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The purpose of this article is to discuss the foundational "White Horse Prophecy" given by Prophet Bob Jones in January 1983, and most specifically how the content or emphasis of that word has changed over the years. The prophecy was spawned by a vision Bob received August 8, 1982. I'd like to start off with the personal testimony of a good friend we will call "Julie."
My husband and I were a part of Kansas City Fellowship from it's inception, until 1990. Here's our story:
We were part of the original church that Mike Bickle started in the early 80's called Kansas City Fellowship. In fact, when Mike first arrived in Kansas City, he spoke at a woman's bible study that I was attending at the time. It was the first time I had heard contemplative prayer taught. I was so intrigued by his teaching, I made it a point to attend his soon-to-be new church. From the church's early beginnings, we were wowed by the fact that this church seemed to be commissioned by God.
One other important fact that never gets mentioned, and has since been removed from the history. Mike had a quadriplegic brother named Pat whom we were close to. Pat always attended the evening prayer meetings which we also attended. Keep in mind, the early prayer movement was very sparse, a far cry from what it looks like today. Just a dozen or so faithful regularly attended. As a result, we got to know one another pretty well. Well, amongst all the prophecies and promises of the spirit being poured out on us, there was ALWAYS the promise that Pat would be healed. So often was that promise repeated that we spoke of it as a "given." All of the prophets mentioned it numerous times. In fact, it was going to be THE EVENT that started the whole ball rolling.
Sadly, Pat passed away a few years ago. More sadly, however, is how this often-stated prophecy, at least how pivotal it was, was erased from the history. Now, when new IHOPers listen to the 18 plus hours of how IHOP came to be, they won't know about Pat and that profound promise that we hoped for in his healing." (2)
With that background, let's talk about the evolution of the "White Horse Prophecy." Bob Jones described this prophecy in detail in a series of recordings made with Mike Bickle in 1988. The recordings were in an interview style, with Mike prompting Bob for stories of their "prophetic history" and (ironically as you will see) keeping Bob Jones on track.
(Mike) The White Horse always speaks, in Bob's Visions...it speaks of a corporate purpose that God is bringing to pass..
(Bob) I saw the White Horse and this time they was a man and that man was laying flat on a board on his back, and they was another one walking (by his) side and I couldn't understand it, but it was like one of them was walking beside of him was one of the men that was chosen to have a little power...and he was to be a leader of this...
This one, that was at his side, was saying "This man, He's not heavy, that I'm bearing, He's my Brother." (3) And that White Horse, some of the main purpose that the White Horse (corporate purpose) was to begin with, was to begin to pray for that man, I didn't know it then, but to pray for the man that was on that board. And the White Horse, I was told to lead the White Horse into the middle of a dry stream. It was a stream that centuries ago had water in it, but now it was dry. And as I led the White Horse right into the middle of the stream the Spirit of the Lord put water, like a little trickle, on both sides of it.
And He said, "I'm releasing the spirit of prophecy, to keep the White Horse in the Middle of the stream, and that's your only duty. Just walk along side, hold on with a gentle reign to keep it in the middle of the stream. Because, one day the rains will come and the flow will begin and when it does, the man on the white horse on the board shall be the one first to touch that stream."
One of our main duties, when we were being birthed, is to pray for Pat Bickle continually. (4)
Something that is done over and over in Mike Bickle's ministry is a recitation of their "prophetic history". I'm reminded of the practice done in a Seder dinner. And it is something that all first-year interns and students are required to study. Of all of the many stories told, the "White Horse Prophecy" has always been central to the movement.
Why? The White Horse Prophecy established Mike Bickle as the (powerful) leader of the movement. It established Bob Jones as the prophetic voice for the movement, to keep it "in the middle of the stream." And it promised great revival, signaled by Pat Bickle's miraculous healing.
This was the general understanding of the prophecy. And the telling of it was repeated over and over. And, as is the case in many charismatic churches, such a review of the things God has done is often done at News Years Eve services. Julie's recollection is not unfounded, as evidenced by some recently-discovered notes taken by her husband at the December 31, 1984 service at South Kansas City Fellowship:
January '83: White horse. Vision with Pat on horse. Said Bob was to steer the horse. Mad dogs on banks to destroy (wrong doctrine). (5)
To make it clear, the pejorative "mad dogs" (rabid) on the banks were pastors and leaders who would try to lead the movement away from its calling. That aspect of this seminal prophecy is worthy of its own discussion because of its self-fulfilling nature. We note now that it has become the main emphasis of the word.
