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Well the first two weeks at the Old Barn Antique Mall have been great! Lots of people stopping by to take a look and buy things. Here is a little movie of my space ...
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Fabulous First Two Weeks!
Posted by Diane Irvine Armitage at 2:46 PM
3 comments:
- gretchen said...
Goodness... wish i was heading south just to come see your wonderful goodies. I've been to that mall, ages ago when I was there visiting a friend and had to mail back a box or two because ther was no way it was all going to fit in my suitcase...
would you consider mail order of any of the pieces shown?
- February 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Pandora said...
Yes! I can do mail order. Please just email me if you see something that you have to have. I do all my sales through the Old Barn, but I can ship out whatever you like.
- February 7, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- Jennifer said...
excellent shop you have there, I have some ideas on marketable oddities for you.
jeff Nix
- February 26, 2010 at 5:06 PM
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2. If your troops numbers are not up to date, you can always update it immediately by pressing Update troops statistics button (3). Once button become available again(button becomes grey when you press it) it is sign that number are loaded.
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Bot loop breaks when resources are fully used or Maximal queue forward is filled by units production(1).
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Those 2 values above are used in workers, when bot is recruit army for real in your buildings.
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Pulao (dragon)
Pulao (蒲牢), known in some early sources also as tulao (徒劳), and Pu Lao, is a Chinese dragon, and one of the 9 sons of the dragon. It is said in Chinese mythology that he likes to "roar", and therefore he is traditionally depicted on top of bells in China, and used as the hook by which the bells are hung.
Pulao appeared in Chinese literature already during the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty scholar Li Shan (李善, 630-689), in his comments on Ban Gu's (32–92 AD) "Eastern Metropolis Rhapsody" (东都赋, Dong Du Fu), wrote:
In the sea there is a big fish called whale, and on the shore there is a creature whose name is pulao. The pulao has always been afraid of the whale. Whenever the whale strikes [or attacks] him, pulao cries [or roars] loudly. Thus those who want to make a load [bell] would put a pulao on top. Therefore the bell-striker would be made [in the shape of] a whale.[1]
During the Ming Dynasty, the pulao (in the form tulao) appeared in the influential list of fantastic creatures appearing in architecture and applied art, which was compiled by Lu Rong (1436-1494) in his Miscellaneous records from the bean garden (椒园杂记, Shuyuan Zaji).
The tulao's form is like that of a dragon, but small. By its nature it likes to roar, and has supernatural strength. [They] used to hang bells [by the tulao]. [2]
Later on, the pulao, with similar descriptions, was integrated into various lists of the Nine Children of the Dragon compiled by later Ming Dynasty authors such as Li Dongyang and Yang Shen.[3]
- ^ Quote from Li Shan's text, given in Yang Jingrong and Liu Zhixiong (2008): "海中有大鱼曰鲸,海边又有兽名蒲牢,蒲牢素畏鲸,鲸鱼击蒲牢,辄大鸣。凡终欲令声大者,故作蒲牢于上,所以撞之者为鲸鱼." In the article The Bell of the Bailin (Cypress Grove) Temple, the following English translation is offered: "There is the big fish called the whale in the sea and the animal called pulao at the seaside. The pulao is always afraid of the whale. Whenever the whale attacks the pulao, the latter roars. Whoever wishes to make a bell sonorous puts a pulao design on it. The striker is the whale."
- ^ Quote from Lu Rong's Shuyuan Zaji, given in Yang Jingrong and Liu Zhixiong (2008): "徒劳其形似龙而小,性好吼叫,有神力,故悬于钟上。" The full text of Shuyuan Zaji can be found at a number of sites online, e.g. here: 菽園雜記 Archived 2010-03-06 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Yang Jingrong and Liu Zhixiong (2008)
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- 杨静荣 (Yang Jirong); 刘志雄 (Liu Zhixiong) (2008), 龙之源 (The Origin of the Dragon), 中国书店, Chapter 9, 龙的繁衍与附会——龙生九子 (Dragon's derived and associated creatures: The nine children of the dragon), ISBN 7-80663-551-3 (Section 1, Section 2, Section 3).


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US motivational author Stephen Covey dies
Motivational author Stephen Covey, who wrote the best-selling The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, has died at the age of 79.
