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Optimized to make even the most challenging photographic situations effortless, Canon's EOS 7D Mark II has a winning combination of cutting-edge operations and a robust, ergonomic design. A sophisticated 20.2 Megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, Dual DIGIC 6 Image Processors ? plus a host of new and refined capabilities helps make the EOS 7D Mark II the perfect camera to bring your imagination to reality.
Up to 10.0 fps High-Speed Shooting
The EOS 7D Mark II has a new, rugged shutter (constructed to withstand up to 200,000 cycles), and can shoot up to 10.0 frames per second to capture all the action. Refined mechanics like a newly designed, more efficient shutter drive motor and a vibration dampened mirror drive mean reliable, speedy performance for high caliber image capture, fast.
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The EOS 7D Mark II features some of Canon's most sophisticated AF technologies ever, enabling the camera to achieve impeccably clear action shots or smooth and precise video capture in Live View. Designed to be fast, the EOS 7D Mark II delivers impressive results.
65-Point* All Cross-type AF
The EOS 7D Mark II features 65-point* All Cross Type AF that helps ensure precise and stable AF no matter the subject or the camera's orientation. These AF points are spread over a wide area of the frame, enabling faster AF whereever the subject lies. With a central dual cross-type AF point of f/2.8, AF is enhanced with lenses faster than f/2.8. Also, this new system makes AF possible in dim lighting as low as EV-3 (for center point only).
*The number of available AF points, and whether single line or cross-type, varies depending on the lens
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Canon's revolutionary Dual Pixel CMOS AF enables sophisticated HD shooting with the EOS 7D Mark II. With Dual Pixel CMOS AF, each pixel on the camera?s sensor performs both phase-difference detection autofocus and records light. Auto-focus is achieved quickly,easily and silently thanks to phase-difference detection AF. When used with the predictive power of Movie Servo AF, subjects in motion are smoothly and consistently tracked - once focus is locked, the EOS 7D Mark II stays on target!
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Beauty begins with the details. To capture every little detail, Canon's amazing system of optics, sensor and image processors work seamlessly together to deliver high image quality. Images suitable for fine art printing, large scale posters, jpegs over email and everything in between.
20.2 Megapixel CMOS Sensor Dual DIGIC 6 Image Processors
The EOS 7D Mark II's 20.2 Megapixel sensor works seamlessly with a pair of DIGIC 6 Image Processors for supercharged processing across the board. These Dual DIGIC 6 Image Processors help the EOS 7D Mark II capture up to 1090 JPEG/LARGE, 31 RAW, and 19 RAW+JPEG shots* in a single burst for detailed action photography. They also enable the camera?s powerful image processing on-the-fly: lens aberration, variances in peripheral illumination, and image distortion can all be corrected in real time.
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Optimized for low-light shooting, the EOS 7D Mark II's sensor captures images at up to ISO 16000 (expandable to H1: 25600 and H2: 51200). Thanks to its improved, higher sensitivity photodiode construction, CMOS circuitry, and color filters with higher light transmittance, the EOS 7D Mark II records both still and moving images at higher ISO speeds with remarkably low noise, making excellent low-light photography and moviemaking possible.
EOS iSA System
The EOS 7D Mark II has an Intelligent Subject Analysis (iSA) system that employs an independent RGB+IR light sensor with approximately 150,000-pixel resolution. With this new sensor, not only does the camera have a finer level of accuracy, but when combined with iTR AF - which offers a new processing algorithm to detect faces and colors - the EOS 7D Mark II can track subjects with a significantly greater level of success. The RGB+IR sensor even enables infrared-light detection an a flicker detection systemthat compensates for flickering light sources, taking shots only at peak light volume.
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Shooting EOS HD Video is easy and more comprehensive on the EOS 7D Mark II. Not only can the EOS 7D Mark II record at multiple resolutions, frame rates and formats (including MP4), it has admirably smooth focus transitions thanks to Canon's amazing Dual Pixel CMOS AF, Movie Servo AF and range of STM lenses.
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The EOS 7D Mark II delivers refined and detailed EOS movie image quality with Full HD 60p (59.94 fps NTSC), and even 50.00 fps (PAL), recording at ISO values up to 16000 (Dual Pixel CMOS AF is not available when shooting at 60p). At these frame rates, even a fast-moving subject looks looks smooth in HD.
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Each March, school tech leaders submit their current technology information to the Indiana School Tech Plan. Data from this year's survey is now available, and more is on the way. Visit the new Tech Plan Data page for links to infographics and searchable map data.
The Speak Up National Research Project provides participating schools, districts and non-profit organizations with a suite of online surveys and reports to collect authentic feedback from students, educators and parents. Indiana surveys made up nearly 10% of the national data for each group.
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Obama calls Hollande amid spying concerns
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama called French President Francois Hollande on Monday to discuss France's anger over reported aggressive surveillance tactics by the National Security Agency.
The call came after a French newspaper said the NSA swept up 70.3 million French phone records in a 30-day period. France summoned the U.S. ambassador to explain and called the practice "totally unacceptable."
The White House says some recent disclosures about the NSA have been distorted but that some raise legitimate questions for U.S. allies about how America's intelligence capabilities are used.
Obama told the French president that the U.S. was reviewing its intelligence-gathering to ensure a balance between security and privacy.
The French president's office said in a statement that Hollande told Obama he strongly condemned the practices and found them unacceptable between allies. Hollande also asked Obama to specify all the information that former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden may possess. Documents leaked by Snowden have been behind a series of revelations about NSA surveillance programs.
The White House said both presidents agreed they should continue diplomatic discussions about the issue.
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Remember when you were in your teens and you thought that once you hit your 20's your skin was going to be acne-free and perfect? For most people, that doesn't happen. Unfortunately more than 40% of people are still dealing with acne in their 20's. (And unfortunately you're not out of the woods in your 30's either.) If you're still breaking out, you're in good company but a good skin care routine can help whip your skin into shape in no time.
Daily Care: Cleanser and Moisturizer
If you didn't start a skin care routine in your teens, now is the time to start using a facial cleanser and moisturizer. A good rule of thumb is if you have oily or combination skin, a foaming cleanser is best and if you have normal to dry, a creamy cleanser is best. Applying a moisturizer after you wash is a must. Make sure it has SPF in it with a minimum of SPF 15.
Weekly Care: Exfoliator and Mask
You should be exfoliating your face twice a week. Exfoliating removes the dead skin cells at the surface of your skin. In doing so, fresh, healthy, young skin will be revealed. You will be exfoliating for the rest of your life as you chase the clock so it's a good habit to get into now. You can purchase a facial exfoliator or if you want to go gentle, simply using a washcloth with your cleanser each morning will gently buff off dead skin cells. Don't forget your body, too! Goodbye ashy legs.
Face masks are optional, but if you have issues with acne, you'll want to consider using a mask once or twice a week. The most popular masks for oily and acne-prone skin have clay in them, which absorbs excess oil and reduces acne. Keep in mind that face masks for oily skin and acne can always be used as spot treatments if you have minimal acne.
The Secret to Staying Young: Sunscreen
Forget the thought that a good tan makes you look young. When you lay out in the sun for a tan, you're adding years to your appearance. You might not notice it now, but you will in the years to come. The sun is the number one cause of premature aging. I know it's hard to think about when you're in your 20's, but the reality is, the secret to staying young is sunscreen. Wear it every day. Reapply repeatedly. It takes seconds to swipe on some mineral sunscreen and go about your day. Trust me, when you show up at your 20 year reunion, you'll see who used sunscreen and who didn't. Just look for the crow's feet.
