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Probation Officers with a rich background of experience are typically rewarded with larger paychecks. At career start (within the first five years), average income sits near $34K, and the average for folks who have worked for five to 10 years is only slightly higher at $39K. On average, Probation Officers make $47K following one to two decades on the job. Survey participants who have worked for more than two decades report bringing in $55K on average.
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I hate to disagree, since you seem quite sure of your interpretation of the statutes, but in my CCW class, there was a video of the State Attorney General explaining that while you may use deadly force to prevent entry into the house without the presence of an imminent threat (so long as said entry if reasonably felonious in nature, i.e. at night, breaking glass, kicking in door, etc.), once said intruder is in the house, imminent threat must be present again, before you can use deadly force.
As I said, I do not know where your certainty in your interpretation comes from, but I for one, will go by the words of the Attorney General as memorialized in the REQUIRED video for CCW classes.
If you have a source for your plain language explanation, I would be very interested in reviewing.


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Senate's failure to pass meaningful gun control 'shameful,' Obama says (+video)
The Senate on Wednesday failed to get the 60 votes necessary to pass a bipartisan bill that would have expanded gun-control background checks to gun shows and Internet sales.
A clearly angry President Obama called Wednesday "a pretty shameful day for Washington" after the US Senate failed to pass a key bipartisan bill to expand background gun checks in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre.
He called the gun lobby "willful liars" and berated mostly Republican senators for "looking for any excuse" to vote "no" on a compromise bill hammered out by Sens. Pat Toomey (R) of Pennsylvania and Joe Manchin (D) of West Virginia that would have made it harder for criminals and the mentally ill to legally buy guns at gun shows or over the Internet.
But in his comments, Mr. Obama also hinted at a distinct "passion" gap between those who love guns and those who want to see more restrictions on gun ownership. Flanked by some Sandy Hook parents as well as former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a gun owner who barely survived an assassination attempt three years ago, Obama acknowledged that the 90 percent of Americans who, according to polls, support stronger background checks didn't carry as much weight as impassioned gun supporters who have burned up the phone lines to Washington in opposition to any new federal gun-control measure.
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Under the Gun: Ongoing Assaults on Bahrain's Health System
In February 2011, the Government of Bahrain began targeting health professionals who treated protesters. In April 2012, PHR's Richard Sollom, Deputy Director, and Holly Atkinson, MD, FACP, past President of PHR's Board and volunteer expert, authored a report showing the devastation on Bahrain's health system that have resulted from the Government of Bahrain's continued assault on doctors, patients, and the healthcare system.
PHR Applauds Administration Submission of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Senate
The Obama administration's decision to submit the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to the US Senate for ratification was applauded by PHR today. Although the US signed the convention in 2009, Senate ratification is required for the US to become fully bound by the Convention
Restriction of Tear Gas Sales to Middle East and North Africa Countries is Positive Step
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced today an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that restricts the sale of tear gas and riot control items to Middle East and North Africa countries undergoing a transition to democracy. The amendment, which successfully passed the US House of Representatives, requires the Secretary of Defense to certify to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees that the security forces of such governments are not using excessive force to repress peaceful protesters before such items would be provided.
All Charges Against the Medical Professionals in Bahrain Must be Expunged
Following the final day of the trial for 20 Bahraini medical professionals who were convicted of charges including occupying a hospital and attempting to overthrow the government, PHR today called for the court to expunge all politically motivated charges.
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The work done by f/x pioneer Ray Harryhausen on the 1981 classic Clash of the Titans reminds us that every exploding space station, acid-bleeding alien, and freeway-smashing robot owes a debt to the stop-motion animators and model builders of yore. Now, thanks to a shiny new Blu-ray transfer, you can relive the menacing scorpions, Medusa's serpentine coiffure, and Bubo the mechanical owl in Aphrodite-worthy 1080p. It'll get you primed for director Louis Leterrier's big-budget remake (starring Avatar's Sam Worthington), which hits theaters March 26.
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Although I've owned gun for many years now I still feel like I've only scratched the surface. The past couple of years I've started making more trips to the range and learning how to shoot properly. I have to admit that being involved with websites like this one have allowed me to learn more than I realize.
Anyway...long story even longer. I was taking the P45, freshly back from the mothership on a test run and noticed a young couple next to me having trouble with one of their guns. He was shooting a Springfield XD9 and his wife/girlfriend was shooting a Ruger P95 that she had just bought that day. Her gun kept jamming every couple of rounds and you could tell she was getting frustrated.
He walked over to me, no doubt because of my awesome grouping...lol, and asked me if I had ever seen so much trouble from a new gun. After a few questions he asked if I would shoot it and see what I thought. No problem...I loaded a magazine and it went bang every time.
