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Great times at Walt's Pizza in Marion, IL with singer/songwriter Charmaine and Amy! :) :) :)
Great times at Walt's Pizza in Marion, IL with singer/songwriter Charmaine and Amy! :) :) :)
Take a look at the band about to head to San Antonio, TX. What a great looking group! A trip to San Antonio would never be complete without visiting Sea World and the Shamu Stadium! And, yes, sunny San Antonio turned a bit wet... And we were all soaked, even after buying our $8.00 ponchos! However, the defining moment of the day was the beautiful rainbow that appeared as we were leaving!
Hayley ;)
About a week and a half ago, I went to visit our local radio station, 88.7 FM The Cross. I brought them some sweet treats as they were wrapping up the last few hours of their annual share-a-thon. It was great fun! Enjoy!:) ***truly*** Hayley ;)
Haha... I was going through some pictures from SLAM'S New Year's Revolution, and I came across a couple that just made me laugh. I figured I'd share them with you guys in hopes that they would bring a few chuckles to you as well. :) They reminded me, that no matter how much hard work following your dreams can be, you should most of all just have fun doing what you love to do!... I mean after all, it is YOUR dream right??... so just go ahead... goof around, and have some FUN... just "lean your head back and take it all in!"
Hayley ;)
I had a great time visiting with my wonderful friends at The Cross 88.7 FM. I especially want to thank some of the most talented radio genuises ever... Phillip Brooks and Rob Tucker... for playing my music and believing in me! You guys are the coolest!
This adorable little boy from San Antonio, TX, is belting out octaves singing 'Beautiful, Beautiful!' along with me. It's one of the cutest things I've ever seen! :)
Hayley ;)
My C.D. release party was an incredible occasion! Even though it was nearly two months ago, I have yet to forget it, and I hope many of you haven't either. I felt such excitement and wonder that night... I kept asking myself "Oh my gosh, is this a dream?" The whole experience was just simply breathtaking. But among all the excitement and nerves... .among all the lights and production, there is one special thing that happened this night that I wil never forget as long as I live.
It was 6:50 on October 22, 2008. Just ten minutes before the doors opened. I was backstage and was a complete basket-case! I kept thinking... Oh no! what if I forget my words, or what if my voice cracks, what if something goes haywire with the production end of things!... .I guess you could say I was having a minor nervous breakdown!lol By this time it was 6:55... just five more minutes and that was it... all eyes on me. I walked back to the green room to go get a drink of water. And this was when GOD just kinda slapped me in the face and was like "hello! Remember this isn't all about you!"lol I sat down in a big green leather chair and just sank down in it. I was shaking all over. I said a quick prayer asking God to calm me down. Then I looked up and there was a schedule sitting on the coffee table that caught my eye. I picked it up and only one song out of the ten that were on there grabbed my attention. I felt like such a moron!haha Here I was going insane about this whole thing and had forgotten the whole reason why I was doing it in the first place. I put the schedule back on the table and I just began to weep. I prayed, "God no matter what happens tonight, I pray that You and only You will be exalted. If only one person is changed tonight, then we have fulfilled our purpose... and help everyone, including myself, to constantly be reminded that all of this is... ... "For Your Glory".
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Just wish I had some snow to slosh in! :(
I'll just have to settle for some green, green grass of December.
Hayley ;)
YAY! I am super excited about Thanksgiving and Christmas being right around the corner! All the preparations are so exciting! Among all the Christmas program practices, decorating the house, cooking more food than we will EVER be able to eat, the FREEZING cold weather, and the Christmas lights everywhere, it's really starting to feel like the 'happy holidays'. This is also such a great time for friends and family to come together.
This past weekend a few friends came into town, and we went to the ULM campus and took soooo many pictures by the Christmas lights. The lights were so pretty, and we had a bucket load of fun! Here are just a few of the pics we took... ENJOY!
Hayley ;)
I had the opportunity to sing for the Christian Homeschool Association West Monroe CO-OP yesterday morning, and it was so exciting! I was very honored to sing for such a great group. Neil Roshto (my awesome guitar teacher) and I rocked out on our guitars to "Be Near Me"... You guys ROCK!!! :) A little over 100 folks showed up... it was AWESOME! If you were there, leave a comment :) !


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Yamuna Expressway is amongst the top realty destinations that have witnessed huge growth in residential, commercial, healthcare, sports, education, and hospitality themed real-estate. A decade back, one wouldn't have imagined such development in this region of the Noida city. It is really very easy for anyone to commute to different locations in Delhi NCR from here.
Yamuna Expressway- An Ideal Location to Reside
The location offers quick access to the prime areas of Noida and Greater Noida via well-established road network and transportation facilities. SEZs, software and technology park, and other prime corporate offices can be found along this expressway and making the location best for the professionals. In addition to all of the above factors, one can easily see the quick pace of the developments along this route. In the coming year, this location is going to be the best from the connectivity and hassle-free living point of view. It is a matter of a few years that one may find it really easier to leave home without any vehicle and hop in the metro to access all the major parts of NCR. Yamuna Expressway is also witnessing a rise in the number of multinational companies due to the convenience it offers. This has further encouraged the top realty developer to invest in the properties here.
The Best Property Investment Option in CHI V Greater Noida
Chi V is a prime residential sector witnessing huge developments and construction activity located at Yamuna Expressway which is a 6-lane expressway connecting Graeter Noida with Agra. Purvanchal Royal City is a ready-to-move residential property in Greater Noida Sector CHI-V crafted to meet the urban lifestyle of the modern homebuyers amidst the green living environment. The project location is planned thoughtfully as per the requirements and conveniences of the residents. The elegant development is planned brilliantly where you can celebrate each day with your lovable family. With excellent connectivity, this location is going to be the next real estate attraction in the coming years.
Location that Will Make your Life Seamless
Its unique location advantage is what sets this development apart from others. Being very close to all the major locations in Delhi NCR, the development also boasts reputed schools, medical facilities, shopping hubs and major markets in its vicinity. You will love watching the blissful views of green and open spaces surrounding the complex from your balcony area. The themed gardens in Purvanchal Royal City Greater Noida are the main attraction of this project. There are lavishing party halls, open-air Jacuzzi, golf carts, dance and music classes and more to elevate your living standard in the true sense. There is an offer of 22 months free maintenance provided by the developer to allure the residents.
The price of this luxurious project is quite low for the luxuries and facilities it offers. You should not waste your time to make a wise decision to invest in this beautiful property at a prime location. Have a look and make a smart investment.
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Northwest horror film gets screening at Bijou
Today at 11:30 p.m., the Bijou will screen �The Absent,� which writer and director Sage Bannick is touring along the West Coast to coincide with the film�s release on Video On Demand.
�The Absent� is a horror movie/thriller where the plot centers on a high school teacher �forced to choose between career and a love affair with one of his students,� a news release says.
His twin brother had been in jail for 25 years for killing their parents. He returns to town � and the girl�s friends start to disappear.
The film was shot in Methow Valley, Wash. and Santa Clarita, Calif.
�We really wanted to pay homage to other Washington filmmakers like David Lynch. You can see several references in the film, like the address on the mailbox or the d�cor in the police station,� Bannick says in the news release.
The cast includes Bryan Kirkwood (�Hellbent,� �Real World: the Lost Season�); Yvonne Zima (�The Young and the Restless,� �Long Kiss Goodnight�); and Vanessa Zima (�Ulee�s Gold,� �Wicked�).
