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Steve McClaren has said today that he thinks the game at Arsenal tomorrow is one of Newcastle's biggest tests of the season and we come into the game having taken only one point from the last three games against much lesser sides than the Gunners.
We are 3rd bottom of the league and the Gunners are in great form at the moment and the current favorites to win the Premier League.
In addition Arsenal have won their last eight league games against Newcastle.
So what does all that mean?
A great time for Newcastle to pull of a massive upset – obviously.
Arsenal's legendary manager Arsene Wenger
And after a terrible 2015 it would be very good to get off to a good start to this year – which we are hoping and praying will be a lot better than last year – which was simply a terrible living nightmare for Geordie fans.
This is what Newcastle manager Steve McClaren has said about tomorrow's game:
"It's definitely one of our biggest tests of the season." "Arsenal have had some injuries but they're still maintaining their form and getting results. At this stage, I'd say they are certainly favorites for the title – but it's only half-time."
"But I believe in the squad that we have. They've shown already that they can compete with some of the biggest sides in the league and I expect them to put in a performance this weekend." "A collective organisation, good discipline and a certain amount of aggression will be required from us to get a result."
"We've come across many good players over the season and Ozil is another one we have to contend with – but he's not the only one," "Olivier Giroud is scoring goals left, right and center, Theo Walcott is coming into form and Aaron Ramsay is another very good midfield player."
"Despite what they're missing, they still have plenty of quality."
Arsenal are getting back to their best and they are a great side to watch and certainly Mesut Ozil is showing what a world-class player he is.
And in our poll even our own fans expect it will end up in a defeat.
So we have Arsenal exactly where we want them – all we have to do now is have our players turn up ready to play out of their skins – and they can shock everybody tomorrow afternoon.
Here's hoping.
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Don't like that team Ed.
Given as we are losing games playing two defensive midfielders (Anita and Colback) then there is nothing to lose, and much to gain, if we play a more attacking formation. My team:
Janmaat – Mbemba – Colo – Dummitt
De Jong – Gini
Sissoko – Mitrovich – Thauvan
Arsenal are so good that if we sit back we will be taken to the cleaners.
Having De Jong and Gini in the centre should create more goal scoring opportunities and hopefully force Arsenal to be less adventurous.
Also having Thauvan on the left should add much needed balance and an additional supply of crosses to Mitrovich who has been starved of them of late.
If we are going to get beat by the league leaders, as everyone predicts, we might as well go out fighting and attacking.
Anyone dreaming of an upset against Arsenal can forget it. It is just a fantasy. But there is some light at the end of the tunnel if we move fast for Frank De Boer. He is a manager of the calibre we need to the point that he is bored with his success at PSV and reports say he is looking forward to managing in the Premier League. Let's not miss out on De Boer and for once grab at an opportunity to hire a quality Manager.
We'll either get relegated or finish 16th or 17th no matter who is head coach because we have such a sh!te squad of cheaply bought potential which means we now have a full squad with no real premiership experience, no fight, no character and no clue.
colocinni and Cisse are the only two players with any real premiership experience and both a now way past their best.
Not even the great one could save us now unless we buy 4 players in the Jan window with at least 3 years premiership experience each under their belts.
We should be looking for players that have been in the premiership before and bring them back…and all of them should be over 28 years old so we have balance in the team.
austin will be thinking if he was on the end of some of the chances we have created we would not be in the relegation zone ! however the very little we do create can not be that appealing to any striker of quality imo.
we know sissoko has a good assist record and that wijnaldum from the past is very creative and that also goes for siem so maybe its time we lost those players who can "do a job" for us like anita/colback/dummett ect ect and replace them with players who can really effect a game.
jib…every club now has a relegation pay packet clause in every contract…if they go down the wages go down…so what's the point of getting good wages for 6 months and then playing in the championship on championship money or moving club and family yet again to a bottom half premiership club somewhere.
I can't wait to see Aaron's back was amazing last season before he got injured then in pre season showed everyone up in all games then the clown mclaren puts him on the bench at the start of the season (typical pardew tactic). These idiot managers giving players 10 mins to do something in a game really annoys me it's like they only stick them on to appease the fans and want to carry on with their useless selection so if they sin they can stand tall. As soon as Aaron's fit get him on left wing move gini inside and drop a dm it's insanely simple !!!
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I'd like to think Austin believes he's good enough to get the goals to keep us up and has the ambition to play on a big stage every other week. Newcastle is a massive club compared to Bournemouth. The potential to become a living legend at the Toon bears no comparison with becoming the top man at a little club on the south coast. I can't believe your comment.
another trait that SM seems to have in common with AP and JC is getting his excuses in early like a self fulfilling prophecy of doom.
This top picture shows exactly what we're dealing with http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport/Football/Premier+League/Newcastle+United
McClaren said: "It is about collective organisation and discipline – and a certain amount of aggression will be required."
You're right Steve. It's been about that all season. It's your job to deliver it not to tell us what you need to deliver. We already know it.
Our organisation has been appalling. That's a manager's job to fix.
If you can't get aggression, get power and strength. Colo will never stand up to Giroud. Drop him.


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As a wedding photographer, it is important to know how to reduce noise in Lightroom for your images. Before the digital age, it was practically impossible to reduce noise and remove graininess from photos. Luckily, Adobe Lightroom makes it relatively easy to do both while still enhancing the quality of your images.
How to Reduce Noise in Lightroom
The biggest downside to learning how to reduce noise in Lightroom is that it could take quite some time to master this process. Reducing noise is one of the most difficult editing tasks, but is also valuable to understand.
Here at ShootDotEdit, we provide wedding photo editor services for professional wedding photographers. We also know how important it is for you to have knowledge about Lightroom and its features, such as how to blur in Lightroom and how to reduce noise in Lightroom. This is why we put together this blog post to share more about reducing noise in Lightroom to create the images you desire. Keep reading to learn more about what reducing noise in your images means and how to do so.
What Does Reducing Noise Mean?
To understand how to reduce noise in Lightroom, you first need to learn the definition of digital noise. This type of flaw is a discoloration of an image. The image may appear pixelated if you zoom in very closely. Digital noise often appears in photos that have been shot in low light, which can happen quite often during a wedding shoot.
Back in the days of film photography, it was virtually impossible to reduce noise in a photo. If you have ever seen a grainy photo, you have seen what digital noise looks like. Thanks to the benefits of digital cameras, it is theoretically easy to reduce noise in photos. Though it is no longer impossible to reduce this grainy quality, the process can feel a bit labor intensive.
Types of Digital Noise
Before reducing the digital noise in your photos, you will need to determine which type of noise you are dealing with. There are two types of digital noise: color and luminance.
Color Noise
Color noise appears in a photo when the color is distorted. Instead of a color showing as solid, it shows as a variety of colors.
