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Here are some of the most enjoyable and/or important books that I am currently reading. This does not mean I stand by everything the authors write (do I even have to state that?). Some of these I purchased, others were provided by the kindness of the publisher:
By now many of you have heard of the Genevan Commons Facebook group. The Genevan Commons (GC) group was apparently formed several years ago to provide a forum for discussion of Reformed theology. All well and good. But more recently some of the group members began attacking Aimee Byrd, Rachel Miller, and us (Carl and Todd). At times the banter degenerated into sinful mocking and slander. Unbecoming to say the least.
Calvin's sensitivity to the different circumstances in which people live lead him to flip-flop, or at least to be somewhat ambivalent in his attitude to the magistrate. Citing the case of Nebuchadnezzar (Jer. 27), Scripture requires obedience to bad kings, and even to pray for the well being of the country of exile (Jer.29). No doubt Calvin has his own city of exile, Geneva, in mind. But should not rulers, who also have responsibilities, be kept on track? Yes, but not by ourselves, but by Almighty God. This leads to discussion of the vexed question of civil disobedience.
No doubt having the Anabaptists in mind, and having already defended the right to litigate, Calvin proceeds to defend the entire judicial process. He discourages using the law for the taking of revenge, but upholds the use of due process, 'through which God may work for our good'. (It is interesting that in his teaching Calvin primarily seems to have mind not Geneva, which by this time in his career he believed was governed along right lines, but countries where the law may remain hostile to evangelical Christianity).
Following Elijah's stunning victory over the prophets of Baal in 1 Kings 18, he turns his attention to drought that continued to linger over the land. Back in 1 Kings 17, Elijah had announced a drought on the land because of the apostasy of the people. They had backed into Baalism and paganism. And their failure to remain faithful to the Lord carried the judgment of God removing his word from the people, signified by the lack of rain or dew. This was also a polemic against Baal, the storm god. The Baal cycle would be broken and the LORD would show himself to be God.
"With which person in the Bible do you most identify?" This is a question I have often asked others in the church over the years. Most of us lack even enough self-awareness to able to answer the question. Others among us have a propensity to appeal to the best characters in Scripture.
I think it is safe to say most people are familiar with the hymn Amazing Grace. Many famous musicians have sung or performed it. It's heard at many funerals and other events. Yet too few know the grace of which the author wrote and more, what makes it so amazing.
John Newton penned this much-loved hymn and the story of his life reveals God's grace at work in one who was far from him. And, as we'll see, God's grace is amazing indeed.
John Newton and God's Amazing Grace
John 10:30 was a critical verse for the early church. As believers wrestled with the documents of the New Testament in terms of their teaching about our Lord's identity, and in relation to the Old Testament, various views began to be propagated. Some taught that our Lord was not eternal God by nature, but rather a mere creature (though the first and greatest of creatures). In other words, there was a time when he was not. Others taught that God is one in nature and one in person, revealing himself in three distinct modes at different times.
The dispute between our hosts about which denomination is the greatest in the kingdom of God—the OPC or the PCA—might never end. Aiming to minimize any controversy and tension within the denomination, we bring in a sound-minded PCA southern gentleman to share some good news.
Brad Isbel is a ruling elder in his church, one of the hosts of the podcast Presbycast (where he's AKA "Chortles Weakly"), and the director of MORE in the PCA, which is the topic of the day.
Our guest is Greg Lanier, associate professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary's Orlando campus, and a minister of the Gospel. Lanier's new book tackles crucial questions about our Lord, including: Did Jesus ever claim to be God? What did Paul and the earliest Christians believe about the deity of Jesus, and do the same beliefs remain today among Christians? What does it mean when the book of Philippians says that He was "in the form of God"?
It was a real pleasure to see Barry York's very kind interaction with my recent DenDulk Lecture. The lecture itself was, as I confessed, long on analysis of the manifold temptations to corruption and incompetence to which religious institutions are prone and rather shorter on solutions. Barry's response beautifully fills that
In our ongoing discussion of the doctrine of God, it is worth reflecting on the fact that a church needs two things to be confessionally healthy: a sound form of words (a creed or confession); and a form of government by which the content of this can be preserved from generation to generation. Positively, that means an eldership which promotes sound preaching and teaching; negatively, an eldership which disciplines those who deviate from the same.
"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world" (Jam. 1:27).
"Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God" (Heb. 13:16)
"... that which is pleasing in his sight" (Heb. 13:21)
Did you know the that top 1% own over 50% of the world's wealth? Maybe you did, and think that disparity is grossly unfair. After all, there's a high chance—99% chance, to be precise—that you are not part of that 1%. Are not all human beings equal? Are we not all made in the image of God? Do we not all equally deserve a high quality of life? How can you look at a statistic like the one above, and not believe that's a problem, and not the way an ideal society should look?
Every spy movie has one scene that's my favorite: the moment the hero's support team equips him for the climactic conflict. You probably recognize it. In a private room, whether it be in a cave accessed only by an elevator that drops 10 stories underground, or a luxury penthouse suite in Dubai, the team of technological geniuses briefs our hero about all the gadgets and weapons they have custom built for him, something sounding like this:
Michael T. Jahosky, The Good News of the Return of the King: The Gospel in Middle-Earth (Wipf & Stock, 2020), 238 pp.
Guy Prentiss Waters, Nicholas J. Reid, and John R. Muether, eds., Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020).
When you set up your shepherding plan you could not have imagined that your entire congregation would be hunkered-down attempting to stay clear of Covid-19.
These are times in which the flock needs to hear from their shepherds for comfort and assurance. I have urged our elders to put a priority on reaching out to their sheep, especially to those who are especially vulnerable.
