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The city of Boston unveiled a $10 million sculpture meant to honor Martin Luther King Jr., but the bizarre and oddly sexual appearance of the monument elicited mostly negative reactions.
The monument, called The Embrace, was unveiled on the Boston Common on Friday to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King and the “love they shared with the world,” NBC reported.
The sculpture apparently is based off a photograph of Dr. King and Coretta embracing.
But that didn’t seem to translate so well into a giant bronze sculpture, with social media reacting with disgust and ridicule to the monument’s suggestive features.
The original photo this inspired was beautiful and perfect. Why not just honor that with a replica instead of this horrible odd weirdly sexualized bronze blob… #mlksculpture #MLK pic.twitter.com/8COvxHhEoP— Shireen Qudosi (@ShireenQudosi) January 15, 2023
“I have a nightmare…” pic.twitter.com/VLAUwFLfdK— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) January 15, 2023
The concept that the City of Boston approved was less penisey. pic.twitter.com/Fh8N4AhbMY— Taylor Day (@TABYTCHI) January 15, 2023
Didn’t realize MLK loved to eat ass so much pic.twitter.com/EBR3y4YP9y— Chrissie Mayr🇺🇸 (@ChrissieMayr) January 14, 2023 January 14, 2023
Choose wisely pic.twitter.com/jWJje21Try— Andrew McCarthy (@AMcCarthyNY) January 14, 2023 January 15, 2023
When they unveil the MLK statue: pic.twitter.com/13xI34QIPU— Prison Mitch (@MidnightMitch) January 14, 2023
There’s a debate about whether the sculpture resembles a giant donger or eating ass. Which is it? pic.twitter.com/TvtaFATGiX— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 14, 2023
is this a pic.twitter.com/p3RzyaXFeB— charles khan meme bastard (@mask_bastard) January 14, 2023 January 14, 2023 January 15, 2023 January 15, 2023
So depending on the angle, the new MLK statue either looks like:
B) Someone holding a giant turd.
C) Someone holding a giant penis.
D) A giant butthole.
But if you criticize it you’re a racist. pic.twitter.com/JW8U2dCTh2
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P.S.1 goes back to 1969
Swingeing London 67, Richard Hamilton
1969 was a big year; so big, in fact, that people like me, who weren’t alive at the time, have vicarious memories of what it was like. Things like Vietnam, Civil Rights, sexual revolution, and the moon landing spring to mind. To commemorate not only the year itself, but its lasting impact on artists today, P.S.1 has devoted its entire 2nd floor to what it meant to live in 1969. “By juxtaposing the meditative space of the white cube gallery of the transplanted MoMA exhibition with the tumult of the outside world, 1969 reflects the expansive concerns held by artists of the time” like Lee Friedlander, Gary Winogrand, Robert Irwin, Joseph Beuys, Robert Morris and Sol LeWitt, including brand new work from Bruce Nauman, Mel Bochner and Robert Barry.
Among the young artists who were asked to create pieces that comment on the mood of the time (or what they think of as the mood of the time) is the Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQFU), who built a “suite of four portable museums concerned with preservation, education, dissemination, and archiving.” This could be a show all on its own, but it’s only one part of a massive exhibition. BHQFU is one the more interesting and undefinable collaborations out there right now. Yes, it’s a group of artists who get together and produce work, but they’re focus is on education in a time when art school is unaffordable for most people. “The $200,000-debt-model of art education is simply untenable. Further, the education artists are getting for their money is mired in irrelevance, pushing them into critical redundancy on the one hand and professional mediocrity on the other.” They offer courses like “Build Your Own University,” “Futurlogical Poetry,” “Occult Shenanigans,” and “BHQFU Detective Agency,” but these are, as you might expect, unaccredited. “Let’s just drop the bullshit altogether.” BHQFU aren’t ones to shy away from staging demonstrations and protests. Their recent film, ISLE OF THE DEAD, is about the literal death of an inflated art world that is born again as zombies who gather on Governor’s Island to watch the film, ISLE OF THE DEAD. More creative than a picket line, sure, but their motto, “Don’t say can’t, say canarchy” is straight out of 1969. | <urn:uuid:0185504c-d546-40db-900a-6aa6209afa71> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.sundance.tv/blog/2009/10/ps1-goes-back-to-1969 | 2015-09-02T06:51:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645257890.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031417-00207-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9587 | 575 |
The trailer for IFC Films’ upcoming Lucky Them has arrived and you can check it out in the player below, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies.
Starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Oliver Platt, the May 30 release follows veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug (Collette), who is more interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work. Now she has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god Matthew Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker (Church), Ellie hits the road in search of answers. | <urn:uuid:349bfe4d-160a-4562-9183-6db7cda57c48> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/116729-the-trailer-for-lucky-them-starring-toni-collette-and-thomas-haden-church | 2016-07-27T03:53:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257825365.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071025-00109-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945317 | 148 |
Would you like to contribute to Write Good Books?
Awesome! I’m always open to guest posts from writers of any level.
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Here’s what you get.
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"We're not considering any open ended commitment. We're not considering any boots on the ground approach," Obama said during an appearance at the White House following a meeting with Baltic leaders.
Obama said he has not made any final decisions and still is consulting with Congress and U.S. allies.
The comments came as the White House released an unclassified intelligence assessment of the Aug. 21 attack that left more than 1,400 dead, including more than 400 children, in the suburbs of Damascus.
Obama, calling images from Syria in the wake of the attack "horrific," said the use of chemical weapons presents a "challenge to the world."
"We cannot accept a world where women and children -- innocent civilians -- are gassed on a grand scale," Obama said, adding the action "challenges our national interests" and threatens U.S. allies.
He said if the action goes unanswered, it will present the risk of an increased use of chemical weapons in the future and that such weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists.
"The world has an obligation that we maintain the norm against the use of chemical weapons," he said. "I have not made a final decision ... [but the world has an obligation] to enforce that norm."
Obama said he is looking at a "wide range" of options but a "narrow, targeted" action is most likely.
Obama said many people think something should be done about the chemical weapons attack "but nobody wants to do it."
"There is a certain weariness, given Afghanistan. There is a certain suspicion of any military action post-Iraq. And I very much appreciate that. ... It's important for us to recognize that when over a thousand people are killed, including hundreds of innocent children, through the use of a weapon that 98 [percent] or 99 percent of humanity says should not be used even in war, and there is no action, then we're sending a signal ... . That is a danger to our national security."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry earlier said the world is watching to see what the United States will do and U.S. credibility rests on it.
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The stages of learning the Unicode standard: -_- ^_^ o_^ o_o O_O (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
life hack: wear two fitbits to burn twice as many calories.
Much of my success comes from repeated application of one principle: "First, try the dumbest thing that might actually work."
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MLS Number 72245812
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Positioned proudly at the top of East Emerson, this striking Colonial Revival offers a majestic setting with its sizable frontage and hidden back oasis. Perfect location for those seeking a big house with dream outdoor space walking distance to downtown, schools, restaurants, coffee spots and train. The Wow bonus is in the details, those hidden gems that make a home grand: mahogany in-lay floors, gleaming natural woodwork, expansive windows, extensive moldings, stained glass, pocket doors, gorgeous bridal staircase and balustrade, and generous room proportion. Thoughtful stewardship has preserved this beauty which has become an iconic show-piece boasting gracious entertaining space, from the center reception hall to paired parlors and dining room. The owners have meticulously maintained this beauty: 3 zone gas heat, roof, French drain, electric, interior and exterior paint, landscaping and sprinkler. Additional living suite on 3rd floor; lush, private yard and porch. Simply gorgeous!
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Yes, authentic Mexican food is hard to come by in Singapore, but Viva Mexico – part of the recently renovated Cuppage Terrace – comes the closest, starting with a bona fide Mexican chef in the kitchen and ending with a rich pumpkin dessert baked with cinnamon, sugar and cream. Things bode well when free corn chips and two kinds of salsa arrive (literally) seconds after you sit down, with a salsa verde that’s good enough to drink. Though there’s an eclectic side to the menu, stick to the standards, particularly the chicken enchiladas – boneless chicken breast wrapped in soft corn tortillas, with a side of refried beans looking a bit forlorn without a side of rice. Also notable is the depth of the drink menu (another authentic trait if you ask us), which includes more than a dozen kinds of 100 per cent Agave tequila – plus reasonably priced $10 Jose Cuervo shooters – and a delicious, smoothie-style blackberry margarita. Service is top-notch, attentive and knowledgeable; we now know the difference between sangria and sangrita.
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When Facebook launched its new Graph Search[(https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch) service, I was worried about the privacy implications, [arguing that "as the company has learned before, while it recognises a binary 'public/private' divide, most users don't think in such black-and-white terms."
And sure enough, a whole lot of information which users (surely) can't want public is now public. The Tumblr "Actual Facebook Graph Searches " collects, well, Actual Facebook Graph Searches.
So you can use Facebook Graph Search to find “Married people who like Prostitutes " (and then click on one button to get a list of their spouses), "Spouses of married people who like [cheat-on-your-partner dating site] Ashley Madison " or "Family members of people who live in China and like [the very very banned] Falun Gong ".
Some of those — particularly the first one — will be "ironic" likes. Saying you like something on Facebook doesn't mean you actually like it, after all. But others won't; and it's hard to imagine the Chinese government particularly caring if someone expressed support for Falun Gong "ironically" or not.
And then there's the creeper potential (try "Single women who live nearby and who are interested in men and like Getting Drunk ", for instance).
Part of it might be that the people who make the product have very different standards of privacy than the rest of us. Google's Eric Schmidt has a long-documented history of being, basically, a bit creepy , as does Mark Zuckerberg . And — maybe this is just me — even Facebook's own demonstration of how to use graph search is a little odd. Here's April Dembosky and Richard Waters writing for the Financial Times :
“My wife’s cousin recently moved here from India. She’s single,” he says, as he begins clicking through his Facebook profile. “I love to meddle in my family’s lives.”
Mr Stocky sets parameters for the search of his social network account. He’s looking for friends of his friends who are single men, who live in San Francisco and who are originally from India. A few more clicks and Mr Stocky has a list of romantic prospects for his wife’s cousin, culled from his own personal network.
The question left is whether this will be a storm in a teacup which will eventually rewire our normal expectations of privacy — as with the introduction of the News Feed on Facebook or the first forays into "social advertising " — or something which could damage Facebook, as the "Girls around me " app did with Foursquare and Google's initial attempts to leverage Gmail's network did with Google Buzz. | <urn:uuid:79154713-b653-44c1-9946-20a7cc51e1b7> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.newstatesman.com/print/alex-hern/2013/01/facebooks-graph-search-creepers-dream | 2015-03-02T23:35:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936463093.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074103-00334-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963203 | 592 |
At the moment you’re probably sensing a change in the air. But why?
Is it the fact that as of September 1st we were officially knocking at the door of Autumn…..maybe? It certainly wasn’t a change in the weather judging by the Met office stats for the UK this summer with their website stating ‘this summer has been the most notable across the UK for being wetter than average…Broadly speaking, June was wettest in the North and July was wettest in the South’. Although we could be having it worse, with Hurricane Irma causing death and destruction across the Caribbean and the state of Florida in the USA.
Back at home though its not the weather or the seasons that I’m referring to when I talk of change. It’s a change of a different nature. One of new beginnings, or fresh starts. But as the title of my blog infers, it’s not January, the time of new year’s resolutions and making promises to ourselves we will be better this time with our diets or fitness regimes. So what’s going on?
For some of you it’s ‘Back to School’, with your children getting back into the swing of things after the long summer break. For me personally, it’s a special time, as my daughter Izzy is starting school for the first time. For her it’s a time of big change and adjustment as she learns to get up early in the morning, get into her school uniform and be packed off for a full day at school. She will be meeting new friends, taking on new experiences and learning new skills. All things she hasn’t truly experienced before. She’s excited but I don’t think either of us are prepared for the physical and emotional toll it will take on her and myself over the next few weeks. It’s a time of CHANGE, new beginnings.
But you don’t have to be a parent to experience change at this time of year. Some of you may have been lucky enough to have had a vacation this summer. In fact as I wrote this blog I was sitting on a sun lounger in Ibiza. Now I’m back at home it feels like a fresh start. I’m relaxed, rejuvenated and ready to go. For all of us it’s this feeling that steers us towards wanting to do something new or do something better, or start again. That ‘Back to School’ feeling.
It could be buying a new coat in readiness for the colder months, or a new pair of shoes. For those who know me well it’s normally a pair of trainers! I get called the Imelda Marcos of trainers. Or on a more brain functioning level it might be an evening class or signing up for a course to learn a new skill or try something fun.
We may also be thinking about the months ahead, planning for things to do in the colder months once the dark nights set in. In the health and fitness industry this is a key time as people re-set their goals or establish new and healthier habits. If you’ve had a busy summer looking after the children and keeping them entertained you may have neglected yourself and over indulged with a few naughty treats or enjoyed the longer evenings alfresco with the odd alcoholic beverage. This no doubt has probably left you feeling a little heavier and a bit flabby and you want to do something about it!
It could be you cut the booze, decrease the chocolate, do a few more walks around the park or take the stairs at work rather than the lift or escalator. Maybe you desire a little more structure, something specific and bespoke to your exact needs and wants and want someone to guide you through it. It could even be to have a little more TLC in your life, a massage, helping the body be rid of niggles that have developed and stopping you from moving freely and joyously.
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A guide on how to program multiple NXTs at the same time
My current project(as you've no doubt guessed by now)uses 2 NXTs. Previously I've just been switching the cables to program them, but I've figured out how I can have each of their programs opened and linked to the specific NXT!
1. Connect NXTs to computer with USB cables.
2. Turn on a NXT. Open RobotC, and download a program. This NXT is now linked to this instance of RobotC.
3. Turn off the first NXT, and turn on the other one. Now open RobotC again, so that you have two of them open.
4. Download a program. This NXT is now linked to this instance of RobotC
5. Repeat steps 3&4 as many times as you have NXTs to program.
Using this allows multiple NXTs to be on and connected to a computer at the same time, with the ability be working on two interacting programs and see what's happening with each NXT. Unfortunately, I don't have time to test it with BlueTooth, and can't try with more than 2 NXTs, as that's all I have.
So, what do you think?
P.S. I believe I've explained it correctly, but if you spot an error, could you tell me?
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I'm currently working on a design for a compressor room for a local fire station. We're converting an electrical room to a compressor room. The room consists of a meter, a Bauer compressor, a thru-the-wall air conditioning unit, an exhaust fan, a bottle rack and a frag station.
Does the frag station require electrical power to operate and if so how much power (circuit, amps)?
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Why not ask the manufacturer?If your going to cry about doing the job you signed up for do us all a favor and quit, there are plenty of dedicated people standing in line for the best job in the world.
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Enamel Coffee Dispatch Mug
Perfect gift for anyone who loves coffee.
Great for camping, hiking the great outdoors or simply enjoying at home.
Very durable so great for posting and travelling with. A bit of nostalgia here remembering camps from years ago.
Can fit exactly one cup of coffee in it (depending on what you define as one cup). Recommended best with our own Fair Trade Imuka Coffee, can't guarantee it will even work with other coffee brands!!
Overall a great coffee cup. Combine it with some coffee, chocolate or a great book for a thoughtful gift. And of course grab a few for yourself.
Two designs on the rear so choose the one you like the most.
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April 15, 2021
For Immediate Release
Waterloo – Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Education, Alumni Association and Faculty of Education external advancement committee will co-host Supporting Self-Compassion and Building Resiliency for Teachers, an online event designed to show appreciation for the work of teachers, on April 22 at 7 p.m.
The event is a follow-up to Laurier’s Homeroom Heroes campaign, which saw alumni educators recognized throughout the fall on social media. Supporting Self Compassion and Building Resiliency for Teachers is being held to show support for educators navigating the challenges of teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event, to be hosted on Zoom, is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
“It is our privilege to honour teachers with this Homeroom Heroes celebration and offer this opportunity in support of self-compassion and building resiliency for all educators,” said Maria Cantalini-Williams, dean of Laurier’s Faculty of Education. “This past year, we have seen the exemplary traits of teachers.”
Keynote speaker Assistant Professor Carolyn FitzGerald will discuss re-envisioning an "ethic of care" to include educators and how this re-envisioning might benefit stakeholders within the education system as a whole. FitzGerald’s current research examines ways in which prospective and current educators can be offered effective programs to support well-being in schools.
Cantalini-Williams will host Supporting Self-Compassion and Building Resiliency for Teachers, which will also include members of Laurier’s Faculty of Education external advancement committee, including Gary Slater, superintendent of education with the Upper Grand District School Board, and Paul Smith, a principal with the Waterloo Catholic District School Board.
“Throughout this pandemic, our support staff, custodians, administrators and teachers have done an incredible job looking after the well-being and needs of our students,” said Smith. “Their creativity and courage during this challenging time has truly been inspiring.”
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What is Pilates and how can it improve my yoga practice?
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Catholic bishops in Quebec have expressed outrage over government plans to eliminate religious culture courses in schools throughout the mostly French-speaking province in Canada.
"Religion remains a societal issue, in Quebec as elsewhere, and this fact will not disappear overnight by removing religious culture from the school curriculum," the bishops said in a statement on Monday.
Developing students' critical thinking skills
Quebec's ministry for education had announced the change the previous day.
Education Minister Jean-François Roberge unveiled the broad outlines of the "Quebec culture and citizenship" program, which is meant to replace the teaching of religious culture (ECR).
The new program is designed around three axes -- citizenship, culture and the development of critical thinking.
The religious culture courses were introduced in 2008. But they were criticized from the outset and some political parties have called for their removal.
"The former program was based on a dogma...according to which, it is membership in a religious community that essentially defines our identity. We can no longer tolerate this kind of bias in our schools in Quebec," Roberge said.
But the province's Catholic bishops warn that the new program will only lead to a greater and more dangerous "ignorance of the concept of religion".
They say this will end up "feeding prejudices and increasing social polarization, rather than helping students move towards the recognition of others and pursuit of the common good".
Bishops call for "better refinement of educational approaches"
As part of a public consultation on the revision of this teaching, the Assembly of Quebec Catholic Bishops submitted a brief last year on the "important complementarity of ethics and religious culture in the Quebec of today and tomorrow".
They insisted on the need for public schools to address religion "in a nuanced and objective way, in its undeniable plurality".
But the Minister of Education dismissed their recommendations and bishops did not hide their annoyance.
"It would be better to refine our educational approaches and nuance the content offered to students, rather than trying to sweep it under the rug," they said.
Quebec's bishops now hope that the "many concerns expressed by several civil society stakeholders" will be "taken into account in developing the details of the new curriculum".
The announcement of the new culture and citizenship program also provoked strong reactions from teachers' unions in the province, which fear it will lead to an additional workload and a lack of training for the new curriculum.
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"According to the Edison Electric Institute, shareholder-owned electric utilities and stand-alone transmission companies for the first time in 2010 surpassed the $10 billion mark for a yearly investment in transmission infrastructure. Spending on transmission increased nine percent from 2009 to 2010, EEI reported. Utilities and others are expected to invest $54 billion on transmission between 2011 and 2014, a 43 percent increase over transmission investment during the previous four-year period, 2007-2010, EEI reported."
That's because transmission is a tidy profit center for investor-owned utilities. In return for their investment, these companies earn an immediate, guaranteed double-digit return on equity courtesy of federal transmission incentives and formula rates, even if the projects they invest in never get built!
While the CFTP makes some good points about broad socialization of transmission costs, the wisdom and ultimate cost of a "national grid" build out to support on-shore wind, and federal control of transmission siting and permitting, it's pretty hard to take them seriously or to want to support their "coalition."
That's because their membership (bankrollers) is composed of some of the worst perpetrators of the same bad policies they denounce. For instance, member PSE&G is currently gouging over 60 million ratepayers throughout the 13-state PJM region for their unneeded Susquehanna-Roseland Project, as well as multiple other transmission projects they are undertaking. If Susquehanna-Roseland had to be paid for solely by the ratepayers that benefit from it, it would not be cost effective. S-R will purportedly reduce electric costs in New Jersey and load centers located at its eastern terminus. According to CFTP, that's who should pay for the entire line. Instead, PJM's cost recovery policy socialized PSE&G's cost across their entire region. If we believe that S-R will reduce prices in New Jersey, we also accept the fact that S-R will increases prices to the west of it's starting point. This "levelizing" of prices within the region is what PJM's screwed up markets promote. Why is it that ratepayers who bear the direct brunt of proximity to "cheaper" generation must not only pay the cost of new transmission to make electricity cheaper for other load centers without enough generation to support their needs, but also have the prices they pay for electricity raised by the ultimate "benefit" of these same transmission projects? This is the bad logic that PJM has been getting away with for years with their destructive "markets."
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His Coming Presence
A Fresh Insight To His Appearance
Both Spiritual And Literal
Luther W. Cronrath
Edited and updated by Wade E Taylor
All Scriptures, unless otherwise noted, are taken
from the Holy Bible, Modern King James Version
Copyright 1962, 1990, 1993
Used by permission of copyright holder, Jay P Green Sr.
Copyright 1990 Luther W. Cronrath,
2008 Luther W. Cronrath.
This Book may be copied for personal study and edification only.
NOTE: This edition is substantially reduced in size for use on the Web.
The main message has been carefully preserved.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The New Day, The Parousia.
Chapter 2 Looking for His Appearing.
Chapter 3 Making Room For A New Day.
Chapter 4 Our Responsibility and Role in the Parousia.
Chapter 5 Introduction To The Third Day,
The Second Coming of The Lord.
Chapter 6 Encouragement.
Chapter 7 Who Executes Judgments?
This book has been written as a result of a series of messages given in Seattle, Washington, in the Spring of 1990. The flow of revelation was so anointed that there was a common witness that this word should go beyond the local fellowship. As a result of this encouragement, Luther Cronrath has made this publication available to all those who are “looking for His appearing.”
Feeling that this book is very important to those seeking to be a part of the end-time purposes of the Lord, Wade Taylor has carefully edited, added to, and updated the text, to make it more readable, and the message more understandable.
This edition has been substantially reduced in size to present this message on the web.
In this book we will discover the multi-faceted coming of the Lord, first to His Church, and then universally to the whole world. The result being the literal, visual establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth, and the overcomers role in it.
The New Day, “The Parousia.”
Most Christians believe and look for the second coming of Jesus. We are moving into a new season in which the Holy Spirit is faithfully placing within us a desire to see Jesus, not only when we go to heaven, but in this life, at this present time.
The great hope within those who have a personal relationship with the Lord is His coming again. Our problem is that many have a mind-set concerning this, as there are differing opinions as to the time, purpose, and the way in which Jesus will return.
“But of that day and hour, no one knows….” Matthew 24:36
But one thing is certain. Jesus is coming, and He is coming soon.
The Scripture tells us:
“This same Jesus who is taken up from you into Heaven, will come in the way you have seen Him going into Heaven.” Acts 1:11
“But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He shall sit on the throne of His glory….” Matthew 25:31
“For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord.” I Thessalonians 4:16-17
“For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.” I Thessalonians 5:2
“Therefore watch; for you do not know what hour your Lord comes.” Matthew 24:42
Each of these Scriptures deal with the Greek word “Parousia” which is a compound word, or two words made into one. “Para,” a preposition; and “ousia,” a verbal participle.
“Para” means to come alongside of, to come and surround, or to come and fill the atmosphere with one’s presence. It is interesting that the writer chose “Para” when there are at least 20 other prepositions in the Greek language.
“Para” was used because it reveals the “position” which we will have with Jesus at His Parousia. Therefore, there is something that happens, which positionally is more than just His “coming.” If a man is surrounded by people, he is in a position to talk and relate to them.
When three men came from Corinth to visit Paul, he used the word “Parousia.”
“I am glad at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, for these supplied your lack.” I Corinthians 16:17
This was more than the fact that they came from Corinth to visit Paul. Their coming brought them into communion and oneness with him.
The last part of this word, “ousia,” is a participle. A participle in English is a word that ends in “ing.” It describes what is coming. In the case of the men who came to Paul, it tells us that they personally came into his presence.
“Ousia” comes from a basic verb, “to be.” In every language, this verb is the most important, yet the simplest action word in the entire vocabulary. In Hebrew, the importance of the word “to be” can be seen in the experience of Moses. While herding his father-in-law’s sheep, Moses came to a burning bush (Exodus 3:1-15). When he turned aside to see what this strange phenomena was, the Lord spoke from the bush, saying, “Moses Moses... put off your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground.”
This was holy ground because a Person by the name of “Yahweh” was present. When Moses was told by the Lord to return to Egypt and loose his people from bondage, he said, “Whom do I say sent me?” and the Lord responded, “Yahweh.”
This is “I Am that I Am,” the simplest form of an active verb, or action word in the Hebrew language. It became so sacred that all through the Old Testament, the scribes would not write “Yahweh.” Rather, they wrote “Adonai,” which is “Lord.” Thus, our Bible says, “The LORD God.”
In the Gospel of John, Jesus identified Himself as “Yahweh.” After He had fed the 5,000, they again sought Him for another meal. In the course of their conversation, Jesus said, “I am the bread of life….” John 6:35. The word here is “Ego eimi” which is the Greek translation of Yahweh. He is saying, “Yahweh, the Bread of life.”
In another place He said, “I am the light of the world;” or, “Yahweh, the light of the world.” “I am the Door;” or, “Yahweh, the door.” “I am the good Shepherd;” or, “Yahweh, the good Shepherd.”
“Yahweh” is a powerful word. When six hundred soldiers came to the Garden of Gethsemane with Judas Iscariot to arrest Jesus, He asked who they were looking for. They said, “We are looking for Jesus,” and He said, “Yahweh.” At this word, all six hundred soldiers went over, flat on their backs.
The reason for our looking at “I Am” is because the word Parousia (ousia) contains this grammatical form. It tells us that there is a coming, but this is only a small part of it. The “ousia,” the “I Am” is coming to stand with and surround us, to fill our atmosphere with His presence. He is coming to talk to us, to lead us, to take us through those things we need to be taken through, during this “Parousia.”
Thus, Parousia is not “a snap of the fingers,” and then everything is here. When we see this, we suddenly discover that there are things about the Parousia which are profound.
In classical Greek, “Parousia” was always a word that was reserved for nobility, or someone of importance. When they came into the room and took their seat, whether it was a throne or a position of authority, whatever they did from that position was the “Parousia.” It took in everything that involved the presence of that individual.
We see the evidence of His coming and manifest presence from the beginning of creation. There are a number of passages in Genesis, chapters one through three, which reveal that He was present.
“…And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:2
“God is a Spirit” (John 4:24). When God moved upon the face of the waters, He was present in the presence (face) of the waters. (the creation at that moment).
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7
God formed man and injected some of Himself into man, by breathing into him “spirit life.”
“And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” Genesis 2:15
It is evident that at this moment, God is with man in the garden of Eden. He came and “presenced” Himself in the creation of the world, and with the man whom He had created “in Our image, after Our likeness.” (Genesis 1:26-27)
After this “presencing” of Himself in His creation, and with man, He evaluated all of this creative activity.
“And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good….” Genesis 1:31
This means that He could come (presence Himself) and be completely comfortable. This includes His being with man. It is obvious that this work of creation was the fulfillment of a desire that God had, has, and will yet have, that He might have fellowship with man, both physically and spiritually.
Let us look at an event that will further reveal God’s presence on the earth.
“And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God in the middle of the trees of the Garden.” Genesis 3:8
Note that Adam and Eve hid themselves from the “presence” of the Lord God (not from the Word). The man who had been created in the image of God has, by hiding, rejected the presence of the Lord God. Immediately, the Lord began to restore this “presencing” of Himself with man.
The dictionary contains the word, “presence,” but not “presencing.” I added the “e-n-c-i-n-g” because it describes the action. Let us look at this word, “Parousia,” and see how it is used in the second coming, or “the presencing of the Lord,” which is again about to take place.
In Matthew 24:3, the disciples came to Jesus and asked a question, “What will be the sign of Your coming?” (presence). Some Bibles place the word “presence” in the margin, but it is usually translated, “coming.” The disciples were asking, “When are You coming to be present with us again?”
There is an added understanding that the Lord desires to work in us, which illustrates the fact that Jesus is coming, just as He came the first time. It is that a series of events will equal His coming.
When Jesus came the first time, He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, grew up in a carpenter shop in Nazareth, and at thirty years of age, began His ministry. Everything that took place from His conception to the cross and the grave; to His resurrection and ascension back to heaven, was His first coming; His first Parousia.
His second Parousia will not be any less mysterious. When He comes again, He will not merely come down, grab a bunch of us, and take us up into the clouds.
Jesus is coming back, soon. As a part of this, He will begin to personally appear to many people. As a result of these personal appearances, many things will begin to happen. There will be a substantial increase in the amount and quality of our worship, and of the prophetic. This will be the result of an increase and elevation in His anointing and presence within us, and in our meetings.
Also, there will be an enlarging of our ability to understand the Word, as we never before saw it. This is because He is coming to equip, or make ready, a people who will perform His end-time work on the earth.
There are two things that we are to be aware of in this study of the “Parousia.”
The first is that the Parousia is not a single event, but a series of interventions, which will lead to the ultimate purpose of God for the entire creation, and especially for His people.
It is of vital importance that we grasp the idea that these interventions will bring into clear view the purpose of the Lord in the closing out of the Church age, and the establishing of the Millennial Kingdom age. If we were “raptured,” we would lose our opportunity to have a part in the outworking of the “end-time purpose” of the Lord.
The second is that the original intention of the Lord, when He created Adam and placed him in the Garden of Eden, was to be present with him.
Our understanding of these will be opened, step by step, as the Lord prepares us for this new day.
Looking for His Appearing
We should both look for and understand “His second coming.” There are several Greek words, such as “Apocalypses” and “Phaneroo” that have this meaning. These refer to the second coming of the Lord, and all that will follow as a result, while “Parousia” relates to His second coming, but more directly, to His appearings, or His presencing Himself.
There is a twofold manifestation of His presence in the Parousia.
(1). Jesus will appear in the midst of His Church (the Church within the Church - those gathered together as overcomers). Also, He will appear to many individuals. This will take place before this age ends.
These appearings will prepare us for our involvement with the Lord in His Parousia. This personal “presencing” of Jesus is the appearance that has been misunderstood as being the rapture.
“But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection….” Revelation 20:5-6
Rather than rapture, the “first resurrection” is the word that should be used.
(2). Jesus will appear to the whole world.
“Behold, He comes with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.” Revelation 1:7
“For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” I Thessalonians 4:16-17
In the fullness of time, the entire world will see Him when He comes in this way.
