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If you are an employee for a business, be it a sole proprietorship, a partnership, an LLC, a corporation, a non-profit agency or what have you, it is bad enough your wages are low and your health plan has way too many copays, and your 401k hasn't been matched for years now. So, don't ever make things worse for yourself by signing a personal guaranty on behalf of your employer. They simply don't pay you enough, and they know it.
First, let's talk about what a personal guaranty is all about. Essentially it is a document that says the person signing is individually responsible for whatever debt or obligation is being incurred. This means that should a vendor, supplier, service supplier or whomever hand you a personal guaranty to sign before they can either do work for you or ship you something, what they are really doing is asking the person signing the personal guaranty to be responsible for their own company's debts or obligations. This means that if you sign the personal guaranty and your company doesn't pay its bills, they can come after you, sue you and take your money. It is totally ironic, but it is possible that if you had to pay on a personal guaranty you signed on behalf of your company, and you were sued and couldn't pay the judgment, then your wages could be garnished. Your employer would be taking money out of your check to pay its own darn debts! Crazy huh? So what is the point you need to leave this article with? Never sign a personal guaranty! It is your company's responsibility, not yours! Remember, the slave drivers don't pay you enough.
Second, let's assume you know everything we've already discussed. You know not to sign a personal guaranty. You aren't that out of touch with the reality of how most financial transactions work. Here is what you need to keep in mind, even if you know exactly what a trap a personal guaranty can be. Too often, at work we just sign away at forms without reading them. There is just too much paperwork and too little time. So, beware, always at least scan any document your read to make sure you aren't personally obligating or guaranteeing a debt just by putting your signature somewhere. Often, personal guarantees are hiding, and quite often they are found in Credit Applications. Credit Applications are where a bulk of the personal guarantees you need to be watching out for are hiding.
I know. I'm a lttle backwards. Not too long ago I finally gave up my VCR, and I still miss 8 Track Tapes. But, I also remember the days when to hook up your computer monitor and speakers you had to use two separate connections. One was a cable or line to your speakers from your computer, and the other went to your monitor. It was only recently I traded in my old PC with the VGA monitor. Actuall I threw it in a dumpster, and not even the recycle bin. Then I went to Best Buy and bought a computer and an LCD monitor. The speakers were built into the thing! Anyway, I only had one cable that said HDMI on it, so I figured it went to the monitor. But, I couldn't find the cables that connected the audio. In fact, there wasn't anywhere to plug in the audio on the computer or the monitor with the built in speakers. Dang it, I thought, so I just decided to see how the thing worked without any sound. Boy was I amazed when the sound came on! Then I learned the days of dual connections were over. HDMI audio and video now go through the same cables.
Apparently, this all has something to do with all the newest electronics using digital data to transfer both audio and visual media. It all travels through the same channels, or the same HDMI cable cord now, be it sound or images. I must say setup is easier than ever!
A lot of people suffer wage garnishment. They have a judgment against them for taxes, child support, alimony, debts they just couldn't pay, or even for contract or business disputes. The day comes when they just didn't have enough money to pay on the judgment against them, no matter how much they wanted to make things right. The money just wasn't there. It is a down economy, a lot of people are out of work, and a lot of people that have jobs just aren't earning the kind of money they once did. The good news is you don't have to take a wage garnishment lying down. When your employer is served with wage garnishment papers, you don't have to just stand there silent and allow 25% to 50% of your money to come right out of your check before it lands in your hands. You have a right to file for a hearing and go ask the judge or hearing officer to reduce your proposed garnishment.
In most jurisdictions, you are dealing with a traditional garnishment which takes between 50% to 25% of your paycheck straight from your employer. You can fight this by asking for a hearing or court date. Then, usually you can argue Economic Hardship. This is essentially you arguing to the judge or the hearing officer that you or you and your family just won't be able to survive if you are garnished for the full amount. For instance maybe you won't be able to feed your kids, or you'll lose your car or your house if your garnishment isn't reduced. Perhaps you have medical expenses or the cost of a medicine you are taking hardships you. If the judge or hearing officer buys your argument, there is a good case she has the authority to lower your garnishment down to 10%-20% of your wages. It isn't a perfect solution, but it is better than the alternative.
Entering and winning sweepstakes can mean extra cash for you. The Top 5 Ways To Make Money With Online Sweepstakes explains how to do this easily online. Just a little time filling out forms and entering contests can result in you winning lots of free stuff. This stuff can then be converted into cash using the tips and tactics supplied by the Thrifty Mom over at Nifty Nack.
Thrifty Mom makes many easy to do suggestions including one that involves the family. Not only does this provide families with extra revenue, it also is fun! It sounds like if you follow her advise you will be standing by your mailbox in the evenings waiting for the postman to make his rounds so you can see what cool prizes and free stuff they bring you. Every little bit helps now days, and this is definitely a way to help boost your finances.
Do you think employees should be able to use Facebook at work? Opinions are across the board. Draconian managers say no. Liberal managers say why not? Ultimately it comes down to productivity. Does Facebook decrease or increase productivity? On its face, we might agree with the Draconian managers. Employees are most productive when all they do is work. To the extent they are goofing off, they are not getting any real work done. The liberal managers might say not so fast. People are not machines. They need breaks, distractions, and a little play. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, right? If all he does is work, work, work, he becomes lethargic and his wheels start spinning slowly. It takes him 10 hours to do 5 hours of work. If only he could play a little on Facebook, say an hour per day, he'd get 9 hours of work done in 10 hours! A 4 hour boost in productivity in return for one hour of play!
However, does it really work that way? We don't know for sure, but one way to handle the problem is not to assume that Facebook time is the issue. If employees are not producing, and you think Facebook is the culprit, why not just set work quotas? In other words, tell employees they have to make X number of widgets per hour. That is their job. If they get it done, good. If they don't then maybe they need to be fired. Maybe they will Facebook a little less if they have to hit goals or say bye bye?
We really enjoy what a lawyer has to say, for once. This is why we are regular reader's of Pat Dickson's Blog. Here's a lawyer that skips all the crap about court cases and legalese speak and just gets down to business. He tells it how it is without pulling any punches or throwing a bunch of Latin you don't understand at you. Sometimes he does write legal articles, but they are in plain English and you can understand what he's saying. Sometimes he teaches you how to handle legal issues by telling stories. They read like good fiction and they keep you going, but you learn something too. What we like most is he almost always gives away a few secrets about how to keep from spending too much money on lawyers. He focuses on quick solutions that don't cost his clients an arm and a leg.
Lately, Pat's been writing a bunch of Negotiation Tips we find totally instructive and amusing. He has a common theme, which is don't do anything until you have to. Listen, be silent, be friendly, get your enemy talking, and if you can find someone to fight your fight for you, do it. It will cost you a hell of a lot less in the long run. Take Negotiation Tip # 6. We really liked this one. Pat gave an example of how his client had to chose whether to fight the contractor he worked for or join him. In the end, the smart thing to do was side with the contractor. Why? That's where all the business came from. Plus, the contractor paid all the lawyer bills. At least we have one honest lawyer out there. If not charging his client is the right thing to do, that's what he does. Well, at least if he walks his talk. Anyway, we enjoy the blog.
Workers' compensation covers workers whenever they are made sick, injured, or disabled on the job. They usually receive a portion of their salary plus medical costs until they are either able to return to work to their former position, or they are retrained for a new line of work, or they are moved horozontally into another line of work. Workers' compensation is no fault, meaning by claiming benefits, the injured, sick, or disabled worker holds his employer harmless in return for his workers' compensation benefits payout. The employer likewise holds the employee harmless and is not allowed to fire him or subject him to any wage offsets. One of the immediate benefits is that each party avoids court. The payment of workers' compensation benefits and receipt thereof are essentially a deal to stay out of court.
So, what is the catch? What is workers' compensation, really? It is definitely a bargain for the employer, right? In most cases an employee on workers' compensation is not getting paid his full salary as benefits. He's usually getting something like 50% of his salary while he rests up and gets better, rehabilitates or trains. By receiving benefits, the employee is basically giving up his right to recover 100% of his wages in return for something less than 100%. By staying out of court, he is being given a guarantee he gets something, because going to court could get him something between 0% and 100% recovery. He's entitled to 100%, but in some cases, it may be worth it to take a guaranteed 50%. You just never know. There are many variables. Plus, in some cases, the worker may be the cause of his own work related injuries, in which case, taking a workers' compensation payout of 50% in return for his employer guaranteeing not to sue him and letting him keep his job is a good thing. But, say the employer is at fault and the employee loses a limb. In this case, taking workers' compensation is probably not the route to a full recovery. So is workers' compensation a scam? Every work related illness or injury is different. In some cases yes, in some cases no.
You may have just recieved your paycheck, and it is almost 50% short. You run directly to the Payroll Department to see what the problem might be, it had to, after all, be a terrible and gross error. It must be because they laid off the lady who knew what she was doing and replaced her with someone that didn't. The bad news is you discover your wages have been garnished. Your first question is what is a wage garnishment? What? Me? I had a lawsuit or judgment against me and now my company is involved? This is crazy! What has the world come to? Unfortunately, if you have a judgment against you, collection of it can turn into a garnishment of your wages, and in many cases there is absolutely nothing you can do.
