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Mindful of the vision of GAICAM: Transforming Lives and Promoting Growth,
Mindful of the commitment of GAICAM to continue to promote family unity, love, and a better society,
Mindful of the fact that GAICAM under stand's the peace and unity of our society largely depends on the love and unity of our homes,
Mindful of the fact that the future of our children largely depends on the unity, romance and the sustainability of our home,
Mindful of the biggest annual fellowship, which GAICAM shall be organizing in the weeks ahead,
Go-Africa Initiative Cameroon (GAICAM) is pleased to announce to the general public that she shall be organizing a MEN & WOMEN WITHOUT BLEMISH CONFERENCE on Saturday 16th June, 2018 at Eta Palace Hotel, Molyko Buea, in prelude to her upcoming Annual Fellowship.
This conference is being organized under the theme: Rekindling Love and Romance in Marriages & Relationships.
The original plan of God was that a man should get married to one and only one woman, and the woman should submit to the man while the husband loves the wife for them to bear children and have a happy home, but now the notion that it's normal for a man to cheat and the woman to take care of domestic chose have resulted to so many problems that have caused marriages and relationships to be destroyed.
Despite the efforts made by the government and other institutions through conferences and other social media to maintain a cordial relationship and prevent broken marriages, there are still marriages and relationships that communication is a problem ( the more means of communication are derived, the less people communicate effectively ), Finance too is the trigger of many relationship problems as partners can have different views on saving and spending, trust between partners is probably the principal factor for relationship failure, that is, as partners fail to trust each other, the relationships miss the sense of security
In regards to this and many more, the 2018 conference of Men & Women Without Blemish is therefore very crucial, with the aim to bring together these men and women from various backgrounds to enable them understand how they could sustain romance in their relationships, so as to prevent cheating and rebuild broken homes and relationships. This, we believe will help to provide a sustainable path and mutual understanding between men and women, fostering the unity of homes and serving as a guide for singles on how they attract the right partners to their lives, enabling them live their dreams and a happy life.
We have always been committed to promoting family unity and love, for a better society. We believe that the sustainability of relationships and homes has a significant role in the promotion of growth and security of our society at large. This conference will significantly impact and mark a turnaround to the lives of many families and unions and relationships, while helping to significantly reduce the rate of promiscuous activities
CONFERENCE THEME: Rekindling Love and Romance in Marriages & Relationships.
- To enable participants sustain romance in their relationships, so as to prevent cheating or stop cheating in their relationships.
- To inspire and motivated singles about the benefits derived from marriage hood and help provided them with insights on maintaining a healthy relationships.
- To identify common mistakes in relationships which affects the growth of the union and encourage breakups?
- To identify and provide sustainable solutions to the unanswered relationship, and enable partners live in harmony.
- To rebuild broken homes and relationships, while providing a sustainable path for stability and mutual understanding in marital homes.
- To guide singles on how to attract the right partners to their lives, enabling them live their dreams and a happy life.
- To identify and provide solutions to why men or women cheat in their unions and how it can be prevented.
- It is expected that at the end of conference, the rates of broken relationships and marriages and its associated effects would have been reduced considerably by 90%.
- It is expected that at the end of conference participants will acquire knowledge on how to maintain and build a healthy relationship or marriages void of crisis, so as to promote the growth of their relationships and marriages.
- It will greatly reduce domestic violence in our communities, HIV/AIDS, Promiscuity and other societal ills that result when couples are not educated or emotionally empowered.
- Moreover, at the end of the conference, it is expected that promiscuous activities and other social vices, which has become the order of the day in our society will be significantly reduce.
- Finally, the conference will equip participants with knowledge on how to improve family sustainability, relationships or courtship which will eventually mature into a marriage.
- Developing & Sustaining Romance in Marriages and Relationships.
- Common Mistakes affecting the Growth Unions, encouraging breakups, and the indispensable role of communication in the sustainability of marriages and relationships.
- Attracting the right life partners, and Rebuilding broken marriages and relationships.
- The truth why men/women cheat in Relationships/Marriages and how to prevent them.
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Reprint, published by National Society circa 1890.
Bevilled green pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
231 pages.
Grey patterned endpapers.
Head and tail pieces for each chapter.
Covers in very good condition.
Neat gift dedication, from which book is dated.
Three out of four illustrations present.
Occasional marks on prelims., contents clean.
Binding beginning to crack in places.
Good condition.
(Pre 1940, Family)
Catalogue Number: #103491
Price: £12.50

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Let's take a break from our irregularly scheduled programming to spend some time talking about technology. Specifically, let's talk about calling your friends and family if you're half a world away and what software you can use for this purpose. You see, the first thing people think of, when they love you and you move far way is: "Can we Skype?" And you'd like to say yes, of course. But you're married to someone who has forgotten more about communication technology than your entire family together knows, so there is no quick answer.
Here is Beloved, with part 1 of The Tech of Talking to Loved Ones.
The purpose of this post is to explain how to communicate securely over the internet with voice and video for a non-technical audience. This post has been in the planning since well before the name Edward Snowden became famous, but it is even more poignant today. The original impetus that set me down to write was requests from family members and friends who were hoping to talk to SmittenImmigrant and me over Skype after we moved to the Unites States. Now I am someone who has been involved with VoIP(Voice over Internet Protocol) since 1999 and I'm not going to use Skype. I remember when Skype came out and I remember disliking them for not choosing an open protocol like SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) for their communications. The fact that we now know that Microsoft spies on Skype IMs just strengthened my resolve to find an alternative. [Note from Smitten Immigrant: there may or may not have been veiled threats from Beloved's father-in-law as well].
You , reader, may have a variety of reasons for wanting to communicate securely over the internet. Maybe you're worried about the NSA or maybe you don't like your personal information being used for marketing. For me, as a life long initiate in the geek faring religion of openness, I simply do not want to use a closed proprietary technology when an open alternative exists. As a bonus, I also like the idea of the NSA having to store every VoIP call I make (which they do, since it's encrypted and they save encrypted data). I want to make their job more difficult, so I promote encryption at every opportunity.
Choosing VoIP Software
I'm going to leave out much of the technical mumbo-jumbo in this article since I don't want to bore you. But I do want to mention why I chose Jitsi as my VoIP client. There are dozens of VoIP clients that support SIP these days. So why did I choose Jitsi?
I started by listing my requirements.
– The software had to be easy to use. Most of the people who would be calling us are not geeks like me or even power users like SmittenImmigrant.
– The software had to be open. I wanted code that had been peer reviewed and that anyone could look at. Anything short of that in encryption software is essentially useless.
– The software also had to be free as in beer and free as in freedom. I didn't want to pay for it and I wanted changes made to it contributed back to public domain.
– The software had to run on multiple platforms. I use Apple computers as well as Linux, but most of the people who want to talk with us use Microsoft Windows.
– The software had to be actively maintained and could not be abandonware. A large problem with open source projects is that, since the developers are all volunteers, projects have a tendency to languish unfinished or broken for extended periods. I wanted software that was being updated regularly by a core group of people.
– The software had to support SIP and ZRTP for encryption. I'm going to leave out the reasons why I believe SIP has a much better future for internet based VoIP calls compared to H.323 because I promised no technical mumbo-jumbo. So you'll just have to trust me. I will get into ZRTP in the next section.
Jitsi meets all the above requirements and then some. It's also rather old (Jitsi started in 2003) which in the world of software is almost always a good thing. New software is always buggier than old software.
An extremely short introduction to Encryption
Encryption is the stuff of hidden messages. It's been around longer than Christianity and we have records of the Romans and Chinese using to secret codes to communicate. Since the development of digital computers encryption has increasingly become about creating ever more difficult math problems for computers to solve. Luckily we don't have to care about math or solve and math problems. That's all been figured out for us by people much smarter than we are. We only need to know one acronym and understand what it does for us. This acronym is ZRTP (Zimmerman Real-Time Transport Protocol).
