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Chinese Artsy Hub Douban Undergoing Major Adjustment as it Mulls Overseas IPO
摘要: Why did Douban close Douban Moment, Douban Dongxi and Douban FM? What did these gestures mean? Where's Douban heading for? What problems are lurking on the way ahead?
On August 10th, Douban, boasting the biggest library of books, films& TV series and music in China and the biggest online community of young artsy Chinese, sent a letter to users and announced that Douban Dongxi was to be closed soon.
Since its launch on September 17th, 2013, Douban Dongxi has been tagged with "beta" in its logo. As a matter of fact, this is the first e-commerce attempt in Douban's history. From beginning to end, Douban Dongxi lasted for around three years and eleven months. According to the announcement, Douban Dongxi will become "read-only" in a week and officially closed after user contents were all transferred.
Yet, this is not the first product Douban ever closed. On August 16th, Douban Moment was closed. An insider confirmed to TMTPost that "Douban FM was also to be given up soon".
Douban users first came to know the "tragedy" from Douban Community. Within a few hours, the news was reposted for 700 times, leaving lots of comments and complaints underneath.
As Douban mulls for overseas IPO, it has become quite bold in business restructuring and adjustment.
As a matter of fact, Yang Bo (also known as "Abei"), founder and CEO of Douban, announced the decision as early as the beginning of this month. "This marks that Douban has entered the stage of pragmatism," he said in the internal letter.
"We shall close some unprofitable and minor businesses, including Douban Photography, Douban Dongxi, Douban Ticket and Douban Moment. Next, we shall focus more attention on our core business," head of Douban's marketing and branding sector revealed to TMTPost as of press time.
For sure, "core business" here means Douban APP, Douban's comprehensive mobile platform, and Douban Time Podcast, a paid audio content product inside Douban APP.
Against the background of Douban's commercialization, overseas IPO, paid contents, a group of Douban's early and loyal users, however, began to mourn for the "death" of Douban, at least the Douban they used to be familiar with.
Douban gets rid of the impression of being "too slow" and become quite "bold", even aggressive, all of a sudden. As a matter of fact, Abei has already made it clear what constitutes Douban's core business and what products should be given up.
As Douban closes down some of its "promising" products relentlessly, Douban has also made up its mind to give up users unwilling to change.
It seems, for the first time, that Douban is no longer frightened of criticism from its early and loyal users.
In this article, we shall try to figure out the development paths of these products and look into the destiny of these high-anticipated products in the future. After all, it's a perfect opportunity for us to observe the transition of a time-honored product as Douban eradicates the old and foster the new.
The reasons behind the closedown of Douban Dongxi and Douban FM
Basically, Douban Dongxi works by integrating commodities Douban users shared into an online commodity exploration community and a customer guide-based e-commerce platform. As is mentioned in the launch blog of Douban Dongxi: Douban Dongxi is based on the massive discussion around clothing, food, housing and transportation. Among 380,000 Douban Groups, over 20,000 are closely related to online shopping, the largest in any category.
In fact, Douban Dongxi was once regarded as the biggest attempt of Douban towards commercialization and profitability and was likely to rise into the biggest online customer guide-based shopping platform. However, it turned out that Douban Dongxi was later reduced into the minority.
As I've mentioned in a previous article, Douban Dongxi is fundamentally based on an "anti-consumerism" community.
On the one hand, without an active shopping experience sharing atmosphere, Douban Dongxi simply became a platform where its "artsy" users could tag commodities and fill up their wish lists.
On the other hand, Douban Dongxi is incompatible with Douban's guiding principle and slogan, that is, "a spiritual corner".
Moreover, no synergistic effect can be achieved between Douban Dongxi and the hundreds of thousands of books, films & TV series and music items on Douban. In other words, Douban Dongxi can't win much traffic from Douban. Worse still, most discussions about creative commodities were confined to Douban groups and won't naturally be transferred to Douban Dongxi.
Likewise, although both Life is Not Blind and My Fair Lady emerged out of Douban groups, they won't be included in Douban Reading.
In any account, Douban is just a loose alliance of different platforms, including Douban Broadcasting, Douban Group, Douban Instant Chat, Douban Market, etc. Users of these platforms, however, are largely isolated from each other and seldom do they have the chance to get in touch.
Although Douban has attempted to push users out of their small circles, go beyond separate book, film and music items and communicate with each other on the giant Douban Square and has launched a variety of products, including Douban Square, Douban Alpha City and Douban Instant Chat, they all ended up in failure.
If we conclude that Douban Dongxi failed because it's off the track of Douban's core business, then Douban FM's failure reflected Douban's incapability in the paid content business.
On August 10th, Douban users first came to know the "tragedy" (Douban Dongxi and Douban FM were to be closed) from Douban Community. Within a few hours, the news was reposted for 700 times, leaving lots of comments and complaints underneath.
"Internally, we've already been told that they were to be cloased, but it's still no officially announced yet," a former Douban staff told TMTPost. We are also told that Douban FM's team was currently undergoing personnel turnover and transfer. However, another insider revealed to TMTPost that Douban FM wouldn't be closed down completely. Since Douban didn't bother to purchase copyright anymore, users will be allowed to link their Douban FM accounts with other third-party music streaming platforms. Nevertheless, Douban FM will cease to exist, except in name.
The closedown of Douban FM has to do with copyrights.
Although Douban FM once attempted to charge users 10 yuan per month, or 50 yuan for half a year, it was just like a drop in the bucket. Without adequate budget to purchase copyrights, Douban FM's music library ceased to expand for a long time. Although Douban FM once allowed users to create their own channels, it still has to face the controversy over copyrights.
Launched in November 2009, Douban FM was one of the first few platforms to offer music streaming and recommendation services. Based on users' preference data and an effective algorithm, Douban FM did manage to provide users with first-class music streaming and recommendation service.
However, as one former Douban FM intern said, in content industries like music and video, IP is crucial. Therefore, product interface, user experience and algorithm optimization should all be based on an adequate amount of contents.
However, as the Chinese music industry enter the second-half copyright battle, Douban FM has no choice but to give up.
Moreover, since Douban FM was reluctant to add search function and provide users with a variety of music lists such as editor's pick, it failed to meet users' various needs and rise into a comprehensive music APP where users can both actively select music lists and passively listen to recommended lists of music.
In addition, since Douban separated Douban FM from Douban Music, it missed the golden opportunity to build an active music community. On second thought, however, it might simply be beyond Douban's capability.
Once upon a time, young Chinese internet users were so enthusiastic about Douban Film Lists and Douban Book Lists. Today, however, NetEase Cloud Music Lists have become the new favorite.
Since music-listening and reviewing are separated on Douban Music, it has already been replaced by alternative music communities, such as NetEase Cloud Music.
Today's users have already been accustomed to looking through music reviews while listening to music. Therefore, it's natural that music reviewing platforms such as Douban Music will gradually pale into insignificance.
Besides Douban Moment, Douban Dongxi and Douban FM, Douban Photography and Douban Ticket are said to be closed down too.
Launched in 2016, Douban Photography was an online photographer appointment platform for female users and was once regarded as a promising O2O photography platform. However, as all the photographers on Douban Photography have become unavailable, it's only a matter of time when it will be officially closed. At the same time, as Douban has almost quitted the film ticket booking market, it's natural that Douban Ticket will also be closed.
Douban might be getting rid of "useless" early and loyal users
Besides getting rid of sideline businesses, Douban has also been adjusting its positioning and operation model since last year.
As a matter of fact, shortly after Douban released its commercial "Our Spiritual Corner" in March 2016, Douban has started to "invade" in users' spiritual corners.
Gradually, original contents, such as Douban-published books, Douban Bite Me, Douban Interview, etc., started to appear on APP open screen, front page, search result page and even Douban Broadcast. No matter where you are in Douban's "universe", you shall notice these original contents from Douban.
Indeed, Douban has gone away from a simple book, film & TV series and music reviewing platform and embarked on the path of paid content and content e-commerce.
