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A Palestinian campaign group has called on people to boycott Barclays over its investments in Elbit Systems, a major Israeli military company and drone manufacturer.
The Palestinian Students' Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI), a group of Palestinian students in Gaza, said in a statement:
"As Palestinians we suffer immeasurably from drone attacks.In 2012 and 2013, drones have killed more of us in Gaza than any other aircraft. "
Despite Elbit drones being used to commit war crimes in Gaza, Barclays Bank is currently listed as the owner of 50,217 shares in Elbit worth more than $3m.
Barclays has tried to absolve itself of any responsibility by saying its shares in Elbit are held on behalf of clients and to "hedge exposure". Yet Barclays is profiting from holding shares in Elbit on behalf of its clients and the practise of "hedging" is a form of financial investment.
"Since Barclays refuse to end this unethical practice investing and dealing in shares in Elbit despite the fact that their drones kill us, our children, our parents, our brothers, sisters and friends, we ask for students to close their student Barclays account and tell Barclays why."
According to Corporate Watch's Ayah Bashir, a Gaza-based Boycotts Divestment and Sanctions activist: "during the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza, we knew of the ground invasion even before the formal announcement. We heard the sounds of the drones getting louder in a crazy way, as if they were on steroids. They were in such incredibly large numbers that we used to joke saying that Israel is ordering one drone for each person in Gaza."
During the South African apartheid era, Barclays owned a South African subsidiary bank that made loans to the apartheid government and purchased millions in South African defence bonds. In solidarity with those being oppressed, British students closed their Barclays student accounts and encouraged others to do so. This caused Barclays share of the student market to drop from 27% to 15%. Encouraged by the students' action, local councils, teachers associations and charities followed suit until Barclays permanently closed its South African subsidiary, having lost millions of pounds in closed bank accounts.
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Tohoku Youth Project 2018 - Call for Hosts, Volunteers and Sponsors
Tohoku Youth Project 2018
Call for hosts, sponsors and volunteers
Host a high school student from Rikuzentakata at your company and/or home for a week from March 4-11, 2018.
Since 2012, the CCCJ in collaboration with NPO Ganbatte 365 have organized an internship program for highschool students from Tohoku. Preparations for the 2018 Tohoku Youth Project are underway, and the CCCJ is looking for our membership to get involved.
There are four ways to get involved:
- Host a student at your company
- Host a student at your home
- Volunteer and help run the project
- Help sponsor the project
For more information download the project overview
Tohoku Youth Project 2018 registration forms: [for companies] [for homestay hosts]
The 2018 project
This year, we will bring 15 students from Takata SHS - in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture - to Tokyo to participate in internship and homestay program.
|Deadline for applications from companies and host families
|Meet students at Tokyo Station around 14:00
|Free day for students with their host families
|See students off at Tokyo Station in the morning
About the program
Rikuzentakata, is a small city located on the Sanriku Coastline between Kesenuma and Ofunato in Iwate Prefecture, that was devistated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and its ensuing Tsunami. Despite the fact that the town is essentially gone, as described by it's Mayor, the people of Rikuzentakata are hopeful, and are committed to recovery.
A Message from Futoshi Toba, Mayor of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture
In summer 2012, the CCCJ's CSR committee went to Rikuzentakata to discuss inviting high school students to Tokyo for internships. The idea was met with great enthusiasm and the program resulted in internships and homestays for 11 to 14 students every March. In 2018, the CCCJ aims to invite 15 students for internships.
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"... Coach Chambers is trying to change the perception of Penn State basketball, so I'm going to take a stab at increasing the knowledge of Penn State basketball fans.
This will be BSD's introduction into tempo-free statistics for the game of basketball.
Hopefully some of you will have seen some of this lingo before around the interwebs and already understand it. ..."
"... Who are the masterminds? The pioneer of modern tempo-free analysis is Dean Oliver. He wrote Basketball On Paper in 2002 and proceeded to become the first person to land a full-time statistical analyst position in the NBA. ..."
"... What are Tempo-Free Stats? To be quite simple, they are what they say they are, free of tempo. The tempo of the game of basketball can obviously influence any of the traditional statistics like points, rebounds, and assists.
If there are more possessions in a game, there will be more shots (and misses), leading to more points, rebounds and assists, and so on. Quantifying the pace of a game allows us to proportion traditional statistics, so that they're fairly assessed across the board. ..."
"... Efficiency: This statistic is a true measure of a team's offensive and defensive ability. It is measured in two ways, although I just primarily use one. The method I like to reference is Points-Per-Possession, which as it says, takes points divided by a game's possessions.
