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It is said that the fool debates for the sake of of winning and proving his point. The wise man debates to uncover the truth–even if he were to discover that he were wrong himself.
The same could be said for sparring. Each month my school hosts a "Fight Night", in which anyone can come in and spar–on my terms and rules, of course. I have tried several times to run just sparring without giving instruction. After all, many who attend are not my students, so why should I share what I know with them? Yet the teacher in me finds it difficult to watch another man fight with mistakes and not say anything. In fact, because of this I have recruited many students this way. My first class in Sacramento consisted mostly of Tae Kwon Do and Kenpo fighters I competed against in the first few tournaments after moving here. Frequently on the circuit, I will see potential in a competitor and cannot resist the urge to drop a few tips–or at least request a short match first, and then give them (advice is better taken that way) to him.
So in our fight nights, I will often guide the path of the sparring by making occasional breaks and then offering my observations during those breaks. And this advice will sometimes help another fighter beat my own guys. No problem.
One of the things I think instructors have to be able to do is allow his guys to get whipped sometimes. It makes them tougher and wiser. Of course, we all want to protect them from injury. Yet, what better way for them to learn to keep their guards maintained while attacking, than to have a guy nail them when they let their hands lose while moving in? I could say it a thousand times, and all it takes is one match where their opponent smacks them 6 or 7 times! If a teacher avoids letting outsiders fight their boys because they fear their boys losing a match, we must look at what causes this fear…
Do you know what I think?
Teachers who are overprotective of their students are really protecting themselves from the belief that his teaching is inferior. He doesn't mind if his students could never beat him, and I consider a teacher whose students cannot beat him to be an inferior teacher. (In my 19 years of running a school, many students have risen to the point that I will lose a match to them. I was prepared for this while still a teen, and told repeatedly that I should expect to be better than my teachers. My failure to do so meant that they were poor teachers.) At the same time, the teacher must put men in front of his fighters that will challenge them and occasionally dominate them. After all, this is the only way they will improve as fighters. No fighter ever sharpened his skills on inferior opponents. Never forget that.
Now if teachers are keeping their students from tasting the bitterness of defeat–and it's due to fear that their teaching is inferior–then why teach at all?
It's because these teachers are not teaching and wanting to "test" their students' skill. They are teaching because they secretly hope their students will be dominant off of their instruction alone. This is foolish thinking. I have had, in my 19 years of holding Fight Night, no fewer than 20 teachers who wanted to "check out" my Fight Night before allowing their students to attend. Knowing me personally and my character–I would never allow a visitor to get hurt on my watch–these teachers are not worried that their guys will get hurt they just want to see if their guys will win against our guys. If they would show up and find out that my guys were all slaps, they would eagerly encourage their boys to come and fight. I met a neighboring Sabumnim once at an A&W shop, and he brought 6 Black Belt students to a Fight Night a few years back. This was without seeing my school, and he was attending based on his perception that I was a short, smiling and friendly guy who probably couldn't fight. That night, I was not in attendance, but the late Grandmaster Vince Tinga was standing in for me, and he allowed (encouraged is more like it) my boys to waste the visitors. (He was angry that the man brought Black Belt students to fight a group of beginners). The Master I met then suited up in the attempt to teach my guys a lesson. After thumping on my then-15 year old brother, and then a female student, one of my advanced beginners put him on his butt. The next day, I called him and berated him for fighting my students in my absence and suggested he meet me for some friendly sparring. Needless to say, he never came and neither he nor his students ever attended another fight night, until one of his guys, Daryl, came and signed up.
That Sabumnim was guilty of coming to spar, not to test his skill or develop technique, but to thump on what he thought would be easy prey. He mistook my supposed humility for weakness; on the contrary, I was insulting him by being humble and friendly. See, the true warrior is cocky around fighters who are his peer and potential rivals, but is humble to those who pose no threat. It is like a big strong man flexing his muscles around 12 year old boys. Let that one sink in…
We spar unfamiliar opponents–my friends–not to dominate them, but to test our skills against them and experiment with unfamiliar techniques in the effort to improve. This is why I don't care to find out who is attending when you come to fight. I don't need to know that you consider yourself an MMA fighter. I don't care if you have a Black Belt. It doesn't matter if you are an experienced fighter or not. What matters is that you bring enough skills that my boys are able to find out where they stand and that they get an opportunity to develop their techniques on you. I do this because I want them to face fighters and fighting styles they haven't yet faced. I must say this, because we always get MMA/Muay Thai wannabes who think they are coming to thump–and they end up getting thumped. I have yet to have an outsider come and perform as well as they hoped, because more often than not they came to kick ass rather than improve–and our guys have faced many like that. If you want to knock someone out, there are events where that is the goal. If you want to see how tough you are, there are events where that is the goal. But in the effort to develop new skills and fine-tune existing skills, you must spar for the sake of truth and development. To see if what we're doing is working, or if we need to change to increase our intensity: for no other reason.