The only good news is that there are some Federal and state laws that protect you from too severe of wage garnishment. The bad news is that the protection isn't so great. The Consumer Credit Protection Act protects you from being garnished more than 25% for ordinary debts, unless you are making a ton of money, but you can be on the hook for more than 50% for things like tax bills, bankruptcy obligations, or child support. There is sometimes nothing you can do but try to live off a smaller paycheck, but in some cases you'll end up losing your house. In any event, there are three places to go for help in most cases. They are your HR department, your state Department of Labor, or an attorney. Sometimes you can appeal a garnishment based on how it was calculated, and sometimes you can be involved in the actual calculations. Depending on your jurisdiction, some courts may be willing to lower your garnishment obligation based on hardship. You basically argue to the court that your debt will never be paid because if you take such a cut in pay as a result of your garnishment you won't be able to afford living in your area and working your job.
Where do I start? I think I start back when I was happiest. Remember when you had to be home to receive a phone call? The phone was on a cord and because you had to stand there and talk, the conversation was usually short and sweet, you said what you had to say, and you hung up and went back to your orderly life. If you were out and about, there were no distractions. No texts, no calls, no last minute changes in plans. There it goes, that BEEP BEEP! BUZZ BUZZ! Or maybe you have a ringtone of Johnny Cash's Ball and Chain. That would be an appropriate one for a cell phone. Isn't that the worst part of having an iPhone, or any mobile phone for that matter? You can never just escape being plugged in, run by the machine. Remember the movie The Matrix? I think that happened just a few years after HDMI on TV became the standard in households around the world. It is just too much trouble! I want to be my own man! I don't want to be run by a bunch of gagets! Whatever happened to a good old fashioned nature hike? Now if you go on a nature hike, a bunch of people are standing around talking on their cell phones, or they are so busy taking pictures of the nature around them that they don't even stop to enjoy the real, live nature around them until after they get home and look at the pictures they took with their iPhones. Then the real life nature experience is gone. What does this rant have to do with HDMI TV? Ok, let me explain.
Getting hooked into HDMI TV is like becoming one of the guys plugged into the Matrix and you are just dreaming you are having a life, but the reality is you are being run by a machine. First you have to buy the HDMI TV. That's what? $2500? Then the Blue Ray Player? $250? Then HDMI cable? $140 per month? That is a lot of money, plus, once you have it all up and running, you just sit there and watch the clear picture and hear the crystal clear sound. That's nice, but you are just sitting there, granted it is like you are really there but not really. Do you get my point? I know I'm scatter brained today. Hold on a second. My cell phone is buzzing. Gotta get this.
Before you sign an employment contract always check out the employee handbook because if there is anything not clearly set forth in your contract but it is in the employee handbook, you are stuck with what is in the employee handbook. You might think you naturally get a whole month paid vacation off every year because you are a manager or director and that's just expected. Not so fast. If you don't have vacation days in your contract and the employee handbook says you only get 10 paid days a year, you are not getting the month of vacation you are expecting. You are getting 10 days. And these days it seems no one in any company believes in work-life balance. It isn't productivity driven by an invigorated and happy employee that matters. They want to see sad faces pointed down in little cubicles. Not you! You are going to be happy because you made sure to get your Vacation included in your employment contract!


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The Reserve Bank of India today released the data on India's International Trade in Services for November 2014. The value of exports and imports of services during November 2014 was:
The Reserve Bank releases provisional aggregate monthly data on India's international trade in services with a lag of around 45 days. The data being provisional would undergo revision when the Balance of Payments (BoP) data are released.
Sangeeta DasDirector
Press Release: 2014-2015/1493

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Are you an RN who thrives in a high-energy environment? Do you enjoy life-long learning? Are you interested in becoming a leader of collaborative patient care? Consider becoming a perioperative nurse.
Perioperative nurses care for patients undergoing surgery or invasive procedures. As part of the perioperative team, you practice as a scrub nurse and circulating nurse, collaborating with surgeons and anesthesiologists to facilitate surgical procedures.
Saskatchewan Polytechnic's nationally accredited Perioperative Nursing/RN program prepares you to work in the fast-paced world of today's OR. Best of all, our online program enhances your professional credentials while allowing you to maintain professional and personal responsibilities.
Perioperative Nursing/RN is an advanced certificate program offered full-time or part-time through online distance education. Choose the full-time option to complete the program in eight months or the part-time option to complete the program in three years. Your education is based on the latest evidence-informed best practices for perioperative nursing. You'll study the nursing process in perioperative nursing, principles and practices of aseptic technique and highly technical skills for working within a surgical environment.
To enroll in the program, you must be currently licensed with the registered nurses' licensing body in the province where you will be completing your clinical practice education.
Sask Polytech is one of the most respected providers of nursing education in Canada. The Perioperative Nursing/RN program is approved by the Operating Room Nurses' Association of Canada (ORNAC), which opens doors to jobs across the country. As a student, you'll access innovative virtual reality videos of real surgery. Our emphasis on hands-on learning ensures you have the knowledge, the skills and the confidence you need to deliver patient care in the surgical environment.
Patient safety is the focus of a one-week skills lab. It's an opportunity to apply what you've learned in a supported environment, using simulations to practice hands-on skills.
Your learning experience culminates in a 10-week clinical practice. It begins with a four-week instructor-led clinical practicum, followed by another six weeks of preceptored clinical practice in different surgical areas, including gynecology, urology and orthopedics. Clinical placements take place in Lloydminster, Moose Jaw, Prince Albert, Regina, Saskatoon and Swift Current. You will be able to select your preferred clinical site when you submit your application, using the Site Confirmation form. Simply submit the completed form with your application to the program, or separately by fax or email as indicated on the form. If you wish to apply to more than one clinical site, you must submit a separate application with fee.
When you graduate, you're eligible to:
Refer to Frequently Asked Questions for additional information.
Perioperative nurses are in demand across Canada, thanks to evolving health care delivery models and advances in medical technology. It's an exciting career path with a growing number of opportunities in urban and regional hospital operating rooms, ambulatory surgery centres, freestanding clinics and more.
For more information about career opportunities related to this program, contact Student Employment Services or visit www.healthcareersinsask.ca.
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Some online programs include on-site labs, clinicals, practicums or work experiences. Online programs may be offered course-by-course or full-time, or both, and deliveries may change over time.
Accepted applicants are required to provide evidence of the following upon admission into the program:
The First Qualified/First Admitted (FQFA) process is used for the majority of Saskatchewan Polytechnic programs. When we determine that you meet the program's admission requirements, you will be offered admission based on the date you fully qualify for the program. The earlier you provide the appropriate documents and information that qualify you for admission to the next intake, the earlier you might begin your studies. Your application, once qualified, is always considered for the next intake.
Applicants to programs with multiple intakes in an academic year remain in the application pool until the last intake for that academic year has begun. Programs using the FQFA process receive applications year round and maintain an application pool for each academic year. Qualified applicants who are not offered a seat must reapply for the next academic year.
Sponsored programs or programs targeted to specific groups do not accept applications year round or maintain an application pool.
See Admission Processes for more information about this method of admission.
Saskatchewan Polytechnic recognizes that adults learn in many different ways. This includes acquiring knowledge and skills through life and work experience or non-formal training. See links below to more information about PLAR and detailed PLAR candidate guides for courses in this program.
Many Sask Polytech students benefit from transferring course credit. You may be eligible to transfer credit to Sask Polytech or to another college or university.


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Thank you, as always, for your kind comments that warm our hearts and make us smile. What treasures you all are!
Our Tall Doll families have been very busy lately, attending classes at the Pink Street Elementary (So named for the pink carpet in Audrey's room).
There have been many creative and unusual teachers, such as: Mrs. Lemming (Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic), Mr. Environment (Science), Mrs. Rundel (Art), and Miss Z, the principal.
There were many assignments to complete, including papers on The Grasslands and Horses in America, as well as memorizing spelling words for the Great Spelling Bee, which was held last Friday evening at 6:30.
Some of the lovely artwork produced during class.
The Spelling Bee
Of course, it hasn't been all work and no play! There were several field trips taken to enjoy the beautiful fall colors and learn about the Great Outdoors.
We hope that you enjoyed peeking at Pink Street Elementary~All of this was the product of the girls' own imaginations, making this mama very proud indeed!


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It's that time of year when holidays which consist of lazing around getting sunburnt are exchanged for genuinely exhausting trips away on the slopes.
You can lessen the chance of embarrassing accidents and improve your technique by remaining composed and following simple rules on how to keep the best position with your body.
We've spoken to Darren Turner, presenter of the Ski School series of apps for the iPhone, and he explained why we need to remain "stacked" while we're skiing.
Instant improvement guaranteed. Pretty much.
You can download more at www.skischoolapp.com
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Apology, disclosure and trust
By: Ahmed Afaal, MD
Over the years, many Maldivians travel abroad to seek health services. Many a time, these people seek services abroad for those that are readily available in the country.
But why?