Covey passed away at an Idaho hospital on Monday from complications caused by an April bicycle accident in Utah.
"He was surrounded by his loving wife and each one of his children and their spouses, just as he always wanted," the family said in a statement.
Covey reportedly sold more than 20m books in his career.
In April, he was brought to hospital after being knocked unconscious in an accident on a steep road.
His publicist, Debra Lund, said at the time that doctors had not found any signs of long-term damage to his head.
Covey grew up in a tight-knit Mormon family on an egg farm near Salt Lake City, according to a Fortune magazine profile .
After gaining an MBA from Harvard University and a doctorate from Brigham Young University, Covey became a business management professor at Brigham Young.
With the success of the 1989 publication of Seven Habits, Covey began a management consulting business that proved popular with major companies and government agencies.


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Hello April! It's going to be a month till i finish my internship! A lot will say wahh so fast, but to me is quite slow . I feel like i'm dragging myself every day going to the office trying to put up a different mask than what i usually wear.
So a few days before i start my internship, i felt really nauseous, weak and no appetite to eat anything at all. I went to do a body screening test to see what's wrong with me and it turn out that i'm low in red blood cell and i have a lot of stomach wind from not eating anything. Thing started improving after i start my internship because it's Chinese New Year man! you should be happy! everyone is happy, food is great.
But things start to fall apart right after that. Being in a small company where your boss is opposite where you sat, your colleague is closely related to him, and there's only three of them. I meet them everyday, I am a very introvert person, i like to do things alone, and most probably be very glad and grateful if you just leave me alone and let me do whatever stuff you want me to do.
but i was trained to talk, to present, to reply, to answer, to think, to be challenged as well.
I find this a phobia, because, like i said, i am a very introvert person.
I don't talk much, i have speech problem, i stammer.
So this is a challenge.
And being bullied badly before back in secondary school had lead me to be very self conscious all the time. Like i will REALLY care what you said to me and i will SELF BLAME myself. I will feel like i am not doing a good job, i feel useless,
and therefore all these negative thoughts clouding over me,
all these worry-a-lot situation put me into this state whereby i cannot find pleasure in eating or going out anymore.
Consuming food is a challenge.
I am literally force feeding myself because i know my body needs food to go on. it has been weeks since a good dinner.
One of my course mate talked to me on how she too, cannot get to eat because of stress and fear.
I totally agree on her statement that FEAR consumes everything. Is not that i am stressing because there is hardly any workload given but i am stressing to be a different person everyday. I am IN FEAR of what they think of me and judge me for my incapability.
this is a learning process. I KNOW, you don't have to tell me, you don't have to remind me, all these things i know very well.
But can someone control how they feel. How many times i had blocked it but ended up feeling overwhelm and felt like throwing up after that.
The panic attack is real.
Not to mention, i had panic disorder a few years back and i DO NOT want it to come back again.
Sometime i really hope for someone to help me.
I need help.
i need professional help that can hear me out instead of my boyfriend constantly telling me "don't get depression, is not good, be healthy, you have a business to run after that."
Like as if people who get depression ask for it?!
nobody ask to get depression.
I know i am very much lucky as compared to my other coursemates where they are reprimanded for every single thing they do. Whereby they have to work 6 days a week and long working hours as well. I am so so lucky as compared to them.
and then i realise, maybe i am the only intern in my company. it feels a bit better when someone is going through the same process as you in one company. I think i enjoyed a little during pre-production week where there are a few freelancers coming in and they were a few years older than me where i can chat and make friends with them. there wasn't any "hierarchy" between us and it feels so much at ease.
now, is , just, me
This is the longest period in my life, there are so many time i wish i can runaway and focus entirely on my shop business but i know i can't. I need that DEGREE.
i am wishing that it will end soon.
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He managed to get more attractive to me!!!! Chanyeol showed his studio and played some of his music, which we knew he would. But then he said he wanted to right a song live with the help of the fans. So he asked the fans to comment lyrics for a song.
For some reason the kept commenting food lol. And they got a kick out of that. There were TONS of laughs and smiles during his broadcast. But you would expect anything else from Chanyeol ?
