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letters to 7 churches correspond to 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and 7 bowls in # order
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Hi reFORMer,
Thanks for the link! What I've seen so far makes sense as far as "how" to read the book of Revelation, but I haven't "seen enough" of why God's chosen the particular punishments that He's chosen in the Book of Revelation -- whether by definition with all of the things that it says that the masses won't repent of, if those are the most medicinal and most direct way of reaching the ultimate repentance that He's after, OR, if there's a certain amount of gratuitous retribution with the choice in punishments.
I'm aware of the fact that "wrath" in the Greek (orge') means an explosive expulsion of the substance of the One that's exploding. So that in the instance of God being the Personification of nothing but "love," we're talking about the love of God reaching the boiling point to where it's ravishing. It's the same Greek word where we get the English words "orgy" and "orgasm." But how that exactly translates between spirits seems to leave room for a lot of interpretation based on all of the available details. At least for the time being 'cause I didn't grow up with the Universal Restoration message and have been playing "catch up" for 7 years ever since I had my Damascus Road experience while reading Jan Bonda's book, "The One Purpose of God." I still remember the very line that made me a heretic forever that he built towards for 108 pages. On pages 108 and 109 he asks the devastating question, after all he'd said up until then:
"If a king conquered death and he is appointed to rule over the dead, what else can this mean for those dead than their salvation? What purpose would his victory over death have if he would not use it to free his subjects from the archenemy who keeps them prisoners? What other reason could there be why he was resurrected by God? His kingship brings salvation for all who have died, for it does not apply only to some of the dead, while the rest remain subject to the old ruler. That ruler has lost his power (2Tim. 1:10)! Therefore 1Corinthians 15:22 tells us that all who die in Adam will be brought back to life in Christ."
I spent the first 5 years that I was a Universalist secretly trying to find out why it was too good to be true, why this had to be wrong, where the exegesis strayed from reality, and every book; every word study; every explanation in church history for why this wasn't mainstream just repeatedly pierced my heart in no less tangible of a way than the spear that went into the side of Jesus. I was writing from a UR perspective from the very first year that I started seeing this message. I had somewhat of a grasp on the message by Holy Week of 2001 between Jan Bonda's book, Jukes's "Restitution of all things," and the J.W. Hanson and Louis Abbott materials on Tentmaker, but I had absolutely no rest for 5 years because of the level of animosity against this message -- even by otherwise Spirit-filled believers.
Some of the animosity made sense because with too many UR websites it's a package deal where it seems as though you've got to not only buy into UR, but into anti-tithe, preterism, and other things that are definitely the diametric opposite of the mainstream. That's too much change, too much of a temperature difference, and too full of a plate for the average person bumping into UR for the first time.
But when you'd bring up the true meaning of "aion" and it's Old Testament equivalents, the usage of aion and of aiona ton aiona in the Septuignt, which was the Bible for the earliest Christians, and dozens of Scriptures that required no translational help, and you'd still nearly get chased out of town, tarred and feathered, etc. That didn't set too well with me. I was looking for where the misunderstanding was going on on my part, so that although this was making sense, perhaps I was taking things out of context because I wasn't a Greek scholar back then. I'd just earned my first Th.D. at the time, and with the particular program of Biblical studies and my choice in dissertation topics, I never ran into much New Testament Greek either when getting my M.A. or my Th.D. I've (of course) played catch up along the way since then -- mainly because of this ongoing crisis of faith where I had to know that I knew that I knew if I was going to pursue one of the most rejected historic messages of Christianity.
After the first 5 years of reading UR books from the 1700s to the present, noticing the SLOPPPPY GARBAGE posing for scholarship in W.E. Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament words, how the newer editions of Strong's Concordance "react" to the perceived heresy by narrowing their definitions along long cherished Augustinian doctrinal lines, and other shell games that I was noticing on the part of the elders at the gate of tranditional Christendom, I came to realize that it wasn't paranoia on the part of Gary Amirault and others, but some people in positions of Christian academia are deliberately, systematically resisting the truth by absolute diabolical misleading ways.
Elhanan Winchester's book "Universal Restoration" was a tremendous help during that time since it's 4 chapters of absolutely nothing but questions and criticisms from the perspective of the eternal torment paradigm and straight talking Biblical answers that weren't evasions or emotional banter against the criticisms, but actual Biblical verse-by-verse answers from a mind as sharp as St. Paul's.
All throughout this time period, it's been becoming increasingly clear that we really need to tighten up our interpretation on the book of Revelation. If preterism or partial preterism is the interpretation, then bless God, be able to explain the thing verse by verse by verse with no loopholes. But if it's futurist or historicist (i.e. contemporary) prophecy, then it's time to start having answers that are second to none for those that ask us a reason for the hope that is within us, as St. Peter advises.
I look forward to reading David Ebaugh's interpretation of the book of Revelation. Hopefully it'll either let me finally lay the book of Revelation to rest, or if I disagree with anything he says, maybe it'll be just the trigger for more clearly manifesting and solidifying my own interpretation. Revelation 5:13 alone makes the book of Revelation totally worth knowing how to present it, knowing what to believe about the whole book as a whole, how to interpret it alongside of Paul's Gospel, etc.
I'm far enough along to where I know that I know that I know that premillenialism ISN'T the right interpretation of prophecy. I was on that boat the first 31 years of my life and finally realized it was the biggest part of the sinking Titanic of pagan nonsense that I had to dump. My appologies if this is the least bit sharp for anyone that still views prophecy through the premillenialist lense, but in the fall of 2006 I was getting corrected through my own preaching before I had ever heard of Postmillenialism and before I'd ever seen any careful exegesis of it. "Behold, now is the tabernacle of God with men" (Revelation 21) Now, that's your "Second Coming" and not Revelation 19.
See the article that I've got in my "other authors" section at martincisneros.com if you've been married to the interpretation of Revelation 19 being the Second Coming. I've got an article from someone that specifically deals with the spiritual vision of the Cosmic Rambo scenario, which would contradict Acts chapter 1, as well as all of the passages regarding His Melchezedec priesthood, if it were the Second Coming 'cause that's DEFINITELY NOT the way that He left. They're not a UR author, but Postmillenialism is emphatically one or two steps away (3 at the most) from UR to where I'm astonished that Calvinists that believe in Postmillenialism don't slip into the well of infinite grace just simply from that side of the well that they're dancing on, if nothing else. Many Calvinists are Premillenialists, so this isn't an automatic appologetics tool for dealing with them. Some of them long for the sword swallowing Christ to come and massacre all of these heathen devils.
I've since removed the article mentioned in the last paragraph from my website, however I've this evening added a link to it on a new thread at this Book of Revelation board. It's the thread on Revelation 19.
