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Calgary, Alberta, August 13, 2019 – Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. ("Brookfield Residential" or the "Company") today announced that it is commencing a solicitation of consents (the "Consent Solicitation") from holders of its outstanding 6.125% Senior Notes due 2022 (the "2022 Notes"), 6.125% Senior Notes due 2023 (the "2023 Notes") and 6.375% Senior Notes due 2025 (the "2025 Notes" and, together with the 2022 Notes and the 2023 Notes, the "Notes") to approve amendments (the "Proposed Amendments") to the indentures relating to each series of Notes (the "Indentures").
The Proposed Amendments would permit the Company and its subsidiaries to undertake a proposed reorganization transaction (the "Reorganization Transaction"). Pursuant to the Reorganization Transaction, the Company would contribute the capital stock of its U.S. holding company, Brookfield Residential US Corporation ("BRUSC"), to a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management ("BAM"), Brookfield U.S. Inc. ("BUSI"), and receive a minority economic interest in the capital stock of BUSI. BUSI would in turn contribute BRUSC to a new joint venture entity ("New LLC") in which BUSI would hold a 90% economic interest and the Company would hold the managing member and a 10% economic interest. BUSI owns BAM's U.S. asset management business (fee-related earnings) and BAM's U.S. direct investments in managed listed entities and private funds.
The proposed reorganization would facilitate operational and administrative synergies by combining all of the direct U.S. investments of its parent, BAM, into one corporate group and further expand its business by including BAM's land banking business as a subsidiary of the Company. As part of the proposed transaction, credit support for BRPI's existing debt will remain similar to the structure today and will be further enhanced by an equity interest in BUSI.
The terms of the Proposed Amendments are summarized in the Consent Solicitation Statement and include:
The Company is seeking consents to the Proposed Amendments in order to implement the Reorganization Transaction, but the consummation of such Reorganization Transaction is not a condition of the Consent Solicitation.
The Consent Solicitation is scheduled to expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 6, 2019, unless extended or earlier terminated (the "Expiration Date"). Holders of Notes as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 12, 2019 (the "Record Date") who validly deliver consents to the Proposed Amendments in the manner described in the Consent Solicitation Statement, dated August 13, 2019 (the "Consent Solicitation Statement") will be eligible to receive a consent payment equal to (1) with respect to the 2022 Notes and the 2025 Notes, $7.50 per $1,000 principal amount of 2022 Notes or 2025 Notes, as applicable, and (2) with respect to the 2023 Notes, C$7.50 per C$1,000 principal amount of the 2023 Notes (the "Consent Payment") for which consents have been validly delivered prior to the Expiration Date (and not validly revoked). Holders as of the Record Date providing consents after the Expiration Date will not receive the Consent Payment.
The consummation of the Consent Solicitation and the Company's obligation to make the Consent Payment are subject to a number of conditions that are set forth in the Consent Solicitation Statement, including, without limitation, (i) having received consent from holders representing a majority of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of (1) the 2022 Notes and (2) the 2023 Notes and the 2025 Notes, together as a single class (the "Requisite Consents") prior to the Expiration Time, (ii) the execution of an amendment to the Company's existing credit facility to implement the Reorganization Transaction and (iii) the absence of any existing or proposed law or regulation that would, and the absence of any injunction or action or other proceeding (pending or threatened) that (in the case of any action or proceeding, if adversely determined) would, make unlawful or invalid or enjoin or delay the implementation of the Proposed Amendments or the payment of the Consent Payment or that would question the legality or validity thereof.
The consent solicitation will be made solely on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Consent Solicitation Statement, to be provided to the holders of the Notes. The Company may, in its sole discretion, terminate, extend or amend the Consent Solicitation at any time as described in the Consent Solicitation Statement.
The Company has retained J.P. Morgan Securities LLC to act as Solicitation Agent in connection with the Consent Solicitations. Questions about the Consent Solicitations may be directed to J.P. Morgan Securities LLC at (866) 834-4666 (toll free) or (212) 834-4811 (collect). Requests for copies of the Consent Solicitation Statement and related documents, and assistance relating to the procedures for delivering consents, may be obtained by contacting Ipreo LLC, the Information Agent, at (212) 849-3880 (banks and brokers) or (888) 593-9546 (toll free).
This press release is not an offer to purchase or sell securities, a solicitation of an offer to purchase or sell securities or a solicitation of consents, and no recommendation is made as to whether or not holders of Notes should consent to the adoption of the Proposed Amendments. The Consent Solicitations are not being made to holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction.
Certain information included or incorporated in this press release or the Consent Solicitation Statement may constitute forward-looking statements and information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. These forward-looking statements reflect the current beliefs of the Company's management and are based on assumptions and information currently available to the management of the Company. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "estimate," "predict," "forecast," "outlook," "potential," "continue," "should," "likely," "project," "future" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology.
You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and information because they involve assumptions, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to differ materially from anticipated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and information.
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Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. is a leading land developer and homebuilder in North America. We entitle and develop land to create master-planned communities, build and sell lots to third-party builders, and conduct our own homebuilding operations. We also participate in select, strategic real estate opportunities, including infill projects, mixed-use developments, and joint ventures. We are the flagship North American residential property company of Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager with approximately $385 billion of assets under management. Further information is available at BrookfieldResidential.com or Brookfield.com or contact:
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POWWOW1 is an exclusive social club. A club that brings together different people to enjoy their time, to feel safe and relaxed, satisfying fundamental human needs2.
POWWOW is for everyone nice, respectful, following club's member rules!
POWWOW is a space where the culture is made by YOU.
Your active participation builds a sense of belonging and regards, which relays into the positive feeling of being a member of the club.
Being a member, you participate in:
CYBAR, KRAFTMAGNET and DODO Academy - we provide all-under-one-roof environment where interesting people cross paths and in real communication they create new human synergies.
The POWWOW.BG website is a social network, that gives an up to date information on all events and activities organised by our POWWOW team.
Powwow culture
This is our general membership offer to our regular customers and friends.
Membership fee: 10 leva per month
In order to join, you have to:
POWWOW CULTURE club membership entitles you to:
POWWOW reserves its right to change the terms for use of club membership. Any changes will be communicated to our clients via e-mail and announced on www.powwow.bg!
Powwow body & culture
This membership is intended for regular visitors and friends, who also enjoy practicing sports together.
Membership fee: 50 leva per month
In order to join, you have to:
As a POWWOW BODY & CULTURE member you get access to:
The Pilates and gymnastics hall offers exclusive services for our club members - kinesitherapy, restorative and healing gymnastics, Shrot treatment and individual or group Pilates.
The first prophylactic examinations are free for club members or their children. All mentioned services, except Pilates group, are extra charged per visit. Our club members are at preferential prices.
If you wish to attend some of the individual classes mentioned above, except the Pilates group, you must follow these steps:
|Service Price
|Regular Price
|Club Price
|Short - first examinations
|40.00 lv
|0.00 lv
|Short - individual class
|30.00 lv
|20.00 lv
|Short - group
|15.00 lv
|5.00 lv
|20.00 lv
|15.00 lv
|Pilates - individual class
|20.00 lv
|10.00 lv
|* The price for the offered services are for one adult or his/her child.
|** The individual classes offered in the Pilates and gymnastics hall are available upon request and available free hours.
*** If the club member who has paid for POWWOW BODY & CULTURE club membership, wants to train with their child, which is up to age of 17 years, included, they get this with no additional fee. By decision of the POWWOW management it is possible a second card for the child to be issues if he/she is between 14-17 years included. (The card serves only to open the door and visit the gym). The service is valid for one parent with one child. The price for such card is 5 leva, once.
POWWOW reserves its right to change the terms for use of club membership. Any changes will be communicated to our clients via e-mail and announced on www.powwow.bg!
Exclusive powwow services
*The service is paid in addition to an active club membership.