The homicidal twin is played by Kirkwood�s real-life twin brother Denny Kirkwood (�Never Been Kissed,� �Groove�).
The sheriff is played by Sam Ball (�13 Going on 30,� �The Last Castle�). Jennifer Blanc-Beihn (�Dark Angel,� �The Victim�) makes a cameo.
The Bijou Art Cinemas are at 492 E. 13th Ave. Admission is $5.


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Most enterprise architects dream of leveraging multiple clouds to enable hybrid applications, but delivering on that vision can be challenging. The cloud divide is real and inhibits enterprises from getting leverage in a hybrid cloud world. A common data layer, data portability, manageability, and data services allow enterprises to successfully enable hybrid cloud. But it doesn't stop there. This common data layer helps customers innovate faster, gain a competitive edge, and be more agile as a business.
At Pure, our focus has always been on providing a cloud-like experience on-premises, by making storage easy, automated and orchestrated, highly efficient, and simple to scale. We have seen great success in cloud companies (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS) due to these core tenants. Thousands of customers rely on Pure as their private cloud for powering their innovation and competitive edge.
Taking this competitive edge and extending it into the cloud is an evolution. The evolution continues to support our customer's need for an innovation platform in the public cloud. To get there we are revolutionizing cloud storage with our announcement of Pure Storage Cloud Block Store for AWS. Cloud Block Store takes our awesome Purity Software from on-premises to the public cloud, allowing everyone to gain leverage and a competitive edge.
Pure Storage Cloud Block Store for AWS is industrial-strength block storage powered by our Purity Operating Environment, delivering high reliability, efficiency, and performance. It makes hybrid cloud data mobility and cloud protection simple and easy with all the goodness of Purity! To make things seamless and ensure all existing automation is 100% transferable, you can also leverage the same APIs across your existing FlashArrays and the public cloud.
Cloud Block Store is 100% software running in AWS. Since it is 100% software, it makes spinning up an instance or multiple instances in minutes simple and easy. Just add the cloud formation template into your AWS catalog and provision away! Cloud Block Store has been specifically optimized to run on top of AWS infrastructure and provide enterprise data services similar to the user experience provided by Pure Storage FlashArray on-premises. With the same APIs as our FlashArray™ you can leverage your existing automation and orchestration workflows in the public cloud. Efficiency is built in with deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning to deliver capacity economically. When moving your existing enterprise applications, there is no need to re-architect for resiliency. Cloud Block Store features ActiveCluster to mirror data across availability zones for business continuity and to enable the resiliency needed for Tier 1 applications making it easy to move existing enterprise applications to the cloud without having to re-architect. Cloud Block Store is hybrid by design with bi-directional data portability and protection across your hybrid cloud. Replication enables you to move your data to wherever it needs to be processed. Lastly, it's flexible, so you can consume on a pay-as-you-go model to best match your needs for production and development.
Cloud Block Store makes cloud storage better for both traditional enterprise applications and web scale applications. With the aggregation of cloud capacity inside Cloud Block Store you get aggregated performance which give you a boost compared to a single EBS volume in the cloud.
When moving traditional applications, AWS recommends protecting across availability zones. Instead of re-architecting your application, Cloud Block Store can utilize ActiveCluster to mirror data across availability zones and ensure you are protected. ActiveCluster is super easy to manage and can be up in minutes versus traditional synchronous active/active software which requires architecture discussions, design work, and hours of setup.
Our snapshot technology is instant and space efficient which enables many high-value use cases so that you can:
How are our snapshots different from other solutions? First, there is no configuration necessary, which makes things simple and easy to manage. They are space efficient, so no additional capacity is required and the deltas are deduped and compressed against the global population. You can leverage a policy engine to support multi-target (on-premises and in the cloud) and multi-volume replication strategies. Not only are most of these features not available natively in the cloud today, most vendors don't even make them available on-premises.
Lastly, all data is encrypted at rest without any configuration or management.
So you are probably thinking, "this sounds way to easy, how does this stuff actually work and what you can do with it?" Well let's look at an example of how hybrid cloud can be delivered.
Cloud Block Store can also be leveraged directly to VMware Cloud in AWS. Although iSCSI volumes from Cloud Block Store can be mounted into VMs inside VMC today, Pure is working closely with VMware engineering to bring more robust external datastore connectivity via iSCSI to market. Stay tuned for more information on new and innovated solutions with VMware Cloud.
While bridging the same customer experience between on-premises and the public cloud, we are extending Pure1® (our Cloud Data Management and Support platform) to Cloud Block Store. You can see all of your Pure Storage FlashArrays, FlashBlades, and Cloud Block Stores in AWS in one single pane of glass. All the existing APIs and workflows built on-premises can now be leveraged in a hybrid cloud world.
In summary, Cloud Block Store enables customers to:
Cloud Block Store available via a limited public beta and will be generally available mid 2019. If you are interested in signing up for the Cloud Block Store Beta, please sign up here.
To learn more about our cloud vision announcements, take a look at the following blogs:
We are super excited to share these innovations with you! Thank you and stay flashy my friends!


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I've noticed that there is an increase in Hi-Sec ganking by the Alliance called CODE. , and that there is now a blog called the "Eve Online Ganker List" at : http://photon1116.wordpress.com/eve-ganker-list/.
If you follow the instructions on that site to add these gankers to your Contact List as "Terrible Standing", you can set your TinyMiner settings under: "Monitor local chat for hostiles" and check "Horrible Standing". Under that setting you can set it to "Dock To Station and Wait For System To Clear". This way if any of these gankers come into your system while you are mining, your ship will be safe in station until they leave.
Adding these gankers on the list may seem time consuming but you will be saving yourself a lot of headaches by doing it. There are also some instructions on there for adding complete Corporations or Alliances such as CODE. to your contact list to save a lot of time.
Fly Safe!
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General chatter, feature requests, ship and equipment configurations, potential Eve Mining Bot bug reports!
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Any time before setting up in a new system search killboards for mining ship kills... also as the OP hinted to just add the corps or alliances to your contacts, save you a lot of time and effort.
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Wildfires continue to ravage California….reports Asian Lite News
Wildfires continued to rage through Southern California, with new fires sparking as far south as San Diego as the largest of the blazes crept towards the college town of Santa Barbara, prompting fresh evacuations.
On Thursday, veteran firefighters described the fires, a half dozen of which have delivered another blow to the state less than two months after destructive wildfires scorched the counties of Northern California's wine country, as a challenge unlike any fire they had battled before.
Nearly 200,000 people were sent from their homes, many fleeing without any idea of when they could return or what they might find when they do.
However, there were no immediate reports of any deaths due to the fires.
In Los Angeles, where three separate fires had burned homes, sent residents fleeing and generated enough "apocalyptic "images for a Hollywood movie, officials on Thursday announced that the majority of residents who had evacuated would be allowed to return to their homes.
Mayor Eric Garcetti cautioned that it was "still an insecure time", and warned that high winds could pick up again at any time.
Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Ralph Terrazas said that the forecast of the city's weather and humidity conditions for Friday still put it in the "extreme range" of fire risk.
Meanwhile, the Thomas Fire, the state's biggest active blaze, continued to grow, expanding to 115,000 acres, and destroying more than 400 buildings in Ventura county.