ZRTP is a key agreement protocol developed and championed by Phil Zimmerman (an excellent example of a super smart human who figures out stuff so we don't have to) to be used with real time streaming applications, such as VoIP calls. A key agreement protocol allows the calling parties to exchange encryption keys in a secure manner so that no one other than the communicating parties can listen to the conversation. Encryption keys are what the software uses to encrypt and decrypt our call data. Without the key you cannot open the lock, so to speak, and ZRTP is responsible for making sure that only the people who are calling each other have the key. With regards to Jitsi it means that Jitsi running on computer A will generate a key and use ZRTP to exchange that key with computer B which also generated its own key. Once computer A and B have each other's keys the conversation can begin securely and no one but computer A and computer B can listen to the conversation.
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Supplied Air Respirators (SCBA) Industry 2019 Global Key Players, Market Dynamics, Future Demand Analysis And Forecasts To 2024
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Willowing, weaving, and wonky windows.
We are moving forward!
After finally seeing our frames standing on their own, we could move on to free running. we climbed the naked roof and braced it, dug the floor to the right level, had a few jams in the exposed attic, collected new materials and didn't fall down once!
With a group of a dozen or more,the structure is now starting to feel like home.
We are now going into details…
We have many new materials now, from just around the corner… Willow, birch, logs to cut in our homemade saw mill and a great desire for more… Look for hints throughout the page.
We got our tin roof.. Though we forgot one piece which we still need to bring from Glasgow. We screwed it down on the weekend and are nearly sheltered on one side. ,
The inside of the walls is going to be weaved in order to hold the natural plastering. So, we are collecting and de leafing birch, willow and bamboo, occasionally in jungle outfits and bringing them back to our weavers which are slowly creating a solid wall.
Along with thinking of the inside, it is always important to think of what you look like from the outside… Not really.. Anyways- during the weekend, a sawmill has been put together on camp and we are now waking up every morning to the gentle hum of the chainsaw cutting out beautiful wonky planks.
We also have a window. It has been cleaned spotless, and we have the first book placed on its inside shelf. Only three more to go, when we find or magically wake up in the morning to long and straight planks of wood. Hint hint…
In between the windows we are putting plywood which will be our canvases for the winter.
And then… Something happened! While digging the ground we discovered the end of a red cloth. We pulled and it revealed itself as a roman emperor. Well actually- as a blanket. And then we found beside it a plastic hello kitty fork.. And then- the skeleton of a small animal. We kept the pieces and are still in search of an answer for the mystery- what was buried in the ground- cat, rat or dog?
We have no hints, besides one plastic spoon…
And now… There is more to come. Our hands are full of cuts, our backs ache and we are still alive!
Still to come: road trip to cladco to get the missing pieces of our roof puzzle, finish the weaving on both walls and creating more planks for the outside… Then finally getting our warm sheep's wall for insulation…
We are soon closing the other side of the roof with plywood and tarp (until we get our beautiful shingles)… All materials we do not currently have.
Everyone and anyone is welcome everyday to pitch in. We have probably five weeks until the coldness takes over, and it's always better to weave with company. We are waiting for materials and presents.
Wish us luck…
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GOSPEL OF MARK – ROBBY GALLATY – Program 42
By: The John Ankerberg Show
|By: Pastor Robby Gallaty; ©2011
|Is the physical bodily resurrection of Jesus something that's important for Christians to believe? Why or why not?
Life After Death
The title of the message this morning is Life After Death. About a decade ago, Time Magazine conducted a poll focusing on the resurrection and they polled the people to ask them if they believed in the resurrection. And of those who said they affirm belief in the resurrection, two thirds of them said they do not believe that there will be a bodily resurrection after we die—two thirds of believers. In the 1990's, you may remember the popular liberal scholar group called The Jesus Seminar. The title is pretty misleading because you would think these guys would search in a way to determine and to prove the facts of the Bible. But what they actually did was they searched out the facts of the Bible trying to disprove the sayings of Jesus. And what they did is they looked through the Bible through a series of filters and they determined that Jesus only said 20% of the red letters in the Bible. They disproved the words of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's probably disturbing to some.
But what's even more bothersome is what one of the leaders said, Marcus Borg, about his belief of Easter. Listen to what he writes: As a child, I took for granted that Easter actually meant that Jesus rose from the dead. I now see Easter entirely different. For me, Jesus rising from the dead is irrelevant. The tomb being empty is irrelevant. Whether Easter involves something happening to the physical body of Jesus is irrelevant. Borg is making the claim that the physical body of Jesus rising from the dead is not important to the Christian life.
My friends, I beg to differ with him. If the physical body of Jesus Christ rising from the dead is irrelevant, then your physical body after you die rising from the dead with non-existent either. This can't be the case because as we read the New Testament, we come across passages that clearly portray something different. In 1 Corinthians 15:17, Paul says, And if Christ has not been raised from the dead, then your faith is futile and you're still in your sins. And those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. In Christ we have hope in this life not only in this life. But we are a people to be most pitied if Christ did not rise from the dead.
Friends, this morning, the doctrine of the resurrection, as we will see, is the cornerstone of Christianity. And this morning as Jesus attacks the Sadducees for their faulty thinking, my goal is to show you the importance of the resurrection by studying a group of disillusioned people, understanding the devastating problem that they had so that you and I will not the same mistake today in our Christian walk.
If you have Bibles, turn with me to Mark 12:18: "And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, 'Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring. And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died. In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.'"
They thought they had a clever question here: "Jesus said to them, 'Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am [Underline that] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob"? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.'"
Let me give you the two overriding themes of the passage. We'll take them first in two sections. The first one, right out of the gate we meet a group of disillusioned people, a group of disillusioned people with a senseless conviction. Look at it in the text—a senseless conviction. They said right out of the gate, verse 18, that the Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. See, the Sadducees of Jesus' day could not understand how the body after death could be raised from the dead.
Now this is the third attack in a series of attacks. Let's go back to Mark 11:27. We see that Jesus, after riding into town on the colt, is attacked by four different groups of people, determining if he's the spotless Lamb of God. From the 10th day of Nisan until the 14th, the lamb was put aside to determine if he was without spot or blemish. The religious leaders of Israel are trying to determine if Jesus is without spot or blemish. And here's the third attack by the Sadducees.
Now there were two groups that dominated the religious scene in the first century. I want to give them to you, just a background of history. Do you know what the two groups were that dominated the religious scene in the first century? The Sadducees and the who? The Pharisees. But they were miles apart theologically. See, the Pharisees on this side believed in the divine sovereignty of God, where the Sadducees believed in the free will of human beings. They were miles apart. On this side, the Pharisees believed in life after death. The Sadducees didn't. The Pharisees believed in angels and the afterlife. The Sadducees didn't.
But the main point of contention, as we see in the story here, is that the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection. And if you study this senseless conviction back to its source, you realize that the Sadducees only held to the first five books of the Torah. That's all they accepted. So they loved to debate theological debates, but the problem was they only held as reliable sources of God's Word the Torah—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The Pharisees, on the other hand like us professing believers today, we hold to the whole group of canonical writings of the Old Testament, the prophets, the writings, and the Torah. And so the Sadducees reasoned that since we cannot find the resurrection in the Torah, then we can't accept it.
Acts 23:8 gives us an insight into the Sadducees. Notice what Dr. Luke says: "For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all." That's the reason they are sad you see because they don't believe in the resurrection, right? See the doctrine of the resurrection is actually foreshadowed in the Old Testament. We find it in Isaiah 26. We see it in Ezekiel 37. We see it in Daniel 12. We see it in Psalm 73. But the Sadducees didn't accept these books, so they put the doctrine aside because they couldn't believe in it.
Now the doctrine of the resurrection—let me give you some more insight—was widely accepted in the first century by the rabbis. In the Mishnah, there is a saying which says, whoever denies the resurrection of the dead has no share in the world to come. So, the rabbis even believed in the resurrection in the first century. They understood that Enoch and Elijah did not die but were translated into another world. And so they widely accepted the doctrine of the resurrection. Friends, we see the Sadducees, the root of this disillusioned people, was a senseless conviction based on part of the Bible. They only understood part of the Bible and so they had a disillusioned understanding of what the resurrection was about.
