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Review: THE BELKO EXPERIMENT, Bloody, Brutal Terror in the Office
Directed by Greg McLean from an original script by James Gunn, horror-thriller THE BELKO EXPERIMENT features a stellar cast, led by Tony Goldwyn and John Gallagher Jr.
Ferocious, brutal and audacious, The Belko Experiment is also empathetic and funny. It starts the blood pumping from the first frame, then jacks it up with brains, brawn and recognizable humanity.
In Bogota, Colombia, employees report for a normal day of work at Belko, a non-profit corporation located in a lonely high-rise building overlooking the city. But something is not quite right, as noted immediately by executive-type Barry Norris (Tony Goldwyn); he is questioned by new, heavily-armored security guards at the parking lot gate, and he wonders why some employees are being turned away and sent home.
In the human resources office, new employee Dany Wilkins (Melonie Diaz) is welcomed by Vince Agostino (Brent Sexton), who quickly runs down a checklist; Dany asks about one item, an I.D. pellet to be placed in her head. With a smile, Vince assures her it's for the safety of the employees; since so many kidnappings take place in the city, it will help the corporation to find and recover her.
Elsewhere, the workplace has come alive as usual, until an unusual announcement is made over the loudspeakers, requesting the execution of several employees within a narrow time frame. Or else ...
Soon enough, the office building has been transformed into a battlefield and the employees have been enlisted in a war they cannot win unless they start killing each other. And that is only the beginning of the bloodbath to come.
James Gunn's script, as directed by Greg McLean and performed by an amazing cast, is a thing of awful beauty. Gunn says the trailer for the movie came to him in a dream one night, prompting him to blitz out the screenplay over the next two weeks. He had to get it out of his system, one imagines.
The finished product is a true nightmare, especially for those of us who have ever worked in a large corporate office, where the lines between management and labor are clearly defined by status and position. Here the management/oversight role is filled by those more willing to kill than others, led by Barry Norris and his lieutenant, Wendell Dukes (John C. McGinley). Barry, at first, is reassuring to the workers; he's the boss, and he's certain that the announcement is not authentic. Once things change, however, he makes a snap decision that is completely understandable ... to him, and to others who think like him.
He justifies it by virtue of his wife and children, but let's be honest: he's placing his own life above everyone else. The genius of the film, as made possible by Goldwyn's humane performance as Barry, is to ask, would you do any different? Barry is not a traditional villain; he doesn't revel in the violence. Yet he's been placed in an impossible situation and he's asked to do things that only a truly disturbed psyche might carry out.
On the other side of the argument, Mike Milch (John Gallagher Jr.) is a middle manager who's single, with no children, and in a relationship with fellow worker Leandra Flores (Adria Arjona). Early on, he recognizes the inherent, combustible danger; he's no idealist, but he refuses to buckle in, and so he becomes a perfect counterpoint to Barry.
The office divides up. A uniformly fine cast, including Michael Rooker (as a maintenance worker) and James Earl (as a security guard), delivers performances that are well-tuned to the horrors that are unleashed. Sean Gunn and Abraham Benrubi team up to offer a measure of badly-needed comic relief.
Director Greg McLean once again delivers a lean, efficient thriller that makes the most out of a limited setting. As Wolf Creek 2 showed, he's fully capable of capturing the bleak, dark humor of horrible situations. Unlike that movie's grueling, explicit violence, though, which made me feel queasy, The Belko Experiment is so over-the-top in the volume of its violence that I began distancing myself early. That, in itself, may be a commentary on our increasingly nightmarish world, or a reflection on my own lack of empathy for fictional others.
Whatever your personal conclusion may be, The Belko Experiment left me feeling devastated at the end, haunted by the pure anguish that pours out of the screen.
The film opens in theaters throughout North America on Friday, March 17. Check local listings for showtimes.
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So how bad is the violence? Are we talking torture porn levels or gore?
There's a lot of blood and a fair amount of gore, some of it gruesome, but it's not torture porn level. Many dead bodies, though.
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Another great review Peter. Then I checked out the Red Band trailer. Must see for this horror freak. Looks brutal in every regard.
Thank you! For devoted horror fans, it's a must-see.

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Location: Surbiton
Company: YMCA London South West
Hours: Shifts available to cover weekdays, weekends and bank holidays
Salary: £7.70 per hour
Date Posted: 06/03/17 Closing Date: Midday on 13/03/2017
Job Description:
We are seeking a Restaurant Assistant to assist in the smooth running of catering at YMCA Surbiton. You will be part of a larger Catering Department which falls under the YMCA Health and Wellbeing brand and is quite unique delivering a number of catering services; which includes daily meals for the residents that live in its hostels, cafés open to the public, as well as catering for functions; meetings and conferences held at its other YMCA sites. We also cater for three free schools.
The café at YMCA Surbiton provides daily meals for the housing residents as well as being open to the public and accommodates functions and meetings/conferences held at the site. The postholder will be required to provide excellent customer service, prepare food and drinks to a high standard; maximise income and customer satisfaction within the café; keep all kitchen areas clean and tidy, whilst working independently or within a team.
It is essential to have knowledge of special diets and food allergies, health and safety and food hygiene issues; experience of providing a service to the public with sales or customer care experience; possess good verbal communication skills and to be able to manage and prioritise conflicting demands. It would be beneficial to hold a food hygiene certificate. This role is subject to safeguarding checks including a DBS check in line with YMCA LSW procedures. YMCA London South West is a Christian organisation and as an employee, you will be required to respect its ethos and uphold its values.
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Claire Hart is a Principal Lecturer (International) at Teesside University. She qualified as an occupational therapist in 1991 and has worked in a number of adult mental health services across the North East of England. In 1999 she completed a master's in counselling and joined the occupational therapy teaching team to deliver on aspects of mental health, communication and professional development.
In addition to her work at the University she has worked as a psychological therapist in a specialist service for refugees, and with others experiencing complex mental health needs as well as providing supervision for therapists and training on mental health and refugee issues.
Claire has spoken at national and international conferences, has published and has been an invited speaker at conferences, NHS services and other universities. She has delivered on subjects such as refugee mental health, cultural competency, psychological trauma and other issues related to therapy, and has been involved in steering and advisory groups locally and internationally on race equality in mental health, occupational rights and the mental well-being of refugees.
Claire's PhD research was a qualitative, phenomenological study intended as an exploration of the meaning of occupation for people who have sought asylum in the United Kingdom. The study was undertaken to illuminate the experiences people have of occupation before, during and after the asylum process to identify barriers and opportunities which influence well-being.
She is Principal Investigator on a local study exploring the provision of mental health services to refugees and people seeking asylum in the South Tees area. This study aims to consider provision from the perspective of service user and service provider, considering primary, secondary and third sector support. Through this study it is hoped that we can establish 'best practice' and understand the most appropriate interventions for this population of clients.