When Jesus rules during the Millennium, He will not be openly seen, but He will be here on the earth to rule through a prepared body of overcomers. We are told that He will be here for a thousand years. This could mean something other than a specific one thousand year period of time.
If we “qualify” to have a part with the Lord in His second coming, we will rule and reign with Him. We will be priests of God and of Christ, and have power over the second death, so we can reign with Him for this thousand year period of time.
“And has made us to our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.” Revelation 5:10
Thus, the Parousia is a multiplicity of events, but it primarily has to do with the individual appearings of Jesus Christ. Therefore, we are to “stay awake” concerning this event. This does not mean that we are not to go to bed, but rather, that we are to be watchful, like a watchman on the tower, searching to see if anyone is coming.
The Church of our day needs to be reminded of this, as we are living almost two thousand years after all this was written. There were fifty generations of Christians before us, who looked for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and He did not come. Because of this, we are not to become complacent.
Peter gives us a warning, just as he warned the people of that time.
“Beloved, I now write this second letter to you, in which I stir up your pure minds to remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Savior, spoken by us, the apostles.” II Peter 3:1
Peter is telling us that Apostles are to bring this message. When they were expecting Jesus Christ to come in that generation, Apostles brought this message. We are to experience the fullness of the five-fold ministry, with Apostles and Prophets openly functioning, along with the Pastors, Evangelists, and Teachers. It is important for us to have a prophetic word to bring to our remembrance the commandment of the Lord, which was spoken by the prophets of old.
“First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts.” II Peter 3:3
There are those today who doubt the “Parousia” of the Lord. This is one of the reasons why the devil has been able to convince so many that there is to be a rapture. They believe that there is nothing to be done, but at any moment, all Christians will be caught up.
There is another problem. When we become so absorbed in our daily occupations that we become weary, we are unable to think of anything else. Thus, because we are not looking for and meditating upon the coming of the Lord, we are in danger of doing as these scoffers, and we with them, will begin to question His return, saying:
“Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” II Peter 3:4
The Lord has an answer for this, which is available to those who earnestly seek Him.
“But, beloved, let not this one thing be hidden from you, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” II Peter 3:8
From the time when the angel said to Mary, “You shall conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus. He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest” (Luke 1:31), to the time when He arose from the grave, was but a moment in eternity. To us, it was thirty three and one-half years.
This is because we are still limited to this way of thinking. Peter is telling us that we are to change our thinking.
“The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering towards us, not willing that any of us should perish, but that all of us should come to repentance.” II Peter 3:9
Jesus died for every man, woman, and child, from Adam until the time of His return, and in His timetable, He is still waiting, giving everyone an opportunity.
There are several other things that we should consider.
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up. Then, all these things being about to be dissolved, what sort ought you to be in holy behavior and godliness.” II Peter 3:10-11
The Lord did not destroy the earth when it was covered by the flood. Rather, He destroyed all the evil that was upon it. Giving the rainbow as a guarantee, He said, “I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth” (Genesis 8:21).
Much later, through Peter, He said that there would come a final destruction of all evil powers, and that this would be through fire. Those who are evil will be gone forever, but we will remain to abide in a renewed earth.
“Looking for and rushing the coming of the Day of God, on account of which the heavens, being on fire, will melt away, and the elements will melt, burning with heat. But according to His promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.” II Peter 3:12-13
This word “new” is not something that is brand-new, which never existed before. Rather, it means “to renew.” We are told that the Lord will renovate the earth with fire. And we are not to be discouraged, as we will survive it all. When all evil is burned and cleared away, we will receive a renewed heaven and a renewed earth, as God originally intended it to be.
This is again stated in Revelation 21:1: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth.”
This is a renewed heaven and a renewed earth, rather than something completely new. As we grasp this, we will begin to get the concept of what it will be like to rule and reign with Christ Jesus.
If this is not the right understanding of this passage, then His Word returned to Him void on the day of creation.
“And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good….” Genesis 1:31
The Hebrew word for “very good” means, “It is compatible with Me, and I can live with it forever.” There is a present expression of this taking place within our spiritual life experience.
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2
We are to be awake and alert as this process takes place within our lives, that we not miss the greater day of His Parousia, in which that which has been accomplished within us will find its outworking upon the earth.
There is a Parousia, a coming of the Lord, to dwell “around” each one of us, that He might manifest Himself within us. He desires to make Himself known to us, to give us a new dimension by which we will become an active part of the functioning body of Jesus Christ, which “in that day” will work the judgments of God in the earth.
Making Room for a New Day
There cannot be two days at the same time. The sun never comes up twice in one day. Rather, each time it first appears is a new day. So also in God’s time. Thus, there are two days that must be closed, before there can be the new day of which Joel said:
“…For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible and who can stand it?” Joel 2:11
We will look at these two days, their passing into the night, and how this ushers in the new day, which is called the Parousia of the Lord.
The word “Parousia” is often translated as the “coming of the Lord.” But this does not tell the whole story, as He will not just come, but rather He is the eternal “I AM” who is coming, indwelling, surrounding, and standing beside, His people. This establishes a time frame.
One of the problems with the translation of Scripture into English concerns words which are translated so as to give the impression of “immediately” or, “all of a sudden,” as a flash of lightning in the sky, which appears and in a moment, is gone. The use of these words fail to describe many Scriptural situations, especially the Parousia, which speaks of a time frame in which Jesus is coming, over a period of time, to presence Himself to His people, and then afterward, to the world.
We have been so programmed through the use of these words that we have the idea that when Jesus comes, He will suddenly appear and take us up into heaven, as an all-at-once event. Therefore, we have been unable to respond to all that is intended in the coming of the Lord, which is a series of events.
It is very important that we consider the events which lead up to the idea of Parousia. We will look at the things that are passing into the shadows of the evening, so that the dawning of a new day might come. To do this, we will look at Matthew chapter twenty-three, and the first twenty seven verses of chapter twenty-four.
This presentation is not intended to spell out each detail with its full meaning and purpose. Rather, we will do this through the reasons which Jesus gave as to why these “days” had to pass away before the Parousia - the coming, or presencing of the Lord could take place.
We saw God’s presence evidenced in the first three chapters of Genesis. Let us now consider the first day of restoration. It is called the Old Testament, or the day of the Law. After Adam fell and before he was driven out of the Garden, a prophetic promise was given by the Lord in His denunciation of the devil.
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” Genesis 3:15
Through this word, the Lord promised that the seed of the woman would overcome the devil. From that moment, God began to unfold His plan of restoration. First, He made it possible for man to reproduce, and then He selected a genealogy from which His son, Jesus Christ, would come into the world.
The Lord enabled Noah, with his sons and their wives, to survive the cleansing of the earth by a flood. Then as the population again increased, He chose and called out a man to become the father of a nation that was to be set aside as being His people. These, the offspring of Abraham, were led into a relationship with God through a guideline called the Law, or Torah.
First, this Law established a standard for relationships between God and men. It was summed up in the Ten Commandments, which were based upon love to God, and to their fellowman. This was a relationship principle that is intended to be eternal.
Secondly, this Law established social, economic, and dietary rules of natural living. Thirdly, this Law gave direction on how to worship and communicate with the Lord through sacrifices and feasts.
The remainder of this account of the first day of restoration is the record of a people who went through many trials, with the Lord guiding them by prophets, priests, and kings. By the time of the end of this day, they had become a very religious and legalistic people. When Jesus came on the scene, He began to deal with this legalism and religiosity.
In the twenty-third chapter of Matthew, Jesus closed the door of this Old Testament day in order to make room for the dawning of a new day - the Church Age. In the first twelve verses, He spoke to the multitude concerning the Jewish religious kingdom. He told them that “the Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat” (Matthew 23:2). This was the place of esteem and authority, in which the Law had been established and where it functioned.
There was nothing wrong with their sitting in the seat of Moses, but Jesus had a problem with how they observed it. The Pharisee and the Scribe interpreted and dictated this law to everyone else, but they themselves did not do what they had instructed others to do.
Because of this, Jesus said:
“Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do. But do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. For they bind heavy and hard-to-carry burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders. But they will not move them with one of their fingers.” Matthew 23:3-4
In order to be noticed and praised by men, they broadened their phylactery. A phylactery is a band which they put around their head, containing a pocket that was filled with Bible passages. To hold more of these, they had to enlarge their phylactery. Jesus said they loved the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in synagogues, and the respectful greetings in the marketplace, because they wanted to be seen. But they had no intention of performing what these passages of Scripture said.
In Matthew 23:8, Jesus revealed the real authority of the Kingdom of God.
“But you must not be called Rabbi, for One is your Teacher, Christ, and you are all brothers.”
This refers to the Holy Spirit. Then He said:
“And call no one your father on the earth, for One is your Father in heaven.” Matthew 23:9
The word “father” is a word which means the “one who is the source of things that began.” The source of the law did not come from the Sadducees, Pharisees, or the scribes. Rather, it came from the Father, who gave it. Then Jesus said:
“Nor be called teachers, for one is your teacher, even Christ.” Matthew 23:10
He is telling them that there is only one teacher, or leader, the Messiah. He is laying the ground work for the true Kingdom of God in which there is a Father, Leader, and Teacher; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
“But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he who shall humble himself shall be exalted.” Matthew 23:11-12
This is the basic principle of the Kingdom of God. It is to be a Kingdom in which the greatest will be the one who is underneath, holding it all up. This is the opposite of a worldly kingdom in which everything is a pyramid, with the control at the top.
From Matthew 23:13 on, Jesus responds to this ungodly kingdom of self-righteousness, using a word that appears eight times; the word “woe.” The Greek word for this is “Ouai,” which is an exclamation of denunciation and grief. As Jesus expressed these words, He was grieved. We have always heard that He was angry. Rather, He looked at them with tears of grief.
“But woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.” A Scribe was an expert in the interpretation of the law of Moses. The Pharisee, on the other hand, was a separatist. This means that they were legalistic individuals who only allowed into their fellowship those who did everything exactly as they dictated. All others were excluded.
Jesus said that they were “hypocrites.” This means a “pretender,” one who is less than the real thing. The first thing He confronted them with was the fact that they shut up, or kept the kingdom closed.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.” Matthew 23:13
Jesus is announcing the end of a day which no longer had any purpose in the service of Almighty God. He spoke these words of woe because this Old Testament day had become so corrupt with self-righteousness that it no longer was effective in anything that God intended to accomplish.
Because the sun was about to go down, Jesus said:
“Truly I say to you, all these things shall come on this generation.” Matthew 23:36
This would happen, not during the day in which Jesus spoke these things, but within the time frame of that generation. They saw the fulfillment of this Word in 70 AD, with the total desolation of the temple and of Jerusalem.
“And Jesus went out and departed from the temple. And His disciples came to Him to show Him the buildings of the temple.” Matthew 24:1
Jesus had declared the desolation of this house. In response, His disciples said to Him, “Look at this wonderful Temple and the beautiful temple grounds.” Then Jesus answered them and said:
“Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, there shall not at all be left here one stone on another that shall not be thrown down.” Matthew 24:2
Later, while sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately and asked:
“…Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the world?” Matthew 24:3
There are two questions here. “When will this temple be destroyed?” and, “What is the sign of your coming?” This word “coming” is “Parousia.” When will the end of the age, and the day of Your presence, happen? Jesus prefaced His answer with an unusual statement.
“And Jesus answered, and said to them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many will come in My name, saying, I am Christ, and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must occur, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Matthew 24:4-8
Notice that false Christ’s are not signs of the end, nor are wars and rumors of wars, neither are famines and earthquakes. Rather, He said that these are merely the beginning of birth pangs. Our birthday is on the day we came out of the womb, not the day our mother began to have birth pangs. Jesus is saying that there will be a lot of birth pangs, but the end has not yet come.
“Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted and will kill you. And you will be hated of all nations for My Name’s sake. And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another. And many false prophets will rise and deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will become cold.” Matthew 24:9-12
This persecution will become intensified at the end of the Church age, as all of these things have been experienced by the Lord’s people throughout the Church age. He is saying that there will be an entire gamut of natural disasters, plus a war against the Church which we will experience. He then tells us to “stick with it” until the end of this age, because I have saved you for another age.
“But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.” Matthew 24:13
This is a “saving” that will enable us to live through all these things. This enabling grace will be given as a part of the Parousia of the Lord. We have arrived at this point of time and Jesus is beginning to move toward us. As He approaches and presences Himself to us, the Kingdom of God will appear to us in a way we had not before seen.
“And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come.” Matthew 24:14
This “end” that will come speaks of the closing out of the gospel of salvation, the Church age. We must hear and receive this, but there is a gospel that must yet go around the world in these last days, “The Gospel of the Kingdom.” Therefore, there is a coming emphasis on the message of the Kingdom.
Jesus had just closed the day of the Pharisees, who were in a self-righteous kingdom of their own; not the Kingdom of God. Now He is ready to answer the first question, “When will these things happen?” His answer begins with Matthew 24:15:
“Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the Holy Place (whoever reads, let him understand).”
He is referring to a prophetic description that was given to Daniel in Daniel 11:31, of the desolation of the sanctuary. There have been many interpretations of what this means, and which make it complicated, but it is a very simple thing.
Daniel said that he prophetically stood in the sanctuary and pronounced that it would be desecrated. He was prophesying the end of the physical temple that was in Jerusalem. In 70 A.D. Titus, with the armies of Rome, laid a devastating siege around Jerusalem. There were Christians in Jerusalem as well as the Jews, and they were all caught in this siege. During the time of this siege, the Roman emperor died and was being buried in Egypt. Titus took the entire siege army to this funeral and left Jerusalem wide open.
In Matt 24:16-17, Jesus prophetically gave instructions as to what the Christians were to do.
“Then let those in Judea flee into the mountains. Let him on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house.”
This was because the army would soon return and set up another siege. He was giving the Christians an opportunity to leave Jerusalem, because the abomination of desolation was about to take place.
The temple had been covered with gold because of the large contributions the people had made. When the armies of Rome were about to break through the walls, the Jews undermined the temple with large reservoirs of very flammable oils. They did not want a Gentile desecrating the Temple again, so they destroyed it themselves.
They set fire to the oil and it became so hot that the gold melted as the Temple burned. The heat crumbled the rocks so there was a pile of rocks covered with gold. Josephus tells us that Titus told his soldiers to separate each rock from the others, and remove the gold. Then the rocks were scattered.
Titus rode his horse into the Holy of Holies and then back out. The Jews expected something terrible to happen, but the Lord had already left. The end of a day had come for Israel. Thus, the prophecy of Jesus was fulfilled. This was the abomination of desolations that Jesus spoke of as being the answer to their first question, “When will this take place?”
Then Jesus answered their second question.
“Then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ, or there. Do not believe it. For false Christ’s and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders; so much so that, if it were possible, they would deceive even the elect. Behold, I have told you beforehand. Therefore if they shall say to you, Behold He is in the desert, Do not go out. Behold, He is in the secret rooms, do not believe it.” Matthew 24:23-26
This begins the answer to the second question because in Greek grammar, a definite change of subjects is indicated. The word “then” does not relate to the temple being destroyed, but to the answer of their second question, “What will be the signs of Your coming, and the end of the age?”
Jesus had listed many things that would happen, which are a prelude to the end. Now, He is going further and listing other things that will happen. There will be false prophets and false Christ’s. There will be those who tell us that we should go “here” or go “there” to find the Messiah. Jesus said we are not to believe them. This is a part of the night that will come before the day.
The Jewish day starts at six o'clock in the evening, and the first twelve hours of it are in darkness. During the time of this darkness, before the dawning of the new day, there will be false prophets and teachers. This darkness is coming, and it will be at the time of the closing of the old day, the Church Age. It is a night season, and we are not to believe all the false Christ’s, prophets, and teachers.
We can be assured of this because:
“For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines even to the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of man be.” Matthew 24:27
It is a tragedy that our English Bibles used the word “lightning,” as it gives credence to a sudden coming of Jesus with everyone going up. This word translated as lightning does not have that meaning at all. Lightning does not necessarily come from the east, but flashes from whatever direction a storm may be moving.
The Greek word means that daylight is coming. As the sun rises, the heavens light up, and gradually the earth becomes lit. The Lord is saying this is the way the Son of Man will come. In the dawn of this new day, He will begin to manifest Himself to us, and as He does, we will be given a role in the closing out of this age.
“For not following cunningly devised fables, but becoming eyewitnesses of the majesty of Jesus Christ, we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord... to which you do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Daystar arises in your hearts.” II Peter 1:16-19
The word “coming” in this passage is “Parousia.” Peter is giving a testimony of what he saw in the Mount of Transfiguration. This appearance of Jesus Christ in His transfigured form did not physically affect or change Peter, James, or John, as they saw Him in His transfigured glory.
Peter is saying, “We saw how He will look when He comes in all His glory, and we ourselves heard this utterance made in heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.” This is the lightning that flashed in the east and went down in the west. It is a coming in which we will have a more sure word of prophecy, than any previous prophetic word.
This will be a new day in which The Morning-Star will arise in our hearts. This is where Jesus is first coming in His Parousia. There will be a time when He will manifest Himself to the whole world, but first His “Parousia” will be manifested in those who remain faithful, even to the end of the Church Age.
We are living in that time, and we will not miss it, whether we live or die. He may appear to us today, but this will not change us physically. Rather, we will have the light of the Lord within us, which will shine forth like the dawn of a new day.
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen on you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples: but the Lord shall rise on you, and His glory shall be seen on you.” Isaiah 60:1-2
At this present time, the Lord is giving us the opportunity to discern His presence when we come together in worship, and in the Word. As we enter this presence, we are being prepared for the time when He will literally manifest Himself in us, and be with us. This day is dawning.
There are still false prophets and Christ’s, and an increase of the things of the night. The evening has settled in, and soon we will be standing in the Parousia. The dawn is approaching, and it is beginning to cast light upon this new day.
Our Responsibility and Role in the Parousia
After Adam’s fall, a process of restoration began. The first day of this restoration is called the Old Covenant, or, the day of the Torah. “Torah” in Hebrew means the “flowing out from God” day. It was the day of the Law.
That day came to its twilight when Jesus declared “woes” upon their spiritual leaders, and to its full end when He died upon the cross. The law had served its purpose, and the dawning of a new day began with the resurrection of Jesus. In the beginning of this new day, the Holy Spirit was poured out, and men were empowered to become a witness of Jesus Christ. This is called the Church Age.
During this Church age much progress has been made, but it was also a day in which there was a mighty move of the enemy. The devil, with all his hosts, took continual shots at the body of Christ. Also, there were persecutions, famines, earthquakes, and many other events. But Satan could not quench this outpouring of the Holy Spirit and fire with these persecutions. Rather, because persecutions only fueled it, he turned to other things.
He began to work on the “man of lawlessness” - our ego, which desires to sit on the Throne of God in His Temple. Soon, as a result of this subtle attack, the day became clouded and resulted in a thousand years of darkness in which there was very little manifestation of God. This was called “the dark ages.” As the Church went through this time, it became structured, legalistic, and established in its own laws.
Parallel to this was the light which began to shine as the various reformers received a glimpse of all that God had in store for His Church. Justification, sanctification, evangelism, and the work of the Holy Spirit were gradually restored. This illumination continued until it became bright.
Now, this day is almost over. However, the work of the Holy Spirit is not finished as there is a new move at hand. This visitation is presently demonstrating the value and purpose of His presence, which will prepare and lead us into the day in which the Kingdom Age will arise.
This birthing of the Kingdom Age will come with the personal testimony of Jesus Christ again being present. There are many things that will take place in this Parousia, but it will begin with a day in which Jesus Christ will manifest, or demonstrate Himself. He is about to become visibly present again in the lives of His people.
“When He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.” II Thessalonians 1:10
Each one of us had an encounter with Jesus when we were saved, but the Holy Spirit did this work. There is about to come a more visible activity, which will be on an entirely different spiritual plane. In this second coming of Jesus, He will first manifest Himself to His people, on an individual basis. Then later, He will come in such triumph that the whole world will see Him. Thus, there are two stages in the second coming of Jesus Christ. The first stage is described in Matthew 24:27:
“For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines even to the west, so also will be the coming (Parousia) of the Son of man.”
The second stage is described in Matthew 24:30 in which He suddenly appears to the whole world:
“And then the sign of the Son of man shall appear in the heavens. And then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory.”
All who are alive at this time will see Him.
In the first stage of His coming, He will come to the individual. Let us look at a few Bible passages to see what it means to have Jesus appear to His people. We will use the same Bible passages that we used in the Church Age, but with a different concept. We will need spiritual ears and eyes because this requires a different awareness on our part.
The Holy Spirit who abides in our lives is “The Parakletis.” This speaks of the Comforter, or Counselor. The word “Parakletis” has within it “Para” which is also used in Parousia. This means to come, to surround, and create an atmosphere. This is the Holy Spirit. He is the Parakletis. He has come to surround us with His atmosphere and to fill us with His presence.
The next part, “kaleo” means “He will call us.” The word for Church is Ekklesia, or the “called out ones.” These are those who have responded to the Holy Spirit and have received and declared Jesus Christ to be their Savior, and also, their personal Lord.
This will take place in the age that is before us because we have a specific command from Jesus to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church. The true Church (overcomers within the visible Church) will enter into the Parousia. These are those who are overcoming, and are willing to pay the price in going all the way with Him.
Jesus appears to those who are the redeemed in two ways. First, He is made known through the work of the Holy Spirit, and second, by His personal appearance to individual members of His Church. After this, He will appear to the entire world.
The word “Phaneroo” means “to appear.” This word is used primarily concerning His personal appearance. It describes when He appeared to the eleven in the upper room; to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus; to Mary Magdalene at the tomb; and to upwards of five hundred at one time. In each of these appearances, the word “Phaneroo” is used. This speaks of a personal appearance of Jesus, which is about to again happen. These appearances will not result in any bodily change, such as the taking on of immortality in those to whom He appears.
The reason for these appearances of Jesus to His people is given in II Corinthians 2:14:
“Now thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savor of His knowledge by us in every place.”
He will lead us in victory. All the things which had hindered us will no longer hold us back. Jesus will manifest through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Himself. This is the awareness of His Parousia.
“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.” II Corinthians 4:10-11
The Greek word for “manifest” is phaneroo. This word, “phaneroo,” means to reveal, or to make known to one, or to a combination of our physical senses. We must die to our self-life so we will be able to allow the manifestation of the life of Jesus in our mortal body. Therefore, there are disciplines that we must submit to in order for His life to be manifested through us.
“The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. For to them God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:26-27
This “mystery” is the quickened Word of God, which is “Christ in us.” When we enter into this Parousia, and Jesus begins to individually appear to each one of us, the world will know that we have had a meeting with Jesus. This is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
Jesus is coming, first of all, to be glorified in His saints.
“When He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that Day….” II Thessalonians 1:10
These are other believers who will rejoice with us because we had a visitation from Jesus, and He will be glorified in that person. All of this will take place in the Parousia, which is not just a one time experience. It is a day which begins with a night, a dawning, a high noon, and then the entire day. It is a period of time.
“And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He is revealed, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him in His coming.” I John 2:28
His appearing to us is intended to do something for us. It is to give us confidence so we will not be fearful, or ashamed at His Parousia. We need this confidence because we might become so frightened when He does appear, that we will not hear a thing that He is saying.
These passages, plus many more, are contained in the first stage of His Parousia, as referred to in Jesus’ prophecy in Matthew 24:27, “so also will be the coming of the Son of Man.”
After the crucifixion of Jesus, the early Church was left fearful and confused. However, as Jesus appeared to them, all this faded and they were ready for all that was before them. So also today, as we approach the Kingdom age. Jesus is not coming to us, just to give us a pat on the back and say, “It is so good to be here.” Rather, He will appear to us because He has a work for us to do. We could not be made ready for this in any other way. We are to become “the instruments of tribulation” to the world, and not the victims of it.
Revelation 1:1 starts with these words, “A Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him (Jesus), to declare to His servants (us) things which must shortly come to pass.”
The word “revelation” tells us that He will remove the veil in order to show these things to us. As we experience His coming to us as an individual believer, we will begin to see our role and responsibility in the “Parousia.”
It is very important that we understand the conditions that will exist during this time of His Parousia.
“But of the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that I write to you. For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.” I Thessalonians 5:1-2
While the world is saying “peace and safety,” destruction will suddenly come upon them, like birth pangs that come without warning upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
One of the reasons for Jesus appearing to us on an individual basis is to prepare us, so we will not be overtaken by that day, which is coming as a thief. The Lord intends us to be aware of what is happening. Therefore He tells us, “you are all the sons of light and the sons of the day” I Thessalonians 5:5. This is speaking of His Parousia, “the day of the Lord.”
“But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.” I Thessalonians 5:8
To be sober means that we are alert and have our senses fully functioning. This does not mean that we are to continually stay awake. Rather, it means that we are to be alert and sensitive to all that the Lord presents to us. It is very important that we understand how Jesus will develop, or prepare us for the day of tribulation and judgment, so we will survive.
The breastplate is over the chest area and speaks concerning the protection of our spirit. If we have an absolute, complete trust in God, the song of the Lord cannot be withheld within us, because we will have no inhibitions about declaring all that the Lord is making known to us.
Also, we have a helmet - the hope of salvation, which is to be placed on our head. This speaks of our mind, emotions, and self awareness, which is our soul. This provides a protection, as Paul said that we are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.
This word “hope” does not mean something that we hope for, but rather, an absolute, confident anticipation. The word “salvation” speaks of a complete protection. We do not need to be concerned as we will have been given a confidence that there will be something that will surround our mind and soul, so we will be able to receive that which the Lord intends to deliver to us, even though we are aware of all the things that are physically taking place in the world.
“For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ….” I Thessalonians 5:9
Many desire to be raptured because they are afraid of what is coming. Therefore, the Word gives us this promise. The word “not appointed” means “He did not set us up.” He is not preparing us for punishment, but rather for salvation. Jesus becomes the channel through which we will be encircled in this salvation, which is a complete wholeness of protection.
Now, we will consider our role and responsibility in the Parousia.
During this “day of the Lord,” there will be a time of great tribulation, which are the judgments of God. During this time, we have a role and a responsibility to fulfill. There would be no reason for Jesus to come to us on an individual basis, unless He had something for us to do, and to be responsible for, in the Parousia.
Therefore, we are to be instruments of the tribulation, and not victims of it. We will be the source of tribulation to the world.
“Now thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and He revealing (phaneroo) through us the odor of the knowledge of Him in every place. For we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in those being saved, and in those being lost. To the one we are the savor of death to death, and the other we are the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?” II Corinthians 2:14-16
Paul is saying that when Jesus manifests Himself within and through us, we will become a fragrant aroma to all those who have received Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord. But the unbeliever, and also, the unbelieving believer, will be uncomfortable in our presence due to this aroma of life which we receive from Jesus. They will not want us near them because we will appear to them as being an aroma of death to death. This is because we will be the instruments for judgment and tribulation to all those who do not believe.
The book of Revelation confirms the two-fold unveiling of Jesus Christ in the Parousia. First He appears in His people, and then much later, He will appear as a Judge, whom the entire world will see.
The first part of this revelation takes place in the first three chapters, in which Jesus is appearing as the One who is in the midst of His Church to purify and develop overcomers. He is preparing His Church for what is to take place from chapter four onward, and it is very important that we understand these revelations.
Let us first consider the preparation of these called out ones.
“For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the meek with salvation. Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, to carry out vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples, to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with iron-bands, to carry out on them the judgment written; this is an honor for all His saints. Praise the Lord.” Psalm 149:4-9
Each of us who has embraced Jesus Christ as our Savior and has allowed the sanctification of the Holy Spirit to take place, and has unconditionally made Jesus Lord of their lives, is a saint. As a saint, the first thing we are to do is to be “joyful in glory.” Glory always relates to the presence of the Lord. Thus we are to be joyful in His presence.
Also, we are to let “the high praises of God be in our mouth.” We exalt the Lord by declaring Him to be whom He has said He is; our Righteousness, our Sanctification, our provider, our healer, and the One who is present in our lives.
Not only are we to praise the Lord with our mouth, but we are to have a two edged sword in our hand. “Two edged” comes from a Greek word that means “flashing.” An illustration of this is when Joshua was ready to do battle at Jericho, a man was present with a flaming sword in His hand. This was the Lord of Hosts, Jesus, with a two edged sword. We are to be involved with Him in the judgments of God, with the flaming sword of Jesus Christ.
The purpose for this is to execute vengeance on the nations and judgment on all peoples. This will be done by the saint who is singing the high praises of God with this two edged sword in his hands, and will result in their kings being bound with chains. These kings speak of Satan, along with all of his hosts, being bound. This is the fulfillment of Revelation 20. Just before the thousand year reign, the Kingdom age, these principalities and powers are bound by an angel, or messenger. We, the overcomers, are this messenger.
We are approaching this day of the Parousia in which we will be empowered to give expression to the high praises of God, and as a result, will be given this flaming sword. We will declare the name of God, and we will bind these kings and their nobles in fetters of iron. This means that Satan will be locked up in a place where he cannot get out.
We are to “execute on them the judgment written.” Thus, the first stage of Jesus coming in His Parousia is to equip His saints to do exactly this. We are being prepared for a new dimension of responsibility, but in order to have this, we must come to an increasing awareness of our Kingdom responsibilities, which goes beyond that which we have in the Church.
Psalm 149:9 tells us that “this is an honor for all His saints.” This “honor” means favor. This applies to His saints, whom the Lord takes pleasure in. He favors them with the privilege of executing all these things. Thus, these saints cannot be those who are fearful, but rather, those who are excited about doing the work of God. This will require Jesus coming to reveal Himself anew to us in a mighty way.
We will have a part in the execution of these judgments and tribulation while we are still in our mortal bodies. In our present state, we may say, how can this be? However, we are not to be concerned with our apparent lack, but we are to look for Jesus, expecting Him to come and manifest Himself in us. As the dawn is beginning to break upon us, He will shed forth His light upon His people.
If there is any doubt within us about our being involved in the execution of the Tribulation, consider the following:
“Until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High. And the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.” Daniel 7:22
Daniel saw beasts which had frightened him. These were the kingdoms of the earth, and the fourth one was the greatest of them all. This beast, which is Satan, was the ruler of all the earth. In the temptation of Jesus, Satan took Jesus up on the high mountain, and in a moment showed Him all the kingdoms of the earth. He said, “All these things I will give You, if You will fall down and worship me.” Jesus did not tell him that he could not give these, as they had been given to him. Instead, Jesus said, “Go, Satan, for it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.” Matthew 4:10
These kingdoms have continually come against the Church. But in Daniel 7:22, judgment is given to the saints of the Most High and the time came when these saints took possession of the kingdom. This is not the Kingdom of God, but the kingdom of this fourth beast.
