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Moe is interesting, but in a recent interview I saw, it wouldn't become "Perl that is less messy than Perl", although that had been my first impression when it was first announced.
It would indeed be a really interesting experiment to create something that's compatible with most non-abusive uses of p5, but is better defined and cleaner on the inside.
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In a meeting with the editorial board of The Baltimore Sun, the next Baltimore County schools chief, S. Dallas Dance, said he supports the controversial decision to build a new school in Mays Chapel. The school, he said, is needed to relieve overcrowding.
He said he will never shy away from making unpopular decisions, but that no matter how difficult the decision "it does not give you the right not to listen to people."
Dance will take over on July 1, but he plans to visit the county several times between now and then. He said he is hoping to announce a transition team early next week and to begin advertising for a deputy superintendent by the middle of the next week. Renee Foose, who holds the job now, is leaving to become superintendent of Howard County schools.
Dance said he is hoping to talk former Maryland state superintendent Nancy Grasmick, and William Bosher, a former state superintendent in Virginia, into helping with his transition.
When asked how he views charter schools, he said, he believes most public schools can offer students what charters do. "Unless they are doing something very different, then I don't think there is a need for a charter.

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(OILPRICE) — A consortium minding security issues for journalists working in hostile territory warned that credible reports revealed a threat to oil installations in Libya. Islamists based in Libya were said to have played a role in deadly January attacks on the In Amenas natural gas facility in eastern Algeria. Those attacks were said to be in response to an Algerian decision to let French forces use its airspace to fight al-Qaida supporters in nearby Mali. Now, it seems the threat focus has shifted back to Libya, where the government of Moamar Gadhafi has ended and the new war on terror begins.
The International News Safety Institute said it was alerted by "credible sources'" that terrorist groups may be planning attacks on oil fields in Libya. The warning said it considered Benghazi a likely target given the large number of oil fields in the western port city. INSI's advisory came as the U.S. and British government issued similar warning for citizens remaining in Libya.
"We are aware of a specific, imminent threat to Westerners in Benghazi," a warning from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office read. "We advise against all travel to Benghazi and urge any British nationals who are there against our advice to leave immediately."
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Fresh Eurozone Worries Send Markets Tumbling
The situation in Europe has the markets worried today. At one point, the Dow Jones was down 353 points, while the Standard & Poor's shed 3 percent and the Nasdaq wasn't far behind with a 2.9 percent loss.
What set the market skidding? The Wall Street Journal pins the blame on three things: Worries of a Greek default, the resignation of a European Central Bank board member and worries about President Obama's just-announced jobs plan.
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The increasing possibility of a Greek default sent stocks to fresh session lows. Investors worry that a default is becoming a more likely scenario. The fear of how markets and the global economy would react to such a issues is one of the big issues weighing on investor sentiment.
"People are definitely spooked because you're never quite sure what the secondary effects are going to be," said Ben Halliburton, chief investment officer at Tradition Capital Management. "It's impossible to say until it actually happens."
One analyst Bloomberg spoke to concurs:
"There's that nagging thought that we can continue to have a downward spiral in Europe," James Dunigan, chief investment officer in Philadelphia for PNC Wealth Management, said in a telephone interview. The firm oversees $109 billion. "There's concern of a default, of risk in banks, of a liquidity crisis. In the U.S., even as President Obama made an effort to put that plan together, there's not a whole lot of confidence that Congress will pass."
The euro also had a tough time today, dropping 3.8 percent against the dollar.
Update at 4:51 p.m. ET. Stocks Close Lower:
The Dow, Nasdaq and the S&P closed almost 3 percent down.
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Here comes the reign again.
Let's face it – the future is going to suck. Cataclysmic world wars, corrupt governments, chaos in the streets, horrible economic woes and dilapidated cities brimming with crime; what's there to look forward to?
At least that's the picture computer games like to paint. You never see a
game that indicates that things may have actually gotten better in the future,
that maybe over the course of a few hundred years we've managed to solve some
of the problems we currently foresee. Nope. It's always overpopulation, warring
factions and evil robots.
And so
it goes with Activision's Dark Reign 2. The sequel to the underground
hit Dark Reign, this is a pretty if unspectacular
addition to the current crop of 3D real-time strategy games. And it doesn't
make the future look any brighter.
The plot is the usual cookie-cutter sci-fi. As always, our weak ass Earth is again on the brink of catastrophe due to ecological poisoning and wars. The rich live in domed cities while the poor suffer the irradiation of the outside. The Jovian Detention Authority (JDA), a brutal police force, rules the planet. The only threat to the JDA is the Sprawlers, urban miscreants who live in the toxic, infected cities. As the Earth plummets to its doom, you take on either the JDA or the Sprawlers in a battle for survival. I swear, they must be coming up with these plots using Mad Libs.
Dark Reign 2's most promising feature is its graphics, which are indeed
quite cool. Set in a full 3D world, the game engine allows for some very neat
explosions and nicely defined units. Dynamic lighting and varying weather work
together to create lush, vibrant environments. The camera can be moved just
about anywhere, from the useful slightly above and behind view to the useless
but gorgeous zooms. However, the camera control is not nearly as intuitive or
easy to use as the one in Ground Control, and
occasionally you'll get frustrated trying to get the right view for the situation.
But eventually you'll get the hang of it.
The bulk of the gameplay is standard RTS stuff: build a base, mine resources
(in this case, Taelon, a red crystalline substance), create units and wipe out
the enemy. There are 20 missions in the single player campaign spanning both
sides, and aside from the first few, they're pretty tough. Some are timed while
others are simple wars of attrition; whoever dominates the resources dominates
the map.
The two sides are fairly well balanced, though the JDA possess shield technology
that makes it much easier to conserve men. Rather than ascribing to the Warcraft
model of identical units on each side, the units are quite different for each
side, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.
3D real-time
strategy games can be a bitch to control, what with all the zooming and rotating,
and therefore unit AI becomes a huge factor. Dark Reign 2 features some
nasty pathfinding problems, as occasionally units will take the REALLY long
way around things to get to certain points. Individuals will also make dumb
decisions like forgetting to run away when severely outnumbered. Keeping track
of the dumber units is like babysitting with a mouse and keyboard.
The AI is also a bit weak in terms of how the CPU plays. The missions seem
entirely scripted, meaning it's simply a matter of time before your figure out
where to focus your aggression to win. I prefer when the computer keeps me guessing
by varying its tactics. Dark Reign 2 just doesn't feel as organic as
it should.