Summary of Research Interests
Claire is interested in research relating to the well-being and mental health of refugees and people seeking asylum. She is interested in linking occupation and well-being, particualrly looking at occupations with a dark side and those with 'higher purpose'
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Teesside University
31 Oct 2011 → 31 Oct 2019
Award Date: 19 Oct 2018
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Research Output
The Whole of the Moon: How Our Occupational Lens Helps or Hinders Our Exploration of the Dark Side of OccupationHart, C., 19 Oct 2020, Illuminating The Dark Side of Occupation: International Perspectives from Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science. Twinley, R. (ed.). 1st ed. Abingdon: Routledge, (Routledge Key Themes in Health & Society).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'Keeping busy with purpose': how meaningful occupation shapes the experience of forced migration.Hart, C., 26 Oct 2019, In : Migration Studies. mnz046, mnz046.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
People seeking asylum can have a better life - lift the ban on work.Hart, C., 21 Nov 2019, The Conversation.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
'Keeping busy with purpose': How meaningful occupation can shape the experience of forced migrationHart, H. C., 26 Oct 2019, In : Migration Studies. mnz046.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Finding purpose through altruism: The potential of 'doing for others' during asylumHart, H., 11 Sep 2017, In : Journal of Occupational Science. p. -
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Keeping busy with purpose: Virtuous occupations as a means of expressing worth during asylumAuthor: Hart, H., 30 Apr 2018
Supervisor: Hannis, D. (Supervisor), Costello, S. (Supervisor), Cleary, S. (Supervisor) & Armstrong, A. (Supervisor)
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Participant Related Projects
Projects of Various Participants with Relevance to the Hackathon
Hackathon participant Chris Dell is associated with the Tolkin Project. Another Tolkin Informatics staff member, Elvis Wu attended the AOCR Working Group meeting in October of 2012 to help us plan the February 2013 hackathon. Reed Beaman, iDigBio Senior Personnel, is one of the Principal Investigators on this project. From the website:
TOLKIN is an information management and analytical web application to provide informatics support for phylodiversity and biodiversity research projects. As a web-based application, TOLKIN is able to support collaborative projects by providing shared access to a variety of data on voucher specimens, taxonomy, bibliography, morphology, DNA samples and sequences.
AOCR working group member and hackathon participant Daryl Lafferty is the developer on this project, Semi-Automated Label Information Extraction System (SALIX).
- SALIX software and overview of features and function
- SALIX, the Semi-automatic Label Information Extraction system. Online pdf describing the software.
AOCR working group chair and hackaton participant Bryan Heidorn and iDigBio staff member Reed Beaman are part of the Biological Science Collections Tracker project. Read more about this endeavor at http://biscicol.blogspot.com/ From their website:
BiSciCol (Biological Science Collections) Tracker is a funded NSF collaborative project with the goal of building an infrastructure designed to tag and track scientific collections and all of their derivatives.
From the Page
Hackathon participant, Ben Brumfield's consulting organization is From The Page. Check out the blog at FromThePage.com for more about Ben's experience with developing user interfaces for transcription, and OCR, and,... From the website:
FromThePage is free software that allows volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents on-line. It's easy to index and annotate subjects within a text using a simple, wiki-like mark-up. Users can discuss difficult writing or obscure words within a page to refine their transcription. The resulting text is hosted on the web, making documents easy to read and search.
DarwinCore Parser
The DarwinCore Parser comes to us from Hackathon participant, Michael Giddens, and is a new tool written in Node.js. It represents a very very new tool that SilverBiology is developing for the OCR meeting and some internal projects. See: https://github.com/silverbiology/dwc-parser
- Will be used to send OCR as text and:
- Get Dates from blob of text with ratings
- Get Lat/Lng in various formats
- Wrapper for GlobalNames and GBIF Checklist Bank for Name Recognition
- Higher Taxa lookup from GBIF Checklist Bank
- Wrapper for Python Lat/Lng format converter
- Type status detection
- Experimental: Using geos and GDAM for higher geography lookup and potential any shapefile lookup like Ecological data.
- more stuff.... looking for help...
The Apiary Project
Jason Best is AOCR working group member, hackathon participant, host for the hackathon at BRIT and Co-PI on the Apiary Project. Find out more about Apiary at http://www.apiaryproject.org From the website:
Our study addresses this research problem: What workflow provides for a combination of machine-assisted and human-assisted procedures to most effectively and efficiently convert textual data on specimen labels into machine-processable parsed data to ingest in a database and associate with the digitized specimen? The goal of this project is to answer this question.
- The project goal will be accomplished through the following objectives:
- Identify and test machine processes for initial transformation of label data
- Identify human processes that act on the machine-transformed data to correct and enhance label data
- Develop, test, and assess user interfaces to support human processes
- Develop and test a workflow that incorporates both human- and machine-assisted procedures for effectiveness and efficiency in label data transformation and enhancement
- Assess quality of metadata resulting from machine and human processes
Biodiversity Heritage Library
For an introduction to this project see: http://biodiversitylibrary.org
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The ARX-80 HotCutter is a general purpose hot knife cutter used for hot cutting and sealing woven and knitted synthetic materials to prevent fraying. Cuts webbing, braid, elastics, strapping, cord, ribbon, hook and loop, and rope.
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Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.
Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.
The Bible is probably the most maligned Book that ever has been written. It has been attacked as no other book has ever been attacked. Yet it has ministered and does minister to literally millions of people around the globe, and it has been doing this now for several thousand years. A Book of this nature and with this tremendous impact upon the human family certainly deserves the intelligent consideration of men and women.
Sir Walter Scott, on his deathbed, asked Lockhart to read to him. Puzzled, as he scanned the shelf of books that Walter Scott had written, he asked, "What book shall I read?" And Sir Walter replied, "Why do you ask that question? There is but one book; bring the Bible." There is only one Book for any man who is dying, but it is also the Book for any man who is living. A great many folk do not get interested in the Bible until they get to the end of their lives or until they get into a great deal of difficulty. While it is wonderful to have a Book in which you can find comfort in a time like that, it is also a Book for you to live—in the full vigor of life. It is a Book to face life with today, and it's the Book which furnishes the only sure route through this world and on into the next world. It is the only Book that can enable us to meet the emergencies and cushion the shocks that come to us in life. The Bible is different from any other book.
That this Book has influenced great men who, in turn, have influenced the world is evident. Let me share with you some quotations.
There was an African prince who came to England and was presented to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. This prince asked a very significant question, "What is the secret of England's greatness?" The queen got a beautifully bound copy of the Bible and presented it to the prince with this statement: "This is the secret of England's greatness." I wonder, friend, if England's decline to a second-rate and then third-rate nation may be tied up in the fact that England has gotten away from the Word of God.
Gladstone, statesman, prime minister, probably one of the greatest legal minds Britain ever produced, said, "Talk about the questions of the day! There is but one question, and that is the Gospel. That can and will correct everything. I am glad to say that about all the men at the top in Great Britain are Christians." That was way back in the 1800s. Gladstone continued, "I have been in public position fifty-eight years, all but eleven of them in the Cabinet of the British Government, and during those forty-seven years have been associated with sixty of the masterminds of the century, and all but five of the sixty were Christians." I personally think that part of the problems we are having in the world today is that we have too few Christians at the top, too few who are acquainted with the Word of God.