The book of Revelation -- whatever the truest view of prophecy ever winds up being -- is one of the very first things that mainstream Christians throw in your face if you come to them with UR. It's in the interests of all of us to tighten up our interpretation of the whole book, and not just rely on being able to explain "ages of ages" from the Septuignt as a limited duration, and a good interpretation of "brimstone" doesn't suffice for too many Christians because of the overall sense of the rest of the book of Revelation to their carnal mind. But, with the last 7 bowls is COMPLETED the outpouring of the wrath of God. He'll have poured it all out! All of it!! So, whatever your interpretation of "wrath" from passage to passage, if in your view some of the passages allow for absolute retribution, it says that by that time period He's going to pour absolutely all of it out once and for all. And Paul gives us the interpretation in 1Corinthians 15 of how all of those seeds of God's wrath have to come to harvest 100 fold. What's corruptible must put on incorruption, and what's mortal must put on immortality, because all that died in Adam will be made alive in Christ.
Absolutely all of the promises of destruction and restoration must be fulfilled in their entirety. This is all that any Universalist contends for.
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them. (Psalm 68:18)
For we must needs die, and are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. (2Samuel 14:14)
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed. (Psalm 72:17)
The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. (Psalm 119:64)
The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. (Psalm 145:9)
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? (Proverbs 20:24)
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. (Isaiah 25:7-8)
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. (Isaiah 26:9)
And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. (Isaiah 40:5)
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. (Isaiah 53:11, remembering from Romans 5 that the One + the many = ALL.)
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? (Jeremiah 32:27)
The Scriptures are clear about all of these things. There's probably about 800 passages of Scripture that all say the same thing along these lines. But we've got to get the book of Revelation out of the way, as far as it's usage as a stumbling block among mainstream Christians to keep them from embracing the Universal Restoration as foundational to the character, provision, and wisdom of God, as well as the extent of His might, faithfulness, wealth, and harvest from the Cross of Christ. Fundamentalists that find our comments on Romans unanswerable always hide behind the book of Revelation. And it's not just aion, fire, and brimstone passages. The King James book of Revelation and the book of Revelation of other translations that by their own admission "continue in the traditions of the King James Bible" paints a bleak picture of God. Some of that is the fault of the chapter number and verse number designations, that many people take to be "Gospel." Numbering for chapters was begun in the 13th century, while numbering for verses was begun in the 16th century.
It would be too big of a pain in the butt to try to get Christians on an international scale to consent to revisiting the subject of how the chapter numbers and verse numbers are laid out. And some are too ignorant to not be offended by the thought of such a project, as if we would somehow be mutilating the autographas of the Scriptures or whatever. "If those chapter number and verse number designations were good enough for Moses, David, Isaiah, Jesus, and Paul, then they're good enough for me, bless God!!" It's not worth either having to, or feeling the need to slap so many people over such a historical sacred cow.
We've got to start thinking generationally, that if we don't press into the Holy Spirit for more accurate interpretations of the book of Revelation and of other "hard sayings" of the Scriptures, then the boogey men that chased us under our bed sheets will still be there for our grandchildren and great grandchildren. With the internet and study resources available today, as well as more time available for such meditations, prayers and fasting in the Holy Spirit, giving and believing God for a harvest of righteousness, and our ability to "document" outpourings of the Holy Spirit for posterity, we have it within our power to have a Reformation within 25 to 50 years that would be more significant than the Reformation of 500 years ago.
I'd love to share more along the lines of this perspective. Not sure that I know of any more to share, but I'll lean on the Holy Spirit for some type of typing utterance 'cause I've already shared all that's thus far occured to me along these lines. Both due to this computer having some graphics issues when it comes to working with the Adobe program, and because for too many years I never did my own studying but read everybody else's books to know what I believed :icon_jokercolor: the Lord won't let me have a look at the link that was posted on this thread for an interpretation that's already been given by a former NASA staff member on the whole perspective that this thread was started with. The Lord will probably let me look at it later, but for a few days/weeks/months the Lord's wanting me to study to show myself approved. He's been having me fly solo on the whole Hosea 2:18 Animal Gospel as well, so, that's sorta nothing new with the Lord wanting me to study the Scriptures for myself on a topic.
Right now, I'd love to know if the book of Revelation was written in the way that it was to keep prying eyes out of it's message 'cause [if this is the way to interpret it] to the undecerning eye it would appear to be just gibberish or the ramblings of a crazy man when read from start to finish, from chapter 1 to chapter 22.
(Joseph Prince claims it's division into 22 chapters isn't accidental, but is Providential. He claims that each chapter corresponds to each of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the imagery associated with each of those letters. But I don't have a copy of his teaching along those lines. And I [genuinely] don't know if he makes it available in the US. Anybody reading this that would like a peak for themselves at teaching along those lines can try contacting his ministry at www.josephprince.org to see if they make any book of Revelation teaching available in the U.S. He's also briefly teased on his television program, while talking about other things, that the 7 seals of the book of Revelation relate to the 7 types of spirits that you're freed from when you come to Christ. That's mean, his having teased like that and not having given more details on that occasion, right? :icon_jokercolor: But he did allude to having already taught that and having it on either CD or DVD.)
I think that the first chapter of Revelation points to this being the way to read it when Jesus passes along the message through His angel that He's wanting those 7 churches written to. (i.e. what we've been talking about with the letters to the 7 churches corresponding with the 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and 7 bowls in numerical order) If this isn't the way to read it, then minimally these patterns were put into the book to show it's divine inspiration and that it's not just a collection of myths, visions, and dreams that grew over a couple of centuries -- as is always the criticism with everything related to Christianity to start with in higher academia. At least in the United States.
I'd noticed in Daniel chapter 2 that with that vision of the 4 world empires, that it's a situation where all 4 of those are concurrently a problem when Christ would grind them to powder. At least, that's how the NASB is indicating. I'm not too sure how this fits in with my Postmillenialism, since Christ commenced His reign 2000 years ago. But perhaps this goes into the category on the difference between the time frame of "Church militant" and "Church triumphant" when we plow right into the millenial reign of the saints.
Has anybody besides me noticed that we've been dealing with Babylon in the middle east with this "war on terrorism" and now the prince of persia is wanting to raise hell? Next is something Greek. What, I couldn't possibly tell you apart from the Holy Spirit manifesting with a Word of Wisdom. And then something Roman, which some are telling us is the "revived roman empire" with the E.U. It's in the days of these 4 issues on the world scene that Christ annihilates the competition for world dominance. The supposed fulfillment from what? 2500 years ago or so, until 1800 years ago wasn't a situation where all 4 were concurrently competing for world dominance. If all of this were going to go down right now, then we've got basically 4 spheres of existance right now that everything else fits under the category of with the religious, the cultural, the economic, and the political. Daniel's vision is repeated twice with the same bottomline message. One is the different parts of a statue that are made of different things that are supposed to represent these 4 world forces, while the other is 4 different animals at work, if I remember right. Daniel chapter 2 and Daniel chapter 7 seem to essentially have the same message. One of the creatures in Daniel 7 is a leopard. And we have a leopard appearing on the scene in Revelation 13:2, according to my CLNT and my NASB. I don't have a copy of the Concordant translation on the book of Daniel, so, I'm not sure if they'd concur in the translation of a leopard for Daniel's vision. But, all of the big Bible commentaries will try to claim that this leopard was Alexander the Great. But what's he doing over here in the book of Revelation around the middle of the book? We could try to argue for the preexistence of Christ for the earlier chapters of Revelation, but that would make it all hopelessly confused on why He's already opening the seals, releasing the trumpets, and the bowls in the behalf of mankind if He hadn't even died yet.
