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Saint Paul
Saint Paul (Hebrew: שאול Shaul "asked [of God]") Apostle of the Gentiles, also known as Saul of Tarsus. Never having seen or met Jesus himself in the flesh, he was suddenly visited by Jesus while on his way to persecute his followers at Damascus. Paul saw a blinding white light and fell to the ground as Jesus talked to him asking Saul why he was persecuting him, then telling him to go into the city where he would be told what to do. Paul got up, but when he opened his eyes, he found he was blind. Being led by the hand into the city by the men who were with him, for three days Paul could not see and would not eat or drink. But a stranger named Ananias came to see him, a follower of Christ, having been led by God in a vision to where Paul was staying. Placing his hands upon Paul as God told him to do, Paul was cured as he acquired faith in Christ, and something like scales fell from his eyes. Paul became baptized that very day. (Acts 9:1-19). This incident is called the Road to Damascus experience.
He later claimed to have been "a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless," (Philippians 3:5b-6) and a student of the esteemed rabbi Gamaliel (Acts 22:3) As such, he originally hated the Christians and took a lead in persecuting them: specifically, he was "in hearty agreement" with the stoning of saint Stephanus (Stephen). After conversion he undertook a series of missionary journeys to the gentiles. These were dedicated mainly to spreading his own particular version of Jesus' message - one that freed gentiles from the necessity of observing the Jewish Law, reportedly much to the scandal of the official Church at Jerusalem.
Paul had an historic conflict with Peter, who initially felt that Christianity was meant only for Jewish people. Their conflict was resolved by a convening of early Christians in Jerusalem, and Paul's approach prevailed: Christianity was to be spread to the entire world, both Jewish and Gentile.
Feastday: June 29.
Apostle of the Gentiles
Because the liberating effects of his message caused much unintended immorality and uncertainty among his gentile converts, many of whom promptly gave up their jobs and other commitments in expectation of the imminent Last Days, Paul wrote many letters to his various 'churches' on a wide variety of subjects, including the essential kerygma or preaching thrust of what was to become Christianity. He was also a proponent of the idea of agape, or universal, unconditional compassion, as referred to at 1 Corinthians 13:1-13. Thirteen of these letters were subsequently incorporated into the New Testament: Romans, I Corinthians, II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, I Thessalonians, II Thessalonians, I Timothy, II Timothy, Titus and Philemon.
Authorship of Epistles
According to most professional scholars and historians, Paul did write 1 and 2 Corinthians, Philemon, Romans, 1 Thessalonians, Galatians, and Philippians. All of the other letters (1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Ephesians, 2 Thessalonians and Colossians) were not actually written by the Apostle Paul, but rather, were forged by people claiming to be Paul.
Last years
During the last years he intended to visit Spain (Romans 15:24), Lycus, Laodicea, Collusus and Hierapolis. He also went to Crete, Ephesus and Macedonia.
Saint Paul was arrested (Acts 21:27- 28:31); he was accused of bringing Gentiles into the temple. Paul appealed to Caesar (his right as a citizen) and he was sent to Rome for a Roman trial. The Biblical account leaves off before the trial takes place. St. Paul was brought to Rome, but Nero was the Emperor and after the Rome fire where he blamed the Christians to deflect attention from himself, he was an ardent persecutor of the Christians, killing many. St. Paul was martyred near Rome at the Aquae Silviae. St. Dionysios the Corinthian says that St. Paul and St. Peter were martyred at "about the same time." It is believed that St. Paul died aged 68 having served the Lord for some 35 years.[1]
St. Paul was a profound religious thinker; he has had an important formative influence in the development of Christianity.
In art, St Paul is traditionally depicted in red and green robes, wearing a beard and holding a sword. He often appears alongside St Peter.
See also
External links
- Apostles
- Historical Evidence and the Apostle Paul's Shipwreck
- Cruden, A., Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments (Lutterworth, 1930)
- Cross, C., Who Was Jesus? (Hodder & Stoughton, 1970)
- The Holy Bible (King James Version)
- James, M. R., The Apocryphal New Testament (Clarendon, Oxford, 1953)
- The New English Bible (Oxford & Cambridge University Presses, 1970)
- The New Jerusalem Bible (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1990)
- Lemesurier, P., The Armageddon Script (Element Books, 1981)
- Peake, A.S., Commentary on the Bible (Nelson, 1962)
- Schonfield, H. J., The Passover Plot (Hutchinson, 1965)
- Schonfield, H. J., The Pentecost Revolution (Macdonald, 1974)
- Schonfield, H.J., Those Incredible Christians (Bernard Geis, New York, 1968)
- Vermes, G., Jesus the Jew (Collins, 1973)
- Young, R., Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible (Lutterworth, 1939)


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Bielefeld University is one of Germany's strongest research universities within a focussed spectrum of transdisciplinary fields encompassing not only the humanities and social sciences but also the natural and technological sciences. One confirmation of this is given by the Excellence Initiative with which the German federal and state governments are promoting top-level research in Germany. Bielefeld University has been hosting a Centre of Excellence on Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) and a Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS) since 2007. CITEC is receiving 6.5 million Euros a year; BGHS more than one million.CITEC - Cognitive Interaction Technology
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Everything from everyday appliances to robots: researchers at the Cluster of Excellence Center in Cognitive Interactive Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University develop technical systems that are intuitive and easy to operate for human users. Future technology should adapt to the human user ? not the other way around.
Since 2007, researchers have been investigating the scientific principles necessary for endowing machines with cognitive abilities. These machines should be able to interact naturally with people and adjust to changing situations. Researching the scientific foundations of cognitive interaction technology, a research area founded by CITEC, is the necessary pioneering work.
Interdisciplinary research activities at CITEC are organized into four main areas: motor intelligence, attentive systems, situated communication, and memory and learning. Our round about 250 members hail from 31 research groups and five faculties: Biology, Linguistics and Literary Studies, Mathematics, Psychology and Sports Science, and Technology.
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Individuality, internationality and personal initiative - at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology these attributes are strongly emphasized. 130 doctoral candidates of history and sociology study and research here together under one roof. They profit from the broad thematic variety BGHS has to offer. Historical and political processes of change are some of their main research fields as well as current social issues. However, uncommon dissertation intentions are also welcome here at BGHS. For example, the spirituality in yoga or the exploration of the urban prison system in the late Middle Ages and in the incipient Early Modern Period.
The graduate school considers itself as a researching community of doctoral candidates and professors. That is also what the bottom-up principle stands for, which emphasizes personal initiative and codetermination of the doctoral candidates. They organize workshops and conferences of their own and have an influence on the content of teaching. This is how a culture of creativity and exchange is established, in which young scientists can lay solid groundstones for their future careers.


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Each week when I sit down or lie down with my laptop, well, on my lap, I wonder how I can make some of the same messages new and more interesting for all of you. After writing 650 blogs, there aren't many subjects we have not touched upon. Since there are always new readers, some of what I have to say will be fresh to them but stale to those of you who have been with me a long time. Therefore, it is a challenge to say many of the truths and lessons I've learned over and over in a whole new package as I share them with you. I've never been accused of being boring, so let's see if once again we can discuss some of the universal truths that come along with a life of chronic pain.
