but also for the interests of others. (Php 2:3-4+)
Neighbor is anyone whose need you can meet. So this command for love includes Christians and non-Christians. Compare Paul's exhortation in Galatians 6:10+ "So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people (INCLUDING NON-CHRISTIANS), and especially to those who are of the household of the faith (CHRISTIANS)."
Hiebert adds that "In the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37+), Jesus revealed that the term is not to be limited by considerations of race but incorporates every human being, including foreigners (Luke 10:25-37+) and enemies (Matt. 5:44+), whom our circumstances enable us to benefit." (Ibid)
Neighbor (Near) (4139)(plesion from pélas = near, near to or from plesios = close by) literally means near (literal use only in Jn 4:5), quite near, nearby = position quite close to another position. Figuratively, plesion means to be near someone and thus be a neighbor. Generally, plesion refers to a fellow man, any other member of the human family. TDNT explains that "Ho plesion" is the "neighbor," the person next to one" then more generally the “fellow human being.”
NET Note on "You Shall Love..." - A quotation from Lev 19:18 (also quoted in Matt 19:19; Mt 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Rom 13:9; Gal 5:14).
Love (25) see note above on agapao. The verb is singular which indicates this is the duty of each individual Christian. No love by proxy, so to speak. Compare this love to Christ's instructions in John 13:34-35.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35“By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Comment - "Consistent obedience to this precept throughout the church," Johnstone observes, "would be of itself an evangelistic power immeasurably surpassing anything else she could bring into action." Christianity's adoption of, and demand for, such a love has transformed social and domestic relations wherever it has been carried into practice. (Hiebert)
Wiersbe on you shall love your neighbor - Christian love does not mean that I must like a person and agree with him on everything. I may not like his vocabulary or his habits, and I may not want him for an intimate friend. Christian love means treating others the way God has treated me. It is an act of the will, not an emotion that I try to manufacture. The motive is to glorify God. The means is the power of the Spirit within ("for the fruit of the Spirit is love"). As I act in love toward another, I may find myself drawn more and more to him, and I may see in him (through Christ) qualities that before were hidden to me. Also, Christian love does not leave the person where it finds him. Love should help the poor man do better; love should help the rich man make better use of his God-given resources. Love always builds up (1 Cor. 8:1); hatred always tears down. We only believe as much of the Bible as we practice. If we fail to obey the most important word—"love thy neighbor as thyself"—then we will not do any good with the lesser matters of the Word. (BEC)
Grant Osborne on the phrase as yourself - They must be loved as yourself, meaning that you must have as deep and sacrificial a love for others as you have for yourself. However, this does not mean a "self-disregard" that involves denial of self, nor does "as yourself" reflect a narcissistic centering on self. Rather, it concerns a consideration and care for others as being part of yourself. (Cornerstone Biblical Commentary – James)
You are doing well - "You are doing excellently." Why excellent? For this is loving others like God loves them! It is being an imitator of God and of Jesus as Paul commands in Eph 5:1-2+ = "Therefore be imitators (present imperative = as your habitual practice only possible as we continually rely on the Holy Spirit to obey this command) of God, as beloved children; and walk (present imperative = habitual practice in reliance on the Holy Spirit to obey this command) in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. "
Such a life can surely expect to hear Jesus declare...
“His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’ (Mt 25:21, cf Lk 19:17+)
Doing well is the conclusion of the conditional statement beginning with "IF." James' point is that believers are doing well when they "Love your neighbor as yourself." It would be implicit if they are keeping this second great commandment, they by default would be keeping the first great commandment - "And He said to him, " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' This is the great and foremost commandment." (Mt 22:37-38). How can one love his neighbor if he does not first love God Who created his neighbor?
John Phillips gives a hypothetical illustration of keeping the royal law - The spirit of this "royal law" runs very deep. Here you are, coming home from work one day when, on alighting from the bus, you notice that the sky ahead is black with smoke. "Hello!" you say. "It looks as though there is a house on fire." Just then, with sirens blaring, the fire truck roars by. You hurry your steps and turn a corner. Now you can see a crowd of people up ahead, and the fire truck is unloading its men and equipment. "It's on my block!" you say, as you break into a run. Then you notice that it is your house that's on fire. "Praise the Lord!" you exclaim. "I'm so glad it's not my neighbor's house." So a person would react if he were motivated by the royal law. That is a rare person indeed. (Exploring the Epistle of James: An Expository Commentary)
Two apples up in a tree were looking down on the world. The first apple said, “Look at all those people fighting, robbing, rioting - no one seems willing to get along with his fellow man. Someday we apples will be the only ones left. Then we’ll rule the world.” Replied the second apple, “Which of us - the reds or the greens?”
Doing Well
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well. —James 2:8
Today's Scripture:James 1:1-13
In the book Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley recounts the World War II battle of Iwo Jima and its famous flag-raising on Mount Suribachi. Bradley’s father, John, was one of the flag-raisers. But more important, he was a Navy corpsman—a medic.
In the heat of battle, facing a barrage of bullets from both sides, Bradley exposed himself to danger so he could care for the wounded and dying. This self-sacrifice showed his willingness and determination to care for others, even though it meant placing himself at great personal risk.
Doc Bradley won the Navy Cross for his heroism and valor, but he never spoke of it to his family. In fact, it was only after his death that they learned of his military decorations. To Doc, it wasn’t about winning medals; it was about caring for his buddies.
In James 2:8 we read: “If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you do well.” By intentionally seeking to care for others in the way that we would hope to be treated, James says we “do well.” The word well means “rightly, nobly, so there is no room for blame.”
Selflessly “doing well” expresses the heart of God, and fulfills His law of love. By: Bill Crowder (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
Let the road be rough and dreary,
And its end far out of sight;
Foot it bravely, strong or weary;
Trust in God and do the right. —Macleod
Love is at the heart of obedience.
James 2:9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Amplified But if you show servile regard (prejudice, favoritism) for people, you commit sin and are rebuked and convicted by the Law as violators and offenders.
Phillips But once you allow any invidious distinctions to creep in, you are sinning, you have broken God's Law.
Wuest But if, as is the case, you are showing partiality [to certain individuals], you are committing a sin, being effectually convicted by the law as transgressors
NET James 2:9 But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.
GNT James 2:9 εἰ δὲ προσωπολημπτεῖτε, ἁμαρτίαν ἐργάζεσθε ἐλεγχόμενοι ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου ὡς παραβάται.
NLT James 2:9 But if you favor some people over others, you are committing a sin. You are guilty of breaking the law.
KJV James 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
ESV James 2:9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
ASV James 2:9 but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
CSB James 2:9 But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
NIV James 2:9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
NKJ James 2:9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
NRS James 2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
YLT James 2:9 and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;
NAB James 2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
NJB James 2:9 but as soon as you make class distinctions, you are committing sin and under condemnation for breaking the Law.
GWN James 2:9 If you favor one person over another, you're sinning, and this law convicts you of being disobedient.
BBE James 2:9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
But if you show partiality: Jas 2:1-4 Lev 19:15
you are committing sin: Joh 8:9,46 16:8 1Co 14:24 Jude 1:15
are convicted by the law as transgressors Ro 3:20 7:7-13 Ga 2:19 1Jn 3:4
TRANSGRESSING THE
Some of the readers might have thought showing favoritism was not that big of a deal and at best was only a minor transgression. James refutes the soft-peddling of the showing of favoritism and brings it out into the light of God's holy word -- to discriminate against anyone is sin!
Barton writes "The believers had not made the connection between God's command to love their neighbor (ED: "THE ROYAL LAW") and their discrimination against the poor." (Ibid)
Constable writes that "The type of preferential treatment James dealt with in this pericope (James 2:1-13) violates the royal law because it treats some as inferior and others as sources of special favor (cf. Acts 10:34+). It also violates specific commands found in God's Word that reveal God's will in interpersonal dealings (Matt. 7:12+; cf. Lev. 19:15+). (Ibid)
But (term of contrast) if you show partiality - Just as the "IF" in James 2:8 is a first class conditional, so too is this "IF" which assumes the follow as a true statement. That is, you are showing favoritism (present tense). It would seem that James gives the readers the two extremes - obeying or disobeying the royal law, and respectively, doing well or committing sin. The choice is theirs!
But habitual, blatant partiality (present tense) is a serious sin. MacArthur comments that "just as loving one's neighbor as one's self fulfills God's "royal law according to Scripture" and gives sure evidence of being God's child, so does habitual (present tense) partiality transgress that divinely revealed law and give sure evidence to the contrary." (See related comment below)
Showing partially is in the active voice indicating conscious, volitional choice. Similarly committing ("committing sin") is in the reflexive middle voice indicating even more the personal involvement in committing the sin - the idea is "you yourself are committing" and committing is also in the present tense.
Hiebert adds that "The evil (SHOWING PARTIALITY) was not some unfortunate action into which they had accidentally fallen but was a deliberate practice (SEE NOTE ABOVE ON VOICE OF THE VERBS SHOWING PARTIALITY AND COMMITTING SIN). As Roberts pungently remarks, "Partiality is not a trifling fault, it is a foul travesty of the law of God fully exposed in the Scriptures!" (Ibid)
Show partiality (only here in Bible)(4380)(prosopolempteo from prosopon = face + lambano = receive) means to accept or respect persons and in this context means to show partiality or favoritism by treating one person better than another. Zodhiates adds that it is "Equivalent to the Hebraism prósōpon lambánō (prosopon = face, presence, person; lambano = to receive, take into account), to show favor or partiality (Lk 20:21+ "You [JESUS] are not partial" ~ "You do not receive face"). See Septuagint (Lxx): Lev. 19:15+ = "you shall not be partial to the poor"; Mal. 2:9+ = "you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction." (Complete Word Study Dictionary)
James now presents two conclusions of showing partiality - (1) you are committing a sin and (2) you are guilty of breaking the law.
You are committing sin - NET has "if you show prejudice, you are committing sin." So showing partiality, favoritism or prejudice (Ouch! You've never been guilty of this have you?) is a sin! The verb for commiting is ergazomai which is picturesque for it means to engage in an activity involving considerable expenditure of effort, as when one toils energetically and diligently in a field! (Mt 21:28). It is as if one is working hard to show partiality and as noted above doing so continually (present tense)! Did you ever consider that committing sin is hard work? Interesting thought. It is so much easier to rest in God's commandments which brings peaceful fruit of righteousness (Heb 12:11+) instead of guilt and angst!
Sin (266)(hamartia) literally conveys the idea of missing the mark as when hunting with a bow and arrow (in Homer some hundred times of a warrior hurling his spear but missing his foe). Later hamartia came to mean missing or falling short of any goal, standard, or purpose. Hamartia in the Bible signifies a departure from God's holy, perfect standard of what is right in word or deed (righteous). It pictures the idea of missing His appointed goal (His good and acceptable and perfect will - Ro 12:2+) which results in a deviation from what is pleasing to Him. In short, sin is conceived as a missing the true end and scope of our lives, which is the Triune God Himself. As Martin Luther put it "Sin is essentially a departure from God."
John would add that those showing partiality are lawbreakers -
Everyone who practices (recall showing favoritism was present tense = habitual practice) sin also practices (present tense) lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. (1 Jn 3:4+).
ESV Study note adds that "Favoritism toward the rich breaks the OT commands to treat the poor equitably (Lev. 19:15; Deut. 16:19; Job 34:19) and is a serious transgression of God’s law."
And are convicted by the law as transgressors (lawbreakers) - James says the law convicts and so personifies the law. In this case the phrase the law looks back to the royal law in James 2:8. But the law is impersonal and it is actually the Holy Spirit Who uses the transgressed law to convict (cf Jn 16:8). The Spirit like a prosecuting attorney finds those showing favoritism as guilty of deliberately breaking the the royal law.
Grant Osborne observes that James' "point is that any act of bias whatsoever—whether on the basis of race, gender, looks, social status, or economics—breaks the laws of God and is a sin. Before God all people stand equally as his creation. As Paul says, "For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus...There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Gal 3:26, 28+)." (Cornerstone Biblical Commentary – James)
Convicted (exposed)(present tense) (1651)(elegcho a primary verb but related to elegchos = bringing to light) means to bring to the light (to reveal hidden things) with the implication that there is adequate proof of wrongdoing. To expose, to reprove, to shame or disgrace and thus to rebuke in such a way that one is compelled to see and to admit the error of their ways, in this case that they are demonstrating favoritism. The idea also has implicit the summons to the transgressor to repent. This verb is preeminently used of the Holy Spirit producing conviction in the heart, that inner conviction which convinces us that we have missed God's mark and have missed His approval. We constantly need the Holy Spirit to convict us about what is right as well as what is wrong so we don't hate what is wrong more than love what is right!
This same verb elegcho is used in Hebrews 12 to describe the chastening or discipline of sons and daughters by our Father, the writer of Hebrews declaring that "you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM." (Heb 12:5+)
Elegcho is used in John 3 which helps illustrate the meaning of this verb. Jesus explains that "everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed (elegcho)." (John 3:20)
Kent Hughes comments that "James views such an action (SHOWING FAVORITISM) as deliberate and ugly. It is not merely an excusable lack of courtesy, but a scandalous breach of God's love." (Ibid)
John Phillips on transgressors - The word here for "transgressors" means literally "one who oversteps." A transgressor breaks through a boundary. He goes too far. He breaks God's law. God does not want cliques in His church. Those who belong to cliques go too far. (Ibid)
Transgressors (3848)(parabates from pará = beyond or contrary to + baíno = to go; cf parabasis) describes one who steps on one side and thus goes beyond or steps across a line. A transgressor is a violator of the God's law, one who goes beyond the law. It refers to the the person who steps beyond a fixed limit into forbidden territory. The point is that the royal law draws the line that should not be crossed or "stepped over" and discrimination against anyone, whether on the basis of dress, race, social class, wealth, sex, etc., is a clear violation of the royal law.
MacArthur comments on the difference between sin and transgressors - Hamartia, translated simply sin, pertains to missing the mark of God's standard of righteousness, whereas parabates (transgressors) refers to someone who willfully goes beyond God's prescribed limits. In the one case, a person comes short; in the other, he goes too far. Both are sinful, just as adding to or subtracting from God's revealed Word are both sinful (Rev. 22:19+). (Ibid)
Hiebert has a interesting if somewhat technical note on law and transgressors - Since the Mosaic law prohibits partiality (Lev 19:15; Deut. 1:17; 16:19), and the law of love is violated when anyone is treated with discourtesy and snobbery, they cannot escape the verdict that they are "lawbreakers" (parabatai), people who are guilty of having passed over a forbidden boundary. Their partiality is not a trivial fault to be dismissed lightly as of no consequence, but a clear case of disobedience to a known demand of the Law. Adamson notes that "to the rabbis such transgression was 'rebellion,' and broke 'the fence of the Torah.'" Behind the noun "lawbreakers" lies the picture of the law laying out the way of righteousness in which a man should walk. But they have not stayed on the marked road; they have stepped defiantly over the boundary to engage in a forbidden practice. If the word "sin" conveys the negative truth that they have not measured up to the requirements of the Law but have fallen short, "lawbreakers" (AS RENDERED IN THE NIV = James 2:9NIV) marks the "positive side" (ED: MAYBE BETTER PHRASED THE "ANTITHETICAL" SIDE) of sin in that they have deliberately violated the restrictions of the law. (Ibid)
Phillips gives an illustration - In his book The Source, James Michener tells of a Jewish boy who grew up ostracized by society because he was an illegitimate child. The Law of Moses was explicit: "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord" (Deut. 23:2). It was a law that was intended to secure the sanctity of sex and the strength of family life. The rabbis went to work on this prohibition, expounded it, amplified it, and probed all of its nuances and ramifications. They came up with a thousand ways to make life intolerable for the victim and invented extraordinary measures for getting around them. As long as the young man in Michener's story was small, it was not so bad, although the stigma of his birth clung to him. But as he grew older, he was forced to shoulder an increasingly intolerable burden. The full horror of his situation dawned upon him when he faced the fact that, as a bastard and a social outlaw, he could not marry a respectable Jewish girl. The parents of the girl, the rabbis, and the community as a whole militated against any such unthinkable arrangement. Then, in the midst of his grief and bitterness, he found the church! Here was a group of people, emancipated from the law, both able and willing to receive even a person such as him heartily and without reservation into its fellowship. It opened up a new life. James is at pains, through thirteen verses of his epistle, to see that the church remained that way—free from prejudice, discrimination, and partiality. Such attitudes are sinful in the sight of God. (Exploring the Epistle of James: An Expository Commentary)
James 2:9 If you show partiality, you commit sin.
Clothing companies try to offer garments that match the public's perception of what a successful person wears. To determine this, a clothing analyst performed an experiment with raincoats. An actor wearing a tan raincoat approached people at a subway station. He explained that he had left his wallet home and asked to borrow train fare. People were surprisingly generous with this supposedly unfortunate executive. Then the actor wore a dark raincoat and approached people in the same way with the same story. This time he was treated differently Not only would no one give him money, but he was physically threatened. The opposite reaction was linked to the color of the coat. People saw the dark garment as threatening and judged the man with suspicion.
Aren't we also guilty of judging by appearances? Don't we let externals determine how we respond to people? Whenever we discriminate according to race, age, gender, or income level, we are sinning (James 2:9). God is impartial, and when we accept all people equally we are reflecting His character.—D. C. Egner (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
PREJUDICE LETS YOU FORM OPINIONS WITHOUT GETTING THE FACTS.
Garlic And Sapphires
In her fascinating book Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Ruth Reichl reflects on her 6 years as a New York Times restaurant critic. Because she was the most influential critic in the country, top restaurants posted her photograph so their employees could recognize her. Hoping to earn a high rating in the New York Times, the staff intended to provide her with their top service and best cuisine.
In response, Reichl developed a clever strategy. Hoping to be treated as a regular patron, she disguised herself. On one occasion, she dressed up as an old woman. The restaurant made her wait a long time to be seated and then was unresponsive to her requests.
In the early church, James spoke out against favoritism: “[If] you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, ‘You sit here in a good place,’ and say to the poor man, ‘You stand there,’ or, ‘Sit here at my footstool,’ have you not shown partiality among yourselves?” (2:3-4).
When people attend our churches, are they treated impartially? Or do we show favoritism to the wealthy or elite? God calls us to show concern for and interest in all people, regardless of their social status. Let’s welcome all to join us in worshiping the King! By: Dennis Fisher (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
Dear Lord, You welcomed us into Your kingdom, not because of who we are but because of who You are— our loving and merciful God. Help us to open our arms of fellowship to all who enter in. Amen.
God lets us into His fellowship. Who are we to keep others out?
His face was grimy, his hair long and dirty. Beer stained his clothing and perfumed the air around him. When he stepped into the church building, the Sunday worshipers ignored him. They were stunned when the man approached the pulpit, took off his wig, and began preaching. That’s when they realized he was their pastor.
I don’t know about you, but I tend to be friendly and shake hands with the people I know and those who pre-sent themselves well.
James issued a serious warning for people like me. He said, “If you show partiality, you commit sin” (2:9). Favoritism based on appearance or economic status has no place in God’s family. In fact, it means we have “become judges with evil thoughts” (v.4).
Fortunately, we can guard against preferential treatment by loving our neighbor as ourselves—no matter who our neighbor may be. Reaching out to the homeless man, the hungry woman, or the heartbroken teen means we “fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture” (v.8).
In a world that keeps the outcast at arm’s length, let’s show the love of Christ and embrace the one who needs our care the most. By: Jennifer Benson Schuldt (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
Forgive me, Lord, for prejudice— Remove its subtle lie; Oh, fill my heart with Your great love That sent Your Son to die. —D. De Haan
True Christian love helps those who can’t return the favor.
James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
Amplified For whosoever keeps the Law [as a] whole but stumbles and offends in one [single instance] has become guilty of [breaking] all of it.
Phillips Remember that a man who keeps the whole Law but for a single exception is none the less a law-breaker.
Wuest For whoever observes the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all [the commandments].
NET James 2:10 For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
GNT James 2:10 ὅστις γὰρ ὅλον τὸν νόμον τηρήσῃ πταίσῃ δὲ ἐν ἑνί, γέγονεν πάντων ἔνοχος.
NLT James 2:10 For the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as a person who has broken all of God's laws.
KJV James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
ESV James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.
ASV James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.
CSB James 2:10 For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all.
NIV James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
NKJ James 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
NRS James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.
YLT James 2:10 for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all;
NAB James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law, but falls short in one particular, has become guilty in respect to all of it.
NJB James 2:10 You see, anyone who keeps the whole of the Law but trips up on a single point, is still guilty of breaking it all.
GWN James 2:10 If someone obeys all of God's laws except one, that person is guilty of breaking all of them.
BBE James 2:10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.
whoever keeps the whole law: De 27:26 Mt 5:18,19 Ga 3:10
SERIOUSNESS OF
STUMBLING!
For (gar) is a term of explanation. You would think that telling us that showing partiality was sin and breaking the royal law would have been enough to get his reader's attention. But now in this context, James is led by the Spirit to explain why this sin of favoritism is so serious. It is so easy for all of us to excuse some breach of the law that we consider to be just a minor matter ("It's just a little white lie," etc). James is going to explode that misconception which all of us have bought into at one time or another! It may seem "minor" to us, but before a perfectly holy God it is no different than Adam's sin which catapulted the entire human race into sin and spiritual death! Another "myth" that James exposes is the rationalization that we may have disobeyed one commandment, but what is that compared to all those that we obeyed? Don't we get some credit for those?
McGee writes "The Law condemns discriminating between the rich and poor. Someone will say, "Well, I didn't commit murder, and I haven't committed adultery." You haven't? Listen to what James says."
God doesn’t grade on the curve. And if you’re thinking you’re going to be accepted by you’ve got a pretty good record with a few ups and downs, I’ve got to give you the news, you aren’t going to make it.
MacArthur explains that "The Jews tended to regard the law as a series of detached commands. To keep one of those commands was to gain credit. To break one was to incur debt. Therefore, a man could add up the ones he kept and subtract the ones he broke and, as it were, emerge with a moral credit or debit balance.That philosophy, of course, is common to every works-righteousness system of religion. The idea is that acceptance or rejection by God depends essentially on the moral standing of the person himself. If he does more good than bad, he is accepted by God. If the scale tilts the other way, he is rejected. That totally unbiblical notion is firmly believed by many, many people, including many who name the name of Christ. God's standard, however, is perfection. (cf Mt 5:48+ = "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.")." (Ibid) (Bold added)
Kistemaker has a similar comment noting that "The Jews in the time of James made a distinction between the more important laws and those that were less significant. For example, they considered the law on sabbath observance most pressing. But other commandments, like the one against swearing, they did not consider very important (see Mt. 5:33-37; James 5:12). (Baker New Testament Commentary – Exposition of James, Epistles of John, Peter, and Jude)
Hiebert - This principle of the unity of the law was also taught by the rabbis. "If he do all, but omit one, he is guilty for all severally" (shabbath. 70.2). But as Billerbeck points out, more frequently the rabbis reversed this teaching and held that obedience to certain specific laws was as good as obedience to the whole, usually in connection with the observance of the Sabbath. "The Sabbath weighs against all the precepts; if they keep it, they were reckoned as having done all" (Shemoth Rabb. 25). There was a constant tendency among the rabbis to make the ceremonial cover up moral and spiritual lapses. But Scripture does not allow us to make such compensatory value judgments concerning the various demands of the law In Galatians 5:3 Paul declares that those who place themselves under the law are obligated to obey the whole law. (Ibid)
Craig Keener - Jewish teachers distinguished “heavier” from “lighter” sins, but felt that God required obedience to even the “smallest” commandments, rewarding the obedient with eternal life and punishing transgressors with damnation. That willful violation of even a minor transgression was tantamount to rejecting the whole law was one of their most commonly repeated views. (Ancient writers often stated principles in sharp, graphic ways but in practice showed more mercy to actual transgressors in the community.) Stoics (against the Epicureans) went even farther in declaring that all sins were equal. The point here is that rejecting the law of economic impartiality in Leviticus 19:15, or the general principle of love behind it (Leviticus 19:18), was rejecting the whole authority of God (James 2:8). Jewish teachers often used “stumbling” as a metaphor for sin. (The IVP Bible Background Commentary – New Testament)
Barton - James' point here is not that showing favoritism is as "bad" as murder, but that no matter what commandment someone breaks, that person is guilty of an offense against God. He or she has violated the will of God. We cannot excuse the sin of favoritism by pointing to the rest of the good we do. Sin is not simply balanced against good—it must be confessed and forgiven. (Ibid)
For whoever keeps (tereo) the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all - Note the "whoever" which is equivalent to "anyone who" which is another way to say that no one can claim he or she is an exception to this principle.
John Phillips pictured the unity of the law as like a chain - "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link." One link is broken and the anchor plunges to the depths of hell unless one believes in Christ Who perfectly obeyed whole law because only "through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses." (Acts 13:39+).
F B Meyer pictured the unity of the law this way "A person may observe all the laws of health, but if he inhales one whiff of poison, he may die; so we may be outwardly obedient to the entire Decalogue, but delinquency in love will invalidate everything."
James is not saying that "whoever" has broken every law of God, but that he is guilty of breaking the law regardless of which one it is that he broke. Think of the law as like a window pane - if you break part of the pane, you have broken the entire window pane. MacArthur adds "You may hit it only once, and that rather lightly, but the whole window is shattered. In the same way, some sins are relatively light and some are extremely vile. But breaking ("annuls" = breaks) even "one of the least of these commandments" (Matt. 5:19+) shatters the unity of God's holy law and turns the guilty person into a transgressor." (Ibid)
Hughes adds "James sees the Law as a seamless garment which, when ripped in one place, tears the whole garment. Early Jewish writings said similar things, and later writings such as the Talmud were explicit: "If he do all, but omit one, he is guilty of all severally" (Shabbath 70, 2). Jesus Himself alluded to the Law's unity (cf. Matthew 5:18, 19+; Matthew 23:23), and Paul would say, "All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law'" (Galatians 3:10+; Galatians 5:3+ = "And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law.").
Barton addresses the question "So why is a person who commits one sin guilty of breaking them all? James is not attempting to discuss greater or lesser sins. He is pointing to the overall effect of any sin on our relationship with God. Where we tend to see God's rules like a fabric, James sees glass. If we throw a small or large stone at the fabric, the hole will be similar in shape and size to the rock thrown. If we throw a stone at the glass, however, any sized stone will shatter the glass (ED: THINK "ANY SIZED SIN"). This does not mean that breaking any commandment is just as bad as breaking any other (for example, stealing bread instead of murdering a person). It does mean that deliberately breaking any commandment shows our attitude toward God's direction for our life." (Ibid)
A T Robertson - This is law. To be a lawbreaker one does not have to violate all the laws, but he must keep all the law (holon ton nomon) to be a law-abiding citizen, even laws that one does not like. See Matthew 5:18-19 for this same principle. There is Talmudic parallel: "If a man do all, but omit one, he is guilty for all and each." This is a pertinent principle also for those who try to save themselves. (Word Pictures in the New Testament)
Stumbles (4417)(ptaio) means literally to lose one's footing and so to fall, stumble or “to be tripped up. Ptaio is used only figuratively in the NT of failing to do God's will and thus "going astray," erring or sinning. In the present passage stumbles indicates one trips over (so to speak) the "boundary line" established by the royal law. James is not necessarily saying we do this on purpose or willfully, but that we stumble and disobey a law out of carelessness or inattention. Ptaio - 4 uses in NT - Ro 11:11+; Jas. 2:10; Jas. 3:2+; 2 Pet. 1:10+
Grant Osborne - "The point is that "failing" (STUMBLES) in one area is enough to lead a person away from God. Thus, such a one "is as guilty as a person who has broken all of God's laws." The courtroom metaphor continues, and the thrust is that God will judge them guilty. This does not mean that discrimination is the same as murder but rather that both are equally breaking God's law. (Ibid)
Kistemaker has a comment that is apropos to "stumbles" writing that "If I stub my toe, not only my toe but also my whole body hurts. Every part of my body is integrally related to the whole (cf 1 Cor 12:26). If I break one of God's commandments, I sin against the entire law of God." (Ibid) Kistemaker of course is illustrating how the law of God is viewed as a unity (= an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting; the quality of being united into one).
ESV Study Bible on "fails in one point has become accountable for all of it" (ESV translation) - The law was considered an interdependent whole, (ED: cf unity) and any infraction constituted a breaking of the law as a whole. Jesus said, “not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished” (Mt. 5:18+). Thus favoritism (James 2:9) makes one “accountable” (Gk. enochos, a legal term for “liable” or “guilty” before God’s court) for the whole law.
