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Solomon's Throne Established
13 Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, went to Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. Bathsheba asked him, "Do you come peacefully?"
He answered, "Yes, peacefully." 14 Then he added, "I have something to say to you."
"You may say it," she replied.
15 "As you know," he said, "the kingdom was mine. All Israel looked to me as their king. But things changed, and the kingdom has gone to my brother; for it has come to him from the Lord. 16 Now I have one request to make of you. Do not refuse me."
"You may make it," she said.
17 So he continued, "Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife."
18 "Very well," Bathsheba replied, "I will speak to the king for you."
19 When Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king stood up to meet her, bowed down to her and sat down on his throne. He had a throne brought for the king's mother, and she sat down at his right hand.
20 "I have one small request to make of you," she said. "Do not refuse me."
The king replied, "Make it, my mother; I will not refuse you."
21 So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah."
22 King Solomon answered his mother, "Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? You might as well request the kingdom for him—after all, he is my older brother—yes, for him and for Abiathar the priest and Joab son of Zeruiah!"
23 Then King Solomon swore by the Lord: "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if Adonijah does not pay with his life for this request! 24 And now, as surely as the Lord lives—he who has established me securely on the throne of my father David and has founded a dynasty for me as he promised—Adonijah shall be put to death today!" 25 So King Solomon gave orders to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he struck down Adonijah and he died.
26 To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and shared all my father's hardships." 27 So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the Lord, fulfilling the word the Lord had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli.
28 When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns of the altar. 29 King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tent of the Lord and was beside the altar. Then Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, "Go, strike him down!"
30 So Benaiah entered the tent of the Lord and said to Joab, "The king says, 'Come out!'"
But he answered, "No, I will die here."
Benaiah reported to the king, "This is how Joab answered me."
31 Then the king commanded Benaiah, "Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so clear me and my whole family of the guilt of the innocent blood that Joab shed. 32 The Lord will repay him for the blood he shed, because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah's army—were better men and more upright than he. 33 May the guilt of their blood rest on the head of Joab and his descendants forever. But on David and his descendants, his house and his throne, may there be the Lord's peace forever."
34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and struck down Joab and killed him, and he was buried at his home out in the country. 35 The king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada over the army in Joab's position and replaced Abiathar with Zadok the priest.
36 Then the king sent for Shimei and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go anywhere else. 37 The day you leave and cross the Kidron Valley, you can be sure you will die; your blood will be on your own head."
38 Shimei answered the king, "What you say is good. Your servant will do as my lord the king has said." And Shimei stayed in Jerusalem for a long time.
39 But three years later, two of Shimei's slaves ran off to Achish son of Maakah, king of Gath, and Shimei was told, "Your slaves are in Gath." 40 At this, he saddled his donkey and went to Achish at Gath in search of his slaves. So Shimei went away and brought the slaves back from Gath.
41 When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned, 42 the king summoned Shimei and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the Lord and warn you, 'On the day you leave to go anywhere else, you can be sure you will die'? At that time you said to me, 'What you say is good. I will obey.' 43 Why then did you not keep your oath to the Lord and obey the command I gave you?"
44 The king also said to Shimei, "You know in your heart all the wrong you did to my father David. Now the Lord will repay you for your wrongdoing. 45 But King Solomon will be blessed, and David's throne will remain secure before the Lord forever."
46 Then the king gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck Shimei down and he died.
The kingdom was now established in Solomon's hands.
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Solomon Asks for Wisdom
3 Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt and married his daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he finished building his palace and the temple of the Lord, and the wall around Jerusalem.
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16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
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2 The people, however, were still sacrificing at the high places, because a temple had not yet been built for the Name of the Lord. 3 Solomon showed his love for the Lord by walking according to the instructions given him by his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
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2 Then Solomon spoke to all Israel—to the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, to the judges and to all the leaders in Israel, the heads of families— 3 and Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, for God's tent of meeting was there, which Moses the Lord's servant had made in the wilderness. 4 Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem. 5 But the bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was in Gibeon in front of the tabernacle of the Lord; so Solomon and the assembly inquired of him there. 6 Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the Lord in the tent of meeting and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.
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5 At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you."
6 Solomon answered, "You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
7 "Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. 8 Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number. 9 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?"
10 The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this. 11 So God said to him, "Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, 12 I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. 13 Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. 14 And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life." 15 Then Solomon awoke—and he realized it had been a dream.
He returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord's covenant and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he gave a feast for all his court.
A Wise Ruling
16 Now two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. 17 One of them said, "Pardon me, my lord. This woman and I live in the same house, and I had a baby while she was there with me. 18 The third day after my child was born, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one in the house but the two of us.
19 "During the night this woman's son died because she lay on him. 20 So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I your servant was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast. 21 The next morning, I got up to nurse my son—and he was dead! But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn't the son I had borne."