In the past, Douban was more like a customer guide platform for book e-commerce and video websites and could only earn meager "commission fee" in the process. As a startup, Douban wasn't capable to become a book e-commerce platform, video website and music website at the same time. Similarly, although Douban used to have several different APPs, none of them were dominant in their respective areas.
However, with the rise of paid contents, Douban seems to see its future destiny. Through paid content, Douban not only avoids the direct competition with book e-commerce platforms and video websites, but also can directly turn users into its own paid users.
Today, Douban is transforming itself from a book, film & TV series and music reviewing platform into an e-commerce platform of cultural products with 150 million users. Besides, synergistic effect has been achieved as Douban sees to it that different products are linked with each other, either way.
However, to complete transformation, Douban has to not only give up sideline products and businesses relentlessly, but also give up early and loyal users who have no value.
As many observers have noticed, this group of Douban's early and loyal users have almost "kidnapped" Douban. Every time Douban adjust itself, they would come up and repel any change. When Douban tried to cater to new users, they would feel offended; when Douban invited celebrated scholars and musicians to open podcasts, they would doubt if they are competent enough.
Just like any other paid knowledge-sharing and content platforms, including Dedao, Ximalaya and Fenda, Douban needs fanatic fans and unfastidious consumers to succeed. However, this group of Douban's old users just won't buy it.
In fact, as Douban turns to paid contents, KOLs that once emerged from Douban have been leaving Douban one after another.
Five years ago, Douban used to be a great platform for KOLs to demonstrate their value. Around 2011 and 2012, Douban's users increased substantially and average number of fans also rose from a couple thousand to half a million. As Douban reached a larger user base, some of quality users, however, began to leave Douban and turn to other platforms, such as Sina Weibo.
Douban's betting on content e-commerce
As time goes by, the majority of Douban users today have become young people born after the 1990s.
What's special about this generation? Well, they seem to be more open to paid contents and won't bother to look through all the reviews before deciding to buy or not.
However, it remains to see if more "intangible" paid contents (savoring poetry and music, understanding classic novels, etc.) can compete with more practical paid contents. Although Abei believed that Douban had entered the stage of pragmatism, Douban's positioning determined that Douban was heading for the opposite of pragmatism.
If users can get "knowledge" though buying more pragmatic paid contents (perhaps only illusionary), what can they get through buying more intangible paid contents? Spiritual satisfaction?
Is Douban Time Podcast enough to support its overseas IPO? To answer this question, we will have to first take a look at the sustainability of paid content producers and consumers
As to paid content producers, Douban Time Podcast mainly provide paid contents from celebrated writers and musicians by teaming up with well-known publishers and publishing houses.
For publishing houses and cultural organizations, there's no other platform more appropriate than Douban to further explore the potential of their writers. As long as these paid contents are properly packaged and promoted, they would win a wide audience.
As to paid content consumers, Douban Time Podcast could satisfy the needs of unfastidious users who are more willing to by paid contents and don't care much about reviews. Users who do care about reviews, however, can still take advantage of Douban as always.
To wrap up, what Douban is trying to do is accumulate users through massive book, film & TV series, and music items, and make profit out of them through paid contents such as Douban Time Podcast. As a whole, Douban is rapidly rising into an active paid content platform and content e-commerce platform.
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Don't get scared by this as your datas and other softwares installed into your laptop are still safe. There are various reasons for this activity, however one of the major cause would be "virus" that must have tried to access your profile to post your laptop's content or information to a spyware. The antivirus installed in your system would have detected this issue and for your safety it'll quarantine the virus and the login profile (admin profile) which is your primary profile to access your system.
Here is the solution to troubleshoot this issue and get back your laptop running normal.
First, as a safety measure always take a backup of your contents which could be useful for a restoration if this method doesn't work. However, for the above problem this solution should resolve the issue and bring smile on your face.
Just reboot / restart your laptop and wait for a while to see the startup logo (Dell logo) on the screen and just keep pressing the F8 key until you are prompted to a black screen giving you multiple booting options.
Choose, the safe mode and press enter. You'll be taken to you a safe-mode boot and can login into your laptop with limited options. Now, go to Control Panel >> User Accounts and Family Safety >> User Accounts.
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Restore your Datas and Contents
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Sacramento Regional Recap
Congratulations to ALL Teams, Mentors, Volunteers, Sponsors, Friends and Family members who participated in the Sacramento Regional and helped to create an exciting and memorable weekend.
The following teams and individuals earned top honors at the Regional and will be going on to compete at the Championships in St. Louis in April. We wish them the best of luck!
Regional Chairman's Award
Team 1868, The Space Cookies – Moffett Field, CA
The Sacramento Chairman's Award represents the true spirit of FIRST. It honors the team that best serves as a model for other teams to emulate and that embodies the goals of FIRST. It remains FIRST's most prestigious team award. The Chairman's Award is presented to the team judged to have the most significant measurable impact of its partnerships among its participants, school, and community over a sustained period, not just a single build season or school year. The winner is able to demonstrate progress towards FIRST's mission of transforming our culture. The recipient will be invited to the FIRST Championship where it will compete for the Chairman's Award against the winners from all the other qualifying events.
Here's what the Judges had to say –
"For a number of years, this team has been growing steadily in many dimensions. They certainly do it all.
From their structured workshops for training rookie members, to their influence in changing the culture of their high schools, to their extensive volunteer activities in the community, this team exemplifies all of the qualities we look for in a model representative of FIRST. Of particular note has been their engagement in STEM activities for young people. These have been lauded by the media and awarded at state and national levels. Their management structure is very professional. Their activities don't just happen. They are well planned with the effective use of social & electronic media.
This leads to effective team management across a broad geographical area, effective recruiting and retention of sponsors, keeping their many fans in touch with their many exciting activities. Their members go on to college and into STEM careers at a truly remarkable rate.
Their ability to inspire new members to achieve career goals that they may have never thought possible, is a true measure of their value to our society. Are you looking for innovative ways to spread the FIRST message?" How about working with NASA to drive the team's robot from the International Space Station? Is that cool, or what?!
One day theirs may be known as the FIRST "Bot Hurled 'Round The World". We are extremely proud to present the 2013 Sacramento Regional Chairman's Award to Team 1868, The Space Cookies"
Engineering Inspiration
Team 701, Team Robovikes – Vanden High School in Fairfield, CA
The Engineering Inspiration Award celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team's school and community. This team will advance to the Championships and receive a $5000 grant toward registration.
Here's what the judges had to say –
"With a fair and demanding captain, a seasoned and dedicated crew, this sturdy vessel has sailed the perilous seas of Sacramento spreading the principles of FIRST. From the horizon to horizon they have mentored summer workshops, started eight vex teams, sponsored FLL events and provided robotics demonstrations to budding middle school engineers.
With a solid profit plan, they have assisted other area teams to build strong lasting cooperative financial relationships.
With mainsails of green always ready to catch the educational wind, this team has consistently steered others to achieve what was thought to be unachievable. For over ten years they have been the keystone of the UC Davis/ Sacramento Event.
Their proud Viking ship and crew can return home to Fairfield with the respect and thanks of the FIRST organization.
The 2013 Engineering Inspiration Award goes to team 701 the RoboVikes. "
Regional Winners
Team 701, Robovikes
Fairfield, CA
Team 3189, Circuit Breakers
Placerville, CA
Team 2489, Insomniacs
Fremont, CA
Rookie All-Star Award
Team 4666, Robowolves from Roseville, CA
This award celebrates a 1st year team demonstrating an early but strong partnership effort, implementing the mission of FIRST. Its winner understands what FIRST is really trying to accomplish and realizes that technical work is fun and challenging, made better by building a partnership among team, community and school. This is not an easy challenge for a rookie team but the judges want to recognize and reward one team that got it right.
Here's what the judges had to say –
"Our Rookie All Star Award is presented to a team inspired by the dedication and drive of an outstanding student leader and aided by their relationship with a sister team from far away. Sacramento Regional is this team's maiden competition, but long before building their first bot, they hosted a clinic for elementary age kids and spread the FIRST message by postering the entire school with an invitation to join.