I politely gave her a quick lesson on how to grip the gun and suggested she try it again. Sure enough...bang, bang, bang...every pull of the trigger. Yep, you probably guessed it. She was limp wristing the gun. 10-15 minutes later all I saw was smiles and high fives as she shot one mag after another.
He came over a little while later and thanked me for helping both of them out as he said my advice actually helped him tighten his group as well. It felt good to know I had made a difference and it was pretty cool to watch the frustration turn to joy.


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Everyone's favourite cigar-chomping, catch-phrase slinging, animalistic mutant makes his next-generation solo debut with the X-Men Origins: Wolverine game for consoles and PC - a simplistic hack-and-slash movie tie-in.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - looks good?
Graphically, Origins is a mixed bag. The pre-rendered cut-scenes are simply astonishing, and Raven did a marvelous job with many of the main character models (Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is simply astonishing, right down to the stubble) but as the game progresses, it becomes increasingly obvious that the game's lustre wasn't distributed equally.
For each bump-mapped to perfection shot of Logan, you're going to face a blocky, lacklustre Mystique or Wraith. For each jaw-droppingly detailed shot of untamed Africa, you're going to be met with test tube after identical test tube in the Weapon X facilities. Incredible amounts of slowdown when too many enemies fill the screen, not to mention a terrible case of clipping and invisible walls, also ruins the flow of the fast-paced, breakneck gameplay.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - redeeming qualities
Okay, I know I've been pretty rough on Origins so far, but the game definitely has its redeeming qualities. From the ability to customise Logan's strengths and Mutagens as you level up to the amount of material laid out for fans of both the comics and the X-Men films, there's definitely aspects that any geek will drool over.
For the most part, the game's animations flow fantastically and you can't help but feel like a badass when you unleash a Claw Drill on Gambit's smug Cajun ass. But the trade-off is always there: for every awesome moment like slashing your way through a room full of pissed off robots there is an equally tedious moment spent pushing boxes around and turning cranks.
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The recent New Balance 990 30th anniversary edition was widely praised as one of the most true-to-OG trainer retros in some time. New Balance is apparently planning on moving forward with more colorways that stick to that classic 30th anniversary build. Shown here are the sneakers with just a bit more color injected, as a dark navy takes over the suede and mesh sections on the upper. Click through to check out all the angles on this New Balance 990 and if you're looking for a pair, the team at Feature Sneaker Boutique in Las Vegas has theirs in stock right.
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His Majesty King Abdullah II Thursday returned home following a working visit to Japan, where he discussed with Japanese officials mechanisms of activating economic cooperation between the two countries, particularly in the field of investment and trade exchange, in addition to the Middle East latest developments.
His Majesty King Abdullah II said Jordan's economy was moving in the right direction and "our efforts over the past five years have been devoted to conduct economic and social reforms." This is clearly illustrated through the international financial institutions' assertion that Jordan has accomplished a distinguished economic restructuring, King Abdullah added in interview with the Japanese leading paper "Nihon Keizai Shimbun".
2 July 2002
Jordanian-Japanese historical ties have been further strengthened and deepened through a meeting bringing together His Majesty King Abdullah II and Emperor of Japan Akihito and Empress Michiko at the Emperor Palace on Tuesday.
His Majesty King Abdullah II's talks with Japanese officials and representatives of firms Monday focused on mechanism of activating economic cooperation between Jordan and Japan, and urging Japanese firms to invest in Jordan and be informed on the investment opportunities Jordanian economy affords for foreign investors.
30 June 2002
His Majesty King Abdullah II Sunday started a three day working visit to Japan, where he is due to discuss with Japanese officials economic relations between the two friendly countries, Japanese aid to Jordan and increasing Japanese investment opportunities in the Kingdom.
29 June 2002
His Majesty King Abdullah said that Amman's "political saloons" is the biggest barrier facing Jordan's development because they are working against each other adding that this game must end. The King, however, welcomed the existence of "political saloons" which work positively.
29 June 2002
His Majesty King Abdullah II Saturday left for Tokyo in a four day working visit to Japan, where he is expected to meet with Their Imperial Majesties Emperor Akihito and Empress Mitchiko.
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His Majesty King Abdullah II on Saturday will begin a three-day working visit to Japan to hold talks with Japan's Emperor Akihito. It will be the King's second visit to Tokyo since ascending the Throne in 1999.
27 June 2002
Production of wood has been started in Aqaba following a 17 year stop due to the stumbling and accumulated losses that inflected the factory. His Majesty King Abdullah II Thursday launched the new factory, owned by Red Seas Company, which will enable 120 workers out of 250 find job opportunities.
His Majesty King Abdullah II on Wednesday received at Beit Al Barakah Commander General of the U.S. Central Command Lt General Tommy Franks.