He even ended up in the floor from laughing at least twice lol
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The finished product!! Oh we did good Carmen!!
Picture #72?? Thanks Kevin for getting our good side!
We sooo didn't even notice the cute kid in the back! We looked at it and said the spacing could be better...haha!
Handsome Brothers!!
The Happy Family!
Nice Carmen!
Lucas so sweet, offering up a french fry to Charlotte!
Right before the line dancing began...super adorable!!
We went out for a family night with Keith, Carmen and Lucas, it was SO much fun! We went to the park and let Lucas run wild :) He tried to share his cheesy puffs with anybody he could find! Charlotte snoozed through most of the night! She's been so worn out lately that she's sleeping an extra one to two hours a night! It's been bliss!
Carmen did a little boot scootin' boogie which was fun to watch! And the boys walked all the way to McDonald's to get us all a little food! We appreciated it!
It's so fun hanging out with Kevin's family and watching our little peas play together. They'll both be running around by next summer! I can't wait!! Well, I can wait...but I am prepared!!
P.S. Charlotte is SO close to rolling over...she was all the way on her side tonight...just one arm holding her back!!


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I was recently invited to visit the Foothills Brewery facilities in Winston-Salem, NC, for a discussion about their planned expansion in South Carolina. On Aug. 24, I spent the day touring the brewery and brewpub, talking shop with brewery officials and getting a better taste of what the brewery has planned for the future. Here is my report of that trip.
When you first walk into the Foothills Brewery in Winston-Salem, NC, one immediate thing comes to your attention: The place is friggin' huge. It's more airplane hangar than brewery. A cavernous warehouse containing towering brewing equipment – taller than the average house – the facility has been working at breakneck pace recently to keep up with increasing demand.
While the 9-year-old brewery had humble beginnings – until a couple of years ago, their brewpub on 4th Street in the heart of downtown Winston-Salem was Foothills Brewing – their scope and scale has grown exponentially in recent years throughout the four-state market they currently distribute to.
In the coming years, Foothills hopes to become more of a regional brewing staple in the Southeast. In a craft beer culture where "the next big thing" is increasingly becoming more flash-in-the-pan, they've remained steadfast in their goal of making the highest-quality product for what many consider a shockingly affordable price. But on the first step toward their goal of regional recognition, they're looking for a launching pad to help kick off that growth.
Ground zero for the future of Foothills Brewing? South Carolina.
When it comes to the 84 breweries in the Tar Heel State, Foothills is one of the more recognizable and wider-reaching of the bunch. When you consider the span of the state, stretching from their home in Western North Carolina east to the Outer Banks, it's a large territory to keep up with. But during the past few years, Foothills has seen and continues to see exponential growth.
"When you consider just how big of an area we cover in North Carolina, it really is great to see how much our product has taken off," said Ray Goodrich, Foothills' new marketing director.
There's tangible evidence to support that growth, primarily in the form of towering brewing equipment located the Foothills' new production facility, about 10 miles from the brewpub they used to call home. This year alone, the facility has become home to four new 200 BBL fermenters, which have increased their maximum brewing capacity from 14,000 BBL in 2012 to 40,000 BBL (more than 1 million gallons) annually. The goal is to reach that 40,000 BBL mark in the next five years, a goal the brewery thinks is easily obtainable based on current production growth.
Part of that growth has been attributed to Foothills' expanding social media outreach and presence, a step spearheaded by Goodrich. The former TV news producer joined the team in January and has helped grow both the brewery's presence and footprint. From answering concerns or criticisms to retweeting witty or funny posts, Goodrich holds fast to the idea that connecting more directly to your customer base translates to good word-of-mouth.
The expanded brewing capacity has meant the brewery has been able to move beyond bottling just 22 oz. bombers and begin producing six packs of their more popular brands (Hoppyum IPA, People's Porter, etc.). Those beers have been available in many major North Carolina markets for most of 2013, but that won't be the case for much longer
In addition to North and South Carolina, Foothills distributes to parts of Virginia and Tennessee, which both border the state. Foothills' footprint in those latter two states is small, but the brewers believe the path toward becoming a regional staple begins in the Palmetto State
"Fortunately for us, South Carolina is not that big of a state geographically," said Foothills Head Brewer T.L. Adkisson. "You can travel from one end of the state to the other in an afternoon. That takes at least a day in North Carolina, so it makes sense for use to have that ease of distribution to start off our six pack rollout."