For example, a purple may show as pixelated reds and blues. You may also see variations of purples pixelated in the photo.
Luminance Noise
Luminance noise shows up as grain on your photos. You will not see the color variations you would see with color noise. Luminance refers to the brightness of the photo instead of the colors.
Depending on your style, each of these types of digital noise can disrupt the overall consistency and style you provide within your images. It is important to understand what digital noise is and how it affects your photography, so you can ensure your images match what you promised your clients.
What Are the Downsides of Noise?
Noise can reduce the quality of a photo, so it is important to reduce as much of it as possible. Yet, there are some downsides to reducing noise that you will need to be aware of.
Reducing noise can result in the reduction of detail in a photo. It is not easy to strike a solid balance between a detailed photo and a noiseless one. You may find yourself compromising the quality of the photo while enhancing the detail, or lowering the complexity of the detail while enhancing the quality of the photo. And once exported from Lightroom, the image quality can lessen and may not match the typical images you share.
Tips on Reducing Noise in Lightroom
Unlike reducing and minimizing noise in Photoshop, Lightroom allows you to do it in bulk. It can be helpful to utilize shortcuts while learning how to reduce noise in Lightroom. There are also a few things you can do to ensure your photos are prepped properly for noise reduction before importing them into Lightroom:
- Shoot your photos and import in RAW to ensure you are working with the highest quality format.
- Zoom to 100 on your photos before reducing noise for more control.
- Start by fixing color noise before moving on to luminance noise.
- Use the "Detail" slider to sharpen landscapes.
- Keep an eye on your details while reducing noise so you do not go overboard.
- Do not reduce the noise on every single element in your photo.
How to Reduce Noise: Step-by-Step
You can reduce noise in 2 steps. The first step is to reduce the color noise, and the second step is to reduce the luminance noise.
Reduce Color Noise
Step 1: Import or open your photo in Lightroom.
Step 2: Open the Detail panel.
Step 3: If you are working with RAW files, Lightroom has already applied a color reduction to your photo. Check your photo and move on to the next step.
Step 4: If your image is RAW but has high areas of color noise, adjust the color bar until you have reduced the noise without lowering the quality of the photo's detail.
Reduce Luminance Noise
Step 1: Import or open your photo in Lightroom.
Step 2: Open the Detail panel.
Step 3: Slide the luminance bar to the right until you have removed most of the noise.
Step 4: Adjust the detail and contrast sliders to help enhance the detail on photos where the quality may have been compromised by the noise reduction.
Learning how to reduce noise in Lightroom can be a challenging concept, as you need a keen eye to determine just how much noise to reduce and how much noise you need to leave in the photo to maintain a good quality of detail. Plus, the more skills and techniques you have as a wedding photographer, the more you can offer your clients and the faster your workflow can be.
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Every time I see the word "hello" now, I do it in Adele's voice. I know the song is about a couple that broke up, but it also allows me to make a point about the subject I want to discuss today.
If you are calling, texting, Facebook messaging or direct messaging someone you haven't talked to in YEARS to say "hello," because you noticed they have a job opening at their station you are super interested in, you are doing it wrong.
It always starts the same for me. The person I haven't heard from, even to say Happy Birthday on Facebook, says "Hey. Hope you are well! I noticed you guys have a reporter opening." Then the person either wants details or wants me to put in a good word with my ND. There are very few people in this world I will go to my ND to vouch for. You, person I went to college with 13 years ago and haven't worked with since, are not one of them!
The best part is when that person gets her details and then follows up with "how are you?" I'm great. Let me break down the last 13 years for you!
We have all figured out that who you know means a great deal in this business. I am not saying you shouldn't try to reach out to people you may know to help you get a gig. Just don't be so obvious with your intentions.
If a person you work with in a small market moves up, keep in touch with him. This may be completely superficial and a way for you to have an "in" at some point, but at least you are making the effort to appear like you give a crap. You may even create an actual friendship.
Keeping in touch these days is SUPER easy. Follow the person on twitter and comment on things she tweets about. Compliment a story she does (if you like it). Be in ACTUAL contact so that when there is an opening you don't look like a major jerk. Heck, you can even send the person an e-mail from time to time to catch up. What a concept!
It takes work to build a personal network of people you can truly call on to help. Put that work in and don't wait for the day that opening pops up.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Pom Pom Maker
Have you seen my new pom pom slippers?? Aren't they adorable? I am busily working on a whole bunch more of them for the shop. They're just fun, you know?? Got me thinking that maybe, just maybe, pom poms would be a heck of a lot of fun to use as an embellishment for gifts, on sweaters, on head bands or barrettes...then I thought of you all...How fun it would be if I could show you how I make my crazy pom poms so you could too. So, a twofer today. A tutorial on how to build a pom pom maker and a tutorial on how to make the pom poms. lol enjoy!
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Ask LasVegasLynn > circa 1960 Las Vegas
I was born on Nellis Air force base 60 years ago this year. My mother is 77 and in failing health has planned a road trip from Denver back to Las Vegas where we lived from 1955 to 1957 at a trailer park between downtown Las Vegas and the base she says the name was the B bar B trailer park. I can't find anything in online searchs. Was wondering if you or anyone could help with a location or memories of where it might have been. thanks
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There were 2 trailer parks about 2 miles from the base the one you are talking about was on the left going toward the the base.(las vegas blvd I believe turned into 90. I moved from vegas in 1970
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Well, we knew it was possible. Probable, even, that Liberia would have another Ebola case.
This week, Liberia detected two cases. The first one died after showing symptoms of Ebola, and his family called a burial team. In keeping with their protocols, the team took a cheek swab for testing. It turned out to be positive. News reports (I'm on vacation, so not on the ground) indicate that some 30+ people are being traced as contacts, and that number is likely to grow. Given that it was detected in Margibi County, I suspect it came from Sierra Leone, but it's possible the patient could have traveled to Guinea and back.
The second case was a contact of the deceased. He apparently developed symptoms and subsequently tested positive. According to what I've read, he's in a reopened treatment unit.
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The first impression that people make about your business is very important. This is why the benefits that a outdoor led sign brings to your business are always unmatched. If you get your digital signage wrong or neglect it, you'll be killing its effectiveness and hurt yourbusiness sales.
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Keeping food warm during and after grilling or transporting
When catering, one of the biggest issues we have is keeping the food warm after it has been grilled sometime earlier or in a different location from which it is served. This is a common problem many people face and so we'd thought we'd help shed some light on the different ways we've tried to do this. Try out two or three of the methods to see which one works best for you.
Water coolers can be used to keep food warm too. Line it with aluminum foil, and pad it with towels. Avoid having hot dishes touch the sides of the cooler directly so that it doesn't melt the plastic cooler.
Use coffee carafes or ice buckets. Thermal carafes and insulated ice buckets are also great at keeping things warm. You probably can't fit as much, but they're the perfect size for something like gravy.
