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National Capital Authority
Section 1: Entity overview and resources
1.1 Strategic direction statement
The National Capital Authority (NCA) was established under the Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Act 1988 (the PALM Act).
The PALM Act prescribes the NCA's powers and functions and makes it subject to general Ministerial direction. The Minister for Regional Development, Territories and Local Government has administrative responsibility for the PALM Act.
On behalf of the Australian Government, the NCA performs the role of trustee and manager of areas in Canberra and the ACT that are designated as National Land for the special purpose of Canberra as Australia's National Capital. The NCA works closely and collaboratively with the ACT Government in shaping the future of Canberra through the National Capital Plan and related planning and development work. The NCA also manages much of the National Estate—such as Lake Burley Griffin, the National Triangle and Anzac Parade—and educates and informs the community about Canberra's unique characteristics and special role as the National Capital.
The functions of the NCA are set out in section 6 of the PALM Act and include:
- to prepare and administer a National Capital Plan, providing the overall planning and development framework for Canberra as Australia's National Capital
- to keep the Plan under constant review and to propose amendments to it as required
- on behalf of the Commonwealth, to commission works to be carried out in Designated Areas in accordance with the Plan where neither a Department of State of the Commonwealth nor any Commonwealth authority has the responsibility to commission those works
- to recommend to the Minister the carrying out of works that the NCA considers desirable to maintain or enhance the character of the National Capital
- to foster an awareness of Canberra as the National Capital
- with the Minister's approval, to perform planning services for any person or body, whether within Australia or overseas
- with the exception of the taking of water, and with the Minister's approval, to manage National Land designated in writing by the Minister as land required for the special purposes of Canberra as the National Capital, on behalf of the Commonwealth
The main components of the NCA's work is to:
- support the planning, design and development of nationally significant parts of Canberra and the ACT
- inform and educate the community about the unique characteristics and importance of Canberra as the National Capital
- manage and enhance Commonwealth assets on National Land
Pending the passage of the Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Amendment Bill 2017, from 1 July 2018, the accountable authority for the purposes of finance law as set out in the PGPA Act, will transfer from the Chief Executive of the NCA to the NCA board (also known as 'the Authority'), as established by the PALM Act.
The NCA's key priorities for 2018–19 include:
- conducting ongoing review and amendment of the National Capital Plan to meet the needs of the local and broader Australian community, and ensuring the planning framework guides future development
- developing, improving and managing visitor services, attractions and programs to meet program aims and be engaging and informative, including the re-design of the National Capital Exhibition
- finalising a rigorous asset management program to improve the safety and amenity of the national capital estate and the integrity of the major symbolic and nationally significant assets
1.2 Entity resource statement
Table 1.1 shows the total funding from all sources available to the NCA for its operations and to deliver programs and services on behalf of the Government.
The table summarises how resources will be applied by outcome (government strategic policy objectives) and by administered (on behalf of the government or the public) and departmental (for the NCA's operations) classification.
Information in this table is presented on a resourcing (i.e. appropriations/cash available) basis, whilst the 'Budgeted expenses by Outcome 1' table in Section 2 and the financial statements in Section 3 are presented on an accrual basis.
Table 1.1: National Capital Authority resource statement—Budget estimates for 2018–19 as at Budget May 2018
1.3 Budget measures
Budget measures in Part 1 relating to the NCA are detailed in Budget Paper No. 2—Budget Measuresand are summarised below.
Table 1.2: Entity 2018–19 Budget measures
Part 2: Other measures not previously reported in a portfolio statement
This table is not provided as there are no other measures not previously reported in a portfolio statement for the NCA.


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Que el agua ya esta caliente! Que ya hirvio el agua!
Phone rings
Hi, oh my God! That's awful. When did it happen? Oh, jeez
Yes, it's true, we all gonna die
Okay, we'll talk later
Screaming again
It's dead now! The water is dead. It's true, we waste too much water. And who cares about your stupid bath anyway?
I could be representing so many things at this mment. I could be meaning something
Have you been reading about mental illness lately? Do you know how it works? No, you don't. Nobody does
We hope not to starve right?
Not to be tortured
Not suffer from illness, pain, injustice, heart break
We all gonna die anyway, but those two minutes that we are alive we want to be free. And the people around us to be free too. Happy, we are all happy
I prefer not to be killed harrased, tortured, sentenced to death,. And do not send me to war, cause I am not gonna fight
I stopped believing in God and I am running out of future, so I don't believe in the future anymore
But everytime the sun comes up a new day starts and we feel hope again
Unless we've been devoured by the darkness already
I have
I used to be happy like a child
But we are dying, they are killing us, one by one
But I am here to make you happy, to give you faith in art and love and new forms
I want to be so post post modern
And I don't want to be screaming. I want to murmur in your ear and make love
Let me give you some consolation. You don't have to do anything. Stop accomplishing. You don't have to accomplish anything
Look, the new thing in acting is to not act
The new thing about me is that you'll never know which one is me
I am not acting, I am really dying, right here, in front of you
I tried before to kill myself, then I changed my mind. I am not just going to die, not kill myself, but stop existing
Ay estos latinos, mi dios, que tragicos que son, que melodramaticos!
- What are you trying to do? To make me feel guilty? Fuck you, fuck you. Go die in your basement!. I don't need to see this
It's too crowded in my basement. We are all dying in the basement! Nobody is going to notice if I die there!
Gosh it's fun in there, we fuck and dance
How did I make it all the way here? I am free. It's true, I shouldn't be ungrateful. It's thank to you that I am here
No, I don't do drugs
I don't pray, I don't fast
There's a lot of people marching. They are all leaving their homes and joining the huge march to end the wars, they are screaming and runing at last
I don't want to die without seeing it. We talked too long already. They torture animals and people, even a flooding sounds better
They even believe in rapture. Their rapture
They took everything from us, god, earth, what is in here and what is in there
And who is them anyway? Who's us?
I am the one cleaning your ass
No, I am not a nurse. But I should. To see you dying. Or them? Okay, them
I want you to hate me and throw stones at me
It's you an me and 5 millions who don't give a shit
I am going to dance to elevate your soul. I will show you my craft. I will prove you how beautiful a human being can be. I am healthy. I am alive. I am screaming and you are listening. There's so much literature already. I am iliterate. I can't even speak properly. And so what? You'll go home and think, what's next? And we all know so well what's next. It's all lined up for us. Waiting
One sip at the time. It's just one more day at work, then we'll take a break. There's no more time for philosophy. Don't analize me, we'll march until we die. Because it's all mashed up together.
It's desperation I am talking about. It's all the people out there, waiting. For us to do something about it. To help them. Do you know what is like to suffer and nobody knows? Nobody comes to help you. Nobody can hear you. Maybe we do. Maybe we can hear them. And that's what's making us sick, inside
Outside the realm of human-
people are different from humans. Gente es diferente de los animales
The bowel movement
The women's movement
The dance movement
I am telling you, poetry dies when you are happy
I am telling you, it dies when you don't care anymore
Or you have no more to say and you start repeating the same
Or when you feel burned out., no more. Did you make any change? So why do you continue?
I've been talking to you the whole time
I've been talking to you the whole time
It doesn't matter if you don't listen. Or if you are there at all
The important thing is
Actually, there's no important thing
The thing is
There's no importan thing
But it's funny, it takes a lot of work to make you laugh
And what do I care if you laugh?
And who are you anyway?
It doesn't matter as long as you love me or you hate me
Really, it doesn't matter. This is actually about me
About me talking to you. Listen. Listen. I am no philosopher. I am no nothing. I walk. I walk. That's what I do. I get tired. Phisically tired. Not even emotionally tired anymore. Everything goes so fast. When I was younger things wer moving slowly I thought. The old people, the children, everything was in one place as it was
Everything was more permanent, they were old, we were young. Then everything starts moving faster. People die, people grow, everything changes so fast, nothing stays in one place. We are not really much of anything. It makes sense to care you know. It makes sense. Break the space. Open a hole. For beauty, art. Come-on, scream, it's art, it's a protest, you are protesting now, and you are creating art, come on this is new york. I have to confess, I love New York. I have to confess, I…. mmm… should I say that? Snobby, pretentious piece of shit
Language! What a marvelous thing language
I am sure it's knowledge that you are producing, poetry, politics maybe. Don't mix up everything. We are here to witness the disaster.