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The Deal: Crown Castle Falls on Deal for AT&T Cell Towers
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Shares of Crown Castle were falling 2.8% to $73.83 in mid-day trading.
Crown Castle, of Houston, said the deal includes the outright purchase of 600 AT&T towers and that it would bring it between $245 million and $255 million in adjusted funds from operation per year. It has the right to buy the remaining 9,100 towers for $4.2 billion after 28 years.
"Consistent with our focus on the top 100 U.S. markets, nearly half of the AT&T towers are located in the top 50 markets, where we expect the majority of network densification and upgrade activity to occur," said Crown Castle President and CEO Ben Moreland in a statement.
It's the second big purchase of towers by Crown Castle in a year and the second big deal in the sector in about a month. The company in September 2012 agreed to operate T-Mobile USA Inc.'s 7,200 towers in a $2.4 billion, 28-year agreement.
Last month, American Tower (AMT - Get Report) announced a $4.8 billion acquisition of rival MIP Tower Holdings LLC from backers Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, Dutch pension fund manager PGGM and the target's management. That agreement covers 5,400 cellular towers. Crown Castle said AT&T, of Dallas, signed a 10-year lease agreement to house its equipment on the towers at about $1,900 per month per tower, with 2% rent increases per year. AT&T will also have access to excess capacity on the towers for upgrading its equipment. "This deal will let us monetize our towers while giving us the ability to add capacity as we need it. And we'll get additional financial flexibility to continue to invest in our business, maintain a strong balance sheet and return value to our shareholders," said AT&T's Bill Hogg, who is senior vice president at the company's network planning and engineering unit, in a statement. The broadcast masts currently have plenty of room for expansion, Crown Castle said, as they average 1.7 tenants per tower. The company accelerated a conversion into a Real Estate Investment Trust to give it better access to financial markets ahead of the purchase. On Sunday it also released third-quarter results that showed net income rose 9% to $45.8 million on a 21% revenue increase to $749 million. It will also start paying a quarterly dividend of 35 cents, starting in 2014. Crown Castle expects to close the deal by year-end. It is the largest towers operator in the U.S. with 40,000 cellular masts. Rival American Tower, of Boston, has about 15,200 in the country. AT&T turned to TAP Advisors LLC and JPMorgan Chase & Co. for financial advice with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Bryan Cave LLP providing counsel. A Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP team including Stephen L. Burns, Erik R. Tavzel, Johnny G. Skumpija, Benjamin C. Hewitt and Curtis R. Weber acted as counsel to Crown Castle.--By Andrew Bulkeley in New York.
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Life Gaps and Wanting More
We all want things to be better in our lives, no one says, "Wow, I wish things could be worse." We all want to be healthier, more fulfilled, happier, more successful, more loved, more loving, and experience increasing significance. We want to look in the mirror and be completely satisfied with who we are as a person on how our life is being lived. Nothing wrong with that, for sure.
Yet, if you are like most people, there are areas where you are dissatisfied. The person you want to be isn't who you are. The way you act, live, and interact with others leaves you painfully aware of the gap between what you hoped for and what reality is. Everyone senses these gaps on a daily (even moment to moment) basis, though they may not be able to put their finger on what they are feeling. Like the gap between the teeth of that cute girl you fell in love with in 1st grade, there are gaps in our lives between what we expect out of ourselves and what we end up being and doing.
Underneath the gap that we see between who we are and who we want to be, is a deeper gap. It's the gap between God and ourselves. We sense we were created by God, to live eternally, with God, forever. That's why seek God, that's why we desire to overcome death, that's why we imagine paradise — like existences. It's the stuff of poets, philosophers, and alike. All sensing the gap, trying to bridge it, and imagining what life is like without it.
At every level, spiritual, emotional, and physical, there are gaps. The question isn't, "are their gaps in my life?" the question is, "what are you doing with them?"
To the the question, "What are you doing with them?" most people respond with one of four answers: religion, church, self-help, or life-enhancement. The problem with each one of these is, they don't work. "Religion" just makes you more aware of the gap as you can't seem to bridge it no matter what spiritual gymnastics you do, "church" futilely focuses on keeping you from acting on the gap with a bunch of rules to follow that you end up breaking, "self-help" tries to convince you that the solution to the gap is within you when it's not, and "life-enhancement" simply tries to put lipstick on the gap, hoping you won't notice it anymore. That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it.
Admittedly, I have first hand experience with all four attempts to overcome the gaps in my life. In college, I dabbled in "religion" in the form of new-age trends. I have read all kinds of "self-help" books and psychological theories and applied their principals. I have even tried "life-enhancement" through pursuing success and behavior modification tactics available in both religion, church, and self-help arenas. And to be sure, as a pastor of 17 years, I have tried "church" as a way to fix the gap through focusing on overcoming it by following Christian "rules." So, I can tell you through first hand experience, none if works. None of them made me a better person, neither in my being nor in my doing. No gaps were closed nor diminished. In fact, a lot of it made me frustrated, disillusioned, and exhausted.