A team's offensive/defensive 'rating' or 'efficiency' is the other measure which takes points scored per 100 possessions. Usually breaking even is the average mark for these two statistics. Anything under 1.00 or 100 is good defense/bad offense, and vice-versa. ..."
"... This is a very raw introduction to TFS (also known as APBRmetrics), but these are the most commonly cited statistics, while offering a good primer to grasp the basic concept.
You might come across different numbers for these statistics on other websites, but easily the go-to source for TFS is KenPom's site.
His numbers for some of these stats are going to be different than if you calculate them yourself with the equations I listed. ..."
"... TFS can also be applied individually to players. That would take another 1,000 words to explain, so you can just refer to KenPom as he explains all the wonderful stats he compiles on each team's page.
If you're really interested, just start browsing through his archives to see some of the crazy stuff he comes up with, like an automated scheduler that would raise interest in hoops at the beginning of the year or the minute-by-minute win probability graphs he tracks for every D-1 game. ..."
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What is the Statistics Tracking Rule according to the eBA Basketball Statistics System Book ? ...
Not at all, because the possession is not ended.
See the eBA Formulas, the Possession Discussion and look for definitions at the Global Basketball Encyclopedia and read the following related topics: "Basketball Possessions" and "Possession Scoring System".
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In this situation we have a Foul Made, a Foul Received, and 2 Free Throws Attempts which ends the Possession.
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Learning and teaching basketball skills and tactics can be challenging. Executing them in competition can be troubling. Mastering them can be a career-long quest.
Is it possible that a single book can provide all the instruction you need to conquer these basketball roadblocks?
First you must know exactly how the skill or tactic is properly
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"... The NBA lockout entered uncharted territory today when the Players Association rejected the league's Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) proposal. Players Association Executive Director Billy Hunter and Players Association President Derek Fisher did not submit the league's offer to a membership vote but instead, after consulting with various lawyers and agents, decided unilaterally to end the collective bargaining process and declared their intention to disclaim interest; decertification, the option the media focused on, is a lengthier process than disclaimer, which is effective immediately. ..."
"... What this means for the fans is simple: it is very unlikely that there will be a 2011-2012 NBA season. This should not shock anyone who has followed this situation; the NBA lockout has proceeded much like I predicted it would months ago when I said that it would last "until the owners and players agree to fundamentally restructure the league's failing business model." ..."
"... It is interesting that many mainstream media commentators have completely taken the players' side. I understand the argument that the players create a lot of value with their unique talents and thus deserve to be highly compensated and I also understand that some people are skeptical of the NBA's accounting (or of accounting methods in general) but it is mystifying that some people apparently believe that the NBA owners should operate under a business model which results in them losing money or that the owners should be obligated to pay out well over 50% of their revenues when they are not making a profit. ..."
"... The players and their media sycophants keep saying that the players cannot be expected to "give back" any more money to help the owners. Not only does this assertion indicate a failure to understand the collective bargaining process--the players are not "giving back" anything but rather negotiating a new CBA in the wake of the expiration of the previous CBA--but it fails to acknowledge the reality of the economic situation. ..."
"... If the players are not willing to sacrifice their "guaranteed profitability" then they are in no position to criticize the owners--each of whom has invested substantial capital--for wanting to correct a business model that resulted in two thirds of the teams not being profitable. Another unreasonable expectation that the players have is that in addition to their "guaranteed profitability" they also want to have tremendous freedom to go to any other team. ..."
"... I fully realize that the NBA will never adopt the tiered system mentioned above but the point is that what the players are asking for is completely out of touch with reality. They don't seem to understand that millions of Americans are struggling to just get by and that it is unseemly to force the NBA to cancel the season because NBA players can't feed their children on $8 million per year. ..."
"... Taking the players' side in this dispute means believing the following things:
1) The NBA has a healthy business model even though the San Antonio Spurs--arguably the best managed team in the league, if not all of professional sports--are losing money (according to Forbes the Spurs lost $4.7 million in 2009-10, the last season for which complete data is available).
2) An agreement that would result in an average annual salary of $8 million per year is tantamount to enslaving the NBA's players. ..."
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REJECTED by Don Hertzfeldt is a 2001 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short.
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eBA Encyclopedia Statistics Terminology: Statistical Classification
In machine learning, statistical classification is the problem of identifying the sub-population to which new observations belong, where the identity of the sub-population is unknown, on the basis of a training set of data containing observations whose sub-population is known.
Therefore these classifications will show a variable behaviour which can be studied by statistics.
Thus the requirement is that new individual items are placed into groups based on quantitative information on one or more measurements, traits or characteristics, etc. and based on the training set in which previously decided groupings are already established.