Bob Jones had his White Horse vision in August of 1982, in which a central part of that vision was Pat Bickle. This fact was affirmed by Mike Bickle many times in its re-telling, and also by those apart from IHOP.
Here's a recitation of the same story on the world-hops.com website. World-hops is not affiliated with IHOP, but we present this as independent collaboration. The quotations suggest a transcription of yet another telling of the story by Mike Bickle.
"Bob Jones sees (in a prophetic vision) a river bed. The river bed has 4 inches of water. In the river bed is a white horse. The white horse is depicting this young adult movement that would overcome the flesh and be strong in the Lord."
"I was in the riverbed with my brother Pat. And there were dogs with rabies on both sides of the riverbed. They were barking. There was only 4 inches of water but a rabid dog cannot get in water. And the Lord told Bob 'These (dogs) are like righteous men; even in the body of Christ. They will bark and they will accuse and they will put down this purpose of this young adult prayer movement…because they won't understand it…because we have such a focused assignment from the Lord." (6)
Don Clasen, in his memoir on his time with the Kansas City Prophets, gives us further detail. It is worth noting that Clasen was part of the movement from November of 1992 to May of 2000. This suggests that the story was still known or told in some manner during that period.
There were other little stories and prophetic parables Bob Jones gave at times for KCF that remain intriguing to this day. One of them was the "White Horse" vision. In this, KCF was likened to a great White Horse that was carrying a rider who was an invalid. That rider was said to be Pat Bickle, Mike's younger brother who had become a quadriplegic due to a football accident a decade earlier. In the vision, Jones saw the rider thrown off the horse, land in a few inches of water, and wind up instantly healed! He was also told that it would not be until this happens that "the [KCF] movement will [really] begin." (7)
However it does appear that from 1988 to 2002, the aspect of Pat Bickle in the vision was being minimized. Julie states:
I believe this 'vision' began morphing, at this point in 1988, into a vision that wasn't so much about Pat's healing, as about young leadership not being mauled by the mad dogs. Those of us who were paying attention noticed the decline in interest toward Pat.
Pat was always the rider on the horse with Mike standing along side. This was repeated often in the early years of KCF. As the years went by, and the power just wasn't showing up, and Pat just wasn't being healed, discussion of him being healed was less and less. (8)
A twelve-session "Prophetic History" series was recorded in 2002 (9). There is no mention of Pat Bickle at all, but the story about the rabid dogs was strongly emphasized, perhaps because (as predicted) many pastors and leaders had been speaking out against the movement by that time (10).
After many years of battling infections and pneumonia related to his paralysis, Pat Bickle passed away in May of 2007 at age 50. He had been paralyzed for 33 years, since the high school football accident at age 17. As a testimony to his faith, his sister Tracey stated "he believed to his last dying breath that the Lord was going to touch his body." (11)
On September 17 through 19, 2009, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of IHOP, Mike Bickle presented a new version of his "Prophetic History," replacing the 2002 tape series that was mandatory training material for his students at IHOP. The prophetic history now has the cumbersome title of "Encountering Jesus: Visions, Revelations, and Angelic Activity from IHOP-KC's Prophetic History."
The original sermon outline to Session 2 of the 2009 version talks about Bob Jones and his vision of the White Horse.
On August 8, 1982, Bob saw a white horse in the middle of a river bed that had 4 inches of water in it, with rabid dogs on the sides. Bob saw me and my brother Pat in the river bed. He stood behind us. Bob saw that when the Lord "raised up Pat," then the floods of the Spirit would follow in God's timing. The Lord raised up Pat and took him home to glory when he died on May 5, 2007. (2009 outline) (12)
This is the first known extant use of the term "raised up Pat," which is congruent with the understanding that the Lord would heal Pat as the sign of the start of great revival. By using the phrase "raised up" Mike was able to redefine that event as the death of Pat.
This outline, of course, was the outline that Mike used to preach from, and that was handed out for people to follow along. When it came time to tell the story, in 2009, Mike chose to deviate from his sermon outline and gloss over the entire aspect of Pat Bickle.