I don't need these Fight Nights for my boys to kick someone's behind; that's what tournaments are for. We do these events so that everyone gets strangers to fight with and learn from, and develop. Even if it's my own students who lose the match. Even if my teaching has failed them.Even if I have realized that what I'd been teaching all along was wrong or needed to be modified. Yet we do not avoid opponents and events–or come for the wrong reasons, because in doing so we avoid the truth. And for the martial warrior–truth must be the motivating reason, not ego. As a matter of fact, we betray ourselves when we spar for ego. We should be sparring to find out if our training has been in vain. You do not fight with the end result in mind; to do so shows a lack of faith in yourself and your training. Simply, you must spar to do a job: To stop the opponent's attacks, to counter his attacks, to land your own attacks, and to counter his counters. Anything else is irrelevant, and the outcome should be nothing but improving the two men who started at the beginning of the match.
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When first we meet him, intrepid freelance detective Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr) and his trusty side-kick Doctor John Watson (Law) are rescuing a maiden from a satanic ritual, led by the evil Lord Blackwood (Strong).
Long after they've rounded up their suspects, Inspector Lestrade (Marsan) turns up with his officers – unsure whether to be angry at Holmes's meddling or relieved that the job is done.
After Blackwood's execution, Dr Watson is called upon to confirm that he's died, and then the two men put the whole episode behind them.
Holmes is at that odd point in his life where he doesn't really know what to do with himself – firing bullets into the wall seems to pass the time. Watson can't take any more and decides to put some distance between them, by moving into new offices and settling down with his fiancée.
An unexpected visit from his own paramour, Irene Adler (McAdams), injects new life into Holmes. The only criminal who's ever evaded him – she's also stolen his heart, and when she asks him to help her boss find someone, he jumps at the chance.
The mission proves more complicated than he expects, so Watson ends up coming along for the ride, as they uncover a string of murders and corruption in high places, all leading back to…Lord Blackwood.
Sherlock Holmes as street-fighting action hero, with neither a deer-stalker nor a pipe in sight, is perhaps not the way we're most used to seeing Britain's most famous detective, but it's oddly compelling.
Robert Downey Junior always has a tremendous screen presence and even with a slightly dodgy English accent, he manages to pull off the role of this troubled genius – by turns loopy and intuitive beyond belief.
Jude Law is more of a foil, with little to do himself but react to each unpredictable move from Holmes.
The story is – as you'd expect – a little over-twisty with rather too many people doing too many things. It can be hard to keep up, especially when Guy Ritchie is throwing so much action and intrigue at us in the meantime. It does seem like we're being overloaded at times. But like most detective stories, we do get the helpful scene at the end where our eponymous hero (works equally well for Poirot or Marple!) explains every last detail to us, in case we've been left behind.
The production design is impressive – presenting us with an 1800s London, where Tower Bridge is still under construction, and other familiar landmarks seem suitably youthful.
There are only a couple of the kind of directorial flourishes that we might have expected from Guy Ritchie, harking back to his Lock-Stock and Snatch days, both of which he gets out of the way in the first act, but he manages to sustain the action, excitement and tension throughout.
The plot is, frankly, silly, and isn't really worth expending too much energy on, trying to work it out in advance, and there's little genuine emotion on display between the characters – either the buddies at its heart or the men and their women – but the film looks sumptuous, moves along briskly and keeps you entertained.
After some recent failures at the box office, one might have thought Guy Ritchie was losing a bit of clout, and to allow someone with his unpredictable reputation to play with such a national treasure was undeniably brave, but someone clearly saw fit to trust him with a big budget and two of the hottest stars on the big screen. The film isn't going to change the world, but if their aim was simply to entertain, their gamble has paid off and Ritchie himself will undoubtedly live to fight another day.
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"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our own community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own'' Cesar Chavez
The Indymedia Africa 2015 convergence came off successfully as brothers and sisters from Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Mali, Cameroon and DRC converged in Accra-Ghana.
All delegates were co-housed with other comrades of AMARC 11 at the University of Professional Studies-Accra (UPSA) Hostel. It was all fun, mind-blowing, socialization and academics towards societal change and community development.
Facilitators, to mention a few, Kola and O'law (from Nigeria), Byntou and Alassane (from Mali), Edith and Eric (from Cameroon), Jean-Marie and Philomene (from Togo) co-headed meetings and open dialogues on issues pertaining:
1. Violence faites aux femmes cas des aides menageres
2. Early pregnancy and the role of women in the society
3. Are Lawyers liars?
4. Conquering the oppressors: The imperative of Technology media
5. Identifying European Concepts that are still falsifying the African consciousness
6. Indigenous Development
7. IRC and Mailman
8. MAAT and African spirituality
9. Marriage, Teenage Pregnancy and the role of women in the society
10. Open Source technology(Hardware and Software)
11. Accuracy and verification in social media journalism
12. The Rudiments of Radio Broadcasting
13. The role Millar Open University plays in Indymedia
14. Web publishing
15. Web Radio and Freedom Phone
16. Youth in Governance, Leadership and Politics
Opal Tometi and Lydia Ajono's superb contributions can't be forgotten.