He has become guilty of all - James is not saying he is guilty of all in the sense that that he has violated every single law of God. He is saying he is guilty of all, because as discussed above, the law is considered a unity. MacArthur adds that "One transgression makes fulfilling the law's most basic commands—to love God perfectly and to love one's neighbor as oneself—impossible." (MacArthur Study Bible)
Hiebert on has become guilty of all explains that here James "categorically states the sweeping result. "Has" (gegonen) renders a perfect tense and asserts that his failure has brought him into the abiding condition of being guilty of all, all the things demanded by the law. Guilty does not mean that James charges the man with having actually violated all the other parts of the law Nor does it mean that all violations of the law are equally serious. Guilty (enochos) is literally "in the power of" and means that the transgressor has been "brought into the condemning power of" the whole. In the words of Davids, "although penalties may vary, one is counted a criminal no matter which particular section of the code one may have broken." He who deliberately violates one part of the law, while observing the rest, reveals in himself "a sinful disposition which will manifest itself in many other ways when there is convenient opportunity and adequate inducement." Our obedience to God's will cannot be on a selective basis; we cannot choose that part that is to our liking and disregard the rest. God's will is not fragmentary; the entire law is the expression of His will for His people; it constitutes a grand unity. (Ibid)
Guilty (liable, accountable) (1777)(enochos from enecho = to hold in) literally means held fast in or caught in. Enochos means being guilty of having done wrong and thus deserving some particular penalty. As the NLT says the one who stumbles over only one point "is as guilty as a person who has broken all of God's laws." The Amplified says this one "has become guilty of [breaking] all of it."
POSB summaries James 2:10 - Showing partiality makes a person guilty of the whole law of God (James 2:10). How is this possible? How can a person be guilty of all the law if he breaks only one law? Men follow God or else they do not follow God. There is no such thing as subtracting the laws that one does not like and keeping the laws that one does like. Every law has been given by God. They all form a whole pattern, a complete style of life. They are all necessary to point one in the right direction and toward the right goal.Thus, to offend in one point or to slip from one law makes one short of the goal. One side-steps from the right direction. One goes astray from the whole law of God and one becomes guilty of the whole law.Simply stated, if a person breaks one law, he has violated the law of God, the whole package of God's law. Although he broke only one law, he is still guilty; he is still a transgressor. He has still broken God's law. He is no less guilty than if he had broken every law. He stands as a transgressor before God and he must be forgiven by God just as much as any other transgressor. This is significant for us to notice and heed, for it means (2) that we cannot pick and choose what laws we will keep and what laws we will violate, (2) that we cannot build up a merit system with God by keeping most of the laws and be allowed to break a few of the laws, (3) that we cannot become more acceptable to God because we keep most of the laws and break only a few, (4) that we are more righteous than other people because we keep more laws than they do and break fewer of what men call the more meaningful laws. The point is this: showing partiality makes a person a terrible law-breaker, the most serious offender imaginable. We are guilty of breaking the great royal law of God, the law of love, the very basic law of God's kingdom. We are guilty of breaking all the laws of God. We stand as guilty as the the most base transgressor of God's holy law, and we are just as liable and subject to punishment as any other transgressor. (The Preacher's Outline & Sermon Bible – Hebrew, James)
READ: James 2:8-13
WHAT happens when we break a law of God? Is the law damaged? Does it chip, crack, bend, or shatter? Does it suddenly cease to operate? Consider, for example, a person who tries to break the law of gravity. A deluded person might jump from a second-story balcony convinced that he can fly. But in violating the law of nature, he himself is broken. The law remains unscathed. The same is true of the moral law of God. Sometimes we talk about breaking it as if the law itself suffers due to our action. But the law of God is not broken. We are. We damage our health. We damage our relationships. We damage our reputations. We dam-age our spiritual sensitivity. We damage our future. As a result, we are in constant need of repair, which we receive from the very One whose law we've broken. And for this we have every reason to thank God continually for His mercy, forgiveness, grace, and patience.—M R De Haan II (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
Lord, make me ever more aware of the eventual and inevitable results of my sin. May I realize that by violating Your spiritual laws I damage myself and the ones I love, not the law. Relieve me of my foolish thinking which tells me that because the consequences are not immediately evident, there are none.
GOD'S MERCY SYSTEM
"Whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty in all." - James 2:10
In the United States justice system, it's important that jurors have an open mind. They can't have their minds made up before they get into the courtroom. They must always remember that a person is considered innocent until proven guilty. Even for those who never expect to find themselves on the wrong side of the law, it's a comfort to know that guilt is not assumed, but has to be proven. Yet, this system of justice is not like the one God has devised for mankind. We are declared guilty before we even enter His courtroom! And though that may not sound fair, it is. God's perfect holiness demands it. In a courtroom, when a person is found guilty, he or she faces punishment. But the wonderful thing about God's courtroom is that when we admit our guilt, we are offered mercy! We are all guilty and face an eternal life-sentence of death. Yet the penalty for sin is meted out only to those who refuse to acknow- ledge their sin, and who reject God's forgiveness through Jesus Christ. Guilty -- that's our status. But we can be granted forgiveness and be pardoned from our sin through the blood of Jesus Christ. That's God's mercy system! -- J. David Branon (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. — Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved)
God's pardon is so full and free,
For Jesus died on Calvary;
It's granted to each sinful soul
Who truly longs to be made whole.
-- Dennis J. De Haan
God's justice condemns us -- but His mercy redeems us
James 2:11 For He who said, "DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," also said, "DO NOT COMMIT MURDER." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
Amplified For He Who said, You shall not commit adultery, also said, You shall not kill. If you do not commit adultery but do kill, you have become guilty of transgressing the [whole] Law.
Phillips The one who said, 'Do not commit adultery', also said, 'Do not murder'. If you were to keep clear of adultery but were to murder a man you would have become a breaker of God's whole Law.
Wuest For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not commit murder. Now if, as is the case, you are not committing adultery, but are committing murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
NET James 2:11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.
GNT James 2:11 ὁ γὰρ εἰπών, Μὴ μοιχεύσῃς, εἶπεν καί, Μὴ φονεύσῃς· εἰ δὲ οὐ μοιχεύεις φονεύεις δέ, γέγονας παραβάτης νόμου.
NLT James 2:11 For the same God who said, "You must not commit adultery," also said, "You must not murder." So if you murder someone but do not commit adultery, you have still broken the law.
KJV James 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
ESV James 2:11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
ASV James 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
CSB James 2:11 For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.
NIV James 2:11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
NKJ James 2:11 For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
NRS James 2:11 For the one who said, "You shall not commit adultery," also said, "You shall not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
YLT James 2:11 for He who is saying, 'Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, 'Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;
NAB James 2:11 For he who said, "You shall not commit adultery," also said, "You shall not kill." Even if you do not commit adultery but kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.
NJB James 2:11 He who said, 'You must not commit adultery' said also, 'You must not kill.' Now if you commit murder, you need not commit adultery as well to become a breaker of the Law.
GWN James 2:11 After all, the one who said, "Never commit adultery," is the same one who said, "Never murder." If you do not commit adultery but you murder, you become a person who disobeys God's laws.
BBE James 2:11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.
DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,: Ex 20:13-14 De 5:17-18 Mt 5:21-28 19:18 Mk 10:19 Lu 18:20 Ro 13:9
Now if you do not commit adultery,: Lev 4:2,13,22 Ps 130:3,4
CLASSIFYING FAVORITISM
WITH "SERIOUS" SINS
For (gar) - James will illustrate the unitary nature of the law by explaining that to break one law is to break the whole law. In so doing, he shows that favoritism is no minor sin, but ranks with sins considered far more "serious." Clearly, James is trying to make the point that practicing favoritism is a serious transgression, for these "serious" sins and favoritism are both equally glaring violations of the law of love (cf Ro 12:9, Ro 13:10, Ro 15:1-2, Gal 5:14).
THOUGHT - The practical implication would be that if there were any in the assembly who were actively practicing this sin, they need to understand it was serious and they needed to confess and repent of it.
Don Anderson - God doesn’t grade sin. Sin is sin. And you’re saying “What about adultery? And murder? Certainly partiality’s not as bad as that?” Well James has been reading your mail! (Notes)
POSB adds that "Partiality is a sin that selects and favors one person over another. It ignores and neglects a person. It casts one into oblivion, wipes one out; treats one as though he is nothing, absent, or non-existent. Thus, it is comparable to murder. It is the same root, the same cause, the same selfishness, the same lust, the same sin as killing. This stresses the seriousness of showing partiality. Scripture is clear in its warning: the church and believers are not to show partiality or favoritism to anyone." (Preacher's Outline & Sermon Bible – Hebrew, James)
Kistemaker - James has selected the two commandments that are mentioned first in the section of the law that pertains to the neighbor (see Mt. 19:18-19 and parallels). The simple logic is that if a person keeps the one commandment but violates the other (ED: BECAUSE OF THE UNITY OF THE LAW), he is nonetheless a lawbreaker and God declares him guilty. (Baker New Testament Commentary – Exposition of James, Epistles of John, Peter, and Jude)
Barton comments that "Jewish theologians of the day would have disagreed with James, saying some laws were "light" and some "heavy," meaning that breaking some was not as serious as breaking others. It might seem that stumbling on the act of showing favoritism is breaking one of those "least commandments," not nearly as bad as committing adultery or murdering. But God's law was not written with "heavy" and "light" commands so that obedience to some outweighed obedience to others. Believers are called to consistent obedience. From our perspective, there do seem to be degrees of sin. The immediate effects of some sins seem much more destructive and horrible than others. This is true. What we must remember, however, is God's perspective. He not only sees immediate effects, but he also sees hidden and long-term effects. And the long-term effect of all sin is rebellion against God." (Ibid)
He who said - Hiebert calls this "another Jewish circumlocution for God." Kistemaker adds that "this is a typical Jewish way to avoid using the name of God." Interesting thought considering the Jewish background of the believers James is addressing.
Hiebert explains that "God explicitly set forth both of these laws. The one Lawgiver underlines the unity of the laws He established. The two laws cited, the first two precepts of the second table of the Decalogue, are both negatively stated: the negative mē with the aorist subjunctive expresses a peremptory prohibition; not even a single act of adultery or murder can be condoned. But the interest of James centers not on the individual commands but on the fact that the same God gave both. They equally express the will of the one Lawgiver." (Ibid)
DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," also said, "DO NOT COMMIT MURDER"- So to illustrate the seriousness of favoritism, James selects two of what most of us would consider the "more serious" sins, the breaking of either of which in the Old Testament would incur the death penalty. James will go on to conclude that those who commit these "serious" sins have become a transgressor (parabates) of the law just those who committed the sin of favoritism were considered as transgressors (parabates) of the royal law (James 2:9).
Robertson notes that "The unity of the law lies in the Lawgiver who spoke both prohibitions."
Hughes comments that "It may seem like James is making a "big deal" out of the rather common sin of favoritism—"everyone does it." But he isn't, for favoritism indicates the tilt of one's soul. Christians who practice favoritism are flagrant lawbreakers. James has made favoritism a notorious sin, listing it with murder and adultery....Lives of favoritism are lives in jeopardy (ED: SEE THE THOUGHT BELOW - JEOPARDY MEANS "a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune"). What is our attitude in our heart of hearts toward the poor, toward other races, toward the uneducated? Do we favor the privileged? These are the questions of a moral theologian who is concerned that we have a real faith (ED COMMENT: "REAL FAITH" VERSUS "FALSE FAITH" IS THE MAIN SUBJECT OF THE REMAINDER OF THIS CHAPTER. THUS IN THIS CONTEXT THE PRACTICE OF THE SIN OF FAVORITISM RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT THE GENUINENESS OF ONE'S FAITH. THIS WOULD ALSO EXPLAIN WHY JAMES HAD GONE TO SUCH GREAT LENGTHS TO POINT OUT THAT IT IS A SERIOUS TRANSGRESSION, NOT A TRIVIAL MATTER TO BE IGNORED! IT IS NOT BE "SWEPT UNDER THE RUG" BUT "PUT UNDER THE BLOOD!"). (Preaching the Word – James: Faith That Works) (Bold added)
THOUGHT - LET ME REPEAT A COMMENT FROM James 2:9 - "But habitual, blatant partiality (present tense) is a serious sin."
MacArthur comments that "just as loving one's neighbor as one's self fulfills God's "royal law according to Scripture" and gives sure evidence of being God's child, so does habitual (present tense) partiality transgress that divinely revealed law and give sure evidence to the contrary."
Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law - How absurd to assume that if one does not commit adultery, he may commit murder with impunity. James says the truth is that you have still become a lawbreaker. Ronald Blue says "Utilizing the extreme instances of adultery and murder, James showed the absurdity of inconsistent obedience." (Bible Knowledge Commentary)
George Stulac sums up James' message as "Don't think you are keeping the law of Christ while you are practicing favoritism. It is as much a contradiction as if you claimed you were keeping the law just because you were not committing adultery even though you were practicing murder. James's language is stark and emphatic in James 2:9: If you show favoritism, you sin." (The IVP New Testament Commentary Series – James)
In the context of the sin of favoritism, the point is that while favoritism might not seem to be as serious as some other sins (adultery, murder), especially when one considers the social consequences (and the OT penalty of death for adultery or murder), ALL sins (including favoritism) are just as serious as murder and adultery because all sins represents a violation of God's perfect and holy will.
Transgressor (3848) see note above on parabates
Brian Bell succinctly summarizes James thoughts in James 2:8-11 - If are a “respect of persons”, you are sinning, you are a transgressor of the law: Its inconsistent with God’s character (v5); Its inconsistent with sound logic (v6,7); It’s inconsistent with Scripture (v8-11); It’s sin (v9); It makes you guilty of the whole law of God (v10); It is just as serious a sin as adultery and killing (11); God will judge Sin (v11).
Kistemaker has an interesting Doctrinal Consideration of James 2:8-11 - Too often we look at the commandments from a negative point of view. We do so because most of them are cast in a negative form: for example, do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal. But the Ten Commandments have a positive side, too. They teach us that within the boundaries of God's protective laws we have perfect freedom. As fish thrive in water because water is their natural habitat, so the child of God flourishes in the setting of the law. He realizes that God has graciously given him these laws for his protection and safety. He knows that "the law of the Lord is perfect" and that "the precepts of the Lord are right" (Ps. 19:7, 8). He experiences the love of God in these commandments, so that he in turn can express his love to God and his neighbor.Why does the believer keep the law of God? He keeps the law (ED: SEE BELOW) because in this way he is able to show his gratitude to God. The law of God, then, is a rule of gratitude for the believer. (Ibid)
Comment: I would add that "he keeps the law" because he is now able to keep the law for in the New Covenant (1) it is written on his heart (Jer 31:33+, Hebrews 8:10+) (2) he has the Spirit living inside Who gives the supernatural power he needs to obey the law (Gal 5:18+ cf Ro 8:13+, Gal 5:16+), and (3) he has the love of God poured out in his heart (Ro 5:5) and now is motivated to obey out of love not out of legalism (cf Jn 14:15).
James 2:12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
Amplified So speak and so act as [people should] who are to be judged under the law of liberty [the moral instruction given by Christ, especially about love].
Phillips Anyway, you should speak and act as men who will be judged by the law of freedom.
Wuest In this manner be speaking and in this manner be doing, namely, as those who are about to be judged by a law of liberty,
NET James 2:12 Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.
GNT James 2:12 οὕτως λαλεῖτε καὶ οὕτως ποιεῖτε ὡς διὰ νόμου ἐλευθερίας μέλλοντες κρίνεσθαι.
NLT James 2:12 So whatever you say or whatever you do, remember that you will be judged by the law that sets you free.
KJV James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
ESV James 2:12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
ASV James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.
CSB James 2:12 Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.
NIV James 2:12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,
NKJ James 2:12 So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
NRS James 2:12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
YLT James 2:12 so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,
NAB James 2:12 So speak and so act as people who will be judged by the law of freedom.
NJB James 2:12 Talk and behave like people who are going to be judged by the law of freedom.
GWN James 2:12 Talk and act as people who are going to be judged by laws that bring freedom.
BBE James 2:12 Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.
So speak and so act Php 4:8 Col 3:17 2Pe 1:4-8
the law of liberty: Jas 2:8 1:25
MOTIVATION FOR
PRESENT PRACTICE
We must all soberly ponder the truth that how we live today will impact eternity in one way or another. We should ever speak and ever act as those who are about to be judged by Jesus! Such an attitude under grace and enabled by the Spirit would doubtless exert a radically transforming effect on virtually every aspect of our life!
Hiebert adds that "James is insistent that all of Christian conduct be motivated by the realization of future judgment (cf. 2 Cor. 5:9-10)." (Ibid)
So speak and so act - Speaking and doing are seen in the earlier example of partiality in what one said and how one treated the rich man and the poor man (James 2:2-3+). So in this context what one says and what one does are the two ways discrimination was shown. James is basically saying: Don’t just talk the talk; you are accountable to walk the walk.
James' combination of speech and action is similar to phrases like "in words and deeds" (describing Moses in Acts 7:22) or John's exhortation "Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth." (1 John 3:18).
Speak and act are both commands in the present imperative calling for habitual speech and action. All of us need to regularly watch our speech and our actions. Ultimately the only way to obey these commands is by reliance on the indwelling Spirit, Who will give us the desire and the power (Phil 2:13NLT+), to work out this aspect of our salvation in fear and trembling (Phil 2:12+). Stated another way, godly speech and actions are not the result of external pressure to keep a list of rules and regulations, but are made possible because the love of Christ has been poured out within our hearts by the Holy Spirit Who God has given us (Ro 5:5). Love is the fulfillment of the Law (Romans 13:10), so if we love God, serving Him and keeping His commandments will not be a burden or a battle. Love makes obedience a blessing and not a burden and God's Spirit makes this obedience possible.
Don Anderson - What James is suggesting here is that our speech and our actions should be saturated by love. What we say and what we do are the final proof of what is really in our hearts. (Notes)
Remember that the context for James issuing these commands is the danger of showing favoritism or partiality. In that context the POSB comments that "Who a person is—his social standing and wealth, clothing and appearance—are to have no effect upon us whatsoever. We are to receive people, actually reach out to them through our speech and behavior, no matter who they are. God is going to judge us on the basis of how we have loved and reached out to people, regardless of who they are." (Ibid)
Wiersbe adds that "Our words will be judged. Note the words spoken to the two visitors in James 2:3. What we say to people, and how we say it, will come up before God. Even our careless words will be judged (Matt. 12:36). Of course, the words we speak come from the heart; so when God judges the words, He is examining the heart (Matt. 12:34-37). Jesus emphasized caution when speaking in some of His warnings in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:21-26, 33-37; Mt 7:1-5, 21-23). Our deeds will be judged. Read Colossians 3:22-25 for additional insight. It is true that God remembers our sins against us no more (Jer. 31:34; Heb. 10:17); but our sins affect our character and works. We cannot sin lightly and serve faithfully. God forgives our sins when we confess them to Him, but He cannot change their, consequences. (BEC) (Bold added)
As those who are to be judged by the law of liberty - Notice what seems to be an oxymoron - freedom and law. The NIV has "the law that gives freedom," a description that applies only to those who have "faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Chris" (James 2:1)
Believers are to continually order their speech and their steps (so that their walk matches their talk) in light of the truth that they will each stand individually at the Bema Seat of Christ "so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad." (2 Cor 5:10+, see also Ro 14:10-12+; 1 Cor 3:10-15). Unbelievers will be judged by the law at the Great White Throne judgment, but it will bring them the "recompense" of condemnation and eternal punishment (Rev 20:11-15+).
THOUGHT - So while believers will not be judged for their sin which was judge at Calvary, we will be judged according to our works. Did we live according to God’s will for our lives? Have we laid up any treasure in heaven? Will any of our works follow us home? Will they survive the judgment of God?
Kent Hughes has a sobering comment on this awesome day in the life of every believer when we will be judged by the law of liberty - This judgment will be no casual prelude to eternity. It will be a solemn time. True, some believers' works will be seen as "gold, silver, costly stones," but others will suffer immense shame for their "wood, hay or straw." Truly, our "work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames" (1 Cor. 3:12-15). James, the Lord's brother, lived in awareness of this reality, and so commands those prone to favoritism to "Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom" (James 2:12). "Speak" and "act" are present active imperatives: keep on speaking and keep on acting in the reality of the coming judgment.This is sobering grist for spiritual meditation. You do not know my heart, and I do not know yours, but God does. And we are going to be relentlessly and perfectly judged. (Preaching the Word – James: Faith That Works)
The phrase are to be is the verb mello which describes a future event that is sure to happen and can even convey the sense of an event which is about to take place at any time (imminent). In James 5:9+, James reminds his reads "Behold (PAY ATTENTION), the Judge is standing right at the door!"
And the verb judged (krino) in this context does not mean we are to be condemned, but that we will each stand before the Judge Jesus Christ Who will evaluate our character and contact using the law of liberty.
Warren Wiersbe said "Believers today must find their life and victory in God’s Word. Unless we know what God commands (ED: THE LAW OF LIBERTY), we can’t obey Him; but if we know His commandments, believe them, and obey them, then His power goes to work in our lives. “And His commandments are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3+). Obeying the Lord becomes a joyful privilege when you realize that His commandments are expressions of His love, assurances of His strength, invitations to His blessing, opportunities to grow and bring Him glory, and occasions to enjoy His love and fellowship as we seek to please Him. God’s Word is the open door into the treasury of His grace." (Commentary on Deuteronomy)
Ross: "We shall be judged… not so much by the observance or neglect of this or that external rule as by the degree in which our heart and life have been dominated by the spirit of love."
John Trapp on law of liberty - It is also called a law of liberty, because it is freely and willingly kept of the regenerate, to whom it is no burden or bondage.
Ronald Blue explains why the the law gives one the experience of liberty - God's Law, because of its wise constraints, brings true freedom (cf. James 1:25+). Disobedience to God's Law brings bondage. (Bible Knowledge Commentary)
Brian Bell says the Law of liberty is "Not freedom from the obligations of moral law; it is freedom to fulfill the just requirements of the law."
So while believers are still called on to obey God's law, for believers His law is no longer a burden (as it is to the unregenerate) but gives us freedom because instead of obeying now out of legalistic constraint or compulsion, we obey out of love and joy. We obey with thankful hearts because we are free from law's death penalty and we have the indwelling Spirit Who enables us to obey.
Peter gives believers a caution regarding living under the law of liberty (using the same noun eleutheria used in this passage by James -
Act (verb added by translators - this verse is a continuation of the sense of the command in 1 Pe 2:13+) as free (eleutheria) men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves (doulos) of God. (1 Peter 2:16+).
Liberty (1657) (eleutheria from eleutheros - that which is capable of movement, freedom to go wherever one likes, unfettered; see word study on verb eleutheroo) describes the state of being free and stands in opposition to slavery or bondage. It depicts the state of being free as opposed to being in bondage to the Law (cp Gal 2:4+, Ro 7:4+) or enslaved to Sin (Ro 6:16+, Ro 6:17, 18+).
MacArthur in his comments on law of liberty in James 1:25 has this note - by referring to the Word as the law of liberty, James focused on its redemptive power in freeing believers from the bondage of sin and then freeing them to righteous obedience (John 8:34, 35, 36). It allows us to serve God not out of fear or mere sense of duty, but out of gratitude and love. One day it also will free us from this world and its corruption; from our fallenness; from our flesh; from temptation; and from the curses of sin, death, and hell. (Macarthur J. James. Moody)
For believers the law of liberty could be summarized as follows...
Freedom is not the right to do as we please.
Freedom is the power to do as we should.
The law of liberty is related to what Jesus said when He promised...
So if the Son makes you free (eleutheroo), you will be free (eleutheros) indeed. (John 8:36)
Excursus on Freedom - discussion of eleutheria, etc
In MacArthur's comment on James 2:12 he writes that "The Gospel is the law of liberty because it frees those who place their faith in Jesus Christ from the bondage, judgment, and punishment of sin and brings them ultimately to eternal freedom and glory. It liberates us sinners from falsehood and deception and from the curses of death and hell. Even more marvelously, it frees us to obey and serve God, to live faithfully and righteously according to His Word and by the power of His indwelling Spirit. And it frees us to follow our Lord willingly out of love rather than reluctantly out of fear. In every sense, it is the "royal law" of God (v. 8), the divine and wondrous law of liberty. (Macarthur J. James. Moody)
Hiebert agrees writing that it "is not a law of liberty because it liberates us from obedience to God's holy Commandments, or as even from a single point in any of them; the Gospel itself and true faith impel us to this obedience." It is a divinely wrought motivation in the hearts of "those who love Him" (James 1:12; 2:5). (Ibid)
Mitton on the law of liberty - This is the law which operates, not by outward enforcement, but when the love of Christ inwardly constrains. It is part of the freedom of the children of God, which issues in glad and spontaneous obedience to Him, for the sake of pleasing Him who has done so much for them, and in the glad assurance that what He commands is life's surest guide to deep and lasting happiness." (Mitton, C. Leslie. The Epistle of James. 1966)
Barclay - He calls it the law of liberty; that is, the law in the keeping of which a man finds his true liberty (Ed: Again freedom enabled by the indwelling Spirit - cf Ro 8:2-note, 2Cor 3:17-note). All the great men have agreed that it is only in obeying the law of God that a man becomes truly free. "To obey God," said Seneca, "is liberty." "The wise man alone is free," said the Stoics, "and every foolish man is a slave." Philo said "All who are under the tyranny of anger or desire or any other passion are altogether slaves; all who live with the law are free." So long as a man has to obey his own passions and emotions and desires, he is nothing less than a slave. It is when he accepts the will of God that he becomes really free--for then he is free to be what he ought to be. His service is perfect freedom and in doing His will is our peace. (James 1 - William Barclay's Daily Study Bible)
Vine - liberty, is rendered “freedom” in Gal 5:1, “with freedom did Christ set us free.” The combination of the noun with the verb stresses the completeness of the act, the aorist (or point) tense indicating both its momentary and comprehensive character; it was done once for all. The RV margin “for freedom” gives perhaps the preferable meaning, i.e., “not to bring us into another form of bondage did Christ liberate us from that in which we were born, but in order to make us free from bondage.” The word is twice rendered “freedom” in the RV of Gal 5:13 (KJV, “liberty”). The phraseology is that of manumission from slavery, which among the Greeks was effected by a legal fiction, according to which the manumitted slave was purchased by a god; as the slave could not provide the money, the master paid it into the temple treasury in the presence of the slave, a document being drawn up containing the words “for freedom.” No one could enslave him again, as he was the property of the god. Hence the word apeleutheros, No. 2. The word is also translated “freedom” in 1Pe 2:16, rv. In 2Co 3:17 the word denotes “freedom” of access to the presence of God. See liberty. (Vine, W E: Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words. 1996. Nelson)
Eleutheria refers to personal liberty but not license. True liberty is living as we should, not as we please. Eleutheria was used especially in NT times of the freeing of slaves.
Eleutheria is used 11 times in the NT - Ro 8:21; 1Co 10:29; 2Co. 3:17; Gal 2:4; 5:1, 13; James 1:25; 2:12; 1Pe 2:16; 2Pe 2:19.
John Murray wrote that "The law of God is the royal law of liberty and liberty consists in being captive to the word and law of God. All other liberty is not liberty but the thraldom of servitude to sin."
Hiebert - The genitive "of liberty" is subjective, denoting that this law "gives" the experience of freedom in the lives of those who voluntarily observe it. The definite article with "liberty" "the liberty," points to the well-known Christian freedom from bondage that the believer knows through faith in Christ (John 8:31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36). As he submits himself to its transforming power, this law of liberty works in his life a disposition and ability to do God's will joyfully (Php 2:12-note, Php 2:13-note). It does not promote antinomianism but prompts obedience without compulsion. In Jas 2:12, the only other place in the New Testament where the designation "law of liberty" occurs, James associates it with the law of love. The believer is not free from the obligation to do God's will as revealed in His Word, but love works in him the desire to do his Father's will. Men are free when they want to do what they ought to do. This is the "splendid paradox" produced by a living faith in the gospel through the indwelling Holy Spirit. (Ibid)
What is the law of liberty?
Kent Hughes gives an illustration of the radical change Spirit enabled obedience to James' commands in this passage produced inthe life of Amy Carmichael the celebrated missionary to India.
The decisive moment which determined the direction of her life came on a dull Sunday morning in Belfast as the family was returning from church. They saw what they had never seen before in Presbyterian Belfast—an old woman lugging a heavy bundle. Amy and her brothers turned around, took the bundle, and helped her along by the arms. "This meant facing all the respectable people who were, like ourselves, on their way home. It was a horrid moment. We were only two boys and a girl, and not at all exalted Christians. We hated doing it. Crimson all over (at least we felt crimson, soul and body of us) we plodded on, a wet wind blowing us about, and blowing, too, the rags of that poor old woman, till she seemed like a bundle of feathers and we unhappily mixed up with them." There was an ornate Victorian fountain in the street, and just as they passed it, "this mighty phrase was suddenly flashed as it were through the grey drizzle: 'Gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble—every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be declared by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide—'" Amy turned to see who had spoken. There was nothing but the fountain, the muddy street, the people with their politely surprised faces. The children plodded on with the bundle of feathers, but something had happened to the girl which changed forever life's values. (From the great book A Chance to Die, the Life and Legacy of Amy Carmicheal by Elisabeth Elliot).
The knowledge that God was her judge, and that judgment was coming, gave Amy Carmichael the strength of character to ignore the pressures of a class-driven society and forever identify with the poor, which she did in her legendary ministry. She no longer courted the favor of the privileged. (Preaching the Word – James: Faith That Works)
Bertrand Russell, no friend of Christianity (an avowed atheist) made a fascinating statement - There are certain things that our age needs...The root of the matter (if we want a stable world) is a very simple and old-fashioned thing, a thing so simple that I am almost ashamed to mention it, for fear of the derisive smile with which wise cynics will greet my words. The thing I mean — please forgive me for mentioning it — is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide in action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty. If you feel this, you have all that anybody should need in the way of religion. Although you may not find happiness, you will never know the despair of those whose life is aimless and void of purpose, for there is always something that you can do to diminish the awful sum of human misery.