But then it led to a second aspect and their problem was they asked a silly question. They had a senseless conviction, but then they asked a silly question. And you have to admit it's pretty silly. The Sadducees come to Jesus and they try to discredit the resurrection by coming up with a question about a woman who did not bear any children with her first husband and then continued to marry on seven different brothers. They understood that this would happen. Now, they didn't understand that Jesus had already mentioned resurrection if they would have followed him: In Mark 8:31, in Mark 9:31, in Mark 10:34. On three different occasions, Jesus mentions the fact that he will rise again in bodily form. But in order for you and I to truly understand the question of the Sadducees, we have to understand Levirate marriage.
Follow me for a moment. Levirate marriage. Levirate marriage was this idea in the Old Testament that if a man married a woman and she was childless, then the brother of the man was forced to marry the woman, take her in, in order for two things to happen: one, to preserve the name of the deceased man; and secondly, to keep the property and the inheritance in the family. So it was the right of the brother to marry the brother's sister, who was deceased. Now Levirate marriage was never meant to propagate polygamy. It was only meant in order to prevent the Jewish people from intermarrying with the Gentiles in order to protect the lineage of God's people, in order to protect the property of God's people.
Ironically enough, if you study the Apocrypha, which is the non-canonical books of the Old Testament, there is a story in Tobit, and I normally don't bring this up but this is interesting. In the book of Tobit, there is an incidence of a woman whose husband died and she went on to marry seven different brothers and remained childless, Tobit 3:7. This could be the background for the hypothetical question by the Sadducees. See, in their mind they had conducted or constructed a clever question. They're going to stump Jesus here, because there's no way this woman could rise from the dead and be married to seven different brothers. They realize that they had solidified a question that would make resurrection ludicrous. But they don't realize they're not disagreeing with a normal man here. They're going up against the God of the universe, my friends, and as we've seen the senseless conviction has led to a silly question.
But now we take a shift in the problem. See, Jesus says you guys are a disillusioned people. But there is devastating problem below the surface. And that's the second aspect of the text. Write it down. A devastating problem. Notice what Jesus doesn't do. Jesus doesn't answer their question. He doesn't say here's the answer to your question. Jesus points out a problem with their theology. Look at what he says: "'Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures [Now, this is an indictment.], nor the power of God? Second Timothy 3:7, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. That's the Sadducees. They love to debate. They love to get in the courtyard and talk about theology and doctrine all day.
The Greek word for wrong there in the text, the English word error, is the Greek word planao. And what's interesting is the Greek word planao is actually where we get the English word planet and it means to wander about. Look at the word picture. It means to go off track. And Jesus said, You guys in some kind of way have gotten off track. You love to debate but you're actually wrong. By Jesus accusing the Sadducees—feel the weight of this—that they were in error, it would be the equivalent of me walking into MD Anderson Hospital and telling the doctors they know nothing about medicine. Can you feel the weight of that? Jesus is saying, You guys love to debate theology, you love to debate scripture but you know nothing about the scripture and you know nothing about the power of God. Now that's what they prided themselves on. See, they prided themselves on knowing the Torah and they prided themselves on having the power of the Sanhedrin. And Jesus said you're wrong in both, my friends. The things that you pride yourself on are the very things you're in error of.
Look at verse 25: "For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels…." Augustus Strong says There will be some sort of physical connection between the body that is not and the body that shall be. [Follow this.] What that physical connection is is vain to speculate. We only teach that, though there may not be a single material particle in the new that was present in the old, there yet will be such a physical connection between the two that it can be said that the new has grown out of the old, that which is in the grave has come forth, this mortal body has put on immortality.
Notice Jesus doesn't say that we become angels. For we know when we die—1 Corinthians 6:3—you and I will judge the angels. Did you know that, that believers will actually judge the angels? What he says is that we will be like the angels in the sense there will be no marriage. Now, you have to follow me through this idea and it's biblical. When you die, you will no longer be married to your husband or your wife. We get that in a couple of instances. Romans 7:2, "For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law [concerning her husband]." First Corinthians 7:39, "A wife is bound as long as her husband lives. But if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord."
Now there are three reasons why marriage will end in death. The first one is this: God has ordained, through the covenant of marriage, through the divine instrument of marriage, a husband coming together, a man leaving his father and mother, coming together as one, to continue the human race and to be fruitful for the Lord. So the idea is God has orchestrated that in heaven from God we will come to the earth and multiply the earth. Now, when we get to heaven, there'll be no more births. But Robby, what about sexual fulfillment? Will we need that in heaven? And the answer is no. See you and I, the intimacy we experience with our husband or our wife will be fulfilled by Christ in heaven. We won't need anything in heaven. We will be sustained by the Lord Jesus Christ. So the first reason marriage will end is that there will be no more need for birth in heaven.
The second reason marriage will end is that marriage completes a man and a woman. God said a woman shall come together and be a man's helpmate. So when you marry, your spouse completes you, in a sense, on earth. She supports you. He supports her. He takes care of her. He leads. She supports him. When you get to heaven, you won't need to be completed by any person other than God. The Lord Jesus Christ will complete you in heaven. There will no need to be completed by another person. So God will fulfill all your desires and your wants.
Finally, marriage is a picture of God's relationship with his people. Christ is the bridegroom and the church is the what? The bride of Christ. We shouldn't be surprised that when we get to heaven marriage will not be there, because we will be joined with Christ as his bride.
Now, friends, I love my wife. Kandi is the godliest woman I know. She's the person who's always there for me. She's always encouraging me when I'm down. I love Kandi more than life itself. But if my love for Kandi is ever more than my love for God, it's an idol. Did you catch that? If my love for my wife is more than my love for Christ, it's an idol. I said it last week. An idol is anything or anyone that you love more than God. Now, it's not wrong to love your spouse here, but as you love Christ, Christ works in you to work through you to love your wife the way you should love your wife.
And here's a good teaching point. If you love your spouse more than you love Christ then you have an idol in your life. See, as you love Christ and your first allegiance is to him, God works in you to love other people. In the next week's passage, the scribe comes up to Jesus and says Jesus, what is the greatest commandment? What's the one non-negotiable thing that we have to know? Guess what Jesus says. Love God. Any questions?
And so, friends, as we see, while we'll be with our loved ones who believed in Christ in heaven, we'll be not married to our spouses any more since our relationship will be superseded by our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, which was the reason we were created, to have communion and intimacy with Christ.
So we notice they had a problem because they denied the power of God. That's the first problem. They denied the power of God. But Jesus says you have a greater problem. You deny the Word of God. Look at it verse 26. You denied the word of God: "And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, [Here's the key word] 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?" In essence, what Jesus does is he uses their own weapon against them. They were wielding the Torah and Jesus is saying, How about I use the Torah against you guys?
Look at Exodus 3:2. Notice what Jesus does here: "And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, 'I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.' When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, 'Moses, Moses!' And he said, 'Here I am.' Then he said, 'Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.' [Moses knew something was about to happen.] And he said, 'I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God."
Notice what God doesn't say. God doesn't say I was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; I used to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He says I am the God…the present tense verb to what? To be. If Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are dead, as the Sadducees said, then God's promise to them was limited only to the duration of their life. But God's Word cannot be put in a box. And as we see here, God would not align himself to someone who is dead unless he has raised those men from the dead to make them alive. Jesus' argument is this. His argument on the resurrection is based on the fact that God establishes a relationship with a human being on earth and it does not end at death. It's an eternal relationship.
Jesus concludes in 12:27 of Mark by saying these words: "[God] is not God of the dead, but of the living. You [guys] are quite wrong." Now, notice that word wrong again. He used it early in the passage. He uses it again. It's the same word planao, the word for planet, and he bookends the session on the thought or the idea that the Sadducees whole doctrine is bookended with the word wrong. You guys are in error. You're whole starting point is wrong.