Use a tinfoil hat. No, not to make sure that aliens can't read your mind. Make a tent with the foil with the shiny side down, and cover things like turkey to retain the heat.
Make a hot water bath. You can put smaller pots or bowls into a bigger pot with a little bit of hot water, then cover it. It will keep things nice, warm, and moist.
Use a chafing dish. The high-end version of the water bath is to use a chafing dish. They can be pricy, but if you entertain a lot, they look nice on the table, and they're very convenient.
Use your crockpot or slow cooker. Just set it on low and use it for things like soups, mashed potatoes, or stuffing.
For ovens, use a moist towel under the pot cover. If you are putting dishes in the oven to keep them warm, consider putting a damp towel under the lid of dishes that you want to keep moist like mashed potatoes.
Steam trays. For pastas and lasagnas these trays will keep items warm for hours, many can be purchased along with sterno or heat gels or rented.
Portable electric and butane grill plates. In outdoor environments often times the only source of energy available is electrical. If that's the case you can either bring along a small one or two burner electric or purchase a small butane gas grill plate. Either will provide exceptional point of use heat similar to stove top cooking. The portability of the units make them well fitted for quick setup, use, and removal.
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- What disease afflicts 50 million people worldwide, carries a worse stigma than cancer or HIV, and can be successfully treated—but only if you live in the right country?
- What illness brings with it an increased likelihood of contracting other diseases and a premature death rate that's three-to-six times higher than for the general population?
- Almost 80% of people living with what malady have no access to effective treatment—it's 90% in Africa?
- The victims of what condition were once considered demon possessed or insane, and in the 18th and early 19th centuries were often locked in asylums?
- What disorder do popular musicians Elton John, Prince, Neil Young and Lil Richard have in common with political leaders like Julius Caesar, Pope Pius IX, Vladimir Lenin and Prince John?
- Normally not allies, China and Russia recently cosponsored a World Health Organization (WHO) resolution to address the global burden of what disease?
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At 29, Ivan Rakitic (Mohlin, Switzerland, 1988) is playing his fourth season at Barcelona with the same hunger that took him from his school playground to the elite.
The Croatian speaks like a captain.
He doesn't shy away from any questions and there are no issues on which he won't offer an opinion.
Leaders by nine points in the league, in the next stage of the Champions League, in the Copa del Rey quarterfinals... a good year no?
"It has just begun. We have played a few games this year and, as I like to say, the circus starts again. We don't have time to enjoy it or relax. At Barcelona things are very complicated, but we are doing well. The most important thing is we have to be at our best level at all times."
Have things gone from summer pessimism to current optimism, reminding you of the treble year with Luis Enrique?
"Well, it's normal that there was a little more noise because it's not every year you sell a player for 200m, and one of the best three in the world to boot. These are things that can happen, but I think that from that point, we've done well. You never like to lose a game, like we did in the Super Cup, but hey, if it has to happen, better there. We also don't have to think beyond the next game."
What is clear is that there is life after Neymar.
"I'm not going to lie to you. I would prefer that Ney was here with us. Apart from being a great player, he is a friend and I am very fond of him. After that, we have to continue. Barcelona is not one, two or five players. It is the biggest club in the world and we have to keep working. It would seem better to be able to count on him, but if he is not there, we join forces to be even better."
What tactical differences have you noticed with respect to last year?
"It's not just about last season. If you have an individual player more or less on the field, it changes the team. The important thing is that we have understood Valverde quickly and the coach's ideas were very clear. He wants us to be very close together. With advanced lines, but always pressing together."
Is the team more defensive now, or does it defend better?
"Define it however you want. The important thing is that we have the feeling that we are very strong. It is very difficult for teams to break us down."
You are being asked to do more defensive work. Have you noticed a change in your role?
"Of course it's different. It's no coincidence that at this point I only have two goals and other years I had three or four by this point. The most important thing is that my teammates trust me, that the coaching staff know what I can give and, from there, I will fight at every moment."
It's clear that Valverde trusts you. Like Messi and Ter Stegen, you've played every game in the league ...
"I try to do things in the best possible way, and to have confidence. I want to continue doing my thing and, if it goes like it has been, so much the better."
Do you feel more important than in previous years?
"I don't know how to explain the previous year. I was the player who played the most matches with Luis Enrique. In the end, during the last season with him, there was a strange feeling and I didn't why. I have never changed. After three seasons, being the player with the most matches ... I haven't done badly."
We've seen you play in the Busquets role a few times this year. Is your future there?
"We'll see. Having Busi there, who is the best in the world in that position ... The important thing is to help each other. In the national team I'm also playing in the pivot position a lot."
Is there a problem with excess midfielders?
"You need to ask the coach, that's not my problem. Any good player is welcome. Only eleven plus three can play. That's what the coach has to do, but it's important that we understand that we all want the same thing, which is to win every game."
But, well, in any profession in the world, if someone comes to do your job...
"Well, I wish I had the same position as Coutinho, then I would play much higher (laughs). I think Coutinho's role and mine are quite different. He is much more offensive. The important thing is that we complement each other."
What's wrong with Real Madrid?
"These streaks that can happen. I wish you could always win, although it would be boring."
Is it difficult to maintain your level when you get to the top?
"I don't think there's a ceiling, you always want to go for more. What happens is that when you are on top, people have even more desire and they prepare better and improve in all aspects."
Are they out of the LaLiga race?
"Neither them, nor anyone. We shouldn't think about the points gap because it will take away our strength."
Off the hook in the league, are they more dangerous in the Champions League then?
"Yes and no, we'll see. I think that all of us who are there have the same objective. No one will be satisfied at getting knocked out now, everyone wants to get through."
How does a Croat born in Switzerland and adopted by Andalusia experience the political climate in Catalonia?
"(Laughter) No way, I don't even put it on TV. I see cartoons with the girls, I dedicate myself to enjoy them because, truthfully, they live very well here. It's better that we leave this issue aside, there are already people who are going to take care of that. I just want everything to be quiet."
Have you considered what would you do in case of independence from Catalonia?
"I don't know. I came here to play football and to enjoy LaLiga. I want to continue making history with Barcelona and win all the titles. The rest, I want to calm down as soon as possible."
Do you see yourself as a coach in the future?
"Sometimes yes and sometimes no. What I do want is to prepare just in case. It will be difficult to do something that has nothing to do with football."
How well will Croatia do in the World Cup?
"I hope very well. I think we've been in the strongest group of all. Croatia has never had so many players in so many important teams, playing and setting the pace. If we get out of our group, I think everything is possible. "
Have you already spoken to Leo about it?
"Ufff (laughs). Difficult, I don't think he gets nervous if I say "watch Croatia!". It's the World Cup, you want to play against the best. And if it is against the best of all time, well so much the better. That's what a World Cup is for."