ILLUSTRATION OF PRE-JUDGING (ROOT WORDS OF PREJUDICE) - A woman was waiting at an airport one night. With several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shop, Bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was engrossed in her book, but happened to see, That the man beside her, as bold as could be, Grabbed a cookie or two from the bag between, Which she tried to ignore, to avoid a scene. She read, munched cookies, and watched the clock, As the gutsy “cookie thief!” diminished her stock. She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by, Thinking, “If I wasn’t so nice, I’d blacken his eye!” With each cookie she took, he took one, too.When only one was left, she wondered what he’d do. With a smile on his face and a nervous laugh, He took the last cookie and broke it in half. He offered her half, as he ate the other. She snatched it from him and thought, “Oh brother, This guy has some nerve, and he’s also rude, Why, he didn’t even show any gratitude!” She had never known when she had been so galled, And sighed with relief when her flight was called. She gathered her belongings and headed for the gate, Refusing to look back at the “thieving ingrate.” She boarded the plane and sank in her seat, Then sought her book, which was almost complete. As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise. There was her bag of cookies in front of her eyes! “If mine are here, she moaned with despair, Then the others were his and he tried to share! Too late to apologize, she realized with grief, That she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief!”
James 2:13 For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
Amplified For to him who has shown no mercy the judgment [will be] merciless, but mercy [full of glad confidence] exults victoriously over judgment.
Phillips The man who makes no allowances for others will find none made for him. It is still true that "mercy smiles in the face of judgment."
Wuest for the judgment will be without mercy to the person who did not show mercy; mercy exults in triumph over judgment.
NET James 2:13 For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.
GNT James 2:13 ἡ γὰρ κρίσις ἀνέλεος τῷ μὴ ποιήσαντι ἔλεος· κατακαυχᾶται ἔλεος κρίσεως.
NLT James 2:13 There will be no mercy for those who have not shown mercy to others. But if you have been merciful, God will be merciful when he judges you.
KJV James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
ESV James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
ASV James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.
CSB James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn't shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
NIV James 2:13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!
NKJ James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
NRS James 2:13 For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
YLT James 2:13 for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.
NAB James 2:13 For the judgment is merciless to one who has not shown mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
NJB James 2:13 Whoever acts without mercy will be judged without mercy but mercy can afford to laugh at judgement.
GWN James 2:13 No mercy will be shown to those who show no mercy to others. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
BBE James 2:13 For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy Jas 5:4 Ge 42:21 Jud 1:7 Job 22:6-10 Pr 21:13 Isa 27:11 Mt 5:7 Mt 6:15 7:1,2 18:28-35 25:41-46 Lu 16:25
mercy triumphs over judgment.: Ps 85:10 Jer 9:24 Eze 33:11 Mic 7:18 Eph 1:6,7 2:4-7 1Jn 4:8-16,18,19
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How we treat others today will impact how we are treated in the future.
For (because = NIV)(gar) (term of explanation) James explains the reason for the commands just issued in James 2:12.
Vincent writes that James "puts himself at the stand-point of the judgment, and looks backward.
Judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy - In context this would describe those who showed partiality to some (rich) and discriminated against others (poor), in effect showing no mercy to the latter group. In the context James is clearly referring to unbelievers. And note that James is not teaching that by showing mercy we merit mercy from God. That is works righteousness and simply stated it does not work. Besides if we were able to earn mercy, it would not be mercy (Just as with grace)! Sinners can do absolutely nothing to merit God's mercy in salvation. More to James' point is that if you are a person who habitually, repeatedly fails to show compassion/mercy to your fellow man, then, simply, soberly stated, you are utterly destitute of Christian character. You are lost and will receive no mercy at the Great White Throne Judgment. On the other hand the children of God will imitate their Father and are energized by His Spirit to show mercy and shun partiality (Of course none of us will ever be perfect in not showing partiality -- it is not about perfection but about direction). We are never more like our Lord than when show mercy (and love). And to reiterate, because we have the indwelling Holy Spirit of God, it is impossible for a believer not to show mercy/compassion to some degree. As stated, we will never do it perfectly, but to NEVER do it signifies that such a person has never been born again!
MacArthur describes the one who has shown no mercy - Their lives are characterized by partiality, hardness, selfishness, and lack of concern for others—in short, lovelessness. They are far from loving others as they love themselves, reflecting nothing of God's love and care for those in need.
Robertson - For this principle of requital see Matthew 5:7; Matthew 6:14; Matthew 7:1-2; Matthew 18:33.
Wiersbe - Mercy and justice both come from God, so they are not competitors. Where God finds repentance and faith, He is able to show mercy; where He finds rebellion and unbelief, He must administer justice. It is the heart of the sinner that determines the treatment he gets. (BEC)
R C H Lenski - For, certainly, that last judgment is without mercy for him who did not exercise mercy. Has Jesus himself not said so in describing this judgment (Matt. 25:41-45)? What is all this about letting Jesus be hungry, thirsty, a stranger, naked, sick, in prison, and doing nothing for him, but failure to exercise mercy?...Yes, these people will say what Jesus states in Matt. 7:22+; but see what an answer they have already received (ED: cf Mt 7:23+). Even doing the greatest works without faith in the gospel will leave them guilty in all points of the law. (The Interpretation of The Epistle to the Hebrews and The Epistle of James)
Kent Hughes - an unmerciful spirit reveals a heart that has not received mercy, but the heart which has been the object of divine mercy will be merciful. This is why the fifth beatitude proclaims, "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy" (Matthew 5:7+). If we are not merciful we have much to fear, for the beatitude becomes a curse parallel to James' words. The unmerciful will not receive mercy. A terrifying thought! A deeper terror in James' words is this: favoritism is evidence of an unmerciful spirit. The merciful do not ignore the poor in favor of the privileged, but reach out to them. James is saying that a life characterized by discrimination and favoritism indicates a damned soul! This is frightening moral theology from the brother of Jesus. (Ibid) (Bold added)
Judgment (justice)(2920)(krisis from krino = to judge, decide) means a decision or judgment, verdict, justice, court (tribunal). The first use is by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount declaring "‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court." ("in danger of judgment") (Mt 5:21+, cp Mt 5:22+) Mt 10:15, 11:22, 24 all describe Jesus' sobering warning to the Jews of a specific future and frightening "day of judgment." (cp "sentence [krisis] of hell" Mt 23:33, see related uses of krisis in 2 Peter 2:9+, 2 Peter 3:7+) Krisis is also used by James in James 5:12+.
Merciless (415)(aneleos from a = without + eleos = mercy) means unmerciful, merciless, pitiless, without compassion. This is the only use in Scripture and describes God's judgment. And this is so sad because one of God's great attributes is in fact Mercy.
Mercy (compassion)(1656)(eleos) is the outward manifestation of pity and assumes need on the part of those who are recipients of the mercy and sufficient resources to meet the need on the part of those who show it. The idea of mercy is to show kindness or concern for someone in serious need or to give help to the wretched, to relieve the miserable. Here the essential thought is that mercy gives attention to those in misery. Wuest that eleos is used of God it describes "God’s “kindness and goodwill toward the miserable and afflicted, joined with a desire to relieve them” (Vincent). Grace meets man’s need in respect to his guilt and lost condition; mercy, with reference to his suffering as a result of that sin."
Ronald Blue writes that "Just as love triumphs over prejudice, mercy triumphs over judgment." (BKC)
Grant Osborne comments on mercy triumphs over judgment - There is some question as to whether the "mercy" is God's or ours. If it is God's, it is saying that the mercy of God will predominate in the end and provide forgiveness for our shortcomings (Adamson, Hort, Martin). If it is human mercy, it means that by the grace of God people can overcome their prejudices and find mercy toward the less fortunate (Laws, Hiebert, Moo). Both aspects have their strengths, and both fit the context. Thus, it is best to see a "both-and" here. As McCartney (2009:150) states, this "specifically shows the relation between God's mercy in judgment toward people and the mercy of those people, who will be judged." "True believers (the ones showing mercy to others) will find God's mercy in Christ annuls the condemnation they otherwise would have received" (Blomberg and Kamell 2008:120). The NLT captures this well = "There will be no mercy for those who have not shown mercy to others. But if you have been merciful, God will be merciful when he judges you." (Cornerstone Biblical Commentary - James)
Mercy triumphs over judgment (krisis) - Mercy will triumph at the judgment seat of Christ because judgment can find nothing against it. Impartial love and acts of kindness will triumph at the Judgment Seat. Paul writes that "against such things (including love as shown by one's speaking and acting - Jas 2:12) there is no law." (Gal 5:23+)
In other words when a man or woman shows mercy to others, it is a clear indication that their life has been transformed by God's grace and mercy. And because they have received saving mercy, their sins which justly deserved God's judgment are forever removed by the fully atoning work of Jesus Christ. Any charges that might have been brought against this person have in effect been "dropped," in fact, in a sense "dropped" on our Sin Bearer, Jesus Christ (Read 2 Cor 5:21+, 1 Pe 2:24+, Isa 53:5-6+).
Lenski explains mercy triumphs over judgment beautifully writing "James closes most effectively: "Mercy boasts against judgment." The unmerciful shall not find mercy in the judgment; the merciful shall boast even in the face of judgment. This is not the language of legalism, which would be farcical in view of James 2:9 plus James 3:2; it is the language of Christ and of the gospel (Mt. 5:7; Mt 25:40). "Mercy" is to be understood in the same sense as it was in the previous sentence, the mercy produced in the believer's heart and life by the mercy of God, the evidence of true faith. Jesus will publicly acknowledge this mercy as an evidence of faith, and so it may indeed "boast against judgment," no judgment condemns the man who has this evidence." (Ibid)
Augustus Toplady puts the great truth of mercy triumphing over judgment into verse...
The judgments of Your holy law
With me can have nothing to do
My Savior’s obedience and blood
Hide all my transgressions
From view
Dear believer who has received divine mercy and now are privileged to dispense mercy as God's representative, take a moment to play and ponder Toplady's beautiful hymn A Debtor to Mercy
A debtor to mercy alone
Of covenant mercy I sing
I come with Your righteousness on
My humble offering to bring
The work which Your goodness began
The arm of Your strength will complete
Your promise is yes and amen
And never was forfeited yet
The future or things that are now
No power below or above
Can make You Your purpose forego
Or sever my soul from Your love
My name from the palms of Your hands
Eternity will not erase
Impressed on Your heart it remains
In marks of indelible grace
Yes I, to the end will endure
Until I bow down at Your throne
Forever and always secure
Jamieson echoes this thought - Mercy, so far from fearing judgment in the case of its followers, actually glorifieth against it, knowing that it cannot condemn them. Not that their mercy is the ground of their acquittal, but the mercy of God in Christ towards them, producing mercy on their part towards their fellow men, makes them to triumph over judgment, which all in themselves otherwise deserve.
A T Robertson - Only mercy can triumph over justice with God and men. "Mercy is clothed with the divine glory and stands by the throne of God" (Chrysostom). See Romans 8:31-39; Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7.
Triumphs (2620)(Katakauchaomai from kata = against + kauchaomai = to boast) means to boast against. The basic idea of the verb is of exulting in being able to prevail over something or someone else. Used with this meaning it is used positively in James 2:13 and negatively in James 3:14+.
Louw-Nida says it means "to boast about something by downgrading something else." It is an expression of a feeling of one's comparative superiority and so to look down upon another, boasting at the expense of another (negative sense in Ro 11:18, James 3:14). In James 2:13 the idea expresses what is better or victorious, that which wins out over. The force of katakauchaomai is to brag about oneself in comparison with others. The meaning is clearly illustrated by an inscription on a grave in Asia Minor. The monument cites a gladiator as he gloats over a defeated foe. Katakauchaomai emphasizes one’s superiority over others with whom one is being compared (Bauer).
Katakauchaomai - 3x - arrogant(2), arrogant toward(1), triumphs over(1). - Ro 11:18, James 2:13, James 3:14.
Romans 11:18+ do not be arrogant (present imperative with a negative only possible to accomplish this by continually relying on the Holy Spirit to obey) toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.
James 3:14+ But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
Brian Bell summarizes James 2:12-13 - Three basic principles:
1. Let the Scriptures be your standard, not how we were raised! (verse 12) a) Instead of excusing our prejudices w/statements like, “That’s the way I was brought up!” - “That’s just the way I am!” Allow God to change how you think, speak, & act by living according to his word.
2. Let love be your law! a) Some of the most needy people get treated the worse. Ask, How can I love this person? - What’s needed to build this person up?
3. Let Mercy be your message! (verse 13) a) To show no mercy is to receive no mercy! We are commanded to temper justice with mercy
Mercy triumphs over judgment (not over justice, but judgment/condemnation). It was once said that when we see a brother or sister in sin, there are 2 things we do not know: First, we do not know how hard he or she tried not to sin. And second, we do not know the power of the forces that assailed him or her. We also do not know what we would have done in the same circumstances. When I recognize my prejudice, I will tell myself I lack sound information & am prejudging that person, which makes my opinion irrational & unfair. (Sermon)
Paul Apple has 4 rather pithy devotional questions based on James 2:1-13
1) Do we minister to others based on how gracious God has been to us or based on what we think we will receive in return from the other individual? Is our selection of church officers ever influenced by the person's professional or economic status? Do we refrain from preaching on certain controversial topics so as not to offend the rich and powerful in the church?
2) What type of prejudices do we have based on judging others on external appearance? We all are guilty of this from time to time. How can we work at viewing others from God's perspective?
3) What can the wealthy do to improve the vitality of their faith and protect against the danger of trusting in their own resources? How can they stay humble and not let their money or power affect how they relate to others?
4) Why should we be overly impressed with the rich and powerful since we are ourselves children of the King of Kings? Does our concept of church family brotherhood make for a level playing field as we relate to one another?
James 2:14 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?
For in depth discussion of this verse see:
James 2:14 Commentary
James 2:15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,
James 2:16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?
James 2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.
James 2:18 But someone may well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works."
James 2:19 You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder.
James 2:20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?
James 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
James 2:22 You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected;
James 2:23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS," and he was called the friend of God.
James 2:24 You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
James 2:25 In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
James 2:26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
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Finely crafted coins recall Canada’s finest military moments in the Royal Canadian Mint’s latest numismatic offering
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, AUGUST 7, 2018 –In keeping with a time-honoured tradition of commemorating the bravery and sacrifice of Canadian soldiers on coins, the Royal Canadian Mint is proud to have issued the 2018 $20 Fine Silver Coin – A Nation’s Mettle: The Dieppe Raid, among many other memorable keepsakes this month. Illustrated by accomplished coin designer Laurie McGaw, this outstanding collectible depicts the reflection of a contemporary veteran saluting the fallen, reflected in the water receding from the beach at Dieppe, France. The coin serves as a reminder of the many Canadian soldiers lost or captured in the fateful Second World War operation on August 19, 1942. The juxtaposition of the past and present also pays tribute to those Canadian veterans who dutifully commemorate those sacrifices every August at Dieppe, New Brunswick.
Also remembered are the dates August 8 to November 11, 1918 on the 2018 $20 Fine Silver Coin – First World War Battlefront Series: Canada’s Hundred Days. Joel Kimmel’s illustration of soldiers overlooking the makeshift grave of a comrade buried amidst the rubble of a devastated town symbolizes the sacrifice of Canadians who fought costly but successful battles, from Amiens to Mons, in the last 100 days of the First World War.
On the 2018 $20 Fine Silver Coin – First World War Allied Forces: France, artist Pandora Young has captured the hope and determination of French ground forces, with fellow airmen flying above, as they make their final push to victory in the closing months of the war. The selectively gold plated flaming bomb insignia of the French infantry adds a special flourish to a coin honouring the brave men who gave so much to secure an Allied victory on their home soil.
On another front, the Mint continues to re-imagine coins by creatively altering their shape. This time, it has produced its first stamp-shaped 2018 $20 Fine Silver Coin – Canada’s Historical Stamps: Parliament Building 1927 Confederation. Faithfully replicating the bright carmine commemorative postage stamp issued in celebration of Canada’s 60th anniversary, this coin features serrated edges that mimic perforations. Another unique collectible is the ovoid-shaped 2018 $20 Fine Silver Coin – Four Seasons of the Maple Leaf where artist Margaret Best has illustrated the iconic maple leaf, in rich colour and selective gold plating, as it emerges and transforms through each season.
Other great collectibles available in store this month include:
The 2018 Fine Silver Colourised Coin Set – Classic Canadian Coins, the Mint’s first set of exquisitely coloured silver reproductions of Canada’s traditional circulation designs, which includes a pure silver medallion of the Mint’s Ottawa and Winnipeg facilities in commemoration of its 110th anniversary;
The 2018 $100 Fine Silver Coin – Portrait of a Princess, is an elegant reproduction of Yousuf Karsh’s famous 1951 photo of a young Princess Elizabeth, on a stunning 10 oz. pure silver coin;
The 10 oz., selectively gold-plated 2018 $100 Fine Silver Coin – Keepers of Parliament: The Beaver, featuring the artwork of Patrick Bélanger;
The 2018 $20 Fine Silver Coin – Nocturnal by Nature: Cunning Cougar, whose black rhodium-plated design of a prowling cougar is accented by a silvery moon in a Tony Bianco design;
The 2018 $20 Fine Silver Coin – Canadian Mosaics: Grizzly Bear, designed by artist Jori van der Linde;
The 2018 $3 Fine Silver Coin – Canadian Coasts: True North, a square-shaped coin whose Maurade Baynton design features iconic symbols of our northern coastline;
The 2018 5-Ounce Fine Silver Coin – Big Coin Series: One-Cent Coin, selectively plated in rose gold;
The 2019 Pure Gold Maple Leaf Fractional Set – 40th anniversary of the Gold Maple Leaf featuring a 1 oz., coloured and serialized coin as well as ¼, 1/10 and 1/20 oz. engraved versions packaged in a leaf-shaped maple wood case;
The 2018 $15 Fine Silver Coin – Blessings of Harmony, a scallop-shaped, fully gold-plated coin designed by Aries Cheung featuring a pair of swallows symbolizing harmony;
The 2019 $2,500 Pure Gold Coin – Year of the Pig, a one kilo, scalloped-shaped coin designed by Three Degrees Creative and the 2019 $150 Gold Coin – Year of the Pig designed by Aries Cheung, both celebrating the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year;
The 2018 $100 Fine Silver Coin – The Bronze Age of DC Comics, an impressive 10 oz., shield-shaped coin featuring the 1970’s and 1980’s incarnations of the super heroes of the Justice League, illustrated in full colour by Jason Fabok and Brad Anderson;
The 2018 $3 Fine Silver Coin – The Thirteen Teachings from Grandmother Moon: Thimbleberry Moon, designed by Frank Polson; and,
The crystal-enhanced 2018 $5 Fine Silver Coin – Birthstones: September, featuring a mandala-inspired sapphire design by artist Pandora Young.
Mintages, pricing and full background information on each product can be found on the “Shop” tab of www.mint.ca. Coin images can be viewed here.
All of these products can be ordered directly from the Mint at 1-800-267-1871 in Canada,
1-800-268-6468 in the US, or online at www.mint.ca. The coins are also available at the Royal Canadian Mint’s boutiques in Ottawa and Winnipeg, as well as through our global network of dealers and distributors, including participating Canada Post outlets.
The Royal Canadian Mint stands out with new 3D sculptural coins
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 – Always eager to break new ground in coin design and engineering, the Royal Canadian Mint has shattered the limits of relief with several impressive new coins. Bursting from the imagination of Mint engraver Matt Bowen is the 2018 $250 Fine Silver Coin – The Voyageurs, a spectacular 1 kilo, elliptical-shaped, concave coin struck in ultra-high relief. The dramatic scene of the intrepid trail blazers who fueled early Canada’s fur trade, paddling down an untamed river, is rendered in incredible depth and dimension. This stunning keepsake, among many other innovative collectibles, is available as of today.
Equally irresistible is the 2018 $100 Fine Silver Sculpture Coin – SupermanTM The Last Son of Krypton on which a three-dimensional, gold-plated sculpture of the legendary superhero leaps from its reverse. This 10 oz. fine silver creation is the result of a collaboration between renowned comic book artist Jason Fabok and Mint engraver Mathew Porter.
More examples of exceptional sculptural relief can be found on the 2018 $50 Fine Silver Coin – Whale’s Tail Soapstone Sculpture which features Winnipeg artist Dave Zachary’s hand-carved design of a humpback whale’s flukes jutting out of a shimmering translucent blue enamel layer realistically emulating Canada’s North Atlantic waters. Visible beneath this watery enhancement is Mint engraver Cecily Mok’ engraving of the whale’s head as the majestic creature dives to the icy depths below.
A similar effect also brings to life the 2018 $30 Fine Silver Coin – Dimensional Nature: Polar Bear, which introduces the world to the Mint’s exclusive dimensional paint technique. Artist Tony Bianco’s illustration of a cub cautiously testing the waters from the safety of an ice floe while its mother and sibling navigate the blue ocean waters below, vividly simulates the beauty of Arctic wildlife in action.
Other finely crafted coins available this month include
A pair of royal-themed coins, consisting of the 2018 $25 Fine Silver Coin – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: The New Queen, featuring a Bonnie Ross portrait in repoussé-inspired ultra-high relief, and the 2018 $10 Pure Gold Coin – 65th Anniversary of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II;
The 2018 $20 Fine Silver Coin – First World War Allied Forces: Great Britain, designed by artist Pandora Young;
The 2018 $25 Fine Silver Piedfort – 250th Anniversary of Tecumseh’s Birth, featuring a selectively gold-plated portrait of the legendary Shawnee leader by Mary McPherson;
The 2018 Fine Silver 4-Coin Set – Historical Currency of Canada: Playing Cards of New France, faithfully crafted in the shape of the cards that circulated as legal tender;
The 2018 Canadian Circulation Coin Set – From Far and Wide, featuring a glow-in-the-dark, coloured 50-cent piece designed by Steve McPhee;
The 2019 25-Cent Pure Gold Coin– 40th anniversary of the Gold Maple Leaf featuring Walter Ott’s classic sugar maple leaf design on a double-dated half-gram coin;
The 2019 Fine Silver Maple Leaf Fractional Set – A Bicentennial Celebration, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth;
The 2019 Pure Platinum Fractional Set – 30th Anniversary of the Platinum Maple Leaf featuring 1 oz., ½, ¼, ⅟₁₀ and ⅟20 oz. coins designed by Jesse Koreck;
The 2018 $50 Fine Silver Coin – Nature’s Light Show: Moonlit Tranquility, the second in a series of 5 oz. concave coloured coins with a glow in the dark enhancement of Derek Wicks’ artwork;
The 2018 $20 Fine Silver Coin – Canadian Mosaics: Cougar, designed by artist Jori Van Der Linde;
The 2018 $3 Fine Silver Coin – Canadian Coasts: Atlantic Coves, a square-shaped coin whose Maurade Baynton design features iconic symbols of our eastern coastline;
The 2019 $15 Fine Silver Coin – Lunar Lotus: Year of the Pig, a scalloped-shaped coin by Three Degrees Creative in celebration of the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year;
The 2018 $3 Fine Silver Coin – The Thirteen Teachings from Grandmother Moon: Corn Moon, designed by Frank Polson;
The crystal-enhanced 2018 $5 Fine Silver Coin – Birthstones: October, featuring a mandala-inspired sapphire design by artist Pandora Young; and,
The 2018 Holiday Gift Set, featuring a holly and candy cane motif on the reverse of a special one-dollar coin.
Gold Inches Down On Rate Hike Views, Trade Worries
BENGALURU, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Gold held on to a small loss from the previous session on Monday, amid expectations of a U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate hike in September and fears of escalating trade tensions between the United States and China.
* Spot gold was down 0.1 percent at $1,194.01 at 0030 GMT, having fallen 0.4 percent in the previous session.
* U.S. gold futures fell 0.1 percent to $1,199.80 an ounce.
* U.S. jobs growth accelerated in August, with wages notching their largest annual increase in nine years, strengthening views the economy was so far weathering the Trump administration’s escalating trade war with China.
* The stronger-than-expected payrolls data cemented expectations that the U.S. Fed will raise interest rates in September, in what would be its third hike this year.
* The Federal Reserve should keep raising U.S. interest rates until mid-2019, and only then needs to take a decision on when it ought to stop, Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan suggested on Friday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Friday he was ready to slap tariffs on virtually all Chinese imports into the United States, threatening duties on another $267 billion of goods on top of $200 billion in imports primed for levies in coming days.
* Central banks will be in focus with the European Central Bank and Bank of England both meeting this week. The ECB is expected to signal it is ready to start tapering bond purchases, but President Draghi is likely to sound cautious after a run of mediocre to softening euro zone data.
* Hedge funds and money managers increased their bearish stances in COMEX gold and silver contracts to the biggest on record in the holiday-shortened week to Sept. 4, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed on Friday.
* Physical gold buying picked up pace in major Asian centres last week as lower prices fuelled appetite for the metal, with India seeing healthy demand ahead of the festive season despite a rise in domestic rates to a two-month high.
* Holdings of SPDR Gold Trust, the world’s largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, fell 0.20 percent to 745.44 tonnes on Friday from Thursday.
* Canada’s Tahoe Resources Inc, said on Friday that operations have restarted at its La Arena gold mine in Peru, ending an eight-day suspension.
* Argentina’s central bank chief said on Friday government financing for 2019 “will be more than sufficient” and that the recent sharp depreciation of the country’s peso currency will “correct itself quicker than markets believe.” (Reporting by Nallur Sethuraman in Bengaluru; editing by Richard Pullin)
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SEC halts trading in two cryptocurrency products, citing market confusion
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Sunday it was immediately suspending trading in two investment products that track cryptocurrencies, citing confusion in the markets over whether the products are exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
The SEC said in a statement that trading in Bitcoin Tracker One CXBTF.PQ CXBTF.PK and Ether Tracker One CETHF.PQ CETHF.PK would be halted in the United States until at least Sept. 20.
The products promise to track the price of the cryptocurrencies, less fees. They are both listed on a Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ.O) exchange in Stockholm, but trade “over the counter” in transactions that occur off exchanges within the United States.
“It appears … that there is a lack of current, consistent and accurate information,” the SEC said in a notice posted on its website. “Application materials submitted to enable the offer and sale of these financial products in the United States, as well as certain trading websites, characterize them as ‘Exchange Traded Funds.’”
The issuer of Bitcoin Tracker One and Ether Tracker One, XBT Provider AB SE0010296574.ST and its parent company, did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment. Nasdaq declined to comment.
The SEC has taken a strict stance against letting ETFs tracking bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies come to market.
But investment firms have been pushing other types of investments that attempt to make it as easy to trade cryptocurrencies as a regular stock.
Those products are sometimes called ETFs, but that term generally refers to a different and often more stringently regulated product. Some industry experts, including the largest ETF provider BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), have called for regulators to standardize the terms used to describe ETFs and other kinds of investment products.
Virtual currency, including bitcoin and ether, can be used to move money around the world quickly and with relative anonymity, without the need for a central authority, such as a bank or government. A fund holding the currency could attract more investors and push its price higher.
Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt; Editing by Peter Cooney and Will Dunham
Source: Kitco News
Gold And Silver In Store For ‘Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain’
Precious metals investors need to prepare for lower gold prices in the next few months, with things only picking up next year when gold rallies to $1,350 an ounce, according to Capital Economics.
Gold continues to sulk in the summer months, trading near 12-month lows, with strong U.S. dollar and lack of major fundamental news keeping the metal under pressure. As Asian markets opened on Tuesday, spot gold on Kitco.com was trading at $1,221,20, up 0.02% on the day, while August Comex gold futures were last seen at $1,220.50, down 0.07% on the day.
But, with higher greenback taken out of the equation, gold prices could be trading at a much higher level, commodity economists at Capital Economics noted.
“The dollar has also been the biggest driver of gold prices. Indeed, our consumption weighted gold price suggests that if we stripped out the dollar effect, the price of gold would be much higher,” economists wrote. “Given that we don’t expect the dollar to fall back until 2019, when slower growth in the U.S. will prompt the Federal Reserve to bring the tightening cycle to an end, gold prices are likely to remain under pressure over the coming months.”
The only positive drivers that could surprise investors on the upside are safe-haven demand and inflation expectations. But, both have been falling short lately, added Capital Economics.
“Safe-haven demand for gold has so far been elusive and U.S. inflation expectations have moved sideways over the past few months. What’s more, demand from key emerging markets is likely to fall as a stronger dollar is making gold in local currency terms more expensive,” they wrote.
This outlook has forced Capital Economics to revise down its year-end gold price outlook to $1,200 an ounce from $1,300. It is even lower than today’s price of $1,221.
But, the firm’s medium-term outlook for gold prices is actually better than previous estimates. Capital Economics highlighted that the Fed’s tightening cycle will end in the first half of 2019, which will lead to higher gold prices.
“As the Fed tightening cycle comes to an end in H1 2019, investors will start to factor in lower rates ahead, which should push the gold price up to $1,350 by end-2019,” economists said.