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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
About Statistics & Statisticians... and Coaches that "are NOT stats guys"
"... It is correct that we have coaches that "are not stats guys", that only trust what they see, and they think they don't need a bunch of numbers to get in the way.
Others, use stats in various ways and are many which can speak about a tendex type formula.
Most of us, being in the basketball statistics analysis theme, and specially the analysis area, begin to understand that Basketball is a difficult game to quantify, in some degree because of the way the game changes through time, and partially because of the powerful impact of teamwork, with the constant moving interaction of 12 players and the ball. ..."
"... We are the same people which understand that at some level, we use the available information to better understand the game: no one stat can explain everything, so the combination of the numbers and the plays appreciation, eBA statistics analysis basis, is by this time the correct way......"
"... Now, we know that Basketball has a lot of difficult areas of quantitative information when we translate a game into statistics. For example, categories as "allowed points - from 2, 3 and PF bonus"; "offensive rebounds allowed"; "turnovers - that aren't steals" and "good and bad personal fouls" - see our complete list of statistical analysis categories here, which are included in the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System, are not accounted in the traditional statistical methods, specially those made at live game time.
Gathering and analyzing those categories of data will give us a sort of information, for example, about how many unguarded shots - no fast breaks plays - were taken by the opponents, and how many were allowed to us. This kind of info is the correct way in evaluating defense. ..."
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Tyrannosaurus skeleton casts mounted in a mating position, Jurassic Museum of Asturias.
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Charles Darwin was born 200 years ago today. I guess I should be taking today off of work.
Category: science
Although I don't have much real by way of reliable comparisons, I think I attended a pretty decent science program in high school. Our teacher was actually involved in the scientific community (instead of being a teacher who has science thrust upon him) and made an effort to introduce real scientific principles into the classroom. (He also shares a name with a very famous writer so he's completely un-Googleable.) From what I've read, most other students are not so lucky.
Eventually, he taught us about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Of course, he taught that it was the fact that you can't know both the position and the momentum (speed) of a particle at any given time. He explained this in terms of trying to measure electrons; to do so, you needed to bounce photons off of them, and this changed both their position and momentum. This fundamental fact meant that particles didn't really have a precise position in the classical sense, and so we had to think of particles as being somewhat random/probabilistic at quantum levels.
To me, this particular argument made sense, but it didn't seem to explain why this was an all-encompassing principle of physics. Was there really no other way to measure electrons? What about other particles? Isn't this just a problem with our technology & process? Why does it have to be a fundamental property of particles? Surely they have both a definite position & momentum, even if we can't measure it.
Unfortunately, I didn't ask these questions at the time. Looking back on it, Mr. Adams probably wouldn't have been able to provide satisfactory answers anyway. None of the other students raised similar questions, and I have to assume that most of them didn't consider them in the first place. Over the years, I've seen similar explanations from a wide variety of sources.
Then, on one of my random walks down Wikipedia, I happened to come across an description for the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle that not explained its fundamentality but also explained why the common answer I'd been told was completely incorrect.
In quantum mechanics, the particle is described by a wave. The position is where the wave is concentrated and the momentum, a measure of the velocity, is the wavelength…. The only kind of wave with a definite position is concentrated at one point, and such a wave has an indefinite wavelength. Conversely, the only kind of wave with a definite wavelength is an infinite regular periodic oscillation over all space, which has no definite position. So in quantum mechanics, there are no states which describe a particle with both a definite position and a definite momentum. The narrower the probability distribution is for the position, the wider it is in momentum.
To understand the HUP, you first need to ditch the idea that particles are discrete balls of stuff, and instead think of a wave in motion. Think back to the Slinky wave experiments you may have done in school (if you haven't, this YouTube clip is a good substitute). What's important is the change in distance between the coils (which make up the abstract entity known as the "wave"), not the coils themselves. You can't point to the wave as being "at" any particular position in the slinky; you have to measure it over a given distance. You can start with the entire length of slinky, and reduce that down to smaller and smaller (ie: more "precise") chunks, but there's no discrete part where you can say "here is where the wave is". The wave is defined by its wavelength, which in turn is directly related to its momentum (speed). But you can only measure momentum by measuring over a distance. Thus, as you gain a more precise measure of momentum, your measure of position necessarily has to be less precise.
This is not the same thing as saying "measuring one value will necessarily change the other." This is better described as "the description of either quantity on its own is meaningless; are really two opposing aspects of the same property". In fact, the common explanation of the HUP is really an explanation of a completely separate issue: the Observer Effect. Both Wikipedia articles on the HUP and the observer effect talk about how the two are often conflated in the minds of the layperson (including those who instruct others). Furthermore, the Observer Effect article explains how it's not a fact specific to weird quantum particles (which is another explanation I see on a regular basis) but in fact is a class of issues that applies to many separate circumstances.