22 The other woman said, "No! The living one is my son; the dead one is yours."
But the first one insisted, "No! The dead one is yours; the living one is mine." And so they argued before the king.
23 The king said, "This one says, 'My son is alive and your son is dead,' while that one says, 'No! Your son is dead and mine is alive.'"
24 Then the king said, "Bring me a sword." So they brought a sword for the king. 25 He then gave an order: "Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other."
26 The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, "Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don't kill him!"
But the other said, "Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!"
27 Then the king gave his ruling: "Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother."
28 When all Israel heard the verdict the king had given, they held the king in awe, because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice.
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SANDVIKEN, Sweden — As tens of thousands of migrants run the gantlet of dangers to reach Europe, Natanael Haile, a refugee from Eritrea now living in Sweden, is struggling to get over his nightmarish journey.
He was kidnapped twice by desert gunmen, who extorted more than $20,000 from his family. He narrowly survived the sinking of a smugglers' flimsy fishing boat off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Oct. 3, 2013, swimming through waters clogged with the bodies of more than 350 drowned passengers.
"When I think of the price that I and my family had to pay, it was definitely not worth it," Mr. Haile, 28, said. "I went through hell."
"I was not looking for heaven in Europe," he added, "but it is not what you expect."
Mr. Haile and other migrants who arrived on Lampedusa that day said they feel isolated in their new countries, find the local languages difficult, worry about jobs and have few family connections or friends beyond fellow migrants.
Even so, they had no intention of returning home, saying they believed they could make a new start. They included one migrant who was arrested last month in connection with a gang-rape investigation in Sweden.
The 2013 sinking of the boat, packed with more than 500 migrants, was a signal moment in Europe's migration crisis, a calamity that riveted the world's attention on the mounting toll in the Mediterranean and that elicited promises of united action from European leaders.
Since then, Europe's migrant crisis has only grown, and the harrowing but ultimately successful quest for new lives by Mr. Haile and other migrants on the boat helps explain why efforts to slow the tide of migrants to Europe have done little so far.
Over the weekend, Germany and Austria cleared the way for thousands of migrants hoping for more secure lives.
Mr. Haile and the others are a revealing representation of the hardships that migrants endure, and of the ways they nimbly outmaneuver slow-moving bureaucracies.
Some survivors burned their fingertips to avoid having their prints taken and registered in databases that would prevent them from reaching richer countries like Germany or Sweden, often their preferred destinations. If fingerprints are not taken, a migrant can move on and seek asylum elsewhere.
Now that their journeys are over, the survivors expressed disillusionment and disappointment about the countries in which they now live, though none could quite articulate what they had hoped to find in Europe.
Still, they gushed with gratitude for the money and help their host nations had provided.
Mr. Haile said he frequently received calls from friends and relatives in Eritrea who wanted to know if they should attempt the same risky journey that brought him to Europe.
He said he had given up trying to offer advice, even though only 26 of the 131 Eritreans with whom he set out to cross the Libyan desert and catch a boat to Italy survived.
"I know what I went through, but they won't listen," he said at the housing complex packed with migrants where he shares an apartment with two others who left Africa. "I didn't listen, either, when people warned me about the dangers."
Would-be migrants, Mr. Haile said, do not want to know about the perils of his journey, but instead about his secondhand car, the government allowances he receives and his plans to find work as a welder once he finishes a two-year language course.
There is no point in telling them not to come, he said.
The struggles of adjusting to an unfamiliar land pale in comparison with the threat of death or persecution in places like Afghanistan, Syria or Eritrea, which has an isolated and repressive government.
Despite the dangers, the high walls, the barbed wire or other obstacles thrown in their paths, the migrants keep trying to reach Europe, lured by even the slimmest prospect of a new start.
"At least here we are not slaves and have a little hope for the future," said Fanus Agby, 19, another survivor with Mr. Haile who made it to Sweden, where she hopes to become a nurse.
Of the 155 migrants who survived the Lampedusa shipwreck, around 100 made it to Sweden. Because they first arrived in Italy, under European Union rules, they should have been fingerprinted and had their requests for asylum taken there. And they should have remained there while their applications were being processed.
The failure of governments, wary of an anti-immigrant backlash as right-wing parties gain support, to follow these rules has now moved to the center of disputes between European leaders over how to handle the migration crisis.
Migrants themselves have also undermined the rules. Ms. Agby, the 19-year-old Lampedusa shipwreck survivor who made it to Sweden, said she had been so desperate to avoid being forced to stay in Italy that she had burned a plastic bag and rubbed her fingers in the molten goo to make her fingerprints unreadable.
Only one survivor of the October crossing, a young man who asked to be identified only by his first name, Tadese, got stuck in Italy, where his fingerprints were taken after he was hospitalized because of his injuries. The 50 or so other survivors mostly ended up in Norway, Germany and Denmark.
