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Three of Cayman's four gymnasts topped their respective levels with 15-year old Igor Magalhaes finishing first among 125 athletes in competition. Magalhaes, a Level 8 competitor, received top marks for all six of his events, finishing with an all-around score of 69.100.
"I feel pretty good. I went in pretty confident and performed how I wanted to," said Magalhaes. "I've got more strength and more confidence. Coach Mikey has helped me on high bars and others apparatuses, so I was able to compete some new stuff.
After competing at the Junior Pan American Championships in June, Cayman's top junior boys' competitor said he hopes his success in Georgia translates to positive results at the upcoming Islands Games in Gibraltar.
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"I didn't compete with the other level sixes, I competed with my teammates, but I think I did very good," said Woolaver. "I think I did good on high bar, and I could improve my rings in getting the order correct."
11-year old Alex Hare was Cayman's third performer to impress in Georgia. Competing in Level 4, Hare finished atop the group of 12, scoring top marks for both rings and vault. Hare said the meet's size allowed him to focus on execution.
"My second meet ever was a really big meet where we competed in a baseball stadium with 4,000 seats," said Hare. "For rings, I thought my holds were good. I stuck my vault, when a lot of people took steps."
14-year-old Karthik Adapa rounded out Cayman's competitors, finishing 3rd overall out of four competitors in Level 7. Adapa was said to be nursing injuries throughout the meet.
Boys and girls amateur gymnasts will return to the mats 8th December for Motions Unlimited's 'Holiday Festival.'


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Trains arrived in the Southwest in 1880 and were objects of fascination and curiosity to all people who had never before seen them. Of course, any depiction of trains has always been desirable to collectors. They are infrequently found and were and are highly valued. This textile has a train with engineer in the lower third. In addition, there are 2 samplers that illustrate variations of a Spiderwoman cross, bordered by regional designs, and there is 1 sampler that has feathers and another design (perhaps weaving combs??) surrounded by a border. The bird (turkey??) and star images were other images that Navajo women used in the late nineteenth to early 20th centuries.
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Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.[1] Cod is also used as part of the common name for a number of other fish species, and some species suggested to belong to genus Gadus are not called cod (the Alaska pollock).
The two most common species of cod are the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), which lives in the colder waters and deeper sea regions throughout the North Atlantic, and the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus), found in both eastern and western regions of the northern Pacific. Gadus morhua was named by Linnaeus in 1758. (However, G. morhua callarias, a low-salinity, nonmigratory race restricted to parts of the Baltic, was originally described as Gadus callarias by Linnaeus.)
Cod is popular as a food with a mild flavour and a dense, flaky, white flesh. Cod livers are processed to make cod liver oil, an important source of vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, and omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA). Young Atlantic cod or haddock prepared in strips for cooking is called scrod. In the United Kingdom, Atlantic cod is one of the most common ingredients in fish and chips, along with haddock and plaice.
At various times in the past, taxonomists included many species in the genus Gadus. Most of these are now either classified in other genera, or have been recognized as simply forms of one of three species. All these species have a number of common names, most of them ending with the word "cod", whereas other species, as closely related, have other common names (such as pollock and haddock). However, many other, unrelated species also have common names ending with cod. The usage often changes with different localities and at different times.
Cod in the genus Gadus
Three species in the genus Gadus are currently called cod:
|Cod in the genus Gadus:
|Common name
|Scientific name
|IUCN status
|Atlantic cod
|Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758
|200 cm
|100 cm
|96.0 kg
|25 years
|Pacific cod
|Gadus macrocephalus Tilesius, 1810
|119 cm
|22.7 kg
|18 years
|Not assessed
|Greenland cod
|Gadus ogac Richardson, 1836
|77.0 cm
|12 years
|Not assessed
Related species
Cod forms part of the common name of many other fish no longer classified in the genus Gadus. Many are members of the family Gadidae; others are members of three related families within the order Gadiformes whose names include the word "cod": the morid cods, Moridae (100 or so species); the eel cods, Muraenolepididae (four species); and the Eucla cod, Euclichthyidae (one species). The tadpole cod family (Ranicipitidae) has now been placed in Gadidae.
Gadiformes include:
|Related species
|Common name
|Scientific name
|IUCN status
|Arctic cod
|Arctogadus glacialis (Peters, 1872)
|32.5 cm
|Not assessed
|East Siberian cod
|Arctogadus borisovi Dryagin, 1932
|55.6 cm
|1.5 kg
|Not assessed
|Eucla cod
|Euclichthys polynemus McCulloch, 1926
|35.0 cm
|22.5 cm
|Not assessed
|Common ling
|Molva molva (Linnaeus, 1758)
|200 cm
|106 cm
|45.0 kg
|25 years
|Not assessed
|Pelagic cod
|Melanonus gracilis Günther, 1878
|18.7 cm
|Not assessed
|Polar cod
|Boreogadus saida (Lepechin, 1774)
|40.0 cm
|25.0 cm
|7 years
|Not assessed
|Poor cod
|Trisopterus minutus (Linnaeus, 1758)
|40.0 cm
|20.0 cm
|5 years
|Not assessed
|Rock cod
|Lotella rhacina (Forster, 1801)
|50.0 cm
|Not assessed
|Saffron cod
|Eleginus gracilis (Tilesius, 1810)
|55.0 cm
|1.3 kg
|15 years
|Not assessed
|Small-headed cod
|Lepidion microcephalus Cowper, 1956
|48.0 cm
|Not assessed
|Tadpole cod
|Guttigadus globosus (Paulin, 1986)
|18.1 cm
|3.5 years
|Not assessed
Some fish have common names derived from "cod", such as codling, codlet or tomcod. ("Codling" is also used as a name for a young cod.)