Skin Still Out of Control: Visit a Dermatologist
Finding a good Dermatologist will be a wise investment of time. They can provide you with prescription acne treatments now and will still be around when you want to talk aging or other skin concerns.


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NEWTOWN, Conn. — Newtown officials struggled Friday night to move toward a decision on what to do with the elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot to death in December, after teachers expressed grief and frustration during a closed-door session before a public meeting was held.
A task force of 28 local elected officials had been set to possibly vote on a recommendation to the local school board but continued the discussion to next Friday.
The panel had narrowed a list of choices to renovating Sandy Hook Elementary School, tearing it down and constructing a new building at the same site or building a new school on nearby property.
But several teachers told the task force Friday evening that they felt they were being left out of the process, and some said it would be too traumatic to ever work on the property again, according to task force members and school district staff who described the private session.
The panel then went into a public session and discussed other sites for a new school that previously had been ruled out, which upset some of the nearly 90 people who packed the meeting room, which had only about 25 chairs.
"I"m very confused," said Newtown resident Janet Ziperstein, who has two children who attended Sandy Hook. "It"s very difficult to watch this process."
Some task force members also said they weren"t sure where the process was heading. First Selectwoman Pat Llodra said time was a concern, because officials want to get a funding plan to state lawmakers before the legislative session ends next month.
Residents have mixed opinions on what should be done with the school.
Brian Engel, whose 6-year-old daughter, Olivia, died in the Dec. 14 shootings, told the task force that he and his wife want the village of Sandy Hook to have an elementary school but at a different location. He said he didn"t want Olivia"s younger brother to ever have to walk into the building where the massacre took place.
"We do want him to go to Sandy Hook School, but at an alternate location — not where his sister died," Engel said after the meeting.
The 430 children who survived the shootings are now attending a remodeled school in the neighboring town of Monroe that has been renamed Sandy Hook Elementary School. A few parents said Friday night they didn"t want to send their children to that school for much longer.
Other residents favor renovating the existing school. Some want a new school built in Sandy Hook. Others want officials to consider using town property in other parts of Newtown for a new school.
Two psychologists, Melissa Brymer and Jill Barron, told the task force that officials in other towns where mass shootings have occurred have grappled with the same problems in deciding what to do with the shooting site. They said making that decision can be a difficult and painful process because of the strong feelings and different viewpoints.
Columbine High School in Colorado, where two student gunmen killed 12 schoolmates and a teacher in 1999, reopened several months afterward. Crews removed the library, where most of the victims died, and replaced it with an atrium.
Virginia Tech converted a classroom building where a student gunman killed 32 people in 2007 into a peace studies and violence prevention center. And an Amish community in Pennsylvania tore down the West Nickel Mines Amish School and built a new school a few hundred yards away after a gunman killed five girls there in 2006.
On the morning of Dec. 14, gunman Adam Lanza, who had killed his mother at their Newtown home, went to Sandy Hook Elementary School and opened fire with an assault rifle, killing the 20 children and the six adults. He killed himself as police arrived at the school.
Police have not disclosed a possible motive for the killings. Law enforcement officials have said Lanza showed an interest in other mass killings and played violent video games.
Whatever choice the task force recommends will be sent to the town"s Board of Education. Any plan would have to be approved by voters at referendum.
One panel member, Laura Roche, said there was no way she would support reopening the school.
"To me, that is always going to be a site where 26 people were murdered," she said.


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Wildlife Watching in Etosha National Park © N.Epler
Originally published in Deutsche Welle
Imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower, or Cairo without the pyramids. For some countries, losing their iconic wildlife would be like losing these tourist attractions, says Bradnee Chambers in this guest commentary.
As the global travel industry convenes in Berlin to attend the International Tourism Fair (ITB) this week, a group of African tourism ministers and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) are using the occasion to send out a clear message against poaching and the illegal trade in wildlife.
Wildlife is a major draw for tourists. Safaris in Kenya earn the country much needed revenue and foreign exchange. The shark diving industry in Fiji is worth 42.2 million dollars (30.4 million euros) per year, 18 million dollars in Palau and 38.6 million dollars per year in the Maldives.
Whale watching globally is worth about 2 billion dollars a year. A study conducted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service found that bird watchers contributed about 32 billion dollars to the US economy.
Many birdwatchers travel oversees to satisfy their ornithological passions and some of the first overseas tours were for bird watching when air travel became economical in the 1960s and it remains very popular to this day.
Even if wildlife is not the sole reason why a holiday-maker travels to a particular destination, once there wildlife is often part of the package of tourist attractions. I just recently went to Tenerife for a winter break and spent a day dolphin and whale watching. Whale and dolphin watching in the Canary Islands employs thousands of people.
What the tourism industry is realizing is that wildlife means "big bucks" and is worth much more alive than dead.
For example, Indonesia has just created the largest sanctuary for manta rays because it estimated that a manta ray is worth one million dollars over the course of its life from tourists wanting to see the gentle giants in their natural habitat.
When wildlife is under threat, so too are revenues from tourism. This is why a new alliance is forming between ministers of the environment and ministers of tourism.
Both are feeling the disadvantages resulting from the decline in wildlife. Both now realize they have a common goal and that is to expunge the thirst for ivory and other threats to wildlife and the natural environment.
This is the motivation behind the meeting of African ministers of tourism at the ITB. They came to the world's largest tourism trade fair to raise awareness on the need to combat poaching.
The illegal killing is bringing elephants to the brink of extinction. In 1979 there were 1.3 million elephants in the wild in Africa, today possible 500,000 of which on average 100 are being killed each day by poachers.
But it's not just poaching that is threatening the tourism industry and it's not just elephants that are threatened. Some of the most iconic wildlife-related tourist attractions on the planet are at risk from climate change, overfishing, by-catch and barriers impeding animals on their natural migration to breeding and feeding grounds.
Some of the most iconic species on Earth such as whales, lions, river dolphins, great white sharks, marine turtles, mountain gorillas, birds of prey, polar bears and thousands of others are under a greater threat than at any other time in human history.
Some of the greatest migration phenomena in the world, some of which attract thousands of tourists every year could be a thing of a past even in our own lifetime.
In Africa the largest and most diverse mammal migration in the world entails 1.3 million wildebeest, 600,000 zebras and Thomson's gazelles moving between the Masai Mara and the Serengti plains.
It is the only remaining animal migration that can be seen from outer space and the reason why the Serengti National Park in Tanzania is being listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Some say that in 30 years this common heritage of mankind will be just another story only to be read about in the history books like the massive migrations of the bison on the Great American Plains.
Many of these endangered species and many of the great migrations themselves are protected under international law through conventions such as the Convention on Migratory Species, but countries need to redouble their efforts if they want to avert the many threats that wildlife is facing in these unprecedented times of human development.
By far the most important step to saving wildlife is to recognize that it is an asset and like any asset it needs protecting. Tourism ministers have realized this; environment ministers have it known it for a long time, but now finance ministers must do so too.
Only when we properly account for their value and not take them for granted will we be able to ensure that major tourist attractions will still be there for future generations.
Dr. Bradnee Chambers is the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Environment Programme's Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
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When Do Checks Expire?
Did you forget to cash a check, only to find it months later? How long is too long to wait to cash a check? MarketWatch's Chuck Jaffe explains on MoneyBeat.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Bama, K-State stay in top 2 of BCS
Oregon moves to No. 3 in rankings
Alabama secured its hold at the top of the BCS standings a day after winning its biggest road test of the season.