Michael Faraday, perhaps the greatest scientific experimenter back in the 1800s, said, "But why will people go astray, when they have this blessed book of God to guide them?" Sir Isaac Newton, a scientist in the preceding century, said, "If the Bible is true, the time is coming when men shall travel at fifty miles an hour." In response Voltaire, the French skeptic, commented, "Poor Isaac. He was in his dotage when he made that prophecy. It only shows what Bible study will do to an otherwise scientific mind."
It might be interesting to note what some of our early Presidents had to say about the Bible. John Adams, our second President, said, "I have examined all [that is, all of Scripture] as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life will allow me, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world. It contains more of my little philosophy than all the libraries I have seen, and such parts of it I cannot reconcile to my little philosophy I postpone for future investigation." Then President John Quincy Adams said, "I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you: search the Scriptures. The Bible is the book above all others to be read at all ages and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice through and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions every day." And the Presidents back in those days, who made our nation great, did not get us into foreign wars and were able to solve the problems of the streets. Someone may counter, "But the problems weren't as complicated then as they are now." They were for that day, friend.
Not only England but also the United States has gotten away from the Word of God. And the farther we get, the more complicated our problems become. Right now there are men and women in positions of authority in this land who are saying that there is no solution to our problems. That is the reason I am teaching the Word of God in its entirety—I believe it is the only solution. And, frankly, friend, we had better get back to it.
Another President, Thomas Jefferson, said this about the Bible: "I have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better husbands, and better fathers." This is something to think over today when our citizens are burning down the cities in which they live and when divorce is running rife.
It was Daniel Webster who made this statement: "If there be anything in my style or thoughts to be commended, the credit is due to my kind parents for instilling into my mind an early love of the Scriptures." What about you today, Christian parent? Are you making a Daniel Webster in your home or a little rebel? Webster also made this statement: "I have read it [the Bible] through many times. I now make a practice of going through it once a year. It is the Book of all others for lawyers as well as divines. I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and rules for conduct."
In many ways the Bible is a most unusual Book. For instance, it has a dual authorship. In other words, God is the Author of the Bible, and in another sense man is the author of the Bible. Actually, the Bible was written by about forty authors over a period of approximately 1500 years. Some of these men never even heard of the others, and there was no collusion among the forty. Two or three of them could have gotten together, but the others could not have known each other. And yet they have presented a Book that has the most marvelous continuity of any book that has ever been written. Also, it is without error. Each author expressed his own feelings in his own generation. Each had his limitations and made his mistakes—poor old Moses made mistakes, but when he was writing the Pentateuch, somehow or other no mistakes got in there. You see, it is a human Book and yet it is a God-Book.
It is a very human Book, written by men from all walks of life, prince and pauper, the highly intellectual and the very simple. For example, Dr. Luke writes almost classical Greek in a period when the Koine Greek was popular. His Greek is marvelous! But Simon Peter, the fisherman, wrote some Greek also. His is not so good, but God the Holy Spirit used both of these men. He let them express exactly their thoughts, their feelings, and yet through that method the Spirit of God was able to overrule in such a way that God said exactly what He wanted to say. That's the wonder of the Book, the Bible.
It is a God-Book. In the Bible God says 2500 times, "God said... the Lord has said... thus saith the Lord," etc. God has made it very clear that He is speaking through this Book. It is a Book that can communicate life to you. You can even become a child of God, begotten "not by corruptible seed, but by incorruptible, by the Word of God that liveth and abideth forever." It is God's communication to man. And if God spoke out of heaven right now, He would just repeat Himself because He has said all that He wants to say to this generation. And, by the way, He didn't learn anything when He read the morning paper. When man went to the moon, he didn't discover anything that God didn't already know when He gave us the Bible. He is the same God who created this universe that we are in today.
The Bible is both divine and human. In a way it is like my Lord who walked down here and grew weary and sat down at a well. Although He was God, He was man. He talked with people down here and communicated with them. This is a Book that communicates. It speaks to mankind today. The Bible is for men as they are.
How do you know the Bible is the Word of God? This is a good question, and it should be asked and answered.
1. Preservation—One of the objective proofs, one of the external proofs, has been the marvelous preservation of the Bible. There was a king of old—we read about him in the Book of Jeremiah—who, when the Word was sent to him, took a penknife and cut it to pieces. But it was rewritten, and we have that Word today. Down through the centuries there have been a great many Bible burnings. Today there's a great deal of antagonism toward the Bible. In our country today it is not being burned because we think that we are too civilized for such behavior. The way they try to get rid of it is just to outlaw it in our schools and in many other places. (Yet we talk about our freedom of religion and freedom of speech.) In spite of all the attacks that have been made upon the Bible, it still today exists, and, of course, it's one of the best sellers. For many years it was the best seller, but it's not today. I regret to have to say that, but it is true. And that is certainly a commentary on our contemporary society. It reveals that the Bible is not really occupying the place that it once did in the history and in the life of this nation. Yet, I think the amazing preservation of the Word of God is worthy of consideration.
2. Archaeology—Another way in which we can know the Bible is the Word of God is through archaeology. The spade of the archaeologist has turned up many things that have proven that it is the Word of God. For instance, there were those who for many years denied the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch on the basis that writing was not in existence in Moses' day. You haven't heard anybody advance that theory recently, have you? Well, of course not. For years the spade of the archaeologist has turned up again and again evidence of the validity of the Bible. The city of Jericho and the walls that fell down is one example. Now there has been some argument between Miss Kathleen Kenyon and John Garstang relative to specifics, but it's well established that the walls fell down, and I'll let them debate about the time and all that sort of thing. The Word of God has been substantiated there, and in many other ways archaeology has demonstrated the accuracy of the Bible. Many of the manuscripts that have been found do that also. It's quite interesting that when the Isaiah scrolls, the Dead Sea scrolls, were found, the liberal leaped at that because he thought he had found an argument that would discredit the Bible. However, the scrolls have not discredited the Bible, and it seems that the liberal has lost a great deal of interest in them. This is a field into which you might do some research, as I cannot go to any great length in this brief study.
3. Fulfilled Prophecy—If I were asked today if I had just one thing to suggest that would be a conclusive proof that the Bible is the Word of God, do you know what I would suggest? I would suggest fulfilled prophecy. Fulfilled prophecy is the one proof that you can't escape, you can't get around. And the Bible is filled with fulfilled prophecy. One-fourth of the Scripture, when it was written, was prophetic; that is, it announced things that were to take place in the future. A great deal of that—in fact, a great deal more than people imagine—has already been fulfilled. We could turn to many places where prophecy has been fulfilled exactly. We find that there were many local situations that were fulfilled even in the day of the prophet. For example, Micaiah was the prophet who told Ahab that if he went out to battle as he planned, he would lose the battle and would be killed. However, Ahab's false prophets had told him he'd have a victory and would return as a victorious king. Because he didn't like what Micaiah said, Ahab ordered him locked up and fed bread and water, and he would take care of him when he got back. But Micaiah shot back the last word, "If you come back at all, the Lord hasn't spoken by me." Well, evidently the Lord had spoken by him because Ahab didn't come back. He was killed in the battle, and his army was defeated. He had even disguised himself so that there would be no danger of his losing his life. But an enemy soldier, the Scripture says, pulled his bow at a venture; that is, when the battle was about over, he had just one arrow left in his quiver; he put it in place and shot, not really aiming at anything. But, you know, that arrow had old Ahab's name on it, and it found him. It went right to its mark. Why? Because Micaiah had made an accurate prophecy (see 1 Kings 22).