There are a lot of genuine people (maybe even you) who are simply looking for solutions who feel the same way … frustrated, failing, and fatigued. Yet, we wonder what to do. If we can't find a real-deal-solution through going to church, applying some self-help technique, pursuing life-enhancement, or signing up for some kind of religion, what are we to do? Especially since many Christians churches are actually contributing to the problem because they aren't presenting the true Gospel. I must admit, at times, the way I have presented Jesus and His Gospel has contributed to the problem. As a pastor, I was like many Christian churches when it comes to the Gospel, so close yet so far away.
So here's what has finally and truly changed my life and satisfied my soul. Here is what I want to tell you, and the message God has em-blazed upon my heart and as is using Amy and I to build a church around ….
God loves you, as is. He is not waiting for you to clean up, shut up, or grow up. He loves you with an everlasting love. God's love of you is perfect. In fact, God is love. He can do nothing but love you. And you simply being created by God is reason enough for Him to make you the object of His love. It has nothing to do with what you have or have not done or will do.
In a real sense, it would be illegal for God not to love you, He would be a house divided against Himself because He is love. Don't worry about coming to Him, you can't. That's why, through Jesus, He comes personally to you. Throw out the image you have of God who is simply waiting for that moment of failure in your life to push you under His thumb and make you pay. His deepest desire is to love you, give His life to you, and be with you forever. He believes your best days are ahead, and that nothing in your past needs to keep you from having His future. God is on your side, always has been, always will be.
God loves you. It's that pure and simple.
Because God loves you so much …
Jesus came to give you a completely new identity.
This is critical to understand because your identity is the combination of who you are and who you believe yourself to be. It's about 1) who you actually are, and then 2) your perspective of you are. Both are critical.
That's why giving you a new identity involves first making you into a completely new person with a new nature, new standing, new future, and a new purpose, through your faith in Jesus' finished work on the cross. Jesus gives new life by first giving us a new identity. There isn't much of a new life without a new identity. Becoming a new person doesn't do much if you don't know you are a new person. To give us a new identity, He must make us into a completely new person, through and through.
Without becoming a new person, we are as good as dead. As is, everything about is has an expiration date… our hopes, dreams, love, abilities, and admirable qualities. Everything. As good as we seem to be, because of sin, we are as dead as can be. Look around, everybody dies. And the truth of the matter as, we can never measure up spiritually, emotionally, and physically as we are. We don't just live in a broken world tainted with sin, we are a broken world, tainted with sin. Everyone, everywhere, everything.
The good news is, Jesus offers us a completely new identity by killing our old self, and giving us a completely new self. This is the essence of what Jesus accomplishes for us on the cross. He didn't come to enhance our life, He came to crucify it and then resurrect it. It's not about renovating your life, it's about resurrecting it by killing it (spiritually) and then rebirthing it (spiritually). If your old self doesn't die, your new self can't live. We don't give our life to Jesus (as well meaning as that sounds), Jesus gives His life to us. Our former life is of no good to Jesus, we have nothing to give Him. Additionally, our life is no good without Jesus, through His lavish Grace, He has everything to give us. And by "everything," I mean everything. Only His Grace can bridge our gaps!
That's the heart of the pure Grace and Gospel of Jesus Christ. We give Him nothing (cause we can't), He gives us everything (cause only He can). This exchange happens through one action, our "faith."
The new identity and life God offers you through Jesus (received though faith) makes you into a completely new person with a new way of seeing yourself. Did you take that in? A completely new person! Your sins past, present, and future are forever forgiven. You become the righteousness of Christ, having no longer any form of condemnation from God in your life whatsoever. Don't read that too quickly, let it penetrate your heart… "no condemnation". You are completely made whole, lacking nothing. Every gap is filled. You are free from guilt and shame, and are given the mind of Christ. You are no longer under the law (rules), but under Grace. You don't have to perform to get to God or even keep Him close. You don't have to be a better person, you get to be a better person. Your performance no longer shapes your identity, your identity shapes your performance. God's Spirit lives in you, not to convict you, but primarily to convince you of your righteousness in Christ, the very thing Satan wants you to discount! Though you will still sin (because of our flesh), it is no longer your nature to sin (or worry, fear, doubt etc.). Sin no longer defines who you are, Jesus does; His life, living in and through you. You are perfectly loved by God and completely pleasing to Him. It is no longer you who lives, but Christ who lives in you. You lack nothing, you have all the fruits of the Spirit in seed form, and the Holy Spirit will help you to will and act according to God's pleasure in your life. It's all Jesus, not you! If it were you, it wouldn't work.