Other species
Some fish commonly known as cod are unrelated to Gadus. Part of this name confusion is market-driven. Severely shrunken Atlantic cod stocks have led to the marketing of cod replacements using culinary names of the form "x cod", according to culinary rather than phyletic similarity. The common names for the following species have become well established; note that all inhabit the Southern Hemisphere.
- Perciformes
Fish of the order Perciformes that are commonly called "cod" include:
- Blue cod Parapercis colias
- Eastern freshwater cod Maccullochella ikei
- Mary River cod Maccullochella peelii mariensis
- Murray cod Maccullochella peelii peelii
- Potato cod Epinephelus tukula
- Sleepy cod Oxyeleotris lineolatus
- Trout cod Maccullochella macquariensis
- The cod icefish family, Nototheniidae, including:
- Antarctic cod Dissostichus mawsoni
- Black cod Notothenia microlepidota
- Maori cod Paranotothenia magellanica
- Rock cod, reef cod, and coral cod
Almost all coral cod, reef cod or rock cod are also in order Perciformes. Most are better known as groupers, and belong to the family Serranidae. Others belong to the Nototheniidiae. Two exceptions are the Australasian red rock cod, which belongs to a different order (see below), and the fish known simply as the rock cod and as soft cod in New Zealand, Lotella rhacina, which as noted above actually is related to the true cod (it is a morid cod).
- Scorpaeniformes
From the order Scorpaeniformes:
- Ling cod Ophiodon elongatus
- Red rock cod Scorpaena papillosa
- Rock cod Sebastes
- Ophidiiformes
The tadpole cod family, Ranicipitidae, and the Eucla cod family, Euclichthyidae, were formerly classified in the order Ophidiiformes, but are now grouped with the Gadiformes.
Marketed as cod
Some fish that do not have "cod" in their names are sometimes sold as cod. Haddock and whiting belong to the same family, the Gadidae, as cod.
Cods of the genus Gadus have three rounded dorsal and two anal fins. The pelvic fins are small, with the first ray extended, and are set under the gill cover (i.e. the throat region), in front of the pectoral fins. The upper jaw extends over the lower jaw, which has a well-developed chin barbel. The eyes are medium-sized, approximately the same as the length of the chin barbel. Cod have a distinct white lateral line running from the gill slit above the pectoral fin, to the base of the caudal or tail fin. The back tends to be a greenish to sandy brown, and shows extensive mottling, especially towards the lighter sides and white belly. Dark brown colouration of the back and sides is not uncommon, especially for individuals that have resided in rocky inshore regions.
The Atlantic cod can change colour at certain water depths. It has two distinct colour phases: gray-green and reddish brown. Its average weight is 5–12 kilograms (11–26 lb), but specimens weighing up to 100 kilograms (220 lb) have been recorded. Pacific cod are smaller than Atlantic cod[2][6] and are darker in colour.
Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) live in the colder waters and deeper sea regions throughout the North Atlantic. Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) is found in both eastern and western regions of the Pacific.[37]
Atlantic cod divide into several stocks, including the Arcto-Norwegian, North Sea, Faroe, Iceland, East Greenland, West Greenland, Newfoundland, and Labrador stocks. There seems to be little interchange between the stocks, although migrations to their individual breeding grounds may involve distances of 200 miles (320 km) or more.
Atlantic cod occupy varied habitat, favouring rough ground, especially inshore, and are demersal in depths between 20 and 200 feet (6.1 and 61.0 m), 80 metres (260 ft) on average, although not uncommonly to depths of 600 metres (2,000 ft). Off the Norwegian and New England coasts and on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, cod congregate at certain seasons in water of 30–70 metres (98–230 ft) depth. Cod are gregarious and form schools, although shoaling tends to be a feature of the spawning season.
Life cycle
Spawning of northeastern Atlantic cod occurs between January and April (March and April are the peak months), at a depth of 200 metres (660 ft) in specific spawning grounds at water temperatures between 4 and 6 °C (39 and 43 °F). Around the UK, the major spawning grounds are in the middle to southern North Sea, the start of the Bristol Channel (north of Newquay), the Irish Channel (both east and west of the Isle of Man), around Stornoway, and east of Helmsdale.
Prespawning courtship involves fin displays and male grunting, which leads to pairing.[38] The male inverts himself beneath the female, and the pair swim in circles while spawning. The eggs are planktonic and hatch between eight and 23 days, with larva reaching 4 millimetres (0.16 in) in length. This planktonic phase lasts some ten weeks, enabling the young cod to increase its body weight by 40-fold, and growing to about 2 centimetres (0.79 in). The young cod then move to the seabed and change their diet to small benthic crustaceans, such as isopods and small crabs. They increase in size to 8 centimetres (3.1 in) in the first six months, 14–18 centimetres (5.5–7.1 in) by the end of their first year, and to 25–35 centimetres (9.8–13.8 in) by the end of the second. Growth tends to be less at higher latitudes. Cod reach maturity at about 50 centimetres (20 in) at about 3 to 4 years of age.
