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5. The Gathering of Christ's Pearls
By John Thiel, The Pearl of Great Price in the Hour of Temptation Conference, Study 5, mp3
We are spending time in contemplation of the Word of God.
Matthew 13:45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: 46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
In our contemplation we came to appreciate that this parable applies not merely to us selling all we have to purchase the pearl of great price, but it represents this great wonderful merchantman who came to purchase us.
This parable has a double significance, and applies not only to man seeking the kingdom of heaven, but to Christ seeking His lost inheritance. … The heavenly Merchantman lays aside His royal robe and crown. Though the Prince and Commander of all heaven, He takes upon Him the garb of humanity, and comes to a world that is marred and seared with the curse, to seek for the one lost pearl, to seek for man fallen through disobedience. . . . {TMK 84.3}
He came to purchase the one lost pearl. What was that? It was man. It is His pearl of people as a corporate body that He came to purchase as well as each individual that makes up that corporate body but it is one pearl.
He finds His pearl buried in rubbish. Selfishness encrusts the human heart, and it is bound by the tyranny of Satan. {TMK 84.4}
The tyranny of Satan binds these precious pearls.
But He lifts the soul out of its darkness to show forth the praises of Him who hath called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. We are brought into covenant relationship with God, and receive pardon and find peace. Jesus finds the pearl of lost humanity, and resets it in His own diadem. . Ibid
He would inspire the most sinful, the most debased, with hope. He says, "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6:37). When a soul finds the Saviour, the Saviour rejoices as a merchantman that has found his goodly pearl. By His grace He will work upon the soul until it will be like a jewel polished for the heavenly kingdom. … {TMK 84.5}
It is by the principle of repetition. Never become tired of hearing the same thing again and again because you will forget it tomorrow or you will forget it the next hour. Not that you haven't registered it, but we don't take it with us in our daily and moment by moment interactivity. It is just as though it's gone in one ear and out the other. That is why repetition is necessary. The most debased human being Jesus gives hope to. He takes us out of the rubbish of this world's mud at the bottom of the sea. What is this world? It is many waters. Do you remember prophecy? He moved upon many waters and out of the muddy tumult of the world's affairs came empires, these beasts. We are part of those muddy waters. We know it so well. We keep on coming before the Lord and saying, oh no I'm unworthy! He is reaching out for those gems that are buried under the water in those molluscs at the bottom of the sea.
Through the ages God formed His pearls and plucked these precious pearls from the molluscs of sin and debris at the bottom of the troubled sea of life. All through history we have seen Him having done that. He picked up Abraham from the land of the Chaldees from the rubbish. He has done that with all of Abraham's children ever since. We have seen through the history His pearl in each generation. You can discern His pearl of corporate elements. As we see it in Hebrews chapter 11 those people of the past are identifiable as God's pearl and as Christ's precious bride.
Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
That they without us should not be made perfect. This is very specifically talking to you and me today that the history of God's pearl His church which He loved and admired having received a good report, without us cannot glow and shine. We must be joined to them and that is why there has been a long delay.
Notice the words of Jesus that as we have gone on from His time to now, that the Lord has gathered together His people into His pearl. He speaks to the apostles relevant to their present time, this is now God's fold, Christ's fold, the sheepfold.
John 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd.
These are very important words to understand exactly what He means. Who will bring them? He says I must bring them. There are many in other folds that I must bring, they shall hear my voice:
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
As we come to this present time of earth's history right now, what activity do you imagine Him to be engaged in to do this work? Let us permit God's word to feed our imagination so that we are not generating our own opinion. Let our imagination be fed by the word that will open up before us as we apply ourselves very attentively and diligently. This is not a man's opinion that I am sharing with you. We are seeking God's revelation. When Jesus said, I will gather them, they shall hear my voice, not John Thiel's voice, not anyone else's voice, but the voice of Jesus. This is what God is saying He will do.
Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day,
He is talking directly about now.
…[that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
They come from the east and west, they come from the north and south. How? Follow very closely.
Jeremiah 23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. 2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; …
This is a paradox, but read carefully. These are pastors that are feeding these people, and what are they doing as they feed them? They are scattering them. I shudder to be a pastor, I shudder to be a minister in God's kingdom because what I do, I have to give an account for whether I have scattered the sheep or whether I have gathered them.
Jeremiah 23:2…Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. 3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.
Are you watching what He is doing? He who has raised kings and brought them low and because the shepherds that have not been feeding my flock, I am going to deal with them and I am going to take over. I will gather the remnant of my flock, and I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them; I will.
Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
There is the pearl. You can see that what the Lord has done way out of my expectations. He has placed before us what we have been reading. Haven't we been through the experience of being tossed to and fro by this church and that? The pastors have scattered and the Lord said, right, those pastors are going to have to be dealt with. I am going to step in here and I am going to do my work. I will set my shepherds over them and there is going to be the development of this beautiful pearl, the Lord our righteousness. This is the utterance of the Lord.
Micah 4:6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; 7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. 8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
Can you see your mind flashing over all the things we have been reading? This is what I love about the word. You read something here and there and all of a sudden you see another text that brings the whole picture together. Thou, O tower of the flock. Do you remember Song of Solomon? Do you remember the flock and the shepherd's tents? There she is, my dove, my undefiled. The kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem; she is the only one of her mother.
Song of Solomon 6:9 My dove, my undefiled is [but] one; she [is] the [only] one of her mother, she [is] the choice [one] of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; [yea], the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
As you permit these scriptures to take focus in your understanding that the Lord is doing this work and you look at our experiences that we have been through, hasn't he been doing this work with us without any of our help? Has He done this with any of our help? Absolutely without any of our help. We were just there as gems lying in the rubbish and He made sure that through His orchestration we have been found where we are now. How do you think He is going to continue? Think and follow carefully, because He is gathering His people. Notice His call, His work in harmony with what we have been reading; He will take care of the situation. The shepherds have failed and He will keep on doing it.
After Apostle John saw the work of the three angels and the explanation of the three angels' message through chapters 15 to 17 in Revelation, we now come to chapter 18:
Revelation 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Here is another angel and he has what? He has power from heaven and he lightens the whole earth with God's glory. We know what all that is, it is the glory of the character of God that is lightening the earth.
Revelation 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
What is this angel revealing by his proclamation? Not only is he reflecting the beautiful light and the glory, but he is identifying the sins of the institutions. He identifying the sins of Babylon. How does he do it? He is identifying the fornications, the merchants waxing rich though the abundance of her delicacies, he is simply laying it out.
I was so comforted with one of the people who own this camp ground. They said this Christmas is the last time that we are going to have Christmas here. How did they come to that conclusion? Did we tell them? When this person told me this, they said, you might be very happy to hear what I am about to say. Indeed I was, but why did that person say that to me? It was because they knew that we don't practice keeping Christmas and now they have found that Christmas is a pagan festival. Where did they find it from? They found it by our example and by somebody else telling them that. This is how God works to identify not only Christmas, but all these other things, the wine of the wrath of her fornication. The description here that reveals the abundance of her delicacies. All the delicacies that are attracting the minds of the people today. They are enjoying the thought of purchasing this and that beautiful thing. They purchase all these little gifts and gadgets and so on. All these things at Christmas time, at Easter time, Lent and all these other festivities. Mother's Day, Father's Day; what a lot of material is out there under the influence of Babylon.
All we do is follow what is written here, identifying the things that are not of God.
Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Another Voice from Heaven
We are looking carefully as to how and what Jesus is doing. The shepherds have failed, I am going to step in and I am going to do this and that; here is the material that He is doing. He identifies this other voice from heaven, through this little company He said He would raise up as faithful shepherds. There is another text that says that I will give you teachers according to mine heart in Jeremiah chapter 3. That is my work, I am going to raise these people up, they are not going to go because they want to, they will go because I am raising them up. They are going to do the work that I want them to do to feed the flock according to my voice and my direction.
In this particular statement of verse 4, there is another voice which is another agency. It is the faithful little remnant that He uses and He, the voice from heaven speaks through them. The voice from heaven, this other agency, the people, the remnant, whom He uses. Here is the call, the voice of Jesus.
Zechariah 2:6 Ho, ho, [come forth], and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
Can you see the other text, they have been spread, now He is going to gather them. Can you hear the call? Ho, Ho, come, you who have been scattered abroad.