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Dorsoventral decoupling of Hox gene expression underpins the diversification of molluscs
View ORCID ProfilePin Huan, Qian Wang, Sujian Tan, and View ORCID ProfileBaozhong Liu
PNAS January 7, 2020 117 (1) 503-512; first published December 23, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907328117
Pin Huan
aKey Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 266071 Qingdao, China;bLaboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, 266000 Qingdao, China;cCollege of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100039 Beijing, China
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Qian Wang
aKey Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 266071 Qingdao, China;cCollege of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100039 Beijing, China
Sujian Tan
aKey Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 266071 Qingdao, China;
Baozhong Liu
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For correspondence: bzliu@qdio.ac.cn
Edited by Sean B. Carroll, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, College Park, MD, and approved November 27, 2019 (received for review May 1, 2019)
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How animal bodies became diversified is a key concern in evolutionary study. As the second most species-rich phylum, Mollusca possesses a vast diversity of body plans, ranging from those of clams to octopuses, but the underlying mechanisms of mollusc diversification remain unknown. Our study shows that dorsoventrally decoupled Hox expression may have facilitated the diversification of molluscs by permitting lineage-specific dorsal and ventral patterning. We further reveal evidence that the model is applicable to a broad range of animals and thus may have contributed to animal diversification events such as the Cambrian explosion. By demonstrating conserved and lineage-specific Hox expression in ventral and dorsal tissues, respectively, our results would also contribute to understanding the exceptional diversity of molluscan Hox expression.
In contrast to the Hox genes in arthropods and vertebrates, those in molluscs show diverse expression patterns with differences reported among lineages. Here, we investigate 2 phylogenetically distant molluscs, a gastropod and a polyplacophoran, and show that the Hox expression in both species can be divided into 2 categories. The Hox expression in the ventral ectoderm generally shows a canonical staggered pattern comparable to the patterns of other bilaterians and likely contributes to ventral patterning, such as neurogenesis. The other category of Hox expression on the dorsal side is strongly correlated with shell formation and exhibits lineage-specific characteristics in each class of mollusc. This generalized model of decoupled dorsoventral Hox expression is compatible with known Hox expression data from other molluscan lineages and may represent a key characteristic of molluscan Hox expression. These results support the concept of widespread staggered Hox expression in Mollusca and reveal aspects that may be related to the evolutionary diversification of molluscs. We propose that dorsoventral decoupling of Hox expression allowed lineage-specific dorsal and ventral patterning, which may have facilitated the evolution of diverse body plans in different molluscan lineages.
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↵1P.H. and Q.W. contributed equally to this work.
↵2To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: bzliu{at}qdio.ac.cn.
Author contributions: P.H. and B.L. designed research; P.H., Q.W., and S.T. performed research; P.H., Q.W., and B.L. analyzed data; P.H. and B.L. wrote the paper; and S.T. contributed to the experiment design by speculating very quick changes of Hox expression.
The authors declare no competing interest.
Data deposition: The transcriptomic data of the 2 species are deposited in the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI) Sequence Read Archive, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra (accession nos. SRX3353365, SRX5249811, and SRX5249812). The gene sequence data are deposited in GenBank, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank (accession nos. MN326438, MN326439, and MK637053–MK637075).
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For Photokina this year, Ricoh has cooked up its response to the GoPro threat. Meet the WG-M1 (MSRP $299.99). You can tell right away by the new form factor that Ricoh has the leading action cam in its sights. Building off the style of past WG cameras, the company is moving towards a more diverse future for its “Adventure Proof” lineup.
Not so great for holding, but it sure is mountable.
When picking up the WG-M1, it’s plain to see that Ricoh is happy with the goofy stylings of its WG lineup. This WG model might shift the lens and screen around, but it’s immediately recognizable if you’ve ever seen one of the company’s other tough cams. But, since this is intended to be an action-oriented, mountable video camera, it certainly tweaks the existing paradigm.
This is removed from the point-and-shoot form factor that cameras like the WG-4 sport. The swappable front lens cover is the first indication of the camera’s pragmatic approach to toughness. The camera’s default lens cover has a pronged hood. If you’re taking the camera underwater, Ricoh includes a lens intended for that purpose. Either way, the actual camera’s lens has protection to keep it from getting scratched. The lens itself is a wide, 160-degree job with an f/2.8 aperture. On either side of the lens, you’ll find the camera’s stereo microphone ports.
Microphones flank the camera's wide lens.
Buttons on the two longer sides of the camera seem design to be operated while you’re holding the WG-M1. There’s a record and power key on one side, and menu selection buttons on the other. A bright, but small 1.5-inch LCD monitor sits inset on the top of the device. Around it, Ricoh takes some of the space to call out the camera’s tough credentials. The watch-like bezel that protrudes from the screen seems like it’d help keep the display from shattering if it was slammed up against a rock or dropped from a substantial height.
The WG-M1 features a chrome loop like some other WG cameras.
The side opposite the lens is where you put a battery, the required microSD card, and also HDMI and USB ports. We really like that Ricoh also put on a double-locking mechanism and a sturdy metal loop for attaching the WG-M1 to straps. All in all, the WG-M1 feels every bit as durable and "adventure-proof" as you'd desire—more so than a GoPro nestled in its standard waterproof case.
Tough without a housing.
While the GoPro is the gold standard for action cams, those small devices can’t survive a whole lot of grief on their own. It’s the reason why action cams like the GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition come with a tougher case included. With the exception of the special lens cover for diving, the WG-M1 is a camera that’s ready to go without having to get wrapped in a plastic case: It's freezeproof, waterproof to 32 feet, shockproof, and dustproof all on its own.
The WG-M1 is freezeproof, waterproof to 32 feet, shockproof, and dustproof all without a protective case.
Interestingly, the WG-M1 is the first Ricoh camera to have WiFi built-in. You can transfer files and movies, and also use a smartphone or tablet to remotely control the camera. Ricoh hasn’t made the software available yet, and we’re not sure which platforms will be supported.
Pew pew pew! The Ricoh Pistol grip attachment for the WG-M1 made me feel like Captain Kirk.
Behind the wide-angle lens of the WG-M1 is a 14-megapixel CMOS sensor. Different crop modes will let you treat the camera as if it had different focal lengths built-in—even though it only really has one. There are a few different video formats at the camera’s disposal, with 1080/30p as its highest quality recording mode. You can also get 60fps if you’re willing to go for 720p clips, and there’s a slow-mo 120fps mode at a resolution of 848x480. If you’re into still shooting, the Ricoh can also capture high-res stills using all of the camera’s 14 megapixels.
The WG-M1 slots into an expanding system of Ricoh mounts and accessories.
This being an action cam, Ricoh has a few different mounts for it to attach to. We played with the Ricoh O-MA1531 WG Grip Adapter, which makes the WG-M1 handle a little bit like a gun. For one-handed operation, it doesn’t get much easier than this. There are also a few adhesive mounts for snowboards and helmets, a suction cup mount, and a handlebar mount for a bicycle.
A unique entrant into a 1-horse race.
We think the WG-M1 has potential, but price may be a sticking point for shoppers.
As good as GoPro’s cameras are, we always prefer product categories to have a variety of options. In the United States, at least, GoPro has a veritable monopoly on sports/action cameras with Sony a distant second. In the WG-M1, Ricoh might have a legitimate alternative on its hands. While we’ll have to get this little guy into our labs to know for sure, what we experienced in our time with the camera lead us to think that this product has a lot of promise.
After all, the GoPro needs a few accessories to accomplish what the WG-M1 can. It slots into a decent system of mounts, and it has a replaceable lens. The only thing that gives us pause is the WG-M1’s price. At $299, it’s smack dab in the middle of GoPro country, and unless Ricoh can work some really special deals in retail stores, that might be the stumbling block that keeps the WG-M1 from being a threat.
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Cutlers' Surgical Fellowship
Deadline for applications: 29 October 2019
The Worshipful Company of Cutlers’ Surgical Fellowship is to allow fellows and members of the Royal College of Surgeons working in hospitals throughout the UK to undertake a period of time overseas to learn a surgical technique, procedure or treatment which they can then practice on their return to the UK to benefit NHS patients.
The value of this fellowship is up to £7,500 to cover costs related to travel and accommodation. Particular emphasis in determining the recipient of this fellowship is placed on the career progress of the applicant to date, their CV, the opportunities provided at the centre of excellence where the fellowship will be undertaken, the innovative qualities of the skills to be learnt and how gaining such skills will be applied in the UK for the benefit for patient care.
Applications are now invited for the 2020 award. The applications will be initially assessed by the RCS and recommendations made to the Worshipful Company of Cutlers to make the award.Each application must include the following documents:
CV (4 A4 sides maximum)
Letter of support from head of department or appropriate consultant with whom you have or are working for
Letter of support from head of unit where you will undertake the fellowship
Please post 3 hard copies to the address below and email the application documents in PDF form to lslater@rcseng.ac.uk
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His Bloody Project
Graeme Macrae Burnet
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The year is 1869. After a brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae is arrested for the crime.
A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but the police and the courts must decide what drove him to murder the local village constable. And why did he kill his other two victims?
Was he insane? Or was this the act of a man in possession of his senses? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between the killer and the gallows at Inverness.
In this compelling and original novel, using the words of the accused, personal testimony, transcripts from the trial and newspaper reports, Graeme Macrae Burnet tells a moving story about the provisional nature of the truth, even when the facts are plain.
His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the rules can change but justice is absolute.
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Countdown to Basketball Player Rankings: Girls No. 4-6
Three more days closer to the basketball season means three more players.
Countdown to Basketball Player Rankings: Girls No. 4-6 Three more days closer to the basketball season means three more players. Check out this story on redding.com: http://reddingne.ws/2jFrbS6
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Three more days closer to the basketball season means three more players. Here's the final grouping editing of the girls Countdown to Basketball Player Rankings. Each of the top three receive their own blog.
All rankings are based on past varsity experience, potential impact for the upcoming 2014-15 season and only include players in the Record Searchlight coverage area.
This has no bearing on postseason awards. There is still a whole season left to play, meaning there is plenty of time for any player to work their way up the rankings and contend for the MVP.
#4 – Forward/Center – Payten McKerras, Red Bluff, Jr.
At 6-foot-3, McKerras is not only one of the tallest palyers in the Northern Section but she’s entering her junior year in as the top post player in the section for her class. McKerras averaged 10.9 points and 8.4 rebounds per game last year as a sophomore and NorCal Preps ranks McKerras fourth overall for power forwards/centers in the class of 2016 and 13th overall.
#5 – Guard – Daisy Brose, Red Bluff, Sr.
Brose is known for her tough defense and leadership. But she can still score with the best of them. She helped Red Bluff to its first section title appearance in 21 years and averaged 12.7 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.7 steals per game. Red Bluff should be a contender to get back to the finals again this season and Brose is a main reason why. She was an all-SRL and second-team all-RS pick.
#6 – Guard – Janae Gray, Enterprise, Sr.
Gray has plenty of varsity experience, helping the Hornets win the past three Northern Section Division III championships as a starter. She can knock down the deep ball, apply defensive pressure on the perimeter and can dish the outlet passes or run the floor in transition. Gray averaged 6.9 points, 2.7 assists about two rebounds and two steals per game for the Hornets last year. Gray was an all-RS third team choice.
Nov. 18: Players No. 13-15 & Others in the mix
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Rediff.com » Business » New affordable housing benefits not for urban poor
New affordable housing benefits not for urban poor
By Karan Choudhury and Raghavendra Kamath
January 02, 2017 11:33 IST
Effects of the new schemes launched under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana would be felt more in tier II and tier III cities, as not many budget or affordable housing projects are in the works in metropolitan cities.
The poor in urban India might stay untouched by the initiatives announced by the prime minister on the last day of 2016.
Effects of the new schemes launched under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana would be felt more in tier II and tier III cities, experts said. Not many budget or affordable housing projects are in the works in metropolitan cities, they said.
The PM had announced two new schemes in the housing for all initiative under PMAY. Subsidised loans would be made available for building or expanding homes in rural India. Also, those wanting to build or expand their homes will get loans of up to Rs 2 lakh, with 3% interest relief.
Low-interest loans will also be made available to the urban poor, he said. And, housing for the rural poor was to be increased by 33%.
“In 2017, those who want to construct homes will get up to 4% interest subsidy for loan amounts up to Rs 9 lakh and 3% up to Rs 12 lakh," said Narendra Modi.
Under PMAY, the government aims to cover around two million non-slum urban poor households. Hence, the total housing shortage envisaged to be addressed through the new mission is 20 mn, it has said.
The mission is being implemented over 2015-2022, providing central assistance to urban local bodies and other implementing agencies, through states and Union territories.
Experts agree the affordable housing segment will get a needed boost but not in big cities.
“The fillip would be visible in rural and semi-urban areas. Tthe affect would not be much visible in cities, as the land prices are higher. But, this is a great move and in 2017, we will see a rise in affordable housing projects,” Anuj Puri, country head at JLL India, the realty consultancy.
“We should not look at only major or metropolitan cities when we talk of urban areas. The mass demand in terms of housing is coming from smaller towns. For slum-dwellers in cities, there are several other independent policies. Places like Mumbai or Gurgaon, Kolkata or Chennai, still have house prices under control,” said Samantak Das, chief economist at Knight Frank India.
There is a feeling that demonetisation, along with developments such as the Real Estate Regulatory Authority and a goods and services tax, will provide impetus to the sector, bringing more transparency and accountability in due course.
“So far, the government’s measures for affordable housing have not met with success. They should in the long term work on things like tax exemption on agricultural income,” said J C Sharma, vice-chairman at Bengaluru-based property developer Sobha.
Image: Children watch television on a mobile cart in Dharavi, the large urban slum sprawl in Mumbai. Photograph: Arko Datta/Reuters.
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Patent and Invention Assignments: Who Owns Employer or Contractor Creations?
One of the sticky areas of intellectual property is who owns the rights to an invention created by an employee during his or her work for an employer. In general, current US intellectual property law starts with the assumption that the inventor owns the right to an invention. It's generally considered prima facie evidence to support patent ownership. But some exceptions do exist.
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The first and most obvious situation when the employer owns the rights to an invention is when the Employment Agreement officially assigns invention rights. To be valid, the Employment Agreement must be written and it must detail the nature of the invention or provide a sufficiently specific description of the invention. The terms of the assignment cannot be grossly unfair. This last criteria is referred to as an unconscionability standard. Technically, the inventor can always assign invention rights to anyone, including employers, but not all states actually recognize assignments pursuant to Employment Agreements unless the employee signs a state-certified written notice of its effects on his or her rights as an inventor. States requiring such notification include:
In these states, the court looks closely to ensure that the inventor receives appropriate compensation. Even in states that don’t recognize these limitations, gross unfairness or lack of compensation can make the Patent Assignment void.
The second situation in which the employer owns the rights to an invention occurs when the contractor or employee is hired specifically to create the invention. In this case, the requirements for fairness and communication are even stricter than with a standard Patent Assignment. Even if the invention is the whole object of the employment, an agreement that is grossly unfair may be overturned. So long as there's sufficient consideration for the hiring, however, these assignments generally hold up better in court than do general assignments, despite the stricter standards. However, as with general assignments, the contractor or employee must be fully informed of the effect of the assignment on his or rights to the invention.
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Emilia Fontaine
"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars."
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a character in “For King and Country”, as played by Autumn_Sunrise
||Mother & Father | Broods || I Found | Amber Run ||
Emilia Isobel Fontaine
|| Emily || Emma || Em ||
Allias
|| Her Royal Highness Princess Emilia ||Emilia Crown Princess of France ||Princess Emilia || Lady Emilia ||
Seventeen Years of Age
Loyalties/Alliances
|| France-The House of Fontaine||
||England-The House of Windsor
Standing around 5'5", Emilia is fair skinned with large, expressive beautiful blue eyes, and full lips more likely to be adorned by a smile rather than a frown. Her body's natural curve is the classic hourglass shape even without her corset making Emilia a picture of beauty as a Princess should be.
Ice blue adorned with golden flecks
White Blonde
Emilia is most often seen in gowns that cling to her figure until her hips than flourish out into a loose skirt.
Emilia has always been a warm, generous person. For a majority of her life if not all of it she has carried out her duties for her people and cared for them with a almost unearthly gentle, kindhearted grace. Often characterized by her white blonde hair and kind sincere smile, Emilia has the ability to light up any room she enters. She has a certain honest friendliness about her that people are often drawn to. Calm and patient, Emilia listens to the problems of her friends, family, and people with a caring ear and offers sound advice without an ounce of judgement when she finds it necessary.
Though Emilia is a kind soul, it is still not in your best interest to insult or threaten those she loves and cares for, as she will defend those around her without a second thought. Emilia is forgiving as she believes grudges are too much of a burden for a soul to bare, and that there is little to be gained from holding onto rivalries, new or old. However, there are exceptions to every rule. When it comes to trust, Emilia is not easily won. She finds it as both a weakness and a strength, though her open friendliness draws people in, it also exposes her to the worst kinds of pain, and the thing about betrayal is it never comes from your enemies, therefore Emilia's trust is a hard gift to seek out and be given.
It may seem like all bright smiles coming from the Princess, but it is not all bright smiles behind closed doors. Underneath her shining façade is a person who has become accustomed to being used then tossed aside, left, and forgotten, like a pair of gloves only taken out for the winter. This makes Emilia very dependent on those she is close with. She can grow over-attached to those she loves and cares for quickly, and when torn from them she falls to the point of overwhelming depression and anxiety. But a Monarch is meant to be gleaming with happiness and strength, so Emilia pretends to be just that, pretends nothing can hurt her, painting a false smile on her face like nothing ever pains her.
Emilia. The crowned Princess of France, eldest of five children born to the King and Queen of France.
Next in line for her fathers throne it was decided when Emilia was three that a marriage alliance would be made with England, she was to marry the next King of England when she came of age, bringing the two countries into a state of peace with each other.
Like any royal born child, Emilia has lived a very privileged life from the moment she was born. Schooled in the castle, Emilia was taught everything she knows in the place that would never truly be her home, yes it would be her country and those would be her people but Emilia belonged to England, belonged to England's Crown Prince making England her home. Even as a young girl Emilia was aware of that fact. Still the young Princess focused on her studies and on what she needed to do.
Even as a young child Emilia was adored by her people, her kind heart apparent even when she was little. She would often be seen sharing toys with the children in the castle who belonged to the maids and servants who were less fortunate. By doing this Emilia met one of the maids daughters, a girl her age named Sophia, and the two of them became the best of friends.
Emilia always made time for her younger sisters, she would protect them and care for them, becoming more like a second mother to them than an older sister. However as Emilia grew older, her duties started to come before all else, she started learning how to be a good Queen but along with that she was learning how to be a good Wife. Keep your head down, don't share your opinions, do as your husband tells you. All lessons drilled into Emilia's head, but she was never good at keeping her opinions to herself if she had an opinion she would likely speak her mind getting her into trouble on more than one occasion.
By the time her brother was born she was fifteen. By then Emilia had very little time for her younger siblings, she was being prepared for England and for her future husband. Her lifelong friend became one of Emilia's ladies-in-waiting and also became one of Emilia's most trusted adviser's she valued Sophia's opinion over even that of her parents from time to time. When the plague originally stuck, the royal family was locked away in the castle, no one was aloud in and no one was aloud out. If you were unfortunate enough to catch the deadly disease you were locked away in the cells and left to die.
When the worst of the plague was thought to be over, Emilia, her family, and her ladies traveled to England to help Emilia settle into her new home, as she would probably never step foot on French soil again.
Isobel Fontaine || Mother || Thirty-six Years || Queen of France || Alive
Edward Fontaine || Mother || Thirty-eight Years || King of France || Alive
Annalise Fontaine || Sister || Fifteen || Princess of France || Alive
Elena Fontaine || Sister || Thirteen || Princess of France || Alive
Lucille Fontaine || Sister || Ten || Princess of France || Alive
Liam Fontaine || Brother || Two || Prince of France || Alive
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10 Things Lightning Crotch During Pregnancy *Actually* Feels Like
By Jamie Kenney
I knew nothing about lightning crotch until I experienced it for myself. I was in my office, walking down the hall, minding my own pregnant business when all of a sudden: BAM. It hit me. It was as though my vagina had been inexplicably electrocuted. It was swift, painful, and (mercifully) over pretty quickly. At first I attributed it to a previous diagnosis of neuralgia, but when I started talking to other expectant mothers (thank you internet message boards) I discovered that they could totally relate to what lightning crotch during pregnancy feels like. Yes, friends, this is A Thing.
Like many things having to do with women's health, lightning crotch, despite hurting a whole hell of a lot, really isn't discussed and is often brushed aside as "not that big a deal." And, anecdotally, it usually isn't a totally huge deal because the pain doesn't actually last too long. But for some women I've known, persistent "lightning crotch" makes pregnancy absolutely unbearable.
What exactly is this phenomenon? And perhaps more importantly, what causes it? Again, as is par for the course with women's health, we're not sure. It could be related to increased blood flow during pregnancy. It could be pressure on the nerves in the cervix. It could be varicose veins inside your damn vagina. So, until we figure that out, just deal with it, ladies! Your pain doesn't actually matter as much to the Medical Industrial Complex!
Fortunately, this bizarre symptom in and of itself doesn't appear to be related to any negative medical outcomes for you or your baby, but it does f*cking hurt. But just telling you it's painful isn't very responsible of me. Allow me to paint you a picture... with words.
Like That One Scene In 'Return Of The Jedi'
You know that one scene, where the evil Emperor Palpatine continually shocks an ill-prepared Luke Skywalker with Force lightning as the young Jedi writhes in agony and cries out "FATHER! PLEASE!" over and over again?
Yeah, it's like that. That jolting, electric sizzle happens deep in your fancy bits, turning what was once your body's coziest corner into a tiny torture chamber.
Another possible Star Wars reference: a lightsaber suddenly being turned on in there... and you didn't realize it was up there in the first place.
Like An Angry Surprise Party In Your Vag
Surprise parties are great! I always wanted one and it finally happened for me when I was 27, which is probably my best birthday to date. It was positively delightful to walk into my favorite bar and suddenly realize that all my friends were sitting around waiting for me and now the entire evening would be spent in pleasant revelry.
Lightning crotch is the opposite side of that same coin. It's that same sudden and all-encompassing pop of surprise, but instead of being good-natured and fun, it's malevolent and angry. Whereas a well-received surprise party is like "For me?! Oh you shouldn't have!" lightning crotch is like "*OMG why are you doing this to me! Please stop!"
Like Your Vagina Stuck A Fork In A Socket
I don't know how the vagina got a fork or how it's holding it, or why the vagina would stick said fork in a socket, but that's definitely the sensation going on down there, so I'll have to assume it happened. Maybe it wasn't a fork. I fully admit that I don't know all the details and it could have been some other form of flatware, like a butter knife or the handle end of an espresso spoon. Maybe it was a penny. My youngest brother once stuck a penny in a socket and it shocked him so badly his hair was singed. It is entirely possible the vagina stuck a penny in a socket. No matter what hijinks the vagina in question got itself into, it was unpleasant and ill-advised. Oh, vagina. When will you ever learn?
Like A Hair Metal Guitar Solo
You know when the person is raging away on their guitar, and they start to get into that super high-pitched territory that, even if you like hair metal (which I do not) sets your teeth on edge and then stays there for a really long time in a display of technical prowess? Lightning crotch is if you took that sound, made it a feeling, and then just stuck it up your vag like the world's most terrible douche... or something.
Like A Fuse Blew In Your "Lady Basement"
I never thought of it in these terms at the time, but ever since becoming a homeowner, I've become somewhat of an expert on fuses. My house is 55 years old and the electrical work, while solid, can be just a little bit fussy.
Without getting too technical, when too much is going on in a particular area of your home, electrically speaking, the fuse blows. This opens the electrical circuit as a fail safe measure to keep the wires from catching fire.
Crotch lightning is like that: it's normal, it's supposed to happen in some cases, but it's annoying and unpleasant.
The Cruciatus Curse From 'Harry Potter'
Also known as the Torture Curse, and it is used to inflict horrible pain on its victim. Crotch lightning is like when you have a tiny little Bellatrix up in your LeStrange. She has gone full-on Death Eater and is whipping up some Unforgivable Curses in your vag. Her magic is powerful, painful, and often strikes without warning.
Like A Physical Version Of The Feeling You Get When You Overhear Someone Being Awful
You know that hot prickly feeling you get when you see or hear someone being terrible to a perfectly reasonable service worker? Or when someone says something really sexist to you? You know how that can make you feel absolutely stunned at just how awful this person is, and when you finally collect yourself enough to say anything your first instinct is to scream?
Yeah, like that, but a physical sensation that can affect you emotionally rather than an emotional sensation that can affect you physically.
Like That One Scene In 'No Country For Old Men'
Remember how Javier Bardem's character killed people with a captive bolt pistol? Like Javier's preferred method of homicide in the film (which, I had to keep telling myself, was only a movie, only a movie, only a movie) lightning crotch is quick, unexpected, and brutal.
One big difference, however, is that your vagina hopefully has a better haircut than Javier. I mean, you do you if that's your thing, but holy cow that was a terrible do.
Like Your Baby Is Practicing Terrible Mutant Powers On Your Cervix
If the X-Men franchise has taught me one thing (and it's honestly taught me so, so much), it's that mutants are real and that many of them have powers pertaining to shooting energy beams of one kind or another. Storm can control the weather and shoot lightning at her foes. Gambit can convert potential energy to kinetic energy with mere touch. Cyclops shoots laser beams out of his damn eyes.
Mutants are born with these powers. So it makes sense that your unborn child, if a mutant, is honing their "gifts" inside of you. Every now and then a stray laser bean or whatever is going to shoot through your cervix and spread throughout your vag. It sucks for you, but humanity really thanks you for taking one for the team, because your child is definitely going to be a superhero someday.
Because, I mean... duh. It's right there in the name.
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Nu Tribe & ELOI & Cult Architect & Elena Šiljić
Part of Roundhouse Rising, our festival of new music. See the full line-up here.
Join us for a special evening championing the hottest emerging artists from the Future Bubblers roster and our very own Roundhouse Resident Artist programme, with performances from hip hop trio NuTribe, singer-songwriter ELOI and producer-DJ Cult Architect.
More acts to be announced.
About the line-up
NuTribe are a group from Liverpool. Free-spirited improvisation is their way, with their music is rooted in classic-sounding hip-hop production and MCing.
ELOI is a singer-songwriter, producer and classically trained pianist combining electronica, alternative, pop and R&B. With performances at the Royal Court Theatre and Ronnie Scott’s under her belt, as well as a debut EP on the way, her aim is singular; to make truly original pop music.
Cult Architect is a new project for Sheffield based DJ and producer R. Lyle. Drawing on dubstep, techno, cinematic and post-rock influences; his work has seen support from dance floor heavy-weights, Throwing Snow, Bonobo and Gilles Peterson.
Elena Šiljić is a composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist from Auckland, New Zealand. She makes pop music with alternative soundscapes and sensibilities that pushes the boundaries of what pop music is today.
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Moscow slams Kiev for ‘information war’ over 100+ Russian media ban list
Residents of the Petrovsky District in Donetsk (RIA Novosti / Mikhail Voskresenskiy) © RIA Novosti
Kiev's stripping more than 100 Russian media outlets of accreditation at Ukraine's bodies of state power is “openly discriminatory.” It calls into question their interest in a peace settlement, said Russia’s Foreign Ministry and other top official.
On Saturday, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) issued recommendations to strip more than 100 Russian media outlets of accreditation. The list includes TASS, Rossiya Segodnya and all Russian TV channels except Dozhd, according to the service's spokesperson Yelena Gitlyanskaya. The outlets will be without accreditation until the end of the Ukrainian conflict.
"The openly discriminatory decision by Ukraine's parliament to strip Russian mass media of accreditation at the bodies of state power is an extension of the policy to clear the country's media space of alternative points of view," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
It added this decision comes as a “backdrop to the latest resolutions by the Normandy Quartet's leaders” (the Minsk peace agreement) and “calls in question Kiev's interest in a peace settlement."
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Russia’s presidential spokesman Dmytry Peskov said on Saturday the Kremlin will talk to Kiev, pointing out the “inadmissibility of such steps.” He also told TASS Moscow won’t respond to Kiev’s actions by limiting the work of Ukrainian media as “Russia is a country where media activity is regulated by law, and where Russian and foreign journalists have equal rights to obtain information.”
Kiev is continuing its fight against everything Russian, but this limitation won’t prevent Russian journalists from “continuing to objectively cover” the Ukrainian conflict, said head of Russia’s Lower House of Parliament Committee for relations with the CIS bloc, Leonid Slutsky, on Saturday.
Last April, Ukrainian authorities imposed severe restrictions on Russian men, aged between 16 and 60, when attempting to enter Ukraine without their families. The men are only allowed in if they have close relatives, or an official invitation.
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Kiev’s ban on Russian journalists and mass media in Ukraine “is nothing but a systematic policy by the Ukrainian authorities abusing Ukraine's responsibilities in the spheres of human rights, the freedom of speech, and the freedom of mass media and access to information," said Konstantin Dolgov earlier. The Russian human right’s commissioner called the decision an “act of information war.” He asked the international community, particularly the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE), to react appropriately to the issue,
Earlier in February, 239 Ukrainian lawmakers voted in favor of suspending Russian journalists' accreditation until the conflict in eastern Ukraine ends.
