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Title: Should Personal Experience Trump Divine Revelation in Morality?
Text: 2 Timothy 3:16, Proverbs 14:12, Matthew 22:36-40, Luke 14:26-27
Time: May 13th, 2015
A conservative Christian senator from Ohio opposes gay marriage until his son comes out as gay, then flip-flops and advocates it. A conservative Christian theologian for decades defends the biblical and traditional Christian teaching that homosexuality is a sin, then suddenly changes because someone in his family comes out as gay; now he's in favor of gay marriage and teaches the compatibility of homosexuality and Christianity. Gay activists playbook strategy explains the importance of getting American citizens acquainted with LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people in order to demonstrate to them that they are normal persons just like everyone else. The thinking is that if everyone can get to know members of the LGBT community, they'll be more accepting and affirming of their lifestyles. The strategy appears to be working. But is this methodology legit? Does the experience of meeting and liking someone from the LGBT community make their sinful practices okay? Is homosexuality justified morally because homosexuals seem to be okay? Should we change basic and essential moral categories of right and wrong because someone in our family or someone in our friendship circle comes out as gay? Should this have any ethical or moral relevance? For a growing number of people, including many Christians, apparently discovering that some very nice well-known people, or even members of their own family, a relative or a friend are gay inclines them to change their moral understanding of homosexuality. But does this make any sense? Or is this allowing personal biases and emotionalism to overwhelm clear, sane moral reasoning? I'd like to deal with this subject today because I believe it's going to become more and more important in the days and years ahead, especially in the Christian church community. What is the basis for morality? What determines an ethical right or wrong? Is it intuition, emotion or feelings? Is it reason and logic? Or is it divine revelation as expressed in the Bible? As a Christian I would assume that all Christians would be on the same page ethically and morally on these questions, but sadly today, due to a vast ignorance of even basic biblical teachings, many Christians and those who attend churches don't know what they believe as Christians, and of those who do know what they believe, many of these don't know why they believe what they believe. This contributes to the confusion. So in order to address this moral confusion I'd like to talk about why morality should not be based on human experience but instead of divine revelation. If we try to ground our moral understanding of right and wrong on changing human experience we'll be confused, we'll fall into error. Only by basing our moral values on what God has revealed will we have a sure foundation for knowing what's right and wrong. Let me explain further.
First, the Bible alone is the only sure foundation for ethics and morality. 2 Timothy 3:16, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness." Here's a New Testament teaching given by the Apostle Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, part of the canon of the Bible, acknowledged and accepted by all Christians for nearly two thousand years as divine revelation. In this passage he explains the nature of divine revelation itself by describing all of scripture, that is, both the Old Testament and New Testament, as breathed out by God. The prophets and holy writers were inspired by the Spirit of God to communicate truth from God to us through writings. These were collected into a corpus or body of writings called the Bible. They are not simply the thoughts and reflections of men; they are the Word of God. So for everyone, especially Christians, the Bible is the ultimate authority on all matters that it teaches, including moral and ethical teachings. I'm surprised at how easily Christians forget where the truths that they supposedly believe originate from and from what source they are supposed to draw from for Christian living. It is none other than the Bible. Isn't that what the great Reformers such as Martin Luther and John Calvin taught? Against a corrupt established Christian church of the medieval times these men asserted that the Bible alone was the absolute and sure source of authority. Against human tradition and the opinions of man these men insisted that every teaching, doctrinal or moral, must be grounded in Holy Scripture. And they were right. And the same holds true today. As Christians we must insist that any teaching on any subject in the church be grounded clearly in the Bible. Unless taught plainly in the Bible it's just human opinion. So when we ask ourselves the question, "Is homosexuality sinful?" We must go first to the Bible, not anywhere else. What does God say on the subject? What does God's Word teach on this topic? And when we ask these important questions in respect to homosexuality we find that, yes indeed, the Bible teaches us about homosexuality, and more specifically, it teaches that it's a sin. We don't have time to go over all the biblical passages that teach the sinfulness of homosexuality, but let's just give one example. "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable," Leviticus 18:22. I've taught on this passage already, but just to summarize – this command of God is still binding today as a prohibition against all homosexual activity. It and other passages clearly teach God's prohibition against homosexuality. There can be no getting around it. This is the foundation upon which to build a Christian moral position concerning the issue.
Second, human experience is not a good source for determining moral or ethical decisions. Proverbs 14:12, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." The writer of Proverbs, and we presume it to be King Solomon the Wise, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit gives us a truth to consider – not everything that seems or appears or feels right is indeed true; our human experience or evaluation can mislead us and lead to destruction. Now this truth is clearly true once we reflect on it a little. Have you ever had the experience of being deceived, either by something or someone? Sure, we all have. Did we feel or think we were being misled at the time? Of course not, or else we wouldn't have followed along. But we've all experienced being fooled or deceived, either by something, someone, or even ourselves. It's possible; it's probable because we're human. To err is human goes the old saying. If we rely solely on our own human reasoning or feelings or emotions or intuition and so forth, we'll be mistaken. So obviously, we can't base our moral and ethical choices on our own human experience because if we do so we'll be misled. The Bible teaches this truth and so does our own human experience. But it seems that people forget this truth and go right ahead and change their moral convictions about the wrongness of homosexuality because someone they know or somebody in their family or one of their friends "comes out" as gay. Would we do this same thing in respect to other sins. How about pedophilia, that is, someone who commits sexual acts with minors? Would we change our moral abhorrence to pedophilia if someone we knew and liked came out as a pedophile? No. But why not? If we are willing to change our moral convictions based on our knowing someone, a friend or family members who is gay, why not for someone who is a pedophile? It's the same inconsistency at work. The error in both instances is departing from the clear, objective Word of God found in the Bible and "winging it" by basing our moral understanding on our own personal experience, human reasoning or emotional feelings. It's understandable that we'd be tempted to want to love and accept someone we love in our family or a close friend, but to accept and affirm their sinful activity is wrong. To compromise our Christian moral convictions because a friend or family member is a lovable or likeable sinner doesn't make any sense. We can still affirm the person without affirming their sin. We shouldn't compromise God's teaching for anything or anyone, whether family member or friend. There's simply no justification morally for doing so.