*The stated price and services are valid for one adult /parent, guardian / and one child. For a family of four (two children and two parents) two club memberships must be bought and two fees for Dodo Academy will be charged.
**The services of Dodo Academy are provided after a preliminary application procedure and are subject to available places.
POWWOW reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of club membership. Customers will be promptly informed by email and through the website: www.powwow.bg!
In order to become a club member, you need to fill our registration form, and follow the steps for acquiring a club profile. Once the registration is done, you will already have your personal username and password for accessing your membership profile.
Following the initial registration step, you need to visit the administrative center of the club, situated in Veliko Tarnovo, 3 Nish street, and sign a membership application, with which you confirm your consent with the Club Constitution. Еvery visitor between the age of 16 and 18, willing to become a club member, in addition to registration and application form, must also have an agreement declaration for membership from his/hers parent. The declaration can be obtained in the bar and should be signed by one of the parents on the spot. This is done only once. Two copies of this agreement are filled in and signed – one copy is for the candidate, and the other one is for POWWOW club.
Next, you should select a membership offer and pay for it at the bar. The receipt, along with the filled in and signed application form, should be handled to an employee of POWWOW club. Afterwards, your membership status will be activated. This is done from 09:00 to 19:00 o'clock on the same day, when the signed agreement is submitted, or on the next working day at the latest. You will receive a card (RFID chip), with which you identify yourself as a club member. The first membership card is issued free of charge. Provided that the card is lost, the cost of issuing a new one is 5 leva (VAT included). The card (chip) grants you access to all additional services of the POWWOW club, and allows you to make payments at the bar. A personal profile will be created, containing only your basic information from the registration form – username and password. Once created, your personal profile may be further modified and finalized by you.
The card gives access to subscribed services in the subscription and non-contact payment at CYBAR.
Membership subscriptions are monthly, and their duration is registered from the date of payment. Any member may discontinue their membership at any given time, but POWWOW club does not provide any compensation for that.
Any club member, who wishes to use the gamer stations, and visit KRAFTMAGNET gym as well, should read and sign the following agreements:
Agreement: Acceptable use of gaming equipment Sports center: Internal rules Sports center: Liability waiver form POWWOW Library: An agreement for acceptable use
The membership subscription is personal, and it is not to be provided to other parties. It is highly recommended that club members do not purchase goods from the bar with discounts to customers who are not club members.
The loading (fund depositing) of membership accounts is done in CYBAR at the bar. Each club member may load their membership account by depositing a selected sum. The member gets a receipt, and the deposited funds will be added to the personal membership account of the user. Deposited funds are instantly available for use. Deposited money cannot be refunded – it can be spent on products and services, offered in POWWOW club.
The minimum deposit is 5 leva.
Each club member has a fixed credit limit of 10 leva. The credit limit is not a free consumption. It allows the member to continue purchasing when the funds in the membership account are depleted (with the idea of not spoiling his experience if it happens late at night or during an interesting event).
All members should bear in mind that the available equipment and facilities of POWWOW club are shared among the members. This means that the principle "First in, first classify" is in rule.

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Christ redefined and modeled greatness and therefore, leadership. He was a servant who led, and leader who served. Not surprisingly his disciples had a very difficult time understanding this concept.
Two kinds of blindness
1. Spiritual blindness (Mt 20:26)
2. Physical blindness (Mt 20:27)
Christ redefined greatness as Servanthood (Mt 20:26)
Christ redefined leadership as Service (Mt 20:27)
Christ redefined ministry as Sacrifice (Mt 20:28)
Balancing the tensions of a servant leader (from John Ortbert)
– Be decisive and submissive
– Have a tough-minded accountability and a tenderhearted compassion
– Be utterly resourceful and utterly dependant upon God
– Have a sense of urgency and a relaxed attitude
– Practice solitude and community
Christ modeled the leader who serves
1. Christ stopped (Mt 20:32)
2. Christ listened (Mt 20:32~33)
3. Christ touched (Mt 20:34)
My responce… a quarter at a time.


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August, 2017 NEWSLETTER
MIGUEL A. LARREA, PT, DPT, SFMA Welcome Our New Clinic Director
Miguel attended Southeastern Louisiana University and graduated with a B.S. in Exercise Science. He then went on to complete his Doctorate of Physical Therapy at the University of St. Augustine for Health Studies in St. Augustine, FL. Dr. Larrea has previous experience as a strength and conditioning coach, and spent 12 years in the Army Reserves as an Air Assault Combat Medic. With additional experiences in neuro/inpatient settings, Dr. Larrea specializes in sports, orthopedics, and manual rehab. His goal is to get you to move better to feel better and get you strong to stay strong. Miguel also works for the Alzheimer's Program at STAR Physical Therapy. We have developed a comprehensive 12-week program that incorporates the types of exercise and cognitive interventions that research has shown may be effective in slowing the progression of symptoms of Alzheimer's. It is covered by insurance in nearly all cases. Our Alzheimer's Program includes: 1. Complete Assessment. This includes Balance, Agility, Strength, Cognitive Function, Physical Fitness and Mood. 2. Treatment that includes developing strength, balance, aerobic condition, coordination and agility.
3. Treatment of any physical impairments that may interfere with daily function. 4. Cognitive Training and Social sessions to help to stimulate different types of mental activity. 5. Comprehensive Reassessments with reports to your physician.
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Work smarter, not harder
A dentist who loves data.
And he thrives on crunching data to drive the performance of his practice.
So you can sense how frustrating it was for Vinai to be using accountancy software which wasn't up to the task.
His Practice Manager was able to give him a monthly breakdown of his expenses. But he couldn't track his income and profits on a rolling basis, measure where his profit was coming from or compare it to previous periods.
Plus the production of his annual accounts took longer. This wasted his Practice Manager's time and prevented him from receiving data which was 'fresh' enough to use in the improvement of his practice.
Luckily Vinai has his Clear Vision Account Manager, Ben. And Ben created a bespoke financial tracking tool for Vinai.
Now Vinai is able to produce comprehensive monthly data.
Data which shows him:
- which costs have risen and by what percentage
- what income and profit each of his associates has generated each month
- how well each of his associates is performing against a specific set of targets, directly linked to the financial goals of the practice
- how well his practice is doing against UK average (very well by comparison!)
- how the value of his practice is rising
He saves time and his data is accurate and detailed.
And the good news doesn't stop there...
Because of this new level of visibility, Vinai can take action to control costs. Plus he actively helps his associates lift their performance and drives their financial success.
The increased success of his practice is palpable. Something which all his team are now enjoying as Vinai has been able to increase salaries and motivate his team further through bonus payments.
What is most pleasing of all is that Vinai has seen how making his team happier enhances their relationships with patients. And this has had a direct effect on his patient happiness and the feedback he receives.
Improving his financial clarity has been a highly successful process for Vinai. He continues to watch his practice thrive and enjoys a life free of financial stress.
You can see what Vinai has to say about his success. Do take a look, it's really enlightening to read what he has to share.
If you need to work harder, not smarter, take a first easy step. Just call our friendly team on 01249 712074 to discuss your needs and you'll be on the way to practice growth and success, without the stress!


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Taekwondo rule change a 'tough challenge' for PH
MANILA, Philippines – Following the rule change made by host Malaysia, taekwondo national team training director Igor Mella admitted that it would be a "tough challenge" for them to best their previous Southeast Asian (SEA) Games record of 8 medals (3 golds, 3 silvers, and 2 bronzes) in 2015.
The modification of rules in taekwondo only permits visiting countries to send 3 men and 3 women for both kyorugi (sparring) and poomsae (non-sparring) events, for a total of 12 participants. The host country, however, is excluded from the restrictions. This allows Malaysia to join all 16 taekwondo events.
Mella believes that it isn't right for host countries to use the rules to their advantage because the "proper objective" of the games is to "promote the sport better" and "encourage more participation."