Adult cod are active hunters, feeding on sand eels, whiting, haddock, small cod, squid, crabs, lobsters, mussels, worms, mackerel, and molluscs.
In the Baltic Sea the most important species are Atlantic cod, herring, and sprat.[39] Many studies that analyze the stomach contents of these fish indicate that cod is the top predator, preying on the herring and sprat.[39][39] Sprat form particularly high concentrations in the Bornholm Basin in the southern Baltic Sea.[40] Although cod feed primarily on adult sprat, sprat tend to prey on the cod eggs and larvae.[41]
Cod and related species are plagued by parasites. For example, the cod worm, Lernaeocera branchialis, starts life as a copepod, a small free-swimming crustacean larva. The first host used by cod worm is a flatfish or lumpsucker, which they capture with grasping hooks at the front of their body. They penetrate the lumpsucker with a thin filament which they use to suck its blood. The nourished cod worms then mate on the lumpsucker.[42][43] The female worm, with her now fertilized eggs, then finds a cod, or a cod-like fish such as a haddock or whiting. There the worm clings to the gills while it metamorphoses into a plump, sinusoidal, wormlike body, with a coiled mass of egg strings at the rear. The front part of the worms body penetrates the body of the cod until it enters the rear bulb of the host's heart. There, firmly rooted in the cod's circulatory system, the front part of the parasite develops like the branches of a tree, reaching into the main artery. In this way, the worm extracts nutrients from the cod's blood, remaining safely tucked beneath the cod's gill cover until it releases a new generation of offspring into the water.[42][43]
The 2006 northwest Atlantic cod quota is 23,000 tons, representing half the available stocks, while the northeast Atlantic quota is 473,000 tons. Pacific cod is currently enjoying strong global demand. The 2006 total allowable catch (TAC) for the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands was 260,000 tons.
Farming of Atlantic cod has received a significant amount of interest due to the overall trend of increasing cod prices alongside reduced wild catches.[46] However, progress in creating large scale farming of cod has been slow, mainly due to bottlenecks in the larval production stage, where survival and growth are often unpredictable.[47] It has been suggested that this bottleneck may be overcome by ensuring cod larvae are fed diets with similar nutritional content as the copepods they feed on in the wild [48][49] Recent examples have shown that increasing dietary levels of minerals such as selenium, iodine and zinc may improve survival and/or biomarkers for health in aquaculture reared cod larvae.[50][51][52][53]
As food
Cod is popular as a food with a mild flavor and a dense, flaky white flesh. Cod livers are processed to make cod liver oil, an important source of vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA).
Young Atlantic cod or haddock prepared in strips for cooking is called scrod. In the United Kingdom, Atlantic cod is one of the most common ingredients in fish and chips, along with haddock and plaice. Cod's soft liver can be tinned (canned) and eaten. Cod is mainly consumed in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Brazil.
Following the early 1990s collapse of Canadian stocks, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) banned fishing for northern (that is, cod to the north and east of the island of Newfoundland, in Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization areas JKL) cod in 1992, which caused great economic hardship in Newfoundland and Labrador. The collapse was blamed on cold water, or seals, and it had even been suggested the cod were really still there; only rarely was overfishing acknowledged, or management's role in that.
The DFO partly lifted its ban in 1997, although the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea noted the poor recovery of Canadian cod stocks.[56] In general, depleted populations of cod and other gadids appear to recover poorly when fishing pressure is reduced or stopped.[57]
In 1998, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) listed the Atlantic cod as "vulnerable", a category subsequently rebranded as "special concern", though not as an endangered species. This decision process is formally supposed to be informed by Reports that are commissioned from authors. Dr. Kim N.I. Bell authored the 1998 Status Report for COSEWIC.[58][59] This was the first such report on a commercial fish species in Canada. The potential designation (from Not At Risk to Endangered) was highly contentious because many considered the collapse of Atlantic Cod had resulted ultimately from mismanagement by DFO. The Report (section: Author's Recommendation of Status) therefore discussed at great length the process of developing a recommendation for the designation. The Report contained discussion addressing points that had been offered by DFO, because although COSEWIC had a mechanism for the 'jurisdiction', i.e. the department responsible for the 'species' (which is defined for this purpose as, effectively, a population), to provide objections to an author, it had no mechanism for those objections to be objectively arbitrated as a matter of science. Rebuttal by authors was, simply, untraditional and unexpected. That is undoubtedly why, prior to the meeting at which the designation was to be decided, COSEWIC had conducted a massive unannounced edit of the Report, the effect of which was to introduce many errors and change meanings, including removing the word few from "there are few indications of improvement", and expunging a substantial section which engaged various objections raised by DFO. When the unauthorised "edits" were discovered by the author COSEWIC was obliged to circulate a letter explaining that it had sent out a version that lacked the author's approval, and had to provide the author's version to members.[60][61] The Report contained, under a subsection "Designation by geographic management units (as preferred by DFO in 1996)", recommendations (or options) for 10 geographic management units, ranging from Not At Risk or Vulnerable (1 mgmt. area) to Threatened or Endangered (5 mgmt. areas) to simply (i.e. offering no choice) Endangered (4 mgmt. areas). In its designation, COSEWIC firstly disregarded population structure and provided a recommendation based on the presumption of a single homogeneous population (which even DFO's own internal documents concluded was unlikely compared to heterogeneity), and secondly disregarded the arithmetic that clearly put declines in high "at risk" categories and applied a decision of vulnerable, a lower-risk category, to the entire species within Canadian waters. COSEWIC not only provided no accounting for the variance of its designation from the Report recommendation, it did not admit that variance. COSEWIC also refused to release the Report, despite that its rules required it to. Bell, the Report author, subsequently stated[62] that political pressure by the DFO within COSEWIC was what accounted for the difference.
