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The Lies and The Truth
Title: The Lies and Truth Duet Box Set
Author: Rachael Duncan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Marry for money.
This has been my motto. A motto that was drilled into my head at a young age. It's who I am. Who I'm expected to be. All of that changes when he walks into my life.
I can't lie.
I can't hide.
I can't deceive.
As my personal security guard, he sees through me and makes me second guess everything. I can't escape him or the way he makes me feel. He makes me smile. He makes me want more from life.
Can I sacrifice those who depend on me for my own happiness?
I'm Elizabeth Fitzgerald.
I'm a Senator's wife.
And I hate my life.
Keep it professional.
I had one job to do, and falling for Elizabeth Fitzgerald was not it. Being former Special Forces, I'm no stranger to fighting, but this is different. This is personal. The stakes feel much higher and the struggle to save her will be my most challenging mission yet.
But I have a secret. A secret that threatens to tear apart everything we've built.
You know me as Alex Matthews.
My mistake was getting involved with her, knowing what was on the line.
Their mistake was taking me away from her.
"Hidden in Lies by Rachael Duncan was simply wonderful. It's a story that shows that picture perfect outside isn't always picture perfect inside." ~ Give Me Books
"I really enjoyed this book. It was sweet, sexy, steamy, suspenseful, and had quite a few twists and turns along the way. This book was really good and just as the getting was getting good... BAM, the book ended making me want so much more." ~ Renee Entress' Book Blog - Hidden In Lies
"Great action packed story full of suspense. Questions we had from book one are answered in this part of the story. Gotta admit I preferred this book than book one. Loved it." ~ 2 Friends Pimp Your Books - Uncovered by Truth
"Overall I really enjoyed this closure of their story. I also enjoyed the danger and suspense that seemed more prominent in this book. It made it a page turner for sure. I didn't want to put it down, I was totally engrossed in this story and was well satisfied with the ending." ~ Nerdy, Dirty & Flirty - Uncovered by Truth
"That's right, baby. You take that cock, you dirty little whore." He grabs the back of my head and pushes down as he thrusts up. My gag reflexes kick in as he hits the back of my throat with each push. My jaw tightens trying to reject the intrusion. "Don't you ever deny me again, you understand? Fucking whores like you love the cock," he says through gritted teeth. Tears spring to my eyes as he continues to punish my mouth over and over. I'm trying to pull back slightly to ease the ache in my jaw, but he won't let up. A slew of curse words, rants, and names are thrown out at me.
Bitch. Suck it harder. Fuck. Deeper. Slut.
He makes sure to take every ounce of his pleasure from me. Squeezing my eyes shut, unshed tears spill over and run down my cheeks. In this moment, I feel something I haven't felt before, and it's all-consuming.
I've never been in love with him, but tonight I fucking hate Cal.
"Open your eyes now," he barks out at me. I comply and don't try to hide the rage burning within them. I stare into his eyes as he slams into my mouth over and over again. The sad thing is I think my anger and apparent resentment turns him on. Within a handful of seconds I feel him tensing. "You're going to swallow every last drop. Just like a good little slut." I do as I'm told as fast as I can, not wanting his taste to linger on my tongue any longer than it has to. He pats the top of my head like a fucking dog and says, "Good job, babe," and then walks off toward the bathroom.
I crawl over to my side of the bed and collapse into my pillow. After a few moments, I notice the pillow feels wet. That's when I notice that an endless stream of tears has been falling from my eyes. Never in my life have I felt so cheap, used, broken …
Rachael Duncan is an Army wife living in North Carolina with her husband and two kids. She grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and went on to graduate from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville with a bachelor's degree in political science. After working on Capitol Hill for a short time, she realized that a career in politics just wasn't for her. A couple years later, she rediscovered her love for reading and writing. She's the author of Tackled by Love as well.


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Well, as was told to you this morning and indicated in the "Grace Today," I want to talk about the love of God. We have been doing a study of doctrines and doctrines that are controversial, doctrines that are often misunderstood.
And we started some months ago addressing the issue of eternal security and the fact that we are saved forever and that once saved, our salvation is guaranteed forever because in the end it is wrapped up in the decree of God and that got us into the doctrine of election, and then the doctrine of election, sovereign predestination, got us into the doctrine of the extent of the atonement, for whom did Christ actually die? And that raises the question about God loving the world, and that question certainly was raised by a number of you in the midst of our previous study some weeks ago.
If we are saved forever because God predetermined to do that before the foundation of the world, if Christ died to provide a salvation only for those who believe and those who believe are the ones whom God chooses to believe and empowers to believe, then the question comes: Does God really love the world? The Bible says God so loved the world, how are we to understand that? And we actually looked at that passage and a number of other passages, but it is fair to ask the question about the love of God.
It was a number of years ago when the publisher for whom I do most of my books came and said, "You know, John, you have written some controversial books. You have stirred up issues with people. We would like you to write a book that's not controversial. We would like you to write a book that everybody will like, everybody will enjoy, and we think that you ought to write a book on something very simple and very universal like the love of God. Everybody is happy about that idea. And you won't need to be controversial, everybody knows God loves us and loves us unconditionally, and that ought to be a book with wide appeal."
And that idea is certainly loose out there in the world. I remember Father Manning on Larry King one night saying, "My Jesus loves everybody." And that is a pretty typical perspective of people within the framework of Christianity. And it makes us realize that while some people may approach this issue of the love of God simplistically, it is far from a simple subject. And I know when I finish the book - which was originally called The God who Loves, and I think now the title has been changed to The Love of God, or the reverse of that. The publisher was scratching his head saying, "Well, this isn't really what we expected." But if you expect a biblical look at the love of God, you have to deal with what you get.
So setting aside popular ideas, setting aside simplistic ideas, setting aside an over-simplification of the issue at hand, I want to talk about the love of God in its broadest sense and its highest sense, its deepest sense and its widest sense. It is a very profound and far-reaching subject, and the best way to sort of break it down is to take it in three categories. One, God's love for Himself; two, God's love for the lost, the world; three, God's love for His own. And immediately from the vastness of this great subject, we've been able to parcel it out in three slices that make it much more approachable.
Let's begin by talking about God's love for Himself because this, of course, is where it all begins. This is intra-Trinitarian love - intra meaning inside of - intra-Trinitarian love. This is the starting point to understand the love of God. The Bible says God is love, and that is clear as the revelation of the epistle of John indicates. God is love, and because it is His nature to love, that love is expressed in the purest essence of His nature, which is the Trinity.
That is to say, the Father loves the Son perfectly, the Father loves the Spirit perfectly, the Son loves the Father and the Spirit perfectly, the Spirit loves the Father and the Son perfectly, and they live in this perfection of intra-Trinitarian love.
To help us understand that from the text of Scripture, open your Bible to the fourteenth chapter of the gospel of John, John chapter 14, and I will do my best to give you the Scriptures that help us get as much of an understanding of this as we can. John chapter 14, verse 31. Jesus simply says there, "But that the world may know that I love the Father and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here." And, of course, what He is doing is heading toward the cross, and He's doing this in order that He might demonstrate that He loves the Father. And the demonstration will come in His obedience even to the death on the cross.
We tend to think of the cross only as a point at which Jesus demonstrates His love for us, but it is first and foremost a point at which He demonstrates His love for the Father. You will look down into chapter 15 and verse 9 and you read, "Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Abide in my love." What precedes and what motivates His love for us is the Father's love for Him and His love for the Father. Verse 10, "If you keep my commandments, you'll abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love." There is love within the Trinity and it is a love that causes the members of the Trinity to do that which pleases each other.
If you go to the seventeenth chapter of John, you find very similar statements in verse 23. Jesus, speaking here to the Father, says directly to Him, "I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the world may know that thou didst send me and didst love them even as thou didst love me." Verse 26, "I have made thy name known to them and will make it known that the love wherewith thou didst love me may be in them and I in them." Here we find a number of occasions, a number of statements, in which Jesus celebrates the love that He has for the Father and the love the Father has for Him.