The National Weather Service cautioned that the risk of fires will remain elevated through Sunday as December conditions remained abnormally dry and breezy.
The fires in Southern California come after a historically destructive fire season in the state.
The conflagration that spread across Sonoma and Napa counties in October burned more than 200,000 acres, killed 42 people – the highest death toll ever for a fire in the state – and destroyed at least 8,400 buildings and homes.


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Okay, so my doctor says I have to get my tonsils taken out. Well, I don't really have to, but if I don't have it done, whatever I eat will continue to get trapped in the back of my throat causing really bad side effects–you know side effects like funky breath and continues sore throats. Apparently, the condition is fairly common.
Truthfully, I must admit it's a little embarrassing to have to have your tonsils taken out at thirty-one years old. Maybe it shouldn't be, but it just feels like something you should have had done when you were twelve. As a matter of fact, after my doctor dropped the surgery bomb on me, he asked me to watch a short video about the tonsillectomy. The video was apparently made in 1986, it documented a nervous eleven year old boy and his mother going through the process of preparation, surgery, and recovery. As if that wasn't enough to make me feel like I was coming to the tonsillectomy party 20 years too late, sitting next to the small video monitor on which I watched the 11 year-old be nurtured through surgery by his mother was another video: Veggie Tales.
"Well," I thought, "if my two-year-old were here at least she could watch her favorite video." Suffice it to say that sitting in this small room, having to have a surgery typically done to children, while I was watching a nervous boy and his mother, and living with the knowledge that I could pop in a Veggie Tales video if the nurse tarried too long, all made me feel kinda like a kid.
Here's the funny thing: After talking with my wife after I left the doctor's office, I called my mother. What's more, one of my first instincts was to ask her if she would be willing to come visit during my recovery. It's not that I don't think Rochelle is capable of taking care of me. She's more than capable, but there is just something about having your mother around when you're sick or infirmed somehow. They say when soldiers are injured on the battlefield, they don't call out for their wives, they cry out for their mothers.
I think one of the most overlooked pictures of God in Scripture is that of God as mother. Most of us refer to God as "Father". That's a good thing. When Jesus talks to and about God, He calls Him "Father" primarily. But God is also pictured as mother.
I've always liked this pericope from Isaiah: "As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you…(Isaiah 66.13)"
I suppose people need a lot of different pictures and metaphors to describe God. As Thomas Aquinas reminds us, everything we can say about God is only an analogy since God infinitely surpasses anything we can say or think of Him.
It's helpful to me to see God as mother. To see Him as the nurturing, tender, caressing holder of children and lover of beauty. It's helpful for me to see God as the kind of God that flies halfway across the country to sit next to a thirty-one year old having his tonsils taken out. In the end, I guess that's why the Bible gives us so many pictures of God. We need different images for different events in our lives. Sometime those events are big like death and disaster and we need a picture of an all-knowing, all-powerful God to help us understand that there is someone who knows how the play ends. And then some of the events are small, like day surgery, and we need to know there is someone who knows how to comfort a child–no matter what age they are.
God Bless your day.


text: Does anyone remember when Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense? I do, he was effective, he made the Democrats reveal to everyone how petty and clueless they were on national security issues. He also revealed the state run media to appear to be an arm of the Democratic National Committee and revealed how very stupid many of them were. The Democrats and their supporters hated him for that and for that he had to die. Many stupid sellout Republican RINO's including John McCain gave the Democrat machine ammunition to use against him, many of whom ended up loosing their seats in the 2006 congressional races. They went with the populist narrative that he was incompetent, which was a lie, drummed by the state run media talking heads and failed to defend their own. The result was the Democrats winning a majority of seats in the house and President Bush capitulating to them. The rest, as they say, is history. I only take this trip down memory lane because of the fact that the feckless Obama Administration, their cheerleeders in congress and of course the media arm of the DNC aka the free press, allow for outright lies to be spued that the previous Administration were too concerned with the Iraqi front and neglected the war in Afghanistan. It's an outright lie, the war in Iraq was a brilliant diversion. The Bush Administration's invasion/liberation of Iraq caused would be jihadists to split their forces in order to fight us. Were it not for the Iraqi campaign, Afghanistan would potentially be more volatile, as the Russians found out in their ten year conflict. The Democrats are constantly lying and revealing themselves to those of us who see them for what they really are, power hungry cowardly nannies and ninnies. We're having alleged problems in Afghanistan because of this nonsense called nation building which if memory serves me was cooked up by my favorites villains the Dems and their supporters in the press. If only Republicans had backbones to weather the storm they would win every time. Donald Rumsfeld was a brilliant man who did not deserve to be thrown under the bus by folks who should have known better, and many of us did not forgive nor forget what happened to the targets of the Dems at the hands of feckless Republicans. No amount of revisionist history and made up novels being sold on Amazon will change the fact that were he Secretary of Defense the wars would only go badly in the newsrooms of the state run media machines.


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The Polish Green Building Council's list of eco-certified buildings so far includes seven residential projects by three developers. However, as many as four green certificates are also currently on their way to residential properties, while a fifth is in the pipeline
The popularity of residential building certification, as was the case with commercial real estate, first took root on the Polish market when international developers arrived. Some transferred their environmental know-how from other countries and some brought it in from other sectors.
Difficult choices
One of these, Skanska, has been one of the pioneers in this field, as its Mickiewicza estate was the first residential project in Poland to be certified under the BREEAM system. "In 2015, when the estate was being constructed, few people were even aware of what BREEAM was," says Aleksandra Goller, a project manager at Skanska Residential Development Poland. "We were faced with the challenge of introducing a new product, by which I mean the certificate, onto the market," she adds. It was worth the risk – the majority of the apartments found buyers before the occupancy permit was granted and the final 'green unit' was sold two months after the permit was issued. The developer is planning to start the second stage of the project soon. "Thanks to the certificate clients did not just have to take our word for it when we claimed the building would be made out of the best materials. The certificate became a kind of guarantee that our stated policy had been carried out," explains Aleksandra Goller.
But where did the decision to choose this particular certificate stem from? Every developer insists to its clients that their system is the most appropriate one, even though in their next breath they usually have the grace to admit that every means of improving a project's quality and reducing its environmental impact is good. "HQE is undoubtedly one of the leading global certificates used on the construction market," claims Pierre Vincent Pasquet, the director of the Warsaw branch of Bouygues Immobilier Polska. "The scope of the criteria it employs is very comprehensive. It covers the entire investment process – from the analysis of the plot, to its design, through to the construction and operation of the building. HQE's requirements focus not only on a building's energy efficiency but also on general environmental and natural resource conservation.
"The LEED system is the most commonly used ecological certification for Vastint's office and hotel buildings, and so we have also opted for LEED for our residential projects," reveals David Pettersson, a senior project manager at Vastint Poland. His company has just begun the application process for its first Polish certificate for a residential project. "All certification systems have their pros and cons. They can be compared to each other, but it is difficult to determine which one is the best. One of the assets of 'our' LEED system is the fact that as a developer we have full control of the certification process," he adds.
Greening vs greenbacks
Home buyers would certainly like to know whether certification costs have an impact on the price of apartments – because surely it is they who will end up paying for the costs of certification? "Sustainable development principles, particularly energy efficiency, are an obligatory element in the design and construction processes of Vastint's projects," counters David Pettersson, who goes on to add: "Certification confirms that we have done things properly and it has no major influence on the cost of the project."
