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George Piper Dances
And now for something completely different …
An Interview with Michael Nunn and William Trevitt
by Dani Crawford and Carol Herron
October 2003 -- Washington, D.C.
In the world of Monty Python that would be 'a man with three buttocks'. In the world of dance, it would be a video clip of Forsythe's "Steptext" rehearsed by William Trevitt whilst having his bath which is used to introduce an evening of dance by one of the most innovative companies to come along in ages. Cheeky fun? More than you know. But this clever and highly entertaining way of breaking down some of the misconceptions that ballet and dance are only about tutus and tights, have made George Piper Dances one of the hottest tickets in town.
Their good looks, unassuming 'bloke next door' charm, and self deprecating sense of humor make George Piper Dances founders, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt both ex-Royal Ballet dancers, the perfect poster 'boyz' for the challenge of opening up the world of dance to a new generation. And while they will be the first to admit that one of the secrets to their success is that they try not to take themselves too seriously, there is indeed some seriously remarkable dancing going on and not just by Nunn and Trevitt. Equally impressive are the other members of this small powerhouse company – Oxana Panchenko, Monica Zamora, and Hubert Essakow. Whoever said bigger is better has obviously not been to a George Piper Dances performance.
We recently sat down with Michael and William while they were in Washington, D.C., one of the stops on their inaugural US tour. We were quite eager to learn more about this little chamber ballet company, which in just two short years of existence has become not only a heralded success in the UK, but are now set to conquer America as well.
What do you think is the secret of your success?
Michael Nunn: I think it's a mixture of programming. I think we've chosen some good choreographers to work with and the reason it's worked is because we've built a relationship with them. If we like them as people then we normally work well with them. The results sort of speak for themselves, and the pieces they produce are of a really good quality.
In terms of where you are as a company today, did you have any expectations as to what level of success you hoped to have achieved by, say, this point in time?
Nunn: It's hard to even think about being at a level. I have no idea what level we are. We just go from one thing to the next really. I think with the sort of repertoire we've performed and the way we do it, it's very hard to compare us to other companies. And I think that's hard also for venue managers to decide what size theatres to put us in, or which sort of audience, or how to advertise the company, because it is so different and each season it becomes a little bit more diverse. So I couldn't really pinpoint a level. I think that we're successful in that people like to come and see the show and that's what is important to us.
William Trevitt: We haven't actually had to compromise really yet, so we're able to do the things we're doing, the things we're interested in, and work with or find someone that we like their work, or are interested in what they might come up with for us. And I think that's what we weren't able to do, obviously, either in the Royal Ballet or in Japan.
Nunn: We're waiting to fail hideously. 'Cause it has to happen. But I'm not really bothered by that because I think the 3 or 4 programs we've put on, people have liked. So we can maybe afford to produce a couple of bummers. What we'll produce I'm sure will still be good, just not to everyone's taste. I think it would be a big mistake for us just to keep trying to create successful evenings. We've never really thought that way.
Trevitt: If that's the aim then we're not testing ourselves or expanding.
The reviews here in US have been astounding thus far. Did you have any expectations about how audiences here would receive you?
Nunn: Haven't read any reviews yet.
Trevitt: I have seen a couple from LA, but had no idea of how we were going to go down here. We knew what it was going to be like with Royal Ballet when we were here, but this is completely different.
Nunn: Expectations are different. People don't really know what they are coming to see. But we are reasonably confident because the actual dance product is of a good quality and the choreographers are great. I would stand by any one of the pieces whether anyone liked them or not. It's just whether they enjoy the informality of it really. Maybe a more traditional ballet audience may find it distracting. Involving the film in the performance isn't a normal classical performance. People coming to see a pure ballet for the entire evening may be disappointed, but I hope not.
What was the switchover for you in terms of changing from classical to modern dance?
Trevitt: It was Russell's [Maliphant] work that really made a difference for us.
Nunn: Yeah.
Trevitt: Something completely different, which as far as we could tell wouldn't be using our classical technique at all. And the way that Russell has his dancers move, the way his choreography works, really inspired us. It was something that we really wanted to have a go at. I think one of our strengths probably is that it never occurs to us that we can't do anything. We just assume that if we want it we can have it.
Nunn: If we work, work and work at it, it's all possible. Classical ballet is a great basis for any dance form. I think if we were just contemporary dance trained we couldn't work Christopher Wheeldon, couldn't work Billy Forsythe. But the fact we are classically trained, we can work with contemporary choreographers. They were a bit dubious at first, but if you prove that you are willing to put in the work, then it normally works out.
When you commission a piece, how much collaboration is there between yourselves and the choreographer?