God perfectly loves Himself. That seems bizarre to us, it actually seems sinful to us, but that's because we are sinful to start with and imperfect and unworthy of love. In the absolute perfection of God in which He exists utterly apart from us and not subject to any limitations imposed upon sinners, God has every right to engage in perfect love of Himself within the fullness of the Trinity.
To further expand the focus of Scripture on the love between the Father and the Son, go back to the fifth chapter of John - the fifth chapter of John - and one could certainly spend a lot of time in this chapter, looking at this very subject, but we'll just briefly consider it. In verse 19, Jesus is responding to the hostility that has been generated by the Jews toward Him because He was breaking the Sabbath, verse 18, and worse, He was calling God His own Father, thus making Himself equal with God.
And, of course, He was doing that because He is equal to God. He is, in fact, God. But wanting to follow up on this equality with God, Jesus then says in verse 19, "Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself unless it is something He sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner." That is a monumental statement. To simply sum it up, it says this: "The Father keeps nothing from the Son." It is a perfect expression of love to give everything to the object of your love.
The Father holds nothing back. The Son does everything the Father does because the Father desires Him to do it. You might say this, all the Father's knowledge, all the Father's secrets, all the Father's privileges, all the Father's works, He gives to the Son. This is that intra-Trinitarian love that holds back nothing. And so says Jesus in verse 20, "Why is it that the Father holds nothing back but gives everything to the Son," verse 20, "for the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing and greater works than these will He show Him that you may marvel."
Love is magnanimous, my father always used to say, you can give without loving, you can never love without giving. And if your love is perfect, you give in perfection. And what that means is you hold nothing back. There is nothing that the Father has by way of honor and glory and privilege that He does not give to the Son. Father raises the dead, verse 21, so He gives the Son the privilege to raise the dead. The Father receives honor, so He gives the Son honor, and he who does not honor the Son doesn't honor the Father. The Father holds nothing back.
The Father has authority, verses 26 and 27, so He gives authority to the Son. And the Son returns to the Father perfect obedience. This is love at its highest, this is love at its loftiest. This is love in its fullness and its glory. Love gives everything it has and love returns perfect gratitude and perfect obedience. To understand God's love at all, you have to start here with the perfect love within the Trinity. Most particularly does the Scripture celebrate the love between the Father and the Son.
Now, moving one chapter further into the sixth chapter of John and verse 36, we come to a familiar passage which we have dealt with before, but I want to deal with it in this context. In verse 36, we'll start at verse 37, actually. "All that the Father gives me shall come to me." Now, what I said from chapter 5 is the Father holds nothing back. He keeps nothing from the Son, no secret, no nothing, no privilege, no honor, no authority, no power, no rights, nothing. In fact, in the future, the Son sits on the Father's throne and reigns with Him.
He is heir of everything the Father has. This is perfect love. And within the framework of giving everything to the Son is included redeemed people. All that the Father gives me shall come to me, says Jesus. The Father has willed, in giving out of love to the Son, to give to the Son a redeemed humanity. That's the point here. This is also what we read in the seventeenth chapter of John, that again Jesus understands that the Father has given Him those who will believe, verse 11.
He says, "I am no more in the world, yet they themselves are in the world and I come to thee, Holy Father, keep them in my name, the name which thou hast given me that they may be one even as we are. While I was with them I was keeping them in thy name, which thou hast given me." Verse 24, "My Father," He says, "I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am." I want to see them come to glory that you've given me.
So the whole plan of redemption, the whole story of salvation, embracing all of the people who will ever be saved, is really because the Father loves the Son and wants to give the Son a love gift. That love gift is a redeemed humanity, a humanity who will adore Him, honor Him, serve Him and love Him forever.
So to understand the love of God at all, we have to begin in the primary intra-Trinitarian love that leads to all other loves. Because God the Father perfectly loves the Son, He holds back nothing from the Son, including a bride for the Son, a redeemed humanity who literally will make up, as it were, the bride of Christ. The Son is willing to pay the immense price for that bride, the sacrifice of Himself on the cross, because it is the Father's will to give Him the bride and He, in loving the Father perfectly, will obey the Father in paying the price for that bride.
Even though it meant bearing sin, even though it meant being separated from the Father, He will do it not so much for our sakes as for the sake of the Father. Because He wants to obey the Father and to receive the gift the Father wants to give Him, He comes to the cross. God's loving us, God's loving people rises out of God creating people to redeem a bride for His Son, the Son of His love. Now, that in itself is a glorious subject to study and would, as I said, require a lot more attention than we've been able to give it tonight. But understand this: Any love that comes to us in this whole created world is because of this love the Father and the Son share.
But let's turn from that foundational element of love and talk about not God's love for Himself but God's love for humanity - God's love for humanity. This is the love which God has which is general. It is indiscriminate, it is unconditional, it is unlimited, and it is extended to everybody. Titus 3:4, "God's love for mankind," it's called. God's love for mankind.
Now, God is love by nature, right? God isn't sometimes love and sometimes not, He's always love. God is never so irritated that He stops loving, He always loves. He is always who He is perfectly, His attributes do not come and go, they do not ebb and flow, they do not rise and fall, they do not appear and disappear. He always loves. All of His attributes exist in perfect harmony with all of His other attributes at all times, so God always loves. It is His nature. And He loves generally, He loves mankind in general. It's fair to say that.
Look at Matthew 5, verse 44 and 45, because this is an important text to instruct us. In verse 43, Jesus says, "You've heard it said you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy." That was kind of the sort of Judaistic rabbinical approach to love. You love your neighbor and you hate your enemy, which justified their hatred for Gentiles. Love your enemies, says Jesus, that's something very different, verse 44. Love your enemies and go so far as to pray for the well-being of those who persecute you.
And then in verse 45, He makes this very important connection, "This will demonstrate that you are sons of your Father who is in heaven." Everybody knew in Jewish culture, in Jewish thinking, that to be a son of something meant to demonstrate the character of whoever's son you were. It meant to share the nature, the disposition. And if you want to demonstrate that you are sons of your Father, then you must share the disposition of your Father, who loves His enemies. That's the point. God loves His enemies.
He goes on to say in verse 45, "He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good. He sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." In verse 46, "For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Tax collectors do that." You need to love the way that God loves. Verse 48, "You need to be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect." And part of His perfection is perfect love demonstrated toward His enemies. Does God love the world? That says it, definitely He does - definitely. That's a very broad statement, enemies categorically.
Let's look at a more specific illustration in the tenth chapter of Mark, Mark chapter 10 and verse 17. And here, we get very personal. We're not talking about God in heaven, as in Matthew 5, we're talking about Jesus on earth who is nonetheless God. And in this verse 17 of Mark 10, a familiar story about a young man who runs to Jesus, kneels before Him, begins asking Him, "Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" You remember the story. The rich young ruler, he is often called.
Jesus says, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. Do you have any idea what you're saying here? You know the commandments, do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father, your mother." And he said to Him, "Teacher, I've kept all these things from my youth up." That's the self-righteous answer. "Oh, is that all I have to do to enter the kingdom of heaven? Is that all I have to do to receive eternal life, is just keep all the commandments? I keep them all." He was living out the Jewish illusion.
Verse 21 says, "Looking at him, Jesus felt love for him." He's not a believer, he wasn't even open to repent. Jesus went another step and said, "Well, there's another element in receiving eternal life. First you have to recognize you're a sinner, you're not going to do that. Secondly, you have to affirm my sovereign lordship over your life, so let me test that. Go sell all you possess, give to the poor, and you have treasure in heaven. Come follow me."
At these words, his face fell, he went away grieved because he owned a lot of property. Salvation is fairly simple. You repent of your sin and you acknowledge Jesus as Lord. One he wouldn't do, two he wouldn't do, either. He went away. But still, the key phrase, verse 21, Jesus felt love for him. Jesus is God. He didn't know him, this isn't some kind of earthly affection, this isn't family affection, this is the love of the heart of God toward an impenitent, proud, materialistic sinner.