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Last year’s housing market broke records
Strong job growth, low unemployment and historically low interest rates all contributed to rising prices.
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By Phillip Molnar,
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The housing market reached new price peaks in 2017, shattering records left over from the 2005 housing boom.
Home prices rose as the number of homes for sale continued to drop — even more so than previous years. Meanwhile, the number sales stayed about the same.
Strong job growth, low unemployment and historically low interest rates all contributed to rising prices, said Mark Goldman, finance and real estate lecturer at San Diego State University.
“If you look back at 2017, it was a robust year,” Goldman said. “Interest rates were quite good, the economy was continuing to barrel ahead, wages were strong, employment was strong and millennials were aging into the homebuying market.”
How prices compare
The median home price reached $529,000 last year, above the $500,000 peak in 2005 and 2006. Still, when adjusted for inflation, last year’s median is about $11,000 less than what it was in the housing boom.
Inventory was down
Nationwide home inventory is down, not just in Southern California. A lack of home construction during the recession is seen as a reason because housing units did not keep up with natural population growth. In San Diego County, the monthly average home listings last year were about 5,000 homes, down from roughly 7,000 in 2014.
Sales were up in 2017
The number of home sales sold each year for the last decade has not varied much despite fewer homes on the market and rising prices.
Homes sold fast
Increased competition for the reduced number of homes for sale meant homes stayed on the market for fewer days. Last year, a home sold in an average 31 days — the fastest since at least 2006 when the Greater San Diego Association of Realtors started keeping records.
Communities with the fastest price growth
The median resale home price in Ocean Beach had the biggest increase in San Diego County in a year, rising 21.9 percent to a median $1.06 million. Other communities with big increases were Pauma Valley, Solana Beach, Spring Valley and Logan Heights.
Where the most sales are happening
With new home construction way below historical averages, most buyers seek out a resale home. The most sales took place in North County, largely dominated by Oceanside.
Neighborhoods with the biggest gains since the boom
Since 2005, several neighborhoods have seen home prices increase by more than 40 percent. The highest was small Warner Springs in unincorporated San Diego County, followed by La Jolla and Grantville.
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Qualcomm Ventures bets on Internet of Things startup in $40 million funding round
Qualcomm Ventures was the co-led investor in the latest funding round for Bay Area Internet of Things startup Particle, which provides a hardware and software platform for connecting un-connected devices.
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Corporate venture capital arm of San Diego-based Qualcomm was the co-lead investor in Particle’s latest funding round.
By Mike Freeman
Qualcomm Ventures said Wednesday it’s the co-lead investor in a $40 million funding round for Particle, a Bay Area startup that’s developed an Internet of Things platform to make it easier to bring wireless connectivity to the agriculture, energy, smart cities, remote monitoring and research industries.
The investment targets a key growth avenue for San Diego-based Qualcomm, which aims to push wireless technology into new industries beyond smartphones. The more flexible architecture in new 5G networks is expected to pave the way for connecting millions of sensors, cameras and other devices, and Qualcomm is a large provider of wireless connectivity chips and technologies.
Qualcomm Venture was joined by Energy Impact Partners as the lead investor in this third round of funding for Particle. Other investors participating in the round include Root Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Industry Ventures, Spark Capital, Shea Ventures, SOSV and Counterpart Ventures.
Founded in 2012, Particle has developed a suite of hardware and software to connected unconnected industries. The platform includes cellular, Wi-Fi and mesh network chips and development kits for rapid deployment, as well as on-device operating systems and developer software tools to manage devices.
“Creating a bridge from the physical to the digital world is far more complex than most people realize, which is why nearly 75 percent of Internet of Things initiatives fail,” said Carlos Kokron, managing director of the Americas at Qualcomm Ventures. “From the device itself to the network, cloud connectivity and software functionality, there’s a lot of moving parts and a lot of room for error. Particle’s full-stack platform accounts for all of these vital elements in a highly secure environment for the Internet of Things.”
Particle will use the money to speed up development of technology targeting specific traditional industries. This latest round brings the total raised by Particle to $82 million.
“Demand from consumer electronics companies continues to grow, but we’ve also seen a profound increase in Internet of Things interest from enterprise companies in long-established verticals like energy and city infrastructure, said Particle Chief Executive Zach Supalla.
According to Particle, revenue increased 150 percent year over year, with nearly 200,000 developers and 85 large companies using its platform. Customers range from e-bike and scooter sharing firms to energy companies monitoring generating equipment to fleet tracking and environmental sensor organizations.
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Mental health in the workplace is a difficult concept for many to embrace. Research continues to demonstrate the critical links between mental health and safe, productive work. Yet sadly, news stories abound with incidences of workplace violence, accidents, and suicide based in large part on mental health going unaddressed.
The challenges to understanding and promoting workplace mental health come in different forms. For a start, mental health issues can be invisible. Unlike a broken leg, employees can come to work and appear to function relatively normally while their problems churn internally. The “bad apple” syndrome can also dissuade management from pursuing programs in this area – once a story of an employee who abuses the system by faking an illness for personal gain goes viral, the credibility of health programs can quickly and unfairly erode.
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And let's not forget money. Many companies are reluctant to spend on internal programs of any sort. These programs are seen by detractors as additional costs which impact profit margins. Public sector companies may feel the same pressure in terms of spending taxpayer funds on internal “luxuries.”
Some people also believe that managing mental health issues is not the business of an employer - it’s a personal thing. When an employee sustains a physical injury on company property, it's easy to connect the injury to the workplace. The causes of mental health issues are often less distinct. Employees who suffer mental health problems may also be reluctant to come forward for fear of losing their job or advancement opportunities.
Mental Health Is a Company Concern
The truth, however, is that mental health is a company concern. And the trend is starting to turn. In some degree thanks to social media, people are having open conversations about their workplace lives. Corporate decision-makers are starting to notice how much of an impact mental health has on employees, and in turn, how much impact a company can have on its employees’ mental health.
We see plenty of case studies and lists of “best places to work,” which, far from being sponsored vanity pieces, demonstrate the priorities that employees of all ages hold most dear in terms of working conditions. High salaries seldom end up at the top of these lists. The highest priorities are always related to the workplace culture: respectful, safe, compassionate and proactive workspaces that allow people to feel fulfilled and to receive assistance in areas like mental health, where they may have previously been suffering in silence.
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These priorities are not to be taken lightly, since employees of every age request and require such support. Rather than seeing them merely as a cost, many decision-makers are seeing mental health support programs as an investment that will help them attract and retain motivated, productive employees.
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Promoting Mental Health in the Workplace
There are many companies worldwide who are already promoting workplace mental health programs. There certainly too many to list in a single blog post, and that is a great collective achievement. However, there is still some way to go.
The successful case studies still constitute a minority of employers. Some may still be in outright denial and will wait until occupational health and safety statutes force their hand. But other companies are already interested in learning more about the best ways to integrate mental health programs and awareness into their culture. Change often comes slowly, but slow and steady eventually wins.
Some steps for successful deployment include:
Recognizing the importance of work-life balance as a vital component of productivity. People cannot be “on” 24/7.
Being willing to discuss and confront workplace mental health issues - bringing them out in the open in a supportive way that removes stigma and seeks solutions.
Screening policies. Looking for examples of bullying, physical or mental abuse, stress-inducing workloads, and toxic culture. Conducting a hazard analysis just as would be done for physical safety issues.
Providing employee assistance (EAP) benefits that match today’s workforce. Skills upgrading, change management, parental leaves, gender issues – these are just a few of the many employee related concerns that have changed substantially over the past decade.
Tangibly supporting employees in their mental health. Allowing and encouraging personal mental health days. Being vigilant in looking for signs of stress and conflict through “management by walking around” (MBWA), video-based mentoring, and timelier two-way employee feedback.
Including all levels. Although specialists should spearhead a mental health initiative, the endorsement of senior management goes a long way to delivering confidence and legitimacy. This includes physical participation of senior officers and executives, for example in serving breakfasts on employee appreciation days – a small but powerful and symbolic gesture.
Reducing the stigma. Workplace mental health is deep and complicated. Some problems stem from personal clinical illness, others are products of a workplace culture. To address it, management must be willing to bring it out in the open without creating fear.
Prioritizing confidentiality. Although bringing concepts of workplace mental health out into the open is advisable, there is also the critical importance of respecting confidentiality for each employee.
Making workplace mental health a constant part of the culture. Employee Appreciation Days are good to have as distinct events, but the proactive support of employees’ mental health must remain a permanent part of a company’s culture, and one that is carefully planned, measured, and improved upon.
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These ideas, and many more besides, are available from a range of sources, including occupational health and safety statutes, human resource guides, mental health practitioners, and resources on social and traditional media. They apply to any type of workplace, from the office to the factory floor, from those who work from home to road warriors, and from full-timers to part-time and contract workers.
The issue of workplace has finally come out into the open where it belongs, for the benefit of individual people, as well as the companies they work for.
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I was in deep depression when I heard that Shadowhunters was announced. As a fan of the books, I felt a spark of excitement that I hadn't felt in a long time. I felt like I had something to look forward to. And it did help me. Alec's storyline gave me hope that there was something I could do; fight for my own happiness. Now that I've come so far in creating the life I want, hearing about the cancellation broke my heart. I wont fall back into depression, but I want someone to know that this show saves lives, and it deserves more. The cast and crew deserve more. They worked so hard to create something that really does change lives. #SaveShadowhunters
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When the show first started airing I was in a really bad place, I won't go into details but my life was hard and I was fighting every minute of every day against my own head giving me really dark thoughts. I liked the movie when it was released and I'd started reading the books but didn't like them enough to finish the series. Then I heard about the show, I watched the first episode full of hope, and yes it had flaws but many first seasons do too so I kept watching. Little by little I found myself looking forward to the show every week, it gave me something to look forward too when it felt like I had nothing to live for. I found friends, I went to the Milan convention and met the most wonderful people. I never thought I could have friends, and instead I found a group of people I enjoy hanging out with and that don't make me feel alone. I found a sexuality I feel confortable identifying with thanks to the show, it showed me women can be pretty and smart, I found role models I look up to. The show is my anchor and has been for years now, I know I shouldn't rely on it so much but it's just the way it is. I really don't know what I'll do without it, I can already feel myself slipping back into habits I thought I had left behind. I need more time with the show, please don't take it away from me. #SaveShadowhunters
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I only started watching Shadowhunters when season 3 aired but I've grown to love it with all my heart. These characters are so special to me and all the people who watch it. I have never been this interested or invested in a show before, and it's been very heartbreaking to see it be cancelled... I love the cast a lot- they are such genuine and lovely people, and you can tell they really care about their characters, the show and the fans especially. I could not have asked for a better cast. Personally, this is the first time I've seen LGBTQ+ characters have a leading role and a fulfilling plot line.. most shows I've watched either give these characters the "gay best friend" cliched storyline or the "cheating bisexual" storyline and it was honestly so refreshing and really interesting to see these characters have a developed plot line and not be shoved to the side, used only when neccessary. My personal favourite couple is Malec, and it's beautiful to see such a healthy relationship, accepted by so many people. I never thought I'd root for a fictional couple as much as I do for Malec, hahah <3 I also love that 5/8 of the main cast are people of colour because I am too. It's the most representation I have personally seen. Overall, this show holds a very dear place in my heart, as I am sure it does for everybody else. I love the cast, I love the story, I love the characters.. I love this fandom, and I do not want to see it go. Shadowhunters deserves to be treated better than this and have an opportunity to keep telling its story. I sincerley hope this show gets saved, because this show has saved many of us.
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I am chronically ill, and often will find myself bedridden. Shadowhunters is my safe place, my distraction from the pain and sickness. It also showed me that being asexual was perfectly normal through the character Raphel Santiago. I have honestly never been happier to finally see myself on screen! This show means the world to me. It’s my distraction, my escape and my representation in the media.
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I have dyspraxia and I want shadowhunters to be saved because when we get a season 4 we will have autism representation through Ty Blackthorn. He was the first book character I EVER read about who had an ASD similar to mine and he will probably be the first TV character with a similar ASD.
RORY [21] ROMANIA
I was in a good place when I started to watch the show. I wasn't confused about who I was and I never questioned who I liked. Or so I thought. And I didn't like it in the beginning, so I stopped, until something made give it another go. Call it fate or coincidence or intervention, I really don't know. But I formed a connection to it and I don't do that with TV shows. And I didn't even know I was doing it. This show makes me feel at home somehow and sometimes I think of how stupid it sounds. I mean I didn't even read YA and I wasn't that much into fantasy, but Shadowhunters is so much more. It shows bravery and acceptance and real people who are imperfect and make stupid mistakes and are a little broken sometimes and I realized I am a little broken at times too. And I found myself in that world, I found myself in Clary stubborn and well intention and kinda lost. In Simon, always there for other people and always wanting to be seen. I found myself in Jace, joking and bragging when I was actually breaking or in Izzy wanting to be the best no matter the cost. I found myself in Alec trying to be perfect, do everything people expect and don't disappoint anyone. I found myself mostly in Magnus seemed so happy and aloof and always there for everyone, but who never asked for others to be there in return. And I realized that I pretended to be well and happy for so long that I believed it myself. But this show thought me that everything I was feeling was valid and it gave hope, it gave me courage, it gave a safe place. Because of Shadowhunters I realized I was bi (I haven't said it or wrote it until now) and that in this fantasy world with demons and angels and downworlders I am home somehow. This show helps me when I am confused about who I am or when dark thoughts take over and I am so grateful for the amazing team behind it and for the amazing fandom who is one of the most loving and supportive families I know. This message is kind of long and probably a mess , but I hope it helps someone understand why people need this show so much. #SaveShadowhunters because it saved so many of us.
SARSAUID93 [25]
Shadowhunters is the culturally and sexually diverse sci-fi show that reflects the problems of society, and embraces the very real issues felt by people who are continuously marginalised. So many lives have benefited from having this show aired all across the world, it has shown representation and hope to those who fight to be themselves every single day.
NOORLIGHTWOOD [17]
Shadowhunters is a great show, it deals with a lot of different subjects that aren't just fantasy but happens in reality too , and many other shows just either ignore nor make fun of it . Like when Mia said she got used to cops pulling her out of her car for no other reason than that fact that she's black. Izzy seems to be perfect ,but in season 2 she turns into an addict because of how much everyone (especially her mother) expect her to be the best . Clary does everything to find her mother , Alec is gay and he didn't date anyone ever other than Magnus , he just came out to his family.
NICOLA [24] NETHERLANDS
Representation and freedom to be ourselves, most importantly. For me different sexualities are represented and although mine is not, it gives me hope and it opens conversations. Also women in different kinds of positive positions and women standing up for themselves. In general it is just refreshing and it also encompasses a genre I enjoy, which gives me a chance to "escape" reality and just relax.
AIDA | MALAYSIA
Before I found out about Shadowhunters I really can't accept myself. I hate myself more than anything because I'm different. After I watch the show I immediately fell in love with it bc it teach me to love myself and there's nothing wrong to be different. Now I can accept my sexuality bc from the characters I learn that you can be proud of yourself. You can be different and still be awesome. It shows that people can be accepting. I can relate to this show bc it represents me. That's why I love this show.
@JACINTADAVIS1 [24] AUSTRALIA
For a long time I didn’t have places I could escape to when the real world was too much, and Shadowhunters provides that place. To have that taken away is removing my happiness, and the Shadowfam that I have grown to love, despite never meeting anyone in person.
JODIE [33] UK
Shadowhunters is overcoming real life issues. Shadowhunters is companionship. Shadowhunters is bravery. Shadowhunters is comfort. Shadowhunters is escape. Shadowhunters is help. Shadowhunters is normality. Shadowhunters is acceptance. Shadowhunters is solace. Shadowhunters is safety. Shadowhunters is company. Shadowhunters is courage. Shadowhunters is encouraging. Shadowhunters is determination. Shadowhunters is freedom. Shadowhunters is home. Shadowhunters is life. Shadowhunters is our future where it's ok to be yourself and to be proud of it. Personally, for me Shadowhunters helps me get through my darkest times and come out the other side even stronger.
ANON [19] SINGAPORE
Alec Lightwood spent a good majority of his life hiding in fear of who he was, then finally came out and now lives his life freely loving another man. He is a gay man, in a position of power, and living his truth. And in him I see my late brother who ended his life shortly after coming out when he was 21. They have such similar personalities, a heart too big for the world and the innate need to protect and love. Watching Alec's story portrayed on screen was like watching the life my brother, and so many others couldn't have. It is undeniably important to be able to see that life really could get better, for the torn, afraid and hidden LGBT kid watching. We can't have that representation taken away. We need to see Alec's, and every other characters' story play out. For the abuse survivor, Maia shows us that it is possible to love and be loved again. For the mentally ill or substance abusers, Jace, Izzy, and so many others demonstrate strength beyond compare, and how their future burns so brightly. All of these characters' deserve to be heard.
DEBBIE [37] ENGLAND
I love SH because of Alec and Magnus storyline and of course the other people in the show too... I got my brother hooked on SH to and he loved the Malec storyline too and because of the Malec storyline my brother picked up the courage to come out to me so that’s why I want to keep fighting for our beautiful show....
ANNE [39] DENMARK
I got a knee injury in February 2017 and had to have an operation. That meant time at home on sick leave. To pass some of the time I opened up a Netflix account and began watching Shadowhunters. I am an avid reader of Fantasy books as well as male/male romance. This is why this show is perfect to me. To have a strong gay/bisexual couple is wonderful to witness. I kept my Netflix account because of this show. I don't think I want to pay for it without it. Here in Denmark I will be able to buy the episodes on blu-ray from Germany. I already own the first two seasons. Please Netflix. Pick up my favorite show and make it a true Netflix Original.
Shadowhunters is important to me because of Raphael Santiago. There are barely any Ace characters on TV. I’m Ace and from a catholic family of Mexican decent. Raphael is my hero because I see myself in him, and David Castro is a wonderful Raphael. If they leave it now his story ends with him as a villain. It’s not fair or cannon. They need to give Raphael the heroic story he deserves.
CELIA [20] FRANCE
Shadowhunters is a Wonderful show With a wonderful cast and actors
KRISTIE | USA
I believe it should be saved because it helps people deal with issues such as being honest with yourself about who you are and knowing that its ok to be you , it helps people who are different see the beauty in their differences and that life would be boring and grey without it ,the show teaches that Men dont have to be toxic with masculinity in order to be strong and that women don't have to be weak always relying on men to slay we can kick butt and take names see the beauty in all our differences
NATASHA | ITALIA
I had some problems accepting my body when I started to watch shadowhunters. I didn't like myself. Was a bad period for me and I didn't know what to do. My life was empty. My life was without stimules. I had low self-esteem. This show helped me so much. Izzy Lightwood,see her comfortable with her body helped me. Alec's courage gave courage to me. See Alec became head of the institute and do his job so well encourage me to fight for my dreams and my ambitions. For these reasons and more #saveshadowhunters
CHANTAL | GERMANY
Shadowhunters is a show that gives so much love to eveeybody. It shows how to deal with issues everybody has in his or her life too. It tells so much about strength and friendship. That is the reason why it means so much to me. The show has given me the strength to show who i am and that is priceless
TRISTA_LEE16 [13] USA
Shadowhunters has helped me through the passing of my father and my depression. Everyday I used to go home and lock myself in my room and block everyone off, but when Shadowhunters came to Freeform i thought 'maybe I could check it out' so I had watched it every single week and people started seeing a difference in my emotional state. Shadowhunters means the world to me and I can't explain how many times this show has put a smile on my face after a terrible day. I honestly don't know what would have happened if this show never existed, and I am so thankful that this show has found its way in my life. This is what Shadowhunters means to me and how much I want to save it. Especially Malec. Thank you.
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What is the proposition of the AI revolution over the fluctuating job requirements in the UK?
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Recruitment Consultants in London are unwilling to actualise AI into their hiring process as opined by professional HR Journalists who share their analogy into the rationale justifying the proposition of AI over the varying job requirements existing in the UK markets.
• AI is incredibly the future of recruitment. Just converse this statement in many of the talent acquisition forums and you are bound to ignite an argument.
• Majority of the masses would approve that technology is drastically transforming major chunks of our lives and hiring is certainly one of the crucial ingredients among them. But research portrays that the receptive prudence requires more diligent scrutiny on the part of hiring agencies.
• Research depicts the present scenario in which most of the recruitment agencies in London are open to new innovative technological avenues and collaterals but most of our respondents are still stuck with the traditional conventional methods.
• To a considerable extent, this can be the reflection of cost. Technology is undoubtedly expensive and talent managers are persistently endeavouring on tight budgets. But the bottom line identified by the researchers was that the people’s hesitation in adoption of AI was chiefly the suspicion and myths about its effective performance. Some Hr journalists when interviewed, come up with a perspective that human intervention is necessary as far as recruitment is concerned, it becomes difficult for a machine to learn the nuance.
• Also, some people oriented managers show up with an ideology that AI lacks the personal touch and brand promotion. Even recruitment channels are nowadays gaining significant brand promotion value and the candidates should be treated with fair human touch and compassion which a robot will fail to do.
• Amazon announced in the late last year that it was eliminating a proprietary recruitment tool because it aggressively taught itself that male candidates were preferable.
• Candidates demand immediate and instant responses and cannot wait for a week or so. AI benefits are not leveraging the employer as far as the paradigm of human touch and personalization is concerned.
• Secondly, training must be intensive and systematic in its peculiar nature, technology yields favourable results depending upon the talent resources utilizing it. Here the sole discretion of human intervention plays a crucial role.
AI cannot position itself successfully in the hiring processes as it is also one of the decision making processes of a business organisation.
To conclude the proposition of AI has been postponed for the time being. Certainly, AI is the future of the recruitment proceedings but not for now yet. It requires intense technological advancements when technology can be embarked for decision-making processes and understand the algorithms of human intervention. The question of this proposition also majorly relies on the influence of the recent job requirements in the UK. How far AI successfully churns out the job requirements in correlation to the talent pool is also the "X" factor in determining the feasibility of AI in the recruitment sector.
International Recruitment Agencies London are savaging the latest alternatives for recruitment processes as far as technology adoption and utilization is concerned. The future itself will determine the future as well as the efficacy of robot technology vis-a-vis human intervention will establish the vivid perception and implementation of AI in the near future.
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SECTION 38-25-10. Declaration.
(a) The General Assembly declares that it is concerned with the protection of residents of this State against acts by insurers not authorized to conduct an insurance business in this State, by the maintenance of fair and honest insurance markets, by protecting authorized insurers which are subject to regulation from unfair competition by unauthorized insurers, and by protecting against the evasion of the insurance regulatory laws of this State. In furtherance of this state interest, the General Assembly herein provides methods for substituted service of process upon such insurers in any proceeding, suit, or action in any court, including the Administrative Law Court as provided by law, and substituted service of any notice, order, pleading, or process upon such insurers in any proceeding by the director or his designee to enforce or effect full compliance with the insurance laws of this State. In so doing, the state exercises its powers to protect residents of this State and to define what constitutes transacting an insurance business in this State and also exercises powers and privileges available to this State by virtue of Public Law 79-15, 79th Congress of the United States, Chapter 20, 1st Session, S. 340, 59 Stat. 33; 15 U.S.C., Sections 1011 to 1015, inclusive, as amended, which declares that the business of insurance and every person engaged therein are subject to the laws of the several states.
(b) The remedies and proceedings provided in this chapter are in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other remedies or proceedings provided by law.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-25-10 [1962 Code Section 37-1132; 1974 (58) 2378] recodified as Section 38-33-10 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; Former 1976 Code Section 38-53-20 [1975 (59) 127] recodified as Section 38-25-10 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 599.
Unauthorized Insurance Transactions
SECTION 38-25-110. Prohibition on transaction of insurance business in State without certificate of authority.
It is unlawful for an insurer to transact insurance business in this State without a certificate of authority from the director or his designee. Any of the acts listed in items (1) through (8) in this State effected by mail or otherwise by or on behalf of an unauthorized insurer is considered to constitute the transaction of an insurance business in this State. The venue of an act committed by mail is at the point where the matter transmitted by mail is delivered and takes effect. Unless otherwise indicated, the term "insurer" as used in this section includes all corporations, associations, partnerships, and individuals engaged as principals in the business of insurance and also includes interinsurance exchanges and mutual benefit societies.
(1) The making of or proposing to make, as an insurer, an insurance contract.
(2) The making of or proposing to make, as guarantor or surety, any contract of guaranty or suretyship as a vocation and not merely incidental to any other legitimate business or activity of the guarantor or surety.
(3) The taking or receiving of any application for insurance.
(4) The receiving or collection of any premium, commission, membership fees, assessments, dues, or other consideration for any insurance or any part thereof.
(5) The issuance or delivery of contracts of insurance to residents of this State or to persons authorized to do business in this State.
(6) Directly or indirectly acting as an agent for or otherwise representing or aiding on behalf of another, any person or insurer in the solicitation, negotiation, procurement, or effectuation of insurance or renewals thereof or in the dissemination of information as to coverage or rates, or forwarding of applications, or delivery of policies or contracts, or inspection of risks, a fixing of rates or investigation or adjustment of claims or losses or in the transaction of matters after effectuation of the contract and arising out of it, or in any other manner representing or assisting a person or insurer in the transaction of insurance with respect to subjects of insurance resident, located, or to be performed in this State. This section does not prohibit full-time salaried employees of a corporate insured from acting in the capacity of an insurance manager or buyer in placing insurance in behalf of their employer.
(7) The transaction of any kind of insurance business specifically recognized as transacting an insurance business within the meaning of the statutes relating to insurance.
(8) The transacting or proposing to transact any insurance business in substance equivalent to any of the foregoing in a manner designed to evade the insurance laws of this State.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-53-30 [1975 (59) 127; 1976 Act No. 732 Section 8] recodified as Section 38-25-110 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 600.
SECTION 38-25-120. Acting as agent for unauthorized insurer prohibited.
No person may in this State act as agent for an insurer not authorized to transact business in this State or negotiate for or place or aid in placing insurance coverage in this State for another with an unauthorized insurer.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-52-10 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-261; 1962 Code Section 37-261; 1978 Act No. 457 Section 1] recodified as Section 38-25-120 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1.
SECTION 38-25-130. Aiding unauthorized insurer prohibited.
No person may in this State aid an unauthorized insurer in effecting insurance or in transacting insurance business in this State, either by fixing a rate, or by adjusting or investigating losses, by inspecting or examining risks, by acting as attorney in fact or as attorney for service of process or otherwise, except as provided in Sections 38-25-510 and 38-25-520.
SECTION 38-25-140. Insurance on out-of-state property by insurer not locally authorized.
No person may make, negotiate for or place, or aid in negotiating or placing an insurance contract in this State for another who is an applicant for insurance covering any property or risk in another state, territory, or district of the United States with an insurer not authorized to transact insurance business in the state, territory, or district where the property or risk or any part thereof is located.
SECTION 38-25-150. Exemptions.
This article does not apply to:
(1) the lawful transaction of surplus lines insurance;
(2) the lawful transaction of reinsurance by insurers;
(3) transactions in this State involving a policy lawfully solicited, written, and delivered outside this State covering only subjects of insurance not resident, located, or expressly to be performed in this State at the time of issuance, and which transactions are subsequent to the issuance of the policy;
(4) attorneys acting in the ordinary relation of attorney and client in the adjustment of claims or losses;
(5) except for mass-marketed insurance, transactions in this State involving group life and group accident and health or blanket accident and health insurance or group annuities where (i) the master policy was lawfully issued and delivered in and pursuant to the laws of a state in which the insurer was authorized to do an insurance business and in which the policyholder was domiciled or otherwise had a bona fide situs and (ii) except for group annuities, the insurer complies with Sections 38-65-50, 38-65-60, 38-71-740, and 38-71-750;
(6) transactions in this State involving any policy of insurance or annuity contract issued before April 30, 1975;
(7) contracts of insurance covering risks of transportation and navigation and transactions in this State relative to a policy issued or to be issued outside this State involving insurance on vessels, craft or hulls, cargoes, marine builder's risk, marine protection and indemnity, or other risk, including strikes and war risks commonly insured under ocean or wet marine forms of policy;
(8) transactions in this State involving contracts of insurance other than contracts of life, accident, or accident and health insurance issued to one or more industrial insureds. An "industrial insured" means an insured:
(i) which procures insurance by use of the services of a full-time employee acting as a risk manager or insurance manager or utilizing the services of a regularly and continuously qualified insurance consultant;
(ii) whose aggregate annual premiums for insurance on all risks total at least twenty-five thousand dollars; and
(iii) which has at least twenty-five full-time employees.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-52-40 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-264; 1962 Code Section 37-264; 1978 Act No. 457 Section 1] Section 38-53-30 [1975 (59) 127; 1976 Act No. 732 Section 8] recodified as Section 38-25-150 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1.
SECTION 38-25-160. Director may exempt insurer or other organization from provisions of chapter; certain requirements; discontinuance of exemption.