The chaos, the disgusting injustice. And do nothing about it
It feels so burgeois to be thinking and acting and writing. If we would believe that this little moment that we are sharing. This little instant between you and me. If we believe that this little moment it's important. If we believe in this instant, then we wouldn't let it pass. We wouldn't let it go. Now. Right now. In this little moment, we are being part of the universe. And we are together. For good or for worse, we are together. If I would tell you exactly what I think
It's so good to learn how to lie, very useful
Let me tell you exactly what hapenned

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Before buying the hot, new toy this holiday season, you might want to see if it connects to the Internet. Because consumer advocates are saying it could pose significant privacy, security and other risks to children.
Advocacy groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over two toys they claim collects and uses personal information from children in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and FTC rules prohibiting unfair and deceptive practices. The toys in question are My Friend Cayla and I-Que Intelligent Robot.
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The Lord's Day
June 7, 2009
Romans 8:1-4
"The Best Chapter in the Bible (1): "No
Dr. Derek W. H.
Now turn with me in your Bibles to the eighth chapter of
Romans, and let me explain a little of the unusual circumstances that we have
this morning.
Now when Ligon asked me to preach a series of
sermons, twelve weeks or so over these summer months, my heart and soul
immediately turned to the eighth chapter of Romans. And as I was thinking about
it, unbeknown to me that this title had in fact been used elsewhere (which I
discovered later), but I'm calling this series "The Best Chapter in the Bible."
Now that might raise a few hackles among some of you. I'm not at all suggesting
that some parts of Scripture are more inspired than others; I simply want to
acknowledge what I would call "the ten minutes before death strategy." If you
were ten minutes away from dying and you were going to ask someone to read the
Scriptures to you, I wonder if you would ask them to read the first eight
chapters of I Chronicles. [Laughter.] Now if you haven't been to the
first eight chapters of
I Chronicles in the last few weeks or months, let me tell
you that it contains probably around a thousand [I haven't done the math, but I
think it's about a thousand] names. It's eight chapters of genealogy. And I
rather think that many of you will agree with me that the eighth chapter of
Romans, in a way that the rest of Scripture does not, speaks immediately to
those truths that we regard as the most glorious and the most personal. Romans 8
is in fact a road trip, which seems appropriate for a summer series, don't you
think? You'll see in the reading this morning, in verse 4, it makes use of a
very Paul-like word: "Who walk not according to the flesh, but according
to the Spirit." It begins with no condemnation in verse 1, and it ends in
the final verse (verse 39) with no separation. No condemnation; no
separation. Which one of us has not from time to time in moments of stress and
difficulty and doubt and trouble turned to those closing words — the climax — of
the eighth chapter of Romans:
"Who shall separate me from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ our Lord?
Not life, nor death, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all of
creation…nothing can separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord."
So next week Ligon will preach the second in this series,
but the rest of them I will do. And I trust that this series, this summer road
trip through Romans 8 all the way to glory, if you like, will prove to be a help
and a balm to all of our souls.
Now before we read the first four verses of Romans 8,
let's look to God in prayer.
Our Father in heaven, this is the word of God: the
living and abiding word inspired, breathed out by You, able to make us wise unto
salvation through faith which is in Jesus Christ our Lord. Now this morning we
pray especially for the help and the illumination of the Holy Spirit, and we
pray to the end that Christ our magnificent Savior might be exalted. Help us to
understand that which we read this morning, but more than that, help us to be
doers of Your word. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.
This is God's holy, inerrant word:
"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For
the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of
sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not
do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He
condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law
might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to
the Spirit."
Amen. May the Lord add His blessing to that reading of His
holy and inerrant word.
Now we will on another occasion outline our way
through Romans 8, but this morning I want us to dive straight into what is one
of the most glorious and magnificent texts in all of Scripture. I have to
confess I'm a little daunted by it, it is so big, it is so great, it is so
magnificent. In many ways it encapsulates the entirety of the gospel and what it
has to say about the Christian life. You could summarize Christianity and what
it means to be a Christian, what are the implications of being found in Jesus
Christ this morning, simply by reading Romans 8:1-4. If there was such a thing
as "The Christian Life for Dummies" — you know that series of books — well, if
there was such a thing as "The Christian Life for Dummies," it could do no
better than simply recite for us these opening four verses of Romans 8.
In the course of these verses Paul asserts three
things about every believer. About every man and woman and boy and girl who is
found in Jesus Christ, three things are true. In Christ there is no
condemnation, that's the first thing. In Christ, we have been set free, we have
been liberated. That's the second thing. And, in Christ we walk not according to
the flesh, but according to the Spirit. That's the third thing. And I want us to
think along those three lines of thought as we expound together these opening
four verses of Romans 8.
I. Christians are no longer
under condemnation.
Now you'll notice that it begins with the word
therefore, and as you all know by now, the question you ask when you see
that word therefore is "What is the therefore there for? Why is it
there?" Now Paul is drawing a conclusion. He's drawing a conclusion in the
particular context. He's drawing a conclusion from something that he has said in
this epistle. If you turn back with me to chapter 5 and verse 16, there seems to
be a link between what he's saying now in Romans 8:1 and what he's been saying
in 5:16. He says in 5:16, "The free gift is not like the result of that one
man's sin…" [that one man's sin of course being Adam] "…for the judgment
following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many
trespasses brought justifica-tion." There is condemnation; there is
justification. And then if you drop down to verse 18, you'll see Paul repeating
it again: "Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one
act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men."
Now Paul seems to be reflecting on that in the first
verse of Romans 8: 'In Christ there is no condemnation. This is what I've been
saying. This is what I've been telling you. This is what I've been writing
about. In Jesus Christ, therefore, on the basis of all that I've said, there is
no condemnation.' Now it's important for us to see that Paul means this in
relationship to Jesus Christ. We will see it repeated again in verse 2, but
"there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are Christ Jesus." I'm
reminded of something John Calvin writes in The Institutes of the Christian
Religion: that so long as Christ remains outside of us, all that He has
accomplished for us remains useless and of no value to us. That which Christ has
accomplished for us on the cross needs to be internalized. It needs to be
actualized. We need to be brought into a relationship with Jesus Christ. So Paul
is thinking here of justification.
You remember how in the opening chapters of Romans
that has been his theme. He begins the Epistle to the Romans by expounding the
doctrine of sin: 'There is none righteous, no, not one…for all have sinned and
come short of the glory of God.' Paul surveys the entirety of humanity, Jews as
well as Gentiles, those who are in possession of the covenant of God and those
who are not; those who are beneficiaries of all of the privileges and status
that belong to the people of God of the Old Testament and those who are not;
Jews and Gentiles, those who have the Scriptures and those who do not. And he
concludes, you remember, "There is none righteous, but all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God." And the great question arises that's the greatest
question that we can ever ask given the fact that there is none righteous, given
the fact that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God: How can a
sinner be found in a right relationship with God? Not just God, but a holy God,
a righteous God? That's the greatest question that we can ask. How is it
possible for a sinner to be made right with God? How is it possible for God, who
is just, to justify the sinner? How can He be just and the justifier of him who
believes in Jesus? Paul is reflecting on the gospel itself: that God has found a
way to be true to himself, to be true to His righteousness, to be true to His
nature, to be true to the integrity of His being and justify sinners at the same
So this morning here in this sanctuary it is possible
that sinners like you and me can be in a right standing and a right relationship
with God; so that we can say there is no condemnation, that once we were
condemned; once we were under the curse of the broken law; once we were sinners
facing the condemnation of God, but no more. This morning we stand in a
relationship in which our sins are forgiven, our sins are blotted out, they are
removed from us as far as the east is from the west. They are buried in the sea
of God's forgetfulness. There is no condemnation.
I think of Wesley's great hymn, And Can It Be?
"And can it be that I should
an interest in the Savior's
… No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus and all in Him is mine.
Alive in Him, my living Head,
I'm clothed in righteousness
Bold, I approach the eternal
and claim the crown, through
Christ, my own."
That's our song this morning. That's our status this
morning. That's our privilege this morning. If we are in Jesus Christ, there is
no condemnation. All of our sins — the darkest, blackest sins — are covered and
you and I are in this glorious condition, in this glorious state that we can say
this morning, "There is no condemnation."
I think Paul isn't just thinking about justification.