Kansas State remained No. 2, while No. 3 Oregon passed No. 4 Notre Dame in the latest standings released Sunday night. All three contenders won on Saturday.
The Crimson Tide, No. 1 in both the USA Today and Harris polls, rallied for a 21-17 win at LSU on Saturday and were rewarded by the computer average that makes up one-third of the BCS standings.
Last week, Alabama was rated No. 1 by only one of the six computer formulas. After beating LSU, four of the computers rate Bama No. 1. The Tide are 2nd and 3rd in the other computers; Notre Dame is No. 1 in both of those. The average discounts the six computers' highest and lowest rating.
Alabama's advantage over Kansas State in the full BCS average increased from .0359 to .0639.
Oregon, ranked second in both polls, jumped to No. 3 after winning at USC 62-51, while Notre Dame barely won at home against Pittsburgh, 29-26 in triple overtime.
The Ducks also nearly halved the gap between them and Kansas State, shrinking the difference in average from .0264 to .0152.
Alabama finishes the regular season with home games against No. 15 Texas A&M, Western Carolina and Auburn.
Kansas State plays at TCU this week, then travels to Baylor and has a bye week before finishing at home against No. 17 Texas.
Oregon is at California on Saturday night, then at home against No. 14 Stanford, and ends its regular season at No. 11 Oregon State.
Notre Dame concludes its season away to Boston College, at home against Wake Forest, and at No. 19 USC.
Of the four, only Alabama and Oregon would have to play in their conference championships before bowl season begins.
LSU fell two spots from fifth to seventh after its loss.
No. 9 Louisville, the only other eligible unbeaten team, passed No. 10 Florida State to move up one spot.


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Laurent Pelly's production of Manon, in which Ermonela Jaho sings the title role, opens on 14 January.
Massenet's classic opera follows the story of Manon Lescaut, a beautiful, impulsive young woman who falls passionately in love as an innocent teenager, before sacrificing it all in favour of a life of riches and luxury.
'The appeal of Manon's story comes from her human desire to have everything,' says Ermonela. 'She wants fame, she wants money, she wants love – everything!'
Massenet was one of the great melodists of 19th-century opera, and Manon contains some of his finest arias and duets. The title role is richly varied, providing some gorgeous arias and great duets. Find out more about Manon's musical highlights.
'In Manon you have to play a lot and it is a challenge for me emotionally,' says Ermonela. 'In the last Act especially, when she is talking to Des Grieux, it is impossible to stay cold. I am always struggling to control my tears!'
Laurent Pelly's production is set in Massenet's Paris, the Belle Époque of the nineteenth century – an era of glamour and excess when courtesans thrived. Find our more in our Opera Essentials series.
Ermonela was also recently featured on BBC Radio 3's In Tune. Manon runs from 14 January to 4 February 2014. Tickets are still available.


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When people grieve, they usually run the gamut of the emotional spectrum, from denial to bargaining to despair to anger to eventually hope. Mary Magdalene was in hopeless despair as she stood weeping by the grave of Jesus. The resurrected Christ deals tenderly with this woman as he reveals Himself to her and conveys hope for her future. Let's glean some principles for dealing with brokenhearted people.
"But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name" John 20:31.
Believe:879 is an epic journey through the book of John led by Pastor Skip Heitzig of Calvary of Albuquerque. As we explore each of the 879 verses of this gospel, we'll grow in grace and in our knowledge of Jesus Christ. From His pre-incarnate existence, to His public ministry, through His death and His resurrection we'll traverse familiar territory and embark on new adventures of faith.
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Figures referenced: W. Graham Scroggie; Billy Graham; J.C. Ryle
Cross references: Psalm 30:5; Psalm 56:8; Ecclesiastes 3:4; Matthew 28:2; Matthew 28:20; Luke 24:16; John 10:3; John 11:35; John 20:1; Romans 10:17; 1 Corinthians 13:7; 1 Corinthians 15:43-44; Galatians 4:5; Ephesians 1:5; Hebrews 2:11; Hebrews 13:5; 1 Peter 1:12; Revelation 21:4
Topic: Resurrection
Keywords: grief, hope, resurrection
Would you turn in you Bible this morning to the Gospel of John Chapter 20. As you are making your way there, I'll underscore the announcement that you are invited to a movie tonight at our Lobo campus downtown where we show a film. It is Cinema Sunday to great film that has really good family and Gospel massage tied to it, with class A actors in it. And we think it is great, you just bring your friends, bring your family, bring your kids, I wouldn't bring your pets, leave those at home.
But come out and enjoy a movie, free of charge. Bring somebody who doesn't know the Lord but would go to an event like this. They might not go to a churchly event but they come to a movie theater. Jessie Lesco is going to present a short Gospel message afterwards that would be right aimed at the heart and it's going to be excellent. So we invite you out for that tonight, free of charge and the Lobo Theater.
John Chapter 20, Verse 11; "But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. And as she weeps, she stood down and looked into the tomb and she saw two angles in white siting; one at the head, the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain. And then they said to her, 'Woman, why are you weeping?' She said to them, 'Because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have laid him.' Now once she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, 'Woman why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?' She, supposing him to be the gardener said to him, 'Sir, if you have carried him away tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away.' Jesus said to her, 'Mary.' She turned and said to him 'Rabboni'; which is to say teacher. Jesus said to her, 'Do not claim to me for I have not yet ascended to my Father but go the my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' Mary Magdalene came and told the Disciples that she had seen the Lord and that she had spoken these things to her."
Would you pray with me? Lord the text that we are considering is just so wonderful, as we read a woman who comes to the understanding that the one that she loved more that anyone else on this earth is now alive. When she have thought there was finality in His death. Many of us can relate to the story. Maybe not on the level of somebody that we thought was dead is now alive but somebody who is broken hearted and needs comfort. Who needs hope weak rekindled. Who is in despair in sorrow? And I pray Lord that if that describes us or if we know somebody who is there that you would help us to be raised to a higher level to the teaching of your word in Jesus name. Amen.
Some of the best advice I ever heard on dealing with people who are in grief is a simple statement that says, "Walk softly around a broken heart." Broken hearted people are fragile people. Broken hearted people are emotionally distressed people. Broken hearted people need hope and hope is a process. We have a story about a woman who is living there. She is in sorrow. She is in deep distress, depression you might even say. And Jesus comes along and through a simple and quick process brings her immense hope.
There is a journey that a person takes from despair to hope and somebody who's ever counseled grieving people knows that intuitively. And patiently, we'll take the person from step to step to bring that person into hope. Mary Magdalene come to the tomb and the stone have been rolled away. She thought somebody stole the body. She was wrong. There had been a resurrection. She is about to discover that her assumptions were wrong. The body hasn't been stollen. It hasn't been taken and placed somewhere else, but she is going to discover that.
I have a story that I wanted to read to you. Supposedly a true a story from Sarasota, Florida based upon the police records. An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and upon returning to her car, she found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at top of her lungs, "I have a gun and I know how to use it get out of the car." Nice little old lady.
The four men didn't wait for a second threat. They've got out and ran like mad. The lady is somewhat shaken and proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver sit. She was so shaken that she couldn't get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried and then she realized why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a Football and Frisbee and two packs of beer in the front sit.
A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces further down. She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake. The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn't stop laughing. He pointed to the end of the counter where four pale men, who were reporting a car jacking. Get this by a mad elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, with glasses, curly white hair, carrying a large hand gun. No charges were filed. That is the best senior moment I've ever heard of right there.