The overall production quality is high, with good sound, adequate voice acting and plenty of in engine CGI to keep the story moving. This isn't a rushed game. The multiplayer is decent and can be much more fun than the single player, mainly because human players tend to be more imaginative than the CPU.
Frankly, there ain't a lot new here to report, folks. Dark Reign 2
comes at a strange point in PC strategy gaming when developers are slowly discovering
that simply moving a 2D game to a 3D world doesn't make it revolutionary. It
does, however, make it look really cool, and fans of 3D strategy could do much
worse than Dark Reign 2.


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Your Future Our Clutter
Bury, the second track from the new Fall album is a song in three parts. Or more pertinently the same song played three times. First is a short burst of straight-to-cassette rehearsal room riffs. Second is a recording that may even have had some EQ - punching through the speakers before morphing into its third, fully realised form: a snarling Fall masterpiece.
The evolution of the song, from tape rumble to wide screen stereo, is a metaphor for what Mark E Smith has been living through recently. "The thing about that was, I started the song when I was in a wheelchair and I'd just broken my leg. I was on these bloody German painkillers, so the track moves from me being in a wheelchair, to semi-standing, to standing." As well as providing a glimpse into the recording process Bury rocks like raw fury.
On Your Future Our Clutter, The Fall and Mark E Smith are standing tall with a glint in their eye. The album, like the band's current line–up, is lean and fast. The Fall at their forward moving, bone shaking best. Smith, rarely deluded about the virtues of musicians, can testify to the results audible on the record: "I love this band, it's the best I've ever had, I suppose I would say that but there you are."
Album opener O.F.Y.C Showcase fuses M60 motorik with drag racing riffs as Smith shouts the album's title with delirious intent. A few bars in and the sound of white heat in the studio is palpable.
Hot Cake, Chino, and Funnel of Love are all recent highlights of the band's live shows; taut and spare, stretched and pummelled into shape by Eleni Poulou's keyboard distortions and interventions.
Smith has famously called The Fall country 'n' northern. Cowboy George is Morricone 'n' northern. Twanging guitars leave trails in the dust as peyote shamen make an appearance in the saloon bar. That at any rate is the disorienting effect of hearing Smith's narration of "a story I was told / of unseen knowledge, unseen hills, unseen footage, and unseen facts."
At nearly eight minutes long Y.F.O.C. / Slippy Floor is a contemporary Fall epic. After two minutes of Smith, bass and drums, the band at their most hotwired and raucous, escalate into mangled euphoria. And, once hell has officially broken loose, decide to stop. Then a dissolve into tape hisses, answering machine spectres and tapping hands.
Your Future Our Clutter concludes with Weather Report 2. Smith, revisiting the voice he used to such effect on Extricate's Bill is Dead, sings with mournful tenderness. It's hard not to associate the lyrics with Smith's recent spell of wheelchair bound incapacitation: "I watched Murder She Wrote, at least five times / The cast deserved to die."
In the unlikely event that Smith was after any sympathy, it would be for having to put up with daytime TV and nothing else. Slowly mutating into a dark electronic pulse, the sound is stately and eerie, echoing Smith's observation that "The whirlpools grow wider and wider". As the pulses start to quicken and blow fuses, Smith leans in close to the microphone and delivers a whispered coda: "You don't deserve rock 'n' roll"
If there is a hint of mortality on Your Future Our Clutter it's being dealt with by whipping up a white knuckle storm. Into their next decade with the same intensity they started The Fall are once again at their most rampant. You can keep your Gene Vincent, Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the one and only Mark E Smith and The mighty Fall.
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At least some content in this article is derived from information featured in the latest update of Pottermore. As such, spoilers will be present within the article. Please take care when reading this article if you have not yet been through the latest update.
- "If you seek integrity, search first among the poplars."
- —Gerbold Ollivander's maxim.[src]
Gerbold Octavius Ollivander (fl 19th century) was a wandmaker who came from a long line of wizards who began selling wands in London in 382 B.C. He was the father of Gervaise Ollivander, and, through him, the paternal grandfather of Garrick Ollivander.[1]
Early life
Gerbold Octavius was born in or prior the nineteenth century, somewhere in Great Britain. He was born into the wizarding Ollivander family, who had been in the wand-making business since 382 B.C.[1]
Career as a wandmaker
- "My august grandfather, Gerbold Octavius Ollivander, always called wands of [fir] 'the survivor's wand,' because he had sold it to three wizards who subsequently passed through mortal peril unscathed."
- —Garrick Ollivander.[src]
Gerbold took up the family business in London, studying further into wandlore and becoming an accomplished wandmaker.[1]
Gerbold believed that fir produced "the survivor's wand", as he had sold wands of this wood to three different wizards, each of whom found himself in mortal danger and came out unharmed. He was also fond of saying, "If you seek integrity, search first among the poplars," which his grandson Garrick found correct based on his own experience with poplar wands and their owners.[1]
During the nineteenth century, at a time when wands made of silver lime were in vogue, the wandmaker Arturo Cephalopos claimed that the wood's reputed connection with powers of Divination was "a falsehood circulated by merchants like Gerbold Ollivander, who have overstocked their workshops with silver lime and hope to shift their surplus". According to Gerbold's grandson Garrick, however, Cephalopos was "an ignoramus" who predictably went out of business.[1]
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I have to be honest and I say that until now, I still think what could have happened to my career if I did not leave the corporate world about ten years ago. Sure I was given a chance to be my own boss after that but plans fell through. If I did not quit, I've probably climbed the ranks and I am already offered management jobs, here or abroad. That would have been nice huh?
These are just thoughts alright.
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Host Ben Bailey is back for a fourth season, picking up unsuspecting contestants on the streets of New York City and giving them a chance to win big money on the way to their destination. New this season, random contestants are given the opportunity to double their winnings in the "double ride" portion of the show.
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Eckhart Tolle's first bestseller, The Power of Now, has riveted readers with its enlightened insights…
Staying in the present moment, he says in that book, is the way to eliminate the suffering created through identifying with the mind. In his latest book, A New Earth, Tolle continues his theme of present moment awareness, elaborating on it with his unique clarity and depth, and he also explores how an awakened consciousness aligns us with our life purpose. We have both an inner and an outer purpose, according to Tolle. Our outer purpose changes with circumstances and necessarily involves time, whereas our inner purpose remains always the same: It is to be absolutely present in whatever we do and so let our actions be guided and empowered by awareness, the awakened consciousness, rather than controlled by the egoic mind. We fulfill our destiny and realize our purpose when we awaken to who we are: conscious Presence.