In 2000, WWF placed cod on the endangered species list. The WWF issued a report stating the global cod catch had suffered a 70% drop over the last 30 years, and if this trend continued, the world's cod stocks would disappear in 15 years.[63] Åsmund Bjordal, director of the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research disputed the WWF's claim, noting the healthy Barents Sea cod population.[64] Cod (known in Norway as skrei) is among Norway's most important fishery exports and the Barents Sea is Norway's most important cod fishery. In 2015, the Norwegian Seafood Council invited Crown Prince Haakon to take part in opening the year's cod fishing season on the island of Senja.[65]
In 2003, under the new legislative framework of the Species At Risk Act [SARA], COSEWIC placed the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries cod on the endangered species list and Fisheries Minister Robert Thibault announced an indefinite closure in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off Newfoundland's northeast coast. In a 2004 report, the WWF agreed the Barents Sea cod fishery appeared to be healthy, but that the situation may not last due to illegal fishing, industrial development, and high quotas.[66] In 2005, the WWF—Canada accused both foreign and Canadian fishing vessels of deliberate, large-scale violations of the restrictions on the Grand Banks, in the form of bycatch. WWF also claimed poor enforcement by NAFO, an intergovernmental organization with a mandate to provide scientific fishery advice and management in the northwestern Atlantic.[67][68]
In 2006, the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research considered coastal cod (but not the North East Arctic cod) endangered, but has since reversed this assessment.[69] In 2010, Greenpeace International added the Atlantic cod to its seafood red list. "The Greenpeace International seafood red list is a list of fish that are commonly sold in supermarkets around the world, and which have a very high risk of being sourced from unsustainable fisheries."[70] According to Seafood Watch, cod is currently on the list of fish consumers should avoid. In the book The End of the Line, it is claimed cod is an example of how unsustainable fishing is destroying ocean ecosystems.[71]
In a letter to Nature in 2011, a group of Canadian scientists reported that cod in the Scotian Shelf ecosystem off Canada are showing signs of recovery.[72]
Cod has been an important economic commodity in international markets since the Viking period (around 800 AD). Norwegians travelled with dried cod and soon a dried cod market developed in southern Europe. This market has lasted for more than 1,000 years, enduring the Black Death, wars and other crises, and is still an important Norwegian fish trade.[73] The Portuguese began fishing cod in the 15th century. Clipfish is widely enjoyed in Portugal. The Basques played an important role in the cod trade, and allegedly found the Canadian fishing banks before Columbus' discovery of America.[74] The North American east coast developed in part due to the vast cod stocks. Many cities in the New England area are located near cod fishing grounds. The fish was so important to the history and development of Massachusetts, the state's House of Representatives hung a wood carving of a codfish, known as the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts, in its chambers.
Apart from the long history, cod differ from most fish because the fishing grounds are far from population centers. The large cod fisheries along the coast of North Norway (and in particular close to the Lofoten islands) have been developed almost uniquely for export, depending on sea transport of stockfish over large distances.[75] Since the introduction of salt, dried and salted cod (clipfish or 'klippfisk' in Norwegian) has also been exported. By the end of the 14th century, the Hanseatic League dominated trade operations and sea transport, with Bergen as the most important port.[76]
William Pitt the Elder, criticizing the Treaty of Paris in Parliament, claimed cod was "British gold"; and that it was folly to restore Newfoundland fishing rights to the French.
In the 17th and 18th centuries in the New World, especially in Massachusetts and Newfoundland, cod became a major commodity, creating trade networks and cross-cultural exchanges. In 1733, Britain tried to gain control over trade between New England and the British Caribbean by imposing the Molasses Act, which they believed would eliminate the trade by making it unprofitable. The cod trade grew instead, because the "French were eager to work with the New Englanders in a lucrative contraband arrangement".[74] In addition to increasing trade, the New England settlers organized into a "codfish aristocracy". The colonists rose up against Britain's "tariff on an import".
In the 20th century, Iceland re-emerged as a fishing power and entered the Cod Wars. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, fishing off the European and American coasts severely depleted stocks and become a major political issue. The necessity of restricting catches to allow stocks to recover upset the fishing industry and politicians are reluctant to hurt employment.
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See also
- Harold Innis and the cod fishery, for the Canadian industry
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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cod". Encyclopædia Britannica. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 632.
