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It was one of those, "please, please, let this send," kind of moments when you hope a weak airport WiFi connection doesn't disconnect, a low-battery indicator doesn't shut down your laptop — who knows where there's an outlet in this airport — and your email actually sends to your million dollar client when the message popped up and your stomach drops: "Oops!"
Like some kind of creepy, American Psycho moment, a hardly-discernible, non-apologetic message from Gmail put this exact dagger into my heart and sent me wondering what went wrong.
Sure, of course, just lemme look up error #001. What?
Google's Chrome browser gives off an even worse error message that doesn't make things better, just a wanna-be-hipster-piece-of-software knocking off a Susan Kare classic laughing in your face when you're frustrated:
Maybe this is part of some awful brand initiative. After all, Google is a place of smiles. An every-color-of-the-rainbow logo, and three square meals place to work with unbelievable benefits. But, then again, Google is hardly alone in this kind of "smile when you've fallen" approach to error messages.
Microsoft is sadly considering implementing the same, cutesy thinking in a revamp of their blue screen of death as a part of their otherwise exciting, new Windows 8 operating system:
Oh, great. My 14 year-old cousin is writing error messages in Redmond.
Fortunately, Microsoft offers some advice. Just search for the error message, "HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED"…oh wait, this is the blue screen of death. My computer is totally effed.
Not to be oops-outdone by Google, Microsoft's XBox website includes the word, "Oops!" twice in an error message, first in the header and then as the first word to explain the header. Obviously, after frustrating someone, the best thing to do is say "Oops!" over and over again.
Sure, I'll "like" that page.
And if you thought the non-profit Mozilla Foundation avoided this kind of creepy, cutesy error messaging in their Firefox browser, you thought wrong.
The legoman is sorry that you can't load your favorite TV show.
In times like this, there's always YouTube, right? Millions of fun videos to help us laugh at times of stress.
Grab some music off my Apple iCloud?
Check my Twitter feed?
Is there no escape from this cute hell‽
The hip company Plaxo — your address book for life — has not only embraced the "oops" but entered another level of creepy. Shhh…this error is just "our little secret."
What's happening?
You know, not too long ago, whenever something in software was confusing to users, software-makers had a brilliant, can't fail, simple solution: add a how-to in the help section. Instead of spending hours making strange features straightforward, software companies passed the buck to the user: "Um, we can't figure out how to make it easy to do, so just read the manual."
Now it seems like there is another, new kind of awful simple solution for glitches and errors that infuriate people: a cutesy smiley face. After all, no one cares if you ruin their life as long as you do it with a smile, right?
The root of Oops!
In 1925, a New Yorker cartoon caption is credited with being the first published instance of "Whoopsie Daisy!" But the real root of the "oops" phenomenon in software might be pointed to the Linux operating system.
This is your fault, Penguin. Please stop looking at me like that.
Upon "a bug in the kernel" Linux kicks back an OOPS error message. First developed in 1991, Linux's code for error messages may have crept into the developer's subconscious eventually leading to today's proliferation of "oops." Here's an example:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 211e2018 c0129577 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0129577>] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010083 eax: d7ee5000 ebx: b420e080 ecx: c164e000 edx: c1615d04 esi: c16073d0 edi: 00000246 ebp: 000001f0 esp: d7c5de84 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process mount (pid: 25, stackpage=d7c5d000) Stack: 00000000 c0309c00 000001f0 00000000 c01fadb7 c16073d0 000001f0 c1615a40 c1615700 c1615a40 c01fa126 00000001 000001f0 00000000 c022f793 c1615a40 00000001 00000000 000001f0 d7b6fde0 d7c5df14 0000006e bfffec0c 00000018 Call Trace: [<c01fadb7>] [<c01fa126>] [<c022f793>] [<c01f8acb>] [<c01f8720>] [<c01f9450>] [<c0106d40>] [<c0106c4f>] Code: 8b 44 81 18 89 41 14 83 f8 ff 75 1d 8b 41 04 8b 11 89 42 04
(If you're curious about all the hex, an explanation is available from madwifi.)
When cute works
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with cute.
Cute works well when you expect nothing from something. Like, babies.
LOL, he pooped his pants!
Awww, he farted!
Haha, he just puked on me!
But cute doesn't work when you have expectations. Like, with adults.
Please, use the toilet…and the toilet paper.
Ohmygawd, that smells awful!
Do you need to go home?
So when a company like Google was still young, hip and start-upy, their error messages were indeed cute. Those silly Nooglers!
How fresh!
But now that they are a publicly traded, 186 billion dollar company that we rely on for important business communications, which could make or break jobs, their cute error messages are about as cute as a Bill Gates tossing floppy disks. In other words, just plain creepy.
Turn it down from 11
The language of error messages in old software like MS-DOS were notoriously unfriendly.
Oh yeah, duh, ff0a8e6c shouldn't have been pointing to HAL.DLL!
So, people who care about user experience have provided guidance. So, so many articles about writing good error messaging have been written over the past three decades. Here's one. Here's another. And another. And another. And another. And another from Yahoo! writers. Another, equating error messages to lost revenue. Another, on 404s…
But today's insulting cutesy error message writers have swung the pendulum too far. A common recommendation to use natural language to turn an incomprehensible "Error: Stack Overflow" has not turned into something polite and understandable, but instead an insulting "Oops! Aw, snap!"
What we need to do is dial it down from 11 on the friendly meter…11 is just too creepy. There is a happy middle ground where developers can apologize and software can provide the user polite guidance about what to do next. Website, app, software, you screwed up; help the user get their desired task completed ASAP.
To paraphrase Jon Stewart, oops is not the four letter word I would have chosen.
(The Daily Show) For the impatient, start at 6:52
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U.S.Jurisdiction & Alien Visitors
September 29, 2011 3 Comments
The principle of jus sanguinis is law by the Fourteenth Amendment
The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, James F. Wilson of Iowa, stated in 1866
: "We must depend on the general law recognized by all nations relating to citizens for a definition , and that must lead us to the conclusion that every person born in the United States is a natural-born citizen of such States, except that of children born on our soil to temporary sojourners or representatives of foreign Governments." ["Temporary sojourners" like transient aliens were a description applied to aliens other than resident aliens. The difference being temporary aliens were here for temporary purposes, such as work, travel, visitation or school,]
"When children inherit the citizenship of their father, they become a natural-born citizen of the nation their father belongs to regardless of where they might be born. Citizenship through descent from the father was recognized by U.S. Naturalization law whereby children became citizens themselves as soon as their father had become a naturalized citizen, or were born in another country to a citizen father."