Tolle has taken the essence of spiritual wisdom from such great teachers as Jesus and Buddha, and put this wisdom into meaningful expression for today, just as Ernest Holmes has done through his formulation of a Science of Mind and Spirit. When Holmes says of spiritual mind treatment that it is "clearing the thought of negation, of doubt and fear, and causing it to perceive the ever-presence of God," he is gleaning the same wisdom from ancient teachings that Tolle has also done in his books. Now, with A New Earth, he makes this key to enlightenment—being fully conscious in this very moment—real and alive for us in today's words and for today's world. His book title comes from the biblical passage in Revelation promising a new heaven and a new earth. It is a metaphor for the state of conscious awareness of infinite being (heaven), which continually comes forth in a new way into new form (earth). Because his meaning goes beyond an intellectual grasp, Tolle's ideas ask for contemplation. They are more to be opened up to than studied. "Words are only pointers," he says. "What is being communicated lies beyond words, but we can use them to go at least in the direction of what is meant and that is helpful."
SOM: In your vision of a new earth, the purpose of life involves what you call awakened doing. What do you mean by this?
Tolle: Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is Life itself, it is an insane way to live.
In awakened doing there is complete internal alignment with the present moment and whatever you are doing right now. The doing is then not primarily a means to an end, but an opening for consciousness to come into this world. Aligning yourself with the Now is aligning yourself with universal purpose, the purpose of the whole. What is the purpose of the whole? The birth and flowering of consciousness. The whole then guides you in whatever you think or do.
As I explain in A New Earth, awakened doing has three modalities, depending on circumstances and the nature of the activity. They are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. If there is neither acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm in what you do, you are out of alignment with universal purpose. You are creating unhappiness, that is to say suffering in one form or another. One way of defining the ego is simply this: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment. What I refer to as the "new earth"—the outer forms created by awakened doing—arises as more people realize that their purpose is to allow consciousness to emerge through whatever they do.
SOM: Do you believe that humanity is ready for this transformation?
Tolle: Yes. I see signs that it is already happening. For the first time there is a large scale awakening on our planet. Why now? Because if there is no change in human consciousness now, we will destroy ourselves and perhaps the planet. The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now. Without considering the Eastern world, my estimate is that at this time about ten percent of people in North America are already awakening. That makes thirty million Americans alone, and in addition to those people in other North American countries, about ten percent of the population of Western European countries are also awakening. This is probably enough of a critical mass to bring about a new earth. So the transformation of consciousness is truly happening even though they won't be reporting it on tonight's news. Is it happening fast enough? I am hopeful about humanity's future, much more so now than when I wrote The Power of Now. In fact that is why I wrote that book. I really wasn't sure that humanity was going to survive. Now I feel differently. I see many reasons to be hopeful.
SOM: You say in your new book that for humanity to make this transformation, there needs to be a shift from object consciousness to space consciousness. Can you explain more about that?
Tolle: Yes. I am saying that I see the emergence of space consciousness as the next stage in the evolution of humanity. By space consciousness I mean that in addition to our being fully conscious of things—that is to say of sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions, and whatever happens in our lives—there is at the same time an undercurrent of awareness or Presence operating in us. Awareness implies that we are not only conscious of things, such as the objects and the people around us, but we are also conscious at the same time of being conscious. Conscious of the timeless I AM without which there would be no world. We can sense an inner alert stillness in the background while things happen in the foreground. That is the unconditioned. That is true intelligence. If there is only object consciousness in our lives, we remain trapped in the conditioned, trapped in form, which creates an appearance of separation. We are always trying to change the form or are resisting it in some way. We are looking to the world of form for salvation. But when we are aware of space consciousness, aware of being aware, we are freed from identification with form, which is ego, and there arises within us a sense of oneness with the whole and with our Source.
SOM: So attachment and struggle are released.
Tolle: That's right, because in space consciousness there is no future and no past. There is only the present, and it is always free. This is what the Buddhists call "emptiness" and Jesus calls "the fullness of life." It is the same thing, or rather no-thing. Because it is an opening into the vertical dimension, which has no limit, the present is never confining or fraught with problems. Problems need time, that is to say past and future, to survive. On the other hand, if we let our focus drift back to the past or forward to the future, we are functioning in the horizontal dimension, and this results in an expanded differentiation of forms deriving from ego constructs. Entering the vertical dimension requires a high degree of Presence. The Now needs to be the main focus of our attention. Of course, we need the concept of time in order to function, for example, to schedule this interview. But the point is not to be limited to that dimension alone. The arising of space consciousness—a shift to vertical rather than horizontal awareness—is the next stage in the evolution of humanity, and it's happening more and more as our awareness remains in the now moment.
SOM: Can you suggest some ways to stay focused in the now?
Tolle: One thing we can do is to notice the little things all around us, paying attention to details such as the birds in the trees and the flowers in the garden or the park—just notice the beauty everywhere, even the smallest things. To notice seemingly insignificant things requires alertness. That alertness is the key. It is the unconditioned. It is consciousness itself. Another helpful practice is to watch the breath, and breathe consciously. If we are paying attention to our breath, we cannot be thinking of anything else at the same time. Our attention is in the now moment and not on our worries about yesterday or our plans for what we will do next week. We are just breathing, not thinking. Because the practice of breath meditation takes us out of the activity of thought, it is an effective way to awaken. In fact, breath, because it has no form as such, has traditionally been equated with spirit, the formless One Life. In the German language, the word atmen, meaning "breathing," is derived from atman, which in Sanskrit, the language of ancient India , refers to the innermost essence or universal self.
SOM: Why is it a desirable practice to free the mind from thinking?
Tolle: Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. When the ego is in control, these states of mind appear to us to be justified and also to be caused by some external factor. Usually another person is blamed for these feelings. Their true cause, however, is not to be found in the content of your life, but in the very structure of the egoic mind. It needs enemies because it defines its identity through separation, and so it emphasizes the other-ness of others. For this reason, letting the ego be in control leads ultimately to violence, fighting, and war. This is madness, but the ego doesn't see it that way.