"This is not a good precedent," said Mella. "So that would mean future hosts can pattern their ground rules based on this SEA Games."
Mella recognized that the rule change would make it difficult for them to equal or surpass their previous medal tally. "Basta ang focus lang ng team sana hindi kami bumaba sa target namin to equal the number of gold [medals] as before," he said.
(The focus of the team is to hopefully reach the target which is to equal the number of gold [medals] as be before.)
Staying on top
"It's harder to stay on top rather than work your way to the top."
Those are the words of promising taekwondo jin Pauline Louise Lopez who is gearing up for a back-to-back gold medal win in the upcoming SEA Games, this August, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Lopez won her first SEA games gold during her debut in 2015.
"Last SEA Games I was able to win that title – a gold medal, and this year I'm hoping to keep that title," Lopez said. "It's definitely much harder and much more challenging," added the 21-year old.
Lopez showed her readiness to compete in the 29th SEA Games by bagging a gold medal in the 2017 Chuncheon Korea Open International Taekwondo championship last July 5, in Chuncheon, South Korea.
Lopez also competed in the 31st National Championships of taekwondo last Sunday, where she represented the Ateneo de Manila University. She sustained an ankle injury in the tourney but that did not stop her from continuously training.
"It's also not just physical training for me right now; it's mental training," Lopez said, "Because you know in the ring – in the real match – if I'm injured I have to fight through it. So that's what I'm trying to simulate here."
Joining Lopez in Team Kyorugi are 2016 Olympians Kirstie Elaine Alora and Morrison Samuel Thomas Harper, along with Rhezie Canama Aragon, Aaron Agojo, and Arven Alcantara.
Meanwhile Team Poomsae will be composed of Dustin Jacob Mella, Raphael Enrico Mella, Rodolfo Reyes Jr, Juvenille Faye Crisostomo, Jocellyn Ninobla, and Rinna Babanto. – Rappler.com


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Ever since I've heard of SAP MDM, I've been trying to figure out what it's good for, and why do "we" need another ERP module. So I ventured to the lair of the beast at www.sap.com, here's what I found:
A) "SAP NetWeaver MDM is an enabling foundation for enterprise services and business process management - providing a single version of the truth for customer, product, employee, supplier, or user-defined data objects."
Wait, I've heard this before, haven't I? Isn't this part of a standard ERP package? Isn't this part of SAP's own ERP package? Wasn't SAP's CRM component supposed to provide all my "customer related" software needs? Wasn't SAP's SRM component supposed to handle all my supplier data? Isn't SAP HCM (or HR as it was once called) all about managing employee data? Isn't SAP Material Master supposed to manage a companies inventory and product catalog?
B) "MDM ensures cross-system data consistency through interactive distribution"
... err, what?
C) "It (MDM) integrates business processes across the extended value chain, delivering features and functions to enable: 1. Master data consolidation - …consolidates and cleanses master data objects…, 2. Synchronization and distribution of master data - Enable consistent data maintenance and distribution to ensure permanent harmonization of master data…, 3. Centralized management of master data, 4. Administration of master data"
Hold on, this sounds familiar too, wasn't this also supposed to be handled already? Isn't the " ALE" component supposed to provide a means to distribute and receive/consolidate master data? Hasn't the NetWeaver platform already been enhanced to support communication with other systems using web services and ESA?
5. "Management of internal content - Collect and centralize all your content - including .... rich content such as images, paragraphs of text, PDF documents "
Isn't this what SAP's CM and or KM are all about?
9. "Business process support - Enable communication in a heterogeneous environment, and insert master data into other systems."
And I thought that's what SAP's XI does …
10. "Business analytics and reporting - Leverage synchronized data for reliable analysis and accurate reporting."
... but I just installed SAP BW two weeks ago ...
So what am I trying to say here?
Its very clear that even though I have read about, and attended several presentations on SAP MDM, I still haven't figured out what MDM is good for. I have no doubt that the MDM is a separate module/component and that it has some functionality that's not present in other sap modules, but I just can't figure out:
1. What are the functions/benefits that are specific to the MDM ( and that can't be "done" using other modules)
2. Why weren't these functions implemented/incorporated into the various other ERP components?
3. Why can't the current ERP components [ecc,hcm,srm …] be used as central master data repositories ?
Dear readers, if any of you can answer these questions, or if you can point me to documentation that has explicit answers to them, please post comments with the answers. I promise you that many other people will find this information useful and enlightening, because if I'm asking these questions, chances are I'm not the only one.


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Gaddafi's Son Briefly Appears in Libyan Court
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The son of late dictator Muammar Gaddafi briefly appeared before a militia-backed court in a western Libyan town on Thursday only to see the proceedings against him adjourned until the end of February.
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Since the end of Libya's 2011 civil war, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi has been held by a militia in Zintan, which has refused to hand him over for a separate trial in the capital, Tripoli — a sign of the central government's weakness.
In Tripoli, he is being tried in absentia along with 39 other Gaddafi regime figures, including notorious spymaster Abdullah al-Senoussi, for alleged crimes during Libya's conflict.
Seif al-Islam is also wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity, AP reported.
The only Gaddafi son in custody, Seif al-Islam looked healthy during his brief appearance Thursday in the Zintan court. Wearing a blue prison uniform, he replied with a "no" when the judge asked him whether he had any requests.
The hearings were then adjourned until Feb. 27 because the judge demanded that "other suspects" be brought in.
In the Zintan trial, Seif al-Islam faces charges of attempting to escape prison and insulting Libya's new flag. These charges are linked to a meeting he had in June 2012 with an ICC delegation that was accused of smuggling documents and a camera to him in his cell. The four-member team from The Hague was detained by Zintan rebels but released after the international tribunal apologized and pledged to investigate the incident.
The Zintan charges are separate from both those by the ICC, which indicted Seif al-Islam for the murder and persecution of protesters in the uprising that ultimately toppled his father's regime, and those by the Tripoli court.
Thursday's hearing was held amid tight security measures, with several masked policemen guarding Seif al-Islam inside the courtroom.


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Recruiters at the UNL Engineering Career Fair didn't think much of the Big Ten conference switch.
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Recruiters at the UNL Engineering Career Fair didn't think much of the Big Ten conference switch.
Grants for over $1 million provide more money for students and faculty to study abroad.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln career fair allows students to meet potential employers and practice their interview skills.
Lincoln's Red Theater is not your typical theater group.
Whittier Building experiment looks promising.
Soon, finding a parking spot at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln could be a bigger frustration.
The Husker Tailgating experience is unlike any other.
Follow the Rohda family as they bring their homegrown produce to Lincoln's farmer's market.
Despite inclement weather, UNL's UPC says Midwest Acoustic Fest was still a success.


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Author Of
"The Romance Of Sacred Song," "Stories And Sketches Of Our Hymns And Their Witers," Etc.
John Ritchie Ltd.
Publishers Of Christian Literature
First Published – 1940
Reprinted – 1944
Made In Great Britain
The sub-title of this book is excellently chosen, for the remarkable movement that it relates was no new thing, no novelty, but the recovery of truth that had become obscured by the encroachments of tradition and clericalism.
Our Lord rebuked the religionists of His day for making the Word of God of none effect by their traditions; He told them that in vain did they attempt to worship the Father teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. This has happened again. A monopoly unauthorised by the Scriptures has been given to a caste of priests or clerics who have so obscured the truth that in the Establishment itself there are such differences that no one can be sure of what is the way of Salvation. The Sacerdotalist says one thing, the Modernist says another, and the "low" Church seeks to explain away the doctrine of infant baptism and regeneration taught in the Prayer Book, and attempts in face of its plain words to teach the necessity of a new birth and salvation through faith alone. Was it any wonder that believers began to question the traditions in which they had been, brought up and to search the Scriptures daily to see if those things were so ?