He's not just thinking about what he had been writing about in chapters 2 and 3
and 4 and 5. I think this therefore is probably also saying something
about what he's just been writing about in chapter 7. You remember what Paul has
been saying in chapter 7 — the struggle that Christians have with ongoing sin:
"The good that I would, I do not; the evil that I would not, that I find that I
do." That's your experience this morning, isn't it? You've come to church this
Sunday morning and you are very conscious, some of you, that you're not what you
want to be, that you have sinned even as a believer. Even as somebody in union
with Jesus Christ, you have fallen short of the glory of God. You struggle, and
there are ups and there are downs, and you can relate to what Paul is saying in
the closing section of Romans 7, that the good that you would do, you do not;
and the evil that you would not, that you find that you do. And you perhaps say
with the Apostle Paul this morning, "Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall
deliver me from the body of this death?"
And, you see, I think we fall into a grave error
just at this point. We are Christians; we believe in Jesus Christ, and
there's no condemnation. But then we sin, and we revert to a state of
condemnation again, so we try to do a little better. We come to church, we read
our Bibles, we sing more lustily one of the hymns. We have nice thoughts about
Jesus. And then we slip back into a state of no condemnation again. But then
tomorrow we sin again, and we slip back into a state of condemnation, and we try
to do some more good things and try to love Jesus more, and read perhaps an
extra chapter of the Bible. And then we slip back into a state of no
condemnation again. That's performance mentality. It dogs us, doesn't it? It
hounds us all the time. We can hardly believe our eyes; we can hardly believe
our ears when we read here in Romans 8 not just about the state of
justification, but about the state of sanctification, about the reality of our
condition now as ongoing sinners: there is no condemnation. If you are in Jesus
Christ, there is no condemnation. Yes, I have sinned. Yes, I have fallen short
of God's glory. Yes, I have come to Jesus Christ. I have put my faith and trust
in Him, and I continue to sin. I fall short this morning, even now. Even at this
very minute I fall short of the glory of God. But I am in Jesus Christ, I am
resting in Him, I am trusting in Him, and there is no condemnation to those who
are in Christ Jesus.
My dear friends, that's the gospel. That's the
beauty of it. That's the extraordinary nature of the gospel. You can hardly
believe it! You're saying to yourselves, 'Isn't that a license to sin, then?
That if I can sin and still be in a state of no condemnation, isn't that license
to sin?' You know, if you're not tempted to think like that you haven't
understood the gospel. The gospel brings us right to the very edge, and Paul is
making one of the most glorious statements imaginable. Tell me a better
statement! Tell me a more glorious statement this morning than this one, that
for the man or woman who is in Jesus Christ there is no condemnation! The
verdict of the Last Day before the grand assize of God has been brought forth
into the now, so that what is true of me now will be true of me then: that on
that Day of Judgment, to the man or woman in Jesus Christ there is no
condemnation. There is no condemnation.
There can only be one application, and that is
just overwhelming thanksgiving and overwhelming gratitude, and overwhelming
worship and love towards God that He has found a way to justify sinners like us.
My dear friends, are you exulting in the gospel this morning? Do you love it
more than anything else in all the world? Is it your constant thought and
meditation? "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ear…" and that
name is sweet because it's full of gospel, because it meets us where we are as
sinners, as transgressors of God's law.
That's the first thing: there is no condemnation.
What a beautiful statement that is. Go home… [not yet!]…but go home this
afternoon and repeat that to yourself. Tell yourself, "I'm in Jesus Christ, and
there is no condemnation." What a balm that is! What a beautiful thing that is!
What a sweet thing that is, what a glorious thing! You can hardly believe it. A
million questions arise in your mind as to how that can possibly be, but it's
true, I tell you. It is truer than anything else that I can say this morning,
that in Jesus Christ there is no condemnation. Not just about past sins, but
present sins and future sins. Whatever sin you may commit tomorrow, there is no
condemnation if you're in Jesus Christ. They're blotted out. What a glorious
statement…what an astonishing statement. It takes your breath away.
II. Christians are free from
the law of sin and death.
But there's a second thing that Paul asserts here,
and that is in verse 2: that we are free. We have been set free. There is a
condition of emancipation: "For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free
in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death." You've been set free — free from
what? Free from the law of sin and death.
I rather think that Paul is thinking of law
there in terms of the Ten Commandments. And it's a difficult thing, because if
you turn back to chapter 7 and verse 7, he says, "What then shall we say? That
the law is sin? By no means!" Turn to verse 16: "If I do what I do not want, I
agree with the law, that it is good." The law is good. He says in verse 22, "I
delight in the law of God." There is a sense that the Ten Commandments are good,
and Paul delights in it. It is a frame of reference by which he lives his life.
That's not his concern here, in Romans 8:2. There's as aspect of the law that is
good. There's an aspect of the law that is right. There's an aspect of the law
that conforms our lives to the pattern of behavior that God wants us to live by,
but that's not his concern here. He's thinking of another aspect of the law…the
law of sin and death.
I think of Jerome, the great translator of the Bible
into Latin, the Vulgate…Jerome in Antioch, who for a brief season in his life
decided that he would become a hermit, an ascetic…went out into the desert,
lived among wild animals and scorpions. He was just a shadow of his former self
because of his extreme methods of fasting and so on, trying to live by the
standards of God's holy law as he understood it. He tells us in a shocking
narrative, biographical narrative of that experience, even as he was trying to
conform himself as he understood it to the standards of God's law, he found that
his mind — even in the midst of a desert, his body wasting away — his mind was
filled with the thought that he was in Rome and surrounded by young girls. It's
shocking. The law couldn't help him. It was a law of sin and death. In fact, all
that the law did was to exacerbate and exaggerate his native sinful condition,
because that's all the law does. The law condemns. The law condemns! It is the
gospel that brings life, and that's why Paul says the law of the Spirit of life
has set you free. The force of the Holy Spirit has set you free, and that's a
kind of euphemism, if you like, for the gospel. The gospel has set you free, but
the law condemns.
I was reading on the way back from a recent visit
this week to my grandchildren in Scotland. I was reading the autobiography of
Nelson Mandela. Twenty-seven years he spent in prison, incarcerated. I was
reading the overwhelmingly moving description of the day that he was released
from prison…that he walks from his prison cell to the gate and to freedom. Ten
thousand days he had spent in prison. He says, "As I finally walked through
those gates, I felt, even at the age of 71, that my life was beginning anew."
Well, that's what Paul is saying. If you're in Jesus Christ, your life has begun
anew. The law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the
law of sin and death.
And that's a thing about every Christian.We walk
through those gates of a prison house.The prison house in this caseis the
law.A law that cannot justify.A law that cannot make usright with god.A law
that cannot help us conform ourselves to the pattern and standard of god's
holiness.A law that only condemns.A law that is relentless,a law that is
unforgiving.A law that doesn't give usa regard.A law that says, "do this and
You see, there are only two ways of salvation.It's
either by the law,or it's by grace.And if by law,the law says do this and
live.And if you do this,you must do it perfectly.You do it without any
blemish,without any spot,without any wrinkle,without any defect,without any
shortcoming.You think you're in control.
In 2003, some of you will remember it,in Las
Vegas.There was a story,you remember,of a man who had performing
tigers.Remember the story?And he told this tiger to do something,and the
tiger refused to do it,so he tapped him on the nose.And that was it.And
within a second he found himself being carried around the ring by this tiger.He
spent several days hovering between life and death.He thought he was in
control,but he wasn't.It's like our relationshipto the law.You think you're
in control,but you're not.You're a slave.You're a captiveto your own sinful
heart.It's like being caught.
Have you ever found yourselfin the position —turn
on the ignition switchof your car,and nothing happens.What do you do when you
turn that switch and nothing happens?Well, you try anything else,don't
you?You try and turn the lights on.Nothing happens.You try using them
all,nothing happens.You try putting the radio on,nothing happens.What you
need is a new battery.Paul is saying here,that's what happens to usin Jesus
Christ in union with Christ,in fellowship with Christ,by faith in Jesus
Christ.We're in a state of no condemnation because we've nowbeen brought into
a new realm.We've been set free from the law of sin and death.And we are
alive.My dear friends,let's look and behave this morning as though we are
alive through Jesus Christ.Alive to God.Alive to Christ.Alive to the Holy
Spirit.Alive to His word.Alive to the things that matter.