I believe that this is due to the fact that people have lost trust in the system. We need to go through a shift in paradigm in order gain the trust of the people. The first step towards this shift is to start believing that we have a problem.
In my interactions with quite a lot of patients, issues that they have raised are not really medical. Following are views from patients that I have been told many a time.
- Patients believe and know that no health system is perfect. They also believe that there is a high risk in any medical intervention and of course, doctors and other health professionals can make mistakes. They could sometimes be negligent as well. Most patients do understand this fact.
- Most patients think, and rightly so, that the health providers are not willing, or are reluctant to share with patients any mishaps or complications that happen during a procedure. They believe that they should know and yes they should. A few patients told me that there is simply no disclosure at all.
- No one among the healthcare providers cares to offer an apology let alone compensation for any mishaps or complications due to the provider's mistake. Most people will accept an apology, a genuine apology.
- Hence, people think that the healthcare settings in the country are clod places, not open, no communication, no dialogue and to a large extent no participation of the patient in care. All these factors, over the years have lead people to loose trust in the system.
Recently, I posted the following question on both my Facebook and Twitter accounts just as a small assessment of how people feel about medical mishaps.
In an event of a medical error or complication, what would you want or expect your doctor to tell you?
Most of the responses revolved around wanting to know what happened, wanting and apology and empathy. Following are some of the responses received.
Doctors, medical staff and hospitals never say sorry or apologize in such an event. Experienced personally few times.
Apology would be a good start. It always calms the atmosphere. Explain the current state of the patient and what are the possible options to overcome the said complication. Constantly keep the by standers in the loop.
When you're a patient, you trust you're in good hands, but even the best doctor or nurse can make a mistake on you. Just learn how to say " I am sorry "
In the event of a complication, the truth, and in the event of an error, an apology.
As you can see, this is where we healthcare providers have failed to create the link between the patients. And this is where we can start to build that trust with the patients.
I recall a conversation that I had with a very prominent local doctor on this matter. We had a discussion on apologizing and compensation. His response to me was, when you apologize, you are accepting your fault. You cannot do that can you?
With a mindset like that, we will never be able to get the trust and respect of the very people we serve everyday. I believe we should start to work on this, be bold, be accountable, be open and be honest. How the events unfold will not let us down.
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New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey is easily the most dogged critic of Vice President Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives, and Hinchey has not exactly been soft on President Bush. So it comes as no surprise that Hinchey, a passionate progressive who stood up to the Bush administration when most of the Democratic candidates to replace Bush were cowering in corners of the Capitol, is preparing to introduce House versions of Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold's proposals to formally condemn the Bush administration "for falsifying its justification to attack Iraq, mismanaging the subsequent military occupation, and egregiously abusing the Constitution."
Hinchey is working with Feingold to develop language for censure resolutions that the ardent critics of the administration hope will quickly attract broad support after their introduction next week.
The first resolution from Feingold and Hinchey is expected to cite Bush and Cheney for making intentionally false statements about Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction and for misleading Congress and the public into believing Saddam Hussein had ties to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. In addition, it will score the president and vice president for failing to plan for the occupation of Iraq, distorting the reality on the ground as it deteriorated, and overstretching the military in order to maintain the administration's mad mission in Iraq.
The second resolution is expected to suggest that Bush, Cheney and other senior administration officials have blatantly disregarded the rule of law. It will focus on the administration's illegal NSA warrantless surveillance program, its extreme policies on torture, the abusive use of presidential signing statements, the politically-motivated firings of U.S. Attorneys and the failure of the administration to cooperate with congressional inquiries.
"The American people have reached a breaking point with this administration and they are demanding that Congress step up and hold the president, vice president, and others in the executive branch responsible for their actions," says Hinchey, who has been sounding the alarm about Cheney's wrongdoing for years. "While President Bush and Vice President Cheney continue to operate as if they are leaders of a monarchy, Congress should censure them and make it clear to this and future generations that their actions are entirely unacceptable. If Congress does not act to formally admonish this White House then the future of our democracy will be placed on a slippery slope in which other presidents may point to the actions of this administration as justification for further abuses of the Constitution. Congress cannot allow such abuses of power and law, which is why Senator Feingold and I will soon introduce these censure resolutions."
Feingold, who first proposed censuring Bush more than a year ago, has struggled to gain support from fellow Democrats in the Senate for any kind of demand for presidential accountability. So he was clearly delighted by the willingness of Hinchey to step up as an ally in the House.
"Congressman Hinchey has been a strong voice in opposition to the President's policies in Iraq and in defense of the Constitution," says Feingold. "I thank Congressman Hinchey for his willingness to stand up to this administration for its misleading statements leading up to and during our military involvement in Iraq, as well as its attack on the rule of law. I am working with Congressman Hinchey and others in crafting these censure resolutions condemning the damaging actions of this administration. Censure is about holding the administration accountable. Congress must be on the record repudiating the administration's misconduct, both for the American people, and for history."
The censure resolutions carry no formal penalty. Unmentioned in the Constitution or in the procedural rules of the House or Senate, a censure vote would not even have the authority to compel the president or vice president to respond to Congress. Yet, a rare rebuke from one or both houses of Congress would put Bush and Cheney on notice that they must either change their approaches in the final 18 months of their tenure or face an even stronger push for their impeachment and removal from office.
An honest review of the records of Bush and Cheney leaves little doubt that impeachment is warranted, and 14 members of the House have now signed on as cosponsors of Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich's proposal to impeach Cheney. But for a Congress that has shown little taste for the serious work of upholding the Constitution, the censure resolutions offer what Feingold refers to as "moderate" response to administration wrongdoing.
Censure of Bush, Cheney and their underlings by the House or Senate would be meaningful. It would confirm that America has reached a too-long delayed "accountability moment." And, assuming that Bush and Cheney continue to respond to any congressional challenge like belligerent school boys rather than sworn defenders of the republic, it is highly unlikely that a renewed push to censure Bush and Cheney will undermine the burgeoning grassroots campaign for impeachment. Only if Bush and Cheney were to acknowledge their wrongs, change their policies and finish their terms as the model officials they have never been would a censure drive push impeachment off the table.
Demands for censure and impeachment ought to be seen as complimentary. They are both expressions of the desire of enlightened members of the legislative branch to begin holding errant executives to account.
Hinchey is right when he says that, "History must show that Congress stood up to this administration and formally condemned it."
Ultimately, history may ask less of Congress than the American people. The people are already expressing a desire for more than a formal condemnation of Bush and Cheney. Fifty-four percent, according to a recent American Research Group poll, want the vice president impeached. Support for impeaching the president hovers just below 50 — and the anti-Bush, anti-Cheney numbers have been rising, rapidly, in recent months.
But a formal condemnation, in the form of censure resolutions, ought not be dismissed as a compromise or a deviation from the one true path of impeachment. Getting members of the House and Senate to sign on for censuring Bush and Cheney forces them to start thinking about the administration's lawlessness, it gets them on the record for accountability and it narrows the gap for the leap to impeach. ———————————————————————
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Fast food - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food
Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale and with a strong priority placed on "speed of service" versus other relevant factors involved in culinary science.Fast food was originally created as a commercial strategy to accommodate the larger numbers of busy commuters, travelers and wage workers who often did not have the time to sit down at a public house or diner ...
13 Effects of Fast Food on the Body - Healthlinehttps://www.healthline.com/health/fast-food-effects-on-body
Most fast food, including drinks and sides, are loaded with carbohydrates with little to no fiber.. When your digestive system breaks down these foods, the carbs are released as glucose (sugar ...
10 Best Fast Food Meals10 Best Fast Food Meals - WebMDhttps://www.webmd.com/diet/features/10-best-fast-food-meals
Continued Healthy Fast Food Meal No. 6: Chargrilled Chicken Cool Wrap (Chick-fil-A) I think this is the best-looking, best tasting, most satisfying fast food chicken wrap on the market.
Fast Food - reddithttps://www.reddit.com/r/fastfood
This subreddit is for news and reviews of fast food (aka quick-service), fast casual, and casual restaurants-- covering everything fast food from multinational chains, regional and local chains, independent hole-in-the-wall restaurants, convenience store and gas station prepared food, food trucks and food carts, the neighborhood taqueria, street vendors, etc.
Best Fast Food Near Me - Yelphttps://www.yelp.com/nearme/fast-food
Find the best Fast Food near you on Yelp - see all Fast Food open now and reserve an open table. Explore other popular cuisines and restaurants near you from over 7 million businesses with over 142 million reviews and opinions from Yelpers.
Fast-food | Definition of Fast-food by Merriam-Websterhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fast-food
Fast-food definition is - of, relating to, or specializing in food that can be prepared and served quickly. How to use fast-food in a sentence.
America's Top 10 Healthiest Fast Food Restaurants - Healthhttps://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20435301,00.html
Want healthier fast food? We surveyed the nation's 100 largest fast food chains, and found that more are creating menus that look like what we'd cook
20 Healthiest Fast Food Meals to Order at Restaurants ...https://www.eatthis.com/healthiest-dish-to-order-at-20-fast-food-chains
So if you're trying to maintain or lose weight, you'd better plan to be extra-vigilant yourself and choose the healthiest fast food meal you can find—which we all know isn't always easy at a restaurant.Researchers blame this on something called the "special-occasion mentality," and it sets in whenever we eat out at the local McDonald's or Arby's.