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Further reading
- Dean L.Y. Bavington. Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse (University of British Columbia Press; 2010) 224 pages. Links the collapse of Newfoundland and Labrador cod fishing to state management of the resource.
- Mark Kurlansky. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997)
- Cobb, John N (1916). Pacific Cod Fisheries. Bureau of Fisheries Document. no. 830. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. OCLC 14263968.
- Shields, Edward (2001). Salt of the sea: the Pacific Coast cod fishery and the last days of sail. Lopez Island, Wash.: Heritage House. ISBN 978-1-894384-35-3.
- Four Fish, by Paul Greenberg, ISBN 978-1-59420-256-8
External links
|Look up cod in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gadus.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cod dishes.
|Wikispecies has information related to Gadus
- Codtrace
- fishbase.org – Scientific Names for Gadus
- Fisheries Heritage website, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Long term trends in Norwegian cod fisheries – the pioneers
- Species factsheet on cod from the UK Sea Fish Industry Authority (PDF, 2MB)
"Cod". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.


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The ATL native's known as EarthGang are back. Today the fellas return with a brand new track for our listening enjoyment, serving up another contagious effort called "MARY." The track comes fresh on the heels of their latest single, "Voodoo" and finds the fellas again showing off their unique sounds and talents.
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Part I: The Prophetic Five-Fold Word of 1993:
On the evening of April 15, 1993, while sitting quietly in my living room, I asked the Lord a question, "What is the five fold ministry all about. How is it to work? "
Here is what I wrote down that night:
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The Lord began to show me how He wants His Church, His Body, to represent Him ruling and reigning in this time. Jesus is currently reigning in the heavenlies on the right hand of His Father interceding for His Church, His Body, or the remnants of his earthly body, His true (Spirit and Truth worshipers) believers. His glorified body is sitting by the Father. The Holy Spirit has been activated to get his Bride, the Church, ready to be in a position, condition, or place to be prepared for His Second Coming, so they too can be glorified with Him.
As a child I used to put my hands together, interlocking fingers, and begin to recite, "Here's the church; there's the steeple" while raising my two pointing fingers up. Then I opened my thumbs while saying, "Open the door" as I unfolded my hands showing my interlocking fingers, "and there's the people"! God's Church is still His people. It never was meant to be a building, and never will be. But the Lord is calling His people to the Five Fold Ministry in these end times. He gave me a diagram to illustrate this point. We think of a church building to be in this shape. We put a cross at the top of it to distinguish it from any other building. The Lord is building a building, not in the natural, but in the supernatural. The building has five points. Each point is a member of Ephesians 4:11's Five Fold Ministry. (There is no set position for each office on the diagram. They can be rotated.)
Each house or building or local (national or international) church of believers needs in it at least one apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher to:
1) Equip the saints (vs. 12);
2) Build up the body (vs. 12); until we all attain to: (vs. 13)
a) Unity of faith;
b) Knowledge of the Son of God;
c) Maturity;
d) Measure of Stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
Currently we only have a "measure", but the Holy Spirit wants to lead us towards the "fullness" as He prepares the Bride who will be 'without spot or wrinkle', the glorified Body of the Church in the 'fullness of Christ' for the coming groom at Christ's Second Coming!"
The Lord has assured me that men will make mistakes as the Holy Spirit leads them through this end times process of preparation, for one way man learns is through error. Repentance can only come after a fall or mistake, so He will develop a repentant heart, a repentant Church.
The Lord has shown me how in my life time that He has raised up evangelists, pastors, teachers, prophets, and soon apostles not only locally but of international proportions.
In the 1970's when the charismatic gifts were being poured out, in man's lack of Godly wisdom and understanding, many were seeking "their gift" not knowing that the Lord's desire is for us individually and the Church corporately to grow into the "fullness of Christ", not in meager mustard seed measures. We are, as a Church, to blossom into His fullness, the Bride ready for the groom. In the '90's many will scramble to find "their office", again showing their lack of maturity in Christ. If people scramble to do this, we will only have the shell (see diagram) of another Church structure with no life in it, and legalism will set in, and self appointed "offices" will fight and bicker with each other, and like other empty structures the Church has built in history, it too will crumble.
The Lord showed me that the star stood over where the Christ child lay during his First Coming, and a star will also mark His Second Coming. This star will not be in the heavens above the earth, but inside the framework of the Church. (See diagram) That star, that light, will be the Holy Spirit manifesting Jesus Christ in His Church through the five fold ministry. Each "office" of the five fold ministry can not stand alone, just like a Lone Ranger Christian can not stand alone, but they need to be:
1) Communicating with each other;
2) Accountable to each other (Each office is a point of the star and will keep its point sharpened by the other four!)
3) Serve each other, never Lord over each other. There is no jockeying for positions, for you can rotate a five pointed star and no one is ever always on top. They must give to each other!
4) We will have to learn to receive from each other too!
5) We will have to accept one another as peers, equals, not a hierarchy positioning.
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Your Science Teacher Was Right
Most of us remember from science class what Galileo discovered: In a vacuum, if we drop two objects regardless of weight, from the same height, they will hit the ground at exactly the same time. We don't get to see this often on Earth, of course, due to air resistance.