And I think there's even a sense in which John 3:16, "God so loved the world," is intended to convey to the Jews that the heart of God is bigger than theirs. They had this narrow, limited view that God loved them and hated everybody else, and that's what was reflected in their perspective. Jesus said, "You've heard it said, love your neighbors and hate your enemies." They thought that was God's attitude. And when we read "God so loved the world," this is a blast at the narrowness, the provincial attitude, the - really, the racism of those who thought they were righteous and Godlike in hating everybody else. God does love mankind in a general sense.
The question is, then, how does this love demonstrate itself? And I want to share four ways that it does, okay? And we'll just work through these four and we'll leave the last category for next Sunday night. There are four ways that God's love manifests itself. Number one is common grace - number one is common grace. "He makes the sun to shine on the good and the evil, He makes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust." God does not discriminate with His grace in the sense of general goodness.
In the fourteenth chapter of Acts and verse 15, Paul and Barnabas, probably Paul himself speaking, says, "What are you doing, men? We are men of the same nature as you." They were worshiping Paul and Barnabas as if they were some kind of deities. He says, "We are men of the same nature as you. We preach the gospel to you in order that you should turn from these vain things to a living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them."
And then in verse 17, "And He didn't leave Himself without witness in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness." That's common grace, the universal, non-discriminating, unconditional goodness of God to good people, bad people, on the righteous and the unrighteous. And this is a general reality around the world. If you question the love of God, then ask yourself why He made this planet so universally full of riches and things to enjoy. Even people who live simply enjoy things.
We think, I suppose, that the standard for everybody ought to be the advanced scientific technological materialism of Western culture. I'm quite sure there are more disillusioned, sad, distraught, depressed, anxious people living in this kind of a culture than there are in the simple cultures of the third world who have very little expectation and find their joy still in a sunset or a good meal or the love of a family. Common grace extends to the world, and it's a demonstration of God's love. If God was not at heart a loving God, why would He create a planet so full of things to enjoy?
There's a second element in God's love for mankind: compassion. Compassion. God's love for mankind is revealed in His universal pity and grief over lost souls. Ezekiel 18:32, "I find no pleasure in the death of the wicked." There's no glee in God when a hundred and fifty thousand people are crushed and drowned in a tsunami. There's no glee in God when a train derails and certain people are asphyxiated or when a bomb blows up in Iraq and people standing by are blown into eternity. He says, "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked."
To Jonah, He said (in Jonah chapter 4:11) when Jonah was questioning what God was doing with the Gentiles, Jonah had no love for them, absolutely no love for them, didn't want them involved with His God or getting in on divine blessing, and God says, "Shall I not have compassion on Nineveh?"
The compassion of God is seen in the good things in this world and the good things in life in the way in which God has provided. Medical care and protection and the support of families and food and even the kind of aid that the world is rising to give to help other people, that's a reflection of the scarred and marred image of God in man where still you can see the milk of human kindness reaching out that comes originally from the heart of God.
Believe me, that's not born in an atheistic evolutionary process. God, in the book of Jeremiah, weeps and wails over the destruction of Moab - wicked, wretched, sinful Moab. Jesus weeps over Jerusalem in Matthew 23:37, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, I would have gathered you but you would not." Then again in Luke 19:41, the same thing.
Now listen. This is not a love motivated by the present value of man because he really has no real value. He is a sinner and an enemy of God. It is a love that is motivated by the heart of God, who sees the lost value in man. It's the love of pity. The Lord pities His children. It's the love of sadness over the image of God so defaced. It's a pained love, even in acts of just judgment.
And that leads to the third element of God's love for mankind. The love of God is demonstrated in warning - warning. I think the heart of God is grieved. I think God weeps when He sees masses of people die or when any die on any given day by the thousands as they do in the world. God finds no pleasure in that, and that is why God has given to the heart of every man a law, a standard of what is right and wrong, and He's written it in the heart and He's given a conscience to activate it. That's why He sent Jesus Christ into the world. That's why He sent His Word into the world.
God's love for mankind is revealed in incessant warnings of coming judgment. The whole of the Old Testament is filled with these warnings, and Israel had the responsibility to declare the judgment of God upon the nations that rejected Him, as we do today. We've just gone through that little passage in Luke 13 where - when the people were killed in the temple and they said, "Why did that happen?" And He said, "You better repent, the same thing could happen to you." And the tower fell on those in Siloam and they said, "Why did that happen? What caused that? Where was God?" as the question is often stated. And He said, "You better repent or it could happen to you."
It isn't that people just need a - I kept thinking about that when they were talking about we need to have some kind of tsunami warning system. No. That's fine, I mean that's helpful, you know, people can develop those kinds of things and that's helpful, but what's far more important than any warning system that protects your body is a warning system that protects your eternal soul. This is the great warning and the Bible is that warning system. It's that warning system.
You say, "Well, what if they don't have a Bible?" Well, they have a conscience and they have the law of God written in their hearts. And if they live up to that, the promise of Scripture is that God will bring them the fullness of His light.
And that leads to the fourth element, the offer of the gospel. What did the Lord say to His disciples at the end of His life when He was leaving? He said, "Go into all" - the what? - "the world and preach the gospel, take it to the ends of the earth, and preach it to every creature." Now, He didn't say, "Look for the elect and tell them the gospel. Look for those that are predestined and give them the gospel." He said, "Take it to the ends of the earth."
Common grace shows that God is a God of love. Compassion, the compassion of God manifest through the - even through the defaced image of God in man, you can see that whoever created man had compassion because men have compassion. Warning, the Scripture is loaded with warnings, all through the Old and the New Testament, all of them gracious warnings. And also, the offer of salvation. In the Old Testament and the New Testament, God always offered salvation to the penitent sinner who came, confessed his sin, and believed in the Word of God.
And we're told to go to the ends of the earth and to preach the gospel to every creature in the worst time in the history of the world. In the future, it's a time known as the time of tribulation. It's described in Revelation chapter - basically chapter 4 to the very end, 4 and 5 are actually a scene in heaven where the war machine of God starts cranking up. Start formally on earth in chapter 6, from Revelation 6 to 19, you have horrific judgments coming on the earth, but with those judgments come warnings.
God plucks twelve thousand Jews out of every tribe to make 144 thousand witnesses, and He knows who belongs to what tribe even though all the records were lost in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. God knows who belongs to who and He'll put together that great force. He plucks two witnesses who preach the gospel in Jerusalem and bring about a massive revival in Jerusalem, and the world hates what they say so badly that they kill them and they're on worldwide satellite television because it says the whole world sees their dead bodies.
And while the whole world is watching, Revelation 11 says, they rise from the dead and stand up. But I think the most remarkable thing in the book of Revelation is that during that period of time, there is going to be an angel flying through heaven, preaching the everlasting gospel. You've seen people do it with a blimp or you've seen people do it with a little airplane with a trailing sign. There is going to be an angel flying through heaven, preaching the gospel to the world.
Paul says, "I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, it's the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, the Jew first and also to the Greek." And he says, "I am really under mandate to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth." In fact, he even said in the Corinthian letter, "Woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel." We're to go everywhere and preach this gospel. This is the will of the Father.
God is a God of love and He shows His love in the graciousness that surrounds us in this world, in all its natural wonders which make life rich, the prosperity that we enjoy. He looks on us with compassion, and we live with His compassion, that's why sinners survive. That's why all sinners don't die the first time they sin, because God is compassionate, God is merciful. But at the same time, we are warned and warned and warned and warned and warned and warned.
And we are also given the solution, the glorious truth of the gospel. In John chapter 6, that same passage we looked at earlier, where we're talking about the Father loving the Son and giving Him a bride, it says, "This is the will of my Father," verse 40, "that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I myself will raise them up on the last day." The Father simply says anybody anywhere who believes will have eternal life. This is the revelation of God's grace. The offer of the gospel is to all. Psalm 34:8, "O taste and see the Lord is good, blessed is the man that trusts in Him."
