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In my Genesis studies, I came across this great quotation from Bruce Waltke's commentary on Genesis (page 396): "By gapping (separating) reward from virtue, God allows the saint to develop spiritual graces such as faith, perseverance, character, and hope."
Great Quotation
April 21, 2006 at 4:22 pm (OT-Genesis, Quotes)
The Last Word
April 21, 2006 at 1:27 pm (Genealogy, OT-Genesis)
Genesis 5
"The basic fact about human experience is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore." Now that statement may be a bit of an exaggeration. However, there is a kernel of truth there. We get up in the morning, cook breakfast, eat breakfast, work, drive the kids to school, work, drive the kids home from school, work, cook supper, eat supper, put the kids to bed, go to sleep, and do the whole thing all over again the next day. Life seems like an unending cycle that cannot be broken. The cycle is monotonous and boring. There are yearly cycles too, especially in farming. They can get monotonous as well. Do you ever feel like screaming out at God that you want to get out of life? Life feels like this genealogy. So-and-so is born, lives until a certain age, has a son, lives another length of time, has other sons and daughters, and then dies. Sounds rather boring, rather like an unending cycle that never changes. There is nothing new under the sun. Underlying all of this boredom is the thought of death itself. That is what makes the cycle unbearable: after all this work and toil, the only thing that happens at the end is death. How boring. Does death have the last word? Is that the end of all our striving? Is all our striving losing?
It would seem that death reigned from Adam onward, as Paul says. Death reigned because of sin. The text starts out by a contrast between God's creation and man's creation. God creates mankind in His own image, in the image of God. Adam, though, has a son in his own image. That tells us that the Fall is going to perpetuate itself in the following generations. Seth is in the image of God. However, it is an image that is filtered by the distorted image of Adam. It is not a direct image of God. That is the point of the first five verses. That starts this seemingly unending cycle of birth and death.
But we notice one thing right away. These first human beings lived a very long time. This has caused some scholars to be exceedingly skeptical about whether these numbers are to be taken literally or not. They surprise us because the numbers are so large. However, once we consider that human beings were created to live forever, and that the life-span gradually gets shorter and shorter after the Flood, then we should not have any difficulty in taking Moses at his word. We need to notice two things about these long lives. First of all, we need to see that the ages of Cain's descendents are not recorded for us. That is because all of Cain's descendents will perish in the Flood. The other thing we need to know is that these numbers are actually small. The Babylonian tradition about the kings who existed before the Flood records some very interesting numbers indeed. There is a document called the Sumerian King List, which gives us the name of ten kings who reigned before the Flood. They reigned anywhere from 18,600 years to 43,200 years. Eight kings ruled for a total of 241,000 years. Beside these numbers, the Genesis account records very modest and small numbers. The point of the Genesis narrative is that no ancestor ever lived longer than 1000 years. Not even Methuselah lived that long. 1000 years is symbolic of eternity, or of a perfect period of time. The Bible says that 1000 years are like one day to God. Man never lives even as long as one of God's days. This should give new meaning to Revelation 20, which says that Jesus Christ reigns for 1000 years. More on that later.
However long these men lived, there is the depressingly monotonous refrain at the end of every account, "and he died." However, there is one example that is different from all the others. Enoch does not die. Enoch lives to be 365 years old, the number of days in a year. Have you ever noticed that? Notice also that twice in these brief verses, it says that Enoch walked wit God. What does "walking with God" mean? It means to have close fellowship with God. The Bible tells us that two cannot walk together unless they be reconciled. Methuselah then was saved. He believed in the promise of the Messiah, the one who would crush Satan's head. Long life (which is what Enoch does not have) is not the most sacred and honorable blessing that can come from God. Enoch had something better. As Matthew Henry says, "As he did not live like others, so also he did not die like others." Walking with God is the reason for the great reward that Enoch receives. Enoch does not die. In the place of that phrase that we would normally expect to see, there is this marvelous statement: "and he was not, for God took him." From Hebrews 11 we learn that Enoch walked by faith such that God allowed him not to taste death. A little girl once told this story in a wonderful way: "Enoch and God used to take long walks together. And one day they walked further than usual; and God said, 'Enoch, you must be tired; come into my house and rest.'" If there is faith, hope and love, these three, Enoch's faith is what God turned to sight, and Enoch's hope God turned to fulfillment.
What happened to Enoch would have been a tremendous boost of hope to all those living. Of all his ancestors, only Adam had died, and of his descendants, only Noah was yet to be born. It took place about half-way from creation to the flood. Death does not have the last word! Now remember that what Enoch went through is not the same as a resurrection from the dead. Hebrews makes it plain that Enoch did not taste death.
Enoch's son is the longest living person in the Bible. He lives 969 years and dies in the year of the flood. The shortest lived ancestor is the father of the longest-lived ancestor. Enoch, though, did not provide complete freedom from death. Methuselah, though the son of Enoch still died. Another solution would be needed. Notice that Methuselah is the father of Lamech.
Now Lamech lives 777 years. Remember that Cain's descendant Lamech was the seventh from Adam, and boasted of having a 77-fold revenge. Now the descendant of Seth lives 777 years. This is probably not coincidence. What Moses wants to do here is to compare the two Lamechs. There is no comparison. Lamech descended from Seth is a prophet, while the Lamech descended from Cain was a false prophet. What does Lamech say? He says that Noah will acquire relief from the work. Notice that it says "out of the ground." The NIV gives us the impression that the ground is the cause of the painful toil. He ESV is better here when it says that Noah came out of the ground. In other words, from ground that the Lord had cursed, the Lord would also bring someone to relieve the curse of the ground. The next several chapters of Genesis will tell us whether Noah did in fact get a hold of that rest that Lamech was talking about.
Verse 32 is rather curious. Noah waited 500 years to have his three sons. This is quite remarkable. None of the other ancestors waited this long to have children. The only reason I can think of for this delay is that God providentially kept Noah from raising a family until Methuselah and Lamech were old enough such that they would die before the Flood. This goes to show us that God preserved the promised line of Seth such that not one of Seth's line died in the Flood.
So how do we see Christ portrayed in these obscure verses from the Old Testament? Well, first of all we have to see that Enoch was just like Elijah, who was just like John the Baptist. Elijah was the second person that God took away without seeing death. Death has been cheated twice; once for Enoch, and once for Elijah. Enoch is another kind of John the Baptist. He precedes Noah, who is the type of Jesus Christ. The word "type" here means a person or a thing or an idea that is a shadow of the reality. A "type" points to something to come later on. A "type" corresponds in at least one recognizable way with that reality. Enoch corresponds to John the Baptist, because Enoch is a herald of Noah. He is the one who comes before. This means that Noah is the "type" of Jesus Christ. Just as all the world would be descended from Noah, so also all Christians would be descended from Christ. There would be one world family in Noah, and so there will be one world of Christians in Jesus Christ. Noah underwent a baptism in the ark, and Jesus underwent the baptism of his death and resurrection. The only way anyone could be saved in Noah's day was by being inside the ark. The only way anyone can be saved now (normally) is by belonging to Christ's body, the church. There is no ordinary possibility of salvation outside the true church of Jesus Christ. We will explore those connections in the weeks to come as we look at Noah.
So do we walk with God? Again, what does that mean? We have seen that it means an intimate relationship with God. That can only happen through Jesus Christ, who walked with man, and walked with His Father. Christ bridged the gap between God an man. Man had sinned. The result was death. Jesus came into that death situation in such a way that life was the result. Now, anyone can come into a relationship with God. One only needs to believe in Jesus Christ, that He took our sins on Himself, and gave us His righteousness. We can now stand before God clothed in Christ's righteousness. We can now walk with God by walking in the Holy Spirit. Galatians 5 tells us what walking with God now looks like. Read Galatians 5:16-26. I believe that it is not too difficult to understand what the fruit of the Spirit is. The problem is doing them. As G. K Chesterton wrote, "Christianity is not a religion that has been tried and found wanting; it rather has been found difficult and never tried." Certainly, we want to say that we cannot walk with God without the Holy Spirit to direct our steps. However, if we are Christians, then we are to walk. We have been reconciled, just like Enoch has been. We have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us now. How do we walk? We make use of the means of grace: we come to hear the Word of God, we partake of the Sacraments (and if you are not a member of a church such that you can partake, I would urge you to consider joining a church, or becoming a communing member, especially if you are a youth who has not joined yet), we pray, we read out Bibles, we have fellowship with other believers. We should not neglect any of these things. We should rather take every opportunity we have to do these things. That is part of what it means to walk with God. Walking with God also means that we are walking with our fellow believers. It is most definitely NOT true that we can just have a relationship with God, and not have one with the church. Christianity is never supposed to be this "God, the Bible, and me" sort of thing. Paul tells us not to neglect the gathering of the saints. I read Paul as saying that whenever the church meets we should try to be there, knowing of course that emergencies come up, and that we cannot be there every single time. But we should try to attend as much as possible. All of these things we do are not part of our becoming a Christian. They are the result of becoming a Christian.
When we walk with God, then God has promised that if we live until the time when Christ returns, then we will meet Jesus Christ in the air, and we will always be with Him. Enoch's story promises that for us. Jesus says, "Come to me, all who are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." Enoch was tired, as the little girl said. So he went to Jesus, and Jesus gave him rest. He will do the same for you. Rest in Him.