Children are subject to the jurisdiction of their father. If the father is subject to U.S. jurisdiction by permanent residency, then by the principle of jus sanguinis his children are likewise subject through their hereditary connection to him. That is transmitted two ways. If he is un-naturalized then children born to him in the U.S. are automatically subject also and are naturalized at birth. They are citizens by automatic naturalization. But they are not citizens by birth to him because he is not a citizen.
If he becomes naturalized, then children born to him abroad, prior to immigration, are automatically naturalized also by jus sanguinis citizenship inheritance. They are not forced to wait until they are adults and then also go through the process to be naturalized. Instead that status of the father is applied simultaneously to his foreign born children via jus sanguinis.
["The American naturalization process required all males to twice renounce all allegiances with other governments and pledge their allegiance to this one alone before finally becoming a citizen."]
United States Attorney General George Williams ruled in 1873 the word "jurisdiction" under the Fourteenth Amendment "must be understood to mean absolute and complete jurisdiction, such as the United States had over its citizens…" He added, "Political and military rights and duties do not pertain to anyone else." [excluding all foreign diplomats, visitors, and Native Americans]
Since US citizens and legal permanent residents don't owe allegiance to any other nation, arguing that mere physical presence in the US, and being subject to non-political & military laws makes one subject to US jurisdiction is absurd because being subject to another countries laws while visiting makes no change to an aliens allegiance to their own native country.
Obama Sr. was not subject to US jurisdiction since he was a foreign visitor with a student visa, and therefore his son's birth in the U.S. was not covered by the 14th Amendment.
Obama's native birth (still unproven with any certification) is irrelevant because his birth to an alien visitor left him not subject to U.S. Jurisdiction.
No one born to an alien father was born a natural citizen.
No one not subject to the full political and military jurisdiction of the United States at birth is a citizen by the 14th Amendment.
No one who's citizenship is outside of the 14th Amendment is a natural citizen but is instead a citizen by statute.
Obama's citizenship is solely through his mother, -by statute. No one who is a citizen by statute is a natural citizen.
No one who is a citizen by statute was born as a natural citizen.
No one who is not a natural citizen (by birth, not merely at birth) is eligible to be the President of the United States.
Someone stated in response to the Slaughterhouse quote: "According to this statement by the Court, those born in the country of alien parents are not citizens of the U.S."
The statement by the court regarding those who are subject to U.S. jurisdiction, which excluded foreign citizens, did not take into account foreign citizens/subjects who were immigrants, as in permanent legal residents of the U.S. rather that temporary visitors. The legal definitions of foreigners and aliens divides them into two very distinct categories, namely; Immigrant Aliens (unnaturalized), and Non-immigrant aliens or Foreigners. Immigrant aliens are adjudged to be subject to U.S. jurisdiction. Therefore their U.S. born children are deemed to be U.S. citizens even without the naturalization of the parents. Their citizenship is statutory automatic citizenship, but not natural citizenship.
Slaughterhouse quote: "The phrase, 'subject to its jurisdiction' was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States." It appears that the court in this statement made no distinction between immigrant aliens and non-immigrant aliens, so it can be asserted that the court in Wong chose to proclaim immigrant alien children to be citizens without any historical legal foundation, -though the Immigration Service up until then may have done so on its own depending on who was in the White House.
Gray wrote in Wong Kim Ark 1898: "…it can hardly be doubted that the words of that act, 'not subject to any foreign power,' were not intended to exclude any children born in this country from the citizenship…" While that's seemingly in contradiction to his earlier stance in Elk v Wilkins, that may not be the case if you consider the import of the words "were not intended to exclude". If you assume that he knew full well that by not distinguishing between children born to alien visitors and children born to alien immigrants that the wording would indicate a blanket denial of citizenship to ALL children born of aliens, then you can say that he did an about face. But if in his mind he failed to grasp the over-simplification of the exclusionary wording and how all-inclusive it was, then it could be assumed that at the time of the Elk decision and opinion, that he ignorantly presumed that the words wouldn't be construed to include children of immigrants. There's no way to know if he was just linguistically stupid in not grasping the full meaning of the words he quoted from Slaughterhouse or if he did and later pretended that that meaning was stupid for including immigrant children. Either way there's a mark against either his intellectual competence or his integrity.
Civil Rights Act 1866 "'All persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States" Nearly every word in that sentence is significant, including "are hereby declared to be…" The use of the word "are" was a mistake since it referred only to those alive when it was written, and not to future cases of the yet unborn. Also, the use of the phrase "declared to be" clearly indicates that such citizenship is by act of Congress and is therefore a form of naturalization, and not natural citizenship. The 14th Amendment didn't repeat such wording and resulted in a very different meaning, including the change to "subject to the jurisdiction thereof". That demonstrates that it was U.S. policy to not consider whether or not any foreign nation feels it has jurisdiction over children born in the U.S. to their subjects/ citizens. Instead its only consideration is whether of not it views children born to aliens to be subject to its own jurisdiction. Wong resulted in the position that U.S. policy is that U.S. born children of aliens are subject through their parents and all immigrants are subject to U.S. jurisdiction, though that still excludes foreign visitors of whatever type.
This section contains a logic error: ""in the same sense as all other aliens residing in the United States", the truth is that they were completely and *permanently*(???) subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S., because the treaty with the Emperor of China *ALLOWED* them to permanently change their home and allegiance. The ties that bound them to China *HAD BEEN SEVERED* by the treaty,"
No ties were severed by one being allowed to sever ties. It would have taken a pro-active action to sever those ties in a recognized manner, such as taking an oath of allegiance to the United States before a magistrate which included renouncing allegiance to the Emperor. Also, this statement is illogical: "China released its subjects from owing any allegiance at all to their mother country." Subjects weren't released from owing allegiance unless they personally choose to be released. It wasn't forced upon them by the treaty. None of its statements proclaim that permanent residence is a de facto renunciation of their allegiance to their emperor. The treaty merely allows them to make that choice because it is their human right. It's not mandatory. Permanent allegiance need not accompany permanent residence. It's a choice. But permanent residence does involve subjection to the jurisdiction of the national government. It is that jurisdiction that was deemed the basis of granting U.S. citizenship to children of aliens. Such alien immigrants are not U.S. nationals because that requires being born within a territory over which the U.S. exercises sovereignty, such as American Samoa, and the Swain Islands.