On another occasion, the prophet Isaiah said that the invading Assyrian army wouldn't shoot an arrow into the city of Jerusalem (see 2 Kings 19:32). Well, now, that's interesting. Micaiah's prophecy was fulfilled because a soldier shot an arrow by chance, pulled his bow at a venture. Wouldn't you think that among two hundred thousand soldiers—that "great host"—perhaps one might be trigger-happy and would pull his bow at a venture and let an arrow fly over the wall of Jerusalem? Well, he didn't. If the enemy had shot an arrow inside that city, they could be sure that Isaiah was not God's prophet. But he was, as was proven by this local fulfillment of his prophecy. But Isaiah also said a virgin would bring forth a child, and that was seven hundred years before it was literally fulfilled. And then, if you want a final proof, there were over three hundred prophecies concerning the first coming of Christ which were all literally fulfilled. As Jesus Christ was hanging there on the cross and dying, there was one prophecy recorded in the Old Testament that had not been fulfilled. It was, "They gave me vinegar to drink" (Psalm 69:21). Jesus said, "I thirst," and the enemy himself went and fulfilled prophecy (see John 19:28-30). It's a most amazing thing. Men can't guess like that. It has been rather amusing to watch the weatherman. During the summer season in Southern California he does fine, but when we get to the change of seasons—well, your guess is as good as his. In the nation Israel, a prophet had to be accurate. If he was not accurate, he was to be put to death as a false prophet. God told His people that they would be able to distinguish a false prophet from a true prophet. A true prophet must first speak into a local situation, which Isaiah did. When that prophecy came to pass, they would know they could trust him to speak concerning the future, as Isaiah did. We can look back now and know that it was fulfilled.
There are so many other prophecies. Tyre and Sidon are over there today exactly as God's Word said twenty-five hundred years ago they would be. Egypt today is in the exact position God said it would be in. All of these are amazing, friend, and fulfilled prophecy is one of the greatest proofs that the Bible is indeed the Word of God. You see, men just can't be that accurate. Men can't guess like that—even the weatherman misses it.
Let me show you that, according to mathematical law of problematical conjecture, man could never, never prophesy. Suppose that right now I would make a prophecy. Just by way of illustration, suppose I'd say that wherever you are it's going to rain tomorrow. I'd have a 50 percent change of being right because it'll do one of the two. For some of you it would probably be accurate. For others it would not. But suppose that I add to that and say it would start raining tomorrow morning at nine o'clock. That would be another uncertain element. I had a fifty-fifty chance of being right at first; now I have a 25 percent chance. Every uncertain element that is added reduces by 50 percent the chance of my being right—the law of problematical conjecture. Now suppose that I not only say that it's going to start raining at nine o'clock, but I also say it'll stop raining at two o'clock. Well, believe me, friend, that has reduced my chances now another 50 percent which brings it down to 12 percent. Can you imagine my chance of being right now? But suppose I add three hundred uncertain elements. There's not a ghost of a chance of being accurate. I just couldn't hit it—it would be impossible. Yet the Word of God hit it, my friend. It is accurate. The Bible has moved into that area of absolute impossibility, and that to me is absolute proof that it is the Word of God. There is nothing to compare to it at all. I have given very few examples of fulfilled prophecy, but there is in the Word of God prophecy after prophecy, and they have been fulfilled—literally fulfilled. And by the way, I would think that that indicates the method in which prophecy for the future is yet to be fulfilled.
4. Transformed Lives—I offer two final reasons as proof that the Bible is the Word of God. One is the transformed lives of believers today. I have seen what the Word of God can do in the lives of men and women. I'm thinking right now of a man in Oakland, California, who listened to my Bible-teaching program. I know this man. I'm not going into detail in his life at all, but he probably had as many problems, as many hang-ups, and he was in as much sin as any man that I know anything about. And this man began to listen to the radio program. I hear of people who just hear the gospel once and are converted. I think it's possible and that it's wonderful. But this man listened to it week after week, and he became antagonistic. He became angry. Later he said to me, "If I could have gotten to you when you were teaching the Epistle to the Romans and told me that I was a sinner, I would have hit you in the nose," and frankly, friend, I think he could have done it. He's much bigger and much younger than I am. I'm glad he couldn't get to me. Finally, this man turned to Christ. May I say to you, it has been wonderful to see what God has done in his life. Again and again and again this testimony could be multiplied. Young and old have found purpose and fulfillment in life, marriages have been saved, families reunited, individuals have been freed from alcoholism and drug addiction. Folk have had their lives transformed by coming to Christ. Now let me give you a reason. When I finished seminary, I was a preacher who majored in the realm of the defense of the gospel, and I attempted to defend the Bible. In fact, I think every message I gave entered into that area. I felt if I could just get enough answers to the questions that people have for not believing the Bible that they would believe. But I found out that the worst thing I could do was to whip a man down intellectually. The minute I did that, I made an enemy and never could win him for the Lord. So I moved out of the realm of apologetics and into another area of just giving out the Word of God as simply as I could. Only the Bible can turn a sinner into a saint.
5. Spirit of God Made it Real—Another reason that I've moved out of the realm of apologetics is because there has been a certain development in my own life. I have reached the place today where I not only believe that the Bible is the Word of God, I know it's the Word of God. And I know it's the Word of God because the Spirit of God has made it real to my own heart and my own life. That is the thing that Paul talked to the Colossians about. He prayed that they "might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding." I also want this, because I found out that the Spirit of God can confirm these things to your heart and that you don't need archaeology or anything else to prove that the Bible is God's Word. A young preacher said to me some time ago, "Dr. McGee, isn't it wonderful that they have discovered this," and he mentioned something in particular. And I said, "Well, I don't see anything to be excited about." He was greatly disappointed and even chagrined that I was so far away from it that I did not respond enthusiastically. "Why, what do you mean?" he asked. "Is it possible that this hasn't impressed you?" Well, I answered him this way, "I already knew it was the Word of God long before the spade of the archaeologist turned that up." He asked how I knew it, and I said, "The Spirit of God has been making it real to my own heart." I trust that the Spirit of God is going to make the Word of God not only real to you to incorporate into your living, but that He is also going to give you that assurance that you can say, "I know that it's the Word of God."
Revelation means that God has spoken and that God has communicated to man. Inspiration guarantees the revelation of God. Illumination has to do with the Spirit of God being the Teacher—He communicates. Interpretation has to do with the interpretation that you and I give to the Word of God.
Revelation means that God has spoken. "Thus saith the Lord," and its equivalent, occurs over twenty-five hundred times. The Lord didn't want you to misunderstand that He had spoken. Notice Hebrews 1:1, 2:
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.