Jesus doesn't just want to give you a new life, He wants you to believe you have it! He wants it to become your identity.
See, if you don't believe it, you first won't receive it. And if you receive it, but don't continue to or truly believe it, you won't be blessed by it. Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God. It's how what God has becomes what you have. That's why so many people aren't Christians, and why so many Christians are living defeated, discouraged, divided, and desperate lives. They don't prevail, they fail. As 2 Peter 1:9 says, "For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins" Right belief leads to right living. If you miss the Grace of God and who you have become in Christ, you will miss the blessings of it. That's why the complete Gospel of God's grace is so critical! You will never know your true identity until you see it and believe it's true about you!
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As you believe it, you will live it. The goal of the Christian life isn't your obedience, it's faith in Jesus' provision. Sadly, for many Christians obedience is the root, and faith is the fruit. Yet, the opposite it true. Faith is the root, obedience is the fruit. A new identity equals a new way of living, not the other way around. The more you believe in who you are by the Grace of God in Christ, the more you will live it.
Satan always tempts us to do the wrong things by first tempting us to believe the wrongs thing about who we are and what we have (or can have) in Christ. Notice that with Jesus, immediately after His baptism, Satan first tempted Jesus to doubt His identity as the "beloved son of God with who God was well pleased" which God had just declared over Him mere hours before Satan tempted Him to turn the stones to bread. In fact, Satan strategically and conveniently removed any mention that Jesus is beloved by God and well pleasing to the Father. Instead, he simply asks, "If you are the son of God…turn these stones…" in a futile attempt to get Jesus to believe the wrong things about who He is and what He has in the Father so that He would do the wrong things.
Satan is still vigorously trying to do the same with us, subtly trying to remove from our sense of identity that true believers are sons of God, beloved by God, and completely pleasing to Him. If we believe the wrong things about our identity, we will do the wrong things in life. An obedience problem is always first an identity problem. A gap problem is always a Grace problem.
Let me remind you again, for a true believer in Jesus, there is no condemnation over their life, none. You have become, through Jesus' shed blood, the righteousness of Christ, and that is not merely a positional reality, but a complete reality. You are without blemish, all your sins (past, present, and future) have been put away (killed) through the cross, they are no more in the eyes of God. You have been made a new creation, the old is completely gone. You don't have two natures, you have one. The old Adam is gone. (ref. Romans 6:6, Galatians 2:20) Christ lives in you, you have His mind. It is no longer your nature to sin, fear, worry, be depressed etc. It is no longer our nature to sin (though we do), and when we sin, it no longer defines us or separates us. You don't live from you, trying to be a better person bridging the gaps, that will never work! You live from Jesus, through faith in His work in you, and become a better a person. In Christ, you aren't just a better you, you are a completely new you. 100% Jesus, 100% you. You lack nothing, absolutely nothing. I think you need to hear that again, "you lack nothing!"
This is the right belief of your identity, it's all focused on Jesus and His Grace, not on your performance. Which, ironically enables you to perform with increasing faithfulness. As I stated earlier, right identity leads to right living. People who believe in the true Gospel of the Grace of God through Jesus don't sin more, they sin much less. The gaps in their life don't expand, they close. Their freedom becomes a catalyst for faithfulness because their heart overflows with thanksgiving for what Jesus has done as they walk in a completely new sense of self and life without guilt, shame, and sense of condemnation. It truly is amazing Grace.
"For if by the transgression of the one [Adam], death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ." (Romans 5:17)
An abundance of Grace is what leads to prevailing (living much better) in life, not an abundance of guilt, shame, and rules. Believe in the abundant Grace of God for your life and see the results! Watch the gaps close. Remind yourself every moment, "I am already forgiven, I am the righteousness of Christ, there is no condemnation, it is no longer my nature to sin, I am better than that, I lack nothing, greater is He that is in me than is in the World, I am fully pleasing to the Father, I am perfectly and completely loved, I am a son of God (Galatians 3:26)" and see how your life and living improve.
God gave me a great analogy that I hope will bless you … Trying to live like Christ and bridge the gaps in our life from our own efforts is like trying to sing like Celine Dion. You can hear her voice in your head, but you never can match it with your own. But if Celion Dion could somehow live in you, you could sing just like her as you allow her voice to become your voice. Her identity becomes your identity. In the same way, Jesus lives (or can live) in you (through faith), and when we live from Jesus in us and the identity we have because of Him, we will more and more act just like Him.
Living a gap-closing life is about our actions catching up with our true identity, not our identity being caught up in our actions. You cannot become a better person until you become a new person and believe it. Only Jesus can make you new. If you are in Christ through faith, you are a completely new person. You are a much better person, and when you believe that, you will act more and more like the person you are in Christ… much better!