my favorite points: 1.Those requiring naturalization are not natural-born." 2. "…the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was a naturalization act"
3. "The only congressional power to regulate citizenship pertains to naturalization." 4. "…no citizen is eligible to be POTUS who wouldn't have been eligible prior to the enactment of the 14th Amendment." Allow me to add one of my own: No one is a natural citizen if their citizenship is by law because Congress was not given the authority to legislate regarding the status of natural citizens. Their citizenship comes by a law that was never written because it didn't need to be. AN
Official Definition of Immigrant:
There's a bigger issue than ignorance of U.S. law, and it's in regard to the inadequacy of U.S. law. The policy of law that I've been logically but blindly espousing isn't just a supposition of my imagination after all since it's codified, as I recently discovered here:
§ 1101. Definitions
(15) The term "immigrant" means every alien except an alien who is within one of the following classes
of nonimmigrant aliens—
(i) an ambassador, public minister, or career diplomatic or consular officer who has been accredited by a foreign government, recognized de jure by the United States and who is accepted by the President or by the Secretary of State, and the members of the alien's immediate family;…
(B) an alien (other than one coming for the purpose of study or of performing skilled or unskilled labor or as a representative of foreign press, radio, film, or other foreign information media coming to engage in such vocation) having a residence in a foreign country which he has no intention of abandoning and who is visiting the United States temporarily for business or temporarily for pleasure;…
(i) an alien having a residence in a foreign country which he has no intention of abandoning, who is a bona fide student qualified to pursue a full course of study and who seeks to enter the United States temporarily and solely for the purpose of pursuing such a course of study..
None of those in the extensive list of foreigners presently within the U.S. can be considered to be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States since they are instead subject to international treaty and the jurisdiction of their own nation. They aren't immigrants, they are foreigners and foreigners aren't subject to U.S. jurisdiction.
Any view to the contrary is a manifestation of ignorance and irrationality. Unfortunately, many people in positions of authority have been taught by teachers who were ignorant and irrational. AN


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Exploring the relationship between past movements and the here and now.
Many talented artists diverge; they do not confine themselves to one style or subject. This tendency is exemplified in the exhibition called Images by Andrew McLeod at Ivan Anthony. The works are often very large or very small, historic in style or modern, realistic or abstract. They are painted, photographed, printed and even constructed from wood.
Most splendid of all is the spectacularly big Large Green Interior that resembles a 19th century academic painting and stretches from wall to wall. The composition is braced by classical marble columns and several of the figures pose in classical attitudes.
Nevertheless, this is a modern painting, with the sharpness and oddity of a dream. The space is furnished with chairs, vases, plants and pictures but above the door demons lurk. There are a number of figures. A man with a bare torso throws himself into a pose of Romantic despair in front of another who, clad in a purple toga, strikes an attitude while he waves weapons in the air. Further on, a figure in a cloak confronts someone who has a sinister quality and another with a gun.
Then there is a statuesque Greek hero complete with short sword. A twisted tree grows up between the groups.
One of the demons is taken from a painting by Lord Leighton, President of the Royal Academy in the 19th century. Underlying its complexity of images in this ambitious work is the feeling of a clash of cultures. The work by Mcleod refers to how we saw and, in some ways continue to see, the culture we inherited from Europe, and how we adopt artefacts of culture when they are transplanted from the other side of the world. This painting is an impressive echo of grandeur.
The combination of cultural inheritances is continued in another fine work, Diptych with Figure. The bottom of the heavy frame provides a base for a delicate Pre-Raphaelite figure of a maiden with a flower. The diptych is two elegantly geometrical abstractions, with the inference that these extremes are gathered in present-day psyche.
Other works are completely abstract, small and deftly made. One neat work with a lot of wooden surfaces called Large Cedar Relief is only 26cm high.
McLeod's reputation was established with elaborate inkjet prints of complicated imagery. Here the outstanding work in this genre is Landscape with Gold, where a rocky landscape like a huge New Zealand riverbed is salted with bright geometric designs and a hoard of golden treasure.
Then there is a fascinating suite of collaged photographic images filled with a whole world of references from Jane Burden, the face that launched a thousand Pre-Raphaelite paintings, to Bramante's little Tempietto in Rome that set the pattern for much Renaissance architecture. Every piece is packed with allusion to passage and perception of art over time.
This command over so many means of creative expression makes it clear that McLeod has matured into one of our most outstanding artists.
Nigel Brown, in his recent paintings at Whitespace Gallery, deliberately creates New Zealand legend but he too adapts material from European art. His black-singleted, tiny-headed figure is his version of a New Zealand Everyman and the latest persona of this figure is Joe Taihape, a guitar player wandering through place and time. The image of the guitar player is, in outline, based on Picasso's famous work from his symbolist Blue Period, The Old Guitarist.
Picasso's guitarist is old and bony whereas Brown's is muscular. Joe's small head emphasises the unintellectual nature of the figure. The painting is strong and simple, with five variants, largely changes in colour.
One version, Being Here Music, adds more figures and is done in a startling orange with luminosity unusual in the artist's work. Another incorporates a tin-roofed, weatherboard shack that is much more typical of his style and imagery.
The figure and the details have the strength of simplicity but some things, notably the bare feet of the musician, are casual, even crude, within the conventions of such symbolic work.
Two new galleries are showing a considerable body of work. Black Asterisk has had a number of one-person shows and their new exhibition is Musings by Victoria Cassells. The work is softly atmospheric with a strong vein of sentiment. It is at its best when her control of paint is tightened by a touch of assertiveness as in Gretel Was Coping Just Fine, with a young girl alone in the woods, no Hansel needed. One excellent study, The Butcher's Wife, is stronger than anything else in the show.
At the new Railway Studios in Newmarket, husband and wife Jasmine Kamante and Jesper Sundwall show the value of their training in European academies by painting thoroughly traditional figure studies and still life with finely honed skills exactly rendering everything from naked flesh to spilled walnuts.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you wait in line for the Verizon iPhone. Hey, you can actually call people on your iPhone now? Who knew that thing could be used to talk to people? LET'S GO!
LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN – 11:30PM (CBS) David Letterman is always at his caustic best when interviewing people he has absolutely no respect for, so tune in this evening as he engages in what's certain to be an awkward sit-down with best-selling author Snooki (I can't believe I just typed that). Watch as Letterman openly insults Snooki without her detecting it. Marvel at her complexion, which is not unlike that of a peeled sweet potato. If only Joaquin Phoenix and the ghost of Farrah Fawcett could also somehow be involved. ANTICIPATION: WEIRD!
JERSEY SHORE – 10:00PM (MTV) Shocking News: Ronnie and Sammi break up! No, for real this time! They swear! Ronnie trashes her things and everything! Anyway, Sammi considers leaving the Shore for good. Expect her to change her mind about it 6,734 times. ANTICIPATION: GO AWAY!
CSI – 9:00PM (CBS) Tonight you get a special CSI cameo from Yelawolf. I do not know who that is. I'm guessing he (she?) is a hip hop artist.