Mr. Haile said he had nothing against Italy. But throughout his ordeal, it was the dream of reaching Scandinavia, famous among migrants for generous welfare and asylum policies, that kept him going.
"Italians are the nicest people," Mr. Haile said, "but their system for refugees is terrible."
It took seven months for the Swedish authorities to process and approve Mr. Haile's application for asylum. But the procedure often takes only three months, far shorter than in Italy, where it can drag on for years, he said.
Mr. Haile said that he had originally planned to go to Norway, which has the highest cash benefits for refugees, but that he eventually traveled to Sweden because he had contacts here.
So that he could board a plane to Milan from Rome and on to Stockholm, he paid a smuggler in Italy 1,200 euros, or about $1,340, for a fake Italian passport.
"It looked really good, brand new," he said.
His journey from Eritrea, which he fled to escape open-ended mandatory military service after serving four years in the army, began in 2008 and lasted five years, with long spells in Sudan, where he drove a taxi, and months in captivity with two different bands of kidnappers.
Sweden, Mr. Haile said, is hardly paradise. He said that people in Sandviken, while rarely hostile, were cool and distant, and that they "only really talk when they are drunk." He longs to see his son, who was born in Eritrea after he left.
But in many ways, he has achieved the dream that is drawing so many people toward Europe today. He is a registered refugee, attends free language classes provided by the state and receives a monthly living allowance of more than $700.
Sweden's minister in charge of immigration, Morgan Johansson, said his country remained committed to helping migrants, despite the rising popularity of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats party, but he added that other countries needed to pull their weight.
"It cannot be only Sweden and Germany," he said in an interview. "Everyone must share responsibility."
Mr. Johansson said that he knew of no specific decision by Swedish immigration officials to accept many survivors of the Lampedusa tragedy of October 2013, but he added that Eritreans often qualified for asylum. Their country, he said, is "one of the world's toughest dictatorships."
Another survivor of that sinking who is now in Sweden, Tesfamichael Gazgel Hagos, said he had burned all his fingertips with a cigarette lighter to make sure he could make it to Sweden, which quickly approved his asylum request.
The ruse worked, but after buying a fake passport in Rome and traveling to Sweden, Mr. Hagos landed in deep trouble.
He was arrested in August in connection with the gang rape of a Swedish woman in the Ludvika apartment he shared with another Eritrean. He was not charged, was released after a week and denied any involvement in the crime.
Sweden, "is not what I expected," said the thin 25-year-old in an interview a day after his release. "It is not as easy as I thought."
Even while under investigation for a serious crime, he still receives a monthly allowance of 6,500 krona, about $770, and has resumed language classes, also provided by the state. He plans to get a job as a car mechanic.
The Ludvika rape case, along with the alleged murder by an Eritrean refugee of a mother and her son in the kitchenware section of an Ikea store in the nearby town of Vasteras, stirred public outrage and have been seized on by the Sweden Democrats to press for an end to the country's welcoming policies toward asylum seekers.
"It makes no difference to me whether he nearly died in Lampedusa or not," said Benny Rosengren, the head of the party in Ludvika.
The Swedish news media and national politicians "always want to find an excuse," he added. "They present the refugees as victims, and then use people's pity to excuse things like rape."
Other survivors of the crossing have tried to keep their heads down and stay out of trouble.
Mohamed Kasim, a melancholy 40-year-old who now lives in Tommestrup, a Danish village south of Copenhagen, cycles to language classes in a nearby town every day, and he takes a train to the region's only mosque for Friday Prayer. Otherwise, he stays home.
Mr. Kasim said that he had a hard time making contact with locals, but that his spirits were lifted by the recent arrival of his wife from Eritrea. The Danish government pays his rent, as well as a living allowance. All the same, he said he advises friends not to risk following his example.
"I tell them, 'No — 100 percent no,' " he said, "but nobody listens."
Mr. Kasim, who is older than most of those who survived the sinking off Lampedusa in 2013, says he misses his home country and cannot forget the four hours he spent at sea, surrounded by bodies, after the boat sank. "I can't swim, so just did this," he said, waving his arms clumsily.
Samhar Adhanam, a 25-year-old living on a monthly government allowance of nearly $1,500 in Larvik, Norway, was in such bad condition when she was rescued at sea that she spent two weeks in a Sicilian hospital recovering from her injuries.
After obtaining a forged passport, she headed toward Norway by train, and spent much of the journey hiding in the restroom. After months in a reception center near the Arctic Circle, she received approval to stay in the country, and she moved south to Larvik.
"I never thought it would be like this," Ms. Adhanam said. "Everything is so different."
But as strange as the new country is, she said, "I can say I am happy because I am still alive."