The film A Beautiful Mind does a good job of depicting how the mind can delude us if we are not aware that it is controlling us. It's the true story of a man who is a genius but he's also insane. The audience doesn't know that he's insane until he himself realizes it as the story unfolds. The film makes the point that when you become aware that you are insane, you are no longer insane. So when you become aware of your mind, you are not identified with your mind anymore. A new dimension of consciousness has come in. The madness is caused by thinking without awareness, and thinking without awareness is how the ego keeps us in its grip.
SOM: Are you suggesting that we just change the content of our thoughts away from negativity or rather that we cease the activity of thinking?
Tolle: Positive thinking is certainly preferable to negative thinking. But to be in the consciousness of the now moment and to practice awareness of the divine Presence is what Jesus means in his Sermon on the Mount when he says, "Take no thought for your life." From this state of Being comes great creativity. "Change your thinking" can really be understood as telling us to cease the constant busy activity of the mind, which is repetitive, futile, and often negative. Instead of constantly thinking, we become still and quiet, and we become conscious of being conscious. This is the realization of I AM, the realization of Being, our essence identity. When we are rooted in that, thinking becomes the servant of awareness, rather than a self- (ego) serving activity. It becomes creative, empowered.
SOM: You talk in your book about the pain-body, both personal and collective. What do you mean by the pain-body?
Tolle: The pain-body is my term for the accumulation of old emotional pain that almost all people carry in their energy field. I see it as a semi-autonomous psychic entity. It consists of negative emotions that were not faced, accepted, and then let go in the moment they arose. These negative emotions leave a residue of emotional pain, which is stored in the cells of the body. There is also a collective human pain-body containing the pain suffered by countless human beings throughout history. The pain-body has a dormant stage and an active stage. Periodically it becomes activated, and when it does, it seeks more suffering to feed on. If you are not absolutely present, it takes over your mind and feeds on negative thinking as well as negative experiences such as drama in relationships. This is how it has been perpetuating itself throughout human history. Another way of describing the pain-body is this: the addiction to unhappiness.
SOM: Can you suggest a way to eliminate the pain-body?
Tolle: Yes. We release it by cutting the link between the pain-body and our thought processes, so that we no longer feed the pain-body with our thinking. Every negative thought has a similar frequency to the pain-body and so feeds it. It cannot feed on positive thoughts. When the pain-body no longer runs the internal dialogue of our compulsive thinking, we become aware of it directly. We feel the emotion in our body, and so we bring awareness to it, the light of consciousness. The old emotion is then transmuted into consciousness in the same way that a fire transmutes everything into itself. So disidentification from the emotion and just being in the now moment is the way to stop the cycle of constantly recreating painful experiences.
SOM: Fear seems to lie behind most negative emotions. How can it be released? You speak about a process of disidentification. How does it work?
Tolle: Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom.
Every fearful thought is about future, is about something that could or may happen. Most people are familiar with the "mental movies" that cause stress and anxiety and keep you awake at night, while your body lies in a warm and comfortable bed. The moment you recognize a fearful thought for what it is, that is to say futile and self-destructive mind activity, you begin to disidentify from it. Awareness or Presence then takes over from thinking. I am not saying that you don't think anymore, just that you no longer confuse it with who you are. Thinking becomes rooted in awareness rather than being autonomous and self-serving, which is the ego.
Every pain-body contains a great deal of fear, since fear is the primordial negative emotion. How do we deal with that? Here again, you recognize it for what it is: the pain-body, an accumulation of old emotion. Once you recognize it, it cannot take over your mind, feed on your negative thoughts, and control your internal dialogue as well as what you say and do. Once the pain-body has come up, don't fight or resist it. It is part of the "isness" of the present moment with which you always need to be in inner alignment. So you allow it to be there. If you don't feed it anymore, it loses its energy charge and the negative emotion undergoes transmutation.
SOM: You speak in your book of the ego's incessant wanting and its insatiable need for more. Wouldn't certain things we want be considered worthwhile, though, such as wanting to become a better person?
Tolle: The desire to become a better person is usually to do with wanting to improve how I feel about myself, how I see myself, or how I am seen by others. It is to do with mental image-making, that is to say, ego. That includes, of course, wanting to become enlightened or more spiritual. Awakening or spiritual realization is the discovery that you don't need to add anything to yourself in order to be yourself fully. You don't need to try to become good, but allow the goodness that is within you, inherent in Being and inseparable from who you are, to emerge.
SOM: You say that as people awaken to their true self and their life purpose, a new earth is created. What is this new earth like?
Tolle: I don't want to speculate about the characteristics of the new earth, but whatever it is, it will be an outer manifestation of the new heaven, the inner realm of consciousness. It will arise out of the awakened consciousness that is unconditioned and free from the illusions of ego. Hints of what the new earth will be like are found in the Bible, where it says, for example, that "the wolf shall dwell with the lamb …." One way of understanding this is that what we perceive as external reality is one with and a reflection of collective human consciousness, so a change in consciousness will change not only the world we create, but our entire way of perceiving reality.
As human beings awaken from the dream of identification with form, consciousness can begin to create form without losing itself in it. The true essence of who each of us is, is being realized. The coming of a new heaven and a new earth, predicted both in the Old and the New Testaments, is an apt metaphor for this shift in consciousness. This shift, however, is not a future state to be achieved or even believed in. A new heaven and a new earth are arising within each of us at this moment. So awakening to your life's purpose is not to try to look to the future and expect fulfillment there but to stay in the moment, allowing the ego to dissolve. Your life's inner purpose is primary, and your inner purpose is to awaken, to be conscious. In whatever you do, your state of consciousness is the primary factor.
Source: Eckhart Tolle


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Gossip-hoarding TMZ has it on good authority that Saturday Night Live cancelled a sketch last week that featured Lindsay Lohan and Jon Hamm as Marilyn Monroe and JFK, who both visit Andy Samberg's Rick Santorum and tell him — we assume with a hilarious deadpan — that Monroe was put on birth control she obtained through Medicaid. Rick Santorum subsequently vomits uncontrollably. End scene.