Zechariah 2:7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest [with] the daughter of Babylon. 8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
This is a beautiful little ingredient in our mediation here now. They are His pearl. Your eye is very similar to a pearl. It is His pearl, His eye that He protects like you protect yours if threatened by a speck of dust. You care for it very carefully and you permit nothing to interfere with your eye. He says, come O Zion that dwellest out there, these people that He is gathering together, Zion, His undefiled, His people that are scattered through Babylon. They dwell with the daughter of Babylon; what does He call them? Zion? His people? Scattered where? With Babylon?
For thus saith the LORD of hosts… he that toucheth you (out there) toucheth the apple of his eye. There are people out there that He will regard as His Zion, His people, His pearl, the apple of His eye. He is calling them out. Once more He is calling to His people in Babylon:
Zephaniah 2:1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; 2 Before the decree bring forth, [before] the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you. 3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. I want you to come out before the day of the Lord's anger is fully poured upon this earth, the plagues. Come out and learn meekness, seek it. Seek righteousness. Everything we have been reading so far, is all part of that last event for God's people to be drawn. The interesting thing is, who are they? They are the apple of His eye.
Isaiah 43:4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. 5 Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; 6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; 7 [Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
He has made the pearl; He has taken them out there and each one of us can recall it in our own experience. Before this soul ever found what we have now, the Lord was working with him because the Lord knows His sheep out there. He has been at work to formulate and develop these gems and in their scattered state He is going to pull them together. He said, you are very precious to me, you are the apple of my eye, I am going to take you out of all those places and bring you together.
Malachi 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard [it],
We read this many times to say, come on we are supposed to be talking to each other. How futile, they that fear the Lord will speak often one to another and because they are His gems, the apple of His eye and they appreciate Him so much, they can't help talk about the Lord to each other. The Lord hears it.
Malachi 3:16… and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; …
In the day that He gathers together the jewels, He says they are the jewels that have been thinking about me and been puzzled with all the madness that the false shepherds have scattered them around by. They have themselves failed the Lord and the Lord is sending them temptations, struggles and troubles. That is what we can all look back to. He has been working through His orchestration to bring us where we are and there are still others out there as well. We are right at the very last part of the whole gathering process.
We agree together that the harvest commenced just after 1844 when the third angel came in 1848. The third angel is gathering the wheat together into bundles; He is gathering the jewels. This gathering has been taking place all this time. Do we think it is future or may be just now? We are here because He has been doing the work. In our response to what He has been doing picking us up where we are, what are we occupied with? The pearl of great price – that is what I am occupied with.
I love this beautiful picture of Jesus. As I love it, I can't stop talking about Him. I can't stop embracing and enlarging the pearl before the people; look what I have found. I love it and I am sacrificing everything for that. This is what it is all about. That is how the Lord is at work gathering His jewels. The beauty of the jewel is there because of the jewel of Jesus that has been implanted upon the person who has been scattered out there. The Lord works as we have studied, by the hour of temptation that brings forth the irritations that produce the pearl. As this is happening with each individual, they become very dear to Him, they are His precious gems that He gathers together, the apple of His eye. Why the apple of His eye? Because He has been in there with them suffering with them in their very sins. Never forget that. This is what is to animate us; that I am actually a product of His suffering with me as the reason that I am here. All that material is that which animates and motivates me; this is the central motivating force.
Zechariah 9:16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they [shall be as] the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
Did you remember reading that other statement about the ensign? What is the ensign that is going to be raised up before all nations? It is the pearl in the crown of His diadem. These are the stones that are lifted up as an ensign. What does that mean? If you and I as an individual are part of that crown, what will Jesus do to draw the rest of the jewels? He will lift you up; not me not or us lifting ourselves up. As we become totally captivated by this beautiful gem and I am totally absorbed with it, inadvertently without my extraordinary personal deliberation I can't help but bubble out what I appreciate so much. You know what it is like, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Out of the heart comes forth whatever it is occupied with. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. That is what you will be talking about, your treasure. You are going to cause it to sparkle and shine.
I have been in two churches as a Bible worker and I haven't seen it sparkle and shine in those churches. It's either legalism or its lordship; there is no sparkle in that at all. What are we going to do? We couldn't be attracted by that sparkle as it's not a sparkle. We are attracted by the beauty of Jesus. If we are attracted by that, are we going to fall into the same rut as the churches before us? That has happened in every succeeding generation. They started well and then they fell in the rut. We are not going to be any different; we will do exactly the same thing unless we understand what this is talking about.
I could feel the tugs of it especially in the work that I have been engaged in. When I see an error in the church, I fall into the same trap as the Catholic Church. Heretic! Apostate! Drive them out, they're wrong. This is a mentality that does not sparkle and shine. The shepherds have scattered the flock. We are to attract the flock that when there is a flock suffering because they have been deceived into sin or they have been surprised into sin and the sin is gross and we say, we have to cast sin out of the camp. I have heard this several times, there is sin in the camp! There is sin in the camp! What are you going to do about it John? Then I am counselled what I should do about it.
It is not what the Lord was saying, because the Lord attracts and draws us away from sin. He doesn't come when I am under the most extreme stress of temptation and suffering with somebody to give me another brunt with his shoulder and push me over the edge. That is what we do when we come and say, hey! What are you doing there? Then the person says, all right I am out of here. This is not the wonderful shepherd that Jesus is. Jesus finds the pearl lost where? The pearl of lost humanity in the rubbish and resets it in His own diadem. This is a totally different work than what we are familiar with in this world, in the churches.
Let us consider these jewels that are still out there and let us consider the jewels that are already gathered. How are they manifest?
Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
When you look out into the stars in the evening, see the pearls; they are glistening beautifully. This is the comparison with the people that will shine in the darkness in which we are surrounded. Gross darkness covers the earth. These people are wise, they don't just have knowledge, they have wisdom. You can have knowledge and you can throw your knowledge around, but it might not be done in wisdom. These people shall shine because they are wise, they turn many to righteousness in the wisdom that comes from above. These are things that we must contemplate so that we become the gems by which God can lift them up. What was that? He will lift up His gems as an ensign because they themselves have responded to this kind of activity with Him. They shine.
Matthew 5: 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
What is the language? Make yourself go through stress to make it shine? No, it says it is there, I've put it into your heart; just let it shine. In the midst of the battle of corruption around us, you don't have to meet with counterforce of any other nature but the light and the glory of God in our character. Let your light so shine before men, that they seeing what? By seeing your good works. You do the good works and they say, you're trying to get to heaven by works. Is that right? I love my Jesus and I love doing what He tells me to do. It shines, it glistens and people say, what? They're eating like this? Health reform. They look and go, yum. They see a white man together with a black man walking down the road just as I was in Kenya, and they wonder at it. This speaks louder than words. The loud cry is not words, the loud cry are a people who stand there according to John 17:21 and 23.
John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:…
There's the pearl.
John 17:21…that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
What's that for? That they see God and Jesus in us. That's how the world will believe; no other way. They may be convicted of the doctrine but they still won't see that they should be part of this gem, this pearl. Only when they see the real manifestation will they say, I love this, I want to be part of this too. That's what is displayed here in God's word, in Jesus' word.
John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;
And then when He has completed that:
John 17:23 …and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Are we getting the picture what Jesus is wanting when He said, the pastors have scattered the flock? Now I am going to step in and here are the shepherds that I am going to bring up before my flock and I am going to speak through them because they are my pearls. I am in them, the Father in me and as they concentrate on developing that picture when the time is ready, the world will know. Will we take on this kind of picture and thus become the agents to attract the other jewels?
The love of Christ, the love of our brethren, will testify to the world that we have been with Jesus and learned of Him. {6T 401.1}
How do we learn of Him?
Thus will the truth be brought into Ibid
Be brought into what? The truth that we believe that we fight to safeguard not to let it fall into disarray, that truth will be brought into the practical life:
…practical life, and thus will be answered the prayer of Christ, Ibid
By your works that the truth produces. While we may be out there communicating the truth and the knowledge of the truth to the people around us, they come to us, (and tell me whether I am wrong), they were attracted by the truth and they come and they say, wait a minute, I don't see the beauty of Jesus here. Look at the way this particular family fights and look at this one there and look at that. Look how they are talking about me. As they see that, is that sparkling and shining? The fact is that in God's church this happens, but He cannot use His church in the loud cry while that is happening.