The director or his designee may, by regulation of the department or by his order, exempt from all or any provisions of this chapter an insurer or other organization not formed or operating for profit which affords life insurance or annuities to nonprofit educational and scientific institutions and their staff members in this State. However, in affording this exemption the director or his designee shall require the insurer or other organization to appoint the director as agent for service of process. The director or his designee may require the insurer or other organization to file with the department, as information, policy forms, annual statements, and financial and other similar material. The director or his designee may, after due notice and hearing, discontinue the exemption for any reason which would have, if then existing or known, justified his refusal to afford the exemption when it was granted.
Remedies and Penalties
SECTION 38-25-310. Director authorized to seek restraining order.
Whenever the director or his designee believes, from evidence satisfactory to him, that an insurer is violating or about to violate Section 38-25-110 the director or his designee may, through the Attorney General, cause a complaint to be filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Richland County to enjoin and restrain the insurer from continuing the violation, engaging in the violation, or doing any act in furtherance of the violation. The court has jurisdiction of the proceeding and has the power to make and enter an order or judgment awarding preliminary or final injunctive relief as in its judgment is proper.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-53-40 [1975 (59) 127] recodified as Section 38-25-310 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 602.
SECTION 38-25-315. Emergency cease and desist orders; penalties.
(A) As an alternative to the procedural remedy detailed within Section 38-25-310, whenever the director, from evidence which is satisfactory to him, has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has engaged in, or is about to engage in, the transaction of insurance business in violation of this chapter and that transaction will adversely impact upon public health, public safety, or public welfare, he may reduce his findings of fact and his conclusions of law to writing and he may issue an emergency cease and desist order. That order must be served upon the person either by certified mail, return receipt requested, at that person's last known address, or in any other manner permitted by law.
(B) An emergency cease and desist order issued by the director must, within its provisions, give notice that the person may contest that order by petitioning for an immediate public hearing before an administrative law judge. The filing of the petition does not itself stay enforcement of the director's decision. The administrative law judge may order a stay upon appropriate terms, and if a stay is granted, the administrative law judge must specifically consider in his order the appropriateness of the posting of a bond by the petitioner. At the public hearing the person must be given the opportunity to be heard upon the findings and conclusions within the emergency cease and desist order. If no request for a public hearing is received within ten days from the person's receipt of service of the emergency cease and desist order, then upon application by the director and without a public hearing, the administrative law judge must make that emergency order a permanent cease and desist order.
(C) If an administrative law judge determines that the person charged with transacting insurance business in violation of this chapter knew or should have known that his actions were in violation of this chapter, then in addition to declaring the cease and desist order to be permanent the administrative law judge may impose a penalty of up to fifty thousand dollars for each violation. The penalty may be imposed following a public hearing requested by the person pursuant to subsection (B) or following a public hearing requested by the director following an administrative law judge's default permanent cease and desist order.
(D) In addition to any other penalties or remedies available, including Sections 38-25-320, 38-25-330, and 38-25-360, if the director believes that a person has violated a permanent cease and desist order issued by an administrative law judge, then the director may certify the relevant facts to the circuit court in any county of this State where that person has transacted business in violation of the permanent cease and desist order. The circuit court, upon its finding that the permanent cease and desist order has been violated, may order the violator to pay an additional penalty of up to twenty-five thousand dollars for each violation.
(E) Any penalties ordered pursuant either to subsection (C) or (D) may be entered immediately by the director upon the judgment rolls in any county where that person resides or where that person has transacted business. Collection proceedings may be initiated immediately by the director.
HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 262, Section 1.
SECTION 38-25-320. Penalty for unauthorized insurers.
An unauthorized insurer who transacts any unauthorized act of an insurance business as set forth in Article 3 of this chapter may be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-53-80 [1975 (59) 127] recodified as Section 38-25-320 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1988 Act No. 374, Section 2.
SECTION 38-25-330. Penalty for violation of chapter.
A person wilfully violating any provisions of this chapter is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined in the discretion of the court or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-51-180 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-249; 1962 Code Section 37-249] Section 38-52-90 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-271; 1962 Code Section 37-271; 1978 Act No. 457 Section 1] recodified as Section 28-25-330 by 1987 Act No. 155 Section 1; 1988 Act No. 374, Section 9; 1993 Act No. 184 Section 211; 1998 Act No. 262, Section 2.
SECTION 38-25-360. Personal liability on contracts of unauthorized insurers.
In the event of failure of an unauthorized insurer to pay any claim or loss within the provisions of the insurance contract, a person who assisted or in any manner aided directly or indirectly in the procurement of the insurance contract is liable to the insured for the full amount of the claim or loss in the manner provided by the insurance contract.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-53-30 [1975 (59) 127; 1976 Act No. 732 Section 8] recodified as Section 38-25-360 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1.
SECTION 38-25-510. Service of process on an unauthorized insurer in certain actions.
(a) Any act of transacting an insurance business as set forth in Section 38-25-110 by an unauthorized insurer is equivalent to and constitutes an irrevocable appointment by the insurer, binding upon him, his executor or administrator, or successor in interest if a corporation, of the Secretary of State or his successor in office to be the true and lawful attorney of the insurer upon whom may be served all lawful process in any action, suit, or proceeding in any court by the director or his designee or by the state and upon whom may be served any notice, order, pleading, or process in any proceeding before the director or his designee and which arises out of transacting an insurance business in this State by the insurer. Any act of transacting an insurance business in this State by an unauthorized insurer is signification of its agreement that any lawful process in the court action, suit, or proceeding and any notice, order, pleading, or process in the administrative proceeding before the director or his designee so served is of the same legal force and validity as personal service of process in this State upon the insurer.
(b) Service of process in the action must be made by delivering to and leaving with the Secretary of State, or some person in apparent charge of his office, two copies thereof and by payment to the Secretary of State of the fee prescribed by law. Service upon the Secretary of State as attorney is service upon the principal.
(c) The Secretary of State shall immediately forward by certified mail one of the copies of the process or the notice, order, pleading, or process in proceedings before the director or his designee to the defendant in the court proceeding or to whom the notice, order, pleading, or process in the administrative proceeding is addressed or directed at its last known principal place of business and shall keep a record of all process so served on him which shall show the day and hour of service. The service is sufficient if:
(1) Notice of the service and a copy of the court process or the notice, order, pleading, or process in the administrative proceeding are sent within ten days thereafter by certified mail by the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney in the court proceeding or by the director or his designee in the administrative proceeding to the defendant in the court proceeding or to whom the notice, order, pleading, or process in the administrative proceeding is addressed or directed at the last known principal place of business of the defendant in the court or administrative proceeding.
(2) The defendant's receipt or receipts issued by the post office with which the letter is registered, showing the name of the sender of the letter and the name and address of the person or insurer to whom the letter is addressed, and an affidavit of the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney in a court proceeding or of the director or his designee in an administrative proceeding, showing compliance therewith, are filed with the clerk of court in which the action, suit, or proceeding is pending or with the director or his designee in administrative proceedings, by the date the defendant in the court or administrative proceeding is required to appear or respond thereto, or within any further time as the court or director or his designee may allow.
(d) No plaintiff is entitled to a judgment by default, a judgment with leave to prove damages, or a judgment pro confesso in any court or administrative proceeding in which court process or notice, order, pleading, or process in proceedings before the director or his designee is served under this section until the expiration of thirty days from the date of filing of the affidavit of compliance.
(e) Nothing in this section limits or affects the right to serve any process, notice, order, or demand upon any person or insurer in any other manner permitted by law.
SECTION 38-25-520. Director agent for service of process on unauthorized insurers.
(a) The issuance and delivery of a policy of insurance or contract of insurance or indemnity to any person in this State or the collection of a premium thereon by an insurer not licensed in this State, as herein required, irrevocably constitutes the director and any successor of his in office the true and lawful attorney in fact upon whom service of any and all processes, pleadings, actions, or suits arising out of the policy or contract in behalf of the insured may be made.
(b) Service of process in this action is made by delivering to and leaving with the director or some person in apparent charge of his office two copies of it and by payment to the director of a fee of ten dollars, of which five dollars must be retained by the director to offset the costs he incurs in service of process and of which five dollars must be deposited to the credit of the general fund of the state.
(c) The director or his designee shall immediately mail by registered mail one of the copies of the process to the defendant at its last known principal place of business and shall keep a record of all process served upon him. The service of process is sufficient if: (1) notice of the service and a copy of the process are sent within ten days thereafter by registered mail by the plaintiff's attorney to the defendant at its last known principal place of business, and (2) the defendant's receipt or a receipt issued by the post office with which the letter is registered, showing the name of the sender of the letter and the name and address of the person to whom the letter is addressed, and the affidavit of the plaintiff's attorney showing compliance herewith are filed with the clerk of court in which the action is pending by the date the defendant is required to appear or within any further time which the court may allow.
(d) No plaintiff is entitled to a judgment by default, a judgment with leave to prove damages, or a judgment pro confesso under this section until the expiration of thirty days from the date of filing of the affidavit of compliance.
(e) Nothing in this section limits or abridges the right to serve any process, notice, order, or demand upon any person or insurer in any other manner permitted by law.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-52-50 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-265; 1962 Code Section 37-265; 1978 Act No. 457 Section 1] recodified as Section 38-25-520 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1988 Act No. 366, Section 3; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 604.
SECTION 38-25-530. Alternative method for service on unauthorized insurer.
Service of process in any action, suit, or proceeding involving an unauthorized insurer is, in addition to that provided in Sections 38-25-510 and 38-25-520, valid if served upon any person within this State who, in this State on behalf of the insurer, is:
(1) soliciting insurance;
(2) making any contract of insurance or issuing or delivering any policies or written contracts of insurance; or
(3) collecting or receiving any premium for the insurer, or adjusting any loss or claim for the insurance, and if counsel, within ten days after service upon the person, causes to be sent by registered mail to the last known address of the insurer a copy of the process with proper postage affixed to the envelope containing it and files an affidavit, with the clerk of court or magistrate in whose court the cause is pending, of compliance herewith, with leave to the court to extend the time for the mailing of process and filing of affidavit.
SECTION 38-25-540. Actions by unauthorized insurers.
An unauthorized insurer is not permitted to maintain any action, suit, or proceeding in this State to enforce a right, claim, or demand arising out of the transaction of insurance business until the insurer has obtained a certificate of authority to transact insurance business in this State. The unauthorized insurer may maintain an action, suit, or proceeding in connection with its investments in this State or in connection with a contract issued by it at a time when it was authorized to do business in the state where the contract was issued. This section does not prevent the insurer from defending an action in the courts of this State. The failure of an insurer transacting insurance business in this State to obtain a certificate of authority does not impair the validity of any act or contract of the insurer. This section does not apply to an eligible surplus lines insurer which maintains the deposit required by Section 38-9-80 or which has on file with the department a surety bond issued by an admitted insurer in an amount determined by the director or his designee to be sufficient to meet the security requirements of Section 38-9-80. Before an eligible surplus lines insurer files or causes to be filed any action, suit, or proceeding in this State to enforce a right, claim, or demand arising out of the transaction of insurance, it shall produce evidence that the security deposit is presently on file or that the required surety bond is then in force and effect.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-52-60 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-267; 1962 Code Section 37-267; 1978 Act No. 457 Section 1] Section 38-53-30 [1975 (59) 127; 1976 Act No. 732 Section 8] recodified as Section 38-25-540 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1988 Act No. 314, Section 3; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 605.
SECTION 38-25-550. Prerequisites to pleading by unauthorized insurer; exemptions of eligible surplus lines insurer.
(a) Before an unauthorized insurer files or causes to be filed any pleading in any court action, suit, or proceeding or any notice, order, pleading, or process in an administrative proceeding before the director or his designee instituted against the person or insurer, the insurer shall either:
(1) Deposit with the clerk of court in which the action, suit, or proceeding is pending, or with the director or his designee in administrative proceedings before the director or his designee, cash or securities, or file with the clerk of court or the director or his designee a bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the clerk or director or his designee, in an amount to be fixed by the court or director or his designee sufficient to secure the payment of any final judgment which may be rendered in the action or administrative proceeding.
(2) Procure a certificate of authority to transact the business of insurance in this State. In considering the application of an insurer for a certificate of authority, for the purposes of this paragraph, the director or his designee need not assert the provisions of Section 38-7-90 against the insurer with respect to its application if he determines that the insurer would otherwise comply with the requirements for a certificate of authority.
(b) The director or his designee, in an administrative proceeding in which service is made as provided in Section 38-25-510, may in his discretion order a postponement as may be necessary to afford the defendant reasonable opportunity to comply with subsection (a) and to defend the action.
(c) This section does not apply to an eligible surplus lines insurer which maintains the deposit required by Section 38-9-80 or which has on file with the department a surety bond issued by an admitted insurer in an amount determined by the director or his designee to be sufficient to meet the security requirements of Section 38-9-80. Before an eligible surplus lines insurer files or causes to be filed any action, suit, or proceeding in this State to enforce a right, claim, or demand arising out of the transaction of insurance, it shall produce evidence that the security deposit is presently on file or that the required surety bond is then in force and effect.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Act Section 38-52-70 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-268; 1962 Code Section 37-268; 1978 Act No. 457 Section 1] Section 38-53-60 [1975 (59) 127] recodified as Section 38-25-550 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1988 Act No. 314, Section 4; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 606.
SECTION 38-25-560. Filing of certain motions.
Nothing in this article may be construed to prevent an unauthorized insurer from filing a motion to quash a writ or to set aside service thereof made in the manner provided in Section 38-25-510, 38-25-520, or 38-25-530 on the ground that (a) no policy or contract of insurance has been issued or delivered to a citizen or resident of this State or to a corporation authorized to do business in this State, (b) the insurer has not been transacting business in this State, or (c) the person on whom service was made pursuant to Section 38-25-530 was not doing any of the acts listed in that section.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-52-80 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-270; 1962 Code Section 37-270; 1978 Act No. 457 Section 1]; Section 38-53-60 [1975 (59) 127] recodified as Section 38-25-560 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1.
SECTION 38-25-570. Enforcement of foreign decrees.
(a) The Attorney General upon request of the director or his designee may proceed in the courts of this State or any reciprocal state to enforce an order or decision in any court proceeding or in any administrative proceeding before the director or his designee.
(b) As used in this section:
(1) "Reciprocal state" means any state or territory of the United States the laws of which contain procedures substantially similar to those specified in this section for the enforcement of decrees or orders in equity issued by courts located in other states or territories of the United States against an insurer incorporated or authorized to do business in that state or territory.
(2) "Foreign decree" means any decree or order in equity of a court located in a reciprocal state, including a court of the United States located therein, against any insurer incorporated or authorized to do business in this State.
(3) "Qualified party" means a state regulatory agency acting in its capacity to enforce the insurance laws of its state.
(c) The director or his designee shall determine which states and territories qualify as reciprocal states and shall maintain an up-to-date list of these states.
(d) A copy of any foreign decree authenticated in accordance with the law of this State may be filed in the office of the clerk of court of any circuit court of this State. The clerk, upon verifying with the department that the decree or order qualifies as a foreign decree, shall treat the foreign decree in the same manner as a decree of a circuit court of this State. A foreign decree so filed has the same effect as a decree of a circuit court of this State and is subject to the same procedures, defenses, and proceedings for reopening, vacating, or staying as a decree of a circuit court of this State and may be enforced or satisfied in like manner.
(e)(1) At the time of the filing of the foreign decree, the Attorney General shall make and file with the clerk of court an affidavit setting forth the name and last known post office address of the defendant.
(2) Promptly upon the filing of the foreign decree and the affidavit, the clerk shall mail notice of the filing of the foreign decree to the defendant at the address given and to the department and shall make a note of the mailing in the docket. In addition, the Attorney General may mail a notice of the filing of the foreign decree to the defendant and to the department and may file proof of mailing with the clerk. Failure to mail notice of the filing by the clerk does not affect the enforcement proceedings if proof of mailing by the Attorney General has been filed.
(3) No execution or other process for enforcement of a foreign decree filed hereunder may issue for thirty days after the date the decree is filed.
(f)(1) If the defendant shows the circuit court that an appeal from the foreign decree is pending or will be taken, or that a stay of execution has been granted, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign decree until the appeal is concluded, the time for appeal expires, or the stay of execution expires or is vacated, upon proof that the defendant has furnished the security for the satisfaction of the decree required by the state in which it was rendered.
(2) If the defendant shows the circuit court any ground upon which enforcement of a decree of any circuit court of this State would be stayed, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign decree for an appropriate period, upon requiring the same security for satisfaction of the decree which is required in this State.
(g) Any person filing a foreign decree shall pay to the clerk of court fifteen dollars. Fees for docketing, transcription, or other enforcement proceedings are as provided for decrees of the circuit court.
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Department ofEconomics
Students can choose from two undergraduate degrees in economics: a Bachelor of Science in Commerce through the Leavey School of Business, or a Bachelor of Science degree through the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Economics Department offers two concentrations:
Students can choose to supplement a different major with a minor in economics through the College of Arts and Sciences. Economics majors in the College of Arts and Sciences, may pursue a business-related minor.
All students wishing to major in economics through the Leavey School of Business must complete both the University core curriculum requirements and the Leavey School of Business core requirements for the bachelor of science in commerce. In addition, students must complete the following departmental requirements:
ECON 41 4 Units Data Analysis and Econometrics
ECON 42 2 Units Data Analysis Applications*
ECON 113 5 Units Intermediate Microeconomics I
ECON 114 5 Units Intermediate Microeconomics II
ECON 115 5 Units Intermediate Macroeconomics
ECON 181 or
ECON 182 5 Units
Int'l Trade or
Int'l Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics
3 upper-division economics electives Two of which must be completed after ECON 113 & 115
*Satisfies OMIS 41 in the Leavey School of Business core.
Utilize the economics checklist to track your progress.
Optional Concentrations
An optional concentration is available for those who want to dive deeper into a specific topic. Requirements are outlined below.
Data Analysis Concentration
In addition to completing all requirements for the major in Economics, students must complete:
ECON 43 Data Manipulation and Visualization in Economics
ECON 173 or 174 Applied Econometrics / Applied Time Series Analysis
Three of the following data analysis application courses:*
ECON 134 African Economic Development
ECON 135 Gender Issues in the Developing World
ECON 142 Economics of Sport
ECON 150 Labor Economics
ECON 151 Economics of Education
ECON 166 Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. Economy
ECON 173 Applied Econometrics or 174 Applied Time Series Analysis (if not used to satisfy the above requirement)
ECON 186 Economics of Digitization
ECON 187 Dynamic Macroeconomics
ECON 188 Advanced Macroeconomics: Theory and Empirics
* One of these courses may be substituted with: (a) an approved course in another social science or business discipline with a significant data analysis component; or (b) an independent study course with a substantial data analysis component (4 or 5 units). Substitutions must be approved by the Concentration advisor.
A minimum grade of C is required for all courses in this concentration.
Note: All upper-division courses in the concentration can count as upper-division electives toward the Econ major.
Mathematical Economics Concentration
All of the following courses: MATH 11, 12, 13, 14, 22, 53 (MATH 122 and 123 are strongly recommended)
Three out of the following courses: ECON 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 187 (these courses also count as electives required for the major)
Note: Students completing the mathematical economics concentration must take MATH 11 and 12 instead of MATH 30 and 31.
Economics Major and Minor in the College of Arts & Sciences
Economics Major through the College of Arts & Sciences
In addition to fulfilling University Core Curriculum and College of Arts and Sciences requirements for the bachelor of science degree, students majoring in economics must complete the following departmental requirements:
ECON 1 or 1E, 2, and 3
MATH 11 and 12, or MATH 30 and 31
OMIS 40 or MATH 122 or MATH 8
Econ 41 and 42
ECON 113, 114, 115, and 181 or 182
Five upper-division economics electives, at least two of which must be completed after ECON 113 and 115
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Economics Minor through the College of Arts & Sciences
The minor in economics is taken through the College of Arts and Sciences. Students with a minor in economics must complete the following requirements:
ECON 1, 2, 3, 113, 115
Two additional approved upper-division economics courses
MATH 11 or 30
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The South-East European Research Centre (SEERC), the research centre of the International Faculty of University of Sheffield, CITY College, in Thessaloniki, participated at the event with the active engagement of the 17 members of its delegation consisting of innovative start-ups, experienced entrepreneurs, and innovation experts.
The “most successful Balkan Venture Forum so far“, as summarized by Mr. Aleksandar Tasev, Executive director of Balkan Unlimited and one of the co-organisers of the Balkan Venture Forum, was held at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia on 21st and 22nd May 2013. The delegation was also joined by Ms Jelina Makrantonaki, Vice Governor of the Prefecture of Central Macedonia in International Outlook, Innovation and New Technologies. Ms Makrantonaki and the Director of SEERC, Mr. Nikos Zaharis, participated as panel speakers in the ‘High-Level Policy Meeting’ that opened the Forum on the topic of maximization of structural funds as a financial instrument for innovation and development in the region.
The Balkan Venture Forum (BkVF - www.balkanventureforum.org), a leading regional investment and innovation forum, gathered more than 500 international participants ranging from start-up companies, established SMEs, serial entrepreneurs, support agencies and innovation experts to policy makers and a wide array of high-level international venture capitalists and investors.
A series of captivating speeches and panel discussions by high-level experts and investors, on various topics regarding innovation, risk investments and business development were held throughout the event. Emphasis was given to themes dedicated to the growth perspectives of start-ups in the region of South-East Europe and the future of cross-border investing in the Balkans. “Building more bridges than (Silicon) valleys” and the emphasis on building the entrepreneurial ecosystem through personal relationships with a mentality of “first give - then take” were statements heard during the Forum.
The Forum ran also a pitching competition in which 36 start-ups presented their venture in front of expert panelists, competing for investors’ interest as well as exclusive prizes and benefits. Parallel there was a Seedcamp event aimed to accelerate up to 10 local startups through master classes and pitching.
Greek young entrepreneurs participated actively in the highly competitive pitching competition with such start-up companies as Redback, Mageca, and Codebender and in the Seedcamp event with the start-up Aterin. Codebender won one of the exclusive prizes.
The South-East European Research Centre (SEERC) welcomed this opportunity to help with its participation to foster the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the region.
The next Balkan Venture Forum will be held in Tirana, towards the end of the year.
Balkan Venture Forum is one of the main objectives of the SEE Programme project VIBE (Venture Initiative in Balkan Europe) and is being co-financed by the European Union.
VIBE (www.vibeproject.eu) is an EU funded project in the framework of the ‘SEE Transnational Cooperation Programme’ with the primary objective to support facilitation of innovation and entrepreneurship in the region of South-East Europe. VIBE aims at fostering the creation and growth of innovative SMEs and start-up companies through a large array of actions. SEERC (www.seerc.org) is the only Greek partner in the VIBE project.
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Social Networks and Productivity Spill-over within firms
Andreas Menzel
Productivity Spill-over, Firms
I study the effects of implementing a management routine at randomly chosen sewing lines within garment factories in Bangladesh, to obtain evidence on the sources of observed productivity spill-over within factories. Bangladeshi garment factories are organized into several sewing lines which produce independently from another for different orders and buyers. Sewing lines producing garments that have already been produced by other lines in the factory before, are significantly more productive in the first days producing the new garment. Initial analysis by the author shows that these `spill-over' effects are stronger when the supervisors on the first and later lines to produce the garment report social ties in surveys. This intervention is designed to obtain additional evidence on the sources of the observed spill-over. Several garment factories agreed to implement a new management routine among randomly selected sewing lines. If a selected line start producing a garment that has already been produced on another line in the factory, the line supervisor from the first line producing the garment is actively involved in setting up the new line for the garment. If this intervention magnifies observed productivity spill-over, this would be indicative for spill-over being caused by sharing of knowledge between supervisors from the lines, as opposed to superiors or other persons (engineers, planners) applying their knowledge obtained on earlier lines producing the garment to later lines producing it, or other possible confounding sources.
Menzel, Andreas. 2014. "Social Networks and Productivity Spill-over within firms." AEA RCT Registry. August 29. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.495-1.0.
Menzel, Andreas. 2014. "Social Networks and Productivity Spill-over within firms." AEA RCT Registry. August 29. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/495/history/2659.
We work together with the management and the head production engineers in several Bangladeshi garment factories to implement the intervention. Participation in the project is still advertised, therefore the exact number of factories in the project is not yet determined. The intervention is of the following nature: Whenever a sewing line in the factory starts producing a new garment that it had not produced before but that was already produced on another sewing line, than the supervisor of the line that already produced the garment is actively involved in setting up the new line for producing the same garment. Sewing lines in our Bangladeshi partner factories typically switch the garment they produce every 1-3 weeks, and it is very common to see garments being produced on more than one line, while usually starting on different days. Switching the garment typically requires both changes of the machines used and/or adjustments on the machines themselves, such as change of the needle type or yarn type. The workers on the lines also need to be explained the new operations they have to perform on the new garment. This process of the style change can take between 1 hour and 1 day (but is usually done in the `zero-feeding' process, that is, in the line, one machine after another machines is adjusted, and the machines not yet adjusted still produce for the old garment while those already adjusted already work on the new garment. Thus, on average, each machine is idle only 15-30 minutes).
In the randomly selected lines, whenever they switch to a garment that has already been produced on another line in the factory, the line supervisor from the earlier line should be actively involved in the described change process. He should brief the new line supervisor on the most important things he has learned while producing the garment on his line, and inspect the line changing process, either after the end of the line changing process or while the most important machines for the production of the new garment are set up.
To monitor the intervention, we left with the factories either a tablet or a book, in which they should fill out a short survey every time a style change on a treatment line was "treated". The survey asks about the line that starts the garment and the line that already produced it, involved line supervisors, the garment itself, and a few questions on how well the communication went as perceived by the superiors of the line supervisors that instructed the briefing. The tablets send each report directly to a server upon finishing, while the books are collected regularly. Thus, the extent of the implementation, and whether it was implemented in the correct lines, can be checked throughout the experiment is running.
The outcome variable measuring the impact of the management intervention is daily productivity of a line on the first X days it produces a garment which it has not produced before. Productivity will be measured in three different ways. The first is using the formula that also the partner factories themselves are using to calculate line productivity for their own production monitoring: daily piece-wise output is multiplied with the garment specific "SMV" value ("Standard Minute Value"). This value for each garment is calculated by the factory's engineering department prior to the start of production, and gives the required minutes of labor input to finish all the necessary sewing operations, under ideal production circumstances, and given the machinery available at the factory. It is calculated both to form a basis for a price quote for the order to the buyer, and to help plan the required labor for producing the order. Multiplying piece-wise output with the SMV gives an `output-minutes' value which is comparable across different garments. To obtain the first productivity measure, this output-minutes value is then divided by the "input-minutes" value, the number of workers on the line times the number of hours the line was operating on that day times 60 minutes.
In a second measure, output_minutes are directly regressed on the explanatory variables, controlling for input_minutes as right-hand-side variable.
Third, a productivity measure will be constructed which resembles more closely TFP measures. Average hourly output_minutes on a day are regressed on the input minutes, separated by the two main types of workers in the lines ("operator" and "helper"), and the residual is taken as productivity.
The intervention is carried out by the upper factory management ("General Manager", "Head Production Engineer"), under our guidance. The implementation is tracked by the tablet or book system explained above. Lines are randomly selected to obtain the treatment. In the first three factories, to test several forms of randomization, In one part of the factory, the lines were selected together in terms of sewing floors, that is sewing floors (typically containing 5-10 lines) were randomly selected. In other floors, the randomization occurred on the line level. This was done to test whether it is feasible to directly randomize on the line level. As in the initial three factories, the randomization on the line level seems to have been understood and followed, from the forth factory starting the implementation, randomization will be solely on the line level, to avoid cluster sample size concerns.
In front of factory managers in computer (MS Office Excel random number drawer)
In the first three factories starting the intervention, the floors of the factories were separated into two groups (factories in general strive to keep lines and floors as interchangeable as possible, to allow maximum flexibility of allocating orders to lines, given the volatile order situation of most factories, with all factories in my sample having at least 10 different buyer). In the one group of floors, randomization was on the floor level (which typically contain 5-10 lines). In the other group, the randomization was done on the line level, to test if the factory management can implement this comparatively more complex randomization. As floors are deliberately kept as interchangeably as possible, the groups of floors for floor or line level randomization, respectively, were determined simply by assigning group level randomization to all floors except the last one, and line level randomization to the last floor (with last floor meaning the floor with the highest number in the internal floor counting system of the factory). From the fourth factory on implementing the program, the randomization will be at the line level only.
250. generally, randomization will be on the sewing line level. However in parts of the first three factories, randomization occurred on the sewing floor level.
5000 first instances of a line produces a garment
115 clusters being treated.
Based on data from the first two factories in which the intervention started, on average, efficiency on the first day a line produces a style is increased by 7 percentage points if another line has already produced the garment before. I assume an effect of an additional 3 percentage points due to our intervention. Standard deviation of first-day efficiency is 20 percentage points. I assume per cluster on average 20 observations of a garment being started for the first time on that line (or floor). Based again on the first two factories, I calculate an intra-cluster correlation of 0.075. To detect an effect of a size of 3 additional percentage points on a significance level of 5%, I therefore need at least 227 clusters.
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Solvay and Composites One announce North-America distribution agreement for the process materials and tooling product lines
2018-12-12 Solvay and Composites One sign distribution agreement_0 (pdf)
Alpharetta, GA, December 12, 2018 --- Solvay has appointed Composites One as a new North America distributor for its process materials and tooling product lines. Composites One, now part of Solvay’s authorized distribution network, will offer a large range of consumables, including vacuum bagging films, release films, release fabrics, peel plies, breather fabrics, sealant tapes and adhesive tapes, as roll stock or engineered kits, as well as tooling prepreg.