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Dreams help mould future. The dreams I am talking here are not about those successions of images, ideas, emotions and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. They are about the expression and visualizing of solid thoughts, emotions, and ideas that signal about what you want and what you need for your physical life. They need physical works and efforts. They are there to help you mould your future. Dreams give you strength to face the natural world of your choice to reach success in life.
Forty years ago, I visualized becoming an accountant and a writer. But the problem was – how to make them happen. I knew my parents could not afford to send me to school to finish those courses I had wished. However, I did not give up dreaming. In 1976, I was sixteen year old at that time and had just finished my elementary; I decided to leave my parents. Contrary to the will of my parents I still left them and lived the way I can to fulfill my dreams.
Living away from them was not easy and productive. I had slept under pine trees, robustly standing around our town plaza. I had used scrap cardboards and old newspapers as my gasket and beddings. Sometimes I slept on the height of the old tower of our town church, inside waiting shades and fish market along with other deserted children. I had become immune from the mosquitoes bites, salty smells and the freezing darkness. There were nights I was weeping, remembering my family but the homesickness for them did not change my decision.
I made friendship with those children who were also at my age. I mingled and associated with them like one family with the same fate. Thus, it became easier for me to be with them. The fish market was our source of living. Lifting of goods of market vendors in exchange of some money to be divided equally among us were exciting and memorable experience. We really enjoyed for doing it.
Until I joined to a construction group, located in front of Felipe Abrigo National Memorial School of Arts and Trades (FANMSAT) now known the Southern Samar National School of Arts and Trades (SSNSAT) in the town of Guiuan, Eastern Samar. At first I felt intense pain on my body, prickly fingers and feet but despite heavy and hard works I was happy to receive the 15 pesos for a day's work.
There were nights I was anxious. I could not sleep in the barracks due to chronic fatigue and pain in my whole body. I wept and I wanted to go home but the advent of the future surpassed what I felt – especially when day time came – watching hundreds of young students where happily entering the school gate, I pretended I was one of them carrying books and notebooks. And the difficulty and fatigue from hard works eventually disappeared.
Six months later, the constructions of the five units of apartments were done. We moved to another project – a three-story building owned by a Chinese businessman. But before leaving the place, I stood up in front of FANMCAT with my promise that I shall return to study high school as part of my dreams.
I was sixteen year old when I finished and received my Grade School Certificate, from Mayana Elementary School, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Philippines in 1976. I started my high school in 1977 as self-supporting student and received my Secondary School Certificate from Southern Samar School of Arts and Trades, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Philippines during the school year 1980-1981. Following that year, I took up One Year in Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education from Southern Samar School of Arts and Trades, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Philippines during the school years 1981-1982.
The following year I stopped my college education. I went to Manila to look for job but I was not lucky so I decided to go home to my home province, Samar. During the school year 1984 to 1985, I took up One Year in Bachelor of Science in Cooperative Management at the University of Eastern Philippines, Catarman, Northern Samar. However, before the beginning of school years 1985-1986, I left Catarman with my school records and decided to study at Leyte Colleges, Tacloban City, Philippines. The college approved. All the units I had taken from the past years in college were credited. I enrolled as a second year student in Bachelor of Science in Commerce Accounting. Although, I did not finish my accountancy course. Just after the first semester I left for Manila again.
In December 1986, I dreamed again to raise my own family. Marrying my wife was the best decision I ever made in my life. The love I felt for her was my strength. Now we have three children, all girls ages 25, 23 and 22. I married my wife with a ten peso bill on my wallet. I courted her for six days and on the 7th day, we were married. It happened December 9, 1986.
On December 3, 1986, I started courting my wife. I visited her in the morning, lunchtime and in the evening for about six days. On December 8, 1986, I got her approval to marry me. Quickly as lightning, we scheduled our wedding the next day December 9, 1986. That same day, we brought our plan to her parents and it was approved. Also that same day, we contacted our chosen sponsors and we were advised to see them in the morning the next day at Trece, Martirez City Hall to get the marriage license and other documents needed for the civil wedding. On December 9, 1986 at around 9AM, all the necessary documents for the wedding were completed with the help of our sponsors. At around 10:30 AM we proceeded to the office of the judge located at the second floor of the Municipal City Hall.
The ceremony was simple and very fast. It only took less than ten minutes after the judge declared, "I pronounce you Paul and you Imelda as husband and wife". Following his declaration were the wishes of congratulations and the signing of our signatures on the documents with his signature and the signatures of our godparents.
Early 1994, I again had dreamed to go abroad. I was lucky though because I did not experience much difficulty in acquiring an overseas job. My uncle-in-law who at that time was the chief accountant of the company Kawasaki Helicopter Saudi Arabia – Finance Department helped me get my current job by recommending me to the administrator of the company. A Philippine based recruitment agency, FB Allan processed my papers and I was able to go out of the country as a documented OFW.
When I arrived in my current location on March 23, 1994, I was first employed as a janitor/laborer. That will be my work position for two years and nine months. The management must have noticed my hard work because I was promoted to be a Facility Records Clerk. After some time I was again promoted to be an Analyst/Bookkeeper and this would be my job for nine years and three months.
The promotion did not stop there. On May 8, 2006, I was assigned as Secretary to the Vice President, then later as an Analyst. Then I was assigned to manage a new showroom that sells antiques and other home accessories. From being a mere janitor, I had gone a long way and one can say that things just get better and better for me.
Aside from working, I also devote some time for my other interests. While employed, I took up a creative writing course by mail with the Writer's Bureau in Manchester London during the years 1999-2000. In 2001, I took up Journalism and short story writing course with the ICS, PA, USA by mail.

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Shyppe is a successful Dutch startup that revolutionizes container shipment across the globe. Moqod released the initial MVP for Shypple which was the technical foundation for further success. In short - Shypple is an easy way for customers to view costs for cargo shipment, make bookings, and follow their shipment status. Before Shypple this was a non-transparent old fashioned business.
Do you remember the days when you had to book plane tickets by calling travel agents, waiting for days, and paying a lot of money? Just a few years ago to ship a container from China to Rotterdam would be the same painful and costly process.
Shypple came up with the idea that it should be as simple to book a container shipment door to door, as it is to buy a ticket online these days. Enter pickup and delivery points - boom! In a few seconds, you see different options for carriers, timing, and prices. Moqod was the development partner to validate this idea. Within a few quick iterations, we delivered the product which was released live to the market.
The MVP was live within a few months of agile development. The MVP contained the complex logic for quote calculation, booking module, and track and trace. So the customer could select the best quote, book the shipment and later pinpoint its status in the ocean! This MVP became a tremendous success with coverage in the media and impressive funding rounds. Now Shypple is conquering the world of international shipping by providing a better service every day.