This is what's interesting about theology. If you start off on the wrong foot, you're way off in the end. And the wrong foot was the power of God and the Word of God. They did not understand either. Notice that Jesus doesn't correct their error. You would almost think that Jesus would say Let me tell you what heaven is like, or let me explain to you what the resurrection is like. But he doesn't do that because he understands that human beings in our earthly, finite minds cannot comprehend heavenly images. We cannot comprehend what the afterlife is like because we don't have any frame of reference. He uses familiar things in terms that they do understand.
This is what he says. There'll be no marriage in heaven and there'll be no giving of marriage in heaven. See, for Jesus Christ—folks, come in close—the resurrection is the fundamental doctrine that is crucial to the Christian life. It was fundamental for Jesus and it should be fundamental for you and I, and I'll prove it to you. Jesus, on three different occasions, raises people from the dead. In Mark 5:41 he raised and brought back to life the daughter of Jairus. In Luke 7:14, he brought the son of the widow of Nain back to life. John 11, he goes to the tomb. He calls out to Lazarus, come forth! And Lazarus comes forth back from the dead after being dead for three days.
At Jesus' death and resurrection, if you remember in Matthew 27, people actually come out of the grave back to life. Let me read it to you. Verse 52: "The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after [Jesus'] resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many."
Jesus, by his own admission—Mark 8:31, 9:31, and 10:34—Jesus said I will go to the cross, I will be beaten by the hands of the chief priests and elders. I will rise from the dead on the third day. Jesus fulfilled these predictions—Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John 20-21. Jesus rose from the dead.
But it goes on. Jesus even spoke of the resurrection of the dead. John 11:25, he said I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me, though he may die, yet shall live and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this? That's what he says. John 14:19, Yet in a little while the world will see Me no more but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live. Jesus describes the significance of the resurrection in John 6:44. No one can come to me unless the Father draws them to Me and I will raise them up on the last day.
See, for people who refuse the resurrection of the bodily resurrection of believers after death, death is inescapable for them. Friends, if life ends when we die, death is the ultimate enemy. Friends, our God has promised by his power to raise us from the dead. He demonstrated that in raising Jesus from the dead and the glorious truth for believers is that you and I have hope to know that the life after death exists and death is not the end for believers and that deserves an amen today.
Friends, listen to me. For believers, we have hope for the future—1 Corinthians 15:51, this is what Paul writes: "Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed…in the twinkling of an eye, [in a moment's notice] at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed."
I love what Dwight Moody said, DL Moody, Someday you'll read about in the paper MOODY IS DEAD. Don't believe it. Don't believe it. At that moment, I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born to the flesh in 1837. I was born in the Spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh will die. But that which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
So, Robby, what's our walking point this morning? What should we do because of what we just heard? You need to evaluate what you believe this morning. You need to determine this morning if you have gotten caught up with a disillusioned idea that the resurrection, bodily resurrection does not exist after this life. See, the Sadducees debated and they didn't understand the resurrection. See, what's interesting is that the problem for the Pharisees was this: They couldn't understand the Word of God and they didn't understand the power of God. But—watch this—the person who embodied both was standing right before them. John 1:1, In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh… it was Jesus Christ.
And then Jesus over and over demonstrated the power of God. At his baptism, he was filled with the power of God. His ministry, the Spirit thrust him into the wilderness. He walked on water. He raised the dead. He rose from the dead himself. He was the embodiment of the power and the Word of God and these guys missed it.
You know what's sad? There are people with us today who will miss it as well. See, every person in here has a choice. You either accept the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ or you reject the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. See, what's amazing about God is that he didn't allow us to wallow in our sin. See, without belief in the Lord Jesus Christ, you will never see heaven. You won't be bodily raised from the dead to be with the Lord for eternity and like the Sadducees you'll be separated from God for eternity.
Listen to me, my friends, eternity is long to be wrong. Think about that. Eternity is long to be wrong. God did something about the sin problem that happened in the Garden. You and I came into this world and were infected with sin because of the sin of Adam in the Garden. It infected the entire human race. It's worse than cancer. It's worse than AIDS because when we die, cancer ends or AIDS will end or physical illness will end. Sin has eternal effects. But God did something about this sin problem. He sent Jesus to the world. He came as a perfect sacrifice. He lived a perfect life. He was without sin. He went to the cross willingly, submitting to the will of the Father. He died on the cross. He went into the tomb but he wouldn't stay there. God would raise Him from the dead, seat him at the right hand of the Father. But before he was seated at the right hand of the Father for 40 days he showed himself to over 500 people proving that the resurrection was real.
And friends, you and I have a choice today. We either can reject the Lord Jesus Christ or we can accept the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I know what you're saying. You're saying, Robby, I'm not ready to make a decision today. Do you know that by not making a decision today, you've already made a decision and the decision is to reject Christ? Friends, here's the two paths that you can live. If you reject the Lord Jesus Christ, you reject God as the ruler of this world. You run your own life your own way. You're the captain of your own ship. You walk in this church and you leave the same way you came in with you in control of your life. Here's the result of that. You will suffer condemnation by God and judgment and death, ultimately hell.
But God said if you accept the gospel, if you understand that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, if you acknowledge him as Lord, if you receive the forgiveness of sins through repentance and faith, God will forgive your sins. He will wipe them away clean. I don't care how bad you think you are. I don't care how much bad you've done in your past. God will wipe them away clean. He'll give you a clean slate this morning and it will start over. In the eyes of God, you'll be justified as if you've never sinned before. And guess what the reward for that is? It's an incredible result. You'll be forgiven by the God of the universe and you'll have a place in heaven, name written in the Lamb's Book of Life and you'll be given eternal life.
So, Robby, how do we do that? Do I have to take a test? Do I have to know the Bible? Do I have to sign up for a class? No. Two sides to the same coin—repentance and faith. Repentance is a 180 degree turn from going in a self-destructive path of sin and selfishness and depravity and you turn around and you say I'm going to turn from my sin and you turn, namely, to the Lord Jesus Christ. Through faith you put your faith in Christ. Faith is putting your faith in the Lord, giving God your life, surrendering to God everything you have, acknowledging Him as Lord that He becomes the master of your ship, the captain of your own life.
So, my friends, the question is, which one is it going to be? Are you going to be like the Sadducees and reject the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ? Or, will you willingly put everything you have, repenting of your sins and trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ?


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Agile Bibliography
Do you have a hard time keeping track of those articles that you read and think "I could have used this when I was talking to ….?" Do you sometimes need an article to back up a point that you're making, but don't know where the data is? Well, I do. I've started lists a number of times, and keep misplacing them.
This time is different. When a discussion on one of the mailing lists got into studies demonstrating the effectiveness of Agile Software Development, I decided to start a list in a place that won't get lost. That place is http://biblio.gdinwiddie.com/, the Agile Bibliography Wiki.
I'd really appreciate it if you'd use it too.


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Two teams in for Australian port and rail project
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Govt rejects company's request to resume clearing home of orangutan
The entire logging concession concerned plays host to the critically-endangered Bornean orangutan. When it was granted in mid-2008, the concession - located in West Kalimantan's Ketapang regency - measured in excess of 48,000 hectares, while after being delineated its area decreased to 37,000 hectares - still more than half the size of Singapore.
PT MPK appealed to the ministry to review the sanction imposed on it, particularly the suspension of its operations and the demand that it refill all constructed canals.
The ministry responded to the logging company (Aug 3) by firmly rejecting its objection as well as its request for a review of the administrative sanction imposed on it.
The company was hit with the sanction after the ministry conducted a ground inspection, as previously reported by foresthints.news (Mar 29), following which Minister Siti Nurbaya released a statement asserting that the logging concession's permit would be reviewed.
The following photos show the level of intactness of peat forests which are home to the Bornean orangutan and dominate the logging concession's land cover. If the logging company were to resume operating, most of these intact peat forests in the concession would be included in its work plan to be cleared.