“But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his rulership, to cut off and destroy. And the kingdom and rulership, and the greatness of the kingdom under all the heavens, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom. And all kingdoms shall serve and obey Him.” Daniel 7:26-27
This beast kingdom will be destroyed forever. The dominion of the fourth beast, the greatest of all kingdoms, will be given to the saints of the most high. These saints will be the judges, the ones who will take it by the power of the Spirit and the authority of the Ancient of Days, the Lord of Hosts. When this happens, then the Kingdom of God, an everlasting Kingdom, will have dominion.
We are to take these kingdoms so they will come into the obedience and service of the true and living God. We may say, “How can we mortals receive such power and authority?” In the Parousia, the purpose of the second coming of Jesus is to accomplish this. He will visit us that we might be revived and enabled to become overcomers, when the great tribulation and judgments of God will begin.
All of this great tribulation and judgment will come from the Throne of God, not from the devil. The devil caused tribulation during the Church Age, but he will not be able to do so in the Parousia. During this time, the judgments and the tribulation will come only from the Throne of God.
We, as the Church, must be revived and restored in body, soul, and spirit, through the revelation of Jesus Christ to us, so we can be all that He intends us to be, when He comes again in all His glory.
Introduction To The Third Day.
The Second Coming of Jesus
The Lord’s dealings with His people span three seasons, or days. The first was the day of the Old Testament. It dealt with types and shadows in which principles were established, concerning the things which would happen in the second day.
During this first day, the basic principles of life were also established. An example is the blessings and curses that are listed in Deuteronomy. In the Torah, or the Law, which literally means a “flowing forth from God,” two basic principles were established by which all else in life was to be measured, or lived.
The first was:
“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Deuteronomy 6:5
And the second:
“…You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.” Leviticus 19:18
Jesus also confirmed this as being the basic law of life.
The second season, or day of the Lord’s restoration of His people, is “The New Testament,” or the “Church Age.” The Church Age began with Matthew, rather than the book of Acts. Jesus is the head of the Church, and all that was done in His first coming, which is the first part of the second day, was to fulfill all the principles of the Old Testament, or the first day.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to destroy, but to fulfill” (Matthew 5:17). This is a reference to the previous day.
This is exactly what Jesus did, and along with this, as a part of the second day, He established His Body, the Church. The Church was established to accomplish two basic things.
First, to preach the good news to the world. The Church has been exercised from the days of the Apostles until now, seeking to accomplish this.
Second, to prepare the Lord’s people for His coming again. Galatians and Thessalonians were written in the early part of Paul’s ministry. In these, Paul appeared to be consumed with the second coming of Jesus, which he looked for in the first generation of Christianity, before his life would end.
These two things, therefore, make up the second day; the spreading of the Gospel to the entire world, and the preparation of the individual within the Body of Christ for the second coming of Jesus. This preparation is being accomplished through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, who is the primary Person moving in the second day.
“But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you.” John 14:26
“And when the Comforter has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of Me.” John 15:26
The focal point of the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to bring to remembrance and teach the Church all that Jesus said, and to bear witness to His Word. All this is directed toward establishing a mature Church, which is the Body of Christ, of which Jesus is the head.
“And when that One comes, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment.” John 16:8
The mission of the Holy Spirit is to convict the world of sin that they might repent and be saved; not to condemn the world. This is being accomplished during this second day by the Church, as they present the “good news.”
The Holy Spirit also convicts of righteousness. The one who is convicted of sin and repents becomes an empty vessel, which needs to be filled with the righteousness of God. Then finally, He convicts the world of judgment, which is a preparation for the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever He hears, He shall speak. And he will announce to you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine, and will announce it to you.” John 16:13-14
The Holy Spirit glorifies Jesus by making known to us that He laid aside His Deity, came from Heaven, was found in the likeness of man, subjected Himself to all that we are subjected to, yet without sin, was crucified to atone for our sins and on the third day, arose from the dead and ascended to the right hand of God, ever living to make intercession for us, that we might walk in newness of life.
The Holy Spirit is the One who has been at work throughout the entire Church Age, in which the world is being confronted with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Also, the Body of Christ is being matured and prepared for the coming of Jesus Christ.
The third day, the Parousia, is the day of His appearance, the day of His presence. First, He is coming to His people. Man has always had the idea that when the Parousia comes - the great day of the Lord, there will be a trumpet blast and Jesus will come down for the whole world to see. However, the Parousia does not start there. Rather, it begins with His coming in a special way to His people.
We have met Jesus in the second day through the Holy Spirit. We met Him as our Savior, and we committed ourselves to Him as being our Lord. We looked to Him through the work of the Holy Spirit, who reveals what Jesus taught and did during His first coming.
But there is another coming of Jesus Christ, which is essential for us to understand. For if we do not, we will have a difficult time when the third day begins to dawn, which at this present time, is in the process of taking place. The light is getting brighter on the horizon.
We are being stirred from our nests, as it were, to get ready for something that will be new in our worship, prayer, and in our personal relationships to God. This greatly increased sense of His presence will take on different forms than those which we have been accustomed to, in the past.
The third day, the Parousia, begins with His appearance to His people. Let me share an illustration. In Ephesians 5:25, Paul admonishes husbands to love their wives just as Jesus also loved the Church and gave Himself for her.
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present it to Himself as the glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Ephesians 5:25-27
This word “gave” is a compound word, “paradidomi.” “Para” is also used at the beginning of the Greek word “Parousia.” It means a “coming alongside and completely surrounding” in the sense of “being the atmosphere of.” “Didomi” means to give, to bring forth, or deliver.
Just as Jesus loved the Church and gave Himself for it, He will come to His Church and “presence” Himself with His Church, to bring us to a level of commitment that will create an atmosphere in which He can minister to His Church. Unless we have the understanding that Jesus is coming to surround us with this commitment, we will miss what He is really saying in verse twenty six, "That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word.”
We could say that He has been doing this for two thousand years. We could quote I John 1:7 and say, “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” Sin is an activity or action that is contrary to God in our lives. It is something we have committed, and now confess. Our Father is faithful to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness, by the blood of the Lamb.
This activity has been going on since the day that Jesus went to the cross. The blood of Jesus Christ has washed us, and cleansed us of every sin. But this passage in Ephesians is not speaking of washing the Church by the blood, but rather, by the water of the Word. There is then, another washing that we must experience.
This washing of water by the Word is not the same as the washing of the blood. It is not just a washing away of the past, but a preparation for the future. It is one thing to have the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse us from all unrighteousness, but now He will wash the Church by the water of the Word, which washing is for the preparation of His Church for the future.
The word used for “Word” is “rhema.” This is different than the word “logos.” The “logos” is the written word, the facts. Jesus in His first coming was not a “rhema,” but He was the “logos.” He was the fact that God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem those who were under the law. We beheld His glory, as of the only begotten of the Father. We saw Him walking on the earth, eating, teaching, healing, doing all manner of things. This was the “logos.”
The “rhema” is not the establishing of a fact. Rather, it is His coming in the sense that now this fact will be a flowing, living, personal thing. This word “rhema” comes from a root word that means to “flow like a stream.”
My wife and I have a property through which a stream flows. During the summer, it is dry. But in the Spring, it is bubbling and running over the rocks as if it were alive. It can be said that it is living water, due to its moving flow.
“Rhema” is a moving stream of water, a living flow which the Lord will use to sanctify His Church. This does not mean to make it holy, which is a part of it, but He is coming as a bubbling stream, to set us apart to Himself in a special place, where we will have His total attention, and He ours.
This is the “giving,” the paradidomi, in which He will come and surround us with His life and presence, and then begin to sanctify us by the washing of the water of the Word; applying to us living water, “rhema.”
He will do this so that He might present to Himself a Church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and blameless. Therefore, only Jesus can do this cleansing. Throughout the Church Age, this work was assigned to the Holy Spirit. But in the Parousia, Jesus is coming to do the washing, and He will do it with the water of the Word. He is doing this to prepare us for something that is coming.
The Greek word for “present” also starts with “para.” It is “parahistomi.” This means to stand and abide, to continue standing by. “Histomi” means “to stand.” But by adding “para,” it means that His presence will completely surround us. We will breathe Jesus, we will eat Jesus, we will live Jesus, because He has us completely surrounded with Himself.
He will present Himself to us in this way, but there is another part. Not only will He be “presencing” Himself with us, but He will put us into a position where we will “presence” ourselves with Him. He is going to present to Himself a Church that is without spot or wrinkle. This is more than what the Church is today, which still has many spots and wrinkles.
Jesus is not speaking of the present day Church when He uses this term, “present to Himself.” He is presenting to Himself a Bride that will be without wrinkle or spot, or any such thing.
The third day, the day of His presence, starts by being an extension of the work begun on the second day. Jesus adhered to the principles that were laid down by God through Moses in the first day. He took issue with the legalists of His day because they had added human traditions. They missed the principles that God had laid down in the first day, and Jesus had to constantly bring correction.
When we enter the “third day,” the Kingdom Age and all that goes with it, we must be careful not to set aside that which relates to the second day. Some are still rejecting the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, the full work of the Holy Spirit. This will change, as we are about to see a completion of the work that the Holy Spirit began in the Church.
His personal “presencing” of Himself to His people, and His second coming, in which the entire world will see Him, will also include the great tribulation and the unfolding of the judgments of God, which is the beginning of the third day.
In this present time, a number of things will begin to happen to God’s people, and to the unbelieving world with its deceptive powers. Those who are “overcomers” will be the instrument that the Lord will use to bring these judgments upon the world. We will not be the victims of the judgments, but rather we will bring them. We must be prepared for this time.
God will begin the dawn of this new day by first saying to His Son, “Will You go and prepare those who will be involved with You in Your coming again, in all Your glory?” Therefore, Jesus will appear to His people, those who are overcomers within the Church, to cleanse it of its spots and wrinkles, so it can be this fully equipped and prepared instrument for bringing these judgments upon the world.
“A Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him to declare to His servants things which must shortly come to pass. And he signified it by sending His angel to His servant John.” Revelation 1:1
If you have made Jesus your Lord, you are a bondservant to Him. The word “revelation” means “taking the lid off of Jesus Christ.” This will reveal all that the lid had covered. The word “gave” is more than “I hand you something which you take.” This is a different Greek word that means He “committed” Jesus Christ. In this revelation, Jesus is committed to present Himself to His bondservants. This is saying much to us. It means that we will have Jesus Christ both revealed and committed to us.
“God gave (committed) to Him (Jesus) to show to His bondservants the things which must shortly take place, and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bondservant, John.” He is using John to make known the revelation that God had committed Jesus to give to His bondservants.
This sets the stage for the instrument that we will be, for His judgment. If we can understand this, we will not run scared when we begin to see the judgments of God upon the world. Rather, we will say, “I am an instrument of this.” It is encouraging to know that when the Lord appears to us in His Parousia, we will become an even more effective instrument concerning these judgments.
After the introduction, there is an interlude, “Blessed is the one who reads and hears the words of this prophecy…” (Revelation 1:3). The word used here is not “read” in the sense that I sit down and read. Rather, it is that I “read aloud.” This is because we will not be the instruments of this judgment with our mouths shut. The Lord is telling us to read this aloud so we will get in tune with His purpose.
“Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.” Revelation 1:3
As we read aloud, we and others, will hear what these judgments of God will be that are coming upon the earth. We are not to sit in a corner and meditate on these things in silence.
“John to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is coming; and from the seven Spirits which are before His Throne.” Revelation 1:4
“Grace... and peace from Him who is, and who was, and who is coming.” This is “Yahweh.” This word in Hebrew means “the self-existent One,” the Source of all things, the One who always was, who always is, and who always will be. That is the Father Himself, the God of Heaven, Yahweh, Jehovah.
If we translate the completeness of this word, He introduced Himself to Moses at the burning bush by saying, “I am, that I am, I was, that I was, I will be, that I will be.” Our Bibles just translate it, “I AM that I AM.” This is the Father. We receive our grace and peace from Him, and then from the Holy Spirit, the seven Spirits which are before His Throne.
Notice that there are two sevens here. There are the seven Churches of Asia, and the seven Spirits that are before the Throne of God. These seven Churches represent the entire Church. The number seven is the number of completeness and totality. The seven Spirits of God that are before the Throne is the entirety of the Holy Spirit, in all that He is, and all that He does.
The understanding of this activity of the Holy Spirit is given in Isaiah 11:1-2:
“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.”
Now, Jesus is introduced as the One who is offering this grace and peace, as the One who is, first of all, a faithful witness. That was His first coming. “I came that you might have life, and have it more abundantly;” “When you see Me, you see the Father;” “I do only those things that I see the Father do.” He was a faithful witness when He came the first time.
“Even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood.” Revelation 1:5
Then it goes on to say, the first-born from the dead. Jesus was the one who first rose from the dead. He was the firstborn of the dead, the first one to rise. All this happened during His first coming. Then He is introduced as the One who is coming again, with these words, “the Ruler of the kings of the earth.” This is when He becomes King of kings and Lord of lords in His second coming.
Here is the Father and Jesus, blessing us, giving us grace and peace. Here is the Holy Spirit, giving us grace and peace, and now Jesus Christ, who first came as a faithful witness and was the first-born from the dead, will now become the King of kings.
The purpose of all this grace and peace is that, He “made us kings and priests to God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen” (Revelation 1:6). We have heard much about the fact that we are a royal priesthood. Now it will become an actuality in our lives. This means that we will be a worshipper and a ruler, as we are told in Psalm 149:6-9:
“Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, To carry out vengeance upon the nations and punishments on the peoples, to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with iron-bands, to carry out on them the judgment written; this is an honor for all His saints. Praise the Lord.”
Jesus is coming to make us a kingdom of priests, which is far more than we previously understood. In order for us to become this kingdom of priests, He will need to do something within us. When Israel came out of the wilderness, God intended all of Israel to be a nation of priests, but they refused. We may say, “I am not one of the five-fold ministry,” but if we are to have a part in His Kingdom, then we will be a priest to the most high God.
In Rev 1:10, John said, “I came to be in the Spirit on the Lord’s day and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.” This trumpet sound is for the individual who is listening. Thus, John said:
“And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. And in the midst of the seven lampstands I saw One like the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and tied about the breast with a golden band.” Revelation 1:12-13
John did not see Jesus coming in the clouds of glory, but he saw Him in the midst of the Church. The word “midst” means right in the middle of it. Wherever we may look at the Church, Jesus is to be there. This is not always true today, but there will be a day in which wherever we look in the Body of Christ, we will see Jesus, because He will be intimately aware of everything that is in the Church.
When we begin to see Jesus in action in the Church, we will understand how well He is preparing His people for the time of judgment and tribulation that is coming upon the earth. Then, when He returns in all of His glory, everything will have been judged, and He will come with His Kingdom to rule and reign upon the earth. This is the third day.
John saw the Son of Man clothed in a robe that reached to His feet, and was tied across with a golden band (girdle). The word used for “robe” simply means a long garment that covers everything from the neck to the top of the shoes. Everything is covered except the head and the feet. There is a special significance to this.
In the account of Jesus’ resurrection, John 20:6-7 tells us this significance of the robe. Peter and John ran to the tomb because the women said the angels told them that Jesus had risen and the tomb was empty. John arrived first, but waited for Peter. Peter went past him into the tomb and “saw the linens lying there, and the grave-cloth that was on His head was not lying with the linens, but was wrapped up in one place by itself.” (John 20:6-7)
Jesus is the head of the Body. He has risen from the dead. There was no longer any need for the head to be in grave clothes, and so the napkin that was over His head was very neatly folded up and laid aside by itself, but the rest of the grave clothes that had covered the body were just laying there, like an empty cocoon.
The Body of Christ will shed its grave clothes, but has not yet done so, as it has not yet risen. We can walk “in newness of life” but it is Jesus who has risen. The garment that covered His face is folded up and put neatly away, but the rest of it is still there, as though a body is still there. Thus, His body is still under this robe, which covers Jesus from His neck down to the soles of His feet.
This robe is symbolic of the fact that His body is not yet changed into an immortal body, but as a physical body is still covered with the mortality of this world. Since the Body of Christ is still under this robe, that which it is becoming is still hidden from the world. But all creation is groaning for it to be revealed.
A girdle is nothing more than a belt. In that day, belts were worn around the chest in a way that crisscrossed and held in the chest area and then were tied around the middle. Part of the armor of God was a girdle. The meaning of these words is “to bind oneself with obligation to someone else.”
Thus, the golden girdle that Jesus has around Him is binding Him to that part of His Body, the Church, which has not yet been raised from the dead, but is soon to be transformed. He put on this golden girdle to hold the Church to Himself. We are bound under this girdle, ready to be committed to the useful obligations that Jesus intends for His Church.
There are two stages in the manifestation and outworking of our Lord’s Parouisa during these last days. He will first come in a special way to those who, as overcomers, have “made themselves ready.” After this, He will appear with these to the entire world.
In His appearing to the individual, there are two things that He desires to accomplish.
“When He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that Day.” II Thessalonians 1:10
The first is that He is coming to be glorified in us. By our personally receiving the Lord in His glory, we are being honored. Then, when His glory is manifested in us, He will bring us into open view as His instruments, for the time of the judgments and tribulation that He has designed for this earth.
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen on you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but the Lord shall rise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you. And the nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawning.” Isaiah 60:1-3
The second thing that He desires to accomplish has to do with making ready a Bride, who will live forever with Him in His Kingdom. Each of these aspects requires a time of preparation within those who are willing to partake of the process of becoming qualified.
Thus, Jesus is coming first to be revealed in His saints, and then later, to be seen by the entire world, together with those who have been qualified to rule with Him. Each of these aspects of His coming will be announced by a trumpet sound.
A trumpet is an instrument for music. Concerning His coming in open view before all the world, the Word tells us:
“And then the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in the heavens, and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.” Matthew 24:30-31
This is not an angel loudly proclaiming, “It is time for us to get together.” Rather, this is a musical instrument that is bringing forth the “sound” of the ingathering of all His saints in the great and powerful day of the Lord. When He comes again in all His glory with His holy angels, they will accompany Him with singing. For this reason, there is much in the book of Revelation that relates to singing.
The sound of a trumpet also announces His coming into His Church. Revelation 1:10 tells us that:
“I came to be in the Spirit in the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.”
Jesus was singing in His church. We usually think that the Lord came to judge the Church, but He first came in visitation with a song to prepare His Church to be cleansed.
“For both He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.” Hebrews 2:11-12
This trumpet is a singing in the Church. When John turned to see where this “voice as a trumpet” came from, he heard the voice say:
“I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last. Also, what you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.” Revelation 1:11
When John turned, He saw Jesus in the midst of His Church, announcing His presence. He did not just speak these words, rather, He was singing this to the Church.
Jesus introduced Himself to John with a trumpet sound. Therefore, these seven letters to the Churches are in a sense, “the song of the Lord.” These letters give direction to the Church and cleansing to the people, that they might become overcomers. A trumpet is always an instrument of boldness, and of leadership, which announces many things. This is exactly what the song of the Lord does.
Jesus will sing to us, as He gets His Church ready. This song of the Lord is not our song, rather, it is His song. When we enter into His presence and join with Him in singing and worshiping, the Lord will raise up the song that comes from our lips as a testimony of what we have become in Him. This is the “new song” that the overcomers are singing in Revelation 5:9-10:
“And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open it, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation. And You made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign over the earth.”
It would appear that the last two letters, which were written to the Church at Philadelphia, and to the Church at Laodicea, should be reversed. However, there is a reason as to why they are in this order.
The letter to the Church at Philadelphia is written to a congregation that means “brotherly love.” In this Church, Jesus is seen differently than in the previous Churches. In these, He had flaming eyes of fire and feet of burnished bronze. Instead, these last two Churches are given a description of Jesus, telling who He is, His relationship to His Father, and what this means to the Church.
The Church at Philadelphia was in need of encouragement, so there is no fault finding on the part of Jesus concerning this Church. Let us consider how He describes Himself to them. First, He said that He is the “Holy One.” This word “Holy” tells us that Jesus is so pure that there is no haze, fog, or anything that might inhibit or hinder His appearance.
One of the natures of God is that He is Holy:
“For I am the Lord your God, and you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I am holy... for I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.” Leviticus 11:44-45
Peter beautifully adds to this:
“Therefore girding up the loins of your mind, being sober, perfectly hope for the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ, as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance, but according to the Holy One who has called you, you also become holy in all conduct, because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy.” I Peter 1:13-16
There is a grace that will be given only at the appearance of Jesus Christ to His people. When Peter wrote this letter, he had been with Jesus for three and one-half years and had witnessed His crucifixion. Also, he had gone to the empty tomb and later saw the resurrected Jesus. Therefore he writes, “perfectly hope for the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
This grace will enable us to become so clean and undefiled, that we will become as transparent as Jesus is - when He comes and stands in the midst of His Church.
Jesus declared Himself to be true. This word “true” is translated from a word meaning “one freed from any bondages or restrictions.” When Jesus was here on the earth, He limited Himself to that which had to do with the redemption which He came to accomplish. Now He declares, “I am no longer limited, and I am free to be in every part of the Church.”
Jesus is saying this to instill within us an absolute confidence. Paul wrote to the Philippians, saying:
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13
This passage of Scripture should be a major part of our testimony, for it will overcome the Devil. In redemption, we have been given an absolute confidence in the authority of God, and of Jesus. This confidence will be needed in order for us to become the instruments that He desires us to be for His judgment on the earth.
Jesus is further identified as the One who has the keys of David. Isaiah 22:22 tells us:
“And the key of the house of David I will lay on His shoulder; so He shall open, and none shall shut; and He shall shut, and none shall open.”
This key is laid upon the shoulder of Jesus. Therefore, He is now saying, “I have the keys of David.” David, the greatest king in the Old Testament, is a type of the absolute authority and rule of Jesus. Because David had conquered all the nations around him, his son Solomon did not have to fight a single battle.
“Keys” are symbolic of the complete control of the door which guards the opening into an area, which in this case, is called the Kingdom of God. As a result, Jesus has absolute control over every entrance into the Kingdom. If He opens this door for someone, it remains open. If He closes the door, it cannot be opened.
Notice Revelation 3:8, which says:
“I know your works. Behold, I have given before you an open door, and no one can shut it. For you have a little strength and have kept My word and have not denied My name.”
This encouragement is needed because there are two things which constantly attempt to close this door.
The first is the Devil who tries to close this door by laying guilt upon us. If he can cause us to feel guilty about our past, or about something we did, which we consider to be an offense to God, or to our fellow man, the Devil will tell us, “you cannot get into the Kingdom because God shut the door, as you are a sinner.” But Jesus is saying to us, “I have opened this door for you.”
There is another means by which the enemy attempts to close the door. This is “legalistic religion.” In Matthew 23:13, Jesus said to the Pharisees:
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the Kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.”
This has to do with religious tradition being imposed upon us. There are so many do’s and don’ts which we are unable to measure up to, that the door seemingly becomes shut to us. Many of us have had such an experience, not from the devil shutting the door, but from the religiosity of the Church.
Also, each time that there is a fresh move of the Holy Spirit, the old order will attempt to shut the door.
Jesus said to those within this Church who desire to become overcomers, “I have placed before you an open door.” We are to believe this, and not permit the devil nor religion to tell us that we cannot enter. We are to know, in every aspect of our being and experience, that Jesus has opened this door to us, and that He has identified Himself as the only one who has the keys of David.
Also, within this word about the open door is an implied instruction. The Lord is not satisfied with a Church that does not have confidence, even though it is has been faithful. Therefore, He is saying, “A door that I open will remain open.”
If He is to have an army that will be the instruments for the judgment of God upon the earth, this army must have confidence. Therefore, He is washing away all fear and apprehension, as these will inhibit us in doing all He has for us to accomplish.
“Because you have kept the word of My patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation which will come upon all the world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.” Revelation 3:10
Jesus tells us that He will keep us from “the time of tribulation” which is coming upon all those who dwell upon the earth. The safest place in which we can be found during that time will be in the safekeeping of the Lord.
In this present time, the Church is beginning to flow in worship as never before. We are receiving a taste of what it means to experience His presence, as the Holy Spirit prepares us for the coming time of His manifested presence in our midst. This will increase, as we rapidly move toward the end of this age, and into the birthing of the Kingdom Age.
The reward which the overcomer receives is to be made a “pillar” in the temple of God. This refers to the door posts at the entrance to the temple, which act as a sentry. The Lord is saying, “Because I have absolute authority, I am sharing this authority with these overcomers who will stand as pillars in the doorway that leads into the Kingdom of God.” Therefore, no one will be able to enter or leave, except under the control of these sentries.
Then He will write His name on us:
“Him who overcomes I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God and he will go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from My God, and My new name.” Revelation 3:12
There are four angels who control the four winds, which will blow the plagues over the earth, but the Lord is holding them back because He has promised the overcomers that the tribulation will not be able to touch them. Therefore, He will first mark those who have His name, before He will release these judgments.
Our having this Name means that we will have all the necessary protection in order to go through this time of tribulation, and also, it will mark us as being a part of the Bride of Christ.
We know this because Revelation, Chapter 22, describes the New Jerusalem as a Bride adorned for her Husband. He will not only write a new name on us, He also will write His own new Name on us, which is “King of kings and Lord of lords.” This will give to the overcomers, who will reign with the Lord, the authority that is needed to exercise the coming judgments of God on the earth.
Laodicea is the last of these seven Churches. Therefore the Lord identifies Himself as the “Amen,” which means “the last and confirming Word.” The message which was given to each Church also applies to all of these Churches, as the word “Church” is always plural.
Paul wrote to the Corinthians:
“For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God by us.” II Corinthians 1:20
Jesus is the beginning of all creation, the original source of all that was created. Therefore, He can be trusted.
“For all things were created by Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.” Colossians 1:16-17
Therefore, when man accepted the deception of the enemy, Jesus began the process of restoration, which progressively unfolds in the Old Testament, and then through His incarnation as our Savior, became a reality in the New Testament.
This last Church, the Laodicean Church is lukewarm. It does not seem that this Church should be lukewarm, as they have heard all the promises that have been made to the Church.
Jesus understands human nature, that when we receive so much, we tend to become complacent and lazy. The reason for Jesus introducing Himself as the “Amen, the faithful true Witness” is because this Church is casually saying, “Come quickly Lord Jesus, I am sitting here waiting for You.”
Rather, they should be preparing for all that is about to take place. This is to be done by listening to all that the Spirit of God has to say and responding in obedience. Not just during a Church meeting, but at all times and in all places. We are to have ears to hear and then maintain an attitude of listening. The Apostle Paul was able to say:
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. Now there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that Day: and not to me only, but also to all those who love His appearing.” II Timothy 4:7-8
This does not mean that we should not concentrate on the responsibilities which we have in our everyday lives, but that whatever we may do, we are to maintain our spiritual ear to hear.
The Holy Spirit should be able to speak to us wherever we may be, and during whatever we may be doing. Instead, many of us have become complacent and are saying, “I have salvation with all the gifts and revelation that is necessary; and not only that, I have heard all this before.” The Lord has a word concerning this:
“Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.”
“I counsel you to buy from Me gold tried in the fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; therefore be zealous and repent.” Revelation 3:17-19
The Lord is saying, “You do not realize your true condition. You are lukewarm and wretched as you failed the test (this is what wretched means).” Therefore, the Lord will spew these out of His mouth because they are satisfied and are saying, “If there is more, we want it, but do not expect anything from us.”
The remedy that Jesus offers is, “Buy from Me gold that is refined by fire, that you may truly be ready.” This word “buy” means to expend all the energy we have. We are also to buy “linen garments.” According to Revelation 19:10, these “fine linen” garments are the “righteous acts of the saints,” that is, “that which is required to become an overcomer.”
We are also to buy “eye salve.” This speaks of our being able to see without any inhibition.
Although these Laodicean’s were lukewarm, the Lord showed them their need and told them to “become zealous and repent.” Then He began knocking at the door of their heart to provoke a response.
Now Jesus speaks to those who respond:
“To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me in My Throne, even as I also overcame and have sat down with My Father in His Throne.” Revelation 3:21
Finally, we are admonished by Jesus to keep our ears open, that we might hear all that He is about to say:
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.” Revelation 3:22
Who Executes the Judgments?
There is far more to the Parousia of our Lord than a general coming, which has been long understood as being the time when Jesus will return in His manifested glory, with all the world knowing that He has returned.
Rather, the initial stage of the “Parousia” is the manifested presence of the Lord Jesus Christ coming into the lives of His people and then glorifying Himself in them. These manifest appearings of Jesus will prepare those who are overcomers for all that is about to take place, before His visible return in glory.
We will now consider this limited aspect of His coming; beyond that which He is doing within His Church today, in order to prepare the overcomers for their part in the judgments that will lead to the closing out of this Age. It is important for us to understand where we will be during this time of judgment, as well as His purpose for us.
All this will take place in this “last day,” “the great day of the Lord.” During this time, the Lord will accomplish two things. He will purify the Church, and He will prepare His Bride. The Lord cannot use an instrument for the judgments of God that is less than that which He has as a basis for these judgments. If we were to judge the world now, we would probably violate the directive of Jesus which says, “Judge no man, lest you be judged.” This is because our judgment would be a soulish judgment; thus, He must purify us before He will be able to use us for this purpose.
“Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years.” Revelation 20:6
The Millennial Kingdom will be established in righteousness, peace, and joy. Therefore, these qualities must first be established within the lives of those who will reign with the Lord during this time. Only then will they be ready to rule and reign as kings and priests upon the earth.
“And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every kindred and tongue and people, and nation. And You made us kings and priests to our God, and we shall reign over the earth.” Revelation 5:9-10
As a king, we are to function in a cooperative relationship with the Lord and reign with Him upon the earth. As a priest, we move in a vertical relationship of worship and communion with Him.
There are those within the Body of Christ who are beginning to both grasp and enter into what it means to be a priest of God, whose function is to worship God. In the Old Testament, the priest fulfilled many functions, but his primary purpose was to worship God, and to lead the people in worship. When Jesus comes to rule and reign in His second coming, He will look for worshippers, as this is a predominant quality in those who are overcomers, and will identify them. Therefore, He presently is training these worshippers.
Along with this, He will also receive a “Bride.” This is a parallel theme throughout the book of Revelation. There will be a wedding feast in which a Bride, who is spotless and as beautiful as God would look at beauty, will be presented to Jesus.
Now we will consider our role in these judgments of God.