A number of Foothills' beers can already be found on South Carolina shelves in the form of bombers, but beginning in September, the state's three major markets – Greenville, Columbia and Charleston – will begin receiving shipments of six packs as well. The rollout is scheduled to begin early in the month.
"Our products have already proven to be popular (in South Carolina)," Adkisson continued. "Certainly not as popular as we are in North Carolina, but we're happy with our sales down there."
There is some trepidation on Foothills' behalf. While six packs have been well-received by North Carolinians, there are always lingering concerns when introducing a new product into another market. But if the reception is good in South Carolina, it gives Adkisson a good outlook for the rest of the region, including Georgia, Florida, more of Tennessee and Virginia and so on.
"We've hit a good level of sales again in South Carolina, but we're not sure how the 12 oz. will play out," he said. "We'll definitely feel it out."
Regional recognition is priority, but in the long-term, is the brewery looking for more national attention? Asked that question in jest, Adkisson and Goodrich looked at each other and laughed.
"If you ask Jamie (Bartholomaus, Foothills president), he'd say yes. But he's the dreamer; I'm the one who has to stay grounded," said Adkisson. "Is that in our future? Maybe. But no, right now, we're focused on being more recognized in the Southeast.
While the South Carolina expansion hinges on the acceptance of 12 oz. bottles, many have asked if Sexual Chocolate – the brewery's highly regarded imperial stout – will also make its way to shelves. Neither Goodrich nor Adkisson gave any indication that was in the cards.
And what about price? Will more demand lead to a bigger hit on the consumer's wallet? Not likely, said Goodrich.
"One of the things is we really pride ourselves on is how affordable we keep our products. We make so much and we sell so much, and while we do have to stay busy to keep up with demand, it's not going to translate into us having to jack up our prices," he said. "We're doing lots of things to cut costs, like designing bigger equipment that uses less glycol to keep the beer cool. Doing things like that here at the brewery mean we can make more beer at a lower cost."
For shoppers, that means beers such as Foothills' popular BBL People's Porter – the brewery's staple porter aged in Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve 20 Year barrels – will remain around $6 per bomber.
And of course, there is one lingering question many Foothills fans want answered: When will they see Jade IPA in bottles?
For some time, the 7% single-hopped IPA has been growing in popularity and is firmly ensconced on many a must-drink list. And since the brewery has affirmed that yes, it will be available in 22 oz. bottles in the future, the question of how long until it'll be a shelf staple lingers.
The answer to that question? "We will be bottling it. We want to bottle it. We don't know when we'll be bottling it," said Adkisson.
Every batch of Jade is brewed exclusively at the 4th Street brewpub, giving Adkisson – who considers Jade "his pride and joy," said Goodrich – more control over batches. Because it is brewed on such a small scale, it's available only on draft and only at the brewpub.
The first step toward bottling Jade will come after the brewery catches up to demand for Hoppyum, which consumes must the Foothills' hop capacity.
There's an old saying in politics that, for the most part, has held true in the past: As goes South Carolina, so goes the nation. While the nation isn't in Foothill's sights just yet, the brewery's recent and continued growth in production capability and demand shows there is a sustained demand for their product. They've already shown they can stand out in the crowded field of North Carolina breweries. Now the question is, can they extrapolate that popularity into the region.
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Oregon's Liquor Control Commission lowers the boom on several businesses.
(SALEM, Ore.) - At its monthly meeting Friday, the commissioners of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission voted to cancel the liquor licenses of Outlaws Bar and Grill in Portland and Brook Nook Deli in Brooks, Oregon.
The OLCC says the cancellation of Outlaws Bar and Grill, 722 E. Burnside, came as the result of a history of persistent problems involving eleven serious incidents from September 18th 2006 through August 31st 2007. They say the incidents include discharge of a firearm, fighting among patrons and staff, use of glasses and bottles as weapons, and noise disturbances.