When the church has truly understood it's dilemma and applies the truth that it is trying to tell others about into it's own practical life, so that God can then do His work in completely renovating and purifying and perfecting His gem; then His gem will stand there and the people will be attracted. It says, come out of her my people and the people will say, yes, this is balmy here, this is beautiful, I love to be here. The jewels out there must be attracted to the jewels in God's church.
The love of Christ, the love of our brethren, will testify to the world that we have been with Jesus and learned of Him. Then will the message of the third angel swell to a loud cry, and the whole earth will be lightened with the glory of the Lord. {6T 401.1}
When? When the love of Christ, and the love of our brethren, will testify to the world that we have been with Jesus and learned of Him. Then will the message of the third angel swell to a loud cry, and the whole earth will be lightened with the glory of the Lord.
This is what it's about. I am very thankful that I can share this with you because I do not want to debate with anyone. This is it, there is no other way. The truth is necessary and it is necessary to spread the truth but the spreading of the truth is not going to do the work. It is when there are a people in these last days who stand as an epitome of the truth that others will be attracted who are jewels out there. They are already God's jewels, never forget that.
To try and make people jewels is just about too late today. Just about I say; don't take me too far. I know that in the Lord's work that I have been engaged in for a long time, they come from the gutter and they have such a hard time that they can hardly succeed. It's too much for them, they finally say, I can't anymore but there are others who are gems at heart and while they are having an extremely hard time, they come through because they can see somebody that can demonstrate to them that it's worthwhile persevering. That is the only way. I mean what I am saying because that is my experience with the Lord.
Did you observe the manner of attracting and gathering the jewels? It's God, it's Jesus, it's the people whom He produces His wonderful light in and then He lifts them up for the people to see.
God has jewels in all the churches, and it is not for us to make sweeping denunciation of the professed religious world, {4BC 1184.4}
What did you catch here? It is not for us who are upholding the truth to attract the jewels, to make sweeping denunciation of the professed religious world. What does that mean?
They are all crazy out there and as you think that, it will reflect from you. They can't even think straight; it will stream from you as you meet them. You will find it difficult to regard them as brethren because they are in error. How can they be a jewel? If you have got this understanding clear, you will see them and although they have got doctrinal errors, you can see the pearl there. You will be very careful with every word you utter not to let them feel that you are deriding their position; very careful! You will not make a sweeping denunciation of the professed religious world.
…but in humility and love, present to all the truth Ibid
Is that where it stops?
…as it is in Jesus. ibid
Sr White writes there will be many among us who will make shipwreck because we have the truth but we do not have it as it is in Jesus which is the pearl.
Let men see piety and devotion, let them behold Christlikeness of character, and they will be drawn to the truth. Ibid
They are not in the truth properly but they are His gems. As they see the piety, the devotion, the Christlikeness of character, they say, I want to be there, that's Christ I recognise Him. Then they will say, you don't keep Sunday, I am happy to keep Sabbath too. They will say, why are you dressed like that? I am prepared to change too. They will see all these things and doctrines that we practice and because the love of Jesus is there in all its glory, they will be prepared to accept the truth, because they are already gems.
He who loves God supremely and his neighbor as himself, will be a light in the world. Ibid
We have a perfect example here at this camp; they do not harmonise with us 100%, but I treat them as brethren. Next Sabbath at the end of this week we are having church here, because they want me to share another message with them while I am here. I treat them as one of us, and they love it, and they are scratching their head observing us. We don't keep Christmas, and slowly it dawns. We don't eat meat, and slowly it dawns. They don't quite see eye to eye with us on that; that is fine. Let us just keep on shining and they will know this is the real thing.
Those who have a knowledge of the truth are to communicate the same. They are to lift up Jesus, the world's Redeemer; they are to hold forth the Word of life (RH Jan. 17, 1893). Ibid
The wisdom in the knowledge. Wisdom is handling knowledge aright. The handling of knowledge aright is the pearl Christ Jesus. Don't fall for the trappings that are surrounding us in the independent mentalities. Don't fall for the Adventist church saying, we must evangelise the world and then Jesus will come. We will have big public evangelistic meetings; we will do big things. That is not the way the Lord is going to work. The sheep out there need to discern the shepherd's voice.
Those people out there are rough diamonds. They need to be met with the gentleness of the diamond that is not rough anymore so that the diamond within can say, this is wonderful. His or her roughness will be identified to them in contrast to the gem that is not rough anymore.
Here is the counsel from the testimony of Jesus.
Let everyone bear in mind that we are in no case to invite persecution. We are not to use harsh and cutting words. Keep them out of every article written, drop them out of every address given. Let the word of God do the cutting, the rebuking: let finite men hide and abide in Jesus Christ. Let the spirit of Christ appear. Let all be guarded in their words, lest they place those not of our faith in deadly opposition against us, and give Satan an opportunity to use the unadvised words to hedge up our way. {CW 64.1}
According to the knowledge of the truth we have, we can be careless with our wording, so that those gems out there will enter into deadly opposition against us. We will think they are in opposition to the truth but it's been our words that have made them that way;and give Satan an opportunity to use the unadvised words to hedge up our way.
There is to be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation. Our work is to study to weed out of all our discourses everything that savors {CW 64.2}
What does the word savour mean? Smells of it; even the smell of it, the spirit of it.
…of retaliation and defiance and making a drive against churches and individuals, because this is not Christ's way and method.–Testimonies, Vol. 9, pp. 239-244. (1909.) Ibid
This is not Christ's way and method, so let us weed it out; this is to be our study. As the Lord prepares us to give the last and final loud cry, this is our preoccupation, this is the missionary work that must occupy our study.
There is need of a much closer study of the word of God; especially should Daniel and the Revelation have attention as never before in the history of our work. {CW 65.1}
She describes how important it is to get the truth right.
The light which I have to give to our people is, Let no condemnatory speeches be printed in our papers. {CW 65.2}
Where does that extend to today? To be printed in our emails, etc.
A large number of precious souls are groping in darkness, yet longing and weeping and praying for light. Thus it is in churches everywhere.–Manuscript 46, 1900. {CW 65.2}
I know this to be true.
Every article you write may be all truth, but one drop of gall in it will be poison to the reader. One reader will discard all your good and acceptable words because of that drop of poison. Another will feed on the poison, for he loves such harsh words.–Letter 91, 1899. {CW 65.3}
You will attract people and you think, see, they are attracted; they are the ones that may be attracted to harsh speeches and say, yes, give it to them, wonderful, you are upholding the truth. The gems out there are saying, oh, I thought that could have been truth, but I can't hear the Shepherd's voice. The Shepherd's voice has no gall, not one drop in it. That is what we are to learn. I am not condemning in what I am reading here, I am reading this so that we can be the pearl that God can use. We are to learn from this; we are to take it in and not say, but. Just say, all right Lord, make it clear.
The ideas expressed in your articles savor so strongly of antagonism that you will do harm, more than you can possibly conceive. Remember that if by the injudicious use of your pen you close the door to even one soul, that soul will confront you in the judgment. {CW 66.2}
When I read that, I said, Lord be merciful to me. What a responsibility lies upon the shepherds that the Lord puts over His flock. Here you can see how the shepherds scatter.
O, how much has been said that has turned souls to bitterness and gall against the truth. Words that should have been a savor of life unto life have been made a savor of death unto death by the spirit which accompanied them.–Letter 17, 1900. {CW 66.2}
These are the words of the Lord to us.
We cannot help the Christless by finding fault with them. We have not been given the work of reproving or giving personal thrusts in our periodicals. Ibid
Are you picking it up? We have not been given the work of reproving or giving personal thrusts in our periodicals. In any of our publications.
This attitude is misleading, We are to be "not easily provoked." We are to remember that by our spiritual attitude we are to show that we are feeding on Christ, the bread of life. Ibid
The bread of life.