Wherever you will find two persons, endowed with a reasonable degree of intelligence, who harbor the same feelings and desires, who are attracted to each other more or less, you will find communication between them. Persons of like propensities, separated from each other, delight in getting in touch with each other and rejoice in receiving communication from each other. This innate characteristic of the human heart explains the post office department, the telephone, and the telegraph.
Friends communicate with friends. A husband away from home writes to his wife. A boy or girl at school will write home to dad and mom. And ever and anon there travels the scented epistle of a girl to a boy, and then the boy returns an epistle to the girl. All of this is called communication. It is the expression of the heart. The Scripture says, "Deep calls to deep." You will recall the story of Helen Keller. I remember the thrill that came to me when I read the account of this woman, shut out from the world by blindness and deafness, without means of communication; and then a way was opened up so she could communicate—probably better than many of us who can see and hear.
Now, on the basis of all this, I would like to ask you what I believe is a reasonable and certainly an intelligent question: Isn't it reasonable to conclude that God has communicated with His creatures to whom He has committed a certain degree of intelligence and whom He created in His likeness? May I say to you, if we did not have a revelation from God, right now I think that you and I could just wait and He would be speaking to us, because we could expect God to speak to us. You will notice that the writer to the Hebrews says that God in the Old Testament spoke through the prophets, and He now has spoken through Christ. Both the revelation to the prophets in the Old Testament and the revelation of Christ in the New Testament are in the Word of God, of course, and that is the only way we would know about the communication from either one. The Bible has sixtysix books, and God has spoken to us through them.
This brings us to the second great subject which is inspiration. I personally believe in what is known as the plenary verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, which means that the Bible is an authoritative statement and that every word of it is the Word of God to us and for us in this day in which we live. Inspiration guarantees the revelation of God. And that is exactly what this Book says. Two men, both Paul writing his last epistle to Timothy and Peter writing his last epistle, had something pretty definite to say about the Bible:
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. (2 Timothy 3:16, 17 NSRB*)
Notice that all Scripture is given by inspiration. The word "inspiration" means God breathed. God said through these men, as He said here through Paul, exactly what He wanted to say. He hasn't anything else to add. Peter expresses it this way:
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. (2 Peter 1:21)
It is very important to see that these men were moved, as it were, carried along, by the Holy Spirit of God. It was Bishop Westcott who said: "The thoughts are wedded to words as necessarily as the soul is to the body." And Dr. Keiper said, "You can as easily have music without notes, or mathematics without figures, as thoughts without words." It is not the thoughts that are inspired; it's the words that are inspired.
There is a little whimsical story of a girl who had taken singing lessons from a very famous teacher. He was present at her recital, and after it was over she was anxious to know his reaction. He didn't come backstage to congratulate her, and she asked a friend, "What did he say?" Her loyal friend answered, "He said that you sang heavenly." She couldn't quite believe that her teacher had said that; so she probed, "Is that exactly what he said?" "Well, no, but that is what he meant." The girl insisted, "Tell me the exact words that he used." "Well, his exact words were, 'That was an unearthly noise!'" May I say to you, there is a difference between unearthly noise and heavenly sound. Exact words are important.
Believe me, it is the words of Scripture that are inspired—not the thoughts, but the words. For instance, Satan was not inspired to tell a lie, but the Bible records that he told a lie. It's the words that are inspired. And the Lord Jesus said, "It is written," quoting the Word of God in the Old Testament—the men who wrote gave out what God had to say. In Exodus 20:1 Moses wrote: "And God spoke all these words, saying...." It was God who did the speaking, and Moses wrote what He said.
Over the years there have been discovered many very excellent manuscripts of the Scriptures. Speaking of the manuscripts in Britain, Sir George Kenyon, the late director and principal librarian of the British Museum, made this statement: "Thanks to these manuscripts, the ordinary reader of the Bible may feel comfortable about the soundness of the text. Apart from a few unimportant verbal alterations, natural in books transcribed by hand, the New Testament, we now feel assured, has come down intact." We can be sure today that we have that which is as close to the autographs as anything possibly can be, and I believe in the verbal plenary inspiration of the autographs—that is, the original manuscripts.
Way back yonder in the second century Irenaeus, one of the church fathers, wrote: "The Scriptures indeed are perfect, forasmuch as they are spoken by the Word of God and by His Spirit." Augustine, living in the fifth century, made this statement, "Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures which can neither err nor deceive." And Spurgeon commented, "I can never doubt the doctrine of plenary verbal inspiration; since I so constantly see, in actual practice, how the very words that God has been pleased to use—a plural instead of a singular—are blessed to the souls of men." God speaks in this Book to our hearts and to our lives.
Illumination means that since you and I have a Book, a God- Book and a human Book, written by men who were expressing their thoughts and while doing this they were writing down the Word of God, only the Spirit of God can teach it to us. Although we can get the facts of the Bible on our own, the Spirit of God will have to open our minds and hearts if we are to understand the spiritual truth that is there.
Paul, writing to the Corinthians, said:
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. (1 Corinthians 2:7-9)
Now you and I get most of what we know through the eye gate and the ear gate or by reason. Paul tells us here that there are certain things that eye has not seen nor ear heard, certain things that you can't get into your mind at all. Then how in the world are you going to get them?
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. (1 Corinthians 2:10)
Verse 9 sometimes goes to a funeral. The minister implies that the one who has died didn't know too much down here, but now he will know things he did not know before. While that probably is true (we will get quite an education in heaven), that is not what the verse says. Long before you get to the undertaker, there are a lot of things down here that you and I can't learn through natural means. The Holy Spirit has to be our Teacher.
You remember that our Lord inquired of His disciples, "What are men saying about Me?" They said that some were saying one thing and some another. (And today you can get a different answer from almost every person you happen to ask. There are many viewpoints of Him.) Then He asked His disciples:
... But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 16:15-17)
God is the One who revealed the truth to Simon Peter. And today only God can open up the Word of God for us to really understand it.
On the day of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, He walked down the Emmaus road and joined a couple of men as they walked along. Entering into their conversation, He asked them:
... What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. (Luke 24:17-20)
As you will recall, Jesus had predicted that. And it is interesting to see that written prophecy had been saying it for years. Then they expressed the hope that had been theirs:
But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done. (Luke 24:21)
And they went on to tell about what they knew and what the women had reported. "Those who were with us went to the sepulcher... but Him they saw not." Their hopes had dimmed, and darkness had entered their hearts. Now listen to the Lord Jesus:
... O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:25-27)
Friend, wouldn't you have loved to have been there that day and heard Him go back in the Old Testament and lift out the Scriptures concerning Himself? And after He finally made Himself known to them as they sat at the evening meal, this is their comment:
... Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? (Luke 24:32)
You see, we are studying a Book that is different from any other book. It is not that I just believe in the inspiration of the Bible, I believe that it is a closed Book to you unless the Spirit of God will open your heart and make it real. When Jesus returned to Jerusalem at that time, He continued teaching the disciples:
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. (Luke 24:44)
Notice that He believed Moses wrote the Pentateuch; He believed the prophets spoke of Him and that the Psalms pointed to Him. Now here is the important verse:
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. (Luke 24:45)
And, friend, if He doesn't open your understanding, you're just not going to get it, that's all. That is the reason we ought to approach this Book with great humility of mind, regardless of how high our IQ is or the extent of our education.