My dear friends, there are only two ways of
salvation: by the law, or by grace. The law says to you Do this and live. That's
all it says…Do this and live. Perform this and live. But I want to tell you this
morning that the law knows nothing of mercy. The law knows nothing of grace. The
law knows nothing of forgiveness. The law is relentless. The law demands
absolute obedience …absolute obedience. It demands perfection, because whosoever
transgresses in one tiny detail transgresses the whole of God's law. It's
perfection or nothing. You want to try and earn your way into the kingdom of
heaven? Then you must be perfect. You must be absolutely perfect, because doing
my best will not work. The law doesn't understand I'm doing my best! The law
doesn't understand I'm trying!
Have you come to realize that, my friends? Have you
come to appreciate that by the works of the law no man, no woman can be saved?
Have you come to appreciate this morning what Paul is saying here, that it's
either by law or it's by grace? And Paul is saying that the law of the Spirit of
life in Jesus Christ has set me free. It's set me free from that treadmill of
works righteousness, of performance mentality of 'Let's try and do one more good
deed in order that God may look down upon me and smile upon me.' And, my dear
friends, if that's the way you're going, it's the way of condemnation. It's a
way of hopelessness. It's a way of despair. And Paul is saying, 'Here's the
gospel. Here's the gospel…it's the law of the Spirit of life that has set me
free. It has set me free.' As Mandela says, "Even at the age of 71, I thought my
life was beginning anew." I'm a new man, a new woman, in Jesus Christ.
Well, that's the second thing he says. The first
thing he says is that there is no condemnation. The second thing that he says is
that we've been set free…set free from that performance mentality, set free from
trying to enter the kingdom by the deeds and works of the law.
III. Christians walk according
to the Spirit.
And there's a third thing that he says: that in
Jesus Christ we walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Now here's the great question: How is this
possible? How is it possible for us to find ourselves this morning in a state of
no condemnation? How is that possible? How is it possible for us to be
emancipated, to be set free, to be liberated from bondage to sin? And the answer
is given to us in what must be one of the most glorious verses in the
Scriptures, in verse 3:
"For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending
His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemning sin in the
Now gird up the loins of your mind, as Paul would
say. You want to understand here…you want to understand what it is that Paul is
saying here. He's using some odd expressions, some unique expressions: "The law
is weak…the law is a law of sin and death…the law provokes sin and brings
death." And why is that law so weak? Because of the flesh. Because of our
natural propensity to do that which God has not sanctioned, that there is a
principle within us to deviate, to miss the mark.
Now notice five things that Paul says here. God
sent His Son. How is this possible? Not by anything from within ourselves.
Not from any human initiative. This is a divine initiative. God sent His Son. He
sent Him into this world; in the fullness of time He was born.
Notice secondly, "in the likeness of sinful
flesh." What an expression that is! Not in the likeness of flesh: that would
imply that He wasn't really flesh and blood, that He wasn't really human; that
He was some kind of apparition perhaps, or some kind of ghostly figure. So Paul
doesn't say in the likeness of flesh, nor does he say God sent His Son
in sinful flesh. He couldn't possibly say that. That would imply that Jesus
was sinful, and He is the holy, spotless, harmless, undefiled one. No, Paul is
anxious to say that Jesus came as close as it's possible to be to where you and
I are and yet He was without sin. He came as the perfect one, truly flesh and
blood, so that we can say of Him this morning that no temptation that you and I
experience is unknown to Him. "He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet
without sin." God sent His Son, He sent Him in the likeness of sinful flesh, and
for sin…for sin.
You know that's the great question that we have to
ask: Why did Jesus have to come? And the answer is for sin. That He would
become a sin offering. He came because we are sinners. He came to redeem us from
our sin. He came to become our substitute. He came in order to be the one upon
whom condemnation would be pronounced. He came as the Lamb of God to be
sacrificed on the cross of Calvary for sin. Look into your pockets, my friends.
Put your hand in your pocket, and what do you find? Reach down into your pocket,
and what do you find? You find the nails that were driven into the feet and
hands of our blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He came for sin. He came to
be the perfect Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, to condemn sin
in the flesh not in some abstract way, not because God would wave a magic wand
and say 'Your sins are forgiven,' but through the substitutionary sacrifice of
Jesus Christ upon the cross, in order that the just requirements of the law
might be fulfilled in us. And that's possible to be interpreted in one of two
ways, but I rather think that here it is a reference to the fact that the just
requirements of the law are that sin needs to be condemned. And they were
condemned not in us, but they were condemned in Jesus Christ. What a gospel this
My dear friend, this morning I want to ask you, are
you trying to earn your way into the kingdom of heaven by means of your own
observance of the law? Then, my friend, you need to understand that it is a law
of sin and death, that by obedience to the law all that can possibly await us is
sin and death and judgment and condemnation. It won't take good intentions. It
won't take into account my best efforts. It won't give you a sabbatical. It
won't offer you assistance. It won't provide forgiveness. If you're saying this
morning, 'I'll do my best,' it will say back to you, 'Your best is not good
Anselm of Canterbury wrote a very famous book called
Why Did God Become Man? in which there was a character called Bozo. He
was a little dim. Six great words emerge in answer to the question Why did God
have to become man, and Bozo couldn't understand it. Why the extravagance? Why
did God have to send His Son? Why did He have to send His Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin? Why did He have to die on the cross? "You have not
yet considered the gravity of your sin." That was the answer. It's when you
appreciate the gravity of your condition that you understand the immensity of
God's provision, that it would take the eternal Son of God to come on our behalf
as our substitute and to die that accursed death of the cross in order to ransom
us and redeem us, and liberate us and set us free so that a banner can fly over
our heads as we find ourselves by the power of the Holy Spirit in union and
communion with Christ — a banner which says "No Condemnation…No Condemnation."
It says to you and me this morning,
"Cast your deadly doing down…down
at Jesus' feet;
And stand in Him, in Him alone,
gloriously complete."
May that be true of every single one of us this morning.
And may we rejoice and find the power and energy that comes from knowing that in
Jesus Christ, by faith in Him alone, there is no condemnation. What a gospel
that is!
Let's pray together.
Father, we thank You for Your word. We have barely
scratched the surface of it. We find its immensities. We want to exult this
morning in the glory and beauty and greatness of our Savior, Jesus Christ, the
provision that You have made for us. Lord, may each one of us here today be able
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Slim's Saturday Pedal: Community Bike RideName: Slim's Saturday Pedal: Community Bike RideDate: March 7, 2020Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM CSTEvent Description:
Invite your friends to SlimPickins Saturday Pedal, leaving from SlimPickins Outfitters headquarters at the Historic Downtown Square in Stephenville!
We'll be shooting for 25-30 miles broken up with a Lingleville Store coffee stop in between. This is a no drop ride, but riders should be prepared with plenty of water, snacks, and basic repair gear. You'll want to bring some cash or a credit card to get some of Lance's excellent coffee at the Lingleville Country Store!


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Sometimes, you can either be right or you can have peace. That's the best advice I ever got from my paternal grandfather. As I go through life, I realize just how true this advice truly is.
I was in the sixth grade – I lived with my paternal grandparents in Atlanta, Georgia – while we were making the transition to Maryland. I spent a lot of time with them through the years: many summers, while mom and dad were in grad school, and other occasions too.
One day, my grandmother (we called her Bama – sounds like BammMa) was fussing at Papa. The thing is, she thought he had done something that he in fact hadn't done. I only know he hadn't done it because I was there and saw everything. When she finished fussing, she marched off to the kitchen to make dinner. Confused, I asked Papa, "Why didn't you speak up and tell her you didn't do it?" That's when he told me that sage advice. "You can either be right or you can have peace. Sometimes you can't have both." He went on to tell me about picking your battles. Through the years, I noticed him sit silently quite often while she fussed at him. They're gone now, and I miss them so. Their wisdom has carried me through many difficulties.
I didn't really get it then. But, I get it now. All things don't require a fight. Many things don't even require a response. Once you learn when to let things go, life becomes so much simpler.


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Video: "Some Writer"
In this video, Melissa Sweet talks about her fully-illustrated biography of author E.B. White. Sweet–who is a Sibert medalist and Caldecott Honor winner–used White's letters, photos, and mementos, as well as her original collaged art, to tell the White's story in Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White.
The video also features quite a few shots of Sweet's studio. And you know how I'm a sucker for studio tours, even if only through still shots and video.
Sweet has a website and is on Facebook.
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Out Of The Ashes You Will Rise.