More severe sanctions await
In its letter of rejection, the ministry clearly stated that the newly-revised government regulation on peat protection and management - which was signed by President Joko Widodo in early December last year - explicitly prohibits any new canal development which causes peat to dry.
The ministry went further in the letter, issuing a stern warning that if PT MPK fails to comply with the terms of the administrative sanction already imposed on it - including the suspension of its field operations - the logging company will face even stiffer additional sanctions from the ministry.
The photos below depict peat violations perpetrated by the logging company PT MPK. These actions directly contravene the newly-revised government regulation banning all new peat development.
In fact, on the orders of the President, since early November 2015, a ban on new peat development, in particular the clearing of peatlands and construction of canals, has been enforced by Minister Siti Nurbaya in the wake of 2015's devastating peat fires which seriously affected Indonesia's economy, costing the country at least USD16.1 billion according to World Bank calculations.
In the event that the logging company were to resume its field operations, the ministry - in line with the rules of the game in Indonesia's environmental and forestry regulations - would freeze its permit.
If this happens and the company still fails to fulfil the obligations placed on it during the permit suspension period, then the PT MPK logging concession permit would be revoked altogether.
President Joko Widodo is known to be very tough and uncompromising in his actions against peat violations. The President's determination in this matter stems from his great concern for ensuring the implementation of improved peat governance over the long term.


text: Sochi - Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel insists the 2016 title race is not already over.Many think Mercdes driver Nico Rosberg, who could extend his extraordinary winning streak from six to seven straight races in Russia, is now pulling into an unassailable position at the top of the drivers' world championship.It comes amid an almost equally extraordinary run of bad luck for Rosberg's Mercedes teammate, the reigning champion Lewis Hamilton, who starts just tenth at Sochi after an identical engine problem to the one he suffered two weeks ago at the Chinese GP.Hamilton felt 'helpless'Mercedes team chairman Niki Lauda said on Saturday (April 30): "The same problem twice must not happen, I need to talk to Andy," he added, referring to Mercedes engine chief Andy Cowell.Increasingly, Briton Hamilton's excellent mood so far in 2016 is being eroded, confiding to British reporters late on Saturday that he feels "helpless".One theory is that he is doing something fundamentally different to Rosberg with his in-cockpit settings on out-laps.Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff is quoted by Auto Motor und Sport: "We have to consider everything and not rule anything out."Read: Engine curse strikes Hamilton againIt means Hamilton is two engines down before four full race weekends are complete. Hamilton said: "I have only three engines left so I need to expect that eventually I will get a penalty (for using a sixth engine in 2016), the big goal is getting further away."On German television RTL, former F1 driver Timo Glock said Hamilton's run of bad luck is "inexplicable", even though "every driver has experienced periods where nothing works and on the other hand when everything comes together".But at least Hamilton has an identical car to Rosberg for the remaining 18 races this season.Ferrari not out of the runningFerrari's Vettel, on the other hand, was the best part of a second in pace behind Rosberg in qualifying, while a gearbox change means he takes a grid drop for Sunday.On the reliability problems, Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene has admitted the Maranello team has been "pushing like crazy" to catch Mercedes.Vettel told Italy's Sky in Russia: "We are risking a lot, maybe too much, and that's my fault."Vettel, however, told the same broadcaster that he is sure Ferrari is not out of the running yet.Read: Vettel takes five-place grid penaltyThe German said: "We have not won (races) yet, but we will. We will fight for the championship, I'm sure."I don't think anyone would say that, after only three races, we are out of it."Glock weighed in on the championship by saying: "Mercedes is still clearly ahead, even though the long run done by Ferrari on Friday looked very good."What we can be sure of is that Lewis and Sebastian will be fighting to get back to the front, which will be good to watch.#Seb5: "I am confident for tomorrow, we are not the favorites but there's always a chance" #RussianGP #redseason pic.twitter.com/EkU9mtr7dW— Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) April 30, 2016


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Nintendo only had its latest live presentation, and there were some big ones as well as some unexpected. Have you missed the announcements? Don't worry, we've all rounded up for you here!
Super Mario Maker 2
Super Mario Maker 2 comes to the Nintendo Switch in June. The trailer shown today contained new tools that players can use to create their own phases and levels. We saw Mario go through different parts of the Mushroom Kingdom, as well as Luigi in his own builder costume.
Not much else was shown for Mario Maker 2. But we should expect more news and recordings in the coming months,
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is made by Team Ninja and will contain all of our favorite Marvel superheroes. Today's game play also shows Captain Marvel in the router.
The game will have online or local multiplayer, and players can draw with up to three others. You will take on the role of the characters The Avengers, The Defenders, the Galaxy Guardians and the X-Men as they face Thanos and Black Order.
The game launches in the summer of 2019.
Box Boy + Box Girl
Box Boy + Box Girl is a cute puzzle platform that originally debuted on Nintendo 3DS. The game focuses on using boxes to complete puzzles that are becoming increasingly difficult.
In the Switch version, Box Girl is introduced and you must use both characters to solve stages. When all the stages are finished with these two, you will unlock a high box called Qbby. The game has 270 puzzles to solve.
Box Boy + Box Girl release April 26th.
Updating Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
The update to Captain Toad Treasure Tracker adds collaborative multiplayer support to all existing levels. This update will be available today.
It will also be new, paid, downloadable content added. There will be a total of 18 new challenges across five new courses. A special episode is available for purchase today, giving you access to one course. The rest of the paid DLC comes March 14th.
Bloody Stones Night Ritual
We got some gambling recordings from the upcoming Blood Streak: Ritual of the Night. This game is a Castlevania game that is sure to appease fans of the 2D side-scrolling action game, and the footage we saw today looks solid. The game has been in development for several years and started on Kickstarter.
Bloodstained: Night's ritual will be out summer 2019.
Dragon Quest
There were two Dragon Quest titles that came to Switch: Dragon Quest Builders 2 and Dragon Quest XI S: Exclusive Age Echoes.
With Dragon Quest Builders 2, it will be 4-player co-op online or locally across four Switch Consoles. The game is similar to Minecraft, except it takes place in the Dragon Quest universe. It comes out July 12.
Dragon Quest XI S: Exclusive age echoes are a final version of the game. It allows players to switch between the original 3D graphics or the 16-bit 2D style from the 3DS version of the game. There is also new content and fully orchestrated battle music.
Disney Tsum Tsum Festival
This is a version of a mobile game featuring Disney's popular characters in their Tsum Tsum shapes . It's a puzzle where you want to clear out Tsum Tsums as fast as possible to pick up these points.
Disney Tsum Tsum Festival comes out fall 2019.
Starlink: Battle for Atlas Update
The next update to Starlink: Battle for Atlas brings into the Star Fox's wingmen as playable characters. That's right you can play as Peppy, Slippy and Falco. The update also brings in new missions centered around Star Wolf's lieutenants.
The update will be available in April 2019.
Rune Factory
Two Rune Factory games were mentioned today: Rune Factory 4 Special and Rune Factory 5.
With Rune Factory 4 Special a remastered version of the original 3DS game that involves farming and dungeons. You will also love your life in the game of marriage, and there are some new features for it. The game comes once this year.
Nintendo also mentioned that Rune Factory 5 is in development, but no date when it comes.
Square Enix debuts a new RPG called Oninaki. You will travel between rich life and death to save lost souls before they become monsters. The souls ultimately help you and give you unique abilities and powers.
Fighting happens in real time and you get access to many different weapons and attacks.
Oninaki publishes summer 2019.
Yoshi & # 39; s crafted world
Yoshi finally returns to Yoshi & # 39; s Crafted World, which will be released March 29. There is a connection between soul and weapons used, so gather as many as you can only have benefits for you.
Yoshi's Crafted World is a side-scrolling platform with a glorious world made of cardboard and craft. Houses
Four Emblems Three Houses are released on July 26, which is a little delayed from the original spring 2019 date.
The last entry in the strategic RPG franchise has you taken on as a mercenary traveling to a monastery and ending up teaching students belonging to one of three houses.