Referring back to 1 Corinthians, Paul goes on to say:
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corinthians 2:13, 14 NSRB)
I am never disturbed when one of these unbelievers, even if he's a preacher, comes along and says he no longer believes the Bible is the Word of God (he never did believe it, to tell the truth) because that's the way he should talk. After all, if he is not a believer, he cannot understand it. Mark Twain, who was no believer, said that he was not disturbed by what he did not understand in the Bible. What worried him were the things he did understand. There are things an unbeliever can understand, and it's those which cause many to reject the Word of God. It was Pascal who said, "Human knowledge must be understood to be loved, but Divine knowledge must be loved to be understood."
As I leave the subject of illumination let me add this: Only the Spirit of God can open your mind and heart to see and to accept Christ and to trust Him as your Savior. How wonderful! I have always felt as I entered the pulpit how helpless I am because, believe me, Vernon McGee can't convert anyone. But I not only feel weak, I also feel mighty—not mighty in myself, but in the knowledge that the Spirit of God can take my dead words and make them real and living.
Interpretation has to do with the interpretation that you and I give to the Word of God. And this is the reason there are Methodists and Baptists and Presbyterians, this kind of teacher and that kind of teacher—we all have our interpretations. And where there is disagreement, somebody is evidently wrong.
There are several rules that should be followed as we attempt to interpret the Bible.
1. The overall purpose of the Bible should first be considered. And that is the reason I teach all of it—because I believe you need to have it all before you can come to any dogmatic conclusion concerning any particular verse of Scripture. It is important to take into consideration all verses that are related to that subject.
2. To whom the Scripture is addressed should next be considered. For instance, way back yonder God said to Joshua, "Arise, go over this Jordan" (Joshua 1:2). When I was over in that land, I crossed the Jordan River, but I didn't cross it to fulfill that Scripture. And I didn't say, "At last I've obeyed the Lord and have crossed over Jordan." No. When I read that verse I know the Lord is talking to Joshua—but I believe there is a tremendous lesson there for me. All Scripture is not to me, but all Scripture is for me. That is a good rule to keep in mind.
3. The immediate context before and after a Scripture should be observed. What is the passage talking about? And what other passages of Scripture deal with the same thing?
4. Discover what the original says. If you do not read Hebrew or Greek, when you read the American Standard Version of 1901 you're right close to what the Lord said. Frankly, I cannot recommend the modern translations, although there are good things in them. I have found that because we are so divided doctrinally, every group that attempts to translate the Bible just naturally injects into the translation their particular viewpoint. Therefore, if the liberal is going to do the translating, you may get a taste of liberalism. If the fundamentalist is going to do the translating, you'll get his bias in certain places. However, the men who did the original English translations were men who believed that the Bible was the Word of God and handled it accordingly. When there were words they could not translate, they simply transliterated them (for instance, Abba and baptizo). The danger in modern translations is that translation is done in a dogmatic fashion. When you translate, you have to take something out of one language and put it into another language in comparable terms—identical terms if possible. The thing that most of our modern translators are trying to do is to get it into modern speech. And in doing so, they really miss what the original is saying. Personally, I stick by the Authorized King James Version. I feel that The New Scofield Reference Bible (NSRB) has made a tremendous step forward in making certain distinctions and corrections that needed to be made in the Authorized Version. I recommend that also, although I still use my old Scofield Reference Bible. I know my way around through the Book, and, after all, the old scout will follow the old trail. However, the important thing is to attempt to determine the exact words of the original.
5. Interpret the Bible literally. The late Dr. David Cooper has stated it well: "When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise."
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Last week, my friend Rami @Rami Ungar the Writer prompted me to try this weekly feature called #FirstLineFriday and here I am again. It was fun to take a look at some old stuff I had written, so, here we go again! (If you've missed the first post, click here)
The Rules:
- You create a blog post on your own blog entitled "#FirstLineFriday", hashtag and all.
- You explain the rules.
- You post the first one or two lines of a potential story, a WIP, or a completed or published story.
- You ask your readers for feedback and encourage them to try and do #FirstLineFriday.
As I mentioned above, I used an old story last week and this time it is no different. It's part of a short story about loss that I meant to develop into something more at one point or another. It features a very prominent issue that I don't just see in my old work, but also in my writing now: run-on-sentences (and probably also punctuation).
I knocked, once, twice, luckily no one answered so I took out the key Nate once gave me and opened the door myself. The way up to his room was easy for I had been there almost every day the past months but now, entering it without him was surreal.
So, what do you think? Would you want to continue reading a story that started like this? (If you really are, click here) Let's discuss in the comments!
This week I tag:
- Astra @A Stranger's Guide to Novels
- Marie @Drizzle and Hurricane Books


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Forum website: forinnovations.org
Глобальная дискуссионная площадка – Форум «Открытые инновации» и выставка «Open Innovations Expo» – посвящена новейшим технологиям и перспективам международной кооперации в области инноваций.
1. Agenda for the Technological Development of Cities: Trends and Opportunities
Historically cities have been the main producers and consumers of technologies. The cities as we know them have been brought into existence by innovations in healthcare and sanitation, logistics and supplies. Development of modern cities is mainly driven by their competence in using communications technologies.
What are the main trends in the technological development of cities? How can new technologies help cities deal with challenges in the path of their development? Participants of the session will discuss technologies that will define the modern city, impact its economic development and shape behavioural standards of residents.
Moderator: Antoinette Matthews, Executive Director of MITEF
2. Unexpected Innovation Ecosystems: Successful Innovators in a Weak Institutional Environment
Examples of the appearance of successful innovation systems in developed countries are widely known. At the same time, their lessons are barely applicable to countries with undeveloped institutions. However, there are examples of innovation culture development even in a hostile environment – in the conditions of 'capitalism for the in-group'. One such example is the story of Taiwan's 'inside-out reforms', when the effects from micro-reforms, initiated by the elite itself, spread slowly and led to the radical transformation of the economy – the creation of an innovation cluster and the formation of early-stage venture capitalism.
Key factors of success were the dependence on the heterogeneity of elites and the ability of its most dynamic segment to form a convincing and diversified project portfolio – the micro-reform portfolio. Very few projects in such a portfolio grow to become macro-transformations, but those that do, change the character of the economy (like in Taiwan and China) or its parts (Argentina, India, and Brazil).
Participants of the event will present examples of the implementation of such imperceptible micro-reforms, and discuss their applicability in the Russian practice.
Moderator: Yevgeny Kuznetsov (World Bank and Migration Policy Institute)
3. Creative City: Territories, rich in knowledge
A modern city is a hub that accumulates knowledge, innovations and creative ideas. The key role in the development of the creative potential of a city is played by the "knowledge infrastructure" – the system of universities and scientific parks. At the same time, the most important condition for a positive influence of the knowledge infrastructure on the development of a city is its integration into the urban environment – the system of humanitarian, cultural, social, management, economic and city-building interconnections.