Trevitt: We generally let them do what they want to do, let them work in their normal patterns. We might say we see this piece as being last in the bill, or we see it being first, something like that to give them an idea of what we're expecting. And we'll generally say how many dancers we'd like it to be.
Nunn: We're not such hands off directors, where we just commission something and go away and wait to see what happens. That would be dangerous. We try and steer the product as much as possible within reason.
Trevitt: And because we're commissioning and dancing as well, we have relatively a lot of control over what we end up with.
Who picks the music, the choreographer or you?
Trevitt: It depends, but Chris picked his music for us; Russell picked it with us. We worked it, all of us together, with the composer, with various different pieces of music before we came to a decision.
Nunn : That's a good process when you work with both the choreographer and the composer.
What are your individual strengths as dancers? How do you complement each other? What do you feel about each other strengths? You obviously work very well together, how did that evolve?
Trevitt : As dancers on the whole we're pretty similar. What we do would be very much more difficult if we weren't. We're the same sort of height, same sort of build and we can dance in a similar way when we need to. We can then look more like bodies and you can ignore the personalities really because we do match up so well.
So, for instance, when Michael went to be with his wife for the birth of their son, was it hard for you (Billy) to do a piece like "Critical Mass"?
Trevitt: For the last few years we've been working very closely, but for 12 to 14 years before that we were quite adaptable dancers use to being thrown in on things. We'd turn up at the theatre at 7 o'clock and you're doing something completely different than what you expected. So in a way we still have that ability and that experience to fall back on, being able to change things at a moment's notice.
Nunn: It's not ideal, but you need to get the show on. We had prepared a few weeks earlier, because I knew there was a chance I may have to miss one of the shows, and so the dancer was on standby. I think it's just a case of having to, you know, just get the show on. I'm sure it wasn't Billy's most enjoyable performance, because I know it can be quite stressful working with a new partner. But I'm sure it didn't show.
How did Monica [Zamora] and Hubert [Essakow] become a part of the company?
Trevitt: Monica, when we first started the company we tried to borrow her from the Birmingham Royal Ballet to do some shows with us then, but she had a badly timed injury.
Nunn: She fractured her foot, I think.
Trevitt: And we couldn't use her, but we've known her for a long time, and wanted her to dance with us. It was really the same with Hubert. He was in the Royal Ballet with us and we'd known him for sometime and we liked him as a dancer very much. We also knew that we could get on well with him; he has the right kind of attitude. We need people who are experienced, and can look after themselves. Much as we'd like to have the kind of company where we could nurture young talent for a couple of years and see what happens, we don't have the money or the time or the infrastructure to be able to do that, so we need dancers who are experienced and adaptable and look after themselves.
Are there any particular dancers that you really enjoy watching?
Nunn: Sylvie, obviously. I'm going to work with her. She's still at the top of her trade.
Trevitt: Russell is still a fantastic dancer.
Nunn: Yeah. And his wife Dana. If you've ever seen her dance, she's a beautiful dancer, she's the real thing. They are quite few and far between and we don't really get to see them, unless we're interested in the choreographer and then what we're looking at is the choreography. Dancer-wise there are, obviously, lots of classical dancers that we like.
So then, when you go to see a production, it's the choreography that you are zoning in on or do you still try to take in the whole production?
Nunn : Different things really. I think immediately, in the first 10 seconds, you know the production values of the company. Within the first 5 minutes you know if the choreography is any good. Probably within 10 minutes you know if the dancers are any good. I don't think we do that consciously, I think you just sort of know. And I think dancers are very critical of themselves and other dancers anyway. We've just got to try and get over that hurdle because sometimes we go and see great choreography with just bad dancers and we've got to be able to divide the two, which is difficult but possible.
Is there any choreographer that you would like to work with that you haven't as of yet?
Trevitt: I think we have some unfinished business. We've worked with Akram [Khan] and Michael Clark and Matthew Bourne earlier in the year, some very short pieces. What we'd quite like to do, now that we've made the relationship and we know how each other works, is perhaps make something a bit longer, a bit bigger.
I would personally like to see you work again with Matthew Bourne.
Nunn: You like his work?
Love it. Like many people, his "Swan Lake" was what got me interested in dance.
Nunn : We're supposed to be doing that in July.
Both of you dancing The Swan correct?
Trevitt : Yes, we would alternate.
Nunn: It's something we were going to do a few years ago, when it first came up, but we were with the Royal Ballet and there were time constraints. Hopefully it will work out
Trevitt: But first we have to try to learn it, slight problem there. (laugh)
The use of the videos has obviously been quite successful. Is this something you will continue to use or do you have other plans?
Nunn: This is just a format we're using at the moment. We're just enjoying this sort of process, commissioning work, showing people what it's like to work with choreographers. I'm sure within 12 months that'll change and we won't use the video anymore. We might start producing full evening works or something like that. We can't keep the same recipe forever, and we're very aware of that. We've got lots of ideas. It's finding the time to focus on them.