“And I heard every creature which is in Heaven and on the earth, and under the earth, and those that are in the sea, and all who are in them, saying, Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him sitting on the Throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever.” Revelation 5:13
As soon as these worshippers had finished this proclamation of blessing, honor, and glory, with a loud “Amen,” the first wave of the judgments of God began to be exercised on the earth.
We learned that judgment first comes to the household of God.
“For the time has come for the judgment to begin from the house of God. And if it first begins from us, what will be the end of those disobeying the gospel of God?” I Peter 4:17
Therefore, throughout the Church Age, the Lord has been dealing with, and removing all that is contrary to His word.
“For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and He scourges every son whom He receives.” Hebrews 12:6
Now, at the time of the closing of the Church Age, He will further judge us so we will be fully ready to be released into the work that is ours to do. The following passage of Scripture has always been related to the judgments of God.
“Until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High. And the time came that the saints possessed the Kingdom.” Daniel 7:22
In prophetic vision, Daniel saw the Ancient of days (Jesus) come to judge, and judgment “was given to” (passed in favor of) the saints of the Most High. This judgment relates to those who have been made righteous by the blood of the Lamb, and have established a personal relationship with Jesus. These are referred to as being “saints.” These have gone through the negative aspect of this judgment, which is His dealings in their lives (overcomers).
Therefore, this aspect of judgment is the time in which He will acquit His people. Those who are overcomers and have been prepared by the Lord will find “favorableness” in this judgment, and Daniel 7:27 will have found its fulfillment. Now they will be able to stand in the judgments of God, and He will draw them to Himself, to take possession of the Kingdom.
“And the kingdom and rulership, and the greatness of the kingdom under all the heavens, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom. And all kingdoms shall serve and obey Him.” Daniel 7:27
This clearly tells us that the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ will be an everlasting Kingdom, and all creation will serve and obey Him. This is because these overcomers, as an instrument of the judgment of God, will establish His Kingdom, which is presently being formed here on the earth. Therefore, “the rulership and the greatness of the kingdoms under all the heavens will be given to the people of the saints.”
Daniel 7:14 tells us:
“And dominion and glory was given Him, and a Kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages, should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”
Let us look at the overcomer, as described in Revelation 2:26-27:
“And he who overcomes, and keeps My works to the end, to him I will give power over the nations. And he will rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of a potter they will be broken to pieces, even as I received from My Father.” Revelation 2:26-27
This rule will be exercised only by those who are overcomers.
In each place where Jesus said, “I received authority,” or, where authority was promised to Him by the Father; He further said, “I will give this same authority to the overcomer.”
This authority will be manifested with a “rod of iron.” Notice that whenever a vessel was not acceptable to the potter, he smashed it with a rod of iron. This rod of iron will be placed in our hands, and we will use it to execute the judgments of God.
It is of vital importance that we submit, or give Jesus the necessary permission to do a thorough house cleaning, by exercising His judgments within us, now. We should carefully look at each of the seven Churches in the book of Revelation and consider what the overcomer received, along with the condition for receiving. As we do this, we will find ourselves responding to the process of purification that will make us the instrument which the Lord intends us to be.
We are approaching the time when these judgments will be exercised on the earth. The following passage of Scripture deals with our part in this.
“Praise the Lord. Sing to the Lord a new song, His praise in the congregation of saints. Let Israel rejoice in his Makers; let the sons of Zion be joyful in their Kings. Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp. For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the meek with salvation.” Psalm 149:1-4
We are to worship and praise our Lord, who takes pleasure in our worship. This is a part of the preparation which will lead us into all that follows:
“Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, to carry out vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples, to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with iron bands, to carry out on them the judgment written; this is an honor for all His saints. Praise the Lord.” Psalm 149:5-9
Ezekiel expresses it this way:
“And I will execute great vengeance on them with rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I lay My vengeance on them.” Ezekiel 25:17
The Lord will do this through His people. It is clearly stated in Psalm 149 that we are the instruments that will be used for this purpose. Therefore, we are being moved upon by the Spirit of God to enter into a present ministry of intercession, which has to do with our preparation to be used to bind in chains these kings, who are the rulers of this earth.
As a result of this intercession, we will become an instrument that is so purified and renewed by our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Author and the Finisher of our faith, that we will have a present authority over the “king” of our area.
We are about to be ushered into a battle in which we are to use this “rod of iron” to put chains on these principalities, and on all those in human form, whom they use. They are about to lose their usurped authority.
These chains, or iron bands, were used in the time of Jesus to lock the hands and feet of prisoners. Then these iron bands were secured to the walls of the prison, so there could be no escape.
Jesus is beginning to manifest Himself to us, as He is getting us ready to gain the victory, which we previously had been unable to accomplish in a satisfactory manner. We have had limited success in spiritual warfare, but the greatest victories are yet before us.
In Psalm 145:9 we are told that we will execute “the judgments written.” In Revelation 1:19, John was told to write the things which he had seen, “the things which are, and the things which shall be after this.” Therefore, the Word will reveal and confirm that which is about to take place.
John speaks of angels coming and doing certain things in executing this judgment. Later, as one of these was talking with John, he was about to bow before him in worship.
“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, stop; I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Revelation 19:10
This “angel” then told John that he was a man; but John would not have worshipped an ordinary man. He had leaned on the breast of Jesus, and had seen the glorified Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration, and recognized that his visitor was more than a man.
This messenger may have been one of the overcomers who had been caught up to the Throne. In that day, “we who are alive and remain” will also be caught up to have a part in the judgments of God, along with those who have gone before.
Revelation chapter six records the judgments that are released, as the seven seals are opened. These are the judgments written, as also are those that follow; the seven trumpets as they are sounded, and the seven vials as they are poured out upon the earth.
Revelation chapters 17 and 18 records the fall of Babylon, which is the world system. This also is the “judgments written.” According to Psalm 149:9, “His people” will execute these judgments, which is an honor for all His saints.
The day of grace will close with the Church Age. Notice that when Jesus read from the scroll in the Temple (Luke 4:16-19), He stopped reading in the middle of Isa 60:2. This was the point of departure from the Church Age of grace, to the judgments that will take place in the closing out of man’s time.
“The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me; because the Lord has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God….” Isaiah 61:1-2
Those Christians who have received of the grace of God, and have been blessed in life as a Christian, but have not qualified themselves to participate in this time of judgment, will not have a part in it.
“And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshipped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”
“But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him a thousand years.” Revelation 20:4-6
Those who intend to go on with God, in the sense of being the instruments for His judgments in the earth, must submit to a time of preparation which goes far beyond Church attendance, and being blessed.
“For many are called, but few chosen.” Matthew 22:14
Or, “Many are called, but few are willing to pay the price in order to be chosen.”
This Psalm said, “This is an honor for all His saints.” The word “honor” means “high privilege of favor.” This speaks of the reward that will result from exercising vengeance on the enemies of God, punishment on the peoples, binding the kings with chains, and the nobles with fetters of iron, by executing on them the judgments written.
In the military, medals are given for accomplishments in battle. There is a medal of honor that will come from the Throne of God for those who are willing to allow themselves to be purified to the extent that they can execute these “judgments written.” Not all Christians will do this, and thus, they will not be chosen for this purpose.
Those who only have a “faith” that they will be raptured to heaven during this time will have their reward. They will be taken care of, but they will have no part in all that is about to take place.
There are those who are responding to this calling, who are being prepared for the closing out of this Age. These will be “chosen” by our Lord to participate with Him in all that takes place in this last great and glorious day, “the day of the Lord,” the day of the Kingdom, the time of His Parousia.
The Closing Out of the Age
The coming of the Lord is two-fold in nature. He will first reveal Himself to His people. After this He will be manifested to the entire world as the King of kings and Lord of lords.
Between these two appearances are the end-time judgments of God, which will lead into the third day, the Millennial day. This is a part of the restoration of mankind to the original intention of the Lord, when He formed Adam and gave him dominion over all that was created upon the earth.
The first day began with the transgression of Adam, and lasted until Jesus came on the scene. The second day includes all that Jesus said and did, together with the ministry of the Church.
During the second day, the Church Age, Jesus is in the midst of His Church.
“And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands; And in the midst of the seven lampstands I saw one like the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and tied around the breast with a golden band.” Revelation 1:12-13
Jesus came to His people first, as no one else saw Him. In II Thessalonians 1:10 we read that He will be glorified in His saints during this time.
“When He shall come to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all those who believe…” II Thessalonians 1:10
The primary purpose for Jesus coming to His Church first is to prepare them for their part in the judgments of God upon the earth.
The messages to the seven Churches in the book of Revelation span the entire Church Age, and address the needs within each of these Churches, to correct and purify those who are called to become overcomers. Therefore at the end of each message, Jesus said, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.”
The second reason for His coming to His Church first is to cleanse and purify her by the washing of the water of the Word, so that He can present to Himself a Bride without spot or wrinkle.
Following this is the revelation of the Son of Man to the entire world for the final judgments which will lead into the establishing of the Kingdom of God. It is important for us to understand that the second coming of Jesus cannot be separated from the establishment of the Kingdom.
This fulfills the word concerning dominion, which the Lord spoke to Adam when He created him. Adam was to have dominion over the earth, and all that exists on it. This dominion was forfeited to Satan and the principalities who presently rule from their usurped place in the heavens.
Thus, the purpose of the end-time appearances of Jesus to His Church is the preparation of those within the Church, who as overcomers, will reign with Him as the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
“And preaching the gospel to that city, and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch, confirming the souls of the disciples, calling on them to continue in the faith, and that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God.” Acts 14:21-22
It is through “tribulation” that we are prepared for the Kingdom of God. The word tribulation means “to put pressure on.”
This is more than the many pressures (tribulations) that we face in our lives, with pressures at every turn. There is a “great tribulation” in which an intense pressure from the enemy will come against us. If we are not presently feeling a measure of this pressure, then we may be less than fully committed to the Lord.
Therefore, there is a positive confession that each of us should make:
“Lord, no matter what you may allow, in order to perfect my life for
Your purposes, I totally submit myself to You, and to these things.”
It is very important that we understand that these pressures are not the result of the Lord being angry with us; nor are they punishment. Rather, He is seeking to produce a quality within us that will enable us to stand and endure in that day.
“And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.” Matthew 24:29
This does not mean that the sun will no longer give light, or that the moon will cease to shine at night. Rather, this refers to a change in the authorities of the spiritual world.
Revelation 12:3-4 tells us that these stars which fell from the sky are fallen angels; the principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness, in this present age. They will lose their authority and power in the time of the second coming, which authority and power will be given to the overcomers.
This is a prelude to the judgments of God, which are about to take place.
“And then the sign of the Son of man shall appear in the heavens. And then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” Matthew 24:30
After the Lord removes this usurped authority from these fallen angels, His sign will appear in the sky. This “sign” will be His appearing to the entire world in a demonstration of power and glory.
In Matthew chapter twenty four, the Lord is referred to several times as “The Son of Man.” This is Jesus, but it is more than that. The son is always the fruit of whatever his father was. The Greek word for man, “anthropos,” comes from a basic word, “aner.” Aner means nothing more than the natural, physical creation of a human being. Therefore, there is a very important reason as to why Jesus introduces Himself in His second coming as the Son of Man, and not as the Son of God.
It is to let the world know that He who is Deity had, in condescension, taken upon Himself the form of man in order to bring redemption. Then in resurrection, He has chosen to abide in this form upon the earth. Man was created to be a resident of this earth, and Jesus has eternally identified Himself with man, as “The Son of Man.”
When the Son of Man appears in the sky, all the tribes of the earth will mourn as a result of seeing Him. That which they had chosen to not believe will have become a reality, and now they must face the consequences of their rejection of Him.
Before this appearance, the demonic forces will have had their authority suddenly taken from them. Thus, when Jesus is seen by all the world, the ungodly will have been stripped of the authority which they had while under the control of Satan. They had denied and maligned Jesus; now they will mourn, for they will see Him for who He really is.
“And he shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.” Matthew 24:31
The New American Standard version translates the word we call “heavens” as “the sky.” This better illustrates the intent of the original, which is the space that is seen as a blue canopy over the earth. He will move through this space into the north, the south, the east, and the west, to gather the saints.
“Now learn a parable of the fig tree. When its branch is still tender, and puts out leaves, you know that summer is near. So you, likewise, when you see all these things, shall know that it is near, at the doors.” Matthew 24:32-33
There is a morning star that is already shining in the skies, and the buds are beginning to form on the fig tree. The fruit of the fig tree literally pops out from the bark. Therefore the bark, which is rough and hard, must become soft so it can yield to the sprout of a fruit. Therefore, when we see the fig tree (Israel) begin to soften, we will recognize that this is the time in which we are to be ready.
“So you, likewise, when you see all these things, shall know that it is near, at the doors. Truly I say to you, this generation shall not pass until all these things are fulfilled. The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.” Matthew 24:33-35
The word “pass away” means “to disappear.” The ungodly will seek to disappear because they do not want to face all that is about to happen. “This generation” can be translated as “this people.” These are the redeemed who will not seek to disappear or pass away, but will be ready to be with Jesus, as He returns.
The Lord is saying, “I am coming, and my Word will not disappear or pass away. Therefore, you should prepare for My return.” This does not say that the saints will disappear in some sudden rapture.
“But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels of heaven, but only My Father.” Matthew 24:36
There is a wisdom as to why God did not reveal a time or date when Jesus will return. Had He done so, we could put off getting ready until almost that time. The disciples had asked when this would take place. The answer Jesus gave was to explain the circumstances that would exist at that time.
“But as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man.” Matthew 24:37
Thus, His return will be in a time that is similar to the days in which Noah lived.
“For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark.” Matthew 24:38
They were occupied with the everyday things of life, and laughed at Noah for building a boat on dry land. When Noah entered the ark, it was God who shut the door of protection. The people did not understand until it was too late, when the flood came and took them away. It will be this way again, at the coming of the Lord.
“Then two shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” Matthew 24:40
The meaning of the word “be taken” is “to be taken hold of, embraced, and become associated with someone.” It is comparable to my taking my wife into my arms. Thus it is taking to one’s self whatever is to be taken. The word for “left” is a word which means “to be forsaken.” It is very important that our understanding of these words is correct.
“...God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.” I Peter 3:20
The Lord embraced these eight souls by putting an “ark” around them. Then He Himself closed the door and they were safe. When the Son of Man comes, He will not take us and fly away. The ark did not go up to heaven, rather it stayed on the earth, rising on top of the waters of judgment.
“Through which the world that then was, being flooded by water, perished. But the present heavens and the earth, being kept in store by the same word, are being kept for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.” II Peter 3:6-7
There will be another holocaust. But this time it will not be a flood, but rather, a fire. This fire will result in the complete destruction of all that the greed of man, through the deception of the devil, has accomplished upon the earth. It will be wiped clean by fire.
During this time, the Son of God will embrace His people. Just as those eight people were spared in the universal destruction of all mankind by water, the Lord will save the redeemed in the midst of the fire, but He will forsake the rest.
It is those who have rejected Him that will be gone, or destroyed in this fire. This is not a flying away process, but rather, Jesus is coming to embrace those who are the redeemed, and who have overcome by responding to His words when He was in the midst of the Church.
The Lord has provided a way for us to know that we will be in the “ark” of His protection, which He will put around us.
“Do not hurt the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.” Revelation 7:3
This is announced by the Lord just before the seventh seal is to be opened. Six seals will have already been opened and there will have been a wave of judgments in which the nations are shaken. We will be able to survive these, as we stay faithful.
Then before the next wave of judgment comes, God will place upon us a seal which will cause us to be embraced, or drawn to Him, into His ark of protection above this time of tribulation.
Immediately after the application of this protection, the seventh seal will be opened and the next wave of judgments will begin, which are called the trumpets. After this, there will be an interlude, which will be followed by another wave of judgments, in which the vials of God’s wrath will be poured out.
We will see all this take place, but we will be above it as overcomers. We will survive, just as the three Hebrew children survived the fiery furnace, with Jesus appearing in their midst. There will not be even the smell of smoke on us. When these judgments are finished, the Lord will take the Babylonish world system and throw it into the lake of fire.
In the light of this, we will consider I Thessalonians 4:16-18:
“For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.”
This has been the stock and trade of the “rapturists.” It begins saying, “For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven.” The word “descend” means that He will come down out of heaven. The word for “heaven” is “orano” which means the “abode of God.”
Jesus is coming down from heaven with a shout. This shout is a “cry of command” concerning the things that are about to take place. Jesus is coming as a commander in chief, the King.
Following this is the voice of the Archangel. There are two that have been identified in the Scriptures; Gabriel and Michael. Gabriel announced to Mary the coming of Jesus as a baby. Now He is announcing the coming of Jesus as the King.
The second archangel is Michael. He fought the devil and his hosts in behalf of Daniel. Michael is the general of the armies of God. He is under the direction of the Commander in Chief, to war against His enemies.
Revelation Chapter 12 tells us that Michael and his hosts fought against the devil and his hosts, and threw them out of heaven. Following this is the “trumpet of God.” This is the song of the Lord, which is the means by which we are to introduce Jesus to the entire world as “The King of kings and Lord of lords.”
The dead in Christ will rise first. This refers to the bodies of those who died and have gone to heaven being raised to be joined to their spirits. Then those of us who are yet alive will be caught up, as we see the graves open.
The word “caught up” does not mean our being taken up into heaven. Rather it means “to be literally taken to oneself.” This is the same as “being taken,” or “embraced.” Jesus is taking to Himself all the dead who come forth from the grave along with those of us who are still alive, and together we are gathered into the arms of the Lord.
We will meet the Lord in the air. The word for “air” is not heaven, but rather the atmosphere that we breathe while we are standing here on this earth. This is not telling us that we are going up from the earth, but that we will remain here on the earth. Let us consider what the angel said to the disciples after Jesus ascended and a cloud received Him out of their sight.
“…This same Jesus who is taken up from you into Heaven, will come in the way you have seen Him going into Heaven.” Acts 1:11
Thus, He is coming back to the place where His feet were when He was taken up. He was standing on the ground with His disciples.
There are several phrases in Matthew chapters 24-25 that are imperative for us to consider. These are commands on the part of the Lord that will result in all these things taking place.
“Therefore watch; for you do not know what hour your Lord comes.” Matthew 24:42
“Therefore you also be ready, for in that hour you think not, the Son of Man comes.” Matthew 24:44
“Watch... be ready.” No matter how, or when we may feel the Lord will return, the important thing is for us to be ready.
Matthew chapter twenty five compares the Kingdom of Heaven to ten virgins who went out to meet their Bridegroom. Of these, five were wise and five were foolish. Those who were wise did not know the time of his coming, but were ready. The foolish put off becoming ready, until it was too late.
Then when the Lord came at an unexpected time, the foolish asked the wise for some of their oil, but were told to go and buy for themselves. In so doing, they missed the time of entrance into His Kingdom. Thus, the important thing is for us to become ready in this present time, in anticipation of His return.
“Our God is the God of salvation; and to the Lord are the issues of death.” Psalm 68:20
This can be translated, “to the Lord belongs escape from death.” He is telling us that we will not be overcome in this time of tribulation, which will burn, or purify the earth.
We will be saved from this time of tribulation, and we will become an instrument of God’s judgment on the earth. This will demonstrate to the world that these judgments come from the Throne of God, by the fact that we are able to survive them.
Within the Church are those who name the Name of Jesus as their Savior. But within these are those who are overcomers; those who have fully committed their lives to the Lord and have been tested and proven faithful. These will not only survive, but they will be the instruments of the coming judgment. The rest, the main body of the Church, will be kept and protected by the Lord.
We are not called to understand how the Lord will do this, but rather, we are to be ready in that day, when He returns in manifested glory, to be joined to Him as a member of His manifested body.
Jesus is about to return to establish His Kingdom on the earth, and those who are overcomers will rule and reign with Him. We will not be raptured out of this world, but will remain here on the earth, not as victims of God’s universal judgments, but as overcomers and instruments of His judgments, which will lead to our ruling with Him in the Millennial Kingdom.
Regardless of any view of these things, there is one thing on which we all agree; Jesus is coming soon.
Luther Cronrath is the son of a Lutheran pastor. He was trained in Lutheran schools, graduating from Wartburg College and Seminary in Iowa. As a pastor, he served Lutheran parishes in Washington and California for nineteen years. He became born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit and left the parish ministry to become a Bible teacher in a Bible School in the Seattle area.
He wrote a textbook entitled “The Principles of Greek.” He has held six large crusades and pastor’s seminars in India and has ministered the Word in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and is moving in Kingdom revelation.
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The weather in China’s sprawling metropolis of Shanghai is oppressive and muggy. On the city highway, the cars snake their way slowly in convoy toward the Pudong district – i.e. directly into the Manhattan of Shanghai. The on-ramp spirals upward into the sky to reach the bridge that stretches more than 400 meters over the Huangpu River. Right in the midst of it all is a white Audi A7 Sportback, known as “Kong Ming”. At the steering wheel is Thomas Müller, Head of Development Brake/Steering/Driver Assistance Systems at AUDI AG. We are on a test drive to check the capabilities of piloted driving in congested traffic. Will the Audi prototype pass this endurance test in the Asian city?
As soon as the car reaches the straight, a white display lights up in the cockpit: “Piloted Driving available”. Müller pushes an inconspicuous button on the steering wheel, takes his hands off the wheel, his feet off the pedals and settles down in his seat. The engineer has a satisfied smile on his face. The green light framing the speedometer and rev counter signals to the driver that the electronics have everything under control. For a moment, as a passenger, it’s a strange feeling to experience the Audi A7 Sportback driving on its own. However, the unpleasant sensation quickly transforms into fascinated amazement. The steering wheel turns by itself, keeping the A7 Sportback safely on track, while the car maintains the right distance to the vehicle in front at all times. | <urn:uuid:fe616402-cdfd-4d4e-b2ff-38f29ad34ae3> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.audi.com/en/innovation/piloteddriving/piloted_driving.html | 2018-05-22T19:35:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864872.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522190147-20180522210147-00377.warc.gz | en | 0.939319 | 326 |
Bilgin classic 160 motor yacht delivered and named M&M
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Bilgin has delivered a 48.7m motor yacht which is the first in its Classic 160 series, now named M&M, that captures the look and feel of luxury yachting’s golden era.
Built to RINA class and commercial standards, M&M includes the very latest technologies including zero speed stabilisers. Her displacement hull is built in steel with a bulbous bow, and her superstructure is in composite. Powered by twin 700hp MAN engines, she achieves a top speed of 15 knots and a cruising speed of 13 knots.
Her timeless interior accommodates 12 guests in six cabins: a master, a VIP, two doubles and two twins.
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Only four days down here and I think we’re all starting to feel our own connections to this place. The kind of connections that I never thought I’d have so soon. We’ve been fortunate to be able to spend time with locals. Mostly local business owners, some family run.
Today was bittersweet. This morning we explored some of Destin’s surrounding waters with an owner of a local boat rental company. While passing a section of boom in the Choctawhatchee bay he explained how, to him, the saddest part of this whole mess was what future generations will miss. It almost brought tears to my eyes.
In the afternoon we took advantage of some downtime on Crab island, a sandbar also in the bay. Genuine relaxation interrupted by occasional conversations of oil and the chaos to follow.
In the morning we’ll be going west to Perdido Pass, a beach in Alabama that has recently been hit with oil, to get some footage. We can only hope the beaches in Florida don’t suffer the same fate.
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I’m not ashamed to admit this, but I’m a bit of a Bear Grylls fanboy. That’s not to say I’d fancy camping out with him in the middle of nowhere, cooking snails and drinking my own pee. I’d rather just watch others doing that on the TV, thank you very much.
However, one of the skills I’d love to learn from him – no matter where I am or what materials I have available – is to always be able to start a fire.
In the quest for survival in the wild, one of the first and most important things you need is the ability to make fire. Fire will provide you with light, warmth, the facility to cook, and with it you can purify otherwise undrinkable water. Without the ability to create fire, you’re pretty much scuppered. Game over.
The same is a truth for us creatives. The terrain out there is wonderfully heavy laden with resources and opportunity, but it is most definitely a wild and untamed frontier. Yes, the environment is intrinsically good, but it is also replete with danger, and to thrive you will first need to learn survival skills – and those require fire.
What I learned about fire in physics lessons
I can still picture the bright yellow science manual at school. It was bound in an impossibly thick plastic protector that caused the whole book to creak when you opened it. To be honest, I found the sound of it more compelling than its actual content. Physics was rarely a favourite. Apart from one day, when one of my more annoying classmates managed, with some overly enthusiastic misuse of a Bunsen burner, to singe off his eyebrows. Now, that was funny.
We all learned about the fire triangle that lesson.
Simply put, the fire triangle illustrates the three elements a fire needs in order to ignite: heat, fuel, and oxygen. If you create a situation in which all three of these are present – whoosh! – it’s goodbye eyebrows.
The artist who wants to take their art beyond just noodling around at home also has need of three vital elements in order for ignition to happen. I think of these as The Creative Fire Triangle:
Time, resources & confidence.
In relation to these three elements, there is a phenomenon experienced by many creatives when working on a project. You may well recognise it.
When you have the resources, you don’t seem to have enough time, and when you have the time, you don’t seem to have enough resources. On the rare occasion when you appear to have enough time and resources, you lack the confidence to step out and actually do something. It’s debilitating.
Now, I’m not suggesting that you need to be an independently wealthy idler with an ego the size of Chicago in order to get a worthwhile creative endeavour to ignite. But, I am saying that – even though time, resources and confidence can feel elusive, especially when you need them all to be present at the time same time – they are achievable. They’re actually available and within your reach.
There is a way these things work.
This is your life and it’s your artistic heart at stake here.
So, it’s time to engage that creative mind of yours.
Your mission – through relentless inquisitiveness, study and experimentation – is to uncover and discover what this way is for you. Learn how to learn (perhaps for the first time).
There is a way to carve out time that works.
There is a way to generate all the resources you need.
There is a way to crush the doubts that have plagued you for years.
There is a way.
Try an idea out and see what happens. Repeat the aspects that worked, and ditch those that didn’t. Write down your results and go again. You’re inching ever closer to your project’s ignition point.
Then, when in your persistence you create those perfect conditions in which all three elements of the creative fire triangle are present – whoosh! – it’s goodbye eyebrows of artlessness.
The great news is that your second fire is then much easier to start than your first was. And your third is even more so. Before long, what used to feel impossible becomes instinctive.
There is a way these things work.
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With the rapid growth of mobile phone usage in recent years, it is often observed that it has also become a part of many illegal and criminal activities. So, in most cases tracing the mobile number becomes a vital part of the investigation process. Also, sometimes we just want to trace a mobile number back to the caller for reasons like annoying prank calls, blackmails, unknown number in a missed call list and so on.
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Morency suspended for five regular season games
Islanders forward Pascal Morency was suspended for the remainder of the preseason and the first five games of the regular season, the NHL announced today.
Morency left the bench to start a fight in an exhibition game against Calgary after Flames defenseman Dion Phaneuf leveled Islanders forward Kyle Okposo.
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Privacy/TPWG/Change Proposal Revise network interaction definition
- 1 Existing Text
- 2 Proposal (1): Redefine network interaction as all requests caused by a user interaction
- 3 Proposal (2): Split into user action, network interaction, and subrequest
2.3 Network Transaction
A network interaction is the set of HTTP requests and responses, or any other sequence of logically related network traffic caused by a user visit to a single web page or similar single action. Page re-loads, navigation, and refreshing of content cause a new network interaction to commence.
Proposal (1): Redefine network interaction as all requests caused by a user interaction
If this term wasn't ultimately used in a document, then the definition would be removed.
A network interaction is the set of HTTP requests and responses, or other sequence of logically related network traffic, caused by a user visit to a single web page or interaction with page elements.
This is meant to represent the atomic level of interaction by users with web pages. Page loads, navigation, and clicks are common forms of interaction.
Page load, object mouse-over, image click, hyperlink click, sub-element re-load, and form entries are all examples of valid network interactions.
Proposal (2): Split into user action, network interaction, and subrequest
If any of these term weren't ultimately used in a document, then that definition would be removed.
2.3 Network Interaction, User Action, and Subrequest
A network interaction is a single HTTP request and its corresponding response(s): zero or more interim (1xx) responses and a single final (2xx-5xx) response.
A user action is a deliberate action by the user, via configuration, invocation, or selection, to initiate a network interaction. Selection of a link, submission of a form, and reloading a page are examples of user actions.
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Chris Poynter, Metro Mayor Greg Fischer’s communications director, used to be a reporter for The Courier-Journal. That makes some aspects of his current position easier. Journalism taught Poynter to explain complex issues in simple language that common people could understand. It also gave him research skills that he uses almost daily in his role as administration spokesman.
“I understand what reporters need,” Poynter says. “I know the stress of deadlines and I know what information an editor is probably going to want to know when they get back to the newsroom. That allows me to cut right to the chase and get them the information they need as quickly as possible.”
Poynter is not the first reporter to cross over to the other side of the microphone, but a surprising number of other promising local journalists have joined him there in recent years. They include former LEO editor Stephen George, now the communications director for Congressman John Yarmuth; Julie Kredens, the former host of WFPL’s “State of Affairs” who became a spokesperson for Metro Parks; former Velocity editor Tom Nord, now spokesman for the Air Pollution Control Board; and former WHAS-TV reporter Mark Hebert, who is in charge of media relations at the University of Louisville. That’s only a small percentage of the former reporters who now work as talking heads for public and private organizations in the River City.
Every former journalist has a different reason for changing careers, but with newsroom jobs declining across the media landscape in Louisville, this could become a trend. A recent study by the professional networking website Linkedin found that journalism, especially print, has shed more jobs than any other field during the recent recession. According to the study, between 2007 and 2011, newspaper positions alone decreased by 28.4 percent.
Charles Whitaker, the Helen Gurley Brown research chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, says marketing and communications, once considered “the dark side” by reporters, has now become a life raft in an uncertain job market. Whitaker has noticed more Northwestern students looking at media relations careers rather than straight journalism. He says there are still quality reporters at most news agencies, but they are being asked to do more than ever before.
“What makes me wary is that news agencies are not investing in investigative reporting,” Whitaker explains. “Journalists are spread so thin now. They have to do blogs, tweet, and sometimes shoot photos or video. Investigative reporting takes a huge investment of time and energy.”