Whatever anybody thinks about the nature of these judgments from the first chapter of Revelation to it's last chapter, it's noteworthy that the Apostle of Love wept when he thought that nobody was going to open the scroll with the 7 seals. Which in our study here would translate into his weeping over the trumpets not getting blown and the bowls not being poured out, if they're all different ways of looking at the same thing or follow up info on the status of what's going on over time with the same things released by the letters and the seals, whether we're talking about over a period of months, years, or generations from the first to the last of the seals, trumpets, and bowls. John wept at the thought that nobody would unleash all of that.
I'm sure that a lot of us as little kids, after hearing the contents of the book of Revelation for the first time, were wondering why Jesus even bothered with opening the seals if it was all going to turn out SOOOO BADLY!! :laughing7:
So, this would take you back to the definition that I'd given on "wrath" a post or two ago in this thread. The Apostle of Love thought that something would be amiss if those seals weren't opened. With the 7th trumpet being blown, we find a leopard being unleashed on the scene in Revelation 13:2. If I'm reading it correctly, then it says in Revelation 13 that this leopard only has dominion for 42 months, or three and a half years. But it conquers the saints with it's blasphemy against those dwelling in heaven, which according to Ephesians is us. This has to be read with Daniel 'cause I believe it's in Daniel chapter 7 where it says that the saints are apparently overcome UNTIL the judgment is rendered by the Most High in the behalf of the saints. And comparing Daniel with Revelation on these points, it's obvious that the millenium begins around this time, or rather shortly thereafter. This would agree with the millenium being a part of the judgment of the 7th bowl 'cause we live and reign with Christ (going forth conquering and to conquer) for a thousand years and disciple the nations. After the leopard falls before the saints, there's still evil going on on the earth and perhaps for a considerable amount of time afterwards, but we've regathered our barings and are riding with Christ conquering and overcoming the nations at this point with the proclamation of the Gospel.
In Revelation 11 with the blowing of the 7th trumpet, there's an earthquake, lightnings, thunders, and great hail, which might agree with Hal Lindsey and others if all of this comes out of some type of nuclear blast with war in the middle east. That's not the only possible reason for the earthquake, but because of the nature of it and the way it's described in Revelation 11, as I've just said, then that's why I'm inclined to think that something really nasty just happened in the Mediterranean region around the time of the blowing of the 7th trumpet. Perhaps that's how the leopard comes to power in Revelation 13:2, in whatever form that winds up being, whether political, religious, economic, or cultural with television or whatever. With the pouring out of the 7th bowl -- remembering the parallels that we'd been talking about thus far, and that we've just talked about the 7th trumpet -- with the pouring of the 7th bowl, we have lightings, voices, and thunders yet again in Revelation 16, like we did in Revelation 11's closing. And because of the magnitude of the earthquake that's indicated in this instance in Revelation 16, then that's why I'm inclined to believe that we're dealing with something nuclear or perhaps with meteorites 'cause of the lightnings, which could be either spiritual or natural phenomenon. The lightnings in Revelation aren't as carefully spelled out as the candlesticks being Churches or the city of 7 hills which is either Rome, Italy, or Bath, England, or any number of other places with 7 hills that might be involved if this is future prophecy. Allowing for just a moment that this might be a nuclear catastrophe that's just happened, in the 17th and 18th chapters of Revelation we have the burning of the spirit of prostitution, and of perhaps a literal city, whether Rome, a republic of Babylon, or whatever.
--- Quote from: martincisneros on April 03, 2008, 06:21:41 AM ---. . . which could be either spiritual or natural phenomenon. The lightnings in Revelation aren't as carefully spelled out as the candlesticks being Churches or the city of 7 hills which is either Rome, Italy, or Bath, England, or any number of other places with 7 hills that might be involved if this is future prophecy. Allowing for just a moment that this might be a nuclear catastrophe that's just happened, in the 17th and 18th chapters of Revelation we have the burning of the spirit of prostitution, and of perhaps a literal city, whether Rome, a republic of Babylon, or whatever.
--- End quote ---
(Old) Jerusalem sits on 7 hills. She's the Mother of . . .
I definitely want to restudy everything in the light of Old Jerusalem being on 7 hills. That's very interesting. Fits certain parts of Revelation 18 and not other parts. If it's a future prophecy, then there's still time on the details making sense. Until I finally started pursuing looking into Revelation as a series of 7s that were interconnected in sequential order throughout the book, I was starting to relegate the whole thing to just being spiritual warfare rather than physical events 'cause I was having a different interpretation every single time that I'd read through the book. And often my next interpretation would completely contradict all of the others. I was mentally playing with preterism, but I wasn't liking how dependent that that would make me upon Josephus for interpreting a book of the Bible if I pursued being able to fully explain it that way. For preterists, Josephus and other historians wind up being the 67th+ books of the Bible.
The 7s interpretation that the majority of this thread has been about is the first consistent interpretation that I've ever come to where it would be possible for me to hang on to it without being tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine regarding the book.
Obviously, this creates some additional questions for me. Why am I not able to fit the 1st, 4th, 5th, 21st, and 22nd chapters of Revelation into this interpretation?? But on the other hand, being able to explain the 17 more significant chapters, or at least being able to come to some kind of elementary coherent understanding of them, is a more restful place for me to be. I didn't like feeling like I had a grasp of the first 26 books of the New Testament and would draw a blank on the last book of the New Testament. This creates the additional question in my mind as to whether or not there's this kind of pattern/coding/whatever with Zechariah and a couple of other Old Testament books that otherwise and likewise seem to be disjointed mysteries that you have to cookie-cut from for any type of doctrine from them. This interpretation at least gives me the sense of prayerfully being able to discern the times. Although I've never read it, it used to bug me around 2003/2004/2005 that Elhanan Winchester had written a 4 volumn set called "lectures on the prophecies that remain to be fulfilled" and not only was I not able to afford them since every copy that I've ever seen has commanded over a thousand dollars, but it made me wonder if I'd ever be able to fully grasp Bible prophecy for myself at all. Having a copy of Scarlett's New Testament, I have a feeling that I know what are some highlights of what he taught, because of some of the footnotes that probably came from William Vidler, who was a disciple of Winchester's. They were of the opinion back then that the 17th and 18th chapters were being fulfilled in their day. A bit of a historicist interpretation, it appears to be, that might be the content of Winchester's Lectures. Whether he was teaching Anglo-Israelism or something approximating it, I can't be sure, because I've never read his lectures on the prophecies that remained to be fulfilled. But I don't see how he could have taught anything approximating that they were in the 17th and 18th chapters in their day, if that's ever anything that he ever taught, without going there. Because otherwise, the book is reasonably clear that it covers many middle eastern events.