By our words, our tempers, and our works, we may testify to those with whom we come in contact, that the Spirit of Christ dwells in us.–Manuscript 46, 1898. Ibid
Thank God He is here in His love to help us to see all this. Let it take its course, let the truth cut deep. But I want to testify to you, I am still fine tuning myself. Not only in the words I utter, but in my German predisposition. You know very well what we Germans are like. Brother Paul mentioned about the anxiety and the fleshly nature in the limbic system, it comes through the mouth; it comes out of mine. My lips begin to tremble when I am under stress of anxiety. I used to see it in my father and I thought, oh!! Then I found I did exactly the same. When I am intense I have to sharpen my focus on Jesus, so that in my intensity I will remain with a pathos and a loving spirit to come out of my mouth. I have to keep looking to Jesus to conquer those strong hereditary German characteristics. Do you have to do that too? This is what God wants us to take in, to be the pearl by which He can attract other pearls. It took me many years to find this statement, but it testifies to what the Lord has shown to me personally.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. Amos 5:13. {TDG 250.1}
Is that our time? Do you remember what the brother shared this morning? Silence is golden. In this time we have to be prudent.
Caution is to be prayerfully exercised by everyone who believes the truth. There are trying scenes before us, and we need to exercise great caution, keeping the door of our lips while the wicked are before us. {TDG 250.2}
What are we to do? The wicked that really irritate us, and the wicked are not just the wicked out there, they are the wicked in the churches. There are ministers in the churches that we have experienced, about whom we feel disgust. Great caution, keeping the door of our lips while the wicked are before us.
We shall have to meet in our experience with men having fanatical zeal which will provoke those who hate the truth and it will be necessary to preserve a calm attitude and not state all we do know, for impressions will be made upon human minds that will, under the influence of Satan, grow to large proportions. Ibid
There is need of watching unto prayer. The evils we shall meet have long been gathering and like a storm, will come upon many when they least expect it. While they cannot be charged with originating the evil, they precipitated it. {TDG 250.3}
The evil comes and we say, I wouldn't be doing that, this is wrong. But what have I done to precipitate it? This is what's coming.
Charges will be made which believers cannot refute, because they have not shown wisdom in the use of either the pen or the voice. {TDG 250.3}
We are going to get hit in the head for it and then we will discover, o dear, I have been telling the truth but I've put it in such a way that it's caused unnecessary persecution.
Many laws will be enacted for the government of nations, calculated to oppress; and old laws that have practically become of none effect, will be resurrected. {TDG 250.4}
Sunday laws of the past. They have become obsolete, but they will be resurrected. What should we do?
We need to move forward in our work understandingly and in faith, under the wise generalship of Jesus Christ. A great work is to be done for the Master in proclaiming the last message of mercy to our world, and we are dependent upon authorities and powers to find passage from one end of the world to another, and as long as we are dependent upon the powers that be, we must not divorce ourselves from them, for this is a worldwide message. Ibid
How important it is that we pick this up. When I travel to Kenya, I am in grave danger. If what I present and what we present together, comes to the ears of the authorities, our path will be closed. In fact, this has happened already behind the Iron Curtain before it came down where there was one false move by our brethren who were reformers. They were picked up by the secret police and their work was halted. We must work under the radar.
Laws are there but we must not generate attention to ourselves. We are dependent upon authorities and powers to find passage from one end of the world to another, and as long as we are dependent upon the powers that be, we must not divorce ourselves from them, for this is a worldwide message.
We are to go forward quietly, and when our way is apparently blocked in one direction we are to make no condemnation of the powers that be, {TDG 250.5}
The papacy is doing it to us. Nothing like that; no condemnation, just let it die its natural death in reference to yourself.
…for in thus doing we are teaching other powers how to work to hedge up our way. Ibid
If they see us reacting, they will say, right, we'll do this, and so our ability to share the word among the people and to reflect the nature of Christ among the people will be blocked. In fact, we haven't done it right in the first place.
We are not to stir up opposing elements or provoke retaliation or revenge. The climax will come soon enough. It is already stealing on as a thief in the night. And we can speak Bible truth which will not set opposing influences at work.–Manuscript 90, Aug. 29, 1893, "Our Attitude Toward the 'Powers That Be.'" Ibid
Study it well. We are to study how to put out our message across.
God wants to gather His pearls. Let Him use those who are His pearls already demonstrating the lustre of the pearl of great price to cause them to sell all and also possess it. How will they sell all? They will sell all the beliefs they had to embrace the beliefs that they have been attracted to in Jesus. That is how the Lord will hasten His closing work. Here is the counsel for us in these last days. God grant us that we will appreciate the preciousness of this with the pearl of great price in the hour of temptation.
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At Bionic Vision Australia, a consortium of researchers working on an eye prosthesis, the implantation of a bionic eye with 24 electrodes has turned out to be a success. A 54 year old female patient with vision loss due to retinitis pigmentosa had received the retinal implant earlier this year in May. Last month the implant was switched on. With the implant she can now see flashes of light every time the implant is stimulated. With this major successful development, the researchers at Bionic Vision Australia can now proceed with the next steps in their mission to restore vision.
The implant is positioned behind the retina, after which the eye first needs to recover from the operation. The implant consists of 24 electrodes and it can be stimulated externally via an electric wire, which runs from the back of the eye towards the ear. The goal of this early model is to develop a vision processor using feedback from the patient. Other implants with more electrodes on it are being developed and will be planned for patient testing as well. And ultimately the bionic eye system will feature an external camera built into a pair of glasses that will supply the visual input for the implant.
We will now patiently, but curiously, wait until the day comes that in the world of the blind, the bionic eyed man is king.
Previous Medgadget coverage: New Prototype of Australian Bionic Eye Announced
News release from The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital: "All of a sudden I could see a little flash of light. It was amazing."
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PC sanctuary
July 09, 2012
Once I was a proper geek. I played tabletop sims. I built my own computers. I copied code from Creative Computing magazine. I loaded Pool of Radiance from a 5¼" floppy disc. I was a BBS SysOp. A geek with bells on.
And I was a PC gamer. Sure, I played PONG on my Atari, and when the NES came along I loved Mario as much as anyone. But geeks like me considered that beige box a charming toy compared to our PCs with VGA graphics and FM synthesis sound. When iD gave us Wolfenstein 3D, our status as a gaming platform was secured. Serious gamers played PC games.
The SNES was harder to ignore, especially with all those wonderfully quirky JRPGs, but we had Myst to reassure us of our PC gaming potency, not to mention LucasArts and whatever inspired goodness Will Wright might dream up.
The Playstation changed everything. Metal Gear Solid and PaRappa the Rapper sunk their hooks in me, and I spent the next seventeen years loading discs into machines attached to televisions. Every now and then Blizzard, or Looking Glass, or Valve might lure me into a brief addiction, but my console conversion was irreversible. Or so I thought.
Something happened to me at E3 last month. I felt embarrassed. Old. Contemptuous, even. The stultifying homogeneity, the leering crowd, the endless power tripping targeting an adolescent demographic I felt no connection to. I wrote about a few notable exceptions in my previous post, but I left E3 feeling like I needed to scrub most of what I saw there off me.
When I arrived home, I bought a new PC. At the time, I didn't think of it as a remedy to my post-E3 woes. My old PC was so decrepit, it choked on decade-old games. It was time to replace it. But as I've burrowed deeper into a collection of PC titles, I've begun to realize that I'm not simply testing out my snappy new system. I'm finding refuge in these PC games. I'm reminding myself why games have brought me so much joy over the years and why they remain so worthy of our attention. I'm also more keenly aware of the distorted picture E3 paints of a game industry far more diverse than our coverage of it often suggests.
I don't mean this as a derisive dismissal of console gaming or a diatribe against violent games. I've written many rhapsodies to console games, some of them absurdly violent. If anything, I could be accused of overlooking PC games since I began writing here five years ago.
But as the three consoles near the end of their life-cycles and developers double down on a narrow palette of titles, the distinctions between console and PC games have never been more clear. For me, the differences boil down to three pivotal characteristics: Depth, Customization, and Community.
The PC games I've been playing lately challenge me to think critically and creatively, invite me to play with them in ways that transcend their primary mechanics, and make me feel part of a community that genuinely impacts these games and my experiences playing them.
A few examples (to keep this post manageable, I'm omitting two intriguing MMOs - The Secret World and TERA, which I've played, but haven't spent suffient time with yet).
Endless Space
No game better exemplifies the virtues of community involvement than Endless Space. Last February, the Parisian developers of this 4X space sim posted their design documents online and invited players to help them shape their game. 50,000+ forum posts later, Amplitude Studios releases on Steam the best space sim since Alpha Centauri. Look past its generic name and don't assume complex means inaccessible. Crowd-sourced design is a field littered with land mines, but these guys have figured out how to make it work by holding fast to their vision, remaining open to useful input, fostering consensus, and maintaining a positive and respectful forum environment.