A couple of days ago I went to pick up my granddaughter from her school bus near her home. I love the color and joy of that experience as tiny children disembark in Disney jackets of bright colors, hats of all description pulled down over their ears, half-empty lunch pails clanking in colorful backpacks. Then we drove over to our house to meet her brother's school bus which arrives about twenty minutes after hers. He gets off near our house on the days they visit me. Some days she wants to race home to my house and make a quickly eaten butter sandwich; her choice, not mine. When it's sunny, as it occasionally is here in Oregon, we walk the block to meet my grandson. This week it was raining and we decided to drive over and wait for him. She wasn't hungry and she wanted to chat. I love seven-year-olds. They just open their mouths and let their brains spill; at least this one does. Our conversations aren't cataclysmic or perhaps important to anyone else but they are to us. She always starts by saying, "Nana, guess what happened?" She doesn't really want me to guess because she's bursting with some news of the day, but I guess anyway. I said, "Okay, don't tell me. A fly flew into your mouth at recess?" She replies, "No, but there was one in my room the other day." And we're off. I love these full of life conversations with children. We use that time to chat, to play "I spy with my little eye. Then she shouts out, "I spy something yellow." It's her brother's school bus. We get out of my SUV and she runs to meet her nine-year-old brother screaming, "Bubba!" She hugs him as he tries to escape her grasp. Feigning embarrassment, he puts up with her and thus another greeting is completed. This particular day, there was a man fishing in a large empty field which is directly across the street from our home. My grandson said, "Nana, why is that man fishing in that field?"
It was a bit peculiar to watch until I realized he was practicing his casting for fly fishing with the long casting line. I called out to him, "They haven't stocked that field yet." Great line, but he didn't hear me or chose to ignore me but the children then understood. We came home to chips and cheese, popcorn and a rousing game of tic tac toe along with a good movie. We watched RIO this week. Love that film. It's so colorful and full of life.
My grandchildren don't care if I have to lie down. They only seek my company, my love and my attention. Don't you wish the rest of the world was like that? Acceptance by well-meaning friends and strangers is difficult to find. I've learned if I'm too cheerful or use too much humor they don't think I'm really hurting. If I'm in a miserable state and find it hard to find a smile, they tell me to cheer up. There is so much going on inside of me on most days, I really wish I literally had a window on my soul. If I had a window I could tell them, "Take a look!"
When I recall where I've been over the last twenty years I am often amazed to still be here. I also gaze in sheer wonderment at how much I've changed. It's difficult to describe to others who have not traveled this journey. They don't know what they have not seen. They haven't trekked the trails you and I have therefore, they don't know the view from here.
I love metaphors. I use them often and love the descriptive pictures they paint. I have thought in the past if I was a tree, I'd be one of those huge, old Spruce trees struck by wind or lightning, one half dead while the other half is sprouting new growth. If I was a hairdo, I'd be full of new highlights even while losing a bit of hair each day. If I was a sky I'd be full of passing clouds trailed by sunlight. If I was a dog I'd wag my tail while I limped. If I was a child I'd scream at the doctor's office.
I suppose each of us is all of these things, are we not? We battle discouragement on a daily basis. We have to overcome fear and helplessness while we drag our pain with us, everywhere we go. My dear, funny husband has an old expression he uses on the occasion of seeing a jet flying overhead. It is, "Man, I wish I was in that plane and he was down here with a wart on his ass." His words, not mine. Don't blame the messenger.
It's okay for us to want to be somewhere else, or to want to be someone else, but at the end of the day we need to reward ourselves by being the best with what we have been given. New talents are waiting to be explored. We need to reach, not withdraw. We need to accept what we must and fight against the rest. Some newly blinded folks develop radar. Let's work on our radar today. Try something new. Buy some new food you've never tasted. Speak to a stranger at the store just to say "Have a good day." I'm going to make dried sweet potato treats for my dogs today. The ones from China have me frightened as to their purity due to a recent recall. I have to go to the market then I'm rewarding myself with a lie down. I'll talk to some of you via this blog, others by email. Life pulls me onward. Come play and find your own metaphors. Life can't always be about our pain.
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Eagle Personnel, Inc. is a new staffing company. I'm looking for a logo for use on the forthcoming website, payroll checks, invoices, letterhead and business cards. Eagles soar above others and have outstanding vision to spot the right personnel for our clients. I am partial to blue being part of this logo but am open to suggestions. I will provide feedback on color schemes presented.
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text: TROY -- Police are investigating the city's first homicide of the year after an incident at Lansingburgh's Corliss Park residential development, said Troy Police Capt. Daniel DeWolf. A young male, late teens to early 20s, was stabbed in the chest a little after 6 p.m. Monday. When police arrived at the scene, he was found on the second floor of Building 19's Apartment 6, said DeWolf. The man was in distress and the Troy Fire Department provided medical assistance at the scene. He was then transported to St. Mary's Hospital and was listed in critical condition. The unidentified victim died soon after, police said. About a dozen crime scene investigators, detectives and employees with the Troy Housing Authority were the scene Monday night. The Troy Police, utilizing the Mobile Command Center, were working on getting a search warrant so they could examine the apartment further. Interviews were conducted of people who were in the apartment when police arrived, said DeWolf. It is unclear how many live in the apartment. A motive is not clear but there were initial reports that the stabbing occurred due to a home invasion. DeWolf could not confirm or deny this but said that from the initial assessment it did not appear that anything was taken from the house and so a robbery or home invasion was unlikely. There are no known suspects and no one was in custody as of Monday night. The police canvassed the neighbors and no one appeared to hear or see anything, said DeWolf. Some nearby neighbors told The Record they were in the shower or listening to loud music when the incident occurred. Marianne Craver, of Building 18 Apartment 4 across a yard from Building 19, said she had lived in the complex for four years and was living there when a shooting occurred down the street a couple years back. "But this is a bit too close for comfort," she said, while holding her 7-year-old son. The unidentified residents of the Apt. 19-6 had already decorated for Valentine's Day. The front door, which faced the road, was adorned with red and pink hearts which stood out against the yellow police tape. Police said the investigation is ongoing. Danielle Sanzone may be reached at 270-1292.


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scrape (someone or something) together
To find and gather or collect (things or people) from various sources or locations. I managed to scrape together enough cash to get a bus out to Vancouver to see my girlfriend this weekend. How are we ever going to scrape enough people together to form a team by this weekend?
scrape someone or something togetherand scrape someone or something up
Fig. to find and collect something; to locate and assemble a group of people or things. (Based on scrape something up.) Fm sure we can scrape up someone for the job. Mary scraped a few dollars together for some new books. John barely scraped up enough money to pay his rent.
scrape something together
to gather things together by scraping. The waiter scraped all the crumbs together and removed them from the table with a little gadget. Karen scraped together all the trimmings and set them aside.
scrape together
To accumulate or produce something with difficulty: We scraped together just enough cash to pay for the pizza. The kitchen was so empty that we could barely scrape a meal together.


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I have an old laptop that I use for 'experimental' purposes. When I say old, that is all relative really, some people would consider it fairly well equipped, dual core processor, 2Gb ddr ram, ati graphics card, intel wifi, vintage 2006. But I tell you it can be a real pig to use at times and it particularly dislikes Linux Mint. The last version of Mint that I was able to install on it was Mint 8. I have tried 9, 10, 11,12 and LMDE and it laughs at all of them. I decided it was time I tried again, this is the story of what happened.