Though the sketch apparently made it through rehearsals, TMZ reports that it was cut at the last minute due to "time constraints," which means that Jon Hamm's Kennedy accent was either so terrible (Lohan could probably do a great Marilyn Monroe) that it would have dimmed his star forever, or Andy Samberg actually vomited from disgust at having to momentarily inhabit the Old Testament-addled mind of Rick Santorum. The Atlantic's Seth Abramovitch also suggests that the sketch might have been deemed "too controversial in light of the growing Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke controversy," but it's hard to imagine that some peripheral controversy about Limbaugh being a dick-head prevented Jon Hamm and Lindsay Lohan from giving us an awesome sketch. Even if the sketch was deemed so terrible the public could never see it, it would probably have been better than most of the other crap SNL treated us to last week.
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Canadian synth-rock-heroes Metric are coming back to the UK to play some shows to promote their fifth, full-length studio album Synthetica.
This is what the cover of the record looks like:
About the cover, Emily Haines says:
"We wanted the artwork for Synthetica to be thought provoking and a little disorienting, an optical illusion which asks you to stop for a moment and consider what you are looking at. We were very influenced by images from the Radical architecture movement of the 1960s"
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- Synthetica, Haines explains "...is about being able to identify the original in a long line of reproductions. It's about what is real vs what is artificial."
- The first single from the album is out on May 1st, and is a song called 'Youth Without Youth' (yes, that is also the name of a Francis Ford Coppola movie), which according to the press release is a song that 'tackles the topic of a fraying social state with bristling energy and lyrical complexity, spearheaded by a characteristically driving rhythm.'
- The album was recorded at their own Giant Studios in Toronto and at Electric Lady Studios in NYC, where it was mixed by long-time collaborator, John O'Mahony.
- Liam O'Neill from The Stills and Eight and a Half (who play the DiS stage at Great Escape!), also worked in the studio with the band.
- as part of the 2 month countdown, fans will be able to hear the whole album, but not all in one go. If you head over to ilovemetric.com now you can experience "Reflections of Synthetica"
- We've heard the record and it's a triumphant blast of shattered disco balls and soaring guitars. There are some killer hooks and gorgeous synth textures. Basically, it's the Metric we all know and love, evolved a little more, but not too much.
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Since its formation in 1973 the Royal Northern College of Music has established itself as one of the principal international conservatories in Europe. Today a truly cosmopolitan 500-plus students are prepared each year for professional careers in music by distinguished international staff. The standing which the RNCM has achieved is reflected in a number of ways: it has one of the finest and most consistent records of student success in major national and international music competitions; its graduates have a formidable reputation in the music profession and are to be found in opera houses and orchestras throughout Europe. Student ensembles also undertake a number of overseas tours each year. In 1994/95, for example, Music Theatre pieces were presented at the 1995 UK/LA Festival in Los Angeles, the Symphony Orchestra undertook a Scandinavian tour conducted by Ole Schmidt and took part in the Montepulciano Festival in Italy, the Chamber Orchestra made its annual visit to Aix en-Provence Musique Festival in France, and the Wind Orchestra made a highly successful tour of Japan.


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A light heavyweight matchup originally expected to take place at this past August's UFC 133 event will now take place at UFC 141, as Alexander Gustafsson (12-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) meets Vladimir Matyushenko (25-5 MMA, 7-3 UFC).
UFC officials on Wednesday evening announced the matchup.
Featuring a heavyweight headliner between former UFC champion Brock Lesnar and former Strikeforce titleholder Alistair Overeem, UFC 141 takes place Dec. 30 at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena.
It's currently unclear if the bout will feature on the evening's pay-per-view main card.
Gustafsson returns to action for the first time since TKOing Matt Hamill into retirement when "The Hammer" stepped in for an injured Matyushenko at UFC 133. Prior to that win, the 24-year-old Swedish prospect posted back-to-back submission victories (over Cyrille Diabate and James Te Huna). His lone career loss came to unbeaten contender Phil Davis at UFC 112, which followed a KO win over Jared Hamann in his late-2009 octagon debut.
Meanwhile, Matyushenko looks to build on the strength of an impressive victory notched earlier this year. "The Janitor" needed just 20 seconds to drop Jason Brilz at April's UFC 129 event, a result that lasted just four seconds more than a 1998 win over the infamous Anthony Macias. With a 4-1 in mark in his current UFC stint, Matyushenko has won five of his past six overall outings.
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Chuckii Booker is one of those artists whose intricate history is equal to the seeming few who have a strong knowledge of him. He was perhaps better known as the musical director,producer and opening act for Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation tour at only 23-24 years old. His talents as multi talented singer/songwriter/producer/multi instrumentalist got him signed as a solo artist to Atlantic in 1988. Not because of his original talents as primarily a bass player. But because execs accidentally listened to the other side of the demo tape that featured his vocals.
If funk/soul music had followed a totally straight line in the late 80's/early 90's,Chuckii Booker would likely have been the intermediary step between Prince and D'Angelo. After a couple Top 10 R&B smashes,Booker became regarded as a producer. In that respect touching on the work of artists ranging from Vanessa Williams,his godfather Barry White and EWF alumni Phillip Bailey. It took me a couple decades to go out and pick up Booker's two solo CD's. One of them (and his final one to date) was 1992's Niice 'N Wiild. One of the songs that's really gotten my attention off of it is called "I Git Around".
After a brief moment of party dialog,the main groove of the song sets in. This is a pounding drum machine that hits a very strong,electrified snare drum sound on the second beat. Along with that are two bass lines. One is a pulsing synth bass,the other is "possibly" a live one playing a "duck face" funky wiggle. Booker brings explosive synth strings,horn lines providing a strong "video game" sound along with the bluesy accents of the chorus. Not to mention a chromatic piano walk down playing in and out throughout the song. Just before the song fades,Booker brings in a tough chicken scratch guitar.
The new jack swing style could (and often was) made extremely generic by many in its commercial heyday. Yet Chuckii Booker used this song (along with many of his others) to point out the sub genres roots in 80's funk. And even with the mildly new jack friendly rhythm,the instrumental toughness and electronic flamboyance is straight up P-Funk. Everything from the instrumentation to the lyric is pretty much a direct extension of George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" from a decade before it. Makes one wonder how different 90's uptempo music might've been had it followed this ultra funky model.