I recently received this encouraging email from my friend Ken Jones, Shepherding Pastor at Oak Mountain Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama:
They came from California, Arizona, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, Florida, New York City, St. Louis, Pennsylvania, and, of course, Georgia. Why did they come? They came because they are all leaders of large churches and wanted to consider best practices for shepherding large numbers of people. The consultation had been in the planning for 4 years. After visiting First Presbyterian in Augusta, Georgia, First Pres. Executive Pastor John Barrett and I began to imagine a consultation of large church leaders to talk about shepherding their flocks.
Ann Griffiths and Her Sea of Wonders
"O to spend my life in a sea of wonders!"[1] Ann wrote in one of her poems. And her life, spent in a Welsh farm in the small village of Dolwar-Fach, was lived in the constant and exciting discovery of God's revelation.
A Short and Intense Life
Scipione Lentolo – A Firm Hand in Unstable Times
One of the great sites of Jerusalem is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Archaeologists have confidence that this sprawling church is located near the spot of Jesus' crucifixion. Jesus likely was buried and therefore emerged from the tomb either within or near the church's expansive walls. If any site in Jerusalem deserves the label "holy," this is it. The stairs and corridors swarm and groan with people, but a visit can be disheartening, as one scholar aptly wrote:
An advice column dedicated to gift-giving in December accidentally explored a very biblical topic – the relationship between love and the law. Question one: What shall I do about a boyfriend who buys expensive but inappropriate gifts? The mind wanders: Did he buy her a chain saw last year? Hang-gliding lessons? Question two: My family members have requested gift cards in prescribed amounts, from specific stores. Is this really gift-giving or a sanctioned way for people to lift money from each other's wallets?
We live in a time of loneliness. It is not because we are isolated. Most people live within a short drive of a city, and those who don't can easily connect with others over the phone or the internet. And yet there is a sense that our technological connection has made use less connected in other ways. This is anecdotal, I know, but most of the people who approach me for counsel – whether in church or at the university where I teach – express some kind of longing for connection – someone to talk to, someone who understands, someone who cares. All those who cry out for this have cell phon
Advent season has begun. Pastors all around the world are desperately looking for texts and angles on the theme that will enable them to bring fresh light on the light of the ancient story that I known so well, yet which can so easily lose its lustre.
Asaph, reflecting on some of his deepest struggles in the life of faith, concludes one ohis psalms by saying, 'But as for me, it is good to be near God' (Ps 73.28). David says something similar in the most memorable of his penitential psalms with the words, 'Cast me not away from your presence and do not take your Holy Spirit from me' (Ps 51.11). God's people often only begin to appreciate the importance of knowing God's presence when they are deprived of it through their own spiritual wanderings. How, then, can we safeguard the nearness of God?
"The doctrines of grace together point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God, it is all for his glory." —James Boice
The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals delivers the truths of the doctrines of grace to the Church around the globe through in-person training and live-streaming events, broadcasting, and publishing.
The transcendentals – goodness, beauty, and truth – they're called the transcendentals because they are ubiquitous; they're not merely parts and aspects of our reality, they are the moral-fabric that make up all of reality. Being as they are communicable attributes of our Creator God it stands to reason that they will be found, in greater or lesser degrees, in every part of God's creation. Peter Kreeft makes the astute point that "everything that exists is in some way good, and in some way true, and in some way beautiful."[1]
One of the communicable attributes of God is his attribute of righteousness. Righteousness is the character of God where he does what is right, true, and just. To be righteous to act and judge things as they are. God is righteous and therefore has a standard for what it right and what is wrong. God's standard is intrinsic to himself: his righteousness is an outworking of his holiness.
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self - Part 1
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self - Part 1
We probably all have bank accounts with savings, and maybe investments and 401(k)s. Wisdom would suggest that while we trust God we also should be good stewards and save. You want to have in inheritance—at the end of the road of your work life, you want to have a nest egg. This doesn't make you greedy, in most cases it means you were prudent. But all of this should make us ask, where is my real inheritance? What is the real price? Where, or better, in whom is my true retirement.
What season did we recently enter? Spring. What comes next? Summer. Then what? Fall. Then what? Winter. And then? Spring. And so on until Christ's Second Coming. The year's seasons are cyclical—and somewhat predictable. So the seasons of our years should not surprise us but rather inspire our adaptability, acceptance, and appreciation.


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A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water
[ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... l-no-water ]
Suzanne Goldenberg in Barnhart, Texas
theguardian.com, Sunday 11 August 2013 15.07 BST
Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the toilet bowl, the sputter of air in the tap, a pump working overtime to no effect. But it still did not prepare her for the night last month when she turned on the tap and discovered the tiny town where she had made her home for 35 years was out of water.
"The day that we ran out of water I turned on my faucet and nothing was there and at that moment I knew the whole of Barnhart was down the tubes," she said, blinking back tears. "I went: 'dear God help us. That was the first thought that came to mind."
Across the south-west, residents of small communities like Barnhart are confronting the reality that something as basic as running water, as unthinking as turning on a tap, can no longer be taken for granted.
Three years of drought, decades of overuse and now the oil industry's outsize demands on water for fracking are running down reservoirs and underground aquifers. And climate change is making things worse.
In Texas alone, about 30 communities could run out of water by the end of the year, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Nearly 15 million people are living under some form of water rationing, barred from freely sprinkling their lawns or refilling their swimming pools. In Barnhart's case, the well appears to have run dry because the water was being extracted for shale gas fracking.