Congratulations to Team 4666 – the Robowolves!"
Woodie Flowers Finalist Award
Mark Edelman
Mentor for Team 2489
A few years after helping Dean Kamen create FIRST, Dr. William Murphy founded the Woodie Flowers Award with the intent to celebrate effective communication in the art and science of engineering and design. At the FIRST Championship in St. Louis, the essays of this year's finalists will be combined with previous finalists. One mentor will receive the Championship Woodie Flowers Award.
Here's what the judges had to say –
"You told of mentors that inspire, mentors that support, mentors that provide the help you need to accomplish tasks you never thought you could. This team also described their mentor as someone that influenced their entire way of thinking, changed their perspective, and expanded their outreach beyond their team, beyond their community, beyond their biggest dreams.This mentor thinks that one can play at learning. He has shown his team and his community how to dream bigger. This team wants to thank their mentor and friend. The Sacramento Woodie Flower Finalist Award goes to Mark Edelman from team 2489. Congratulations."
You can read the essay that Mark's team submitted here.
Dean's List Finalist: Honoring FIRST Student Superstars
FIRST Dean's List Finalist #1 – Karen Lu, Team 3256 – San Jose, CA
FIRST Dean's List Finalist #2 – Suzannah Osekowsky, Team 1868 – Moffett Field, CA
In an effort to recognize the leadership and dedication of FIRST's most outstanding FRC students, the Kamen family sponsors an award for selected top students known as the FIRST Dean's List.
This award celebrates a student's outstanding leadership and effectiveness in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school, as well as their community. FIRST Dean's List Finalists will compete at the championship for the FIRST Dean's List.
Additional Awards
Congratulations to the Teams and individuals that earned the remaining awards at the Sacramento Regional! See the list here.
FIRST Impressions
Throughout each day, we saw numerous first hand examples of FIRST values and qualities – Gracious Professionalism, Coopertition, Critical Thinking, Team Work and Leadership to name a few. One story of many that we'd like to share is a great example of how Gracious Professsionalism helped a rookie team in a bind.
As a team brand new to the world of FIRST, Rookie All-Star winners are often caught off guard when winning this prestigious award which invites them to Championships. Having a crate to ship their robot was farthest from the Robowolves' mind at the Sacramento Regional.
Coming to the rescue, the Fembots offered a helping hand and graciously loaned their crate to Robowolves so that they could meet the March 28 deadline to ship their robot. The Robowolves were able to pack their robot in the Fembots iconic pink crate and it was shipped off to the Championships. We thank the Fembots for their Gracious Professionalism in loaning their crate to a rookie team in need.
A BIG THANK YOU to Volunteers from the FIRST Volunteer Coordinator, Janet McKinley –
"The 2013 Sacramento Regional was a big success, and it could not have happened without the help of more than a hundred volunteers. Dedicated volunteers come from all over – professionals, team mentors and parents, UC Davis students, even FIRST team members.
All of my volunteers are eager to help and make the event run smooth. When there is a need for extra people, teams always come through to help with crowd control and handing out safety glasses in the pits, sometimes for a couple of hours, sometimes for the whole day. And some even come to Volunteer Check-in each day asking if there is anything they can do. It is very encouraging to see the same people volunteering at this event year after year, and equally inspiring to see all the new faces.
It is a great thing to see people volunteering their time to put on a huge event like this. It is even greater to see them smiling, eager to help, for 3 days in a row, and to come back year after year and say thank you for the opportunity. FIRST Volunteers are the best!"
Share Your Stories!
We hope you too had a profound experience at the Sacramento Regional. We'd love to hear your stories. Please consider sharing them with us here in the comments below or on our facebook page. Photo and video links welcome!
Relive the Memories!
- Media and Social Highlights via Storify
- Sacramento Regional pics (from FIRST California Flickr)


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A. You can "seal" your "criminal arrest(s)" for DUI if you received a "Not Guilty" and a "dismissal". However, if you received a "civil" license suspension from either DUI case that will not be sealable and will appear on your Court Purposes Drivers Abstract.
A. When attending a Secretary of State Hearing (both formal and informal) seeking a Restricted Driving Permit or Full Drivers License Reinstatement the burden of proof is on the petitioner to prove by clear and convincing evidence that they have resolved their problem with alcohol or drugs. The Hearing Officer relies on three things: A) the testimony of the petitioner; B) the completed alcohol and drug treatment documents; and C) your driving record. Most denials are a result of conflicting information between the testimony (what you say) and the treatment documents (what the treatment provider said). Any inconsistencies between the two and you will lose your hearing.
The best way to remedy a denial decision is to have a qualified attorney review all of the treatment documents, the denial decision and a recent driving record. In that way any inconsistent information can be identified in advance and corrected before the next hearing. Additionally, the attorney can advise you in advance of the hearing what the likely questions will be and prepare you to answer those questions in the most favorable way. Consistency and preparation are your allies in a successful hearing seeking driving privileges.
A. Unfortunately, it is possible that your underage drinking ticket could be elevated to a DUI. It really depends on the prosecutors review and discretion. Once your case gets to court the prosecutor will receive a police report (a written description of the occurrence) from the arresting officer. The prosecutor can also request a copy of the squad car's dash cam video (a video made at the scene of your police stop and arrest) and a copy of the police station video (a video of you while you were present in the police station being tested and processed). Once these items are reviewed it is still possible to upgrade your case from an underage consumption ticket to a full blown DUI. The best defense to this possibility is to have a qualified DUI defense attorney act on your behalf to minimize the arrest occurrence with the prosecutor to reduce or eliminate the possibility of a DUI upgrade.
and believe that my original evaluation misrepresented my relationship with alcohol.
This is for reinstating my license or obtaining my permit. My case has been closed years ago.
A. Unfortunately being incorrectly rated by the DUI evaluator is an all too common occurrence. The DUI evaluator relies on five things in coming up with a recommended treatment level. They are: A) objective testing of the client, (not a breath or blood test), but objective questions that are put before the client in writing in a test "format", Q & A style; B) the arrest documents from the most current DUI; C) a review of the clients past driving record; D) an oral interview with the client; E) an interview with some other family member or friend to seek verification and corroboration of certain facts. Multiple DUI's, high BAC's, arrests for other crimes, the display of symptoms of alcohol and drug abuse and or dependency, the client's attitude and the client's level of acceptance or denial is all factored into the evaluator's decision.
If your are correctly rated a Level 3 Dependent then attendance at A.A. or some other support group will be mandatory before any hearing officer will grant driving privileges. Participation in such a group shows that you have accepted your disease and are properly addressing it. It will also help convince a hearing officer that you are actively "in recovery" and not actively in "denial". Acceptance is the biggest and most important step of recovery. Getting a sponsor, working the 12 steps, understanding your triggers for relapse and having a relapse prevention plan at the ready will have a great positive effect on getting your driving privileges reinstated in the least amount of time.
If you feel that you are incorrectly rated Level 3 Dependent, then I would contact a qualified DUI attorney who has concentrated in this area of practice and have them review your original DUI evaluation, any DUI evaluation updates, your DUI treatment documents, a current driving record and any past hearing denials. You may have to obtain a new evaluation. The new evaluation will have to identify any past misinformation that the previous DUI evaluator relied upon in determining their incorrect rating. The new evaluator will also have to justify any change in your status with a cross reference to the incorrect information and an explanation as to why it should not be relied upon coupled with their professional opinion that justifies a different treatment level. Then, since your treatment level has changed, you would need to attend and complete the correct level of treatment before participating in a hearing seeking driving privileges.
Courtesy: www.AVVO.com


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Nokia has announced that its latest budget handset, the Lumia 630, is available for sale in Malaysia. The device is retailing for RM549 (around $170), and is available in white, black and yellow color variants.
The Lumia 630 is the first Windows Phone handset to support dual-SIM functionality. Although there is a single-SIM variant of the device, it isn't available for purchase in Malaysia.