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Notes & Outlines DANIEL "By Dr. J. Vernon McGee © Thru the Bible Radio Network,http://www.ttb.org. "
(Audio index:MCGEECOMMENTARYAUDIO Daniel )
BACKGROUND: The Book of Daniel has been the battlefield between conservative and liberal scholars for years. The heat of battle is now past — with each side claiming a major victory. However, the very fact that the Book of Daniel remains intact in Scripture and that the early dating of this book (the 6th century B.C.) has been maintained successfully by conservative scholars against the massed onslaught of arrogant liberalism, is in itself a valid argument for the original and conservative position. Porphyry, a heretic in the 3rd century A.D., declared that the Book of Daniel was a forgery, written during the time of Antiochus Epiphanes and the Maccabees (170 B.C.) — almost 400 years after Daniel had lived. The German critics seized upon this hypothesis and, along with Dr. S. R. Driver, developed it. These critics, as well as present-day unbelievers, assume the premise that the supernatural does not exist, hence there can be no foretelling since foreknowledge is supernatural. However, the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament written prior to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, contains the Book of Daniel! Also, Josephus records an incident during the time of Alexander the Great which supports the early authorship. When Alexander's invasion reached the Near East, Jaddua, the high priest, went out to meet him and showed to him a copy of the Book of Daniel in which he was clearly mentioned. Alexander was so impressed by this that instead of destroying Jerusalem, he entered the city peaceably and worshiped at the temple. It is not in the purview of these brief notes to enter into useless argument and fight again about that which has been already won. We accept the findings of conservative scholarship — that the man Daniel was not a deceiver and that his book was not a forgery. We feel that the statement of Edward B. Pusey is apropos here: "The rest which has been said is mostly mere insolent assumptions against Scripture, grounded on unbelief." Sir Isaac Newton declared, "To reject Daniel is to reject the Christian religion." Our Lord called the Pharisees "hypocrites," but He called Daniel "the prophet." He has never reversed this arrangement, and the endorsement of the Lord Jesus Christ is valid and sufficient for every believer whether or not he has examined the arguments of the critics. It satisfies the sincere saint without his having studied the answers of conservative scholarship (see kjv@Hebrews:11:33).
WRITER: We know more of Daniel the man than we do of any other prophet. He gave us a personal account of his life from the time he was carried captive to Babylon in the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, which was about 606 B.C. kjv@Daniel:1:1), until the first year of King Cyrus, which was about 536 B.C. kjv@Daniel:1:21 and also 9:2). Daniel's life and ministry bridged the entire 70 years of captivity. At the beginning of the book he is a boy in his teens, and at the end he is an old man of fourscore or more years. Here is God's estimate of the man: "O Daniel, a man greatly beloved" kjv@Daniel:10:11). There are three words that characterize Daniel's life: purpose, prayer, and prophecy.
(1) Daniel was a man of purpose kjv@Daniel:1:8 kjv@Daniel:6:10). He determined that he would not be defiled by the immorality of paganism or be involved in the degradation of idolatry. This is the practical teaching of prophecy. The study of prophecy should not lead to fanaticism or sensationalism. Rather, it should lead to a life of holiness and fear of the Lord. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure. ( kjv@1John:3:3)
(2) Daniel was a man of prayer kjv@Daniel:2:17-23 kjv@Daniel:6:10 kjv@Daniel:9:3-19; kjv@Daniel:9:10). His total life and his every decision in a pagan court were paved by prayer. The study of prophecy should not be engaged in for the satisfaction of curiosity or to be grist for polemic argumentation. Instead, it should inspire us to spiritual living and an earnest study of the Word of God.
(3) Daniel was a man of prophecy. The bulk of his book relates to prophetic themes. Our Lord labeled him, "Daniel the prophet" kjv@Matthew:24:15).
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. ( kjv@2Peter:1:20) Daniel gave us the skeleton of prophecy on which all prophecy is placed. The image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream ( kjv@Daniel:2) and the beasts ( kjv@Daniel:7) are the backbone of prophecy; the seventy weeks ( kjv@Daniel:9) are the ribs which fit into their proper place. The study of prophecy should not lead to idle speculation or wild theories. On the contrary, it produces a practical, profitable, plenary, and purposeful life. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. ( kjv@2Timothy:3:16-17)
DATE: As previously indicated, we hold to the early date of the Book of Daniel — between the third year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, about 606 B.C. and the first year of Cyrus, about 536 B.C.
HIS MESSAGE: Daniel was the prophet of "the times of the Gentiles" (see kjv@Luke:21:24). The major portion of his prophecies were directly concerned with the gentile nations. The notable exception is kjv@Daniel:9, which concerns the seventy weeks, but here the emphasis is upon the interval after the cutting off of the Messiah between the 69th week and the 70th week. It is during this period that the city and sanctuary are destroyed, and "the times of the Gentiles" are identified as the time when "Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles" kjv@Luke:21:24). Evidently, the "wise men from the east" knew the prophecy of Daniel. A portion of the Book of Daniel was written in Aramaic, the language of the Gentiles of that day. All this does not imply that the Book of Daniel was not written for the nation Israel; on the contrary, Israel was acquainted with the prophecies of Daniel in his day. Ezekiel, who was with the captives, made reference to the character of Daniel and to his office as a prophet kjv@Ezekiel:14:14 kjv@Ezekiel:14:20 kjv@Ezekiel:28:3). By the way, this reference to Daniel by Ezekiel, who was Daniel's contemporary, is conclusive evidence against the theory that this book belongs to the Maccabean period.
THEME: And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. kjv@Daniel:2:44) Dr. G. Campbell Morgan gave this theme: "Persistent Government of God in the Government of the World." This is the book of the universal sovereignty of God. Prophecy is interwoven with history to show that God is overruling the idolatry, blasphemy, self-will, and intolerance of the Gentiles. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. kjv@Daniel:12:4) More specifically, kjv@Daniel:12:4 brings together "the times of the Gentiles" and "the time of the end" for the nation Israel in the Great Tribulation. This coming crisis eventuates in Christ setting up the Millennial Kingdom. Daniel dealt with political issues apart from ecclesiastical matters. His book gives the final outcome of events and issues that are at work in the world today and answers the question, "Who will rule the world?" — not "How will the world be converted?" Our Lord, in the Olivet Discourse, quoted only from the Book of Daniel. The Book of Revelation is largely an enigma without the Book of Daniel. Paul's revelation concerning "the man of sin" needs Daniel's account for amplification and clarification.