How can the integration of the knowledge infrastructure in the urban space influence the social and economic development of a city? What set of techniques and instruments allows us to effectively integrate knowledge infrastructures into the city fabric? What examples of international experience can be used in the Russian practice?
Moderator: Manuel Heitor, Professor, IST; visiting professor, Harvard
4. Urban Communications and Space-Changing Technologies
The quality of communication defines the effectiveness of people's interactions and thereby influences the economic development of a city. Implemented technologies form new standards of behaviour by changing the organization of economic interactions.
The use of technologies changes the city space and often gives rise to new functions. Thus, a factory transforms into a co-working space, a metallurgical complex into a landscape park, and a square for military parades becomes the citizens' favourite resting place. The new nature of space creates new opportunities for communications and interaction of townspeople.
Participants of the debate will discuss new forms and means of city communications, which result from the implementation of new technologies; new businesses developed on their basis; the transformation of forms of communications in municipal management; new approaches to solving transportation problems; means of communication that can increase the safety of citizens in public areas.
Moderator: Bill Hutchison, Director of the Center for Smart Cities, E&Y
5. Urban Security and Technological Solutions
The growth of megapolises and agglomerations, the increasing mobility of the population, terrorist, criminogenic, technogenic threats and a number of other risks form new challenges for modern cities. In the meantime, the security of citizens is one of the bases for ensuring the success of urban development.
Participants of the debate will discuss the risks and threats that modern cities face, as well as the opportunities for the application of innovation technologies to ensure safety of the urban environment. Specific attention will be paid to the best international practices and examples of successful application of innovation technologies in this sphere.
Moderator: Jurij R Paraszczak, Director of IBM Research Industry Solutions and the leader of the Research Smarter Cities program
6. Modern Technologies for City Governance
The 'modernity' of a city is defined by its management system. The following have to be singled out as being among the key features and tasks of a modern city management system: 1) a precise definition of skills required for the implementation of city management functions; 2) the presence of developed communications and information transparency, which allow one to increase the involvement of people in solving the city's problems and managing the city; 3) a sustainable city economy. Technologies are the means for solving these tasks and the source of innovations for increasing the quality of city management.
What opportunities does the use of advanced technologies provide for the development of city management systems? What management decisions are required for effective implementation of technological innovations? What could be the socio-economic impact of technological innovation in city governance?
Moderator: Оleg Alekseev, Vice-President, Skolkovo Foundation
7. Living Labs
According to the traditional concept of innovation centres, so popular today, the main driving forces for the creation of a market product are accessible technologies and business demand. The consumer is excluded from the development process, which sometimes leads to the incompatibility of the product and social context.
In the framework of the 'open innovations' approach, consumers cannot remain separated from the creation of new goods or services. On the contrary, they must be involved in the joint development of products. Thus, the concept of living, or territorial, laboratories emerges, where technologies are just the means of human interaction. Some European centres, such as Eindhoven and Trento, are already applying this model.
Participants of the debate will discuss advantages of various approaches and problems of their implementation, as well as the evolution of the interactions between research organizations, industry and users.
Moderator: Marcel Vroom, President MVAVD (Rotterdam based networked design office)
8. City ergonomics and visual attractiveness
One of the key factors determining the success of the city is the capability to attract and hold talents, create a special environment where they can fulfil their potential. Comparable economic power and infrastructure helps the world-level cities, such as Tokyo, New York, London and Paris to compete at the expense of the quality of city environment and capability to create a special impression. Apparently, visual environment and ergonomics of the city become the sources of its attractiveness and the factors contributing to fruitful communication and conception of new ideas and projects.
Moscow which has financial and political resources, powerful scientific and cultural potential, has whatever is necessary to become a desired place for life and work of successful people from all over the world.
How can one launch and maintain the process of generating aesthetic and ergonomic environment? How can one see and assess the progress? Will the race for the quality of the environment exhaust the city budget? Will such environment be affordable for all city dwellers?
The participants of the discussion will discuss the mechanisms for forming a comfortable and aesthetic city environment, and the role played by business, municipal authorities, communities and separate dwellers in such process.
Moderator: John Worthington, Director, The Academy of Urbanism; Co-founder at DEGW, Member of Independent Transport Commission
9. City and sustainable development
Moscow, in virtue of its historical ambitions to have a status of a global city, is doomed to initiate transformation from the centre of industrial production into a space of high quality of life, and in the future – into a metropolis generating cultural codes and communications which play a vital role in global development.
One of the conditions which make implementation of such favourable scenario possible is the capability of the city to maintain long-term growth without increasing the quantity of the consumed resources and environmental load.
The notion of sustainable development has more sense. It is not just development of power saving or waste utilization technologies, but also a change of social stereotypes and personal priorities, the change of the lifestyle. Due to the scale of the Moscow metropolis, its meaning for the country, forming a sustainable development model for such territory will positively affect the whole country.
Can such territory of the metropolis with permanently growing population become a model of sustainable development? What are the reasons for skepticism of power saving technologies that exists in Russia? Alternative technologies or alternative lifestyle? Who is the interested customer of innovations in the sphere of sustainable development?
Moderator: Alexander Malyutin, Director of Investments and Key Partners RE solutions, ODAS Skolkovo


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A successful orchestra is not simply made of talented individual musicians but a thoughtfully composed group. This recreational center seeks to manifest the synergy of musical ensemble into a conglomeration of inter-reliant intersecting activity cubes. Symbolically, the cubes rely on each other to create and uphold the whole edifice. Each intersection possesses spatial synergy created by separate events. This center is an analogy and as well as an encouragement to the collaborative efforts played in an orchestra. The whole is greater than sum of the parts.
Two enveloping strategies (Wrapper & Volume) are designed to coincide with the programmatic characteristics. Programmes with centralised activity zone and periphery circulation such as swimming pool, basketball court, badminton court and rooftop amphitheatre employ a wrapper strategy. Programmes with flexible activity arrangement and organic circulation in space such as multi-purpose activity rooms and gyms will employ volume envelope strategy.
Structural Tray
Most programmes specified in this recreational center requires a wide span of floor area, hence the structural system will be composed of interlacing and stacking braced steel that acts as structural trays for added rigidity. Through slight offsets and shifts of the trays, natural light and air can penetrate through the gaps to ventilate the internal spaces.


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2125 Catalpa DR DAYTON OH
Sold for $41,500
Large, spacious home, affordable price! Current owner used this as rental, but it would also make a great home! Four bedrooms, 2 on first floor; 2 full baths, one on first floor. Huge room with walk-in closet can be master bedroom suite, or additional living space. Kitchen has sunny windows and breakfast counter. Large living room with decorative fireplace and built-in shelves. Dining room with built-in cabinet and window seat. Most of the windows are newer vinyl. Full basement. Detached garage with driveway access to alley. (Entry driveway is shared with neighbor.) (Information provided by seller and public record. Please rely on own inspections. Room sizes approximate.)
Directions to 2125 Catalpa DR DAYTON OH 45406: Siebenthaler Ave. or Salem Ave. to Catalpa Dr.