Dwarf Fortress
The game everyone knows, but few have played for more than a few maddening minutes. This roguelike city-builder thrashes you with baroque mechanics wrapped in an arcane ASCII interface. Then, if you're still breathing, it buries you in a cascade of micromanagement complexity. I mean, when a dwarf dies, he doesn't simply vanish. You build his coffin, dig his grave, and bury him in it. With your keyboard.
So where's the fun? Like many PC games, the glory of Dwarf Fortress is its ongoing refinement and the extraordinarily generous ways its loyal community has helped new players understand and appreciate its open-ended design. Dwarf Fortress is a formidable game, but it helps to have a sensei at your side teaching you how to embrace its unbending nature and discover the beauty in its complexity. I found mine in a soft-spoken fellow called DJ Fogey, who methodically teaches total noobs how to play Dwarf Fortress (and make use of helpful community mods) in a series of YouTube tutorials.
If books are more your thing, Peter Tyson's "Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress" is a terrific and very readable guide, published last month by O'Reilly.
The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Without expecting to, I've sunk dozens of hours into Skyrim lately, but not in the way you might expect. I played the PS3 version when it was released and completed the main questline. On my racy new PC, I'm not playing Skyrim so much as playing with Skyrim. I've become a mod connoisseur, applying a self-directed metagame that envelops the Bethesda design. How gorgeous can I make this game world look? What's the best way to arrange my Nexus Manager load order to best exploit each mod? What if I play relying only on a topographic map with no quest markers? Does adding the "Hardcore Survival" mod make the game more fun, or just more work?
Once again, the community steps up to make these questions worth asking. I'm a daily visitor to Skyrim Nexus, which hosts nearly 18,000 mods by 7000+ authors, with downloads exceeding 18 million files. And I subscribe to this fellow's "Skyrim Mod Sanctuary," a series of YouTube vids featuring the latest and best Skyrim mods.
I don't mean to suggest that console games lack communities supporting them, nor do I believe console games, by their nature, lack depth or complexity. Conversely, PCs can host shooters, escapist entertainment, puzzlers, platformers, etc. Obviously.
But PC game developers are responding to the stagnant console landscape by extending the PC platform's natural affinity for games that provoke us to think, build, and communicate. In one sense, this is nothing new. PC games have done this for decades. But as casual (and not so casual) games proliferate and mature on handheld devices - at a price point to make Satoru Iwata blanch - it becomes harder to see how console games can continue to define their commercial space as easily as PC games.
Market analysis ain't my bag, so I'll leave it to Michael Pachter and Co. to prognosticate. All I know is, I'm back in the PC gamer fold and happy to be so.


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Credibility is something that is critical in the modern business world. In order to be persuasive, you need to build credibility in yourself, your business and your product. In this episode, I explain how.
The 8 Qualities of a Credible person
Self Belief: They believe they can do it
Trust: They do what they say they will do
Relatability: How you're feeling and what you're going through
Expertise: They know how to do it
Honest: They tell the truth
Knowledgeable: The know more about it than you
Experience: They see all the pieces of the problem
Composure: They react to challenges well


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They made provincial art rock, as re-energised by 1970s American mavericks and the initial British post-punk era. Max Harris and Three Years, their late 1980s highpoints, had the chill, stilted beauty of those more complicated listening experiences. From there, they went backwards into European, British and American experimental sounds creating, at times, a seemingly random terrain of sound peaks and shadowed crevices.
The Dead C – Michael Morley (guitar, vocals), Bruce Russell (guitar, found sound) and Robbie Yeats (drums) – were a central group in Dunedin's spectacular second musical wind of the mid-1980s to 1990s. Bruce Russell, who had worked in PR for Flying Nun Records and recorded as A Handful of Dust was a central mover in the influential Xpressway Records, the Dunedin tape and singles label, which gathered up the musical mavericks discarded by the increasingly corporate Flying Nun.
After first pressing and releasing their own records and tapes, Xpressway, began licensing associated acts to small American and European indie labels such as Drag City Records in Chicago, Siltbreeze Records in San Francisco and Turbulance Records in Belgium, establishing a presence in those markets that endures to this day.
They've released one of the biggest bodies of music ever by a New Zealand group, 22 albums and over a dozen singles and EPs between 1987 and 2012, most recently on the American Ba Da Bing! Label. They are critical darlings in such influential magazines as The Wire.
The Dead C continue to record, tour and play specialist festivals and events in New Zealand, Europe and the United States, including All Tomorrow's Parties festival in 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2013.
Bruce Russell writes, records, and tours from his Lyttelton base. In 2012 he edited The Audio Foundation published, Erewhon Calling: Experimental Sound in New Zealand.
Read The Dead C - Why use two chords when one will do? - part 1 - here
Read The Dead C - Why use two chords when one will do? - part 2 - here
Michael Morley - guitar, vocals
Robbie Yeats - drums
Magic Kiwis: Bruce Russell for Perfect Sound Forever
Bruce Russell searches for new sonic hybrids in the rubble of modernism: Essay for 300th issue of The Wire:
Under The Radar interview with Bruce Russell, 2011
Robbie Yeats was the drummer during The Verlaines' peak mid-1980s period.
Michael Morley performs and records as Gate. His first duo, Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, with Richard Ram, was active in Taradale and Dunedin in the early to late 1980s and released many tapes.
Despite being a wilfully left-field trio, The Dead C were able to pack out Auckland pub venues in the mid-1990s.
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DIGITAL EDITION No. 231 July 19, 2017 EDITOR: Kris Anderson PHOTOGRAPHER: Nicole Le PUBLISHER: Richard Lazovick
Our Program For July 26, 2017
SANTA ROSA ARTIST AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF ArtStart
Mario Uribe
On July 26th, Santa Rosa artist and Creative Director of ArtStart, Mario Uribe will be our guest speaker. ArtStart is a non-profit dedicated to mentoring and training young artists in Sonoma County. Mario will also speak about their latest project, a mural in Roseland and how it came about. A PowerPoint presentation will compliment his presentation.
After receiving his BFA from CalArts in 1971, Uribe has worked as an artist in a diversity of media, including animation, painting, performance art, video, printmaking, drawing, murals, sculpture, oriental calligraphy, illustration and graphic design. He has exhibited widely in this country, Europe, Asia and Mexico. His works form part of museum and private collections. He is a practitioner of traditional Japanese Zen arts, including the tea ceremony.
Our own fine arts ambassador Keven Brown will host this program.
Wednesday August 2nd: Joe Aaron – The Economic and Social Impact of Technology
Wednesday August 16th: Eric Mindling – Discovering Oaxaca
Wednesday August 23th: Club Assembly # 1
Wednesday August 30th: Linda Shivley – Laugh Your Worries Away
Visit our district at: http://www.rotary5130.org
Check out Rotary International at: http://www.rotary.org
Come see us at: http://rotarymeansbusiness
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Opening Ceremonies:
Peter Holewinski led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. For the invocation, Layne Bowen said how much he appreciated being a Rotarian and thanked us all for being Rotarians and friends.
Visiting Rotarians:
Meryl Hayes from Santa Rosa Sunrise, Bob Hirsch from Sebastopol and Mike Lennon from Calistoga
Michael Moore (guest of Doug Johnson), Matt Everson (guest of Kathleen Archer), Gail Ervin (guest of Matt Fannin), and the following were all guests of Casey D'Angelo: NewGen students Rima Makaryan, Suhas Nagappala, Rob Giacomini, Mike Lennon's son and Marisol Cornejo, and Montgomery high Principal Randy Burbank.
Sunshine Report:
Not so good today. Wally Lowry fell on Tuesday and is in intensive care at Memorial Hospital, room 260 West, He is in pretty good spirits, but they are keeping him for observation. Doug Garrison is also out for an unknown reason. Sadly, President Julia announced the passing of international president elect Sam Owori. He died unexpectedly after surgery.
Polio Plus Goal for this year:
President Julia announced that this year's goal is $4000. That is double last year's goal but we blew through that goal and earned about $3700. So that is $300 more. Let's see if we can blow through that one too!
PeaceBuilders Video:
President Julia showed us a video and announced that there will be 6 peace conferences in early 2018 in various locations around the world. Vacation anyone?