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Full article and multiple Links:
[ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... l-no-water ]

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The APG pumps are submersible pumps with a horizontal discharge port. They are specifically designed for the pressurised pumping of sewage and wastewater containing destructible solids. The pumps are equipped with a cutter system which cuts destructible solids into small pieces so that they can be led away through pipes of a relatively small diameter. The pumps are available with or without control box and level switch. Pumps without control box must be connected to a separate pump controller with motor starter.
The compact design makes these pumps suitable for both temporary and permanent installation. They are suitable for both free-standing installation and installation by means of an auto-coupling guide rail system. The APG pumps are designed for pumping:
- Sewage
- Wastewater
- Wastewater with high content of fibrous material
Features and benefits
- Integrated cutting system (APG)
- Dry or submerged installation
- Installation on auto coupling
- Sensors in windings
- Compact design
- For submerged or dry installation
- Integrated cutter system
Information and advice
Grundfos is a world-wide provider of pumps and related systems. We have a trained staff of service engineers who will be able to support you during the installation phase of the pump or solution. Grundfos products are manufactured to very high standards, which helps to ensure a long life. Our many years of experience of different kinds of installation and with installation techniques are also key factors for maximising the lives of your Grundfos products or systems.
We will be able to support you with the following:
- Information about the proper protection of our pumps
- Advice on the physical positioning of the pump for necessary service/repair
- Advice on the physical positioning of the pump to maintain proper operation
- Correct cabling to fulfil the requirements of good practice and electromagnetic compatibility
Please contact your local Grundfos company to obtain full support for your new installation.
Recommended spare parts
Even though the Grundfos strategy is to supply the best possible pump solutions to our customers, after a long period of operation there will be wear and tear to some of the components in certain situations. If short operating downtime is a requirement, or if the pump is installed in inaccessible areas where delivery of spare parts may take a long time, it is advisable to maintain a small stock of recommended spare parts on site.
Please contact your local Grundfos company to obtain information about recommended spare parts or service kits for your Grundfos product.
Repair and maintenance
Grundfos Service will maintain and repair your pumps. Our service professionals can also advise you on efficiency issues, offering suggestions for saving money in the long term.
Repair and maintenance of your existing pump systems
Naturally, you can always call Grundfos for the repair and maintenance of pumps you have purchased from us. Grundfos can repair your pumps to the same specifications as new. However, it is important to remember that an upgrade or even a replacement pump can be cheaper than repair in the long term. See "Upgrades and Replacement" for how this makes good business sense.
Effective service – wherever you are
Grundfos Service is always close by. Working in collaboration with our local authorised service partners we offer worldwide service. Help from qualified pump professionals is never far away, whether you need immediate assistance or are interested in hearing about opportunities for making savings.
Pump Audit
The Grundfos Pump Audit is our replacement analysis. It is a complete diagnostic tool that considers your facility, the energy efficiency of your system, and the total life-cycle costs of your pumping solution. It provides detailed recommendations for replacement, including estimated payback time.
Let our Pump Audit tell you how to save on energy costs
The Grundfos Pump Audit is a comprehensive check-up of your pump system. It measures flow, pressure, power absorbed, and overall efficiency of the pumps you have installed over a given period, and highlights how much energy you could save by switching to more efficient pumps and motors.
The process starts with the Pump Audit team visiting your facility and listening to your description of your requirements, with the aim of ensuring the best possible definition of the task ahead. The next step is a comprehensive on-site visual inspection of your facility. This includes inspection of the operating environment, pumps, valves and line drawings.
The purpose of CAPS is to provide a complete tool that contains both an extensive catalogue of Grundfos products and a sizing program to select the most suitable pump for your application.
There is also a comprehensive pump replacement selection function for central heating circulator pumps, hot water pumps and wastewater S pumps, and a function for producing professional quotations that include curves, drawings, quotation texts, wiring diagrams, etc.
Last but not least, the software contains the instruction and operating manuals for nearly all Grundfos pumps in multiple languages. Service drawings, exploded views and parts lists are available for all sewage products as well as several other pump types.
CAPS is available in two versions: WinCAPS, available on CD-ROM, and the online version WebCAPS, available at the Grundfos website. Additional features available in WebCAPS include CAD Drawings and Literature.
Spare parts
"BE Responsible" is one of our core values at Grundfos. It is essential to us that our pumps are designed for low energy consumption and the highest possible performance throughout their operating lives. One consequence of this is that service offerings, including spare parts and replacement kits, are defined in the development phase.
Customised service offerings, online ordering and rapid response distribution centres ensure that you have the parts when you need them.
Recommended spare parts list
The list specifies the parts you should keep on site to service your pumps. These recommendations can be found at the product site in our WebCAPS tool.
Specially designed service kits
Service kits include everything you need for a specific maintenance or repair task, including instructions for dismantling, replacement and reassembly.
24-hour spare part delivery service
To be extra sure that you do not have to wait, we can set aside a stock of spare parts that are critical for your operation. This will ensure that they are available whenever you need them.
10-year guarantee
We guarantee that spare parts for any Grundfos pump you buy today will remain available for at least the next 10 years.
Service online tool
24-hour access to our online tool WebCAPS is available from any PC. All the technical documentation and information you need to service your pumps is immediately available to you, at any time:
- Service instructions
- Step-by-step service videos
- Interactive exploded views
- Sectional drawings
Service video
A service video is available for this product. The service video is an easy way to see how to disassemble and assemble the pump.
The WebCAPS literature and service sections offer quick and easy access to service videos.
There are two different ways to access the videos from the WebCAPS home page:
- via Service
- via Literature
The videos are also available on CD-ROM and DVD.
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A suspected burglar who fled a Fern Lakes home armed with a stolen weapon was arrested last night outside his home, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.