EDIT. At this point I should say that I originally wrote this topic for the chat section, but it was suggested that it contains ideas that may be useful for others with similar problems so it got 'upgraded' if you will, to a sort of how to, but because it was written as a 'chat' piece, I first deal with all the things that 'failed' to install Mint for me. If you want to skip reading those, the procedure that succeeded is highlighted in green towards the bottom, so you can just read that if you want to. However, just because something didn't work for me doesn't mean it won't work for you, so if the green section doesn't work try some of the other ideas instead.
Firstly I installed Ubuntu 11.10 because I wanted to check out a multi boot scenario. I popped in a disk, booted up and about 15 minutes later I was in Ubuntu. This proves three things. Ubuntu is VERY easy to install, it boots up remarkably quickly compared to my glacial LMDE64 (6 months old), and I could easily live with Unity if I had to!
The next step was the Mint 12 live dvd from a magazine cover disc. Popped this in the tray, rebooted, it printed one line of text and stopped for good, this is typical of what happened with every other version of Mint I have tried to install. End of attempt 1.
Last time I tried installing Mint I didn't have an external cd/dvd drive, but now I do, so I plugged this in, put in the disk, rebooted, went into the bios to make sure the device was detected (it was) and moved it to the top of the boot order. Continued to boot, it whirred and chugged for a few seconds then booted straight into Ubuntu. End of attempt 2.
I now reasoned that maybe there was something wrong with my dvd drive/drives, so I embarked on another plan. I used the 'dd' command to copy the cover disk dvd to an iso file.
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I then direct booted the iso file with Unetbootin ( instructions here - http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 00#p540600 ). It worked! I pressed the install button and the install began. It stopped after just a few seconds because it complained that my cdrom drive could not be unmounted (probably something to do with the way Unetbootin frugal install works). Anyway, that was the end of attempt 3.
My next trick was to try a Mint 12 disk that I had made myself a few weeks ago. Surprisingly this one booted (which means there is nothing wrong with my dvd drive). So I hit the install button, and nothing happened. I went into the menu and hit install, nothing happened. I went into the desktop folder and hit the install button, nothing happened. I opened a terminal and ran /usr/bin/ubiquity, all I got was 'input/output error'. End of attempt 4.
I then tried my own dvd in the external drive. It completely ignored it and booted straight into Ubuntu. End of attempt 5.
Next came my LMDE cd. This took me back to attempt 1 - printed one line then hung. End of attempt 6.
Next came a fresh download of the iso which I burnt onto a cd-rw. I tried this from the internal and external drives and it was completely ignored on both occasions, booting straight into Ubuntu. End of attempts 7 and 8.
I then used Unetbootin to copy the new iso file onto a usbkey. Booted with that plugged in, went into the bios to check that it is listed - it isn't. Carry on with the boot, predictably, straight into Ubuntu. End of attempt 9.
My next strategy was to boot with a Plop boot cd in my cd drive ( http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/index.html ) and the usbkey in a usb slot. It booted Plop as expected, I used this to transfer the boot to usb and what do you know, it started! Not only that but it installed as well. So success with attempt number 10.
All of this took me about 4 hours of trying, a fair bit of knowledge and a fair bit of equipment. How many Linux newbies are going to have all those resources available?
So next time you read a newbie report that says 'I can't install Linux Mint', think about this post, because sometimes I can't install it either!
I should say that continuing my experiment with that laptop, I went on to install, Fedora, Pclinux, Debian, and even Bodhi Linux onto it (not all at the same time), at no time did any of these installs give me slightest difficulty, so it is nothing to do with my equipment or my discs. So I guess the question should be what did Mint do to their iso's after Mint 8 that makes them so impossible to use on this machine?


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It's really not a matter of whether God "expects" us to have children, since He is sovereign and omniscient and knows who will and who won't have children. The question is really one of whether or not having children is a requirement for Christians and whether or not we can have a fulfilled, obedient life in Christ without children.
The Bible does tell us that children are a blessing from God. Psalm 127:3-5 says, "Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate." God blesses parents with years of enjoyment with their children that can hardly be compared to anything else. God declares that children are a blessing. But this does not mean that God withholds blessings from those without children. It simply means children are to be looked upon as a blessing, not an inconvenience.
There are times when God deliberately keeps someone from having children, no matter how desperately she wants them. Hannah longed for a child, but the Lord had "closed her womb" until such time as He saw fit to allow her to conceive Samuel, the Lord's prophet (1 Samuel 1:1-2:21). Sarah, too, was forced to wait many years (she was 90!) before God blessed her with Isaac (Genesis 15:15-17; 21:1-7). From these and many other examples, we can see that God is in sovereign control of all circumstances of life, including the birth of children.
Even though God has declared children to be a blessing from Him, there is nothing in the Bible that states every married couple must have children. Perhaps the best course of action for those who don't want children, at least at the moment, is for the couple to examine their motives for their decision. Only the couple can say for sure whether their motives and attitudes are unacceptable in God's sight. Selfish motives, for example, would certainly not be pleasing to Him. Neither would putting careers and the pursuit of worldly gain ahead of having a family be pleasing. The only way we can really displease God with our decision about children is by an ungodly attitude—not trusting Him to take care of our situation. We must place our faith in Him and rely on Him to guide us through all situations and decisions that arise in life.
If the question is whether or not to have children because of career dreams, the biblical answer is to put the family (including having children) before careers. A woman's priority should be her home and family, although working outside the home is certainly acceptable, as long as home and family take precedence over outside pursuits. The Proverbs 31 woman certainly had outside interests, including real estate and agriculture (vs. 16). But her home and family were always cared for in an exemplary fashion. She rose early, stayed up late and did whatever was necessary to see they were well-fed and well-clothed. She was a woman whose children and husband praised her. Taking her example, women are not to forgo having children merely to pursue a career.
In the end, the decision to have or not have children rests with the couple and God and is one that should be carefully and prayerfully considered, especially before a couple takes any irreversible steps to permanently prevent childbearing. There is no biblical injunction that requires anyone to have children, so although children are a gift from God, He can and does bless those who walk with Him by faith, whether or not they are parents.
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The Inner Essence of Worship
From Gospel Translations
By John Piper About Worship
Part of the series Worship God
Philippians 1:18-24
What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice, 19 for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22 But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which to choose. 23 But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better; 24 yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.
Worship is Inner, Godward Experience
Last week, the main point was that the New Testament reveals a stunning silence about the outward place and forms of worship and a radical intensification of worship as an inner, Godward experience of the heart manifest in everyday life. The silence about outward forms is obvious in the fact that the gathered life of the church is never called "worship" in the New Testament. And the main Old Testament word for worship (proskuneo) is virtually absent from the New Testament letters.
The intensification of worship as an inner, Godward experience of the heart is seen in the words of Jesus that the hour is coming and now is when worship will not be located in Samaria or Jerusalem, but will be "in spirit and in truth" (John 4:21-23). Inner spiritual reality replaces geographic locality. And we see it again in Matthew 15:8-9 when Jesus says, "This people honors me with their lips but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me." Worship that does not come from the heart is vain, empty. It is not authentic worship. It is no worship. You can see it also in Romans 12:1, where Paul says that Christians should present our bodies to God in daily obedience to his will as a "spiritual service of worship."