Trevitt: The one reason it works right now is because people aren't expecting it. If there comes a time when they are expecting it, then we need to come up with something new. I'd rather be known for producing the unexpected than known as the people that show videos every time.
So do you have a vision of where you see the company headed in the future?
Trevitt: I think it's important that we make it less essential that we dance in everything. We need to bring the rest of the company on and not make it rely quite so heavily upon our performances.
Nunn: I think we'll edge more into production and collaboration with other theatre companies or dance companies. We've just sort of started to do that now. We're collaborating with the Royal Ballet on a piece now; hopefully the National Theatre next year, and hopefully expanding the company a bit more. It would be nice to have a body of 10, maybe 12 dancers.
Trevitt: Yeah, but I think what we've learnt having a company of this size is that it's really - I like the way the audience connects with the individuals. They know from the videos and the way we work, they know something about each of the dancers. I think it's much nicer to have that, than a sea of people who could be anyone.
In looking on towards your non-dancing days then, which are hopefully many years down the road, do you see yourselves as artistic directors for this company or some other company?
Nunn: I don't know. It's hard enough work as it is, I can't imagine running a large establishment with all the politics that are involved, basically, I think, because we wouldn't have as much control as we do now.
Trevitt: Apart from being poor, we're totally flexible at the moment. We just follow whatever it is we're interested in at the time. And the restrictions of running a much larger company would mean that we weren't able to do that.
Nunn: Scheduling 3-year plans and budgets, which is all possible, but I imagine a little dull. I mean if we have a good idea now, we can have it on the stage by Christmas. That's what we like.
So is this the time of your life?
Trevitt: It would be if we had a little time to actually enjoy it, to look at it and think about it. It's very all-consuming at the moment.
Nunn: It's nice that it's been so successful. For the amount of work we've put in it, it would be a little bit depressing if it wasn't. I'm sure a lot of other people put just as much work in and it's not successful and I do feel sorry for them.
You certainly do look like you're having fun.
Trevitt: Yeah, I hope that comes through, whether in the performance or in the films or whatever it is; that you get the sense that we are actually enjoying ourselves.
Nunn: It's too much like hard work not to; if we didn't enjoy it there's just no point. You could probably manage it in a big company if you didn't really enjoy it, because the paycheck at the end of each week would get you through. But for us, I think we have to really enjoy it, and do what we want to do. So far so good, unless our tastes radically change and we start hating what we do. (laugh)
The first half of George Piper Dance's US tour ends in New York City on November 9th. They will return for performances in St. Louis and Chicago at the end of February.
George Piper Dances just recently won the TMA (Theatrical Management Association Award 2003 for Outstanding Achievement in Dance); and also, more importantly, just made history by becoming the youngest company ever to be offered revenue funding from the Arts Council England. The company's website www.gpdances.com is under current renovation, but if you would like further information on the company or on becoming a member/supporter, the email address is firstname.lastname@example.com
We would like to thank Fern and Louise in the George Piper Dances office for making this interview possible and of course Michael and Billy for sharing their time with us.
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Family: ASCLEPIADACEAE
Origin and Habitat: South Africa (Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga) and Swaziland.
Altitude range: 500 - 1100 metres above sea level.
Habitat and Ecology: Huernia stapelioides occurs in dry conditions, mostly in thorn shrub together with aloe and euphorbia species. It is classified as Vulnerable on the Red Data List, which is probably largely under threat because of current medicinal usage (it is believed to have magical properties and is used as a protective charm) and its narrow distribution.
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Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20(Beibl. 51): 55 1895
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- Huernia stapelioides Schltr.
- Huernia vogtsii Phillips
Description: Hurenia stapeloides is a very variable clump- or carpet-forming species with 4-angled stems. A striking feature of the tubular flowers is the narrow, circular bands of dark red that run the entire length of the tube and the yellow-red, mottled corolla lobes that end in an acute point. The flower opens flat but after two days the lobes curl back.
Distinguishing feature: Corolla lobes 1,5 times long as broad.
Stems: More or less erect, short, square (or five angular) varying in height from 2 to 5(-10) cm and to 1.3 cm thick. Angles with aciculate tubercles and more or less firm spines (rudimentary leaves).