Whitaker is a former staff writer for The Louisville Times, the former sister paper of The Courier-Journal. He left the Times shortly before Gannett’s 1989 purchase of the newspapers from the Bingham family. Whitaker moved to Chicago and became editor of Ebony Magazine, and then Northwestern University offered him a teaching position. Leaving journalism was hard for Whitaker; at first he agreed to teach only as an adjunct professor, but he eventually became a full-time educator. Whitaker directs the school’s Academy for Alternative Journalism, a summer magazine-writing fellowship for minority journalism that is sponsored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. (The writer of this story is a graduate of that program, as is WFPL News Political Editor Phillip M. Bailey).
“I didn’t have a particular desire or intent to teach,” Whitaker says. “Northwestern simply asked me, and it turned out to be something that I enjoyed.”
Robyn Davis Sekula, a spokesperson for the Louisville Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, says as traditional journalism declines, journalists will be using their skills in a number of different fields. In addition to media relations and academia, she says that many journalists will go online, whether working for someone else or running their own blogs or websites. Sekula herself used to work for Business First. She quit the paper to do freelance writing after becoming pregnant, but she says there was more work in marketing than reporting. She now serves a number of public relations clients, and volunteers on the SPJ board.
“Journalists have writing skills, the ability to think on their feet, and the fearlessness to talk to people they don’t know,” Sekula says. “Those skills can translate to a number of different fields. One of my strongest abilities is to evaluate a story a client wants covered. I can, and will, tell a client if something is not a story. It’s going to save them time and money in the long run.”
Metro Parks Communications Manager Julie Kredens says she sees the impact of the declining numbers in local newsrooms. “I think the local media does a great job. What we are losing is beat reporters who write about one subject all the time. I feel like I’m constantly re-educating reporters because, through no fault of their own, they don’t know the background of a particular issue they are covering. But that is where my own news background comes in handy – in communication. The relationship between a reporter and a spokesperson does not have to be adversarial. We’re both trying to get information out to the public.”
Kredens left journalism because she didn’t feel there was a place for her at WFPL after “State of Affairs” was cancelled in April 2011. The former moderator says she loved discussing local issues and didn’t want to go back to being a reporter in the radio station’s news department. In December 2011, Kredens became the communications manager for Metro Parks. This is actually the second time she’s transitioned from journalist to spokesperson, having been a reporter for WHAS-AM Radio in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, then leaving to become a spokesperson for the Housing Authority.
Kredens says reporters and spokespeople have overlapping skills. “One job leads to understanding the other. Having been the one holding the mic and having deadlines makes me prompt and accurate when I’m dealing with the media. Also when I have an idea for a story, I put my reporter’s hat on so that I can think about what would interest someone in writing about it or putting it on the radio and television.”
Journalists pride themselves on being unbiased gatherers of information, and it takes some time for these former muckrakers to get into the mindset of advocates for their particular organizations. Poynter says he sometimes has to fight the urge to share everything he knows. “You get to know a lot of sensitive and important information in this job,” he says. “You’ve got to say things when they need to be said and stay quiet when you need to.”
Kredens says that while journalists try to be unbiased, they often bring something personal to their work even if there is a preconceived notion about what a story should be. “When I was looking for a job, I wanted to find an organization with a mission I could get behind,” she says. “I’m really glad that I support parks.”
The transition from reporter to communications director was a slightly different experience for Stephen George. LEO has a history of advocacy journalism, and the publication was founded by his current employer, Congressman Yarmuth. George says he and Yarmuth try to maintain the transparency and availability that they craved from politicians when they were journalists. “That sense of fairness still applies,” he says. “Congressman Yarmuth has always been open with the community, so I don’t have concerns about ever sharing too much.”
George quit LEO and was the editor of Nashville City Paper, an alternative paper operated by Southcomm, Inc., the company that also owns LEO. George left the Nashville paper to join the staff of Tennessee Democratic Congressman Jim Cooper. He had worked for Cooper as a press aide for less than four months when Yarmuth came calling with a job offer.
“I’m not sure that leaving journalism is something that I would have done if I hadn’t had the opportunity with Congressman Cooper in the first place,” George says. “I was in journalism for about eight years and started to get antsy to try something new. Being from Louisville and having a prior relationship with Yarmuth made working for him something I couldn’t pass up.”
Like Whitaker and George, Chris Poynter never actually planned on ever leaving journalism. He thought he was getting a big scoop when Chad Carlton, the communications director for then Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson, asked him to lunch in 2006. Poynter figured the mayoral aide wanted to discuss something sensitive because they met in Jeffersonville rather than downtown Louisville. But instead of insider information, Carlton – a former C-J reporter himself – came armed with a job offer: He wanted Poynter to join Abramson’s communication team.
“I was stunned, because I had always thought of myself as a newspaper reporter,” Poynter says. “The more I thought about joining the mayor’s office, the more the idea intrigued me. I kept it quiet for a couple of weeks before I made the announcement at the paper. It was a big shock. Some people said I was drinking the Kool-Aid. Now I look like a visionary, considering all the things that happened at the newspaper after I left.”
Poynter actually did drink some Kool-Aid at the going away party his C-J colleagues threw for him when he left the paper. He worked at the mayor’s office until the last six months of Abramson’s term. Then he quit to become communication director of then candidate Fischer’s campaign. Poynter returned to City Hall in 2011. He says he always saw journalism as a form of public service and considers what he’s doing now to be an extension of that calling.
“When I was reporter, I might write a story about something and hope that someone would do something about it,” Poynter says. “Now, I’m working for someone with the power to change things. This is the best job in the city.”
The Courier-Journal has gone through several rounds of layoffs since Poynter left in December 2006. In all, more than 140 employees have been let go, including longtime columnist Betty Winston Baye, pop culture writer Tamara Ikenberg and reporter Sheryl Edelen. In April of this year, 26 employees accepted early retirement packages. Those retiring include some the paper’s most popular bylines: opinion page editor Keith Runyon, feature writer Larry Muhammad, Southern Indiana columnist Dale Moss, reporter Ralph Dunlap, kids’ columnist Ken Neuhauser and columnist Ric Manning. The loss of so many prominent writers has led to complaints from longtime readers who worry about the paper’s institutional memory.
During the last round of layoffs in 2011, the C-J’s weekly, Velocity, was folded into the regular paper. Velocity editor Tom Nord, originally part of the last round of layoffs, was rehired for another position at the newspaper. However, Nord left the paper in December 2011 to become spokesman for the Air Pollution Control Board. He says the decision to leave had nothing to do with the situation at the Courier. “I think the Courier-Journal is going to be around a lot longer than people think,” Nord says. “It’s still a good newspaper. I had just reached a point in my life where I wanted to challenge myself and try something new. Coming to the Air Pollution Control Board was actually a lateral move for me (money wise), but so far, it’s been something that I really enjoy.”
Being a corporate spokesperson was out of the question for Nord, but he jumped at the opportunity to advocate for clean air. In some cases Nord finds himself dealing with reporters that were his peers not too long ago. Like Poynter, he says his journalism experience makes some aspects of his job easier, particularly when it comes to reading complicated environmental laws and explaining them to reporters or the general public.
“In a way, that’s no different than what I was doing before,” Nord says. “The only difference is I don’t have to write a story on deadline.”
CORRECTION: In the original print version of this story, Andrew Wolfson was mentioned as having taken early retirement from The Courier-Journal. However, Wolfson is in fact currently employed as a staff writer at the publication. In addition, Robyn Davis Sekula worked for Business First rather than The Courier-Journal as originally listed. We sincerely apologize for the errors. - The Editor | <urn:uuid:2bd71eee-e586-4e52-a1b3-f7abf2c5ac54> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.thehighlanderonline.com/all-articles/89-features/527-the-other-side-of-the-mic | 2015-09-02T12:44:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645264370.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031424-00321-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97451 | 2,709 |
Are our passions worth dying for?
By Elliot Chan, Opinions Editor
When the San Francisco 49ers’ 24-year-old star linebacker, Chris Borland, walked away from the game as a precaution against life-crippling head injuries, many were left puzzled and rather frustrated. The puzzlement came from the fact that Borland was stepping away from more than a sport; he left a huge salary, an extravagant lifestyle, and a future of athletic achievements behind. Many would kill to get the opportunity that Borland had and it’s frustrating that the NFL has created an environment where playing a sport professionally has become akin to self-endangerment.
“From what I’ve researched and what I’ve experienced, I don’t think it’s worth the risk,” said Borland in an interview with ESPN. Then he added, “I just want to live a long, healthy life, and I don’t want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.”
Nobody can argue against a statement like that. We live in a world where we are driven to excel. We work so hard that we are all certainly on the verge of our breaking point. I speak not only of football, but also of life in general. We push ourselves to the limit and we cannot always be certain that our human body and our state of mind can handle the strain.
In the critically acclaimed movie Whiplash—a story about a jazz student striving to be the best drummer possible—we learn what true passion mixed with unquenchable determination can do to someone, especially after an instructor puts them through physical and psychological hell. The movie made the point plain and simple: blood, sweat, and tears were merely the byproduct of success, in addition to the mental strain. In life we should all be so fortunate to have something that we are passionate about, that we can devote our whole life to, that we can one day be remembered for, and when it’s time and we are on our death bed, we can say that we did all we could and then pass away happy.
Borland will live a long life, but he will lose all those glorious moments. Forget the money. There are many ways for an able-bodied man like Borland to make money. What I want to focus on are the intangible moments of life. Life is not everlasting. It’s made up of moments of intensity and long periods of anticipation. Borland will never feel the thrill of standing in front of 60,000 people. He will never lift the Vince Lombardi Trophy in victory. He will only be remembered as a man who merely lived a healthy life. Admirable, but far from inspiring—at least that is how our overachieving society will consider him.
I want to congratulate Borland for his courageous decision, but I won’t. It’s hard to celebrate a quitter. It’s hard to praise a ‘fraidy cat. It’s hard to look up to someone who is a coward. Many people get injured or die on the job, from McDonald’s employees to construction workers to professional athletes. Life is full of uncertainty—disease, accidents, strange twists of fate all happen to normal people—and to simply write yourself off because of a likelihood of injury, well that is pure defeat. | <urn:uuid:b014bb0c-7c6b-47b6-a2e2-080e601a8fa6> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://theotherpress.ca/keep-your-head-up/ | 2021-05-08T22:57:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988927.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20210508211857-20210509001857-00144.warc.gz | en | 0.959284 | 711 |
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Kuldeep Sengar is a senior Ram Bhakt. (By the way, all Ram Bhakts are senior. I have never come across a junior Ram Bhakt.) He is committed to build a magnificent Ram Temple at Ayodhya. He is equally committed to rape young, hapless girls! I call him the Rambhakta Rapist! Such Ram Bhakts are quite common in today’s India. Surcharged by Hindutva batteries. They can rape, kill and maim anybody in the name of Ram.
Remember the Kathua gangrape? A poor Muslim shepherd girl was gangraped inside a temple. She was brutally murdered also. But since the victim was a Muslim and perpetrators of the crime were Hindus, Ram Bhakts rallied in support of rapists. Two BJP Ministers in the J&K Cabinet spewed venom at a rally as cries of Jai Shri Ram rent the air.
A Hindi daily the Dainik Jagran gave a clean chit to rapists, ruling out rape on its front page. Thankfully, the court held a different view and criminals, including the temple priest, were sentenced for life. The Dainik Jagran is unfazed. After all, the daily is run by Kapoots of the Bharat Mata!
In Bihar also, there was a senior Ram Bhakt, Raj Kishor Kesari. He was the BJP MLA from Purnea and Bihar Dy CM Sushil Modi’s blue-eyed boy. Kesari allegedly sexually exploited a school teacher Rupam Pathak. On the 4th January, 2011, in a cold winter morning, Rupam Pathak came to the Ram Bhakt’s house. She was draped in a shawl and the honourable MLA found nothing unusual. Rupam Pathak came close to him, drew a kitchen knife from her shawl and stabbed the Purnea MLA to death!
Coming back to Kuldeep Sengar, the honourable MLA is very close to the UP CM Yogi Adityanath, whom I call Dhongi Adityanath because he has Gorakhpur riots blood on his hands. Sengar raped a girl in 2017. And no FIR was lodged. Adityanath was too busy changing names. From Allahabad to Prayag Raj. From Mughalsarai Junction to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction.
When you are busy creating history, rapes go unnoticed. When the victim attempted self – immolation in front of the CM house, then cops reluctantly registered an FIR. But soon the victim’s father was killed in police custody. And now a road “accident” has taken place. The victim, like the law and order in UP, is on ventilator! Mercifully, the Supreme Court has stepped in. The apex court has transferred the Unnao rape case and related cases to Delhi. It has set a time-frame of 45 days for trials to complete. There is some light at the end of the dark tunnel.
Personally, I don’t like capital punishment. But Kuldeep Sengar, the Ram Bhakt, has made me think otherwise. I hope that Sengar gets the capital punishment for the rarest of rare crimes he has committed as a law-maker. If Sengar is hanged to death, I will be a happy man. And Ram Naam Satya Hai should be music to Kuldeep Sengar ‘s ears also!
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Posisi kepala kita wajib diupayakan pada posisi yang menjajaki ceruk tulang balik yang tercipta dari pungggung yang membengkok. Pemikiran pula wajib senantiasa ditunjukan ke jalan yang agen sbobet terletak di depan kita serta fokuskan diri pada jalan. Tetapi tidak lalu berarti kepala wajib kaku sebab tulang leher butuh diusahakan buat senantiasa tenang.
Posisi punggung pula berarti buat terbuat setimpal dengan kecekatan yang kita ambil. Tidak cuma itu, posisi punggung pula butuh setimpal dengan arah yang kita lalui. Dikala tanjakan ataupun agen bola dalam kecekatan besar, yakinkan buat punggung dalam posisi menunduk, sedangkan kala dikala pada arah menyusut, punggung dapat ditegakkan kembali sebab ini lebih bagus.
Teknologi sudah mempengaruhi warga serta sekelilingnya dalam banyak metode. Di banyak golongan warga, teknologi sudah menolong bandar togel terpercaya membenarkan ekonomi( tercantum ekonomi garis besar era saat ini) serta sudah membolehkan bertambahnya kaumsenggang. Banyak cara teknologi menciptakan produk sambilan yang bukan dikehendaki, yang diucap pencemar, serta menghabiskan pangkal energi alam, mudarat, serta mengganggu Dunia serta lingkungannya.
Sage Master Builder (SMB) software has an interesting history. Like many software products that serve specific industries, Master Builder was conceived by someone in the industry who was just trying to run their business better.
Dan Smith – the founder of Master Builder – is a great story teller and I have heard him tell the story of Master Builder’s origins several times. I cannot give it justice here and I won’t try, but the basic start of Master Builder was around 1980, give or take a couple of years. Dan was a general contractor based in the San Francisco area and he wanted a way to run his business better. He thought that the new emerging personal computers were potentially a good solution, so he went out an bought an Apple II computer and tried to find software to run his business on it.
Finding that there was little or no software appropriate for running a construction business, Dan did what any good entrepreneur would do and set out to write his own. He wrote the original Master Builder with great knowledge of contracting and self-taught knowledge of computer programming. The software he ended up with was very consistent in applying construction logic to a computer program.
Soon, Master Builder was moved from the Apple platform to the IBM PC platform and Dan started selling the software to other contractors as “Master Builder by Omware.” His primary sales method was training local bookkeepers and accountants on the software and then letting them apply their business and construction knowledge at their clients to use the software effectively. This group of advisers was the key to Master Builder success around the country and Dan was very good about developing the knowledge base of the advisers and supporting them in their own businesses. However, the catch twenty-two issue was that an advisor would sell a few copies of Master Builder and then start working closely with the clients that bought them. Soon, the advisor became too busy to add more clients and no longer sold the software. This would make the client happy, the advisor successful, but was very limiting the income of Master Builder.
Dan struggled with this issue the entire time I knew him as the owner of Master Builder. However, Dan had great integrity and never wavered in his support of the advisers even when it cost him money. What it did do was build a team of advisers across the country with knowledge of the construction business and his software unlike anyone else in the software industry.
In 1994, Dan made the decision to convert Master Builder to Microsoft Windows. Software vendors were all looking at this possibility. Some thought that MS Windows was an inferior operating system for business software (and it was at the time) – but they underestimated the demand for the GUI (graphical user interface) by users. Dan saw that this was the future and made the determination early to move from the PC DOS system to Windows. The interesting thing about his decision was that he decided to completely rewrite Master Builder rather than just “move” the DOS software.
The move to Windows was a struggle and lasted several years before a complete and stable product was released. I started working with Master Builder in February of 1995 and my training class was on the first Windows release of the software. Dan Smith taught the class himself because no one else knew much about the software.
I installed the very first production installation of Master Builder 6 – the first Windows version – at a Naperville, Illinois contractor in September of 1995. The official release of the software was in March of 1996.
The Windows version of Master Builder was the first on the market in the construction industry, but Omware still struggled with the sales process. They had a good product but there were many other products in the market and the king of the hill at the time was Timberline. Timberline was perceived as a more sophisticated and bigger product although they had not yet made a complete transition to the Windows operating system. At this time, Dan brought in some investors and made a real effort to get a larger market share. True to Dan’s character and dedication to his advisor channel, he gave every advisor $1,000 in stock in Omware when he began the big push to grow the company.
In 2001, Master Builder was purchased by Intuit. The deal brokered by Dan Smith was incredible for all of the investors. The purchase price by Intuit was 6 or 7 times the current revenue of Master Builder. One of the key factors – according to the key note address by Scott Cook, the founder of Intuit – was the expert advisor network that Master Builder had built around the country. Unfortunately, Intuit’s actions over the following years did not match their rhetoric.
The attractive element of Master Builder for Intuit was the possibility of moving contractors up from Intuit’s flagship product, Quickbooks, to a more sophisticated tool for contractors, Master Builder. Intuit was tossing around numbers of 25, 50, or 100 Million in sales of Master Builder within five years. At the time they purchased the software, Master Builder had sales was in the 6 to 7 million range. Dan Smith stayed on for a couple of years as vice president of the Intuit construction division that held Master Builder, but he was then replaced by Carol Novello.
With the replacement of Dan Smith came a total abandonment of integrity and support of the expert advisor network that was originally developed by Omware. The message was “sell at all costs” and the politics were brutal. It was sad to see a weak and inept management team at Intuit dismantle the expert advisor network that had built up over the years. Many of the people I worked with personally ended up taking jobs at clients or moving to other positions or other products. A few advisers survived and some thrived, but not many.
Significant development on Master Builder virtually halted on the product during the five years that Intuit owned it. They did release an enterprise version of the product which was simply the same software with a client/server database instead of a file server database structure, and the product did not do well. Intuit did, however, get their new licensing in place right away which shifted the traditional model of concurrent licenses that Master Builder had been using for 20 years to a per seat model. This caused tremendous angst in the user community as Intuit tried to force users to buy a software license for every computer in their office, field, and home so two people could use it conveniently. I spent hours dealing with this with my own client base. Ultimately, Intuit shifted back to the concurrent seat model, but the damage was done.
In May of 2006, Sage Software purchased Master Builder from Intuit*. Interestingly, this took place not long after Sage had purchased one of Master Builder’s primary competitors, Timberline. Sage is much more savvy about how to sell to vertical markets and has made some significant and much needed improvements to the product. For instance, the licensing is less intrusive on the system, they have added drill down to the reporting, and fixed many of the bugs that had been plaguing Master Builder for the years that Intuit owned it. Also important to the long-term viability of Master Builder, Sage is beginning to develop a true knowledge base for users accessible through the Sage web site.
Personally, I am encouraged by the steps Sage has taken so far. In 2005, I was guessing that Master Builder had only a few more years of life left and Syscon was actively looking for a product to move their clients to. That fear has gone away and Sage Master Builder Release 13 is one of the best products on the market for a contractor. (law)
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Singapore—Some people refuse to let limitations stop them, no matter how severe. One such individual is a certain delivery man working for GrabFood, who goes around in a wheelchair because of his disabilities.
His hard work, grit and determination to make an honest living have inspired so many on social media.
On March 9, the Facebook page All Singapore Stuff posted a photo of a young man in a wheelchair. He was waiting at a stop light, holding a GrabFood bag on his lap, dressed in the well-known green uniform of the ride-hailing, ride sharing, food delivery, and logistics service.
Although his location in the photo is unknown, a commenter on the All Singapore Stuff post said he had seen the wheelchair bound GrabFood delivery man in Sembawang and Yishun.
He can’t drive, at least not a conventional vehicle, such as a car or even a motorcycle. What he can handle is a wheelchair, which is what he uses for making deliveries.
Kudos to this determined young man, as well as to Grab for offering employment opportunities to people who are differently abled.
The caption on All Singapore Stuff’s post read: “No reason to slack if this guy here is working hard, despite his (sic) unfortunate,” the caption on the photo said, accompanies by the hashtag #champion.
Another Facebook user named Reven Teo posted the photo the day before All Singapore Stuff did, on March 8. The picture originally came from an Instagram story. Both posts have gone viral, and the photo has been shared more than 8,000 times.
Mr Teo’s caption: “Give a thumbs up to this champ”.
Netizens have been full of praise for the anonymous, wheelchair-bound Grab delivery man.
Others applauded Grab’s initiative and fair-mindedness in their hiring practices.
Others said they would give him an extra tip if he is the one who delivers food to them.
In November last year, a delivery woman in a wheelchair, also working for GrabFood, received praise on social media for the same reason. Back then, GrabFood Singapore’s James Ong told media outlet Coconuts, We are very inspired by the delivery-partner and heartened to see her commitment.”
He added, “GrabFood is proud to be the platform that enables micro-entrepreneurs like our delivery-partners… they have the flexibility to plan their working arrangements, from their preferred modes of transport to their working hours.”
Back then, The Independent wrote, “A photo of a woman taking the MRT to deliver for GrabFood while being wheelchair-bound has gone viral. Earlier today, netizen Karen took to Facebook to share the photo of a Muslim woman seated on her wheelchair on the MRT train.
What attracted the support and praise for the woman was the fact that she was dressed in the outfit meant for GrabFood delivery drivers, meaning that she was delivering food via public transport even while being confined to a wheelchair.
In about three hours, the photo went viral and attracted almost 1,000 reactions and 400 shares. The photo was captioned, “There are always lazy people who complain even though they are in a good place. Look at this woman doing GrabFood delivery despite her disability! Those lazy people should just shut up (sic) their excuses already’.”
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Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers have a little time between gigs to do cover songs in their van.
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--The Spokane Indians announced today that Madison Elementary and Logan Elementary have been selected to participate in this year's Itron Champions Program.
Every year, the Itron Champions Program provides two low-income Spokane schools with a visit from OTTO the Mascot and 250 Indians tickets to distribute to their students as a reward for good attendance, hard work, and achievement in the classroom.
"We love bringing the Itron Champions Program to schools and getting kids excited about learning," said Indians Senior Vice President, Otto Klein. "This is a great opportunity for the Indians to support our local schools and students."
Logan Elementary will have their assembly on Thursday, June 7th at 1:00 p.m. while Madison Elementary will have their assembly on Monday, June 11th at 2:15 p.m.
"Supporting young people is of great importance to Itron and that is why we are proud to support local students through the Itron Champions Program," said Diane Vanos, Manager, Community Investment. "Encouraging hard work, good attendance and achievement in the classroom today will help shape the future leaders of tomorrow."
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The Spokane Indians are the Short Season Class "A" affiliate for the Texas Rangers. The Indians open the 2012 season on Friday, June 15th against the Vancouver Canadians with Opening Night Fireworks & AAA Magnet Schedule Giveaway presented by Les Schwab Tires, KREM-2 TV, 93.7 The Mountain, and SportsRadio 1510 KGA. Single game tickets for the 2012 season are now available for purchase at the Indians Ticket Office or at spokaneindians.com. Reserve your seats today by calling (509) 343-OTTO (6886).
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Hart’s Desire is a boutique winery tucked away in Geyserville, CA. John Hart III and his wife, Desire, started the winery after years of making wine for themselves, family and friends. In 1991, at the urging of his loyal following, John “went legit” and the first Hart’s Desire Chardonnay was produced. Today they offer 16 wines, 30 to 300 cases of each created. They believe that trying their wine is like meeting their family. | <urn:uuid:299c0ac0-46f2-4a51-a281-e9f95da52512> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.oliversmarket.com/partner/harts-desire-wines/ | 2020-07-06T16:35:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655881763.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20200706160424-20200706190424-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.985899 | 111 |
Each person engaged in the spearing of commercial or nongame fish shall, in addition to all other Alabama fishing licenses, have a commercial or nongame fish spearfishing license. The fee for the commercial or nongame spearfishing license shall be as follows: state resident's license, $5.00; nonresident seven-day license, $2.50; nonresident annual license, $7.50. Said licenses shall be issued only by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Montgomery, Alabama. The revenue derived from the sale of the licenses provided for in this article shall be covered into the State Treasury to the credit of the Game and Fish Fund.
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Five Hundred Twenty-Six
September 29, 2016
5.88 Miles in 1:03:59
Mood: Enjoying my supply run.
Soundtrack: The Beef and Dairy Network / The Bill Simmons Podcast / The Gist
This was less a run and more a Pokemon supplies mission. I was dangerously low on Pokeballs...because apparently it's dangerous to not have enough. So I decided I would use my run this morning in an odd manner and loop around the Streets at Southglenn nonstop hitting up Pokestops. The result was a laughably slow run and a very odd looking map, but a bag full of Pokeballs, so I regret nothing.
Best part of this run was the moment that a Lickitung showed up on the street. For the uninitiated, a Lickitung is a pink Pokemon with a giant tongue that is super rare in Pokemon Go. In the three months that I have played the game, I have seen exactly three of these monsters before this morning. The last time I saw one was two days ago when I caught it for myself, then caught it for my daughter, and finally tried to catch it for my son. Sadly, it had stopped spawning when I tried to catch it for Luke, and he was super bummed that he didn't get one. As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to catch it for Luke. Thankfully, I was able to corral it for him, and he is now the proud owner of a Lickitung.
Today's photo was of some of the amazing flowers that can be found all over the place in the Streets of Southglenn. They really do a good job making that place look and feel nice, and the entire morning as I was running, my only other fellow human beings who were at this particular outdoor mall were the crew of gardeners plying their trade in an effort to make it continue to look nice. They work HARD early in the morning to keep up appearances, and it shows. | <urn:uuid:7d4c7970-fd99-4e46-b281-5c032f57df83> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | http://www.runshoot.us/2016/09/five-hundred-twenty-six.html | 2021-10-28T01:11:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588246.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20211028003812-20211028033812-00322.warc.gz | en | 0.984704 | 423 |
The ship, which ran aground a year ago, had moved position on the reef in recent weeks and was already jutting out into the channel. Islanders were concerned that the vessel could move even further, effectively blocking access to the wharf. Their fears have now been realised.
Sources on Nassau confirmed the boat had shifted this week and was now completely inside the passage. CINews understands that it is possible, but risky, to navigate small boats around her as she floats in the channel.
Tapi Taio, owner of Taio Shipping, said the boat moved after a rope that had been holding it in place was cut.
“They thought she was going to go off the reef because of the waves, so they chopped the rope,” he said. “But now she is sitting inside.”
But Taio insisted that there was no danger of the Moana Nui sinking in her current position as the passage is only 3.5m deep and the boat is drafting 3.2m. However, he admitted heavy seas could smash her against the sides of the passage and cause more damage to the vessel and potentially the harbour.
He said once the bad weather passed it would be possible for locals to pull the vessel to the wharf, where she could be secured.
The decision has already been taken to scrap the Moana Nui, and Taio said that the current situation could make that process simpler.
“Now she is sitting in the ‘swimming pool’ so it is easier for us,” he said. “We cannot salvage her, so we are going to cut her up or take her out to sea.”
Another Taio Shipping boat, Lady Moana, is due to leave Rarotonga for Nassau and should arrive there in the next couple of weeks.
Experts will be on board to assess the situation and decide how the boat should be disposed of.
The bad weather that has affected the northern group islands is coming from one of three weather systems that currently pose a threat to the Cook Islands, and there is a possibility that a cyclone could threaten the country next week.
A tropical depression that was identified north of Vanuatu earlier this week is now moving east.
The Fiji Meteorological Office says the potential for this system to develop into a tropical cyclone before Saturday February 10, is moderate to high.
The system is expected to be over Samoa by the weekend and Arona Ngari of the Cook Islands Met Office said that it could “pose a threat” to the Cook Islands by midweek next week if it does intensify.
Meanwhile, boats in Avatiu Harbour remain on alert for an evacuation notice as another weather system to the west of Rarotonga brings sea swells and winds from the north.
Waves of up to five metres have been predicted for the weekend.
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After some teasing on Twitter, Techland’s clip for Dying Light 2 is finally complete. As shared by Gematsu, the video – whose full message states “Are You Dying 2 Know More?” – confirms a reveal for May 27th at 12 PM PT/3 PM ET on Twitch. The teaser video seems to feature the Castle from the August 2019 gameplay walkthrough where Aiden went to speak to the Colonel. Perhaps we’ll see what unfolds afterwards.
An email was also sent out to the press with the title “Distress – The City Under Siege.” It makes a brief reference to Harran, the first game’s setting, before stating that The City needs one’s help. “There’s so much for you to know, and so little time, but these clues can’t fall into the wrong hands. Find somewhere safe and play this message. You’re our last chance for survival.”
Along with new information for Dying Light 2, it’s possible that Techland announces Dying Light: Platinum Edition. The bundle was recently spotted on the Microsoft Store and includes the base game along with all of its DLC, skin packs, weapons and more. It’s also supposedly releasing on May 27th so stay tuned.
Dying Light 2 is currently in development for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS4, PS5 and PC.
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The red-light cameras went dark at midnight.
The company that runs the cameras, American Traffic Solutions, notified the city Thursday it would shut down the camera system after a split City Council voted to terminate the contract and end the controversial program.
"ATS is extremely disappointed, as a detailed analysis proves the program was successful in reducing red-light runners and the crashes and injuries they create," company spokesman Josh Weiss wrote in an e-mail. "We will coordinate next steps with the city."
The company will pay to remove the equipment.
The council voted 4-3 to remove the cameras. Mayor David Miller and Councilman Jim Gilbreath, who supported the program last year, cast the deciding votes to kill it. They joined Councilmen Todd Klein and John Leonard, who have consistently opposed the program.
"Statistics are in favor of keeping them, but if you listen to the citizens, I believe the majority of them would prefer this issue go away," Miller said. "I'm elected by the people; I'm going to try to do their will every chance I get."
The cameras have been installed at 12 intersections in Lubbock since last year. A report detailing the cameras' first six months of use, released in January, showed a spike in rear-end collisions at intersections with and without the cameras.