They quickly discovered that they had no warrant in Scripture—nowhere is a Christian teacher called a priest in the New Testament in any other sense than that in which all believers are priests. No such monopoly as is claimed is to be found in the Word of God; no restriction is put upon the Liberty of the Spirit or the exercise of God-given gifts.
That the movement is no novelty can be learned from Mr. E. Hamer Broadbent's illuminating book,
The Pilgrim Church. All down the ages there have been faithful souls who have met and worshipped in the simple way laid down in the word of the Lord. They have been hunted down as heretics by those who say they are apostles but are not, but have never been stamped out.
The movement seeks to avoid sectarianism. In the words of Mr. Lincoln, quoted on p. 88, the attitude of the brethren is,
"May I be kept by God's grace from joining anything." Their only creed is the Bible, from which they are seeking to receive all the truth as it is revealed to them by the Holy
In an issue of
The Evening Standard (19th April 1937) there appeared an article by Patrick Monkhouse, a journalist, on "The Brethren." It is so well informed and aptly expressed that I take the liberty of quoting from it. He says:
"This is the century of over-organisation. Every trade, every art, almost every Church, is organised, associated, federated; councils and committees multiply; annual conferences meet incessantly to pass resolutions on every subject under the sun.
"In the midst of these imposing structures there is one body which has found the secret of vitality in a completely contrary policy…
"From the very first, it has been the endeavour of the Brethren to eliminate from their Church every trace of clerical procedure for which they could not find warrant in the New Testament.
"They have no clergy. They have no fixed order of service. They have no central organisation or officers with authority over the various assemblies.
"A minority, known as the Exclusive Assemblies, did indeed break away in the middle of the nineteenth century and establish an authoritative Central Meeting with power to censure or exclude adherents or assemblies. But the main body of the movement, known as the Open Assemblies, has continued its traditional freedom from organisation or authority…
"So far, indeed, does this refusal to organise go that the Brethren have no sure idea what their own numbers are. It has been estimated roughly that they come to 80,000 in England alone. But the movement is strong as well not only in Scotland, Wales and Ireland—it sprang from Dublin, which has still one of the largest assemblies—but also in many foreign countries.
"Their numbers are still increasing. A knowledgeable member gave me an estimate that they have gone up by 50 per cent, in the last twenty years…
"At their principal service, the breaking of bread, corresponding to the Communion Service in the Church of England, no one person presides, or performs any priestly function. Nor is there any fixed order of service. One member will offer up a prayer, another suggest a hymn, as the Spirit moves him.
"There are some evangelists and teachers who serve the movement full time. But they have no official title or position, nor do they receive any fixed salary. They depend on gifts made to them by the Assemblies which they visit.
"The Open Assemblies do not bar from their service members of other denominations who profess themselves believers in Jesus Christ…
"At all events, the Brethren have not found their high standards of personal conduct any more a bar to their vigorous progress than is the deliberate lack of hierarchical organisation which is what makes their churches so distinctive and so interesting."
It is interesting to see ourselves as others see us. Mr. Beattie is eminently fitted to tell the story of the movement. He has a gifted and facile pen, and has given a charm to the history he records that cannot fail to reach the hearts of sincere believers, even though they may yet be satisfied to remain in the traditional churches.
I wish the book every success.
Geo. Goodman
September '39


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Finest Emergency Blade Testimonials 2018 ? Decide on Your Shopping, Tenting Blade!
The number of kitchen knives must it acquire for yourself as a way to endure inside the backcountry?knife blade designs When you purchase the proper success blade, just one single.
Along with the restored thrill of survivalism coming from preferred exhibits for example?Exposed and Scared and?Keep Grylls??Person vs .. Outrageous, there has been specifically a newly released influx widely used for emergency merchandise. Cutlery, paracord, medical, blaze basic ? have viewed a recently available boost in expenditures as individuals have been swayed to create their own personal success packages. Because of so many new releases out available on the market, it?s challenging to choose from unique makes. While many medical and flame starting up items function in a similar fashion to one another, seeking the right surviving blade could really mean the real difference among existence and loss inside a surviving predicament.
There are lots of elements which are into deciding on the?ideal tactical blade?to suit your needs, like dimensions, work, stainlesss steel reduce, sturdiness, and accessories how the blade may be found with. Outlined in this article, we?ll break up the complete finest emergency kitchen knives of 2017, and with any luck , you?ll have the capacity to pick the blade that you may feel at ease based upon along with your everyday life.
When Would I Want a Success Blade?
Mostly, success cutlery obtain the most use even though outside. They can be designed bigger than common pants pocket cutlery, that can make them not easy to hold out and about (and against the law to keep generally in most You.S. suggests). Bank kitchen knives are best for on a daily basis, smaller apps like decreasing modest rope, slicing cardboard boxes and envelopes, whittling, and many more. We assume that Benchmade creates among the best pants pocket kitchen knives to choose from, and then we especially appreciate the?Benchmade Griptilian.
Success cutlery are significantly distinctive from Swiss Army kitchen knives and multitool cutlery. These little multitools feature a wide variety of other built in methods, for example flathead and Phillips screwdrivers, pliers, scissors, and jar openers. Given that they?re valuable for many day-to-day programs, their cutlery a lot shortage in security and sturdiness. In case you?re considering getting a multitool for day-to-day use, we unquestionably advise any Leatherman multitool, similar to the?Leatherman Sidekick.
Now, for the people searching earlier each day cutlery into substantial-obligation, success kitchen knives, most of that is to suit your needs.?Surviving kitchen knives are perfect for those that make use of them in in the open air as well as in tactical occasions. They must be long-lasting and functional ample to reduce by way of a variety of composition and supplies, although getting effortless to cope with at the same time. Particularly, success cutlery are ideal for trimming logs and divisions.
Here is the primary request, the way it has lots of applications ? creating a flame, creating a protection, and constructing tactical resources for example. Emergency cutlery may also be perfect for location traps and skinning creatures, that makes it a helpful resource for hunters and trappers.
Many people wear?t realise that when surviving cutlery should be reliable in their life-or-fatality occasions, there are numerous other practical purposes to have a emergency blade at the same time. They are able to carve real wood, are ideal for trimming fruit (just be sure to clean up it initial), and tend to be an awesome reason for personal-safety versus bears together with other predatory wild animals. They could opened containers whilst camping outdoors, be utilized as a hammer, or help in lowering points for first-aid.
Over-all, emergency cutlery permit a selection of utilizes, and so are an essential accessory for any survivalist, hunter, or hiker?s supply.
The Thing That Makes the very best Tactical Blade?
Surviving kitchen knives need to be tough, extremely versatile, and satisfy the requirements you really need it to. This intention will change for every single person, and just you are able to pick which blade is right for you based upon what you may want it for.?Hikers and backpackers?might select a compact collapsable blade that can take up significantly less unwanted weight and area into their prepare, but is reliable for creating a flame when putting together camp out. As an alternative,?hunters and trappers?might pick a additional weighty-bladed, thicker surviving blade to pores and skin dogs.
Some emergency cutlery have several more features. Hollow tackle cutlery will help you shop anything within the hilt of the blade, for instance blaze basic, the mineral magnesium flint, and many more. Additionally you can fasten hollow take care of kitchen knives into the idea of the rod to create a spear. Other kitchen knives have built in?compasses, the mineral magnesium fireplace beginners, and the like.
Now, objectively, the very best emergency blade is likely to be created of great-level of quality stainlesss steel, take a resilient hilt with an above average solid grasp, and will tolerate a lot of demands simply being have on it in various methods.
1. Stainlesss steel?may be constructed by means of several different techniques and procedures, and each and every method will generate a unique cause blade good quality. For anyone enthusiastic about the features of the blade sort, we?ve integrated one or two maps which will talk about the solidity, advantage preservation, dress in reluctance, and deterioration amount of resistance of each and every metal variety.