26 Fast-Food Lunches That Are Actually Healthy - BuzzFeedhttps://www.buzzfeed.com/carolynkylstra/healthy-fast-food-yes-for-real
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Drive-Through Done Right. Sometimes eating on the fly is a fact of life. Findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that fast food accounts for more than 15 percent of daily calories for people in their twenties and thirties.


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Pvt. Young was listed as being present at roll calls through October 1864 with the exception of 4 days when he was admitted in Jackson Hospital at Richmond on June 18th diagnosed as fistula in ano (abscess in anal area). He returned to duty on June 21st.
He received an issue of clothing in the late fall of 1864, receiving 1 pair pants. No further records.


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Six women entrusted me with their stories of loving, hurting, coping, and healing (for an aborted book project).
Their narratives are saying that the downside to love is heartbreak but that mending is possible.
This is one of them.
The woman ran across busy Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard and midway flung herself face down. Motor lights blinded her even as she shut tight tear-drenched eyes. She braced herself on the hard pavement as tires screeched, horns blared, and drivers cursed. After what seemed like forever, she felt herself being picked up. "I'll take you home now," a voice whispered in her ear.
The anger in the man's voice cut through her fog-filled mind. It made her flinch in spite of her confusion.
Did the woman really want to kill herself?Twenty years later, I am still asking myself that question. Did I want to kill myself then? You see, I am that woman. Or more accurately, I was that woman. If you ask me now, there's very little in that wretched, frightened 35-year-old woman that I -- now 55 going on 70 -- want to identify with.
My world was placid after marrying a man who I used to think was "to good to be true." Those were the incredible days I held up three fingers when asked about problems: getting and keeping household help, keeping away from a fourth pregnancy after 12 years and three children, and getting to sleep whenever my husband had late nights out with his barkada. In that order. I thought myself one heck of a lucky girl.
It was a Friday in June, the eve of a three-day weekend, when my placid world collapsed.A group of friends was seeing a seer-psychic-healer after work. It sounded like fun to me. Luchie was embroiled in searing office politics and needed advice on how to get out of it. Betty lost cash and checks in her desk drawer, called it an inside job, and wanted to confirm her hunch. Ces wished to know if she could travel again after a study visit to Japan. "It wouldn't hurt to ask if a marriage proposal is in the offing," Betty teased the still-single Ces. While I, the coolest of them all, declared I'd tag along "only to observe, to be the cheering squad." At the back of my mind, I told myself that if the psychic was half as good as he was vaunted to be, I'd ask him about relief for my acutely asthmatic baby.
During the visit, the psychic obliged each of us with a palm-reading session. When my turn came, he told me: "Hija, your friends think they have a problem. They don't -- not really. You do."
I laughed nervously and asked him to tell me more.He faltered just so and then went on. "There's a possibility it would pass. A fling, I hope. Except that you and your husband have the same zodiac signs, the same temperament. You are likely to clash head on." The seer didn't meet my eyes as he spoke.
"You're telling me my husband is having an affair?" -- I shot back.
"Well, hija, it might not be serious yet. But if you're not careful, if you don't keep your cool, your marriage might break up."
When I arrived home, I was still laughing and shaking my head. Psychics were carnival stuff to me. Still, I couldn't wait to tell my husband about it and perhaps have a good laugh together over it.
As it turned out, I was in for a long wait. He was out again with the boys. With the boys? -- my mind started to paint lewd boy-girl pictures. As the night progressed, the pictures turned lewder by the minute.
By the time he turned in at 3:00 in the morning, I was fit to be tied.
I blurted out the four sentences I had rehearsed for hours: "Papa, I know you are having an affair. I have air-tight evidence. So don't try to deny it. If you do, I'll leave you anyway."
He didn't try to deny it. He spilled it out. Every sordid and excruciating detail of it.
It wasn't a fling. It was serious. Leny was 18 and a student. They met at work -- she was employed part time in his business as promo girl. They dated, at first as a foursome. Then she told him on the phone that she felt something was happening and wondered if he felt it too. He said he did. Then they made it happen. She wasn't a virgin. (An ex-boyfriend forced himself on her, the beast!) After a few more dates -- no longer in a foursome -- she left home. He found her an apartment.
Yes, she is attractive and young and has great boobs. No, it isn't just lust. But no, it isn't love either. Yes, yes, I love you more. No, I'll never leave you and our children. But no, no, I can't leave her either -- just like that. You have to give me time. I don't want to break her heart. Soon, soon, but not now.
Why -- I asked. Why did it happen. How did I go wrong?
He hemmed and hawed and rambled. As best as I could make it, he blamed his business -- the economy was bad; the market was shrinking. When he was with me, the problems scared him. When he was with her, these problems receded: she was an outsider, thus a haven. So you see, it was not you, he said, it was the circumstances.
More ramblings. He didn't plan it to happen. He was just out to have fun.
Eventually, he turned on me just the same. I had transformed from sweet, giving girlfriend to brusque, grasping wife. I took, demanded, pressured, nagged. It was me after all.
Neither of us got any sleep that day. He was supposed to go to the office that Saturday. But I prevailed on him to stay home. He continued to stay home Sunday -- bah, Sunday was family day. Monday was a holiday -- hallelujah! -- and he didn't have to go out either; not that I would let him. I could see in my mind's eye the other one anxious, fuming, and best of all, beginning to be afraid. Oh God, I wanted her to be afraid -- as afraid as I was.
After that long weekend, I made him wear a bowling shirt with my name plus an apostrophe and an "S" -- NENA's -- emblazoned on the back. It was a shirt I ordered a year before but never got him to wear. That day I took it out of the closet, he put it on without fuss. And that was my first cheap shot at that faceless third party out there who took away something that was mine.
When he came home that night -- no longer as late as in previous nights -- he said that Leny immediately guessed what happened. One look at the possessive label on his shirt told her that the lid was off. She wasn't dumb after all.
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Well let's open our Bibles to Genesis chapter 4. And we will take a little time to look at our series on origins. Genesis chapter 4. It's so wonderful to be a pastor. It's so wonderful to be able to come back week after week after week after week because you don't have to finish everything. You can just end it and pick it back up. And what a joy it's been all these years to work our way through so many marvelous passages of God's Word. And certainly, we are experiencing one in the second half of the fourth chapter of Genesis.
Let me introduce this wonderful passage by saying there are and always have been two families of human beings. Two societies, two cultures on the earth - the family of God, and the family of Satan. The children of God, as they are called, and the children of Satan. And every cultural clash throughout human history is really a clash between those two societies - those two families. It is true in our own nation. It is reaching a point of clear focus because we're so overexposed to the current campaign for the Presidency and for various other positions of power and leadership in our country. And so, issues of morality and issues of religion are in the constant public eye.
But as I tried to share with you a little bit this morning, as complex as things may appear in a society, they are really very simple. There are only two families of human beings. There are only two societies and two cultures. Those who belong to God form one family, and those who belong to Satan form the other family. And every cultural clash is really related to those two societies colliding.
Now, the true family of God is governed by a book. That book is the Bible. The true family of God is governed by this book. For the family of Satan, this book is a big problem. It is a big problem. In fact, the Bible lies at the root of cultural conflict. Life could be simple without it. There would be no conflict over the issue of pornography. Pornography wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't a Bible. The only reason it is being fought is because there are two very clear opposing views. Adultery and incest and homosexuality and pedophilia and transexualism and transvestism and euthanasia and abortion and feminist rebellion and divorce and false religions - none of those things would be a problem if it weren't for this book. All these areas of massive cultural conflict demonstrate that the Bible is a severe problem. No other book draws such precise lines. No other book defines so clearly moral and religious truth. No other book, therefore, defines what moral debauchery is as clearly and defines what false religion is as clearly; and therefore, no other book presents such a point of conflict.
The secular culture, the family of Satan, doesn't mind the Bible, as I said this morning, as long as you keep it inside the church. They just don't want it in the public discourse. You can go inside the church and you can venerate the Bible and you can honor the Bible and you can believe the Bible and you can talk about the Bible, but don't bring it out. Don't bring it into the public discourse as if it is some authoritative document. And that, by the way, is the real cry between the separation of church and state. It's not really the separation of church and state; it's the separation of people from the Bible. The threat is the Bible. Biblical truth threatens the sons of Satan.
Now these two cultures began in Genesis 4, as we are learning. And they are identified as the family of Cain and the family of Seth. You have here Cain and secular culture; Seth and sacred culture. You have Cain and material society; Seth and spiritual society. Cain and those who rebel against God and love sin; and Seth and those who worship God and love righteousness. The line of Cain is evil and illustrated by a man named Lamech, and we'll say more about him later on. The line of Seth starts out good and is illustrated by Enosh, Enoch, Noah, and the sons of Noah. Those are the two families. The family of Cain, which is the family, for all intents and purposes, which generates secular culture, and the family of Seth, which initiates sacred culture.