The six (6) day convergence was wrapped up with a visit to the ill-famed Elmina and Cape Coast Castles, where millions of AFRICANS were shackled with foot, arm and neck iron chains, tortured, murdered, raped with aloofness before shipped off from the continent into slavery.
The Indymedia Africa 2015 convergence in Accra motivated and inspired young ladies and men in the hosted vicinity to join the INDYmedia family. Community outreach was done. Students from nearby universities and colleges were called upon. Members in the community weren't left out.
The first meeting was held and has since been held at the University of Professional Studies-Accra (UPSA) Hostel where Indymedia Africa and AMARC comrades were housed. For the beginning, fifteen (15) people made it to the meeting. Eight (8) of which were ladies. A lady and two comrades are workers of the University of Professional Studies-Accra (UPSA).Most comrades that showed up for the first meeting are students of Ghana Institute Languages (GIL) and University of Professional Studies-Accra (UPSA). The name IMC-EAST LEGON was adopted.
Our intention to join the Indymedia family was made known and clear via email the the imc mailing list.
So luckily for the birth of IMC-EAST LEGON, it happened that Fabian from UK who has worked on several grounds with IMC AFRICA was in Ghana. He passed through one of our meetings and briefly threw light on Journalism and how it has evolved over the past years through innovation of cell phones.
For creating a chance to work on an issue we deeply care about, our numbers keeps increasing in each meeting we organize. The chance to use what we have learnt to help real people (the community).A sister from Benin, Angele, has also joined us with the hope of returning to her home country and making Indymedia Africa and its objectives known to her comrades.
To be the mouthpiece of the community, IMC-EAST LEGON is not gender or religiously biased. We are a group of diverse individuals of different ethnic backgrounds, cultures and political affiliations. For joining the Indymedia family, reasons basically, the acquisition of the necessary ideas and training that will equip this young individuals communicate on issues that is not generally emphasized by the profit driven radio stations. To make valuable information available to the people from the grassroots.
Mr. Amekudzi k. Augustus who will be our technician has firsthand technical experience in radio and tv servicing and also building a miniature transmitter. He is the current electrical engineering technician for the University of Professional Studies-Accra (UPSA).
The coming together of members in building IMC-EAST LEGON is a good demonstration of how diverse group of people can come together with a sole objective of community development.
It is our outmost hope and desire that trainings, re-training, workshops and panels will be available to equip our brothers and sisters adjust to the new working environment. Finding creative ways to overcome obstacles on the road to social change.
To keep up with political, economic and social changes, tackling community issues is our way forward.
To be the voice of the voiceless, loudspeakers in our community, town and nation as a whole.
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. 'Oscar Wilde


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The protagonist in Showtime's controversial series "Dexter" is an unrepentant serial killer. The show, in its seventh and final season, is a darling of liberal viewers, while conservatives tend toward the less niche fare offered by the major networks. However, even with its morally complicated plot, "Dexter" is one of television's most unintentionally conservative shows.
Why? First you have to understand the backstory.
The young Dexter (Michael C. Hall) witnesses his mother's murder in one of the bloodiest murders in Miami history. Harry, the police officer who works the crime, adopts the young boy and raises him as his own child. Soon, however, Harry (James Remar) is horrified to discover that Dexter has been killing neighborhood pets. Assuming the desire to kill must've originated upon witnessing his mom's death — and believing he can't control Dexter's urge — he teaches his son to kill only those guilty of heinous crimes. In other words, Dexter becomes a vigilante — a Batman of sorts — for whom viewers unwittingly end up rooting.The show is not "conservative" in the sense that you might want the church youth group to watch it for spiritual lessons. The show's themes, however, are subversively conservative.
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We sailed into Falmouth Harbour, Antigua and found it nearly empty. There were some local charter boats, liveaboards, stored boats, and a few cruisers, but nothing link the huge crowd that was there for the regattas. We thought we would be all alone, but as we cruised in we spotted Wings (Fred and Ruth), some friends from Grenada who had been in Antigua since before the Classic Regatta. A day or two later we heard our friends Jack and Bobbi (Moonrise) on the radio. They were also anchored in Falmouth Harbour. Although both boats moved on before we did, it was nice to have a little relaxed company.
We spent a lot of time getting the boat ready to haul out, but we took time off once in a while. One day we hiked the middle ground – the area between English Harbour and Falmouth Harbour. The hills are full of goats and sheep. Usually we see a few here and there, but that day we encountered them in larger than usual groups.
We walked down to an area near the shore that we had not explored before. An large ditch had been cut through and the ground graded. There were a few birds, but what was more interesting were the shells we found in the graded area. One was like none we had ever seen before. Another was more common, but it was essentially cut in half exposing the interior.