Javon Vincent Winston, 19, joined alleged accomplice Brandon Thomas Warren, 18, in sheriff custody after witness accounts and investigation interviews led the office to his Lawton Street home just before 8:00 p.m. last night, said Master Sgt. Jason Covington.
The unidentified 17 Fernlakes Dr. homeowner said he observed two black men entering the subdivision - located off Burnt Church Road - at around 1:00 p.m. as he was leaving the neighborhood, according to the sheriff's office. When he returned about an hour and a half later, he found the two in his back yard reportedly carrying items - include firearms - out of the home and placing them under a tree.
The two bolted when confronted, but Winston managed to escape through a nearby pond while Warren apparently couldn't swim, according to the sheriff's office. The homeowner grabbed one of the weapons stockpiled outside and detained Warren while waiting for law enforcement to arrive, Covington said, adding he doesn't know how the suspects managed to locate the guns or why they chose this particular house.
Deputies believe all but one of the handguns stolen have been recovered, but they're initiating a search for the missing weapon in the pond through the office dive team.
Both men are also suspected in the Oct. 29 burglary of a home in the Meadowbrook subdivision of Bluffton, when a shotgun was stolen but later recovered Nov. 10 after Winston accidently shot himself in the foot, said Lt. Joe Babkiewicz of the Bluffton Police Department. Winston phoned police himself but claimed someone else had accidentally shot him and had taken the gun, which was found placed behind a fence, Babkiewicz said.
Winston wasn't detained at the time because police didn't know the weapon was stolen, but they're now awaiting the results of a serial number trace to confirm the connection, Babkiewicz said, adding Meadowbrook is under sheriff's office jurisdiction.
The two are charged with first degree burglary, but the sheriff's office says additional charges are likely as the investigation continues.
Go to blufftontoday.com for more details as they develop.


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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
Anonymous Þulur (Þul)
12th century; volume 3; ed. Elena Gurevich;
2. Þorgrímsþula I (Þorgþ I) - 3
3. Þorgrímsþula II (Þorgþ II) - 1
4. Sækonunga heiti (Sækonunga) - 5
5. Konunga heiti (Konunga) - 3
7. Jǫtna heiti I (Jǫtna I) - 6
8. Jǫtna heiti II (Jǫtna II) - 3
9. Trollkvenna heiti (Trollkvenna) - 5
15. Kvenna heiti (Kvenna I) - 1
17. Orrostu heiti (Orrostu) - 2
18. Sverða heiti (Sverða) - 12
24. Skjaldar heiti (Skjaldar) - 3
37. Bjarnar heiti (Bjarnar) - 1
38. Hjartar heiti (Hjartar) - 1
41. Himins heiti I (Himins I) - 1
45. Himins heiti II (Himins II) - 1
55. Kvenna heiti ókend (Kvenna II) - 3
56. Hugar heiti ok hjarta (Hugar ok hjarta) - 1
58. Heiti á hendi (á hendi) - 1
59. Heiti valkyrja (Valkyrja) - 2
63. Heiti for sea-kings (Sea-kings) - 1
64. Heiti for women (Women) - 2
65. Heiti for islands (Islands) - 1
66. Heiti for waves (Waves) - 1
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Monthly Craft and Chat Sessions
Loopy's Place is a creative space providing opportunities to indulge in creative activities to boost mental health. Join Jane in monthly Craft & Chat sessions, Craft Workshops & Sew Days. Learn new skills, connect with like-minded people, and escape the pressures of everyday life. Loopy's Place is a supportive community for anyone who wants to explore creativity and look after their mental health.
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Mosaic classes in the artist's studio in the centre of Sheffield close to the train station.
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Alvar Aalto design for Artek, 1936.
Armchair 406 is a robust and comfortable armchairs.
Frame: Birch natural lacquered.
Seat option:
Webbing, quilted blackcanvas, quilted black leather, leather belts.
Linen webbing colors :
Natural, black, blue, white.
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W60 x D72 x H87 cm
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Approximately 9 kg
Director's chair in teak, for indoor and outdoor use.
This folding Vendia chair is flexible, smart and comfortable to sit on. Its size also makes it ideal for small balconies, patios or kitchens.
The size of this round three-legged table makes it ideal in confined spaces. At the same time, its light weight makes it easy to move around.
Arcadia CH110 by Hans Wegner is an office desk in veneered massive wood, with two large drawers equiped with a lock.
Hans Wegner design for Carl Hansen, 1970. Upholstered armchair for outstanding office with a very confortable seat for a conference table or simply suitable at the desk.
Hans Thyge design. Sala stacable chair made of laminated wood, also with the back seat in nylon, with double thoracic curve.
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Medical officials in Gaza City say an Israeli air strike has killed four people who were attending a funeral.
Reports say the raid hit a graveyard in the Sheikh Radwan area.
Earlier, six people were reported dead in a separate air strike in Gaza. three of whom were allegedly senior figures in militant group Hamas.
The news is likely to be a major blow to the organisation's morale and a significant achievement for Israel's intelligence agency.
The pre-dawn strike levelled a four-storey house in the southern town of Rafah, killing six people, including the three senior military commanders, identified by Hamas as Mohammed Abu Shamaleh, Raed Attar and Mohammed Barhoum.
Israel said Abu Shamaleh had been the top Hamas commander in southern Gaza, overseeing fighters there during the current war. Attar was in charge of weapons smuggling into Gaza and the construction of attack tunnels, the Israeli military said.
In 2006, Attar was involved in the capture of an Israeli soldier, Gilad Schalit, through such a tunnel, said the statement. It did not refer to Barhoum.
The Rafah attack came just a day after an apparent Israeli attempt to kill the top Hamas military leader, Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike on a house in Gaza City.