Flowers: Inclined, facing out-wards, on pedicels 10-18 mm long, 3-4 mm in diameter, each with a glabrous, cup-shaped tube wider than long. Sepals 8-10 mm. Corolla almost flat, inside and outside (pale)buff-yellow, inside with irregular broken transverse lines of maroon or brown-red, 30-42 mm across, densely papillose. Lobes acuminate, 1.5 times as long as broad, oblong-triangular, sometimes more or less caudate, outside weakly roughened, inside densely papillose. Papillae 2.5 mm on the average, narrowly conical, strongly compressed, flattened. Outer corona-lobes squarish. Inner corona lobes erect, 2.5-3mm tall, setaceous-verrucose, clavate, capitate with a foot-shaped, obtuse, verrucose base and an expanded fuzzy tip. Pollinia yellow, germination mouth region darker.
Blooming season (in habitat): Flowers are profuse after good rains in summer (December-January).
Fruit: Typical twin seed horns (follicles), fusiform (spindle-shaped), acute and often don't appear until a year later, when opening release many seeds, each attached to its own parachute (pappus) and dispersed by wind.
Bibliography: Major refrerences and further lectures
1) Doreen Court "Succulent Flora of Southern Africa" CRC Press, 01/Jun/2000
2) Focke Albers, Ulrich Meve "Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Asclepiadaceae: Asclepiadaceae" Volume 4 Springer, 2002
3) James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey "The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass" Cambridge University Press, 11/Aug/2011
4) Bruyns, P.V. "Stapeliads of southern Africa and Madagascar." Vol. 1. Umdaus Press, Hatfield. 2005
5) Peter Goldblatt "Cape Plants: A Conspectus of the Cape Flora of South Africa" National Botanical Institute of South Africa, 2000
6) Werner Rauh "The Wonderful World of Succulents: Cultivation and Description of Selected Succulent Plants Other Than Cacti" Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984
7) Luckhoff "The Stapelieae of Southern Africa" Capetown, A.A. Balkema 1952
8) White & Sloane "The Stapelieae" edn 2. 3: 879-882, 1170-1176 1937
9) Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. "Botanical exploration of southern Africa." Balkema, Cape Town. 1981
10) Raimondo, D., von Staden, L., Foden, W., Victor, J.E., Helme, N.A., Turner, R.C., Kamundi, D.A. and Manyama, P.A. "Red List of South African Plants." in: Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.2009.
11) Leistner, O.A. (ed.). "Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera." Strelitzia 10. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. 2000
12) Mucina, L. & Rutherford, M.C. (eds) "The vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland." Strelitzia 19. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Pretoria.2006.
13) Pilbeam, J. "Stapeliads." The British Cactus & Succulent Society. 2010
14) Van Jaarsveld, E.J. "Waterwise gardening in South Africa and Namibia." Struik Cape Town. 2010
15) Victor, J.E. 2005. Huernia stapelioides Schltr. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2014.1. Accessed on 2014/08/08
16) David Hardy, Anita Fabian, Gerrit Germishuizen "Succulents of the Transvaal" Southern Book Publishers, 1992
17) L. C. Leach "A Revision of Huernia R. Br. (Asclepiadaceae)" Aloe, Cactus and Succulent Society of Zimbabwe, 1988
18) Huernia stapelioides in: Excelsa Taxonomic Series 4: 80 1988
Huernia stapelioides Photo by: Julio C. García
Huernia stapelioides Photo by: Luiza Ferreira
Cultivation and Propagation: Huernia stapelioides is one of the easiest stapeliad species to gro), it needs light shade for best results (but tolerate full sun and shadow), very resistant to heat will also tolerate quite cold temperatures but avoid frost, best in a ventilated environment. Used mainly as a pot plant or occasionally grown out-of-doors in rockeries. It is ideal for steep embankments, hanging baskets or rockeries.
Spring: When winter ends and they begin to grow again, they will require much water and soaking the pots will no longer put the plants at risk for rot. In the spring they will grow well in partial shade and leaving them out in the rain may provide them with the water they need.
Summer: In the summer months they will tolerate heavy rain, but will be just as happy if the season is dry. It's best to sort out the stems while the plants are resting in the summer before they begin their autumnal growth cycle. They will tolerate very hot weather outdoors as long as they are kept in filtered light and this will encourage them to flower in the Autumn. They also enjoy some fertiliser. Moving the plants as they are developing buds may cause them to spontaneously abort the flowers all together.
Autumn: In the fall keep them outdoors until the night time temperatures drop below the 5°C.
Winter: Winter care presents no problems at 5°-10° C with plenty of light. As soon as they are flowered be sure to take extra precautions to keep them dry, because damp cool conditions when the plants are resting is an invitation to fungal infections, but - according to temperatures –some occasional lit watering may be useful.
Potting medium: Since roots are quite shallow, use a cactus mix or add extra perlite or pumice to regular soil potting soil. A gritty, very free-draining compost is suitable, and clay pots help the plants to dry out between watering. When grown as a pot plant re-pot annually or every other years in fresh soil at the end of the resting season (early spring)..