I. The historic night with prophetic light, kjv@Daniel:1—6
A. Decline of Judah; fall of Jerusalem; Daniel taken captive to Babylon; his decision to be true to God, kjv@Daniel:1
Dream of Nebuchadnezzar about a multimetallic image; interpretation by Daniel concerning the four kingdoms of "the times of the Gentiles,"
B. kjv@Daniel:2 Decree of Nebuchadnezzar to enforce universal idolatry; three Hebrews cast into the furnace for refusal to bow to image of gold,
C. kjv@Daniel:3 Dream of Nebuchadnezzar about a great tree hewn down to a stump; fulfilled in subsequent period of madness of the king, D. kjv@Daniel:4 Downfall of Babylon foretold by Daniel as he read the handwriting on the wall at the feast of Belshazzar, E. kjv@Daniel:5 Decree of Darius, the Median, to enforce worship of himself; F. Daniel cast into den of lions for praying to the God of heaven, kjv@Daniel:6
II. The prophetic light in the historic night, kjv@Daniel:7—12
A. Daniel's vision of four beasts concerning four kingdoms of "the times of the Gentiles," kjv@Daniel:7
B. Daniel's vision of ram and he goat and another little horn, kjv@Daniel:8
C. Daniel's vision of seventy weeks concerning the nation Israel, kjv@Daniel:9
D. Daniel's vision relating to Israel in immediate future and latter days; historical little horn and little horn of the latter days, kjv@Daniel:10—12
1. Preparation for vision by prayer of Daniel; appearance of a heavenly messenger, kjv@Daniel:10 2. Prophecy concerning Persia and Grecia, historical "little horn"; eschatological "little horn," kjv@Daniel:11 3. Preview of Israel in latter days; Great Tribulation; resurrections; rewards; final word about the end times, kjv@Daniel:12
The Old Testament is written in the Hebrew language, with but one exception — a portion of the Book of Daniel. From kjv@Daniel:2:4, through kjv@Daniel:7, Daniel is in Aramaic, the Gentile and diplomatic language of Daniel's day. This section deals exclusively with "the times of the Gentiles." The remainder of the book correlates the nation Israel with this program. The Book of Daniel deals with Gentiles and Jews — the church is totally excluded. This book is first to the Gentiles but also to the Jews.
kjv@Daniel:1 — Daniel was given a heathen name, but he refused to adopt heathen customs. He lived during the entire period of the seventy years of Babylonian captivity (compare kjv@Daniel:1:1-2 with kjv@Daniel:1:21). He bridged the gap of the entire period. He was God's prophet in a pagan court. Part of the Book of Daniel is written in Aramaic ( kjv@Daniel:1:2:4 to kjv@Daniel:7:28).
The Book of Daniel probably should be divided at three God-given breaks:
1. Personal history of Daniel, kjv@Daniel:1:1—2:3 2. Prophetic history of Daniel relating to gentile nations, kjv@Daniel:2:4—7:28 3. Prophecies relating to the nation Israel, kjv@Daniel:8:1—12:13
kjv@Daniel:2 and kjv@Daniel:7 — These two chapters cover the same chronological period, "the times of the Gentiles," and the identical subjects — the four nations which are the only world powers during this period. These are identified as Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Image ( kjv@Daniel:2) Head of gold Arms of silver Sides of brass Legs of iron and feet of iron and clay Beasts ( kjv@Daniel:7) Lion Bear Panther (Leopard) Composite beast Nations Designated Babylon Media-Persia Greece (Graeco-Macedonian) Rome
More attention is given to the last metal and the last beast than all the others put together. It is still of chief concern in our day. The first three metals and beasts are historical. They have been poured into the mold of the deep freeze of history. The Roman Empire is to continue until the time it is destroyed by the stone cut out without hands (2:34). There is no fifth beast. Nothing follows Rome. Rome is in existence in the present day. It did not die or disappear. Rome, like Humpty Dumpty, had a great fall. All the king's horses and king's men could not put it back together again. All it needs is a leader capable of bringing together all of its divergent parts. There is coming a little horn, the man of sin, Satan's masterpiece, who will accomplish this Herculean task.
kjv@Daniel:3 — The excessive pride of Nebuchadnezzar is discovered here, which was one of the symptoms of his insanity. The three Hebrew children refused to worship the image in keeping with the 1st and 2nd commandments: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. kjv@Exodus:20:3-6) This image is evidently a picture of the abomination of desolation which will appear in the midst of the Great Tribulation Period. When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whosoever readeth, let him understand). kjv@Matthew:24:15) Note the emphasis on worldly music accompanying the worship kjv@Daniel:3:15), which appeals to the natural man. The deliverance of the children of Israel from the fiery furnace is a picture of God's deliverance of Israel in the Great Tribulation Period.
kjv@Daniel:4 — The insanity of Nebuchadnezzar was evidently what modern psychology labels hysteria. This runs in cycles. This chapter reveals the character of gentile rulership of this world ( kjv@Daniel:4:17).
kjv@Daniel:5 — The banquet of Belshazzar is a foregleam of the manner in which the times of the Gentiles will end. They go out in a blaze of human glory. Daniel's interpretation of the handwriting on the wall is God's estimation of the entire period of the Gentiles and their final judgment kjv@Matthew:25:31-46).
kjv@Daniel:6 — Daniel cast in the den of lions and his subsequent deliverance and exaltation is another premier of God's preservation of the remnant during the Great Tribulation when they shall be hated by all nations kjv@Matthew:24:9) and persecuted by the devil who will seek to destroy them kjv@Revelation:12:13-17). But they will be miraculously preserved by God kjv@Revelation:7:4-8).
kjv@Daniel:7 — Daniel's vision of four beasts concerning four kingdoms of the "times of the Gentiles" (see kjv@Daniel:2).
kjv@Daniel:8 — This prophecy of the ram with two unmatched horns and the he-goat with one horn places a microscope down on the conflict between the 2nd and 3rd world empires in the struggle of East and West, Orient and Occident, Asia and Europe. This struggle had tremendous repercussions in the nation Israel, and there is given here a "little horn" which was fulfilled in Antiochus Epiphanes (170 B.C.), the great persecutor of the Jews, called "the Nero of Jewish history." He slaughtered Israelites like animals and offered a sow on the altar in the temple and poured the broth on the holy places. He is known as "the great profaner."
kjv@Daniel:9 — The 70-year captivity predicted by Jeremiah kjv@Jeremiah:25:11-12) was coming to an end (from 606 B.C. to the Decree of Cyrus in 536 B.C. — kjv@Ezra:1:1-4). Daniel was moved to prayer. Consider carefully his prayer, as it is one of the greatest in the Old Testament. It was revealed to Daniel that the kingdom of heaven would not be set up at the end of the 70 years but that 70 weeks more were to pass in respect to the nation Israel ( kjv@Daniel:9:24). The 70 weeks are weeks of years. 1 week = 7 years 70 weeks = 490 years 70 weeks divided into 3 periods: 7 weeks — 62 weeks — 1 week (See chart on opposite page) Things accomplished in 70 weeks ( kjv@Daniel:9:24):
FIX THIS "To finish the transgression" of Israel.