Life was quiet in Falmouth Harbour. Once in a while we saw locals doing some fishing.
But the really interesting thing that happened was that we got a surprise visitor. Jackie got up one morning and when she ventured out into the cockpit she found a white pigeon sitting on the aft hatch. It was quite docile and didn't seem to mind Jackie walking around nearby or trying to shoo it away.
We finally got the pigeon to take off (he left a mess behind). We watched as it flew in a large circle passing by many other boats. It then came to land on one of the mizzen spreaders. We tried making noise, snapping halyards, and various other things to try to dislodge the pigeon. Finally it hopped off the spreader – and landed on top of the radar where we could no longer see it. For all we know it could still be there.
Why did the pigeon pick our boat? We have no idea. We had not seen a pigeon like it during our travels until we visited The Saintes the week before. Coincidence or stowaway – who knows?
We had traveled over to Slipway Boatyard and Marina in English Harbour and made arrangements with Deon, the manager, to haul Compass Rose, but then spent some time getting ready for the big event. Finally we motored around to English Harbour and anchored off Galleon Beach.
We had heard that boats tended to wander around their anchors, so once we were settled we talked to a neighboring boat. While we were talking our boats drifted closer and closer together. We promptly pulled up the anchor and moved to another spot.
The Galleon Beach anchorage is small and when the wind drops, boats tend to wander around in all directions relative to each other. The entertainment was to watch boats come in and try to find a spot to anchor when all the boats were pointed every which way.. When the wind and/or currents were right our neighbor had a lot of space around them. Boats would anchor and our neighbor would explain the situation and ask them to move. They would then move the next biggest spot – right next to us.
The guy in the first boat to do this was fine at first, but as I was going to bed I noticed that our boats had drifted close together. I gave a couple toots on our horn to get his attention and asked if he was going to do anchor watch. He said he would and I went to bed.
That boat left the next day, but another came and anchored nearby later. They weren't obnoxious and they kept an eye on the boats. We did drift to within a boat length of each other the next morning.
The other recurring theme was boat rescues. Not too long after we arrived we noticed a boat coming from the direction of Falmouth Harbour that wasn't making much progress against the wind and waves. A boat in the anchorage raised anchor and headed out. Then a guy got in his dinghy and headed out towards the ocean. It turned out that the boat at sea had an engine failure and was anchored. The guy in the dinghy lent them a hand and the other boat towed them in. Our dinghy was still up, so we just kept an eye on the process.
The next day a boat sailed in from the east, missed the channel, and anchored between the channel marker and the fort. The fellow who took his dinghy out the previous day again went to the rescue. I hopped in our dinghy and joined in the fun. We put the dinghies on either side and pulled the boat in to the fuel dock at the boatyard. I helped them get lines ashore. The captain looked familiar – it was Deon, the boatyard manager we talked to about hauling out our boat.
After a lot of preparation the day finally came to haul the boat. We raised anchor and motored over to the fuel dock to top up the tanks. We checked to make sure they were ready and motored around to the ramp. Most places use a travel lift to pick up the boat and move it around, but Slipway uses a trailer. The boat sits on supports on the middle of the trailer and the arms support it so it doesn't fall over.
To haul your boat, they back the trailer into the water and then direct you to drive the boat in over the trailer. Once there they raise the arms on the trailer and adjust them to support the boat.
The trailer operator was a guy called "Fire" – we didn't ask where the name came from. He guided us in helping us account for the cross wind. Once over the trailer he raised the arms and "captured" our boat. Then the process began. Fire would move the trailer arms to better position Compass Rose and then check how she sat. This often included him swimming under the boat to check the position of the arms.
When he thought everything was ready he signaled the winch operator to pull the trailer up the ramp. As the trailer came out of the water Compass Rose would settle in place. It took a few tries, but finally Fire got us settled. Then the winch operator pulled the trailer out of the water and they hooked it to a yard tractor. Finally, they moved our boat into place. The whole process took a long time, but we were pleased that Fire wouldn't move forward unless everything was ready.
We spent the next day getting Compass Rose buttoned up and the following day we hopped a plane for the USA.
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They're out there – in your nearest major city, or maybe at the hole-in-the-wall bar downtown,
or the day spa – victims of human trafficking and the commercial sex trade. They're out there and they're not far away. But you could go your whole life walking right by them and never know it. The first step, and perhaps the most difficult, in freeing people from modern-day slavery, is to find the enslaved people and the places where they're being exploited.
F.R.E.E. International goes into the many places where exploitation occurs and brings training, education and a way out for those who are being victimized. We do not break down doors and force our way into situations, we build relationships, we come alongside and offer a way out to a life of FREEdom.
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F.R.E.E. International collaborates with KlaasKids Search and Rescue to organize community search efforts to find missing children. F.R.E.E. and KlassKids train volunteers on how to search and communicate with families and law enforcement through experienced liaisons.