Third, as Christians we are taught to put God above all earthly or human loyalties. Matthew 22:36-40, "'Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?' Jesus replied, 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the Prophets hand on these two commandments.'" Oh, by the way, Jesus is quoting from the Old Testament, a portion of Leviticus, from the same part of the Bible that teaches against the sin of homosexuality teaches about love, so we see that it's possible to teach both to hate the sin, love the sinner. Gay activists claim that it's impossible to love a gay person and hate their sin, but the Bible teaches differently, because the Bible teaches us to do both from the very same passage. Love is not incompatible with morality. But we see here Jesus teaching on ultimate loyalty. We are to give God first and foremost devotion. We are to love him supremely above all earthly persons, places or things. That goes for moral and ethical questions. We are to listen to and obey God's commands over any and every earthly human consideration. In respect to the topic we've been discussing, and specifically in relation to Christian's compromising on the issue of homosexuality because they know a gay person personally, either a family member or close friend, it's clear – we must obey God above anything we may think or feel based on personal experience. We can still love family members who say they are gay, but we cannot attempt to justify their sin out of kindness to them. We should still care about friends who "come out" as homosexual, but in no way does their relationship to us alter the fact that their lifestyle is sinful in the eyes of God. We certainly should not change our moral convictions in order to make them feel affirmed and loved and accepted. Our loyalty must be first to God and his teachings rather than with someone we know or care about. If homosexuality was wrong before we knew a friend or family member was gay, it's still wrong after they "come out." Real ethical and moral questions are not so flimsy and inconsequential that they are altered merely by personal contact with someone's personal experience one way or another. Ethical and moral questions aren't settled by human experience, they're settled by an examination of God's revelation to humanity. The whole point of God revealing things through what is called "special revelation" is to clarify things that might not be easily recognized through human experience. Here's a perfect example of divine revelation working. It settles the question for all time concerning homosexuality. No matter what the changing political or relational circumstances, homosexuality is still wrong.
Now I think even people who flip-flop on this moral issue can see why what they've done is totally inconsistent and unjustifiable. Imagine a ten-member jury sitting for a murder trial in a court of law. All the evidence presented is stacked against the defendant, yet his lawyer tells the jury, "Don't make up your mind yet until you meet my client. You're going to really like this guy. He's the nicest guy you'll ever meet. Keep on open mind until after you meet him." So then the defendant is put on the witness stand and the jury gets to see and hear him. What is the responsibility of the judge whose duty is to see that a fair and honest trial is carried out? He would definitely remind the jury that they should consider the evidence in relation to the murder and not focus on the personality of the defendant. It would be the judge's duty to remind the jury that the trial is about the evidence for or against the defendant, not about how likeable is the defendant. That's rather obvious. Although I'm sure the defendant's lawyer would rather the jury focus on the defendant's likeability rather than the truthfulness of the facts in the case. Because after all, it really doesn't matter how nice, kind, lovable or likeable the defendant is; all that matters is what is the truth. And that's what's at issue on the question of the moral status of homosexuality. It shouldn't matter if we know friends or family members who are gay. It shouldn't matter if they are lovable, likable or whatever. Their relation to us, their likeability or lovability has nothing to do with the moral question of right or wrong in respect to their lifestyle. If something is wrong, it's wrong. It doesn't matter if we know someone who is doing wrong or not. It doesn't matter if our friend or family member is doing wrong or not. Their being our friend or family member shouldn't change anything about the rightness or wrongness of their actions. We shouldn't personalize the moral or ethical issue. That's what the gay activists want us to do. They figure, like the defense lawyer in my illustration, we can be tempted to soften or disregard our prior moral conviction based on our personal experience of the person. "If you only got to know gay people, you'd feel different," and so forth. No. That has nothing to do with the issue. Our loyalty should first and foremost be to God, like Jesus teaches, and then everything else follows from that. Under no circumstances should we turn our backs on God's will in order to make a friend or family member feel better. Wasn't it Jesus again who said, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple," Luke 14:26-27. Again, it's a matter of loyalty. Our loyalty must be to God first, people second. We must never compromise truth in order to appease people. Not only is that disloyalty to God, it's a harmful ethical and moral principle to follow – and disaster if carried out consistently in our lives and society.


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Causes of Foot Drop
Foot drop can be a temporary or permanent symptom and in cases where the condition is caused by spinal stenosis it can also be intermittent as the nerves innervating the ankle may be pinched during inflammatory episodes but functional at other times. The peroneal nerve is a common site of injury in cases of foot drop and this nerve runs deep within the lumbar and sacral spine as a division of the sciatic nerve. The nerve extends right down the outside of the lower legs and branches into the ankle, foot, and then the outside two toes. Lumbar spinal stenosis from disc herniation at L4, or L5 for example can cause peroneal nerve damage, as can conditions such as spondylolisthesis (spinal slippage), direct trauma to the spine, and bone fractures, along with spinal tumors. The L4-L5 region is a common site of radiculopathy associated with foot drop and is most often caused by a herniated disc, or foraminal stenosis, possibly from congenitally small foramen in the spine. The resulting peroneal peripheral nerve damage then results in a weak anterior tibialis muscle.
Diagnosing Foot Drop and Spinal Stenosis
Foot drop may also occur in patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis, and Parkinson's Disease and can result from nerve damage occurring during hip or knee replacement surgery. Determining the cause of the drop foot is paramount in providing the best care for the patient as back surgery may not be appropriate for all but may be necessary where a mechanical cause is to blame for the nerve dysfunction. Full physical assessment and detailed medical history are part of the diagnostic process, along with MRI scans and electromyograms in some cases. When diagnosing foot drop a physician will usually carry out a blood analysis in order to rule out possible metabolic causes of the symptom. Diabetes, alcoholism, and toxins in the body can all be culprits when assessing potential nerve damage. A number of patients ultimately diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis later recall a fall or trip that could be attributed to foot drop and early signs of nerve demyelinationg and dysfunction, making it important that the condition be recognized early and treatment started as soon as possible for such illnesses that are more easily slowed down than cured. Peripheral causes of foot drop are usually well recognized but those emanating from the central nervous system are less easy to spot in most cases, leaving a patient without an accurate diagnosis and, therefore, without recourse to proper treatment.
Herniated Discs and Foot Drop
Where a disc herniation is thought responsible for spinal stenosis, nerve compression, and subsequent drop foot it is usually necessary for a patient to undergo a discectomy in the lumbar spine, possibly along with spinal fusion depending on the number of levels operated on and the condition of the surrounding vertebral levels and intervertebral discs. Some patients may instead undergo a decompressive laminectomy in the spine, sometimes using minimally invasive back surgery techniques, whereas others will need open back surgery to remove significant areas of degenerated tissue and have hardware and bone grafts installed for spinal fusion.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis and Foot Drop
Cervical spinal stenosis can also be responsible for foot drop, though less commonly than stenosis at L4-L5. Those with spinal upper motor neuron pathology have an incidence of around 50-70% of foot drop which may be caused by myelopathy in the cervical spine. This can occur when cervical spinal stenosis becomes severe and affects the spinal cord itself rather than just the cervical spinal nerves exiting the spinal column. In such cases it is likely that the patient will need a laminectomy to ease the pressure on the cervical spinal cord and possibly spinal fusion to realign and stabilise the cervical spine. Some patients find their symptoms relieved through epidural steroid injections as this can ease inflammation in or around the nerves. Such injections may also prove diagnostic of pinched nerves and give a surgeon an insight into the likelihood of spinal surgery relieving the condition on a longer-term basis. NSAIDs may also form part of the treatment for foot drop as patients may be experiencing leg, ankle, or foot pain along with back ache and other symptoms of spinal nerve and peripheral nerve compression.