Oops, wrong car. Now that woman thought her car had been stolen. She was wrong. Mary Magdalene thought that her Lord had been stolen. She was wrong. Now fortunately, the police chief and the four pale men, dealt very tenderly and compassionately with this elderly woman with the handgun. And fortunately, Jesus Christ deals very lovingly, mercifully, compassionately with Mary Magdalene who also was wrong.
As we look at the text today, there are principles that I want you see about handling people who are grieving or in sorrow or distressed or who are depressed. Those who are suffered great loss. Four principles. The first principle is probably the most obvious and that is crying is natural. Crying is natural. We find in Verse 11 that Mary stood outside by the tomb. Here is the weeping, it means to wail loudly. Not like sniffling a little bit, wiping a few tears. She lost it.
Now let's go back in time just a little bit to the night before. I tend to think that Mary Magdalene didn't get much sleep the night before. She was tossing and turning and every little noise she heard woke her up and the visions of the Crucifixion. The blood flowing down the face of Jesus, it shook her. It woke her up. It messed with her. And finally, she got up early and she went to the tomb. Chapter 20, Verse 1 uses the term early in the morning. And that is a term I mentioned last week for the fourth watch of the night, somewhere between 3am and 6am she gets up and goes. Sabbath is over. She couldn't live on the Sabbath. You can't walk according to Jewish Law more than two thirds of a mile, that's over now she goes. She goes to the tomb.
Jewish morning lasts a period of one month, 30 days. That's the period they core about to deal emotionally with the lost of a love one, 30 days. The first seven days are the more intense. During the first seven days, the survivors, they don't bathe. They don't anoint themselves with oil or any products. They don't wear shoes. They don't engage in business or study. They basically looked disheveled. That's their way of saying, "I'm mourning. Somebody that I loved has died and the wailing is not contained.
It is very loud and vociferous. There is the tearing of the garments to signify a broken or tearing heart. There is sock cloth that is put on the body and ashes that are sprinkled on the head and over the sock cloth, to say that this person is in deep mourning. Even Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes, you know it well. There is a time to weep and there is a time to laugh. There is a time to mourn and there is a time to dance. This is Mary's time to weep and to mourn. It is very natural. That there is even a Jewish legend that's says in honor of Mary Magdalene was into this but she could of fallen into that superstition.
Many Jewish people believed at that time that the spirit of the departed person actually hovered over the grave for 3 days, seeking to reenter the body. But that on the 4th day, because decomposing has well set in that the spirit departs. There is no hope for returning. Of course they never had that happen. So the idea of that was we want to get as close to the deceased person to that body as possible during the first 3 days.
So she comes the first day of the week Chapter 20, Verse 1, she finds he stone has been rolled away. She freaks out. She runs and tells the disciples. The Disciples being John and Peter ran to the tomb. John beat Peter, wrote is down so everybody would know forever and ever. So by the time Mary gets to the tomb, Peter and John had left and she is all alone. You can see that in Verse 10 and 11.
Then the disciples went away again to their own home. So obviously, they didn't cross pass with Mary who was going into the tomb. She comes back. Mary stood outside by the tomb loudly wailing. And as she weeps, she stooped down and she looked into the tomb. She just stop and just broke down.
Tears have a language all their own they don't need interpretations and her tears flowed freely because crying is natural. God designed us to cry. You have around the orbits of your eye. Lacrimal glands they are called. They secrete a serum into the eyes to lubricate the eyeball, to take away foreign bodies. They're attached to the emotional centers of the brain. If you are very, very happy usually when you are very, very sad, they emit more serum, more water, tears freely.
It is natural it is normal. In fact it is unhealthy to suppress that. One doctor noted that suppressed sorrow can wreck havoc on the entire nervous system. And even sited one patient of his that died of Ulcerative Colitis because she suppressed grief when her father had died and yet, what do people say when somebody is crying usually? "Don't cry". Why not? Or the little boys who are crying, "Big boys don't cry". Really? Did their lacrimal glands fall out?
So by the time that little boy gets to be aged 12, he thinks that crying is not masculine. Really, it is not masculine? What do you do with Jesus in Chapter 11 of John, shortest verse in the New Testament, "Jesus wept."? Wept. Jesus wept. The man, the son of God wept and He seems to notice all the times when we weep. Until finally in Revelation, "There were be no more tears," but until then, there will be in God takes note of it.
David's writes poetically in Plasm 56, "You have collected all tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book." Imagine that. It's as if he writes it down. He takes notice of the times that you shed tears.
Every Pastor knows that when there is deep distress, every counselor knows when there is grief happening, when there is lost in a person's life, the most natural thing is for tears to flow.
One Pastor by the name of Charles Graham Scroggie who pastored, get this, in England, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, the United States and Canada. Oh and by the way, eventually took over Charles Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle in London.
He's pastored a lot of people in his life time. He seen a lot of people die and get buried and work with grieving families. And he writes these words, "Let grief do its work. Tramp every inch of the sorrowful way. Drink every drop of the bitter cup. To see things, our loved ones have left behind will give us daily pain. The cloths they wore, the letters they wrote, the books they read, the chairs they sat in, the music they loved. But what would we be without these reminders? Those who truly love will say they have found in sorrow in a new kind of joy, a joy which only the broken hearted can know." There is nothing wrong crying. It is therapy for a broken heart. But tears can never blind a person, must never blind the person, and should never blind the person from the truth, the eternal truth. Heaven, all of those kinds of far reaching truths and sometimes they can.
Brings us to our second point, not only as crying natural and grief questions are helpful. Look at Verse 13, "Then they said to her," these are the angels now talking. The angel said, "Woman, why are you weeping?" Do you find that a strange question? Let see. A woman at a graveyard crying, is that so weird? Would you walk up to a woman at a local cemetery who is crying in front of a grave? Would you walk over her and go, "Hey, why are you crying?" You better not. But the question is this, "Woman, why are you weeping?" And she said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have laid him."
Jesus will ask the same questions to her and then a follow up question after that. First of all, the angels talk to her. If you were to compare this with Luke and Mark's account, they don't call them angles but men, there were men there. That's because they were angels sent from God, special messengers out of heaven but they were allowed by God to take a human form at that time. Because when people see angels and their glory, they usually, what? Freak out. So there are a couple men their dressed in white, but they're actually angels, John describes to us.
Thirty-four books of the Bible talked about angels, 17 in the Old Testament, 17 in the New Testament. They're all over the Bible. They are God's secret agents, Billy Graham calls them. They show up in the life and ministry of Jesus at very specific and important times like his annunciation announcement. The announcement of His conception, His birth that was given to Joseph and Mary by an angel, at His birth, angels hovered over Bethlehem and gave that announcement. The Messiah has come. At Jesus temptation, the angels came ministered to him. And here at the resurrection, they are here to announce that Jesus is alive. It seems that angels are very, very interested in our salvation.
Peter writes in first Peter 1, "These are things," that is our salvation, "these are things which angels desire to look into." I think we are a marvel to the angels. I think they marvel at God's love. You love them that much? You love these creatures? That you would do that for them? And then I think they look at us sometimes they go, "I don't get it? How come these people like don't really rely on God and don't turn to God and pray more and love more? They just can't figure us out." These are things the angels desire to look into.
Something else I found out. I hope you will find this interesting as I did. We never find angels sitting except at the resurrection. They're always like busy, right. They're doing stuff. They're working. They're active. It is at the resurrection only that we find angels sitting down. They're just like hanging out. There is one on this side of that bench where Jesus' body was and one at the other side of the bench.