That's what makes this video of British physicist Brian Cox so special. For his new BBC 2 show, Human Universe, Brian visits NASA's Space Power Facility in Ohio to see what happens when a bowling ball and a feather are dropped together in a vacuum chamber. According to Science Alert, the facility is the world's largest vacuum chamber, measuring 100 feet by 122 feet, and has a volume of 22,653 cubic meters. When not in use, the chamber contains around 30 metric tons of air, but when it's turned on, all but around 2 grams of air are sucked out to create an artificial vacuum.
At UCEC, we love science and technology. This has both, plus the giddiness of NASA engineers and scientists. Enjoy the clip!


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Why Alcoa Popped 4% This Morning
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What: Shares of Alcoa climbed 4% this morning after Goldman Sachs upgraded the aluminum giant from neutral to buy.
So what: Along with the upgrade, analyst Sal Tharani boosted his price target to $11 (from $8), representing about 20% worth of upside to yesterday's close. While momentum traders might be turned off by Alcoa's share plunge earlier this month -- fueled by concerns over aluminum price pressure -- Tharani believes Mr. Market is undervaluing the company's less price sensitive, high-margin segments.
Now what: Goldman expects Alcoa to add more than $2 billion of revenue and $525 million of EBITDA to its mid and downstream businesses over the next three years. "Alcoa's downstream businesses, particularly Engineered Products, are less aluminum price sensitive and we see upside in Alcoa despite our lackluster outlook for aluminum supply demand fundamentals," noted Goldman. "In addition, we see further upside beyond our current estimates from the automotive market through growth in 'body-in-white' body sheet, as well as from aluminum-lithium in aero." Of course, with the stock flirting with its 52-week highs today and trading at a forward P/E in the mid-20s, I'd wait for some of the excitement to fade before buying into that bullishness.
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Normally, on a Friday after work, I don't put off going out to a pub until after nine o'clock. Normally, I prefer to run home, eat something quick, or perhaps dine out, and then dive in as quickly, spending as much time as possible striving for a late and somewhat painful awakening on Saturday.
Today, I do not have that luxury. I have to be home until sometime after eight o'clock, because I had problems with ordering in vietnamese food last night. It's true. Friday called me after work to see if I wanted to meet her at our favourite sushi joint this evening, and when I explained to her why I had to turn her down, she said that if this was just some story being related to her about a past event, she wouldn't believe it. This is because my reason for missing out on a sushi dinner which I really want to be at is really stupid.
Last night, I ordered in vietnamese food, because I just couldn't go without this certain restaurant's barbeque pork fresh rolls another night. They are divine. I had taken cash out earlier yesterday just for this occasion. After just over half an hour, my telephone rang, and I let the delivery guy into the building. I relate that part, because each little event leading up to the moment where I start dipping the barbeque fresh rolls into the sweet peanut sauce is foreplay. He knocks on my door. I open it a crack to make sure it's who it's supposed to be (you never know when you'll become the victim of some horrible crime), and the smell of my dinner breezes in, teasing my olfactory system with its damp heat. No, really, this is exactly what happened.
I then opened my door the rest of the way and went to find my wallet. I found my wallet. I opened it to pull out the twenty dollar bill that I knew was in it. It wasn't. Just a second, I said, it must be in my other pants. I then went through two pairs of pants. Nothing. What the bloody hell?! How could the Universe be so freaking unreasonable after the blessed teasing of those soft, soft fresh rolls hanging there from the delivery guy's fingers in that nearly see-through bag?!
He seemed to be watching my frantic hunting with amusement and finally said, Iss okey. You haff now, I come bag tuhmowuh. Who is that nice? Delivery Guy is that nice. I nearly wanted to hug him. He handed me my food and said that he would be back at the same time tomorrow, meaning today, to get the money. Do I love him? I think I might.
So, I explained all of this to Friday, that I had a date with Delivery Guy around eight o'clock, and she seemed to be understanding about my inability to meet her for sushi. I will make do with the excellent pad thai that came with my fresh rolls.
I do hope Delivery Guy shows up soon, though, because beer, sweet beer, is only five minutes from this apartment, and as much as I am looking forward to our brief date, the lure of a hopsy beverage is awfully enticing.
While I am sitting here waiting for the delivery guy to show, I will construct a short list of reasons why I should pay someone else to dye my hair, except that I'm way too cheap that way and would never do it:
1. I own what I think of as hair-dyeing contacts. I always wear glasses, except for when I dye my hair. I have this really old pair of contacts that I put in when I do it so I can see where the hell I am squirting the dye. It can be exponentially more difficult without them, because I have only about five inches of clear vision unaided. Because I only wear the contacts once a month, I ended up fumbling while attempting to get them into my eyes, and they got stuck to the sink, the mirror, my cheeks, my eyelid, the tap, and the contact solution bottle. Now I've got the rosy eyes of a pothead. Lovely.
2. While trying to get the dye into my hair, I squirted the mirror, my shoulders, the inside of my left ear, the sink, the toilet, the floor, my feet, and my left boob. I now have an orange splotch above my left nipple. Maybe I'll wear a low-cut shirt tonight so people can stare and comment on my interesting birthmark.