With the book of Revelation essentially being about the ultimate triumph of Jerusalem over it's enemies, I'm a bit convicted that I've never interceded long enough to know a general Apocalypse in relation to the future of Fort Worth, Texas where I'm living. If God will reveal the future of one city, then why wouldn't He reveal the future of other cities?? Particularly if it would be in your best interests -- and perhaps in the interests of His purposes for your life -- for you to move because of approaching plagues, natural disasters, or greener pastures elsewhere for your life, ministry, and lifestyle. So, aside from any other lessons that we might draw from the book of Revelation, I'm partially challenged about seeking the Wisdom of God regarding where I live and the cities that immediately connect with where I live, or that might have spiritual, economic, cultural, political, or other baring on it.
This letter illustrates perfectly the inherent negativity of modern exegesis. Most Christians would recognize this as the letter to the Church that's going straight to Hell where they'll be bathed in the blasphemies, the brimstone, the devil's pitchfork, etc., etc., etc. in the ever-increasing Kingdom of Satan's Lake of Fire that'll ever be filled with each of those worlds whose unrepentant inhabitants the new Hitler...uh...er...I mean Christ will be tossing in there to writhe and to scream, moan, sob, and shriek as God heaps greater and greater suffering upon them throughout the endlessness of eternity as God uses all of His magnificent power in a perpetual miracle and outworking of His faith to increase their torments in proportion with each new level of acclimation that the inhabitants of the habitation of the damned reach as their sin increases, expands, and abounds to the glory of Satan, the Almighty Free-will of mankind, etc., etc.
Sorry, I was starting to get a bit carried away as I beheld the beast that sits upon many waters, but you get my point without my further elaboration...
This Laodicean Church is actually the zealous Church that repents, opens the door, and dines with Christ continually while seated on His Father's Throne until they [together with Christ] deliver up the Kingdom to the Father in 1Corinthians 15:28.
This 7th letter corresponds with the 7th seal, the 7th trumpet, and the 7th bowl of Revelation. These aren't just the 11th hour repenters, these are the repenters at 11:59:59:59 for whom the heavens are hushed for half an hour with the opening of the 7th seal. This is the Church that lives to see the Kingdoms of this world having become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ in Revelation 11:15 with the blowing of the 7th Trumpet which is one of the triumphant crowning acheivements of the preaching of the Gospel. They are the woman in the wilderness in Revelation 12 whose "seed" is caught up to the Throne of God while they themselves are nourished in the wilderness in Revelation 12:6 on the wedding dinner of the Lambkin that's spread before them in the process of time in Revelation 19 after the pouring out of the 7th bowl.
It's the very Church that's going forth conquering and to conquer whose robes are dipped in Blood and who've inherited the Name "Word of God." What they've bound on earth is bound in heaven and what they've loosed on earth is loosed in heaven as we see in Revelation 19 with Christ going forth with the armies of heaven in His High Priestly ministry in the beautiful vision that is given to us of what's going on as the Church on earth has moved from the militant phase to the occupational phase because the devil has been bound for a thousand years. Revelation 19 shows Christ in heaven as the New Testament "Abraham," while the Church -- His "Isaac" -- is on the earth enjoying the hundredfold.
Not only is the 7th letter; the letter to the Laodicean Church the picture of those whose gold is refined in the fire and whose garments have been made white in the Blood of the Lamb, but they've wiped lukewarmness from God's Creation. They're a type and shadow of us, and at the same time they're historically a Church that many theologians and pastors will be repenting to with much weeping for all of their misrepresentations of their overcoming character in the 1st century.
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MILLBURY, Mass. — The Millbury Police Department welcomed two new members to their ranks with the addition of new Officers Keith Gasco and Jacob Webb.
Webb and Gasco graduated with the 20th Recruit Officer class from the Boylston Police Academy on Friday, Dec. 7. Forty recruits from around Massachusetts graduated from the 22-week academy run by the Massachusetts Police Training Committee.
Acting Police Chief Don Desorcy, Officer Christopher Poselli and Officer Anthony Belliveau attended the graduation. Gasco and Webb were sworn in after graduation and will begin working as Millbury patrolmen later this week.

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ELIZABETHTON — It was unfamiliar territory for Elizabethton, but the Cyclones played like it was old hat.
Elizabethton's senior class earned its first district basketball tournament victory, hammering Happy Valley 68-42 in the 1-AA semifinals Saturday night at Treadway Gymnasium.
"It's just a big weight off our shoulders," said Elizabethton's Will Robinson. "We always had to play in an elimination game, but having a bye allowed us to clam down and play our game."
The Cyclones (21-6) earned a berth in Tuesday's championship game at 8 p.m., where they will meet Sullivan East (24-6). The top-seeded Patriots avoided the upset, beating Sullivan North 56-54.
In girls' semifinal action, Happy Valley ran away from cold-shooting Unicoi County for a 47-28 upset of the top-seeded team. Also, Elizabethton overcame a sluggish start and pounded Sullivan East, 60-36.
Elizabethton (23-4) will play Happy Valley (13-13) for the district title Monday at 8 p.m. It will be Happy Valley's first appearance in the championship since 1996.
Saturday's winners, for both the boys and girls, earned home games for the first round of the regional tournament, which begins next weekend. Saturday's losers will travel for the quarterfinal contests.
One night after pulling off a 53-51 upset of Unicoi County, Happy Valley's boys managed to hang around for a quarter against Elizabethton. However, the Cyclones slapped the Warriors with an 16-4 run to start the second quarter.
The Cyclones did a lot of damage by attacking the Warriors' as they dribbled.
"That was getting back to the basics of what we've wanted to do all season, getting pressure on the ball," said Cyclones' first-year head coach Lucas Honeycutt. "We did a good job of that."
The Cyclones put the game away in the third quarter, hitting the Warriors with 7-0 and 8-0 runs during the period.
Zeke Clark led the way for Elizabethton. The junior point guard had 17 points, five assists, three rebounds and three steals. Robinson totaled 15 points and five rebounds.
Robinson said the victory started with defense.
"When we press well, we get easy shots," said Robinson. "Playing defense and rebounding were the big things."
Josh Price led the Warriors (5-23) with 15 points and nine rebounds.
Happy Valley (girls) 47
Unicoi County 28
The Lady Blue Devils couldn't buy a bucket, and Mackenzie Blankenship couldn't miss. The combination was a disaster for Unicoi County.
"We came out with good attitudes, and I thought we executed better than we have all year," said Blankenship, who finished with 24 points. "We were patient on offense. I thought every shot we took was a pretty good look. We didn't force anything."
That was especially true for Blankenship, who scored 15 points in the first half but wasn't forcing up shots in a scoreless third quarter. She connected on three 3-pointers in the game, none bigger than the one with 5:05 left in the fourth quarter that gave the Lady Warriors a 34-23 lead.
Kalee Johnson also had a huge impact for Happy Valley. She scored only five points, but defended well in the paint and totaled 11 rebounds as the Warriors outrebounded the bigger Lady Blue Devils, 30-28.
"Kalee did a job and a half on the boards," said Happy Valley head coach Larry Abel.
Happy Valley struggled to get past Johnson County on Friday, winning 43-42, but held Unicoi County to single digits in every quarter.
"I told you at the first of the year to watch out for the Lady Warriors at tournament time," said Abel.