The misexplanation surrounding the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the Observer Effect is one of many examples of how laypeople and popular culture can get the wrong idea about natural / scientific issue. Another common one is lift: the force that keeps airplanes in the air. More than likely you've seen an explanation of how lift works that involves the air over a wing flowing faster than the air under it. This is wrong. There's lots of other examples too.
Most people won't ever need to know the details of how these principles work. But that then raises the question: why are we spending time teaching them in the first place? If it's important to have a base of not-immediately-useful knowledge, then why do we accept incorrect knowledge to fill that void?
Category: science
These are in reference to the Discovery Institute's intelligent design promotional campaign. I don't know if they have a T-shirt too.
(Found at Fark)
Category: humor, religion, science
Magicians are entertainers who manipulate the human mind; some take that art too far.
When I went to my local bookstore to buy a copy of Predictably Irrational, I walked all the way to the back of the store to where the business books were kept. On the way in and out of the store, I passed by prominent display that housed the latest book from famous psychic Sylvia Browne. I think that is a nice theme for my next post on magicians and irrationality.
In response to my last post on irrationality Marco wrote:
The placebo effect is a pretty well understood phenomena and we can no more consider it irrational than we can consider a group of people thrilled by a magician "irrational."
Before I can respond to this, I have to ask what "thrills" people about magicians. I don't have a solid answer for that, but I expect that it comes from seeing people exhibit powers that appear to be unusual: i.e., they do not occurr in our everyday lives. Of course, science and technology can give us unusual powers too; Arthur C. Clarke even linked the latter directly to magic. One of my favorite classroom-level demonstrations is hammering a nail into a piece of wood with a banana that's been dipped in liquid nitrogen. These sorts of scientific demonstrations share some of entertainment value of magical acts. However, I don't think they have quite the same level of appeal; to my knowledge there's no big-budget Vegas shows or prime-time TV programs dedicated to entertainment through science, as there are with magic.
Thus, I think that the impossibility of the acts being presented is part of the allure. We intellectually know that something cannot happen, yet we see it appear to happen with our own eyes. We want to believe that the impossible is possible, and so the demonstration thrills us… and so we believe just a tiny bit. That's nearly the definition of irrationality. But, in the end, the impossible cannot happen, and magicians use a bevy of tricks and illusions to make us believe the unbelieveable. Magians are masters of the natural, not of the supernatural.
Some magicians like to claim that they do, in fact, have supernatural powers. When they do, they cross the line from entertainers to con artists. I consider people like Sylvia Browne, Uri Geller, and John Edward to be more hurtful than Harry Houdini, David Copperfield and David Blaine because they become meta-deceptive: they are deciptful about their deception. Without self-imposed limits on their trickery, they prey upon vulnerable people like parasites.
For what it's worth, I don't really like most magic shows myself. I know that the claimed powers are nothing more than (relatively) mundane tricks, and I tend to feel frustrated when I can't figure out what the trick actually is. I do enjoy seeing the tricks explained; Penn & Teller are the poster boys for this sort of entertainment. (Not surprisingly, Penn & Teller are also noted skeptics, debunkers, and atheists.)
Category: psychology, science
From In a Parachute-Effectiveness Trial, Who Gets the Placebo?.
It might be argued that the pressure exerted on individuals to use parachutes is yet another example of a natural, life-enhancing experience being turned into a situation of fear and dependency. The widespread use of the parachute may just be another example of doctors' obsession with disease prevention and their misplaced belief in unproved technology to provide effective protection against occasional adverse events.
We, as a nation, have to ask ourselves "What the hell is going on?
Apparently this woman's water has been contaminated with electromagnetic radiation.
Via Fark.
While in Costa Rica, I had a brief discussion (with a poker website employee) about the likelihood that a computer will eventually be able to beat any human player (at which point it's pretty much useless to play poker on websites; you can be assured that everyone there will be an unbeatable computer player). That came to mind when I read this:
100 trillion brain cells and most of us can't reliably multiply a pair of two digit numbers. If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe. What use is 100 trillion brain cells that can't reliably compute a 15% tip after a heavy lunch? Many computers would like to know.
From Poker Program Battles Humans In Vegas on SlashDot.
Category: quote, science, technology
Twelve years ago, Homer Simpson said:
I got kicked out [of the audio-visual club] 'cause of my views of Vietnam. Also, I was stealing projectors.