3. I managed to stain the shower curtain and the wall behind the showerhead. Hair dye is obviously more obstinate than I am, because I can't get it off and I'm contemplating using the leftover dye to create more random spots to make it look intentional.
"Eating Poetry" by Mark Strand
Canada, just make gay marriage really and truly legal already!
"Hot Sex Treats Common Cold" (This news site always has amusing science reporting).
Smoking will make me stupid.
Mexico is set to unveil a human rights initiative.
Wangari Maathai, this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is an environmentalist who urges democratic reform and an end to corporate greed.


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Arstechnica has a great article about why the MacTel switch and why there's more to it than Mr. Jobs' "perf/watt performance road map." Here's my favorite bit:
But they didn't jump ship for performance or performance/watt reasons. They jumped ship because they no longer care about making leading-edge computer hardware. They also don't care about PC market share, or any of that other G3-era Mac Faithful malarkey. From now on, merely "good enough" is good enough for the Mac line, and the real innovation will come in the form of post-PC gadgets and entertainment-oriented, techno-cool doohickeys.
It's anyone's guess what Apple will do, but it's certain their options are pretty open. If the PowerPC becomes important, the could use it and switch back. If the Intel really does gain, they've made the right bet. By moving to Intel, the performance comparisons become much more meaningful and not so full of caveats. If their deal with Intel gives them cheap access to chipsets they need for their "next big thing", it sure is nice that the open ended question: "Will Apple license their OS to other hardware vendors?" will continue to taunt Microsoft and pundits alike, even if they never pull the trigger. What's more clear now, is that what we heard Jobs preach, was much more like a favorite short story of old.


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Wheat has become a serious issue for many people. The
documentary investigates why eating wheat for thousands of years has been linked to increase of wheat intolerance creating many health problems. The documentary includes 15 in-depth insightful interviews with world renowned experts in this field.
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Theatrical lighting equipment has changed so much over the last century. As in our personal situations, stage technology is changing at an exponential level. Some people will say it is great and others are not happy about it at all. Suffice it to say that change is here and it will always be here. Either embrace it or become obsolete.
I think having the ability and artistic sense to be able to blend technologies is incredibly important. Years ago I was designing a series of A Christmas Carols at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson NY. A Christmas Carol is a story that lends itself to magical moments and visual interest. Much can be done with good old fresnels and lekos. Choosing the right color, shape and direction can help set the environment that moves the story along. Can they be helped with adding some new technology? Hecky Doo – YES! Back then, having color scrollers was "new" technology. Imagine it though. Now instead of that light only having one color, I could choose between ten or fifteen colors. Then what about this new swanky thing called a gobo rotator? Now I can have Marley being sucked into his world of hell with a spiraling gobo instead of just a red or green light uplighting him.
Check out this very informative video to see more on today's new spot technology.
My point to this story is that in the productions I was doing, I went ahead and invested in some actual moving light spots. With these units I was able to have the Ghost of Christmas Present glow every time she gave a blessing. The Ghost of Christmas Past was able to walk around at all times surrounded by an aurora borealis effect. Then when the Ghost of Christmas Future came out, I was able to have so many lightning bolts happening in so many varied places that could never could have happened before. Those sort of effects greatly helped the show. Those sort of effects are also fairly obvious.
In today's world of Broadway, LED Wash Units and Moving LED Spots are common place in the rig. It is the designer that uses them with the idea of correct style that really impresses me. Recently I saw Ken Posner's lighting for Cinderella. Now what I am about to say is not because I know Ken. I actually haven't seen him since undergraduate days. His work is elegant. He blended the sensibility of Rogers and Hammerstein's music with today's, and yesterday's technology. If you are a lighting student or just someone who loves lighting, please go see it. Sure, everyone thinks the costume changes are the star of the show, and yes they are amazing, but Ken's work is just wonderful. Each and every scene is visual excellence.
My point to this blog is that you can use the color options of the LED's and the moving options of moving lights without them just being a Rock Concert. If you're careful in your choices, you can make them match any style you need to do. Just because a LED fixture can put out a really saturated dark blue with huge vibrancy doesn't mean you have to use it. I guess the real trick always comes down to understanding style.


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Cold Case Hammarskjöld
A documentary that plays like a first-rate thriller hinging on key issues of the Cold War and African decolonization.
A documentary that plays like a first-rate thriller hinging on key issues of the Cold War and African decolonization.
There's an honest heart beneath the racy laughs.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article celebrating the one-year anniversary of our first female editor at RogerEbert.com, Nell Minow.
An article about the Chicago Stories Gala presented by Victory Gardens Theater on October 5th, 2019, presenting debuting playwrights Chaz Ebert and Stacy Janiak, and…
From a childhood of pain, a lifetime of art.
Appreciating the art of one of the greatest documentary filmmakers.
A reappreciation of a Billy Wilder classic.
FFC Seongyong Cho looks back at Alan J. Pakula's twisty thriller Presumed Innocent.
A reappreciation of a Billy Wilder classic.
A review of Netflix's brilliant Mindhunter.