Oh and Matthew tells us that the stone that was rolled away from that tomb, there is an angle sitting on that, just sitting there. Waiting for people to come by, I don't know if they were eating angel food cake before they've got there or what.
Okay, so, this what my mind does. When I read about an angel on this side, an angel on that side where Jesus' body was, my mind goes back to the Old Testament to the Mercy Seat in the Tabernacle. Are you following me? Remember on the Mercy Seat of the ArK of the Covenant, there were two angels one on one side and one on the other side and the wing span over. And God said, "The only place that I'm going to meet with you is on that Mercy seat." Jesus Christ in the New Testament is the Mercy seat. The only place God will meet with a human being is over a person of the Lord Jesus Christ and that symbolically a set forth here.
Look at Verse 14, "Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there and didn't know it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, 'Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?' She is supposing him to the gardener said to him, 'Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him'." Please listen carefully as if you've never read this before. "Tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away." Yeah right. Frail little Mary is going to carry the dead weight of an adult man somewhere. Let's say, she could. Let's say this is like Brunhilda, this chick can lift big weight, "Where you have laid him?" Where is she going to take the body?
Well that is sort of my point. When you love somebody like Mary loved Jesus, you don't care about those impossibilities. You don't care about those questions, "I'm going to deal with it. Just tell where he is and I will take him." First Corinthians 13, that great love chapter, 1 Verse in the Phillips translation is rendered, "Love knows no limits to its endurance. No ends to its trust. No fading of its hope."
Now think about these two questions. Question number one, how come you are crying? Question number two, who are you looking for? The angels ask the first question. Jesus asked it again and adds a question. This is Jesus typical method asking the question to direct the thinking or redirect the thinking to a proper line of thinking to elevate that person eventually to a place of trust, the higher level. Why are you crying? Now we know why she is crying because she thinks somebody had stolen the body. But asking the question it's as if Jesus is saying, "Mary, could there be another explanation from an empty tomb other than the body was stolen like a resurrection?" How come you are crying? And then the second question, "Who are you looking for? What kind of a Messiah are you expecting Mary? She is looking for a corpse. She does not believe has risen from the dead and right in front of her is Jesus looking eyeball to eyeball with her.
J.C. Ryle writes, "Two-thirds of the things we fear in life never happen at all and two-thirds of the tears we shed are thrown away and shed in vain." Here is the principle and here is what I have discovered. When a person is in a trial, suffering, grief, despair, broken hearted, depressed, whale(ph) a place questions will help redirect their thinking. Ask the right questions, don't get preachy. Walk softly around the broken heart. But questions like this if they've lost someone, what did you have admired most about that person? Get them thinking those thoughts. What will you miss the most? What is the greatest lesson they taught you in their life? Or what do you think that person wants you to do now? How would they want you to think and react? If they have lost their finances or their home, maybe a question like, "Okay, at this point in your life today, what is the most valuable thing that you have? Or what is the most valuable to you at this point?"
Get them to evaluate and think. Just whale a place, whale of a time questions can redirect the thinking and raise a person to a higher level of faith.
Here is the third principle, comprehension is gradual. Verse 16, "Jesus said to her, 'Mary.' She turned and said to him Rabboni; which is to say teacher." Okay let me kind of give you a flow of events here. Because it says in Verse 16, "She turned and said to him." So this is what I think happen. This is how, as I see it. She comes to the tomb at this time. She is weeping, she is crying, she looks inside. There are these two dudes who ask her a question, how come you are crying? And she says, "Because they have taken away my Lord and I don't know where they've laid him." And she is talking to them stooping down inside the tomb. Jesus is behind her outside.
How she knew Jesus was there? We're not sure. Maybe the angels went, look. Or she heard footsteps. She turns away form the tomb, turns toward Jesus. Who says, "How come you are crying? Who are you looking for?" And she said, "Look, if you've taken him away, tell me where and I'll get him." And then at that point, she must have turned away from Jesus back towards the tomb, buried her head in her hands and just started weeping again because one word was given that reeled around. She turned around again to Jesus and she recognizes Him. One word, one word and all of her fears, all of her sorrow, all of her discontent was melted away. One word and she instantly recognized Jesus and it was her name. And it was probably said in a familiar tone. The tone Jesus always use when talking to her maybe it was like, "Mary". It was that familiar tone that brought her reeling around, recognizing that this was Jesus.
We know that hearing is one of the strongest memory triggers that we have. Smell and hearing are -- if you hear a song or if you hear a word, it takes you back to an episode, especially your name. Because your name is the access point to your personality, it is your name. If you have ever been in a crowd where people are talking to one another in several conversations, you really don't hear what they are saying. But if somebody mentions your name, you recognize that. You hear that. The way Jesus said her name brought her recognition.
I have a question. Why she didn't just recognize Jesus visibly? He was standing right there. That mystifies a lot of people when they read this, "I don't get this? How come she didn't recognize Him?" Let me give you few reasons. Number one, she is crying okay. Give her a break. She has tears in her eyes. She is emotionally distressed. She is all been out of shape because she thinks the body has been stolen. And number four, which should be really number one, the last one she expects to see standing in front of her is Jesus.
She thinks he is dead. Now, she might have thought, "That guy kind of looks a lot like Jesus. It can't be him." Here is another reason. Jesus is now on his resurrected body. Very different from what she saw a couple of days ago on that cross that horrible bloodied scene. In a resurrected body, He looked different. In First Corinthians 15, we are told, "The body is sown in corruption but raised in incorruption. It is sown in weakness but t is raised in power."
Let me give you another reason. It could be that she was super naturally kept from recognizing Jesus. That shouldn't surprise you. Luke, Chapter 24 the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, it says, "They were restrained form recognizing Him." They didn't know it was Him.
Okay, pause for a moment and consider this. Because a lot you can relate to this. Jesus is right there and she doesn't recognize Him. How many times has Jesus been close to you and you think, "He is so far away, He like went on vacation. He left town." When Jesus promised, He would never leave you or forsake you. He would be with you always to the end of the age. What has happened? Your circumstance, your sorrow has clouded your view of reality. All you can think about is your grieving and your situation, but He is still there. He hasn't moved.
How did Mary recognized Jesus? Not by sight but by? Voice. By sound. She saw Him but did not recognize Him. She heard His voice, she recognized Him. Does that bring up the principle to you? Romans 10, "Faith comes by hearing not by seeing." "Well, if I only saw something." Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Jesus says, "I'm the good shepherd." The good shepherd calls his sheep by name and they recognize his voice. "Mary," "My teacher." The sheep has recognized the voice of the shepherd. How did she know that voice? How did she know that voice? Anybody? She heard it before. Thank you. She heard it before.
She recognize the voice because she has been in the presence of Jesus long enough to recognize it. How do you recognize the voice of God? Well, you've got to spend time with Him. The longer you spend time listening to the voice of God in scripture as he speaks, you will recognize the voice. And you will be able to tell the difference between the voice of God and the voice of your mother's tapes playing in your mind or the voice of the media or the voice of your peers or the voice of false prophets, you'd be able to go, "That's the voice of Jesus, it is unmistakable. I have been in His presence. I have spent time in His word, I hear it." The comprehension was gradual but she eventually got it.
Here is the fourth principle for those dealing with the trial like this. Commission is needful. That is people who are broken hearted, distressed, confused, discouraged, depressed sometimes need a task to be given to them. Look at Verse 17, "Jesus said to her, 'Do not cling to me for I have not yet ascended to my father but go to my brethren and say to them I'm ascending to my father and your father, to my God and your God.' Mary Magdalene came and told to the Disciples that he had seen that Lord and that he had spoken these things to her." Now why did Jesus say don't cling to me? Literally, He is saying, "Stop fastening yourself to me."