Proverbs 1:24, "I have called and you refused. I've stretched out my hand and no man regarded." Isaiah 55:1, "Come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." Isaiah 65:1 and 2, "Behold me, behold me unto a nation that was not called by my name. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people." This is God calling, reaching out, extending an offer of salvation. Matthew 22:2 and 3, I love this parable. The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who made a marriage for His Son, sent forth servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding and they wouldn't come.
The same thing in Luke 14, verse 16 to 18, "A certain man made a great dinner and invited many and sent His servants at supper time to say to them that were bidden, 'Come, for all things are now ready.' And they all with one consent began to make excuses." Jesus said in Matthew 11:28, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. I'll give you rest." John 6:37, "Him that comes to me, I'll not cast out." Romans 10:13, "Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Revelation 22:17, "Whosoever will, let him come, take of the water of life freely." This is the extent of the gospel.
You remember what the angel said in Luke 2:10? The angel said this: "I bring you good news of great joy which shall be for all the people." Listen, beloved, in all of our understanding of election and all of our understanding of predestination, we have to maintain that mystery, that apparent paradox, that irreconcilable reality that a God of love and mercy and compassion and a God of justice and a God of grace has extended Himself in love to the whole world. The good news is available to all.
The law of God is written in every heart. The conscience is there to activate that law and a response and to send that person in the direction of God. And reason is there, and reason says there is a Creator and there is a moral lawgiver, how can I know Him? John 6, Jesus said He was the bread of God who comes down from heaven and gives His life for the world. He is the Savior of the world. Thomas Boston, the Puritan preacher and author, used the analogy of a king appointing a physician to be the healer of the people, available to all, the official doctor of the realm. People had to decide whether they wanted to use him or not, but he was the official physician of the realm.
And so is Jesus the Savior of the world, declared to be so by God the King and available to all who come to Him for spiritual healing. It was He Himself in John 5, verse 40, who said, "You are unwilling to come to me that you might have life." You see, you're not going to come unless you know you're sick. That's what Jesus said, didn't He? He didn't come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. Those that are sick need a physician.
God loved the world. He loves the world to the extent that He shows them common grace, compassion, warning, and gospel opportunity. He has provided a sufficient Savior for the whole world. But sinners refuse to come and bear the culpability and the guilt for that refusal. Jesus said, "You will die in your sins, and where I go you will never come because you do not believe in me." The responsibility always falls at the foot of the sinner. You say, "I'm not sure how that fits together with election." Oh, I don't know why you would be unsure about that. I'm absolutely positive that that doesn't fit together with election in my mind. But that's very encouraging to me because that means God is a lot brighter than I am.
Jesus approached one day in Jerusalem and He wept over the city, Luke 19:41, and He said, "If you had known in this day, even you - even you, if you had just known the things which make for peace, now they're hidden from your eyes." Too late - too late. Yes, God does love the whole world. Yes, anybody anywhere anytime who wants to believe can believe. We know that's a work of God, and yet it's the man or the woman's responsibility to take the opportunity that's offered to them.
I know that that doesn't make perfect sense in our minds, but hell is full of people who refused to believe, who held to their sin, and heaven is full of people whom the Lord transformed. But sinners are there because they made their choice. On the other hand, we're in heaven because God made His choice. It's that impossible paradox that exists at every point in the great doctrines of Scripture.
I don't need to sort that out. I don't need to solve that. I just need to be faithful to take the gospel to the ends of the world and beg unbelievers to repent, right? And Jesus did that. We've just been studying it in the gospel of Luke, warning them and warning them, telling them to leave the false religion, to fear God, to confess Him, to commit themselves to the care of the Holy Spirit, to abandon their love of money, to abandon their pursuits in the world and to rush, as it were, to the kingdom. Warning them they're going to die, that the Lord might come in judgment and it's going to be too late.
So while we glorify God for the great work of salvation, which is all his work, on the other hand, we engage ourselves in expressing the love of God to the world at every point we can touch the unregenerate world because we've been commanded to do just that. It makes it pretty simple for me, really. I can leave the resolution of the impossible to God and simply be obedient. And isn't that, after all, what loving God is all about?
Jesus said this, He said, "I do what the Father tells me because I love Him." And so, as believers, we do what the Father tells us to do and that is to take the gospel to the ends of the earth because we love Him. It's not for us to understand all the machinations of the infinite mind of God, but it is for us to be obedient. God is love and, therefore, within the Trinity exists perfect love. Out of that perfect love comes a desire on God's part to give to His Son a gift of love because He holds nothing back from the Son and so we have what we have in the created universe in order that God can redeem a bride for His Son. And we have been given the wonderful responsibility of being, as it were, friends of the bridegroom, inviting guests to come to the marriage, even to become part of the bride.
There is a third kind of love, and we'll look at that next week, it is God's love for His own - God's love for His own. This is that love which He eternally predetermined to set on us. Let's pray.
Father, we thank you tonight for just some time to contemplate these great and deep truths. We feel like we're standing at the ocean with a little bucket full of water, looking at the vast unchartered sea rolling before us and thinking perhaps that in our bucket we have as much as we can handle of this vastness.
Lord, we're in awe of you, we're in awe of your glory, we're in awe of your person, we're in awe of your truth, we're in awe of your attributes. We're in awe of your goodness. It is unfathomable to us. And you've never asked us to sort it out, you've only asked us to obey. You have given us good gifts because you love us. And you have asked us in return to show our love through obedience, and that means to spend our lives in this wonderful enterprise of showing your compassion, warning, and grace through the gospel to those around us.
We thank you for that opportunity and we ask that you continue to give it to us. And may we be faithful simply to throw the seed and leave the results to you. We pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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SMF - Just Installed!
Kolbarten wrote...Putting the override folder aside didn't allowed me to start the game, and moving away it's content didn't make any difference.
Modifié par jmlzemaggo, 25 décembre 2011 - 08:47 .
Kolbarten wrote...Just reinstalled the game, but the problem remains. What in the nine hells?
Modifié par Kolbarten, 28 janvier 2012 - 01:52 .
Kolbarten wrote...Didn't have any luck. I don't know the basic about the toolset, so I can't change from the inside. I decided to restart the module, so I hope nothing bad happens this time.
Oh, one other thing. On this last game I managed to complete all five main quests before the war against the Valsharess, but some say it's not possible. Could that have influenced somehow on the problem?
Modifié par HipMaestro, 28 janvier 2012 - 02:52 .
HipMaestro wrote...Typically, I will have at least a dozen saves in each module "just in case".
Modifié par jmlzemaggo, 28 janvier 2012 - 03:38 .
Empyre65 wrote...What I did was, after completing the undead quest and two island quests, I cleared out the beholder caves, but avoided the final room with the queen, and almost completed the mind flayers quest, avoiding the last room. Then I went into town and did my final shopping and then finished both those areas before returning to town for the battle. I didn't have to do any teleporting. Did I break something without knowing it?
Kolbarten wrote...I tried to find the procedures to reset factions on the forum, but couldn't find it. Could you please point me the post, or at least where else can I find this procedure?
Modifié par HipMaestro, 01 février 2012 - 11:01 .


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13.1.3 Port Buffers and Positions
Some ports—
An input port is typically block-buffered by default, which means that on any read, the buffer is filled with immediately-available bytes to speed up future reads. Thus, if a file is modified between a pair of reads to the file, the second read can produce stale data. Calling file-position to set an input port's file position flushes its buffer.
An output port is typically block-buffered by default, though a terminal output port is line-buffered, and the initial error output port is unbuffered. An output buffer is filled with a sequence of written bytes to be committed as a group, either when the buffer is full (in block mode), when a newline is written (in line mode), when the port is closed via close-output-port, or when a flush is explicitly requested via a procedure like flush-output.
If a port supports buffering, its buffer mode can be changed via file-stream-buffer-mode (even if the port is not a file-stream port).
For an input port, peeking always places peeked bytes into the port's buffer, even when the port's buffer mode is 'none; furthermore, on some platforms, testing the port for input (via char-ready? or sync) may be implemented with a peek. If an input port's buffer mode is 'none, then at most one byte is read for read-bytes-avail!*, read-bytes-avail!, peek-bytes-avail!*, or peek-bytes-avail!; if any bytes are buffered in the port (e.g., to satisfy a previous peek), the procedures may access multiple buffered bytes, but no further bytes are read.