Other specs of the Lumia 630 include a 4.5-inch FWVGA display with Nokia's ClearBlack technology, Gorilla Glass 3 scratch resistance coating, Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 SoC with a quad-core 1.2 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 8 GB internal memory, microSD card slot (expandable up to 128GB), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, HSDPA, 5 MP camera at the back (no front camera) and an 1830 mAh battery along with Windows Phone 8.1.
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My friend Lina asked me recently if I'd gotten tired of my blog. I protested that I hadn't, but I think I had, just a bit. But I recently spent a long weekend in San Francisco and got reinspired. I didn't have any culinary epiphanies, despite the city's reputation. In fact, I got seriously annoyed that my favorite bakery, Tartine, is no longer a place to have a quiet breakfast with a paper on a weekday morning. I think it was having an intense, packed weekend of opportunities to share good food with people I love, who I hadn't seen in so long. One of those friends even ended up taking me on an all-afternoon eating tour of the East Bay.
"Zizou" (as she prefers to remain anonymous) did preliminary research, and as you can see, provided a full write-up as well. So I'm not going to repeat everything she said, just highlight my most lasting memories.
1) We went to eleven places!
2) We only ate at eight. The remaining three, we picked up food to eat later.
3) Zizou packed a cooler for stop #3, the meat counter at Café Rouge. She always carries a cooler, "just in case."
4) I had ice cream that rivaled Il Laboratorio del Gelato and I do not say that lightly. The Catalan flavor at Ici, started by the pastry chef from Chez Panisse, was so good, I didn't want it to end. It had a curious flavor that I didn't recognize immediately, a mixture of anise, lemon, and something else that made it special and absolutely inimitable. I ordered it in a cup, to which Zizou said, "What! You want the cone. She'll take the cone," turning to the laughing ice cream scooper. She was right. The hand-rolled cone had a nugget of chocolate at the bottom.
5) Vik's Chaat is as good as I'd hoped all that time I lived in San Francisco and never went there. I especially loved the chapati that came with the hyderabadi fish special—simple, flavorful, chewy, everything a flatbread should be.
6) Tao Yuen in Oakland's Chinatown had crispy, not at all greasy, tofu skin rolls that I would never have believed could come out of a take-out dim sum place. I think they were 50 cents or something equally obscene.
7) We found at the Cheeseboard a bigger, pizza-only place next door to the cheese shop, with an elderly musical trio performing and young, happy Californians spilling out of the restaurant and just sitting on the grassy median in the middle of the busy two-way street. Pizza as excellent as ever. I love San Francisco when it just does its own thing and doesn't worry whether its pizza crust lives up to some NY/New Haven ideal.
8) Taco trucks are the best, always.
I did eat dinner afterwards. I told Anne I had to eat vegetables, and she, former Midwestern carnivore, suggested we go to Greens, where I had a very simple and refreshing salad of greens, celery root, cheese, and butter beans. I was embarrassed that the waiter might think I was the kind of woman who only orders salad, but he praised my choice, saying, "Beautiful! That's my favorite salad!" I was in such a good mood, I only giggled quietly and was thankful for all that the Bay Area had bestowed upon me that day.


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- MandaD
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I know that many of us in long term relationships feel like it's never going to happen as you see EVERYONE else around you get engaged/married… hell, pop out a few kids in the time that you and your SO have only been bf/gf… But, have you ever felt defeated in the aspect of the thoughts of why doesn't he WANT to marry me? You know he loves you, but it just seems like marriage is so far off of thier brains. I had to give him an ultimatum and I feel like I get really upset sometimes thinking about that I had to get to that point, why couldn't he have just done it on his own? Why are some men so eager to marry and others drag thier feet. Lord, we have been together for 9 years and he has always intended to spend "forever" with me, but marriage is just too much?!? I have felt this way far before I gave him an ultimatum… lord knows I really thought about it before I brought it up, and to be really honest, it was more of a joking one… hey dude, you need to do it before 10 years for real!
funny/sad thing is, my best guy friend told me he would propose to his Girlfriend by 3.5 years b/c he refused to put her thru what my guy has done to me! Well, they are married, and i'm still waiting! haha. Boys!


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Learning, Habitats and Play
Franklin Park Children's Zoo
Architectural design for Boston children's zoo expansion
Cambridge Seven Associates provided architectural design for the expansion of the Franklin Park Zoo's children's zoo. Known as "Nature's Neighborhoods," the expanded George Robert White Fund Children's Zoo combines live animal exhibits with emulative and parallel play activities, whole body "safe risk" adventure, and imaginative play experiences. Loosely organized into biome-based live animal exhibit and experience zones, Nature's Neighborhoods explores ecosystem integration and biodiversity by highlighting parallels between human societies and activities with those of the natural world, forging powerful connections between children and the animals they encounter and observe. Working with Zoo New England specialists, C7A led the overall planning effort and concept direction, with landscape and habitat development by Coyle & Caron and exhibit design by Main Street Design.
Franklin Park Zoo opens Nature's Neighborhoods
On September 1, 2016 officials cut the ribbon on Nature's Neighborhoods, the expanded George Robert White Fund Children's Zoo planned and designed by Cambridge Seven Associates, Coyle & Caron, and Main Street Design for the Franklin Park Zoo. Together with …
Franklin Park Zoo's "Nature's Neighborhood," a cure for "nature deficit disorder"
This September, the Franklin Park Zoo opened their newest exhibit, "Nature's Neighborhoods" at the Robert White Fund Children's Zoo. Designed by lead architect Cambridge Seven Associates, landscape architect Coyle & Caron, and exhibit designer Main Street Design, "Nature's Neighborhood" guides …


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Introducing: A New Inventory Control Solution
CheckVentory uses highly innovative mobile technology to enable audits to be assigned, managed and reconciled on one platform, quickly, easily and accurately. It enables customers to utilise existing resources in each of the locations, vastly reducing the cost and time of conducting audits.
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Field Auditing can be needlessly complicated and costly.
That's why we've created a new solution.
Banks that support their customers with mobile asset backed Inventory Finance expose themselves to numerous risks throughout the distribution process.
This financing risk peaks during the stocking and sales processes when the funded inventory is dispersed across a wide dealer network.
To reduce risk, teams of external auditors are regularly dispatched to all stock locations to conduct an inventory audit and reconcile all assets back to the balance sheet. Frequently auditors rely on paper based listings, resulting in needless complications, errors and difficult reconciliation.
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Our team of experts have developed our technology to finally resolve the challenges of auditing ever changing inventories in the field. Our user centric solution compares a dealership's current inventory with information about vehicles sold, collecting asset specific data. Our platform and pricing plans are flexible enough to be shaped to meet your specific requirements and can be one-off operations or longer-term, periodic inspections that help you identify trends and mitigate risk.
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Bible Believers' Newsletter 661
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we especially welcome our new subscribers. If you advise your postal address we will mail a CD of our free PowerPoint presentation, "The Second Coming of Christ." While grace continues please educate yourself and as a labourer in the Lord's garden impart to others the "Good News" of the present Truthwhat Jesus is doing now.
Subscribers will have received an update on the circumstances of our Iranian Brethren, including Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, his wife Fatemeh Pasandideh; Pastor Behrouz Sadegh-Khandjani and his wife, Fatemeh Kojouri Tork; Pastor Behnam Irani Shiraz; Mehdi and Mina Kerbalayi and their mother, Nahid; Brother Afshin, Sister Mahsa, Brother Mid, Sister Nasrin Karaj, and Amin Pishkar who are either incarcerated for the faith or released on bail. Several other families have fled into exile in Turkey. You will appreciate the necessity for prayer, in particular for Pastor Nadarkhani, who has now received the official written sentence of death by hanging, and has about two weeks in which to lodge his appeal.