Brook Nook Deli, 5045 Brooklake Road, was cited for two violations including failure to maintain liquor liability insurance ORS 471.315
(1)(c) as well as alcohol sales to a minor as part of a minor sales check performed by OLCC October 2nd OAR 845-006-0335 (1)(a)(b)(c).
Under a stipulated settlement agreement with the OLCC, the licensee of Cedars Restaurant and Lounge (FCOM) in Detroit, Oregon must pay a civil penalty of $3,465 by February 25th or serve a 21-day suspension. The licensee is charged with violating ORS 471.405(1) by allowing the sale of alcohol across the street at an unlicensed location.
Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar (FCOM), 3197-C North Highway 97 in Bend, entered a stipulated settlement agreement with OLCC to pay a $4,950 civil penalty by February 25th or serve a 30-day suspension. The licensee is charged with permitting four employees to sell, mix or serve alcoholic beverages or supervise those who do without a valid service permit violating ORS 471.360 (1)(b). Two of the four employees had worked for over six months without a valid service permit.
Dan & Louis Oyster Bar (FCOM), 208 SW Ankeny, in Portland will pay a $3,960 civil penalty or serve a 24-day suspension for violating ORS 471.360 (1)(b) by allowing six employees to sell, mix or serve alcoholic beverages or supervise those who do without a valid service permit.
One of the employees did not have a valid service permit for over six months. The licensee was one of the six employees without a permit and also did not have a valid service permit for more than six months.
The five citizen commissioners are the policy-making body of the OLCC. They meet monthly for one or two days to make decisions on liquor licenses, rules, contested case hearings and appointments of liquor store agents. Commission meetings are held every other month at OLCC's main office, 9079 SE McLoughlin Blvd., Room 103A in Portland.
Subsequent months, the meetings will be held via phone. Agenda items can be obtained on-line at oregon.gov/OLCC/public_meetings.shtml
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Preparing for this sermon was monumental in my life and led me down a path that eventually shaped my beliefs as a 'Reformed Charismatic'. I pray it challenges you as it did me in preparing it…
originally delivered on November 25, 2001@ University Church in Athens, GA
Dan, the teaching elder here at University Church, and I share a favorite book of the Bible. Though I have never translated the book of Philippians from the Greek as Dan has, God has continually drawn me back to it to encourage and challenge me in my faith. Today we're going to look at a passage that I've been using in my personal devotions fairly regularly for at least the past two years.
Let us hear the word of God:
I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart; for whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God's grace with me. God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ — to the glory and praise of God. –– Philippians 1: 3-11
Now, we'll be looking today particularly at verses 9-11 of this chapter, but I would first like to comment for just a moment on the rest of what we've read just to set the larger context.
"In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."
Notice that Paul prays with joy and confidence for the Philippians believers. He was able to pray this way because, by their continued partnership with him in the work of the gospel "from the first day until now," they had given evidence of the work of God among them. Paul had seen these people "make their election sure" (reference) not by a one-time profession of faith during an over-emotional alter-call (that is not to necessarily insult altar-calls, by the way — in fact, that is how I was actually converted), but rather by their LIVES that had been obviously gripped by God and which had continued in partnership with him in the work of the gospel from that day forward. Paul had good reason to believe that God was truly at work in the Philippian church because of their clear growth in grace. Also, Paul knew God. Paul knew that the God he worshipped — the one true God of Christian revelation — was the sort of God to continue what He had begun. Paul could therefore pray confidently and with great joy because he was sure that God would continue His work among the Philippians! Do you pray this way for your fellow believers in the faith, especially those you've known for a time and have seen clear evidence of God's sanctifying work in their lives? Now, I'm NOT arguing that we pray with PRESUMPTION — ultimately we all must pray that God's will be done, and sometimes His overarching plan is simply not that clear to us – but when we see evidence of God's work in someone, or a group of individuals like a church or the larger body of Christ, we can pray with confidence and joy, because we see that God is at work there and will therefore do the things that He has said He will do. This enables us to approach His throne with joy and confidence in prayer! Paul is doing that here. Paul prayed the way he did because he knew the one in whom he believed. I pray that the same is true of us as individuals and as a body.