An early shot in "Being Flynn" shows Robert De Niro behind the wheel of a Yellow Cab, and the ground shifts beneath the movie. To summon up his most iconic role must represent De Niro's faith in this film. I can understand why he felt that much faith in the project, but I'm not sure the film deserves it.
De Niro plays Jonathan Flynn, in his own estimation one of the three greatest American writers (the others: Mark Twain and J.D. Salinger). He claims publishers have been bidding fortunes on his work in progress, but we follow his decline: He loses his apartment, loses his cab and is reduced to hanging out in the well-heated lobbies of buildings.
We learn about him from his son, Nick Flynn (Paul Dano), who also intends to be a great writer; there are two voiceovers in the film, one by Jonathan, one by Nick, although Nick may be writing his father's narration. There is a real Nick Flynn, who first told this story in a 2005 memoir, Another Bull**** Night in Suck City (asterisks mine). Whether his real-life father was a writer I've been unable to determine, but we know his parents were divorced when he was young, his mother killed herself when he was 22, and he actually did go to work in a homeless shelter, where he met his father for the first time when the old man turned up looking for a room for the night.
If you want to be a writer and something like that happens to you, it's inevitable that it will turn up in a book. By all accounts, the memoir is a powerful piece of work. Throughout the film, Nick's subtext is: Am I doomed to be a failure like my dad? Nick tells us his father was mostly absent during his childhood — in prison for bad check writing. His mother (Julianne Moore) explains this to the boy as well as she can. Alcohol is the problem of the father, cocaine becomes the problem of the son. Assuming such a life doesn't kill you, it reads nicely in those little authors' biographies on the insides of dust jackets: The author overcame drug addiction and worked in a homeless shelter before winning a Guggenheim.
What's admirable about "Being Flynn" is that it doesn't cave in to the standard Hollywood redemption formulas, with the father redeemed and the son inspired. It's more complicated than that. Jonathan Flynn perhaps has mental problems or simply likes to prevaricate; does he really believe in his greatness? As for the son, his childhood memories seem limited to repeated games of catch and rummaging through a box full of letters that Jonathan sent from prison. Julianne Moore plays a loving mother, but not much is done with the character.
Paul Dano is an actor who can be distant and mystifying. He makes it interesting. He sometimes approaches a scene with passive aggression. He understands the material, he understands the character, but he isn't going to do the heavy lifting for us. In films like "There Will Be Blood," "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" and "Meek's Cutoff," he plays the silent dissenter to the dominant characters.
In "Being Flynn," Nick uses his writing to express feelings he isn't forthright about in life. When Jonathan unexpectedly materializes, he's at a loss, and his feelings are the subject of the film. De Niro's father is a man who has run out of options. There is no longer anyone who much cares if he's telling the truth. Nick, however, has a girlfriend named Denise (Olivia Thirlby) who cares for him and sees that he needs to be doing something. She works at the homeless shelter and persuades him to give it a try. She perhaps instinctively spots Nick as one of those "writers" for whom it's hard work, not writing every day.
I'm happy that the film didn't settle for the Hollywood redemption formula, but ambivalent that it leaves us in suspension. Neither character is ready to have his chance meeting result in anything definite. Jonathan seems doomed. That would be the film's easy way out, but it isn't sure which way it should take. In a sense, director Paul Weitz ("About a Boy") has the same kind of passivity that works for Dano: He'll take us so far and leave us.
Robert De Niro has been through a bad patch lately. His contemporary Al Pacino has moved from one success to another by going out of his way to choose challenging projects ("You Don't Know Jack," "The Merchant of Venice"). De Niro, perhaps absorbed in his Tribeca enterprises, has seemed to drift. He and Weitz worked together on "Little Fockers," not a high point for either one. Now here is a much more ambitious film that almost but not quite justifies the hope inspired by that shot of a Yellow Cab.
Note: The incomparable Lili Taylor, seen in the homeless shelter, is Nick Flynn's real-life companion.
A review of Amazon's new anti-superhero series The Boys, which premieres on July 26.
From a childhood of pain, a lifetime of art.
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Church leaders emphasize need for repentance, atonement for Korean peace
Dec 5, 2017
Church leaders seeking peace on the Korean Peninsula emphasized the need for "repentance and atonement" between North Korea and South Korea.
After Marawi, terrorists remain threat in Philippines, officials say
Nov 2, 2017
The threat of violent extremism remains in the Philippines even after the end of a five-month siege by terrorists in a southern city, said Catholic and Muslim officials.
Philippine Christian leaders join to help rebuild Muslim-majority city
Oct 30, 2017
Christian leaders in Philippines have banded together to help rebuild Marawi, a Muslim-majority city in southern Philippines damaged by five months of occupation by terrorists.
South Korean Catholics hope new president can unify nation
May 10, 2017
Catholics in South Korea have high expectations for unity, equality and an end to corruption under the country's newly elected president, Moon Jae-in.
Manila protesters call for end to APEC
Nov 19, 2015
Aid workers assess areas hit by typhoon as Philippines gets more rain
Oct 20, 2015
Philippine advocates plan to use 'Laudato Si'' to energize their work
Aug 20, 2015
Philippine bishops mull establishment of climate change desk
Jul 8, 2015
Agencies prepare response as powerful typhoon takes aim on Philippines
Dec 4, 2014