Treating Foot Drop
Depending on the speed of diagnosis and intervention in a case of foot drop the underlying problems may be resolved sufficiently to enact a full recovery. In other cases, particularly where the cause of foot drop is progressive and degenerative the symptom may require palliative care instead. Patients may be given a brace or splint (orthosis) for the foot and lower leg to hold the ankle in position and prevent tripping over the toes when walking. In conditions where the nerve damage is able to be repaired it is important not to overuse such supportive devices as the leg muscles may be further weakened through reliance on the brace, making recovery more difficult. A physical therapist should be able to provide individual guidance to patients on recovering from spinal stenosis and drop foot where surgery has successfully relieved pinched or trapped nerves.
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Food sensitivity testing is by far the most common lab test I run. It's a simple blood test done through a finger prick, that will tell you what foods your immune system is reacting to. But is it worth it? And is it the right test for you?
Food sensitivities or food intolerances happen when your immune system recognizes a food as a foreign and mounts an immune response to it. Unlike anaphylactic shock, which is a life threatening allergy, a food sensitivity will cause what is caused a "delayed hypersensitivity response". Although is does not create a life threatening reaction, this chronic response by the immune system leads to chronic low-grade symptoms that can have a great impact on overall health and quality of life such as:
The blood sample is be analyzed in the laboratory in order to determine which foods the immune system are reacting to. A basic test includes 120 foods including dairy, eggs, gluten and non-gluten containing grains, fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, legumes, meats, fish and seafood, spices and some miscellaneous items such as yeast. The report will indicate the level of reaction as well. From this information, you will know which foods to avoid in order to prevent these hypersensitivity reactions from occurring.
If you are struggling with any of the symptoms noted above, it is important to identify and avoid food sensitivities for healing to occur. The digestive system plays a major role in our overall health and it must be healthy and functioning properly in order for the rest of our body to function properly.
For many people, cost is a deciding factor in choosing to do this test or not. This is a very valid point. In some cases, Food Sensitivity Testing is covered by health care benefits. When it is not and testing is not an option, an elimination diet is recommended.
An elimination diet (or hypo-allergenic diet) is done by completely avoiding the most common food sensitivities for a minimum of 3 weeks and then re-introducing them one at a time in order to identify any foods that cause a reaction. When done well, the accuracy is of an elimination diet is as good as a food sensitivity test, so there is no advantage or disadvantage to the means used to identify food sensitivities.
Reasons for not choosing this diet are time, inconvenience and the commitment level required in order to it well. In some cases, an elimination diet and gut healing treatment is done initially and if symptoms persist, food sensitivity testing is done to identify any foods that may have been missed during the diet.
Once food sensitivities are identified, they must then eliminate those foods from the diet. This is often the most challenging part of identifying food sensitivities, as we must make a conscious choice every day to avoid the foods we know we are reacting to. This can mean a new way of eating, cooking more at home, finding alternatives for favourite foods, etc. Eating habits are one of the hardest to change, but they can also be the most rewarding habits to change once you being to see positive shifts in your health! I have experienced it and I have seen many of my patients experience it as well.
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Giants pitching prospect Derek Law has sore elbow
Derek Law, one of the Giants' top relief prospects, has an elbow injury and will meet with team orthopedist Dr. Ken Akizuki in Arizona on Saturday for an examination and a discussion on the next step.
Manager Bruce Bochy said Law had an MRI exam on the elbow. Bochy confirmed that the elbow is injured but stopped short of saying that Law has a torn ulnar-collateral ligament, which usually requires Tommy John surgery.
However, the injury first was described as "forearm tightness," often a symptom of a torn UCL.
Law, 23, had a 2.57 ERA and 29 strikeouts in 28 innings for Double-A Richmond, Va. He came to spring training with a chance to make the team.
Scutaro update: Bochy said Marco Scutaro planned to resume swinging a bat Thursday or Friday after nearly four weeks of rest and rehabilitation following a platelet-rich plasma injection in his damaged back.
Bochy said he talked to Scutaro on Wednesday, and the second baseman "seemed more upbeat. He looks forward to getting his rehab going, doing more baseball activity to play a part in getting back up here."
The Giants hope Scutaro can return as a part-time player in 2014.
Briefly: The Giants are 7-0 in Tim Hudson's starts at AT&T Park. The Giants and Braves combined have won 16 consecutive home Hudson starts. ... Giants pitchers walked 15 in the series, Nationals pitchers six. ... Hudson said Brandon Crawford was "much better than I anticipated coming in to spring training defensively. He's kind of blown me away with his defensive skills."
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Catching plans: Expect Hector Sanchez to catch Tim Lincecum again Friday night. Buster Posey might play first base with Michael Morse in left field against lefty Jorge De La Rosa.
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Coming into the winter months, and just over a month to go till Christmas, I'm sure this will be one of many adverts of the week that includes a Christmas theme!
This week's Advertisements of the week come from two well known UK retailers; M&S and John Lewis!
John Lewis - The Bear and the Hare
First we will start with the John Lewis Bear and the Hare advert. This advert focus' on an emotional message, using a short cartoon that pictures a hare introducing a bear to his very first Christmas, as he had hibernated through it every other year! :)
BUT the story doesn't end their, as well as being broadcast on TV, the advertisement is also online, and John Lewis have made it interactive! The option allows you to continue the story, which you can do here!
This very cute advert ends with a small message, "Give someone a Christmas they'll never forget", now who wouldn't want to do that for a loved one :) !
M&S - Alice in Wonderland
The second advert that caught my eye this week is the M&S advert. Fairly similar to the John Lewis advert, with a slight story being the advertisement. M&S use the well known Alice in Wonderland theme, where the main character falls down a rabbit hole into a "Magic and Sparkle" wonderland.
This advert, unlike the John Lewis one, promotes some of the season collection available at M&S this holiday season, and with several well known actors being included in this high budget promotional video, I can clearly say they've created a memorable advert which will catch your eye with ease!
Now I apologise for blogging about these adverts as i'm sure they will get you into the Christmas Mood!
Kyle :) !
Ohhh and one more thing.....Still waiting to see that Coca-Cola ad if you know what I mean!!


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David gives us some of our best children's stories: the shepherd boy who used his slingshot to kill a lion and a bear when they attacked his flock; the pure hearted youth singing songs of praise and worship with his harp; the bold young man facing down a giant and taking him out with a single stone shot from his sling; the lowly youngest child who was raised to honor above his seven handsome brothers and anointed to be king of Israel.
Remember the song we sang as children?
One little boy named David. One little babbling brook.
One little boy named David. Five little stones he took.
One little stone went into his sling and sling went round and round.
Round and round and round and round and round
and the giant came tumbling down.