In addition, the initial current output and error ports are automatically flushed when read, read-line, read-bytes, read-string, etc., are performed on the initial standard input port; more precisely, flushing is performed by the default port read handler (see port-read-handler).
(flush-output [out]) → void?
out : output-port? = (current-output-port)
(file-stream-buffer-mode port) → (or/c 'none 'line 'block #f)
port : port? (file-stream-buffer-mode port mode) → void? port : port? mode : (or/c 'none 'line 'block)
If mode is provided, it must be one of 'none, 'line (output only), or 'block, and the port's buffering is set accordingly. If the port does not support setting the mode, the exn:fail exception is raised.
If mode is not provided, the current mode is returned, or #f is returned if the mode cannot be determined. If port is an input port and mode is 'line, the exn:fail:contract exception is raised.
(file-position port) → exact-nonnegative-integer?
port : port? (file-position port pos) → void? port : port? pos : (or/c exact-nonnegative-integer? eof-object?)
Calling file-position without a position on a port other than a file-stream port or string port returns the number of bytes that have been read from that port if the position is known (see Counting Positions, Lines, and Columns), otherwise the exn:fail:filesystem exception is raised.
For file-stream ports and string ports, the position-setting variant sets the read/write position to pos relative to the beginning of the file or (byte) string if pos is a number, or to the current end of the file or (byte) string if pos is eof. In position-setting mode, file-position raises the exn:fail:contract exception for port kinds other than file-stream ports and string ports. Furthermore, not all file-stream ports support setting the position; if file-position is called with a position argument on such a file-stream port, the exn:fail:filesystem exception is raised.
When file-position sets the position pos beyond the current size of an output file or (byte) string, the file/string is enlarged to size pos and the new region is filled with 0 bytes. If pos is beyond the end of an input file or (byte) string, then reading thereafter returns eof without changing the port's position.
When changing the file position for an output port, the port is first flushed if its buffer is not empty. Similarly, setting the position for an input port clears the port's buffer (even if the new position is the same as the old position). However, although input and output ports produced by open-input-output-file share the file position, setting the position via one port does not flush the other port's buffer.
(file-position* port) → (or/c exact-nonnegative-integer? #f)
port : port?
(file-truncate port size) → void?
port : (and/c output-port? file-stream-port?) size : exact-nonnegative-integer?
The new file size can be either larger or smaller than its current size, but "truncate" in this function's name reflects that it is normally used to decrease the size of a file, since writing to a file or using file-position can extend a file's size.


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Investing in different things, with different strategies
Pooled investment funds – also known as 'collective investment schemes' – are a way of combining sums of money from many people into a large fund spread across many investments and managed by a professional fund manager.
There are a diverse range of funds that invest in different things, with different strategies – high income, capital growth, income and growth, and so on.
Popular types of pooled investment fund
Unit trusts and Open-Ended Investment Companies
Unit trusts and Open-Ended Investment Companies (OEICs) are professionally managed collective investment funds. Managers pool money from many investors and buy shares, bonds, property or cash assets, and other investments.
Underlying assets
You buy shares (in an OEIC) or units (in a unit trust). The fund manager combines your money together with money from other investors and uses it to invest in the fund's underlying assets.
Every fund invests in a different mix of investments. Some only buy shares in British companies, while others invest in bonds or in shares of foreign companies, or other types of investments.
Buy or sell
You own a share of the overall unit trust or OEIC – if the value of the underlying assets in the fund rises, the value of your units or shares will rise. Similarly, if the value of the underlying assets of the fund falls, the value of your units or shares falls. The overall fund size will grow and shrink as investors buy or sell.
Some funds give you the choice between 'income units' or 'income shares' that make regular payouts of any dividends or interest the fund earns, or 'accumulation units' or 'accumulation shares' which are automatically reinvested in the fund.
Higher returns
The value of your investments can go down as well as up, and you might get back less than you invested. Some assets are riskier than others, but higher risk also gives you the potential to earn higher returns.
Before investing, make sure you understand what kind of assets the fund invests in and whether that's a good fit for your investment goals, financial situation and attitude to risk.
Spreading risk
Unit trusts and OEICs help you to spread your risk across lots of investments without having to spend a lot of money.
Most unit trusts and OEICs allow you to sell your shares or units at any time – although some funds will only deal on a monthly, quarterly or twice-yearly basis. This might be the case if they invest in assets such as property, which can take a longer time to sell.
Investment length
However, bear in mind that the length of time you should invest for depends on your financial goals and what your fund invests in. If it invests in shares, bonds or property, you should plan to invest for five years or more. Money market funds can be suitable for shorter time frames.
If you own shares, you might get income in the form of dividends. Dividends are a portion of the profits made by the company that issued the shares you've invested in.
Taxed dividends
If you have an investment fund that is invested in shares, then you might get distributions that are taxed in the same way as dividends.
For the tax year 2020/21 the tax-free Dividend Allowance is £2,000 a year.
Dividends above this level are taxed at:
• 7.5% (for basic rate taxpayers)
• 32.5% (for higher rate taxpayers)
• 38.1% (for additional rate taxpayers)
Any dividends received within a pension or ISA are unaffected and remain tax-free.
Basic rate payers who receive dividends of more than £2,000 need to complete a self-assessment return.


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The Fantasia International Film Festival podcast series by the good people of 9to5.cc is back!
In this episodes the hosts of 9ES discuss: Martyrs Lane and #Blue_Whale.
Once again this year's Fantasia Festival is mostly online, with only a few films being screened live due to the ongoing pandemic that, spoilers, isn't over yet!
The real horror was Covid-19.
I digress.
As we have since *checks notes* 2012, the 9to5.cc crew will be watching a whole bunch of Fantasia Festival movies and, as is our wont, we will be recording podcasts about them.
Sweet sweet audio reviews of some of the best of genre cinema. Normally we recommend you listen to these reviews while waiting in the long ass lineups waiting to get into the movies but since this year is mostly online maybe you just listen to them while you work or something?