So I concluded that the essence of worship is not external, localized acts, but inner, Godward experience that comes out not primarily in church services (though they are important) but primarily in daily expressions of allegiance to God - in your sex life, in the way you handle your money, or keep your marriage vows, or speak up for Christ.
What Experience Magnifies God?
Now today I simply want to identify what the essence of that inner experience is which we call worship. If it is not essentially an outward act, but an experience of the heart, what is that experience?
Now I take it as a given that worship, whether an inner act of the heart, or an outward act of the body, or of the congregation collectively, is a magnifying of God. That is, it is an act that shows how magnificent God is. It is an act that reveals or expresses how great and glorious he is. Worship is all about reflecting the worth or value of God.
So the question we are asking this morning is: What inner experience of the heart does that? If the essence of worship is not mere outward form, but inner, Godward experience, what experience reveals and expresses how great and glorious God is? To answer that question we go to Philippians 1:20-21.
Notice from verse 20 what Paul's mission in life is. He says it is "my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted [the key word, "magnified" - shown to be great and glorious] in my body, whether by life or by death." So what Paul is saying is that his earnest hope and passion is that what he does with his body, whether in life or death, will always be worship. In life and death his mission is to magnify Christ - to show that Christ is magnificent, to exalt Christ, and demonstrate that he is great. That's plain from verse 20 - "that Christ shall be exalted in my body, whether by life or death."
Exalting Christ by Life and by Death
So the question now becomes: Does Paul tell us what kind of inner experience exalts Christ in this way? Does he reveal the essence of worship? The answer is that he does, and he does so in the next verse (verse 21) by the way it is connected to verse 20.
Notice the reference to "life" and "death" in verse 20 - "that Christ shall be exalted in my body, whether by life or death," and then notice the link-up with the corresponding words "live" and "die" in the next verse (21): "For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain." So "life" and "death" in verse 20 correspond to "live" and "die" in verse 21. And the connection between the two verses is that verse 21 shows the basis for how living and dying can exalt or magnify Christ. Verse 21 begins with "for" or "because." My expectation and hope is that Christ will be exalted whether by my life or my death, for (because) to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Verse 21 describes the inner experience that exalts Christ and is the essence of worship. To see this, let's take each pair separately, starting with "death" in verse 20 and "die" in verse 21. Boil down the verse to read: My expectation and hope is that Christ will be exalted in my body by death, for to me to die is gain. Christ will be exalted in my dying, if my dying is for me gain. Do you see it? The inner experience that magnifies Christ in dying is to experience death as gain.
Why is that? Verse 23 shows why dying is gain for Paul (and for you if you are a Christian): "My desire is to depart [that is, to die] and be with Christ for that is much better." That is what death does: it takes us into more intimacy with Christ. We depart and we are with Christ, and that, Paul says, is gain. And when you experience death this way, Paul says, you exalt Christ. Experiencing Christ as gain in your dying magnifies Christ. It is the essence of worship in the hour of death.
Exallting Christ by Life and by Death
Which means that we can now say that the inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer - family, career, retirement, fame, food, friends. The essence of worship is experiencing Christ as gain. Or to use words that we love to use around here: it is savoring Christ, treasuring Christ, being satisfied with Christ. This is the inner essence of worship. Because, Paul says, experiencing Christ as gain in death is the way he is exalted in death.
If you have ever wondered where I get the slogan: "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him," this is the place. Christ is magnified in my death, when in my death I am satisfied with him - when I experience death as gain because I gain him. Or another way to say it is that the essence of praising Christ is prizing Christ. Christ will be praised in my death, if in my death he is prized above life. The inner essence of worship is prizing Christ. Cherishing him, treasuring him, being satisfied with him.
The Surpassing Value of Knowing Christ my Lord
Philippians 3:8 gives the answer. There Paul says, "I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ."
"To live is Christ" means to count everything as loss now in this life in comparison to the value of gaining Christ. Do you see the word "gain" turning up here again in 3:8 just as it did in 1:21? "To live is Christ" means experiencing Christ as gain now, not just in death.
So Paul's point is that life and death, for a Christian, are acts of worship - they exalt Christ, and magnify him and reveal and express his greatness - when they come from an inner experience of treasuring Christ as gain. Christ is praised in death by being prized above life. And Christ is most glorified in life when we are most satisfied in him even before death.
The authenticating, inner essence of worship is being satisfied with Christ, prizing Christ, cherishing Christ, treasuring Christ. When we say that what we do on Sunday morning is to go hard after God, this is what we mean: we are going hard after satisfaction in God, and going hard after God as our prize, and going hard after God as our treasure, our soul-food, our heart-delight, our spirit's pleasure. Because we know from Philippians 1:20-21 that treasuring Christ as gain magnifies him, exalts him, worships him.
Implications for Worship
Let me draw out some implications of this for worship.
1. The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is our highest duty.
There are millions of Christians who have absorbed a popular ethic that says it is morally defective to seek our happiness, even in God. This is absolutely deadly for authentic worship. To the degree that this ethic flourishes, to that degree worship dies. Because the inner essence of worship is satisfaction in God, experiencing God as gain.
Therefore I say to you that the basic attitude of worship on Sunday morning is not to come with your hands full to give to God, but with your hands empty, to receive from God. And what you receive in worship is God, not entertainment. You ought to come hungry for God. Come saying, "As a deer pants for the flowing springs, so my soul pants for thee, O God." God is mightily honored when a people know that they will die of hunger and thirst unless they have God.
Recovering the rightness and indispensability of pursuing our satisfaction in God will go a long way to restoring authenticity and power of worship.
2. Another implication of saying that the essence of worship is satisfaction in God is that worship becomes radically God-centered.
Nothing makes God more supreme and more central than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their aching hearts besides God. This conviction breeds a people who go hard after God on Sunday morning.
They are not confused about why they are here. They do not see songs and prayers and sermons as mere traditions or mere duties. They see them as means of getting to God or God getting to them for more of his fullness, which they want because God is gain.
If the focus shifts onto our giving to God, one result I have seen again and again is that subtly it is not God that remains at the center but the quality of our giving. Are we singing worthily of the Lord? Are our instrumentalists playing with quality fitting a gift to the Lord? Is the preaching a suitable offering to the Lord? And little by little the focus shifts off the utter indispensability of the Lord himself onto the quality of our performances. And we even start to define excellence and power in worship in terms of the technical distinction of our artistic acts.
Nothing keeps God at the center of worship like the Biblical conviction that the essence of worship is deep, heartfelt satisfaction in Him, and the conviction that the pursuit of that satisfaction is why we are together.
3. A third implication of saying that the essence of worship is satisfaction in God is that it protects the primacy of worship as an end in itself.
If the essence of worship is satisfaction in God, then worship can't be done authentically as a means to anything else. You simply can't say to God, I want to be satisfied in you so that I can have something else. Because that would mean that you are not really satisfied in God but in that something else. And that would dishonor God, not worship him.
But in fact for thousands of people and pastors the event of "worship" on Sunday morning is conceived of as a means to accomplish something other than worship. We "worship" to raise money; we "worship" to attract crowds; we "worship" to heal human hurts; we "worship" to recruit workers; we "worship" to improve church morale. We "worship" to give talented musicians an opportunity to fulfil their calling; we "worship" to teach our children the way of righteousness; we "worship" to help marriages stay together; we "worship" to evangelize the lost among us; we "worship" to motivate people for service projects; we "worship" to give our churches a family feeling, etc., etc.