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In the early years of the business, the former pro triathlete welded his first bicycle frame and started racing on it. With limited funds, he researched and developed products for the triathlon industry while furthering his education with private pilot and sky diving certifications, which expanded his knowledge base to include aerodynamics. Throughout this period he was constantly challenging himself to be a faster biker.
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It is unclear how many gunmen were involved in Mr. Blignaut's murder but police confirmed that they are searching for at least two suspects.
According to reports Blignaut heard voices outside his house in the early hours of the morning.
When he went to lock the doors, to protect his wife and children, he was shot and killed.
The killers left empty handed, and, for once, the Police who are investigating the killing , acknowledged this fact stating "We have noticed that people are being senselessly killed in their homes and the murderers do not even take any of their possessions. We are employing crime intelligence and doing pattern analysis to determine what exactly is motivating these murders"
This is at least some progress, given that the police are usually quick to dismiss these killings as "robberies" irrespective of the level of violence, and even if, as is frequently the case, nothing has been taken. Often the police will point to the fact that a victim's cell phone is missing to justify attributing the killings to "theft" even when cash and jewelry has been left untouched, and in the face of testimony from survivors that cell phones have been taken merely to prevent victims from calling for help.
Therefore, this acknowledgement by the police that other motives may be involved is encouraging, although the line will most probably revert to normal when more senior officials become involved.
Note: For the sake of accuracy, I have not included the deaths of Cobi and George Venter, which is reported below, in the count of murdered farmers as, unlike Johan Blignaut, who although employed within pharmaceutical industry lived on a smallholding in the suburbs of Pretoria, the Venters appear to have been city dwellers. Vast numbers of urban whites have also been killed in the 15 odd years since the end of Apartheid and doubtless many of the killings were hate crimes, however, to my knowledge, no reliable figure has been maintained which would enable me to differentiate between such killings and the vast crime wave which is currently assailing South Africa.
The record I am maintaining relates solely to the genocidal killings of members of the white, South African, farming community.


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The Greens members and supporters, many of whom are idealistic and impressionable young people, are used as pawns in this larger game.
The forests movement personifies this strategy, whereby a no-holds-barred protest is staged until the government or the timber companies make a concession, only to discover that a further demand for yet more forests to be locked away has been created. Little wonder that forest communities and timber workers are so distrustful of the Greens.
The recent breakthrough deal in Tasmania is a classic example of this. Brokered by former ACTU chief Bill Kelty, the agreement was billed as an end to three decades of fighting over logging and involved massive concessions from the timber industry. The Tasmanian Labor-led government (including the Greens parliamentary party) and the logging companies struck the deal; but just as the final agreement was being drawn up, Bob Brown and other Tasmanian Greens objected.
Senator Brown knows that the last thing the Tasmanian Greens want is peace on logging because the rationale for their membership to remain politically motivated and mobilised would largely disappear.
But the more worrying example is the proposed carbon tax. For Julia Gillard it was a breakthrough agreement which maps out a plan for the next few years.
For the Greens it is merely a base camp or, as Senator Christine Milne put it, "an outcome" which can be built upon. Putting aside the merits or problems of the proposed tax, once the tax is in place, the Greens will then push for petrol to be included, then farming, then to push up the price of carbon dioxide emissions, etc.
Labor thinks it has secured a deal with the Greens. In reality it has just begun years of haggling.
The Greens' ascent to power is bad news for the Coalition, but worse for Labor.
For the Liberals and Nationals the power of the Greens remains a problem even if the Coalition is swept to power with a big majority at the next election.
The Greens/Labor alliance will still hold the balance of power in the Senate. And the Greens will not co-operate with the Coalition — even when offered power-sharing and ministerial responsibilities, as they were after the last ACT election.
For the Labor Party the problem is much more problematic because the Greens are stealing its active membership base while alienating traditional conservative Labor voters at the same time.
The Greens hold one House of Representatives seat (the seat of Melbourne— a federation seat which had been held by the ALP for a century), but can potentially expand their representation to other inner-city seats in Melbourne and Sydney. Vulnerable seats include Melbourne Ports (held by Michael Danby), Grayndler (Anthony Albanese) and Sydney (Tanya Plibersek).
However, if the Green juggernaut were to continue, ultimately Liberal inner-city seats would become vulnerable with electorates such as Malcolm Turnbull's seat of Wentworth or Joe Hockey's seat ofNorth Sydneypotential Green gains.
Former state secretary of the Victorian ALP, Stephen Newnham, recently proposed that the major parties preference the Greens last.
"I think it's only a matter of time before the Greens are given the One Nation treatment," Newnham, now a political consultant, told The Australian newspaper recently.
The Victorian Liberal Party's decision to preference the Greens last at the most recent state election prevented the Greens from winning inner-city Labor seats and indirectly helped the Coalition win government.