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Oceania People General Resources
Reviewed Resources for Students and Teachers
Australia - Pacific Australia Aboriginal People - General resources - Australian Aboriginal People Lesson Plans Oceania Cultures Anthropology General Resources Pacific Islanders by Country Cook Islands Culture People - Fiji Islanders Culture People - French Polynesia Culture People - Guam Culture People - Hawaii Culture People - Kiribati Culture People - Marshall Islands Culture People - Micronesia Culture People - Nauru Culture People - New Caledonia Culture People - Northern Marianas Culture People - Palau Culture People - The Samoas Culture People - Solomon Islands Culture People - Tonga Culture People - Tuvalu Culture People - Vanuatu Culture People Pacific Islanders by Peoples, Tribe, Kindred Chamorro Culture People - Maori Culture People - Polynesian Culture People |
ABARA BANABA - Our Homeland Banaba __ "The Banabans are the 'Forgotten People of the Pacific' who have suffered from one of the greatest ecological and environmental disasters this century,..." You will learn who they are, read their history and find what is needed for the future. - illustrated - from banaban.com - http://www.banaban.com/ Ancient and Modern Art __ "In art as well as in other domains, Eastern Polynesia formed a region apart. Unlike Melanesia, for example, where figures are often abstract and polychrome, Polynesian sculpture is rarely painted and relatively realistic." You will find history and images. - illustrated - from pacificislandtravel.com - http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/fr_polynesia/about_destin/art.html arTok: Pacific Arts Online __ A great collection of images of Oceanic art from music to body art. - illustrated - From ABC Australian Radio - http://www.abc.net.au/arts/artok/default.htm Category:Oceanic people __ Index of articles found in Wikipedia related to Oceanic people. - From Wikipedia - http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Oceanic_people Charting the Pacific __ Here is a website profiling the people and places of the Pacific. You will find statistics, regional issues, maps, events, links, and profiles of the region's people and culture. - illustrated - From ABC Radio Australia - http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacific/ De Rienzi Gallery, Engravings of the South Pacific Islands __ Here is an excellent look at Oceanic history. "A collection of engravings of the South Pacific first published in 1836 by M.G.L. Domeny De Rienzi." You will find a wonderful set of images in click-to-enlarge format. You may want to spend some time with these. Not only is the art excellent, there is a great deal of worth from the cultural anthropology standpoint. - illustrated - From De Rienzi Gallery - http://www.mapsouthpacific.com/engravings/index.html Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes __ You will find click-to-read texts of several Hawaiian legends along with an introduction and pronunciation guide. - From sacred-texts.com - http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlov/ History of Oceania __ Read about the history of Oceania, learn about the four cultural groups and more. - illustrated - From essential-humanities.net - http://www.essential-humanities.net/world-history/history-of-oceania/ Indigenous peoples of Oceania __ Brief encyclopedic article with many links to additional materials. - From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Oceania Jane Resture's Oceania Page __ A great place to begin your exploration of Oceanic people. Many topics and links. - illustrated - From Jane Resture - http://www.janesoceania.com/ The Kumulipo, A Hawaiian Creation Chant __ "THE Kalakaua text of the Hawaiian genealogical prayer chant called the "Kumulipo" covers sixty-six pages of a small pamphlet printed in Honolulu in 1889 after a manuscript copy at that time in the possession of the ruling King Kalakaua but now the property of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, to which it passed in 1922 from the estate of Prince Kalanianaole, nephew of the former rulers." You will find an online translated text. - from sacred-texts.com - http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/ku/ The Languages of Oceania __ A general overview and introduction to Oceanic languages. - from janesoceania.com - http://www.janesoceania.com/oceania_language/ Lars Krutak - The Art of Nature: Tattoo History of Western Oceania __ "...an overview of tattoo history and technique as it was traditionally practiced in the western islands of the Pacific, including Micronesia, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands. In all of these regions, tattooing was intimately related to the surrounding environment and most of the tattooing motifs were symbols derived from nature, the great mother force that interactively shaped the worlds of these insular peoples." A detailed article. - illustrated - From arskrutak.com - http://www.larskrutak.com/articles/oceania/ Marshall Islands Culture __ You will find information on the culture of the Pacific island nation of the Marshall Islands. A great resources website with a ton of information. - from Dirk Spennemann - http://marshall.csu.edu.au/culture.html Micronesian Seminar __ This is an online resource with information on social change and history in Micronesia, and among Micronesians abroad. - micsem.org - http://www.micsem.org/ Musical Instruments of Oceania - Metropolitan Museum of Art __ You will find a detailed article and gallery of click-to-enlarge images. - illustrated - From metmuseum.org - http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/muoc/hd_muoc.htm Notes on Oceania __ Oceania has been populated for at least 50,000 years. You will find an excellent paper dealing with the origins of Oceanic people. - From berclo.net - http://berclo.net/page02/02en-notes-oceania.html Oceania People __ Historic photos of Pacific people. Perhaps not for the younger student as there is some 'nudity' in the traditional "National Geographic" sense. - illustrated - From janeresture.com - http://www.janeresture.com/oceania_people/ Oceania Tattoos __ Learn about the history and meaning of this Pacific art form. - illustrated - From janeresture.com - http://www.janeresture.com/oceania_tattoos/index.htm Oceanic Mythology __ An online book covering many aspects of Oceanic mythology. It is the 1916 text by Roland B. Dixon - From sacred-texts.com - http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/om/ Origin of the Polynesian People __ "Polynesians evolved ( birthed ) & their unique culture developed in area of Savai'i and Upolu, Samoa and Tonga in around 2000-500BC with Savai'i as the motherland ( breeding ground ). Nowhere else on earth will you find ancient Polynesian remains other than within the Polynesian Triangle or maybe along the coast of the adjacent land masses like the Americas." There is a lot of information which may make more sense for an advanced student. - From asiapacificuniverse.com - http://asiapacificuniverse.com/asia_pacific/messages8/766.html Sacred Texts -- Pacific Islander Religions __ A remarkable collection of folk tales, myth and legend from the Pacific Islands. - From sacred-texts.com - http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/ A Tour of Pohnpei __ Interesting text and great photos make this tour lively. You will see images of people, places and things. - illustrated - from keteu.org - http://www.keteu.org/pohnpei/ Vanuatu: A Photographic Exhibit __ Online photo exhibit of Vanuatu people and culture by photographer David Becker. You may want to spend some time with the photos. - illustrated - From calacademy.org - http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/vanuatu/about.html Wayfinders : Polynesian History and Origin __ The website reviews a film "Wayfinders a Pacific Odyssey" but you will find a lot of information. - illustrated - from PBS - http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders/polynesian2.html
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DeFuniak Springs is a small city of around 7,000 located off of Interstate 10 between Tallahassee and Pensacola. The city is the county seat for Walton County, Florida. DeFuniak Springs is home to many interesting historical events and attractions such as one of the two naturally round spring fed lakes in the world. The other being located near Zurich, Switzerland.
DeFuniak Springs was developed in the late 1800s as a railroad town. In 1881, a railroad surveying party consisting of W. D. Chipley, W.J. VanKirk, and W.T. Wright came to the area seeking a route for the L&N Railroad. After stopping on a hillside overlooking the beautiful, naturally round lake, Colonel Chipley exlcaimed, "Here a town shall be built!"
They planned a town named after Fred R. DeFuniak, who held many high offices with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, including that of General Manger. The Florida Chautauqua Association organized in 1884 and held its first assembly in DeFuniak Springs in February of 1885. This assembly made DeFuniak Springs one of the cultural centers of the southeast until the late 1920s.
Today, in the spirit of the original Chautauqua, efforts are underway to revive the cultural activities. Go to the Historical District so you can see the beautiful homes that surround Lake DeFuniak today. For more information on this area visit our Government section. Walton County has the pleasure of being one of the fastest growing places in Florida.
At this site we try to provide you with information you might need to locate in this area or just come for a visit. The businesses you see are sponsors of these informational pages. Please let them know you appreciate this information being available via the internet for your use. This is a great place to raise a family or simply retire away from the hustle and bustle of city life. We are blessed with Florida's world-famed wonderful climate. We enjoy all four seasons, with winter usually being mild ( a mean temperature of 44.2 degrees). The summer mean temperature is 81.9 degrees. The average rainfall is 58.4 inches. Outdoor activities can be enjoyed almost every day of the year.
Fishing, hunting, golfing, and boating are just a few of the popular pastimes here. The fishing enthusiast will discover an area of great fishing, whether it be salt water or fresh water. Area fishing lakes include Cassidy, Holley, and Juniper. The Choctawhatchee River is a 20-minute drive. And of course, the Gulf offers some of the world's greatest deep sea fishing. Wild game such as deer, duck, and turkey abound in the surrounding wooded hills for the hunting enthusiast. Several golf courses are located nearby. Of course, given our location, there are numerous opportunities for the avid boater. Furthermore, horses are a main source of enjoyment in this area. Roping, team penning, trail rides, and family fun days are popular leisure activities.
Other nearby amusements include a Championship Rodeo held in Bonifay (30-minute drive to the east). Florida's oldest library still in operation is located in DeFuniak Springs. Another point of interest is Lake DeFuniak, said to be one of only two perfectly round natural lakes in the world. Folklore has it that the lake was formed by a large meteor crashing to earth centuries ago. The circumference of the lake is 5,280 feet, which makes a pleasant mile. Our major industry is agriculture, which is growing all the time, if you'll excuse the pun. The cattle business, timber (especially pine), and poultry farms are primary resources.
Once you visit DeFuniak Springs and experience all that it has to offer, you will probably become a return visitor or perhaps a resident. Untouched rural beauty, a slow-paced lifestyle, helpful neighbors, a mild year-round climate, low crime rate, low taxes, and a uniquely central location are just a few of the natural magnets that draws families and industries to the region. Florida is a beautiful state to visit, and DeFuniak Springs is a small, tucked-away treasure that you definitely don't want to miss!