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I've actually spent a lot of time away this month - at home, in Sheffield and in Brighton.
I spent Easter weekend in Nottingham and Sheffield, catching up with friends and family before heading down to Brighton the following weekend for a Blogger Meet Up (which was a lot of fun!) I also won a tapas cooking class with Omar of Tapas Revolution, which was great fun (I will blog this at some point!)
The following week was filled with work and client dinners but from Friday through to Monday morning I had a brilliant weekend away in Sherwood Forest Castle Cabins, doing lots of outdoorsy stuff, including Go Ape (SO MUCH FUN!)
On the 21st I turned 24...scary! I did console myself with a spa day, shopping and a lovely trip to York with my parents (and a long awaited trip to Betty's)
I tried my first meditation class - which I am so, so up for. It's incredible being able to do something like that and learn how to switch off a little bit.
A trip to London for work, a night out, a lazy weekend and a jam packed week of work to end the month - it's left me feeling a little bit shattered.
But, it's been a fabulous month...of friends, family, trips away, great food and a lot of fun. Let's hope May is just as good!
A recap of April's Goals...did I achieve them?
Start a new class at the gym
Spring Clean
Figure out my summer
Try and switch off from technology a little
Give meditation a good go
I'll be honest...I've not done so well this month. Genuinely I can't believe four weeks have passed since I wrote this.
I didn't manage a new gym class, mostly because I couldn't even get booked in because they were always full but also because I've been here there and everywhere this month. I had a half spring clean but by no means a productive one. Summer is still baffling me; I've made some plans but not the ones I'd hoped. Once I've booked my flights for the work trips I'll be able to figure out my time a little better. I definitely feel like I've achieved a technology switch off - I've spent so much less time on social media and, I guess, had an unintentional blogging break. Meditation was wonderful. Like really wonderful. I've thoroughly enjoyed the classes so far and can't wait for more sessions.
Really focus on getting fit and weight loss/toning - I am by no means fat but I know myself I would feel a little bit happier if I lost a little weight and toned up. I don't hate my body but I generally find myself feeling more unhappy about it than happy. I eat really well, exercise 3-5 times each week...but it's not really making much of a difference so I need to have a really look at what I'm doing.
Actually have that Spring clean before it turns into Summer - I really do need a clear out. I'll be moving soon so I need to make sure I'm not just carting all my clutter to the new place.
Figure out my finances - just lately I feel like I've been spending waaaay beyond my means. I really need to wise up with my spending so I can be more productive with my saving.
Get down to London more - I went through a phase of practically living there but as the weeks have got busier, I've not really seen too much of my favourite UK city. I have a visit or two to look forward to so this shouldn't prove too difficult.
Give myself a break - I rarely have free time anymore and the free time I do have I tend to completely relax, I fill up with plans. I've felt a bit worn out recently so even if it's just one night a week I come home and go into complete relaxation, well, that's better tha nothing!


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Report: Brian Cardinal, Darko Milicic, and Adam Morrison to join Free Agent Summit
Last week, Wade told the Chicago Tribune that he planned to talk with fellow free agents LeBron James and Joe Johnson before making a decision on where he would sign this summer. A source told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard that Bosh also would be part of those talks, and Amar'e Stoudemire, who is likely to opt out of the final year of his current contract with the Phoenix Suns, told AOL Fanhouse that he planned to be part of those talks, too.
HoopsVibe's Quick Call: Rumor has it journeyman Brian Cardinal wants in. Darko Milicic also plans on attending. And Adam Morrison, the dude permanently attached to the Los Angeles Lakers' bench, may also show – if the purple-and-gold don't offer the restricted free agent a one year deal for the minimum before free agency hits.
Jokes aside, this summit, or whatever it's called, is getting bizarre. Sure, Chris Bosh, LeBron James, Joe Johnson, Amar'e Stoudemire, Dwyane Wade, and Mother Teresa can meet and discuss their future or anything else they like.
However, James and Wade are wasting their incredible leverage. As the game's best players, they should pick where they want to play, who they want to play with, who they want to play for, and then make the team they selected meet their demands.
Nothing else should be considered. After all, this is pro sports, not friends running together on the playground.
James and Wade have supposedly waited years for this summer. Instead of wasting time and energy consulting others, they should figure out exactly what they want and get it.
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In 2 Corinthians 10:5 the Apostle Paul writes the following about our calling and about our spiritual battle: "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ."
This is a tough calling that is asked of us to bring EVERY thought into the obedience of Christ. When we are in great physical or emotional pain, stressed out or emotionally we are all over the place it is very easy to simply react however we feel like it at the time and not be willing to discipline our reactions in a godly way. Our conscience may even prod us to react better but sometimes we just don't care and decide to do as we feel like at the time.
When our pain and stress levels are low it is much easier to live God's way. The real test comes when our pain and our stress levels are high. In times like these it is good to remember our ultimate example of how to react during such times of pain and stress.
Jesus Christ's example on the cross provides great inspiration to encourage all of us to control and think through our reactions to great emotional and physical pain. A friend of mine after seeing the controversial Mel Gibson movie "The Passion of the Christ" made a very interesting comment after seeing that movie. He said, after seeing the full enormity of what Christ must have went through, his respect and admiration for Christ's discipline to react to all of that in such a godly way went through the roof. This is what I'd like to focus on in this article.
I'd like to now take us back in time to this dramatic day in history and look at the last few sayings of Christ on the cross. There are seven sayings of Christ on the cross that are recorded for us in the gospels. It's interesting to note that all seven of these have a different theme. They reveal Jesus' innermost feelings as He poured out His life for us and provide a powerful example of how we, too, should react in times of great physical and emotional pain.
1] [THEME – FORGIVENESS] "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing" (Luke 23:34).
Jesus, shortly after He was nailed to the cross prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing". Instead of being consumed with his own pain and misery, Jesus asked forgiveness for those responsible for the evil done to Him and by extension, all who ignorantly go the way of sin.
Now what did Christ mean when He said "for they do not know what they do"? These hardened Roman soldiers didn't crucify Christ accidentally so what did He mean that they didn't know what they were doing?
We have a clue over in Hebrews 12:2 where it says "Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross". It says His mind was totally fixed on the joy that was set before Him. It was the burning vision of victory for mankind He was about to complete and His coming Kingdom that kept Him going at this time.
It is also this vision that helps us to understand what Christ meant when He said that they did not know what they were doing? He may well have projected His mind forward in time to when these soldiers will be resurrected and the full magnitude of what they had done to their Saviour will hit them. At that time they will probably deeply regret being involved in Christ's murder.
When we are deeply hurt by others it helps that we also have this kind of vision and project our mind forward to when those who hurt us will come to their senses and repent of their actions. It also helps to remember that everyone is a potential son or daughter of God.
2] [THEME – HOPE] "I tell you the truth today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43).
Both of the thieves who were crucified with Christ, had early on joined bystanders in mocking Jesus (Mark 15:32). Luke tells us in Luke 24:39, "One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: 'Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!'". This man wanted only escape from his pain. This criminal had no desire to know his Saviour and repent of his sins but a miraculous change occurred in the other criminal. He came to believe. He, too, had mocked Jesus earlier, but now he rebuked the other criminal.
We are not told of any other conversation between this second criminal and Jesus. Perhaps only Jesus' example and prayer, which he overheard, moved him deeply. He said, "Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom" (Luke 23:42). Jesus replied by offering him hope for the future: "I tell you the truth today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43).
By paradise did Christ mean that this criminal would go straight to heaven? Now, we know that wasn't the case. What Jesus did know was that in the moment after this criminal's legs were broken and he died that he would come up in presumably the second resurrection which would seem like the same day to him. At that time the earth would have been transformed into a paradise and he will have his chance to receive salvation.
Again we see the incredible vision that He had on the cross. He just kept focusing ahead on the "joy that was set before Him" as it says in Hebrews 12:2. This kind of vision, this kind of thinking way ahead to the end result can help us to keep things in perspective and to encourage others when we, too, are suffering and it can help us to temper our responses in a godly way.
3] [THEME – CARE] "He said to His mother, 'Woman, behold your son!' Then He said to the disciple, 'Behold your mother!'" (John 19:26-27).
We read in John 19:26-27: "When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, 'Woman, behold your son!' Then He said to the disciple, 'Behold your mother! From that time on, this disciple took her into his home".
Now Jesus' mother Mary had four other sons - James, Joses, Simon and Judas. One might naturally think that one of them would probably be physically caring for Mary. John 7:5 says that during His ministry Jesus' brothers did not believe in Him. Paul notes in 1 Corinthians 15:7 that He appeared to His brother James after His resurrection and this is probably when he and his brothers began to believe as they are with Mary and the apostles in Acts 1:14 when a replacement is chosen for Judas. James became the leader of the Jerusalem church while Judas or Jude later wrote the epistle of Jude.
What need of Mary's did Jesus perceive on the cross that wasn't being met here by His brothers? That John took Mary into his home implies a physical need. Whether it was a physical or perhaps a spiritual need that wasn't being met Jesus saw to it that His disciple John would take care of His mother.
Again, instead of being consumed with his own pain and misery, Jesus cared for those around Him. I remember when I was a teenager going for a visit to our elder, Jack Clune's sister in the nursing home where Mr Clune is now. Even though she suffered terribly from emphysema I would be absolutely amazed by how she'd be constantly be thinking about others and how they were doing compared to the carnal teenager that I was at the time.
4] [THEME – LONELINESS] "'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?' - which means, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"' (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34).
Jesus here then cried out, "'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?' - which means, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"' (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34).
The Apostle Paul perhaps referred to this moment when he wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:21: "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." At this moment the Father placed on Him the sins of humanity to be paid as He was about to die. Isaiah 59:2states that our sins separate us from God.
During his entire adult life, Jesus had an intimate and vibrant relationship with God as His Father. Suddenly, while suffering the agony and fatigue of crucifixion, Jesus could no longer feel that wonderful heavenly Presence. At this moment He could empathize with all of us when we feel separated from God because of our sins and guilt.
5] [THEME - SUFFERING] "I am thirsty" (John 19:28).
The time of final sacrifice was close. Jesus had endured and overcome the heat, pain, rejection and loneliness. He could have suffered and died in silence. Instead, unexpectedly, he asked for help. "Knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, 'I am thirsty"' (John 19:28).
Earlier He'd been offered the same drink but with added gall. He refused it as recorded in Matthew 27:34.Why refuse it earlier and now take a drink at the moment of death? "With the Word Bible Commentary" makes this comment about the vinegar mixed with gall: "The narcotic drink would have helped deaden the pain, but Jesus refused it. He drank the cup of suffering instead." Instead of reaching for a comforter He was prepared to take the difficult but necessary path. When finally He had fully drank of the cup of suffering He then asked for a drink.
6] [THEME - TRIUMPH ]"It is finished" (John 19:30).
The sixth saying of Christ on the cross is one of triumph. John 19:30 says: "When he had received the drink, Jesus said, 'It is finished.' With that, He bowed His head and gave up his spirit".
Jesus' humility rings in his words. His was not a vain, I-showed-you attitude. He did not even say, "I did it" or "I did it My way" as Frank Sinatra used to sing. He claimed no credit. To the end, Jesus' mind was on the work He came to do. He triumphantly announced, for all to hear, "It is finished."
7] [THEME – REUNION] "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit" (Luke 23:46).
"Jesus called out with a loud voice, 'Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.' When he had said this, He breathed his last". He looked forward to finally being fully reunited with His Father. At that dramatic moment Jesus died for you and me and became the true Passover sacrifice for each and every one of us.
The way that John records his gospel, at first, gives the impression that Jesus died first before the soldier thrust his spear into Jesus' side which is how it is portrayed in "The Passion of the Christ". In "The Passion" the soldiers suspect He is already dead and one of them thrusts him in the side to test that He is dead.
The original text of Matthew's gospel helps clear up the confusion of whether He died before or after the spear was thrust into Him. In Matthew 27:49, after He took the drink of vinegar, we read, "But the rest said, 'Let Him alone! Let us see if Elijah comes to save Him.'" Most Bible versions then go straight to verse 50which says that He cried out again and gave up His spirit.
Fred Coulter in his "A Harmony of the Gospels" writes, "The latter half of this verse, which begins with the words 'Then another took a spear…' has been omitted from the King James Version. However, a majority of ancient manuscripts contain this part of the verse; these manuscripts include the codex Vaticanus and Sinaiticus…Older translations which contain the complete verse are the Moffatt translation and the Fenton translation" (p. 304).
From the latter half of verse 49 it should read, "Then another took a spear and thrust it into His side and out came water and blood. And after crying out again with a loud voice, Jesus yielded up His spirit."
In conclusion, it is a tough calling to bring EVERY thought into the obedience of Christ, especially when we are in great pain physically and emotionally. As we study the perfect caring example of Christ as He suffered on the cross leading up to the Passover season, it should be a great motivation to all of us to live and to react in a godly way at all times, both good and bad.
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I recently discovered some old photos from the late 80s when I had a glass studio in Cilfynydd, South Wales. It was here that I designed, made and repaired a great number of domestic, secular and religious stained glass leaded lights. Perched on the side of the A470 the industrial unit provided the ideal location for working
Amongst the projects completed were lots of leaded lights for peoples front doors, repairs to tired, old and worn out windows and a number of rebuilds where people had found treasured lights at auction or car boot sales.
At the time my windows could be found in the Great Western Hotel, Cardiff, The Black Prince, Llantrisant and the Commercial Inn, Newport. I also worked on a number of refurbishment projects, such as the Victorian windows in Dyffryn House, St Nicholas, the Baptist Church on Charles Street, Cardiff and The Muni in Pontupridd. These in particular were delicate jobs, requiring patient rerepainting of the original artwork and careful releading into the original panels.
One of my favourite jobs was the complete restoration of a set of beautiful Art Neuveau windows for G&Ts Wine Bar in Porth. These gorgeous panels had been left to the ravages of time and vandals and were in a desperate state of direpair when they were brought to me. The finished pieces though were lovely restorations of the originals and for many years adorned the bar. This though has sadly long closed and I no longer have any idea what happened to them.
Hopefully they and the others that brightened up the bars and lounges of South Wales pubs didn't end up in the skip. I know too that the Great Western Hotel at the bottom of St Mary's Street has been refurbished and the canopies, with their Art Deco panels have been removed,
The same is true of Stamps Bistro in Churchill Way, Cardiff. It would be nice if someone made off with them before they were smashed up and just discarded but hey that's art for you, all one can hope is that others will cherish your hard worked creations in the same way you have.