Deif's wife and an infant son were killed in that strike, but the Hamas military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said Deif was not in the targeted home at the time and was alive.
The back-to-back targeting of top Hamas military leaders came after indirect Israel-Hamas negotiations in Cairo on a sustainable truce broke down.
As talks ran aground on Tuesday, Gaza militants resumed rocket fire on Israel, even before the formal end of a six-day truce at midnight that day.
Since then, Hamas and other groups have fired dozens more rockets, and Israeli aircraft have struck dozens of targets in Gaza, a sign that prospects for a resumption of the Cairo talks are slim.
Despite the crisis, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was holding talks in Qatar with the top political leader of Hamas in exile, Khaled Mashaal, and the emir of Qatar. Before the collapse of the truce talks, Mr Abbas had planned to use the meetings in Qatar to urge Mashaal and his Qatari backers to support an Egyptian ceasefire plan.
Hamas has since rejected the Egyptian proposal, saying it contained no specific commitments by Israel to ease the border blockade of Gaza. The blockade had been imposed by Israel and Egypt after the violent Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007.
Hamas leaders said they could not return to Gaza from Cairo with a deal they feared would simply restore the closure regime that was in place before the start of the latest round of fighting on July 8. The border restrictions prevent most Gazans from travelling outside the crowded coastal strip and bar most exports.
Over the past six weeks, more than 2,000 Gaza residents have been killed and about 100,000 left homeless, according to figures by the UN and Palestinian officials. Israel lost 67 people, all but three of them soldiers.
It was not clear if the targeted killing of the three Hamas leaders will prompt a change in the group's strategy or diminish its ability to fire rockets. Israel estimated that Hamas had about 10,000 rockets before the war and that it lost about two-thirds of its arsenal.
A Hamas spokesman said in a statement that Israel "will not succeed in breaking the will of our people or weaken the resistance", and that Israel "will pay the price".
Thursday's air strike on the house in the Tel Sultan neighbourhood of Rafah was carried out shortly before 3am.
Gaza police said a number of Israeli aircraft were involved, and that at least 12 missiles hit the four-storey building. The Israeli military declined to comment on the report.
In addition to the Hamas operatives, three others were killed, including a resident of the house and two neighbours, according to Palestinian health official Ashraf al-Kidra.
At least six people, including four children and a 27-year-old man, were killed in three other air strikes across Gaza, according to al-Kidra.
Israel also hit at smuggling tunnels along the Gaza border with Egypt and at agricultural lands west of Rafah in the latest air strikes.
The military said 18 rockets were fired from Gaza since midnight on Wednesday, compared with more than 210 over the previous 30 hours.
In a nationally televised address yesterday, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed little willingness to return to the negotiating table after six weeks of war with Hamas.
"We are determined to continue the campaign with all means and as is needed," he said, his defence minister by his side. "We will not stop until we guarantee full security and quiet for the residents of the south and all citizens of Israel."
The Egyptian foreign ministry expressed "deep regret" over the breaking of the ceasefire. It said in a statement that it "continues bilateral contacts" with both sides aimed at restoring calm and securing a lasting truce.
The Egyptian compromise proposal called for easing the Gaza blockade but not lifting it altogether or opening the territory's air and seaports, as Hamas has demanded.
While the plan does not require Hamas to give up its weapons, it would give the Western-backed Mr Abbas, whose forces were ousted by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, a foothold back in the territory, running border crossings and overseeing internationally backed reconstruction.


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I have to laugh at the audacity that some in the emerging church think this some sort of "reformation". I see that they cannot stand up to the huge institution we know and love that holds our truly "Reformed" faith that has stood the test of time. I mean it has been almost 500 years and look how united in Christ and how mature we are! If that is not proof enough I think that the emerging church must realize that we will crush you by the power of our Truth Doctrines and "Right Beliefs."
So often I confront an emergent and tell them straight to their blog, they are hell bound. Yet, they retort that there is not "eternal hell" as it is tossed in the Lake of Fire. Imagine what pride and arrogance; first to mouth back at me the great Discernmentalist called by God Himself to rebuke and reprove these insolent children of the church of hell, let alone correct me in my own Doctrine! I bet they will be doing a lot of "revisionism" in HELL!
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text: Marcus #1 Posted December 30, 2006 Hi, I'm Marcus from Total War Center, and head of the Song of Ice & Fire mod for Medieval II: Total War. Link here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68676 The mod is moving forward nicely, but in order to make it as accurate as possible, we need your help! In order to help us, you don't need M2 or even any knowledge of the game, merely copies of the series and good researching skills. For those interested, researchers who are knowledgeable and contribute may earn a spot to beta test. Now, for what we actually need. We are in great need of skinners and people with graphics skills, Photoshop and other programs. Please reply if interested. For researching, there are several things we need. In order to keep things, well, ordered, we'll do them step by step. First thing is we need to assign medieval cultures to represent Westeros ones in-game. The factions we will be using for the first release are: Stark Lannister Tyrell Tully Arryn Martell Greyjoy Baratheon/Renly Baratheon/Stannis Baratheon/Joffrey Nights Watch Wildlings And the cultures that we have available to represent them. Bear in mind these are cultures between 1080 and 1500 A.D. Northern European: England, France, Holy Roman Empire, Scotland, Denmark, Normans, Saxons (Of England, not the Duchy of Saxony) Southern European: Spain, Venice, Sicily, Milan, Portugal, Papal States Eastern European: Hungary, Poland, Russia Greek: Byzantine Empire Middle East: Mongols, Timurid, Moor, Egypt, Turks Mesoamerican: Aztec Unless it is absolutely necessary, please avoid using Normans and Saxons, as I'm not sure if they can be incorporated into the game map. Also, each culture acn eb used only once. Basically what we need you to do is research and post the best culture to represent each of the houses. To clarify, "culture" is based upon the look and "feel" of the faction. Voices, portraits, building style, etc, *NOT* the military style. Discussion is welcome, and actual references from the text will strengthen your points. We need this to be as accurate as possible. Thanks for your help, it's greatly appreciated. ~Marcus & Westeros Team Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Saturday, September 8, 2012
5 1/2 games back and Matt Kemp is out
Early game. Fox 11 @ 1pm
Bad news - Matt Kemp is out of this series. MRI scheduled.