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Watch a New 'Tremors' Documentary For Its 30th Anniversary
2020 is a bit of a bust for big movies, so we've spent a lot of time this year looking back at the films of 1990, a time that gave us incredible films like Goodfellas, Total Recall, Darkman, Wild at Heart, The Hunt For Red October, Dick Tracy, and many more. 30 years ago was a pretty damn good time to go to the movies.
1990 was also the year that gave us Tremors, the superb horror comedy about the residents of a tiny town in Nevada attacked by mysterious underground creatures. The film premiered in January of 1990, but last week the official Tremors YouTube channel premiered a new documentary about the making of the movie, Tremors: Making Perfection. The film takes you through the origins of the project and dives into the nuts and bolts of how they made those amazing Graboids look so great on camera. It includes new interviews with director Ron Underwood, writers S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock, stars Kevin Bacon, and Michael Gross, creature designer Alec Gillis, and many more.
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Tremors launched a franchise that continues to this day; the latest Tremors: Shrieker Island premieres later this month and stars Michael Gross, who has continued his association with series for the past 30 years. This is a nice look back at where it all started. If you haven't revisited Tremors recently (or ever seen it) it holds up really well. It's a perfect title to watch this Halloween season.
Gallery — The Best Movies of 1990 (Including Tremors):


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Guns, violence and gangs have been portrayed in the media for decades. America's fascination with violence, gangs and organized crime is a big money making business. I am mesmerized by movies and tv shows based on mob related activity. So I started to think, what is it about violence and the brutality of guns and other weapons that captivates us?
TV shows like the Sopranos, the History Channel's 'Gang Land', the ID channel's 'Fatal Vows' and movies like Casino, Goodfellas, Godfather and Donnie Brasco keep us riveted. But how is the average person easily lured into a life of violence, murder and apathy that causes so much collateral damage?
Rest assured, this post is not a commentary on the current and contentious issue of gun control and other pertaining matters. Instead, I wish to discuss how the media glamorizes guns and violence 24/7. I have become immune to what I see on TV and stare at the screen with a glazed look in my eyes. Nothing I watch on the small and big screen surprises me anymore. For that reason, I try to watch less of this genre. After watching so much blood splatter on the big screen, I don't attach a story line to it. I've become so numb to the violence that I might as well be observing an abstract expressionist painting at the Whitney Biennial.
Recently I came across a few photos of vintage book covers depicting weapons as objects that exude strength, reprisal and glamour. For me there is nothing sexy about them. So I decided to recreate and reinvent these covers with a saccharin positive edge.
GANG GIRLS by Maisie Mosco
Wow! This gang girl is hot. If I were confronted by her in a bathroom in the pokey, or in a gas station after a drug drop-off, I wouldn't recoil in fear from her pint sized knife. Rather I would ask her where she gets her hair done and how her pedicure survived a full out assault without even a hairline nick.
Today's gang girls look more like this. (This is me in my take on Gang Gals in this post.)
Don't they know that eye brows are the frame on a beautiful canvas? Shave those suckers down and you end up looking like a pared down crazed clown.
I would like to see girls in gangs spending less time knife fighting and more time doing positive things. I say: "PUT DOWN THOSE SWITCHBLADES AND TAKE UP A CAKE KNIFE. IT'S TIME TO BAKE LADIES."
When you get the urge to knife someone, say NO! Stab a chocolate Bundt cake instead. Be careful though. After I pulled these concoctions out of the oven, a geyser of scorching fudge hit me in the face, leaving me with 1st degree burns. You really don't need to protect your turf. Protect your confection instead.
Nothing scares me more than being confronted by a man dressed in a pin striped suit, floppy hat, 70's sunglasses, dangling fancy cigarette and big-ass Tommy Gun. Yup, I believe this cat is more scary than the original "Godfather." I doubt Marlon Brando would have worn this fashion mess on an assassins' run. This reminds me more of Al Pacino's character in 'Scarface', except that Al would be sunglasses-free, wide-eyed after a cocaine bender and shouting uncontrollably.
Conversely, why don't we see "Godmothers" in mob movies? Further, why not disabled female ones? I have the right solution to creating a more positive outdated image of this Italian thug stereotype.
COSA CRIP NOSTRA – More demented than "the Godmother"
Pink is this summer's most popular color so why not carry a neon pink plastic gangster gun? It won't harm anyone and besides comes with this written disclaimer on the box. I am so grateful to all the Product Liability lawyers out there that helped write this pithy eye opening disclaimer. I did not know that wielding a plastic gun out in public might have a SWAT team descend upon me in minutes. Phew! Boy am I relieved.
In addition to carrying a plastic pink gun, let's leave out the cigarette from this pictorial. Suck on a lollipop instead. This pomegranate flavored organic one from Trader Joes did the trick, stabilized my blood sugar level and saves me thousands a year in health care costs.
In closing, one of my wishes is that Americans become so weary from all the negativity perpetuated by the media that we stop watching it and create our own positive imagery to share online. Is it so difficult to create movies or tv shows based on positive role models worthy of emulating? Do train wreck shows like "Toddlers in Tiaras" or "The Bachelorette" really whet our appetite to waste time on indulging in a "guilty pleasure?" Been there, done that. They leave me empty, mad and unproductive.
How about some reality TV that is really positive, educates us and inspires us to carry a philanthropic torch? Here is one idea. Here are 5 kids who don't spend their free time playing violent video games. Instead, after school volunteer their time in a lab working on ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Isn't it about time we create reality shows about these kinds of innovators? Some day. Some day.
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Welcome to GoBala THE source for Trails in the Bala & Penllyn area, where you can enjoy the stunning mountain & lake scenery of Snowdonia, whether on foot, by bike, on water or by road.
You can download each Trail description, complete with map and local information. Some Trails explore the rich local Welsh culture & heritage, all have memorable views. There are Trails for everyone including: all ability, families, romantics, informed travellers, explorers and walkers.
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The Group's Commercial Branch – WEG Nantong (China) played an essential role in this supply of low and high voltage special designed motors, which will work below sea level applied to smoke extraction ventilation systems. The supply package consists of 207 pieces of smoke extraction motors with outputs ranging from 15kW to 500kW and voltages from 380V to 6kV. WEG low-voltage motors are mainly used in the tunnel jet fan inside of the Zhuhai tunnel section, distributed throughout the tunnel, while WEG high-voltage motors are basically used in the axial fan of engine room located on east and west two artificial islands.
The Smoke Extraction motors are designed to ensure the air circulation in closed environments. Under an emergency, they withstand operation at high temperatures of 200 ºC, 300 ºC or 400 ºC for up to 2 hours and ensure fast smoke extraction and heat, besides delaying the fire propagation, allowing free access to the emergency exits.
WEG Nantong's team sold the package to Shanghai Kruger Ventilation Co. Ltd., an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) that produced the complete ventilation system for the tunnel. The engineering company in charge of this job was the China Railway Construction Electricity Bureau Group. The customer's decision for choosing WEG smoke extraction motors for this project was the company's large reputation in the fan and exhaust industry. In addition, the full commitment of WEG Nantong's team in order to meet the entire customer needs with technical details and cost effective products was a key factor to select WEG products.
About the HZM immersed tunnel
This project, which officially got into operation on 24th, Oct 2018, consists of a series of bridges and tunnels crossing the Lingdingyang channel (50 kilometers). The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Link (HZM Link) is a three-lane high-speed connection crossing the Pearl River delta between Hong Kong and the city of Zhuhai (mainland China) and Macao on the western side. The HZM Link tunnel is located under two major navigation channels between two artificial islands. There are connecting low bridges to the two artificial islands. The top of the tunnel is placed 28 meters below water level making the tunnel very deep. The combined width of the two navigation channels is 2810 meters. In addition to the specific hydraulic requirements to reduce the blocking effect by fixing the location of the island, the overall length of the tunnel is around 5.5 kilometers.