The company's rivals also gave some rather indirect answers when asked about the costs. "There is a concern in the construction industry that the buyer will have to pay a hidden surcharge for the certificate. However, this is not exactly the case with our projects, such as those we have in Warsaw's Targówek, Włochy and Bemowo districts," claims Pierre Vincent Pasquet of Bouygues Immobilier Polska. "It's worth considering the long-term benefits for the buyer, who pays lower operating costs and whose apartment is lit in the most efficient way thanks to the fact that the building has been optimally designed for doing so," he explains.
It seems that with the great variety of apartments on offer, green certificates are an obvious way for developers to attain a competitive advantage and to position themselves as companies that care for the natural environment and their residents' well-being. However, this advantage has so far only been available for projects in the premium segment. "I am convinced that as time goes by clients will care much more about their quality of life, health and well-being, and this can generally only be obtained in projects that have been designed for all this using the right materials," explains Pierre Vincent Pasquet. "Focusing on a healthy lifestyle and the quality of the product is an approach that is clearly visible in many other sectors of the economy, including the grocery, cosmetics and clothing segments. It will certainly continue to gain in importance on the real estate market and will become a major factor in Poles' residential choices, as they become more aware and demanding consumers. The growth of this market and the demand will create ideal conditions for increased sales of apartments in certified projects," adds Pierre Vincent Pasquet.
"Buyers' ecological awareness has been growing as have their requirements when it comes to the quality of the space they live in," agrees David Pettersson. "I think that buyers will appreciate the fact that a property is eco-friendly, provides comfortable living conditions and is economical at the of operation and maintenance stage," he believes.
Can-do Poles
One of the certificates that is available is Polish, but it has been holding its own among its international counterparts. The method used for awarding the certificate and the criteria it covers certainly differ from Western procedures, but the developer's attention to the well-being of users still forms an important element of it. Therefore the 'Building without Barriers' ['Obiekt bez Barier'] certificate, if awarded to a property, can also sway buyers in their choices. The Integration Foundation, a public benefit organisation that was established in 1994 for the almost 5 mln registered disabled people in Poland, has been issuing the 'Building without Barriers' certificate for around eight years. Obtaining this title provides confirmation that the building is accessible for people with disabilities. "The verification of new projects takes place in two stages. First we analyse its architectural design at a stage when we are still able to recommend certain solutions; then we audit the completed building. During these audits we use testers, including people with various disabilities, to assess the building's accessibility," explains Jarosław Bogucki of the expert services department of the Integration Foundation and who is involved in such cooperation with developers.
The building must be user-friendly and adapted for people with various disabilities (wheelchair-users, the blind, people with vision or hearing impairments), older users, people with small children and people with temporary disabilities (e.g. a broken leg or suffering from conjunctivitis). The current property design regulations in terms of the needs of people with disabilities are not only rather limited but they are also scattered across various legal acts. "We estimate that the Polish regulations would take up around 20 pages of print, whereas the European ISO standards on architectural accessibility would be around 150 pages of specific regulations and the American equivalent comes to more than 300 pages," points out Jarosław Bogucki.
For example, the construction law has only included provisions related to the disabled since 1994, while those included in all the other acts are only of help to a certain degree. "For example, the law states that bathrooms should be accessible for the disabled but it does not state what form this accessibility should take," says Jarosław Bogucki. "It is similar in the case of adapting stairs for the blind: it does not make clear whether only the first and the last step should be marked, or all of them. The Integration Foundation is pressing for clearer regulations based on global standards and expert practical knowledge."
Almost 300 buildings have been awarded the 'Building without Barriers' title and include: the Presidential Palace, Belvedere and Miasteczko Orange (all in Warsaw), Skanska's office buildings, Warsaw shopping centres Arkadia, Galeria Mokotów and Galeria Wileńska, Warsaw's main airport and branches of PKO BP bank and the Polish Post. However, not a single residential building is among them – and such applications only began last year, when Skanska expressed an interest in certifying its estates.
One is not enough
It is worth mentioning those developers who set out to acquire two different eco-certificates for one project. "Our Holm House estate is being developed according to the guidelines of two certification systems: BREEAM and 'Building without Barriers'," reveals Aleksandra Goller of Skanska Residential Development Poland – and with some pride. "We are planning to start another stage of Osiedle Mickiewicza, for which we will also apply for BREEAM and 'Buildings without Barriers' certificates," she adds. Bouygues Immobilier is another that is not satisfied with having just one certificate. "For some projects, such as La Melodie in Targówek, we have been working on double certification – HQE, which has already been awarded, and a BREEAM application, which is still in progress," says Pierre Vincent Pasquet.
What is the future of 'green' certificates in the residential sector? Developers are in little doubt that they ARE the future. "Not only will existing residential project certification programmes be adopted, but new ones will also be established, although not straight away. "Certification will also become a standard on the residential market in the future," believes David Pettersson of Vastint. "We should expect that in a few years' time the certification of residential buildings will become the standard in Poland, as ISO has with management certification," agrees Pierre Vincent Pasquet of Bouygues Immobilier, who adds: "We have a positive attitude towards this trend, as it certainly highly beneficial. In Western Europe it has already become the accepted standard that certificates have to be awarded to residential buildings."
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The residential developers who are clients of Go4Energy opt to apply for BREEAM certificates. BREEAM International New Construction has already worked well in the commercial sector and provides confirmation of a superior standard and quality of workmanship. Furthermore, BREEAM is recognised across the world. More than half a million certificates have been issued so far and another 2 mln projects are under certification. The BREEAM system is also ideal in terms of the price. Only the Polish Green Building Standard (GBS), a certificate that has only been used to certify office buildings so far, is cheaper. The certification unit of the National Association for Sustainable Construction [Ogólnokrajowe Stowarzyszenia Wspierania Budownictwa Zrównoważonego] is currently adapting GBS for the residential sector and as far as we know this should be available as soon as H1 next year. It has been suggested that certification should only be carried out for superior standard projects, where quality counts for more, rather than just the price and location of the purchased apartment. Projects with a certificate are usually in demand from users who are aware of sustainability issues and thus are not indifferent to a building's operating costs or its environmental impact. And there are more and more environmentally aware people on the Polish market. In our opinion the certification concept will continue to develop and will become increasingly popular in the residential sector. Given that developers as well as residents are paying much more attention to protecting the environment and energy emissions, this is a very natural direction to go in. BREEAM is currently a standard for commercial buildings. But as quality requirements increase, such standards will become an essential attribute of residential projects in a few years' time.


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DAYTONA BEACH -- There's a wiry little 7-year-old in Deltona who can name an impressive number of Major League baseball players, NFL bruisers and NBA stars.
The second-grader also loves reading astronomy books and watching "Jeopardy," and is a political junkie particularly smitten with President Obama.
Maybe it was the burden of lugging around a weighty secret from the age of 3 or 4 that sparked the early maturity.
The child is a girl biologically, but wants nothing to do with anything female.
"He doesn't say 'I want to be a boy'; he says, 'I am a boy,' " explained the youngster's mother, who wants to remain anonymous to protect her child's identity.
After years of battling over hairdos and clothes, puzzling over why the child preferred bugs over Barbie dolls, and snuggling up for heart-to-heart talks to understand what was going on, the mother of four and her husband have concluded their second-youngest child is transgender.