Point guard Shalee Perry added nine points for the Warriors.
"I can't say enough about Shalee," said Abel. "She stepped up and handled the ball, and got it to Mackenzie, KJ and the others."
Unicoi was led in scoring by Emily Edwards, who finished with 13 points. Chelsey Harness added 11 points while Destinie Hayes had nine rebounds.
Elizabethton (girls) 60
Sullivan East 36
Freshmen twins Kayla and Kelci Marosites did a number on the Lady Patriots, combining for 31 points, 12 rebounds and six steals.
Kayla had 20 points, including a 14-point first half.
"They come in and just play," said Lady Cyclones' head coach Len Dugger. "I thought did a great deal trying to neutralize Whitney (Roberts) and Reazyn (DeMoss), and (the Marosites) made shots. And what goes unnoticed are the deflections, the 50-50 balls, the big rebounds, and stuff like that, which is huge."
East led 16-9 midway through the second quarter, but the Cyclones went to an aggressive fullcourt press and ripped off an 18-2 run.
"Really I think that's just what we have to do," said Dugger. "We've got to play defense at a high level. When everything is said and done, we've got to defend."
Sarah Bradley totaled 10 points for Elizabethton.
East (20-10) got 11 points from Savanna Summers. Tori James added nine points and eight rebounds.
Sullivan East 56
Sullivan North 54
The Patriots got what they wanted: time running down in a tie game with the ball in David Casaday's hands.
Casaday, who hit a 3-pointer with 1:21 remaining to put East ahead after trailing the entire game, got fouled with 5.3 seconds to go and made both free throws.
Chase Arnold, who missed the front end of a one-and-one opportunity in the final minute, missed a 25-foot 3-pointer at the buzzer.
"The guys believe, no doubt," said East head coach John Dyer of his team's late comeback. "You can't put a price on tournament wins."
Casaday led East with 21 points while Jon King added 16.
North got 17 from Arnold and 14 from Grayson Ball. Hunter Jones made four important 3-pointers and finished with 12 points.


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Monthly Archive for February, 2008
Making Peace with Jesus
Easter is one of the hardest holidays for Unitarian Universalist ministers. The holiday is about something most Unitarian Universalists don't believe in. Most of us don't believe in bodily resurrection, especially after being dead for three days. The only way I could believe it would be if he wasn't really dead when they took him […] [Read More]
Taking the Plunge
My sermon this morning was on the topic of "Plunging." The inspiration to talk about this topic came from listening carefully at the Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship Convocation at the Garrison Institute in Garrison, New York in the middle of April last year. Our theme presenters at the Convocation were Bernie Glassman and Eve Marko […] [Read More]
Fort Lauderdale Security Headaches for Our General Assembly in June
Our yearly meeting for the Unitarian Universalists will take us to the Greater Fort Lauderdale/ Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the end of June. I know a number of UU's are less than thrilled to be headed to Florida this time of year so there was already some crankiness about the […] [Read More]
Forrest Church's Cancer Returns
Got a message on the the minister's chat line that Forrest Church, minister in All Souls in New York City, announced to his congregation his cancer has returned after a bout with it in 2006. It has spread to his lungs and liver so he realizes he is likely to have a terminal diagnosis. The […] [Read More]
Awakening in the World
I was in conversation with a spiritual teacher with a center near me. I told him I was an Insight Meditation Society student (located in Barre, Massachusetts) and had been practicing Theravadan vipassana or insight meditation for many years. He then challenged me to come to a retreat with him, that my experience would be […] [Read More]
Understanding Iran's relationship with our Imperialism
I record radio broadcasts so I can listen to them on my MP3 player while I drive around town. One of the broadcasts I record is Alternative Radio. If there really is a leftist media, this is it, along with Amy Goodman's Democracy Now. I recently listened to a very informative speech by New York […] [Read More]
Unitarian Universalist Mardi Gras Service (and Prayer)
We're celebrating Mardi Gras this Sunday at our congregation. When I've told people about it, I've gotten questioning looks. What does Mardi Gras have to do with Unitarian Universalism? Well the service should be a great answer to that question. I take some of my inspiration from a UU minister from New Orleans now serving […] [Read More]
Investing in Albany Neighborhoods
I was pleased to read City of Albany Common Council member Dominic Calsolaro's letter to the editor in the paper this morning. While I was hopeful that a convention center would bring a new revenue stream into the city, and that we could work out a favorable community benefits agreement, the price tag now seems […] [Read More]


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The first-century Roman tragedies of Seneca, like all ancient drama, do not contain the sort of external stage directions that we are accustomed to today; nevertheless, a careful reading of the plays reveals such stage business as entrances, exits, setting, sound effects, emotions of the characters, etc. "The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy" teases out these dramaturgical elements in Seneca's work and uses them both to aid in the interpretation of the plays and to show the playwright's artistry. Thomas D. Kohn provides a detailed overview of the corpus, laying the groundwork for appreciating Seneca's techniques in the individual dramas. Each of the chapters explores an individual tragedy in detail, discussing the "dramatis personae" and examining how the roles would be distributed among a limited number of actors, as well as the identity of the Chorus. "The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy" makes a compelling argument for Seneca as an artist and a dramaturg in the true sense of the word: "a maker of drama." Regardless of whether Seneca composed his plays for full-blown theatrical staging, a fictive theater of the mind, or something in between, Kohn demonstrates that he displays a consistency and a careful attentiveness to details of performance. While other scholars have applied this type of performance criticism to individual tragedies or scenes, this is the first comprehensive study of all the plays in twenty-five years, and the first ever to consider not just stagecraft, but also metatheatrical issues such as the significant distribution of roles among a limited number of actors, in addition to the emotional states of the characters. Scholars of classics and theater, along with those looking to stage the plays, will find much of interest in this study.
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WILLIAMSPORT - Vinny Clausi and Merle Phillips said they were unaware the lawsuit filed against them by fired Northumberland County employee Kymberley Best was settled, and both said they wouldn't have agreed to a settlement because they don't believe they did anything wrong.
But the county's liability policy with ACE Westchester Fire Insurance Company allows the firm to settle without the county's consent, something county solicitor Frank Garrigan described as somewhat typical for liability coverage.
Barry Kronthal, of Camp Hill, the attorney who represented the county for ACE, was unavailable for comment Thursday regarding the settlement, but Garrigan said a confidentiality agreement that's part of the settlement will prevent any details from being disclosed.
Reached Thursday afternoon, Best said she couldn't comment.
Notice was filed in federal court in Williamsport Tuesday that Best's lawsuit against the county, Clausi, who is county commissioner chairman, and Phillips, a former commissioner, has been settled with the aid of a mediator. The filing says a mediation conference was held Tuesday.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann signed the order to dismiss the case without costs and prejudice to either party. The action can be reinstated within 60 days if the settlement is not consummated.
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Clausi stressed Thursday that the settlement, whatever dollar amount it might involve, will be paid by the insurance company and cost taxpayers nothing. The only cost to the county to have ACE represent it was a $25,000 deductible paid soon after the suit was filed.