Today there was $198.00 in the pot and four marbles remaining. We had trouble finding someone with a valid ticket and had to redraw twice! President Julia's number was, at last, pulled. She gave visitor Suhas Nagappala from Montgomery High School the chance to pull the marble. Unfortunately he did not pull the correct marble and got the $10.00 instead.
Joke of the Day:
Two pieces of rope went into a bar……….
Kathleen Archer is inviting all who helped at the Felta rest stop for the Giro Bello to join her at next week's meeting to have some wine with their lunch. Hey, it can't hurt to start recruiting your team for next year!
Cathy Vicini says that Knox is healing after his surgery, but he's not happy with her!
Karen Ball announced the Bocce Ball Tournament coming up on August 19th. She needs 4 power hungry people to be referees. You don't need to know anything about the game
Chuck Wear, Tim Delaney and Jack Tolin are looking for meeting fellowship volunteers for August. See them for an assignment.
Secret Greeter:
President Julia asked Kathleen Archer to be our secret greeter this week. The first person who said hello to her was Matt Everson. I guess Matt will be back soon for his free lunch!
Will Haymaker's grandson just got his master's degree in economics in Barcelona Spain. He will now start working on his PhD in Economics. He will be studying why more women are not on boards of corporations.
Ray Giampaoli just celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary to Jodi.
Today's Speaker – New Gen Peace Builders class of 2017
First up was Suhas Nagappala to talk about the HOPE project. The idea behind their project was to identify the misconceptions about the homeless and how to deal with those misconceptions. They went to two of different homeless camps to talk to the people who lived there. They found the people, in general, were not lazy, not criminals and not mooches on society. Quite often they were normal middleclass people who befell a job loss or illness that sent them tumbling downward to homelessness. 50% of the homeless do have jobs. Many are the victims of crime, not the perpetrator. Only 11% get some sort of financial support from the government. Yes, there is alcoholism, drug abuse and mental illness. The new theory to help them all is to get them first off the streets and out of the bushes into a home. From there you can get them the support they need.
Next up was Rima Makaryan and Rob Giacomini to talk about Plant Roots of Peace. This is a program started by Heidi Kuhn. This program focuses on removing landmines so that the land can be farmed. For this project the kids are working to raise $15,000 to remove landmines from the Quang Tri area of Viet Nam. This will help 50 families earn a living as farmers in an area that has been too dangerous to work for almost 50 years. The money will be used to clear the mines, by prosthetics for those who have lost limbs and rebuild the land for farming.
To donate to this project: www.tinyurl.com/NewGen-RootsofPeace
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Rotary Club of Santa Rosa Officers
President: Julia Parranto, President Elect: Tony Roehrick, President Elect Nominee: Cathy Vicini, Past President: Jose Guillen, Secretary: Debi Zaft, Treasurer: Cecil G. Humes
President Rotary International
Ian Riseley of the RC of Sandringham, Australia
Governor, District 5130
Bob Rogers, Rotary Club of Sebastopol
Attendance Secretary
Debi Zaft P.O. Box 505 Santa Rosa, CA 95402
Board of Directors
Kathleen Archer, Ray Giampaoli, Steve Marburger, Jackie McMillan, Diane Moresi, Laura Held, Peter Holewinski, Steve Baime and Jeff Kolin


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¶Weird optimizer behavior
Take this simple function:
int foo(int p0, int p1) {
return p1 + ((p0 - p1) & ((p0 - p1) << 31));
This should generate four operations: a subtract, a shift, a bitwise AND, and an add. Well, with VS2005 it generates something a bit different:
00000000: 8B 54 24 08 mov edx,dword ptr [esp+8]
00000004: 8B 4C 24 04 mov ecx,dword ptr [esp+4]
00000008: 2B CA sub ecx,edx
0000000A: 8B C1 mov eax,ecx
0000000C: 69 C0 00 00 00 80 imul eax,eax,80000000h ???
00000012: 23 C1 and eax,ecx
00000014: 03 C2 add eax,edx
00000016: C3 ret
Somehow the optimizer changed the shift to a multiply, which is a serious pessimization and thus results in a rare case where the code is actually faster with the optimizer turned off!
Oddly enough, manually hoisting out the common subexpression (p0 - p1) fixes the problem. I've seen this behavior before in VC++ with 64-bit expressions of the form (a*b+c). My guess is that the compiler normally converts left shifts to multiplications and then converts them back later, but somehow the CSE optimization breaks this. Yet another reason that being lazy and repeating common subexpressions all over the place while relying on the optimizer to clean up your mess isn't the greatest idea.
The reason for the repeated subexpression, by the way, is because this is an expanded version of a min() macro. I called the function foo above instead of min because it's actually broken -- the left shift should be a right shift. As long as you can put up with the portability and range quirks, this strange formulation has the advantages of (a) being branchless, and (b) sharing a lot of code with a max() on the same arguments.


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Vanessa Hudgens thought that her nude photo debacles are silly because she is a very present person and the things has been in the past.
The "Sucker Punch" star thought it is selfish and it sucks since somebody kept bringing up the past. As for making a path after she is matured past Disney says, Vanessa thought to stay strong because times get tough in a dog-eat-dog world.


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After thousands of cases, surgeons become very efficient and can complete cataract procedures with fewer instruments and less surgical trauma. This video features Dr. Swarup Reddy from Proddatur, India and he shows his highly refined and very efficient divide-and-conquer technique.
He makes both incisions simultaneously, using the paracentesis incision to stabilize the eye as the keratome creates the main phaco incision. The unusual part of this surgery is that no I/A probe (irrigation/aspiration) is used during the surgery. Dr Reddy carefully uses the phaco probe to remove the lens cortex and then again at the end of the case to remove any viscoelastic after IOL insertion. The entire video is just three and a half minutes, but I caution the young surgeons not to focus on that aspect of the case. Cataract surgery is not a race and beginning surgeons should focus more on technique and safety.
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Say it isn't so! As an employee and consultant that has played in some form the role of project manager for the majority of my twenty-six-year career in technology, I cringe at the thought my profession has become a commodity. What is commoditization in this context? It's when a product essentially becomes a commodity and customers perceive little or no value difference between brands or versions. In other words, the tasks to be performed by the project manager are repetitive and can be performed by anyone that has a certification. If you sense that I am not a fan of certifications you are correct, but I will leave the topic of whether they are beneficial or not for another article so for now let's dive into project management.
What does a project manager (PM) do? At the core they perform planning, execution, and control of project tasks. One could say that someone that creates a project plan, tracks the task's completion to that plan, and keeps an issues log is a project manager. Technically they are project manager but I could probably train rather quickly an administrative assistant to do those tasks. An administrative assistants real job is usually a lot harder too. This type of PM is adding little value and if the project is headed to 'go off the rails' this PM will be of little help expect possibly to warn the stakeholders only slightly before it happens. I am going to instead call this type of resource a project tracker going forward.
The other type of project manager is really a true leader. A person that helps communicate the vision of the future or project goal and motivates and inspires people to engage with that vision. They communicate risks that nobody else sees. They are able to determine feasibility based on current resource, time, and cost constraints. They have intellectual curiosity and no matter what technologies the project is using they become adept in understanding the technical issues which allows them to effectively facilitate resolution of those issues between parties that may have different opinions. And lastly and probably most importantly they are the true guard of the project scope. Scope creep in my opinion is the number one cause of project failure. Scope will always be pushed and pulled on a project and a great project manager will through effective change control and communication make sure the timeline, resource, and or costs change in line with scope and the stakeholder's expectations are in lock step as well. I am going to call this type of resource a project leader.
What type of PMs do project management offices (PMOs) usually have. From my experience, I have seen that most PMOs are setup to the side of the organization doing the project work and are given little authority to affect change. Thus, the PMOs are usually staffed with the project tracker type of resource. This lack of value added resource is why we see a lot of PMOs come and go in many companies.
Let us not skip the supposed more skilled resource the program manager. A program being a set of related projects with a common goal. As I interviewed many PM candidates of the years many said they desired to be a program manager. I always asked why and the usual answer was to have more responsibility. But a program manager of a group of project trackers is just a congregator of status which is not a highly skilled task. We have the same trap to avoid with the program manager role as well.
Project managers that are consultants are well aware of the project tracker versus the project leader roles as they have most likely ended up on both ends of the spectrum. The project tracker role is not fulfilling and not where any good consultant wants to be staffed.