Human traffickers use major events as opportunities to ply their trade. In fact, more people will be bought, sold and pressed into servitude during Super Bowl weekend than at any other time of the year. F.R.E.E. shows up at these events to counter the traffickers. We help police departments and local organizations to identify and help victims, train hotel employees to do the same, conduct missing child searches and hold school assemblies to educate local youth.
Whether they are aware of it or not hotels are frequently used by traffickers as places of business, locations where they "sell their product." Through Project H.O.M.E. (Hospitality Outreach for Missing and Exploited), we educate staff working in the hospitality industry on how to identify and help victims. We also distribute soaps and door hangers that encourage victims to call the National Human Trafficking Hotline for help.
The exploitation of children is not solely an international problem. We face it here, in our country and in our own communities. And our children should be aware. F.R.E.E holds Say Something assemblies at schools nationwide to inform our youth about the reality of commercial sexual exploitation. The presentation focuses on peer intervention and prevention. It asks students to take a stand and intervene in their own lives, the lives of their friends and the community around them.
F.R.E.E leads individuals, churches and nonprofit organizations out onto the streets – to strip clubs and brothels – and teaches them how to build relationships with and meet the needs of victims of the commercial sex trade.


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Mike Judge's movie Idiocracy came out in 2006 and largely flew under the radar, at least compared to the success of Office Space. I first saw Idiocracy in 2008, when I was living in Burundi. I could see Judge has an amazing ability to simplify without being simplistic. His movies offer landscapes that reward repeated views and explorations because his details are subtly incisive and biting; they are often the main source of commentary. Shiny polyester clothing that we pull out of dispensers? Fast food from vending machines? Rounded corners on all the buildings to protect us from ourselves? Wow, wow and wow. But the best part is the very direct premise loaded with implications. In short, the world is getting universally dumber because our breeding habits are exacerbating inequalities like social class, wealth and intelligence, and we as a society are focused on the wrong priorities. The most average person alive today would then become the smartest person in the world five hundred years ahead.
Even though Judge extrapolates far ahead to arrive at this dystopian future, his analysis begins now, and many of the signs, literally, are around us. The insidious creep of corporations sponsorship to show up on everything from stadia to subway stations to events to research projects, the unchecked privatization of basic services like education and healthcare, the obvious breakdown of effective representative government – these changes add up to Judge's Idiocracy.
So in addition to blogging about media matters, development issues and my dog, I'd like to introduce a weekly post about how we are moving closer and closer to Mike Judge's Idiocracy. Here is a current example.
In Idiocracy, the very average protagonist, played by Luke Wilson, stumbles into a movie theater, and this is playing.
Judge suggests movies are getting worse and worse, and who needs dialogue, plot or characters when you can have trashy and pointless images like a gratuitous (Oscar-winning!) bare ass? Occasionally it farts.
And we love it. We love it because it sucks and we as an audience have been dumbing down our tastes for decades. It's so bad, it's the best. Sound familiar?
Enter Sharknado and all that it represents.
A quick sweep online reveals numerous headlines with phrases like "so-bad-they're-good" or "in praise of bad movies." Some extol the virtues of occasionally consuming low-grade garbage because sometimes it's so bad, it's good. Like fast food?
Here's an article in celebration of "Sharknado-bad" movies:
This Wired piece tries to dissect the phenomenon intellectually:
Clearly, entertaining "bad" movies have been around as long as cinema, but Judge's point is a question of standards, and ours, he suggests, are very slowly but steadily eroding when it comes to movies, much like other, more important areas of our lives. Maybe things will start to change when we start demanding that change. Otherwise, it's just more of the same – or worse.
*** As a bonus, I've also been mentally tracking over the years the prescience of the movie Demolition Man, a very very loose adaption of Aldous Huxley's classic Brave New World. So far, it has predicted:
– Arnold Schwarzenegger will become president. –> He's already governor.
– People will be teleconferenced into and attend meetings with their faces appearing on monitors. –> Skype
– Taco Bell will be the main food supplier in a post-apocalyptic society. –> Extrapolated out to fast food in general and this is not too far off.
– Cars will become self-driving. –> Google car
– Wesley Snipes might kill us all –> pending…
Here's an old New York Times article hailing the modest genius of Demolition Man.


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In 2007, Claire and I visited several churches in Kenya, one of which was in Marich, Kenya. When we met with the members of this church, the people shared with us what their needs were. They said that the biggest problems they faced were a lack of water, diseases that come from bad water and a lack of food. We listened carefully as they passionately told us what life was like for them. What do you say when the problems are so big? We said that the needs were indeed very great and our ability to help was very small. But I said that we would pray for them and that we would do what we could. Just a few days after we met with this church, a cholera epidemic swept through this community, sending 80 to the dispensary and killing 10.
We tried to understand what life was like for these beautiful people but there was no way we could fully understand and it would have been the height of arrogance and presumption for us to say, "We understand what it's like for you." We have no idea what it is like because we are not living there and we are not having to deal with the hardships these people were dealing with. We could not fully understand unless we were actually living there and became one of them.