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Well its done, I'm now officially a designer LOL
The web site has finally launched and I'm excited to let you all know about it. The new site is called That's Scrap Inc and is owned by Sherri Jensen and supported by the cutting machine legend Sandy McCauley. Go and have a look, its a beautiful site and as well as selling files it is also selling cutting machines, cutting accessories, card stock and lots more. At the moment there are only 20 of my files on the site but I'm hopeful that they will all be up by the end of the month. As I said before part of the deal was that I do some exclusive files for the web site. The first 2 files I have done for them are "abracadabra" and "Magic moments"
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- Signs for push-out forces
- After about a year on the job
- Laud, praise, thanks and good wishes for Wheeler
- Deepak Ahuja taking over
- $15 million new hire equity grant for Ahuja
- Wheeler said 45 words
(management-change.com) — Palo Alto, California, February 24, 2017 — Jason Wheeler, finance chief of Tesla, leaves. It is a change at short notice. As announced by Tesla, Inc. in a news release published on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 and in a regulatory filing published on Friday, February 24, 2017, Jason Wheeler leaves the post as Chief Financial Officer at the carmaker in a surprising move after about a year on the job, effective in early March.
No company wants a CFO to flame out in the first years.
Wheeler leaves the company effective in April.
Wheeler's duties are taken over by Deepak Ahuja, a former Chief Financial Officer at Tesla, Inc.
"To pursue opportunities in public policy"
The imminent management change is explained as follows. Tesla said: "Jason Wheeler has decided to leave the company in April to pursue opportunities in public policy."
Tesla said: "On February 21, 2017, Jason Wheeler, Chief Financial Officer of Tesla, Inc. …, notified the Company that he is resigning as the Company's Chief Financial Officer, effective following the filing of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016."
Precise information about the future plans of Wheeler was not immediately available.
Chaired by Elon Musk
Tesla, Inc. is chaired by Elon Musk.
Musk is a Co-Founder of Tesla Motors, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since October 2008 and serves its Product Architect.
On the job as CFO since 2015
Jason S. Wheeler has been the Chief Financial Officer of Tesla Motors, Inc., since November 30, 2015.
He joined Tesla after 13 years at Google Inc. where he was Vice President of Finance and led Google's global finance function.
Wheeler served as the Vice President of Finance at Alphabet Inc.
Wheeler joined Alphabet Inc., in 2002 where he was responsible for the finance business partnerships with all functions and regions, as well as leading Google's forecasting, management reporting and financial analysis efforts.
He built and managed FP&A team and served as Head of Finance for EMEA operations, where his responsibilities covered all financial functions including accounting & controls, financial operations and FP&A.
He held various financial analyst positions at Hewlett Packard and was a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton for a variety of companies in the communications, media and technology industries.
He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in finance from Colorado State University, where he graduated summa cum laude.
At the time of Wheeler's appointment as Chief Financial Officer at Tesla, Wheeler had said: "What the Tesla team has achieved in building compelling alternatives in transport and energy is simply incredible. I am so excited to join an amazing team dedicated to such a broad and inspiring mission. Looking forward to jumping into the fast lane."
Signs for push-out forces
It is not completely certain what forces eventually triggered Jason Wheeler's move.
The Push-out Score™ determined by management-change.com suggests that push-out forces may have contributed to the management change.
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When you are buying new clothes most probably you consider that you have to walk down the street in those clothes, and this might stop you from buying some of them. Well, in case you would like to spice your wardrobe up a bit, there are some ideas that you could choose.
In case you have nicely defined eyebrows, you should opt for a dress with a bold color that goes with your overall look. Don't be afraid of blue during this season. Although it is fashionable to wear monochrome dresses, you may be one of those women who like to mix the colors, and in this case you could also go for the stripes.
It is possible that you want to spice your look a bit, and so this may be the time to go for some breezy items. The best thing about these dresses is that, while they make you look fabulous, they add your style a chic vibe. Another style that you could adopt, that is just perfect for the hot season, is to wear an oversized top and a large hat. This is a look that for sure won't pass unnoticed.
Blazers could also offer you the look that you have been searching for. When it comes to next spring you could consider the jumbo sized floral prints that add an instant boom to your look. Bright colors are the way to go in case you would like to have a feminine style. Opt for white bottoms and crème top. In order to have the perfect effect, look for a pair of hot stilettos for the days when you don't have to walk too much.
Shocking people is another way to go to achieve a unique style. Find something that people have never seen before, such as a clutch in the shape of dumbbells. Or is this too much for you?
Having a color theme is also a good idea. You could opt for a top in a burgundy color, and bottoms with polka dots having the same color as a background. Nothing could be more casual-chic than this.
Back to the basics. This could be the motto of those women who like simple prints. You could have clothing made of fabric with patterns similar to a five year old's drawings.
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The task of synthesizing the readings surrounding the conceptual history of research paradigms is daunting, especially as it relates to making observations and recommendations concerning school reform. This semester we have traced notions of time, agency, the citizen, reason and statistical categories as they have slowly permeated global thinking, tracing the lives of grids of intelligibility that both reveal and obfuscate our world. We have seen faith in mathematics and reason overtake faith in anything can cannot be measured numerically, with the results of these measurements turning into objects that in turn nudge the culture that constructed them in unpredicted ways. We have seen entire paradigms of society and education come into being, attach to concrete actors and therefore become invisible actors themselves. In the next few pages I would like to look at two specific areas within higher education that exist as though they were objective truth, failing to acknowledge their own recent construction and internal limitations. Though this process leads to more questions than prescriptions, it is quite possible that the simple task of deconstruction will lead to insight. To begin, let us look at the notions that have answered the question: What is the purpose of Education?
In the 1900s, the democratic ideal and progressivism were beginning to take root within the popular vernacular and especially within the thoughts of education leaders such as Harper and Dewey. Midwestern universities such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Chicago were incorporating the "German Science model," first seen at John Hopkins. Within a republic such as the United States, the citizen becomes an active agent in the governance and policy of the nation. The university therefore becomes a place to produce the leaders and guardians of its society's democratic ideology. The university, in this view, is to "promote civic responsibilities, enable progress, promote human happiness, and provide policies, theories, and programs to grapple with the urban moral disorder" (Popkewitz Unpublished). According to Harper, the university acts as "an institution of government, the guide of the people, and as an ally of humanity in its struggle for advancement" (Harper 1905). Here the tone of education and democracy as a savior to society begins to become apparent.
Dewey makes the link between democracy and salvation even more clear as he states that democracy is not simply a political theory but a divine revelation (Dewey 1892). If democracy is a revelation from God himself, then Harper believed the university is its priest. "The university, like the priest, leads those who place themselves under its influence, whether they live within or without the university walls, to enter into close communion with their own souls – a communion possible only where opportunity is offered for meditative leisure" (Harper 1905).