/does Google search
Yep, he's a hip hop artist. Anyway, expect many a trunk to be popped this evening, and expect those trunks to have corpses in them. Come on, America! It's Yelawolf! You know you adore him! ANTICIPATION: YELAWOLF!
ANXIOUS – 8:00PM (OWN) This new series from the Oprah network follows two people suffering from anxiety disorders. Boy, I bet it'll be really unnerving for them to watch themselves on TV. What if they look silly? What if every makes fun of them? What if they embarrass themselves forever and ever and ever? I don't think I could deal with that kind of pressure. ANTICIPATION: APPREHENSION!
LAKERS/CELTICS – 8:00PM (TNT) The classic rivalry continues tonight as Kobe and his bedraggled crew take on their Finals dance partners. Expect bouts of severe chippiness. ANTICIPATION: RIVALS!
Thursday Watch List: Snooki vs. Letterman
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ROME (Reuters) - Outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti accused his media magnate rival Silvio Berlusconi of trying to buy votes with impossible promises on Sunday as Italy's election campaign entered its last phase.
With the February 24-25 vote two weeks away, polls suggest the center-left Democratic Party (PD) will win a solid lower house majority but may need a deal with Monti's centrists to gain the control of the Senate it must have to govern.
Although both center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani and Monti have rejected suggestions of an unspoken deal, their attacks have concentrated heavily on 76-year-old former prime minister Berlusconi, whose strong campaigning has eaten into Bersani's once-huge opinion poll lead.
Berlusconi "continues to make promises that try to buy the votes of Italians with money that belongs to Italians", Monti told a rally in Milan, pointing to the center-right leader's promises of sweeping tax cuts if he wins.
Berlusconi, who stepped down in 2011 as the financial crisis threatened to push Italy's huge public debt out of control, has hammered away with calls for lower taxes and an abolition of the hated IMU housing levy passed by Monti's technocrat government.
Last week, he also said he favored a sweeping amnesty on unpaid taxes although he later said this was not part of his coalition's official platform.
"This may be able to stir up popularity but it would be the proof of a country completely lacking any memory," Monti said.
In a separate television interview, the former European Commissioner said Italy's partners feared a return of Berlusconi, who has made attacks on the EU and German Chancellor Angela Merkel a central feature of his campaign.
"They've had enough of an Italy which puts itself, the euro zone and Europe at risk through its political fragility, its inability to take decisions and its financial indiscipline," he told TGCom24 television.
Roberto Maroni, head of Berlusconi's coalition partners, the pro-devolution Northern League, who is running for governor of Lombardy, home of the financial capital Milan, said Monti was preparing for a de facto alliance with the left.
"Monti is ready to commit incest with Bersani to get his hands on Lombardy," he tweeted on Sunday.
Speculation over post-election alliances has increased in the wake of a non-stop media campaign by Berlusconi that has enabled him to cut the center-left lead to around six points and threaten what had once appeared its near-certain victory.
Election rules give a minimum 54 percent lower house majority to the group winning the biggest overall vote share.
But the upper house race depends on a series of separate regional contests and could be decided by results in big regions like Lombardy and Sicily, where polls show no clear favorite.
PD officials dismiss suggestions they will be unable to form a government but Bersani faces a potential dilemma as the prospects increases he will have to seek an alliance with Monti for a Senate majority.
Monti said on Sunday he had always had "excellent relations" with Bersani but he has been sharply critical of the PD leader's leftist allies such as Nichi Vendola, leader of the small Left Freedom Ecology (SEL) party, or Susanna Camusso, head of the CGIL trade union.
Vendola and Camusso have been sharply critical of the austerity policies imposed by Monti's technocrat government, accusing it of pushing Italy into recession, creating record unemployment and heaping misery on ordinary Italians.
Bersani has refused to drop Vendola and says a center-left government would not represent a radical departure from the pro-European course set by Monti.
Last week, he sent deputy party leader Enrico Letta to London to reassure international investors that Italy did not risk sliding back on its budget and economic reform commitments if the center-left wins power.
Letta said there were questions about Vendola but added the bankers he spoke to were more concerned about another outcome.
"The big worries and the big questions were about the possibilities of a Berlusconi victory," he told Reuters.
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Houston Dynamo defender Kofi Sarkodie has been named to the roster for the upcoming U.S. men's national team training camp that will convene March 13 to begin final preparations for the CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying tournament.
This will be the fourth camp for Sarkodie under U-23 head coach Caleb Porter. Sarkodie was called into the February camp, held in Dallas, and started and played 90 minutes in a 2-0 friendly win over Mexico on Feb. 29.
The second-year defender was drafted by the Dynamo with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft. Sarkodie appeared in seven matches for Houston in his rookie season.
"Obviously, our mission is to qualify for the 2012 summer Olympics and this roster is a culmination of a long process to select what we feel is the best team this country has to offer in the U-23 age group," U-23 head coach Caleb Porter said. "For the past four training camps we have been comprehensively evaluating the most talented personnel available from an extensive player pool comprised of professional players on clubs in this country and abroad. I feel very confident in this collection of players and their ability to execute the playing style we believe will best represent their talents and get us to London."
The final roster for Olympic qualifying will be finalized March 20, the due date for all participating teams to submit their rosters to CONCACAF. The U.S. will compete in Group A which kicks off March 22 at LP Field in Nashville, Tenn. The two finalists from the eight-team tournament qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in London this summer.


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This is one hell-of-a-summary!
Battery life, efficiency, Streaming, Quality, Design Integrity, you're hitting all the key points. What do I owe you for this? Buying the wrong feature Set is an expensive mistake.
Can you offer an opinion on the New Phones as Audio Players? the V20 for example.
It would seem that the World will be using their Phones as DAPs, I hope to encourage you to continue your "important" work in this new area.
Thank you for all this work!
Tony in Michigan


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The Truth About Fox News Hosts...
No_Parking on April 17, 2008
I'm really getting burnt out on this year's election. I'm really going through some voter fatigue right now. If I didn't have Barney's storyline plotted out to November I'd stop doing election comics for a while.
Maybe I just need a vacation.


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It's been a busy couple of months for Mark Mastrov, chairman and co-founder of private equity firm New Evolution Ventures (NeV), Lafayette, CA. Since Mastrov became part-owner of the NBA's Sacramento Kings in mid-May, the Kings have hired a new head coach, a new general manager, a new president of basketball operations and added players in the annual NBA draft.
But the dizzying past few weeks were nothing compared to the drama earlier this year surrounding the Kings, who were strongly pursued by a group in Seattle that planned to move the team there. In the end, Mastrov's group, led by software billionaire Vivek Ranadive (pronounced "rah-nah-DEE-vay"), won the Kings for a reported NBA-record $535 million.