Ben Stein and the intelligent design movement are also trying to "steal some projectors" with their new movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. Besides trying to promote the validity of intelligent design / creationism over evolution and tie Darwinism to the Holocaust, it also claims that the mainstream scientific community has persecuted those who do not believe in evolution — including firing various academics for publicly making anti-evolution statements.
Depending on your exact definition of "persecute", part of that last statement may well be true. The major problem is that the cases that the movie cites as examples are basically exaggerated or otherwise misrepresented.
It's important to see Expelled for what it is: a propaganda piece intended to win converts in order to gain power (and probably not a little bit of money). The evidence for this lies not only in analysis of the movie's content but in analysis of the marketing campaign for the movie:
"Expelled" is spending millions to succeed, huge for a documentary. It's hired four PR firms. It's running a sweepstakes for church groups, offering a cash prize to the one that sells the most tickets. It's paying up to 10 Grand for schools to send their students. The movie even staged a songwriting competition.
SONG: If you challenge evolution, you get expelled!
Oh, and Ben Stein traveled across the country on a bright red bus for "Expelled, the Road Show." This is mostly the work of Motive Marketing's Paul Lauer. He's the guy who made "Passion" [ed: "of the Christ", the Mel Gibson movie about Jesus] into a phenomenon by harnessing the power of this country's 160 million Christians.
PAUL LAUER: How do you get this big amoeba to flex its muscle? When it flexes, it's enormous. The challenge has always been, How do you get those people to activate.
Expelled's message is that the scientific community is using indoctrination, obfuscation, and coercion to push it's agenda. The irony (hypocrisy?) is that, in reality, those are the very tactics being employed by Expelled and the rest of the intelligent design movement. Skepticism and rebuttal are the ways to counteract this, and those are the goals of the scientific community — not its opponents.
Category: science
Another good Freakonomics article states what you probably already knew: weather forecasters are pretty much full of crap, especially when making predictions past "tomorrow".
For all days beyond the next day out, viewers would be better off flipping a coin to predict rainfall than trusting the stations on days where rain was possible.
This was a U.S. study, both of TV stations (i.e.: "We use Doppler Radar even though we have no idea what that means.") and the NOAA, the official government weather service. I would very much like to see the same study done in Canada; Environment Canada gets a lot of respect out here, and it's important to see whether it's actually deserved.
In related news: Calgary has been hit with yet another April snowstorm.
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Jenelle Evans Trying To Contact Dad Robert Evans: Suffers From 'Abandonment Issues'
Jenelle Evans is addressing a long-standing issue that's hindered her life since childhood. HollywoodLife.com has EXCLUSIVELY learned that she's trying to track down her estranged father to 'tackle' her 'abandonment issues' from his absence.
UPDATE: A rep for Jenelle EXCLUSIVELY tells HollywoodLife.com that the below report is false. "She hasn't attempted to reach out to him, and doesn't plan on it. He hasn't even tried reaching out to her, so she isn't interested right now."
Jenelle Evans, 25, has been through a lot in 2017. Now, the Teen Mom star is looking to conquer her longtime abandonment issues, head-on. "Jenelle has been trying to reach out to her dad, Robert [Evans]," a source EXCLUSIVELY tells HollywoodLife.com. "She hasn't seen Robert from the time he just suddenly upped and left when she was a little girl, and she still suffers from some serious abandonment issues. Jenelle would really love to just talk to him on the phone — but so far she hasn't been able to make contact," our source says. So sad.
After all these years, someone of you may be wondering, why reach out now? — Well, "Jenelle is in a really good place right now; she's clean and sober, and she's finally seeing Jace again. So, she really wants to tackle her remaining, outstanding issues, and a large part of those stem from her father."
If Jenelle can track down her estranged father, she just wants to know one thing – Why did he just pick up and leave? "She understands that her mom [Barbara Evans] and Robert weren't getting along at the time [when he left], but Jenelle can't fathom why he would totally cut her out of his life too." Awe.
Its makes sense that Jenelle wants to take hold of her personal issues, especially at this time. Although she and her mother are still at odds over the custody of her son, Jace, 8, they finally reached a settlement at the end of May. Jenelle and Barbara agreed to allow Jenelle visitation rights to see Jace [who is Jenelle's biological son].
The Teen Mom star also opened up about her past heroine addiction. In her new memoir, Read Between the Lines: From the Diary of a Teenage Mom, Jenelle admits that she was "shooting up four or five times a day," [in an excerpt obtained by E! News]. As a result of her past drug addiction, Jenelle admitted that it was the catalyst to her losing her family.