Bob Brown was not kidding when he said he believed the Greens would eventually replace the Labor Party as the party of the left in Australian politics.
Julia Gillard believes she has had a major victory by securing an historic deal with the Greens and the NSW independent rural MPs who will vote to support her on the carbon tax.
In reality, she has brought herself and the Labor Party closer than ever to Labor's enemy and the party that wants to replace it.
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The leader of the newly unified Socialist Party, Jean Jaures, published the following article in the opinion column of the August 15, 1904 issue of the «Depeche de Toulouse».
Le Figaro and the French Republic are both trying to show that the separation of the Churches and the State is nearly impossible. «They managed to touch the monk, they won't be able to touch the Catholic priest» Le Figaro declares. But who has ever thought of «touching the Catholic priest» ? No one has ever thought, no one thinks to prohibit the cult or even cause any trouble to it. On the contrary, every precaution must be taken, all the transitions must be provided so that the continuity of the cult is maintained, so that worshipers can gather, according to the law, the necessary resources for its functioning. When the country sees, in the precise debate of the bill, that no breach in the right of conscience will be made by the separation, and even that no trouble will be permitted in the country's custom, when the country is able to observe that the only solution in conformity with the right of the secular State and with the principle of the Revolution is also the only one that might put an end to the inevitable conflict created by the Concordat, the separation will be accepted with joy by every citizen.
Mr. Meline's paper vainly opposes the moderate elements of the Bloc that they did not campaign on a separation programme in the elections. Because they promised to defend energetically the independence of the civil power against any encroachment of the clerical power, and that independence is threatened every day by the Pope's actions. Strangely, the French Republic forgets «the new facts» which have multiplied since the general election. It forgets the seditious resistance which has been opposed in many points in the implementation of the law on congregations. It forgets the bishops' illegal and insulting protest. It forgets that with the new Pope a violent aggressive mood is becoming manifest in Rome. It neglects the incredible document in which Pope Pius X, assuming the right to interfere in our foreign policy and to subordinate it to the interests of his temporal power, was insulting the President of the Republic who was guilty because he had reasserted in Rome the friendship of Republican France with modern Italy. Can the most moderate republicans forget all that ? And under the pretext that they did not foresee in 1902 the upcoming denunciation of the Concordat, will they have to suffer on behalf of France an interpretation of this Concordat that leaves all the charges to the government of the Republic and that withdraws all guarantees from it ?
Pope Pius X's aggressive policy, replacing Pope Leo XIII' diplomacy, has not modified the core of the issue. Under Pope Leo XIII as well as under Pius X, there was a contradiction between modern law, that reserves religion to individual conscience, and a half-baked theocratic regime which, although it did not brutishly enforce dogma, constitutes a State religion nonetheless; but Pius X has certainly hastened the course of events beyond what the country was able to foresee in 1902. He has exacerbated so deeply the essential conflict between Revolution and the State Church that the Concordat combination cannot work any longer. And one wonders in vain how the most moderate republicans would be able to elude a problem that the Vatican imposes on the Republic. Now, there is only one way out left to this problem. It is impossible to maintain the Concordat, or rather to re-establish it. It is impossible to establish an new Concordat, for how could you get the Papacy and the Republic to agree with this new contract since both parties think insufficient, in an opposite way but equally, the guarantees of the previous one ? Therefore, if you do not want a state of chaos and crisis to persist, with every feeling becoming exacerbated, if you want to proceed to the separation in quiet, wise and sensible conditions, in which every right is assured, you have to hurry. Indeed, it is strange to object that in 1902, at the time of the general election, the issue was not raised in this form by all republicans. Neither did they announce the upcoming breaking off of diplomatic relations with the Papacy, the suspension of the Concordat.
The crisis was caused by force of circumstance, and now the separation of the Churches and the State is the necessary, inevitable consequence of the breaking off of the French government with the Vatican. Just as the country, in local elections, ratified and approved the strict enforcement of the law on congregations, just as in the recent department elections it ratified and approved the law prohibiting congregation education and the breaking off with the Vatican, it will ratify and approve, in the next general election, the separation, which is the logical end of the secular work and which can only bring peace through liberty in this country. To postpone the issue would be the worst mistake now, or rather it is an impossibility. The time has come for this great but haunting issue of the relationships of the Church and the State be settled at last, so that republican democracy is able to devote fully to the immense and hard task of social reform and human solidarity that the proletariat demands, that they have a right to demand and that the Republic must achieve with the concentration of all its energy and all its thoughts. It is not necessary to change the agenda. As soon as the October opening of Parliament, we have to debate and pass the law on the income tax.