Does anyone really fully understand you? Probably not. No one else fully understands each of our own situations. But there is one exception and that exception makes all the difference in the world for us. You see, Jesus is exactly like us and as a result He does fully understand us. Let's read John 1:1-18. We will be focusing on verse 14.
I. Let's look first at the terms "Word" and "flesh."
John stated already in verse 1 that the Word was and is God. This Word was with God from the very beginning and instrumental in the creation of the world. The Word is eternal, almighty and all-powerful God! Now why did John choose this term as opposed to other terms? The term "Word" in the Bible describes God revealing Himself to His people. When the Jewish people heard the term "Word," they thought of God as he was communicating with them, revealing something about Himself to them.
Now what is meant by the term "flesh." For Paul the flesh is the sinful nature that we must be continually getting rid of. The term "flesh" for John is the whole human sphere of life. It means being human in its fullest sense with all its weaknesses but without sin.
Jesus did not come down from heaven and simply slip on a human uniform in order to blend into the crowd of people. The Greeks and Romans thought their gods would occasionally come down to earth just to see what was going on and then return to heaven. For example, I could put on a doctor's white coat, hang a stethoscope around my neck and walk around the hospital and maybe pass for a doctor. Would that make me a doctor? Of course not. Jesus did not just dress up like us, he became one of us. This is the meaning of the term "incarnation." Carnis is the Latin word for flesh like in the word carnivorous animal. Incarnate means that Jesus became flesh, He became one of us.
And what is important for us to remember is that Jesus still remained God. How can that be? How could Jesus be both God and man at the same time? When I married Claire almost 40 years ago, I became a husband. However, when our daughter was born I became a father. In that one event, I became both a husband and a father. The one event of Jesus' birth was the time when Jesus became both God and man. Before Jesus was born, He was God. After Jesus was born, He remained God but also became human.
This is what article 18 of the Belgic Confession says. "So then we confess that God fulfilled the promise which he had made to the early fathers by the mouth of his holy prophets when he sent his only and eternal Son into the world at the time set by him. The Son took the "form of a servant"and was made in the "likeness of man," truly assuming a real human nature, with all its weaknesses, except for sin; being conceived in the womb of the blessed virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit, without male participation. And he not only assumed human nature as far as the body is concerned but also a real human soul, in order that he might be a real human being. For since the soul had been lost as well as the body he had to assume them both to save them both together." The Son of God became one of us, a real human being.
God's glory is that special thing that is always there whenever God reveals Himself. When God came to dwell in the Tabernacle, the people knew the glory of God was in that place. When we look around at this marvelously created world, we see God's glory. John says when Jesus was on earth, the disciples saw this glory with their own eyes. First they saw the literal, physical Jesus of Nazareth. Later, they saw the risen Jesus with a wonder and awe as they saw God's glory.
But they not only saw Jesus revealing God's glory, they saw God's grace and truth. They saw God's grace in his overwhelming love for them. They saw Jesus, their Lord, the Son of God, dying on the cross and they realized that it was for their own sin and failures. But they also saw God desiring to save them in spite of their sin. But they also saw truth in Jesus. They saw that Jesus was the only answer for the needs of the world. They also saw the extent that God was willing to go to save His people.
Jesus' incarnation should above all else show to us the love of God to His people. God could have decided just to let us go, wanting nothing more to do with us. But God didn't just let us go because He promised long ago to save us. Jesus coming in the flesh shows just how far God was willing to go to save us. When we think of Jesus taking on our flesh, we should think of God's love in sending Jesus to die for us.
But let's also learn from this so that we can better understand who Jesus really is. Jesus was a wonderful human being, but He is also God. A few years ago, the paper reported that there was a new talking Jesus doll. The advertisement said, "This colorful and richly detailed talking figure brings the New Testament to life with a Jesus character that kids can play with and move. God's only son, Jesus, helped people by teaching them God's lessons, healing them and performing miracles. The Biblical character comes with a vibrant mini storybook that kids may follow and use to recreate the tales. A delightful 'action figure' and fully interactive way for children to learn and participate in religious education. For ages 3 years and up. Batteries included." It was possible to have the Son of God for only $19.99, batteries included!
Jesus is God and wholly divine and sinless; we cannot forget that! He needed to be fully God to take the full weight of sin on Himself. He needed to be sinless to be an acceptable sacrifice for our sin. But Jesus was also a full and complete human person as well. He was also a person who weighed so many pounds and was of a certain height. He likely got sick and His teeth hurt him when he was teething as a child.
Jesus was also very real in his human emotions. He could become terribly angry and very fierce. But He could also weep and be filled with sorrow and disappointment. He likely laughed, told jokes and enjoyed Himself with His friends. He knew the feelings of rejection and pain just like we feel at times.
The point is that Jesus does really understand us in our problems and our joys. Does He know the frustration of losing your job or being unemployed. It is true that He didn't work at a paying job. But He knew what it was like to have no money and have no place to call home.