The stories about David in the Hebrew Scriptures sometimes sound like tall tales.
There is another David you may recall, another David of legend. You probably sang this David song when you were a child as well:
Born'd on a mountaintop in Tennessee
Greenest state in the land of the free.
Raised in the woods so he knew every tree,
Kilt him a bear when he was only three.
Davy. Davy Crockett. The king of the wild frontier.
Real people. Authentic historical figures. But as the stories of their lives were told throughout the years, they became larger than life heroes and the legends around them grew so that it's not always easy to distinguish the fact from the embellishment.
David is much more than a children's book character. David is a legendary figure for Israel and the stories of his life are larger than life. As one of the pivotal figures of Israel, he is writ large in 1 and 2 Samuel and in the books of the Chronicles – he is complex and ambiguous.
Walter Brueggemann says the story of David is central to the Jewish texts because David is the pivot of Jewish history. At first these were "no people" and then they were a wandering, homeless people and then they were a loosely knit tribal people.
But it is in David that a new vision emerges: Israel becomes a nation, a united kingdom with a king and a city and a land. It is with David that Israel finds respect among the nations and rest from their enemies. These were, indeed, the "golden years" that came together during the David years.
But there's another reason why this text is so important to our Jewish cousins. Some 400 years after David, the last king of David's line was executed by the Babylonians and many of the people of Israel were marched across the Fertile Crescent as captives and plunder. Jerusalem was leveled, the Temple destroyed. Once again they had no home, no land, no center. In this crisis, there was a very real possibility that they would once again become "no people."
It was during this time of Exile that many of the stories and texts of our Old Testament were collected and compiled and edited into what eventually became Scripture. It was during this time of Exile that the biblical writers took the ancient stories that had been such an important part of their oral history and reflected on their meaning for a new time and a vastly changed circumstance. It was during the time of Exile that Israel began to hope in God's Messiah, a son of David, to come and liberate them once again.
Even though the dynasty of David would never again look like it did in their golden years, people of faith and flexibility continued to dig into hope, hold on to faith and stand on the promises.
Read: The House of David here.
Read: David's Undoing here.
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David Mack Video
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A word on equipment and Injury avoidance
Use equipment to avoid injury
Injury means time away from training and nobody wants that
Don't train with careless, thoughtless people who might injure you
If people constantly misjudge their strikes during training then
I suggest you start misjudging your strikes back
Boxing/Training Gloves
I now use a Title Gel XL training glove when doing any pad or bag work frequently augmented by a knuckle guard
A broken hand can change the way you look after your hands
'I need my hands for playing with the kids and the guitar etc.. .'
Everlast Gel Wristwrap Gloves
Supposedly an alternative to using a crepe/bandage wrap
not as bad effort but several design flaws including using neoprene which is quite sticky and therefore doesn't slip into a boxing glove
I use them purely as a protective layer whilst doing general training
I use wraps when doing any pad/bag work
Title Gel MMA Wristwrap Glove
Very good 'Gel' padding at the front of the glove
A very protective glove
I now use these when for quick light pad drills
Harbinger's 320 Bag Glove Wrist Wrap
Good wrist strapping stabilizes the wrist joint and there is good foam padding that protects the top of the hand and knuckles. Pretty much the club standard. there is a grip bar in the palm which helps prevent over-flexing the fingers and helps to stabilize the hand
Get them on Ebay (beware of fakes) ,
Try www.mmauniverse.com
or Google them
Century Leather Wrap Bag Gloves
Great glove for work on speed bag heavy bag or grappling
They anchor around the wrist for good wrist support
A good Fist-forming grip bar-sadly plastic tube so can injure training partners on open hand techniques
Most of us have a pair of either the Harbinger or Century lurking about.
When should you use these or other MMA type gloves?
Pretty much when ever you can
- Hitting the pads or bags
- Playing the 360 games
Use them to regularly protect the hands and wrists
Elastoplast Wrist Support
A simple Loop attached to a neoprene bandage that anchors over the thumb and then the neoprene wraps around the wrist supporting and warming the wrist, velcroing back on itself; quite easy to adjust. Much easier to use than hand wraps.
I bought mine from Boots, they cost about the same as Gold or Diamonds
There should be plenty of alternatives about
"He who aspires to peace
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Crimson Girls: Chikan Shihai
Title: Crimson Girls: Chikan Shihai
Episodes: 3
Aired: May 25, 2012 to September 20,2015
The Crimson Girls protect women from train molesters. Mitsu, one of the two members, caught the attention of a unique man who could make a woman orgasm with just a touch. He and some of his friends trap Mitsu on the train and brought her to the hotel where she was tortured and had her virginity taken. Now that one of the Crimson Girls has succumbed to his will, his next target is Saki…
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As we all know there are only really 3 ways to grow your business.
1) Increase your number of clients
2) Increase the amount they spend with you on each purchase
3) Increase the frequency they purchase with you
As SEO's we have to learn to use these three levers strategically to grow both our businesses and our clients.
Today I want to share a simple system that I use in my business to consistently deliver growth (both mine and my clients).
This tactic can help with two of the three growth levers and can literally make you look like a rock-star in front of new or existing clients.
The Background
In my experience most local businesses have not begun to maximize the value of their existing websites and traffic. They simply aren't the lead generating machines that they should be.
Why do I say that?
Well, entrepreneurs wear many hats and in doing so they really don't have time to delve into the analytics of their web traffic. They depend on SEO's to rank their sites and more importantly drive as many leads as they can using search engine optimization and conversion optimization.
Most local business websites spend all their time trying to convert the people that are ready to purchase today with CTA's (call-to-actions) for buy now offerings and they completely ignore the people thinking about buying in the near future (i.e. those in the research portion of the buying decision or those that are 'still on the fence' so to speak).
I spend a lot of time working with local companies and entrepreneurs and I can tell you from experience that they aren't getting everything out of their websites that they could be.
This is a huge opportunity for us as digital marketers and SEOs to step in and grab an easy win, increase our billings, and if done right, walk away with a few referrals in the process as well.
It is a great demonstration for your new or existing clients that you're ON TOP of your game and can push leads like no one else.
The Tactic Explored
In order to properly set this up for you let's first start with the definition of the tactic (and while you might of heard of this before you're probably not using it…and you should be).
The Lead Magnet – is an irresistible offer that gives a specific piece of value to a prospect in exchange for their contact information.
The purpose of the lead magnet is to convert your client's local, anonymous traffic into a database filled with leads and people interested in their product or service.
(Of course this also is what makes you look like a superstar!)
Using Lead Magnets The Right Way
It is a fact that entrepreneurs love more business, so pushing more people in their direction will have even the stodgiest of entrepreneurs begging you for your services.
How do you use lead magnets to do this?
Well, while everyone is focusing on the buy now crowd you can easily build a database of people that will be buyers in the near future (i.e. the research mode buyers, or if you prefer, the sitting on the fence crowd) using the lead magnet approach.