Obviously during the maps, the metal kind CPM 110V is among the ideal steels in solidity, side maintenance, and dress in reluctance, but is much more vulnerable to rust than other stainlesss steel kinds. So as to very best decide which blade you?re in search of, you will need to pick one with far better stainless steel traits. When deciding on a blade, they may have engraved the level of metallic along the side of the blade ? this will likely give swift guide to should it be made out of excellent stainlesss steel or maybe not.
2. The form of your blade?is usually a key factor to take into consideration: the most suitable blade form work perfect for the routines you may apply it; the incorrect one could be unproductive on your reasons. When there are lots of blade styles, we?ll concentration on the a number of primary designs that you just?ll see inside of a surviving blade: Clip factor, Decline issue, Direct-lower back, and Tanto level.
- The clip stage?can be a preferred for most greater bank cutlery and bowie kitchen knives. It figure upwards in the very last thirdly from the blade, and is useful for personal-safeguard and stabbing, in addition to skinning match. It might not be the ideal for versatile use, but surely possesses its own use for many.
- The shed position, in contrast, is way better for decreasing and carving, the way it is usually a lot more dependable compared to clip stage. The blade by natural means lowers out, that gives the backbone a fuller and better experience. This blade is perfect for shopping along with slicing hardwood into scaled-down twigs and tinder, and possibly the most popular type blade, mainly because it provides numerous functions.
- The direct-rear blade?is the one other a fit condition. With bigger rotor blades, you are able to often absolutely set excess weight in the blade so that you can burrow in the content more effective. It?s just the thing for splitting logs and hardwood, for cutting up meal and timber, and might be ideal for setting up a flame.
- The Tanto factor?features a sharpened word of advice for puncturing and stabbing. These are generally fuller, instead of just the thing for skinning video game, nevertheless they make an effective success blade for anyone seeking a personal-security serious blade.
3. Tang?is the one other point to think about right before selecting a blade. The tang of any blade details just how far the blade runs to the blade?s tackle. Part tang implies the blade expands somewhat from the manage, and whole tang signifies the blade functions throughout the total take care of. Rotor blades having a part tang can get subject to wiggling and turning out to be free immediately after use, and so are more unlikely that to endure force remaining place on the blade. Entire tang cutlery are-healthy, can hold up against a great deal of force, yet are a great deal more high-priced.
Total, there several considerations well before buying the finest emergency blade on your behalf. The good thing is, we?ll wear out whatever we truly feel work most effectively 12 success cutlery and reduce the alternatives downwards on your behalf!
Leading 12 Greatest Success Kitchen knives of 2018 ? Evaluations and Evaluation
I. Foldable Cutlery
Basically we advise using a set blade blade over the foldable blade for the very best effects and endurance with the blade, we thought to consist of the most popular foldable success kitchen knives inside the record also.
1.?Freezing Metallic Recon 1 Strategic Blade
The initial tactical blade in the report is Freezing Stainlesss steel?s Recon 1. The Recon 1 selection contains anything from fall issues to tanto things, but the most popular was undoubtedly the clip stage blade. It provides a 4 ", 3.5mm solid blade.
The traction has G-10 laminated scales which avert dropping from sweaty hands, and also the blade?s challenging accomplish reduces glare. It possesses a clip to simply don the blade on the trendy, and contains an easy thumb disc to simply open up the blade.
The blade is constructed of shipped in Japanese AUS 8A metal which has been vacuum heated up, that permits for the pretty variety-suitable hold. In general, this clip issue is perfect for any person trying to find a scaled-down blade to increase their rucksack for lesser increases, and may even be great for beginning containers and producing smaller sized tinder also.?Verify Price tag and Ranking on The amazon online marketplace.com
2.?Ka-Club Mule Niche Directory Blade
In case you?re looking to purchase a excellent small blade together with a larger sized surviving blade, Ka-Nightclub can make an amazing collapsable blade that couples very well with any one of their durable kitchen knives.
The blade suits appropriate less than 4 ", and it is rather much like Cool Stainlesss steel?s Recon 1. Such as the Freezing Metallic collapsable blade, the Ka-Club Mule is manufactured beyond the You.S. with AUS 8A quality metal.
When compared to Freezing Stainlesss steel?s Recon 1, the Mule is more heavy within the pants pocket, but can be additional trusted for weightier jobs. As the Chilly Stainlesss steel is much more effective to implement, the Mule is only a tad more heavy and may also consider even more pressure and misuse.
For less money stage, we might find the Ka-Club Mule for your collapsable blade.?Examine Cost and Status on Amazon . com.com
II. Preset Blade Cutlery
1.?Ka-Pub Becker BK-22 Predetermined Blade Blade
Besides the predetermined blade Mule, Ka-Nightclub will make a wonderful whole tang blade inside the Becker BK-22. We advise the BK-22 around its precursor, the BK-2, due to the fact the most up-to-date version provides a fantastic weighty-obligation polyester sheath using a entry freight budget and blade put in sleeve.
The Becker BK-22 is usually a shed stage repaired blade, using a 5.25 in . blade. This blade is the best for shopping and camping outdoors responsibilities, just like splintering fire wood, wiping out and skinning sport, and slicing foods.
Within a good cost factor, we actually similar to this blade because of its usefulness. The blade cope with is supposed to physically fit bigger hands and wrists, as well as proper grip thinks quite all natural.?Take a look at Cost and Standing on The amazon website.com
2.?SOG Power Predetermined Blade Blade
The SOG Drive blade is usually a power to become reckoned with. The blade provides a thin information, but is really a lengthy 6 in . and also a clip factor resolved blade.
The extended description of the blade allows you to splinter both equally much larger wooden and slice thru lesser twigs with the exact same simplicity. It happens to be constructed from a similar AUS 8 stainless steel because the two foldable cutlery, but has whole tang which is just about unbreakable.
The tackle features a steady, trim user profile made out of abrasion and effect protected, great toughness window-established nylon material. Furthermore, it carries a lanyard and lanyard loop for the take care of.
Moreover, this blade is reinforced by way of a life time warrantee from issues in developing. We love the directly advantage product above the somewhat serrated product for normal camp out exercises.?Look at Price tag and Score on The amazon online marketplace.com
3.?Schrade SCHF9N Predetermined Blade Blade
The Schrade SCHF9N Repaired Blade is certainly a sensible choice for individuals that desire a reputable blade at the good deal.
It possesses a decline position blade made from 8Cr13MoV great co2 stainless-steel. Additionally it provides a textured anti--move deal with using a lanyard loop at the conclusion.
The finger lines enable you to choke for the blade, offering you a lot more push for carving and trimming. The sheath also provides a lanyard to which you might tie up on your calf, for additional steadiness when dressed in on the cool.
The blade is actually a hearty 6.5 ins prolonged, with all the total blade calculating approximately a feet long. It can be weightier than other versions on our checklist, with a weight of a lb, except for just about anyone seeking a robust, sturdy blade, we may highly recommend examining that one out.?Examine Rate and Score on Amazon online marketplace.com
Over the opposing part in the cost array from your Schrade Repaired Blade, we have now the Fallkniven A1 Tactical Blade. The Swedish company Fallkniven continues to be constructing large-finish tactical cutlery and instruments for expert outdoorsmen due to the fact 1984, and has now been performing a damn very good task at it.
The blade is 100 % tang and made out of VG10 stainlesss steel, an incredibly higher-ending stainless steel which is designed to resist numerous years of strain and challenging use. The grade of this blade is exceeded only by its ergonomics.
The A1 Tactical Blade?s deal with provides a soft, purely natural traction that has a lanyard loop in the end. This blade is very portable in the stylish, and also the synthetic leather sheath even helps you take it upside-down. This blade is nearly unaffected by excessive temperature ranges or bad weather, and is also abrasion immune too.