Does He know the sorrow of losing a loved one in death? Jesus wept from sorrow and loss when His dear friend Lazarus died. He understands when we feel sorrow and pain from the loss of life.
What about the frustrations of not having enough time in the day? There were times when Jesus just needed to get away from all the pressures and crowds to pray and be by Himself. He got tired and frustrated just as we do at times.
Does He know the mixture of joy and frustration that young mothers face in taking care of little children? He never was a father; however His disciples were like little children who often were fighting and squabbling over little things. He also knew children and loved them.
Certainly Jesus knew about physical pain that wasn't fair or deserved. He suffered terribly before His death and His death itself was a horrible agony. Jesus knows what it is like to suffer pain and physical weakness.
And certainly Jesus knew the pain of loneliness. No one really understood Him at all while he was on earth. He could talk to His disciples and He could pray, but there was no one who really understood what He was going through and who He was.
We could think of many other examples as well. But Jesus as one of us, a human being, suffered the same things we suffer. And that means that he understands us in our needs.
And the result of that is that we can trust Him fully because He understands us. It is very comforting to have someone who has gone through the same thing as you have gone through. After my father died, I remember talking to a person whose father had died a few years before. We had something in common in that and we understood how each other felt. And I can still remember how comforting that felt to have someone understand.
Jesus went through in some way whatever you are going through right now. He completely understands you and your needs. He is ready to listen and help if you are willing to talk with Him in prayer. He is willing to say, "I understand and I can help you. Trust me." Are we willing to talk with him and bring him our very personal needs?


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In Ladybug Pacman, which is a free online pacman game, the player impersonates ladybug. Your task is to collect (eat, being more precisely) crosslets all around the maze (to pass to another level you have to eat all of them). The maze is made from permanent and mobile elements. Using the mobile walls (some kind of revolving doors) reasonably, you can effectively hide from your enemies – bugs. The bugs, which displace the ghosts from the original pacman game, are different in each maze (and their speed is higher in the following levels too). They leave the 'ghost' pen (now it should be called 'bug' pen) one after another. When the green line on the edge of the maze describes a circle, another bug comes out of the bug pen. At the end of the board there will be five of them, and in the bug pen (when all of them will leave it) appear a bonus fruit. After eating it, the bugs stop for a moment and you can unhurriedly collect crosslets. As you may see, ladybug can come in into the bug's place, as opposed to other pacman like games.
An extra difficulty is the existence of two or more (in the next boards) skulls in the maze. They can either help you – when a bug will try to eat them, or hurt you – in that case you lost a life. It is better to be careful and leave skulls for bugs – they move really chaotic and do not keep their's head above water. Also, you have to wait with going through revolving doors, if behind them there is a bug.
In this circumstances, if you move forward and try to replace the bug, you will lost a life. All over the maze there are items designed for you – some special bonuses. It is better to collect them, becauce after gathering 10,000 points you will get an extra life. Although the graphics is, to put it mildly, less attractive than in other similar pacman games (it is made in retro, arcade style), the gameplay can be quite amusing. For olders it could be a sentimental trip, and the youngsters should play just for fun (or, to see how their parents spent their free time when they were young).
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Pigeon Shooting - Red Letter Days (Part 2) - Bob Laidlaw
Red Letter Days (Part 2)
If he could decoy pigeons 24/7 he would, taking just the odd day out to go fishing.
Red Letter Days (Part 2)
One of my regular pigeon shooters is Iain Fawcett from Hertfordshire. Iain and wife Lorraine come to Norfolk every year often twice during the summer and again at Christmas. Lorraine comes here to relax far away from home, work and all the stress that goes with it. Iain comes here for a completely different reason – pigeon shooting, pure and simple.
If he could decoy pigeons 24/7 he would, taking just the odd day out to go fishing.
During his trip to Norfolk in August we were finding the decoying hard work. The use of the rotary was scaring the birds more than it was attracting them. We find that this is not uncommon particularly at the end of harvest time when the birds have almost certainly been shot at a number of times. If they've seen the spinning motion of the rotary before, followed by a loud bang and 30g of No. 6 shot whistling past their backside, it's small wonder that they see it as a danger sign.
As Iain's week ebbed away without the customary big bags that he's come to expect, I could feel the pressure building within me. Don't get me wrong, Iain has been shooting long enough to know that the woodie is a truly wild creature and totally unpredictable. He would never put pressure on me and is far more likely to say "Don't worry, I had a great time" even if the bag was only 6 birds (which it was on his 3rd day).
His trips to Norfolk cost him and Lorraine a packet and I know how much this man looks forward to his pigeon shooting so I am bound to feel some pressure.
The penultimate day produces a bag of 22 birds and I have a plan. Instead of our evening trip to the game dealer to get the birds out of the August heat and into the fridge ready for the food chain, we'll put them in a sack and use them as decoys in cradles in a wheat stubble which has yet to be shot.