Clausi said the notion of a "settlement" suggests he admits to wrongdoing when he says that's not the case.
Phillips agreed with Clausi and was shocked to learn about the settlement through the media.
"There's no way I would agree to settle it because I didn't do anything wrong," Phillips said Thursday. "I didn't even do a deposition."
Best filed the suit in May 2011 claiming wrongful termination and defamation after she was fired March 18 of that year from her dual role as assistant county solicitor and chief clerk. She was paid a $70,762 annually.
She would later file an amended complaint, but five of her initial claims, including due process, equal pay, conspiracy, wrongful termination and state whistleblower violations, were dismissed by Kane in August 2012.
Clausi and Phillips had also filed motions requesting the suit be dismissed, citing immunity as public officials.
On Oct. 27, 2012, Best filed a second amended complaint. Remaining in the suit were free speech claims that allege retaliation and a part of the whistleblower claim that dealt with her reports of deficient air quality in the register and recorder's office in the county courthouse related to mold from a leaking roof and a related danger from a glass dome on the roof.
At the time she filed her lawsuit, Best also filed a 13-point complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) accusing Clausi of sexual harassment.
The lawsuit and PHRC complaint were in part tied to an incident that occurred 10 days before Best's firing at a meeting in which Clausi acknowledged he "flipped out" on Best. But Clausi said he felt vindicated when state police and the state Office of the Attorney General closed their investigation into the incident without filing any charges.
County's rights
Garrigan said Thursday he was contacted recently by Kronthal and was told ACE, which has offices nationwide, was going to entertain an offer for settlement. Garrigan said he mentioned that none of the defendants was ready to consent, but he was reminded that the firm did not need the defendants' permission to settle, per terms of the policy.
Garrigan said he received a phone call Tuesday informing him a settlement had been reached.
Clausi and Garrigan said there are other liability policies for various departments or personnel where the county has more leeway. But even where the county has a right to consent to or refuse a settlement, the county takes a chance it can be responsible for financial payouts well beyond the deductible.
"We like the ability to consent, but at the same time, you're rolling the dice every time," Garrigan said. Taxpayers are put at risk for footing the bill should the county lose the case or have to pay part or all of a large settlement.
The settlement of a lawsuit filed by former county prison deputy warden John Conrad and his wife, Lisa, speaks to the differences in policies and settlements. In that case, the settlement amount, $87,500, was disclosed.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Kevin McCarey (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) scored the game-winning goal at 2:07 of overtime to lift the University of New Hampshire men's ice hockey team to Saturday night's 3-2 win against Providence College in Hockey East action at Schneider Arena.
UNH, which moved into a sixth-place tie with the Friars, improves to 11-14-2 overall and 8-11-1 in Hockey East. The Wildcats extended their unbeaten streak vs. the Friars to 17 games 15-0-2 and their win streak in the series to 10 games. PC is now 10-14-2, 8-10-1.
McCarey collected the rebound of a Connor Hardowa (Edmonton, Alberta) shot and spun around firing a backhander that beat PC netminder Alex Beaudry. Austin Block (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) also earned an assist on the game-winning tally.
Casey DeSmith (Rochester, N.H.) stopped 34 shots including 14 in the third period. He improves to 5-5-0, while his counterpart Beaudry is 9-14-2 with 25 saves including 10 in the middle stanza.
In a fast-paced first period it was UNH that broke the ice just 2:53 in as Hardowa roofed a slapshot over Alex Beaudry's glove side from the right point. McCarey fed Hardowa from behind the net to setup the one-timer. Mike Borisenok (Watervliet, N.Y.) also assisted on the goal by winning a loose-puck battle behind the net. PC answered with a goal of its own just two minutes later. Stefan Demopoulos potted his fifth goal of the season by finding a loose puck in front of the Wildcat net after a scrum. Ross Mauermann assisted on the goal at 4:53. New Hampshire regained the lead on a Greg Burke (Lee, N.H.) power play goal at 8:31 of the first. Burke knocked home the rebound of an Eric Knodel (West Chester, Pa.) slapshot from the high point. Grayson Downing (Abbottsford, British Columbia) slid the puck to Knodel, who blasted a slapshot that bounced out to an open Burke in front of the net. PC held a slim 11-10 shot edge in the period.
In a scoreless second period both teams had chances. UNH outshot the Friars 10-9 including a grade-A bid by Kevin Goumas (Long Beach, N.Y.) in the final minute of the period. Both teams were 0-1 on the power play in the period.
Providence got it tied up early in the third period as Demopoulos scored his second of the night just 1:16 into the period with assists from Mauermann and Shane Luke. The Friars would have the better of chances in the third outshooting the 'Cats 14-5 in the frame.
Prior to McCarey's game winner each team had a pair of shots on net over the first two minutes of the extra frame. Overall, the Friars held a 36-28 shot advantage for the contest.
UNH was 1-3 on the power play, while PC was 0-1 in its extra-skater opportunity.
UNH returns to action Friday, Feb. 10 against Northeastern University. Puck drops at 7 p.m. at the Whittemore Center for Operation Hat Trick Night. The contest will be televised live on WBIN-TV. For more information on Operation Hat Trick Night or for tickets to UNH home games log on to www.UNHWildcats.com.


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Phillies at Giants
10:15 p.m. on CSN
The Phillies' brief West Coast road trip reaches its second leg Friday night when they travel to perhaps the game's best-looking stadium, AT&T Park in San Francisco.
The Phils are 53-68, losers of three in a row and five of six.
The Giants are 63-57, 5½ games out of first place in the NL West but just ½-game off the wild-card pace.
Here are five things you need to know about the series opener:
Here comes Cole
Cole Hamels carries baseball's best second-half ERA into Friday's start.
Since the All-Star break, Hamels is 3-1 with a 0.73 ERA in five starts. He's put 30 men on base in 37 innings and struck out 38.
The run of dominance has been long and unlike any we've seen from Hamels in his already storied nine-year career. He's 6-6 with a 2.37 ERA on the year, but remove his first three starts of the season and he has a 1.76 mark in 18 games.
Hamels has allowed three runs or fewer in 17 of those 18 starts and two earned runs or fewer 13 times.
One of the best outings of this stretch came against these Giants, back on July 24 at Citizens Bank Park, when Hamels gave up one run over eight innings and struck out 10.
AT&T Park is a spacious place where it's much easier to leg out a triple than hit a home run, but Hamels has not fared well there in five career starts. He has a 4.76 ERA and 1.50 WHIP in San Fran.
Lefty aces duel
Hamels takes on Madison Bumgarner in a battle of the NL's second- and third-best left-handed pitchers. (Clayton Kershaw obviously tops that list.)
Bumgarner, 25, is enjoying another Cy Young-caliber season. He's 13-9 with a 3.22 ERA and 1.16 WHIP in 25 starts. He's struck out 158 batters in 162 innings and walked just 37.
Since 2011, Bumgarner ranks 11th in the NL in ERA (3.14), ninth in WHIP (1.13), 10th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.81) and 10th in opponents' batting average (.232).