The question that I get the most is, "How did you turn your life around?" "How were you able make it in business with only $47 in your bank account?" And the answer is that you should be your happiest when you're at your lowest point in your life. Now that sounds a bit farfetched, but hear me out. "When you succeed you party. When you fail you ponder" This quote is straight from a Tony Robbins' book that my mom gave me when I was sleeping on a couch which completely changed the trajectory of my life. This quote reminded me that when something in your life isn't going right, whether it's your finances being a wreck or you getting dumped by a partner, that is the best time for you to ponder. When you fail you should take time to think and reassess, that way you can come back even stronger than you were before. My second mentor Allan Nation said that the definition of an entrepreneur is someone that recreates the world in their own image. So remember when you think you're down and out you really have the clearest path to recreating your world in the exact way you want it.


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My First Movie Opening
Hello All. you are my friends.
Just in case you wanted to see some photos of the event in San Francisco for a movie I produced last year for East Meets West.
I was humbled to be a part of such an amazing group and to have the opportunity to shoot and direct on this film.
the information…
San Francisco. The War Memorial Opera House. Opening of East Meets West doc I spent 8 months working on last year.
the site of the ngo I did this project for…http://eastmeetswest.org
where to see a segment of the film…http://vimeo.com/6095929
the possibilities of jobs from people I met…china/mongolia in october for an clean energy company..an agent orange story..
the photos…
silhouette of me praying outside the screening hall before event
inside the opera house
people from all walks of life gathering
miki and photo friends
receptionist and me
EMW chair John Anner talking about East Meets West
John Anner talking about Vietnam
my film showing
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Trade with GBE brokers
Trading FX and CFDs is risky. We cover you with negative balance protection.
What Is Forex Trading?
What Does Forex Mean?
To answer that question, we need to break the word 'Forex' down. Did You know that Forex is actually a combination of two words? Well it is and those two words are 'Foreign' and ''Exchange'. Foreign Exchange is just one of the names that Forex goes by. It's also known as FX and Currency Trading too.
So, now that we have cleared up what the word forex means, let's look at exactly what it involves and why people love to trade it.
What Is Forex Trading?
The forex market is the largest market in the world with trading volumes measured in trillions of dollars. People from all walks of life trade the forex market, which basically means that they are buying and selling currency pairs like EURUSD and GBPUSD.
What are the most fundamental forex terms?
In every currency pair, the first mentioned currency is called base currency, while the second mentioned currency is called quote currency. In the pair EURUSD, EUR is the base and USD is the quote currency. If EURUSD=1.2000 this means that for 1 EUR You can get 1.20 USD on the market.
When You log in to any trading platform You will see two prices for each pair – Ask and Bid price. As a trader You "sell the bid and buy the ask price". What? To buy a 1.0 lot of EURUSD You need to pay the Ask price. If You then want to sell this lot – You will need to sell it for the Bid price. The terminology comes from the fact that the market players interact with each other on the market by buying and selling currency on the market. When a bank is prepared to buy EURUSD the bank bids and You sell. So "You sell the bid". The Spread will then be the difference between the Bid and Ask price of a pair.
Let's review this example. If You expect the EURUSD to increase in value, You can buy (also known as a 'long' position) EURUSD. By buying EURUSD You are investing in the likelihood of the EUR to appreciate in value against the USD. If You buy EURUSD at 1.1800 and sell (also known as a 'short' position) when the pair price is 1.2000 – You will be on 2 cent profit (per euro).
But how would You know how much You are buying? The Forex trade volume is measured in lots. You select this volume at the point of opening the position at Your MT4 platform. The standard lots sizes are:
- Standard lot (1.0) = 100,000 units of base currency
- Mini lot (0.1) = 10,000 units of base currency
- Micro lot (0.01) = 1,000 units of base currency
Therefore, if You buy (long) a standard lot of EURUSD You are buying 100,000 EUR. But how much will You need to invest? Well here comes the leverage. If You choose leverage 1:1 You will need to pay 100,000 EUR for Your 1.00 lot EURUSD and You will need to have even more funds in Your account to allow for possible decrease of the pair price against Your expectations. Don't worry, GBE brokers offers a negative balance protection and You can't possibly loose more than Your investment. Let's explore a scenario with a leverage of 1:100 instead for instance. In this case You will need to invest 1,000 EUR to purchase 1.0 lot EURUSD. While leverage allows You to purchase more for Your money – this presents You with a much higher level of risk to Your invested capital. This is why leverage above 1:50 is offered only to experienced traders.
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Steps to create a Twitter account for business:
Creating a Twitter account for business is same as creating a twitter account for personal.
Everyone wants to have a platform to make people aware of the new products being launched or new service being added, and the best platform for this is Twitter.
Here are some simple steps to create a Twitter account:
Open Twitter and click on create an account button.
Then fill your business's name and phone number/email address in the respective fields, the phone number/email address should be the business number and not your personal number. Cick Next. As shown in the image below:
4. Then verify your details and click sign up button. As shown in the image below:
5. Then add a secure password, the password should be of 6 characters or more. The password should consist of letters, number, alphabets
6. Add a profile picture that best suits your business. It can also be your business logo. The profile picture should be of size 400*400. Click on next.
7. Add a perfect bio about your business. This bio will help the visitors to know about what your business is all about. Bio acts as a deciding factor, whether the visitors will follow your page or not, so this step is very important.
8. Select your existing contacts to join you, and select your language, your interest. Inviting your existing contacts to join you is the best way to give a kickstart to your account and get almost 40-50 likes and follows the same day.
9. Add the location of your business, your website's URL and other related information about your business
10. Now start following popular people on twitter that matches your business niche.
These are the best and simple steps to create your business account. You can also create a business account with your name and add business's website URL.


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Recent Arts Blog Postings
Topic: Arts, Preschool
Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020
By: Cecile Gregoriades, Director of Communications
One of the highlights of Kindergarten at EB is music class with teacher (and EB parent) Mike Roberts. From January until April, this accomplished guitarist and composer will spend 14 sessions of 30 minutes with each Kindergarten class. In a recent session, you could hear the teacher's directions,... read more
Topic: Arts, Middle School
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2019
By: Olga Popova and Sue Campbell, Middle School Art Teachers
An overview of the art projects that the 6th, 7th and 8th graders have been working on since the beginning of the school year with Ms. Popova (grades 6 and 7) and Ms. Campbell (grade 8). Grade 6: Personal Boxes 6th grade students made personal collection boxes inspired by the art of Joseph... read more
Topic: Arts, Lower School, Middle School
Date: Friday, October 18, 2019
By: Cecile Gregoriades, Director of Communications
At the end of January, French pop artist Ramzi Adek came to Ecole Bilingue to work with students in 5th, 6th, and 7th grades. Adek is an emerging artist in France who likes to combine street culture, pop icons and references to modern and contemporary art. His art has been featured at Art Basel... read more
Topic: Arts, Lower School, Middle School
Date: Monday, June 10, 2019
By: Maggie Schoon, English Curriculum Coordinator
EB's Musical Theater Enrichment Class presented their second production of the year, Mille et Une Nuits, known in English as 1001 Nights or Arabian Nights. On June 10th and June 11th, forty-one third, fourth and fifth graders made up the ensemble cast as they presented tales such as Scheherazade,... read more
Topic: Arts, Lower School
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2019
By: Sebastien Robert, Lower School Head
Watching a play is one thing, but writing and performing one in front of an audience is another thing entirely. That was the challenge that our third graders were tasked. With their French teachers, Luc and Elodie, as their guides, the third graders embarked on a journey through theater, role play... read more
Topic: Arts, Lower School
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2019
By: Anne Kuhry, Music Teacher
Students from grades 2 to 5 performed a wide array of songs from France, the US and Africa during their annual Spring Concert on April 5. The repertoire included Christophe Maé, Bob Dylan, Pierre Perret as well as traditional songs from Ivory Coast and Togo. Many of the songs included a group dance... read more
Topic: Arts, Lower School
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2019
By: Cecile Gregoriades, Director of Communications
Author Claire Clément explains her approach when writing a children's book. All Lower School students enjoyed the week-long presence of two artists from France: author Claire Clément and illustrator Matthieu Maudet. In 4th and 5th grades, the two French artists guided students to write and... read more
Topic: Arts, Lower School
Date: Monday, April 8, 2019
By: Marion Tobie, French teacher in 5th grade
Le Printemps des Poètes is an annual celebration of poetry in France during the month of March. In school, students learn poems and march around campus to deliver them to others in what is called Brigade D'Intervention Poétique (also known as "BIP", or Poetic Response Brigade). For a couple of... read more
Topic: Arts, Middle School
Date: Monday, April 8, 2019
By: Maurice Charriere, Drama teacher
6th graders performed different "teledramas" at their fictional K.I.D.S. T.V. station on March 14 on the stage, at Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley. The theme for the evening was "La télévision en folie" ("Television Gone Wild") and they sure provided their audience with, if not tears, at least laughter... read more
Topic: Arts, Preschool
Date: Friday, December 21, 2018
By: Cecile Gregoriades, Communications Director
One of the highlights in Kindergarten at EB is music class with teacher (and EB parent) Mike Roberts. For the last few years, this accomplished guitarist and composer has been spending time regularly with all three K classes to help students discover that "music is fun, music makes us feel good,... read more


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Nicole Rodriguez has acquired the ability to balance all the activities going on in her life.