The Fallkniven A1?s blade weighs about approximately 11 oz . having a blade duration of around 6.2 in .. Being an more advantage, should you buy by their webpage, you may get your blade in person engraved!
We heartily advocate this blade, and recognize that if correctly applied, it has to final forever.The ESEE 6 Emergency Blade line creates when ESEE?s recent prize-earning kitchen knives, and is regarded as the much better success kitchen knives on the market.
The blade is 6.5 " lengthy, constructed from 1095 stainlesss steel, plus the tackle carries a discreetly scaled zero-slide texture and consistancy. The stainlesss steel and total manufacturing excellent in this blade is fantastic, because it is absolutely made in the You.S.
This blade will come in often dark colored metal or greyish metal, determined by your choice. Should you do pick the black colored-protected stainlesss steel, nonetheless, create a keep in mind that the covering will impede the blade?s chance to affect a ferro rod effortlessly. The Micarta take care of is really light, making sure that this blade is a good selection for backpackers or these interested in bodyweight.
Even though this blade weighs about just below a lb, it is produced with long-lasting, premium quality stainless steel, and is a wonderful option for any backpacker or hiker.


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An easy cinch of gentle breezes caressed the skin of his face. The color of the fields, boundless fields, rolling in smoothly greening dales, climbed the short side of a range of mountains solely in sight, but for a valley. It was like Vermont, Vermont in the fall, Vermont, in heaven. The limbs of acrobatic trees willowed in a sudden blanch of red, yellow, and orange deign, and were photographed en masse as a budding delight of manifold lakes and ponds, mirroring the image, duplicating it. The denizens of the inhabited brook ways, autumn in all, were hundreds of thousands of apples, gathered in chummy coteries, like the Girl Scouts, and silently twittering with the hope of notice amidst the gaggle of harvest hues, as they may have something to say, for instance, in the graduating heights, they were not just a freshet, or a fruit cocktail. Aji said, wistfully, "People always like to call this Orison, but it isn't."
He was beguiled by the scent of apples. Aji closed the hatch on the transparent glass yacht-ish pod they used for dijection, set carefully, tentatively, in a landing on the open tarmac of fresh grass. He studied the habits of this great orchard immediately. She said, obliquely, "I wanted you to see it." The warmth of these lands was visceral, and induced memories of days from his childhood, day trips to the Green Mountain State. The environs were tempered at seventy degrees, and the level of oxygen adequate to leave the respirators in the "glass canoe," the pod, the LifeRaft®. It was provided by Nature in a different manner than Earth, where the Sun infuses rays into the soil; these swaths of light were from Hya, an ancient star, and formed huge basins of air, and spread heat to the orchards by the wind.
They strolled the grass. Aji grasped his forearm with her hand, worried he may tread in the wrong place. He was unusually aware of his footprints. "Stay in the brown gravel," she advised, implying there was science to it. "And don't step on anything." The gales teemed with leaves wrapping against his legs. He stood fast, and gazed at the landscape, not moving, but relieved of any worry of committing an act prohibited by this new, unknown environment. "Better," Aji said. "This is my place, my refuge, yes." The fruit was spry, and solid to touch, most of it still attached to a vine, and vines moreover stretching in the fields like down wires. The bark of the sponsor trees, – the branches, the tree trunks, the canopies, – were young and old, both strong as high school wrestlers, within the watchful eye of ages; the soil was muddy, but complex, with the rigorous feel of the guidance of a vast system of taproots, a lumbar highway, a breed so close-knit even an Ilex, say, a holly tree, could never grow.
The rustling sound of the windswept arms of trees was a chorus of variegated whistles through the branches, the only noise in his ears, the quietus, the whistling, to complement hundreds of square of miles. He asked finally, "Where are we?" She replied peaceably, and leisurely, imbibing the alternate reality. Aji said, "This is the vale of the Apple Trees."
He commented, "I'm becoming a pantheist, I think."
"Maybe a Tao," Aji laughed.
He didn't recall telling her the story of the Miller hourglass, but he was not sure. She added, "Of course, you'd have to become an apple tree. Not a hack-berry. Not a sugar maple."
"I'll probably commune with the root system," he japed. She nodded slowly.
Aji said there weren't any exceptions to the government of apple trees on this planet in Hydra, the Vale of the Apple Trees. He watched the trees performing their welcomes, bemused. "Apples, apples. More apples."
There was a parietal quality to the atmosphere, as yet undetected by science; Aji quipped that nobody had expended the greatest effort to discover it. She was refreshed in the bounty of this vale, which the vale did apparently not seem to mind, and reluctant to issue any theory: Nature simply did not allow anything else to grow. He was puzzled. Nature has a normal state of common paradox. She sensed his curiosity, and allayed, "It's not easy to be equivocal about it. Nature does not allow any rivalry, basically. You can be more daring, and Nature may allow that for a moment, as admiration, you know, – but it then, almost imperceptibly, it will try to explain why it isn't possible. Anything milling around for too long is streamed somewhere else. The short, young timber, like you, for instance, is completely safe. But it fells all soaring trees."
He stepped to one of the apples in the grass, which was split into two parts. "Bad luck?"
She responded, "No, the core has the seeds."
Aji, walking, said, "The guise of Nature is a paradox, but it's less cavil, more of an allegory, more like the Ponds, or the Elysian fields." The Ponds were once equally bountiful, and were now impossible to approach. The vale was not unique, she said. Denmark, on Earth, possessed similarly vast lands of tulips growing singularly, and in never-ending rows, and the field is devoted to incubating the flower. The landscape, the Vale of the Apple Trees, in Hydra, was actually a continent, and it comprised two-thirds of the whole surface, with a number of irrigating seas, but surprisingly contained not any more than one countless, sovereign form of life – the aqueum, the apple tree.
There were more vales in Hydra, the cluster was uniquely rich of them, and Aji said continents were ardent for a single botanic species, and how it was a phenomenon; wild barley grew in one orb's inestimable fields, near Jupiter's moon, İo; another moon in Sombrero cultivated priceless salts alone in dark, gray dusts; many planets fostered certain precious minerals; a pulsar became a wholly-crystallized diamond; another situated honey bees, and their sovereign share. Only the Ponds, and its shifting destiny, seemed to belie the mystery of Nature's patience.
They entered the pod, and Aji focused on normal operations. She said, "Anyway, we can't land on the Ponds at all, anymore. Just a decade ago, we used to go there constantly. The Ponds had just about everything. No exclusive breeds. It was like Wal-Mart. Ah, the Ponds. They used say, 'If you can't find it anywhere else, it's probably on The Ponds.' I miss it."
"What happened?" he asked.
"The Ponds won't let us land. The atmosphere. It's a shadow dance."
"Won't let us how?"
"There was some sort of hole in the atmosphere, and a strange new layer emerged through the hole," said Aji. "Now we just glide along the outer atmosphere, and 'bounce,' as the saying goes. Best we can do. No entry. We don't know why yet."
He clicked the seat belt, in the LifeRaft® passenger chair behind her. "Any guess?"
"Well," Aji said/ "They mined the Ponds hugely for a century. It's like the bees. They'll let you take most of their honey, but not their own share. They did the work, yes? The atmosphere of the Ponds reached a critical mass, some type of a chemical mass, and was too depleted to function the same way. Now it won't let anything through the gravity, until it recovers. It probably wouldn't be safe. But it formed an abyss. The maglevs glide to a different path, and shunt, like they're like surfing in the curl of a wave. Right out. You go where it wants you to go."
They hovered in the LifeRaft® beneath the outer atmosphere of the vale, and traversed for nautical miles. "It's the only one like it, this one, as far as we know, – the Vale of the Apple Trees, – but it's just one of many in a native state," she said. "We've found planets in some dijections with just giraffes, corn, wildebeests, you name it. It's difficult to grasp. There's a type of bacterium that exists, and it propagates. It reproduces, because the ecology is conducive to its DNA."