With these two fathers of contemporary education policy, the union between government, education and a transcendent ideology has been made complete. To borrow from the title of an essay by Popkewitz, the university is a prophet, science is its messenger and democracy is its revelation. It is appropriate at this juncture to ask critical questions about the nature of this tightly defined spiritual calling of education. For example, what exactly is liberty? What "civic duties" will enable the individual to have such liberty? Who will the teachers and designers of this education be? How do these specific notions of progress interrelate with contrasting views? Does the faith of the university in itself and its practices lead to a blinding pride being transferred to its students? Does the belief that the university creates the leaders of society lead to a manipulation of what is taught so that the contemporary ideologies of power are simply replicated to another generation?
Another paradigm that heavily influences the practices and policies of education is the notion of statistics as a tool for social reform. The field of social statistics was conceived out of a desire to enable liberty and eliminate poverty in society (Desrosieres 1991). As the faith in reason has increased, social phenomena are translated into subjects that can be studied with numerical means, allowing for analysis to be performed on the abstraction.
In terms of education, student learning is one such attribute of the school that has been made numerical. Here at the university of Wisconsin, students are presented with various forms of assessment during their time of studies. These include paper and pencil math/science tests, essays, projects, and in large or distance classes, multiple choice and true/false tests are a favorite because computers can easily perform the grading. Usually the tests are performed in the context of a large room, in silence, each student working alone for a period of an hour or two with no outside contact or collaboration. It is absolutely an individual endeavor.
Here my first question rises: Why is testing almost always done as an individual when the practice of most every discipline is done in the context of a community?
Assessments require a rubric in order to quantify translate student work into a numerical value, a percentage. This single number is a proxy for student mastery, a percentage of perfection. In some cases, this number is corrected with a 'curve," a term derived from "The Bell Curve," a popular psychology book that relates intelligence to social/economic condition by separating the elite, average and below average citizen (Herrstein 1994). This curve is used to correct for errors in testing by making sure that a few amount of students perform poorly and very well, and most students fall in the middle. The test values of a particular student's work is processed through a weighted-average calculation and converted into an alphabetical symbol that puts each student into of seven categories ('A', 'BC', 'D', 'F,' etc.) from excellence to failure. These symbols are then converted back into numerical values into another weighted average to arrive at the final GPA number. The endgame of all this analysis really comes down to creating a system where students can be sorted into categories for the purpose of awards, acceptance into additional schooling or jobs.
Through the numerical process of abstracting all of a students work into a single value in the range of 0.00 to 4.00, comparisons can be made as to the value of the students learning. We have made a student into a number, and rarely is the translation questioned. As Hacking might explain, we have invented types of students because we have developed equalities between them. If only the numbers are viewed, student A with a GPA of 3.0 and student B with a GPA of 3.0 are the same, and different than student C with a GPA of 2.0 (Hacking 1986). And though the reality of the grade point average is purely constructed, it is attached to the decision-making processes of real institutions, thereby becoming real itself (Desrosieres 1991).
Where does one begin in reforming these practices? Do they require reform or is the abstraction process useful enough to give a benefit that outweighs its error? Can the numerical abstraction of student performance be replaced by something else that provides the same value or is the very notion of reducing an entire student to a number itself flawed?
One of the facilitating aspects of a paradigm is that, by definition, it colors and shapes the way we view the world. A paradigm may be impossible to authentically see, like a black hole that can only be observed by the way it affects its surroundings. It may not be possible to even conduct the research of paradigms without the influence of the scientific, sociological, philosophical influence of the enlightenment and a particular notion of history and agency. This said, I do believe that the endeavor of understanding the foundations of educational research and reform is not in vain, only that much work would be required to answer these questions intelligently.
Desrosieres, Alain (1991). How to Make Things Which Hold Together: Social Science, Statistics and the State. Discourses On Society: The Shaping of the Social Science Disciplines. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Dewey, J. (1892/1967-1990). Christianity and democracy. The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953. The Electronic Edition. The Early Works of John Dewey, 1882-1898. Springfield, IL: Southern Illinois University.
Hacking (1986). Making Up People. Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, Individuality, and the Self in Western Thought. Standford University Press.
Harper, William Rainey (1905). The trend in higher education. The University of Chicago Press.
Herrstein, Richard J. and Murray, Charles (1994). The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Free Press.


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One major complaint among recruiters is when a candidate is not completely truthful; small lies are all too common in the world of recruitment. This includes not being completely forthcoming with relevant information, embellishing accomplishments, hiding jobs or leading the process on with no intention of ever following through. Building trust during the interview is key to getting an offer.


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Power of spirit versus matter
[1] (The Lord) – "Now let us also take into consideration the magnitude of a purely spiritual force as compared to the magnitude of the greatest physical force. What will be the result? Behold, there are in infinite cosmic space gigantic solar worlds, compared to whose size this whole great earth would be like a tiny grain of sand in relation to the whole earth. Look, a wind blowing across the earth's sand steppes already lifts such sand up and with great ease carries it away, and a gale does it all the more easily in great masses. Now imagine a comparatively strong wind on that immense solar world. Quite obviously it would have easy play with earths such as this. 'Well,' you would say in your worldly wisdom, `if such mighty winds are blowing there, surely one should feel something of them down here on earth.' And I tell you that this happens quite often, and from even much further away!
[2] You will have seen the flying stars. Some of them are often so big that they could be called a small earth. This is sometimes cosmic dust blown out into the vast space of ether from the solar worlds through subterranean gales. This cosmic dust falls back to where it had come from on account of the great attractive force of such a solar world, unless it came too close to another cosmic globe which would then attract it. But this does not happen often.
[3] There you see the immense exponentiation of the material, so-called natural forces at work in endless space. Yet even if you exponentiate these and other natural forces known to you incessantly for a thousand and a million years, the ultimate potency of force found by you will, compared with the divine omnipotence, always be like a mere naught as compared with something real, or like a falsehood as compared with the truth.
Greed, the origin of matter
[1] (The Lord:) "If you look a little closer at this process, it will truly not be difficult for you, to recognize in all right depth of truth, where the weed on the pure field of life is coming from.
[2] Everything which is called world and matter, is something which is wrong and inevitably always opposing the true, spiritual order out of God, since originally it had to be placed as a counter-impulse into the enlivened, well-formed idea, placed outside of God as individual beings, to awaken their free will, and should therefore be seen as the true weed on the only true and spiritual pure field of life.
[3] Even if the weed was originally a necessity to establish a complete free, spiritual life, the free created human beings must finally recognize it as such and voluntary remove it, because it is impossible for them to continue to exist together with it. It is a necessary means for a purpose, but can never become one with the purpose itself.
[4] The net is also a necessary means to catch fish; but who will submerge it into the water, then pull it up again and instead of the fish, roast it on the fire en enjoy it as food?! Thus the net is only necessary to catch fish; and once you have lifted the fish out of the water and put them into the pantry, one puts the net away and uses the yield achieved by it.