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Above picture: Commendations awarded Stagecoach driver Robin and Travel South Yorkshire's Customer Service Adviser Stephen. Both evacuated passengers at the Rotherham bus fire in September. Their actions ensured no passengers were injured and Emergency Services could act quickly.


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Check out this super cool technique. It's called Diamond Dusting and it's simple to do, but the effects are AWESOME. Check out a bunch more samples featuring this technique over at Hand Stamped Sentiments. I have included the "diamond dust" on the Tangerine Tango label and the Very Vanilla Trick or Treat greeting.
Don't you just love the paper? It's new in the Holiday Seasons Catalog, coming soon to a stamp room near you --August 1st!
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KOBLENZ, Germany — Marine Le Pen wasted no time in proclaiming 2017 as the year of far-right awakening in Europe.
"We are living through the end of one world, and the birth of another," Ms. Le Pen, the leader of France's National Front party, told a cheering gathering of members of European right-wing parties on Saturday in this Rhine River city to chart a joint path to success in elections in the Netherlands, France and Germany this year.
"In 2016, the Anglo-Saxon world woke up," Ms. Le Pen said. "In 2017, I am sure that it will be the year of the Continental peoples rising up."
The triumph of anti-Europeans in Britain and Donald J. Trump in the United States has galvanized the Continent's far-right parties, who are making appeals to disillusioned voters already bitter over social inequality, loss of sovereignty and waves of migration. And, amid suspicions that Russia is trying to destabilize the Continent by allying with the right, Europe's mainstream parties may be forced into awkward or ineffectual coalitions, to preserve their power and keep extremists out.
Geert Wilders, a Dutch nationalist whose anti-Islam Dutch Freedom Party currently leads the polls for spring elections in the Netherlands, was emblematic of the confidence of the far-right at the meeting.
"The world is changing," he said. "America is changing. Europe is changing." He added: "It started last year with Brexit, yesterday there was Trump and today the freedom-loving parties gathered in Koblenz making a stand."
How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right?
Right-wing parties have been achieving electoral success in a growing number of nations.
"The genie will not go back into the bottle again, whether you like it or not," he said.
Mr. Wilders and other far-right leaders have successfully tapped in to a sense of lost identity across Europe that has been heightened by the arrival of waves of migrants, the effects of a globalized and digitized economy and perceptions that attempts are being made by institutions like the European Union to impose uniformity on diverse European cultures.
Patrick Bauer, 22, a member of Alternative for Germany, a far-right party that has benefited from widespread opposition to Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to allow in some one million mostly Muslim migrants in 2015, said he was drawn to the meeting mostly by Mr. Wilders.
The Dutchman epitomizes the choice and variety that should be available in Europe, without citizens being forced to accept policies and economic models fashioned by pan-European institutions, said Mr. Bauer, who sits on a local council in the Taunus hills north of Frankfurt.
He described himself as a Christian strongly opposed to abortion and worried by what he sees as the advance of Islam — "up to 80 percent of students at some schools in Frankfurt," he said.
The German chancellor's name was loudly booed and chants of "Merkel must go!" erupted several times during the two-hour morning rally, attended by hundreds of supporters.
The gathering Saturday was notable for bringing together the two women, Ms. Le Pen and Frauke Petry, joint leader of the Alternative for Germany, who hope to lead the right's advance in France and Germany, the traditional motors of the now weakened 28-nation European Union, which Britain voted last June to leave.
The task of negotiating a British exit has fallen to a third woman, Prime Minister Theresa May. All three are now arrayed against Ms. Merkel, who has been in power 11 years but may fail in her bid for a fourth term in September elections.
Europe's Rising Far Right: A Guide to the Most Prominent Parties
Amid a migrant crisis and discontent with the European Union, many far-right parties have achieved electoral success. Here are eight of the most noteworthy.
Ms. Le Pen, speaking in French at her first appearance at a rally in Germany, was a forceful presence at the gathering, making an impassioned speech to loud applause.
While she gave a quieter speech than her French counterpart, Ms. Petry, a fluent English speaker who, like Ms. Merkel, was raised in the former East Germany and holds a doctorate in science, also called for a new model for the Continent.
"We are the ones who must take our fate into our own hands," Ms. Petry said. "Something has happened and we are here to create an alternative for Europe," she later told reporters.
Another Alternative for Germany leader, Björn Höcke, who is the party leader in the eastern state of Thüringen, caused an uproar in Germany last week by attacking Holocaust atonement and denouncing the central Berlin monument to millions of murdered European Jews, and also monuments to gays, disabled people and Sinti and Roma murdered by the Nazis.
Ms. Petry has voiced disapproval of Mr. Höcke and the sentiments he voiced.
In the German news media, outrage over Mr. Höcke's comments competed on Saturday with Mr. Trump's inaugural speech, widely seen as a belligerent challenge to Europe.
Commentators said that Europe could survive only by sticking together to preserve exactly the unity and the policies — such as a shared euro currency — criticized by the far-right leaders.
"Europe and Germany should take the inauguration of Donald Trump as a wake-up call," wrote Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger in the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "Now more than ever it will be up to them, to their ability to achieve and readiness to take responsibility, for the West to stand firm."