In Christ, you have no gaps, now believe it, receive it, and live it! The more you have faith in the Grace of God, the more God's blessing flow to you. When you rest in God's Grace, He goes to work on your behalf. When you go to work on your behalf, God's grace rests. Happiness, success, joy, peace, loving and being loved, health, and even wealth are stored in God's grace, not your own your efforts.
Believe it, receive it, live it!
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Country fans, get your jeans, your head rags and boots ready as country legend Willie Nelson will perform at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park at the first two-day Down On The Suwannee Music Festival being held on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 16 and 17.
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If you love and appreciate North Florida's springs and rivers, particularly the Itchetucknee, you will be rejuvenated by a presentation by local photographer and artist Steven Earl on Thursday, Oct. 22 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Fort White Community Center in Fort White.
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John 10:1-10 - Easter 4: "A Shepherd To Lead Us"
Look at the picture Jesus gives us here in John 10: This wonderful vivid portrait of a shepherd caring for his sheep. The shepherd would lead his sheep out to distant areas and stay there for days. Being a good shepherd he created a temporary corral, a pen to keep the sheep in when they were not grazing. Using the crude stones of the field a shepherd could quickly put together such a structure and at night he would lay his body down in the opening of this corral making himself the door. No sheep could wonder away at night unless it stepped over the sleeping shepherd and no wolf could come in to do harm without waking the shepherd. He is the gate. Do you see what is happening here? More than any other duty the goal of the shepherd is to protect the sheep. This is how you know a good shepherd from a bad shepherd. Does the Shepherd. . .does the leader have the best interest of his people at heart? How do you know that he or she is a good shepherd? You know by looking at the sheep. Looking at Jesus' teaching here in john 10 I want to ask a few questions and see what the answers might be? 1. What are the needs of the sheep? The rest of this sermon can be obtained by joining eSermons. CLICK HERE here to join eSermons.com today. Or, sign up by calling toll free 1-800-350-8339. eSermons.com offers thousands of sermon illustrations like the one below: The conclusion to this powerful illustration and many more can be obtained by joining. Look for illustrations under Ephesians 2 to find this CS Lewis illustration.
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Give us your cricket blog URL! Building an RCB Blog roll!
Inspired by the blogs & sites you fans (like Govind) are creating, we thought of building a directory - a blog roll - where we can collect all of these for other fans to see, and put the blog roll here on this page! Based on how many of you are interested, we can even create an embeddable badge that says "PART OF THE RCB BLOGGING COMMUNITY" or "12th MAN AT RCB" (you tell us).
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1. It must mention how awesome the Royal Challengers are.
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If you're on the RCB blog roll, we'd like you to write about some of our contests/activities. Not so much all the small ones, but for instance about any FFCs and Mighty 14 contests we run. After all, we want this Fan Club to be as big as possible don't we!
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KUALA LUMPUR: Former Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Mahadzir Mohd Khir (pic) has passed away from a stroke at 67.
His eldest son Muhamad Anas, 35, said his father had been admitted to Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) after suffering a stroke at 6pm on Tuesday while resting at home with his family.
"He was unconscious and the doctors told us that there was bleeding in his brain. He was in coma when he passed away," he said here.
The remains are expected to be brought to the Section 14 mosque in Petaling Jaya before burial at the Bukit Kiara Muslim cemetery at 10am today.
Dr Mahadzir, who was born on May 16, 1945, in Yan, Kedah, leaves behind his wife Datin Dr Amla Salleh, three children and a grand-daughter.
Muhamad Anas said his father, who underwent a heart surgery in 2004, recently attended a relative's wedding here and accompanied his wife to a seminar in the United States before Hari Raya.
"He was a loving, helpful, sincere and generous man. We will miss him," he said of his father, who was also Sungai Petani MP for two terms from 1999. - Bernama
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Volvo's biggest SUV, the XC90 has seen only limited updates since its introduction for model year 2003. The V-8 engine option disappears for 2012, and the standard 3.2-liter six delivers tepid acceleration in AWD models. Consider the slightly smaller and much handier XC60 as an alternative.
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We should not ignore all big software companies are not supporting this bill.
A week ago BSA cut their support for the bill after they read it. It includes big companies like Microsoft and Apple.
Almost only big software companies that are supporting are Nintendo, Sony, Electronic Arts and Ubisoft. With Activision Blizzard voicing they are against the bill very early on.
This bill does not support artists, since they spread their name through internet it is made purely for Hollywood and big labels.
SOPA if passed will be very hard to ensure the disposal of all pirated sites and all sites that lead you to a pirated site. It is a great idea to stop people from illegally gaining money, but it is just not possible to delete all of the theses people from using their sites due to the fact people from all over the world have these sites. It would have to be a global effort and everyone would have to abide by this act. I just do not think that this is feasible even though it would be great if it could be possible.