He said on August 8th he saw a white horse in the middle of a river bed. And this white horse, which speaks of this young adult movement, was in the middle of a river bed. That river bed had four inches of water, it had rabid dogs, or dogs with rabies on both sides barking at this horse. But the dogs wouldn't get in the river because dogs with rabies, I've been told, don't like to get in the water. (2009 audio) (13)
This suggests that Mike had second thoughts about trying to use the "raised up" sleight-of-hand, knowing that his followers might not buy it. However, we cannot know the motives of a man's heart. And understandably, the death of Pat must have been a huge disappointment in Mike's life.
The disappearance of Pat Bickle from the seminal "White Horse Prophecy" became finalized in 2011. On Mike Bickle's website, you may download audio, video and notes from the Prophetic History sessions. The series is still promoted as eight sessions from 2009.
For this reason, during IHOP-KC's ten-year anniversary in September 2009, Mike took eight sessions to retell the most important prophetic experiences. (14)
However, session two of that series – audio, video and notes- are from 2011 (15). The remainder of the sessions are the actual 2009 sessions.
Interestingly, for the 2011 video-taped recording, Mike wore what appears to be the same blue shirt with a black tee underneath as he wore in 2009, and it is obvious from some of the introductory remarks ("what I covered in our first session") that this was intended to replace the 2009 session 2.
We have eight sessions on our prophetic history. When I talk about our prophetic history, I'm talking about some outstanding and significant events that the Lord released in our midst. Most of them occurred in 1983 and 1984. At that time, the Lord was laying the foundation for things that are happening now, twenty-five or thirty years later. Roman numeral I. I want to remind you of what I covered in the first session. (2 years ago -ed) The first encounter I had with the Lord related... (2011 transcript) (16)
The 2011 revised outline to session 2 also changes things slightly. The other session notes posted on Mike Bickle's website remain unchanged.
"On August 8, 1982, in a vision, Bob saw a white horse in the middle of a river bed that had four inches of water in it, with rabid dogs on both sides. He knew that the white horse symbolized the young leaders of a future prayer movement. The dogs in this parable spoke of church leaders who did not see the value of the four heart standards or the need for a focused prayer ministry but saw it as being extreme and unnecessary. The white horse stood in the center of a nearly dry river bed. Bob stood behind it. His assignment was to help the "white horse" (the young leaders) to stay in the middle of the stream as they were preparing for a coming flood of the Spirit. (The preparation was connected to upholding the four heart standards given in Cairo)." (2011 outline) (17)
Compare again to the 2009 outline:
On August 8, 1982, Bob saw a white horse in the middle of a river bed that had 4 inches of water in it, with rabid dogs on the sides. Bob saw me and my brother Pat in the river bed. He stood behind us. Bob saw that when the Lord "raised up Pat," then the floods of the Spirit would follow in God's timing. The Lord raised up Pat and took him home to glory when he died on May 5, 2007. (2009 outline) (18)
Note that in the 2011 version of the prophesy Mike and Pat Bickle have vaporized, the White Horse became "the young leaders," and there was no longer any mention of the Lord healing Pat as a sign of revival. Now, those were the notes; what did Mike actually say in the recording?
He (Bob Jones) said, "This white horse was in the middle of a dry riverbed." He went on to explain that this white horse represented a company of young leaders in the early days. It was those leaders who were involved in this purpose back in 1983, 1984, and 1985. The Lord gave a symbolic picture of these leaders as a white horse. Of course, that symbolism could be applied to many different ministries around the world. He said, "I saw these white horses. I saw this company of young leaders, and they were in the middle of a dry riverbed. There was a small amount of water—about four inches." He said, "There were these mad dogs on each side of the river. These mad dogs had rabies and they were barking and accusing and trying to bite this horse." The Lord told Bob, "Your assignment is to keep these young people, this white horse, in the middle of the stream. (2011 transcript) (19)
The transcript was provided by Bickle's ministry, and the quotations are as printed in the transcript. Bob Jones claims to have had perhaps dozens of visions of the White Horse, and in those the White Horse always represents the movement. And Bob tells the story different each time; but we note that he can't even quote Scripture accurately. As Mike explained in 1983, "The White horse ...it speaks of a corporate purpose...it's thousands of people with a purpose." However, in the specific White Horse/ rabid Dog vision, Bob Jones made it clear that "they was a man and that man was laying flat on a board on his back, and they was another one walking (by his) side... and he was to be a leader..."