He mulled, "Do they stay segregated?"
"Oh no, they integrate, this is just one phase," said Aji. "That's history. More profound than it seems, to say. One mystery is how. What's interesting is we find these vales in our dijections, but at strange points of time, and space. It implies incubation, like a nursery. It's a common anomaly, if you will. We'll visit another one, the barley orb. Ale."
He sat alertly in the rocking chair. He could be more daring. He could venture to the kitchen. He did, pouring black coffee into a mug. No sweat. The plan was to add a version of Half-and-Half, to top the coffee with whipped cream, maybe a red grape, and then douse it with Grand Marnier. He loved orange Cognac, he even liked its name, saying it's name, which was Marnier, not Mariner. He tried carefully to avoid the medical concern, mixing it with his dozen new prescriptions, resolving Grand Marnier wasn't exactly Jagermeister, that happier was important, too, and he cantored "Gram-an-Yeah!" He settled at the kitchen table, hardly able to suppress a dimming view of the mix, and decided this time he just didn't care. Secularly, science could keep him alive, but was it worth it? The path never led anywhere fortunately. He knew that. Gram-an-yeah. He drew a pencil from the fold of a pad of yellow legal paper. How ever groggy, he had to "find it." He jotted the word, giraffes. Coda. Edens, and no ginger trees. Dijection. He wanted a map of U.T., the universe in Real Time. He put the pencil aside, enthralled to watch it rolling away towards the oak napkin holder.
He placed the Irish coffee, in something of new, and dizzy stupor, upon a wicker coaster on a rattan side table next to the rocking in the Florida room. Groggy. He looked for the blue ghosts. His yard hosted squadrons of the brown Phausis reticulata, borne of the beetle, Coleoptera (not Cleopatra), who were always wont to bar-hop in search of lady phausis, search-lighting to their peril with dazzling blue lights. They also liked to camp in bunches around his fire escape in Coney Island, that is, the firefly; the special-op genus is found in the east part of the United States; and "blue ghosts," as they are called, emit a blue light on blues' nights. A fallacy, in actuality. The Purkinje Effect maintains the blue light of fireflies, the "blue ghosts," was neither ultraviolet, nor infrared, and the blue tone of the "cold light" is actually just as green as regular fireflies, alas, blue only to the human eye, which tends to default to the blue scale. They were bounding, bouncing, against his Florida room screen, not unlike maglevs at The Ponds, and glowering blue light in their search for romance, and he waved at them, suffice to say there were no lady fireflies indoors. He had more affinity for the holly trees, the sensible Ilex, in the scarce woodlands of New York City. He knew lady ghosts eat their beau.
And he knew a single holly leaf, within the martse of gravity, Earth, and not Grand Marnier, somewhere in New York City, probably in Central Park, an Aquifoliaceae was beginning a new, and solitary journey. He penciled a koan about this fictive holly leaf, and the Ilex, and The Ponds, generally, as much as to see if he could; he wrote: The waving veins of a/ winter berry; – holly / blooms red, before the snow.
The ghastly swelling was Edema. He likened it, in this adagio, to "elephantiasis." He was grateful he could not recall using it as a derogatory phrase in his childhood days. He was, in his grandmother's idiom, a "regular guy" in school; this recuperation from a traumatic illness – when the body embarks upon a brave, new world, gingerly-engineered by pharmaceuticals – demands all hands on deck, and every tiny grace. Edema chums with heart failure. It is not "elephantiasis," or lymphatic filariasis, but it is a close friend, and a neighbor. He became suddenly heftier by a temporary forty pounds of fluid, the uncut rivers to a grave; a heart functioning with less efficiency is dreadfully inefficient, and does much less in much more time. Recovery meant his medication, and he, literally, had to swim for dry land, and the proverbial foggy shore. A shadow dance; it was an elegant, and inelegant contest with Death. Waves of fluid were overrunning his veins, and overwhelmed his ankles to unhealthy, murky depths. He no longer saw his ankles, thankfully; the puffy skin grew in ululating folds around them, his ankles, and his toes, and if it were possible to see his ankles, if he twisted and bent at an awkward angle with his bulging abdomen, it was even worse; new layers of folding, bloated epidermis piled upon another, and broke wide scabs of earlier scar tissue, because, the size of these waves, these layers, was too large to blend into the joints. His belly enlarged, of course, and absorbed a fair share of the yea forty pounds of water. He was hefty. The heart was not promptly-refining the flow of blood, and other fluid oozed through the veins, like floodwater from a river bank. His genitals and bladder flooded, and tripled in size. He was drowning; alone, in his body, a quiet sea. The condition was unfit for the trappings of fashion, and also personal regard. He went back to the emergency room about it; the general rule was to go to the ER, if you added three-to-five pounds of weight in a day; hell, this was forty! Their consensus was medication needed time to work.
Misfortune was not a passing squall. He chose the grand oak rocker in his Florida room as a complement to a new Recovery Camp; one triumph was taping television shows on a DVR. He doze for minutes routinely, but often hit the back of his head on the headboard of the rocking chair, and awoke. More frustrating, he injured his woeful, scabbed heels against the sharp, curved runners of the rocker, and it caused more blotches. He meant to sand those edges; it was such a nice oak chair.
It was a shadow dance. It was musing sleeplessly in mortal pain, a pain he could neither find nor place nor define. Was it shock? Maybe. If he could define it, he would certainly feel better. Was it the thin air? He situated the recovery camp in the bath room. He could gaze at the outdoors through a bathroom window, which was glazed in a privacy gray. He noticed a broad streak from a futile effort to clear it with glass cleaner. A tree waved frantically in the tropical wind.
He had built a warren, for a war, a war raging in his body between the forces of death, and modern chemistry; and it was ravaging him like a tired city, bombed from the air; his forces, the medications, were stealthy ninja, the enemy, spritely viruses, like Comanche in the woods, and lousy weather. The brain was hapless; it was too soon to tell; a shadow dance. All of it was all far too dull. It was far too murky. He should still stay alert. This was a shadow dance, a rundown in baseball with death at first base, and death at second base; he was the runner. The shadow dance. He could pass out, and why not? He was already prone to the toidy. He could try to pass out. The daze did not make him nauseous. Gym shorts covered his knees. The hamper was a table in front of him. He had stocked everything he could possibly need for the being time, and buried his head in a makeshift ball of towels. Ready for anything. Ready to go. Ready to vomit. Could he could vomit? No. Different time, different place. Get with the program. What was the program? The hamper towels were inches from his nose; everything was anything but well. Sleep was urgent, and he summoned every energy to sleep, but this kept him awake. Alert. Right. The Shadow Dance. He'd have to pass out. He closed the bathroom door. To keep death in the kitchen.
He used his foot to sift through apples lying on the ground, until Aji objected, "They don't like that."
"They? The apples?"
She smiled ineffably. "Exactly. This vale is an incubator. The seeds will grow into trees, and so on, and so on. Doesn't it make sense?"
"I guess it's ecology."
She said, "We could go to The Market?"
"The Market?"
"It's a famous part of Hydra, the great Galaxy," Aji said. "They have endless vegetation from all of the other planets, and the moons, wherever the climate suits their growth. Arugula, borrage, bok choy, dill. How about cat sear? That's a flat weed."
"N-not just now."
They took a last glimpse at the Vale of the Apple Trees, and neither tried to conceal their wonder at the remnant grandeur in their eyes. "Something else?" Aji remarked.
He asked, "Can we take, say, a bushel?"
Aji was disquieted. "No!"
"Why?" he chuckled. "Why not?"
Aji said, "These are rose apples."