In our main Article we will be studying the resurrection body.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
Hallelujah Chorus at Macy's
Shoppers at Macy's in Philadelphia were surprised when over 600 choristers mingling with regular shoppers suddenly burst into Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. The Opera Company of Philadelphia was instrumental in bringing it together to perform one of the Knight Foundation's "1000 Random Acts of Culture" which they'll be doing over the next three years across the country. Accompanied by the Wanamaker Organthe world's largest pipe organthe singers burst into song at exactly noon. Full story: creativeminorityreport.com
City of London demands End of Sovereignty for Ireland and the World
November 19, 2010 The City of London and its Inter-Alpha Group of Banks is strangling Ireland, to force the Irish government to take over the debts of the private banks, including Inter-Alphas own Allied Irish Banks. . . The illusion of a 'recovery' since September/October 2008 has depended entirely upon governments taking over the banking systems gambling losses, and pushing the burden of those losses on to the public. . . The flagship [Rothschild's] London Economist similarly says that the purpose of the bailout of the Irish banking sector is to 'make it sturdy enough for some of Irelands banks to be bought up by foreign ones'. . .
Collectively, Australia's banks have $15.195 trillion in exposure to the very 'derivatives' financial instruments that in September 2008 collapsed Lehman Brothers and blew out the global financial system. Meanwhile the central banks in Japan, South Korea, Switzerland and Taiwan have reduced the value of their currencies to make the commodities manufactured in their countries more attractive to foreign buyers, and the US continues to export its inflation by monetizing debt.
Full story: cecaust.com.au
Globalization: Towards Universal Serfdom
April 3, 2008 If four low-wage workers are riding an elevator and Bill Gates gets on, everyone on the elevator becomes, on average, a billionaire. The economic benefits of US-China trade, like the average net worth on that elevator, look good until you consider their distribution.
The gains from trade between the United States and China have flowed to a very small segment of both countries' elites. The gap between the value of what US workers produce and what they receive has widened dramatically, partly because deregulated trade has suppressed the real wages of all non-college educated workers (about 70% of the labor force). Between 1980 and 2005, US productivity rose 71% while real compensation (including benefits) of non-supervisory workers rose just 4%. This measure includes all the benefits of globalization received by these workers. Most of the benefits of growth since 1980 have been captured by the top 10%, especially the top 1%, of US workers. The problem is not trade, per se, but the current trading system which has encouraged a race-to-the bottom in wages and labor standards.
The systematic suppression of workers' rights has reduced Chinese wages by 47% to 85% according to a recent labor-rights petition, and the problems are worsening. Occupational illness and injury rates have never been higher in Chinese manufacturing. Workers are frequently forced to go unpaid, and their complaints and protests are often met with violent government responses.
Fueling China's vast trade surplus with the United States is its very high savings rates, nearing 50% of GDP in recent years. Conventional wisdom is that Chinese workers save excessively because China's pension and public health systems are so poor. However, household savings recently declined to 16% of GDP. Business savings, on the other hand have soared to nearly 24% of GDP and government savings exceeded 10% according to the IMF.
Thus, globalization's benefits in China are reaped by an elite cadre who own and operate private and public enterprises. Their savings are piling up in the net worth of the rapidly expanding business empires under their control.
Getting tough with China about international trade and labor rights violations would help workers in both countries. The Bush administration has rejected two labor rights petitions submitted by the AFL-CIO and US Representatives Ben Cardin and Chris Smith, and workers in both countries have suffered as a result. China needs more spending on infrastructure, environmental clean-up, and public health and other social services. It needs fundamental improvements in labor rights and enforcement, which will raise wages, increase private consumption and reduce China's need to export. These win-win policies can help workers in the United States, China and all our trading partners. Full story: Robert Scott
Comment: Read the links. Globalization benefits only the elite of the City of London's Round Table Group under Rothschild-controlled WTO and IMF. These affiliates control our lives through well-planned psycho-political operations. These psyops rob citizens of the present by creating false reality worlds to trick them not to act in their own best interest but in the interest of a group of subtle fascists intent on creating one Luciferian world order under their control.
South Africa Illegal Kidney Deals tied to Israel
November 13, 2010 Netcare, the biggest health care provider in South Africa, has pleaded guilty to charges of performing illegal kidney transplant operations using Israeli-linked organ trafficking syndicate. . . The suit follows a seven-year investigation into the illegal operations at St. Augustine's Hospital in Durban in association with an Israeli-linked organ trafficking syndicate. . . Other related reports surfaced regarding 25,000 Ukrainian children who had been brought to Israel over the past two years to be used by Israeli medical centers for their "spare parts." Additionally, the Israeli military was accused of stealing the organs of Palestinian prisoners. . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
The Murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Congressman Johnson used legal and sometimes illegal methods to smuggle hundreds of Jews into Texas, using Galveston as the entry port. . . Johnson smuggled boatloads and planeloads of Jews into Texas" (total_truth_sciences).
"It is interesting, but not surprising, to note that in all the words written and uttered about the Kennedy assassination, Israel's intelligence service agency, the Mossad, has never been mentioned. And yet a Mossad motive is obvious. On this question, as on almost all others, American reporters cannot bring themselves to cast Israel in an unfavourable lightdespite the fact that Mossad complicity is as plausible as any of the other theories (US Representative Paul Findley, March 1992).
As recorded in the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy was completely against nuclear weapons technology falling into the hands of the Israelis: "Personally I am haunted by the feeling that by 1970, unless we are successful, there may be ten nuclear powers instead of four, and by 1975, 15 to 20. . . I see the possibility in the 1970s of the president of the United States having to face a world in which 15 or 25 nations may have these weapons. I regard this as the greatest possible danger and hazard."
"[JFK's] personal commitment is apparent in the way he dealt with the Israeli nuclear issue after he assumed office on January 20, 1961. Only ten days later, Secretary of State Dean Rusk gave the president a secret two-page memo on Israel's atomic activities, which noted the 'categorical assurances' obtained from Ben Gurion 'that Israel does not have plans for developing atomic weaponry" (jewwatch.com).
David ben Gurion was nothing more than a dangerous, pathological liar and terrorist. John Kennedy maybe did not see this in 1961, but was almost certainly aware of it by mid-1963. President John F. Kennedy tried to stop Israel from starting a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. In a June 1963 letter to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, he insisted on proof "beyond a reasonable doubt" that Israel was not developing nuclear weapons at its Dimona reactor facility. Though his letter was cabled to the US embassy, Ben-Gurion resigned (citing undisclosed personal reasons) before the message could be physically delivered.
Lyndon 'Lyin' Johnson was a Zionist and hence favourable to Ezra-hell (nuclear weapons of mass destruction given to the enemies of humanity, prolonging and escalating the Vietnam war, allowing the Federal Reserve Bank scam to continue, etc.,), whereas President John F. Kennedy saw the Zionist entity for what it is and would have curbed its power and influence (no nuclear weapons allowed to the enemies of humanity, an end to the Vietnam war, abolition of the Federal Reserve Bank, dismantling of the CIA, etc.,).
The evidence contained within Zapruder's movie points to the murderess being John Kennedy's own wife, Jacqueline, who placed a small handgun either under JFK's chin or just below his left ear and fired a single, low velocity bullet straight up through his brain. Johnson & Co. made sure that they captured this moment, by having it filmed from three different perspectives. (There are other films in existence).
The extent to which the Zionists ensured that this heinous crime against a decent family man was caught on cine film gives some insight into their depraved and spiritually dead minds. No doubt this assassination is gleefully watched by the offspring of the Devil, behind closed doors, to this day.
Notice, for instance, a couple of similarly-dressed men, marked 'A' and 'B' (with an equipment bag, marked 'C'), who are almost certainly CIA operatives. President Kennedy is shot in the head right before their eyes, but they do not even flinch, because they are there to document the event, just as the Dancing Israelis were there in New York City to document the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center (as discussed elsewhere on this web site).
Where is their film? Why were they already set up, just like the Jew, Abraham Zapruder, along a street President Kennedy was not scheduled to go down?
In answer to these questions and in line with the facts presented here, I contend that President John F. Kennedy, arguably the finest United States president of all time, was murdered by David ben Gurion, Lyndon 'Lyin' Johnson, Aristotle Onassis, John Connally and the one who actually pulled the trigger . . . Jacqueline Kennedy, née Bouvier. . .
Full story: realityreviewed.com Comment: This an update of a news item in Newsletter 544.