Obviously, the White Horse Prophecy was very important to the folks in this movement, and was understood to specifically relate to Pat Bickle right up to the time of his death. Now it conveniently relates to "the young leaders." One can only surmise that it would be a distraction to the eager interns to try to explain away the complications of a failed prophecy.
If we are to revere prophetic words from these "prophets of renown" do we as mortal men, have the right to change those prophetic words to suit our present circumstance? I have already discussed this in my article on the so-called "Blueprint Prophecy." Can we change these words so that we look good before men, or to dodge criticism? Apparently, in Kansas City, Mike Bickle can.
And this being the case, why should we believe anything he says? Strong words?
Back in 2008 Mike Bickle said "I feel like many of God's shepherds are lying..." (20) If this is so objectionable (it is) then why should Mike Bickle be given a free pass? Can man fudge a prophecy? Or gloss over a failure? If so, should we listen to anything such a prophet says (Ezekiel 13)? Did the prophecies about Pat Bickle, now conveniently pushed aside, build up false hope among those at Kansas City Fellowship?
This is what the Lord Almighty says: "Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes." (Jeremiah 23:16)
Friends, this situation speaks to the veracity and authenticity of Mike Bickle's ministry. John Wimber told Mike Bickle years ago that the prophets should own up to their failed prophecies (21). Owning up, in this case, would be far better than first stating that "The Lord raised up Pat and took him home to glory when he died on May 5, 2007" and then when that didn't seem to work, writing him out of the story altogether. God desires truth in our "innermost being" (Psalm 51:6).
(1) Mike Bickle, Encountering Jesus: Visions, Revelations, and Angelic Activity from IHOP-KC's Prophetic History. Session 2 - Great Light, the White Horse, and the Chariots. September 18, 2009. Audio recording. http://media.ihop.org.s3.amazonaws.com/4ef34277-dd20-4986-a9f8-ad1d3ba057c3.mp3
(2) Personal correspondence (2010), also posted at http://thegreycoats.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/julies-story/
(3) This was seen as prophetic, because Mike Bickle had privately adopted the words of this then-popular song to apply to him and his brother and his vow to take care of him. See David Pytches book "Some Said it Thundered" page 82.
(4) Mike Bickle with Bob Jones. Visions & Revelations. Fall 1988. Audio recording. The White Horse story starts at about 22:00 on tape 2.
(5) Personal correspondence, August 16, 2011. Notes found on a church bulletin from that service in Julie's husband's bible.
(6) Found at http://world-hops.com/OurPropheticBlueprint.html
World-hops is not associated with IHOP but has posted a rather detailed report of the prophecy presumable a transcription of Bickle and Jones from a recording at some time.
(7) Don Clasen, "Vintage Metro: My Eight Years With The Kansas City Prophets" http://www.birthpangs.org/articles/kcp/kcp-Vintage-Metro.pdf
(8) Personal correspondence, August 20, 2011
(9) The 2002 sessions are known as the 12-part "Encountering Jesus" series. Transcripts and high-quality mp3 recordings are available at http://www.rockriverhouseofprayer.com/audio/audio.html
(10) http://www.birthpangs.org/articles/kcp/Abberent%20Practises.pdf
(11) http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansascity/obituary.aspx?n=pat-bickle&pid=87856390
(12) Mike Bickle. Encountering Jesus: Visions, Revelations, and Angelic Activity from IHOP-KC's Prophetic History. Session 2 - Great Light, White Horse, Chariots, and Sands of Time. September 18, 2009. Sermon Outline. http://www.ihop.org/Publisher/File.aspx?ID=1000014256
(13) Mike Bickle. Encountering Jesus: Visions, Revelations, and Angelic Activity from IHOP-KC's Prophetic History. Session 2 - Great Light, White Horse, Chariots, and Sands of Time. September 18, 2009. Audio Recording. http://media.ihop.org.s3.amazonaws.com/4ef34277-dd20-4986-a9f8-ad1d3ba057c3.mp3
(14) http://mikebickle.org/resources/series/38
(15) The date of April 25, 2011 is posted along side the listing for that particular session.
(16) Mike Bickle. Encountering Jesus: Visions, Revelations, and Angelic Activity from IHOP-KC's Prophetic History. Session 2 - Explosion of Light, the White Horse, and the Chariots. April 25, 2011. Transcript.