"Search engines direct users to pirated content and make money off the ads that appear next to the search results"
This doesn't ring true - try http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=harry+potter+dvd and http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=harry+potter+torrent and decide for yourself which makes a search engine more money (same applies for Bing). The challenge is to persuade consumers that they don't need to add "torrent" to find an easy way to purchase or rent the work.
Maybe the content companies need a gigantic change so as to adapt the new era. Cassettes and vinyl records has disappeared,also CD will die. I think, the content companies can add some advertisements in the products, such as a lipstick ads with Lady Gaga's new songs(mp3).
Agreeing with Lucrecius, Intellectual Property (starting with the name which is a misnomer) needs an over haul. The Economist has recognized the ways in which the system retards growth in the past, but not so much in this article. In the US, at least some of the founders viewed intellectual property as free/public domain, but appropriate to give creators temporary monopolies, to the extent that this would spur innovation and commerce more than leaving it all in the public domain. If we take this as the measure of justification for IP laws, any law that creates economic growth in a measure that offsets the negative growth and decreased education caused by the monopoly is good - otherwise the law is bad. By this measure, the current US system is very bad and SOPA makes it worse. For shame, Economist for not using this article as a chance to more firmly articulate your liberal (in the European sense of the word) principles.
Well dsanford,
The UK is not Europe - it is the little marionette of the US...
It`s worth's remembering why there is a copyright in this world.
It was once created to protect the investment in book printing machines only and not the right of authors or other creatives...
The whole area needs an overhaul - look at all this IP mess, all the different National laws. Competition is sniffled, progress restricted and and the consumer either has to pay or live with the disadvantages...
The US way is certainly the wrong way - not even Lieberman is able to control anymore the Global internet. Or do the US citizen want to life in a China like state?
The most worry idea of the legislation is that it bypasses the normal rule of law: Walt Disney can disconnect your Internet just by alleging piracy, bypassing any courts.
Another example: News Corporation can disconnect The Economist.com domain should the just allege copyright violation. No legal proof required, just a form to fill in to the ISP!
content generators always link piracy with lost revenue.
but this is not usually the case,
the vast majority of pirated music/tv shows/movies etc i download i would not be willing to pay money for if piracy was not an option - I would simply go without as the products just are not worth enough to me
this is the case, i suspect, for most people who use torrent sites
only a small proportion of what i download would i ever buy - if i couldnt get it for free
Weak argument. Just because you consume more culture via piracy doesn't change the fact that you no longer buy cd's and dvd's that you would've bought otherwise.
And lost purchases are lost profits: Adjusted for inflation, US music industry profits are down 63% from their peak in 1999.
Then go without them, then.
That way, you won't be a thief and can move freely in civilised company.
No matter how you try to dress it up, what you are doing is theft. You are denying creative artists their legitimate compensation and means of making their living.
I think the US government needs to take something from the recent ruling in the European Union. I mean most of the same content is being distributed there so if the EU's equivalent of the supreme court in the US is basically saying that these types of laws are not in line with personal freedoms of communication (eg. http://blog.operationreality.org/2011/11/24/eu-court-of-justice-rules-ag... )then shouldn't this whole thing be reviewed? The SOPA is simply not acceptable as is and our American justice system should step up and say something just like the Europeans did.
Any attempt to block pirate sites will soon be circumvented, and will tend to harm only legitimate users of the 'net. This is especially true when heavy-handed technically illiterate government proposals are at the heart of any intended action. It may simply be more effective for the music industry (for example) to alter its business model rather than spending untold time and effort on ultimately futile attempts to turn back the tide.
SOPA is the worst piece of legislation to every attack the Internet! There are many ways for creatives to make money, there are even sucessful models that embrace file sharing and piracy. Vodo, Flattr, and others are showing that a new model is possible and with hundreds of millions of file sharing users out there the Pirate Party stands to gain in elections every time governments attempt to harm the free flow of information around the globe.
It's nearly 2012 people, we need to all realize that dinosaurs will either adapt or die.
You are 100 percent correct. I don't usually comment on these threads, but the argument that jobs are being lost from piracy and illegal downloads is completely false. The internet is eroding the power of large content distributors, and allowing consumers and producers to circumvent them. These anti-piracy laws are attempts by content distributing firms to maintain their monopoly power over media. The internet allows us to either purchase directly from artists at a much lower price if we choose too. And is often preferable because it allows consumers to be guaranteed good download speeds and high quality content. Look at bands like NiN, once they were free from record company contracts they produced records faster and profited more from it (selling albums at the price of $1 or $2 dollars, which is about how much they would get from a $20 album sold through a distributor). The thing is that album was also easily pirate-able but consumers had were willing to pay a premium to support the artist and ensure good quality content.