AND NO, for those who are wondering, I'm not suggesting you don't target the buy now crowd. I'm suggesting you use this approach in addition to your current techniques.
By targeting this group of potential buyers you are igniting a huge pipeline of leads for your client's business and you are using the numbers to your advantage (insert HUGE smile from my business partner Ian because I've now mentioned 'analytics' and 'numbers in this blog).
How do the web-traffic figures break down for most local business?
If they are like the vast majority of my clients, only a very small percentage of traffic visiting their site is ready to buy their product/service today. These buyers that are ready to go cash-in-hand make up only 3-5% of the traffic.
What's does this mean!?!??
The clear majority of businesses focus their attention on these 3-5% because they have money in hand and they want to buy right now…
But what about the other 95% of traffic that seem to visit the site and not email, call, or interact with your client or their offerings?
We like to think of these people as an untapped well of leads for our clients (or potential clients).
We tap this large group of visitors and turn them into a constant flow of prospects for our client's business.
It is because they are not ready to buy today that most businesses, SEO's and digital marketers don't give them the same level of attention that they'd bestow upon the people with money in hand ready to buy today…but this is their fatal flaw.
How can you simply ignore that much web-traffic? (HINT: you shouldn't).
So how do you engage these people?
First we need to understand who these 'research mode' buyers are and why they are visiting our client's site.
If you start by examining your own buying patterns you will quickly realize there are times when you know what you want and you are ready to buy.
BUT more often than that there are times when you know you want to make a purchase soon yet you want to gather some information, research the purchase and become a more educated buyer.
Perhaps there are even times when you know you will buy something 3-6 months down the line but it is a bigger purchase and you simply need to do that much more research and gain that much more comfort prior to a purchase (i.e. kitchen renovation, bathroom renovation, new car, new computer, etc.)
The truth of the matter is that we all fall into this more broad category of buyers on a consistent basis yet many of us fail to address them when performing our client work.
The people in the research mode simply should not be ignored!
In fact, using the lead magnet strategy to convert some of this traffic into leads so that you can slowly build rapport with them via an automated system is the key to an ever flowing pipeline for your client's business (and the key to your rock-stardom).
You need to help these people become an educated buyer of your client's service. You need to introduce them to their business, their team, their company, and why buying from them will be an enjoyable experience.
This approach works for all local businesses and if done right will require some creativity and time to brainstorm exactly what your client's traffic is looking for.
After all, how can you offer them an irresistible offer (Lead Magnet) if you haven't done the appropriate amount of research?
…And considering how much research you likely do on keywords already, you're pretty much a pro at this!
Here are some examples of the lead magnets I've put in place for some of my clients:
Kids Dentist
- Discover the 3 sure fire tricks to get your kids excited to visit the dentist
- How to tell if your kids are going to need braces with a quick 1 minute exam you can do at home
- 5 creative ways to finance your kid's braces if you don't have insurance
Kitchen Renovation
- 7 Critical Questions To Ask Before Hiring a Kitchen Renovation Company
- Simple Kitchen Renovation Checklist That Can Save You $000's On Your Renovation
- Considering a Kitchen Renovation? – Download our Free Checklist Of Budgeting Tips
I think you get the picture.
You come up with some piece of information that will appeal to the large population of people who will consume or use your client's product/service in the near future.
You know your client's business and you likely know the frequently asked questions they receive (if not…Google it).
Pick one or two and build a small guide to provide the relevant information on them (1-2 pages does the trick).
(HINT: You need to spend as much time coming up with a catchy title as you do with the entire lead magnet content)
Once you have created the Lead Magnet the most important step is to ensure that this research crowd feels as though you are invested in them making the best possible buying decision.
You do this through implementing an e-mail touch point system that provides them with a further education on their purchase and you begin introducing your client's team, process etc. thus conditioning the buyer to become comfortable with your clients business.
Selling A Lead Magnet System To Current and Potential Clients
So now that you have your concept, how do you sell this system to new and existing clients?
I personally like to use the KISS theory (Keep It Simple Stupid) to ensure that my client gets value from this but more importantly I get value from this.
I approach doing this for existing clients differently than when I use this as a tripwire for cold traffic sales for my agency's services.
So, if this is the first product I'm pitching to cold traffic I generally make this a low cost offer to get my foot in the door @ $49-99-$199 (depending on the industry).
Once my foot is in the door I know that my impending rock-star status will gain me much more business from them as I know that I can mobilize a good percentage of that 95% of the web-traffic they aren't currently touching.
If I am selling the lead magnet system to an existing customer I choose to go with a higher margin (flat one-time price) because the client already knows, likes and trusts us to serve them and their business. There is no need to discount pricing with established clients as you're likely already doing some other work for them at a discounted value and this evens out the playing field a little bit.
If a client wants discounted pricing I generally refer them to Upwork directly and say good luck!…OK, not really but this product simply isn't meant to be a loss leader when you already have their business and I can assure you they'll gain 10x the value when you implement the system for them.
Implementing A Lead Magnet
We all know by now that I'm not a fan of 'work' so I have created a system of people to help me implement everything. I will touch on this kind of approach because I know you can do it even on the smallest of budgets…but for the purposes of this blog I'm also going to walk you through what you will need to do even if you're working on your own.
(I highly recommend you start outsourcing and use your additional time to gain more clients for your business – See my Ultimate Outsourcing Course if you need help)
Lead Magnet Generation
Start your system by working with your client to understand their buyers and come up with an engaging lead magnet idea for the research crowd.
Once you have your topic, you can either do the research on your own and write the content OR you can outsource the research and the writing to a virtual assistant who will do it for you (think for a second of the time it will take you to perform quality research, write content, review/revise the content and put it into a clean package and determine whether you could better use that time to grow your business).
Next, you want to build a banner that your client's audience can click on. For those who want to do it on their own, I highly suggest using Canva.com (which is free) OR if you want something a little more professional you can get someone on Fiverr, or Upwork to do it for you.
Once you have done this portion of the work and much of the heavy lifting is over, you still need a way to integrate the system and to set-up the ever important opt-in.
While I am personally comfortable with ClickFunnels and LeadPages you can also simply have the opt-in built in wordpress and implement it directly on your client's site (again, there are qualified VA's that can do this simple task at very little cost and NONE of your time).
Finally, once you have your opt-in you need to prepare a compelling system of touch points so that you are using those e-mails to your client's advantage.
I'd suggest using a properly constructed series of emails and an auto-responder system that is integrated with your opt-in (Aweber and MailChimp work well) so that you aren't actually having to be involved in the follow up process. (Hopefully you'll be too busy selling your services to want to worry about sending e-mails).
While this all might sound a little complex it is relatively simple to execute after you've seen it the first time and the amount of doors it opens for you can be simply incredible!
(You can check out my own lead magnet system for kitchen renovation companies here)
I hope you give this system a shot for yourself as I know you'll enjoy the results you achieve.