(17) Mike Bickle. Encountering Jesus: Visions, Revelations, and Angelic Activity from IHOP-KC's Prophetic History. Session 2 - Explosion of Light, the White Horse, and the Chariots. April 25, 2011. Sermon Outline. http://www.mikebickle.org.edgesuite.net/MikeBickleVOD/2011/20110425_Explosion_of_Light_the_White_Horse_and_the_Chariots_IPH02.pdf
(18) Mike Bickle. Encountering Jesus: Visions, Revelations, and Angelic Activity from IHOP-KC's Prophetic History. Session 2 - Great Light, White Horse, Chariots, and Sands of Time. September 18, 2009. Sermon Outline. http://www.ihop.org/Publisher/File.aspx?ID=1000014256
(19) Mike Bickle. Encountering Jesus: Visions, Revelations, and Angelic Activity from IHOP-KC's Prophetic History. Session 2 - Explosion of Light, the White Horse, and the Chariots. April 25, 2011. Transcript. http://www.mikebickle.org.edgesuite.net/MikeBickleVOD/2011/20110425_T_Explosion_of_Light_the_White_Horse_and_the_Chariots_IPH02.pdf
(20) Promotional video podcast promoting Onething 2008. Transcription from contemporaneous note by the author. The video is no longer on the internet.
(21) Wimber's statement in 1990 said that KCF needed to address errors including "The lack of accountability for prophecies that do not come true or do not bear witness to the person receiving the ministry." Grady, Lee "Resolving the Kansas City Prophecy Controversy," Sidebar: Making Corrections, Ministries Today, September/October 1990
(22) http://image.teamfca.net/siteuploadfiles/FCA/4E6CBE2E-D94B-4D4C-A0D2F55D187B4482/2CD8DC95-FDEC-4274-80150B140ABDEAF0.doc
Note: Digital copies are on file of all audio, video (where available), outlines and transcriptions (where available) of the prophetic history sessions referenced in this article, including the 1988 sessions, which were originally on cassette tape. Meta-tag data on all digital files (post 1988) have been forensically examined to confirm the correct attribution of the dating of documents and recordings, and the authorship of documents. In many cases, duplicate files have been obtained from discrete sources, with confirming meta-data.
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Dispatches from two cities at opposite ends of the Earth.
Kuala Lumpur
With two million inhabitants, Kuala Lumpur is, at least by Asian standards, a relatively small city. But everything here has been designed to impress, with some of the tallest buildings in the world, one of the most modern airports anywhere, enormous shopping malls, a brand new federal government administrative center, Putrajaya, and its high-tech industry twin, Cyberjaya.
Since the days of Mahathir Mohamad, prime minister from 1981 to 2003 (his hand-picked successor, Dato' Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi, still holds the office), the rule of thumb in Malaysia has been "think big, build big and you will be noticed." And it worked, as multicultural Kuala Lumpur (or "KL," as the city is known in Asia) rapidly has become one of the most exciting and comfortable cities in the region, attracting tourists, expatriates and shoppers from all over the world. It may not feature countless historic sites, but its three main groups—Malays, Chinese and Indians—have managed to create a unique cultural, culinary and artistic medley.
The hip crowd hangs out at the new Kuala Lumpur City Center (50050 Kuala Lumpur), which features prominent landmarks such as the two Petronas Towers (the second-tallest buildings in the world) and the enormous Suria Mall, home to the Petronas Art Gallery and countless international restaurants and cafes, as well as almost all the top designer clothing stores including Hugo Boss, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Ferragamo.
If the mall's not your thing, roam through the fast-emerging, boutique-filled Bangsar Baru, where shops worth hitting include Oopsie Daisie (28-1 Jalan Telawi 2, Bangsar Baru), which stocks clothes and accessories sourced from designers in Hong Kong, Bangkok, South Korea, Australia and India, as well as high-end Western brands such as Chloé and MaxMara.
Arguably the best Malay restaurant in town is Seri Melayu (1 Jalan Conlay). Located in a replica of a village house, the restaurant offers a daily buffet as well as cultural performances. If trendy spots are more your speed, try Shook (Feast Floor, Starhill Gallery 181, Jalan Bukit Bintang), whose menu flirts with seasonal trends and boasts an adventurous fusion of East and West. Eat like the locals do by visiting the historic city center. The area around the Jamek Mosque and Merdeka Square is packed with traditional eateries and ethnic stores. KL is predominantly a Muslim city, but it features dozens of hot nightspots, ranging from traditional Irish pubs to karaoke bars and multivenue clubs. Many of them are located in the Bukit Bintang area. Two of the hottest spots are an excellent jazz club called No Black Tie (17 Jalan Mesui) and the Latin-flavored Little Havana (2&4 Lorong Sahabat, along Changkat Bukit Bintang), which touts fine wines from all over the world, cigars and food.