I was staffed as a consultant in a PMO at a large company and through chance there were only two firms including mine that staffed consultants in the PMO. My firm staffed the project leader types, and the other the project tracker types with billing rates that reflected the vast difference in skill sets. The project leaders could take on three to four times as many projects at the same time as could the project trackers and the project results were usually much more favorable. Another much noticed benefit of using the project leader was the significantly higher moral and satisfaction of the team members on the project leader's projects.
If we look at an example to demonstrate the monetary impact we will see the savings of a project leader type is far outweighed by the costs of project delays. An eight-person application development project that lasts nine months is delayed two months because a much less expensive project tracker was used instead of a project leader. The resource cost ended up around $300k more due to the delay, even if the project tracker costs 50% less per hour than that a project leader type. The lesson is don't skimp on the probably the most important role on the project.
The reason that in some companies PMs are becoming a commodity is the incentive of supply chain and procurement departments to drive down costs. While that is a great goal they are not seeing the big picture of costs nor do they fully understand the role of the PM.
Now armed with this information you can effectively staff your PM roles. Make sure you know what you really need, most of the time probably a project leader and not a project tracker, and communicate the specific skills only a project leader has in your requisitions and during interviewing. No one ever regretted having an extremely skilled PM who led a team to deliver on time, under budget, and defect free.
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Diamond Select Toys is rolling out Series 2.5 of its Marvel Animated Minimates collection, the latest assortment of an exclusive mini-figure line now available only at Walgreens stores. That means it's time to officially announce the next assortment in the line! This upcoming wave of figures from Diamond Select Toys features all-new two-packs from Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Manand Avengers Assemble, including Super Heroes, Super Villains and the first-ever Minimate of Marvel's breakout star, Squirrel Girl!
Series 3 will hit in Fall of 2016, and will include four different two-packs, each containing two 2-inch Minimates mini-figures. The assortment includes:
- From Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man, the alternate-universe Spider-Man Noir pairs up with Itsy Bitsy Spider-Man! Spider-Man Noir has a removable hat and coat, and Itsy Bitsy Spider-Man includes an alternate head with a new facial expression. This is the first Marvel Minimate ever made of Spider-Man Noir.
- Also from Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man, a more grown-up Jet Pack Spider-Man teams up with one of New York City's greatest Super Heroes, Squirrel Girl! Jet-Pack Spider-Man comes with a removable jet pack, flame stand, alternate head and thumbs-up hand, while Squirrel Girl comes with three squirrels and two burritos! This is the first Marvel MInimate ever made of Squirrel Girl.
- From Marvel's Avengers Assemble, an updated Season 3-accurate Captain America will face off with Squadron Supreme member Hyperion. Captain America will include his shield, an alternate hair piece and an interchangeable shield hand, and Hyperion will include a flight base. This is the first Marvel Minimate ever made of Hyperion.
- Also from Marvel's Avengers Assemble, Falcon teams up with Ant-Man. Both characters' helmets are removable, and Falcon features removable wings, while Ant-Man comes with an interchangeable hair piece.
Each 2-inch Minimates mini-figure features fully interchangeable parts, so you can trade accessories and create custom looks. Minimates also feature a standard 14 points of articulation, to strike a variety of poses, and each Minimate comes with a clear disc base that pegs into the character's foot to support dynamic poses.
Look for Series 3 to arrive in all Walgreens stores in Fall 2016. Series 2.5 is shipping to stores now, with SHIELD Armor Spider-Man and Man-Thing, Spyder-Knight with Power Man, Thor with Nighthawk, and Iron Man with Power Princess! Find your nearest store at Walgreens.com!


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Judge In Racial Profiling Suit Twin Sister Of La Raza Group President
The federal judge presiding over a racial profiling lawsuit against an Arizona sheriff for cracking down on illegal immigration is twins with the president of an extremist Mexican group that advocates open borders.
Judge Mary Murguia, twin sister of National Council of La Raza President Janet Murguia, will hear the case filed by a group of Hispanics in Phoenix who say their civil rights were violated by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department.
A former federal prosecutor, Judge Murguia was the first Hispanic woman appointed to the bench in Arizona in 2000. Earlier this month she denied the sheriff's request to dismiss the lawsuit which also names Maricopa County as a defendant.
The Hispanics claim racial profiling led Maricopa sheriff's deputies to stop them and that their Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure were violated. The department has led an effort to curb a growing crisis in its district by partnering with federal authorities to crack down on illegal immigration and hundreds of illegal aliens have been arrested in the last few years.
The National Council of La Raza has strongly condemned the crackdown, claiming that local police enforcement of immigration laws has a serious "negative impact on Latino communities" and inevitably leads to higher levels of racial profiling, police misconduct, and civil rights violations.
That the judge in this case is related to the leader of such a group could certainly present the appearance of a conflict of interest. That's why the defendant, Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio, wants a different judge and this week attorneys for the department filed a motion to remove Judge Murguia from the lawsuit.


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> The product that the customer buys of the LIR should be giving more than > 50 EUR/year revenue, if not, you might not be in business for long. LIRS are NOT isps! the "product" bought from a LIR is the registration of IP space, usually at at one-time single payment that covered the increase in the billing score for 2 years if applicable and the administrative work. there are no "services" or "products" a LIR normally sells. and there also is no question of "circumventing ripe membership fees" as those only apply to LIRs (that is, people willing to register IP space for others). the fact that -most- LIRs are part of an ISP or even some ASPs that fell for ripes jedi-mind-trick and became a LIR themselves, doesnt mean they HAVE to be part of an ISP. -- Sven Olaf Kamphuis CB3ROB DataServices Phone: +31/87-8747479 Skype: CB3ROB MSN: sven at cb3rob.net C.V.: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cb3rob Confidential: Please be advised that the information contained in this email message, including all attached documents or files, is privileged and confidential and is intended only for the use of the individual or individuals addressed. Any other use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: > >> It's not charging retroactively. Retroactively charging for the PI space > >> would be sending invoices out for every year from '92 to to date, which > >> is not happening. > >> > >> What is happening that the price has changed from 0 to 50 EUR/year > >> (well, the draft price). > > > > mind you that PI registrants never agreed to any contract that allows > > "price changes" and that "choosing" to have their allocations removeed > > instead of either paying a LIR, with whom they would usually have an > > agreement that only covers a one time payment, or several thousand euros > > to ripe directly, OR GIVE UP THEIR ALLOCATIONS and therefore cause > > significant damage to their business :P is pure blackmail. > > > > you cant first tell someone "sure we will register ip sppace for your > > company, please pay 2500 euros which covers our work and the first 2 years > > in which potentially our ripe-score could be affected by this registration > > (PI and AS numbers only count for 2 years in the score), and then go > > "oops, now you have to either pay a few 1000 to ripe OR a few hundred to > > us (most customers have as numberrs AND PI space)"... > > > > Not necessarily. It's a change of the market and certainly not good > practice. It's like an ISP adjusting the price upwards on a broadband > package. The problem is, there's no competition to move to or well there > is .. because it depends what the LIR charges the end-user or if the LIR > just takes the 50 EUR and basically writes it off. > > The product that the customer buys of the LIR should be giving more than > 50 EUR/year revenue, if not, you might not be in business for long. > > Honestly this discussion is pretty much about chump change in the bigger > scheme. > > The ones that get hit are the ones that abused the PI scheme to not pay > for PA or RIPE membership. For everyone else it's pretty much something > that falls under the table. It's 4.17EUR/month per allocation. If you > don't make that kindda money of your PI customers on top of your cost, > your business isn't viable. And yeah .. you can just charge it on to > them or eat the cost. Latter wouldn't make a difference to the customer > as long as they are with you. > > And before you ask, We've got a few PI allocations ourselves and I > couldn't care less about 50 EUR each a year. If that is, what it takes, > to get people to give ressources back, then that's that. > > Kind regards, > Martin List-Petersen > -- > Airwire - Ag Nascadh Pobail an Iarthair > http://www.airwire.ie > Phone: 091-865 968 > > X-CONTACT-FILTER-MATCH: "ripe.net" >
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Longtime leading supplier of explosion proof and industrial grade lighting equipment Larson Electronics announced the release of a 50 KVA power distribution panel system that converts 480 volts AC to single phase 120 and 240 volts AC.