There is no indication, by the way, that any in Cain's line were righteous. And only at the beginning was the line of Seth righteous. By the time you get to Noah, there are only eight righteous souls on the entire planet; and they come from the family of Seth. All the rest of the Sethites and all of the Cainites were drowned in the flood because they were wicked. We can assume that by the time of the flood Seth was dead, or he wouldn't have been drowned. Enosh was dead. There were certainly others in the line of Seth who were also worshipping God who must have died out before the flood came. And Enoch, about whom we learn in the fifth chapter of Genesis in the line of Seth, had his own private rapture in which he was taken to heaven; and he, too, was a righteous man. By the time you get to the flood, there were only eight righteous left in the line of Seth.
But still, there are those two families that set the foundation for us to understand society. There is the culture that is secular, material, evil, and ungodly that belongs to Satan. There is the culture that is sacred, spiritual, righteous, and worshipping that belongs to God.
Now let's go back and look at Cain and secular culture just ever so quickly. Verse 16, "Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city [or a city was being built], and called the name of the city Enoch after the name of his son. Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael became the father of Methushael, and Methushael became the father of Lamech. And Lamech took to himself two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah. Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe. As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. And Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice, you wives of Lamech, give heed to my speech, for I have killed a man for wounding me; and a boy for striking me; if Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold." And with that, God introduces us to the family of Cain.
Again it is important to say - and you must note this - that the development of secular, material culture and society is in itself a provision from God. It is a provision of what we would call "common grace." That is, it is a provision from God for man's enjoyment of life. God has filled this planet with immense riches. Those riches contribute to our lives.
The massive variety of enjoyable things - things we see with our eyes: scenery, flowers, colors; things that we feel with our bodies: textures, comfort; as well as the other end of the spectrum: thrills, adventure; things that we eat: the vast variety of foods for which we have an accommodating capacity to taste; not only the taste, but to enjoy even the texture of those varying foods. This planet continues to yield jewelry and all kinds of resources to add to our comfort, and a kind of technological wealth that has taken us into outer space and back again, and developed for us an almost inconceivable amount of creature comforts to make life enjoyable. And that is a gift from God. It fits into the category, not of saving grace, but of common grace. God has provided for the development of secular, material society and culture as a way to give man enjoyment so that man would be thankful to God. As Romans 1 says, however, man sucks the planet dry of all its riches and never gives God thanks; and therefore is sentenced to judgment.
As I said last time, there is, however, in secular culture and in all of the enjoyments of common grace, no redeeming value. It all burns. It all goes up in smoke. As marvelous as the creation is, there will be an uncreation of it all. The whole thing is going out of existence, according to II Peter chapters 2 and 3. The Lord is going to come, and at the time of His coming, the elements - those would be the smallest components that make up matter - the elements will melt with fervent heat, and the uncreation will take place as the entire created universe disintegrates and goes completely out of existence, and is replaced by a new heaven and a new earth, described for us in the Book of Revelation.
As I also said last time, it is very clear as we study the line of Cain and the line of Seth that they belong to the first family. They are sons of Adam and Eve. And Adam and Eve had another son, Abel, whom Cain killed. The first born was Cain, then came Abel. Cain kills Abel and later on, Seth is born. So we're in the first family. We're very early in human history. There is just that initial family in the early chapters of Genesis. But there is clearly no evolution. There is no evolution on the physical side; there is no evolution on the social side; there is no evolution on the cultural side; there is no evolution on the religious side. There is no evolving upward at all. From the very beginning, man is fully capable at a level which, frankly, we wouldn't even be able to comprehend at this time because, since the original family, everything has gone down, not up. And we're just reviewing what I told you last time.
The testimony of Scripture regarding this antediluvian civilization, this pre-flood culture - and by the way, it's the only testimony we have about life on the planet before a universal flood. The testimony of Scripture about that original family, about the original man - the original human family - is that man was created in God's image; that he was astonishingly intelligent, that he was amazingly creative, that he was resourceful, that he was healthy, to the degree that they lived for as long as 900 plus years; that he was strong with a kind of physical strength, the likes of which we couldn't even comprehend; that he was skilled because his mind was so beyond ours, and because over the period of centuries of life, he would gain an immense amount of knowledge and wisdom and refinement. You have this highly sophisticated culture in the world, in which you can see here the development of cities - this is not caveman stuff.
They had, at the very outset, Cain is involved with his son in the building of a city. And then immediately, you come to Lamech; and Lamech's two wives give him sons; one developing animal husbandry, another one developing the vast and almost singularly most dominating form of entertainment in our society, which brings such great comfort to man and always has - music. And then you have the very technical science of metallurgy. And all of that is developed in the first family.
You also can add to that the development of an agrarian society. Adam himself was a tiller of the ground. And in that pre-flood world, with a benign climate and no weather and no wind and no rain and no snow, and therefore no extreme heat or extreme cold, you had a flourishing earth. And they developed tremendous skill over the long periods of time in their lives. We learned all about that last time.
We also were reminded that even if people only had, let's say, six or seven children, even though they lived over half a century - even though they lived to be 8- or 900 years old, let's take a conservative note and say they only had six or seven children. Over that period of time, the population of the world would have easily been between five and ten billion people. There weren't any deserts in that time; there weren't the stark kind of landscapes that come in after the devastation of the flood when, literally, the continents of the face of the earth are reshaped.
And so there was high productivity; there was plenty for all in a flourishing kind of society. It was an amazing time. It was an amazing world. Genius - developing all the skills of animal husbandry for the purposes of milk and meat and hide involved breeding and feeding and killing and skinning. And even though God didn't authorize that until after the flood - in the ninth chapter in the third verse, God actually authorizes the eating of meat - the line of Cain wasn't interested in what God authorized. They figured they would like to eat meat because they had already been exposed to the sacrifice of an animal, so they knew what a good steak smelled like.
And then came music - the sophisticated genius of developing music and tones and a scale; all of that. And then came metallurgy - mining, smelting. And I read to you Job 28, how, even at the time of Job, God is talking about men going down into the depths of the earth, the belly of the earth, and turning over the mountains. They must have had a way to take explosive down to expose the source of metals. Brilliant family, made in God's image in the pristine primacy of the pre-flood world, developed a very sophisticated culture, with cities and farms and ranches and business going on in the city; and science and entertainment.
But what is missing is the mention of God. This is secular society, admittedly at its best, but it offers no redemption; and it is always ultimately destroyed. One of the things you do when you travel in Europe or when you travel in the Middle East is you go see ruins. And there are ruins and ruins and ruins and ruins. Why? Because the cycle of secular society is a cycle of birth and death. It's a cycle of initiation and destruction. And that incredibly remarkable first society was destroyed with the exception of eight people in the universal flood.
And the whole world society, so sophisticated now; and we don't have the intelligence that they had. We don't have the physical stamina they had; we don't have the strength they had; we don't have the skill that first family had. But over the centuries, we've been able to sort of accumulate that by one man doing so much in his life and with his mind, and somebody taking that and building and building and building and building on top of that, benefiting from what was written in the past. Building on that, we've been able to build an amazing world. But this, too, will go up in smoke. It won't be drowned - only one flood; next time it'll be consumed by fire. That's secular culture.
Now that brings us to the illustration of this culture, the man named Lamech. We already said that he had two wives. He married woman from A to Z. And between the two of them, he was the first polygamist. That is the only comment, by the way, on their attitude toward God, because, while a lot hadn't been revealed, one thing had been clearly revealed, and that is that God said one man for one woman for life. Genesis chapter 2 made that clear. So you see their indifference to God. Already they don't pay attention "to the Bible." Already, the Bible is a problem for Lamech. He really doesn't care what God says. He wants two. He wants Adah and Zillah. Remember I told you, they mean "pretty" and "sweet-voiced." He picked his two regardless of what the principle of God's revelation was.
It tells us a little more about Lamech. And in telling us more about Lamech, it tells us a little more about the sophistication of that culture. I'm always interested to look at the typical representation of man in his first form; and you see these grunting Neanderthals. And I wanna take people back here and to tell them that if you look at the Bible in verse 23, you meet Lamech. And Lamech, please notice, says to his wives - and guess what this is? This is a poem. This is a poem. How 'bout that? Does your Bible set it out in poetic fashion, apart from the typical way in which they set the type for the prose in your Bible? If you have an NAS, it does that because this is recognizable Hebrew poetry.
Now Lamech didn't speak Hebrew. We don't know what the ancient language was; but recognizable to the writer of the Old Testament - the writer of the Pentateuch, Moses, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit - was that, whatever that original language was, it was revealed to Moses, as the author, that it was poetic. And so Moses translates it, or puts it into Hebrew poetry. The English translators understand it. It is poetry. The Hebrews, the Jews, used to call it "The Song of the Sword." It introduces us to another human achievement in the first family. They had developed poetry.
Now, you may not think poetry is that good; but that's because you and I don't write good poetry. Or your old aunt writes poetry and gives it to you and it's not that good. But let me tell you something. The most refined craft in language is poetry. Real poetry is the highest level of language. Lamech was not a grunting Neanderthal. Here he is in this first family and he is a poet. Poetry is a very sophisticated form of language.