Pest and diseases: Huernia are generally fairly easy to grow, especially if kept pest-free. They are very susceptible to stem and root mealy bugs, and damage from these may well initiate fungal attack. Any time when there is a dead or dying stem in the pot it is important to remove it immediately and completely before other healthy stems can become ill too, isolate the healthy parts, dry them off, and re-root them in new compost. It is quite resistant to the "Balck spot" disease of Asclepiads.
Propagation: Easiest with stem cuttings. Allow cuttings to dry a day before planting. Stems must be laid (Not buried) on gritty compost and will then root from the underside of the stems. It can also be increased from seeds sowing in spring in moist, sandy peat moss. Barely cover seeds. Seeds germinate quickly.
In any season it's best to lay the stems out for several days before replanting them and then pot them only in dry soil and withhold any water until they begin to shrivel or start growing again.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Our Question Evolution! group is challenging the members of the website RationalWiki to debate the 15 questions for evolutionists! Another creation vs. evolution debate gauntlet is thrown down!
Our Question Evolution! Campaign group is throwing down another creation vs. evolution debate gauntlet! We challenge the website of RationalWiki to debate the 15 questions for evolutionists!
Of course, based on previous 15 questions for evolutionists debate performances by evolutionists, we know that if Rationlwikians do not cower from such a debate, then we will soundly thrash them in debate. We expect them to cower from debate since atheists and evolutionists have a track record of cowardice. See: 21st century atheism and Darwinism is well-known for its cowardice
See the videos below which include a member of Reddit Atheism being soundly thrashed in a 15 questions for evolutionists debate:
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Our debate offer to the RationalWiki website
Trent Toulouse and another member of RationalWiki willing to have a debate centered around the 15 questions for evolutionists (see: 15 questions for evolutionists) via a recorded oral debate which would be distributed to tens of thousands of people? The prospective debate will be with Shockofgod and VivaYehshua.
Shockofgod, who is an ex-atheist, has won debate after debate with atheists/agnostics. VivaYehshua has studied biology at a college/university level. They both have handily won previous 15 questions for evolutionists internet exchanges.
Rationalwikians, if the members of your website are confident in your so-called evolutionary beliefs and are not merely insincere posers, please make the necessary arrangements via this free chat room: http://login.meetcheap.com/conference,89538844 Your website editors can make the necessary arrangements with the chat room moderators Shockofgod or VivaYehshua. Alternatively, they can email Shockofgod via his YouTube email at http://www.youtube.com/user/shockofgod
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I posted this on the RW TALK:CP page, I would love to hear your answerReplyDelete
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Now I understand why RW is cowering before our debate challenge. It's lame response to the 15 questions for evolutionists was put together by someone who is punchdrunk! :)
By the way, with the notable exception of Matt Barber, real men don't box, they are martial artists! If you doubt me, just ask the Bible believing creationist Chuck Norris!


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The Kingdom of God: Already and Not Yet
The story of humanity unfolds over this backdrop: God created the cosmos and everything in it, and it was all good. He created humans and they were in fact very good. Then, sin marred it and introduced what Jesus called "This Age", illustrated below as the Kingdom of Darkness (more properly termed, the "Domain of Darkness", because the Kingdom of Darkness has no king. It has a prince). 1
A "kingdom", by the way, means the rule and reign of a sovereign, not a bordered territory. The Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven, then, means the rule and reign of God, not another dimension (i.e., God rules and reigns perfectly in heaven).
The promise given by the Prophets after Sin marred everything is that in "The Age to Come" everything would be good again: no sin, no sickness, no death, no problems… Paradise! This is the Kingdom of God, where everything that happens is God's will, and since God is good and light, it'll all be perfect. We might call it "heaven on earth."
In the meantime, the creation and humans' interaction with it and each other will be a mess.
With Jesus's first advent, Jesus declared "The Kingdom of God is near;" and then, "The Kingdom of God is here" and "the Kingdom of God is coming." Sound confusing? Don't you want to ask Jesus, "Can't you make up your mind? Which is it? Near? Here? Or future?"
Yeah the 1st Century Jews were confused too.
Jesus declared in many ways clearly understood by his audience, both the commoners and the religious elite, that he was God in human form. Not just a good moral teacher. Not just a miracle man. But the God of created everything. He stated God is good, and God is light, and in him there is nothing bad, no evil, no darkness. His moral code was radically different than what even the Jews believed, based on their sacred scriptures, the Hebrew Bible.
The author of the Book of Hebrews explained that in the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament), God spoke through many prophets and in many ways, but what emerged was not a clear picture of God. In Jesus, however, a perfect imprint of God's nature was revealed, and it revealed that God is good. Jesus shockingly declared that bad things come from either the devil or the working of sin (what he called the "thief"), and good things come from God.