Hamels has been slightly better in each category over that span, posting a 3.01 ERA, a 1.09 WHIP, a 4.00 K/BB ratio and a .228 opponents' batting average.
Bumgarner has pitched 17 innings over his last two starts, following a two-hit shutout of the Mets on Aug. 3 with eight innings against the Royals in last Friday's loss.
Very strangely, he's been ineffective at home. At AT&T Park, Bumgarner is 4-6 with a 5.60 ERA and a .309 opponents' batting average. On the road, he's 9-3 with a 1.72 ERA and a .206 opponents' average.
Current Phils have hit .241 against him. Domonic Brown took him deep once. Ryan Howard and Chase Utley are a combined 1 for 11 with five strikeouts. Jimmy Rollins and Marlon Byrd are a combined 5 for 29.
The role of spoiler
It's mid-August, but we're already at the point where the Phillies can do nothing in the standings except prevent other teams from improving their playoff chances.
Of the Phils' next nine series, eight come against team with postseason hopes. They take on the Giants, Mariners, Cardinals, Nationals, Braves, Nationals again, Pirates and Marlins between tonight and Sept. 14, with the only meaningless series being a three-gamer at Citi Field against the Mets to close out August.
While that could mean frustration for contending teams, it could also equal plenty of losses for the Phils, who are already on pace for 91. If they don't steal some of these upcoming games, a 95-loss season for a team with a $180 million opening payroll looks likely.
Free Darin Ruf
Not sure what the Phillies' plan is here. Ryne Sandberg is taking a short-term approach with his lineups, attempting to win each day. It's hard to tell a baseball lifer not to do that.
But it's also hard to comprehend why the Phillies are more concerned with winning meaningless games than giving regular playing time to Darin Ruf or Domonic Brown.
The Grady Sizemore experiment has worked, but what has that accomplished? If Sizemore remains healthy and keeps hitting, all he's doing is making himself more expensive to re-sign in the offseason. That serves him well, but does nothing for the Phils.
Ruf and Brown probably won't be able to prove over these final six weeks that they are everyday players. But they can at least gain some confidence and valuable experience against big-league pitchers.
Thinking so much more about the now than the future has gotten the Phillies to this point. When, if ever, will this regime learn from its mistakes?
Friday night offers Ruf an opportunity to play, either at first base or a corner outfield spot. You might wonder how he'd hold up in left field at AT&T Park, but if Mike Morse can do it…
This and that
• Buster Posey is 8 for 14 with four doubles and a homer against Hamels.
• Giants centerfielder and offensive catalyst Angel Pagan returned from a two-month DL stint last week and has hit in all six games.
• Rollins, born in the Bay Area, hasn't hit much in San Francisco. He has a .222/.262/.386 career batting line in 39 games at AT&T Park.


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By Joanna Doerfel, Res Ipsa Staff
The United Nations designated 1994 as the "International Year of the Family." Aldrich Ames was charged with spying for the Soviet Union by the United States Department of Justice. Major League Baseball went on strike, cancelling the World Series. O.J. Simpson was arraigned for the murder of his wife and Ron Goldman. FSU beat Nebraska in the Orange Bowl for the national championship.
But something else happened in 1994 – something only slightly less wellknown and certainly noteworthy – Joanne Harvest Koren, Esq., inaugurated the Academic Achievement Program (AAP) at the University of Miami School of Law. The AAP involves students, faculty, and the law school administration in a collaborative effort to promote and enhance the academic environment for the law school. But at that early stage, the benefits and far-reaching effects of the AAP were greatly underestimated.
Benefits to 1Ls
Beginning first-year law students (1Ls) are given the opportunity to study under other exemplary upper-level students, known as substantive Dean's Fellows, in each of the areas of study required during 1L year – Torts, Property, Elements, Criminal Procedure, Civil Procedure, Contracts, and Constitutional Law. These additional study sessions provide 1Ls with a comfortable, informal, yet invaluable opportunity to ask questions and further delve into foundational subject matter. A current 1L, Cassandra Spring, acclaimed, "I started the program with high expectations, and luckily I've had great Dean's Fellows that have exceeded them all!" Carolina Pelleya, a third-year Dean's Fellow, observed that "the Program is extremely useful in that it breaks down a lot of the barriers implicit in 1L year, it makes teachers more approachable and the language of the law more easily understood because it is interpreted by fellow students. I feel that I not only benefitted tremendously my 1L year from the DF Program, but I was also able to give back to that Program and hopefully help others in the process."
Additionally, the AAP provides first year study-groups and exam-workshop lectures to assist 1Ls in adjusting to the rigors and requirements of law school exams, and law school life generally. Not only do these groups and workshop lectures prepare students for exams, but they also encourage 1Ls by providing additional support, revealing other students with the same concerns, worries, and frustrations; in short, supplying a sense of community in the whirlwind of law school. Another Dean's Fellow, Veena Gursahani, asserted that "the program is a valuable asset to the first year students because not only do you automatically have someone willing to help you with the class, but you have someone who you know wants to relate to you. We're all doing this because we wanted to make the 1L experience better for someone else, because we wanted to help."
Benefits to 2Ls and 3Ls – the Writing Center
But the benefits do not stop with 1Ls. In addition to substantive Dean's Fellows, the Writing Center is available to all law students, providing assistance in paper-editing, Bluebook citing, resume writing, and general knowledge and assistance in law school life. "The AAP Writing Center is an extremely valuable asset for 1Ls and upper-level students alike. The Writing Center is staffed by Dean's Fellows who have demonstrated strong command of essential legal research and writing skills," Josh Feinberg notes. "Every day, Writing Dean's Fellows assist their fellow students with grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and organization of written compositions. The Writing Center gives students the opportunity to refine their legal writing skills in a friendly, non-adversarial, and stress-free environment." Every student can all benefit from this resource, if only to get a fresh eye or a new perspective in a paper or resume. The Writing Center and the exam-workshop lectures should not be undervalued as a crucial and integral resource for all UM students.
Benefits to Dean's Fellows
However, the benefits of the program are not limited to the students who attend the Dean's Fellow sessions, the writing center, or the workshops. Those students who participate as Dean's Fellows profit as well. Another third year Dean's Fellow, Megyn Greider comments, "Having to articulate torts black-letter law to a classroom of first semester 1Ls is the best preparation for jury trials I could ever imagine!" Rising 3L, Jennifer Hochstadt states, "I am grateful for the opportunity to remain involved with first and second year students. Also, the writing center gives me a chance to go back to the basics on a weekly basis. Teaching Blue-booking, correcting grammar and assisting in stylistic formatting forces me to practice those skills as well." Not only does the AAP assist 1Ls, but the Dean's Fellows participating in the program learn interpersonal skills, teaching skills, and book and practical knowledge for realworld trials and negotiations. Also, Dean's Fellows create a bond among each other as several Dean's Fellows noted, "working in the writing center as a Dean's Fellow you become close with your colleagues and we all come to depend on each other."