Let me tell you about poetry. And I love poetry, and I used to write a lot of poetry. I don't have time to write it anymore. I wish I did. But poetry has some essentials. I'm gonna give you a little lesson here in the fine art of poetry. Poetry that is true poetry - not people are passing off poetry today that isn't really poetry - poetry has some components. The first one is rhythm. What is rhythm? Well, rhythm is rise and fall, rise and fall, rise and fall. That's rhythm. And poetry that is real poetry has rise and fall.
Poetry also has consonants. Now you don't perhaps know what that word means, but you'll understand it when I say it. Consonants means similar sounds at the ends of words and phrases. Isn't that what poetry does? If you are ever writing poetry you're always trying to find a word that'll rhyme at the end with the word that you want to match it up with. That's consonants. That is very sophisticated language. To come up with rise and fall - we call it meter in poetry; so that there is a rise and fall. And then to come up with consonants, which means you have sequential ending sounds that match.
Thirdly, poetry has parallelisms. That is, it has not just one line, but it has matching lines that are parallel. They can be parallel in rhythm, they can be parallel in consonants, but they are parallel. Poetry has strophes. And what we mean by strophes is verses. You see poetry; you see a verse and then a verse. Hymns are poetry. And poetry has elevation. What do I mean by that? The use of rare words. Good poetry uses rare words, so that it is highly intelligent language.
All of the sophisticated elements of language come together in poetry. The ability to take the language and shape it into rhythm and consonants and parallelisms and strophes and the use of rare words that lifts it to a highly intelligent level. That is a great challenge. Listen, great poetry is the absolute epitome of the use of language. And Lamech was a poet. No gorilla ever wrote a poem. This is man in God's image.
Now the words of Lamech here fit the demands of poetry. So this is a very sophisticated society. Urbanized, socialized, aggrandized, galvanized by its metallurgy, musically mesmerized - and I ran out of 'em. There's no such word as "poecized," but you get the picture. This is the man of the Golden Age. This is the real Golden Age. The genius of all geniuses. This is man in the image of God. Even fallen, he is remarkable. He lives over 900 years, and he develops all of these things to a sophisticated level. But he's wicked, proud, arrogant, insensitive, vengeful, and murderous. He is the genius, civilized savage.
We see it today, don't we? Here we have built on top of generations and generations - we've reached a great sophisticated level in terms of technology, education, etc., etc., etc. And just move your finger around; move it anywhere on a globe, and somebody's killing somebody. Or some group is killing some other group. Some of the most sophisticated people in the world live in the Middle East. Sophisticated in education, sophisticated in science, sophisticated in technology; and all that technology is used to try to obliterate each other from the face of the planet. That's the problem with the secular culture. That's the problem with the line of Cain. That's the zeitgeist- that's the spirit of the age.
This man is the first published poet; he's the genius father of the greatest minds in the world. He must have had a tremendous genetic framework to pass on to his sons. I mean, because they invented things like animal husbandry, music, and metallurgy. But he is arrogant. His braggadocio is disgusting; his mind is vicious. He delights in vengeance and slaughter. This is secular man. And it's still secular man. Need I remind you of Romans 3? "There is none righteous, no, not one: none who understand, none who seeks after God. They've all turned aside, together they have become useless; none that does good, not even one. Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they keep deceiving, the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery are in their paths, and the path of peace have they not know. And there is no fear of God before their eyes." That's the educated savage, isn't it? Nothing new under the sun. Absolutely nothing new.
The line of Cain is a line of cultured killers. And Lamech is a good illustration. His poem, by the way, is full of parallelisms; and there's even rhythm here, as he uses some of those things that are essential to poetry. Here's his poem. And actually, the first line is part of the poem. "And Lamech said to his wives, 'Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice, you wives of Lamech, give heed to my speech.'" You see the parallelism? "'Listen to my voice, give heed to my speech, for I have killed a man for wounding me; and a boy for striking me.'" There is the second parallelism. And there is the third. "'If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.'"
It's a series of parallelisms. It may have been his way of bragging to his wives. You know, husbands like to do that. And it was a wicked world. Look at chapter 6 for a moment. As people began to multiply on the earth, verse 1, "people began to multiply on the earth." Go down to verse 5. "The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent [or imagination] of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
So what you have in that pre-flood society is wickedness; wickedness pervading everything. And what would that wickedness do? How would that wickedness manifest itself? It would manifest itself the same way it does today. And one of the ways it would manifest itself would be in the rape and plunder of women, as well as robbery. And so that there was a security problem in that ancient world; because wicked people do wicked things. And if a man's mouth is an open grave, and if his feet are swift to shed blood in order to plunder what he wants to plunder, be it goods or be it women; if a man wants to kill, then you have to have protection. And so it would be normal for these wives to say, "Are we safe?" and "Do we have to worry about these kinds of things?"
And so, in his braggadocio, Lamech says to his wives, "'Listen to me; I'm telling you, I have killed a man for wounding me, and a boy for striking me. And if Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.'" "You have nothing to worry about." He is saying, "Ladies, because I have the power to kill, and I have done it and I have shown you that I have done it - and if in the event that I can't do it, if God would come to the vengeance of Cain sevenfold if anybody kills him (as it says earlier), then God will come to my vengeance seventy-sevenfold. Because I am at least 10 times greater than Cain." He was bragging to his wives.
The components of this poem are quite interesting. Apart from the parallelisms, drop down to the main thrust. "'For I have killed a man for wounding me; and a boy for striking me.'" The parallel - a man for wounding me; a boy for striking me. The wound and strike are two words that indicate something not fatal, and not even particularly devastating. They are words that would be used to describe a minor attack. And he brags, "I have killed for just being touched, or wounded lightly. I don't take any guff from anybody."
In this first civilization, there's no reason to assume that there was any form of government. It was still patriarchal, and a man ruled over his own domain and developed his own sense of protection. And he is simply saying, "Look, anybody comes near and touches me, I'll kill him." This is the first great macho speech.
And by the way, "I have killed a man for wounding me," further defined "a boy for striking me." That's a very accurate translation. Some have put "lad" in there, or something else, because they thought "boy" didn't work. "Boy" works. It's in the original, the truest translation of the Hebrew. "A man who wounded me; in fact, a boy." What does it mean, "a boy"? The term here, translated "boy," is best understood as boy. It's yeled, and it is used, for example, in I Kings 12 - I think it's in verse 8 - as the word that describes soldiers, warriors, and military officers.
In ancient times, it was in that prime of youth that the boys became soldiers. And listen to this - you can believe that they were strong in their youth because they lived so long. And he's giving us an insight here in - the fact that they lived 900 years didn't mean they didn't get to puberty until they were 240. They got to puberty early, and they were young soldiers; young warriors.
There's a wonderful study done by Geveritz, a Jewish scholar, in which he deals with this word. And he reminds us that Alexander the Great, though he was particularly of a scholarly bent, interestingly enough, and reluctant to follow the military career of his father Philip of Macedon, he was nevertheless in command of the cavalry at the battle of Cheronea at the age of 18. At 19, his father died, you remember, and he conquered all of Macedonia and Greece. And at 20, he invaded Asia. Hannibal, it is said, started his career as a soldier at the age of 9. Geveritz goes on to say in his study that since the heroes of legend, or warriors of the heroic age, were frequently unmarried or married, but for a short time - we have records to indicate they had not yet married, or they had just recently married when they became these great heroes of legend. The history would tell us, then, that these heroes were in their early teens, sometimes even younger.
There is evidence of marriage among the teenagers - I told you that even at the time of Christ it's very likely that Joseph and Mary were 13, 14 years old when they married. Rabbinic law forbids parents to give their children in marriage before the age of puberty, but urges them to do so as soon as that stage is reached, for very obvious reasons. The Assyrian laws permitted marriage as early as the tenth year.
And there are lots of indications of teenage marriage furnished by the Old Testament. For example, in II Kings 21:19, it is said that Amon was 22 years old when he began to reign, and that he reigned for two years. At the end of that time, at age 24, he was assassinated. The rebellion having been quelled, his son Josiah was set on the throne. This son was eight years old when he began to rule; a fact which indicates that Amon his father was 16 years old at the time of Josiah's birth. A man was a man when he was a teenager. And Josiah followed the same pattern. If you follow the numbers in II Kings 22, you'll find Josiah was 16 years old when he gave birth to Jehoahaz, which means that he must have married no later than his fifteenth year.
So the word "boy" is the right word. He's talking about a warrior here. He's talking about a young, strong, virile warrior. And he's saying, "I am such a strong man that I, when that warrior whatever - for whatever reason wounded me, I killed him."
And then his boast reaches his final parallelism in verse 24. "'If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.'" What egotism! "If God would avenge anybody who would strike Cain with a sevenfold vengeance" . . . and that is exactly what it says in verse 15. "The Lord said to Cain, 'Whoever kills Cain, vengeance is gonna be taken sevenfold.'" "If God would come to take vengeance on someone who harms Cain and give him a sevenfold vengeance, then you can believe he'd give me a seventy-sevenfold vengeance." This - I mean, he's a proud man. Vicious. So he chose his proud poem to state his pride, as the great protector of all that was his. He celebrated his murder, his act of vicious vengeance, as a badge of honor.