Chemtrails, Earthquakes, Weather Wars, and HAARP
This is an excellent documentary of the chemtrails scam.
HAARP is actually Ronald Reagan's Star Wars Program that was renamed when Congress refused funding. 360 transmitters each generating 10,000 watts, send 3,600,000 watts to the antennas, which can focus the signal to a point in the sky, which amplifies the signal a thousand fold, giving an effective power of 3,981,000,000 watts, which can then be redirected to Earth.
HAARP's older, 100-fold weaker brother, the Russian Soviet Woodpecker or Duga, was officially a ponadhoryzontalnego radar backscatter (Over-The-Horizon BackscatterOTH-B). The Soviets launched it on the anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1976. [This Cabala and reveals the identity and intent of the Serpent's seed -Ed]. Like HAARP, Russia's Woodpecker has been associated with earthquakes and the destruction of enemy missiles.
In the mid-70's, when the USSR created the Woodpecker, there were high frequency (HF) ionospheric heating experiments at Arecibo, Plattesville in Colorado and Armidale in New South Wales, Australia. It enables underground tomography to locate underground enemy bases, which is why the US Senate approved funding for HAARP. Extremely low frequency (ELF) enable communication with the submarines. And by creating a cloud of atmospheric particles (chemtrails) to act as lenses or other focusing device it is possible to modify the wind currents in the upper atmosphere, and thus manipulate the weather.
"In 1983 we were looking for oil by underground tomography using 30 watts. I found 26 fields in nine states. The method was 100% effective, even though only 30 watts was directed into the rocks. HAARP hits the ionosphere billion watts of energy. Imagine the strings of the piano as layers of the earth. Each has its own frequency. Radio waves sent into the ground vibrate its component strings. We can pick up the sound . . . and identify all minerals by their frequencies with radio waves of just 30 watts. Were we to employ billions of watts, the vibrations would be so violent that the whole 'piano' would be shaken, causing an earthquake." Theoretically, HAARP researchers could discover deposits of oil, gas, gold and other raw materials in a country, after which that state could be attacked by the US under some pretext.
Over the past thirty years man-made earthquakes accompanied by multicoloured luminosity in the skies [this explains the huge coloured balls of plasma that cross Australia from the US basesEd]. These include the earthquake that killed 650,000 Chinese in Tangszan, China, on July 28, 1976, earthquakes in Iran, Indonesia, Chile, Haiti, Turkey, and Pakistan; drought and fires in Russia, volcanic eruptions in Iceland, Russia, and Indonesia; tsunamis; drought and crop failures in Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and in Baluchestan where lakes and wetlands have dried up.
"Since October 1976, the USSR has directed ELF signals from multiple Tesla-like transmitters sending frequencies that correspond to the rhythm of human brain waves in a state of depression. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that these Soviet signals can induce a psychological reaction, and that 60-hertz power transmission lines can absorb and emit Soviet ELF signals.
"Potentially, any information introduced to a person's brain would be processed as internally generated data or responses. Words, phrases, images, sensations and emotions can be directly placed in the minds of living beings. . . Such transmissions can be used to induce depression or irritability in a sample of the population. The use of large-scale behavior modification using ELF waves can have tragic consequences." People, fauna, flora, and Earth itself are all tied to frequencies, the violation of which can lead to disaster.
Dr. Beverly Rubik said, "It is interesting to compare humans with the Earth which has a magnetic field, and people generate a magnetic field, especially in their heart and brain. Each cell contains magnetite which reacts to the magnetic field of our surroundings. HAARP is changing Earth's magnetosphere, which will impact our health and physiology. . . Earth's energy fields and humans are closely related. Like the Earth, we are like balls of electrical and magnetic energy . . . Files 2, 3, 4, and 5 are the most informative: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5. Excellent images of Russia's installations.
Comment: As it was in the days of Noah, man will once again destroy the Earth. This time by fire. It will enable the focus of powerful concentrations of energy such that entire regions of the planet can be desertified. Electromagnetic waves can cause earthquakes and tidal waves. Independently of the sense of hearing HAARP can send sound directly into your brain linking speculation of mind-control with the 700-odd internment camps built and staffed across the USA. HAARP can control extremely low frequency (ELF) waves to communicate with submarines or to penetrate underground to locate raw materials, underground bases and bunkers. These waves can affect the human mind and trigger earthquakes. HAARP can push the upper portion of the atmosphere into space which could change the trajectory of missiles.
The Resurrection Body
In I Corinthians 15 Paul explained the necessity for the bodily resurrection and glorification of the saints for eternal Life, building his case on the example of the Forerunner and Captain of our salvation, Jesus Christ who identified with us in His birth, life and death, and raised His body by faith through His identification with THUS SAITH THE LORD of Scripture (Psalm 16:10; Isaiah 53; John 2:19). Paul cites hundreds of witnesses who saw the risen Christ, most of whom were still living at the time he was writing. They included Peter, the disciples and apostles, and last of all Paul himself when the risen glorified Lord Jesus objectively appeared "also to me" and communed in the glory of the Shekinah on the Damascus road (John 16:27-28; Acts 9:3-9; 12:7).
Paul designates himself as the only "abortion" in the whole company and least worthy of all the apostles because he had persecuted the Church, a sin for which he could not forgive himself. This important statement illustrates that although the Lord forgives and has no more memory of our remitted sins, the forgiveness of sin does not erase our grievous memories; neither does it remove our sense of under-serving unworthiness, but "forgetting those things that are behind us, and reaching forth to those things that are before" we press on with faith in the finished Work to attain to the resurrection of the dead or the translation (Philippians 3:6-14). "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus: for the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the Law of sin and death. . . Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees. Mark out a certain path for your feet, so those who follow, though weak and lame may not fall and be disjointed but rather be healed" (Romans 8:1-2; I Timothy 1:13; Hebrews 12:12-13).
Raise your sights above circumstance and self to the present Truth and its promise by grace through faith.
Paul flatly states that if there is no resurrection from the dead, then Christ is not raised and our faith is in vain, and he sets forth the consequences that flow from the resurrection of Christ, showing that it is but the beginning of a new creation. "But the fact is that Christ has risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of those who [once] slept [and are now entered in with Jesus in His resurrection, and of a rich resurrection harvest of New Testament saints for whom His resurrection is God's pledge and proof]." He proceeds to explain the principle of redemption, whereby that which was lost, borrowed or stolen must be replaced with an identical and acceptable substitute without usury, according to the law of the Kinsman Redeemer described in Leviticus 25:23 55 and illustrated in the Book of Ruth. Hence the life of the first Adam who was a spoken Word made flesh was replaced by the Life of the last Adam, who is the speaker of the Word made flesh. Whereas the first Adam and his seed perish through the unbelief of a deceived woman who listened to Satan's reasoning against God's Word, the last Adam was born through the faith of a woman, and His Seed is reborn of like precious faith. "For inasmuch as death came by a man, the resurrection of the dead is also through a Man. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." Christ fulfilled the Law that requires "life for life" (Exodus 21:12). All whose headship is in Adam partake of his nature and must die, and all whose Headship and nature is in Christ will participate in the first resurrection.
It is important to recognize that Paul is speaking not only of the resurrection of the just, but also of the second or general resurrection. "But every partaker of the first resurrection shall be raised with his own dispensation: Christ the firstfruits, [and two millennia] afterward those who are Christ's at His [unseen (Gk. 'parousia') Coming." This is the first resurrection of Christ's Bride of the nine New Testament dispensations (15:46-58; I Thessalonians 4:16-18), and after the Wedding Supper in the Sky, the resurrection of 144,000 elect Israelite martyrs also, who will step out on the ashes of the wicked for a thousand years of peace (Malachi 4:1-3; Revelation 20:4-5).
"Then comes the end, when Jesus delivers the Kingdom to God, even the Father; after the general resurrection and final judgment and consummation whereby He abolishes all rule and all authority and power (Daniel 7:27; Matthew 25:46). For He must reign, until God has put all enemies under His feet (Psalm 110:1; Revelation 20:7-15; 21:4). And the last enemy, Death [personified as in Revelation 20:14], shall be destroyed [when the resurrection is complete]." Thereafter there will be no such thing as dying and death.