I know there's good numbers of woodies feeding in the stubble but going by our experiences of this week, there's a good chance that they'll be shy of the decoys and flare away if we use any mechanical devices. We'll try the gentle approach and see if we can fool the birds on what was Iain's last day.
When we arrived at the wheat stubble field we were pleased to see good pigeon movement and a strong flight line heading past the very point that I had intended to put the hide and decoys. Things are looking good!
The 22 dead birds from the previous days efforts were put into a fairly random horse shoe shape pattern with a general head into wind direction, but nothing too regimental, this has to look real and pigeons don't feed in a regimental fashion, it's always random.
The metal cradles lifted the birds high enough in the stubble to be very visible, but not too high - It's got to look real.
I've got to say that I think I do great decoy patterns but this looked fantastic even by my standards. If I was a pigeon I'd believe it!
OK, the proof of the pudding as they say…. As I left the field I heard the crack of Iain's gun and the first bird was in the bag. I was feeling confident but the ego has taken a bashing this week so we'll call him in one hour for a progress check. I know this bloke will always shoot a good bag if we can get the birds to decoy, he always has a good average and often shoots better than one bird for two shots.
One hour later I cross my fingers and make the phone call. "Yep, all good. I've shot 18 birds so far" Phew, thank the Lord.
Every time I phone him the tally is rising and the decoys are fooling the birds big time. Everything is diving straight into the decoys. Like a true pro, Iain picks up his dead birds every 10-15 minutes. It's a hot day and the flies will be on the birds in no time flat. The other reason is, we have a great decoy pattern and it's working just fine so let's not clutter it with more birds and risk spoiling things. Like the old saying goes, if it's not broken, don't fix it.
At the close of play we pick up 97 dead birds. On a day like this you'll never find every shot bird so although we didn't quite pick 100, I'm very happy that the tonne was passed.
Congratulations Iain, a real Red Letter Day.
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- Teachers overwhelmingly reported that those parents who do not engage, or with whom there is a bad or difficult relationship, have an enormous impact on their wellbeing and work.
- Both parents and teachers felt that if a child's education was suffering as a result of a difficult home life, some form of external support such as a Parent Support Worker would be vital.
Over the last decade there has been an increased awareness of the important role that parents play in the education of their child. At the same time, the role of teachers and schools has evolved, seeing a greater focus on the wellbeing of the child and their family.
Nevertheless the work of Parentline Plus and Teacher Support Network has shown that barriers still exist between teachers and parents and can lead to stress and anxiety on both sides.
The charities surveyed parents and teachers via their respective websites. The results showed that the absence of parental engagement, caused difficulties for the child and teachers involved.
The report demonstrates that poor parental engagement is having an adverse effect on pupil, parent and teacher wellbeing. Many parents said they had felt patronised, sidelined or ignored by their child's school, and an equally worrying number of teachers said that they had been verbally or physically abused by a pupil's parent.
Recommendations from the 'Beyond the school gate' report include:
- Every school should consult the whole school community to create a comprehensive Home School Agreement.
- Every school should have adequate access to a visible parent support worker who is trained to deal with a spectrum of family and emotional issues and whose role and remit is fully understood.
- Communications must detail how parents can help their child's education in the home. Teachers must be given adequate time to undertake this work.
Jeremy Todd, Parentline Plus Chief Executive said: "It is clear that parental engagement in the form of supporting learning and reinforcing discipline in the home is key to improving outcomes for children. We know that barriers that prevent parents from taking on an active role in their child's learning remain, and we are committed to working collaboratively to help families overcome those barriers.
"Other forms of parental involvement may be beneficial for the school environment but not necessarily improve outcomes and raise standards in the same way.
"Schools should therefore focus efforts and resources to engage parents in supporting their child's learning beyond the school gates."
Julian Stanley, Teacher Support Network Chief Executive, said: "This report re-emphasises the need for both parents and teachers to be aware of each others' needs – particularly the time constraints that workload causes for teachers – and to take measures to enhance the communication skills of both parties, particularly those new to being involved in schools.
"Teachers are still working on average 50 hours a week and workload is a contributory factor to the high levels of stress among teachers, which can ultimately lead to talented individuals leaving the profession.
"Although circumstances vary depending on the type of school, teachers tell us that the tension between a heavy workload and the demands from parents for more time-consuming forms of communications must be eased if engagement is going to improve.
"Schools, families and stakeholders across education must engage with each other and implement greater models of parental involvement for the benefit of the wellbeing of teachers and standards of education."
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What is eVISA?
eVISA is an online application platform that enables foreign nationals to apply for an electronic visa to enter Malaysia at the comfort of their convenience.
Who is eligible for eVISA?
Citizen From : Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Montenegro, Nepal, Pakistan, Serbia, and Sri Lanka.
eVisa Required Documents
Below are the documents that need to be scanned and uploaded with your application.
- Recent passport size studio digital photo. as per Guidelines
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- Birth certificate for minor applicants
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