In all of this we bear witness that we do not know what true worship is. Genuine affections for God are an end in themselves. I cannot say to my wife: "I feel a strong delight in you - so that you will make me a nice meal." That is not the way delight works. It terminates on her. It does not have a nice meal in view. I cannot say to my son, "I love playing ball with you - so that you will cut the grass." If your heart really delights in playing ball with him, that delight cannot be performed as a means to getting him to do something else.
Now I am not denying that authentic worship may have a hundred good effects on the life of the church. It will, just as true affection in marriage makes everything better. My point is that to the degree that we do "worship" for these reasons, to that degree it ceases to be authentic worship. Keeping satisfaction in God at the center guards us from that tragedy.
4. Finally, the last implication of saying that the essence of worship is being satisfied with God is that this accounts for why Paul makes all of life an expression of worship in Romans 12:1.
But for that point, we will wait two weeks, and build a whole sermon around it. In the meantime, a celebration of Thanksgiving is coming next Sunday morning. We don't meet here, but we meet all together in the great hall at Bethel at 10:00 AM. Our aim is to magnify God by enjoying him authentically in the presence of as many unbelievers as we can. So would you pray with me that God would reveal to you in these next seven days, as never before, the preciousness of his love and the greatness of his mercy and power and wisdom. Then when we come together he will be duly praised, because he is duly prized. And who knows what God might reveal to those among us, if we really, authentically prize God in their midst. If we really come, saying: "As a deer pants for the flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God."


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Tuesday, 03 September 2013 08:45 AM
Helene Pearson's belief in homeownership was shattered in Roseland, the mostly black Chicago neighborhood where President Barack Obama got his start as a community organizer.
Pearson, who bought her two-bedroom, red-brick bungalow on South Calumet Avenue in Roseland for $160,000 in 2006 with a high-interest loan, put it on the market a year ago for $55,000 and didn't attract a single offer. Her bank has agreed to take it back.
"I was so excited to buy my first house right down the street from my mother but they got me good," said Pearson, a 35-year-old guidance counselor and mother of two girls. "This scarred me so badly that I never want to buy again."
For most Americans, the real estate crash is finally behind them and personal wealth is back where it was in the boom.
For blacks in the U.S., 18 years of economic progress has vanished, with a rebound in housing slipping further out of reach and the unemployment rate almost twice that of whites.
The homeownership rate for blacks fell from 50 percent during the housing bubble to 43 percent in the second quarter, the lowest since 1995. The rate for whites stopped falling two years ago, settling at about 73 percent, only 3 percentage points below the 2004 peak, according to the Census Bureau.
Identical Goals
When Obama, the country's first black president, took office in 2009, he inherited an economic and housing crisis that disproportionately affected minorities. In a speech last week on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, called for expanding King's dream of racial equality to include economic opportunity for all.
"Dr. King explained that the goals of African-Americans were identical to working people of all races: decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old age security, health and welfare measures — conditions in which families can grow, have education for their children and respect in the community," Obama said at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
In Roseland, among the hardest hit neighborhoods in the country during the housing bust, many of the causes of the crash and obstacles to rebuilding black homeownership are found, according to Spencer Cowan, vice president of research at Woodstock Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that researches fair lending, foreclosures and wealth creation.
Almost 40 percent of borrowers there took out high-cost loans in 2005 and 2006 as mortgage lenders backed by Wall Street targeted minority home buyers across the country for loans that required lower credit scores, reduced down payments, or featured interest rates that would start low and rise over time, contributing to an unsustainable bubble that popped when defaults rose and they cut off lending.
Vacant Properties
Now, almost one in 10 Roseland properties is vacant and the area's homeownership rate fell to 57 percent in 2010 from 64 percent in 2000, according to the Woodstock Institute. The median home price meanwhile has dropped to $28,000 in the second quarter from $119,000 in 2005, according to Midwest Real Estate Data LLC.
The remaining homeowners, many of them elderly, live surrounded by vacant, boarded-up houses and gang violence that has led to 16 murders this year as of Aug. 30, which is a 30 percent drop from the same period in 2012.
Ernest Washington Jr., 63, bought his South Forest Avenue home for $25,000 in 1974 and had paid the mortgage down to $13,000. Now, after refinancing the house multiple times to finish the basement and make other improvements to the property, he owes $150,000 — about $20,000 more than it's worth. His mortgage rate is 8.5 percent.
"Being that this was a stable community, what they did was put people in the area further into debt," Washington said.
Love Remembers
The Rev. Alvin Love remembers the day in the mid-1980s that a young community organizer named Barack Obama rang the doorbell at his Lilydale First Baptist Church Roseland.
Unemployment was on the rise in the predominantly black neighborhood in those days after local steel mills had closed and Obama, who worked with a church-based community group, was looking for allies to support job training programs.
In 1986, a year after Obama arrived in the community, the Woodstock Institute released a study of 500 Chicago-area financial institutions, showing "huge inequalities" in the distribution of housing credit, favoring suburbs over poor city neighborhoods like Roseland, which had become increasingly segregated.
The area's history of mortgage discrimination mirrors that of urban enclaves from Boston to Los Angeles. The practice of "redlining" began eight decades ago when the Federal Housing Administration drew up maps using red ink to delineate inner-city neighborhoods considered too risky for lending.
Reverse Redlining
Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968 and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act in 1974, which banned discrimination in lending and home sales based on race and national origin. Lawmakers followed in 1977 with the Community Reinvestment Act, to ensure banks were actively lending to credit-worthy borrowers in low-income areas.
The housing boom of the last decade, spurred on by the successive Clinton and Bush administrations that unleashed ambitious programs to widen buying, also brought about a practice known as "reverse redlining" or steering residents of minority neighborhoods into high-cost mortgages, which led to a flood of foreclosures when the market crashed. Many of the minority borrowers who were given subprime loans would have qualified for prime loans with better terms, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
Easy Lending
Borrowers like Washington Jr., who had nearly paid off their traditional mortgages, instead got caught up in the craze of easy lending, refinancing into loans that were twice the original balance to pay college tuition for a child, fix their home or catch up with bills, Love said.
"It's going to take a generation to get back to the point where homeownership can build wealth in this community," Love said.
The Obama administration's first programs to help homeowners were geared toward keeping them in place through loan modifications, refinancing into lower-cost loans and $7 billion in neighborhood stabilization funding, 60 percent of which has been used in minority communities. The grants paid to rebuild once uninhabitable homes for first-time buyers on the south side of Chicago and Baltimore and demolish others in Detroit and Cleveland.
Initiatives to help people avoid foreclosure came too late for many borrowers who got their loans at the height of the boom. One in 10 black borrowers has already lost their home to foreclosure in the worst housing crash since the Great Depression, double the rate for whites, according to a 2012 Center for Responsible Lending report.
Expanding Homeownership
Now the administration is cracking down on discriminatory lending and trying to expand homeownership at a time when banks' underwriting standards are tightest for those rebuilding from the recession. Lenders have raised down payment and credit score requirements and debt-to-income thresholds, which has had a disproportionate impact on minority communities, said Cowan at Woodstock.
"This is a new form of redlining," Cowan said. "The same communities that bore the initial brunt of the foreclosure crisis, targets of the toxic lending, are now finding it more difficult to access credit as the economy starts to improve."