Three houses differ from other fire emblems games because it has full 3D exploration of sites that have never been done before. The fight is still grid-based, but it doesn't go anywhere.
Tetris 99
Tetris 99 is a free-game Tetris game available today. It pits players up to 99 others in the ultimate fight for the best Tetris player: only one can claim that title.
That's right – this is the Tetris Battle Royale you want.
Look at eShop
Dead at Daylight
Dead by Daylight is an online horror survival PvP game that comes to Switch in Fall 2019. You will use your skills to sneak around, hide, scavenge and take others to be just one who stands.
Deltarune Chapter One
Deltarune is the sequel to hit Undertale, and it will be February 28th to eShop.
There aren't many details to the game, because the developers covered most of the scenes with dozens of pixelated, smiling dogs. Anyway, if you're a fan of Undertale, don't miss this one.
Daemon x Machina
Daemon x Machina is a mech-driven action game that comes out sometime in the summer of 2019. But, a free demo launches today at eShop.
This free demo includes four missions from the game, as well as a boss's battle. You will get a feel for the game's highly customizable options and motion system with the download. A survey will be sent to you after you receive the demo, since the team wants to hear active feedback from the players.
Hellblade: Seuna's Sacrifice
Hellblade is a game of a Celtic warrior who has severe mental illness and returns to the village after a Viking walk. But she finds that her lover was sacrificed to the Norwegian gods.
Hellblade: Seuna's Sacrifice was originally on PlayStation 4 and PC in 2017. It comes to Switch Spring 2019.
Assassin's Creed 3 Remastered
Assassin's Creed 3 is on the way to Switch May 21st. This Remastered version includes the base game, the entire DLC and even the Assassin's Creed Liberation Remastered.
Final Fantasy
In addition to a brand new RPG, Square Enix had some news about some Final Fantasy ports.
Final Fantasy VII will be available March 26th. Final Fantasy IX is out now. Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon comes once in March and is a spin-off title.
These gates include an already impressive array of Final Fantasy ports, including Final Fantasy X and X-2, both of which resolve April 16th. Final Fantasy XII comes sometime later this year too.
Astral Chain
Astral Chain is the next game to come from Platinum Games, the studio behind Bayonetta (Bayonetta 3 is still evolving, that's all we have).
In Astralkjede, we meet two characters who appear as police officers in a futuristic world. They go up against giant monsters that carry big swords and turn into a kind of human-shaped super-weapon.
Astral chain is something neither of us expects, but if we go after Platinum's track record, it's bound to be an exciting, action-packed title.
The release date of the Astral chain is slated once in the summer of 2019.
The legend of Zelda: The awakening of the link
The legend of Zelda: The Link's Awakening debuted on the game Gutt back in 1993. But now Nintendo comes back on the switch.
This revival of Link Awakening has the same top-down perspective, but with revolutionary 3D graphics that look pretty cartoon-like, but charming.
There are no other details about the game right now, but I'm sure we'll hear more about it in the coming months, especially when we get closer to E3.
What were your favorite messages?
It was a jam packed half an hour, phew! There were many great surprises here, and lots to look forward to. What did you think of February Nintendo Direct? Sounded in the comments!
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Episode 11: Plymouth and Mass Bay Colony
The American History Podcast, episode 11. [Intro music]
Hello, and welcome to the American history podcast episode 11, the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies. Today we continue the story of the New England colonies in the seventeenth century. Before we get started, as always, I'd like to invite you to follow the podcast on social media. We are on twitter @americanhiscast. You can also follow my personal twitter, but I warn you I don't only tweet about history on that one. For my personal feed look up @shawnwarswick. You can also go to the website where you will find the sources I've used to create the episodes and, soon, I'll have transcripts up for each episode. go to www.the American history podcast dot com. You also can sign up for our email list, which allows you to get email updates whenever a new episode is released.
The first colony founded in New England was the Plymouth Colony, founded by the group of people we know as "pilgrims." The pilgrims were actually the first wave of separatists who had left Britain for Holland where they felt they would be able to practice Calvinism in the way they wanted. Led by Rev. John Robinson, they would soon become unhappy with the "dutchification" of their children. They wanted, most of all, the chance to practice their religion as Englishmen without interference from others (and without having to see their children infected by the popular culture around them).
Thus, the separatists secured rights to settle within the Virginia Company's jurisdiction in Virginia. The agreement was that the pilgrims would work for seven years in return for support of the joint stock company which was made up of non-separatist investors. After seven years any profit realized by the venture would be shared between the settlers and the investors. While religion was a motivating factor in the settlement of the pilgrims in the New World, it also had an economic aspect which is sometimes forgotten or overlooked. The idea was, of course, that the pilgrims would practice their religion while, at the same time, providing profit for themselves and the Virginia Company.
The plan was for the Mayflower to set sail for North America in early September. Now, if you pay any attention to the weather off the east coast of the United States, the late summer/early fall can be an interesting time. In September of 1620 the weather was, to say the least, non-cooperative and sailing the North Atlantic was quite dangerous. Nonetheless, the ship set sail from Plymouth on September 6, 1620. There were 102 passengers, plus about 30 officers and sailors on board. The voyage was, quite honestly, miserable for the passengers, and, finally, on November 9, 1620, the ship sighted present-day Cape Cod.
Realizing they were far north of their intended landfall, the ship attempted to head south, to no avail. The heavy seas forced the ship to return to Cape Cod and, on November 11 they dropped anchor. Some historians have suggested that the Pilgrims "hijacked" the ship and, in order to gain the consent of the non-separatists, issued the Mayflower Compact. Whatever the case may be, the settlers eventually chose Plymouth Bay as their initial settlement site. This had been an American Indian community ravaged by a great plague a few years earlier, suggesting that the natives in this area had contact with Europeans or with other natives who had contact with Europeans.
Because Plymouth was outside the jurisdiction of the Virginia Company, the settlers were squatters. They had no legal right to the land and no recognized government. They were not authorized to settle in this area which explains why they never gained a charter from the crown.
I mentioned the Mayflower Compact a few moments ago, so lets briefly discuss it. It was NOT a constitution, but an agreement. The purpose of the compact was to legitimize the fact that the settlers had created a colony outside Virginia by creating a secular document recognizing James I as their sovereign and creating a body of all the settlers with power to devise laws and elect leaders. This is interesting to me because, at the end of the day, this is a group of separatists. They wanted separation from England, and from others whom they found were "impure", thus the name puritan. However, at the same time, they appear worried about legitimacy in the eyes of the English monarchy. So there is this odd psychosis, at least in my mind, about their action.
Another little interesting aspect of the Plymouth colony is that because it would never possess a Royal charter, it eventually merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The agreement provided for majority rule among the settlers and some argue it was an important seed of democracy in North America. The adult male settlers assembled to make laws and conduct open-discussion town meetings. So there is no doubt, in my mind, that New England did play a role in the idea of democracy in the Americas. However, remember, this is after the Virginia House of Burgesses had already begun meeting, so to give ALL of the credit to New England is, in my mind, out of bounds.
That first winter, the winter of 1620-21was terrible. First, by December many of the passengers and crew were ill with scurvy and severe coughing. During that first winter about half of the members of the expedition would die. By late December the pilgrims had crossed over to the mainland and surveyed the area that became the Plymouth settlement. This was, originally, a native village known as Patuxet to the Wamponoag people, but had been abandoned about 3 years earlier after a plague killed all of the residents. Referred to as "Indian fever" by historians in the nineteenth century, it is now believed they suffered from an outbreak of small pox that was introduced by European traders. The local population of natives was so weakened by the disease, the colonists faced no resistance to their settlement.
The first construction began almost immediately, and by mid January a common house was completed, 20 feet square, for general use. It quickly became a hospital for the ill colonists, 31 of whom would be dead by the first of March. Things were so bad that, at one point only six or seven of the colonists were able to feed and care for the rest of their fellows.The death toll would only rise and Coles Hill, a prominent nearby overlook, became the first European cemetery in New England.