"I always felt from day one we would prevail," says Mastrov, who first expressed interest in owning the Kings in January and later stepped back to support Ranadive as he took the lead in the ownership group.
Landing the Kings was a vindication of sorts for Mastrov, who lost out on a bid to own the Golden State Warriors three years ago. But you won't hear a lot of celebratory talk from Mastrov, who instead would rather discuss the strength of his ownership group.
In his first lengthy interview since becoming part-owner of the Kings, Mastrov, the founder of 24 Hour Fitness, talks to Club Industry about becoming an NBA owner for the first time. He compares the pursuit of the Kings to landing a deal in the fitness industry and says his friend, Bahram Akradi, CEO of Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, could be the next fitness club operator to one day own a professional sports team. He also is looking forward to making the hour drive from his office to Sacramento on game night.
Landing the Kings
Club Industry: What was this whole process like to obtain the Kings?
Mark Mastrov: It was a very crazy process, of course. Lots of twists and turns. A lot of drama. A lot of politics. The deal came on very fast, and we had a very limited amount of time to buy an NBA franchise at an all-time record high. And we had to close it in a short window and perform. We had to do everything in a 30-day window. I don't think any deal in the NBA's history has been as complicated and interesting. I think David Stern, the [NBA] commissioner, would say that what we were able to pull as a group and put together in that window—led by [Sacramento] Mayor Kevin Johnson and the partnership—was not only amazing but probably a miracle.
CI: Did you go through the roller coaster of emotions amid the reports of the team's staying or going?
MM: There's no doubt it was a roller coaster ride, but no different than anytime you've been in the fitness industry whether you were trying to acquire a piece of real estate to build your club site on and you were competing with other realtors or other club groups and the roller-coaster ride you go through on that, or whether you were trying to buy a chain of clubs to add to your portfolio or grow into a new country. For us in this industry, it was a very similar process of competing for something that you desperately wanted to win on. The only difference is you were competing with one of the wealthiest men in the world in Steve Ballmer and a very strong group led by Chris Hansen trying to move into Seattle. We put together a phenomenal group ourselves led by Vivek Ranadive, a good friend of mine, who is just a phenomenal businessman and leader, and then the Jacobs family out of Qualcomm, and then Raj Bhathal and his family and many others, such as Chris Kelly and Andy Miller. We put together a very good core group of people who are passionate about basketball, who are business leaders up and down the state of California, and we fought for the right to keep the team here in Sacramento for the overarching cause of goodwill towards the community and not moving the team. And that gave us a little bit of an edge over Seattle, and eventually we prevailed.
CI: How influential was Kevin Johnson in the process?
MM: If you step back, it's not common today that you can see a city step up and pledge money for a new arena. And for the mayor of Sacramento to do that not only once but several times to keep the Kings in Sacramento was huge. But on top of that, [for Kevin] to be a former All-Star, an NBA player who had connectivity to the league, the owners, the commissioner, adds a lot of credibility and value to what we're all trying to achieve. I think you have to tip your hat to the mayor and say that he probably was one of the biggest chips that we had on our side to help keep the team in Sacramento. Without him, it probably makes it very difficult for us to have had a chance to do so.
One of the big criteria from the NBA to Seattle and to Sacramento was building a new arena, and the mayor was instrumental in helping us achieve that, as was, in the early days, Ron Burkle (an early investor candidate who backed out during the process) in helping us craft a stadium opportunity in the downtown core, leveraging off of his experience in building a stadium in Pittsburgh for the [NHL's] Penguins.
CI: What was it like to step back and not be the lead owner of the team?
MM: I don't think there's any ego issue involved. The way the NBA works is you have to have a general partner, so there's one partner who speaks for the partnership group. Vivek is a good friend of mine but made it very clear in the early stages that he was one of the leading investors in the Warriors, and he really coveted being in that lead spot [for the Kings]. And as much as I or others would have coveted being in that lead spot, Vivek stood up and said, "I really want to be the lead owner and be the general partner." Stepping in behind him is not an issue for me. He's a good friend. I still have a significant stake in the team and will play a significant role with him and others going forward, so it will be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it.
CI: How do you compare the disappointment of not landing the Warriors to the excitement of now owning the Kings?
MM: Obviously, I learned a lot through the Warriors process, and I think that helped a lot through the Kings process. You've been there and kind of understood some of the things you needed to do to get to the end. Joe [Lacob] did a phenomenal job winning the Warriors, and I took my hat off to him. He put a big number out there at the time, and he prevailed. On the Kings, obviously we put an even bigger number out there, and we prevailed.
Teamwork, the Draft and Shaq
CI: When you met the media in New York in April, you talked about the importance of having a great team in place from top to bottom in the organization. Do you still feel that way?
MM: I think we've gone beyond even my expectations of the quality of people we've been able to bring into our GM spot, our coaching spot, the president of operations, the development of our arena. We just have been very fortunate to have been able to hire some amazing people who are excited about coming to the Kings to resurrect and redevelop that brand and build a great team and at the same time develop a new arena and move into a brand new arena in the next three years. It's not often you get that opportunity, and we're excited about it.
CI: Were you in the Kings' draft room on draft night (June 27)?
MM: I was in the draft room. It was a lot of fun. They call it the war room. Obviously, we leaned on our basketball experts, Coach [Mike] Malone and [General Manager] Pete D'Allesandro and their team. Vivek was very, very involved. We had ranked our top 100 players from one to 100 and then the draft ensued. We had Ben (McLemore, from the University of Kansas, the Kings' No. 1 pick) up top, and we were surprised he was still available to us. We just got lucky as some of the teams made some surprising choices. We had him No. 1 overall, in our opinion, for best player for a whole bunch of reasons.
CI: You and Vivek Ranadive took Shaquille O'Neal to dinner recently. What was that dinner like, and how involved do you think Shaq will be with the Kings?
MM: I've been friends with Shaquille for a long time, and he happened to be in town. He and I were getting together to catch up, and I had Vivek join just to meet him, so we had a very nice dinner. I don't know that we made any decisions on either side of what we might do in the future, but Shaquille's the best of the best, and I just love that guy, and Vivek got a chance to meet him and loved him as well. He's a true gentleman but a character beyond characters. Just a fun-loving guy, smart as a whip. A great guy to spend some time with.
CI: Shaquille O'Neal called the Sacramento Kings the "Queens" several years ago and again during his jersey retirement ceremony with the Lakers. Will Sacramento be miffed if he's going to help the Kings?