However, things are different now. Like we told you, Jenelle's sober [since 2015], and she's been enjoying time with her children — Jace, Kaiser, 2, and Ensley, 4 months. Now, it's time for her to seek answers about her estranged father, and we hope that she gets them! Jenelle's memoir will be released July 25.
HollywoodLifers, will you purchase Jenelle's memoir?


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Georgia doubled the number of black-owned businesses with 93,000 new firms by 2007, according to the preliminary estimates in the Survey of Business Owners, a gain of 103.3 percent. The new total was 183,876 in 2007, up from 90,461 in 2002.
Receipts grew 56 percent from $5.7 billion in 2002 to $8.8 billion.
Year of Jubilee: State of Black Business, tenth editionchronicles the growth of the black consumer market in Georgia and the progress of black entrepreneurs since the political impact of the late Mayor Maynard Jackson. For details on National Black Business Month and Black Food Month, get Say Grace and Wipe Yo' Hands: the BlackRestaurant.NET Guide to America's Black Restaurants.Our latest study, Silicon Ceiling 13, reports:
Georgia had 832 black science graduate students and 177 black graduate engineering students.
The number of black college and graduate students in Georgia in 2006 was 198,425.
Some of the black-owned and managed hotels in Georgia, according to NABHOOD, are:
Buckhead Hotel 3405 Lenox Rd. NE Atlanta, Georgia 30326
Crowne Plaza Hotel Atlanta Marietta 1775 Parkway Place Marietta, Georgia 30067
Fairfield Inn Macon West 110 Plantation Inn Drive Macon, Georgia
Hampton Inn Brunswick 230 Warren Mason Blvd. Brunswick, Georgia, 31520
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Basic X – Unity
10 November 2007
"Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand."[1] Therefore, if the Kingdom of God is divided against itself, if Jerusalem is divided against itself, if the household of God is divided against itself, then it cannot and will not stand. The reason the household of God will always stand is because the Lord our God is One. Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Three of Them have irrevocably made Themselves One, and no one, not angels, nor demons, no man, can divide Them.
No report, no proposal, no prayer, no idea, nothing, can separate Them from One Another, not even death on a Roman cross. That is why the household of God can never fall. Their angels can divide and fight against each other as they did, but Their household did not fall. Their nation Israel can divide, but Their household did not fall. Their church can divide, but Their household did not fall.
And if They have citizens who care for nothing else except this command: "You must follow Me,"[2] then They have a kingdom that can never be divided. And it does not matter who they are following per say, be it the Father, Son or Holy Spirit, for the Father said, "Listen to Him,"[3] His Son, and the Son said, "Listen to the Holy Spirit,"[4] and the Holy Spirit will only tell us what He hears and makes known to us what belongs to the Son and the Father, without speaking on His own.
Jesus said, "Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to Me."[5] And anyone who listens to Jesus is listening to the Father, for He said, "This is My Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased. Listen to Him!"[6] And anyone who is listening to the Father and Son, is listening to the same Persons that the Holy Spirit is listening to, for Jesus said, "He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come."[7]
Therefore, unity within the Kingdom of God stems from the Godhead, and flows from the Godhead; it does not flow to the Godhead from the kingdom. As such, the greatest single act of unity and essential ingredient for unity in the Kingdom of God is to listen to God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And because unity is defined within the Kingdom of God by listening – Father listening to Jesus, Jesus listening to the Father, and the Holy Spirit listening to both of Them – before a single action is put into motion, it ensures that the Kingdoms of Darkness and of Men can never achieve full unity and will inevitably fall, their kingdoms, cities and households.
Because unity is defined by listening rather than the strength of that unity, the reality of that unity is defined by what you have heard from the one you have listened to. From the Godhead comes nothing but truth, for Jesus said, "I am the Truth,"[8] and since nothing Jesus says is a lie, then nothing the Father says is a lie and nothing the Holy Spirit says is a lie, therefore, whoever listens to Them has listened to a true reality. And since Jesus only speaks the truth the Father has given Him, then what He said about Satan condemns his kingdom to ruin, because Jesus said this about the devil: "He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."[9]
Thus, anyone who listens to Satan listens to lies, and though there is a unity based on listening, the unity is not real because what was heard is not real. So then, no matter how much demons obey Satan and march as one, as long as they are listening to Satan, their unity is not real, their strength is not real, and their kingdom can do nothing except be ruined by division.