The commission is recorded in Psalm 110:1: "The Lord said unto my Lord [Jesus Christ]: Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies Your footstool" (Psalm 8:6; 2:6-9). And this is the foundation for Matthew 28:18, "Jesus told His disciples: All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth." This being so, where is that Big Fellow God? . . . He is in Christ, for the two are One. John 1:18, "No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has unfolded [the fullness of His nature and character] and made Him known".
In Psalm 110:1 it is quite clear that it is God who is putting Christ's enemies under His footstool, and according to I Corinthians 15:24-27, Christ must reign until God has "put all enemies under His feet." Also from Psalm 8:6, "You made Man [portrayed as the perfect Man in harmony with God] to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You [God] have put all things under His feet. . ." But it is also evident that He who "abolishes every other ruler and authority and power" must be the same as "He who delivers the Kingdom."
Here we see the Supreme Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ revealed in God's threefold purpose. First was to reveal the fullness of His character and nature in One Man under preeminence, which He could only accomplish by becoming a Son of man Himself. Secondly and by this revelation to receive the preeminence in Christ's Body of believers, that He might live and express Himself in them also. And thirdly, to restore the Kingdom to its rightful position whence it fell under the dominion of His Adversary and death as Brother Branham explained in, "Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed".
I Corinthians 15:27-28, "For "He has put all things under His feet." But when He says "All things are subjected to Him," it is clear that God who subjected all things under Jesus is excepted. When all things are subjected to Jesus, then [and not until then (Hebrews 2:8)] the Son, too, will subject Himself to the One who put all things in subjection under Him that God may be everything in every one [in the restoration of all things because we are all under preeminence]" (Acts 3:21).
It is a fact that God and Christ are One, for Christ is the Logos or theophany of God made flesh.
Whereas God expressed the fullness of the godhead bodily in Jesus Christ, "and we are complete in Him" (Colossians 2:9-10), so the complete fullness of the godhead now dwells bodily in His Church, for we, too, are under preeminence to the Headship of Christ in God, and in the renewed heavens and earth God will be worshipped by the "saved" throughout eternity in the form of His glorified Family: Jesus Christ and His many-membered spoken Word Body. As Jesus prayed in John 17:20-26: all God was He poured into Christ; and all Christ is He has poured into His Church. Thus Christ gives the power conferred on Him back into the Father's hands, not to possess it no more but in order to possess it again, as He possessed it before the foundation of the world (John 1:1; 8:58; 17:1-5, 24; Philippians 2:6).
In verses 29 34 Paul returns to the general argument at the beginning of the chapter where he was proving not only the objective reality of Christ's resurrection, but the necessity for Him to live and die according to prophecy and vindicate the Scriptures through His identification by faith thereby resurrecting His own body as Christ's end-time Bride will change her body in the atoms by her faith in His spoken Word.
Our very being is being changed into the image of the glory of the Lord by the Spirit of the Lord which is "Christ in you, the hope of your glorification"ministered to us by angels, both supernatural theophanies, and natural men who will inherit salvation. In Hebrews 2 Paul admonishes us to pay close attention to their THUS SAITH THE LORD lest at any time we should let them slip. For we will not escape punishment if we are indifferent to this great salvation announced by the Lord Jesus Himself and confirmed to us by those who heard Him speak, God also vindicating them with signs, wonders, various miracles and sovereign gifts of the Holy Ghost as we have witnessed personally in the ministry of Brother Branham.
"For He did not subject the renewed heavens and renewed earth under the control of angels, but one of them, the angel or messenger king David, testified in Psalm 8:4-6, saying: "What is man, that You even bother with him? Or the Son of man, that You care for Him? For You made Him only a little less than God; then crowned Him with glory and honour, and gave Him dominion over the works of Your hands: and put all things in subjection under His feet" (as confirmed in Matthew 28:18 and I Corinthians 15:25, 27).
In Jesus Christ, God was only slightly diminished that by the grace of God He should taste death for every man and be exalted again, crowned, and inherit all the things of the world. After His death and resurrection God and man were united in Christ. The Logos had been manifest in flesh, slain and raised for our justification to become Emmanuel"God with us"for eternity. Thus He declared to His disciples, "All power is given to Me in heaven and in earth. Because this is so, go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name [singular] of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost [not three of My many titles or dispensation claims; but My Name, LORD JESUS CHRIST]: teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the world" (Matthew 28:18-20).
The One Person of God changed His dwelling place from a heavenly throne to the Tabernacle in the wilderness, thence to the Temple in Jerusalem (Acts 7:47-48), and from the Temple to the heart of His Son, Jesus Christ (John 2:19-21), as the angel David prophesied in Psalm 40:6-8, "When Christ came into the world, He said, Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, but a body You have prepared for Me: In whole burnt offerings and sin offerings You have taken no pleasure. Then I said, Here I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of Me), to do Your will, O God."
When He said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings," (all of which are offered according to the Law), He added, "Here I come to do Your will," He abolished the first in order to establish the second" (Hebrews 10:5-9), whereby on the day of Pentecost, God spread His tent over the New Testament Church (I Corinthians 3:16). Herein we see the first and second objectives of God's threefold purpose are being fulfilled.
"In that God put everything in subjection to Jesus, He left nothing that is not subject to Him. But as it is we see all things are not yet in subjection to Him" [because people are still dying (I Corinthians 15:26-27)]. "But we see Jesus, who for a short time was ranked a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honour because of the sufferings of death, so that He by the grace of God might taste death for everyone. For it befitted God for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many Sons to glory, to perfect the Captain of their salvation through sufferings. For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified now have the same Father [by our spoken Word new birth]: which is why Jesus was not ashamed to call us brothers when He said through the prophets (Psalm 22:22; Isaiah 8:17-18): "I will declare Your Name to My brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing Your praise." And again, "I will put My trust in Him." And again, "Here am I and the children God has given Me" (John 15:5).
"Since we, God's children are human beingsmade of flesh and bloodGod Himself became flesh and blood by being virgin born in human form; for only as a human being could He die and fulfill the part of kinsman Redeemer for Adam's race, that by means of His death He might destroy him who had the power of death, namely, the Devil; and deliver them who throughout life were held in bondage through fear of death (Romans 8:15; Ephesians 4:8). For it is surely not to the angels that He reaches out to help, but to the offspring of Abraham, therefore He had to be made like His brethren in every respect in order to become a merciful and faithful High Priest in the service of God, and [as kinsman Redeemer] make atonement for the sins of the people. For since He Himself has suffered by being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted".
Having testified to so-called Christians who, like the Sadducees, say there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; or like the Mormons, baptize for the dead, Paul calls on the Corinthians to separate themselves from intimacy with profligate society whose company was apt to corrupt the principles of faith, and "awake" out of the sleep of carnal intoxication into which they have been thrown by the influence of these skeptics (I Corinthians 15:34; Joel 1:5), as through the Message of Brother Branham in this day Christ is calling the wise and foolish virgin to separate themselves from EVERY religious association that is not preaching and living the Message of this hour (Matthew 25:6; I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 18:4). "To your shame certain of you Corinthian so-called Christians maintain contact with those so practically ignorant of God, as to deny the resurrection. They have not the knowledge of God and consequently know not His resurrection power" (Matthew 22:23-33).
Having established the belief in the resurrection of the dead on the grounds of Christ's resurrection, Paul now proceeds to explain the necessity of spiritual death for Spiritual regeneration to eternal Life, and of natural death in the body as the necessary prelude to the physical resurrection of sinner or saint.
The skeptic asked Paul: "How are the dead raised up? What kind of bodies will they have?"