Opponents of the system have said studies show the cameras are affecting drivers' behavior for the worse. But the company, ATS, said six months of data is not enough time to judge them. It also said the cameras are working - accidents with injuries have dropped at the 12 locations.
ATS collected more than $295,000 in fines from drivers caught by the Lubbock cameras in the first six months of operation.
Lubbock joined a growing list of cities in March when it installed the cameras. Only a handful of Texas cities have moved to remove them. State lawmakers in 2007 passed legislation that approved their use but also curbed the amount of revenue a city can make from them.
Researcher Greg Mauz has opposed red-light cameras for years because of an increase in accidents he said is usually associated with them. He has watched Lubbock's program evolve from his home in Christoval, a community south of San Angelo.
He also has urged the state's attorney general, with the support of some state legislators, he says, to investigate camera companies and their ties to city officials.
"Justice has finally been served," he said Thursday afternoon. "I have contacted the mayor's office a number of times on this."
The cameras took a picture of a vehicle's rear license plate as a car ran a red light. The owner of the vehicle was then mailed a $75 fine, a civil penalty that didn't reflect on a driver's record or insurance.
The city had collected about 70 percent of the fines from thousands of tickets issued last year, but it admitted it had no teeth in its ability to enforce collections. The city also had yet to make more money than ATS billed, meaning all the money had gone to the company. The city was not responsible for the difference.
Still, most council members have been adamant that the cameras are about safety, not money.
"It's against the law to run a red light," Councilman Floyd Price said. "I don't care if a bird sees you or a camera sees you - it's against the law."
Price, along with Councilwomen Linda DeLeon and Phyllis Jones, supported keeping the cameras up to gather at least a year's worth of data.
Miller said he thought the program was working as well but that it was distracting from other projects at City Hall. The number of red-light violations the cameras recorded were cut almost in half in the first six months.
Miller, who faces re-election in May, said he did not change his mind about the red-light cameras to appease voters.
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April 1st -- Friday
I visited a spot for a geocache today that was pretty unusual. It is actually a house that burnt down, probably in the big fire they had in 1986. Yes, I just checked it, the house is mentioned in an article in the LA Times. That is pretty sad, it is a pretty cool spot. I didn't find the geocache, but I found these binoculars, which I left there.
There was lots of broken concrete and bricks and other stuff. There was melted glass, too, which I kinda wanted to take. Can't find the cache, did I mention that?
You may have seen this on Facebook, a view of Missing Valley from near the, foundation...
This decorated tree is near the entrance. I found some (empty) medicinal marijuana bottles tossed in the bushes.
This oddly decorated pill bottle was in the tree, was that the cache container?
As I was leaving I took a picture of the view looking down into the valley/ravine below. Lots of flowers, and it felt odd to be looking down on the power lines. Can you imagine that all burning?
When I got home I found that fark.com, a news aggregator site, had changed its look a tad...
And geocaching.com had a piece of geo-art that one could "find".
April 2nd -- Saturday
I did not do ANYTHING all day, but I had company from this bug, which I believe is a Gypsy Moth Caterpillar.
April 3rd -- Sunday
Today ended up going to several places. One was back to Poison Oak Canyon, also know as The River of Rocks, at least by me.
Looks like poison oak to me. Glad I don't have to fetch those PVC pipes back there!
Someone left their sunglasses there, and they are STILL there, too!
I found three of the caches I was looking for, and didn't find one.
Next I went up to look for a newly replaced cache in the UC area. I got there and fired up the phone app, but, no cache! The cache owner had posted a note that he had replaced it, but neglected to un-disable it. So it doesn't show up on the app! Well, I KNEW where it was supposed to be, and it was, and I used the web browser to log my find. Which is something I don't normally do, as I don't like typing on the phone.
Next I popped over to a cache a couple of miles away, another one that someone had replaced. I got there and could not find it anywhere, and there were NOT a whole bunch of wheres for it to be in. Or at. Or something. So I was sitting there reading the past logs and surreptitiously examining a sprinkler head when a woman ask if I had a cigarette, or even one she could buy for a buck. Sorry, says I, thinking I'd like to have one myself at this point.
Then a fellow and his dog came over to ask if I was OK, he not having noticed I had the phone in my hand, it blending in, color-wise, with my shirt of the day. Green. And that was how I met Scott and Neil (a cocker spaniel). I told him about geocaching and he helped me look around for a while, and then we talked for a long time, then we talked to a guy who had a drone. And that was VERY cool.
And then, about twenty minutes later, we were looking around again and I looked in one last place and there the darn thing was. I completely had overthought the hide. Scott was very impressed.
I next drove down to Marian Bear Park and was gonna hit the string of caches in the canyon, but the phone battery was way low and I had not pre-loaded them, so I just did a search for three in the area, and found them. Here is one:
Altoids containers are very pretty and handy for caches, but they are very NOT waterproof, and they rust. But this one seems pretty sturdy...
Next I headed over to Kearny Mesa and found three caches, and DNFed one. But can you see this one?
And that was about it for the day, I came home and have spent more time organizing the images and writing this, not to mention logging the finds on geocaching.com, then I did looking for them!
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Valley has a long history of producing expedition capable sea kayaks. In fact, arguably, they started this trend by designing the Nordkapp back in 1974. Whilst the Nordkapp has evolved and retains a valuable place in the Valley range, it was decided in 2011 that a new flagship was required for the Valley range.
The Etain is a conscious departure from previous Valley designs. Valley kayaks were traditionally more “fish-form” i.e. widest point slightly forward of centre. The Etain is more neutral, in fact very slightly Swede form i.e. widest point rear of centre. Swede form kayaks have a different feel, slightly more glide and a perception of speed that is more noticeable because you are now paddling in a narrower part of the boat. The paddling stroke is also less encumbered and there is a general feeling of having less boat between you and the water. Better…NO, different… YES!
Other features are a hull that has a shallow to moderate ‘V’ in cross-section for good initial stability and rocker, that would best be describe as moderate i.e. slightly less than some older Valley boats to provide secure tracking but still enough to provide a lively ride.
The Etain also features a removable deck-pod storage-unit in front of the cockpit. Whilst holding the same as a regular 4th hatch/compartment, the advantage is, it can be taken up the beach (or into the car/house) with you. The deck-pod is ideal for things like valuables, snacks, car keys, and small items of safety-kit that you might always want close to hand*. Other features of the Etain include a locking point situated behind the cockpit and special attention given to cockpit ergonomics.
The Etain is designed to appeal to paddlers looking for an expedition style boat with a contemporary feel. Arguably the Etain should appeal to those who are already familiar with the performance of a Valley kayak but also to those who have previously not been a fan of Valley’s traditional style!
* Any items that are susceptible to water-damage should always be additionally protected by the use of dry-bags or other suitable packaging, we’d recommend doing this, no matter how dry your compartment usually seems!
Boat specs -model 17-7
Length: 17’7″ (536cm)
Width: 21.5″ (54.5cm)
Weight: 57lbs (26kg)
Load Suitability: 180-270lbs/ 81-122kg
Boat specs -model 17-5
Length: 17’5″ (531cm)
Width: 21.25″ (54cm)
Weight: 55lbs (25kg)
Load Suitability: 140-230lbs/ 63-104kg
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HP’s HP Pavilion dv3t is officially available. This lightweight Intel-based pavilion notebook boasts of a 13.3-inch LED-backlit display, Core 2 Duo processor (2.0GHz T6400), and up to seven hours of runtime on the optional 9-cell battery. The Pavilion dv3t is about 1.25-inches thick and weighs just under 5 lbs. The base model comes with 2GB of RAM, but HP is currently offering a free upgrade to 3GB.
For connectivity, the Pavilion dv3t offers Wi-Fi (b/g or
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port, DVD burner or optional Blu-ray drive, and a VGA webcam with microphone.
You can customize the Pavilion dv3t with up to 8GB of RAM, a faster processor
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The Pavilion dv3t is now available for $798.99 in Espresso black or Moonlight white.
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PRESS RELEASE: SAE Liverpool have long been training the city's foremost engineers and producers, but with the introduction of the Ableton Live Course they're now turning their attention towards the nation's DJs and electronic music performers.
Ableton Live is considered by many to be the ultimate tool for creative hands-on performance, and practically all of the world's greatest DJs use it in their sets. Now, over four weeks of hands-on tuition, you too can unlock the secrets of the world's greatest performance software!
With SAE Liverpool's Ableton Live Course you'll learn how the role of the DJ has evolved beyond all recognition in these most digital of times. This four-week course takes place in the evenings and comprises only the best tools to ensure an insight and education that's second to none.
Of course all aspiring DJs will get hands-on with Ableton Live 8 - the latest and greatest iteration of the software - but they'll also get an insight into ultimate control with the Vestax VCM-600 purpose-built Ableton Live controllers, without doubt the perfect set-up for any DJ who craves instant live performance control married to extreme creativity.
With Ableton Live the world of the DJ is changing, and changing fast. Can you afford to be left behind? For more information on the Evolution of the DJ, point your browser towards liverpool.sae.edu, or call 0151 255 1313 for more information.
Course: Ableton Live Course
Duration: 4 weeks
Location: SAE Liverpool
SAE Liverpool manager Gavin Attard said: "SAE Liverpool has always focused on preparing our students for professional careers, but we also need to address the needs of those who need quick, hands-on and practical help to get up to speed with the greatest industry-standard tools that are set to shape the next generation of DJs and electronic music performers. And that's where our new Ableton Live Course comes in.
"In the space of 4 weeks we aim to revolutionise perceptions and expectations. Using the most powerful DJ software in the world and one of the most intuitive controllers yet released, we're certain our Ableton Live Course will lift DJs of all skill levels to new and as yet unimagined heights of creativity." | <urn:uuid:577e655e-e4d9-4d82-b642-e2273b6b5289> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/sae-liverpool-launches-ableton-live-course-211414 | 2018-03-17T04:17:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257644271.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20180317035630-20180317055630-00420.warc.gz | en | 0.92513 | 462 |
The ability to focus and being efficient with his time are two of the keys to Kevin VanDam's phenomenal success in bass fishing. They are also traits shared by his wife, Sherry. As a mother of 9-year-old twins — Jackson & Nicholas — keeping the VanDam household and the VanDam business running smoothly is a job that she takes seriously.
On a snowy Michigan morning in February, we sat down with Sherry in the office she shares with Kevin to talk about the pressures of being at the top of this growing sport.
"It's crazy and it gets busier and busier all the time. The demands of sponsor obligations are growing, the schedule is growing and also fan interaction, which of course we think is great, but it's growing too," she said.
In addition to competing on the CITGO Bassmaster Tour, Kevin is one of the most sought after speakers in the bass fishing world.
Sherry elaborated on Kevin's hectic schedule.
"There's really not an off season for us. During the fishing season, he's so busy going from tournament to tournament, just as all the rest of the pros do. When he is home we try very hard for him to have quality time with our children when they aren't in school.
"We both focus hard on that relationship. We don't want our boys to grow up and think their dad had a wonderful career, but we didn't have much of a relationship. So that's a big priority for us. Our kids mean too much to Kevin to not really be involved when he can be and to make up for that time when he's gone. So that keeps us busy."
Always an eye on the clock
When Kevin is at home during the school year, both he and Sherry work hard to finish as much business as possible while the kids are in school — allowing for more family time when the boys get home.
"Of course, everybody else is not on that same schedule so we end up doing some work after school hours too, but we try to do as much as we can while they are at school so that when they come home he can focus on them. Kevin likes to go to all their sports games and practices."
When the tournament season slows down, VanDam's calendar stays full.
"He does at least 30 speaking engagements a year. He donates so much time to kids, to churches, to youth camps, to men's groups as well as sports shows and Bassmaster University. He talks to schools and to biology classes. He does television appearances and a lot of things for Bass Pro Shops and Strike King. Sometime it seems like there are not enough hours in the week these days."
The VanDam's also receive weekly batches of fan mail that they try to answer personally. They process and fulfill orders for Kevin's two books, and they manage relationships with his sponsors and industry executives. Sherry also manages all of his travel and accommodations when he is on the road during the tournament season.
"I don't think most people have any idea the kind of pressure Kevin is under off the water," said his good friend, fellow Michigander and ESPN Outdoors television commentator, Mark Zona. "I've been with the guy a lot when he is trying to relax and spend time with his family. His phone is always ringing."
On the road
In 2007, the tournament schedule will increase dramatically with 11 Elite Series events and three Majors.
"We're working on his summer schedule right now as far as when it makes sense for me and the boys to join him on the road," Sherry noted. "And we're trying to figure out when he might be able to fly home in between events, but you have to realize that these guys have their boats and their Suburbans and they can't just pull up into the airport parking lot and leave them.
"All their tackle and equipment is in their vehicle. You can really only fly from cities where you know someone or there's a Tracker dealer — someone you can trust to leave your equipment with and you won't be sitting at home worrying about whether everything is going to there when you get back. You have to look at it all and figure it out."
One week after the Bassmaster Classic, the Elite Series begins on Lake Amistad in extreme south Texas, followed by a stop at Lake Sam Rayburn in the east-central part of the state the next weekend.
"Obviously there will be some tournaments where if he doesn't do well, he might be able to come home, but there will be weeks where even if he doesn't make the cut it won't make sense for him to come all the way home to Michigan," Sherry explained. "So between February and September, he's only guaranteed two weekends at home."
Two weekends at home in eight months. That puts preserving family time in a new perspective.
CEO & star … COO & mom
The VanDams approach professional fishing as a business, as do most professional anglers, however, few businesses deal with the challenges that abound in pro angler business/family scenario. It's almost as if the Chief Executive officer is also a big television star and the Chief Operating Officer is also a mom. Finding a balance between the two is what the VanDams strive for.
"He has a family and I know that this time (when the kids are young) is so short so I have to protect it. We know he'll be gone next week and sometimes you don't even know what tomorrow will bring. So we have to stay grounded in our family life and realize that is the top priority.
"We have to have time as a family. There have been some promotional things he hasn't been able to do when we had family things planned and I wasn't willing to let that time go. Family is just as important as the business side. I think in the long run, most people understand. I just want the boys to have their dad-time and I want him to have his dad-time."
The VanDams also keep an active hand in their kids' education. In fact, Sherry is president of the PTO at her sons' school. And while dad may be a globe-trotting television star, he makes time for his kids while they're at school as well.
"Two years ago Kevin and I were the chairpersons of the press committee for our school district. We passed a $21 million bond issue to get a new high school built here in Kalamazoo. So we try to be very involved in the kids' education," Sherry said.
"Kevin will participate and help in any fundraisers and activities we do at the school when he is home. Most of the people in our community know us and they don't think he's a big deal. He doesn't have any ego about it at all. He'll get up on the ladder to put up Christmas decorations or pitch in for the school grounds clean up. Whatever needs to be done he'll do, because he's Jackson and Nicholas' father and that's his first and foremost role.
"When he is traveling we talk every day, normally about three times," Sherry said. "He tries to call the boys when they are getting ready for school to talk to them before they leave for the bus. Then he will call midday to check in with me. There may be phone calls that I can return for him or something I can take care of for him. Then we always talk each night to see how each other's days went."
They also continue to take care of business — even during the competition days.
"Kevin has never had an issue with doing business during a tournament. We talk about whatever business issues are at hand whether he is competing or not. He really is very good at just leaving it."
VanDam is known for his mental toughness as a professional angler, but is quick to admit that his wife has played a major role in his success.
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Ella Joyce Ceranic of Pinehurst passed on peacefully at First Health Hospice on Wednesday, December 14, 2016. Born February 12, 1941 in Rosiclare, IL, she is the daughter of the late James and Lucy Joyce of Manteno, IL. She is survived by her husband of 44 years, Thomas Ceranic, siblings Annie Bringelson of Harlingen, TX, and departed brother James P. Joyce of Toledo, OH.
A graduate of Southern Illinois University, she is also a retired employee of TWA and American Airlines, having been based in Chicago, Boston, St. Louis and San Francisco.
Employed by Trans World Airlines in 1964 as a stewardess, she enjoyed her work enthusiastically until retiring in 2006. She loved her work and it was obvious to all who worked on her flights. So much so, that she was voted flight attendant of the year by her peers. To quote one: “I was blessed by her beauty on so many memorable flights. I truly would feel my heart expand and my mouth turn into a grin as I boarded the aircraft for an adventure with Ella. We were so fortunate to have shared this earthly angel.”
Coincidentally, both she and her husband, a retired Pan Am pilot, were both hired by their respective airlines on the same day in 1964, she in Chicago and he in San Francisco. Married in 1972, each lived active lives in the San Francisco area for 33 years before retiring to the Pinehurst area in 1997. She will be missed by all who knew her. Heaven will never receive a more beautiful member. Not only was Ella beautiful to look at but her inner beauty always shined through along with her wonderful wit. | <urn:uuid:850e76bd-ba90-4e4b-b392-77f90587de8b> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | https://hardincountyindependentillinois.com/2016/12/20/obituary-of-ella-joyce-ceranic/ | 2017-12-13T16:43:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948529738.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20171213162804-20171213182804-00632.warc.gz | en | 0.983105 | 350 |
"dirt-eating," 1820, from Greek *geophagia (according to OED the actual Greek is geotragia), from geo-, combining form of ge "earth" (see Gaia) + phagein "to eat." See also pica (n.2).
A diseased appetite ... prevails in several parts of Alabama, where they eat clay. I heard various speculations on the origin of this singular propensity, called 'geophagy' in some medical books. [Lyell, "Second Visit to U.S.," 1850]
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Adult Education offers a range of classes on Sunday mornings during the program year (September through May) designed to feed the spiritual needs and intellectual curiosity of the church. Classes are held from 10:10-11am and are taught by various individuals, including the pastors. Current Adult Education offerings for the summer include the following:
- A discussion of the week's lectionary. Every Sunday in room 116 (on Sundays when Wasatch 101 is offered, held in room 355)
Soul Collage is a meditative process that engages the imagination and the intuition using images, scissors, paper, and glue in a quiet, prayerful space. You will be amazed by what you discover about yourself. No artistic tendencies required, just an open heart and a willingness to engage. All materials provided.
The next Soul Collage session will be held in Fellowship Hall on the following dates:
- Friday July 14th, 1:30-3:30pm
- Saturday July 15th, 10am-12pm
Centering Prayer is simply sitting in 20 minutes of silence, open to God's love and your love for God. It's prayer beyond thoughts, emotions and sensations. No experience is necessary, just a desire to take your relationship with God to a level deeper than conversation, to pure communion!
Are you new to the church and have questions about how things at Wasatch Presbyterian Church work? Do you know who the staff is? Do you know what the Session is and how it works? How about the Deacons, who are they and what do they do? Maybe you have some questions about how the Presbyterian church is organized. Or, maybe you have some other questions about how you can get involved in the life of Wasatch. If so, then this class is for you.! Wasatch 101 offers 3-week class sessions several times throughout the year, in order to serve the needs of newcomers. Classes are led by the pastors and Elder Doug Howe on Sunday mornings and childcare is provided. The class provides a great chance to connect with other people, improve your Wasatch church IQ and have some fun!
- The next Wasatch 101 class is offered July 9, 16 and 30 from 11:15am to 12:15 pm in the Conference Room (room 116). | <urn:uuid:c523fef5-a836-492c-924e-3fe2d84cbe11> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://www.wpcslc.org/spiritual-formation | 2017-08-19T01:39:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886105291.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170819012514-20170819032514-00514.warc.gz | en | 0.954836 | 462 |
THE WITCHER 2: ASSASSINS OF KINGS ENHANCED EDITION REVIEW
CD Projeckt’s Witcher 2 got some pretty high praise when released on PC last year. With all the DLC, more content and a revised graphics engine for the 360 release, is this a powerhouse conversion or a dull port?
Posted by PlayDevil.com Staff on Apr 24, 2012 14:14 (Apr 24, 2012 14:14)
Written by: Ian
CD Projeckt’s "The Witcher 2" got some pretty high praise when released on PC last year. With all the DLC, more content and a revised graphics engine for the 360 release, is this a powerhouse conversion or a dull port?
Plenty of videos, dev diaries and articles have stressed the work that has gone in, but is this just marketing BS?
You can tell even with the story how much work has gone on behind the scenes. The EE (Enhanced Edition) includes all of the previous DLC, as well as some all-new missions, that represent apparently 4-5 hours of new content since the game was first released. Amazingly, I had to look up what was new and what was original, such is the seamless blending into the narrative. Much of the work has gone into chapter 3 though, which was previously a little sparse in comparison to the other 2 major acts.
The game also now starts with a lavish 3- minute CGI movie, which is magnificent, and helps bring some more sense to the early scenes. Suffice to say, your quest to bring back your memories, find the kingslayer, and recover your loved ones is fantastic. On top of this, your moral choice at the end of the first act (and to a lesser extent the second) will affect how you progress through the game and what quests are available. It’s worth playing through twice just to see the different outcomes.
The Witcher 2 in original form supported gamepads, but it was an awkward combination that never quite worked, especially when in the menus. Thankfully the controls and interfaces have both been given a thorough tidy-up. Geralt controls beautifully, with fluid and dynamic animation that puts Mass Effect to shame, whilst the combat mechanics are also excellent. Wading in all guns blazing will lead to a quick death, but less finesse is required than Dark Souls. Instead, you get an excellent system of blow, counter-blow and riposte, with a little magic thrown in, topped off with a delightful panache of traps and timed upgrades (both in the form of sword oils, and a fantastic alchemy system), to tip the balance in your favour. It should be said, that whilst some work was done to balance the difficulty, the game does become considerably easier the more you progress.
Not everything is perfect though. The game autosaves very infrequently, so you’ll need to remember to manually save quite a bit (there is no quick-save option either). And whilst the interface has been tidied up, it’s still quite plodding to scroll through the various categories and when it comes to selling items. Further improvements are needed here for the next game, as I definitely felt like I spent too long in menus by the end of the game. Given Mass Effect’s success, some Kinect support here would be interesting if it worked well.
Throughout your quest, you end up in 4 large areas (plus the lengthy tutorial level), all of which apart from the first allow for a large degree of free-roaming. It’s an interesting system that allows for tighter storytelling than Skyrim, but yet doesn’t feel as linear as Mass Effect or Dragon Age 2.
Some people have been moaning about this online, but each area is huge, taking 5-10 minutes to cross on foot minimum, and is much more interesting than some of the sparser parts of Oblivion or Skyrim. Additionally navigation is sometimes a little obtuse, and the mini-map marker gives no indication of whether you are taking the right path, or of verticality, so finding objectives in buildings is based on blind luck as to which floor to try first. This is all the more annoying when most buildings load on a room-by-room basis. | <urn:uuid:a808b5ae-f206-4b04-8531-5e4222404ccc> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.playdevil.com/article/615/pro-evolution-soccer/ | 2015-04-26T01:14:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246652114.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045732-00310-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958088 | 880 |
Victorian communities have been devastated by fires and floods in the last few years and our hearts go out to the people affected by these natural disasters.
Many people want to help out and lend a hand to these communities – and volunteering is often the first thing we think of.
This section looks at some of the important ways you can help during an emergency.
Get involved early
The best thing to do is get involved with a local volunteer-based organisation well before a disaster strikes. That way you will already have all the necessary background checks and a membership with the volunteering group.
Local councils often rely on established volunteer-based organisations that can support and coordinate their own volunteers for relief and recovery efforts.
Become an emergency services volunteer
In an emergency, only trained volunteers who are already members of an organisation are called to hand. Some services respond during an emergency to protect people and property, while others need trained volunteers to assist in relief centres.
Get involved with an Emergency Services organisation and gain the experience, training and essential skills required.
Donations and fundraising
If you are not already involved in a local volunteer organisation, making a cash donation to an official appeal or to a registered charity is the best way to help out.
Other ways to help
- Do not travel to affected areas - it may still be unsafe for you to do so.
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We're all over any car that can handle a non-trivial trip to Home Depot and break the rear end loose pulling out of the parking lot. This BMW has those boxes checked with its wagon body, straight 6 motor, and 5 speed transmission wrapped in a $4,000 price tag.
We had a slightly newer 325XI in our garage for a bit, and while we've always loved the styling of these E46 wagons, the AWD and automatic lead to a less than exhilarating experience. This one, with it's 5-speed sending power to only the rear wheels should provide for more than adequate smiles.
This example is in Western Pennsylvania so those 193,000 miles were probably hard earned. That said, everything looks clean enough with some scratched paint and interior stains. The $4,000 price makes us unconcerned with those kinds of details.
What does concern us is the high mileage and the limited info. The fact that the "previous owner has redone every seal on this thing and kept very good care of it and so have I" sounds nice but a PPI will provide some assurances. Beyond sale-negating big issues, we'd keep an eye out on the rear suspension which has always been a weak point but is likely on it's 2nd or 3rd replacement by this point.
The high mileage may actually be something of an asset as it shows at least one thoughtful owner. If a PPI is all clear (or clear enough), we'd get new tires on this thing and see how long the clutch holds out with us trying to keep keep the rear wheels in a constant state of motion.
Find this Bargin Wagon on Craigslist in Pittsburgh, PA.
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This is a bizarre end to the Kojo Mensah saga, but hey, did you expect anything less? I wonder what Lou Gossett Jr. thinks.
Mensah told InsideHoops.com, “It’s a good time right now to come out, especially based on the amount of media attention we had this year.”
It’s unclear whether he’s referring to 1. The media attention he, Norm Ostrin, Lou Gossett Jr. and several other characters received during a made-for-slapstick transfer from Siena, 2. The media attention he and four other Duquesne players received after being shot in 2006 or 3. The media attention he received on the basketball court, which didn’t appear to be much.
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Cook Out - Burger Review from Suffolk, Virginia
Horrible cold burger..Sloppy presentation.
Theyve slacked off.I came at 330 today
Reviewer is in unhappy mood. Please immediately contact the author of this review to discuss bad quality of cook out burger. Cook Out needs to read this review and look into the issue (if any) according to poster's claims. | <urn:uuid:5e9f1833-e8d7-498a-a6b6-9095f722885b> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | https://cook-out.pissedconsumer.com/cook-out-burger-review-from-suffolk-virginia-20150918702164.html | 2017-09-22T02:32:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818688158.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170922022225-20170922042225-00261.warc.gz | en | 0.904637 | 78 |
In some ways, it reads like a bad novel: “Every Step You Fake” (https://openeffect.ca/reports/Every_Step_You_Fake.pdf), a Canadian study of privacy and security in personal fitness devices. The report outlines two key areas in which these devices have significant security and privacy shortcomings — but just as you feel sympathy for the devices’ wearers, you learn they may be the “bad actor” in other cases. We can spot adversaries in every direction, but who’s the hero of this drama? And, frankly, does it need to be a drama?
The two shortcomings outlined in the report are that:
- the devices’ radio-based transmissions can “leak” your presence and make you trackable (anonymously) through shopping malls that do that sort of thing; and
- it’s possible to fake out some of the website collection servers so that you can “adjust” your results.
Well, wait. Why so much drama around a device you electively wear on your person? What are the actual problems that need solving here?
In the first case, tracking, let’s be clear that the shopping malls have no knowledge of who they are tracking in this instance, but just that the same device is showing up in different areas of the mall, and how much time the wearer is spending in particular places. And, they could presumably also note when the same tracker reappeared at a later date, if they keep and mine their data that way. The purported use of this tracking technology is to determine mall traffic patterns and peoples’ interests. The report gives higher marks to the fitness devices that mask this information, making them harder to track.
From the standpoint of the wearer, I have to say I don’t care to be tracked: I never enjoyed being followed around a shop by an overzealous clerk, and the feeling isn’t particularly reduced just because I can’t see the person who’s following me. But there are actually 3 avenues to pursue here:
- Don’t wear the fitness device.
- Only wear a fitness device that purports to mask the leaky data.
- Work to make the tracking of device IDs illegal, or at least heavily circumscribed in terms of what can be done with the data.
None of them is actually a great answer, but the one most often assumed to be the best is the middle one: working on making the devices untrackable.
Let’s go back to the device-wearer-as-hacker side of the coin. Some fitness tracker server sites use less security protections than others, and people have figured out how to edit the data that has been collected by the device to present a very different reality. E.g., to say that the wearer has walked 800 miles in a day.
So, what are the consequences if the wearer fakes out their own data? We can expect that such trickery would have all the usual consequences associated with (false) bravado and boasting of accomplishments — just faster, because the services are connected to social networks and “accomplishments” can circle the globe in seconds. Additionally, there is of course self-delusion, and loss of utility of the device for your own health-management purposes.
But, the world has already moved on, and there might be more significant, even monetary implications, if their health insurance premiums are dependent on demonstrating that they have exercised.
Yes, of course, companies should build more robust systems. But maybe we should remember that technology is a tool, which can either help or hinder but not replace our individual engagement with the world. Is it right to base judgements on these data to begin with? The data collected and the tracking are both representations that we assume adequately reflect a reality we’re interested in capturing. Any step taken from here is essentially layering more technology baggage to make a surrogate seem more reliable (while in fact making it more brittle).
When do we step back and focus on our actual interpersonal interactions, re-establishing the value of personal integrity and commitment, and putting some real power in the statement — for individuals, corporations, and governments — that “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should?” | <urn:uuid:411f982a-824b-4083-9118-674a815eab22> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | http://web.thinkingcat.com/wordpress/2016/02/tracker/ | 2019-04-20T10:51:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578529606.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20190420100901-20190420122901-00223.warc.gz | en | 0.953569 | 901 |
Go back in time with us to the end of the Pleistocene epoch, 13,000 years ago, when glaciers covered North America. Discover what changes were taking place in the environment and why some animals survived while others, like masto-dons and sabre toothed-lions did not.
Science Talk: Jeffrey Kerby, is a Visiting Arctic Fellow at Dartmouth College. His research touches on elements of community, landscape, and behavioral ecology, and has recently focused on gelada monkeys and large Arctic herbivores. He is interested in how life history traits mediate species interactions, particularly in highly seasonal and rapidly changing environments of the Arctic and alpine regions of Africa.
Artist Walk: The contributing artists, Bob Shannahan and Wendy Klemperer will take us along the lighted pathway through the meadow to examine the Ice Age Mammals up close. We’ll explore the types of adaptations they used to survive the snow and ice-covered world just 13,000 years ago and learn about their processes in researching and building the life-sized sculptures.
Following the walk, warm up with some refreshments and cocoa!