On that happy note, a brief word about relations with the native Americans. Squanto, the last, or one of the last, of the Patuxet people living in Southern New England (remember, they were wiped out by small pox), acted as a liason between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags, a tribe who controlled the regions. Squanto lived an interesting life. He was kidnapped, along with 27 other natives and taken to Spain where they were sold into slavery. Eventually Squanto escaped to England, the story of which is unknown, and made his way back to the new world, specifically Newfoundland. From there he would be taken back to his native village in 1619, which by this point was ravaged by disease. He then lives among the Pokanoket, eventually coming into contact with the colonists from the Mayflower. Because he was the only Indian who was familiar with English, he played a key role in the meetings between the pilgrims and natives that took place in the spring of 1621. Eventually he became attached to the English settlers and assisted the colonists in planting native vegetables and he also introduced them to the fur trade. Of course Squanto's life comes to a tragic end in November of 1622 when he contracted what the Plymouth governor William Bradford, referred to as the Indian fever. Before we leave Squanto it should be noted that he and Bradford had grown to be close friends, and Bradford remained with Squanto during his final days.
By the fall of 1621, thanks to the help offered to the colonists by Squanto and other local natives, 20 acres of corn were under cultivation and in November of 1621 53 colonists were alive to celebrate the harvest. It would not be known as "thanksgiving" until two years later, in 1623. Nonetheless, what the Pilgrims did was to adopt the Indians traditional custom of giving thanks at the time of the fall harvest. There are three contemporaneous accounts of the event that have survived, and the event was celebrated by the 53 surviving colonists and 90 of Wampanoags. Apparently the celebration lasted three days and featured a feast which included numerous variations of waterfowl, wild turkeys and fish that were procured by the colonists, as well as five deer brought by the Indians.
I know there is, to some extent, a belief that the Europeans mistreated the Indians, and while this might be true generally speaking, the fact is that this is not true for every case and at all times. In fact, an alliance was formed by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags for mutual protection against other Indian tribes and the peace between the two groups would last for 4 decades, until the death of Massasoit, the Wampoanog leader, in 1662. I'm in no way saying the Europeans were benevolent, or even good neighbors, but I am saying that at different times and in different locations, relations between Europeans and Indian tribes weren't as bad as Hollywood would have us believe.
While the pilgrims had a rough start to life in North America, they did become successful. They developed an economy based on fur trading, fishing and lumber. 1627 would see the arrival of cattle in the colony and marked an upturn in the economic conditions, according to historians James Deetz and Patricia Deetz in their work, The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony. Besides cattle the colony, by 1630 also had pigs, sheep and goats.
Having said that, religion remained paramount in the colony. Interestingly one of the most important religious figures in the colony was John Robinson, who actually never set foot in New England. His ideology and pronouncements on theological issues would give Plymouth it's nature and character in the early years. Robinson made pronouncements such as women and men have different social roles according to the laws of nature, although either is lesser in the eyes of God. He referred to women as the "weaker vessel" and pronounced that it was the role of males to educate and guide the community. Finally he also believed women should be subject to their husbands.
The community, however, was led by the previously mentioned William Bradford for many years. He was the elected governor and, in order to encourage farming, he distributed land among the settlers. A member of the original group of seperatists, Bradford was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact. Like many of the colonists, he would know hardship and loss, having his first wife, Dorothy May Bradford, fall overboard on the Mayflower while at anchor and drown. Of course he would also lose his close friend, Squanto, in the fall of 1622.
Another important leader of the colony at this time was Miles Standish. He was a military man hired to protect the pilgrims. Standish, like Bradford, was also part of the original group of separatists. He led an expedition against the Massachusetts Indians at the behest of Massasoit. As another example of the complicated relationship between Europeans and Indians, Standish was criticized by Pastor John Robinson for his brutality towards the natives. Bradford himself, while deferring to Standish, was uncomfortable with the way he treated the Massachusetts people. The consequences were such that Natives throughout the region abandoned their villages and the Pilgrims had difficulty for some time when attempting to trade with Indians. Massasoit was also disturbed by the behavior of his European allies, but he would continue to honor the treaty until his death in 1662.
In 1691, the colony had 7,000 people but was smaller than the larger MBC, which whom it merged. There are two reasons for this merger. First, the Pilgrims still did not have their own charter. They were still, in essence, squatters. Secondly, the MBC had it's own charter revoked and the crown was seeking to unify both colonies for administrative purposes.
Speaking of the MBC, it was founded in 1629 by non-separatist Puritans who were afraid for both, their future and that of England. Why were they in fear? This was the reign of Charles I, the second monarch in the Stuart line, and a firm believer in the "divine right of kings." When you add this to the fact that he was married to a Roman Catholic and his actions which were seen as those of an absolute monarch, anathema to the English, it meant there was going to be trouble. Charles ended up dismissing Parliament in 1629 and sanctioned an anti-Puritan purge in the kingdom. Before this, the moderate Puritans had gathered support in parliament to enact reforms, but with the monarch refusing to guarantee the power of Parliament or the basic rights of the people, the situation was on the knife's edge so to speak.
It was in this environment that the MBC was founded. Before they set sail for the new world, the shareholders of the MBC in Cambridge signed what was called the Cambridge Agreement, which led to the founding of Boston. It turned the corporate charter into a government that served as the constitution of the MBC for many years. The result of this is that Puritans were now able to remove themselves from the control of the king and the Church of England, which they regarded as little better than the Roman Catholic Church.
By 1631, 2000 colonists arrived in Boston and had created a number of settlements around it. As England devolved into turmoil during the 1630s, 15,000 more immigrants would arrive in New England and approximately 60,000 others would settle in colonies throughout North America and the West Indies.
The Great Migration ended in the 1640s with the outbreak of the English Civil War as Puritans decided to remain in England to fight the royalist forces. Led by Oliver Cromwell, they were victorious and Charles surrendered to a Scottish army which eventually handed him over to the English parliament. Of course, Charles wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and he refused his captors demands to create a constitutional monarchy. Choosing instead to try and continue the fight, Charles escaped in 1647, was recaptured and imprisoned on the Isle of Wight, eventually being tried and executed for high treason in January 1649.
Back in New England, John Winthrop was the governor of the MBC. Winthrop was a firm believer in what is referred to as "Covenant Theology." He believed the Puritans had a covenant with God to lead a new religious experiment in the New World. It was Winthrop who wrote the famous phrase "we shall build a city upon a hill" in A Model of Christian Charity as he was sailing to Massachusetts Bay. This sermon is often credited as the precursor to the idea of American exceptionalism. And while I think it is true, especially since modern neo-cons love to quote it as justification for American imperial activities on the world stage, the fact is that, at its time of delivery, it was not given the attention you might think. Further, he was not introducing new concepts nor was he, I would argue, suggesting they should build an imperial edifice. Instead Winthrop was simply repeating widely held Puritan beliefs. This was not a clarion call to build an American empire.
What we can say about John Winthrop is that his leadership helped the colony to grow and become a success. Indeed, the MBC became the largest and most influential colony in New England. Its economy was based on fishing, shipbuilding, the fur trade, lumbering, some dairy farming and even some small farming of wheat and corn. Certainly location also played a role in this success, but Winthrop's leadership also played a role, and going forward the MBC and New England would play an important role in American history, for better or worse.
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To be honest, the men bring with them the most important ingredient: the willingness to participate. They are looking for any reason to let go and succumb to me, so their co-operation is the most important element. When I sense that somebody is becoming clay in my hands, it gives me more confidence which gives me the energy and excitement to move forward. It encourages me to trust in my intuition and creativity.
If I could give instructions to costumers on how to behave during the session I would convince them to really let go and enjoy, but mostly to express themselves with the sounds they make and body language. Sometimes men are not used to doing that and they soldier up, frozen in whatever position I tie them in, not flinching no matter what I do. This completely destroys the momentum of the session, no matter how much swing I gathered up before we start. Are they too ashamed to express themselves? Maybe its just another one of those masks of manliness.