As soon as January, we have to debate and pass the law on the workers' old age pensions, and just after this vote, the debate on separation of Churches and the State will be opened. But it is important that right now, the country is well informed that it will not be an academic debate, neither for the government nor for the majority. We have to succeed : the separation must be voted in the early months of 1905. It will be the best answer to those who hope to throw the country into a panic. The debate and the vote of a precise law will dispel all the ghosts and quieten all fears. The government is holding this great task in its hands. If it hesitates, it will collapse, dragging its majority as well as its policy down in its fall. If it understands at last that it cannot postpone or elude the inevitable consequence of all the events and all the actions, if, as soon as the October opening, in reply to questioners, its explains the core of the issue, if it declares not only that it maintains the agenda which it had accepted for the debate of the Briand draft of the law but also that it will intervene in favor of separation, the republican majority will gather around it, and since the extreme left radical and socialist groups are determined to make any concession to the moderate groups provided it does not mar the principles, the republicans will join unanimously will give all the required moral authority to this great and necessary reform in order to bear its fruits of liberation and peace.


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Thursday, Aug. 11, from 5:30 until 7:00 PM
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Free, but donations make continued meals possible.
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How to Improve My Squat Strength
Squatting every week and not seeing improved squat strength? Search the net of the inter for some answers? Good on you, fit friend. That shows you're a soldier of self-improvement—and without drive like that—you'll never see change. So, let's chat about change…specifically in your squat strength.
Train Squats Twice a Week to Increase Squat Strength
Maybe not everyone loves leg day, but squats can't be confined to a silly hash tag. They are what makes your legs stronger so you can do more of everything. So make squats more than one day of your week. If you train 3 days a week, squat days 1 and 3. Work in squats with chest day. Work in squats with core. Work in squats period—that's going to be the easiest way to get stronger squats. Do more.
Now, let's make sure when you do more, you're doing them right.
Check Your Squat Stance
There are millions of memes showing people doing squats wrong. Ok, maybe not millions, but you get our drift—a LOT of people have bad squat form. This can really impact your results and your squat strength.
Aligning your hands, feet and torso with each other is the goal. Mirrors can help, and if you don't have one of those, grab a partner to make sure you have a straight line from hand to toe when you go to squat on the pot.
Put Mind to Muscle to Improve Squat Strength
It's easy to fall victim to the same ol' routine of going through the motions. That will happen if you aren't fully engaged both physically and mentally when training. Keep your core tight, put your mind to your leg muscles. Contract, don't feel the burn—create the burn. Stay tight from deep seat to return stance.
Breathe. Repeat.
Train Progressively Heavier
To increase your strength, you're going to have to push your limits. Train heavier progressively. PUSH yourself. This sounds like the simplest, but it's really the hardest. You have to beat your mind before you can beat yourself.
Strengthen Key Muscles to Improve Squat Support
You can't just squat and expect miracles. You need to strengthen each muscle that aids in squatting to improve your over all squats. So train them:
Quads: Olympic squats & front squats.
Hips: Box squats, Glute-raises, Deadlifts, Power cleans.
Glutes: Front squats, Romanian deadlifts, Deep squats.
Lower Back: Deadlifts, Reverse hypers, Goodmornings.
Upper Back: Deadlifts, Power cleans, Barbell rows, Pull-ups
Core: Windmills, Weighted crunches, Russian twists, Hammer throws
Single Leg: Lunges, Bulgarian squats, Curtsey lunges, One-leg deadlifts.
Work on Speed to Improve Squat Strength
Power movements build fast-twitch muscles. Fast-twitch muscles will make your squats stronger.
So, squat faster. Squat with power. Explode as you come out of the deep squats. Build your fast-twitch so you can build your squat strength. Incorporate plyometrics in to boost your squat strength.
Allow for Recovery for Improved Squat Strength
It seems like a waste…sleep and such, but you actually grow while sleeping and recovering. If you overdo it, you won't see results. Let your muscles recover by allowing 2 days rest between your next squat session.
Supplement with BCAAs to Improve Squat Strength and Recovery
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Some great tips there from Betty! And definitely something that many (or really "most" I'm sure) YouTube Partners overlook. Once you're Shane Dawson you can just fill your description with generic links to your other social media, but until then concentrating on meta data will really help you to get found!ReplyDelete
Aren't Closed Captions also used as meta data for search engines?ReplyDelete
I think partners get enough attention already, even without these tips, all I see half the time, in featured videos are partners, never the average user, and that's not all.ReplyDelete
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Hot on the heels of New C4 Picasso, released in Brazil last month, the locally built New C3 AIRCROSS CITROËN marks a further step ahead in CITROËN's product offensive.
Despite difficult economic conditions (recession, and a car market that shrank by 20% in the first half of 2015), Brazil holds considerable strategic importance for CITROËN, as Latin America's biggest economy. More than 1.3 million cars were sold in Brazil in the first half of 2015, and this is CITROËN's biggest market in the region; with sales approaching 30,000 in 2015 so far, this is CITROËN's ninth biggest market worldwide.