3 comments:
- jfore said...
Maybe not bad news, Roberto. Kemp made a valiant effort, but it was obvious he couldn't perform at the top of his game. I wish him a quick recovery and hope the rest of the team steps up the way we know they can!
- September 8, 2012 at 1:48 PM
- PJ said...
YEA! we won today without him. keep fighting.
- September 8, 2012 at 10:09 PM
- MarcoS. said...
Hate to say it, but the Kemp haters are being proven right. The middle of the order seem to function way better today without Kemp killing rallies or being a automatic pop out.
In a way you feel sorry for him because he has been trying to be leader and play through the pain, yet the injuries really have held him back. At the same time Kemp had put a lot a pressure on himself by talking and boasting a lot before the season about he was going for 50/50 and he was going to take the team to the playoffs. It's not hard to see why some people cast him as the villian for the recent Dodgers slump.
- September 9, 2012 at 12:47 AM


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I am working on a game, and the xml files are getting to be a few megs, and the final game might have a hundred megs of uncompressed xml. If I zip the xml files up I can get something that is about 3 megabytes to be under 100kb which shows that compressing the files will yield good results. How can I get the XML files compressed, and how would I uncompress them on the client's game?
I am planning to keep all my bullet patterns in one file, and planning to keep all the levels in one file. I am not to concerned about the files becoming undwieldy to edit, as I can add my own xml tags as categories to group data, and use a xml editor that can collapse tags. Is there a better way to do this?


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Question is, how can I address
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I installed dnsmasq on my server and followed all steps on help.ubuntu. On my host system I've set
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Thing is, I still cannot ping (or connect to) my example.local virtual host. It gives me an unknown host response.
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Fast Cars, Hot Temper, Guns: Finding the Real Oscar Pistorius
Friends and a journalist describe the private life of the hero turned killer.
March 1, 2013 -- Today in South Africa, Oscar Pistorius' lawyers are trying to reach a settlement with a woman who accused him of assault and called the police. Pistorius sued her for libel, saying the short time he spent in jail ruined his reputation and caused him to lose endorsement deals -- even though no assault charges were ever filed.
Watch the full story on "20/20: The Fast Times of Oscar Pistorius" TONIGHT at 10 ET
"It's such a compelling, heart-warming story of a young man putting those carbon fiber blades on -- there were millions of people with disabilities around the world who [thought], 'I'm going to cheer for him. I could be him," said Christine Brennan, a sports columnist and commentator for ABC News.
"The reality is, it's nothing of the sort," Brennan continued. "We have no idea who Oscar Pistorius is except for that brief time that he is on the track in front of us."
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What we are finding out is surprising. Behind the inspirational athlete lurks a different figure, living a fast life: fast cars, dirt bikes, pet tigers and a passion for weapons.
"He was into the fast life, the fast car," said David O'Sullivan, a South African radio personality and friend of Pistorius . "He was about to buy himself a supercar, a McLaren."
"Oscar was more than a little crazy. Mainly because of the way he drove," said Michael Sokolove, a sports writer for the New York Times. Sokolove visited Pistorius in South Africa in 2011 and found that for the young star, the need for speed extended beyond the track to macho pursuits like power bikes and sports cars. And, as he did with his own body, Pistorius liked to push those machines to their limits.
"We were driving 150 miles an hour," Sokolove said. "There was a point that it was raining. We were on some state's turnpike, and he's weaving in between cars and tailgating them. And just really insane driving. He saw it as sport. But I feared he would hurt himself."
Pistorius did wipe out on his dirt bike, resulting in a darkly comic moment, Sokolove said.
"One of his artificial legs came off. It was hanging on a fence post. And he just joked. He said, 'Well, I guess that was one time when it was an advantage not to have your own leg.'"
Another accident was less funny.
In 2009 Pistorius came within inches of his life after he hit a submerged pier in a speedboat accident on the Vaal River, in South Africa. He smashed his eye socket, jaw, nose and two ribs, and needed to be airlifted to a hospital for special surgery.
"I remembered talking to him afterwards," O'Sullivan said, "and he said it made him take stock of his life and realize, 'Well I can't behave in that way.' And I thought, Well, there's Oscar's wake-up call."
Pistorius tried to slow down, but the flirting with danger -- and beautiful women -- never stopped. He invested in race horses, kept two pet tigers and maintained a strong interest in weaponry.
"He'd say, 'Well, I'm sort of antsy, I can't sleep. Let's go to the shooting range,'" Sokolove said. "I thought that was somewhat bizarre then, and in the light of day, more bizarre now."
Pistorius owned multiple guns, and it wasn't just for sport. Pistorius had legitimate concerns about safety, given the violence in South African society.
Pistorius reportedly slept with a gun by his bed, and in a recent tweet he recounted nearly shooting up his own washing machine when he mistook its noise for the sound of an intruder.
Pistorius' friend Kevin Lerena has his own story to tell, from a night at a Johannesburg restaurant.
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"Oz happened to ask my one mate to see his gun. My mate passed the gun across to him and unfortunately the gun went off. The bullet missed my toe by an inch. I could have lost my foot," Lerena said.