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This paper explores the importance of customer experience in creating long-term sustainable success for organisations and how to systematically deliver an experience that is valuable for the customer and the business.
Customer experience (CX) is a term that is open to various definitions but for the purposes of this paper I'll define it as a customer's perception of their interactions with a company and how it made them feel. In other words, it is the tangible reality of the brand and proposition made to the customer.


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A recent survey suggests that one in five women have reported harassment at work. High profile allegations in media and government sectors seem to make it increasingly clear that many individuals have "put up or shut up" (sometimes over many years) rather than raise concerns.
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One of the primary things on most individuals's minds when they are contemplating going to a medical school is, what are the admission requirements? By breaking the faculties into two lists (research and first care) the problem is at the very least addressed but weaknesses within the method nonetheless exist. Many colleges have somebody in their admissions workplace who works immediately with underrepresented students, whether or not as undergraduates or graduates. These types of faculties often have an awesome plan for supplying you with the lessons that work rather a lot like the way you'd do it in a conventional college setting. It can be advisable to test the courses supplied by the medical school and find out whether the labs are adequately equipped.
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Elderfrost Gammoth are Deviants of Gammoth, introduced in Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate.
Elderfrost Gammoth appears to have a more bluish fur than regular Gammoth. The portions of red fur on its back have also turned silvery-white, although the reason for this is unknown. The bony plate on its scalp is also slightly different in shape: the plating on the sides of its head are now asymmetrical, and there is a large crack in the center of its scalp. Elderfrost Gammoth also appears to have larger, sharper tusks than a regular Gammoth.
Unlike the regular Gammoth the Elderfrost Gammoth is able to coat her legs with ice and not snow, she can also now cover her trunk with ice. The snowballs it throws are also larger than those of a regular Gammoth.
Like normal Gammoth, Elderfrost Gammoth are a highly territorial species that can be quite dangerous in certain places. These beasts are said to be to cause blizzards and avalanches in snowy regions from their immense strength alone. Due to this, hunters are required to have a special permit in order to hunt an Elderfrost Gammoth.
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- Elderfrost Gammoth is one of the few G-rank exclusive Deviants.
- The others include Bloodbath Diablos, Boltreaver Astalos, Soulseer Mizutsune, Rustrazor Ceanataur, and Nightcloak Malfestio.
- Gammoth's trunk, front legs can be wounded, and the head can be wounded twice.
- Unlike Gammoth, Elderfrost Gammoth's back legs can't be wounded.
- Elderfrost Gammoth is able to cover its trunk and front legs in spiky ice.


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Lot's of progress again today on the Solsylva CNC machine build for the QC Co-Lab makerspace in Davenport Iowa. This video show the next step in the assembly as I put together part of the gantry for the "Y" axis of the David Steele Solsylva CNC machine. A good start to another great project.


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Modojo.Com has the new promo video from Gameloft, a game for the Iphone inspired by Warcraft. Check it out here. The thing is it is also similar to other MMOs, the look of the game in my mind looks somewhere between Everquest 2 and Warcraft.
Industrygamers.Com has a few interesting comments on how WoW Executives want The Old Republic to do big. Check it out here.
Destructoid.com has an article on David Jaffe talking about his dislik efor how 'art' games are treated calling it "smoke-and-mirrors bullshit". Check it out here. I think hes just hurt Twisted Metal's gay romance scene had to be removed so it wasn't counted as art.


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Dad's "Happy Father's Day from Friends of the Rosie Hospital".
The Friends of the Rosie Hospital are helping to make the Rosie a more comfortable environment for mothers and babies. If you have any white yarn we are in urgent need of your donation. For up-to-the minute information follow Rosie in Stitches facebook page.
Rosie in Stitches would like to thank all our customers at our recent stalls, our income for 2018 is already at £759.
See below for where you can shop with us again.
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Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm
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Saturday 23rd June 1pm to 5pm
New members are always welcome, whether to contribute financially, to join our team of knitters, to organise the three large stalls per year at Addenbrooke's Outpatients, provide transport for our volunteers, display a small selection of our wares or to help on the Rosie tea bar. Contact Mary Sanders on 01223 356615 further details are given on our Volunteering page.
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Excellent Longstanding Service to Undergraduate Clinical Education 2019
Leeds School of Medicine wishes to recognise NHS clinical teachers and other NHS staff who are due to retire, or have just retired and have a reputation for their commitment to teaching excellence and supporting our medical students over many years.
We invite Trusts and GP practices to nominate any members of staff they feel would merit this recognition for excellence and outstanding commitment over many years and would appreciate being put forward. This need not be confined to consultants, it might, for example, be a member of the nursing staff who has consistently contributed outstanding teaching and/or support to medical students throughout their career, or an undergraduate student organiser who has given long praiseworthy service to students.
The recognition will take the form of a presentation at the Professionalism Ceremony (Friday 25 October 2019) held each autumn at the University for the Year 3 UG Medical Students and Year 2 Physician Associate students as they embark on their clinical placements, and renew their commitment to the ideals of medical professionalism. After lunch, there is a procession of invitees into the Great Hall followed by a speech to the students from invited keynote speakers. During the ceremony, the Dean of Medicine will make a presentation to the successful nominees. Afterwards, there is a reception with the students.
This is a very prestigious award which will not be given without serious scrutiny of the nominees' level of contribution. Please give sufficient detail on your reasons and provide the required evidence for your nominations to allow us to give them due consideration. You are invited to discuss your suggestions informally beforehand with either Elizabeth Allen or Professor Laura Stroud.
Click here to download a flyer and details of last year's award winners
A completed nomination form should be sent with a covering letter of support, any testimonials from colleagues, and evidence of excellent clinical teaching and/or support to Elizabeth Allen, Leeds Institute of Medical Education, Room 7.09, Level 7, Worsley Building, University of Leeds, Clarendon Way, LEEDS, LS2 9NL.
Please ensure you receive confirmation that your nomination has been received.
The deadline for submission of nominations is 28th June 2019.
If you have any queries regarding eligibility, please contact:
Elizabeth Allen, 0113 343 1654
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Episode Seven
'How about you, Tamara?" Keith asked. "I don't know anything about you yet."
"Well, I just moved in with my grandmother," Tamara answered.
"You mean Brenda Dawson? I've talked to her many times. She's a really nice lady. She is still known as the pet rescue lady in the neighborhood. Brenda always has at least two stray animals that she keeps until she can find good homes for them. Where were you living before you moved in with your grandma?" Keith asked.
"I was living with my boyfriend, Blake Edwards in Orlando, Florida, not too far from the Everglades," Tamara answered.
"Where's Blake living now?"
"He's in Manitoba right now getting free room and board in The Headingly Correctional Facility. He originally moved to Winnipeg with me and got himself a bachelor suite on Furby Street. After living there for only two days Blake tried to rob a Chinese restaurant two blocks away. The truth is that Blake is not a very smart criminal. It only took the cops about an hour to arrest him," Tamara answered.
"When is he going to be released from jail?" Keith asked grabbing another corned beef sandwich.
"They'll probably keep him for a few months as Blake gets into trouble with the law a lot. I think that Blake made a poor choice when he decided to be a career outlaw. The truth is that he is not very good at it, but he hasn't figured that out yet."
"Are you in love with Blake?" Keith asked as Tamara took a sip from her glass of water.
"It's hard to say. I don't really know what love is. If you are talking about a physical, chemical attraction to Blake, yeah, it's there. I don't approve of his lifestyle though. I wish he'd grow up, get a job and have some positive direction for his life."
"It sounds like you want a quality life. How did you end up moving to Winnipeg?"
"That was Marilyn's idea. She's my stepmother. She didn't want me living that close to the Everglades. Marilyn is worried that it's too dangerous a location for me. About a month ago, she was watching tv and saw a story about a nine foot Burmese python that wandered into one of our neighbor's yard in Orlando. The snake had eaten their dog. Marilyn phoned Brenda, my grandmother, and asked if I could live with her for awhile until I found a place of my own in Winnipeg. Marilyn didn't know that Blake was coming to Winnipeg with me."