New C3 AIRCROSS brings a breath of fresh air, with its no-nonsense, high-tech design, heralded by the new LED light signature. It boasts CITROËN's new style lines, adding a characteristic go-anywhere look, with front, rear, side and wheel-arch protections denoting a protective personality unique in the crossover segment. Advanced technology features include a 7" touchscreen, reversing camera, and the MirrorLink® function.
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If the information provided here and on the Community Club sections do not match your needs, don't hesitate to contact the School Office, or Mr. Chang.
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How to read Gothic handwriting – 3
I am continuing my quest at getting better at reading Gothic handwriting. In this part I will try to group the letters together and look at differences and similarities.
Before you get going on this part, I hope you have had the opportunity to study the two first parts in the series on Gothic handwriting. These are found here:
As I have pointed out in the previous installments, this is my first serious journey into Gothic handwriting and I am a novice like you. I ask you to study the sources (that are available to you) I list for these articles.
After having studied, and tried to recognize separate letters, we see that several of them can be hard to tell apart. I have found Geelmundens (2015) categorisation very usefull:
Small round letters
The small round letters are the letters that raise to the first level above the line. The letters a æ o ø can easily be mixed up.These letters are sometimes written without the circle fully closed. This makes them easy to mix up with the peaked letters.
Small letters with two peaks
These are the letters e n u and nn. We see that the e and the n looks similar. The e tends to be a little narrower than the n.
The u are normally written with a curved dash (-) above it. Both n and m may also be written with dashes above. This means that the letter is doubled, meaning nn or mm. It should be noted that the letters u and v where interchangeable. The pronunciation depended on the context.
Small letters with one and three peaks
These letters are the i c m e and n. Here we see that i and c are easy to mix up. They are normally told apart by the dot above the i. Note that the dot can be missing or be off to either of the sides. This is true for any dots, dashes or umlauts that should appear above the letters.
The letters i and j were the same letters and interchangeable. The pronunciation depended of the context.
The m can easily be confused with a combination of i and c and a letter with two peaks like n, e or u. You need to look for the dot above the i. Also keep in mind that the n and m can be written with a dash about to indicate a doubling of this letter (nn,mm).
The letters r and v
The letters r and v can easily be mixed up. The only way to keep these apart is to look at the ending of the letter. The ending of the r is a line stretching to the right at the first level above the writing-line. The ending of the v is a line descending from first level above towards the writing-line.
Letters that goes below the writing line
The letters p,x and q can be easy to mix up. They all go below the writing-line. There are some details that show the differences. The p should have a loop below the writing line. The x has no loop, but the line curves towards the right. The q has no loop below the writing-line. It should have a crossbar though. Sometimes this crossbar is missing and sometimes the line below is continued out towards the right with no loop.
The letters j g y z also go below the writing-line. These letters can be easy to mix up. Sometimes the circle in the g may be written very small. Also the circle may not be fully closed making it look like an y. The y should have umlaut (") above it, but as noted before, the umlaut can be missing. A sloppy written z may look like a y without the umlaut.
Tall letters
The letters b l t d and k all raise to the second level above the writing-line. The b, l, and t does look like their modern (latin) versions.
Sometimes the letter k looks like its modern version. Other times the letter k may look like the Capital letter L.
Letters that go both high and low
The letters h, s and f goes to the second level above, and stretches below the writing line. Their basic form has distinctions, but it is normally very difficult to keep these letters apart in the records. Which letter we are dealing with must be read from the context. the f often looks like its modern version with loops above and below that are tied together with a small loop in the middle. The h is written with loops, but they may not be tied together in the middle. The s is often written without loops neither above or below the writing line. The line below returns to the writing-line towards the right, directly linked to the next letter.
Well, these strange letters are beginning to make some sense. I hope you will be back. In the next installment I will start to put the letters together to form words.
Geelmuyden, Knut: "Gotisk skrift – En kort veileding i lesing av gamle kilder" Bergen 2015 Available for download as PDF. (in Norwegian)


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Bisons Finish Sixth In Evansville Cross Country
The Bisons cross country team finished sixth Saturday at the University of Evansville Invitational.
The top finisher for Lipscomb was Eric Brown who was 32nd with a time of 27:26.64 over the 8-K course. Weldon Ehlert was close behind at 34th with a time of 27:31.04.
Caleb Key's 27:37.39 earned him the 38th spot. Daniel Pelletier finished 49th with a time of 28:00.29.
Zac Yanis was 61st (28:34.62), Kevin Green was 73rd (28:55.30), Matt McWhirter was 85th (29:29.88) and Naeem Thompson finished 99th (30:56.17).