Traders Hotel (Kuala Lumpur City Center, 50088 Kuala Lumpur) may not be one of the most expensive luxury hotels, but, thanks to its elegant and minimalist design, it is definitely one of the coolest, favored by a hip international crowd. It has what no other hotel in KL can offer: a stunning view from the rooftop open-air bar and pool/spa complex, arguably one of the best spots for an evening drink. Most of the rooms overlook the KLCC and Petronas Towers. Hotels in KL are extremely cheap and Traders is not an exception. Weekend rates can be as low as $70 a night. —Andre Vltchek
San Diego
San Diego is often overshadowed by the swanky beachside cities that flank it, but California's second-largest city boasts a more eclectic cultural landscape than its ritzy neighbors, due to its proximity to Mexico and the SoCal surf and skate movements it helped define.
The city, home to 1.2 million residents, is a patchwork of neighborhoods that's best navigated by car. Each enclave features its own distinct personality: The picturesque-but-touristy Gaslamp district offers mainstream shopping and restaurant options, but locals are more apt to frequent outposts in one of the city's less commercial neighborhoods, including the still-gentrifying Southpark, with its stylish eateries and hip boutiques, or bustling Hillcrest, where retro hounds such as Liz Goldwyn hit the stellar vintage shops on Fifth Avenue. Quaint Little Italy hosts outdoor art fairs and independent apparel boutiques, while the urban East Village is dotted with home decor boutiques and chic coffee houses.
San Diego is home to some of the action-sports industry's biggest names—including TransWorld Media, Rusty Surfboards and Reef—so it stands to reason that some of the city's most notable boutiques specialize in fashion-forward streetwear steeped in the surf-skate legacy. Specialty store Steady (801 West Hawthorne Street) in Little Italy may be diminutive in size, but it hosts a large, smartly edited mix of directional looks from brands including Cheap Monday, Corpus and Trovata. New boutique Neighborhood (4496 Park Boulevard) in University Heights stocks a small selection of vintage apparel and a bigger mix of merchandise from up-and-coming brands such as Anzevino & Florence, El Zarope, Augustine and Orthodox. Magpie Gallery & Boutique (2205 Fern Street) in Southpark is another new store with vintage and new apparel, including a covetable collection of vintage boots and purses, along with edgy T-shirts and dresses from San Diego-based brands such as Pynke and Sally Bee. Blocks away is Maeve Riley (2328 30th Street), a feminine-minded shop carrying contemporary brands such as Sass & Bide, Lauren Moffatt and Fleur Wood. Kate Ross (3113 University Avenue) in neighboring Northpark also specializes in contemporary apparel and premium denim, with a sprinkling of surf-based brands such as Split and Howe. For higher-end contemporary gear, there's Little Italy's Niche (621 West Fir Street), which stocks lines such as Mike & Chris, Plastic Island and Spring & Clifton.
Like its boutiques, San Diego's favorite food and drink spots are scattered throughout its neighborhoods. Southpark hipsters frequent Vagabond (2310 30th Street), a funky, casual restaurant that specializes in simple-but-sumptuous fare. Two blocks down is the Whistle Stop bar (2236 Fern Street), a friendly dive that draws a Converse All Stars–wearing crowd. Jayne's Gastropub (4677 30th Street), a U.K.-inspired restaurant and bar in Northpark, serves up classic pub fare, including sea bass, fish and chips and braised short ribs, along with a killer selection of rare and local beers. Locals grill their own steaks on small private grills at the fun, homey Turf Club (1116 25th Street) in the urban Golden Hill neighborhood. The fashion set makes the scene at Modus (2202 Fourth Avenue), a dark, chic lounge and restaurant in Banker's Hill, while indie rockers check out local and touring bands at the Casbah (2501 Kettner Boulevard), a deliciously disheveled rock club just north of Little Italy.