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Choreography by: Peter Martins
Music by: Michael Torke
Black & White, commissioned for the New York City Ballet's American Music Festival, is the second collaboration between Peter Martins and Michael Torke. The ballet is both an exploration of adagio and partnering, and a suite of dances for changing divisions of the corps. By turns romantic and jazzy, its seven sections are full of sensuous intertwinings and formal architectural patterns.


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The following scenario offers a good example of how to fund retirement initially from tax free cash, defer taxable withdrawals, and later step these withdrawals down, perhaps when other pension benefits (from state benefits, final salary schemes) become available.
Q - My client has specified that he wants to take tax free cash in his first year of retirement. He then wants to start drawing £20K annually for two years following. After that, in his fourth year following retirement, he wants to reduce his drawdown income to £10K per annum for the life of the plan. Please can you confirm how I model this?
1. First, go to the Time screen.
2. You will need to add two to three events on the timeline to schedule this pension income.
- You will need to have an event to crystallise the money purchase and take the 25% tax free cash. This could be your client's Retirement event, for example, or if your client is retiring now, it could be the Start of the plan.
- A second event will be needed to start the draw down income of 20k per annum the year following retirement.
- A third event will be needed to then step withdrawals down to 10k per annum three years after draw down income begins.
These events can later be re-positioned as needed, should you need to make any changes to this income schedule.
3. Next, go to the Pensions > Money Purchase screen.
4. Select the pension in the ledger, to the right side of the screen.
4. Expand Withdrawals & Annuity.
5. Select Crystallisation of Money Purchase.
6. Use this panel to schedule how and when the money purchase will be crystallised.
- In the drop-down list at the top of the panel, select an event to schedule the crystallisation – e.g. Retirement.
- Crystallised Amount – Set 100% to be crystallised at this event.
- Lump Sum - Select either "Tax Free Cash Only" or set the percentage taken in lump sum to 25%. In either case this is taking tax free cash up front.
- Frequency - Set the frequency of "one time", since we will be scheduling the entire money purchase to be crystallised in order to withdraw the tax free cash from it upfront.
- Click OK.
7. Next, open the Income from Drawdown Pension panel.
8. Use this panel to schedule the initial draw of income from the subsequent drawdown pension.
- Set the drawdown income to begin at the second event - e.g. "Start Pension Income 20k".
- Select the "Fixed w/o inflation" option and enter 20,000.
Note: The fields adjacent to the income options with and without inflation will both be populated with the with amount you enter. The software does this as a convenience, should you later want to toggle inflation of these withdrawals on or off. Only the selected option be used to schedule the amount of these future withdrawals.
Also Note: Consider also selecting and survivorship option for the drawdown. This setting is applied to the future drawdown pension, not the money purchase. Settings for the handling of funds that in a money purchase at the time of the owner's death can be found on the Money Purchase screen under Advanced Settings > Survivorship Options. Read more >> about setting survivorship options on money purchases and drawdown pension.
9. Click OK and then click Update (or Add) to save these changes.
10. Select Pensions > Drawdown Pensions in the left navigation.
As a final step you will need to step down the future drawdown income two years on.A facility for stepping drawdown income can be found on the Pensions > Drawdown Pensions screen.
On this screen you will find a "USP" (drawdown pension) that the software created and automatically linked to its source money purchase, where it awaits future funding with a current balance of 0.
11. Select this future drawdown pension in the ledger, to the right.
Note: The initial instructions for taking drawdown income have carried over to this screen from the Money Purchase screen's Income from Drawdown Pension panel. These can be viewed under Drawdown & Annuity.
12. Expand Advanced Settings and click Step Up / Step Down.
13. At the top of this panel select the third event – e.g. "Step pension income down to 10k".
14. Untick Growth Rate and Asset Allocation since you are not stepping those two settings.
Leave Withdrawal Limit/Schedule ticked. Click this label (the text next to the check box), which will open a sub-panel.
15. Set the "Fixed w/o inflation" and enter 10,000. This will step the income from 20k down to 10k and wil not factor in any inflationary increases.
16. Click OK to close this sub-panel.
17. Scroll town and click OK to close the Step Up / Step Down panel.
18. Click Update to save your changes.
Confirming the results in the Let's See charts
The results in the cash flow chart, apart from anything else in your client's plan, should look something like this.
The following details from the Let's See charts show the withdrawal tax free cash at Retirement.
Read more >> about what happens to tax free cash that is not needed, initially, to meet expenses nor scheduled to be saved or invested.
In the year following retirement, the chart details should show two years of initial withdrawals of 20k from the drawdown pension.
After two years (three in total since retirement), the chart details should show a step down to regular income of 10,000 per annum in the years that follow.
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The Managing Directors of BayCross, Paul Enderle and Eric Brown, are also registered representatives of StillPoint Capital, LLC. Through our relationship with StillPoint, we are able to conduct securities related transactions for both private and public companies.
We specialize in raising capital in both the debt and equity markets, as well as providing M&A Services. Our chief mission is to find the very best deal for a company by running a tight, optimized process to attract multiple bidders for either the capital raise or the company sale.


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N. Ward Lambert
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Ward is a shareholder of Harper Lambert, P.A. He concentrates his practice in construction law, including construction litigation, contracts and procurement. He has primarily represented General Contractors, Construction Managers, and Institutional Owners, such as school districts, hospitals, municipalities, and public works commissions. Ward regularly speaks on topics relating to construction litigation, public procurement law and dispute resolution.
- Clemson University, B.S in Chemical Engineering, 1985
- University of South Carolina School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 1990
Bar Admission
- 1990 South Carolina
Court Admissions
- United States District Court, South Carolina
- United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
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- South Carolina Bar Association
- American Bar Association
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- American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry
- South Carolina Bar Construction Law Section
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- Associate Justice of Moot Court Bar, University of South Carolina School of Law
- Best Lawyers in America, Construction Litigation
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― Henry Ford
― Khalil Gibran
Two cards with illustrations that show a lady's hand extending flowers (the first is offering a clutch of pansies, the second a posy of daisies) to the recipient. These were originally used as personal calling cards in Victorian times but you can use them as gift tags, as greeting cards to reach out to someone in love and friendship or as embellishments in journaling and scrapbooking projects. You can download the high-res 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without watermarks here and here.
All digital scans by FieldandGarden.com are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Where possible, please cite FieldandGarden.com as your source when using this work and/or provide a link back to this page.