They've been raising him as their son since August.
The words "her," "she," "girl" and "daughter" are words they no longer want anyone using for their bespectacled child, and The News-Journal is honoring their wishes.
The child's 33-year-old mother and 44-year-old father don't think it's just a phase that will pass. They believe being transgender is for keeps, and explains what their child has been trying to tell them.
Transgender is a closeted topic that has only recently started to lose some of its taboo taint. Not everyone agrees it even exists.
Some experts suspect mental or physical problems explain the deviation. Some of those experts even think parents are just indulging bizarre behavior.
Others believe the unshakeable sense of being male or female is hardwired into everyone's brain at birth, and not even body parts that don't match can change that.
The Deltona couple see their 7-year-old as walking, talking proof that some people just don't fit traditional gender roles.
Since kindergarten, the child has been pleading to be their son. By the time he was 5, he was already dreading having periods and getting pregnant.
"I'm very certain he knew early on," his mother said.
They've cut his dark blond hair short. They shop for his clothes in the boy's department. They've enrolled him in Cub Scouts.
His best friend is a boy, and he has a major crush on a little girl. He's happier than they've ever seen him.
The couple have accepted who their child is, and they wish some people at the child's Deltona elementary school would, too. They claim one school office worker insists on using "her" in front of other students, although a school spokeswoman said the employee just accidentally slipped a time or two.
They say all school records still list his former feminine name despite their request for a change. Last year, his teacher would cross out the new name he uses on his schoolwork, his mother said.
A few weeks ago, she said a substitute teacher used his former name "in front of the whole class."
The couple cite several examples of children arguing with their son over whether he's a boy or girl. One day back in October after school, they say a group of third-graders waiting outside for parents and bus drivers to pick them up formed a circle around their son and kept insisting he was a girl.
They understand the kids are probably confused since many of them knew their son as a girl in kindergarten and first grade at the same school.
But they have little tolerance for adults' reactions.
"The kids are kids. I look to adults to set the tone," the child's mother said. "That's not OK if you disrespect my child ... How do we expect the kids to change when adults don't? I'm not telling people to accept it, but respect it."
She said the school turned down her offer to have an Arizona woman who runs a non-profit, educational agency focused on transgender issues talk to staff.
She and her husband are working with a local American Civil Liberties Union official in hopes of convincing the Volusia County school system to add gender identity to the district's bullying and harassment policies. The policies already list sexual orientation, but the parents say that has nothing to do with gender identity.
Transgender doesn't always equal homosexuality or bisexuality, experts say. They say transgender covers a broad spectrum of gender identity and sexual expression.
Included in that bell curve can be extremely masculine women who like sports, car engines and hunting, and very effeminate men enthralled with ballet, crocheting and cooking who both still desire the opposite sex.
"Transgender is basically someone who feels they are the opposite sex," DeLand psychologist Don Sanz said. "It doesn't have to do with sexual orientation. It's just who they feel they are.
"It could be a man physically who feels female and is attracted to women."
The therapist the Deltona child has been seeing said she can't discuss him. Sanz has never met the child, but he has had other transgender patients, and he's skeptical of anyone drawing conclusions at such a young age.
"I couldn't call a 7-year-old transgender," Sanz said. "I'd be really reluctant to lay a label on a 7-year-old."
A 22-year-old who was an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student until last year disagrees with Sanz's conclusion. The former ERAU student is male biologically, but said he's always felt female.
"It's not uncommon to know as early as age 3," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he's afraid it could cost him his job in the Orlando area. "I never felt comfortable with the body I was born with."
When he was little, his older sister and her friends would dress him up in girl's clothes and put makeup on him.
"It made me feel who I was supposed to be," he said. "It's not a psychological condition. We're not sexual deviants."
He calls his male physical characteristics a birth defect. In the next few years he'd like to have a sex-change operation, which he refers to as sexual reassignment surgery. He's already on hormone therapy, and he's been living as a woman the past few months.
"It feels more natural than ever before," he said. "I felt I was cross-dressing as a man."
He wishes he could have made the full transition in grade school.
Within the next few years, the Deltona child's parents will have to decide whether they want to try puberty blockers, drugs that suspend development. Eventually they'll have to decide if they want to pursue hormone therapy and surgery.
"I don't want him to have a period," his mother said.
For now, they're focused on him being more comfortable in school.
The 7-year-old's principal, teacher and various other school officials who come in contact with him were all informed of the situation last summer, school district spokeswoman Nancy Wait said.
Wait said steps were taken to help the child with his transition, such as allowing him to use a one-person bathroom. Similar adjustments have been made in the past for other transgender children in the district, she said.
But there are no plans to change any harassment or bullying policies, Wait said.
"The school system believes the way it's written is based on federal regulations and state statutes, and it covers all our students," said Wait, the only school official who agreed to comment on the situation.
"We reviewed the policies of districts that have incorporated gender identity into their language, all of which were in their bullying policies," she said. "Upon review, we believe gender identity does not need to be spelled out in Volusia's bullying policy because our policy prohibits the bullying or harassment of any student, regardless of the reason."
She noted kids do face consequences already for bullying, and can even be expelled.
"We have 62,000 students, and a very low number we're aware of are transgender," Wait said. "We're dealing with it on an individual basis. That seems to be working."
Some people who've dealt with transgender issues in schools say that case by case approach invites trouble. Staff and students need specific gender identity education and policies, they argue.
"It leaves a loophole if you don't have a policy," said Stratton Pollitzer, deputy director of Equality Florida, a statewide education and advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation, race, gender identity and class.
"There needs to be a little bite behind a parent's complaint in school policy," agreed George Griffin, president of the ACLU's Volusia/Flagler chapter.
Griffin complimented Volusia County for being one of 18 school districts in Florida that have sexual orientation written into their policies. But he'd like to see them join the 14 that also include gender identity.
Pollitzer said a lot of the policies were adopted after a state law passed in 2008 required schools to protect gay and transgender kids from bullying.
Without both specific training and policies, teachers won't know what to look for or how to react to harassment, said Pollitzer, who lives in Miami.
"Transgender kids are the most likely to be attacked physically," Pollitzer said.
That's the worst fear of the 7-year-old's parents. They say their son won't tell them when something happens at school, so they feel they have to get involved.
"I'm not trying to pound my chest or change laws," the boy's father said. "I just want my kids to be OK."
Switching schools could give their child a new start, but they don't want to try that.
"I don't want to teach my kids to run," his mother said."And everyone likes him at his school. He has a lot of relationships there."
If private conversations don't achieve the results they're looking for, they'll have to decide if they're willing to lose their cloak of anonymity and go before the School Board. That's an option they're strongly considering.
"My fear is they're just going to push it under the rug," his mother said.
Ultimately, they say they just want their child to be happy.
A few years ago, they thought their son was introverted. Now they think he was probably confused and depressed.
"He never really played girl games," his dad said. "He was always the father in make believe."
Two years ago, he wanted a boy's bathing suit with no top. At restaurants, he always wanted to use the men's restroom.
It took a few years to put the pieces together and accept what was happening.
Doctors did discover a few things out of the ordinary, including very high testosterone levels and a chromosome that detached and reattached upside down. But the child's parents said physicians concluded neither of those things could make a girl want to be a boy.