The W Hotel (421 West B Street) is a stylish alternative to the nondescript hotels ringing the city's convention center downtown, while more discreet types decamp to the Gaslamp's Solamar Hotel (435 Sixth Avenue), which features modern aesthetics and a rooftop bar that curves around a sparkling swimming pool. —Emili Vesilind


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Mayor says new Walmart will boost Holly Springs economy
By: Marcus Howard
Cherokee Tribune
HOLLY SPRINGS — A Walmart Supercenter store is coming to Holly Springs in 2014, city officials announced.
The announcement was made over the weekend by the city of Holly Springs, which says construction will begin next spring at a 30-acre site on Holly Springs Parkway, just off exit 14 on Interstate 575.
The store's opening is expected a year later.
"This is a very exciting announcement for our community," said Mayor Tim Downing in a statement. "Not only will it bring badly-needed jobs, but it will help spur additional investment in nearby businesses."
Walmart did not return requests for comments.
The new store is expected to provide the area with between 250 and 300 new jobs, according to the city. It will measure 180,000 square feet and have a fueling station.
The property is currently zoned general commercial, according to the city.
The site will also have 30,000 square feet of additional retail space for other businesses, the city said.
Now Holly Springs residents have to drive six miles to either Canton or Woodstock for the closest Walmart store.
City Manager Rob Logan said the new store will have its customary wide selection of general merchandise, along with "affordable food and consumable products."
He said it will also offer consumers fresh fruits and vegetables, to-go meals, a bakery, deli, pharmacy and an expansive selection of health-related products.
"Walmart has been a fixture in Georgia for 30 years and is consistently recognized as a valued community partner," Downing said.
"The store will provide residents with an affordable and convenient place to shop and will be widely popular. The timing for this project is perfectly timed and we are happy to welcome Walmart as our neighbor."
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A compatibility layer for the APIs provided by the Allegro CL Common Lisp implementation by Franz, Inc. It provides interfaces for multiprocessing, networking, and more.
Bordeaux Threads
Bordeaux Threads (Portable shared-state concurrency for Common Lisp) is an implementation of a portable multi-threading library based on the BORDEAUX-MP specification by Daniel Barlow.
CFFI - the Common Foreign Function Interface
A portable foreign function interface for Common Lisp.
A portable interface to Unix sockets functionality. It includes the CFFI-Grovel tool for automating FFI generation, and the CFFI-Unix interface to basic Unix functionality with a focus on networking.
A portable, CFFI-based Common Lisp/ObjectiveC bridge for developing MacOS X Cocoa applications.
CLOCC (Common Lisp Open Code Collection) is a large collection of free, portable, self-contained and ready to use libraries and software. It includes development tools, GUI toolkits, portability laye...
Closer to MOP
Closer to MOP is a compatibility layer that rectifies many of the absent or incorrect MOP features as detected by MOP Feature Tests in a growing number of Common Lisp implementations.
Foreign Structures By Value
Call foreign functions when one or more arguments and/or the return value are structures. In CFFI and most Lisp foreign interfaces, structures must be passed by reference, that is, as pointers. FSBV...
Glouton (A Common Lisp package for programming OpenGL) is a set of FFI bindings to X11 and OpenGL 1.5. It can be used for programming OpenGL using GLX, and is intended to provide Glut-like functionali...
Hello C
A tool for interfacing Common Lisp programs with libraries written in C or with the same calling conventions. It is largely a fork of UFFI, with additional features such as support for callback functi...
"A Posix-compatibility layer generated by a port of cffi-grovel to SBCL". It is maintained as part of the IOlib project.
JACOL - Java and Common Lisp
An interoperation framework between Java and Common Lisp. It allows Lisp to be used as an extension language for Java, and it can expose Java APIs to Lisp applications. JACOL uses sockets for communic...
LW Compat
A few utility functions from the LispWorks library.
A compatibility layer on top of various CLOS MOP implementations, with some additional reflection capabilities.
Osicat is a lightweigh operating system interface for POSIX-like systems. It provides facilities for directory walking, access to environment variables, symbolic links, file permissions and identifica...
PythOnLisp (Python On Lisp: A project to call Python code from Lisp) is an interface to the Python programming language that makes it possible to run Python 2.2 or 2.4 code from inside Lisp. It allows...
S-SYSDEPS (An Abstraction Layer Over Platform Dependent Functionality) is a compatibility layer that abstracts facilities for managing processes and process locks, implementing a TCP/IP server, and pr...
SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator)
SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs and libraries written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages, including Common Lisp. It parses C/C++ header files a...
Trivial Shell
An operating system and Common Lisp implementation independent interface for accessing command shells. It is based on, and is a fork of, the KMRCL utilities.
Universal Foreign Function Interface for Common Lisp.
CFFI interface for Graphviz, integrated with cl-graph.
"A set of bindings and utilites for accessing the OpenGL, GLU and GLUT APIs using CFFI".
A compatibility layer for system definition tools, which also provides a foundation for building higher level tools. It currently supports ASDF and the EKSL Generic Load Utilities, and will eventually...
trivial-garbage is a simple library that provides a portable API to finalizers, weak hash-tables and weak pointers.
A library which provides an extremely thin compatibility layer for Gray streams.
The project wants to provide a portable TCP/IP and UDP socket interface for as many Common Lisp implementations as possible, while keeping the abstraction and portability layer as thin as possible.


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May 21, 2012
By Lisa Daniel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON – Service members and their spouses joined Defense Department leaders at the Pentagon today in a ceremony to mark the success of a spouse employment program intended to help military families and the economy.
Surveys show 85 percent of the military's 1.2 million spouses either want or need to work, Jo Ann Rooney, acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, said at the ceremony.
It often takes two incomes in today's economy for military families to live comfortably, Rooney added. "They deserve a good quality of life."
The Military Spouse Employment Partnership provides a digital platform for employers to have direct access to military spouses seeking jobs. Some 400,000 jobs have been posted with the partnership since it was created last June, and 22,000 military spouses have been hired, officials said.
Another 34 companies were added to the existing 94 program partners at today's event. They include Goodwill Industries, Safeway, Volt Workforce Solutions and others in industries ranging from data processing to real estate to banks, as well as the military services themselves.
"Our military spouses are not asking to be treated differently or as a special population," Rooney said. "They just want to be treated fairly and on a level playing field."
Because of increased DOD training and mentoring programs, she said, "Our spouses are more job-ready and competitive than at any other time in history."
They also are well-educated: 85 percent have some college, 25 percent have bachelor's degrees, and 10 percent have post-graduate degrees, she said.
Rooney and others spoke of the marketable experiences of spouses who regularly manage household moves, as well as their adaptability and other qualities desired in the workplace.
"Believe me, when you've got a tough road ahead, when you have unforeseen obstacles, you want a military spouse on your team," she said.
Mary Winnefeld, wife of Navy Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr., vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said she was fortunate to maintain her career through 17 years as a Navy wife, partly by having a supportive manager at SAIC that allowed her to relocate with the company multiple times.
Even then, Winnefeld said, there are sacrifices. "Maybe I didn't always follow my career path, but I took part in profit sharing and retirement benefits," she said.
Robert L. Gordon III, deputy assistant secretary of defense for military community and family policy, said the public-private partnership is "increasing quality career opportunities for our spouses" with the understanding from employers that spouses must relocate every two to three years.
"It is our hope that these jobs will travel with them around the nation and the world in the years ahead," he said.
In a conference call with reporters earlier today, Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, said she was motivated to create the program as part of her Joining Forces campaign with First Lady Michelle Obama, after the pair's frequent trips to speak with military families. "There are two issues that come up over and over: education and employment," she said.
Biden said she and Obama have made it a priority to help military spouses get and maintain employment. Part of that, she said, is their goal of having every state legislature adopt transfer agreements for military spouses' professional licenses by 2014.
"If you're looking for hard-working, dedicated employees, our military spouses are who you are looking for," Biden said.
Gordon said the partnership is designed to give spouses broad employment opportunities and not just a job, but a career. Employer partners sign on to a memo of understanding "that we're not just talking about jobs, we're talking about careers," he said.
That understanding is verified through the sponsors' follow-up meetings, document and data collection from employers and spouses, and mentoring, Gordon said.
Also, he said, "We have a commitment that they can keep their jobs and transfer with companies."
"If a company is not in a position for its jobs to be portable, we don't encourage them" to become partners, Navy Capt. Brad Cooper, director of Joining Forces, said.
Spouses' satisfaction is important to military readiness and retention, Rooney said. "We know from experience that when we invest in military spouses, we invest in the military and in the nation," she said.