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I really need Windows, I actually need to simulate "Server environment" and "Client environment", I have 3 notebooks in my household but I'm not sure they came along with "Design for Windows" stickers :)
VirtualBox … very very good piece, incredible actually. But from a official (resp) source, on Debian testing my usb controllers are not working. This is huge huge minus if you ask me. VMware Workstation 6.x is great, everything works, but … I have an issue with them.
Problem with VMware is that, they release their product, and if you're on any "newer" kernel, please note, not latest testing or development branch, but official stable kernel is not supported. That's why they have their "vmware-any-any patch" which is not even their thing, but is written by some "random guy".
I have 3 kernels on this machine. 2.6.18-4, 2.6.18-5 and 2.6.22-2, problem is that VMware will not working with 2.6.22.x even tho latest stable linux kernel is 126.96.36.199. Of course everything worked fine on 2.6.18, but I'm long time of that kernel. Moving back to 2.6.18 was just not an option.
I tried (literally) 1000 "combinations", from different vmware-any-any patch versions, to different compiling methods, to make-vmpkg to 101 and thing, nothing worked. Until today I did this completely random thing and everything worked. So if you're on any distro with >=2.6.22 kernel, do this to make your vmware work.


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An exciting lifestyle and dining complex, WTC Wharf is home to a number of restaurants all with distinct offerings.
For a modern take on Mediterranean and Lebanese cuisine, dine at Byblos Bar & Restaurant. The Wharf Hotel has a fabulous menu and is the perfect destination for drinks with friends. Kobe Jones has an immense teppanyaki table and Japanese menu, whilst Man Mo offers Chinese – Malaysian style cuisine, specialising in fresh seafood. If you are looking to host your own function, River's Edge Events offers a chic and contemporary space with spectacular views of the Yarra River and city surrounds.
Overall the precinct delivers an unprecedented true waterfront dining experience.
Commercial Building – Monday to Friday 8am – 5.30pm
Riverside Dining – Open 7 days a week 11am to late
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Shower doors were installed. These are trackless, bi-fold doors. They open from the center making them convenient for Southpaws and the other handers. The doors are leightweight, but sturdy. Will be so nice to get rid of the icky shower curtain and not have puddles on the floor where people don't pull the curtain to the edges.
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The Internet is a hyper-competitive marketplace, so any Internet marketer worth his salt uses search engine optimization techniques to increase his traffic. People use search engines to find products, new companies, and information. If you want to generate more traffic for your website, use the tips in this article.
When you develop SEO pages, it pays to have lots of shorter pieces on related topics instead of a single long one. Long pages are weighted less highly than short ones by search engines. Additionally, visitors aren't likely to read through articles that are very long.
Keywords that best identify your business should be prominent in your domain name. The website needs to be easily located by anyone who is searching for it. Ads do not give you all of your visitors; some visitors get to your site by looking for products that you might have.
To help you to rank highly on search engines you'll need to take advantage of the meta tags for "Title", "Description", and "Keywords". The content of your meta tags is what helps the search engine categorize your website and determine how to describe your link to searchers. An example of this is a site for eyeglasses: include words like "glasses" as well as "glases."
If you want to be higher up on search engine results, help the web spiders out. Search engines are constantly crawling your site, going through all of your content looking for related terms that tell them what your site is about, and you can make it easier for them to do so. Create a site map, which helps spiders to understand which parts of your site are the most important.
If your goal is to improve your ranking, you must make your site search engine spider-friendly. Search engines are constantly crawling your site, going through all of your content looking for related terms that tell them what your site is about, and you can make it easier for them to do so. You have to stress the important areas of your site by making a site map which lets a web spider get a hold of the hierarchy of your pages.
If you want to be a success, your site needs to draw people in. This will allow you to get repeat customers. SEO is also what will help your search engine rankings.
If you want to raise your search engine ranking, educate yourself on social marketing and look into the free sites that are out there. This includes more than just Facebook, Yelp and Twitter. Many of these sites also cater to specific interest or groups like photography and Christmas. Join the relevant ones and use them to help promote your offerings.
Successful Website
To achieve a higher search ranking for your site, it's essential to use good keywords in your site's title tag. The title tags have more weight than any other words that appear on the page. The best keywords should be used for optimal results.
Look at the source code on the sites of your competitors. This can give you insight on how a successful website operates and help you develop your own successful website. While you might not wish to imitate their methods, this bit of sleuthing can make you think of other keywords and things to try.
Linking to relevant content on reputable websites can help get you improve your search engine ranking. This is a key aspect to successful inking. Relevant links to other websites are more valuable from a SEO perspective than the links that interlink your website. As well, search out opportunities that will also link back to your site; this will help you increase your traffic.
Purchase a simple domain name that is pertinent to your niche and easy to remember. This can make it much easier for visitors who have seen your content on a video sharing site find your website, as it is easier to pronounce and recall.
Be certain that the initial sentence found on your website can also be used as a meta description tag in HTML. Most search engines use the description tag, while others use the first paragraph. If you are not aware of this possibility, you can end up damaging your SEO with poor up-front content.
Market yourself as an expert in a field. It's a very powerful marketing technique. Using proper SEO on a designated niche site is crucial to getting your site and products found in searches. It is important that the customers receive whatever it is they are looking for, not what you assume they need.
Generate more hits on search engines by using plural forms or longer versions of keywords. Keyword stemming is used by many search engines. When you choose the singular of the keyword (e.g. accountant) results for the plural or variations (i.e. accountants, accounting) may not send seekers to your website. Use keyword stemming as an advantage over your competition. Use longer forms of your keyword as well as the main keyword.
Never utilize Flash on a site that you wish to be optimized. Flash typically does not load very fast, and spiders are turned off by this. Search engines need to crawl and see your site in order to make use of SEO.
Ask yourself the question "how would somebody find my site if they were searching for it?" Then ensure that you have multiple uses of these keywords scattered through your site. Keywords should be in the title and in the text. Do not over use them because this can cause your site to be labeled as spam by the search engines
Site Map
If you can reference a current event, and link it to what you are doing, that is great. This is crucial to attracting visitors that have been searching for items that may not be quite relevant to your subject. These related topics will also create additional value for your repeat customers.
A site map for your business site is an important part to any SEO strategy. When you have a site map it makes a search engine spider better at crawling your site. You might need more site maps, if you have a big website. As a rule, try to have no more than 100 links per map.
Make use of the SEO, or search engine optimization, services that are offered by many companies. SEO involves optimizing your site so that it will appear higher in the search results. You can often find great deals on these services.
Make the most of your title tags to ensure that search engines correctly interpret the purpose of your site. Search engines only display 60 characters, so keep it short. Also, anything after sixty characters is given less consideration.
A domain name that is used gives your site a better ranking, so do this if you want to already have a high page rank. Any search engine will give priority to domain names that have been around for over two years. Look around and see if you can grab a domain that fits your site and has been recently abandoned.
Develop a site map as a way of assisting search engines to index your pages. The site map, or navigation bar, lets the search engines access your pages from all other pages on the site. Having a site map could have a significant impact on your website's search rankings, regardless of how few webpages the website has.
Search engines will help increase visitors to your website. If you know how web crawlers work and use this knowledge to your advantage, you can improve your search engine rankings. Spiders are not able to "read" pictures, so put a tag on every image that you include. It is beneficial to use descriptions that are rich in keywords.
Your website should be easy to read. Having a clear, easy to read site with options like fonts that can be enlarged will help your rankings. This is excellent for both your readers with impairments and disabilities, and your search ranking, as well.
The longer a person stays on your website, the higher your Page Rank becomes. You want to keep people on your site as long as possible, and great content will keep them there and bring them back again!
Proofreading is an important part of any website, but it is often forgotten by site owners. Your website needs to be clear and legible. Spell your keywords correctly and avoid obvious grammar mistakes. Otherwise, you risk having search engines lower your site's ranking.
While having a giveaway may be a great people to draw traffic to your site, you need to check local regulations to ensure you are in the clear. You can look at competitor's sites to see how it is they preform their own contests, but do not just copy their ideas and rules verbatim.
Try not to go overboard when it comes to keywords. Try to stick to ten to twelve keywords that really describe your site. The use of analytical tools can assist you with knowing which keyword phrases are driving traffic to your site the most.
Because of variations in search engines, you may achieve good visibility with one search engine, or two, but not all of them at once. Optimal keywords always help, but each search engine, such as Google or Yahoo!, , Ask. com and Bing have their own sorts of nuances.
Try entering the podcast world. Podcasts can be audio or video and sometimes live. Include important and relevant information to make sure your audience is happy with your show! These are very popular nowadays, and you should take advantage of this opportunity. You will then have descriptions of the podcasts show up in search engines.
All of your links, incoming and internal, should use keywords. " as anchor text. This will help the search engines see your links and additional keywords as being relevant, which will get you higher search rankings. Go through your website periodically to ensure that internal links are keyword links also.
The first couple sentences of the beginning paragraph should be able to double as the tag of your HTML meta description. A few search engines look at that content rather than the specific tag when they decide what to list as your site description in their listings. Bad content can hurt your efforts.
If you want to rank higher on the search engines, aim to include content that delves into a wide variety of topics but still remains focused on your overall idea. If you have a football blog, you could offer informative articles about football cards, NFL teams and players. By providing a wide array of articles centered around specific subjects, you increase the likelihood that your site will appear near the top of search results.
While tailoring aspects of your content to search engines is a great idea, it will be humans who ultimately visit your page. It is certainly important to include keywords in your text so that it is picked up by search engine bots, but remember, that these bots have never purchased anything. Your site should be easy to read. If they cannot, your business may fail.
If you utilize link directories, only use legitimate links to websites you trust. Check these links frequently. Many directories have poorly designed or old sites. Always be mindful of which people you use as affiliates.
If you use a shared server, you must ensure that you do not share a proxy with a site that engages in unethical practices or is otherwise banned. Sharing a server with a bad website will lower your rating, and negatively affect your traffic.
Be certain to use keywords in the META tags you use, as they will definitely boost search engine rankings. Use keywords that are relevant for your page content, and also choose popular keywords for internet searches.
Search Engine
Develop a few pages that can be used as gateways to your website. Your site has to be available to search engine spiders. Gateway pages help you pull traffic from everywhere, even from those who have searched for related products or competitors.
Help drive traffic to your website through search engines. The best way to ensure a good flow of traffic from any search engine is to make sure your site is optimized for search engine spiders. Spiders can't see images, so having a descriptive tag on them is important. The information you include should have as many keywords as possible.
If you are managing a business website, encourage the CEO or the owner of the business to become involved online. The CEO is the voice for the entire company, and people want to hear what he has to say.
Successfully optimizing your site for search engines may seem intimidating, but as this article has shown you, it doesn't have to be difficult. Knowing the few basic principles that determine how the search engines work, can help you tweak your site to attract more visitors than ever. Before you know it, you'll have a slew of new customers.
There are some tricks that can help make your site user and search friendly. Bear in mind that you are creating a site that appeals to search engine spiders along with other visitors. So use a friendly format, make things easy to read, skip using annoying fonts and flashing neon distractions and stick to relevant and useful content. These are what the basics are made up of and they mean a lot when it comes to having a site that does well.