A drop of water. A closed door. The fortified room. Flowery wallpaper. He had things to do, important things; this did not stop, and wait. But no. A shadow dance. The medications were winning the silent war, of course. Matter of time. Matter of time. Hope was a breath in the twilight. There was beauty in the vales of Hydra. "There is beauty is what is left undone." Mort. Whatever.
The camp. Complete. Fresh towels. Five towels made a pillow. Pill box. Pills for every day of the week. TP. Gauze. (Gauze?) A case of lemon-lime unCola. Potato chips. A stack of face cloths. A dozen partly-read New Yorkers. A travel case. Razors. Shaving cream. Everything. Tissue. Ashtrays. Five packs of cigarettes, new in a neat pile. Some extra clothes. The Go-Bag, of course. And a radio. A weather radio. Clock. Everything. Paper, pens, pencils, a sharpener. Batteries.
He could forage, if necessary, build a larger trench. The light in the bathroom was extra bright. He flexed his muscles to sleep. No luck. And thin air. He buried his face angrily in the towels. The shadow dance. He craned his neck to see the tree. "Fireflies?" ◊
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Christ Church, Hipperholme meeting member Sarah explained her rollercoaster weight loss struggles over the years had a number of highs and lows including a photograph which captured what should have been a precious moment of her acting as bridesmaid at her sister's wedding in May 2011.
"At the time of the wedding, I'd never really thought about my weight," said Sarah, 33 of West Avenue.
"I had always been big, ever since I was about 11, and exercise wasn't a word that ever really entered my head. I just didn't think about it.
"So, when I went to get my dress for my sister's big day, it didn't bother me what size it was or even how I looked.
"In fact, when the day of the wedding finally came, I felt really nice. The wedding itself was beautiful and we all had a lovely time, but that feeling of happiness was all about to change when the photos began to appear on social media the next day.
"Instantly I went from being happy about the way I looked to hating everything about me: my dress, my hair, everything. I felt awful."
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However, following her honeymoon in 2012, her weight began to fluctuate after taking the decision to stop the medication and go it alone, and she was further challenged following the sudden death of her mother following a period of illness in August, 2016.
Sarah added: "My whole world had shifted, and I piled the weight back on, stone after stone until I was almost back at where I started."
Quitting her job in 2016 due to her self-confidence being at an all-time low Sarah recalls how a discussion with a family friend at the hairdressers led through the doors of her local Weight Watcher meeting.
"She told me that the coach there, Paula Joyce, was fabulous, motivating and inspirational. She also had a voucher I could use. I did - and the rest is history! I haven't looked back."


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A cloud of confusion remains on analytical philosophy about determinism and indeterminism, compatibilism and incompatibilism. In Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia (Portuguese journal of Philosophy), Christina Schneider, of university of Munich, wrote:
«First: There is the problem of determinism versus indeterminism. If the world is deterministic, it is held, then there is no place for alternatives, so wheter or not the result of any human deliberation, is manifested in the "extra-mental" sphere is independent of deliberation. What happens in the world is fixed once and forever from the very begining. This is the root of the disagreement between compatibilists and imcompatibilists. Compatibilists say that indeterminism is not indispensable ingredient for freedom, incompatibilists opt for the contrary. (...) If the world is indeterministic an option to be taken seroiusly, then - so van Inwagen argues - the manifestation of any deliberative process is a pure matter of chance.» (Christina Schneider, Freedom is not a Mistery, in Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, Tomo 3, Fascículo 4, pagina 1274, Braga, 2007; the bold is put by me).
The first confusion of Christina Schneider is about what is deterministic world: on saying that «If the world is deterministic, it is held, then there is no place for alternatives» she makes a remarkable error. Deterministic world is not a world subject to an absolute fatalism. In deterministic world there is the free will, the deliberation of bilions of human beings and, hence, there are always alternatives, at least apparently. In fact, the inteligence and capacity of deliberation and free action of man are indeterministic factors to be attached to the deterministic character of the natural world. There are, always, alternatives because of men´s deliberations and actions: for example, a government may choose to install a nuclear plant in a region of Portugal or Spain (determinism of nuclear energy) or to not install it (absence of determinism of nuclear radiation). Considering both cases, there will be different results in each one. So, it is wrong to state about deterministic world, as Christina Schneider does, that «What happens in the world is fixed once and forever from the very begining». She confuses determinism with fatalism. On fatalism, there are no alternatives, on determinism there are various alternatives for the same situation or being.
The second confusion of Christina is the confusion on compatibilism and incompatibilim. She argues:«Compatibilists say that indeterminism is not indispensable ingredient for freedom, incompatibilists opt for the contrary.» This is wrong. What is compatibilism? It is any formal theory that articulates two entities or two different ways of being. The so-called soft determinism is a compatibilism because reconciles or harmonizes free will and determinism biophysical (Example: a giant wave in the sea approaches but I am free to shove it or not). The so-called libertarianism (free will and absence of byophisical determinism) is also a compatibilism - «Oh, heresy!», claim analytical philosophers - because it reconciles the human free will with the freedom of biophysical nature, without fixed and necessary laws.
What is indeterminism? Indeterminism is the absence of necessity, the existence of chance, random. There are two kinds of indeterminism: in human´s minds and in biophysical nature. Free will is a part of indeterminism although no analytical philosopher conceives this. It is impossible to exist free will without indeterminism. The essence of free will is indeterminism.
© (Direitos de autor para Francisco Limpo de Faria Queiroz)
What is libertarianism?
Acording to the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, it is :
«Libertarianism (metaphysical) A view that seeks to protect the reality of human free will" by supposing that a free choice is not causally determined but not random either (see DILLEMA OF DETERMINISM) .» (Simon Blackburn, Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, 2005, pag 210)»
The distinction between compatibilism and libertarianism is not clear in this Dicitionary and in minds of many second class philosophers as Blackburn and his epigonous, including almost all authors of portuguese manuals of philosophy for secondary schools (Pedro Galvão, Luis Rodrigues, Desidério Murcho, Pedro Madeira, Paulo Ruas, Aires Almeida, etc):
«II-Soft determinism or compatibilism. Reactions in this family assert that everything you should want from a notion of freedom is quite compatible with determinism. (...)«III-Libertarianism. This is the wiew that, while compatibilism is an evasion, there is a more substantive, real notion of freedom that can yet be preserved in the face of determinism (or of indeterminism). In Kant, while the empirical and phenomenal self is determined and not free, the noumenal or rational self is capable of rational, free action» (Simon Blackburn, Dictionary of Philosophy, pag. 141; the bold is put by us).
There is a lack of clearness! Why is compatibilism "an evasion"? Blackburn is unable to explain it rationally to us.
On presenting the moral of Kant as an example of libertarianism, as he defines it, Blackburn commits an error. Kant is a compatibilist: admits free will, base of categorical imperative, and no free will (an inferior will, slave of the desires), base of the hypothetical imperative. There is not a self preserved from deterministic influence because the self, acording, to Kant has a double nature: noumenal ( a priori) and phenomenal.
Nobody has his free will preserved from biological and social pressions - except God, perhaps- so libertarianism, as they define it, is an ilusion, a confused view.
Compatibilism is a form of libertarianism - defining this, correctly, as the theory which admits free will - and the other form of libertarianism is free will coexisting with indeterminism in biocosmical nature.
Portuguese Note: Em 31 de Janeiro de 2008, às 21.30 horas, na biblioteca municipal de Beja, lançamento do livro «Os acidentes em Lisboa na Astronomia-Astrologia, Accidents and Astrology in U.S.A.» da autoria de quem escreve este blog. Convidam-se os professores e amantes da filosofia, do sul de Portugal e Huelva e Sevilla, a estarem presentes. É uma festa para nós, os filósofos, apoderarmo-nos das alavancas da epistemologia, das ciências (história social e política; astronomia) e inflectirmos estas, nomeadamente a história mergulhada no oceano de um certo indeterminismo.
© (Direitos de autor para Francisco Limpo de Faria Queiroz)
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