With the onset of his ministry, Jesus announced that the Age to Come was breaking into the present, from the future. It was here now, but not fully here yet. The now and the not yet.
The Kingdom didn't come like the Jews expected – their worldview was marred by the imperfect picture of God they received in the Old Testament. Jesus' first command was to "change your worldview, change your perspective on reality" (i.e., repent), because the Kingdom of God was in fact here now! And then Jesus proved the Kingdom had come by healing and saving people, casting out demons, ending injustice, and generally overturning the works of sin and the domain of darkness everywhere he went.
Jesus declared the rule and reign of God was there, and he proved it with his works.
Except the Kingdom wasn't and isn't fully here yet, and won't be until Jesus comes again, as he promised he would.
Until then, we live in the overlapping ages, the tension of the kingdoms, a war zone. When we pray for people for the healing of their sickness, and someone gets healed, the future kingdom has broken into the present: their future bodies are manifesting in the present. (Notice how healing prayer isn't a function of faith, but of kingdom warfare).
Jesus proved that it is always God's will to heal. And it's by his stripes that we are healed, the stripes from the whip that he endured during his execution process. That healing doesn't always manifest is a function of kingdom warfare.
When we pray for people and they don't get healed yet, the future did not break in. It's by Jesus' stripes that we are healed, but in the case when healing doesn't happen in the present, they're already healed in their future state.
Sometimes when people come to Jesus and they're saved, they're saved not just from hell in the future after they die but also from their addictions and hurts and bad behaviors right away: you can tell by the radical transformation of their lives. Their future state in the Kingdom has manifested more fully in their lives. Other people get saved, but their lives don't show such a dramatic change. They show a gradual change over time. They are "working out their salvation" in the present life, although their future life, they are saved. The future hasn't fully manifested in their present lives yet.
This Kingdom conflict provides the backdrop, the worldview of every spiritual and physical battle that goes on.
From the days of the last prophets in the Old Covenant, "from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force." The domain of darkness has the world in its sway, and the Kingdom of God is invading, one person saved/healed, fed, and clothed at a time, slowly expanding, becoming salt on the meat of the planet to preserve and change it, shining as light in the darkness, exposing evil, and overturning the works of evil.
The agents of change are those in the Jesus' church. Jesus mentioned his church just twice in all four Gospel accounts. In both situations, it was in the context of binding and loosing on earth and in heaven, to bind up evil and loose heaven's resources: to pray "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth, as it in in heaven." The verb tense that Jesus used in those verses indicates that sometimes the binding and loosing comes from heaven first and Jesus' church cooperates with it. Other times, its the church doing the binding and loosing, according to God's purposes. The job of Christians is to participate in the binding and loosing, either in initiating it or responding to when God initiates it: to pray God's Kingdom come, God's will be done. Amen and amen!
Jesus declared that all authority has been given to him, and then he instructed his followers to go into the world and do what he did. He has authority, and we go, acting as his extensions of who he is, and as such his authority is implemented through us. Not everything has been brought under his subjection yet, but ultimately, it will be when he comes again, ending this Present Age and ushering in fully the Age to Come.
Jesus modeled healing and deliverance, and he rarely did things the same way each time. The power isn't in the practice but the presence. The healing isn't in the formula but in the Father, who wills for everyone to be healed and saved. Jesus only what he saw the Father doing, and through the Holy Spirit, he empowers his followers to do the same thing with love and power.
Changing Your Worldview to Match Reality
Many people who are "saved" do not experience the proof that the Kingdom has broken into the present. They don't experience healing when they pray.
Some prophets and even politicians announce the God will judge America for its sins. These declarations reflect an outdated view of God, a view of God revealed by certain Old Testament prophets, but not of God as revealed in Jesus.
So God Changed?
Am I saying God changed? That the God of the Old Testament is different from the God of the New? No. What changed is how God related to humanity. God relates to humanity through sacred agreements called "covenants." In most of the Old Testament, God related through His people through a works-based agreement made between the humans and God. The agreement mandated that God had to bless the humans in a particular nation (Israel) if they did certain things and that God had to curse those same humans if they did certain other things. God admitted this wasn't a good covenant and he desired a new one.
So Jesus, being both God and Man, fulfilled the requirements of the Old Covenant, and then volunteered to pay the penalty for all who failed or would fail to uphold that agreement, and then he initiated a New Covenant in 30 AD. (God then poured out his wrath on the Old Covenant in 70 AD).