Benefits to Miami Law
Finally, by benefiting students and fostering interpersonal relationships among and between students and professors, the AAP ultimately benefits the entire university. One student found the most rewarding moments of participating in the program as "seeing someone come in scared, depressed and confused and watch that person grow confident and successful in legal writing as the semester went on" and "[being] told that I was instrumental in assisting someone whose practice exam was passed out by their professor to the entire class." The confidence and academic progress derived from the AAP reflects positively on the University of Miami. When those students go out into the legal community, the skills learned through the AAP can assist young attorneys in making an impression and rising quickly in their firm to senior associate or partner. While this clearly benefits the individual, the achievements of the alumni of UM positively reinforce the quality and superiority of the law school.
The AAP is underutilized and under-valued for the wealth of benefits and significant contributions it adds to every individual associated with the program. Without question, 1994 was an influential and significant year. That significance, at least for Miami and the Florida legal community, was supplemented by the establishment of the AAP and its far-reaching effects. The AAP became the foundational backdrop – the intellectual catalyst – that silently enhances and increases the value of the UM's academia.
Joanne Harvest Koren, Esq.
Lecturer in Law and AAP Director
Phone: 305-284-2281
Fax: 305-284-4400
E-mail: email@example.com
Alex Schimel, Esq.
Lecturer in Law and AAP Associate Director
Phone: 305-284-5284
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Melissa Serna
AAP Program Coordinator
Phone: 305-284-2281
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Academic Achievement Program
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Coral Gables, Florida 33124-8087
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Few will seriously dispute the claim that The Greenhouse Tavern is one of the best restaurants in Cleveland. And the build-your-own four-course meal might be the best value I've experienced at a higher end restaurant. If you're fortunate enough to check out chef Jonathan Sawyer's downtown establishment, it's definitely worth exploring the menu as much as possible, but passing over the burgers would be a huge mistake. More


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UPDATE: A Galveston jury on Thursday set the total cost of caring for 185 cats seized Jan. 3 from Whiskerville Animal Sanctuary in Texas City and associated investigation costs at $231,884.65. Galveston County Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Cuchens said the figure was based upon costs incurred through May 17 by five agencies — City of Texas […] [Read More]
Two men sentenced for killing Huntsville war hero's service dog
Two men were sentenced Wednesday in a Walker County courtroom for their roles in the 2009 shooting death of a former Navy SEAL's service dog, according to The Huntsville Item. Alfonso Hernandez, 27, of New Waverly, was given the maximum sentence of two years in state jail, while his co-defendant Michael John Edmonds, 24, of […] [Read More]
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While most of us display a healthy respect for animals, at least a couple of people around Houston have not been so kind in recent days. First, a stray cat was targeted by someone wielding a bow and arrow, KPRC-TV reports. The 2-year-old orange tabby survived being shot through the chest and eluding capture for […] [Read More]
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Table of Contents: Volume 16, Number 4 (August, 2009)
- GG Matters
- Research Corner
- Gesher Galicia – Cadastral Project Results (2009)
- IAJS Conference 2009 – Gesher Galicia SIG Meeting Handout
- From the Editor's Desk
- An Appreciation
- Thanks to Our Donors
- Gesher Galicia Steering Committee
- Key Staff Volunteers
- Town Update
- Kolomyya
- Feature Articles
- Holding a Shadow
- Growing Up in Podwoloczyska
- Impressions of Ukrainian Galicia Today
- Establishing and Authenticating the Exact Date of Birth in the Absence of a Birth Certificate
- Describing Place Names in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Reviews
- New Yorker Article about Drohobyczer Bruno Schulz
- Can Heaven be Void? By Baruch Milch
- Family Connections: Gelles-Shapiro-Friedman by Edward Gelles
- Family Album
- Renee Steinig's Reifer Family
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Crowbars but with a quick change lens
I previously had crowbars and I was basically looking for a similar goggle, but with an interchange-able lens (for changing light, massive powder stack etc), which is exactly what the airbrakes are.
Being like the crowbars they suit a fat-melon head like mine! They are a large profile goggle.
The lens changing is extremely simple, I've had no problem with the seal between lens and goggle frame (as other reviews suggest, I'd send it back if that was the case).
Ferchrissakes don't complain about them fogging if you hike with them on, that happens to any goggle.
I have a smith vantage helmet and they fit fine together.
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The Italian leather goods trade show plans to improve quality and international visibility.
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Kate Spade Adds Slew of New Lines, From Cupcakes to Cookware
Spade is collaborating with Beyond Yoga to create a limited-edition ath-leisure collection for spring 2016.
— July 20, 2015
M&A Deal-Making Rises
Consumer deal-making has gotten off to a good start in 2015 according to a new Mergermarket report.
— July 11, 2015
Supima Design Contest Adds New Elements
The contest has added a seventh school to its roster with fashion design programs whose students have a chance to participate in the program.
— July 10, 2015
U.S. Army Rolls Out New Uniform, and Fashion Mistake?
The U.S. Army is rolling out new Army Combat Uniforms (ACUs) — and from a fashion perspective, the men and women who serve will look like a mess.
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Brand Keys Identifies 'Most Patriotic' Companies
Jeep, Coca-Cola, Disney, Ralph Lauren and Levi Strauss are the top five most patriotic brands respectively, according to the latest survey by Brand Keys.
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New York-Bound Exhibitions See Sunnier Days Ahead
After a challenging first half impacted by poor weather, organizers are counting on pent-up consumer demand to make for a bustling marketplace at the next round of New York fairs.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Senior Shaunna Kaplan (Framingham, Mass.), sophomore Kelly Mooney (Canton, Mass.) and freshman Monique Lamotte (Tampa, Fla.), all of the University of New Hampshire women's soccer team, earned end-of-the-season America East honors, the conference announced Wednesday afternoon.
The three were all named to the All-Conference Second Team, while Lamotte received an additional honor with her selection to the All-Rookie Team.
Kaplan, an All-Rookie Team member herself in 2006, was named to her first all-conference team after starting all 18 games and tallying six points on two goals and two assists. The forward tied for the team lead in assists and ranked second on the team in points and goals.
Mooney, a back, was also selected to her first all-conference squad after starting all 17 games she played. Mooney was a defensive leader in the young Wildcat backfield that helped hold UNH opponents to under three goals in 16 of 18 matches.
Lamotte, one of the fastest rising stars, not just at the midfield spot, but in the entire conference, ranked third on the team with five points on a pair of goals and an assist. In 18 matches, including 17 starts, Lamotte tied for the team lead in goals.
The No. 6 Wildcats, who earned their ninth straight berth in the America East Championship tournament - the longest active streak in the league - returns to action Thursday, Oct. 29 at 2 p.m. when they travel to take on third-seeded Maine in the quarterfinal round.


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Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse is transforming into an indoor picnic for one night only. Tickets are $55 a person and include food, desserts, a specialty cocktail, tap wines as well as non-alcoholic options. $10 from each ticket will benefit Grow Dat Youth Farm. Reservations can be made by calling 504.522.2467.
To celebrate dining in America's most delicious city, Coolinary menus are back all of August!
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Starting on August 15th, Palace Cafe will close temporarily for a renovations. Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse will host a Palace Cafe Lunch "Pop-Up" Monday - Friday from 11:30am - 2:30pm.


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