"I've never seen a person's face change so quickly in my life," Lerena went on. "[Pistorius] went pale; he actually started shaking he was so apologetic."
Even freak accidents can be bad for one's image, so the incident was covered up.
"My friend took the fall for [Pistorius] because of his status," Lerena told "Good Morning America." "No one was saying 'protecting Oscar,' but someone else took the fall for us as a friend."
Clearly the "Blade Runner" was a hot-blooded alpha male -- but was he also hot-tempered? Last year, after a series of jealous texts over an 18-year-old girlfriend, police say, Pistorius told another man he would break his legs.
"I was amazed," O'Sullivan said. "I was taken aback. I didn't think Oscar had it in him to make those kinds of threats, to threaten that level of violence."
"He's got his moments of anger," O'Sullivan continued. "Maybe too many people wanting too much from him, and eventually he snaps. ... I could never say these are premonitions of greater darkness to Oscar's personality, though."
"His P.R. machine was very good and covered up his few indiscretions," said Andy Grudko, former South African reserve police officer.
Whatever human shortcomings Pistorius may have had, the image the public wanted to preserve was London 2012, his sprint into immortality as the first double-amputee Olympian.
But weeks later, the Paralympics were held in the same stadium. After a surprising upset, Pistorius' good sportsmanship went out the window. He said that the Brazilian sprinter who beat him at the finish line had an unfair advantage because of his running blades.
"He said it was unfair, and he was petulant about it, and this shocked people," Michael Sokolove said. "He apologized, he said he regretted it. Everybody looks back now: Was this something that changed him, or was this evidence that he had already changed?"
This fall Pistorius told friends that his life had changed -- for the better. That was when he met the gorgeous girl from Port Elizabeth, Reeva Steenkamp.
Friends have testified that Pistorius was deeply committed to the relationship. If anything, they said, his heart was racing faster than Steenkamp might have wanted.
Amid the exhilaration of new love, Valentine's Day was going to be special: flowers, dinner and romantic plans. Reeva Steenkamp's last tweet read, "what do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow??? #getexcited#valentinesday"
Watch the full story on "20/20: The Fast Times of Oscar Pistorius" TONIGHT at 10 ET


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TORONTO—July 16, 2013—R.E. Gilmore—a full service, digital print company—was interested in the Xerox CiPress 500 production inkjet system before it even came to market. The company figured the world's only high-speed waterless inkjet, with its powerful twin engine configuration, could take the company's transpromo business, which already produces millions of promotion pieces annually, to an even greater scale of production and quality.
Gilmore, the first customer in Canada to purchase the CiPress 500, recognized that the press' fast production time, outstanding color quality and built-in automated closed-loop self-correcting controls would improve uptime, productivity and consistency. The device will be installed at Gilmore Doculink in Ottawa, Canada, one of the company's five operating divisions, and will be used among its sister companies.
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25.12.2007 Interview of Sergey Dobridniuk, Deputy Director, Retail Services, Diasoft Co.
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Equity futures are solidly lower this morning following yesterday's speech by Bernanke that failed to mention more QE is on the way, and thus we are to experience a wave of deflation until we cry "Uncle" and then accept more devaluing of our money which will surely come later, if not sooner (not that I believe they will really stop, their QE actions will just go underground). The dollar is higher as a result, bonds are also higher, oil is lower, silver & gold are lower, and food commodities are mixed.
The still worthless, conflicted, and hypocritical Mortgage Banker's Association released Purchase Applications for the prior week… down again, this time by a supposed 4.4%, but Refinancing activity supposedly rose by 1.3%. Here's Econohope:
The volume of mortgage applications to purchase a home fell 4.4 percent in the June 3 week, a week that closes out a flat month of May and starts June off on a weak note. Purchase volumes aren't going to be boosting expectations for home sales. Unlike purchase volumes, applications for refinancing have been on the climb and relative to purchase volumes are at their highest point since the beginning of the year. The refinance index rose 1.3 percent in the week and is getting a solid boost from low mortgage rates, at 4.54 percent for 30-year loans for the lowest level since November.
Remember, there are a huge number of Option-Arm loans resetting and that number increases throughout the year. The real problem is that most of those mortgage holders are underwater and therefore cannot refinance.
The "Fed's" Beige Book comes out this afternoon to baffle us with more of their economic disinformation. But that comes after the petroleum report which I'm sure will show even more demand destruction and record oil inventories.
Now that the players are getting the idea that QE3 is not on the way immediately, the drug addicts are melting down. Here's one now, crying for "reform," which to him means more, more, and still more:
Jamie Dimon gripes to Bernanke
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is still griping about financial reform, and this time, he took his complaints straight to the top official at the Federal Reserve.
"I don't personally buy the argument that because it was a financial crisis it has to take a long time coming out," Dimon said in a Q&A session following a speech by Ben Bernanke at the International Monetary Conference in Atlanta Tuesday.
Dimon blames financial reform for stifling growth. He gave the Fed Chairman a laundry list of ways regulators have already cracked down on the banking system, after the Dodd-Frank financial reforms were passed last year.
"Most of the bad actors are gone," "off-balance-sheet businesses are virtually obliterated," "money market funds are far more transparent" and "most very exotic derivatives are gone," he said.
Bernanke: Jobs still weak
Dimon, who is known for his vocal opposition of many of the Dodd-Frank reforms, said he fears those reforms may be hindering, rather than helping, the recovery.
"Has anyone bothered to study the cumulative effect of all these things?" he asked Bernanke. "Is this holding us back at this point?"
Gee Jamie, have you bothered to think about the cumulative effects of permeating the world with your money from nothing debt? This whining comes from a drug addict who belongs in jail - definitely the narcissist of the decade.