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Beginner focusing and metering
So I have been messing around with my E-PL3 (have kit 14-42, pan 20/1.7, and pan 75-200? -something like that, lenses) since I bought it about 9 months ago trying to learn photography after moving up from a P&S and have been loving it so far (even though has been more difficult than I thought ).
How do you all handle focusing best on the Pen cameras? (I see folks with dSLRs talking about selecting focus points which I have not seen on my camera).
Do you routinely use AFL and AEL?
And what are you really selecting when you select one of the "squares" from the grid that appears across the LED screen when you hit the L button on the dial? (is that just for spot metering?)
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I'm not very good at this but I'll give you advice anyhow.
I have an E-PL2, but I imagine it's mostly the same.
I have a button "programmed" to be an auto exposure lock. I don't use it very often, but it's helpful.
For focus lock, I use the half-press and recompose technique mostly (half-pressing "locking" the focus). I mostly keep the focus box centered though I hear that can be bad sometimes.
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as the 'green squares' that you are looking at on your LCD when taking a photo.
On your camera, it is the area which the camera has decided it will concentrate on when focusing.
You have the ability to move that square anywhere that you like on the screen. You can also vary the size of the square so that you can zero in on a particularly small subject-if you so choose.
Please read the first post on this forum as it deals specifically with your question. It will explain how to adjust the 'focus box" size on your camera.
Another suggestion: I know it's boring as heck, but do read your manual that came with the camera. it's long, confusing and very dry. But, if you're really interested in improving your skill set, that would be the first step in doing so.
So you want to be a better photographer? Open your eyes and take a look at what is all around you.
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Personally I'm with Sammy. I find it a lot easier (and faster) to have the focus set to center (and the smallest area possible so the camera will focus on the object I want and not the surrounding area), point to the subject I want to focus on, half press the shutter, recompose and shoot. I do use the AEL all the time because I set the metering to spot. Then I move the camera around the framed area looking for the best exposure. Once I'm happy with it, I lock it and then I deal with the focus. Of course this technique is not very efficient if you wish to capture subjects in motion unless the overall exposure once locked is good even if the subject moves.
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On my "vintage" e-pl1 more often than not I have everything set to manual, exposure sampling at spot. But when I automate I have exposure set to centre weighted, and then follow about the same method as Tullio above. Oh, mode set to Program. If I'm going to concern myself with aperture or shutter, then I return to manual. Old habits I guess. Or you will find me with an old Nikkor mounted at f8 give or take half a stop and manual adjusting shutter speed and focus. Love the Nikkors, but always seem to wish I had brought my oly zooms.
But the best advice is to follow Zig's suggestion and RTM. Badly laid out as it is, it does provide a wealth of information that allows you to develop your methods for handling the camera to get the results that will please you and that's what it is all about.
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I use AFL for those times the subject isn't going to move...I'd switch to MF and use AFL only when distance or zoom is changed.
I don't bother with AEL because in those situations I use M mode.
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Thanks! Very helpful info. I have dug through the manual a couple times, but it must not have "clicked" for me
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Best to download the full manual here.
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2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 1 Western Conference
We have already covered the Eastern Conference matches in Round 1 which can be found here and now it is time to move on to the Western Conference matches.
Colorado Avalanche Vs Minnesota Wild
Colorado come into this series on the back of 2 defeats in their final couple of regular season matches although both were on the road and their last four matches were all on the road and they picked up wins at Vancouver and Edmonton, 5 of their final 10 matches went in to overtime and a record of 7-3 in their final 10 matches looks better than just 2 defeats.
Minnesota could have come in to this series on the back of 5 straight victories but a 7-3 defeat at home to Nashville in their final game brought to an end a 4 match winning streak but they do come here with a 6-4 record in their last 10 matches.
Colorado have not had the greatest of times in post-season in the past, this is the first time they have made the play-offs since 2010 but looking at the last 10 matches in post-season their record is just 2-8 whilst Minnesota's record is not much better with a record of 3-7 and they have won just 1 of their last 8 matches.
The two sides met in 2003 when the Wild came out on top in a 7 game series and they met again in 2008 when the Avalanche won the series 4-2.
Colorado have won 4 of the last 5 games when coming up against Minnesota and also won both games this year, their first appearance in post-season in 4 years and the Avalanche will be looking to get past the first round but it should be a close series, I can see this series going in favour of the home side in most games until game 6 where I can see the Avalanche going to Minnesota to seal the series 4-2.
Bet: Colorado Avalanche to win the series 4-2 (5.50 Bet365)
St Louis Blues Vs Chicago Blackhawks
St Louis come into the series in shocking form, they lost all of their final 6 matches in regular season which included a 4-2 defeat to the Blackhawks and they have been conceding too many goals and failed to score in their last 2 games of the season too.
The Blackhawks also come here on the losing streak although of only 2 games which included an end of regular season goalfest with a 7-5 defeat to Nashville and their form on the road has not been good, just 2 wins in their last 10 away from home ice.
St Louis have won just 2 of their last 10 matches in post-season and in their last 30 have a record of just 9-21 whilst Chicago have a much better record with 11 wins in their last 14 post-season matches. The two sides have met in 1990, 1992, 1993 and 2002 play-offs and the teams a tied with 2 series victories apiece.
Bet365 cannot split the pair, both are available at 1.90 and St Louis form is a big concern and their post-season form is a concern too whilst the reigning Stanley Cup holders the Chicago Blackhawks usually produce the goods at this time of the season and I just think this could prove straight forward for them so I am siding with Chicago here.
Bet: Chicago Blackhawks to win the series (2.00 Coral)
Anaheim Ducks Vs Dallas Stars
Anaheim are one of the form teams in this years play-offs, they come into this series on the back of 4 straight wins having won the last two on penalties, they have also won 7 of their last 9 games and they have only lost 1 of their last 6 on home ice, in their last 10 post-season games they have a record of 4-6.
Dallas ended the season with a defeat in Phoenix went left them with 4 defeats in their last 7 games and having to go to Anaheim for the first 2 games of this series would be a concern as they have just 3 wins from their last 10 on the road and like Anaheim in their last 10 post-season games they have a record of 4-6.
The two sides met in both 2003 & 2008 in post-season with 1 series win a piece and looking at the last 10 games between the two side the record is 6-4 in favour of Dallas who have also won the last 2.
The Ducks are strong favourites for this series at as short as 1.44 whilst the Stars are available at a high of 2.75 and as the form team you would have to favour the Ducks but not at that price, the other option is to side with them in the handicap (-1.5) betting which is available at 2.10 although correct score of 4-2 looks tempting too at 7.50.
Bets: Anaheim Ducks (-1.5) to win the series (2.10 Ladbrokes)
and Anaheim Ducks to win the series 4-2 (7.50 SkyBet)
San Jose Sharks Vs Los Angeles Kings
The final series in the Western Conference sees the Sharks take on the Kings, San Jose finished off the season with what I would call 'Patchy' form, their last 8 matches of the regular season finished with LLWWLLWW but their home form was not too bad with 3 wins from their final 4 games. In previous post-season matches from their last 10 they have a record of 6-4.
Los Angeles really did struggle in the final few weeks of regular season having picked up just 1 victory from their final 5 games which is not great form to be taking in the play-offs especially considering their recent form in post-season, their last 10 matches has produced a record of just 3-7.
These two sides met in post-season in 2011 where the Sharks were 4-2 winners of the series and they met again in 2013 when this time the Kings came out on top with a 4-3 series win. The last 10 matches between the two sides over the past year have been split down the middle with 5 wins apeice although the Sharks have won on their last 8 visits to LA and also 10 of the last 11 visits.
The Sharks home form has been good and add to that their outstanding record when going to LA and they should come through this series with no problems also considering the form of the Kings its hard seeing them picking up too much here so I am going to stick my neck on the line and go for a series whitewash for the Sharks.
Bet: San Jose Sharks to win the series 4-0 (12.00 SkyBet)