Rodriguez is a 27-year-old World Language teacher at Castle View High School who will be starting her fourth season as the girls soccer coach this spring.
And she's on the national women's soccer team for Puerto Rico and is now spending time training to be ready when called.
"Playing is fun, but I have to work," said Rodriguez. "Balancing the training and the working and all that is hard at times."
Her parents were born and raised in Puerto Rico and Rodriguez has aunts and uncles who still live on the island.
Rodriguez was born in Connecticut; attended Notre Dame, where she played soccer; and then she played international soccer for GC Honka in Finland and for Durham in England, where she received a master's degree in intercultural communication.
Players on Puerto Rico's national team have been working to improve poor conditions for women, and there is a new president of the Puerto Rico Football Federation. However, the organization is still disorganized, and no friendly matches have yet to be scheduled for this year.
The next World Cup will be in 2023, and World Cup qualifying is set for 2022. Olympic qualifying was held four months ago but Puerto Rico did not qualify.
"There's six or seven who have been playing together since we were 19," said Rodriguez. "That core group wants to make it as far as possible in World Cup qualifying. They are extending the groups for the next World Cup and at that time I will be 29. So that will kind of be our last go-round.
"We want to make sure that we leave soccer in a really good state when we are done so that the girls who are growing up won't have to go through what we went through."
World Cup qualifying was held in 2018 and Rodriguez missed a couple Castle View games, but her assistant coach Madison Atherton stepped up to help.
"I was gone for 2 1/2 weeks and I missed our first two rounds of playoffs," recalled Rodriguez. "My assistant coach is really awesome. The girls never complain and they understand that I probably only have a couple years left and I want to make the most of it."
Besides teaching and preparing for the upcoming Castle View season, Rodriguez trains with Renee Balconi and practices four times a week with the Real U19 Development Academy team.
"My teammates and I always joke that we have to be ready and we are always training," added Rodriguez.
She is also anxious for the spring season for the Castle View girls team to start.
"They know I have really high expectations and I also think they respect those because they know I am not asking them to do anything that I can't or won't do," said Rodriguez.
"For example, I run a lot of their fitness with them. They know I am not asking them to do something unreasonable that isn't going to help them. I'm willing to do that with them and Maddie does too. We both run all the fitness and jump into drills and show them how to it. I have a lot to learn but right now I'm allowing my playing to be the teacher for me."
Honor roll
Each week, performances of South Metro athletes and teams will be highlighted. This week's performances were selected from games, matches, meets held between Jan. 3 and Jan. 9.
Ty Doan had a goal and assist as the Heritage hockey team built a 3-0 lead and held on for a 3-2 win over Battle Mountain on Jan. 6.
Cherry Creek had five players score in double figures, led by Jana Van Gytenbeek's 19 points, in a 78-47 girls basketball win over Cherokee Trail on Jan. 8.
Landon Boyd had a goal and assist while Simon Herz collected two assists in Chaparral's 4-1 hockey victory over Valor Christian on Jan. 6.
Payton Muma and Taylor Ray each scored 12 points to help Highlands Ranch post a 50-24 girls basketball win over Pine Creek on Jan. 7.
Douglas County senior Tim Broom scored 25 points, had six rebounds, six assists and seven steals in a 83-58 boys basketball triumph over Chatfield on Jan. 7.
Jim Benton is a sports writer for Colorado Community Media. He has been covering sports in the Denver area since 1968. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 303-566-4083.
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Agency Relationships
As they relate to real estate, the terms customer and client, also known as a principal, often get confused. The differences are subtle, but important. So let's look at them a little closer.
A customer is someone who is not represented by a real estate broker. A customer can expect an agent to provide all information honestly, but can't expect an agent to work in their best interest because there's no agency. The agent doesn't represent them. That doesn't mean a customer is on their own, though - any dishonesty committed can be a base of litigation from the customer.
Becoming a client means you have formed an agency relationship, which entails a fiduciary responsibility from an agent to their client. This means an agent is expected to exercise discretion when acting on your behalf, and they must adhere to very specific responsibilities, obligations, and high standards of good faith and loyalty.
In some transactions, a broker represents both the seller and the buyer. This is known as dual agency. Most people prefer not to work with dual agents because of the difficulty in maintaining a fiduciary relationship with both parties. A dual agent can't negotiate for either party. Due to this conflict, many states no longer allow dual agencies to be formed.
The responsibilities of an agency relationship can be remembered with the acronym OLD CAR:
- Obedience
- Loyalty
- Disclosure
- Confidentiality
- Accountability
- Reasonable Care
When discussing an agency relationship, you may hear the terms special agent, general agent, and universal agent.
In real estate, a special agent is an agent hired to perform a specific duty for a client. The real estate agent's authority is limited to the specific job for which they are hired. For example, when you list a house on behalf of a seller, you are hired for the one act of finding a buyer for them. Once that act is complete, then the agency relationship is over.
A general agent is one who can perform any and all acts associated with the ongoing business that a principal has appointed the agent to act in. An example of this would be a property manager, as the relationship is continuous and ongoing.
A universal agent can act on behalf of a principal with full power. Many times, a universal agent has power of attorney to act on their principal's behalf. A universal agent can, in a sense, act like they are the principal. They can even sign legal documents for the principal, as well as purchase and/or sell property for them. Universal agents are powerful but rare - there aren't many of them.


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Darwin Casino Can be Sold To Taiwanese Firms For $200 Million
The SkyCity casino was seemingly not being profitable, many would think. However, on the contrary, there has been interest in the property from several parties according to their spokesperson. This is largely in circulation in the online media. There are claims that the deal to sell the popular real money casino is almost through and it could be to the tune of $200. Even though these claims, nothing at all has been actually sold or finalized and SkyCity Darwin is still a SkyCity. The sale of Darwin casino is a welcome sign as the business is going through a serious cash crunch is the feeling of an institutional investor. These reports were all around just before the release of their annual report on the 8th of August. So, shareholders and many other relevant businesses were curious about this news.
But, the media house The Australian tells another story. They claim that the deal is almost done. The other party is Taiwan's Pau Jar Group while the fixed capital is set for more than $200 million. What is about to come will soon be revealed as soon as the deal is finalized and authority is handed over. There has been some time since the initial talks and within a month a lot might have been finished. The spokesperson said firmly that his views are completely categorical and he has not seen the reports yet. So, nothing can be said for sure, but consider that the deal might be on the table and in the last phase.
Pau Jar interested in $200 offer
Pau jar group is a strong business firm that is developing residential, commercial, and resort properties in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Australia. When the casino site giant SkyCity first announced its plans to adopt an asset-lighter strategy, this business move was seen as the selling off some of its properties. This is the talk of October 2017. There has been a lot of time to linger and think over the matter. This was also not that unnatural.
Following a 95 million writes down on the value of SkyCity Darwin, the overall annual sales report for the previous fiscal year showed a 69% fall in profits. And, to compensate for this kind of loss, Goldman Sachs was instructed back in March 2018 to start looking for a capable buyer. The figure of $200 was then on the limelight and the process of securing a potential buyer was set in motion post the decision. Thus, the current claims are not completely out of the blue. The norms tell that the selling of the casino's Darwin establishment is for sure and this would impact certain businesses that are directly dependent on it.
All this speculation about Sky City Entertainment selling Darwin casino is happening at a time when the company has reported a profit of $169.5 million. The increase in its revenue is due to the participation of the international high rollers.
Fortunately, this move is to serve profits to the company in the near future and make up for the substantiate losses incurred. Despite the current negation of any such activities, the people talking to The Australian are confident that the purchase is imminent and the same would be reflected in the next fiscal year's report.