MM: Things change over time. I think if we're all held for every quote we've ever made at the moment, a lot of us would have difficulty moving forward. I think Shaquille, everybody knows he's a humorous guy. He's just a big fun-loving man, and I think it could be interesting in any role he might play, although we haven't really had any serious conversations with Shaquille to date. We just had a nice dinner with him, and we'll take it from there.
The Media Spotlight
CI: Are you getting used to more media attention?
MM: Media's a non-issue for me. Once you're involved in any kind of a scaled business, you're involved with the media to a certain degree. I've done a tremendous amount of speaking all over the world and media all over the world. It's very, very easy for me. It's not something I worry too much about.
CI: How excited were you to make those comments at that press conference in New York?
MM: If you talk to people who know me and spend time with me, I'm more of a team guy. I always liken myself to the point guard on a team. I want to distribute, make sure everybody gets their shots, gets their points, is happy and in the right positions and orchestrate and help drive the team to success. So when you talk to me about owning an organization or being involved in an organization, whether it's Crunch or UFC Gym, whether it's the Kings, it's all about the team you put together. It's not about any one individual. It's about the team.
As Vivek always says, it's not like a marching band where everybody knows their role and they all march in succession and it's all orchestrated. Today, it's more like a jazz band where everybody kind of does their own thing, but when they come together, they play beautiful music together. And that's kind of what you have is you have this jazz band up there in Sacramento with amazing people, and you're only going to be as good as each person is in their particular area. So you have to have the best coach, a great GM, a great president of your total operations to build a new arena, and we've been fortunate to announce that we're bringing on Chris Granger, one of the lead guys inside the NBA who worked with David Stern and [Deputy Commissioner] Adam Silver and reported directly into them. It's like anything else. You have to have a lot of luck. You have to have a lot of great people. You have to have a great culture. And I'm a big team guy. That's why I love basketball and professional sports because they're all team-based, not individual-based.
CI: What has been the reception like for you and the new owners in Sacramento?
MM: When you step back and look at what we're embarking upon, it's a pretty exciting opportunity. The fans, I don't know how many times I've had people just walk up to me at airports now or at a restaurant in Sacramento or at events just shake my hand and say, "Thank you for keeping the Kings here in Sacramento." And I thank them. It's more them than even us.
I think this global view of the Kings through Vivek's eyes and then my experience having developed businesses in north of 25 countries around the world, I think we all see the Kings as something in a bigger light and the NBA in a bigger light as the NBA continues to be this global brand and continues to develop over the years ahead. It's going to be a lot of fun. I think we have a lot of attraction power in Sacramento, even though a lot of people would not think so.
We're going to work hard and we're going to be competitive. But we're not going to promise anybody we're going to win a world title in the near future. It's going to take us a little bit of time to build, but we're going to do it the right way.
CI: How much did the recognition from Shaq and Magic Johnson after you won the Kings mean to you?
MM: They're great human beings. Earvin's (Magic) one of the best human beings you've ever met. He's a caring person. Smart as hell. He's a guy that never forgets. We have a great relationship. It's always nice to hear from him. It was very kind of him to say the nice words that he did.
Splitting Time with his 'Day Job'
CI: How is your attention going to be divided with Crunch and UFC Gym and all your other ventures with NeV now that you're with the Kings?
MM: Not a lot different. With the Kings, we've got a professional group in there that we've hired, and they will take over and run the business. And we have a board that will support them, so it will be like any investment you make. Time will be as needed, but I've got plenty of time if needed to help those guys out.
On the NeV side, we have a phenomenal team of professionals, led by Jim Rowley. We're rolling along very nicely right now. We're doing great work and having a lot of fun and really enjoying what we're doing. From that standpoint, nothing will change. I'll have the same level of involvement, if not more, from the day to day. All the investors [with the Kings] have companies and day jobs, as we call it, to keep us busy. Basketball is played at night, so at the end of my day job, I'll be able to drive up and catch a few games and have a lot of fun. My kids, my family are very excited about that. I'll get Bahram Akradi out there to come see some games with me and try to get him into the NBA one day. I know he's also showed an aspiration to one day get involved in professional sports. I'm sure he will. He's super bright, super passionate and the most competitive guy I've ever met.
I'm sure there will be more to come [from the fitness industry]. I'm sure there are a lot of guys like me who are passionate about professional sports. All I can say is that it's a ton of fun, and it's very similar to a lot of the things that we've learned and that we do. It lends itself nicely to the experiences we've had around the fitness industry.
CI: What's your opinion of the merger and acquisition activity in the fitness industry so far this year?
MM: It's been quieter than I would have assumed. The debt markets are pretty strong. The capital markets have a lot of cash on the sidelines. It's been a lot quieter than you would think at this point in time. LA Fitness made a big splash last year and picked off a lot of the platforms that were available. There just hasn't been that much on the market at this point in time. People are in the building mode—I'd call it growth mode. From what I can tell, people are performing well, the industry seems very strong and people are excited about the future. Everybody seems like they're having a good year so far.


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Weisz will star in "360," to be directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Peter Morgan, reported Deadline. The movie is an adaptation of a Viennese play about sexual mores that is more than a century old.
Based on Arthur Schnitzler's play "Reigen," a series of ten encounters between two sexual partners, with one person from each scene appearing with another partner in the next. Here's a breakdown of the original play:
- The Whore and the Soldier
- The Soldier and the Parlor Maid
- The Parlor Maid and the Young Gentleman
- The Young Gentleman and the Young Wife
- The Young Wife and The Husband
- The Husband and the Little Miss
- The Little Miss and the Poet
- The Poet and the Actress
- The Actress and the Count
- The Count and the Whore
We loved Meirelles' "City of God," and Morgan is on a roll, having written "The Queen," "The Last King of Scotland," "The Damn United" and "Frost/Nixon" all in the last five years.
But once again, we'll warn you that Schnitzler was also responsible for the play "Traumville" (Dream Story"), which was the source material for Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut."
Weisz's latest film, "The Whistleblower," about a woman who uncovers the UN cover-up of a sex scandal in post-war Bosnia, debuted to mixed reviews at the Toronto Film Festival.
Morgan's next film, "Hereafter," starring Matt Damon and directed by Clint Eastwood, tells the story of three lives intertwined by experiences with the great beyond. The film comes out Oct. 22, but the trailer has tempered our enthusiasm.


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Heidi Klum will do it again – returning to the runway for Victoria's Secret, barely more than a month since giving birth.
The "Project Runway" host, who famously rocked a bikini bod at the 2005"Victoria's Secret Fashion Show" just two months after popping out son Henry, is set to host the lingerie company's annual fashion show on Nov. 19, People reported.