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Museum De Paviljoens
Mapping Flevoland is a summer event organized by Museum de Paviljoens. Studio Makkink & Bey took part in the form of a summer school with designers-in-residence and students of Rianne Makkink of the Academy of Architecture Amsterdam who made site-specific work based on their investigations in the Noordoostpolder. A presentation of investigations of the cultural identity of Flevoland and the Noordoostpolder was held on the property of Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey in Kraggenburg. Here, in the shock concrete barn: a typical Dutch postwar polder barn, the projects of projects of Atelier NL, Paul Scala, Florian de Visser, Maarten Kolk, Lucas van Vugt and Yeb Wiersma were exhibited.


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Publishing ideas in a hard-to-read typeface may make concepts harder to learn but easier to retain, according to a new study by researchers from Princeton University and Indiana University.
Daniel Oppenheimer, an associate professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton, along with Connor Diemand-Yauman, a 2010 Princeton graduate, and Erikka Vaughan, a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana, assessed whether changing the font of written material could improve the long-term learning and retention of information presented to students. The study, which was part of Diemand-Yauman's senior thesis at Princeton, will be published in an upcoming volume of Cognition.
The authors theorized that by making the font harder to read the information would seem more difficult to learn. Based on the concept of disfluency, the students would concentrate more carefully on learning the material. Disfluency, which occurs when something feels hard to do, has been shown to lead people to process information more deeply. The study notes that making material hard to learn is contrary to the way that many educators teach, and that success often is defined as a student having a relatively easy time learning a new concept or lesson rather than being able to retrieve the information at a later time.
"This study could prove useful for improving educational practices," Oppenheimer said. "Fluency interventions are extremely cost-effective, and font manipulations could be easily integrated into new printed and electronic educational materials at no additional cost to teachers, school systems or distributors. Moreover, fluency interventions do not require curriculum reform or interfere with teachers' classroom management or teaching styles."
To test their theory, the authors conducted two different experiments.
In the first, 28 participants between the ages of 18 and 40 were brought to a lab at Princeton and asked to learn about extraterrestrials, to limit the amount of already known information that could influence the test. The material was presented in either easy or challenging fonts. The subjects were given 90 seconds to memorize information about the aliens, distracted for 15 minutes and then tested. Those who read about the aliens in an easy-to-read font (16-point Arial pure black) answered correctly 72.8 percent of the time, compared to 86.5 percent of those who reviewed the material in hard-to-read fonts (12-point Comic Sans MS or Bodoni MT in a lighter shade).
The second experiment took the lab findings to the field to test. Two hundred and twenty-two high school students in Diemand-Yauman's hometown of Chesterland, Ohio, were assigned material in easy and difficult fonts across subjects and grades on a randomized basis. In this study, the hard-to-read fonts were Haettenschweiler, Monotype Corsiva or Comic Sans Italicized. The control was whatever the teacher had been using previously -- usually Times New Roman or Arial.
The findings were similar to the Princeton study: Students reviewing material in hard-to-read fonts did better on regular classroom assessment tests than did their randomly selected counterparts reading the same material in easier fonts.
In the study, the authors caution that these findings need to be further investigated. They stress that if the material becomes illegible or otherwise unnecessarily difficult, it would hinder learning. The authors also suggest that students who are easily discouraged or less able might actually give up with the harder-to-read fonts rather than digging in and really learning the material.
"This is a no-cost policy fix that could really improve students' learning," Oppenheimer said. "While we do need to further test the theory, if we are right, schools across the country could potentially see significant results without making a dent in school budgets. The take home message here is clear: Small interventions can have a big impact."
Oppenheimer's current research focuses on how reasoning affects judgments and decisions in various settings. He is the co-editor, with Chris Olivola, of "The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity" (Psychology Press, 2010). Oppenheimer has taught at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Psychology since 2004.
The research was funded by a senior thesis grant received by Diemand-Yauman, who majored in psychology at Princeton and was advised by Oppenheimer. Diemand-Yauman earned the 2010 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on a Princeton undergraduate.


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Social media is a wonderful tool. It can connect us with people across the globe; amuse us, inspire us and introduce us to music and films that might have otherwise escaped our notice. There's a joy in interacting with people we wouldn't otherwise meet – through being victims of geography, rather than any desire to do so – and discussing cult bands at length. As anyone moving in such circles will attest, conversations about Pink Floyd, Marillion and the Grateful Dead can effectively seem endless.
The negative side of social media is that to find the gold, we have to sift through the mundane, the verbal attacks, the political tensions and the endless moaning. Only last week, an insightful soul on Twitter suggested that if television was once considered "the idiots lantern", then the internet could well be "the shitbag's mirror", effectively reflecting the bad side of all of us. It's easy to pour scorn and derision on everything from a keyboard when you don't have to hold your own in a face to face argument.


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The nervous anticipation, the butterflies in the stomach, the shaky legs....oh how well I remember that feeling. My brain goes black and white as I remember getting ready for a big game, which was basically every game, if you grew up in Scindia School and your seniors were maniacal about bragging rights.
Oh yes, they were maniacal. They were so maniacal that a defeat would be rewarded with


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Hoge Kempen: from industrial exploitation to nature conservation
The Hoge Kempen National Park, in the east of Belgium, is a unique nature area, covering more than 5,700 hectares of woodlands and heathland which are all protected and managed by the Flemish Government Agency for Nature and Forestry, an IUCN Member. The Park is a project by the NGO Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland, also an IUCN Member.
The Park was officially established only six years ago and yet it is already seen throughout the world as a model for nature conservation. Carved out of a once industrial area in Limburg, the project is a rare cooperation between industry, government and environmental organizations.
Heather is a natural habitat for many species of birds, like the Curlew, the Woodlark, and the Nightjar. In August and September, several species of heath like the Common Heather and the Bell Heather colour the park with purple.
Because of the large diversification in biotopes, many warmth-loving insects like the Blue-winged Grasshopper or the Common Yellow Swallowtail can be found on the south facing slopes.
At the most sunny spots of the Park, you can sometimes find the harmless Smooth snake, basking in the sun. Home to species like the Moor Frog, the Natterjack Toad, and the Viviparous Lizard, the Hoge Kempen is a very important habitat for amphibians and reptiles.
The vast forests of the Park are home to a large population of Roe Deer, as well as remarkable birds of prey, like the Hawk.
The project agency of the Hoge Kempen National Park is preparing the nomination file to apply for the UNESCO World Heritage as 'Hoge Kempen, rural-industrial transition landscape'. The combination of the present medieval heath land patches and the more recent coalmining relicts forms a unique cultural landscape. A special feature is the unique urban-architectural heritage of the "garden-cities" belonging to the former coalmines located around the Park.
The Park has received numerous prices and awards for its internationally valued good practices. The (re-) connection model is the sectoral and regional cross-border approach used at the Hoge Kempen National Park. The project is of exemplary value for its maintenance team employment initiative (addressed to socially vulnerable people), for finding a balance between tradition and the more recent industrial history, and for the large participative approach it follows.
Recently, the Hoge Kempen National Park hosted the international 'EUROPARC Conference' bringing approximately 650 participants from over 30 European countries and 10 non-European countries together to discuss protected areas management practice in Europe and beyond.


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Watch now: Michael Ray's caught between "Her World or Mine" in new single
Michael Ray's slowing things down: The follow-up to his chart-topping track "One That Got Away" is the heartbreak ballad "Her World or Mine."
The Florida native says it's already a song his fans have embraced.
"When we added 'Her World or Mine' to our live show last year, the response was immediate and now every night on the road the crowd sings it back to us," Michael explains.
"I think it has resonated so strongly with fans," he goes on, "because no matter which side you are on — the one who has moved on or the one who is hanging on — everyone has been there at some point in their life."
"They see themselves in this song," he adds. "I certainly do."
"Her World or Mine" was co-written by newcomer Travis Denning.
You can check out the "Her World or Mine" concept video — which came out shortly before Michael's Amos album last year — on YouTube now.
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