[5] Hence the impulse to transgress the commandment must be there; since it is an awakener of the ability to recognize and an awakener of the free will. It fills the soul with desire and joy for as long she quite well recognizes the impulse, but not giving in to it, but keep fighting it with the same free will, which was awaken and enlivened by the very impulse in her, and the free soul uses it then as a means, but not as an in it achieved purpose.
[6] The tube is never ever the wine itself, but only the holder to preserve the wine. But who would be so stupid to bite into the tube and damage it because of its attractive smell, since he knows to just open the tube at the right place, to get the pure wine out of the tube?!
[7] The weed or the impulse to transgress the law is therefore something subordinated and may never ever become the main objective; whoever makes the subordinated the main objective, resembles a fool, who wants to feed himself with the pots in which the good food is cooked, and throws the food away!
Avoid riches and worshippers of riches - fate of materialistic people in the beyond
[6] Flee from nothing more than from the riches of this world and its worshippers; for no man is worse on this whole Earth than he who envies and longs for earthly treasures; for he curses in his actions the love and all the truth of the heart which comes from God.
[7] If such people come to you, show them the door and show them that God's word and its power should never be thrown to the unruly pigs of the Earth as casual food! Indeed you should not curse them for it and also not wish them harm, for all anger and all rage is of the Spirit of God, but they will be punished enough through this if they are seriously sent away from your doors and your friendship!
[8] If such people come to you in misfortune, do not listen to them; for help will not make their heart better – on the contrary: they will be even more careful afterwards and will act more cleverly for the sake of their sacks of gold; but they will laugh at you and mock you and declare your help to be empty wind bags and will call you lazy braggarts und deceivers! Let that be far from you; for God's power in you should only be of benefit in words and in actions to those alone who have made themselves worthy of it in all the humility of their hearts! (GGJ Book 11, chap.61)
[1] I said: "You will find an explanation of all that is still incomprehensible to you in the book handed to you by the youth through Ruban. Moreover, opposites such as spirit and matter, life and death, love and hate, truth and falsehood should serve you as a little hint that there must be a reason for their coming into existence, as otherwise they could never manifest perceptibly.
[2] How could evil enter into man's thinking unless there was some reason for its coming into existence? You with your trained intellect should be able to perceive that for all this – such as truth and falsehood and other opposites – the supreme and most benevolent Deity cannot be blamed.
[3] Or can you presume that God, being Himself the supreme and most profound truth, should have laid a deceitful tendency into man's heart which would make him sin against God's order and render him filthy in all his speech and actions? Oh, far from it! God did create man in His spiritual image, thus pure, truthful and good.
[4] Since the future existence of the spiritual man implied the way through the flesh, he had to take the flesh from the earth's matter according to the decree of the supreme Spirit of God; and a counterweight is laid into the flesh for the probing of man's spirit, which is called temptation.
[5] However, this rests not only in man's flesh but in all matter; and matter, which is not what it appears to be, is to the man probing himself falsehood and deceit, thus a phantom spirit which is there and is not there. It is there, because the tempting matter is there for the flesh of man; but since matter is not what it appears to be, the phantom spirit can also be said not to be there.
[6] Behold and understand this correctly. This spirit of deceit, which in itself is falsehood through and through, is the spirit of all the world of matter and precisely that which is called 'Satan' or 'the principal of all devils'. What is called `devils' are the specific evil spirits out of the universal evil spirit just shown you.
[7] Therefore, a man who seizes with love all sorts of matter and becomes actively anchored in it, commits a sin against God's order which exposed him for a time to matter for the sole purpose that he combat it and, by using his completely free will, strengthen himself for immortality. And the consequence of sin is death, or the annihilation of all that man's soul has appropriated out of matter, because matter, as I have shown you, is not what it appears to be.
[8] Therefore, if you love the world and its hustle and bustle and want to gain its treasures, you are like a fool who has been introduced to a well-adorned bride whom he does not want and for whom he does not long. He nevertheless throws himself with the ardor of a blind fanatic onto the shadow of the bride caressing it beyond measure. When the bride leaves the fool, surely her shadow will go with her. And what will remain for the fool? Evidently nothing.
[9] How the fool will lament having lost what he loved so much! But he will then be told: 'Blind fool, why did you not seize the full truth instead of its shadow which was evidently nothing?' What else can the shadow be but a lack of light on that side of a dense form which is opposite the light, because the light-ray cannot penetrate the firm and dense body.
[10] What your shadow is to you while you are standing or walking in the light, which is all matter, together with its treasures, to the spirit. It is of necessity a delusion and in itself a falsehood, because it is not what it appears to be to the senses of the body.
[11] This is the very judgment of falsehood and deceit, namely that it has to reveal itself before the eyes of the spirit as something transient and merely as an outer, corresponding shadowy image of an inner, profound truth, whereas in the blind worldly love of the soul it would prefer to remain in reality what it seems to be. (GGJ Book 11, chap. 65)
[1] (The Lord): "If that is so, of what use is it to the soul to win for the physical man all material treasures of the earth and unite with the flesh and its base animal desires, whilst at the same time suffering damage in its spiritual sphere and losing the reality of true life? From where in the beyond will it then take something with which to form a true entity, since it has itself become a nonentity along with the nothingness of matter?
[2] Yes, friend, he who has gains with every gift, so that he has even more. But it is a different matter with that which really is nothing and has nothing. How could one give anything to that
which has first allowed itself to be caught and annihilated by falsehood?
[3] Or can you pour liquid into a vessel which exists merely in your imagination and nowhere else, or – should there be a vessel – with so many holes on all sides that one could hardly count them? Will it retain even one drop?
[4] Oh, if matter as such, and as it is, were a permanent and immutable reality – which, however, is impossible – it would be a truth as what it is, and he who won and owned it would be the owner of a truth; and if then the soul united with the matter, it would become a true and permanent reality.
[5] However, since matter is merely a judgment of the spiritual, which can – and must – remain only until the spiritual primal element concentrates in the same, recognizes itself and, once it has gained sufficient strength, dissolves the matter surrounding it, turning it into the corresponding spiritual, then a worldly soul that has become all matter must in the end share the fate of matter.
[6] When matter is dissolved, this also happens to the soul. It is dissolved, at least for the greatest part, into the substantial psycho-etheric primal-energy-atoms, and all that remains to the soul proper after the shedding of the flesh is one or the other archetype of an animal skeleton shape, without light and often without life, which bears not the slightest resemblance to a human being.
[7] Such a soul is found then in a condition which the ancient patriarchs who were endowed with a spiritual vision called 'She oul a' (hell = thirst for life) a very true and correct description.