"Heidi is superwoman. She had a baby a few weeks ago and she is hosting the most high profile fashion show in the world," Ed Razek, President and Chief Marketing Officer of Victoria's Secret told People. "Victoria's Secret is thrilled to have her back. There is no one like her."
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|Genesis 22, Job 1:6-2:10, Isa. 43:1-7, Hos. 2:1-12, 2 Cor. 11:23-29.
Memory Text:
| "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall
prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand"
As the wife of the famous Christian writer C. S. Lewis was dying, Lewis wrote, "Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all', but 'So this is what God's really like.' "A Grief Observed (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1961), pp. 6, 7.
When things become really painful, some of us reject God completely. For others like Lewis, there is the temptation to change our view of God and imagine all sorts of bad things about Him. The question is, Just how hot can it get? How much heat is God willing to risk putting His people through in order to bring about His ultimate purpose of shaping us into the "likeness of his Son"? (Rom. 8:29, NIV).
The Week at a Glance:
|Why do you think God is willing to risk being misunderstood by those He wants to know and love Him? How much do you think God is willing to be misunderstood in order to mold you into the "likeness of his Son"?
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, November3.
|October 28
Abraham in the Crucible
Read Genesis 22. Out of nowhere and without explanation, God suddenly calls Abraham to offer his own child as a burnt offering. Can you imagine how Abraham must have felt? On a human level, it was a totally revolting idea for a holy God to request that you sacrifice your own son. On a spiritual level, even if Abraham thought that this was acceptable, what about God's promises of an inheritance? Without his son, the promise would be gone.
Why did God ask Abraham to offer this sacrifice? If God knows everything, what was the point?
God's request and its timing were not random. Indeed, the test was calculated to exert the deepest possible anguish, for "God had reserved his last, most trying test for Abraham until the burden of years was heavy on him, and he longed for rest."Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 147. Was this the test of a mad God? Not at all, for "the agony which he endured during the dark days of that fearful trial was permitted that he might understand from his own experience something of the greatness of the sacrifice made by the infinite God for man's redemption."Page 154.
This was just a testGod never intended for Abraham to kill his son. This highlights something very important about the way God sometimes works. God may ask us to do something that He never intends for us to complete. He may ask us to go somewhere He never intends for us to arrive at. What is important to God is not necessarily the end, but what we learn as we are reshaped by the process.
Jesus may have been thinking about Abraham's experience when He said to the Jews, " 'Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad' " (John 8:56, NIV). Abraham could have missed out on this insight, dismissing the instructions as from Satan. The key to Abraham's surviving and learning through the whole process was his knowing God's voice.
|How do you know the voice of God? How do you know when God is talking to you? What are the ways He communicates His will to you?
|October 29
Wayward Israel
The story of Hosea has some powerful lessons to teach us. Hosea's situation is remarkable. His wife, Gomer, runs away and has children with other men. Though she is sleeping around, God calls Hosea to take his wife back and fully show his love to her again. This story is meant as a parable about God and Israel. Israel had left God and were prostituting themselves spiritually to other gods, but God still loved them and wanted to show His love to them. But just look at God's methods!
Read Hosea 2:1-12. What methods does God say He will use to pull Israel back to Himself? What would these experiences have felt like?
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8, 9
This story raises two important issues about the way we experience God when He is bringing us to repentance.
First, we risk not recognizing that God is at work. When Israel went through such hard and painful experiences, it might have been hard for them to recognize that their God was working for their salvation. When our path is blocked by sharp thorns or we are walled in so we don't know where we are going (vs. 6)is this God? When our basic necessities disappear or we are embarrassed (vss. 9, 10)could our Father be in the middle of it all? The truth is that whatever we feel, God is always working to bring us to repentance, because He loves us so very much.
Second, we risk misunderstanding God when He is at work. We may recognize that God is at work, but we don't like what He's doing. While we are feeling hurt and embarrassed, it is easy to blame God for being cruel, for not intervening, or for not caring. But God is always working to renew us through His covenant of love.
|Read Hosea 2:14-23. What does this passage reveal about God? Ask the Holy Spirit to show you if you have been running from God in any area of your life. If you are convicted that you have been, why wait to go through the crucible? What's stopping you from surrendering all to the Lord?
|October 30
Surviving Through Worship
Read Job 1:6-2:10. What caused Job's suffering?
There is something astonishing here. The angels come to see God, and Satan comes with them. God asks Satan where he has been, and Satan replies that he has been " 'roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it' " (vs. 7, NIV). Then God poses this question: " 'Have you considered my servant Job?' " (vs. 8, NIV). The question itself is not remarkable; what is remarkable is the One who asks it. It isn't Satan who points out Job as a subject for examination, but God. Knowing exactly what is going to follow, God calls Job to Satan's attention. Down on the earth, Job has absolutely no idea how hot his crucible is about to become. And though it's very clear that it is Satan, not God, who causes Job's suffering, it is also clear that it is God who gives His explicit permission for Satan to destroy Job's possessions, children, and his own physical health. If God is giving permission for Job to suffer, what difference does it make whether God or Satan is personally inflicting the suffering? How can God be righteous and holy when He actively allows Satan to cause Job such pain? Is this situation a special case, or is it characteristic of the way God still deals with us today?
In Job 1:20, 21, how does Job respond to the trials?
It is possible to respond to such suffering in two ways. We can become bitter and angry, turning our backs on a God we believe to be cruel or nonexistent, or we can hang on to God more tightly. Job deals with his catastrophe by staying in God's presence and worshiping Him.
In Job 1:20, 21, we see three aspects of worship that may help when in anguish. First, Job accepts his helplessness and recognizes that he has no claim to anything: " 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart' " (vs. 21, NIV). Second, Job acknowledges that God is still in total control: " 'The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away' " (vs. 21, NIV). Third, Job concludes by reasserting his belief in the righteousness of God. " 'May the name of the Lord be praised'" (vs. 21, NIV).
|Going through a trial? Follow the steps that Job used. How might they help you as well?
|October 31
Surviving Through Hope
"We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead" (2 Cor 1:8, 9, NIV).
As God's chosen apostle, Paul had endured more than most people. Yet, Paul was not crushed. Rather, he grew in his praise for God. Read his list of hardships in 2 Corinthians 11:23-29. Now read 2 Corinthians 1:3-11.
In verse 4, Paul states that the reason for receiving God's compassion and comfort is "so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God" (NIV). To what extent might suffering be a call to ministry? How could we become more alert to this possibility?
God wants to minister through us to hurting people. This means that He may first allow us to experience the same sort of hurts. Then we'll offer encouragement, not from theory but from our own experience of the compassion and comfort of God. This is a principle from Jesus' life (see Heb. 4:15).