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This weekend we get a little break from the weather but it won't last very long. We are already tracking the next major winter storm and it appears it has Central Indiana in its sites. At this point it looks like the track will be just south of the track of last week's winter storm. That winter storm dropped a half inch of snow on Indianapolis on Friday morning along with about 3 tenths of an inch of sleet and ice. Schools were forced to close for the day or at the very least push their start times back two hours.
The next system we are tracking will really come together on Monday. Two areas of low pressure will merge together. One will come from the northwest and will then intensify as it absorbs the energy and moisture from a gulf low coming in from near Texas. The most likely track for this storm will be directly over Indianapolis with places north of the city potentially seeing several inches of snow. Generally in these cases you look for the heaviest snow to set up 75 miles to 100 miles north northwest of the center of the track.
For Indianapolis, residents should begin once again getting ready for another round of winter weather. What will begin as rain on Tuesday will be Tuesday have turned over to all snow. I think the biggest inconvenience will just be another week with winter like weather with no spring warm-up in site anytime soon.


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Game, Net & Match - A Commonwealth Journey
This one-hour observational documentary was Heirloom's first independent commission for BBC Scotland.
Client: BBC Scotland
Game, Net and Match is a documentary following the dramatic story of the Scottish Netball team as they prepare for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2014. This amateur squad made up of policewomen and dentists, teachers and students, who play in their spare time, have to take the court against elite professional athletes from across the globe. Over two years, we follow the stories of the girls who are fighting for a place in the Commonwealth team, and a sport fighting for its very future. And we witness an extraordinary transformation – from despair to hope, from doubt to belief, and a team ready to take on the world and win.
Heirloom Media was commissioned by BBC Scotland to produce this film, which was broadcast on BBC 2 Scotland on July 6th 2014.
"Not to miss"
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6 comments
quintessence says:
LOVE it all - the tassels are fabulous additions. Looking forward to next installment!
Heather Robinson says:
Oh it makes me laugh--here I am all happy to have found your blog only to discover that the comment before mine is from my blog friend, Stacey. Small world isn't it?
I am loving all that you have found so far--lucky ducks, they are going to have one amazing penthouse when you are done with it!
Bon Weekend.
Karena says:
I know your place will ( and I am sure is) be amazing. Everything you are choosing is wonderful!!
Art by Karena
Anzu says:
Topiary and Napoleonic style. Love it - I want the stool!
I thought Malmaison was fantastic when I went, have you been?
mopar says:
Looking fabulous. Very exciting. FYI for the outdoor plants on the roof, pick ones that are wind resistant, and set up an auto watering system. (I speak from experience -- installed a roof top garden for a friend, and it was all dead a month later.)
AlwaysMe says:
You are incredible to see Napoleon in the tasseled stool. My mother had one of those and her taste was so over the top Louis XIV that that is all I can see. It will be fabulous when you are finished.


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In this episode, we dive into the sales process and pitfalls that sales managers can avoid to ensure its effectiveness in their organization.
Bridget Gleason is VP of Sales for Logz.io and my regular guest on Front Line Fridays.
A sales process is subject to iterative improvement. Is it scalable? Do your salespeople have, or need, the skills to handle inbound and outbound? Examine historic sales data, from lead to close. Identify where the process needs change.
Bridget's team receives inbound and makes outbound calls. Outbound is tasked to reach into various departments of the prospect. SDRs help supply the inbound leads.
A Logz.io sale usually starts with the manager of the end user, and it is critical for the account executive to involve other buyer contacts with more authority, to align the sales process with the buying process, from the beginning.
Bridget discusses exit criteria for each stage of the sales process. How does the salesperson shepherd the buyer along the buying process, by inviting legal, security, procurement, and budget contacts to buy in?
Has Logz.io settled on one sales methodology? Bridget talks about her Xerox training and SPIN Selling methodology. She also invokes Sandler training as an example.
What parameters influence the choice of sales methodology? Are there great differences between most sales methodologies?
What about compensation? How do you balance the needs of the company with motivating individuals? How does personal growth opportunity balance direct compensation?
Is compensation the ultimate determining factor of performance motivation? Bridget reveals her opinion.
The Sales Enablement Podcast with Andy Paul was formerly Accelerate! with Andy Paul.


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Questions And Answers
What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
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Provide a written quote.
Review customer's needs. Meet with the customer. Provide quote with terms and conditions. Do the work. Publish work on a secure and private website for the customer.
What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I have a BFA in Photography and Printmaking. I was a full-time faculty member at Florida Institute of Technology teaching photography in 2-year and 4-year Photographic Technology degree programs and specializing in underwater photography in the Marine Science and Oceanographic Technology programs.
I engage in web seminars and participate with local groups involved in the visual arts. When new technology arrives I participate in training and become an early adopter. Technology can make a large difference in the visual arts and how images are used. Being at the cutting edge of technology offers a competitive advantage in the market place.
How did you get started doing this type of work?
I started at age 14 as a newspaper photographer for The Fernandina Beach News Leader. Worked as a stringer for UPI to put myself through college. Worked as a faculty member at Florida Institute of Technology teaching photography in 2-year and 4-year Photographic Technology degree programs. Worked as a creative director at a South Florida ad agency.
What types of customers have you worked with?
Individuals, Advertising Agencies, Magazines, Corporations
Describe a recent project you are fond of. How long did it take?
Photographing indigenous people around the world before they are westernized. On going...Traveled 5 million miles and counting.
What advice would you give a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?
View the website Talk with previous customers Check terms and conditions Confirm pricing look at ownership and © information
What questions should customers think through before talking to professionals about their project?
Exactly what are their needs. How the images will be used. What type of usage rights they require (exclusive, managed rights etc.) Check references.