Obama last month introduced new housing reforms targeted at middle-class communities. Borrowers with foreclosures or bankruptcies resulting from a job or income loss will be able to finance a home purchase with a Federal Housing Administration mortgage as long as they demonstrate 12 months of timely payments, complete housing counseling and otherwise qualify. The FHA, a government mortgage insurer, now requires a three-year wait.
'Longer Road'
"Places facing a longer road back from the crisis should have their country's help to get there," Obama said during a speech on housing in Phoenix last month.
The Justice Department under Obama has cracked down on both redlining and reverse-redlining.
Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of America Corp. agreed to pay a combined $569 million during the past two years, in the two biggest residential cases in the history of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. Borrowers with loans from Wells Fargo and Countrywide Financial Corp., the biggest U.S. mortgage lender acquired by Bank of America in 2008, were more likely to be put in subprime loans if they were black or Hispanic, even when they qualified for lower-cost mortgages.
Responsible Lending
Bank of America spokesman Rick Simon, who declined to comment for the story, referred to a statement the bank released at the time of the $335 million Countrywide settlement.
"When we acquired Countrywide, we immediately discontinued origination of subprime and other higher cost mortgage products that were not in keeping with our commitment to responsible lending and sustainable homeownership," the 2011 statement said.
Tom Goyda, a spokesman for San Francisco-based Wells Fargo, said, "We've denied the claims made by the Department of Justice from the beginning and stand behind our record as a fair and responsible lender."
The Wells Fargo and Countrywide settlements did not include admissions of wrongdoing, according to the Justice Department.
Lenders are in a tough position because "when they don't lend to minorities they're accused of discrimination and when they do lend and there are foreclosures they're accused of predatory lending," said Paul Willen, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
'Lenders' Judgment
Credit scores and other automated underwriting criteria help prevent discrimination by taking the loan officer's judgment out of the transaction, Willen said. Allowing more discretion based on an individual borrower's circumstance makes lenders vulnerable to unconscious prejudice, he said.
"After 40 years of trying to get lenders' judgment out of the equation, policymakers are trying to put it back in," Willen said.
Credit already is loosening for the wealthiest Americans. While applications for jumbo mortgages of at least $729,000 increased 59 percent in the first four months from a year earlier, loans of less than $150,000 fell by 2.1 percent, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
The median wealth of white households was 20 times that of blacks and 18 times the Hispanic rate, a record gap in data going back three decades that is twice the pre-recession size, according to a 2011 Pew study.
Starting Behind
"African Americans are starting way behind into this recovery," Cowan said. "Because African American buyers were last into the market and bought at the most inflated prices, when the market deteriorated, they were the ones who lost the most."
As prices recover, cheap properties are in short supply because they're being purchased by flippers, private equity firms such as Blackstone Group LP, and other cash buyers.
Nationally, the median price rose 13.7 percent in July from a year earlier as nearly 1 in 3 properties were purchased with cash, according to the National Association of Realtors. The share of first-time buyers, which historically averaged about 40 percent, has fallen to 29 percent, according to the Realtors' group.
Flippers Win
Dajeune Tillman, 26, who works in the insurance billing department at a Los Angeles area hospital, has been looking for a larger place with a backyard for herself and her 5-year-old son since she qualified a year ago for a $109,000 Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America mortgage that allows low-to-moderate income borrowers to purchase without a down payment and without paying closing costs. She keeps losing out to investors paying cash and buyers with traditional mortgages.
"I get beat out even before I get a chance to make an offer," Tillman said. "All the investors do is they come in fix the houses and flip them up and crank the prices above what anybody can afford."
The difficulty in Roseland is finding buyers willing to invest in the community of 45,000 people.
Pearson sees her home as a liability and will be happy when the bank takes it. She's locked into a mortgage with a more than 8 percent rate and it's a struggle to keep up with the payments. And her house, which sits on the same block as about five abandoned homes, has been broken into four times, she said.
"It's sad because Roseland is where I was born and raised and I wanted to keep the tradition of homeownership going," said Pearson, whose parents became homeowners two years before she was born. "It's a great community. But I just can't do it."
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Group Size Notes
Max 21, avg 19.
Meals Included
1 lunch
Walking, stair-climbing, dancing (!?)
Base Camp (1 day).
Optional Activities
- Hump Night at Watson's
Minimum Age
You must be 18 to travel unaccompanied on a G Adventures tour. For minors travelling with a guardian over 21 years old, the minimum age is 12.
International Flights
Check-in times and baggage allowances/restrictions vary by airline and can change at any time. For the most up-to-date information for your flight, please contact your airline. We recommend checking in online in advance to avoid potential delays at the airport.
Day 1: Base Camp (1L)
We all know that G isn't an ordinary place to work, and you can bet that today won't be an ordinary Wednesday! Check out the full itinerary to see a breakdown of inclusions for the day. In your spare time, opt to work or visit with your friends in Product.
Included Activities:
Coffee Cart
Arrival Day and Morning Welcome Meeting
Staff Appreciation Day – Talent Blind Date
Feel Good Hour


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White Papers and Application Notes
Analysis and Optimization of Dual Arm, Center Excited, Surface Micro-machined Archimedean Spiral Antenna with Improved Wideband CharacteresticsG. Miranda[1], N. S. Pamidighantam[1], R. V. Iyer[2], S. Shukla[3], P. Suresh[3], and P. M. Soundarajan[3]
[1]Department of Telecommunications, PESIT, Bangalore,Karnataka,India
[2]Department of Science and Humanities, PESIT, Bangalore,Karnataka,India
An Archimedean Spiral antenna is the common frequency independent antenna which have very large bandwidth. Archimedean Spiral antenna are circularly polarized and typically have radiation patterns with peaks perpendicular to the plane of the spiral.
Micro-machining techniques improves the bandwidth characteristics and the radiation efficiency of the antenna. Simulations and results with COMSOL Mutiphysics 4.1 focus on showing the far-field radiation patterns, S parameter varying with frequency and its impedance view, and the Voltage Standing Wave Ratio with varying frequency.
Results also show that micro-machined antenna show better radiation efficiency than non micro-machined antenna.


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January is Cervical Health Awareness Month. To help raise awareness around cervical health and cervical cancer, this is the first of a two-part blog post series on the topic. Before we dig deeper into cervical cancer types and risk factors, here a few cervical health-related statistics you should be aware of:
- Cervical cancer was previously the leading cancer-related cause of death for women in the U.S. In the last 40 years, however, the number of deaths from cervical cancer has dropped. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH) & CDC, the decline is largely "the result of many women getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer."
- Approximately 10,800 new cases of HPV-related cervical cancer are diagnosed in the U.S. each year.
- Greater than 70% of all cervical cancers (carcinomas) were squamous cell type, and nearly 20% were adenocarcinomas, between 1998-2003.
Cervical Cancer Types
Squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma are the two types of cervical cancer. Each type is distinguished based on its appearance under a microscope. Both squamous cell and adenocarcinoma begin in the cells that line hollow organs, but squamous cells have a thin, flat appearance while adenocarcinomas involve cells with secretory functions. As is noted in the statistic above, the squamous cell carcinoma type of cervical cancer is far more common and currently makes up approximately 90% of cervical carcinoma cases. Both types have similar risk factors, prognoses, and treatments.