And this is Paul's prayer:
Verse 9 reads, "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight…"
Notice first and foremost what is front and center of this prayer: love. It is easy sometimes within orthodox Evangelical Christianity, where the temptation is to focus upon believing all the right things above and beyond anything else — it is easy for us to forget the centrality of love to our Christian faith. Paul, however, begins with it as his ASSUMPTION — the Philippians to which he was writing were Christians, therefore, it stands that they had LOVE. The Scriptures have much to say about it; I John 4: 8 says that "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love," and Jesus summed up the entire law and the prophets as "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind;" and, "Love your neighbor as yourself." In Galatians 5: 2, which Dan spoke on a few months ago, love is listed as one of the fruit of the Spirit and it is such an important fruit, and so central to a Christian's spiritual life that, in I Corinthians 2, he goes so far as to say that all other spiritual gifts are useless without it. In his letter to the Colossians Paul says that love is the very thing that binds together all other Christian virtues, including but not limited to: compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. (Colossians 3: 14) Paul begins his prayer with the love of the Philippian church.And he prays that this "love may abound…": the word "abound" here means "to overflow." The image I have is of a small stream after a long rain — it is completely flooding and spilling over its banks. Paul is praying that their love might overflow — not just once, but continually overflowing: more and more. Long after the stream has flooded it's banks the rain keeps falling.
What I find very interesting here, however, is that love isn't abounding more and more with itself. He is not endorsing some sort of sappy sentimentalism. Rather, Paul prays that their love would abound in knowledge and depth of insight. The first time I noticed this, I remember feeling proud of myself — at the time I was even more of a bookworm than I am now. I thought to myself, "See — I'm right! Anti-intellectual Christians are falling short of the true faith." But, though I still think that is to a degree true — that too many believers today are not striving to sanctify their minds — after studying this verse more closely I don't believe I had, nor have, quite so much to take pride in.
First, "knowledge" — we often think of knowledge as simply information, but that is far from the Biblical view. In the Old Testament, to "know" one's wife referred to marital intimacy, and in the whole of the Bible to "know" God is FAR beyond a simple detached academic knowledge of some distant other-worldly being. No – far from it! To know God is to imply a relationship.
Let's just say that someone that you know came up and said that they knew me. How would you know? You could ask them to describe me. Let's say that their answer was, "Shannon Lewis is a brown-eyed, 6'4", 260 lbs albino, and last I checked he was Buddhist." You would come to the conclusion, rather quickly I hope, that they were NOT talking about the same Shannon Lewis. However, what if they got the facts all correct — blue eyes, 5'10", and etc — but when you asked them how I was doing, they said, "OH — we've never spoken before! I've only seen him from a distance and someone else told me his name." Now, not that this is too likely to happen, but if it did, you would immediately questions whether or not this person is justified in claiming to "know" me. Likewise, the Biblical view of true knowledge of God is a combination of both information about God — his revealed nature, character, and divine attributes — and a relationship with God. Knowledge, in this sense, is both experiential and intellectual.
Next, Paul also prays that their love may abound in "depth of insight." Here, I believe, is our encouragement from this passage to excel in the life of the mind. Thinking "Christianly" is indeed of great spiritual importance to the believer, however also know that "depth of insight" implies far more than just spiritual academics. Some versions translate this as "discernment," drawing out the moral implications of this phrase, especially given it's wider context within the verse. If I am correct in calling wisdom "applied knowledge," then that is what this is — Godly wisdom. "Depth of insight" emphasizes moral perception and the practical application of Biblical knowledge to all of life's circumstances — it is to attempt to live consistently within the your Christian worldview.
I believe John Piper gets at the heart of verse 9 in the following quote:"In the Christian life, emotions are crucial and thinking is crucial. God is not honored by either an unfeeling, joyless, loveless intellectualism or by an unthinking, uncritical emotionalism. Both are needed — minds that are gripped by the truth of God acquired through the serious and rigorous study of Scripture, and hearts that are on fire with intense emotions…" He sums up this idea as this: "The heart is crucial, through the head."
Verse 10 then tells us WHY Paul desires this for the Philippian church.