It should not take you long to set this up, build the lead magnet, banner, opt-in, auto-responder email series, and start driving triple the leads to your client.
When this happens you will certainly look like a super-star to your client.
Good Luck!


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June 14, 2018
Bangalore Chamber of Industry & Commerce (BCIC) in association with the Depart of the IT/BT-ST, Government of Karnataka organised the BCIC Innovation Day and BCIC Inclusive Innovation Award event on the June 14, 2018 in Bangalore
The BCIC Innovation Day was conceptualised to bring in the best minds from the world of Digital Technology and share stories for us to learn about brilliant Innovations in areas such as IoT, payments tech, BlockChain, AI/ML, Immersive Experience and many more. We also had a number of sessions for the audience to understand how to create meaningful Innovation for their organisations. We had a comprehensive panel discussion talking about the present and future of AI, hosted by Sbhathra Srinivasaraghavan, Director, IBM, along with Arjun Pratap, Founder and CEO, EDGE Networks, Sumit Kothiyal, VP, Digital Transformation, Accenture and Hemalatha Bhaskar, Director at Visa.
Nitin Garg, Director, ISME, Bhawna Manchanda, Digital Advisor, Microsoft and Sugandha Srikanteswaran, Director, Automation and Cognitive Platforms, IBM shared knowledge about the art and science of creating great innovation and products. In similar vein, Krishna Durbha, Head - Cognizant Business Consulting, Communications & Media, Geeta Gurnani, Cognitive/AI Consulting Services Lead India, IBM, Bhakta Keshavachar, Founder and CTO, EzeTap, Puneet Gupta, CTO, ITC Infotech, shared insights about the recent and future trends in their respective areas of Blockchain, AI, Payments Tech and Immersive Experience. All the other speakers also shared their Innovation stories about their relevant areas.
In the later part of the day, BCIC hosted the Awards ceremony of the First BCIC Inclusive Innovation Awards – Nine winners were awarded in various categories within Social Impact and Disruptive Technologies. Key highlights are that all of them are early stage startups/innovators with fully functional products, aligned with the vision of Inclusive Innovation. We are happy that the focus on Inclusivity through promoting Women's and Student's Innovation are also fulfilled through the 4 awards in these categories.
With this we are proud to say we have the first big steps taken towards creating the BCIC Inclusive Innovation platform and take it forward to be a platform to support early stage innovators in Karnataka. We are thankful to our sponsors – K-Tech, Wipro, IBM, ISME, Aritic, Xoxoday, Enable India, Congnizant and New Horizon College of Engineering. The Inclusive Innovation awards are now intended to be a yearly affair in recognising Innovations across Karnataka.


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AWS Marketplace
If you are interested in using Solace PubSub+ Standard, the recommended method to get an instance up-and-running is to use the 1-Click Launch wizard provided at the Solace PubSub+ Standard Edition page in the AWS Marketplace. This page will walk you through the use of the Solace PubSub+ Standard Launch wizard.
- Before you begin
- Step 1: Start an Instance with 1-Click Launch Wizard
- Step 2: Update Instance Settings
- Step 3: Access the Solace CLI
- Next Steps
If you'd like more control over your message broker configuration, you can manually deploy it using the steps presented at AWS Manual Set Up.
Before you begin
It's assumed you have:
- an AWS account.
- created an EC2 key pair.
Step 1: Start an Instance with 1-Click Launch Wizard
We'll begin by going to the Solace PubSub+ Standard Edition page in the AWS Marketplace. From there you can access the 1-Click Launch wizard that allows you to deploy a Solace PubSub+ Standard instance on EC2.
- Upon selecting the above link you will be taken to the overview page where you can review the message broker's features as well as pricing and usage information.
- Select the Continue to Subscribe button to go to the Solace PubSub+ Standard 1-Click Launch page.
- Review the following settings and modify if necessary:
- Version
- Region
- EC2 Instance Type
- VPC Settings
- Security Group
- Key Pair
The default values will configure a full-featured, production deployable message broker instance based on the most recent version of Solace PubSub+ Standard.
- Select the Launch with 1-click button to deploy the message broker instance on EC2.
Step 2: Update Instance Settings
Once the message broker instance is up-and-running you can modify some instance settings prior to use.
- Under the instance's Tags tab you can assign a name or other suitable tags.
- The default Security Group has a single inbound rule for port 22 that allows you to SSH into the host. By selecting the Security Group's name in the instance's Description tab you can add rules to allow the operation of whatever message broker services you require. A list of the default service ports can be found on the Software Message Broker Configuration Defaults page. For example, to use the PubSub+ Manager for configuration and management tasks, access to port 8080 is required.
Step 3: Access the Solace CLI
You can access the Solace CLI from the host environment. This is done through the Solace Control Utility by using the
solacectl cli command. When you first access the Solace CLI, you should set a password for the admin user, which has access to all CLI commands and will allow you to configure and monitor the message broker via the PubSub+ Manager..
To access the Solace CLI, SSH into the host and then follow the steps below.
- To enter the Solace CLI from the host, enter this command.
[sysadmin@solace ~]$ solacectl cli
A CLI banner and prompt will appear.
At the
>prompt, you are at the User EXEC level of the Solace CLI command structure.
- Within the Solace CLI, enter the following commands to create an admin user named
solace> enable
solace# configure
solace(configure)# create username admin password <password>
solace(configure/username)# global-access-level admin
- For information on how to get started with Solace CLI, refer to Solace CLI.
Next Steps
You now have a Solace PubSub+ software message broker instance with a basic configuration. To get yourself going, you can access either the Solace management tools PubSub+ Manager, Solace CLI, SolAdmin to start issuing configuration or monitoring commands. Please note that to use either the PubSub+ Manager or SolAdmin you need to have added message broker service port 8080 to your Security Group.
To access the Solace PubSub+ Manager:
- Open a browser and enter http://<your-message-broker's-public-ip-address>:8080.
- Log in as the admin user you created in Step 3.
There are additional configuration tasks you can make use of in the following topics:
- Scaling Tiers for Software Message Brokers — Learn about connection scaling tiers available for Solace PubSub+ software message broker.
- Topics Unique to Software Message Brokers — Review the extra configuration tasks specific to Solace PubSub+ software message broker images.
Also, in order to fully utilize the messaging features, you should familiarize yourself with message broker configuration operations common to both software message brokers and appliances. For information, see the topics in the Configuration section.


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With a HT to twitter follower John (txs for tweet) this one is really nice. Works either way but many more weekend dates open from CLT to SEA rather than other way. You need to route via ATL both ways to get the best CPM. Many open dates in SEPT & OCT. Here are the numbers:
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This week is all about Wealthy Affiliate. I'm giving you guys a behind-the-scenes tour of the program and showing any earnings I've made along the way. Make sure you are all caught up before reading this post. Click here to view part one. Click here to view part two.