1. "To make an end of sins," kjv@Ezekiel:37:23, kjv@Zechariah:12:10 —13:1.
2. "To make reconciliation for iniquity." 3. "To bring in everlasting righteousness," kjv@Jeremiah:33:1416 kjv@Jeremiah:33:31:31-34, kjv@Isaiah:1:26.
4. "Seal up the vision and prophecy." 5. Vindicate the truth of this vision.
6. "To anoint the Most Holy" in the millennial temple, kjv@Ezekiel:40 — 48, kjv@Acts:15:16.
kjv@Daniel:10—12 — These three chapters constitute one vision. Some Bible scholars count this last vision as the most important in the Book of Daniel. This section is remarkable from several viewpoints.
kjv@Daniel:10 — The seriousness and sincerity of Daniel is obvious here. For three weeks he observed a time of fasting. Fasting is not a rule for believers today, but it has its merits and rewards for those willing to pay the price. The delay in the answer to Daniel's prayer was caused by a satanic hindrance. The angel sent to answer his prayer was blocked by one of Satan's emissaries of higher rank and greater power labeled "the prince of the kingdom of Persia" ( kjv@Daniel:10:13). The angel had to go for reinforcements. Michael, the archangel, came to remove the blockade. This reveals the spiritual warfare in which we all are engaged (see kjv@Ephesians:6:10-18; kjv@2Corinthians:10:3-6). There are different ranks of both good and bad angels. Daniel needed to be strengthened by his contact with the supernatural.
FIX THIS THE 70 WEEKS OF kjv@Daniel:9 Je ru s d a es lem tro & ye s d ( anc v. tua 26 ry )
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(v. 25) 7 weeks = 49 years CHURCH Pentecost
(v. 26) 62 weeks = 434 years
(70th week = 7 years) "Prince that shall come" (v. 26) Antichrist breaks covenant in midst of week 1T 1 C hes or sal in thi onia an ns s1 4 v: 5 :131,18 52
Malachi 20th year of (End of O.T.) Artaxerxes kjv@Nehemiah:2:1-8) (Jerusalem restored) Triumphal Entry
Daniel 7:25 kjv@Revelation:12:6 kjv@Revelation:12:14
69 weeks have run their course
(See Sir Robert Anderson's The Coming Prince: The Last Great Monarch of Christendom)
Th e Tim Grea v: 27 eo tT r Tr f Ja ibul ou co at ble b' ion s
kjv@Daniel:11 — This chapter is a prophetic preview of the period between the Testaments. This gives an accurate account of the warfare between two divisions of the Grecian Empire — Syria and Egypt. The "vile person" (little horn) of kjv@Daniel:11:21 is Antiochus Epiphanes of the Syrian kingdom, the eschatological section (future) begins at kjv@Daniel:11:36 — this little horn appears in the latter days and is the little horn of kjv@Daniel:7 (the Antichrist), see Gaebelein's The Prophet Daniel.
kjv@Daniel:12:1 — This is a prophecy concerning the Great Tribulation to which the Lord referred in kjv@Matthew:24:21-22: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
kjv@Daniel:12:2 — The resurrections referred to here are of the people of the Old Testament. Those "to everlasting life" evidently are the Old Testament saints who are raised at the end of the Great Tribulation in order to participate in the Millennium. The lost are raised at the Great White Throne. The Old Testament saints are not raised with the church, as they were not baptized with the Holy Spirit and are not in the body of believers ( kjv@1Corinthians:12:13).
kjv@Daniel:12:4 — These are signs that are in our day.
kjv@Daniel:12:5-9 — The period designated "the time of the end" is not the end of time but refers to the Great Tribulation. Many of the features of this book will not be unfolded until then.
kjv@Daniel:12:11 — Evidently this is what our Lord had reference to in kjv@Matthew:24:15, and the number of days here and in
kjv@Daniel:12:13 project time beyond the actual Tribulation Period when adjustments will have to be made which will usher in the millennial day — then "shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings" kjv@Malachi:4:2).
RECOMMENDED BOOKS: Anderson, Sir Robert. The Coming Prince: The Last Great Monarch of Christendom. London, England: Hodder and Stoughton, 1881. Campbell, Donald K. Daniel: Decoder of Dreams. Wheaton, Illinois: Victor Books, 1977. Criswell, W. A. Expository Sermons on the Book of Daniel. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1968. DeHaan, M. R. Daniel the Prophet. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1947. Feinberg, Charles L. Daniel: The Man and His Visions. Chappaqua, New York: Christian Herald Books, 1981. Gaebelein, Arno C. The Prophet Daniel. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1911. Ironside, H. A. Lectures on Daniel the Prophet. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1911. (Especially good for young Christians.) Kelly, William. Lectures on the Book of Daniel. Addison, Illinois: Bible Truth Publishers, 1881. Larkin, Clarence. The Book of Daniel. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Larkin Estate, 1929. (Very helpful charts.) Luck, G. Coleman. Daniel. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1958. (Fine, inexpensive survey.) McClain, Alva J. Daniel's Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks. Winona Lake, Indiana: Brethren Missionary Herald Co., 1940. McGee, J. Vernon. Edited Messages on Daniel. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1991. Strauss, Lehman. The Prophecies of Daniel. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1969. (Very practical.) Walvoord, John F. Daniel, The Key to Prophetic Revelation. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1971. (Excellent, comprehensive interpretation.) Wood, Leon J. Daniel: A Study Guide Commentary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1975. (Excellent for individual and group study.)
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These notes, prepared by J. Vernon McGee, are for the purpose of giving assistance to the listeners of the THRU THE BIBLE RADIO program. They are to be used with the Bible and will be more meaningful as you look up all the Scripture references. Due to the necessary brevity of both notes and broadcasts, a list of recommended books is included for those wanting a more detailed study. These books may be obtained from a Christian library or bookstore or ordered from the publishers.
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