[8] But accordingly the whole Earth and everything that you are ever capable of perceiving with your material senses is a true Sheoula. That is the death of the soul, which is or, rather, is destined to become a spirit; for whoever has ceased to exist as that which he had been, is also completely dead as that which he had been.
[9] A soul who for the above reasons has almost lost its human nature, so that, at the most, an animal skeleton is left of it, is dead after the shedding of the body. For you unthinkable eons will have to pass until such a soul buried in matter will again become a near-human being, and it will take much longer until such a soul becomes fully human.
[10] You certainly think now that all these things must be possible for God in an instant. And I tell you that all things are indeed possible with God. If God wants puppets and robots, an instant will be sufficient to fill the whole visible space with them.
[11] But all these beings cannot have their own and free will, nor their own existing, independent life. They will stir and move only according to the will of God that comes to them. Their eye will be the eye of God and their thoughts will be the thoughts of God. Such creatures will be just like the individual limbs of a body that cannot move or be active in themselves without your recognition and desire.
[12] Is it not a totally different matter with your children, who have issued from your flesh and blood? They no longer depend on your will; they have a life, cognition and volition fully their
own. To be sure, they will obey you and accept precepts and commandments from you, yet not according to your will but invariably according to their very own will, without which you could not teach them any more than some carved image or a stone.
[13] And behold, beings endowed with free cognition and free will, who have to perfect themselves voluntarily so that they will forever be free beings retaining their self-determination,
must be created by God in a manner that makes possible such an achievement.
[14] God can only, so to speak, create the seed enclosed as in a husk and endowed with every possible viability; the future free development and cultivation of life must be left to the seed itself. It must begin to attract the life out of God, which surrounds it without, and form from it an independent life of its own.
[15] And behold, it does not happen as quickly as you think, because the embryonic life cannot be as powerful and capable of actions as the most perfected life in God that has existed since eternity!
[16] And because every soul, however depraved, has always the same destiny, it cannot possibly, even in the beyond, be helped in any other way toward its salvation than that it helps itself with the few means still at its disposal as in accordance with the eternal order of God it also has to help itself.
[17] I hope to have made it sufficiently clear to you what is actually meant by Satan, hell and eternal death, and you should hardly have to ask another question on this matter." (GGJ Book 11, chap. 66)
About Satan
[4] I said: 'Satan can take it on the chin a thousand times a thousand, yet after a thousand times a thousand blows he steadily remains the same, most wicked enemy of God and of everything good and true emanating from God's Spirit.(GGJ Book 3, chap. 9)
In order to understand and appreciate this deed, you must first know how the devils get into a person and what they are in reality, so that the casting out can become comprehensible to you. To make this clear to you, I must go far back and lead you into earlier eons when there was no material world as yet but only the realm of spirits.
Out of presumption and defiance, the first angel, as the bearer of light into the farthest spaces of the heaven of spirits, abused his might and - together with his adherents - rebelled against Me. And since he and his accomplices had no intention of ever returning, they were banned into matter and compelled to set out on the long road of progressive purification in order to return to their once better state. This process of purification is still on today until all will have again become what they once were, namely, recognizers of My might and love and active promoters of My great plan of creation.
Now behold, in that distant time when the individual liberty of the spirit was established as inviolable, which is still the case today, the spirits, including Satan himself, were free either to return from their wrong direction or not. But since the spirits were not all equal in recognition, goodness and insight - just as still today there are no two beings which are spiritually alike – the ways in which those spirits thought and acted were most varied. One was satisfied with his spiritual level, another was not. One was steadfast in resisting the temptation of the more wicked,
whereas another opposed the influence of the better ones. Hence, there did not exist a proper progression, but there were as many different opinions and ideas about Me, the world and the necessary development as there were spiritually thinking beings.
This great diversity, existing among the good spirits as well as among the evil, who prefer to regard Satan as their deity in the same way as the good regard Me, - this diversity is the basis for the spiritual life and activity necessary for the continuance of the great realm of spirits. Although the great multitude of fallen spirits under their principal leaders took a direction other than the one destined for all, their actions, which are opposed to Me and My principle of good, must nevertheless serve My purpose. In the results, which are not according to their wishes, they must recognise My omnipotence which they cannot evade whatever they do. (Sermons of the Lord, chap. 15)
The nature of Satan (chap. NR)
"[1] Now again, one of the Pharisees who was converted in Emmaus came forward and said: "Lord and Master, we know now well what the truth is concerning those who are possessed and who actually are the evil spirits by whom here and there the body of a human being is taken into possession. But nevertheless, in the Scripture it is explicitly spoken about the true extremely evil devils and about their prince, Satan, and at the same time it is said that Satan, who is also called Lucifer, and a countless great number of angels who chose his side, were rejected by God and were thrown into the eternal fire of Hell.
[2] So it is also written that Satan in the form of a snake made the first human beings to fall, and how God has allowed him to tempt the pious Job.
[3] How is it according to the new teaching with Satan and his subordinate devils? Who and where is Satan, and who and where are the devils?
[4] Since it is allowed for us to understand the complete mystery of God's Kingdom, we also must have a clear view concerning this. Therefore, would You like to be so merciful to give us an understandable explanation about this?"
[5] I said: "I already have said and explained a lot about this, and My old disciples know what they can expect. But because you are still a newcomer by My side, you surely may ask what was still not made known to you. So listen.
The fall of Lucifer and the transformation of his soul in matter
"[04] And yet there were at the end of yonder endlessly long developmental periods of the primeval spirits those who, although comprehending God's correct educational paths, chose in the end to not want to know anything of these ways, but instead chose the much shorter one on account of temporary advantages, deviating from the path well-mapped-out by God, entering upon the path of their very own self-destruction.
[05] Because the principal spirit of light, indwelt by countless other spirits of light, each one imbued most richly with countless intelligences, said to himself: "What more do I need? Within me lie all attributes as within God, and God has placed all power within me. Now I am strong and mighty over everything. He has given away everything He possessed, and I have taken over the lot. Now God has nothing left, whilst I have everything; and we are going to see whether the advantages of transgressing the given commandment are of all that short a duration after all. We should think: with our present all might and omnipotence, we shall be able to quite handsomely prolong the supposed brevity of that span to eternities. Who shall be able to prevent us from doing so? Besides ourselves, infinite space, now populated by only ourselves, carries no higher might and intelligence than our own; who should be able to contest our advantages?"
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only [they,] but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit,] the redemption of our body. (Rom 8)
The development of matter
[1] (The Lord:) "When in the first beginning I placed the spirits as My matured ideas, outside Myself and filled them with My power to such an extent, that they themselves started to think and to will, they also had to be shown an order, according to which they had to think, to will and finally to act. But with this shown and given order, an impulse had to be placed in those first beings to ignore the given order; otherwise they would never be able to make any use of their will. Only the impulse placed in them, produced a true life emotion in them, according to which they began to decide, to chose, firmly to will and to act.