Well so much for the story of secular culture - the civilized savage. The whole line - whoever was of this line was alive when the flood came - they all drowned. And there isn't anybody alive in human history after the flood who descends from Cain. Nobody here tonight is a Cainite. You are all Sethites, because Noah was in the line of Seth, and so were his sons. And that line followed. The assumption can be, too, that their wives were, as well. This is what Jude calls "the way of Cain."
But even though they were all drowned, the way of Cain came back, didn't it? Secular culture. Civilized, yes; accomplished in agrarian crafts, urbanized, industrialized; tremendous artists, poets, musicians; and having the marvelous command of all the resources of the planet as well as the human body achieving immense prowess physically; reaching the heights of linguistic capability, man is still a vicious, immoral, would-be killer who lifts himself up above God. And God once drowned the world; and next time, He'll burn it up, according to II Peter chapter 3.
Let's look at, secondly, Seth and sacred culture - just two verses. "And Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, 'God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel, for Cain killed him.' And to Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh." Here's the key. "Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord." Here's the first mention of sacred culture. Doesn't tell us anything about the accomplishments of Seth, or his line. It doesn't even tell us anything about their accomplishments when the full line is given us in the fifth chapter. The line of Seth is laid out in the fifth chapter. What it does highlight is Enoch, who was so righteous he walked one day right up into heaven and never died. It does tell us about Noah, who was righteous and therefore verse 8 of chapter 6 says, "found favor in the eyes of the Lord." It tells us as well that his sons worshipped the true God and thus were spared the judgment.
So there's nothing about human accomplishments in the line of Seth. But we're introduced to worship. "Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son." Now, we cannot say that these are the only children born to Adam and Eve, but these are the ones that are traced for us. The lineage is traced for us because it's important. Why is it important? Because the Sethites are preserved through Noah, and therefore through Seth, through Noah and on down comes the Messiah, who is the fulfillment of the promise of Genesis 3:15. So we're learning about this wonderful line of promised blessing and salvation.
And by the way, Adam lived 930 years, and Adam most likely died in the tenth generation through Seth, which would have been just before the birth of Noah. In fact, it appears as if Noah was the first person born after the death of Adam. So there was Adam. What an interesting life. From the perfect, innocence in the Garden, ten generations into human history - to see the whole corruption of the planet. Billions of people, all wicked except eight of them.
You ever wonder what he must have thought? And he had heard a promise from God that there would be a seed of the woman, who would come and bruise the serpent's head and destroy the enemy who had destroyed Paradise. And that there was hope in his heart that Paradise would be regained. And remember, Adam and Eve were God's people. They believed in the true and living God; they believed in His Word; they repented of their sin; they had been forgiven by God.
The end of Genesis 3 makes that all very clear. And they were waiting for God to fulfill His promise, and they had those three sons; and they had some daughters who had first provided wives for those sons, and then they had more. It tells us in chapter 4 verse 4 that he had other sons and daughters. So we're not saying that this is the only children that were born in this sequence, but the first two were Cain and Abel; and then came Seth. There may have been others, but the choice was Seth.
And here was Adam, living through all of this. He saw his son Cain kill his brother Abel. He saw Cain go out of the presence of God into the land of Nod, which is the land of wandering, east of Eden. He saw Cain develop a secular culture. He saw his relative Lamech break the divine pattern of marriage by being a bigamist. He saw the corruption of the whole world as the world began to grow and develop. He saw it all. How he must have suffered sorrow over the increasing evil. How he must have said, "Oh, oh, why did we ever do what we did in the Garden when we ate the fruit." How he must have wondered when the promised deliverer was going to come. And he didn't come in his lifetime; and things got worse and worse and worse and worse.
But I think with each child, there may have been that hope. But the hope seems somewhat diminished in the birth of Seth. Go back to verse 25. "He knew," a euphemism for sexual relationships, "he knew his wife again; she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth," which means offspring; seed; and a derivation, it means "appointed," or "substituted." "'God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel." That fits his name. "Offspring" is what it means. And it also derives to mean, "appointed." So "'God has given me an appointed offspring. God has given me a Seth - a chosen offspring, in place of Abel, for Cain killed him.'"
And maybe she sees a new start for humanity. Abel's gone; and he was righteous. He offered God an acceptable sacrifice, and God saw his heart was true as well as his act. But he was dead. And Cain was wicked; and all that came out of him. And maybe she saw in this son a new start for humanity. This is another seed. Maybe this is the hope of the righteous line; maybe, maybe, maybe this is the one who will bruise the serpent's head. She said, "'God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel, for Cain killed him.'"
You notice what's missing here? Joy. There's no joy here. All she can think about - she names all three of her sons here. The word "Cain" must have struck sadness in her heart; the word "Abel" must have driven a spear through her heart. This is sorrowful. It's sort of a lingering hope; it's maybe a very thin hope. And there's real meekness here, and there's - I guess you could say modest joy would be a way to describe it. I mean, compared to the first two sons, Cain and Abel, when there was, I suppose, nothing short of rejoicing, where she says, verse 1, "I have gotten a manchild with the help of the Lord." The same thing when Abel came. But now there's that pervasive sadness. The heart carried a deep wound; a deep sorrow over Abel's murder, Cain's apostasy, and the whole world's wicked corruption that had already begun to develop.
And we don't know how long after Cain and Abel Seth came; long enough for Cain to have manifested his character. As I told you here, these are not sequential. Seth and Cain lived at the same time. There's another little note here that I would mention to you. "'God has appointed me another offspring.'" She does something quite interesting. She refers to God as "Elohim," not "Jehovah." And there's a reason for that. Disudo, the great Hebrew scholar writes, "In the former instance, she mentioned the name of the Lord with a tetragramiton - Yahweh, or Jehovah. Disudo says, "Jehovah signifies the Godhead in His personal aspect, and direct relationship to His creatures. But not, in the hour of her mourning, it seems as if God is far removed from her in the supernal heights of heaven; as the supernatural creator of nature, as that transcendental power denoted by the name, 'Elohim.' It was Elohim who created; it was Jehovah who was the intimate, personal God of covenant." Maybe she's lost a bit of that hope; and God is now feeling far away. He is "Elohim" again.
But God isn't really far away. It may have seemed like that; because verse 26 says Seth had a son, too. He married another of the daughters of Adam and Eve, as Cain had done. And his son he called "Enosh." You know what that word means? It's a synonym for "Adam." It means, "man." Man. And here's the key. "Then men began to call on the name of the Lord." Something wonderful happened in the life of Seth; something that he obviously passed on to his son Enosh. A spiritual revival took place. Adam and Eve worshipped the true God, and there was at least one other true worshipper, but he didn't last long - that was Abel; he was killed.
But with the line of Seth it's something brand new; there's a new stream of people. And in that inaugural, new stream of people, there's a critical distinctive comment made, and it is this, "Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord." Spiritual revival starts with Seth and goes through Enosh. And we don't know how many in the Seth line were touched by it, but we come down in chapter 5 to Enoch. Perhaps we can assume his father was a Godly man because Enoch was certainly man. Verse 22, he "walked with God three hundred years after he had become the father of Methuselah." And he walked with God for a total of 365 years. And I love this verse 24, he "walked with God and he was not, for God took him." He took a walk with God one day and walked right into heaven.
Only through the family of Seth did the sacred become important. By the way, at the end of verse 26, "Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord," is the oldest reference to worship of Jehovah. And I say this - please, there is no evolution of religion. Man didn't start out with some primitive religion and evolve to a higher, sophisticated form of religion. Man started with the true, pure worship of the one, true living God. Look, those people knew who was God. They knew who God was. Why? Because Adam was around. And Adam knew who He was. Adam had walked and talked with Him in the cool of the day. There wasn't any - there wasn't any false gods - system of false gods. Everybody knew who the true God was. You're just in the first family here. There's no evolution of religion upward. You read Romans 1. The evolution of religion is downward. "When they knew the true God, they glorified Him not as God, became foolish in their understanding," and started to make idols.
The first worshipper ever on the planet was a worshipper of the true and living God. And the first society of worshippers worshipped the true and living God. And it all went down from there. They knew who the true and living God was; and they passed it on; and they passed it on. And Noah took it and told it to his sons. And after they came out of the ark, they spread it and they spread it and they spread it. And eventually, God called Abraham and gave him the message of the true and living God; and out of him came a people, Israel; and God spoke to them. And it kept going and kept going; and as it progressed, Satan began to invent false religions to deceive the nations. But the first worship was the worship of the true and living God.
By the way, it says at the end of verse 26, "Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord." Not Elohim- Yahweh. Not just the Creator. Personal Lord, covenant God. Cain couldn't teach his family to know the Lord; couldn't teach his family to love the Lord; couldn't teach his family to love to worship the Lord - didn't know Him; went out of His presence, rejected Him, rebelled against Him. But Seth was different.
What does "to call upon" mean? What does it mean, "they began to call upon"? It's a very general Hebrew term. It can mean, "to pray to"; it can mean, "to proclaim"; it can mean, "to name." And I think it means all of that. They began to worship - that's what it means - through praying, proclaiming, praising. Just what we do. When we say we're gonna worship the Lord, does that mean praying, Dan? Does that mean proclaiming His glory? Of course.