If unity was defined by motive, love, loyalty, ambition or common purpose, then Satan's kingdom has a chance to win. But because unity is defined by the act of listening, which means the language you are listening to gives substance and reality to that unity, then anyone who listens to the language of the liar has no unity, only they who listen to the language of Truth have real unity. Truth states what was, what is, and what is to come plainly for all to see so that it is proved true. It does not propose or promise; it just is, was and will be. It carries no fantasy, only hope. Lies do not give account to what was, what is, and what is yet to come, but rather fantasises about what was, what is and what is to come. That is the difference between the languages of Truth and Lies. One is native to God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and the other is native to Satan.
Because it is the act of listening and the language that gives unity its reality, God had to confuse the language of the people on the plains of Shinar, as it is written: "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand each other."[10]
Have you noticed that God confused their language, rather than their minds or hearts? Yet, when we are confused, it is our minds and hearts that are confused. God did not confuse their hearts and minds because even if they were not of the one mind or heart, that is, one plan and one desire, yet still spoke the same language, it is still possible for them to achieve what they plan and desire. You see, we are not told what their plan or desire was, but what they said to each other: "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the Heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole Earth."[11]
As long as they were speaking the same thing to each other, as long as they were talking about the same thing in a common language they understood, then they had a unity that is real and with such unity nothing is impossible for them. Jesus said, "All things are possible with God,"[12] not only because They have miraculous power to do anything, but because They are One, speaking the same language called Truth to Each Other, thus nothing They plan to do is impossible for Them.
Thus, the Kingdom of Darkness of which its king is the father of all lies, cannot stand because its unity is a fantasy without substance, for it is a unity based on listening to lies, and lies have no reality in what was, what is, and what is yet to come. For the first recorded lie came from Satan when he said, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden?"[13] For God did not say that, but He said, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from…"[14] It is when a lie is disguised as a question that you can be misled in your answer, as Eve was, when she added, "and you must not touch it…"[15]
If he had said to Eve, "Did God really say, 'You are free to eat from any tree in the garden'?" then he would have quoted the truth first, and his subsequent words and actions could have borne a different fruit for himself, for Eve would not be able to say, "The serpent deceived me and I ate."[16] At best, she could have said, "The serpent incited me and I ate…" You see, initiating someone is not lying to them, for one is challenging or even tempting, but there is no lie in it.
The language of the Kingdom of Man is different. It is a mixture of truths and lies, but it is also a language that contains hope and faith. You see, what the people of Babel said was, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the Heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves…" Their language was based on the truth of what was and what is, and the hope of what will be. Based on what they had done, they planned to do more. Their future was based on this truth— "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly."[17] Having succeeded in their brick making, then they planned to build the tower. If men would speak their language, the language of Truth with hope and faith, then whatever they purpose to do will not be impossible for them, if only they understand each other. But if men deny the truth, then no amount of hope and faith can help them to achieve what they are planning.
Thus, no man who denies the truth can enter the Kingdom of Heaven, because the one truth about men is this: We are all sinners, all having descended from Adam, the first man to sin. Thus, the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven is: "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near,"[18] and all who repent have acknowledged the truth that they are sinners. That is why no one who does not acknowledge that they are sinners can ever repent, and no one who does not repent can have the hope of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Thus, the call to repentance in both the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven, "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near," and the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, "Repent and believe the Good News… the Kingdom of God is near,"[19] is a call to acknowledge the truth and to speak the truth. Anyone who can say, "I am a sinner," has begun to speak the truth that is common to all men since Adam. It is from this foundation of truth that faith can take root and hope can spring forth. That is also why Jesus said, "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."[20] Only those who acknowledge that they are sinners have the truth that Jesus can fellowship with, for He is the Truth. It is no wonder then that the Pharisees always found Jesus with sinners, not with those who considered themselves righteous.
Thus, for the Kingdoms of Men, those who refuse to acknowledge the truth are destined for ruin. Those kingdoms of atheism that deny God are destined for ruin; that which they hope for personal oblivion through evolution in a godless existence will be thoroughly destroyed the moment they die and see God. The kingdoms that seek righteousness without acknowledging the truth about sin will also come to nothing, for they have based their faith and hope on a lie—that all men are born good and righteous.
The Kingdoms of Men that acknowledge sin and have some ritualistic religion that tries to atone for sin, have the hope of Jesus, for the Kingdoms of Men that acknowledge they are sinners will have Jesus sent to them. Though their kingdoms will still be ruined, they will be saved because they have acknowledged their sin.
Thus, once you understand that the basis of unity from the perspective of the Kingdom of God is dependant on the action of listening, and the substance that gives longevity and durability to that kingdom is Truth, then you can see why the Kingdom of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is the eternal kingdom that has no end.