Cervical Cancer Risk Factors
According to the CDC, "almost all cervical cancers are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV)," which is why it is so important that parents and young women understand their options for getting vaccinated to protect themselves from typically symptomless HPV. Emory Healthcare will be hosting an online chat on the topic of cervical cancer and HPV. The chat will cover everything from cervical cancer prevention and diagnosis to treatment options, along with information on the relationship between HPV and cervical cancer.
As is the case the with all cancers, smoking increases your risk. Take steps to quit smoking today.
Birth Control
Having given birth to three or more children or having been on birth control pills for over 5 years can increase your risk for cervical cancer.
In our next post on cervical cancer, we'll cover its connection to the HPV virus, including more information on the HPV vaccine and its effectiveness and the relationship between various HPV strains and cervical cancer. In the meantime, if you have questions on the topic of cervical cancer, or something you want to see covered in our next post, let us know in the comments section below!
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This is the first time my boy celebrate his birthday in school! Though is just a simple celebration, he get so excited about it :D kids are so easily contented :D
Orange & Carrot Cupcake before decoration...
Decorate with Cream Cheese Frosting and Pooh Bear Chocolate Transfer Image (Self-Made). The image not very well made as you can see some area are smudged.
Orange & Carrot Cake Recipe, click here
Cream Cheese Frosting, click here


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Genealogies of the Agard, Nunn, Hardenbrook, Wortman, Doyle, and Tucker family lines.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Wedding Bells for Grace Tucker
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I am one of the great-granddaughters of Grace Tucker. I am interested to know where you found this piece of history?ReplyDelete
Debra: It is so nice to hear from you. I have been doing a lot of research on the Tucker family and have a monograph started. I would welcome any information that you could share. This article on Grace's wedding was straight-pinned into William Lanning Tucker's 1924 diary. William Lanning Tucker was the father of my great-grandmother Jessie Tucker Agard.ReplyDelete
I'm a geat granddaughter as well! I had a baby girl who I actually named Grace after her who passed away. I love reading all of this history.ReplyDelete
Renee: Thank you for commenting. I am so happy to connect with Tucker "cousins." And I realized I didn't really answer Debra's question about the citation for Grace Tucker's wedding. Of course Wm. Lanning Tucker didn't worry about citations :), so he just clipped the article. So I don't know in which local paper he would have seen it - Ithaca Journal, Trumansburg Free Press, or Syracuse Herald. If I do find out I will certainly let you know.ReplyDelete


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Over the next few weeks this wiki will move to http://www.jive.nl/jivewiki/doku.php. Watch for email with information about new user accounts, and consider making edits at the new site. Questions? Email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Registration for this wiki is limited to prevent abuse. For a user account, please email Mike Sipior (sipior @ jive . nl) with your full name, desired username and password. Apologies for any inconvenience.
The JIVE wiki currently hosts several different projects, available below.
JIVE Biennial report 2009-2010
JIVE Biennial Report 2007-2008
JIVE MT - access restricted to management team
EVN CBD, EVN Executive and JIVE Board meetings (restricted access)
EVN TOG - Technical and Operations Group: Current TOG wiki, very old TOG wiki
EVN 2015 Science Vision.
EVN roadmap for 2015.
Network of Visitor Centers at EVN Institutes
NEXPReS Project Wiki - Novel EXplorations Pushing Robust e-VLBI Services
ESKAC - European SKA Consortium
The ESKAC wiki is now back in use. Additional information about ESKAC is available from the ESKAC website.
ParselTongue is a scriptable interface layer to classic AIPS, written in Python.
Various information pertaining to the care and feeding of the EVN Mk IV Correlator.
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All students in need of financial assistance or interested in scholarships are encouraged to apply. For federal programs, you must:
Any student who has lost eligibility for federal Title IV funds including grants, loans, or work-study assistance, as a result of penalties under 484(r) (1), will receive a separate, clear, and conspicuous written notice. This notice will notify the student of the loss of eligibility and advise the student of the ways to regain eligibility under 484 (r) (2) of the HEA.
A student whose eligibility has been suspended may resume eligibility before the end of the stated ineligibility period if either (a) the student satisfactorily completes a drug rehabilitation program and passes two unannounced drug tests, or (b) the conviction is reversed, set aside, or removed from the student's record.
Effective July 1, 2010, the HEOA adds a new provision at section 484(r) (2) (B) of the HEA that allows a student whose eligibility has been suspended due to a drug conviction to resume eligibility if the student successfully passes two unannounced drug tests conducted by a drug rehabilitation program that complies with criteria established by the Secretary of Education. Students must provide documentation of this completion to the Financial Aid Office.
Students and families completing the FAFSA will use tax information from two years prior, as opposed to one year prior. Known as Prior-Prior Year, you will be able to file the FAFSA beginning October 1, 2018 using 2017 tax information. This allows you to use use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool (DRT) which can speed up the application time and provide more accurate tax information.
You will need the following information before applying for Financial Aid for the 2019-2020 school year including Summer 2020:
Next, complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). You can do this two different ways:
Option A (Preferred) –
Option B – If you do not have access to the internet,
send the following to the Northeast Financial Aid Office for verification; your
FAFSA will be submitted electronically by Northeast Community College:
Students and families completing the FAFSA will use tax information from two years prior, as opposed to one year prior. Known as Prior-Prior Year, you will be able to file the FAFSA beginning October 1, 2019 using 2018 tax information. This allows you to use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool (DRT) which can speed up the application time and provide more accurate tax information.
You will need the following information before applying for Financial Aid for the 2020-2021 school year including Summer 2021:
Next, complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). You can do this two different ways:
Option A (Preferred) –
Option B – If you do not have access to the internet, send the following to the Northeast Financial Aid Office for verification; your FAFSA will be submitted electronically by Northeast Community College:
The first step in applying for financial aid is completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Starting on October 1 of each year, you can complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the following academic year.
Tax transcripts can be obtained online from the IRS at www.irs.gov/Individuals/Get-Transcript, which is the preferred method. You may also request a tax transcript by phone at 1-800-908-9946.
If you have been granted a filing extension, filed an amended tax return, were a victim IRS identity theft, filed a Non-IRS Tax return or are a non-filer who must provide verification, please see the information below.
Individuals Granted a Filing Extension by the IRS:
You must obtain a copy of IRS Form 4868 "Application for Automatic Extension of Time to File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return" that was filed with the IRS for the appropriate tax year; A copy of the IRS's approval of an extension beyond the automatic six-month extension if the individual requested an additional extension of the filing time; and a copy of IRS Form W-2 for each source of employment income received. If self-employed, you must submit a signed statement certifying the amount of the individual's Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) and U.S. income tax paid for the tax year.
Individuals Who Filed an Amended IRS Income Tax Return:
You must provide a signed copy of your original tax return or an IRS Tax Return Transcript that includes information from the original tax return OR any other IRS tax transcript that includes all income and tax information from the original tax return required for verification (neither of which has to be signed) and a signed copy of the IRS Form 1040X, "Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return" that was filed with the IRS.