"Trust me, it was hard for me saying 'him,' " the father said. "I'm as traditional as they come.
"I was hoping it was just a phase. In the back of my head, I thought 'maybe this is just a tomboy.' But he'd be so unhappy as a girl."
They saw the pained look on the child's face when he glimpsed the feminine name he used to go by on his report card. They know he can't stand looking at an old picture in their house taken when he still had long hair.
"Whatever I feel doesn't matter," his mother said. "All that matters is he's happy."
The parents hope eventually everyone can see past their child's gender identity to get a closer look at the things that make him special.
"He has the biggest heart. He's so caring," his mother said.
"He seems more mature than his age," his father said. "He's very empathetic to pain. He's so loving."
They hope the day comes soon when he can blend in with other kids, and the only things they'll want to talk to him about are sports, video games and astronauts.


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If you're new to the total idea of fish antibiotics, there are a few fundamentals you need to have to know. These are not antibiotics created from fish. Neither are they small products you need to cram down your guppy's throat. In common they are pills or capsules of the similar sizing and power human beings use.
While you can not invest in human or even puppy antibiotics in the US with no a lawful prescription, a federal loophole will allow these similar antibiotics to be marketed about-the-counter for aquarium use. (Most medical doctors and pharmacists are unaware of this exemption.) Lots of of these so-identified as fish antibiotics are the identical high quality and dosage as human antibiotics (USP quality, AB-rated generics). All those who obtain these merchandise are implicitely agreeing to use these antibiotics for aquarium functions only.
In excess of the earlier calendar year many fish antibiotic merchants have disappeared, likely having caught the eye of the Food and drug administration. Yet again, by legislation these antibiotics are sold only for aquarium use, to retain your pet fish balanced and happy, though it is distinct from particular sites that they are being bought for human usage. It is presently unlawful to promote these prescription drugs to take care of human bacterial infections, although the enforcement of that intention may perhaps be challenging to control.
Are you taking your lifestyle into your individual fingers if you come down with a sore throat and determine to address your self with your guppy-cillin? In all probability not, relating to the purity of the medicine, if it is a USP quality AB-rated generic … but probably so, if you are allergic to penicillin and but presumed amoxicillin would be harmless.
The troubles with antibiotic use are manifold: most likely far more generally than not, antibiotics are applied for bacterial infections that can not cure, for situations that are not even infections, for the incorrect infections, and for self-limiting condition that demands no antibiotics. Overuse potential customers to antibiotic resistance and to growing difficulty treating serious an infection. Tens of millions of individuals undergo adverse reactions every yr, some of which are deadly. Would you acquire penicillin for gonorrhea if you realized it may essentially make the ailment even worse?
Just because penicillin, cephalexin, doxycycline, ciprofloxacin, and numerous other antibiotics can be bought for aquarium use does not mean people must be treating by themselves. Infectious disease doctors spend a life time learning the best and safest techniques to take care of infection. On top of that, it is an ethical issue regardless of whether you must honor the assure inherent in the invest in.
On the other hand, if you understood without having a doubt that TEOTWAWKI was just about the corner, you might truly feel it your ethical obligation to do all you can now to shield your family in the long term. Would it be immoral to withhold aquatic sulfamethoxazole from your daughter with a kidney infection if there's no health care provider to be observed? Possessing antibiotics on hand, just in circumstance disaster strikes, is not unreasonable. Immediately after all, medical professionals do prescribe them for pampered patients who aspiration holiday may possibly be threatened by traveler's diarrhea. The conclusion of the planet as we know it may well be a little bit more critical. No just one understands the working day or the hour, but is it imprudent to be unprepared?
I constantly advise audience to explore opportunity medical wants with their individual physician. Nonetheless if this does not generate what a single calls for to really feel secure and organized, I know lots of persons turn to fish antibiotics for possible use in crisis scenarios in which medical treatment is unavailable.
As of 2015 I've observed a several changes. The window of option to receive selected robust antibiotics may be shut. Following seeking several net web pages I no for a longer period locate the ready availability of amoxicillin-clavulanate, levofloxacin, azithromycin, clarithromycin, or cefdinir, and numerous web web pages just are no more. I hope they did not observe the letter of the regulation.
Penicillin, amoxicillin, ampicillin, cephalexin, sulfamethoxazole, ciprofloxacin, metronidazole, and doxycycline continue to be offered. Ketoconazole is an anti-fungal, not an antibiotic, and need to be averted due to occasionarily irreversible liver harm.
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Why, according to Luke, was Jesus crucified? In responding pay attention both to the political/religious/historic reasons and to what Luke sees as God's purposes in the death of Jesus.
To answer this question, my essay will examine the political, religious and historical background of Jesus' life, and the repercussions of His ministry on the religious and political establishment of the time.
The historian, Luke, wanted to demonstrate that Christ's life, death and His resurrection, were an intrinsic part of the history of Israel, the fulfilment of the covenant that God made with Abraham and his descendants:
"And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly." [1]
(see also Genesis, Chap. 15 ; 1,2,3,4,5 and 6; Chap 17: 3,4,5,6 and 7 and Chap 22: 15,16,17 and 18). Through Abraham's descendants the land of Israel is born and the promise of Salvation for all humanity comes through the birth of Christ. Craig Evans suggests that:
"Luke wants the reader to realize that the life of Jesus represents major events
in what scholars sometimes call Israel's "salvation history" [2]
Luke gives several reasons why Jesus had to die on the Cross, which include the historic, political and religious aspect of Jesus Christ's death, which culminated in His resurrection and the full disclosure of His divinity (see Luke's Gospel 1:32; 24: 25, 26, 27), thus placing Jesus Christ as the promise of the Covenant that God made with Abraham:
"And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." (Luke 1: 27)
In the Gospel of Luke we can discern that the crucifixion of Jesus was a deliberate political move by the ruling Jewish establishment - a move to remove the direct threat of Jesus to their power and authority, but Jesus was in control of His own destiny.
"Jesus sees the Cross ahead of Him as the way to win the lost…It is not a mythical "dying god" of the autumn who rises, according to the myth, in the spring, as the mystery religions teach. Jesus in the event of the crucifixion was coming against the pagan belief of false gods and religions. He was establishing Himself as the true God who loved humanity. The crucifixion was a message for all humanity, a message of love and of true redemption. On the Cross Jesus had fulfilled God's requirement of shedding blood for the sins of humanity. On the Cross He had completed and fulfilled the promise of a saviour for Israel and the whole world." [3]
He knew of His impending death, He predicted his crucifixion to Peter (see Luke 9: 20-29; 9:43)
"..These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me" [4]
The Crucifixion in Luke's Gospel points to Jesus as the true Messiah, the Son of God, who by His own volition comes back to life. Death could not hold Him. Jesus was showing Himself to be the true God who can save humanity from eternal damnation. Luke wanted to demonstrate that Christ went to the Cross because he was the Saviour of humanity. He gave His life and He took it back; which could only be achieved through God's sovereign power He was not only a man but also a supernatural being; the God of Israel.
Jesus lived in a time of turmoil and much suffering. Israel was filled with social unrest and political upheaval. The land was filled with violence and injustice. The Jewish people, ruled at the time by the Roman Empire, were yearning for the Messiah to come and liberate them from the yoke of the Roman oppressor, to whom they must submit and pay taxes. The Jewish religious rulers did not help the people in their struggles against the burden that had been placed upon them by their enemies. The high religious Officials, the Sadducees and the Pharisees were members of the Sanhedrin. They held their posts more because of the financial and political power they received, than from a desire to serve God.