Weeks 2/3 and My First Sale!
Wow, Weeks 2 and 3 have been a lot more interesting. I've repeatedly found myself excited to do work during this week. I've learned the ins-and-outs of popular article marketing techniques, including keyword research, how to discover niche markets, and how to find a proper audience.
I spent last week learning and understanding how to do niche research. Basically, you learn how and where to find ideas that will ultimately make you money. I landed on a topic I know quite a bit about, computer products, and decided I'd write a few articles and see how they would perform for me.
While I chose the niche of computer products, you can find your very own niche that best suits your interests. There are literally no limitations here. Wealthy Affiliate will help you find your niche, then will teach you how you can profit from it.
I spent the next couple of days following the Wealthy Affiliate guide. I was taught how to conduct article marketing. Mind you, I had no experience in article marketing prior to joining Wealthy Affiliate, but within a few hours I learned how to properly write an article, how to include affiliate links in my article, how to drive traffic to my article, and how to make money off of my hard work.
My first sale!
It didn't take long to see some results either! I had submitted my first handful of articles to various article directories and began to see a little bit of traffic. Not that much was happening, but finally I saw this fantastic email:
I quickly logged into my affiliate account to check my stats and was greeted with this magnificent image:
It's been only a few days, but I've already made back half of the membership fee to join Wealthy Affiliate! This alone has answered two of my biggest questions regarding Wealthy Affiliate.
- Can you make money with Wealthy Affiliate? 100% Absolutely yes. In just a few days time, I've gone from knowing nothing about article marketing and have managed to make my first ever commission through it for $19.22!
- How long will it take to break even? I paid $40 to join Wealthy Affiliate, and I haven't had to put out any extra money. I've already made back half of my investment and I expect it won't be long until I break even. In fact, it won't be long until I'm actually making money.
Closing Out Weeks 2/3
Like I said before, these past two weeks have been a lot more interesting. In addition to the email above, I managed to close out this week with:
And my affiliate account is currently sitting at:
I made $75.26 within a few days of working with Wealthy Affiliate. And it was all thanks to the article marketing method they teach. I wasn't even home at the time the sales were made. In fact, I didn't do anything other than write a few 600-word articles and I'm already making money.
Let me recap these last two weeks exactly for you:
- Week 2 taught me the ins-and-outs of article marketing.
- Week 3 proved that it is really possible to make money with Wealthy Affiliate.
- I found a niche, wrote a few articles, and submitted them to various article directories around the web.
- I might have spent 8-10 hours learning and writing.
- I now have $75.26 in commissions sitting in one of my affiliate accounts!
- The articles I wrote in the past will continue to work 24/7/365 for me.
Stay tuned for Week 4 and the Review Week conclusion.
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When we really meet with them, chances are that our most distinguished and articulate people capable of the job will not be there. It could be, for better or for worse, someone like you. Whoever is lucky or scared enough to be in the right time at the right place, they'll need a cool head in order to enable clear thinking communication. We need to 'filter' our spacezoid guests in order to understand them, and ultimately us.
We on earth are like the poor family on the street that is the last to have everything: The last to embrace new cool technology, fashion, art and helpful kitchen appliances, because we're just lagging behind, like the dumbest kid in the classroom, who will never pick up the advanced stuff (like travelling through worm holes – what civilisation hasn't mastered that after 5,000,000 years of seasoned space travel?). Our exploits are practically nil compared to the interstellar civilisation that manages to get here, and upon meeting them here, we have to ask ourselves what are their intentions? This is not so easy, but the answer does surface once you have some evidence about the visitor.
Expect initial communication to be tiresome. First of all, if they haven't studied up any of the world's major languages, we're at a loss. If we start on an even playing field, we'll have to cooperate to develop the tools (probably a piece of software) to enable us to connect. And with any tool, there are bugs, leading to communication problems. In any case, the forestalment of communication creates time in which a bond can be built, so hopefully after we've worked out what they're on about, they don't feel like eating us anyway.
What we need to ask them is our filtering method to gauge exactly what we mean to them.Where are you from and how far have you travelled?
A sense of location and distance may not be of any consequence because we may have no idea of where their starting point is, other than as a dot of light amid a shimmering sea of stars in some murky corner of the galaxy our humble Hubble Telescope hasn't got around to viewing because its funding was allocated to some charity pit in Africa. In any case, they need to be from somewhere and we'll need to record that. If they answer, "Oh, we're from Mars" then we must respond, "Oh, yes we knew that... Um what we meant was where on Mars. North or south of the equator? How is the weather there this time of year?"Of the duration of you journey here and back to your home, how much is that of a proportion to your expected life time?
Get this question sorted out straight away. The old sea faring explorers and traders sailing around the world could expect to be away for three years, and in those days life expectancy was a lot lower too, not to mention the success rate of such voyages. Death on the voyage might be 50%, and the voyage might take 10% of your life, or even 20% of your working life. That's bravery.
In our merry lives, to take a jumbo jet to the other side of the world (2 days), and then travel by car to a remote destination (3 days) and then hike to an extremely remote destination (2 days) and stay there for a week, and then go home, the same way would equal three weeks. If you can expect to live 82.5 years, then a three week exploration, though a highlight of your life, can never really compare to a three year voyage (into the real unknown) that your forefathers may have signed up to, or been press-ganged into.
If we identify that a visiting party of Aliens have invested their life in a visit to us, our respect and gratitude to them must be withheld until we clarify: But are you just robots?Are you just Robots?
"Good question!" will probably be the response, "But don't insult us!"
Although to us a Yes (do you run on batteries) / No (must have been a long trip, here have a beer) answer would suffice, the reality may be something completely different. An advanced species would clone or manufacture their best for a Mission to Earth. However, a Robot Alien might just as easily judge us as Robot Humans, judging by our predominantly template habits. They can easily argue that there are simply not that many truly creative and competent people on our earth to justify that we are totally beyond robotic behaviour.How many of you exist, and what proportion of you travel this far?
Earth has a population of 7 billion. Twelve of them have kicked dust on the Moon. Maybe another 500 have been in space, either as astronauts or space tourists. Space travel of any kind is rare. For an Alien Species, they may live in space, they may colonise space, and would therefore have a higher number of space faring citizens (if they are all citizens – some could very well be slaves). Perhaps they are like us, space travel is rare, therefore the meeting is very unique. However, if all of them embark on space travel, perhaps the visitor has simply lost his way, stumbled upon earth, and hasn't worked out what to do. Perhaps it is a she, on the run from the police. Half our luck.How do you travel? Can I look under the hood?
Interstellar notions of benevolence may crumble at this question.
"Sorry earthlings, we can't show you what motors our cigar shaped space ship. Besides, you wouldn't understand it."
"Understand it or not, we want one."