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Heidelberg expands availability of Digimaster 9110m
Monday, October 27, 2003
Press release from the issuing companyATLANTA, Oct. 26, 2003 — Customers around the globe can now take advantage of the value proposition of Heidelberg's award-winning Digimaster 9110m print system, which is now available worldwide. Here at the Xplor Global Conference & Exhibit, Heidelberg is showcasing its Digimaster 9110m print system for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) printing. Designed specifically for data centers and transactional printing environments, the 9110m system features MICR toner and special MICR fonts for a variety of applications, including printing checks, rebates, coupons and other financial documents. Heidelberg's MICR printing solution also offers the ability to switch toner stations, enabling operators to use standard toner when MICR is not required — so customers can employ one device for both MICR and non-MICR printing. The device, launched last year in North America, enables digital MICR printing of documents at the full-engine speed of 110 images per minute and delivers industry leading reader-sorter performance. "In a short time, our Digimaster 9110m print system has received industry praise and helped North American transactional printing and data center market customers produce outstanding MICR printing," said Wolfgang Pfizenmaier, president of Heidelberg's Digital Print Solution Center. "Now, customers worldwide will benefit from the device, which has changed the face of on-demand MICR printing by delivering the superior image quality and the productivity customers expect from our Digimaster product family." The Digimaster 9110m system meets or exceeds the most stringent performance requirements, including the certifications of PIRA Grade 1 and APACS, and it conforms to ANSI standards. It was recently recognized as one of BERTL's best products of the year for outstanding innovation and design in a high-end CRD device. Heidelberg's 9110m device is engineered for the added security and flexibility demanded by MICR output. • The ability to switch toner stations enables operators to use standard toner when MICR is not required. • MICR fonts are automatically disabled when the MICR toning station is removed. • Users can employ a restricted-secure mode setting to control use of the MICR toner within their business. • Toner bottles and toning stations are keyed to prevent inadvertent use of the wrong toner. • The machine allows multiple applications and job streams on the same engine. Like the other Digimaster solutions, the Digimaster 9110m system provides a short, straight paper path for superior paper handling and a resolution of 600x600 dpi. It also can be configured with a range of hardware and software accessories, including Imagedirect 665 scanner, ImageSmart software, roll feeders, post-process inserter, booklet maker, perfect binder and stacker. Heidelberg's Digital Print Solution Center developed the Digimaster 9110m device, which is available to customers through Heidelberg Market Centers worldwide.
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Are you familiar with the tiny house movement?
Well, if not, it is all the rage these days. People are selling their larger homes and building houses about 1/3 of the average size house.
Because people are ditching debt and embracing life, this is totally cool.
So I want to share multiple tiny house plans. Hopefully, they'll excite and inspire you the same way they do me every time I see one.
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If you would like to purchase a sauna for your home in the near future, then you must know exactly what model will meet your needs. Therefore, if you are confused and do not know what type of sauna to choose for home, then this article will certainly provide you the desired information so that you can find easier to make a choice.
What models are available on the market at the moment?
Before you actually go and buy a sauna for your home, you must know exactly what models are available in the shops at the moment. Therefore, you will find in the shops, indoor and outdoor saunas. Furthermore, there are two models, infrared and steam saunas. You are probably wondering which one to choose.
- If you are a person who actually enjoys steam in the sauna, very high temperatures, and a more social environment, then you must definitely go for a steam sauna. This model will definitely provide you several health benefits. It will help you detoxify your body in a very natural and healthy way, it will improve your blood circulation, it will reduce stress, and it will also relieve aches and pains, which is fantastic. The only disadvantage is that the heat is quite uncomfortable and you will find quite hard to breathe inside a steam sauna.
- On the other hand, when it comes to infrared saunas, the heat waves that this model produces will penetrate your body and raise the body core temperature. Infrared saunas produce a heat that it is actually very pleasant, and it will not suffocate you at all. Therefore, you will be able to spend a lot more time inside it. You can find on the market these days, infrared saunas for 1, 2, 3 or even more persons, which means that the whole family can use it at the same time.
- For those who don't have enough space to install a sauna at home or don't want to invest a lot of money, there are cheaper and smaller alternatives that provide the benefits of infrared light and one of the most common ones is the infrared slim belt. Judging by this infrared sauna slim belt review, these items are comfortable to use and show great results in alleviating back pain, improving blood circulation, or losing stubborn belly fat.
- Outdoor saunas are perfect for those who require large-sized units. They can actually have any dimensions, in order to meet all your needs. Rather than this detail, they actually provide the same benefits as the indoor ones.
- Indoor saunas are the most popular ones these days due to the fact that they are more practical, as you can install them close to the bathroom, or why not right in your bathroom. Moreover., you will find very easy to install an infrared sauna, and you will also like its price, as most of these models are affordable in comparison with the outdoor models that are very expensive to buy, and you also have to pay for installation.