In this new agreement, when people believe in the Lord Jesus by faith, they are sealed in the agreement between Jesus (God the Son, who was also fully Man) and God (the Father). God therefore relates to people in the new agreement differently: through blessing. In this covenant, God forgives all sins, relates to people individually (not through a special priests) and gives people new hearts with his law written on them (instead of trying to follow laws written on stones). This is all done by faith. He doesn't particularly relate to folks outside the agreement at all, although their sins are forgiven, except in trying to draw people to him. God's desire is for everyone to accept the forgiveness and be in relationship with him by faith, and in doing so, he makes them new creatures.
God's is for Love. The Enemy's for Judgement.
Once, two of Jesus' disciples were rejected by a town, and they asked Jesus if they should judge that town by calling down fire from heaven, a.k.a. Sodom and Gomorrah.
Jesus rebuked them, and declared they were acting out of a spirit that was not from God. 2 In fact, God did punish that town for their sin, but Jesus volunteered to take that punishment on himself. Jesus paid the penalty that town – and all towns and in fact the whole world- incurred on the Cross. God no longer holds the sins of the world against it. 3
But My Experience Says…
Your experience should not shape your theology or your thinking of what God has promised and declared through scripture. So many people have not experienced the miracles declared in the Bible, so they believe those things aren't for today. Or they thing God is mad at them (scripture says he isn't). Or that God's wrath will be poured out on them (that's already happened).
Others have seen abuses and errors and hypocrisy and sinful behavior by Christians, and think therefore the Message of God is flawed. No. Messengers are flawed, but the Message is true. Gifts can be abused. That doesn't devalue the gift, but exposes the errant use.
The biblical account is not meant to limit, but to unleash the power of God against the enemy.
Repeat after me the words of Jesus: The thief comes only to kill, steal, and destroy. But I came that they may have life and have it abundantly!
Meditate on that. Think on it until it gets into your brain and renews your mind.
What we experience around us is a perpetual battle that rages between the two kingdoms. Someday, the King will return and permanently end the battle. Until then, we are to occupy and go, sharing the Good News that the Kingdom has come and God no longer is angry at us.
- Sometimes when Jesus talked about 'This Present Age', he meant Israel under the Mosaic Covenant, what Christians call the "Old Covenant." Jesus came to establish a "New Covenant", and the old one lingered until 70 AD, when Jerusalem, the Temple, the priests and all the records established to maintain the old covenant were destroyed. Literally, the temple elements melted with the heat of the fires, although the New Covenant remains. See this page to read about there terms of the New Covenant between God and humans. ↩
- Luke 9:53-54 ↩
- Colossians 1:20, 2 Corinthians 5:19 ↩


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If you thought you had a bad Monday, it can't be worse than Last Place on Earth owner Jim Carlson's. He was found guilty on 51 felony counts of selling banned substances in a federal court in Minneapolis today.
After a two week trial, the jury of seven-women and five-men deliberated for about two days over the 55 felony counts.
Carlson's girlfriend, Lava Marie Haugen, was convicted on all four counts against her, including conspiracy. Carlson's son, Joseph James Gellerman, was convicted of two of four counts against him, but not guilty of conspiracy.
Carlson was escorted out of the courtroom and taken into custody by U.S. Marshals after the verdict was read. His sentencing trial will be set soon and appeals are expected.


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Day of Mindfulness, 24 October 2015
On Saturday, October 24 2015 we will hold A Day of Mindfulness in Neve Shalom~ Wahat Al Salam from 10:00 – 16:30.
The invitation is open for beginners and experienced practitioners.
Please bring a vegetarian dish for the potluck lunch. A cushion for meditation is recommended.
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*The Day of Mindfulness will be led by Sister Thai Nghiem, who lives in Plum Village, the residence of Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. She was ordained as a nun in 2003 and as a Dharma Teacher in 2011. She is now in Israel for a visit.
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"People are upset because there's so many problems," Rosemary Kverek, 70, a retired Charleston schoolteacher said as tonight's rally wrapped up. "But the problems came from the previous administration. So we're blaming poor Obama, who's working 36 hours a day ... to solve these problems that he inherited."
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), speaking with a gaggle of reporters after the event, said that while state Sen. Scott Brown (R) offers voters a quick fix, in reality, the problems created by "George Bush and his cronies" are not so easily solved.
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Lazyweb: Conference organizing/scheduling software
Dear Lazyweb:
What are the best Free Software conference orginizing / scheduling pieces of software?
We are looking for things more sophisticated than Drupal's conference module. Two years ago we used
, a kickass hosted service that
Edd Dumbill
kindly offered to GUADEC free of charge. But we are looking to host our own within the GUADEC infrastructure now that we finally have started looking into building real infrastructure for running GUADEC website on an ongoing basis as opposed to rebuilding it from scratch every year.
So, please leave comments and share your experience. Thanks in advance.