"You simpleton! You will find the answer in your own garden! What you sow does not grow into a plant unless it dies first, and when the green shoot comes up out of the seed it is very different from the seed you first planted. For all you put into the ground was a little dry seed of wheat or whatever it is you were planting, then God gives it a beautiful new body as He determined at creation" (Genesis 1:11). Should the seed remain a seed, that is the end of it; but if it dies it brings forth much fruit (John 12:24). "Every seed shall have its own body, and the plant will be instantly recognized as to its kind. And just as there are different kinds of seeds and plants, so also there are different kinds of flesh. Humans, animals, birds and fish are all different and the diversities in their glory are analogous to the diversity of the present and the resurrection body. The dying and corruption of the human body furnishes no ground for asserting the impossibility of the resurrection".
"There are also celestial and terrestrial bodies and your terrestrial body here is reflecting God's foreknowledge of the nature of your celestial body. If you display malice, envy, and strife, it shows that your celestial body is also down here: a fallen angel. But if your innermost being has become cleansed and purged, it shows you have a theophany reflecting in the flesh. . . If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting" (II Corinthians 5:1-2).
"The Sun has one kind of glory and the Moon and stars have another kind, and the stars differ from one another in their beauty and brightness although they all seem so alike. And as there is such a great variety of forms above, so also in the resurrection of the dead there will be an infinite variety of shapes and sizes, colours and other physical features among the glorified elect, each with its unique splendor. Our earthly body "sown in corruption," and constantly tending to decay, disease and death, will be "raised in incorruption" above corruption and harm, disease and suffering, into a state imperishable and fixed. "It is sown in dishonour," a stinking, broken corpse according to the penalty inflicted by death. It is raised in power in the glorified dignity of the children of God, resplendent in the radiance of its resurrection body, fashioned like unto His Own glorious body without the memorial of scarred forehead, side, back, hands and feet. "It is sown in weakness," a powerless corpse unable to resist corruption. "It is raised in power" such that it overcomes death and the laws of physics, with a fullness of strength and energy which a renewed vitality will confer on the resurrection body, enabling it to execute all the purposes and volitions of the Spirit with the utmost ease and readiness.
"It is sown a natural [animal] body" dependent upon the physical world, by reason of which it is exposed to all we have just described as "corruption," "dishonour," and "weakness" resulting from the Fall, of which death is the catastrophe. The Spiritual body is, on the contrary, free from and lifted above all dependence upon the natural world and its consequences, and displays itself in "incorruption," "glory," and "power." "There is a natural [physical] body, and there is a Spiritual [glorified] body".
John 3:6, "That which is born of the [sensuous, animal nature of the] flesh is carnal (I Corinthians 2:14); and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit." As a result of the Fall everything in us is carnalbody, spirit and soulin antithesis to the Spirit, and tends to sin under the perverse nature of this world under Satan's dominion, but we can be regenerated by the Spirit to purity; hence Jesus prayed, "Glorify Your Son, that He may glorify You: as You have given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal Life to as many as You have given Him" (John 17:1-2; John 1:13; 6:51).
"[If] there is a natural body [ruled by our mortal spirit], there is also a Spiritual [glorified] body [represented by your theophany or guardian angel, your umbilical cord to new Jerusalem, the mind of God and mother of us all]." Brother Branham said, "After you recognize the very Word of God was Eagle Food, then you left the other thing. You've then been formed into the living image of the living God. You heard from your theophany. "If this earthly body be dissolved, we have one waiting" (Who is this Melchisedec, p. 17:88).
"And so it is written: The first man Adam was made a living being [by a mortal spirit]; the last Adam, a Life-giving Spirit." Had Adam abided in the Vine he would have maintained fellowship with God and continued feeding his soul on the Divine Spirit who's higher Life would have glorified the lower making it partaker of immortality without the intervention of death. This Life of the Spirit as it increases in intensity brings our soul "into the unity of the faith" and no longer susceptible to sin (Matthew 24:24; John 8:32; 10:1-5; I Peter 1:23; I John 3:9); it brings our mortal spirit into submission, which in turn brings the body subject and we mature into the stature of the perfect Man. The purpose of this end-time Message is to accomplish precisely this by "the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of our understanding being enlightened, we may know what is the hope of His calling, the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty [resurrection] power" in us as we exercise the 'third pull' (Ephesians 1:17-20).
It is evident that Christ was not made this "Life-giving Spirit" from His birth, but His resurrection, prior to which He was in the likeness of sinful flesh and had a natural or animal body; and it was not until He overcame and maintained Himself sinless throughout all the stages of His natural life in a world of sin that He, who, by a living resemblance, was the representative of a humanity that had become flesh in all its natural susceptibility to sin and death, became in like manner the representative and Head of a humanity glorified through the power of the Spirit (Romans 8:11). And since it was natural to wish that the perfect had existed from the beginning, Paul proceeds to state the law of Divine order:
"It is not the Spiritual which is first, but the natural, [sensual and animal]; and afterward that which is Spiritual." This is the established order necessary to develop humanity in obedience, learning, experience, maturity and wisdom as we have described in the development of Jesus Christ, and "unless we suffer with Him we cannot reign with Him. You have to suffer to reign. The reason for this is that character simply is never made without suffering. Character is a VICTORY, not a gift. A man without character can't reign because power apart from character is Satanic. But power with character is fit to rule. And since He wants us to share even His throne on the same basis that He overcame and is set down in His Father's throne, then we have to overcome to sit with Him. And the little temporary suffering we go through now is not worthy to be compared to the tremendous glory that will be revealed in us when He comes. Oh, what treasures are laid up for those who are willing to enter into His kingdom through much tribulation" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 117:1).
"The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is from heaven." Adam was formed from the dust (Genesis 2:7; 3:19) and therefore perishable. The second man is the glorified Lord at His second or (Gk.) 'erchomai' return from heaven for the millennial reign. "Those who have descended from the man of dust, are of an earthy nature like Adam: as those who are heavenly and belong to Christ wear the likeness of the heavenly in their state of heavenly perfection".
"And as during out earthly life we wore the image of the vile earthy body [as a garment] (Philippians 3:21); from the resurrection at the time of His appearing (I Timothy 6:14-16) we shall wear the likeness of the heavenly" begun here in our souls and perfected at the resurrection in our body (Romans 8:29).
This is how Brother Branham explained I Corinthians 15:42-54: "This old earthly tabernacle here, you know what it is? This body is like an old coat that you wear, a coat that you once wear. But now, you have one so much better, you don't use it any more. What do you do? You hang it in a closet, for you've got one better. You've got a better coat. It's more up to date than the one you used to wear that's worn out. What? It is that garment. You are the inside of that. Remember, that garment only done what? It bore your image. See? But you don't need it anymore now. You've hung it up. It's a rag. And that's the way this old body is. Its bore the image of the heavenly, yet it is not you. You are on the inside of that body. You, the Spirit of God, is on the inside of that body. That's what makes the outside come into subjections, because the inside is pulling it (See?), bringing it in the line with the Word of God: your inside, you, yourself, your being. This body's just an old coat, and someday what will you do with it? For you was only in the garment for a while. That is like the earthly garment, this body, your real body, your real self is on the inside of this old coat, that you call William Branham, or Susie Jones, or whoever it is. See? Someday it will hang in the earth's hall of memory of you. You'll put it out yonder in the grave, and somebody will put a tombstone up, "Here lies Rev. So-and-so, or John So-and-so, or So-and-so." It'll lie there as a memorial of you. The people just seeing you in this, and what you was; your real you, was on the inside of that. But the old coat itself just born the image of the heavenly. Oh, people, have you made reservations to change coats? Have you made reservations for heaven? Remember, you must have reservations. You can't get in without them. I'm talking to you in modern language now. . ." (Things that are To Be, p. 33:106).
Paul concludes his exposition respecting our resurrection body and confirms that we will wear the image of the heavenly by stating, "Brethren: [our mortal nature of] flesh and blood [originating in natural birth] cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable." Therefore the Church Age saints gladly acquiesced in the unrepealed sentence of the holy Law, which appoints the death of the present body as the necessary preliminary to the resurrection body of glory. Corruption does not inherit, though it is the way to, incorruption. And we "die daily" to the flesh and to the world, as the necessary condition to our full adoption. The resurrection body though Spiritual will be a body substantially retaining your personal identity as you were in your prime (Luke 24:39; John 20:27). nl661.htm
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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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