The same is of concern to many people. Especially, the competitors like Crown that has been in violation of several standards like pokies. It has been declared fit for Victorian games yet again. To bring to the table such activities, it is desired that more news and credible news be soon heard about the deal of the year.Last Update: 2020.08.25


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With its first fund launched last March, Cascade Angels plans on making a $120,000 investment in the upcoming Bend Venture Conference, says Julie Harrelson, the fund's manager. The angel fund made its first investment in May, funding Droplr with $100,000.
"We are finding a lot of really interesting opportunities out there for our consideration," Harrelson says. "We've considered many good candidates."
The Bend-based fund debuted at BVC last October and raised $460,000 for its first round of investments. The angels behind the effort are an "experienced and dynamic group of investors," Harrelson says, hailing from Central Oregon and other places in and outside of the state.
Cascade Angels is focused on economic growth and investing in Central Oregon and across the state. Harrelson, who splits her time between Bend and Portland, says the fund is quickly being recognized as a viable effort in the Pacific Northwest. The average investment is between $50,000 and $200,000.
Harrelson says the angels are looking for launch stage companies that are already earning revenue, as well as good ideas that need funding to get off the ground. And the investments aren't limited to tech, though the capital efficiency of tech startups is appealing, Harrelson notes.
"We consider the strength of the opportunity," she says.
As the fund's first manager, Harrelson hit the ground running last fall, rounding up both investors and seeking out investment opportunities. "I wanted to get from phone number to fully funded as soon as possible," she says.
The fund doesn't plan to compete with other local or state-wide investors, such as Seven Peaks Ventures, a Bend-based VC, but instead finds ways to collaborate. Case in point: Cascade Angels' investment in Droplr was joined by Seven Peaks and the Portland Seed Fund.
Harrelson herself is no stranger to startups. She's worked for a few and started two of her own companies. She served in varied positions including CEO, VP, and VP of Sales, and she's currently head of the Harrelson Group, a management consulting firm. (In her
spare time, Harrelson also sits on the advisory board of the OSU Advantage Accelerator).
The Pacific Northwest-native spent a considerable amount of time in Bend over the years and was intrigued by the region's percolating startup scene. With Cascade Angels, she is now a player in it as well.
"I've seen a big difference in activity here just in the past 12 months," she says. "It's an exciting time here–there's lots of efforts coming together to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem."
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When Denise Karkos presents to her company's board, she speaks their language. The chief marketing officer at TD Ameritrade doesn't just attend a meeting and show a commercial; she drops phrases like "incremental revenue" and "profit driver" while talking about how the brand's advertising has served the company from a credibility standpoint. It's a pointed strategy that has been a crucial factor in the brokerage's marketing growth.
"How TD Ameritrade sees the marketing department has pivoted from a cost center to a revenue driver because we're able to prove the efficacy of the spend," says Karkos.
From the get-go, Karkos branded herself as a numbers-based executive and set about strengthening her data and analytics team, doubling it to 50 from 25 staffers during her six-year tenure. Now, because she can prove with numbers how effective a creative campaign has been for the company, Karkos gets the board-approved leeway for more marketing experiments.
Last year, TD Ameritrade pursued new, and rather radical ways of reaching customers through technology. The brand allowed consumers to trade via Twitter and was an early financial adopter of Facebook Messenger. The company also had a little fun: It put an ad on blockchain. For $23.15 in bitcoin, TD Ameritrade encrypted a message and imagery on cryptocurrency for seasoned traders to discover.
The idea for a blockchain ad came from Havas New York, which has worked on creative and brand strategy for Karkos and her team of 250 marketing staffers since 2014. TD Ameritrade splits its media buying between [email protected] and Spark Foundry. In 2018, TD Ameritrade spent $136.3 million on measured media in the U.S., according to Kantar Media.
Karkos' team approach has helped set her apart from her CMO peers, according to Tim Maleeny, president and chief strategy officer at Havas.
"As agency relationships have gotten shorter and more tenuous, and CMOs have often rotated from one company to another, the ability to build a partnership is incredibly rare," says Maleeny. "She never loses sight of the grand narrative, but she's also very ambitious when it comes to trying things along the way."
After graduating Notre Dame with a major in business administration and a focus on marketing, Karkos earned her chops on the agency side of the business as a media buyer with Initiative, before moving on to Hill Holliday, Digitas and the Via Agency. But it wasn't until she made the jump to TD Bank in 2006 that Karkos says she truly discovered the ability to drive results. From TD Bank, she transitioned to the faster-paced brokerage brand in 2010.
"When you can hear a CFO talking about financials and marketing contributions, it's so validating," she says.
Karkos' experimentation isn't limited to the digital arena. TD Ameritrade found out on the Thursday before the Super Bowl that there was a last-minute pre-game slot opening, and Karkos jumped on it with creative that connects Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" earworm with the brand's 24/7 trading and bitcoin futures. Aired just after the national anthem, the spot reached 68 million viewers at a fraction of the $5 million price tag of an in-game spot; new accounts opened afterwards were 72 percent higher than the same time period in 2017.
Some on Twitter voiced their love. "Lionel Richie's Ameritrade commercial is everything," tweeted user @yolandaelliot16 shortly after the ad ran. And the board's reaction? The chairman shared it with the college football team he coaches and they all cheered.


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Hand pain can be caused by a variety of issues. Repetitive motion injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome, can cause pain in the wrist and hand. Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis are the two most common types of arthritis in the hand.
We treat many additional hand issues, including:
Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when pressure is on the median nerve – the nerve in the wrist that supplies feeling and movement to parts of the hand. It can lead to numbness, tingling, weakness, or muscle damage in the hand and fingers.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is common in people who perform repetitive motions of the hand and wrist. Typing on a computer keyboard is probably the most common cause of carpal tunnel. Other causes include:
Follow these tips to help reduce your risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome:
Rheumatoid arthritis is a long-term disease that leads to inflammation of the joints and surrounding tissues. It can also affect other organs. The cause of rheumatoid arthritis is unknown. It is considered an autoimmune disease. The body's immune system normally fights off foreign substances, like viruses. But in an autoimmune disease, the immune system confuses healthy tissue for foreign substances. As a result, the body attacks itself.
Rheumatoid arthritis has no known prevention. However, it is often possible to prevent further damage to the joints with proper early treatment.


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About Kendel Carson
In 2007 the 22-year-old fiddler, singer, and songwriter Kendel Carson issued her first album on Chip Taylor's Train Wreck label. ."...Carson's debut CD, Rearview Mirror Tears, marks the emergence of a big new talent on today's vast country-rock scene," noted David J. Cantor at Sound Stage. Rearview Mirror Tears, however, only represented the latest incarnation of a lifelong commitment to music. Born in Canada, Carson studied the fiddle and was performing by the age of three with the Victoria Symphony. She also became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. At the age of nine she performed with the BC Fiddle Orchestra, gaining the experience she would later need in the Paperboys, Outlaw Social, and Kid Carson (also her brother).
In 2004, Carson's talent came to the attention of Chip Taylor, a veteran singer/songwriter who had worked hard in recent years to help the careers of singers like Carrie Rodriguez. Carson and Taylor met at Canmore Festival where she played a fiddle workshop with Rodriguez. While Taylor initially invited Carson to New York City to write material and record demos, the two decided to enter the studio after only a few days. After several days in the studio, highlighted by good vibes and inspiration, they had laid down the foundation of a rootsy album primarily constructed from Carson's vocals and Taylor's songs. "Carson handles Taylor's material adeptly," Jerome Clark would later write in Rambles. "Her voice is a young one, yet a rich one, calling up melancholy or humor, good or bad times, regret or hope, as the occasion warrants."
In 2007, Carson's career in music reached a new plateau with the release of Rearview Mirror Tears. "Carson captures the essence of each song with a voice that is angelic one minute and sassy the next; there's vulnerability and confidence and plenty of mystery -- making Rearview Mirror Tears one of the most impressive debuts to be released so far this year," wrote Wade Tatangelo in Creative Loafing. The album's vocal arrangements were filled out by Rodriguez and Taylor, and the instrumental backdrop was enriched by guitarist John Platania and drummer Dan Rieser.
