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Rick, any ground stake made of narrow rod is a poor RF ground. Look at "Antennas" by Kraus W8JK. Even in the earliest days of radio, they used ground screens or counterpoises to "complete" the antenna. The use of the ground rod by hams just reflects the great influence of the National Electrical Code, and UL Labs. It will primarily function as a safety ground, unless you put the rod down into metallic soil like mine slag. I did many experiments in the desert with elaborate ground rods and even metal 3D configurations and never could get a good result until I went to a full dipole, (two element) radiator. Same for the jungle environment I lived in for two years and played radio. The dipole outperformed the single wire and ground rod every time. -Stuart K5KVH _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
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It was once a happy town; a place where people went to spend their lives without all the hustle of the big city. Lately, however, things just haven't been going so well. People have been moving out and the town itself is beginning to look quite barren as a result. The local hotel is suffering and there aren't any truly unique attractions to lure new residents. It all started after this one special resident—with a unique power to imbue his creations with Essences—left without explanation.
But that's where you come in. Remarkably, you've got the same unique power. You're a bit of an expert architect; a craftsman who can build everything ranging from small furniture pieces to entire buildings. And perhaps most importantly, you also possess this elusive ability to suffuse your projects with these so-called essences—magical elements derived from a host of everyday items, such as fruits, rocks, and even dead tree stumps, which can dramatically alter the mood of furniture and buildings to which they're applied. You're known for your talents, and you're just what the town needs.
Moving Day
Starting off, you take a few moments to customize your sim to your liking. This includes selections of hair style and color, skin tone, eyes, mouth, outfit, and face paint. While there's a good selection here, it truthfully isn't the most versatile system for creating your look-alike (nothing like the Mii engine anyway, much less the new Xbox 360 one). You can also affect the pitch of your Sims' voice, though regardless of what you choose here, your character is still going to sound absolutely ridiculous when speaking. In my case, my Sim sounded strikingly similar to Family Guy's Chris Griffin, which I guess counts for something.
Next, you meet the mayor, Rosalyn, who escorts you to your new home… which—egad!—hasn't been built yet! Following an expression of her embarrassment, Rosalyn then walks you through the process of building you own home out of the provided pieces. This will be your first experience designing a structure. The interface is pretty simple—very much like simply stacking blocks as a kid—though there are some notable hang-ups, such as when you wish to fit a block into a space behind another block or between two others. For these sorts of applications, the "slide under" mode works fairly well, but you still run into situations where you feel like the game is making things too hard on you. Rotating the blocks via the nonsensical keyboard shortcuts can also prove rather beguiling. Either way, the designer conveniently highlights blocks which would fit to make life easier on the architect, so that's a nice feature that expedites construction.
There's a fair bit of customization to be had between the pieces themselves, their sizes, and their colors (which can be adjusted via Paint Mode). You can choose between wall types (stone, brick, colored vinyl, etc.), roofing, a few different windows and doors, a couple of different chimneys, and some other assorted variations. In Paint Mode, you can also opt to "paint" a piece with a particular essence instead of a color, thus altering the mood and appeal of your creation. As you progress in the game, people will begin to request that you create things for them, and those requests come with increasingly specific essence requirements, so this is crucial to fulfilling people's needs.
If you've played the Wii version of the game, everything here is precisely the same—though there are more people, blueprints, essences, and other content in this version of the game (and there ought to be!).
(Excessive Amounts of) Time is of the Essence
These essences, of which there are nearly 100 types (of several varieties), can be found literally all over the place. Collecting them is the most time-intensive (read: monotonous) task you'll be pitted with throughout the entire game. The first place you'll be introduced to them is in the town garden, where you can shake trees to make fruit fall, which you can then collect to reap essences (sound like Animal Crossing yet?). You can also plant fruit in the ground to grow new trees, which will need to be watered until healthy (truth be told, you can actually grow an entire tree by waiting and watering a few times over the course of around two minutes).