"Having arrested Him, they led Him, and brought Him into the high priest's house" [5]
The Sanhedrin had little political or religious power because Israel was in the hands of the Romans. It was corrupt and did not follow God's Law, but hankered after wealth and political power; they were subjected to Rome and Caesar, the Emperor. Pontius Pilate was sent by Caesar to reign over the Jewish people. [6]Pilate was normally resident in the administrative capital of Caesarea (see also Acts 23:33).
"Then the whole multitude of them arose and led Him to Pilate" [7]
Pilate believed that, if he did not heed the outcry of the Jewish crowd against Jesus, there would be an insurgence. Although he tried to save Jesus from the hand of the Jewish rulers, in the end he acquiesced to the demands of the mob for the sake of peace and to please the religious rulers and Rome.
King Herod, resided in Galilee, but he obeyed the commands of Rome and not of God. He did not have the welfare of his Jewish subjects at heart, but wanted only to ingratiate himself both with Pilate and Rome to gain advantage for his own Kingdom. Politically he did not get on with Pilate, but after Jesus was captured and Herod had rejected Him as a fraud, Pilate and he negotiated a friendly political alliance:
"That very day Pilate and Herod became friends with each other, for previously they had been at enmity with each other (Luke 23:12)
From the beginning of His Ministry, Jesus challenged the ruling groups in Israel, especially the Pharisees. This group was committed to the oral tradition of the Mishna, to the Torah and believed they were the one group who were true to Jewish belief and ideology.
Jesus questioned their righteousness; how they perceived themselves; their belief in the Messiah and the Law. The Pharisees strenuously followed the Law and the Commandments, but with no true love for God or His people.
"Beware of the yeast of the Pharisee - beware of their hypocrisy" (Luke 12:1)
The Pharisees were very observant in the rituals of the Law.
"The Pharisees met on Friday evening (the beginning of the of the Jewish Sabbath) in small groups knows as Haburoth to eat, study the Scriptures and pray together" [8]
This sect believed that only God was able to forgive men for their sins, but they were not willing to recognise the Son of God when they saw Him doing deeds that only God could do, as we can see in Luke 5:17-27.
In this account, a paralytic man is lowered from the roof of a house so Jesus could heal him. Jesus not only heals him but also tells him that his sins are forgiven. He showed the Jewish rulers that He could do more than a healer was able to. He had come to save Mankind not only physically but also spiritually, to bring salvation to the soul. Jesus tells them that he has cured the man so that "they may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins". Jesus, by calling Himself "the Son of Man", was challenging the Pharisees and pronouncing His Messianic role among the Jewish Nation.
For thousands of years a main focus of Jewish belief had been the coming of the Messiah, but their perception of the Messiah and what he would accomplish differed from the actual Life and role of Jesus.
The Jewish people expected the Messiah to be a man sent by God to liberate Israel from the oppression of the Roman Empire. Israel would be a prosperous land, where peace reigned. The Messiah's role was to bring peace to Israel; he did not have a world- wide missionary role.
Jesus, who was believed to be the Messiah by his followers, preached a message to the Nation, which could not be accepted by the Jewish rulers. He told the people to love their enemies (see Matthew 5:44) including the Romans occupiers.
The Messiah expected by the Jews would get rid of the Romans, and would not expect them to love the Roman enemy. Jesus urged the Jewish people to turn the other cheek if someone slapped them. He gave the parable of the "Good Samaritan", showing that goodness could come from outside Israel. Jesus did not fulfil the expectation that Israel had of the Messiah.
Jesus also maintained that He was a Divine Being who was going to sit on the right side of God, in Heaven. He declared Himself to be the "Son of Man", when He was brought before the Council of the Religious Leaders to be condemned by them (See Luke 22:67-71)
"If you are the Christ, tell us" [9] (verse 67)
"Hereafter the Son of Man will sit on the right hand of the power of God[10]" (verse 69)
The Jewish rulers were furious at Jesus' claim that He was the "Son of Man ". To claim to be the Messiah, according to Leon Morris, in the 'Tyndale New Testament commentaries,[11] was not a profanity. Many others had claimed the title before Jesus, but to assert that He would be sitting at the right hand of God was to be put Himself in a higher place even than the Messiah; this claim was tantamount to blasphemy as it linked Jesus to the Deity.
Jesus, with this utterance, had committed an infringement of the Law (see Deuteronomy 5:7). He was guilty of linking Himself to Deity. Jesus had broken the Law. It was the legal right of the Jewish rulers to condemn Him – they needed no more proof of guilt:
"What further testimony do we need? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth." (Luke 22:71)
Jesus wounded the Pharisees' pride, Luke (see 11:37-54; 15:2; 20:9-19). He opposed their legalistic interpretation of religion and their arrogance. The Pharisees felt affronted and embarrassed by what they perceived was Jesus' attack on them. They began to fear Him because people were willing to listen to Him and they were losing power and authority among the Jews. Jesus was indicating that their knowledge and adherence to the Law did not make them more special in the eyes of God.
In Luke 10:30-36 Jesus relates a Parable to demonstrate that the righteous ones of God were not the Levites, or the Priests – who, like the Pharisees, were law-abiding Jews. He adopted the controversial view that righteousness was found in the Samaritan, who was considered by the Jewish people to be a sinner, not a proper Jew. In this instance the Samaritans did not follow the Law and the precepts, like the Jewish rulers, but they honoured God with their heart and their actions.
One other Jewish group that had been challenged by Jesus were the Sadducees:
"By contrast with the Pharisees, the Sadducees had their hands on the levers of political power. They were Jerusalem-based and very influential in the Council of the Jews[12]"
Many men who were part of this sect were the leading Priests of the Temple. The Sadducees were worried about Jesus because His teaching was detrimental to the authority and status they held among the Jewish community. The Sadducees and the Pharisees belonged to the Sanhedrin Council. Both were ready to gladly accept the offer of Judas Iscariot (see chap 22 3-6) to take them to Jesus so they could arrest Him.
Judas Iscariot was a disciple of Christ, one amongst the twelve followers of Jesus who had been with Christ from the very beginning of His ministry. Judas was possessed by Satan at the time of the "The Feast of Unleavened Bread" that is the "Passover" and sided with him against Jesus (Luke 22: 3). Judas must have had an understanding of the divinity of Jesus because we read in Luke 22: 48 Jesus saying to him:
"Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss[13]"
It is possible that Jesus chose to reveal Himself to Judas at the time of his betrayal as the Messiah because he knew that there was a supernatural element in Judas's betrayal. According to the words of author Joel B. Green:
"In fact, the Lukan account of Jesus's passion and death is in part the story of unholy alliances made and unmade, as this barrier is repeatedly, if only temporarily breached. Satan and the leadership of Jerusalem are allied in their Opposition to Jesus (22.53), and it is through diabolic influence that one of the twelve, Judas, sides with the leadership against Jesus. [14]"
The crucifixion did not happen solely because of the Sanhedrin's fear of Jesus being a stumbling block in their pursuit of power and richness. The Pharisees and the Sadducees were followers of the Torah. They thought they were serving God, but instead, without being consciously aware, they were serving [15]Satan, Jesus' enemy (Genesis 3: 15) and his purpose as Joel B Green asserts:
'Satan and Jerusalem are allied in their opposition to Jesus[16]'
Satan's desire was to stop the Prophetic and Redemptive work of Jesus on the Cross. Jesus was the King of Judah; He was the Fulfilment of the Promise from God to Israel and to humanity.