Paul's vivid descriptions of his hardships are not to make us feel sorry for him. They are for us to know that even when we're in the depths, the Father still can intervene to bring His compassion and comfort. We may despair even of our own lives, and even be killed, but fear not, God is teaching us to rely on Him. We can trust Him, for our God "raises the dead" (2 Cor 1:9, NIV).
As Paul continues to set his eyes on proclaiming the gospel, he knows that God will rescue him in the future as well. Paul's ability to remain firm is supported by three things he mentions in 2 Corinthians 1:10, 11. First, God's proven track record: "He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us" (vs. 10, NIV). Second, Paul's determination to fix his concentration on God Himself: "On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us" (vs. 10, NIV). Third, the saints' continual intercession: "as you help us by your prayers" (vs. 11, NIV).
|What can you learn from Paul that can help you from falling into self-pity amid your own struggles?
|November 1
Extreme Heat
So far this quarter, we have considered many examples of the crucibles that God uses to bring purity and Christlikeness to our lives. However, some people may view these examples and conclude that God is a severe and demanding taskmaster. Sure, some may say, "We know that God wants something good for us, but these examples don't reveal much care and love. Instead, God looks more like a bully. He sets out on a purpose that causes us considerable hard times, and there's nothing we can do about it."
It's true that while living on this sin-filled earth, we will understand only a little of why things happen. In heaven we'll understand so much more (1 Cor. 4:5, 13:12), but for now we will have to live with the tension of believing that God is present and caring for us, even though things don't always feel too good. Isaiah describes this tension very well.
Read Isaiah 43:1-7. In verses 2 and 3, God says that His people will pass through waters and through fire. These are figurative of extreme dangers, but perhaps they hint at the crossing of the Red Sea and the Jordan, both fearful times but times that paved the way to a new life. You may expect that God might say that He would protect His people from these dangers, that He will guide them along an easier route. But like the Shepherd in Psalm 23, He rather says that when the difficult times come, God's people need not be overwhelmed-for He is with them.
back at
43:1-7. Write down the different ways in which God assures His people
of comfort during the times of water and fire. What picture of God does this
paint in your mind? Which promises can you claim for yourself?
We could summarize what we have learned about God's crucibles in three ways. First, God's extreme heat is to destroy not us but our sin. Second, God's extreme heat is not to make us miserable but to make us pure, as we were created to be. Third, God's care for us through all things is constant and tenderHe will never leave us alone, no matter what happens to us.
What do these texts teach you about the actions and character of God? Ps. 103:13, 14; Matt. 28:20; 1 Cor 10:13; 1 Pet. 1:7. How have you experienced the reality of these verses in your own life?
|November 2
Further Study:
|Read Ellen G. White,
"The Test of
Faith," pp. 145-155, in Patriarchs and Prophets; "Praise Ye the
Lord," pp. 315-319, in Testimonies
for the Church, vol. 5.
"God has always tried His people in the furnace of affliction. It is in the heat of the furnace that the dross is separated from the true gold of the Christian character. Jesus watches the test; He knows what is needed to purify the precious metal, that it may reflect the radiance of His love. It is by close, testing trials that God disciplines His servants. He sees that some have powers which may be used in the advancement
of His work, and He puts these persons upon trial; in His providence He brings them into positions that test their character. . . . He shows them their own weakness, and teaches them to lean upon Him.... Thus His object is attained. They are educated, trained, and disciplined, prepared to fulfill the grand purpose for which their powers were given them."Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 129, 130.
"If in the providence of God we are called upon to endure trials, let us accept the cross and drink the bitter cup, remembering that it is a Father's hand that holds it to our lips. Let us trust Him in the darkness as well as in the day. Can we not believe that He will give us everything that is for our good?. . . Even in the night of affliction how can we refuse to lift heart and voice in grateful praise, when we remember the love to us expressed by the cross of Calvary?"Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p. 316.
Discussion Questions:
| In class, have someone recount his or her own test
of faith such as Abraham had. What can you learn from this person's experience,
from his or her successes or failures?
Review the last 24 hours of Christ's life. What extremes did He face? How did He endure? What principles can we take from His example and apply for ourselves when in the midst of our own crucible?
Discuss the idea, touched on this week, about how through our own suffering we can minister to others who are suffering. However true it might be, what are some of the problems we might encounter with this idea?
Ellen White wrote above: "Let us trust Him in the darkness as well as in the day." That's easier said than done. How can we help each other develop the kind of faith that will enable us to do just that? Why is it important to trust God in the bad times?
|I N S I D E Story
|God Saved Me Twice
by KIZITO KYAKULAGA
Before I knew God, He knew me and saved me. I was studying in a government secondary boarding school near my town in Uganda. At the end of the year I was preparing for my 0-level exams when I became very sick. The nurse put me in a spare room to rest, and I fell asleep.
As I slept, the candle the nurse had left fell over, catching the room on fire. I awoke smelling smoke but was too weak to even stand, but someone rushed in and pulled me from the burning room. Everything in the room was burned, but I was saved.
I was still ill when I took my exams, but when the results came back I had passed. Later I received a letter from Bugema Secondary School, offering me a scholarship to study the A level, the college entrance level. I was so happy, because my parents could not afford to send me on to school.
But when I arrived at Bugema, I discovered that the school was Seventh-day Adventist. Students worshiped on Saturday, but Sunday was a workday. We had worship every morning and even had Bible class every day! This was too much religion for me! I thought about going home, but I decided to stick it out. Soon I realized it wasn't so bad after all. Teachers helped me understand what the Bible meant, and I learned more in a week than I had learned in a year in my home church.
During the Week of Prayer I gave my life to Jesus. I had attended church all my life, but no one had ever invited me to accept Jesus as my Lord. I was baptized later in the year, but I did not tell my parents right away, for I feared they would be angry.
When I did tell my parents, they were not so angry, just disappointed. My father threatened to withhold the small allowance he had been sending me to buy soap and stuff, but Mother saw to it that I still received it. My mother listens when I talk to her about what I believe, and I invite her and my younger sister to attend church with me. I hope someday my little sister can study at Bugema and find there what I found-a relationship with Jesus.
Your mission offerings support schools such as Bugema Secondary School and Bugema University in Uganda. Your faithfulness helped introduce me to Jesus. Thank you.
KIZITO KYAKULAGA now studies at Bugema University in Uganda.
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ividyon wrote:I finally got around to playing Xeops! It was a worthwhile experience and a fun 1h40 to spend.I played on Medium difficulty. I was a big fan of the architecture and massive scale of the level; very well one of the largest Unreal spaces I know! The mobility boost from "quadshot-jumping" with the Quadshot's altfire came in handy when traversing the large areas, though apparently it was not intended.
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