Now, what does this mean for you and me, men and women who are sinners still, for the things we ought to do, we do not do, the things we ought not to do, we do, because the Law of Sin still wages war against the law of our mind? It means this: Our unity, our oneness, is not based on our love for one another, or our motives, hopes, doctrines or traditions, not even our faith, not until we have learned to listen to perfect unity itself coming from the mouth of God. It is who we listen to that defines our unity and what They say that gives substance to the reality of that unity.
It is when we are all listening to Jesus that we have put in place the basic foundation that ensures our kingdom cannot be divided or ruined. For it is only when we listen to Jesus that we have made ourselves one with the only indivisible and everlasting kingdom, for no matter how united any kingdom of man is, it will still be ruined and divided by death. Whereas the Kingdom of God is the one kingdom where even death has not been able to separate the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Thus, the Kingdom of God's unity does not depend on a group of believers or disciples coming together, listening to each other's recommendations and judgements, and agreeing to a common creed, faith, hope, doctrine or declaration. That is merely denominational unity, and no denomination has ever resisted division or ruin, or ever will. No, the Kingdom of God's unity depends first on God's unity flowing to disciples who only have ears to listen to Jesus, and through Jesus, to the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Disciples who are only listening to Jesus are disciples who are listening to the T/truth, and all that they believe in, hope for and practice is based on the truth—truth that gives reality to their future, no matter what their past was or their present is. And if they are listening only to Jesus, then they are listening only to the Holy Spirit, and their whole being will be based on a continuous acknowledgement of their sin and repentance from the sin of not listening to Jesus or believing in Jesus. For every action and reaction within the kingdom is judged on whether it is a result of believing and practising what Jesus said.
Though the Law of Sin may still rule over the members of their flesh and wage war against the law of their mind, there is no condemnation for them, for all who are in Christ Jesus are condemned only on one sin—blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. In order to blaspheme the Holy Spirit, you have to be of the camp of the false prophet and the beast,[21] for they are the ones thrown alive into the Lake of Burning Sulphur.
Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit in the Kingdom of God is when you openly oppose the return of the Lord Jesus in the flesh, as the false prophet and the beast do,[22] knowing full well whom you are opposing. The armies and kings that ride with them to fight against Jesus are not guilty of eternal condemnation, for they are deceived by the false prophet and the beast. They are destroyed, yes, but not condemned forever. The hope of Zechariah 3:9 is still available for them.
Since basic unity begins with each individual citizen first becoming united with the Godhead, then intercitizenary unity is based entirely on listening to those whom you know listen to God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Then, from this foundation stone of unity can come the unity of love, peace, joy and righteousness, for you will love the ones who love listening to Jesus just as you love listening to Jesus, but you will find that you cannot love the ones who do not love listening to Jesus, but merely tolerate them in the hope that they will learn to love the One they listen to.
Although the servants were all given the one mina by the king, and they were all servants of the same king, you can see in the parable that the servants who earned 10 and 5 minas more, would not have been close to the one who was lazy with his mina, neither would they have taken kindly to his comments about their king: "'You are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow,'"[23] when the king arrived back.
However, whatever they felt about that lazy servant, it is obvious they did not take any action against him while the king was away, but each focussed on doing his best for the king first, as Paul advised us: Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.[24]
Those who remain alive till He arrives, and I am speaking of those who are in the Kingdom of God, will have no fear of judgement when He arrives, for you meet with Him in the clouds to be with Him forever. Those who die before He arrives will be judged already depending on whether they come back with Him or not.[25] Our concern, having listened to Him, is to remain alive until He arrives, even as we prepare to meet with Him in the clouds above Jerusalem, having defended the Mount of Olives until He appears overhead with the rest of the kings of the Kingdom of God. Amen
So, all who listen to Him only, have no fear, your kingdom can never be divided and can never be ruined, for God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are One.
[1] Matthew 12:25
[2] John 21:22
[3] Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35
[4] paraphrase of John 16:13-15; Revelation 2:7,11,17,29; 3:6,13,22
[5] John 6:45
[6] Matthew 17:5
[7] John 16:13
[8] John 14:6
[9] John 8:44
[10] Genesis 11:6-7
[11] Genesis 11:4
[12] Mark 10:27; Matthew 19:26; Luke 18:27
[13] Genesis 3:1
[14] Genesis 2:16-17
[15] Genesis 3:3
[16] Genesis 3:13
[17] Genesis 11:3
[18] Matthew 4:17; 3:2
[19] Mark 1:15
[20] Matthew 9:13
[21] Revelation 19:20
[22] Revelation 20:19
[23] Luke 19:21
[24] 1 Corinthians 4:5
[25] Revelation 20:4-6


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