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Comic Relief 2019
A huge thank you to all of the children who have brought in their potatoes today for Comic Relief. All of the potatoes look incredible; we clearly have some very talented and creative pupils and parents at Gwladys Street. We've also raised a brilliant sum for Comic Relief too.
Have a look at the talent across school for yourself and see if you can spot our winning designs and runners up (look for the yellow stars).


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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I was really excited about your book, but about 30 pages into it, I realized that you are kind of {and by "kind of", I mean extremely} a feminist/liberal/bleeding heart who is nothing short of positive that we can {and SHOULD!} go all sorts of nuts about the looming threat of global warming.
Really, Lisa? Really?
Um, have you like, noticed how like, scientists say that way back in prehistoric olden times, there was an ice age...? And have you noticed how, like, scientists have found the fossils of sea creatures in high altitude deserts? Methinks that mayhaps the earth is a violent, turbulent, active, and unpredicatable place to live.
I mean, yeah, our carbon footprint is enormous and we need to manufacture less, recycle more and blah blah blah... but I can't help but feel that part of "thinking" includes knowing what to expend your emotional/intellectual energy on...and I'm pretty sure obsessing about global warming is a huge waste of time.
Then again, I might not care so much due to the simple fact that I used my "thinker" several years ago when purchasing a home, and opted to purchase a residence in an area that isn't slated to be swallowed whole by the ocean at the first hint of global warming... so I guess there's that. In fact, there's a good chance that my property values will be sky high when the ocean eats Cali and Nevada and makes my 'hood the new "ocean front property." Sweet!
Okay, but seriously.
I really liked this book. {Once I set my "feminist/liberal/bleeding-heart" filter to a 10.} You actually make a lot of awesome points and the statistics shared at the beginning are mind boggling.
"25% of young American women would rather win America's Next Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize."
"Twenty-three percernt would rather LOSE THEIR ABILITY TO READ than their figures."
Someone please tell me this is a joke.
I love that your book made the idea of ever picking up another tabloid while waiting in line at the grocery store seem UTTERLY embarrassing.
I LOVE the way you make both women AND the media accountable for feeding into tabloid crap.
I LOVED the whole section about Angelina Jolie. Drove your point home super well.
I love that your book made me want to not only think, but also to act.
It was fantastic.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a fabulous feminist/liberal/bleeding heart filter.
P.s. And seriously, chill on the global warming thing. It's not that we are too stupid to believe that it could happen, or even that it IS CURRENTLY AT THIS VERY MOMENT HAPPENING, it's just that we like, have more important things to worry about. Like world peace...and when the next Justin Bieber album is coming out. {Obviously.}And don't even get me started on Brangelina. My guess is: she's pregnant with triplets AND adopting a baby {or two} from Zimbabwe. How can I focus on global warming at a time like this? Get your priorities straight.
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At university I am studying Chinese language and I am really intersted in Chinese culture and etc. I choose this university because many foreign students praise this university and they wrote many good comments.
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This University is specialized in teaching Chinese language to international students.
- 1 Year ago
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- From:Puerto Rico
I am studying at Beijing Foreign Studies University but would like to improve my Chinese language proficiency to allow myself communicate and read better in the Chinese language
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I am applying for the chinese short language program in this university because it's situated in Beijing which is the capital of China and has many foreign students studying there. So the overall communication would become easier for anyone who is not familiar which the culture or language. Secondly, the university is offering a wide range of programs with flexible and varied intakes since i am a working professional from Pakistan and so i wanted to get admission in May or June intake for a short term program which would be helpful for my work life here in my current organization.
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BLCU has a very good short-term Mandarin program. I've already studied there twice and I would like to make this experience again in order to get better language skills. It is a prestigious university that has a record of excellence and offers Chinese language courses at an affordable price. It is also a multicultural university with very good school facilities.
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Program Description
Teaching Objective
Teachers enable students to grasp accurate Chinese vocabulary, sentence patterns, to understand the connotation and structure of Chinese culture in a variety of comprehensive and effective teaching methods.
Main Courses
- Beginner level: Beginners' Chinese Comprehension, Beginners' Chinese Review Exercises, Beginners' Advanced Chinese Comprehension, Beginners' Advanced Chinese Review Exercises
- Quasi-intermediate level: Quasi-intermediate Spoken Chinese, Quasi-intermediate Chinese Reading, Quasi-intermediate Chinese Listening
- Intermediate level: Intermediate Spoken Chinese, Intermediate Chinese Reading, Audio-Visual Chinese Speaking
- Advanced level: Advanced Spoken Chinese, Advanced Chinese Reading, Audio-Visual Chinese Speaking.
Classes Arrangrment
- Class hours: 8:00 am to 12:00 am, Monday through Friday, 20 hours a week
- BLCU will arrange a visit to the Great Wall and to a show, free of charge
- There will be optional cultural courses opened in two programs, c.f. below. Tuition fee will be charged extra, and the minimum students number is 8.
- The optional courses will be conducted in the afternoon, and RMB 30 for one class hour.
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Beginners' Chinese Comprehension (10) Beginners' Advanced Chinese Comprehension(10) Quasi-intermediate Spoken Chinese (10) Intermediate Spoken Chinese(10) Advanced Spoken Chinese (10) Beginners' Chinese Review Exercises(10) Beginners' Advanced Chinese Review Exercises(10) Quasi-intermediate Chinese Reading (6) Intermediate Chinese Reading (6) Advanced Chinese Reading (6) Quasi-intermediate Chinese Listening (4) Audio-Visual Chinese Speaking (4) Audio-Visual Chinese Speaking (4)
Class Time
Jun.27—Aug.21, 2019
Entry Requirements
- The applicant should be a senior high school graduate in the age bracket of 18-60.
Fee Structure
Tuition Fee Non-degree RMB 7,400 in total (About $ 1,360) Accommodation Fee Dormitory No.17 Double Room RMB 80 Dormitory No.4 Double Room RMB 75 Dormitory No.6 Single Room RMB 145 Dormitory No.7 Single Room RMB 145 Dormitory No.8 Single Room RMB 145 Conference center Double Room RMB 358 Single Room RMB 150 Other Fees Application Fee USD 115 to USD 150 Service Fee USD 100 Living Expense RMB 2,200 to RMB 2,800
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Notes: 1. Applicant's parent need to find A.a Beijing Local, or B.a non-Beijing-local(working in Beijing with residence permit),or C. a foreigner( with a residence permit which covers the applicant's study period),to be the applicant's guarantor. First, Letter of Authorization can be acquired at Chinese embassy or consulate. Second, The Letter of Authorization should be notarized at a notary office in Beijing.)
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With name, passport number & expiration date, and photo included
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Provided by your current/previous school/company in Chinese/English to improve your success rate.You can download a template or sample from here.
For applicants who are in China: If you are an employee, you still need to provide employment separation certificate and your current residence permit. If you are a student, you need to provide transfer certificate, leaving certificate, certificate of attendance rate issued by previous school and your current residence permit.
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- • The start date has been updated to June 25, 2020 October 12, 2019
- • The application deadline has been updated to May 22, 2020 October 12, 2019
- • The tuition fee has been updated to 7400 RMB October 12, 2019
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