What do you think Mary did when she recognized Jesus? I think she grabbed Him. What would you do if somebody you thought was dead was now alive and standing in front of you? Would you go, "Hi, knuckles dude! Nice to see you."? You would grab that person and she probably put a dense grip on Jesus like, "I'm never letting you go again." Probably, she is grabbing Him so tight and here is Jesus saying, "Stop fastening yourself to me. You have known me only in this relationship. I'm going to be around here for another 40 days." That's how long it took before He ascended to His father.
"In the mean time, I have something I want you to do. I want you to go to my brethren and give them this message." She was elevated to a place that Jesus gave to her of a commission, a mission that he would send her on. "I want you to bring this message to them. I could do it myself but I'm giving you this task for you to do."
Oh by the way, this is the first time Jesus ever refers His Apostles, His disciples as my brethren. Up until now, it has been, you are my friends, you are my servants, never you are my brethren. Now he calls them His brethren, why? Because He has died on the cross, paid the prize for redemption, making this new relationship possible, were adopted sons and daughters of God. And Hebrews too says, "God or Jesus is not ashamed to call them brethren." "Go tell my brethren," I could think He couldn't wait to say that, my brethren, "that I'm going to my God and your God, my father and your father."
Giving a task to someone who is depressed or broken hearted is part of restoring their hope and it is simple as to why. Grief, sorrow, discouragement are all very consuming activities. They require lots of attention, they absorb all of your energy and a person in those situations can become hopeless and listless and unmotivated and just so down they say, "I can't do anything."
I visited a girl sometime back. She was on suicide watch. She tried to take her life. I was brought in to speak with her. I spoke with her for a couple of hours and at the end of it, I said, "There is something I want you to do for me." And her first response is, "I can't do anything." I said, "You can do this. It is a little assignment, it is very simple but I'm going to ask you to do something for me and as soon as you are done with that task, I want you to call me. Here is my number personally. Call me and tell me when you have completed that." And she goes, "Okay, I will try." But she did it and she called me. She says, "I did it." I said, "That is excellent. You did such a great job. Now there is something else I want you to do." and I gave her another one and then I gave her another task.
Eventually, what I've got her to do is to find somebody who is in a very needy situation and tell her story to them and how she got hope. And what that did, those task helped elevate her to a place of, "I have purpose. I'm useful. I'm doing something." And it quickly helped bring her out of that funk that she had been living in for so long.
So these are good principles when you encounter somebody who is being buffeted by these trials. You always bring in hope. You always redirect their thinking. It could be a question. It could be a task. The scripture that comes to mind as an overarching scripture to this passage is Psalm 30 that says, "Weeping man, doer for a night but joy comes in the morning. Let them emote. Let them cry but then direct their thinking from the temporal to the eternal. Little task, little task but always with the view of now look to the horizon and see what you have to face in your eternal future as the prime motivator."
Let me close with a story about a woman who taught that to her Pastor. She went to the doctor. The doctor said, "You have a terminal illness. You have three months to live." True story, I met the man last night who attend to this funeral. She went home from the doctor. She knew she had roughly three months to live. Liver cancer was going to take her and it did. She got her house in order, told her friends, her relatives. They went through those stages of planning and weeping.
She went to her Pastor. She said, "This is what I want at my funeral. I want these songs to be sung. I want these scriptures to be read." And she said, "There is one final thing I want you to do at this funeral. Promise me you will do it. I want you to place a fork in my right hand." And he gave her one of those looks like -- I really want to ask you but I don't know if I should. He had this look like, "I don't get this." So she smile and she said, "I know what you are thinking. Here is why I wanted you to do this. All through my life whenever I've gone to church, publics or socials, whenever there is a dinner, they serve the meal, inevitably someone will say after you eat the meal, "Hold on to your fork. Which means they're going to serve up dessert, the good stuff is coming." You know the chocolate cake and the apple pie.
"Hold on to your fork. So, Pastor I want you to promise me to place a fork in my right hand and I want the casket open and I want people filing by my casket before you give the message. And they're going to look in the casket and see a fork and they're going to think, "Why is there a fork in her hand?" And they're going to go back to their sits and then I want you to preach the message and you tell them this, "The best is yet to come." Hold on to your fork because the best is yet to come.
Here is a woman who lived with all the trial she lived with knowing with fork in hand, the best is yet to come and you thing about that. And you think about that when you go to lunch today and pick up your fork and you will never forget as you grab that fork, "Hold on to your fork. The best is yet to come."
Father we know this to be true. We cannot turn to a page and scripture without getting that brought to our attention especially in the Gospels with Jesus who is always thinking of not just that moment but that moment means in the skim of all moments and into eternity itself.
And we consider how Jesus handle this woman who is so broken hearted, so many tears have been shed in that last 24-hour period by this woman and Jesus saw that. And though these tears were natural, questions asked to elevate the way she process her life in her events and then she recognize Jesus. There was light at the end of the tunnel, but a task was given that helped her feel that she was important. That she lived with purpose. That she had an eternal job to do that's getting her eyes fixed on something more important than what she had been dealing with. All very, very practical and help us as your ambassadors to walk softly around a broken heat, in Jesus name. Amen.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Sophomore quarterback Steven Wilken (Ringwood, N.J.) threw three touchdowns while the Salve Regina defense shutout the top scoring offense in the conference, lifting the Seahawks to a 43-0 victory over defending conference champion Western New England during NEFC Boyd Division action on Saturday. The Seahawks extend the longest winning streak in Division III football to 11 games, and are now a perfect 5-0 overall and 2-0 in Boyd Division play this season.
Wilken led the way for the Seahawks, completing 16-of-26 attempts for 242 yards and three scores, while senior Connor Kelly (Milford, Conn.) led all players with 101 yards rushing, while scoring one of Salve Regina's two touchdowns on the ground. Sophomore Matthew Traynor(Secaucus, N.J.) reeled in five passes for 111 yards and a touchdown, while Alex Hennessy(West Babylon, N.Y.) and senior Patrick Keenan (North Smithfield, R.I.) each added touchdown receptions in the win.
The Seahawks defense was particularly impressive, shutting out the top scoring offense in the league, holding the Golden Bears to just 1-of-12 on third down attempts, while forcing five turnovers. Sophomore Phil Terio (Trumbull, Conn.) made nine tackles, forced a fumble, and returned an interception 88 yards for a touchdown. It marked his third interception returned for a score this season. Joshua Burnett (Whitman, Mass.) had a team-high 15 tackles, whileHayden Stanton (Wallingford, Conn.) and Maxwell Shubert (West Chester, Pa.) each added interceptions.
Kevin Cook led the Golden Bears with 70 yards on the ground, John Krafick completed 20 passes for 150 yards, and Kareem Hines contributed six receptions for 49 yards.
Salve Regina struck quickly with a 64-yard scoring pass from Steven Wilken to Matthew Traynor just 59 seconds after the opening kickoff.
The Seahawks added a 31-yard field goal by freshman Christian Clark (Williamsport, Pa.) and a 15-yard touchdown pass from Wilken to Hennessy to take a 17-0 lead into halftime.
After a scoreless third quarter, the Seahawks exploded for 26 points in the fourth quarter, including a six-yard TD reception by Keenan, an 88-yard interception return by Terio, a three-yard touchdown rush by Kelly, and a 32-yard scamper by Khari Halliburton (Manchester, N.H.) to seal the 43-0 victory.