The MGS-480.2X30A.2X60A-50K-4X240-6X120 power distribution system from Larson Electronics provides a safe and effective way for operators in industrial settings to tap into and utilize power sources independently of the work area. This unit is designed to operate with 480 volts AC which is then stepped down to 120 volts AC single phase and 240 volts AC single phase. This transformer makes 120 volts available via six GFCI protected 20 amp receptacles with weather proof covers and 240 volts available via four L6-30 receptacles with weatherproof covers. This portable power distribution system also provides two 30 amp, 480 volt receptacles and two 60 amp, 480 volt receptacles for welding. On the primary side, a 250 amp main breaker 480 volt panel provides protection for the two 30 amp, two 60 amp receptacles and the 50 KVA transformer. On the secondary side, a 200 amp main breaker panel provides protection for the six 20 amp 120 volt outlets and the four 30 amp 240 volt outlets.
Unlike many portable power distribution boxes made of plastic and utilizing thin gauge, low grade metals in their construction, this unit is designed and ruggedly constructed to withstand demanding conditions and heavy duty industrial applications. The transformer and distribution assembly is mounted onto a rugged, powder coated, carbon steel frame with integrated skid pockets and a top located lifting eyelet that allows for easy lifting with cable or chains. The transformer and load assembly is mounted on a 3/16" thick carbon steel mounting platform and the load center and distribution assembly is mounted to the 2" by 2" by 1/8" square carbon steel tubing frame. This power distribution system is often used in applications where external power sources are often necessary and is ideal for use in applications such as plant maintenance, construction sites, as a welding station, shows and exhibits and shipyard operations.
"Larson Electronics is a manufacturer and can build power distribution systems to customer specifications," said Rob Bresnahan with Larsonelectronics.com. "If this particular unit doesn't meet your requirements, please call us today and discuss those with one of our representatives."
Larson Electronics carries an extensive line of LED light towers, portable power distribution systems, explosion proof lights for hazardous locations, portable work lights and industrial grade LED area lights. You can view Larson Electronics' entire line of lighting by visiting them on the web at Larsonelectronics.com. You can also call 1-800-369-6671 to learn more or call 1-214-616-6180 for international inquiries.


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[Monday January 6, 2014] US Secretary of State John Kerry is on his way home today, after four days of intense diplomacy, insisting that progress has been made and despite the failure of any framework peace agreement to be reached during Israeli-Palestinian talks. (Ma'an/AFP)Ma'an News Agency reports that, during his tour, Kerry spent hours locked in separate meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He also payed a surprise visit to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia authored a peace plan, in 2002, which forms the basis of Arab aspirations for any settlement with Israel. The plan proposed a normalization of relations between Israel and the entire Arab world, in return for a withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands and justice to be implemented over the Palestinian refugee crisis.
The plan has been mostly ignored by Israeli officials and, since talks began, Israel has issued plans for thousands of illegal settlements.
Palestinians, meanwhile, have been adamant in their refusal to recognize Israel as a 'Jewish state', and remain steadfast in their opposition to the stationing of Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley, which forms a third of the West Bank.
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To most people stickiness refers to the result of glue, honey, or chewing gum. To a website owner it resembles something quite different. Website stickiness refers to the amount of time a website visitor spends at your website. The more sticky your website is, the longer people are staying there. Which is a good thing of course!
Recently, I have made a few changes to my weblog, some small and fairly insignifant, others a little more noticeable. In this post I want to share with you the tricks I have learnt, to help increase your site stickiness.
Get Feedburner to manage your RSS Feed
Until last month I was using the wordpress in-built rss functionality to manage my feed. I didn't get any stats from my feed, so I had no idea how many rss subscribers I had. It also didn't offer any interactivity with my website.
Now that I have moved my feed over to Feedburner I can study it more accurately, I can see exactly how many people are viewing my site through RSS readers, and I can offer my subscribers more functionality from within my feed.
You have the option to optimize your feed from the Feedburner site. You can include many "feed flares" like a "Digg this", "Add to Del.icio.us", "Comment Count", "Email Author", "Email this", "Subscribe to Feed", or any combination of the above mentioned. These flares are displayed below each post in your visitors feed readers.
Get the "Subscribe to Comments" Plugin
I found a great plugin (through a link from Pearsonified) the other day that allows visitors to subscribe to a certain post's comments feed. All visitors have to do is tick a little box, enter their email address and click a button. They can now easily see if anyone has replied to their comment from the comfort of their own email inbox. If they know someone has replied to their comment they will more than likely come back to your site and reply with another comment.
Use "Read More" Buttons
After reading a great article I implemented this technique immediately on my blog. If you are too lazy to read the article, let me summarise it quickly.
How often do you have a website vistor frequenting your site for less then 15 seconds, and never leaving your home page? For me the answer is very often. The reason for this is pretty simple; you are offering them everything on one cluttered page, and there is no need for them to visit an internal page of your site.
The default settings for wordpress are to display 10 posts on the home page, with the full text of each post showing. Go into the "reading" options of your wordpress backend and change the amount of posts on your home page to 3, 4 or 5. Besides enticing visitors to click on buttons to find more posts, this should also increase your site's load time as it is loading less text and images.
Think carefully about what you write in your first couple paragraphs of each post, entice your visitors to continue reading. Then put a "Read More" tag that takes your visitors to a seperate page with the entire article displayed there.
They've now moved on from your home page (just like you have from mine :)), and will probably stay a bit longer on your blog. They will also now have the comments all viewable below the post, on it's seperate page. This might encourage them to leave a comment!
Improve your site navigation system
A user-friendly site navigation menu is very important in keeping your visitors on your site. If your site visitors are confused by your navigation system they will leave immediately. Think carefully about where you place your buttons. Study your website statistics, and optimise your site accordingly. I use Google Analytics, which has a great feature called "Site Overlay". It displays your website within a form and has information regarding which buttons people are clicking on over it.
Arrange your pages using the "post order" functionality in the wordpress backend. By default, most templates arrage the pages alphabetically and completely bypass the order you have specified. To fix this problem simply open up your sidebar template (or whichever template your page menu is displayed on) in the theme editor and change this line of code:
with this:
Now arrange your pages however you wish be. Make sure your most popular buttons are in the best space.
That's it for now. If you like what you have read, or have some further advice to improve site stickiness, then leave a comment below.
There will be a follow up post to this one, with some stats, to prove to you these tricks work 🙂


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Working with Kisaco Research
Based on your objectives, we can create bespoke packages designed specifically for you. From presenting your expertise on the main stage to hosting an exclusive networking drinks, you can partner with us to showcase your brand and make valuable new connections.
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Our legal events helps define the industry agenda for the months ahead. Taking a lead role allows our partners to influence the content and direction of our events, share their insights and shape not only the discussion during these meetings but for the industry as a whole.
The premium opportunity to access senior leaders and innovators within our network is at our annual flagship events run globally. Providing a keynote presentation sets the stage for the rest of the event and represents the most prominent role at our events. We utilise our deep understanding of the challenges faced by the market to help guide the focus of your keynote and ensure you are appropriately represented.
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WorkshopsThese extended length deep dives allow our partners to tailor the session content around a very specific audience which we help custom build and confirm, a favoured option for many of the strategic partners we work with.
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Being front of mind for the market you serve is a fundamental part of being a leader in your space. Our deep engagement with the legal industry across many channels, including digitally and in-person at our events, provides you multiple opportunities to align yourself with the marquee event in the industry.
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* Diwali in 2012 will start on Tuesday, the 13th of November and will continue for 5 days until Saturday, the 17th of November.
Friday begins Festival of Diwali, an important celebration in Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism. Diwali or Deepawali, translates to "row of lamps" because lamps of oil are lit to signify good over evil. This holiday is known as the Festival of Lights and sweetness. It is a symbol of the victory of good over evil, brightness over darkness, and truth over falsity. Of all the festivals celebrated in India, Diwali is by far the most glamorous and important, with people from every part of the region enjoying an atmosphere of joy and happiness.
Diwali is celebrated for five days according to the Hindu Calender. It begins in late Ashvin (between September and October) and ends in early Kartika (between October and November). Some in India who celebrate this holiday also use it to mark the end of the harvest season. In addition, it is also seen as an auspicious occasion for business enterprises and businesses. The day is celebrated with prayers (pooja) to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. Diwali, this year, also happens to coincide with our time change this weekend. There are many organizations and groups who are planning activities around these festivities.
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