The perl community have been using Act ( a conference toolkit ) with some sucess, used on various european conference related to programming. See http://act.mongueurs.net/
posted by
: December 11, 2009 7:25 AM
pentabarf is the way to go.
posted by
: December 11, 2009 7:38 AM
If you find a good one, can you let the
fudcon-planning list
know? We've been trying to figure out a better solution for Massive Wiki Table for awhile, and will probably have some bandwidth to work on this at a FUDCon FAD (which we need to plan for late Feb) if you find something you like but which needs finetuning/packaging/etc.
posted by
: December 11, 2009 7:48 AM
As Michael said, Act is used to host most of the Perl conferences that occured in the recent years: 25 this year, 70 since 2003.
Some aspects of Act are still a bit Perl-centric but there is currently on-going work to make it more generic. However you don't need to know Perl to modify the design of the web site, everything being based on templates (using Template Toolkit 2).
Act is free software so you can either choose to host your own instance, or we can host the conference for you so you don't have to bother with installing and configuring it. Act supports multi-domains so you can integrate it within you current domain. Check the addresses of the hosted conferences:
If you're interested, feel free to send me a mail (sebastien(at)aperghis.net).
posted by
: December 11, 2009 9:10 AM
PyCon India (http://in.pycon.org/2009/) was held with a software called fossconf (http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/fossconf/) It is written using Django, so ideally it should be pretty easy to extend and customize.
posted by
: December 11, 2009 9:27 AM
I am a conference organizer now for three years and we rolled our own free and open program called utos-ConMan (or just ConMan for short). We also used the registration system used by the folks at SCaLE (called scalereg).
Each year it improves quite a bit and it is probably the best software we've found after tons of research. Although a couple listed above either weren't available when I did the research.
If you are interested in either of these codebases, they are under free licenses. Here's the links:
ConMan: http://github.com/herlo/ConMan
scalereg: http://code.google.com/p/scalereg/
Clint Savage
Utah Open Source Conference
posted by
: December 11, 2009 10:18 AM
Aside from
, there are also
, used by the Open Source Bridge, and got
a good review here
(a cousin of Pentaho maybe?), also used by YAPCs around the world, and less oriented content submission, and more oriented attendee management, both
SCALE Reg
UTOS ConMan
are used by free software conferences.
There is more information on software for conference organisation in
the notes from the last meeting of the FLOSS Foundations group
at OSCON 2009.
posted by
Dave Neary
: December 11, 2009 10:22 AM
You may want to check out Lernid. Jono Bacon is a lead dev (to the best of my knowledge) and while I haven't tried it myself, I've been reading his blog posts on Planet GNOME and Ubuntu. It looks like
version 0.3
may be making it even better for the task you're looking for.
posted by
: December 11, 2009 11:44 AM
I will also put my vote for openconferenceware. I was on the planning committee for Linux Plumbers Conference and we used it for that. It is a bit immature, and it might require some additional hacking to get things working. Brandon Phillips our webmaster I knew had to do some work on it to get things working. It might be a lot more mature now.
posted by
: December 11, 2009 2:55 PM
posted by
: December 11, 2009 6:21 PM
Hi Behdad,
You could check out indico provided by CERN.
Indico is widely used by the World Particle Physics community. It has every extensive collection of features and has no problem to scaling to be as large you want. It has been used extensively for conferences of well over 1000 people with multiple parallel sessions.
It is battle tests, free and Just Works :-)
posted by
: December 11, 2009 6:25 PM
Hi Behdad,
Sorry for the garbled message I left earlier.
You could check out indico provided by CERN.
Indico is widely used by the world Particle Physics community. It has a very extensive collection of features and has no problem scaling to be as large you want. It has been used extensively for conferences of well over 1000 people with multiple parallel sessions spread over many days.
It is battle tested, well maintained, free (GPL) and Just Works :-)
Once implemented on the GNOME server(s) it can be reused for any sort of conference at any time. Ive just finished using the cern-provided indico for a conference of around 60 people here in Australia. The delegation feature that allows attendees to edit their own talks and upload their own slides saves a lot of time.
posted by
: December 11, 2009 8:26 PM
Great thread. We were actually asking ourselves the same questions for GNOME.Asia and one option is to (test first and) use OCS http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocs . Seems there are quite a lot of features under the hood.
posted by
: December 11, 2009 10:01 PM
At FrOSCon (www.froscon.org) we have been using pentabarf from the beginning. It has got its quirks and it his hardly easy to set up and maintain, but we could not live without it.
Pentabarf was originally written to cater the needs of the Chaos Computer Club for their annual Chaos Communication Congress. It has been adopted by many other hacker events and even the Debian guys for their debconf.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about pentabarf.
posted by
David Roetzel
: December 12, 2009 4:03 AM
Thanks everyone. The comments are great.
posted by
: December 13, 2009 9:38 PM
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