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Amazing HOT deal and move in ready! Wonderful opportunity in Galena Territory with amenities! This 4 bedroom 4 private bath has been completely remodeled! The huge stainless steel kitchen is fantastic for entertaining. Enjoy sitting or reading in your 4 season room with the air of the outdoors. Sit in the living room with a cozy fire. Large family room with a game area and bar with a walk-out basement. Let's not forget the gleaming hardwood floors and blinds, wrap around porch, new roof, plenty of storage. You will not be disappointed! | <urn:uuid:6200a67b-3344-4a55-ace9-2b372a1d22a7> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.pahnkerealestate.com/property/20201235/ | 2021-07-31T14:26:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154089.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20210731141123-20210731171123-00432.warc.gz | en | 0.924649 | 118 |
About Citrix Files for Mac
Citrix Files for Mac allows you to access your files directly through a mapped drive, providing a native Finder experience. Files are downloaded only when accessed, and temporarily stored on your computer. Changes made to the files are automatically saved back to the cloud. You can access more functionality through the right-click context menu and perform operations such as sharing or requesting of files. | <urn:uuid:8b599c8c-1782-4064-9cdb-ad92f09d14bf> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://help-docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-files/citrix-files-for-mac/about.html?lang-switch=true | 2024-02-23T07:26:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474361.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223053503-20240223083503-00258.warc.gz | en | 0.906245 | 81 |
K1 Speed Junior League Round II March 6th
07 March 2012
Its that time again as the K1 Speed Junior League Race Series will be heading to round two next week March 6th at multiple K1 Speed locations. The very popular Junior/Youth league is geared towards the younger generation of indoor kart racers and preps them for the next step heading into the world of competitive kart racing. Entry fee is just $40.00 per driver per event and races are ran with the Mini GP style format with a single qualifying race that will place drivers in their starting positions according to their best single lap time. Drivers will be placed by height requirements in either the Junior or Adult karts. This is an all run event and open to all skill levels and experiences, some come out to your favorite K1 Speed location March 6th and see what the Junior/Youth race league is all about! | <urn:uuid:4e028cf4-1997-411b-892e-3cf3034a8e4c> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://www.k1speed.com/blog/k1-speed-junior-league-round-ii-march-6th.html | 2018-01-18T06:02:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887067.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20180118051833-20180118071833-00299.warc.gz | en | 0.966531 | 185 |
News & Industry Affairs/IATA news
- February Air Passenger Market Analysis
- February Air Freight Market Analysis
- IATA launches Diversity & Inclusion Awards
- How IATA's One Order could revolutionize travel management
- January Air Passenger Market Analysis
- January Air Freight Market Analysis
- Dossier: Fit for purpose - The Chicago Convention
- IATA 2019 Training Catalogue
- IATA Annual Review 2018
- IATA & ICAO aviation training: No Country Left Behind
- IATA 2018 Annual General Meeting
- Safety: 3.8 billion air travellers by 2036
- February SAATM: Africa open skies agreement
Safety: 3.8 billion air travellers by 2036
Safely managing future air travel demand
April 17, 2018. IATA news. Global aviation safety is built on a foundation of co-operative agreements, sharing, working together effectively, and an adherence to global standards. IATA, steering this partnership approach, held its 2018 Safety and Flight Ops Conference in Montreal, Canada from 17 - 19 April.
IATA’s Director General and CEO Alexandre de Juniac, and Dr. Fang Liu, Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), delivered the keynote remarks, with representatives from the FAA, UNICEF, Changi Airport Group, Canadian Space Agency, IFALPA, CANSO, EASA and COCESNA present at the conference. The theme was Technological Progress and Safe Operations: Embracing Technology-Driven Change.
IATA has predicted the number of air passengers will likely double the amount recorded in 2017. De Juniac urged aviation stakeholders to adopt global standards and make greater use of operational data in order to safely accommodate an additional 3.8 billion air travelers by 2036.
Over the next 20 years, we expect to see a near doubling of passengers from the approximately 4 billion who traveled in 2017. Managing this growth, while making aviation even safer than it already is, will be a massive undertaking. Introducing automated advanced business analytics to the IOSA process will enable better management of resources, the ability to measure the effectiveness of standards, and an enhanced level of quality assurance. Digital transformation also will enable more seamless interaction on industry safety initiatives, standards and operational practices, as well as bench-marking.
IATA’s Director General and CEO Alexandre de Juniac, speaking at the 2018 Safety and Flight Operations Conference in Montreal (17-19 April)
Sources: iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2018-04-17-01.aspx and eturbonews.com/180929/2018-safety-and-flight-ops-conference-looks-at-technology-driven-change and businessamlive.com/aviation-industry-must-prepare-to-accommodate-3-8bn-new-passengers-by-2036-says-iata/ | <urn:uuid:ca006360-dd99-43b0-820f-7047c77e5d34> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | http://www.aasa.za.net/news-industry-affairs/iata-news/safety-3-8-billion-air-travellers-by-2036.html | 2019-04-18T12:18:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578517639.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20190418121317-20190418143317-00177.warc.gz | en | 0.876191 | 614 |
STRANDBURG — Memorial services for Marion Buflod, age 87, formerly of Strandburg, will be held on Saturday, May 25 at 2 p.m. at Tabor Lutheran Church in Strandburg. The Rev. Elmer Brinkman will officiate and burial will be in the LaBolt Cemetery.
Music will be provided by Kathy Granquist, organist; Carolyn Boulay, violinist; and Patrick Boulay, vocalist.
A luncheon will be provided by the ladies of Tabor Lutheran Church.
Marion died Dec. 19, 2012, in Billings, Mont.
Marion Ione (Nord) Buflod was born Sept. 13, 1925, to Carl and Elna Nord of LaBolt. She grew up on a farm where she developed a deep appreciation of nature and country lifestyle. She graduated from nearby Strandburg High School in 1943 and started her teaching career that fall.
She married John E. Buflod in 1945 and together they began a family that included five children, Carl John, Carole Jean, Mary Lee, Julie Ann and Melvin Ray “Skip.”
The family moved to eastern Montana in 1955 and she resumed teaching at rural schools north of Miles City, followed by Rosebud, Hysham and Miles City elementary schools.
After her husband’s death in 1986, she moved back to her roots in South Dakota for nine years and then returned to Montana to be closer to her family.
Marion was an independent spirit who made frequent solo driving trips of 500 miles to visit friends and relatives until well into her mid-80s. She liked to read and passed that enjoyment onto her children and grandchildren.
She remained a country girl at heart and enjoyed the scenic beauty of Montana prairies as much as the rolling hills of her childhood home in eastern South Dakota.
She always took a keen interest in the people around her and kept in contact with a large extended family as well as the many friends and acquaintances she made throughout her life. She was a loyal and supportive grandmother and played a very large role in the lives of her grandchildren.
Marion is survived by her sister, Marlys (Wilbur) Johnson of Strandburg; her children, Carl (Judy) Buflod and Carole (Sterling) Warner; her grandchildren, Michelle (Jacob) Dauenhauer, Brooke Bartholomew, Jennifer (Vinson) Forsman, Brittany (Clint) Cecil and John “Garry” Buflod; her great-grandchildren, Jade Forsman and Lander Dauenhauer; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her sisters, Donna Fischer and Muriel Lundberg; her husband, John Buflod; her daughters, Julie Bartholomew and Mary Perkins; and her son, Melvin Buflod.
Mundwiler Funeral Home of Milbank is in charge of the arrangements for Marion Buflod.
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BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker and Mayor Marty Walsh have unveiled a tuition-free college program for low-income students in Boston.
The Republican governor and the Democratic mayor launched the new college affordability program for high school graduates in the city on Tuesday. The aim is to allow eligible students to complete four-year degrees without paying tuition or mandatory fees.
The program, called The Boston Bridge, will be open to 2017 high school graduates who live in the city.
The state and the city said they’ll cover students’ tuition and fees, taking federal Pell grants into account.
“College affordability too often serves as a barrier for students in the Commonwealth seeking to complete a degree, and this program is intended to provide more opportunities for a quality education,” Baker said.
Walsh said the partnership means “a free bachelor’s degree is within reach” for low-income students.
To qualify for the tuition-free program, eligible students must meet federal Pell grant income standards and enroll full time at Bunker Hill Community College, Roxbury Community College or Mass Bay Community College. The students will be required to complete their associates’ degrees within two and a half years before transferring to state public colleges or state universities.
The new tuition-free college program builds on Boston’s Tuition Free Community College initiative and the state’s Commonwealth Commitment, which were launched last year.
Walsh said Boston’s Tuition Free Community College initiative has helped 50 public school graduates in Boston attend community college.
The Commonwealth Commitment program offers discounted tuition and fees to state residents who earn a bachelors’ degree at any public four-year institution after first earning an associates’ degree at a community college, while maintaining a 3.0 grade point average and graduating within four-and-a-half years.
As of April, 2017, 80 students statewide were enrolled in the program.
State Higher Education Commissioner Carlos Santiago said The Boston Bridge program was built to help students get from high school to college commencement.
“Our message to students is clear: If you commit the time and do the work, we’ll be beside you every step of the way to help you complete your college journey while avoiding burdensome debt,” Santiago said in a statement.
Newton Mayor Setti Warren — a Democratic candidate in next year’s gubernatorial election — said the program isn’t a solution for the state as a whole.
Warren has proposed free tuition for Massachusetts residents at all public colleges and universities in the state.
“Every child in Massachusetts, regardless of where they are born, who their parents are, or how much money they have, should be able to go to college without signing their lives away to crushing student loan debt,” Warren said in statement. | <urn:uuid:480b889e-56d8-4a27-9068-b5c6e26d4e75> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://diverseeducation.com/article/97157/ | 2020-02-24T14:38:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145960.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20200224132646-20200224162646-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.945409 | 582 |
1.5" Wood Handle Natural Bristle Pastry Brush
Natural bristle pastry brush is 1.5" wide with wood handle. Natural boar bristles will not singe like plastic brushes. This inexpensive brush is handy for everything from buttering your pans to brushing on the olive oil when you're making crostini.
- Handle MaterialsWood
- Brush MaterialsNatural boar bristles
- Dimensions7.5" x 1.5"
- Care InstructionsHand wash | <urn:uuid:82e8ea11-cbb4-4583-a19a-69b7b2cfd730> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.kitchenworksinc.com/15-Wood-Handle-Natural-Bristle-Pastry-Brush__958375.aspx | 2017-01-18T09:59:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00025-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.812133 | 99 |
Reality TV stars who have died
The Dixie National Rodeo rolled into Jackson Thursday with a wagon train.
The Dixie National Rodeo rolls into Jackson with a wagon train.
A woman is shot during a carjacking near Davis Elementary School, Jackson police say.
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Chris Isaak heads out before holidays hit
Singer/songwriter Chris Isaak has mapped out a month-long trek across parts of the U.S. before the year ends.
The California native begins the journey Nov. 27 in Solana Beach, CA, and works his way throughout the western part of the nation, as well as the South before Christmas. The 12-city outing wraps Dec. 22 in St. Petersburg, FL.
Isaak most recently unveiled "Beyond the Sun," his 10th studio album, in Oct. 2011. The collection of songs originally recorded by Sun Records artists, including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, peaked at No. 32 on The Billboard 200.
Isaak released a live version of the set, aptly titled "Beyond the Sun Live," in November 2012 via Vanguard Records. That release also features live renditions of his earlier hits, such as "Somebody's Crying" and "Wicked Game."
27 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern
29 - Thousand Oaks, CA - Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza
30 - Cerritos, CA - Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
6 - Bremerton, WA - Admiral Theatre
7 - Aberdeen, WA - D&R Theatre
8 - Airway Heights, WA - Northern Quest Resort & Casino
10 - Boulder, CO - Boulder Theater
13 - Waukegan, IL - Genesee Theatre
16 - Charlotte, NC - Knight Theater
17 - Durham, NC - The Carolina Theatre
20 - West Palm Beach, FL - Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
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Wine Festivals in Hungary
Since Hungary has 22 wine regions and all regions hold wine festivals the list would be endless.
Villány, Eger, Tokaj, Szekszárd, The area around Lake Balaton, Etyek and Neszmély. Just to name a few, over the past years these wine festivals grew into prestigious events combined with art festivals and several live performances.
In Budapest, in the Buda Castle last year the wine festival attracted tens of thousands of visitors making it one of the largest wine festivals in the country. It is held in the Castle Quarter right by Buda Castle. It is an experience for everyone who wants to learn about the art of wine making, sample some of the best Hungarian wines, meet notable wine makers and enjoy Hungarian gastronomy and folk music all in a breathtaking setting. | <urn:uuid:76170379-8103-479c-aba2-ce9944890fd9> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | http://www.undiscoveredhungary.com/categories/7-events/types/52-wine-festivals | 2019-09-23T05:07:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514576047.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20190923043830-20190923065830-00225.warc.gz | en | 0.957675 | 175 |
Amendment Report (7880.34 KB)
MRS 1211 - Report on Submissions (6701.68 KB)
The Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) has considered all the submissions received in respect of the amendment proposal for the Maddington-Kenwick Strategic Employment Area - Precinct 1 Amendment 1211/41. This proposal was first published in the Government Gazette on 2 August 2011. The amendment is shown on WAPC plan number 3.2356/2.
The amendment, with modifications, has been presented to and approved by the Governor in accordance with the requirements of the Planning and Development Act 2005. It will now be tabled in both Houses of Parliament, where it must remain for 12 sitting days. During this time either House may, by resolution, disallow the amendment. As soon as the amendment is no longer subject to disallowance it becomes legally effective in the Metropolitan Region Scheme.
Copies of the amendment and the accompanying report on submissions are available for public inspection from Wednesday 2 May 2012 at:
- Western Australian Planning Commission, 140 William Street, Perth
- J S Battye Library, Level 3 Alexander Library Building, Perth Cultural Centre
- City of Perth
- City of Fremantle
- City of Gosnells
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Mally Mall shook things up the other night when he linked up with Cali artist The K.I.D. Heat and recruited YMCMB artists Drake & Tyga for a new club banger called “Whatcha Say”. Still riding that wave, Mally decides to link up with Too $hort & DBizz and deliver another new track for the fans titled “Cho$e”.
With some heavy West Coast sounding production coming from JF The Producer & Mally himself, the track is another club-friendly record that aims its lyrics at the picky ladies. No word yet on where this might end up.
Take a listen, and be sure you listen to the new Drake-assisted banger “Whatcha Say”, if you haven’t already.
What she do that for?
She aint leaving you, until I say lets go
I never fucked her, so it’s not the dick
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Nylon+UHMWPE+Glassfibre liner coated sandy nitrile glove , cut resistance level 4.
1.13 Gauge Seamless knitted Nylon +HPPE+Glassfibre liner, super soft and comfortable.
2.Cut resistant liner and sandy nitrile finish on palm.
3.Silk screen or heat transfer logo on glove back.
4.The cuff is very elastic and easy to wear.
5.This type glove is very dexterity and sensitivity.
6.The glove liner color can be changed.
7.CE New Standard: 2016 EN388: 4X42C, Cut resistant level 4 (EN388 2016) and cutting resistance TDM Level C (ISO13997).
8.Normal Package: 12 pairs/polybag, 120 pairs/carton.
4.Handing sharp parts.
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“Not to us, O LORD, not to us but to Your Name be the glory, because of Your love and faithfulness” - Psalm 115:1.
Hi, welcome to my website. I’d be happy to hear from you, so please contact me with any questions or comments.
I think it’s important for you to know I believe what I’m singing, so you can read about how I became a Christian, on the About me page.
You’ll find a song from each CD on the Album page, Please feel free to download these, and to sing them in your churches - I’d love that.
Do take a look at my thoughts on worship too
I hope you enjoy looking around. Thanks for visiting.
North Korea - short version
Written by Sarah, taken from her first album, Giving God The Glory.
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A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice.
"Get this for your pregnant friends, or yourself." People
Recommended by Nicole Cliffe in Slate
Featured in People Picks
A Red Tricycle Best Baby and Toddler Parenting Book of the year
One of Mother magazine's favorite parenting books of the year
How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers often have for their mates. After Jancee Dunn had her baby, she found that she was doing virtually all the household chores, even though she and her husband worked equal hours. She asked herself: How did I become the 'expert' at changing a diaper?
Many expectant parents spend weeks researching the best crib or safest car seat, but spend little if any time thinking about the titanic impact the baby will have on their marriage - and the way their marriage will affect their child.
Enter Dunn, her well-meaning but blithely unhelpful husband, their daughter, and her boisterous extended family, who show us the ways in which outmoded family patterns and traditions thwart the overworked, overloaded parents of today.
On the brink of marital Armageddon, Dunn plunges into the latest relationship research, solicits the counsel of the country's most renowned couples' and sex therapists, canvasses fellow parents, and even consults an FBI hostage negotiator on how to effectively contain an "explosive situation." Instead of having the same fights over and over, Dunn and her husband must figure out a way to resolve their larger issues and fix their family while there is still time. As they discover, adding a demanding new person to your relationship means you have to reevaluateand rebuildyour marriage. In an exhilarating twist, they work together to save the day, happily returning to the kind of peaceful life they previously thought was the sole province of couples without children.
Part memoir, part self-help book with actionable and achievable advice, How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids is an eye-opening look at how the man who got you into this position in this first place is the ally you didn't know you had.
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About the Author
Jancee Dunn is the New York Times bestselling author of five books, including a memoir, a children's book, and Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir. Her essay collection, Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo? was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Parents. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Maters Gonna Hate 3
Mothers, Fathers, Issues 26
"Get off Your Ass and Help Out!": Our Harrowing Encounter with the Man from Boston 54
Rage Against the Washing Machine: How to Divvy Up Chores 82
Rules of Fight Club 113
TGIM: How Not to Hate Your Weekends After Kids 147
Guess What? Your Kids Can Fold Their Own Laundry 167
Bone of Contention 188
Kids: Your New Budget Deficit 208
Hot Mess: Less Clutter, Fewer Fights 222
Know That Eventually It's Going to Be Just the Two of You Again-Well, Unless Another Recession Hits 240
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Now, while I have neither a husband or children, there were a lot of moments where I found myself nodding along to something Dunn was writing about and before I knew it, I was reaching for a pen to write notes. I shared my other copy with my good friend, Amy who does indeed have a husband and two lovely kiddos (70% of the time by her own admission) and she said that this book completely changed her outlook and approaches with her family. From help with household chores, finding more ‘me’ time, and general happiness, I’ve seen Dunn’s book work wonders! How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids is a humorous, heartfelt, and honest memoir/self-help book where Jancee Dunn describes how her marital dynamics changed with the arrival of their daughter. Rather than throwing in the dishtowel, Dunn made it her mission to seek out experts and therapists in a great attempt to save her marriage and, in the process, once again find the man she fell in love with. During one of her ‘me’ times Amy and I were discussing how after reading the book, we felt that Jancee had become a very good friend and her book seemed to be speaking directly to us about so many things. This is truly a book for everyone! Dunn is able to relate her firsthand experiences with such wit and wisdom that you’ll be simultaneously making mental notes and laughing out loud.
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My songs are sexier than me: Kylie
London: She has a figure to die for but pop star Kylie Minogue feels she is no "love goddess" and insists that her songs are sexier than she is.
The 42-year-old singer is back on the charts this year with her new album `Aphrodite` named named after the Greek love goddess, The Sun reported online.
"I am not a love goddess but I am convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music," Minogue said.
The Grammy-award-winning singer is also pleased with the fact that her younger sister Danni has found love with hunk Kris Smith as it takes the limelight off her relationship with Spanish model Andres Velencoso.
Minogue said she will be delighted if Danni decides to tie the knot.
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What Can I Do After Sex To Help Get A Boy Or Girl Baby?
By: Sandy Dean: Most of the questions that I get about choosing your baby’s gender concern specifics regarding your regimen before you attempt to have sex in order to conceive. Occasionally though, I hear from someone who has already had what they hope is conception sex and who is, after the fact, trying to influence their baby’s gender.
I heard from a woman who said: “my husband and I want to have a boy baby. I have had sex on what I think is my ovulation day. Now, what should do to make sure that I definitely get a boy?” This question concerned a boy baby, but the answer is the same for either gender. And I will answer both concerns below.
Most Of The Things That Help You Choose Your Baby’s Gender At Home Should Happen Before You Have Sex In The Hopes Of Conceiving: Many people who are successful in influencing their baby’s gender begin their regimen well before they actually want to conceive. They might start testing for ovulation weeks before they actually expect it just to be sure in their accuracy. They might start eating certain foods or using certain douches to alter their PH (which should be acidic for a girl and alkaline for a boy) weeks before they will actually attempt to conceive. And they might practice sexual positions long before they actually try to get pregnant using their chosen position.
If this all seems silly or over the top to you, consider that you really have a very limited amount of time every month where you can actually conceive the gender of your choice. The window is a little more generous if you don’t care which gender that you end up with. But if you have a definite preference, then you need to be very precise with the few days that you have.
Because for a girl baby, you’re looking at having sex only before ovulation and only when you are acidic. For a boy, you’re looking at the period of time when an alkaline PH meets the days after ovulation. As you can see, there’s not a lot of time here, so anything that you can do to create the right set of circumstances before it’s actually time to conceive will help you to be more successful. But taking action after the fact is often too late.
Conception Occurs Quickly After Intercourse And Is Set At Fertilization. By That Time, It’s Often Too Late To Influence Your Baby’s Gender: People sometimes will ask me what they should eat after sex or if they should douche after sex to try to influence their baby’s gender. But typically, if you have already had sex (and hopefully have been successful and have conceived) then it is likely already too late. Changing your PH typically takes more than just minutes or hours. And, unless you’re very lucky, having one snack or trying one douche is not going to be sufficient either.
I wish it were different, but by the time you conceive, your baby’s gender is set. When your egg is fertilized by either an X or Y sperm, then whichever sperm is successful determines your baby’s gender at that time. (X for a girl and Y for a boy.) This doesn’t change no matter what you eat or which douches you use after the fact. It only matters if conception wasn’t successful and you get another chance.
So to answer the question posed, although elevating your legs after sex and taking it easy can help to give you a successful conception, it really doesn’t do much to influence your baby’s gender. This woman would likely be disappointed, but she could always try again if she didn’t conceive this time. And she herself admitted that she wasn’t sure about her ovulation day. Testing instead of guessing can help with this also.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been ridiculed for his paternalistic approach at improving the health of New York City residents. Bloomberg and his supporters often justify the bans by citing health survey data and extending probable causations of implementation of the bans as indicators of what positive impact the bans have on the health of society and ultimately the taxpayers. He’s gone so far as to say, poor people need the soda ban because they “can’t take care of themselves.” Few people question this logic, though health survey data doesn’t take into account all factors that may yield positive results. Certainly unintended consequences of prohibition will arise that are unlikely to be considered into the measurements of the “success” of his bans.
Bloomberg is notorious for a top-down approach of implementing bans on health vices like the sales of larger sized sugary sodas; raising the minimum price of tobacco products while hiding displays in stores; restricting smoking cigarettes in restaurants, workplaces, public parks and beaches; and reducing the amount of salt in packaged and restaurant food by 25%t over the next five years to combat high blood pressure.
On May 31, Bloomberg was on a WOR-AM radio show on which he made the claim, “There is no medical [marijuana]. This is one of the great hoaxes of all time.” This radio interview took place one day after the New York State Assembly approved a bill decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana in an 80-59 vote.
A medical advocacy group, NY Physicians for Compassionate Care is one of the lobbying groups behind the efforts to decriminalize and have provided mounting evidence to the contrary of Bloomberg’s claims. NY Physicians for Compassionate Care cited an extensive list of scientific evidence including: “the gold-standard randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trials, has made clear that medical marijuana is safe and effective in controlling chronic pain, alleviating nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy, treating wasting syndrome associated with HIV/AIDS, controlling muscle spasms due to multiple sclerosis, and managing epilepsy. Emerging evidence also suggests that medical marijuana may help patients living with cancer, Parkinson’s, and other chronic and debilitating illnesses.”
In addition to the medicinal reasons for decriminalization, another lobbying group in favor of the bill has provided law enforcement statistics as indicators of the necessity of relaxing marijuana laws. As the bill moves to the State Senate for a vote, Gabriel Saygeh of the Drug Policy Alliance has asserted, “The NYPD spent 1 million police hours on these low level marijuana arrests.”
Mayor Bloomberg’s concerns with medical marijuana and decriminalization of handling small amounts is consistent with his top-down style for making strides toward better community health but fails to fully address some of the unintended consequences associated with prohibition laws. In the May 31 radio interview, he was also quoted saying, “Drug dealers have families to feed. If they can’t sell marijuana, they’ll sell something else.”
Bloomberg’s acknowledgement of the negative consequences of marijuana decriminalization shows the imperfections of dictating bans on health vices. The recent over-ruling of the sugary soda ban made by Justice Milton A. Tingling of State Supreme Court in Manhattan has shown that these bans are arbitrary and hard to measure.
Mayor Bloomberg’s logic that marijuana dealers will resort to selling other drugs is hard to measure and counter-intuitive. He fails to address the health and safety concerns of the families who have chosen the route of drug dealing while accepting that alternative, black markets may arise as a result of government tampering. As Bloomberg’s website examined the historic precedence of alcohol prohibition, a theme arises of entrepreneurs trying to make money from the black market to care for their families.
If Bloomberg was really concerned with low income families resorting to selling marijuana or other drugs, he would take a more considerate look at drug policy impacts. The easier solution of putting a ban on arbitrary health vices could have unintended consequences of creating black markets and does more for public approval ratings than addressing health and safety of society. | <urn:uuid:f7beb402-a50f-4447-8768-3fda626484f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://www.mic.com/articles/45901/bloomberg-marijuana-medical-pot-one-of-the-greatest-hoaxes-of-all-time | 2022-11-29T01:26:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710684.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20221128235805-20221129025805-00568.warc.gz | en | 0.952528 | 840 |
Why has my bank charged me?
There are many reasons why a bank will charge an account. It can be: going over an overdraft limit, attempting to make payments without funds or overdraft and charges for specific transactions.
If you believe a bank charge is unfair there are steps you can take to reclaim the charge. Here are some things to know when thinking of recovering a bank charge.
If you have had extreme overdraft charges or any other bank fees, you can try to come to an agreement with your bank or reclaim back the charge. You should start by talking to your bank. If this doesn’t help, then you can try to get free help elsewhere.
How to prevent bank charges?
The best way to avoid a nasty bank charge is to prevent them from happening or building up in the first place.
You can take simple steps such as calculating how much money is needed in your bank account to cover your costs. Try your best to keep track of your cash and manage it well in advance.
Keep an eye on your overdraft limit so that you know when you are getting near it. Find out if your current bank can help you with a suitable overdraft limit or try to find a bank that provides cheaper overdraft options.
Always remember to seek financial support and advice if you require it.
Should you try to reclaim bank charges?
If you believe that your bank charge was unfair or it has put you in financial hardship then you can try to claim it back. It is important to remember, although it takes a lot of effort to claim, it is worth it.
A bank customer has nothing to lose if they try to reclaim bank charges. It will not cost you money, and your bank should not mistreat you for complaining.
You will need some time to begin the process which will involve calling your bank or writing them letters. If you then have a case, this will be investigated for free. Your bank also should not penalise you for attempting to claim.
Am I eligible to try and reclaim bank charges?
Yes! Any customer can write or call into their bank if they believe they are owed a refund. Sometimes, banks may kindly write off any charges to valued customers.
But in 2009, a Supreme Court ruling made it harder to reclaim bank charges. If you are struggling, it is still possible even if your bank refuses you the first time.
In this case, you can go to the Financial Ombudsman Service and ask them to help you investigate your case. They will do this for free.
The Financial Ombudsman Service can help if:
- You are struggling financially because of the charge. For example, you have lost your job or are unable to pay your bills or buy things you need. This also applies to any financial hardship caused by the charge.
- The charges are very unfair in comparison to what was done. For example, your bank has charged you £30 for being £1 overdrawn.
- The charges keep increasing and do not stop. For example, if your bank charges keep putting your balance into overdraft and the overdraft then costs more each time.
How do I claim back my bank charges?
This step by step guide will guide you through the process of claiming back charges. This will help you to: decide if you should complain or not, work out how much money you might get, complain properly to your bank and write complaint letters correctly.
Should I use a claims management company?
No, you do not have to use claims management companies. Many companies will charge you for trying to make a claim. You can avoid paying them if you do it yourself following our helpful guide.
Why did your bank charge you?
Before you begin the process of reclaiming bank charges make sure you have a good claim. Being charged can be unfair and difficult but before you start to complain, understand why you were charged in the first place.
Questions to ask:
- Did I read and understand the small print?
See what terms and conditions you agreed to with your bank. These will tell you why they charge bank accounts. Knowing this will stop any shock when seeing unplanned charges.
- Am I struggling with any debt?
If you are struggling with any debt or a bad credit score, it is useful also to seek financial advice and help from your bank.
- How can I manage my money better to prevent charges?
Learning how to manage your money to the best of your ability is also a step you can take to prevent charges from coming in the future.
Answering these questions will help you moving forward, reclaiming a current bank charge and helping to prevent bank charges later on.
Who is this guide for?
This guide is for bank customers who have had many charges that have grown over a long period. If you have experienced a recent one-off cost, or have been charged by mistake, just call your bank and see if they will take it off and refund you.
Will I win my claim and be refunded?
Sadly, there is no guarantee that you will win when reclaiming bank charges. But do not be discouraged; the process is risk-free and can help difficult financial situations. Try to remain positive; many people in the past have found battling their bank a successful experience.
Reclaiming bank charges step by step:
Here are the steps that you can take when you want to start to reclaim bank charges.
- Know how much you have been charged and how much you can reclaim
The first step to recovering bank charges is to calculate how many charges you have had and how much money there is to be reclaimed.
Charges that you can try to reclaim include: charges and related spending for going above an overdraft limit, charges for bounced cheques and failed direct debits or standing orders. This was usually £35 per transaction, but now it can be from £5 up to £35.
Monthly fees for certain bank accounts such as packaged accounts are not included in this. You can try to reclaim these through a different process. Credit card charges also follow a different process when reclaiming bank charges.
You can claim back charges even if the account is now closed and has been for a few years and you can reclaim from more than one bank. There is nothing to stop you making a new claim if you’ve had a payout before, but this may show signs of money mismanagement or financial issues.
Though opinions vary on how far back you can make claims for, it is generally accepted that you can go back a few years. No matter how far back you go, you will have to prove your financial situation during the period that you are claiming for.
You can provide evidence for your financial situation by providing bank statements. Don’t worry if you have not kept your old statements because you have the legal right to gain access to them.
- Gaining access to old bank statements and collect them
Not all bank customers keep old statements from years back, but your bank should always grant you access to them.