And the name of the Lord simply means who He is. His name is who He is. His name is the sum of who He is. So, they began to worship, in the general sense, the God who is - His attributes, His purposes, His will. God was known to them as the Creator. He was known to them as the forgiver of sin. He was known to them as the God who would provide the promised conqueror of Satan. He was known to them as a God who would cover their shame; because it was God who slew the first animal and covered Adam and Eve. God was known as the Creator, but He was also known as the Lord of grace, and the Lord of forgiveness, and the Lord of mercy, and the Lord of promise. God, by now, was known as a savior of sinners.
They were already involved in sacrifices that pictured the one, true sacrifice, Jesus Christ. Now worship was not invented by Seth and his family. It was begun by Adam and Eve. It was participated in by Abel. But in the line of Cain it vanished. It was Seth that God used to restore worship. And that's why - look at Luke 3, and we'll close. That's why in Luke 3:38 - well you have, actually, in Luke 3 the genealogy of Jesus. Starting in verse 23, "Jesus ... son of Joseph Eli [or Eli], son of Matthat, son of Levi, and it goes all the way down; all the way down to verse 38 - all the way back, all the way back. Verse 38, "the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God." So there's the genealogy of Christ. God, Adam, Seth, Enosh, right on down to Jesus. Isn't that wonderful? And Noah is in that line. He has to be in that line. He is part of the family of Messiah. And God brought the Messiah through that line. Noah's in verse 36, and one of the sons of Noah. Which son is in the line? Shem.
Not all of the Sethites were faithful, but some were. Some no doubt died before the flood; because by the time you get to the flood, only eight remained. I guess that would convince us that it's a narrow gate, wouldn't it? Even then. Well, enough.
In the midst of secular and unbelieving culture, with all its advancements materially, there's no redeeming value to it, and it's gonna burn up. But against that culture, God has placed His people, His remnant - the true believing family of God. In the midst of advancing sin in sophisticated culture, there are those true, pure worshippers of Jehovah, the personal, covenant, savior God. And what is our responsibility? To worship Him, to preserve His name, and to proclaim His gospel, right? That's our calling.
Father, again thank You for the wonderful evening we've shared, and for clarifying again for us the distinctiveness with which we live in this world. Use us for Your glory to bring redeeming truth to a doomed world. And we'll praise you in Christ's name. Amen.
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Dr. Jim Hager began his teaching career in 1964 as a science teacher in an all-girls boarding school. He quickly progressed through the administrative chairs as principal, Director of Secondary Education, Deputy Superintendent, and twenty years as a Superintendent of Schools. Following his successful tenure as a school superintendent he spent seven years as a Professor-in-Residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in the College of Education's Department of Educational Leadership. Jim Co-Directed the Center for Education Policy Studies and the Superintendents' Institutes. He also coordinated the Executive Leadership Doctoral Program. His areas of expertise included policy, politics, and governance, organizational development, school improvement, the principalship, and the superintendency. Currently, in addition to position with Acceleration Academies, Jim holds an appointment to the Graduate Faculty at the University of Washington and teaches in graduate classes at the University of Washington|Tacoma. Prior to joining Acceleration Academies, Jim has served as an Academic Advisor to Hobsons|Naviance and has held executive positions in a number of private sector companies.
Jim was honored in 2004 by receiving a number of prestigious awards for his leadership as Superintendent. He was named State Superintendent of the Year by both the Nevada State Superintendent's and the Nevada School Board's Associations. He was one of four finalists for AASA's National Superintendent of the Year and was named Plato Learning Corporation's Educator of the Year. He also received various local leadership awards including Educator of the Year by the Reno Chapter of the NAACP. Jim has been named to many boards and committees. Two of note is an appointment by former Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn to the Juvenile Justice Commission and the second by the U.S. Secretary of Education to serve on a Western Regional Advisory Committee on technology. In 2007 he was inducted into the Nevada Education Hall of Fame for his state leadership in education.
Dr. Hager received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Science from St. Benedict's College in Atchison, Kansas; a Master of Science Degree in Educational Administration from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas; and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Educational Administration and Curriculum from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.


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Apple's mobile payment system will be available in China starting Feb. 18 for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China customers, bank representatives said in social media posts on Tuesday.
The technology giant had previously said the system would launch in China in early 2016, making it Apple Pay's fifth country. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on ICBC's posts on the projected launch. The lender is set to be joined by a raft of peers: Apple's China website lists 19 Chinese lenders as official Apple Pay partners, and state media reported two other lenders will also go live with the service from Feb. 18.
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Greater China is Apple's second-largest market by revenue, but the company faces an uphill battle to match that prowess quickly in mobile payments.
Apple Pay's beginnings have been less than auspicious in other markets, including skepticism from retailers in its home market. But in China, Apple Pay's issue will be how to compete with dominant and entrenched players, serving shoppers well used to paying for goods and services with their handsets.
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It's week 3 of the #tptsellerchallenge & I recreated our first day of school activities that I do each year with my class.
Okay. Let me start off by asking... Does anyone else still keep or organize their weekly activities in large tan envelopes? I didn't think so. Here it goes. I will admit it. I do! I'm totally saying this with my hands covering my face now. lol. Whew. That kind of feels good to get of my chest but it's all changing this year. Where am I getting at with this? Well most of the activities I do with my class are from when I created them in handwriting (oh yes I did- face hiding in my hands again) or from the computer in arial font and very plain. How did lessons or activities exist before learning how to create resources with cute font, great graphics and TPT or TN? My goal this year is to recreate all my activities and resources in my large tan envelopes. My goal is to turn them into masterpieces.
First Day Activities with the Gingerbread Man is my first masterpiece that I am pulling out of that large tan envelope. I haven't decide if I am going to start filing my lessons & activities for each week in sheet protectors in a binder or in these plastic file storage containers. I would love to hear how you organize your originals prints, lessons & activities so please share. :)
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Looking for some first day of school activities that will allow your students to explore, build friendships and make memories? The First Day of School Activities with the Gingerbread Man will allow your students to explore the school during their hunt for the Gingerbread Man, build friendships as students search together, and get to know some of the staff while on their search. Students will go home after their first day of school eager to tell their parents all about the fun they had and excited to come back to school the next day without being scared. Students also enjoy baking gingerbread man cookies, decorating a gingerbread man craft, reading their gingerbread man reader, creating a gingerbread man classroom and creating a gingerbread man hat.
My students absolutely love (like puffy heart-love) searching for their missing gingerbread men. It's so much fun to see their faces light up when they help solve the riddle as to where the clue takes us next on the search for their cookies. This is one of my favorite activities to do with my students.
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Indonesian Boy, Sole Survivor of Papua Plane Crash, Arrives at Hospital in Jayapura
Indonesian Boy, Sole Survivor of Papua Plane Crash, Arrives at Hospital in Jayapura
A boy, who was a sole survivor of a plane crash in Indonesia's Papua province that killed eight people, was evacuated from Menuk Mountain on Sunday, August 12.
"The survivor is a 12-year-old child named Jumaidi," police spokesman Ahmad Mustofa Kamal told BBC News Indonesia, adding that the boy was first taken to the Oksibil General Hospital but was later transferred to Bhayangkara Hospital in Jayapura, the provincial capital.
Seven passengers and two pilots were on board the Dimonim Air charter flight from Tanahmerah to Oksibil on Saturday afternoon, August 11.
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane around around 3 pm shortly before it was expected to land.
It took the rescue team, which included police, military and Search and Rescue Agency personnel, two hours walking from a nearby village to reach the plane wreckage on August 12.
This video, shared online on August 12, showed Jumaidi arriving at Bhayangkara Hospital.
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In an increasingly competitive marketplace where the visitor's expectations and demands are growing, there is a need for hospitality organisations to exceed customer expectations by going the extra mile and achieving excellence in all that they do. This means that everyone in the organisation has to be constantly focused on ensuring that their visitor is delighted with all aspects of the service, i.e. they have to be the best.
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Boston's sports stats heroes of 2013
Few Boston stars shined brighter in 2013 than Bruins netminder, Tuukka Rask.
Four major professional teams, four playoff appearances, two trips to the finals, one championship, a Heisman Trophy contender and a city that despite being attacked, rallied around their own and their teams during a year that no New Englander will ever forget.
We looked back at an amazing year in Boston sports, highlighting those stats stood out the most.
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He has also authored or made contributions to many books, including the Sports Illustrateds 100 Fenway: A Fascinating First Century.
Now living in Marblehead, hes focusing his attention on the Boston sports scene, specifically delving into the numbers affecting the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins, with the goal of informing and entertaining real fans. You can follow him on Twitter at @SabinoSports.


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Mark Michalko resigned today as director of the California State Lottery, Gov. George Deukmejian announced.
The governor gave no reason for the resignation and Michalko could not be reached immediately. The resignation is effective in July. Michalko, 33, was legal counsel for the Ohio State Lottery before he was appointed to the California post in 1985. Deukmejian said the search for a successor has begun.


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