This new appointment provides Solvay with wider access to a large geography and multiple market segments, thus improving its ability to service customers.
“Solvay’s market approach is very much aligned with the Composites One value proposition – a broad portfolio delivered to customers through world-class service coupled with product and process technology expertise. Composites One has a proven track record of bringing technical products to market through its extensive North American distribution network and we are excited about this new opportunity.” said Maria Gallahue-Worl, Executive Vice President Industrial Business Line of Solvay’s Composite Materials Global Business Unit.
“Composites One and Solvay have entered into this partnership to expand their ability to service the entire composites industry. Solvay’s expansive and recognized product line can be utilized in a wide variety of industrial and aerospace applications. It simplifies composite manufacturing processes, improves cost efficiencies, and fits in very well with our existing close mold process and advanced composites offerings. It also positions us to expand further in markets like Aerospace. We are excited about the potential this partnership offers both companies and our customers.” said Dave Smith, Composites One Vice President of Marketing.
About Solvay Composite Materials
Solvay’s new Global Business Unit Composite Materials is a global provider of technologically advanced light-weighting material solutions that enable our customers in the aerospace, automotive and other demanding industries to design, develop and efficiently manufacture high-quality, high-performance and complex composite structures. Composite Materials has the most extensive product portfolio, including prepregs, resin systems, adhesives and surfacing films, carbon fiber, textiles, tooling and vacuum bagging consumables, thanks to its leadership in advanced materials science, chemistry and application engineering. Solvay Composite Materials combines the former Cytec Aerospace Materials and Industrial Materials businesses.
Solvay is an advanced materials and specialty chemicals company, committed to developing chemistry that addresses key societal challenges. Solvay innovates and partners with customers worldwide in many diverse end markets. Its products are used in planes, cars, batteries, smart and medical devices, as well as in mineral and oil and gas extraction, enhancing efficiency and sustainability. Its light-weighting materials promote cleaner mobility, its formulations optimize the use of resources and its performance chemicals improve air and water quality. Solvay is headquartered in Brussels with around 26,800 employees in 61 countries. Net sales were €10.1 billion in 2017, with 90% from activities where Solvay ranks among the world’s top 3 leaders, resulting in an EBITDA margin of 22%. Solvay SA (SOLB.BE) is listed on Euronext Brussels and Paris (Bloomberg: SOLB.BB - Reuters: SOLB.BR) and in the United States its shares (SOLVY) are traded through a level-1 ADR program. Financial figures take into account the announced divestment of Polyamides.
Composites One is the nation's leading supplier of composite materials serving customers from 41 locations in North America. Composites One offers composites fabricators and molders thousands of products from more than 600 of the industry's top suppliers through a technical sales and customer service force that is the most knowledgeable in the industry. The company offers a variety of value-added services that include closed mold technologies, technical applications reviews, and unmatched regulatory compliance assistance. Certifications include AS9120 at five U.S. distribution locations, along with one distribution location in Canada. Composites One is headquartered in Arlington Heights, IL. To find more information visit www.compositesone.com or call 800-621-8003.
Claire Michel
Solvay Composite Materials Communications Manager
Marcy Offner
Composites One
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‘Grimm’ Season 3: Are Some Grimms Better Off Undead?
Sep 16, 2013 | By maximiliano | 0
Nick will still be zombified in the Grimm season three premiere. But is that a good thing? The new trailer certainly makes his undead state sound like an asset, and you’ve got to give the guy some serious kudos for such an awesome rising from the coffin scene. What’s unclear is whether or not Nick is escaping before or after being shipped off to Europe. If he was, how long will it take for him to find his back home…and return 100% to the land of the living? Check out the trailer below. Read More... //www.tvequals.com/2013/09/13/grimm-season-3-are-some-grimms-better-off-undead/
'Grimm' Season 3 Spoilers: Creepy Episodes and A New Family Member's Visit
Sep 10, 2013 | By Buddy TV | 0
Grimm Season 3 gets underway on Friday, October 10 at 9pm on NBC. According to IMDb, the season premiere is titled "The Ungrateful Dead" and undoubtedly refers to Nick being a zombie. Check out some other spoilers and news about the season ahead. Read More... //www.buddytv.com/articles/grimm/grimm-season-3-spoilers-creepy-51141.aspx
Alexis Denisof to Keep It in the Family on Grimm Season 3
Aug 23, 2013 | By Tv Fanatic | 0
Things are about to get Grimm for Alexis Denisof. The actor ( Angel , Dollhouse , How I Met Your Mother ) will appear on multiple episodes of this NBC drama this fall, coming on board as Victor, the first cousin of James Frain’s Renard. Not much is known about the character, with the exception of his cunning personality. Read More... //www.tvfanatic.com/2013/08/alexis-denisof-to-keep-it-in-the-family-on-grimm-season-3/
'Grimm' Season 3 teases: David Giuntoli on zombie Nick and James Frain being next season's Big Bad
May 22, 2013 | By Zap2It | 0
"Grimm" might have ended on a massive cliffhanger in its Season 2 finale "Goodnight, Sweet Grimm," but at least fans can expect the series to pick up from where it left off when it returns in the fall with Season 3. At least, that's what series star David Giuntoli says to expect. There are a lot of loose ends left to be resolved in the current storyline, and Giuntoli is as clueless as everyone else as to how they'll all tie up next season. Still, he took the time to talk to Zap2it about what his Season 3 wishlist is, what he thinks of Nick's newly open relationship with Juliette and who he would like to see as Season 3's Big Bad. Zap2it: When fans first heard that a character was going to die in the finale, I don't think any of them expected it to be Nick. David Giuntoli: I would agree. Yeah,... //blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/05/grimm-season-3-teases-david-giuntoli-on-zombie-nick-and-james-frain-being-next-seasons-big-bad.html
Grimm Postmortem: David Giuntoli on the Finale's "Crazy Aggro" Zombies
May 22, 2013 | By Tv Guide Breaking News | 0
[Warning: The following contains spoilers from Grimm 's Season 2 finale. Read at your own risk!] Happy endings will have to wait until another season on Grimm . On Tuesday's finale... Read More... //www.tvguide.com/News/Grimm-Postmortem-Season2-Finale-1065924.aspx?rss=breakingnews
'Grimm' Season 2 finale: 'Goodnight, Sweet Grimm' sends a major character to his coffin
"Grimm"has ended its second season with quite the cliffhanger in its finale, "Goodnight, Sweet Grimm": Nick (David Giuntoli) is captured by Eric Renard (James Frain) and Baron Samedi and is beginning his transformation into one of the Cracher-Mortel's zombie creatures, and Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), Rosalee (Bree Turner) and Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) are left surrounded by enemies with escape looking less and less likely. But "Grimm" wouldn't be doing its job if it didn't leave us wanting more, and now we know a lot of big storylines that are set up for the series' return in the fall on Fridays at 9 p.m. At least Juliette and Nick finally completely reunite in the Season 2 finale. After a season of being apart, Juliette is taking to having her memories return and learning about the Wesen world surprisingly well. She has Nick over for dinner where they make up in more ways than one, and then... //blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/05/grimm-season-2-finale-goodnight-sweet-grimm-send-a-major-character-to-his-coffin.html
'Grimm' Season 2 finale preview: 5 things to expect in 'Goodnight, Sweet Grimm'
It remains to be seen how Nick, Monroe and Rosalee will end up resolving the zombie problem in Portland in"Grimm's" Season 2 finale, especially since it was revealed that Eric Renard is working with Baron Samedi. But there's more at play in "Goodnight, Sweet Grimm" than meets the eye. Zap2it had the chance to check out tonight's episode ahead of time and can tease that there are some big surprises in store in "Goodnight, Sweet Grim." In anticipation of the big Season 2 finale, here are five teases from the upcoming episode. 1. The magic behind the zombies is revealed... And it turns out that the zombies aren't quite as undead as they at first seem. That must have been what leading man David Giuntoli meant when he said, " "We deal with the undead in a way that's never been approached before in very typical 'Grimm' fashion." 2. Someone will get bit by a... //blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/05/grimm-season-2-finale-preview-5-things-to-expect-in-goodnight-sweet-grimm.html
Grimm Season 2 Finale 2013 “Goodnight, Sweet Grimm”
May 21, 2013 | By maximiliano | 0
Grimm "Goodnight, Sweet Grimm" Season 2 Episode 22 airs Tuesday, May 21 2013 on NBC (10:01-11:00 p.m. ET). Episode Synopsis: Grimm Season 2 Episode 22 "Goodnight, Sweet Grimm" – Just when things look like they’re back to normal with Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch), Nick (David Giuntoli) is called to investigate a flurry of rage-fueled assaults happening all over Portland. He goes to Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) and Rosalee (Bree Turner) for help battling Portland’s newest wave of "undead." As if that weren’t enough, Captain Renard (Sasha Roiz) informs Nick that his brother Eric (guest star James Frain) is in town on family business. Meanwhile, Stefania (guest star Shohreh Aghdashloo) and Frau Pech methodically use their alliances with Adalind (Claire Coffee) to battle one another. Russell Hornsby and Reggie Lee also star. READ MORE...
'Grimm': Bree Turner teases Season 2's finale, 'Goodnight Sweet Grimm'
Consider this your spoiler warning: "Grimm's" second season is gong to end with a big ol' cliffhanger. Star Bree Turner knows what's in store, and she says that fans are going to be in for a shocker when a major character gets into some dire straights in Tuesday's episode, "Goodbye, Sweet Grimm." READ MORE...
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Pokémon Sun & Moon Brings GameStop The Highest Pre-Orders In Five Years
By Sato November 23, 2016
Pokémon Sun & Moon sales have been making headlines since its release last week, and the latest comes from GameStop with the retailer announcing its latest record of highest pre-orders in five years. [Thanks, GameSpot.]
Since its release on November 18, Pokémon Sun & Moon has not only been the best-performing games for GameStop all year, but its pre-orders have been the highest of any game for the retailer in five years.
The report also mentions that the PlayStation 4 Pro is off to a “strong” start, while the PlayStation VR units have also been selling well on their own end as they stay on the shelves for an average of 10 days.
Pokémon Sun & Moon is available for Nintendo 3DS.
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15Q Air Traffic Control Operator
Army National Guard - Chandler, AZ
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Location: CHANDLER, Arizona, United States
Age Requirements: Must be between the ages of 17 and 35
Take control of the skies as an Air Traffic Control Operator for The Army National Guard! You will utilize your organizational skills to track planes and helicopters, and ensure safe flight operations by providing precise instructions to your crew.
Advanced Air Traffic Control Operators provide guidance on technical issues to other Soldiers. They also brief shift personnel on runway utilization, airfield conditions, weather, and ground activity. The skills you learn as an Air Traffic Control Operator will qualify you to work in civilian air traffic control towers and centers at airports and airfields.
Control airborne and ground traffic
Assist in the installation/relocation of tactical air traffic control facilities
Process flight plan data and maintain logs, records, files, and tape recordings of voice communications
Some of the Skills You’ll Learn
Air traffic control management and operational procedures
Communications and radar procedures
Takeoff, landing, and ground control procedures
Helpful Skills
Interest in work requiring accuracy and attention to detail
Ability to remain calm in stressful situations
Decisiveness and working within strict standards
Ability to work as a team member
Through your training, you will develop the skills and experience to enjoy a civilian career with aircraft manufacturers, commercial airlines, and government agencies.
Instead of paying to learn these skills, get paid to learn. In the Army National Guard, you will learn these valuable job skills while earning a regular paycheck and qualifying for tuition assistance.
Job training for an Air Traffic Control Operator requires 10 weeks of Basic Training, where you learn basic Soldiering skills. Then you will attend Advanced Individual Training (AIT), which consists of 14 weeks of additional training. Part of this time is spent in a classroom and part in the field under simulated combat conditions.
Benefits/Requirements
A monthly paycheck
Montgomery GI Bill
Federal and State tuition assistance
Retirement benefits for part-time service
Low-cost life insurance (up to $400,000 in coverage)
401(k)-type savings plan
Student Loan Repayment Program (up to $50,000, for existing loans)
Health care benefits available
Bonuses, if applicable
Most non-prior service candidates will earn between $200 and $250 per drill weekend, subject to change
Military enlistment in the Army National Guard
Must be at least a junior in high school, or have a high school diploma or a GED certificate
Must be between the ages of 17 and 35
Must be able to pass a physical exam and meet legal and moral standards
Must meet citizenship requirements (see NATIONALGUARD.com for details)
Requires military enlistment. Programs and benefits are subject to change. Ask your Army National Guard recruiter for the most up-to-date information. Actual MOS assignment may depend on MOS availability.
This position may qualify for a bonus, ask your National Guard recruiter for the most up-to-date information.
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Kolisi dedicates Monaco award to World Cup-winning team-mates
Siya Kolisi (Getty Images)
New Lions recruit hits out at former employers, the Bulls
WP pay tribute to Fleck: 'A true son of Newlands'
Former skipper has high praise for current crop of Blitzboks
Cape Town - Springbok captain Siya Kolisi dedicated his World Peace and Sport Champion for 2019 award, which he received in Monaco on Thursday evening, to the 2019 Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok squad.
Kolisi led South Africa to the World Cup title when they beat England 32-12 in the final in Yokohama last month.
"It's a great honour and a privilege for me and it's great to see people recognise people that use their voice and use their platform and do some work off the field as well and it will inspire people to do more,” the Bok skipper said, as quoted by SA Rugby.
"We're not just sportsmen. We can do much more off the field."
Kolisi also praised the impact of the Springboks at the World Cup in Japan and back home in South Africa, saying the momentous win in Japan was a collective effort.
"You're playing a team sport and that always makes it hard to get individual accolades because there are so many people around me that have helped me," he said.
"Among my team-mates there are so many other leaders. I don't like taking all the credit because it's not just me, the coaches, the physios, everybody adds value to anything the team achieves."
The South African skipper is also a nominee for the prestigious BBC World Sports Star of the Year award. Kolisi faces stiff competition for the award though, with golf icon Tiger Woods, Kenyan long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge, Olympic gold medallist in gymnastics Simone Biles, Australian cricketer Steve Smith and USA women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe also nominated.
- SA Rugby
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2019 Cricket Countdown: Who Are The Best Cricketers Of The Year?
Posted by: SportsMirchi Web Desk in Cricket, News Dec 17, 2019 0 323 Views
The year 2019 has been great for cricket fans across the globe. As happens in all World Cup years, there was a lot of anticipation, anxiety, hype, and buzz around different teams and players. The ICC Cricket World Cup held across venues in England and Wales didn’t disappoint. England put on a fantastic display to win the title for the first time.
In such a fantastic cricketing year, it is great to honor the crème de la crème of the cricketers who made this all possible. These are the people who sacrifice so much of their time and energy to make cricket fans across the world happy.
Here are some of the fantastic players who deserve the best cricketer of the year gong.
Ben Stokes (England)
Ben Stokes was instrumental in pushing England to the ICC World Cup Title. His superb 84 pushed the game to super over and the rest, as they say, is history. It is such displays that saw him with the 2019 BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) among other accolades.
The all-rounder was Man Of The Match as The Lions won the World Cup for the first time after trying so many times. At Headingley, during the third Ashes Test triumph against Australia, Stokes hit an unbeaten 135 making him one of the most outstanding cricketers in England and indeed in the world.
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The Indian batsman has won the ICC Cricketer of the Year award previously in 2017 and 2018. Another win would still be deserved for this magnificent player. He has continued scoring without any problems pushing the Men in Blue. His only regret is the loss against New Zealand at the World Cup.
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The Kiwis kept fighting despite the odds and almost won the title, were it not for the controversial boundary rule. All this was possible due to the influence of Kane Williamson the skipper and lead batsman.
Kane has an incredible 298 runs in 4 Test cricket matches at an average of 74.5. Add to this 948 runs in 20 ODIs and you start realizing this is a batsman destined for greatness. He also won the Player of the Tournament award at the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup due to his inspiring leadership and impressive returns with the bat.
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India continues performing impeccably across all cricket formats. The cricket-mad nation also continues producing come of the greatest cricket talents among them Rohit Sharma. 2019 has been a career-best year for Rohit despite the failure at the World Cup.
His impressive performance in his first time at the longest format of the game is proof enough of his talent. He has already won the CEAT ODI cricketer of the year category, which could point to greater things coming. He scored of 529 runs in just four innings which include 200s in a single game.
Rohit is the sixth Indian to score a 100 in both the innings of a Test. He has scored 1232 runs in 24 games in the 50-over format, including at the World Cup, where he was the top scorer.
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Bangladesh might not have won any major title this year but their all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan deserves praise for his input.
At the ICC World Cup, Shakib scored 606 runs at an average of 86.57. Add to these 11 wickets and you have the first cricketer in World Cup history to score more than 500 runs and at the same edition take ten plus wickets.
The year 2019 has been great for cricket fans. If any of these cricketers win the title of the best cricketer of 2019, it will cap a mercurial year in cricket.
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I thought I would take a moment to follow-up on my recent post (Bad Advice in the B2B Space) covering Netprospex's suggestion that "opt-out" is good enough. It seems as though more and more folks have been expressing opinions on Netprospex's advice and even the company's business model. Here's what they had to say.
Steven Champeon of Enemieslist points out data errors and flaws that can render this kind of data incorrect and useless. He writes, "[On the Netprospex website,] There's a way to search for business by name, so I searched. I got three results, two of which were applicable to my company. The first, rated at "94% accuracy", and which claimed to have been "verified" (that's the CEO's tagline for Netprospex, remember) on October 23, 2009, was the name of our former CFO, who left the company altogether in early 2007. The second, rated at "61% accuracy", was for me, ostensibly the "Chief Technology Officer" of our tiny Web dev shop, and claimed to have been "verified" August 24, 2009."
Laura Atkins of Word to the Wise jumps into the fray after a short delay, because, she says, "Dog bites man isn't a very compelling news story." She goes on to point out that while what Netprospex is advocating is likely legal, legality isn't the only concern, and goes on to share a story from an ESP about how a client mailing to a Netprospex list caused them grief.
Mickey Chandler of Spamtacular agrees that what Netprospex is doing is probably legal, but his opinion is that buying lists is still a bad idea. "We advocate things like 'get permission' because it’s the right thing to do for our customers and clients, not because it’s a legal requirement. Best practices are best practices for a reason, and that reason in the commercial email space is rarely because Miss Manners has suggested that it’s the proper thing to do. It is far more often found in the desires of the recipients and the ISPs they pay to process mail for them."
One of my favorite bits of feedback on this article, though, comes from Matt Sergeant, who identifies himself as "Symantec Hosted Services, Chief Anti-Spam Technologist" on an comment he left on the article in question. He writes: "Speaking as someone on the receiving end of this, specifically filtering for businesses, I can tell you quite frankly that we don't want this type of mail, and neither do our customers. They're VERY clear about that. Mail like this is spam, and you'll be treated as a spammer, plain and simple." Well said.
Internet email expert John Levine weighs in on his blog, as well. He says that "[Netprospex claims that all of their records] were 'verified' recently, but this database is garbage. They are 72% sure I am the Domain Assurance Council, even though we shut it down two years ago. They are 54% sure that the principal of the elementary school who retired five years ago is still there, and 'verified' it in September."
Posted by Al Iverson on Friday, February 26, 2010
Topics: bad ideas, enemieslist, laura atkins, mickey chandler, netprospex, steven champeon
Laura Atkins 10:25 AM, February 26, 2010
Hi, Al,
Actually I said that dog bites man isn't a compelling news story. And, really, company that sells lists of email addresses advocates sending spam is in the same area.
But I do know a lot of well meaning but clueless companies will be running into trouble with these lists, so it's worth a comment.
Al Iverson 10:38 AM, February 26, 2010
I knew I should have cut-and-pasted that instead of retyping it. Sorry for the typo, it's been fixed.
Spamfighter 6:03 PM, February 26, 2010
in your synopsis piece you twice mention such activities being 'legal'. Your correspondents neglect to specify jurisdiction, namely America. In Canada, such things may very well not be legal under our decade-old privacy law, PIPEDA. We intend to find out.
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Tim Boyer 9:35 PM, February 26, 2010
So that's where that particular email is coming from!
They've got Walter Denman listed as our company's founder, with a 68% accuracy. Actually, it should be 100%. Walter certainly did found the company.
However, it was in 1919 - so I don't know if he's still answering email.
fedUP 12:20 PM, August 31, 2010
The database search is not very accurate. I assume that someone that trades a name will enter the information themselves and pick categories. There is no reason to be accurate.
They seem to be like those card collecting companies at trade shows. They then add names from cards to database. Big deal.
Most importantly, I did a search and had over 119000 contacts and their fee is $86,000!!! That is $.75 a contact.
Why would anyone spend even a half a cent on an e-mail list?
This site is a VP of Sales worst nightmare.
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A curious movement seems to be taking root in developed economies, anchored in an apparent contradiction: well-being without growth. Proponents of this future state, dubbed the “post-growth economy,” challenge the idea that GDP gains are necessary for people and societies to prosper. Instead of pursuing expansion, they argue, we can achieve progress by setting limits: on natural resource use, working hours, debt, and income inequality.
This thinking isn’t groundbreaking. In their 1972 book Limits to Growth (pdf), Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers Donella and Dennis Meadows warned about the dangers of a global “overshoot.” And even earlier, in developing countries rebuilding after European colonization, influential figures such as India’s Mahatma Gandhi spoke against expansionist economic policies. These ideas, which were once pooh-poohed, are now catching on in the world’s richest economies. In Europe, more than 200 academics, mostly from elite institutions, recently wrote an open letter to E.U. member states urging them to “explore possibilities for a post-growth future.” And I detect a similar sentiment seeping into U.S. culture, albeit subconsciously.
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New and emerging policies aimed at improving Americans’ well-being are tempering the pursuit of growth at any cost. Some decidedly, if not overtly, post-growth ideas, such as a jobs guarantee or less trade, are associated with partisan politics. But a few others, such as setting higher minimum wages and giving individuals greater control over their privacy in the digital age, have bipartisan support. Surprisingly, these burgeoning movements that seem to call for limits to growth are coming at a time when the U.S. economy is expanding at a steady clip. Academics might cringe at some of the accompanying political rhetoric, but look closely and you’ll see that these apparently unrelated ideas reflect a core principle of post-growth economics: When growth hurts, equity is the cure.
Despite evolving policies and fresh perspectives — including Oxford University economist Kate Raworth’s surprise hit book, Doughnut Economics, which points to a no-growth “sweet spot” — ending our dependence on growth, if that is indeed where we’re headed, is still uncertain terrain. Businesses must contribute their ingenuity and resources to explore viable alternatives to the growth paradigm, experiment with new approaches, and help shape new structures and systems.
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Even die-hard growth enthusiasts know the U.S. GDP won’t continue to increase at its current rate. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that real (inflation-adjusted) annual GDP growth will slow from 3.1 percent in 2018 to 1.7 percent by 2023, hovering there through 2028. By then, the CBO expects federal debt to be almost 100 percent of GDP, making it hard to stimulate the economy. To most people, though, incomes and wages matter more than GDP growth. Over the past four decades, the average American’s purchasing power hasn’t changed, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many expect things to worsen, too, as artificial intelligence (AI) comes knocking on factory and office doors.
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Australian Chamber Orchestra presents A French Celebration @ City Recital Hall
19 July 2015 Lynne Lancaster
Mezzo soprano Susan Graham was one of the concert’s shining lights
Under the umbrella title A FRENCH CELEBRATION the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) in their latest marvelous concert brings to us a delicate, nuanced feast of super music by mostly French composers Franck, Respighi and Ravel with international guest artists- mezzo soprano Susan Graham, Karen Gomyo on violin, and Christian Ihle Hadland on piano.
The first half of the concert consisted of two Ravel works, beginning with the ravishing Piano trio in A minor, featuring the glorious talents of Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland. His playing in the first movement was shimmering passionate and intense, soulful and crystal like.
The second movement had a jumpy spiky opening, perhaps a possible jazz influence, with rumbles on the piano. It then become languid and passionate and developed into a flurried conversation between the piano and string trio. The third movement had a breathy, dreamlike opening- Hadland swaying, intensely caught up in the music- then a glorious cello solo, eventually joined by the violin and piano.
The piano makes a melancholy statement, eventually all four musician restate the melody and the music became sadder and more delicate, deep piano rumbles bringing the movement to a close. The final fast, flowing movement begins with birdlike ripples dominated by the piano. There is a tumultuous whirling trio that takes us to the thrilling, exhilarating ending.
The second Ravel work (Trois Poemes de Stephan Mallarme) featured mezzo soprano Susan Graham. Graham was tall, statuesque in grey and silver, and she gave a glorious, refined performance. She was warm and luminous and in fabulous voice with creamy legato. Listening closely to this piece one picked up hints of Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloe’ and ‘Scherahazade’.
‘Soupir’(Sigh) was delicate and lyrical. ‘Placet futile‘ (Futile petition) was spiky, delicate and passionate. The orchestra breathed and played as one. Graham was simply magnificent.
‘Surgi de la croupe et du bond (Surging up from the rounded flank and leap) began with swirling, surging strings. The piece was dreamy, lush and languid, Graham’s voice soaring effortlessly.
After interval was the Respighi ‘’Il Tramonto’ (The Sunset, an Italian translation of Shelley’s poem), again featuring Graham, who was radiant and powerful, with splendid rich tones in the telling of this sad story. It was far darker and more operatic than the Ravel, with tremulous violins bringing it to a conclusion.
The Franck Piano Quintet in F Minor with Hadland positively beaming from the shiny black piano began with a superb solo by Hadland full of elegant, refined playing- fiery, spiky and intense then calming to a dialogue between piano and the four companions.
The second movement was far more lyrical and delicate- fragile, languid and dreamy. Cascading ripples on the piano were answered by sharp, decisive strings. Hadland dropped jewelled music into the air in an intense , hypnotic performance.
The third, final movement was very fast and intense– a dynamic discussion between piano and strings with frenzied violin playing and swirling tumultuous confrontations. There was notably intense concentration by all the players In a magnificent performance that brought this glorious concert to an end and thrilled applause. Bravo!
Running time 2 hours (approx.) including interval.
The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s concert A FRENCH CELEBRATION played the City Recital Hall between the 14th and 18th July.
The ACO is next taking this concert to the Melbourne Melbourne Recital Centre on the 20th July, the Adelaide Town Hall on Tuesday 21st July and Perth Concert Hall on Wednesday 22nd July.
For more about Australian Chamber Orchestra – A French Celebration, visit https://www.aco.com.au/whats_on/event_detail/french
AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRACesar FranckChristian Ihle HadlandCity Recital HallKaren GomyoMaurice RavelOttorino RespighiSusan Graham
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62: Design Patterns: Builder.
by Wahid Tanner | Feb 25, 2016
https://www.takeupcode.com/podcast-player/409/62-design-patterns-builder.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 8:44 | Recorded on February 24, 2016The builder creational pattern allows you to hide all the details needed to create a complicated object...
68: Design Patterns: Facade.
by Wahid Tanner | Mar 8, 2016
https://www.takeupcode.com/podcast-player/421/68-design-patterns-facade.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 8:28 | Recorded on March 7, 2016The facade structural pattern provides a simplified way for you to interact with a more complicated set of...
72: Design Patterns: Command.
by Wahid Tanner | Mar 15, 2016
https://www.takeupcode.com/podcast-player/426/72-design-patterns-command.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 10:47 | Recorded on March 14, 2016The command behavioral pattern allows you to represent an action that you want to perform as an object that can...
78: Design Patterns: State.
https://www.takeupcode.com/podcast-player/435/78-design-patterns-state.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 8:21 | Recorded on March 23, 2016What is the state design pattern? The state behavioral pattern allows you to simplify your code when you have...
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© Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon born 1966
Video, projection, colour and sound
Duration: 80min
Presented by the artist and Artangel 2012. The Artangel Collection at Tate
Feature Film is a video installation by the Scottish artist Douglas Gordon. It is comprised of two large wall projections showing the same closely cropped footage of a conductor’s hands and face. The projections, measuring at least 3 x 5.5 m, are shown on opposing walls in a blacked-out room, with one image flipped horizontally so that the images mirror one another. The film was made in super 16 mm before being blown up to 35 mm. The soundtrack of the film, which consists of the music that the subject is conducting, is played at high volume.
The conductor depicted in the film is James Conlon, who was Music Director at the Opéra National de Paris at the time that the work was made. In Feature Film he interprets the full soundtrack written by composer Bernard Hermann for the film Vertigo (1958), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. When Hermann’s soundtrack was originally issued by Mercury Records in 1958 to accompany the film’s release, it contained only thirty-four minutes of the eighty minutes of music featured in the film. Conlon’s recording is the only one to date to feature the entire suite as written by Hermann. The score, which echoes the Liebestod from Richard Wagner’s 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde, opens with a portentous two-note falling motif; a musical imitation of the notes emitted by the foghorns on either side of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. This bridge features in the film as the site where the character played by actor Kim Novak jumps into the bay. The dialogue in Vertigo is sparse, and Hitchcock relied on Hermann’s score throughout the film to drive the narrative.