Carson's profile continued to climb in the spring and summer of 2007 as Rearview Mirror Tears entered the Americana radio chart at 39 and rose to number ten in July. Also in the summer of 2007, Carson and Taylor toured Sweden and Norway, making an appearance at the Down on the Farm Festival. Carson also planned for the debut of her video for "I Like Trucks." Carson's list of influences includes Lucinda Williams, the Band, Emmylou Harris, and Ryan Adams. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.
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Ending public funding for teaching in "low-cost" disciplines such as the arts, humanities and social sciences would lead to a shift in the student-tutor relationship, academics believe.
As the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review made it clear that a far greater burden of funding courses is to be placed on graduates, lecturers predicted increased expectations from students but also higher levels of engagement in their studies.
Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at the University of Kent, said the shift towards the private funding of teaching was likely to have a "paradoxical effect" on the relationship between students and academics.
"On the positive side it will encourage students to take their studies more seriously and become more focused in their work.
"On the negative side it is likely to intensify the tendency to regard studying as a form of consumption and to regard the relationship between student and staff as akin to one between customer and service provider," Professor Furedi said.
However, he added, "if teachers hold their ground and refuse to embrace the role of service providers...they can cultivate an intellectual partnership with their students."
Thom Brooks, reader in political and legal philosophy at Newcastle University, agreed that students would worry more about what they were getting for their money.
He also predicted an acceleration of the trend towards parents becoming more involved in student issues.
"If much higher fees only plug the funding gaps, then it may put a strain on some universities to demonstrate how students might get more for their money when these higher costs for students may only help some institutions stand still," Dr Brooks cautioned.
"Until relatively recently, all subjects received full funding for their teaching. Now most subjects will receive nothing at all, and we are encouraged to begin saving for our children's education from an early stage. My worry is that this change will be quite sudden and those who will be affected will not have much time to become prepared."
Ben Knights, director of the Higher Education Academy's English Subject Centre, said higher expectations from students were "not a bad thing at all".
But he questioned the assertion that student choice would improve the quality of the education they receive.
"The government - David Willetts and before that Lord Mandelson - has invested an awful lot in the notion that if better information is provided for students they will then make rational decisions.
"That is a very old, liberal with a small 'l' idea about the 'perfect consumer' - that people will take rational decisions on the basis of all the evidence available. They don't," Professor Knights said.
He added that while much remained uncertain, he expected that the survival of humanities subjects would depend "enormously" on individual institutions' missions, as well as their future funding.
"One thing that could happen is that humanities subjects emigrate further and further 'up the food chain', leading a thriving existence in high-prestige research institutions but getting squeezed out in smaller, more regional and less well-funded institutions," he observed.
Doing the maths: 'low-cost' arts are not cheap, and will become more costly, says rector
Art and design are not low-cost subjects to teach, the head of the country's biggest arts university has argued.
Nigel Carrington, rector of the University of the Arts London, said his institution would have to charge tuition fees "well in excess" of the £6,000 "soft cap" proposed by the Browne Review if public funding for arts, humanities and social sciences courses is removed.
"If the proposal to remove statutory funding for all non-priority subjects currently in Higher Education Funding Council for England price groups C and D does become a reality, then institutions like University of the Arts London, which specialise in art and design, will see virtually all of their teaching funding from Hefce removed to be replaced by higher student fees," he said.
"For 2010-11, the teaching funding we are receiving from Hefce is just under £52 million. In order to recoup the current level of funding we generate per full-time equivalent student, the university would have to set fees well in excess of the proposed £6,000 'soft cap' outlined in the Browne report. Specialist art and design is a high-cost subject to deliver."
Recent Hefce data on the cost of teaching different subjects show that the average subject-related costs of teaching design and creative arts students was more than £7,700 a year, he said.
Mr Carrington also argued that the now-commonplace mantra that science-based subjects are more critical than others to the UK economy and therefore more worthy of government investment was "not grounded on empirical evidence".
"One of the biggest and most successful sectors of the economy in recent years has been the creative industries, which contribute almost as much to our gross domestic product as the financial sector, employ an estimated 2 million people and are still growing," he said.
"The distinction between science and the creative arts is a false one. Both are equally deserving of public investment," he said.
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the creation of the heart of processor armed with the British company Acorn. Apple also developed a prototype tablet based on the PowerBook Duo, the Penlite, but it abandoned the project to avoid harming the MessagePad sales. Apple has also marketed several assistants based on the Newton, but stopped their production with the MessagePad 2100, in 1998.
Apple returned again on the market of mobile computing in 2007 with the iPhone. Smaller than the iPad but featuring a camera and a mobile phone, he was the pioneer of multipoint touch sensitive fingers of Apple's operating system, iOS. However, Steve Jobs subsequently revealed that both devices have been imagined from the same project, and that the iPad was even originally intended to be produced before the iPhone. End of 2009, the release of the iPad by Apple was part of the rumors dragging for several years. Generally referred to as "the Apple tablet", iTablet and iSlate were part of the names of the speculators. The iPad was announced on January 27, 2010 by Steve Jobs at a press conference of Apple at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
The 2nd generation of iPad is presented March 2, 2011 by Steve Jobs, this despite his sick announced January 17, 2011. The conference was held at the same location for the first version of the iPad, in the YBCA de San Francisco. March 7, 2012, Apple introduced the 3rd generation of iPad. This model is especially equipped with a Retina display (which made the success of the iPhone 4) and offers a higher resolution than the other tablets from the market. This model called "resolutionnaire" by Apple does not offer a renewal in the design of the device.
DEUiPad models x were presented on October 23, 2012: the iPad 4 and iPad Mini. The latter is a more compact model with a classic 7.9 inch screen which is equivalent to that of the iPad 2 in terms of resolution. The context of the Tablet market requires Apple to position themselves on the shelves 7 "segment which is a market where prices are very aggressive. So Apple would come out this new model to counter the Nexus 7 by Google but also the Amazon Kindle Fire.
A new model of iPad introduced on October 22, 2013: the Air iPad. It is a thin tablet, weighing less than 500 g and especially equipped with a processor chip Apple A7.


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Around 10 years ago, Paul Stanley dug deep into his artistic abilities and began to work on simplistic yet unmatched pieces. Stanley's unique art includes emotionally charges portraits and abstracts that incorporate a plethora of textures, and colors. After just a few years of exhibiting his work, he has brought in around $2 million in sales!
In 2002, the band appeared in Scooby-Doo's Halloween episode! That episode proved popular, so in 2015 the band once again teamed up with Scooby-Doo for a straight-to-DVD movie titled Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery.
Stanley has been a fan of classic opera, and when the opportunity of a lifetime presented itself, he jumped at the chance. Paul was so good in the role that the theatre actually bought out the actor who was supposed to take his place and let him finish out the season which ended appropriately on Halloween.
In 1977, Marvel Comics issued their very first Super Special KISS comic book. Using blood from the members in the ink was a brilliant marketing gimmick to help sales of the first edition! KISS went to great lengths in their live events to provide a "wow" factor, so it's not surprising that the band could pull off a crazy stunt like this.
For a brief time in 1973, Paul was trying a new persona on for size. Instead of his widely known star makeup, Stanley sported a raccoon-reminiscent look with black paint artistically drawn in the shape of a diamond around both of his eyes.
Join us this Tuesday as we honor the 70s American rock band, KISS, and their legendary frontman, Paul Stanley! First, Dan Rather sits down with Paul Stanley on The Big Interview. They talk about everything from his relationship with Gene Simmons, and a birth defect that plagued his self-confidence for years.
Then, stick around for a Rock Legends episode dedicated to the iconic 70s band, KISS! Well known for its members' face paint and stage outfits, KISS rose to prominence in the mid-to-late 1970s with their elaborate live performances. Interviews, news archives and performances reveal the story of this iconic band.
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Every time Windows 10 laptop boots while not connected to the office network a warning pop-up is displayed.
Could not reconnect all network drives.
Click here to check the status of your network drives.
Windows Explorer
To resolve the issue and stop the pop-up from appearing make following registry change.
- Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe)
- Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider
- Create a DWORD type entry
- Name: RestoreConnection
- Value: 0
- Reboot computer
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[M] The streaked form of 'Christmas Tree' that has proven itself a valuable breeder many times over. The rounded green leaves of 'Christmas Tree Gala' are randomly streaked and splashed with green, cream, and white. Substance is good and the mature foliage develops strong puckering. Hosta 'Christmas Tree Gala' is a vigorous grower that grows into a mound about 16" tall and 36" across. Very fertile flowers in early-mid summer result in lots of dark rose seed pods. An excellent hybridizing plant!
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