Individuals Who Were Victims of IRS Identity Theft:
Tax filers who are denied an IRS Tax Return Transcript using one of the regular request processes due to IRS identity theft will be referred to the Identity Protection Specialized Unit (IPSU) toll-free number at 1-800-908-4490. Tax filers who believe they are victims of identity theft do not need to be referred to the IPSU; they may call the number directly or go to the IRS identity theft website at www.irs.gov. After the IPSU authenticates the tax filer's identify, the tax filer can request that the IRS mail to the tax filer an alternate tax return transcript known as the TRDBV (Transcript DataBase View).
Individuals Who Filed Non-IRS Income Tax Returns:
An individual, who filed or will file a tax return with Puerto Rico, another U.S. territory, or with a foreign country, must provide a signed copy of the income tax return(s).
If you need a Non-filing Letter to confirm that a tax return has not been filed you can download the IRS Form 4506-T at https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506t.pdf.
Complete the form exactly as requested with no crossed out items or it will be rejected by the IRS. This letter must be dated after October 1, 2019.
Mail or fax the form to the IRS to the address, or FAX number, provided on page 2 of the Form 4506-T.
Forward the form to the Financial Aid Office when you receive it from the IRS. Or you may request the form be sent directly to the Financial Aid Office. Our address is:
Northeast Community College
Att. Financial Aid Office
PO Box 469
Norfolk NE 68702
You will receive a Student Aid Report (SAR) from the office of Federal Financial Aid at the U.S. Department of Education. The SAR reflects the information submitted and will allow the college to determine your eligibility for all types of aid. An Expected Family Contribution (EFC) will display in the upper right-hand corner of your SAR. If your application is incomplete, your SAR will not include an EFC, but it will tell you what you need to do to resolve any issues. The SAR does not tell you how much financial aid you will receive. You will receive your actual award notification from Northeast.
Check your SAR for errors, giving special attention to items that may be questioned. You can make changes to your FAFSA electronically, if necessary. Otherwise, if you received a paper SAR, enter the changes on Part 2, sign and forward all pages of the SAR to the Financial Aid Office at Northeast Community College. The Northeast Financial Aid Office will reprocess any corrections. DO NOT mail the SAR or other documents to the Central Processing Center.
The factors that determine a family's ability to contribute to college costs are: student and parent income and assets, total number of family members, number of family members attending college (excluding parents), age of older parent, and state of residence. The computation allows for necessary family expenditures such as taxes, reasonable living costs, and usual medical expenses, and protects a portion of a family's assets as a retirement allowance depending on age of older parent. A part of the remaining income and assets is assumed to be available for college expenses.
Your Expected Family Contribution (EFC) is the number used by Northeast to calculate how much financial aid you are eligible to receive, not the amount you will pay for college or the amount of federal aid you are eligible to receive.
Your eligibility depends on your Expected Family Contribution, your year in school, your enrollment status, and the cost of attendance at Northeast. The Financial Aid Staff will determine how much financial aid you are eligible to receive. In accordance with federal regulations, the following formula is used to determine your financial need:
Estimated Cost of Attendance (COA) (NOT your bill)
- Expected Family Contribution (EFC) (NOT the amount you have to pay Northeast)
= Financial Need
The Financial Aid Staff will try to fill any financial need by awarding various types of aid. The Pell Grant is determined first, and then scholarships are added to the aid package. If funds are still available, you will be considered for supplemental grants and Federal Work-Study. Federal Direct Loans are added last. All financial aid is split between the fall and spring semesters.
The combination of federal state aid, institutional scholarships and outside assistance cannot exceed a Students Estimated Cost of Attendance. Aid will be adjusted accordingly.
All awards on your 'My Northeast' account will show as a full-time student; however, the disbursed aid will be prorated based upon your enrollment status. All financial aid is divided equally between the fall and spring semesters.
Outside scholarships of more than $100 will be split between the two semesters unless otherwise stated by the donor. The combination of federal state aid, institutional scholarships and outside assistance cannot exceed a Students Estimated Cost of Attendance. Financial Aid will be adjusted accordingly.
All grants, scholarships, tuition waivers, and loans are credited to your student account with the Accounts Receivable Services on a semester-by-semester basis. After all Northeast costs for the semester have been paid from your account, a refund check will be mailed or direct deposited approximately fourteen days after the start of the term or completion of the aid process.
*Federal Work-Study wages are not credited to student accounts. Students receive a paycheck every two weeks for actual hours worked.
There are alternatives for students who do not qualify for grant assistance or whose families need help meeting the family contribution.
One alternative is the Federal PLUS loan. It offers parents the opportunity to borrow up to the full cost of education (less any student financial aid) each year. Repayment usually must begin within 60 days. Some deferment options may apply. There is no income restriction or needs test for the PLUS program. Federal PLUS loans do require a satisfactory credit check for loan approval. Contact the Financial Aid Office for specific details.
The basic premise of the financial aid program is that students and parents have the primary responsibility for educational expenses. If you are a dependent student, we determine your financial need using financial information provided by both you and your parents. If you are an independent student financial need is determined by your income and assets and, if you are married, the income and assets of your spouse.
You are considered an independent student if you can answer yes to one of the following:
If the above conditions do not apply to you, you are a dependent student and must use your parents' information. If you feel that special circumstances exist, please contact the Northeast Financial Aid Office. **Independent status is NOT determined by your wish to be financially independent of your parents nor based on your parents' un-willingness to finance your college education.
Financial aid is awarded on an annual basis and no aid award is renewed automatically. You are responsible for reapplying each year.
To apply for federal and state aid, you must file a current version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Students renewing federal aid eligibility may complete a Renewal FAFSA online.
Students who receive aid from a private agency or donor are responsible for completing any renewal documents the agency or donor may require.
If you have already done a FAFSA for the current school year, you do not need to complete another one, you just need to add Northeast Community College to the list of schools on your FAFSA.
(Northeast's Federal School Code is 002556.) If you did your FAFSA on paper and
received a Student Aid Report (SAR), it can be submitted to the Northeast
Financial Aid Office along with the verification worksheet, tax transcripts and
W2's. Contact the Financial Aid office for more information. You must cancel
your financial aid at your other school and you will be re-awarded at Northeast.
The Title IV Code is 002556.
Financial Aid Office
(402) 844-7285
Northeast Community College, 801 East Benjamin Ave, Norfolk,
Nebraska 68701
phone: 402-371-2020 | tollfree: 1-800-348-9033 | email:
© Northeast Community College 2020. All Rights Reserved.
Northeast does not discriminate based upon any protected status. Please refer to our nondiscrimination section and privacy statement for more information.


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A strong business climate depends on an educated and skilled workforce. And the Twin Cities region currently has the largest disparity in the nation between whites and blacks in unemployment rates. These basic facts are two key drivers of our current project on workforce development.
Equity concerns stand out as a critical justice issue, but equity is increasingly being identified as important to economic growth, as well. Yet traditional workforce development efforts often miss an excellent opportunity to address equity issues and boost employment for low-income Twin Cities residents.
Minnesota's economy has long relied on higher-level skills than in other states. Advances in technology and medicine mean these employers need more skills all the time. National studies indicate that two-thirds of employers report having trouble finding the skills they seek in the workforce. Leveraging the potential of every person will be crucial to Minnesota's future economic health and success.
Growth & Justice aims to reframe the approach to workforce development in the Twin Cities region, laying the base for strategic workforce efforts linked to economic development and tied to equity, and access to long-term, sustainable and living wage jobs with career tracks for all workers.