"…so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ…"
Our love is to abound in knowledge and depth of insight in order that we may be discerning, so we may do what is BEST. The temptation in the Christian life for many is to see everything as cut and dry, but sometimes that is not how it is in the real world. Situations can be messy, and some things are not clearly good or bad — Paul does not pray that they will be able to tell good from bad or right from wrong, but rather that they may discern what is BEST. There may be any number of right decisions with varying degrees of benefit to others and yourself. In I Corinthians 10: 23 Paul writes ""Everything is permissible"– but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible"– but not everything is constructive." In verse 32 he adds, "Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God…" Discerning "what is best" is to use your mind to explore the possibilities before you and their likely outcomes to determine which would be most beneficial and constructive. We should not go through life making decision according to "what I can get away with", but rather we should ask ourselves, "what choices would benefit others and myself the most?" Love abounding in knowledge and depth of insight enables us to have discernment, so we might be able to "test and approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will." (Romans 12: 2) Now, I'll be the first to admit it — sometimes having more information about a decision makes the right decision seem that much more unclear. However, to not attempt to see the bigger picture — to simply wander in ignorance and simplicity by our own choice seems to be nothing short of dishonest and lazy — neither of which are listed among the fruit of the Spirit.Closing out verse 10 is it's practical application — that we may be pure and blameless, and the goal in view is the judgment seat of Christ Jesus where we will give an account for all our deeds (II Corinthians 5: 10). It is important to remind ourselves that we have been clothed in the righteousness of Christ so we might LIVE in that righteousness — that we were set apart — sanctified by him — so we might BE set apart — that we might be HOLY!
And lastly, verse 11:
"…filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ — to the glory and praise of God."
The fruit of the Spirit and the fruit of righteousness are synonymous, and since we have heard them taught on fairly recently, and due to lack of time, I will not go into depth on them but to note one thing — they come through Jesus Christ. John 15: 4 says, "Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me." The fruit come through being part of the vine.And to what end does this all lead? To the Glory and praise of God. I love the writings of Puritan authors like Jonathan Edwards because they seem to do such a good job at sanctifying all of life and seeing EVERYTHING as done unto the glory and praise of God. To them, working hard at your job throughout the week, working in such a way to display the fruit of righteousness, was just as much worship of God as was singing and hearing the Word on Sunday at church. I think we'd all do well to carry that with us.
Now, please follow me down what may seem to some of you as a strange road at this point in my sermon. There has been much-to-do about the Prayer of Jabez over the past year or so, and I imagine individual opinions on the book vary greatly even in our own congregation. Now, I don't think the book is perfect — far from it (I think, partially that has to do with the prayer being poorly translated in the NIV) — yet as I read it I was greatly encouraged. You see, Jabez' prayer in I Chronicles chapter 4 is just one example from the Scripture of someone praying the sort of prayer that God desires to answer. There is absolutely nothing in the prayer of Jabez that isn't already promised elsewhere in the Old Testament to God's covenant people. Jabez prayed for the very thing God willed to do. Jabez prayed for God's general will for His people and God answered him. Likewise, in the New Testament Jesus taught his disciples to pray, and we can trust in God that he will answer that prayer. We may pray expectantly, along with Jabez, that God will expand our sphere of influence for Him, that we will recognize our dependence on God's strength in all that we do, and that we will not bring others great pain, as he did his mother in childbirth. We may pray with joy, along with the apostles, as Jesus taught them, that we would see God's perfect will done on earth, that He would enable us to forgive, and that he would provide for our every need, for we know that God is our Father, and he does not give his children a stone when we ask for bread. Well, here in Philippians 1: 9-11 we have recorded for us the inspired prayer of an Apostle for the church in Philippi. And the content of the prayer is basically this: growth in grace, or sanctification. He prayed these things for them with joy because he was confident — he was expectant — that God would answer this prayer for His people! Again, this is no magical incantation written to be prayed word-for-word over a believer thus obligating God to do His part (if it was, we all better get to learning Greek so we can recite it properly). Yet, the content of this prayer is that which we can readily pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ, for we know it is the sort of prayer that God DESIRES to answer — as Paul says earlier in this chapter, "he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion" — the content of this prayer is the work that God is doing in every believers life which He began and He can be TRUSTED to continue.