Below Arnie Gunderson hits the nail on the head regarding the revolving door between industry (special interest) and regulators and how that helped lead to disaster at Fukushima. He also points out that there is nowhere to run, and that "Hot radioactive particles in Seattle are at 50 percent of levels seen in Tokyo," and that those particles are charged and therefore "Latch onto lung tissue."
So, how are you feeling now about the way your government, and the government of Japan have reacted to this crisis?


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Invisible Australians.
They celebrated Federation. They fought at Gallipoli. They struggled through the Depression. And they battled for freedom in the Pacific.
They also lived through another of their country's defining moments – the introduction of the White Australia Policy.
In the early twentieth century Australia defined itself as a white man's country, yet the reality was something different. As well as Indigenous Australians, there were many thousands of non-Europeans, including Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Afghans, Syrians and Malays.
These are the Invisible Australians – men, women and children who, because of the colour of their skin and the homelands of their forebears, found themselves at odds with the nation's claim to be white. They faced discriminatory laws and policies designed to deny them their place as Australians.
Because of this, there are extensive government records documenting their lives. The Invisible Australians project will use biographical information found in the records to link together their lives, revealing the real face of White Australia.
The handprint displayed on this page belongs to 12-year-old Charles Allen, the son of a Chinese father and white mother. It was taken in 1909 when he travelled to China. Charles spent six years living with his father's people in the town of Shekki, inland from Hong Kong.
The year after Charles returned home to Sydney he enlisted in the Australian army to fight in World War I.


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Truck race at Eldora dirt track won't be typical NASCAR event
The Camping World Truck Series race Wednesday night at Eldora Speedway won't be your typical NASCAR truck race.
The trucks won't have splitters. They will have mesh shields to keep dirt out of the grille, hood deflectors to keep stones off the windshield and larger rear spoilers for increased grip.
The event will mark the first time since 1970 that NASCAR has run a national touring event on dirt. It also will look eerily similar to a Saturday night short-track race, with all sorts of rules and procedures not normally seen in one of NASCAR's top series.
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There won't be true pit stops. The 150-lap event will be broken into segments — to allow teams to make adjustments, since there is no pit road — of 60 laps, 50 laps and 40 laps.
There will be 30 trucks instead of 36 that start the race and only those 30 drivers and teams will be awarded points.
There won't be 25 drivers guaranteed starting spots. There will be just 20 guaranteed starters.
There won't be single-truck qualifying to set the lineup. There will be heat races.
So how will all this work?
Five spots will be available through the initial five qualifying races, with the lineups for those races set by traditional qualifying.
Each of the eight-lap heat races (only green-flag laps count) will have four locked-in trucks with the top finisher in each race not already locked into the field qualifying for the main event.
The last five spots will be determined by a last-chance race for non-qualifiers. The top-five finishers in the 15-lap race will transfer to the main event. There was a past champion's provisional available, but no past champion of the series is among those who must race their way into the show.
The field includes a few dirt specialists, including the well-known Scott Bloomquist, who will drive for Kyle Busch Motorsports; Tracy Hines, a former truck series driver who returns to his dirt-track roots with ThorSport Racing; and Jared Landers, who drives a dirt car for Clint Bowyer's race team and will race for Eddie Sharp Racing at Eldora.
Several Nationwide and Cup drivers with extensive dirt experience will compete, including Ryan Newman (Turner Scott Motorsports), Dave Blaney (Brad Keselowski Racing), Kyle Larson (Turner Scott), Austin Dillon (RSS Racing), Ken Schrader (Ken Schrader Racing) and Kenny Wallace (SS Green Light Racing).
Among those drivers, Bloomquist, Blaney, Dillon, Wallace and Hines are all guaranteed starting spots.
The other locked-in drivers include the top 14 in the driver standings — Matt Crafton, Jeb Burton, James Buescher, Ty Dillon, Johnny Sauter, Ryan Blaney, Miguel Paludo, Timothy Peters, Brendan Gaughan, Darrell Wallace Jr., Dakoda Armstrong, Ron Hornaday, Joey Coulter and John Wes Townley.
The 15th-place driver in owner points, Ryan Sieg, isn't entered (Dillon is in that ride) and the last locked-in driver is 16th-place German Quiroga.
That leaves 16 drivers vying for the final 10 spots, including full-time series drivers Max Gresham, Brennan Newberry, Bryan Silas and Norm Benning.
Newman, Schrader, Larson and Landers are among those who will need to race their way in.


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Bing Live! (Blackpool)
Bing Goes to the Theatre
Calling all Bingsters! Bing and his friends are touring the UK in the first ever Bing stage show!
Join Bing, Sula, Coco and Pando as they find out how to tell stories by pretending, dressing-up and singing songs. Flop and Amma are there to help, but in this magical world of make-believe things don't always go according to plan…
Don't miss the chance to see your little one's face as their favourite characters are brought to life in this brand-new show. Full of fun, laughter and music, Bing Live! is the perfect first theatre trip for pre-schoolers and their families.
Going to the theatre… it's a Bing thing!
- Address
Grand Theatre, 33 Church St, Blackpool FY1 1HT
- Cancellation Policy
No exchanges or refunds after booking.
- Suitable For Children
Perfect for preschoolers as their first theatre show. Suitable for Bingsters of all ages!
All children over the age of 6 months will need a child ticket.
- Times
2nd February 2019 - 1pm and 4pm
3rd February 2019 - 10am and 1pm
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Blackpool Grand
33 Church Street, Blackpool, FY1 1HT
Grand Theatre Blackpool
Grand Theatre, 33 Church St, Blackpool FY1 1HT