Bills like this are just another example of special interest groups purchasing legislation. And lawmakers having no regard for anyone but those who fund their campaigns.
Internet is bounded by no country, no religion, no areas. It is global, and to impose laws which protect contents, we need global laws. By creating more global ties and letting other countries help understand the threat, US can make such laws. Like world bank or IMF, we need a organization which can impose global laws and can start legal action against hacker living in remote areas too.
Your nuts, why don't we just give up all national sovergnty in general while were at it!
Well thats highly unlikely. We can't even manage to adequately enforce international law on war crimes, genocide or the proliferation of nuclear materials and arms... you really think we can do it to protect copyright laws??
Don't be ridiculous...
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The Olympics are an opportunity to watch sports we don't usually see like team handball or dressage. Musician David Was has been thinking about something the games give us the opportunity to hear.
DAVID WAS, BYLINE: Now that the Olympic games are in full swing, it's time to take a closer listen to national anthems, those trumpet-heavy salutes to patriotism. Long before nation states or beach volleyball tourneys, privileged nobles needed drum rolls and brass bands to herald their comings and goings, a habit that persisted once crowns and scepters gave way to polling booths and voter fraud.
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With the help of a special spectroscopic camera developed by a Texas Tech University physicist, researchers at Caltech and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network captured rare images of a star in another galaxy going supernova within a day of the star's explosion.
This is the first time scientists have pinpointed a star that eventually exploded as a stripped-envelope supernova, called a type Ib, said David Sand, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics who developed the camera.
The global team of astrophysicists, led by Yi Cao of Caltech, found the supernova on June 16. Their research was published online Aug. 30 in the peer-reviewed journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
"It is very rare to catch a supernova within a day or two of explosion," Sand said. "Up until now, it has happened at most about a dozen times. It is equally rare that we actually have Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the location of the supernova before it happened, and we were able to see the star that eventually exploded."
Sand said it took 73 million light years for the illumination from the star's explosion to travel to Earth.
"This star was quite far away in the galaxy NGC 6805, although we would consider it a 'local' galaxy," he said. "There is no way of knowing if something so far away has any planets around it. However, it is unlikely. We found that the supernova came from what is called a Wolf-Rayet star. It is very massive and very young. It likely did not live long enough to form planets."
Wolf-Rayet stars are known to have stellar winds where they eject some of the material off their surface and spew it out into space. Observations indicate they are devoid of hydrogen, but contain helium in the remaining outer layer of the star.
Their massive size leads to a speedy demise, Sand said. Where our sun is roughly 5 billion years old, this star was only in the tens of millions of years old. Wolf-Rayet stars tend to burn up all of their fuel quickly in order to support their own weight because the nuclear burning balances out gravity.
Cues from the spectroscopic camera images led researchers to classify their discovery as a type Ib supernova, which are thought to be the explosions of these massive stars that have lost their outer layers right before their death due to a stellar wind.
Exact details of what happens in these supernovae are murky, he said. When they do explode, they burn roughly as bright as five billion of our suns.
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The Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory project, which is a scientific collaboration with California Institute of Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin and several others, is an automated survey of night sky dedicated to finding transient supernova events. The survey finds hundreds of new supernovae annually, and scientists here try to understand what types of stars become which types of supernova.
Sand led the development and operations of the special camera, the FLOYDS spectrograph, which was used to help identify the specific kind of supernova. Taking a spectroscopic image helps scientists to tell what kind of supernova they're looking at by splitting the supernova's light up into the colors of the rainbow.
David Sand (right) with Matt Dubberley, LCOGT engineer.
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A normal photograph isn't enough to tell, he said.
The FLOYDS spectrographs, of which there are only two in the world, are attached to two-meter telescopes located in Hawaii and Australia. The cameras operate completely robotically allowing scientists to confirm supernova earlier than ever before.
In the last six months, Sand and others have confirmed 25 different supernovae with the new camera. This particular supernova is one of the first published results.
"This is where FLOYDS comes in, and its robotic nature, which lets us study supernovae young," Sand said. "That's the first story. The second story is this lucky Hubble imaging from 2005. Someone took an image with Hubble of the galaxy where this supernova happened. Just sheer luck – nothing to do with the supernova or seeing into the future or anything. Zoom to 2013, and we discover the supernova within a day of its explosion. We look in the Hubble data archive and notice the image from eight years prior, and we just match it up with our most recent data to see if there is a star in the old image at the exact same position as the supernova today.
"The second story really is luck, but it is happening more and more these days as the Hubble telescope collects more images of nearby galaxies."
Sand said scientists can take another Hubble image at the location of the supernova after it has faded away. If the star that he and others identified as the progenitor to the supernova has disappeared, then they will know which star died. Otherwise, if the star is still there, then the supernova came from some other object too faint for researchers to see, and the mystery continues.
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