And from here on it gets tricky. Are they here to offer us a temporary or a permanent ride off our planet to explore the cosmos, or are they visiting a poor neighbourhood in a Rolls-Royce because they can. A transfer of advanced technology could wreak damage to humanity, so any intelligent species has to think cautiously about letting us play with their ray guns.Who else is out there?
An obvious question but the nature of how we ask it can tell way too much about ourselves. We want to know, but we don't want them to know that we're the last to know of all that's out there. It's a bit like looking around the poker table to see who the sucker is, and if you can't work out who it is, then it's you. We'll be taking Game Theory to the inter-galactic level. Will we be ashamed of our innocence or act the social butterfly, "So, tell me Alien Visitor, what do you really think of the other interstellar civilisations?"
"Which one are you referring to, earthling?"
"Um, my neighbours?"
"We are your neighbours."
"Oh. So... Seen any new black holes recently? Fascinating, are they not?"Can you lend me some money, or, do you want a loan?
There's no better way to shore up a relationship than to make it contractual, and as money has greased so many of the wheels that have carried our civilisation this far, keep the wagon going! By elevating Earth-to-Alien communication to a commercial relationship we are, in their minds, not just potentially the last planet to lend money to in the known universe, but expressing an interest in the wider universe. We must offer commerce on a wider scale, other than that of some basic battering we've seen between 18th Century explorers and native populations of untamed wildernesses. Scale-up our deals, even to our detriment – it can only speed up the ultimate consequence. Look at the financial calamity in the early 21st century: The high profile borrowers gained more prestige and power.
Perhaps the most grandiose position is to offer to lend money to a visitor from space. Detractors of cash-for-alien-contacts may cry and wail and beat their little fists on the girly chests, "Really, do you think money will be important to a species 1 billion years old?" but who cares? It's important to us, so let's share it. Share it all around the universe, print as much of it as possible – it's what our governments do anyway.
The mental walls that keep us in, keeps 'them' out, so before we can see them we have to see ourselves in a new light. History has shown that an outside fear can act as a catalyst to unite and accomplish great things, so perhaps the best thing that can happen to earth is bad diplomacy with aliens.
It is plausible that there is an alien drone, possibly dormant (sleeping on the job if it is a government drone) and slowly waking up to our technological advances. It's also possible an alien species has sent a mother ship to our solar system, parked it out of sight (like on the other side of the sun) and sends what we call UFOs down to check on our progress. How do we respond? With scrambled fighter jets, frothing internet forums, denial, cover ups, creative meanderings, some very non-creative speculation, and then the issue dies away as something closer to home drains our attention, like a celebrity divorce or a clash of barbarians in the Middle East.
We should be interested, but most of us are not. We should be rational, but some of us need the entertainment. We will face up to an alien species looking down on us, and perhaps our inability to prepare ourselves will be the shock required to wake us up. Our lack of diplomacy and tact may trigger us into a new awareness. The unintended consequence of an alien visitation will be a change in ourselves – the ultimate checking (as in a slap on the face) of our inter-galactic innocence.
Copyright 2014 Simon Drake
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A photograph recently discovered in the amazing archives of Derry's acclaimed Base One Europe Museum has fuelled speculation that a mural by a celebrated British war cartoonist may still be located in picturesque Aberfoyle House which overlooks the River Foyle.
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather became world-famous during the First World War as the creator of 'Old Bill', the walrus-moustached old soldier who appeared in many of his 'Fragments from France' cartoons depicting life on the Western Front.
In World War II, Bairnsfather became official cartoonist to the American forces in Europe. It's known that he spent time in Derry at least twice during WWII and the newly discovered photograph reveals that a ground-floor room in Aberfoyle House – situated in the grounds of the University of Ulster's Magee campus - was the location for an 'Old Bill' mural, specially commissioned for the US Marines' officers billeted there.
UU is currently refurbishing the building and history enthusiasts hope the discovery of the photo will convince the University authorities to investigate the possibility that the mural may have survived previous redecorations and is still in situ.
The find of a photograph of a previously unrecorded Bairnsfather mural has excited experts. Mark Warby, an authority on Bairnsfather who has spent 35 years researching the cartoonist's life and work, said: "Bairnsfather painted numerous murals during his time with the American forces in World War II, but none are known to have survived. So it would be fantastic if his Aberfoyle mural had simply been wallpapered or painted over after the war and, perhaps, still remains intact.
"Bairnsfather was the greatest cartoonist of his time. His 'Fragments from France' cartoons published in 'The Bystander' magazine during the First World War were incredibly popular and 'Old Bill' went on to appear in plays, films, books and magazines and on all manner of merchandise. General Sir Ian Hamilton [senior British Army officer during WWI] described Bairnsfather as 'the man who kept the Empire laughing in its darkest hour'."
Bairnsfather, a captain in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, originally drew the character while serving on the Western Front. In 1915, he was hospitalised with shellshock sustained during the Second Battle of Ypres. "Old Bill", a curmudgeonly soldier with his trademark walrus moustache and balaclava, initially drew criticism from some in authority as being a "vulgar caricature" of the British soldier.
Nevertheless, the immense popularity of the cartoons among troops and their success in raising morale led to Bairnsfather's promotion and the receipt of a War Office appointment to draw similar cartoons for other Allied forces – including the American Army, whose soldiers he visited in France in 1917-18. It was at this time that Bairnsfather first came into contact with the men of the US Marine Corps.
From 1942 to 1944, he was officially attached to the American Forces in Europe as an accredited war correspondent-cartoonist. It was during this time that he is known to have visited Derry, as Mark Warby explains: "I know from my previous research that Bruce Bairnsfather struck up a friendship with Lt. Col. James Dugan, Executive Officer with US Marines stationed in Londonderry; this friendship continued after the war and Bairnsfather visited Dugan at his home in the USA. Newspaper articles from January 1944 suggest that, while Bairnsfather was visiting the Marine Corps in Londonderry, he drew a large mural on the wall of the American Red Cross Club and drew many sketches for the men serving with Lt. Col. Dugan."
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Mark Lusby, a volunteer researcher for the Base One Europe Museum, discovered the unprinted photo negative amongst archive material loaned to the museum by the families of veterans.
He says: "We were aware that Bruce Bairnsfather visited Derry around Christmas 1943 since a publicity photograph showing Lt. Col. Dugan and Captain Bairnsfather had been issued to the press at the time. But by late 1943, the Commandant of the US Naval Base, Commodore Cortland C Baughman, had made Aberfoyle House his official residence and the Marine Corps' senior officers had moved out to one of the Beech Hill camps which was renamed Camp Holcomb. So, the recently-developed photograph of the Marine Corps' officers toasting an 'Old Bill' mural in one of main reception rooms of Aberfoyle must have been taken after an earlier visit to Derry by Bairnsfather.
"It would be brilliant if the actual mural survived subsequent redecoration. So little physical evidence of the US Navy presence in Derry has been preserved and there isn't any marker at Magee College or Aberfoyle House to commemorate the wartime connection between the site and the United States Navy."


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