The Seahawks return to action next weekend, putting their 11-game winning streak on the line when they travel to face UMass Dartmouth at noon.


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Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Profile: Christa Clark Jones of Bike by the Sea
During my visit to Santa Barbara, I had the pleasure of catching up with Christa, writer of the blog bike by the sea and organiser the Santa Barbara Cycle Chic show.
Caz:What bike do you ride?
Christa: Red Electra Amsterdam
Caz: Why do you cycle?
Christa: Many reasons - health, community, financial, fun - but I'm mainly interested in observing the urban environment. I'm most fascinated with sustainable urban design and cycling is my favorite way to explore Livable Cities.
Caz: What's the best thing about cycling in Santa Barbara?
Christa: It's sunny almost every day in Santa Barbara. There are some beautiful bike paths along the ocean. It's stunning! Also, since it's a small town, I love seeing friends and familiar faces while cycling. It's easy to stop and have a conversation.
Caz:Have you noticed a rise in women cycling in Santa Barbara?
Christa: Compared with many North American cities, Santa Barbara has a high cycling rate, but there is a growing bicycle culture. I see more women cyclists on a variety of practical urban bicycles including electric and Dutch bikes.
Caz: What's your favourite outfit to cycle in?
Christa: I enjoy cycling in classic dresses and heels. Lately, I've been wearing a lovely straw hat and it's just tight enough so that it won't fly off while cycling.
Labels: Cyclechic Warriors
3 comments:
- Christa said...
Thank you, Caz.
Would love to explore London on bike!
- 26 May 2010 at 21:44
- Caz said...
No worries Christa. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you are ever in London!
- 27 May 2010 at 13:43
- MELI. said...
LOVELY!!! such a classy lady :D
- 28 May 2010 at 00:38
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Two accounting aids of great importance for society in Sweden and Finland during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
In a complete accounting system a distinction should be made between the following functions: proof, entry, control, systematisa-tion and summary. During the same period of time that the art of writing was developed different technical aids to serve one or more of these accounting functions were invented. The most advanced of such aids is the present-day computer. However, let us turn back the clock for a moment and consider two aids of the simplest kind: the reckoning board and the tally stick.
The reckoning board
The reckoning board, also called a memory or hole board, was a board with a number of holes. There were two types of such board. The older type had 100 holes, arranged in 10 rows with 10 holes in each. This type of board was used with one peg which could be inserted into the holes consecutively from top to bottom to count from one to one hundred. The board was used as a memory aid when counting certain units as loads, sacks or barrels. The peg was moved forward one hole for every unit covered. At the end of the day or week it could then be seen how many units had been reckoned. The board was also used to record the number of units completed by workers engaged in piece-work. With the aid of the board a worker could keep a tally of the amount of work done and verify the wages paid to him. The memory board was also used in iron works to keep a record of the number of units received or de-livered, for example, of firewood, ore, chalk, coal or pig iron.
A second type of board was more advanced. The holes were ar-ranged in two or three vertical rows, each with ten holes and with a
* Based on a paper delivered at the Second World Congress of Accounting His-torians, Atlanta, August 1976.


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When you are a mom of 3 nuts, you have no idea what will fly out of your pie hole at any given time. Here's a smattering of some things that have come out of my mouth this week (and no- I am not proud of very many of them!):
"We don't strangle people we love- now stop trying to put the TV cables around each others necks!"
"If I see you try to smell your sister's butt one more time you WILL go to time out."
"Pajamas are not food. Stop trying to eat your pajamas."
"No- I don't care if you color your whole body with markers. Just make sure you wash it all off before you come back out of the bathroom."
"Because I said so- that's why!" (said way more times than should be allowed. Did anybody else swear to themselves they'd never say this to their kids and then fail as miserably as I did?)"
"Every Chinese girl is not named Kai-lan. Every Latina girl is not Dora. And every African American boy is not named Little Bill."
While bra shopping, "Are you sure that's what size I need? When I look at that bra on the hanger, I feel like I could flip it over and serve chips and salsa out of those cups! That's depressing!" The sales lady was not amused.
"Happy Birthday, Kamron. Since you never put anything on your list, I got you something I would like to have instead!"
"Be careful with that zip lining. I've heard it could be brutal on your crotch."
"How many times do I have to tell you? Mommy's shirt is NOT your Kleenex!"
They always say that children learn more from what you do and less from what you say. Man oh man am I grateful for that! Hopefully I haven't warped these cuties too badly. Maybe instead of contributing to their 529's I should start setting aside dollars for their therapy!
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Organisers: Itai Benjamini (Weizmann Institute of Science), Nathanaël Berestycki (Cambridge), Jean-François Le Gall (Paris-Sud) and Scott Sheffield (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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A new frontier has emerged at the interface between probability, geometry, and analysis, with a central target to produce a coherent theory of the geometry of random structures. The principal question is the following: within a given structure, what is the interplay between randomness and geometry? More precisely, does the geometry appear to be random at every scale (i.e. fractal), or do fluctuations "average out" at sufficiently large scales? Can the global geometry be described by taking a suitable scaling limit that allows for concrete computations?
Spectacular progress has been made over the last ten years in this domain. The goal of the programme is to gather experts from probability, geometry, analysis and other connected areas, in order to study aspects of this question in some paradigmatic situations. Topics of particular relevance include the Gaussian Free Field, random planar maps and Liouville quantum gravity, in connection with conformally invariant scaling limits; spin glass models and branching random walks; percolation and random graphs; and random walks on graphs and groups in the case where the geometry is determined by some algebraic ambient structure.


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"The Davis Family" -- Phil Davis smacks his children and curses at them. He expects Debbra, a working mom, to handle all childcare responsibilities for their family, as well as cleaning the house, but she can never meet his standards and he offers no help. He ridicules stepdaughter Morgan, 15, for dressing provocatively when she dresses modestly. Chaotic mornings filled with yelling and lots of childcare duties have resulted in Morgan, an excellent student, being late for school almost every day this term. Jo tells Phil that his behavior is going to break his children's spirits. Can Supernanny get these two parents on the same page, help them learn alternatives to their ineffective ways and have them lead in a more positive manner? "Supernanny" airs FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Nick Powell is the creator and executive producer of both the American and British versions of the show. Nick Emmerson and Stephanie Schwam are executive producers of the American version. "Supernanny" is produced by Ricochet, Ltd.
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Bake sales fall victim to push for healthier foods. I will likely be writing a long, ranty post about this either here or for Broadsheet later today. In the meantime: AAAAAAAAAHHHHH! (Sample scream trigger: "In Berkeley, Anna X. L. Wong, a kindergarten teacher at Jefferson Elementary, incorporates "good foods" versus "bad foods" into the curriculum…")
Magazines trash men's body image, too — and female models are still the culprits. Only seems to apply to straight men, and I have no idea how large the sample size was (the study will be published in Human Communication Research soon, but right now, we've just got an article based on the press release), but it's interesting.
And if you missed this last week, check out the study that showed fat women have more sex than "normal" weight women.
The study used existing data gathered by the National Survey of Family Growth, and focused on heterosexual, penetrative sexual encounters that could potentially lead to pregnancies or disease transmission. Nearly 8,000 women were involved in the survey.[Prof. Marie] Harvey admitted that she had preconceived notions about women's weight negatively affecting their sexual encounters, in part based on previous studies which suggested obese women were more impaired in sexual function and quality.
However, the new data clearly revealed that larger body mass does not lower sexual activity. Data revealed that 92 percent of overweight women reported having intercourse with men, while 87 percent of women with normal body mass said the same.