[2] It is, if you know this, quite easy to understand, that already in the first created spirits a certain weed had to begin to show, because the impulse lifted many of the first created spirits out of the order and finally by the continuously mightier growing opposition they had to harden, and in this way laid the foundation of the material creation of the worlds.
[3] The first main central suns were created, and out of them finally all the countless other suns and world bodies and with them everything else what you can discover and find on, above and in them.
[4] Everything what is and called matter, was originally spiritual, which voluntary has stepped out of the good order of God, founded itself in the wrong impulses and hardened therein, which then formed matter. Matter is therefore nothing else then out of itself hardened spirit under judgment; or stated more clearly, it is the most coarse and most heavy skin or shell of the spirit.
"All life is constituted such as to be able to grow and increase constantly, because there is unceasing inflow from Me." (God's Household I 185, 20)
"Everything arises from and consists in God, everything is in Him, everything is the endless abundance of His thoughts and ideas, from the smallest to the greatest." (GGJ VI 226, 8)
"All matter takes form and decomposes again. This is no other impulse than that of the spirit awakened from being bound and asleep in matter. There could be no progression from stage to stage, no progress towards perfection, if at the very heart of matter there were not the spirit, aroused by external circumstance." (Lord' Sermons 314)
"Everything that has been created is designed to pass through a long sequence of all kinds of forms and finally into free and independent life."
"Every form represents a certain level of intelligence ... and in this way intelligence increases until man is reached." "The forms are for a limited period the collectors and bearers of a life that is all the time becoming more consolidated and intelligent." (GGJ VI 53, 5-9)
"In the infinitely vast space there are countless such shell globes all of which together, in accordance with My order, portray a complete man. Imagine the magnitude of the Cosmic Man considering the gigantic size of a shell globe and the by eon times eons greater distance from one shell globe to the next." (GGJ VI, 245)
"Thus came all the suns into existence separately, the earths separately, and every individual thing on the suns and earths separately, but also in a general sense, because all the creation in its entirety is completely like - and corresponds to - man. Every individual thing, from the greatest to the smallest, of the whole spiritual and material creation, also does - and must - correspond to man, since man is the real purpose and the ultimate goal of the entire creation. He is the product God endeavours finally to gain." (GGJ II, chap. 222)
The development of matter
[1] (The Lord:) "When in the first beginning I placed the spirits as My matured ideas, outside Myself and filled them with My power to such an extent, that they themselves started to think and to will, they also had to be shown an order, according to which they had to think, to will and finally to act. But with this shown and given order, an impulse had to be placed in those first beings to ignore the given order; otherwise they would never be able to make any use of their will. Only the impulse placed in them, produced a true life emotion in them, according to which they began to decide, to chose, firmly to will and to act.
[2] It is, if you know this, quite easy to understand, that already in the first created spirits a certain weed had to begin to show, because the impulse lifted many of the first created spirits out of the order and finally by the continuously mightier growing opposition they had to harden, and in this way laid the foundation of the material creation of the worlds.
[3] The first main central suns were created, and out of them finally all the countless other suns and world bodies and with them everything else what you can discover and find on, above and in them.
Substance (Greatest Mysteries)
"Inertia is also expressed in the second name that we could give it, namely, in substance. And the life-activity influencing it, which sustains and quickens everything, is the spirit, which is the stimulator of energy and holds substance together, and is thus the principal factor of life in its entirety.
"Substance" is nothing at all. "Substance" is too generalized a term, which, by classing everything equally, does not allow for any variation. If one wanted to define all there is in the visible world as substance, it would finally be impossible to find a single definition for combinations of dense and light, solid and volatile masses.
Thus "substance" is at best represented by the great ether space beyond the earth's atmosphere, where all the ingredients are present in solution that go into making of the world globes and the various kinds of atmosphere surrounding them.
Only there "substance" is present, namely, the great supply depot for the building of the universe. However, in, on and around the earth, substance is no longer "substance". For there are, according to the respective purpose, bound and combined elements which then, exposed to other, higher potencies, such as life, motion or force, are coerced into modification and change of form, transform themselves and appear in a new form as something different, after their activity in their former form has ceased.
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The school has been doing this trip for years, but the 12 students from Pleasanton's Village High School who left for Washington D.C. last week traveled in style, courtesy of some local businesses.
Ann Crawford, who teaches history and civics at Village, said she gave the kids who wanted to go the same kind of letter she's been sending out for years.
"The cost of the trip is $1,788," Crawford said. "I send out a letter to the community, I tell (the students) to give it to their parents' place of work."
This year, though, things started to snowball when Christian Ghera gave the letter to his mom, Jennifer, who works at the Pleasanton Hilton Hotel. General Manager Kevin Goble contributed $300, and then asked Crawford how they get to the airport.
"When you're dealing with students," she told him, "you have problems that take place."
Crawford explained that in the past she's had a student with a flat tire, kids who went to the wrong airport or to arrivals instead of departures, and that during one recent year, a student misplaced his shoes at the hotel in Washington and they missed their flight home.
"(Goble's) laughing and he says, 'How about if I call Bill (Wheeler) at Black Tie Limo?'" she said. "I was flabbergasted."
Goble then took his offer a step further, offering to have the students arrive an hour early for pizza -- a little extra incentive to get the kids there on time.
"It was an act of supreme generosity," Crawford said.
So Black Tie Limo took them to the airport Friday morning and is picking them up Saturday (barring another misplaced shoe incident), and the class is going with "class."
"It was pretty fun," said 17-year-old Jordon Goodman, a senior at Village. "It was like a party bus. Everyone was pretty tired but was excited to go on the trip."
While at the nation's capital, they're getting a crash course in government. They're touring Capitol Hill courtesy of the office of Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton), visiting Arlington National Cemetery, Mount Vernon, the National Archives, the Library of Congress and the Holocaust Museum.
They'll also see the Supreme Court, which could issue a decision in a California case that could affect them. In that case, video game manufacturers are taking on a law signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that banned the sale of violent video games to minors.
The students will also stay overnight in Colonial Williamsburg and see all the major monuments and attend workshops.
"We're in a group of like 25 kids," Goodman said. "We have discussions about our current government and learn as much as we can. It's more specific, like what's going on the in the news right now."
They'll also get a chance to meet students from other schools in other states, with each of them sharing a room with two other students. This year, students from Alaska, Michigan, Texas, Louisiana and Utah are participating, along with a school from Puerto Rico.
In the past, Crawford said that's made for interesting interactions as Village students, some with piercings, tattoos and unusual hair colors, meet up with their more staid counterparts from other places in the country. She said that's one of the goals of Close Up, the organization that puts these trips together.
Crawford said she has accompanied students for the last few years and hopes they get as much out of it as she does.
"I just have a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for the trip, and if I can pass that along to the kids, that's great," she said.


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