Gordon made two continuous recordings of Conlon while he conducted the score, one filmed with three semi-fixed cameras and the other with two constantly moving films. When edited, this footage was cut into a study of the conductor’s body and face, sketching his gestures and creating intense close-ups of his lips, hands and bulging eyes. The rhythm of the cuts in the film was determined by the rhythm of the score. Gordon divorces the sound that the viewer hears from the sight of the orchestra creating it, instead focusing on the conductor’s body, which reinforces the visceral nature of the music. This effect has been observed by curator Nancy Spector: ‘Splitting the image from the orchestra, by splitting sound from image, Gordon teases forth the soul of the movie – which finds expression in Hermann’s ever-circular labyrinth of a score – and gives it new life’ (quoted in Brown 2004, p.90). Vertigo was the first film to use dolly zoom (an in-camera effect that warps perspective and disorientates the viewer) and Gordon pays homage to this in Feature Film with his own use of distorted perspective.
Gordon has long been fascinated by Hitchcock’s work. In 24 Hour Psycho 1993 (Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg) he slowed down Hitchcock’s thriller Psycho 1960 from the usual twenty-four frames per second to two frames per second, thus extending its running time from 109 minutes to twenty four hours. His impetus for exploring Hitchcock’s Vertigo was the power of the film’s score, as he has recorded: ‘Between 1993 and 1997–8 most of my video and film work was silent and this unbearable silence was what got me interested in looking specifically at the musical or audio component that had already been used in the film’ (quoted in Brown 2004, p.91). Two versions of Feature Film exist. The one in Tate’s collection depicts Conlon conducting Hermann’s score straight through. The other version mirrors the use of Hermann’s score in Vertigo itself; when there was no soundtrack in the film the projection in Gordon’s work goes black, and a monitor showing a muted version of Vertigo is installed at an oblique angle.
Gordon is represented in Tate’s collection by several other works, including the video installations Play Dead; Real Time (this way, that way, the other way) 2003 (Tate AL00339) and A Divided Self I and A Divided Self II 1996 (Tate AR01179). Like these works, Feature Film seeks to unsettle the viewer, disturbing their perspective on something they may have considered fixed. As the artist has stated:
While you might be looking at my Feature Film, you’re always conscious that this is music from another film … there’s an image in front of your eyes and an image inside your head. There’s maybe some kind of conflict between the two and that conflict is what I would call an interesting game to play.
(Quoted in Brown 2004, p.93.)
Jennifer Higgie, ‘Douglas Gordon’, Frieze, vol.48, September–October 1999, http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/douglas_gordon/, accessed 5 March 2016.
James Lingwood and Michael Morris (eds.), Off Limits: 40 Artangel Projects, London 2002.
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Ruskin Spear
© Tate
Ruskin Spear 1911–1990
Oil paint on board
Support: 2280 × 920 × 5 mm
Purchased from funds provided by the Patrons of British Art 2003
Display caption
Spear depicts in Haute Couture a model swaggering down the catwalk at an Italian fashion show, wearing the sophisticated ‘middle-class couture’ that the fashion industry was producing in the 1950s. Her head is raised in the air in order to avoid eye contact with the crowd of onlookers. Some of the women appear to be almost asleep, while others gaze at the catwalk model. Their frumpy clothes and bulky figures contrast with her tailored suit and slender frame. Mervyn Levey described the painting as an ‘acid statement’ where ‘fashion is a demon that haunts the old and the ugly’. He continues ‘The lust to look lovely and fashionable is crystallized in the modern fashion show, with its covens of monstrous old women’ (Levey, p.20)
Spear was born in Hammersmith into a working class family. As a young man, he supplemented his teaching income with a job making fashion drawings for Vogue magazine. Martin Harrison suggested that Spear’s ‘resentment at his employment and the first-hand knowledge he acquired of the fashion business’ (Harrison, p.82) led him to paint this satirical view of the fashion industry.
Harrison has pointed out that Spear copied this picture from a tiny black and white photograph in an Italian magazine of about the same date. The nipped-in waist and calf-length, pencil skirt were typical features of the post-war look designed to make women look ‘feminine’ in the most traditional sense. The photographic source is also evident in this painting from the cropped figures at the edges. Spear may have borrowed this idea from Sickert (1860-1942), who frequently in the late 1920s and 1930s copied photographs of interesting gestures or moments. The realist subject matter and use of strong outline and bold colours also reflect the paintings of Sickert and members of the Camden Town Group.
Spear’s ability to penetrate the characters of people who walked the streets or spent time in the bars and cafes around Hammersmith can be seen in many of his paintings. Haute Couture is unusual in its foreign and glamorous subject, and was made in the same year that Spear was elected a Royal Academician. Three years later this painting was included in the ‘Looking at People’ exhibition at the South London Art Gallery in Camberwell, and later in the same year the picture travelled with the exhibition to Moscow.
Mervyn Levey, Ruskin Spear, London 1985, pp.18-20, reproduced in colour, pl.10
Martin Harrison, Transition: The London Art Scene in the Fifties, exhibition catalogue, Barbican Art Gallery, London 2002, p.82, reproduced in colour, no.95
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Are TV Channel Mobile Apps The Future Of Television?
Imagine, in the 2016 Olympics at Rio, Usain Bolt is getting ready for a sprint to record a hat-trick of gold medals and you are enjoying it on your mobile phone in office. Yes, uninterrupted streaming of TV channels on your mobile is not far away. Though, such broadcast on mobile already exists to certain extent, it’s usage is very limited due to variety of reasons.
However, Live streaming content based Mobile apps are going to be the future of the television industry. How you ask? Here is why…
Mobile TV App channels
All the major Indian television channels- Sony, Colors, Star Sports, Discovery, NDTV and others – have their own app available on Google Play, Apple app Store and Windows Phone for free. Some of the famous programs like Comedy Nights with Kapil, Big Boss, Kaun Banega Crorepati too have applications available on these platforms.
Along with TV channels, digital service providers like Tata Sky, Airtel Digital TV and Dish TV are providing various TV channel packages on mobile applications. All the service providers’ apps are free for the first month. After that, viewers can buy suitable pack for their mobile TV. Viewers need to buy separate plan for apps and cannot link it to the normal TV plan.
Mobile service providers like Idea, BSNL, Docomo, and Vodafone have also launched mobile apps for watching TV channels on the go. Lesser known apps like Mobile TV and NextGen Mobile TV are also available on app stores. But service provided by these 3rd party apps may not be up to the mark compared to the official apps by digital TV service providers.
Current Viewership
Currently, in a city like Mumbai, a family of four spends an average of only 5.2 hours in front of the television set per day. Though this figure reaches 8 hours on weekends, average viewership hours have been gradually decreasing in the past 5-7 years. With emergence of official YouTube channels, viewers prefer internet over television to watch their favorite programs.
Sony Entertainment Television has nearly 4 million subscribers on their YouTube channel with 1.3 billion views in the last eight years. Similarly, Colors TV received 2.6 million subscriptions with nearly 800 million views over the period of six years. These figures are an indication that viewers are happier to watch their favorite programs online in their leisure time.
Also, people don’t find time to watch live television, so they choose YouTube. But for live telecasts such as sports matches, nearly 75% of audiences still prefer TV over internet (in India). YouTube doesn’t telecast live matches and official websites of sports channels need separate subscription for it.
As for applications, official app of every TV channels has got millions of downloads but use of apps for live TV does matches with that of television. People watch videos of their favorite programs online in free time.
Why TV app has a great future?
Finding and matching time with specific shows is becoming difficult day by day. With improving technology, mindset of the consumer has also changed. All the consumer services including reading, shopping and banking are available on the internet and come with special technology for mobile-based customers.
TV channels cannot lag behind in this race. As a result, in just two years of time, all the leading channels and service providers have introduced their mobile apps.
TV apps can be promoted according to viewer tendency. Live TV (online streaming of the current program on a channel) can be a great option for live matches and favorite weekend programs. For other programs, video archives can be accessed. Such a strategy will ensure that TV apps will have a brighter future. This is in line with people’s requirements.
Subscription cost of the service providers’ apps is very less and it will become cheaper with time. Tata Sky costs their users an average of 250 rupees per month for around 75-100 channels on television. On the other hand, Tata Sky’s mobile app service is available for 60 rupees per month where you can choose your favorite channels.
Studies suggest coming generations will look for more personalization in their lifestyle. And mobile phone is the most personalized device available in the market. TV channel apps also come with the same promise. Customizing of your favorite adventure channels according your need will be a far better experience than watching it on your common family television. You don’t need to worry about timings of the programs and the interests of your siblings or parents.
Challenges for the apps
Poor data connection is one of the prime hurdles TV apps are facing. Television, on the contrary, guarantees uninterrupted supply most of the time. On a broadband internet connection also, videos can be enjoyed with speedy streaming.
Apps are mostly used on the go. For quality viewing, an uninterrupted data connection is essential. Cellular service providers do provide data with 3G speed but the prices are very high. Users need to pay around 250 bucks for 1 GB internet data pack. This is consumed with video streaming of about 3 hours only. So watching a live football match for 100 odd minutes will cost you nearly 150 rupees and your data limit will be exceeded in just 2- 3days.
Right now, using apps for television is a bit complex. Switching between channels on service providers’ app can be difficult. Installing multiple apps of various channels is also not feasible. Their use is limited to watching archive videos. If hassle free provision of channel changing is included in these apps, then watching TV on mobile may soon become a routine for many of us.
However, 4G revolution is around the corner, and if we get rates like what Reliance Jio Infocomm plans to offer, the 2 major hurdles of speed and price will vanish. Live TV apps will surely be the future and more people may watch the 2019 Cricket World Cup on their mobile phones rather than TV.
And yes, with devices like Chromecast and Teewe available, we may prefer watching channels through our mobile devices (on the big screen) rather than live television itself!
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Raunchy photo that rocked the royals
The toe-sucking photo that ruined the Duchess of York. Photo: Toby Melville/Getty Images
by Daniela Elser
28th Jul 2019 11:04 AM
IT WAS grouse hunting season in Scotland. As had happened every year for decades, the Windsor family had converged en masse to their 50,000 acre estate in Aberdeenshire for some quality family bonding time and the chance to kill small animals.
But in 1992, one very high-profile member of the clan was absent - Sarah, Duchess of York.
After a six year marriage to the Duke, several month earlier the couple had finally announced their separation. While his family enjoyed their annual Tweed-A-Thon, Prince Andrew's estranged wife was enjoying a holiday of her own, but somewhere that couldn't have been more different - and would have life-changing repercussions still being felt today.
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
MARRIAGE MELTDOWN
The last couple of years had been tough for the Yorks. After their joyful 1986 wedding, Fergie had been hailed as a breath of fresh air in the royal family, blowing away a few cobwebs with her playful approach to her duties and seemingly inexhaustible appetite for fun.
However, the next few years were to see the ground dramatically shift.
Public sentiment switched back to preferring the far more restrained Diana, Princess of Wales. Fergie, meanwhile, had her weight routinely mocked in the press and was left to raise to the couple's children (Princess Beatrice born in 1988 and Eugenie in 1990) while her naval sea captain husband was at sea for more than 300 days a year.
By the early '90s, there were rumours that Fergie was involved with Texan boulevardier Steve Wyatt, the son of indomitable Texan socialite Lynn Wyatt. (He denied the allegations.) However, it has been reported that it was through Mr Wyatt that Fergie met John Bryan, an American businessman who was to become her "business adviser".
In March 1992, the Yorks finally announced their long-speculated separation. People reports that after the news broke, Fergie and Mr Bryan "packed their bags for a 36-day tour of Thailand and Indonesia, a five-day jaunt to Argentina, a spree in Paris and a journey to Scotland".
Throughout this all, Fergie was still claiming that Mr Bryan was her "financial adviser" - a claim, it has been alleged, that Prince Andrew believed.
And so, by August 1992, Fergie was ready to do what she does best: Go on a holiday.
John Bryan, the Duchess’ former lover.
SUNSHINE AND SHAME
In a private villa near Saint Tropez, Fergie was soaking up the sunshine. With her young daughters, Princess Beatrice (then four years old) and Princess Eugenie (two) in tow along with only a couple of bodyguards, the newly-separated redhead was enjoying a break.
However, she was not alone - also joining her for what would become one of the most infamous vacations in history, was Mr Bryan.
As People has pointed out, the choice of villa was not a great one.
With only a low wall and an easily impregnable pine forest surrounding it, the pool was an easy target for any roaming paparazzi. Which, of course, is exactly what happened in early August.
An Italian snapper shot some of the most (if not the most) scandalous images of the royal family in history. There was the Duchess having her toes sucked by Mr Bryan. (He would later argue he was kissing them.)
In others, they cavorted in the pool with the HRH playfully jumping on Mr Bryan's shoulders. Perhaps most shockingly was the image of the couple kissing while the Queen's granddaughter, Princess Eugenie, looked on.
The toe-sucking incident on the front page of The Sun newspaper.
(Meanwhile, in another image, Fergie's bodyguards are seen snoozing by the pool.)
When the pictures were published in the Daily Mirror on August 20, it's 3.5 million print run had sold out by 9am.
Unfortunately for Fergie, she was in the worst place possible when the shameful shots were released - Balmoral, surrounded by her husband's horrified family.
Writing in her autobiography years later, Fergie said: "It would be accurate to report that the porridge was getting cold. Eyes wide and mouths ajar, the adults were flipping through the Daily Mirror."
Another royal scandal on the cover of The Sun.
BANISHMENT AND BANKRUPTCY
This global public embarrassment could not have come at a worse time for the embattled royal. According to reports, the Queen had invited Fergie to Balmoral at that time discuss "her future".
While she and Andrew had officially separated, they had also been seen together at Ascot and she had made public appearances alongside the Duke. Relations between the two were certainly cordial.
So, arriving in Balmoral, on the table was her future standing with the royal family, a huge amount of money for the perpetually cash-strapped Duchess, the custody arrangements of her two children and her title.
(In the wake of the imbroglio there was even talk that Fergie might relinquish custody and have to move to the US or "the Continent" as it was routinely called.)
And then, August 20 came about.
The Queen, upstairs in her sitting room reading the papers, summoned Fergie.
"The Queen was furious, absolutely furious. I think partly because she loved Fergie so much," Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty magazine has said. "She just couldn't believe Fergie could have been so stupid to allow this to happen.
"When Fergie backed out of the Presence in a deep curtsy she knew her life as a royal was well and truly over," royal biographer Tina Brown writes in The Diana Chronicles.
Sarah Ferguson and John Bryan. Photo: Netflix
Brown also believes that suspicion for who tipped off the press falls on some very glamorous shoulders. She writes: "I am told, Fergie believes it was the Princess of Wales who leaked the Duchess of York's whereabouts in France. Except for Fergie's police protection officer, the only person who knew where she was going was Diana."
(Three days later on August 23, the "Squidgygate" tapes, in which Diana and her alleged boyfriend, gin heir James Gilbey, affectionately chatted. The headline in the Daily Mail was "Diana In Love Tape Mystery".)
However, on the morning of the 20th, Fergie left Balmoral with her children and their nanny, flying back to the Yorks' Surrey estate. There, embarrassingly, there was no one to open the gate so the Duchess was forced to wait in the car while the paparazzi swirled.
Nearly three decades on, Fergie is still feeling the fallout of those photos.
Firstly, her royal pariah status still lingers, not helped by instances such as in 2010 she was caught offering to sell access to Andrew, then a British trade envoy, to an undercover reporter for $890,000.
Fergie believed it was Princess Diana who leaked her whereabouts. Photo: Tim Graham/ Getty Images
Such is the continued frostiness from some quarters of the royal family (allegedly primarily Prince Philip) Fergie was left off the guest list of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's 2011 wedding. (She was, however, invited to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's 2018 big day.)
While she might be accepted in some situations, such as joining her ex-husband and daughters inside the royal enclosure at Ascot, Fergie has faced a very, very long road to be even partially welcomed back into the family.
Secondly, there is her deeply precarious money situation.
It was reportedly at Prince Philip's urging that the Queen played financial hardball with Fergie during divorce negotiations, leaving her with a much harsher settlement than Diana received. The Duchess of York, it has been reported, received about $890,000 to buy a new house, $600,000 in cash to spend however she saw fit and trust funds set up for her daughters. (The Princess of Wales walked away from her marriage with a settlement of about $30 million.) She is also believed to receive a "modest" monthly allowance pegged to Andrew's naval pension.
Over the years, she has faced continued cash woes. In 2009, her US company Hartmoor was shuttered with $1.1 million in debt. The following year, Fergie faced bankruptcy owing somewhere between $3,550,000 and $8.8 million in personal debts.
NEW CHAPTER?
This week, Fergie was on the ultra-exclusive island of Capri to celebrate the birthday of a billionaire chum. Next month, she is off on another holiday but this one will carry far more symbolic weight.
It is being reported that this August, as the Queen, her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren troop off to Balmoral, there will be one extra name on the list - Fergie.
(The now 59-year-old has reportedly spent the last few years visiting the sprawling Scottish estate, a clear sign she is slowly making inroads back into the family she hurt so much.)
It has taken Fergie 27 years to get to this point, an incredibly high price to pay for a set of summer photos.
Daniela Elser is a royal expert and a freelance writer with 20 years' experience who has written for some of Australia's best print and digital media brands | Continue the conversation @DanielaElser
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Harris Teeter opening its biggest store yet
New Bern, N.C., location also to usher in first-time amenities
Russell Redman 1 | Dec 05, 2018
Harris Teeter on Wednesday plans to officially open the doors for its largest store to date.
The Matthews, N.C.-based supermarket chain, part of The Kroger Co., on Wednesday will hold a grand opening event for its nearly 100,000-square-foot store in New Bern, a community on the North Carolina coast.
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Located in the New Bern Marketplace shopping center, the new store replaces an approximately 55,000-square-foot Harris Teeter also in New Bern. That location, in the Cross Roads shopping center, is slated to be closed today.
Harris Teeter spokeswoman Danna Robinson said the grocer’s largest stores previously were locations in Pinehurst and Charlotte, N.C., that measured almost 80,000 square feet.
The Harris Teeter at New Bern Marketplace also will mark a couple of other firsts for the chain: a build-your-own burger bar and a sushi train, in which customers select sushi dishes from a rotating conveyor belt.
In addition, the new store will be only Harris Teeter’s second location to have a juice and smoothie bar, Robinson said.
“Harris Teeter is thrilled to introduce the New Bern community to their brand-new Harris Teeter and fuel center,” she said. “We are looking forward to sharing never-before-seen amenities and features.”
After the ribbon-cutting event, the store’s fuel center will offer customers a special 20-cents-per-gallon discount for the grand opening weekend from Dec. 7 to 9. Members of the Harris Teeter VIC rewards program can get 3 cents off per gallon every day when using their card.
Other features of the New Bern Marketplace store include a beer and wine bar, with craft beers on tap and wine by the glass; fresh fruit and salad bars; trail mix and olive bars; hot foods and wings bars; store-made pizza; and a sitdown eating area.
Also at the store are butchers’, fisherman’s and farmers’ markets offering fresh meat, seafood and produce; full-service deli, bakery, floral and pharmacy departments; a nut-grinding station; bulk natural foods; an expanded kosher selection; and ExpressLane online shopping.
Harris Teeter operates about 150 supermarkets in North Carolina and nearly 250 stores overall across its Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic market area, which includes the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Maryland, Delaware, Florida and the District of Columbia.
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Her journey to the Netherlands began shortly after her playing career ended in 2013. She competed on the FIVB World Tour from 2009-2012, earning a No. 5 world ranking and FIVB Rookie of the Year award in 2009. In 2010, she was No. 7 in the world rankings with partner Tyra Turner while earning four medals (two silver, two bronze.) In 2012, she was a qualified alternate for the London Olympic Games.
She was also a top-ranked player on the AVP Tour from 2002–2013, earning AVP Rookie of the Year in 2002. She appeared in 22 semifinals in her career, advancing to two finals.
Akers played indoor volleyball for the Irish at the University of Notre Dame from 1994-97 where she was a freshman All-American and led the conference in aces and kills during her four seasons.
Her coaching career began after a knee injury ended her playing career. She began coaching at the club level in California before the opportunity to coach as an assistant in the Netherlands beach national team program presented itself. After four months with the Dutch, she took over coaching the top team of Madelein Meppelink and Marleen van Iersel. In 2015 and 2016, she coached Meppelink and van Iersel to four FIVB medals (two silver, two bronze) and a No. 6 overall Olympic ranking. They finished ninth at the Rio Olympic Games.
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Quakertown Community School District Adopts Hitachi Interactive Projectors
By TL Editors 2018-11-15T11:37:12Z
The high school recently completed a five-year renovation project, which included retrofitting classrooms with Hitachi’s CP-TW3005 interactive projectors.
Joseph Kuzo, Director of Technology, has been with the Quakertown Community School District (QCSD) for eighteen years. As Director of Technology, Kuzo and his team oversee the entire technology department including classroom infrastructure, data systems, student information and planning, and budgeting for the district’s technology refresh cycle. Up until the 2018 school year, each school in the district was individually responsible for classroom AV equipment, but now that responsibility lies with Kuzo and his team and so they began standardizing all classrooms with Hitachi’s CP-TW3005interactive projectors.
QCSD serves over 5,400 students across eight different facilities: one high school, one middle school, one building dedicated to sixth grade called the “6th Grade Center,” and five elementary schools. The high school recently completed a five-year renovation project, which included retrofitting classrooms with Hitachi’s CP-TW3005 interactive projectors.
“We started retrofitting the AV equipment across the elementary schools this year based on the success we had with the Hitachi interactive projectors in the high school renovation project,” says Kuzo. “It’s now integrated across seven of our eight buildings and all of our teachers and students have had great success with them.”
Kuzo and his team will continue to upgrade next school year to ensure that every building in the district is integrated with the Hitachi interactive projectors.
QCSD recently became members of Hitachi’s new OneVision Kids Program that offers K-12 school districts specialized Hitachi promotions and pricing, direct access to Hitachi sales and service specialists, an extended lamp warranty and an extended 5-year projector warranty. While the projectors used in the upgrade aren’t part of OneVision Kids, Kuzo looks to the program as a way to help budget and plan for the future.
“Knowing that our future investments can be covered for five years, which is a long life for one of our projectors, helps us stay on track with the budget. We usually refresh after four years, but having that extra year on the warranty will give us peace-of-mind that should anything unexpected come up in the budget, we have the flexibility to push a refresh and still guarantee our teachers and students the best technology available.”
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Dr Sean Devenish, Head of R&D at Fluidic Analytics commented: “We’re really looking forward to presenting new data and showcasing our newest instrument, the Fluidity One-W, ahead of its release later in the year. It’s a really exciting platform, that has a whole range of applications from neurobiology and structural biology to drug discovery. With its unique capabilities in-solution, the Fluidity One-W is the best option for analyzing difficult-to-study proteins like amyloid fibrils and large complexes, and so having one in the laboratory can really expand the types of proteins and systems that can be investigated.”
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North Korea is the world's most overcome, yet risky hedgehog. Composes Kim Jong Son, a news office at the news organization KCNA. As indicated by him, the willful tigers who were adhering to alternate creatures in the wilderness, were direct inverse to their character. It has featured the present reality. No nation has the fearlessness to ask the US. I'm glad for seeing my nation besides them, said Kim.
Pressures rise: US President Donald Trump declares that North Korea's risk will be handled in a way that the world has never observed. He says everything is prepared to run the military operation. Everything is prepared. He stated, why the United States assaults its partners, however, Kim Jong-un should confront extraordinary enduring. Furthermore, the danger of North Korea, they will assault the Pacific Island of the United States of Guam, where roughly 1.35 million individuals live.
This is going on when North Korea has prevailed with regards to making such a sort of atomic bomb, which can be added to intercontinental rockets. Thus, the United States and its partners are worried about the issue, and its partners Guam's inside security office official said it will take 14 minutes to achieve North Korean rocket Guam. The United States won't assault North Korea first. On the off chance that the nation is assaulted then the counter will be replied; But in what capacity can the United States go to military operations? Senior Fellow of the Center for New American Security and naval force resigned commander, Jerry Hendricks, said that on the off chance that you need to free North Korea from atomic weapons, you should utilize distinctive procedures. Since the North Korean space has a progression of ballistic rockets. In a joint effort with Japan and South Korean warrior F-15 and F-16, US contender Stealth can run American F-22, F-35, and B-2 aircraft.
Indeed, even non-synthetic warfighters might be utilized. There are two US air bases in South Korea's Osan and Kunsan, where F-16, A-10 tank executes are accessible. Guam has US B-1, B-2, and B-52 aircraft. The United States and its partners can assault from the sky and from warships. You can toss rockets by focusing on North Korea's atomic offices. The US Navy's 10 guided rocket cruisers and destroyers are positioned in Japan's base. You have rockets in these warships. The US may dispatch digital assault to stop Pyongyang's weapons program
Just verbal war: what amount of the two nations will be attached to the full-scale war? How much threat is holding up in front? Specialists say that there is no compelling reason to freeze about this now. They likewise exhibited a few contentions. As a matter of first importance, no gathering needs to battle. The war in the Korean Peninsula won't convey any favorable position to anybody. The principle objective of the decision coalition in North Korea is to remain in control. On the off chance that a war with the United States is tied, control seats might be unsteady.
The BBC' news Jonathan Marcus says the war between the United States and North Korea will spread much bigger. Thus, it will be self-destructive for North Korea. For a similar reason, North Korean pioneer Kim Jong-un, who needs to rapidly turn into the proprietor of atomic weapons. For reasons unknown, he wouldn't like to get the destiny of Gaddafi in Libya or Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The United States won't effectively assault North Korea once more. Since it could be hurtful for US partner South Korea or Japan.
Many lives will be executed in the war, particularly the basic American and warriors. There are 30,000 US troops in South Korea. As indicated by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, North Korea could utilize 21 thousand 100 cannons compel, under which South Korea has 25 million regular citizens. Most importantly, Washington does not have any desire to go at such a hazard, which could prompt an atomic assault in the American regions. Second-dialect battle? The danger that Trump has given to North Korea is an exemption for a president. However, that does not imply that the United States is moving towards war going all out.
A senior US military authority in the US said that provocative talk is expanding, not on the grounds that our position is evolving as well. Two authorities of the Defense Force revealed to CNN that there is no probability of a war at this time. They don't have any data that fizzled state North Korea could soon dispatch. The greatest thing is that after the two-ball ballistic rocket test, the United States has strolled on the old way to force authorizes through the United Nations. In any case, ambassadors are trusting that with the assistance of Russia and China, North Korea will be conveyed to the talk table. Be that as it may, as indicated by a few examiners, there could be a war from false impressions in such a provocative circumstance. Thirdly, such a circumstance has been made
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A place of longing: From the gold rush to Silicon Valley: dream city San Francisco
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Bonn (AP) - Earlier this month, the city government of San Francisco declared the American arms lobby organization NRA a domestic terrorist organization. With this provocative decision, the West Coast metropolis once again attracted worldwide attention.
Fifty years after the Woodstock Festival, the capital of the hippie movement from this Thursday (12 September) to 12 January 2020 will be the focus of a major exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn: "California Dreams - San Francisco: A Portrait".
There is hardly another city that has historically been a longing to realize its own dreams - from the Gold Rush of 1850 to today's Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. Those who have made it this far, do not want to leave because he has arrived in the Promised Land.
Nothing illustrates this better than the fact that the city center is built on ships: During the gold rush countless luck seekers wanted to go to San Francisco and from there further inland - but hardly anyone wanted to go back. As a result, an armada of abandoned sailing ships was accumulating in the harbor. Over time, the windjammers were converted into hotels, bars or shops. All around, land was heaped up and the piers turned into roads. Today, the wrecks are excavated by archaeologists.
From the beginning, San Francisco was regarded as a tolerant and liberal vanishing point - more generous than New York, which was also influenced by the Puritan Protestant spirit. That is why German Jews preferred to settle here. One of them was the Franke Levi Strauss (1829-1902), who invented the blue jeans - but never wore them, because they were clothes for workers. The Bundeskunsthalle shows a many-hole-patched and patched jeans, which the miners Homer Campbell from Arizona in 1920 reclaimed: After three years, the part was no longer useful, he complained. He received a new one for free.
By 1900, a quarter of the population was German-speaking. "San Francisco was always the second major immigration port next to New York, but it's surprisingly Pacific," says curator Henriette Pleiger. Especially the Chinese were long felt as a threat. Chinatown emerged in response to marginalization by the white population.
"The Chinese then turned their district into a Disneyland, a tourist attraction, as a survival strategy," says Pleiger. The "Chinese Exclusion Law" of 1882 not only denied Chinese immigrants American citizenship, but also limited them to a few occupational fields such as running restaurants and laundries. "That's why we always see the Chinese cook or the Chinese scrubber in Hollywood movies."
The exhibition does not exclude such chapters. The city's leading environmental and climate protection status today is based on past bad experiences, Pleiger says: "The Bay of San Francisco is still contaminated with mercury because gold was dissolved with mercury during the gold rush." Another Shadow side of the dream city is the widespread homelessness due to the enormously high rents and house prices.
And yet: "San Francisco remains a very courageous city," says Pleiger. "Especially with regard to migration, it remains a pioneer and impulse generator. That's very inspiring - and we can cut a slice of that here. "
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