Fat women everywhere: No doy.
Kudos to Harvey for admitting to the preconceived notions, at least. But ouch ouch ouch to this:
"It goes to the need to approach every woman as you provide prevention programs and services," Harvey said, "to understand that all women are potentially sexually active."
Everyone who's already blogged about this study has said it already, but once more with feeling: We needed a fucking study to show that doctors should give fat women information about pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases? Prior to the study, it was just okay to assume that fat women didn't need sexual health info, since nobody wants to fuck a fatty? Gah.


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The Daily Caller Just Can't Stop Defending Russia's Anti-Gay Crackdown
August 29, 2013 10:21 am ET by Luke Brinker
The Daily Caller published an op-ed blasting gay journalist James Kirchick for condemning Russia's anti-gay crackdown on the Kremlin-funded RT network on August 21, lambasting Kirchick for using his appearance to "throw a fit about gay rights."
In an August 28 op-ed titled "The hysterical Jamie Kirchick," Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute President Austin Ruse mocked Kirchick's "hysterical" criticism of Russia's laws banning the dissemination of "gay propaganda," which encompasses any speech or action that could be construed to depict LGBT people in a favorable light. Ruse doesn't understand why critics of Russia's "reasonable new law" just can't see that it's far better than the western "elite" agenda of tolerance:
Kirchick and his colleagues are hysterical and I think I know why. In the west, they and their elite allies have so cowed and bullied opposition to their agenda that hardly anyone speaks out against them. If you do, you lose your job or get brought before the magistrates of human rights. It is shocking and unnerving to them when they find people who are not so cowed and that they cannot have their way with those in other countries and certainly not with the Russians who overwhelmingly support the reasonable new law.
Next week in Europe a petition will be released from more than 70 mostly European human rights groups supporting the Russian law. They believe there is no human right to advance homosexual propaganda to school children, but there is a prior right for parents to determine how their children are educated. It says so right there in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This isn't the first time The Daily Caller has granted Ruse a platform to champion the Kremlin's draconian assault on LGBT Russians and their allies. Last month, Ruse penned a Daily Caller column titled "Putin is not the gay bogeyman," in which he unfavorably compared the U.S.'s tolerance for the "immorality" of LGBT rights to Russia's new laws. (Ruse's support for international anti-gay crackdowns isn't confined to Russia. As the Southern Poverty Law Center has documented, Ruse and his organization have worked in Belize to keep gay sex punishable by 10 years in prison.)
You won't just find defenses of Russia's anti-gay laws limited to The Daily Caller's opinion section. After President Barack Obama condemned the Russian crackdown earlier this month, Daily Caller White House correspondent Neil Munro questioned why Obama would weigh in on "a domestic matter only affecting the citizens of Russia." Munro further stated that Russia's demographic challenges, including a declining birth rate, made the country's anti-gay policies understandable.
Harrowing reports show how horrific life has become for Russia's LGBT citizens over the past several months, and the Kremlin's crackdown is certain to stoke further violence against LGBT people. The Daily Caller has made clear that its sympathies lie elsewhere.
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Weekday appointments available for eligible adults and children or come along to the Saturday Flu Clinic on 23rd November, 9am-1pm. (Primary school aged children will receive the vaccine at school.)
Please ensure that you keep your mobile telephone number updated to ensure that you receive text messages from this surgery (appointment reminders, health messages etc).
To keep up to date with Practice Information please join the Chafford Hundred Medical Centre Facebook Page.
Extra GP and Nurse appointments are available at a number of Hubs within Thurrock. Hubs are open 7pm-9pm every weekday and 9am-12pm at weekends. Appointments are for routine and urgent matters and are booked by contacting this surgery during normal hours or via NHS111 outside of our normal hours.
There is also a GP at Orsett Minor Injuries Unit offering a walk in service and on day appointments for urgent medical issues only. Open 11am-6pm Mon-Fri, 12-3pm Sat-Sun, appointments are booked directly with MIU (Tel 0300 300 1527) or walk in. This service is temporary and may cease in the future.
For the purposes of Staff training this surgery, along with others in the Thurrock area, will be closed on the afternoon of Tuesday 11th February 2020 . Please note we shall be closed from 12.30pm.During closure an Emergency Only service will be in operation and you are asked to telephone 01375 480000 where a contact number will be provided.The surgery will open as normal on Wednesday 12th February 2020.Whilst we hope you will agree that there is already a high standard of patient care in Thurrock we are committed to further improving Primary Care services. Supporting protected learning time for GPs and Practice Staff will assist us in doing this.
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Please note this surgery will be closed from 12.30pm to 1.30pm on Wednesday 22nd January 2020
See "Latest News" for information on the vaccine available for babies born after 1 May 2015.
The survey is available online. Click on the Patient Survey button at the bottom of the home page or see further information under Have Your Say.
Ensure you get advice on all the vaccinations required when you travel abroad. Take a look at the Travel Vaccinations page (under Clinics & Services) for further information. Remember to submit your travel forms at least 4 weeks prior to travelling.
Interested in becoming involved with the practice Patient Reference Group? Please see the Patient Reference Group page for more details.
You can now have access to our appointments system online. By using this system you will be able to book an appointment with a GP up to four weeks in advance (no bookings for Same Day appointments).
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The new system will allow you to choose the medication from your medical record (repeat medication screen only) rather than you having to type into the current form on the website or an email.
The new system will require you to have a user name and password which will then allow you to log on to the practice clinical system and see a list of your medications with dates when they were last issued to you.
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Utilising this service will enable you to access both appointments and prescriptions 24 hours a day.
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This set contains 3 Metallic food paints from Rainbow Dust. A brilliant set that is perfect for Christmas including red, green and gold.
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Fine Detail can be added by painting with a fine paintbrush. Once dry this will remain detailed with no smudges to spoil your finish.
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Giddy-Up Getaways
As fantasies go, one that's shared by many involves saddling up in the Wild West and hitting the trails. A place where this fantasy comes alive for both grown-ups and children alike – Tucson's Tanque Verde Ranch (TVR).
Pulses quicken upon pulling up the 144-year-old ranch's drive. Easily visible are the resident horses, and with them, the promise of adventures ahead in the Sonoran Desert. Excitement builds while registering in the lobby when hearing the exuberant voices of guests, many of whom are families whose paths have crossed at Tanque Verde over the years. Other visitors are just in from outings, like a mother with a toddler riding piggyback, fresh off a hike along the trails of the 600-acre ranch. There's another sound, too – the jingle jangle of spurs on pointy-toed boots. Yep, this is cowboy country. A place where donning a hat and speaking with a drawl just seems natural.


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Supermodel Naomi Campbell sustained a leg injury after she was mugged in Paris, France, according to a new report.
The British beauty was hailing a cab in the French capital when she was violently attacked by thugs, who left her with a torn ligament.
Campbell went to police to report the incident, which happened over a month ago, before boarding a private jet to Vail, Colo., where she received treatment from a top orthopedic surgeon.
A source tells the New York Post gossip column Page Six, "It was terrifying. Naomi believes the assailant had been watching her, casing her out, and waited for a moment to strike when she was alone. She was attacked in the street as she hailed a cab, and robbed.
"Her leg was injured as she was violently pushed to the ground. She was understandably very upset and shaken up."
Campbell was first spotted using a wheelchair last month, but she has kept quiet about how she was hurt.
She is now believed to be recovering in Miami ahead of the launch of her new TV show "The Face" next month.