In His last days Jesus fulfilled the prophecies written in the Old Testament. He came to Jerusalem on a donkey (Matthew 21; 4, 5) echoing the words of Zechariah 9: 9
"…Behold, your King is coming to you. He is just and having salvation lowly, and riding a donkey…"
and in Genesis 22: 7 Abraham prophesies the sacrifice of the Lamb:
"And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering"
Jesus was the free gift to us from God, the Lamb who took away our sins. The ruling Jews and the Romans who placed Jesus on the Cross, believed that they were crucifying Jesus to enhance their own social, political and religious status. They perceived Jesus to be a human being who was a threat because of His teaching and way of life. They were not aware of the great spiritual warfare that was raging in the heavenly domain; they were doing Satan's bidding.
"Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things" [17]
Therefore to be a true disciple we need to follow Jesus. To conclude, we can say that Luke wants to show that the crucifixion of Jesus happened because He came to be the Saviour of this world, to take our sins away. Luke the historian wanted, in a scientific and systematic manner, to prove within a Jewish political, social and religious framework that Jesus Christ was the Fulfilment of God's promise of salvation to Israel and the whole world.
Evans, C E, Saint Luke, New Testament Commentaries (Inter - Varsity Press, London, 1990, 2004 edition)
Green, Joel B, The Gospel of Luke, (Eerdmans, Cambridge, 1997)
Leaney, A R C, A commentary on the Gospel according to St Luke, (London, Adam & Charles Black. 1958,)
Marshall, I, Howard, Luke – Historian and Theologian, (Paternoster Press, Exeter, 1970, 1988 edition)
Morris, Leon, Luke, (Inter – Varsity Press 1988)
Wilcock, Michael, The Message of Luke, (Inter-Varsity (Press, 1979)
Robertson A.T., Luke the Historian in the Light of Research (Baker Book House 1977)
[1] Genesis 17: 12, NKJV Holy Bible 1992:19
[2] C.A. Evans, New International Biblical Commentary Luke, Hendrickson 1190:7
[3] A. T. Robertson Library III, Luke the Historian in the Light of Research, Baker Book House 1977:164
[4] The Holy Bible,NKJV,1982:1430
[5] Luke: 22:54The Holy Bible,NKJ,1982:1425
[6] Luke 23: 1, New Bible CommentaryThird Edition, 1970:922
[7] The Holy Bible, NKJ, 1982:1426
[8] Whenham D. Walton S. Exploring the New Testament: Volume 1, The Gospels and the Acts Publ. 2001:39
[9] Holy Bible, NKJV,1992:1426
[10] Ibid
[11] Morris, Leon, Luke, 1988 P347
[12] Wenham D, Walton S. exploring the New Testament, volume 1. The Gospels and the Acts 2001:40
[13] Holy Bible NKLV, 1992:1425
[14] Green J B. The Gospel of Luke, The new International Commentary on the New Testament, Win. B. Eedermans Publishing 1977:745
[15] Ibid,745
[16] Ibid745
[17] New International Version, Luke Gospel 24:46- 48,1992:1430


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My desktop computer doesn't have built-in Bluetooth support, so I used a cheap USB Bluetooth adapter. I started by installing GNOME's Bluetooth tools. On Ubuntu, that is the gnome-bluetooth package. I also installed the gnome-vfs-obexftp package, which makes it possible to use GNOME's file manager to transfer files between your computer and a Bluetooth-enabled phone that supports the Object Exchange (OBEX) protocol.


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Palo Alto, CA-based early-stage venture capital firm True Ventures raised $310m for its fifth fund.
True Ventures V will continue the firm's strategy of investing in "founders of movements" and "products that capture the world's imagination". True, which celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year, has invested in multiple markets including connected hardware, enterprise software and infrastructure.
The first investments include a high-powered laser metal printer, a user experience design "school," a virtual reality application and genome sequencing technology.
Led by Jon Callaghan and Phil Black, True now manages approximately $1.3 billion in capital. Successful investments include Fitbit (NYSE: FIT), MakerBot (acquired by Stratasys), Goodreads (acquired by Amazon), BrightRoll (acquired by Yahoo!), and Automattic (the company behind WordPress).
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Students into Gallery on the Go
By Suzanne Werre
Elementary students learn all about colors, more specifically coloring, but Friday morning the elementary students from Underwood were taking their brushes to paint and canvas, creating their one-of-a-kind paintings that look just a little bit like the painting their classmate painted.
Katrina Yellowbird, an independent consultant for Gallery on the Go, spent Friday with Underwood School students, guiding them through a painting class – a different painting for different age groups.
"We're looking for a way to expose all of our students to some of the different aspects of the arts," said Dean of Students Toni Cottingham. "It's an area that in some of our smaller schools is hard to expose students to, especially in the upper levels, but with canvas painting and having Katrina, who is an alum, it's been a perfect opportunity to allow these kids to try something that they might never get a chance to do."
Yellowbird enjoys her chance to work with all of the kids. Her typical Gallery on the Go party is for 10 to 15 people. On Friday, her smallest group had about 25 students, while the largest group was about 35 kids – all of them anxious and ready to get painting.
Well, maybe not all of them are so anxious, noted Yellowbird. But she hopes she brings enough excitement in her presentation that everyone ends up enjoying themselves, and some of them might even find out that they really enjoy painting, and they're really good at it.
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Driver outraged after being hit with parking fine while filling up with diesel at a petrol station
Cafe manager was targeted after leaving his car to use next door's cash machine as the filling station's ATM was out of order.
A SHELL-SHOCKED driver got a parking ticket as he filled up his car at a petrol station.
Erkan Ozpembe, 42, was targeted as he forked out £40 on diesel at the Shell Garage in Ley Street, Ilford, Essex.
Mr Ozpembe went to the cash machine on the forecourt to take out money to pay after filling up his tank.
The cash machine was out of order so he used the ATM of the shop next door before returning to the garage to settle up.
But Mr Ozpembe was stunned to receive a parking ticket totally out of the blue in the post.
"I was only away for two or three minutes," the local cafe manager said.
"I'd understand it if I had parked there all day but I was getting money out next door after their cash machine was not working."
Outraged Mr Ozpembe appealed against the parking ticket and even attached a copy of his fuel receipt to the letter but has got nowhere.
He said Shell claimed that customers are warned that if they leave the site they'll get a ticket.
"I want to warn other residents and motorists about what is going on," insisted Mr Ozpembe.
"It is so unfair on the consumer and lots of people could find themselves in the same situation as me."
He's now vowed never to use the petrol station again after the astonishing incident.
Shell said the garage was not operated by the company but by St Albans-based Motor Fuel Group (MFG).
An MFG spokeswoman said: "We operate over 370 filling stations across the UK and some of our locations are situated in built-up areas whereby parking requirements warrant monitoring.
"MFG as a responsible business has developed a partnership with a number of parking management companies.
"We believe their procedures are compliant with the industry code of conduct and in this case regretfully we do not acknowledge this claim."
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