You can try online banking and search online to see what statements are available to you first. If you need more than you can find, then you can visit your bank, call them or write them to request the dates you need the statement for.
If this does not work, under the data protection act, you have the legal right to demand the information. Be sure to ask for ‘a list of charges’ because banks can charge £10 each time you ask for statements. They have 40 days from your request to respond to you, and if they don’t, you can report this breach to the Information Commissioner.
- Write to your bank asking them for a full refund on your money
When you are ready and have collected all of your supporting information such as old bank statements, you should now contact your bank.
The best way to do this is through a formal written letter. Many sites provide help and will allow you to use their template letters when you begin writing. If you are using a template letter, don’t forget to adapt it to suit your situation. Tell your truthful story and convey how the bank charge has affected your life.
Your aim should be to get the bank to take your unique situation seriously. You can use the fairness argument – letting your bank know how their unfair charges have made your financial life more difficult. State that you will take the case to the Financial Ombudsman Service if it is not dealt with appropriately.
What happens after I have tried to reclaim bank charges?
After you have written your complaint, your bank will acknowledge it and write a letter back to you. After this, they must deal with your claim within eight weeks. There are many outcomes that you may get from your bank.
Below are a few outcomes that you may get from your bank.
- A refund
Your bank may refund your charges back in full. This can be a ‘goodwill payment’ at their discretion. This will be more likely if you have a small claim or have given sufficient evidence as to why you should be refunded.
- A partial refund
If your bank does not offer you a full repayment, they may still offer you a partial refund. For example, they may refund you for a few months’ worth of charges. This should be a reasonable and sympathetic amount that correlates to your situation.
The bank may reject your claim straight away. Sometimes banks reject many people with reasonable claims, and this can prevent customers from pursuing the claim further. But, do not let rejection discourage you because there are many routes that you can take further.
At times, your bank may grant you a refund but still demand that you pay off any debt that you still have with the bank. This refund should usually help with repayments. If it does not, then you can continue your case with the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Reclaiming bank charges summary
If your bank has unfairly or wrongly charged you, then you can try and reclaim these bank charges. Make sure you know all the details of your charges and begin the process of writing to your bank as soon as possible. If successful, you could be offered a partial or even a full refund for any financial hardships caused by your bank. | <urn:uuid:fc72941d-2baa-4d43-97be-768b7505abc6> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://www.shoout.co.uk/banking/ | 2023-12-01T07:00:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100276.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201053039-20231201083039-00583.warc.gz | en | 0.960594 | 2,108 |
Biological Agents: Smallpox
The course "Biological Agents: Smallpox" is designed to give a brief overview of the routes of infection associated with this Category A agent, its uses as a bioweapon, its clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, and treatment options. Smallpox vaccinations and adverse reactions associated with the vaccine will also be discussed.
This course was created by Pacific EMPRINTS, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Anthropology. Creation of the course was funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Grant No. T01HP6427-0100.
This course fulfills, in part, the following Core Competencies for Teaching Emergency Preparedness to Health Professions Students and Clinical Personnel:
1. List the Category A agents.
2. Knowledge of the pharmaceutics and pharmaceuticals used to combat CBRNE agents.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Differentiate between the clinical presentations of smallpox and chickenpox.
Identify the risks associated with smallpox vaccinations.
Public Health personnel, Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Dentists, Veterinarians, Other Emergency Medical Services personnel
Certificate of Completion:
A Certificate of Completion is available to be printed for this course upon completion of the post-test with a score of 80% or higher.
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When I was growing up, my grandfather would often advise us to “never let anyone tell you who you are as a Māori and Ngāti Porou person.” I’ve tended to take a liberal interpretation of what that meant, but the underlying message was always about coming to know who you are, aspiring to that identity, and embracing the need and right to protect it. Today, I have a much deeper appreciation that this is a collective inheritance and not merely an individual endeavour. I am Ngāti Porou, but I didn’t just make it up along the way, it was passed on and entrusted not just to me but an entire generation. We are Groot – that is to say an interconnected people who even though many of us are living our lives around the world share genealogy and a desire to be Ngāti Porou. Some were brought up with or have put time into learning the culture and language, while others have no knowledge aside from the fact that they are descendants. This is crucial, because when you are part of an iwi (tribe), most, but not all, come to understand that not just anyone can claim the right to speak about “us.” You have to know what you’re talking about, and as one relation always says, you need to know “who is who in the jungle”, who are the leaders, who are the experts in the language and culture, those people who are the guardians of the Ngāti Porou galaxy: those people that speak for us and those who don’t.
This understanding of iwi (tribal) identity has always informed my perspective as an historian. I don’t talk about other tribes because I have no right to do so. One of our upoko ariki, tribal leaders, once put it this way:
Kaore e noho ma tētahi kē e kōrero ngā kōrero mo tātou (it is not about others talking about us). In terms of this I don’t expect a Ngā Puhi to come along and talk about Ngāti Porou, in the same way he doesn’t want me to go there and talk about Ngā Puhi.
Most of the time, other tribal people I encounter have always seemed to understand that “insider” iwi-centric positioning perfectly. For us, this is common knowledge that each of us are part of, adhere to, and are constantly striving to deepen and live our tribal identities. But during my time in academia I have come across those who see this view as narrow, problematic, and apparently unscholarly. Some critics accuse those who assert and aspire to tribal identity as being elitists who shut others out by putting in place “essentialist” identifiers to control who is an insider or outsider. According to these critics, this “ethnic essentialism” either grants or denies access and is denounced as too narrow, shutting out the experiences of those who cannot speak the language, do not know tikanga, or grew up away from home and have no knowledge of their own tribal history, geography, practices or genealogy. But this attack on our right to define ourselves appears to completely discount the idea that active tribal peoples share explicit knowledge, aspirations, and ways of viewing the world that connects us together as a nuanced collective. This is not a simplistic essentialist community, but a vibrant, varied, and conscious iwi that knows how we are different within a tribal network. We have lots of unconscious members of the tribe, who are indeed Ngāti Porou but couldn’t tell you about what Nati history and identity looks like.
The irony is that essentialism is actually a real problem as Edward Said rightly pointed out in his critique of the binary essentialist reductions of both the West and the Orient. For Ngāti Porou, the most destructive essentialisations used to identify us have been produced not by our people but predominantly by colonisers. Some historians and writers have oversimplified Ngāti Porou as “kupapa” or Crown loyalists. This essentialisation has since been rebutted by scholars like Monty Soutar in his excellent history on the leadership of Rapata Wahawaha. Ngāti Porou are far more multifaceted than this. Hirini Kaa’s recently completed doctoral study, for instance, offers a brilliant insight to the complex and varied world of Ngāti Porou religious sophistication as a tribe regularly conscious of its own spiritual experimentation, direction, and colourful core identities. Where there has been a degree of “ethnic essentialism” it has tended to come from European colonists who have over the years offensively described Māori as “savages” and “barbaric” backward “heathens.” Māori have often been type cast as an oversimplified “warrior race”, as a culture of “entertainers” and “singers”, with sections of our people being referred to as “terrorists” and “wreckers and haters.” One New Zealand sports commentator, only a decade ago now, infamously argued that Māori and other Polynesians don’t play cricket because apparently we can’t concentrate for more than 80 minutes, and therefore prefer the physicality and violence in games like rugby. Yes, ethnic essentialism is a problem, but those who have accused tribal peoples of subscribing to narrow ethnic essentialist constructs fail to appreciate how an assertion of our tribal identity is paramount to cultural survival and well-being in the face of already harmful essentialisations.
So why are those like me, who grew up with an education in our tribal identities suddenly being accused of “ethnic essentialism”? Perhaps it’s simply a reflection of someone else’s insecurities, angry or defensive because they had a bad experience with the language, culture, or the tikanga police? Maybe they tried to go home once but were put off because someone made them feel like they didn’t quite fit in? We might never know. Nevertheless, on the topic of ethnic essentialism, Leonie Pihama recently pointed out that:
Ethnic essentialism is used as a term to silence Indigenous Peoples and to deny our fundamental whakapapa connections to our sovereign right to be Māori and to assert rangatiratanga in relation to our tikanga, reo, whenua – usually those using it do so to claim spaces that they seek to hold power over.
I have certainly seen my fair share of these predators in academia who seek to deny the validity of tribal knowledge because it calls into question their own coveted place in indigenous research. In years gone by this group was populated by Pākehā scholars, who told Māori they were doing us a favour by saving our knowledge from colonial extinction or validating it within what they believe are superior methodological frameworks. John Rangihau once observed how ridiculous it was that these people professed to know more about being Māori than we do. When Māori have reminded these scholars about the tikanga related to indigenous research, some have scoffed at what they say is a lack of objectivity, condemned binary insider / outsider research positions, questioned the underlying political “presentism” in Māori communities, and sought to undermine tribal experts by repositioning them as one-eyed parochial idealists who lack the research skills, objectivity and nous to see beyond their own tribal parapets. More recently, these critics are not just Pākehā scholars, but Māori, who believe that their hybrid experiences or intellectual revelations have shown them new identities beyond the essentialisms of iwi. But in their rush to claim a new intersectional marginality and critique iwi mātauranga some completely miss the fact that by doing so they misinterpret, undermine, and can often cause harm to, Māori and tribal aspirations for self-determination. Perhaps most concerning, however, is the bizarre critique of tribal epistemologies that has surfaced in the work of some scholars, who dismiss iwi mātauranga because it is based on what they believe are wildly essentialist frameworks. These are scholars who have somehow come to the conclusion that an aspiration to the values, language, proverbs, songs, histories, protocols, and politics held by tribal peoples are merely a set of fixed essentialist reductions. These commentators often believe that they are better placed to objectively interpret Māori worldviews and to validate or weed out native knowledge by analysing them within their own specialised disciplines. Accusations of ethnic essentialism, as others have stressed, have long been imposed by the dominant group:
One of the key factors that needs to be considered is who is employing what essentialisms and to what end? Are they being used by members of the group to assert a collective identity? While this can lead to internal conflicts and difficulties within the community (who is or is not a member of the group and who gets to decide that etc), these issues are quite different from those created when essentialisms are being imposed on a minority community by the dominant group.
Those in positions of colonial power have tended to consider their own place as normative and unproblematic. They frequently or conveniently miss a crucial point of ethics in research that should allow native communities to determine and define their worlds on their own terms. Indeed, this is also a point of tikanga lost on some Māori. “The issue”, according to another close relation, is that:
Those who identify others as ‘guilty’ of ethnic essentialism are already painting the world with their own political, ethical, and otherwise, notions of reality. They either can’t, or choose not to identify their own bias. Rather than acknowledge the failing of their own cultural capital to understand the indigenous narrative, they denigrate said narrative for not fitting into their perception or normality. To attempt to produce authentic narratives; me waiho mā te tangata e kōrero mōna ake (leave people to speak for themselves).
It never ever occurred to me growing up that my experience and sense of who I was as a tribal person might be considered by someone else to be a list of “fixed” ethnic essentialisms. I have struggled with the accusations that my entire tribal worldview is merely an essentialist mythology. Encouragingly, those who share my upbringing and aspirations as tribal peoples across the world have echoed the same sentiments, and I have not come across a single tribal person who does not see the multiple, varied, and vibrant, personalities that make up their communities. To them, these are not fixed and essentialist collectives, but are incredibly sophisticated interrelated groupings. We simply do not have the time or often the word count to explain how diverse and rich our tribal realities truly are. Most also understand how the fight to save our languages and cultures from further colonial decline has required us to experiment and strategize in order to not only assert our rights to our own lands and resources, but simply to exist. Being Māori is a strategic reality, as is tribal identity, but the rhetorical games scholars play in these spaces, particularly when it comes to the existence of epistemological and ontological foundations, can have severe impacts on real lives. The sad reality is that many of our own people have never known what it means to be Ngāti Porou. Some moved away from home and lost contact, others deliberately turned their backs and forgot their roots. This is why I admire, and support, those who have always remained steadfast in striving to protect our ways of knowing. They strategize and stand staunch in their kaitiakitanga (guardianship) of our tribal knowledge.
When it comes to guardianship and asserting our mana as tribal people, we have a saying in Ngāti Porou that was made famous by our illustrious ancestor Te Kani a Takirau. In rejecting the offer to be the leader of the Māori King movement in the nineteenth century he declared “ehara taku maunga Hikurangi i te maunga haere, engari he maunga tutonu / My mountain never moves, but remains steadfast.” This is an important tribal affirmation, and according to Tamati Reedy has been passed down as a significant Ngāti Porou political statement. When you grow up Nāti and are encouraged to live your own culture, these are the things you learn. Another inherited phrase handed down through our generations is “te wiwi Nāti”. This comes from the local landscape, from the imagery of “close compact growing rushes”, which has long been used as a symbolic reference to the “unity and togetherness” of our people. Being Nāti is our way of saying “We Are Groot” – it describes us as a unified collective, drawn together by our shared whakapapa. It accentuates specific ‘kinship obligations’, and emphasises the notion of inclusivity, indicated in the utilisation of the collective pronouns “our”, “we”, and “us.” We draw on these scripts to explain our identities. They are not essentialisms, but affirmations of who we are. One of my favourites comes from one of our renowned composers Ngoi Pewhairangi who wrote:
If you’re from Tokomaru, Tūranga, Te Araroa
Any place beyond that smoky East Coast line
Then you’re from Nāti
From Ngāti Porou
’Cause I’m from Nāti too.
Her message can be found in other proverbs, sayings, haka and mōteatea (songs) that affirm our tribal identity. Together we call these “kōrero tuku iho” (stories and histories passed on) because they are transmitted and entrusted to future generations. We don’t just make them up, but we are encouraged to know them, and in that process are expected, as my grandfather said, to ensure they are not produced for us by those who don’t know us. In rejecting the accusations of ethnic essentialism, I am also reminded of a powerful example of how this collective relationship works. Because we are part of an iwi, we are also held accountable by that same tribal body. In Ngāti Porou, one of our uncles put it like this:
Ko koe te pu kanohi mo to iwi, ko koe te mangai mo to iwi, ehara ko koe te mea anake kei te kōrero, whai muri i a koe, ko tini raua ko mano e ngangau ana, na reira ka ki “ma te manaia ka tu te whakairo”’ / ‘You are the [spokesperson] face of the people, the mouthpiece for the tribe, but you are not the only person speaking, following behind you, are the multitudes who are biting at your heels [back], so it is said “the ornamental eloquence of the manaia adorns and beautifies all other carvings.
Another Ngāti Porou scholar, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, once noted the importance for indigenous peoples to build a critical “capacity” in order to more effectively transform and decolonize our worlds. As I look around at those who are members of today’s Ngāti Porou capacity, I can’t help but be inspired and excited. Our tribal members walk a variety of paths and many of them understand and aspire to live as Nāti people, and to treasure and protect that same identity our grandparents spoke of. My papa, as a captain in the Māori battalion, fought alongside his Ngāti Porou cousins and brothers. After Apirana Ngata, the father of the battalion passed, my grandfather’s youngest sibling alongside other Ngāti Porou leaders was entrusted with the tribe’s future. They lived their lives as Ngāti Porou tūturu, and like my grandfather and his contemporaries, shared Ngoi Pewhairangi’s understanding of the collective “us.” They handed that treasure and responsibility on to my aunties and uncles, and to multitudes of my cousins today – ngā tini uri o Porourangi. I am proud to say that they are the Guardians of the Nāti Galaxy, and together “We Are Groot”!
I have referred to comments made by various friends, relations, and colleagues, in this post. Some of these are from a recent (October 2015) online discussion we shared on the subject. Others are from interviews I undertook as part of my doctoral thesis (submitted 2011). To avoid turning this post into an academic article I have refrained from general referencing. | <urn:uuid:cc0ecc97-573f-4638-aff2-26745481f62a> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://indigenousknowledgenetwork.net/2015/12/15/we-are-groot-my-tribal-matauranga-is-not-ethnic-essentialism/?like_comment=187&_wpnonce=81a40532dd | 2020-07-11T10:28:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655929376.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20200711095334-20200711125334-00491.warc.gz | en | 0.967574 | 3,573 |
Ever since Monocle launched in 2007, we’ve championed a roll-your-sleeves-up, put on your overalls, attitude to problems and possibilities. It’s easy to write a scathing story but what would you do to fix the problem? Even as 2008 hit and the global economy crumbled, we introduced readers to entrepreneurs and business leaders who saw this as their chance to do something simpler, more tangible, more rewarding. We took you to countries with challenged economies but where there were people happy to go back to their roots, to start making things again, if it helped revive the national fortunes.
That can-do attitude is woven throughout the pages of this issue. The “How to” pages in each section are, we hope, gently inspirational (in the Northern Hemisphere, this magazine will be in your chilly hands when you can do with a bit of fire beneath your feet). We’ll take you to meet a man who runs a wasabi farm in the English countryside; we’ll show you how to leave your desk job to become a thriller writer; how to build a community; we’ll even show you how to start a revolution Cairo-style.
And throughout the rest of this issue there are stories to make you look afresh at the world: why is book publishing thriving in Germany? How has Fujifilm become a beauty company? It’s time to get a move on. Time for a fresh start.
The “how to” generation
Rebuild a neighbourhood: New York’s Red Hook neighbourhood was home to a thriving community of artisans and craftspeople and then Hurricane Sandy hit. But instead of abandoning their community, the locals are rebuilding. Page 34.
Become a national icon: Chef Harumi Kurihara is the Martha Stewart of Japan and has sold over 23 million books. But she never had any training. And she only started working at age 36. Page 64.
Make the next Killing: Piv Bernth is one of the team behind a string of successful Danish TV thrillers. She knows the ingredients needed for the next hit. A clue: an enquiring mind might help. Page 86.
Revive a forgotten brand: In Paris Kai Lorch and Jonathan Kron have revived Demory, a beer company that had not sold a single bottle since the 1950s. They explain why staying true to an idea is key. Page 68.
Start a cottage industry: In Devon, two young men have founded Young & Norgate, a furniture company that shows the rewards of keeping it small and rural. Page 104. | <urn:uuid:0cbc2151-c8ae-4805-8e3b-2432741cb386> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | https://monocle.com/magazine/issues/60/make-do-and-mend/ | 2017-04-30T14:52:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917125654.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031205-00051-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951468 | 542 |
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For Leicester City to win the Premier League, Tottenham must fall to Chelsea but the Foxes boss Claudio Ranieri says he might not watch the London Derby because he will be on board to Italy to visit his 96-year old mother.
Determine Man United spoiled Leicester party with 1-1 draw thanks to Anthony Martial’s lead before Wes Morgan’s equaliser.
The Foxes lead second placed Spurs eight points and will heavily throw their support behind Chelsea to at least draw with Tottenham on Monday night to give Claudio Ranieri’s side first Premier League trophy in their 135 history.
But the Italian tactician said he would not be around to watch what could be the Club’s great moment game.
“I would like to watch the match, but I think I am on a flight back from Italy, so it’s difficult for me to watch the match.
“Maybe when I land I will know the result. Yes, really.
“Now I go back to Italy and tomorrow Monday at 7pm I fly back and I won’t watch the match.
“For us it’s important to continue to dream and continue to work.
“Three matches ago, I said in my mind Tottenham will win all the matches and we are very, very concentrated on this.”
Leicester played without suspended striker Jamie Vardy- who has scored 22 goals but were able to respond quickly after a goal down and Ranieri has hailed his side’s character.
“After the goal, I said we had to react mentally and fortunately at the first free-kick we scored a goal.
“The goal gave us more and more confidence. With Jamie away it’s more difficult for us because we are used to playing the ball for Jamie and stretching the opponent.
“In this case they were more comfortable, pushed a lot and pressed in our half. It was difficult for us to play because they were pressing very well.
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The usual model of development for emerging economies is to rely on fossil fuels to meet rising power demand and later to switch to cleaner sources of energy. But just as antennae have enabled countries to enjoy the benefits of mobile telephony without the need for extensive telecommunications infrastructure, so advances in solar technology have the potential to power communities without the need for costly new power plants nearby.
Growing demand for energy traditionally leads to more power plants being built, usually to burn coal and natural gas. This provides much-needed electricity, but it creates the problem of increased CO₂ emissions, which will have a tremendous impact on the environment in the future.
With solar power approaching so-called “grid parity” in many countries, regions such as Southeast Asia, with plentiful sunshine and remote communities, would do well to take advantage of this abundant and emissions-free energy source.
The installed photovoltaic capacity around the world has quadrupled since 2009 to over 130 gigawatts, which is enough to meet all power demands in Singapore for 13 years
Routing electricity to remote towns and villages from power plants can be very costly and communities typically have to wait years for the power to start flowing. These communities often rely heavily on diesel generators to meet their power needs. Small solar farms solve this challenge by bringing the power source closer to home, minimizing or completely replacing the use of generators that run on expensive diesel fuel. This would bring long term economic benefits to those communities through an abundant source of energy that costs absolutely nothing.
Solar energy also has enormous potential in urban areas. Energy consumption in buildings can be optimized significantly by integrating on-site solar generation with energy-efficient technologies such as intelligent controls that manage heating and cooling, as well as lighting. Additionally, as electric vehicles begin to make their way into cities in Asia, there will be a need to integrate charging infrastructure into the building environment.
Small wonder that the recent growth of solar has been astonishing. The installed photovoltaic capacity around the world has quadrupled since 2009 to over 130 gigawatts, which is enough to meet all power demands in Singapore for 13 years.
Being a global leader in power and automation technologies which enable energy efficiency, sustainable transportation and renewables, ABB is convinced that solar energy will play an important role in decoupling economic growth from environmental impact. With a presence in the solar industry dating back to the 1990s, we have long been committed to the industry. A clear indication of this is the US$1 billion investment made last year in acquiring the world’s number two solar inverter manufacturer, Power-One.
In Southeast Asia, ABB has been involved in several solar installations. In Papua in Indonesia, our solutions are installed at the world’s highest solar power plant, situated 3,000 metres above sea level. In Singapore, our technology is used in several solar projects, which includes our very own plant in Tuas, while our inverters can be found across the region. We have also provided equipment and plant automation solutions at the world’s largest thin-film solar plant in Lopburi, Thailand.
Looking forward, we see ample opportunity for countries all over the region to adopt solar as an affordable source of renewable energy. Let’s not allow all the energy that hits the surface of the earth to go to waste.
Haider Rashid is region president of ABB in South Asia.
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Huesecken Wire GmbH manufactures and refines cold-rolled flat wire. Our broad experience and efficient material logistics and production make us an economical and accessible partner to the European manufacturing industry.
Our products can be found in a wide variety of products. Cold-rolled wire is used in the production of springs, window-locking components, cable reinforcement, trolleys, displays and many other applications. We can offer a variety of finishes: bright-rolled, galvanized, Zinc/Aluminium (Zn/Al) aluminium-zinc and Inox.
Where high-quality requirements apply, eddy current (EC) inspection can also be carried out. This enables us to supply products for especially demanding applications.
We have a total production area of 30,000 square metres and employ 56 people. The company is located in Hagen, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the south-west of the Ruhr region.
Huesecken Wire GmbH AB is part of Hörle Wire Group, which is made up of Hörle Wire AB in Sweden, Hörle Wire S.R.O. in Slovakia and Huesecken Wire GmbH in Germany. These three facilities have a combined production capacity of 70,000 tons and employ 150 people.
Hörle Wire Group is part of the Liljedahl Group, which is a family-owned group of companies with seven wholly owned holdings: Elcowire Group, LWW Group, Hörle Wire Group, LMT Group, Finnvedens Lastvagnar, Finnvedens Bil and Liljedahl Group Real Estate. The Liljedahl Group is also the largest owner of the listed company Bufab AB (publ). The group currently has a turnover of around SEK 11 billion and employs over 1,300 people. For more information: www.liljedahlgroup.se
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Dr. Angelina Castagno, Northern Arizona University, Educational Foundations
Arizona is one of the nation’s most “choice friendly” states regarding educational opportunities at the K-12 level. “School choice” is a term for K–12 schooling options in the U.S. describing a wide array of alternatives to public schools, including charter schools. The expansion of charter schools and vouchers (often called educational savings accounts) is not without controversy. Does school choice improve school quality? Does school choice increase educational opportunity for all students? Has school choice fostered the privatization of education in the U.S.? Join us for a FRANK Talk about the policy and practical implications of school choice.
Dr. Angelina E. Castagno is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at Northern Arizona University. She is also the Executive Director of Just Perspective, LLC, which provides equity consulting, diversity education, and culturally responsive program evaluation to schools, universities, and community organizations. Her teaching and research centers on equity and diversity in U.S. schools, and particularly issues of whiteness and Indigenous education. Her most recent publication is an edited volume (with Teresa L. McCarty) called The anthropology of education policy: Ethnographic inquiries into policy as sociocultural process, with Routledge. She also published Educated in Whiteness: Good intentions and diversity in schools in 2014, with the University of Minnesota Press. | <urn:uuid:15425821-0001-46da-9fc3-57adda36a73c> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://azhumanities.org/event/school-choice-in-arizona-flagstaff/ | 2022-07-07T10:27:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104690785.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220707093848-20220707123848-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.942395 | 327 |
Home Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Sweden
This paper examines two broad issues related to foreign investment by Swedish multinationals: first the effects of outward foreign direct investment on domestic investment, exports, and employment, and second, the effects on the domestic economy from the increasing division of labor between the parents and foreign affiliates of Swedish MNCs. The paper summarizes and synthesizes the existing empirical evidence on these matters (much of which has hitherto only been available in Swedish) and discusses some possible long run effects that have not received much attention in the literature.
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Researchers at both the St. Raffaele Arcangelo Hospital in Venice, Italy and University of Limerick are finding that following 8-weeks of twice weekly Irish dance classes, persons with Parkinson’s fell less often and were more mobile. They speculate the benefits are attributed to the exercise, strong rhythm of Irish music and the sociability of group dances.
The steady rhythm provided by the music (in this case, Irish Folk) acts as an “acoustic cue”, bypassing the basal ganglia, affected by Parkinson’s, and helping patients reroute movement cues.
Parkinson’s dancers performed at the 26th Annual International Traditional Music Festival in Feakle, August 5th-7th.
… more evidence to dust off those dancing shoes, and find your rhythm! much love.
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Twitch megastar Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins has shown sympathy towards Nate Hill, after it emerged that he’s been suspended from the Fortnite Fall Skirmish competition.
Ninja was broadcasting some Fortnite gameplay, when a member of his chat brought up the situation regarding the FaZe Clan member’s suspension.
Nate Hill was suspended when his teammate Funkbomb decided to watch a stream of the game they were in, and pass information on to Nate in an attempt to provide him with an advantage.
When asked his thoughts on the situation, Ninja replied; “It is what it is. What happened happened… You just got to know not to do that man”, making it clear that he didn’t condone the actions of the pair.
Blevins however does have sympathy for Nate Hill, and believes that the FaZe star didn’t ask Funkbomb to go and watch the stream. “I think it just happened, and he didn’t know it was going to”, remarked Ninja, “I don’t think Nate Hill had anything to do with it, just guilty by association.”
Nate Hill has been suspended for two weeks, but will be able to return to Fall Skirmish action when his punishment ends on October 11. Nate will still be a member of the Dusty Dogs club, and remain eligible for club prizing.
Funkbomb, however, has been banned for the rest of the Fall Skirmish, and is ineligible for any club prize money. He won’t be able to return to action until the Fall Skirmish event at TwitchCon on October 26.
Fortnite’s Season 5 Week 13 challenges have arrived, and we’ve got all the information you need to complete each and every quest in no time at all.
We’re now only a few weeks away from the end of Season 5, which is expected to close on March 15, 2021. Things are getting a bit dry, but Epic Games are continuing to pump out weekly challenges to give players something new to focus on.
This week, there’s a mix of weapon damage quests and location-based quests. There are also a few tasks based around the Zero Point, as players will need to destroy some Crystal Trees and enter the Zero Point.
Below, you’ll find the complete list of Week 13 challenges that go live on Thursday, February 25, 2021, at 9AM ET. There are a total of seven Epic quests to work through, as well as a single Legendary quest that will earn you a huge amount of XP.
You’ll need to enter the Zero Point to complete Fortnite’s Week 13 challenges.
The most interesting quest this week is the first one, which tasks players with scanning a server at a Surface Hub. It turns out, these are actually the Imagined Order’s underground bunkers. We’ve got a guide to finding Surface Hubs here.
Throwing fruit at Hunter’s Haven should be easy. Collect fruit from any POI, make your way to Hunter’s Haven, then throw it on the ground. You can also deal damage to opponents here to complete the next challenge, and if you do it with a Pistol, you’ll tick off another in the process.
To bathe in the Purple Pool, you’ll need to visit Steamy Stacks at the northeast of the Season 5 map. You can find the pool inside the main building on the ground floor. We’ve got a guide to finding the Purple Pool here.
Entering the Zero Point requires you to jump out the Battle Bus over the center of the map and glide into it. Doing so won’t harm you, it will actually increase your shield. From here, destroying Crystal Trees is as simple as attacking the crystals that stick out of the sand with your pickaxe.
Steamy Stacks gets its own challenge this week.
Fortnite Season 5 Week 13 Legendary Quest
Build Structures (60/120/180/240/300)
This week’s Legendary quest should be a lot easier to complete than last week’s challenge, which required players to deal damage to opponents within 10 seconds of Zero Point Dashing.
You won’t even need to engage in combat this week, as you’ll simply need to build a total of 300 structures. As this is something most players do at least a few times during a match, you should complete it during everyday play.
However, if you want to speed things along, we recommend you land at a quiet POI and farm for materials. Once you’ve maxed your inventory out, build away and you’ll tick each tier of this Legendary quest off in no time at all.
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Activists across the country are asking President Barack Obama to offer amnesty or a plea bargain to former government contractor Edward Snowden, who has been releasing classified information showing the breadth of government spying.
They are sending his Justice Department tens of thousands of copies of a recent New York Times editorial describing Snowden as a whistleblower.
"Considering the enormous value of the information he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight," the editorial states.
The campaign is being organized by CREDO, an arm of CREDO Mobile, a San Francisco-based telecom that aims to protect Americans' constitutional rights to privacy.
"Just a few years ago, the Obama administration refused to prosecute Bush administration officials who were involved in torture," said Becky Bond, CREDO's political director. "It would be the ultimate irony if President Obama now seeks lifetime imprisonment for a whistleblower who did this country a great service by exposing unconstitutional practices by the NSA."
Last month at a news conference, Obama said Snowden has “done unnecessary damage” to the United States’ reputation.
But he declined to weigh in on whether Snowden, who has been charged with espionage and theft of government property, should be granted amnesty after a National Security Agency official said the government should consider the option.
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