Can I trust that you will pray for me, that my love for God will grow to the point of overflowing…in my devotional time with God, in my knowledge of God gained from the revealed Word of God, in my wise application of that Word to life's sometimes confusing circumstances…so I might live wisely — in a way that is beneficial to myself, God, and others, causing no one to stumble, growing in Christ-like-ness, displaying the fruit of His Holy Spirit, and ultimately, that my life might abound more and more to the glory of God. Will you pray that for me, as I for you? This is my prayer: "that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ — to the glory and praise of God."
There is a LOT to be taken away from these verses, which I hope keeps you all, like myself, coming back to them again and again in the future. I would like to emphasize three specific things, other than simply praying for one another, that I think we would do well to devote ourselves to.
1. Let us begin with love — love for God and love for our neighbor — but let us not slip into sappy sentimentalism. How can each of you take steps to love your neighbor as God has loved you? What things might you do to encourage them? I believe that this passage challenges us to submit our hearts to the governance of the knowledge of God, which is both intellectual and experiential. "The heart is crucial, through the head." — John Piper2. Secondly, let us strive to sanctify our minds, but keeping in mind that it is for something much greater than us merely being intelligent. J. I. Packer put it best in his book KNOWING GOD: "We need to ask ourselves: what is my ultimate aim and object in occupying my mind with these things? What do I intend to do with my knowledge about God, once I have got it? For the fact that we have to face is this: that if we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it is bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited. The very greatness of the subject matter will intoxicate us, and we shall come to think of ourselves as a cut above other Christian because of our interest in it and grasp of it; and we shall look down on those whose theological ideas seem to us crude and inadequate, and dismiss them as very poor specimens. For, as Paul told the conceited Corinthians, 'knowledge puffeth up…if any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know.' To be preoccupied with getting theological knowledge as an end in itself, to approach Bible study with no higher a motive that a desire to know all the answers, is the direct route to a state of self-satisfied self-deception. We need to guard our hearts against such an attitude, and pray to be kept from it."
3. And lastly, let us strive for purity and blamelessness in our Christian lives. How many of us have, due to lack of sleep or simply an act of will, chosen to regularly put ourselves in the face of known temptation? What are your weaknesses? It is wise to know them. What effort can you exert to keep yourself out of situations that you know are struggle-points for you? Don't doubt it — Christ Jesus died for those sins, every one, but we are not saved in order to sin, but we were bought at a price and for a purpose — our sanctification, for His glory. Let us, as Paul states later on in the book of Philippians, "…continue to work our your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose." We are HOLY GROUND, for God's Spirit resides in us and is at work — live like you know this is true.
Again, I ask — will you echo Paul's prayer for me, as I do likewise for you…let us pray.
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The first one is the cut described in the text, then there's amuch more stylized one, followed eventually by the shuffle described in the instructions. I did make one change to the shuffle though -- I added a "bridge" flourish at the end, which really helps get the idea of shuffling across. I wish I had recorded it with sound so you can hear the telltale shuffling sound, but alas I'm too much of a lazy bastard to do it again.
If there were any kind of demand for a more step-by-step video of how to do this, I would be happy to post one...
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Learning from your investors: can the geographical composition of institutional investors affect the chance of success in international M&A deals?
We produce new evidence on whether management which is keen to make foreign acquisitions can benefit from consultation with information-intensive institutional investors who have expertise in the target foreign markets. This research suggests that, in such instances, management should recognise the benefit of effective two-way communication before embarking on such costly strategies. Consistent with theoretical literature, we propose that this can be explained by the fact that complex valuation information is dispersed among many economic agents and management may only have limited access to such data. This research shows that the likelihood of both cross-border deal completion and medium-term cross-border deal success through time depends upon management learning from and getting the support of key institutional investors with regional (foreign) expertise. The theoretical information economics model presented by Dye and Sridhar in 2002 states that the information flow between management and capital markets should be viewed as two way. This study offers empirical evidence in support of their theory. This study offers insights into the positive effect of establishing a proactive investor relations programme for the recruitment of dedicated foreign institutional investors before embarking on cross-border M&A. The results indicate that management should closely monitor the share register and identify those investors who are transient and those who are, in contrast, dedicated. Attention then needs to be directed to establishing effective communication with the dedicated investors with regional expertise.
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