Everything you collect will grant you a different type of essence—Red apples give you Tasty essences, for instance, while Dead Wood grants you essences of the Spooky variety. If you're really in a pinch and you need some of a particular type of essence quickly, provided it grows on trees, you can fertilize a tree… which causes it to sprout fruit more quickly, but also damages its health in the process. Plenty of watering can then restore it to normalcy afterward. You can also fish and prospect for different types of essences. Prospecting is an easy mini-game where you follow a metal-detector-like notification system to the location of buried treasure. Prospecting in different areas will earn you different types of essences.
As you progress and your fellow townspeople begin to request that you run errands and produce specific items of furniture for them, you'll need to keep a healthy stock of each type of essence—or at least know where some is readily harvestable. Producing furniture takes place in your shop, which you're asked to construct shortly after moving into your home. The process is highly similar to building structures, except you're given blueprints to go by and are blessed with the additional convenience of a "ghost" image which you simply fill in with the proper pieces.
Once you complete enough tasks, your village will eventually gain a star level, making it more appealing to prospective residents and giving you the opportunity to access a new area each time. The first area you're able to access—the cave—is lame, but the subsequent rewards are considerably more enticing. Upon star level 2, you'll be able to open the way to the forest, which provides seven more building lots and a load of new treasures from which you can extract essences. After that, there's the desert, which is equally rewarding. There are five star levels in all, and you'll have to reach them all if you wish to unlock all of the essences, building lots, and thus every last one of the dozens of prospective townsfolk. Each townsperson will provide you with four building tasks as well, so you'll be collecting plenty of blueprints throughout your work. Overall, the game world is pretty big for this type of game, probably providing something in the neighborhood of twice the explorative area as Animal Crossing.
Animal Crossims
It's true that MySims was almost certainly inspired by Nintendo's Animal Crossing, but there are some pretty distinct differences. While they both share many common elements, such as the primary goal of creating the most comfortable living environment for yourself and your neighbors as possible (thus maximizing the number of townspeople), Animal Crossing places a lot more emphasis on furniture sets (and rare items—there is but a fraction of the number of items in AC to collect in MySims) and the benefits of proper decoration. MySims, on the other hand, is a lot more focused on collecting mass amounts of essences and completing your requested building tasks subsequently, thus satisfying residents, earning access to new areas, and luring new townspeople.
MySims is ultimately considerably more customizable (you can even redesign any of the existing buildings in your town by simply visiting the mailbox and modifying the structure at will), but it ventures too far out of the "carefree" category and instead presents you with a neverending list of tasks which ends up feeling very much like a bunch of chores. Collecting essences, for instance, quickly grows tiring, and after a while you'll probably begin to ask yourself whether it's even worth all the trouble to go out and try to prospect for a bunch of rare essences. Over the course of my time with the PC version of the game, I only reached Star Level 3 in my town, and yet I had already begun to dread the thought of collecting more essences and building more furniture. There's just a lot of that going on all the time, and it really isn't enjoyable enough to stand as the core of the whole experience.
The game itself is fairly well-designed, with crisp, lush environments and probably the cutest characters this side west of the Mii Channel. The music is dynamic (it blends and changes as you travel from place to place), though it quickly grows annoying (think piano recital). Although some people would probably take offense to this conclusion, the whole experience smacks of a child's game, and the level of appeal to be found in such monotonous "collect-a-thon" tasks does very little to dispel that sentiment (somehow, Nintendo's original Animal Crossing managed to shake the "kids-only" stigma and consequently spread through college campuses everywhere). Kids, on the other hand, are likely to enjoy the experience very much. The characters are cute, the reading level is moderate, and most of the tasks are guided well enough to where your average youngster probably wouldn't have much trouble deciphering the processes.
One other way in which MySims and Animal Crossing share similarity is that both offer a system of very limited online interaction (but it's there nonetheless). MySims features its own peer-to-peer online play, supporting up to eight players who can play tag and hide-and-seek and interact with one another, something that's new to the PC version. You can also export/email creations to others who have the game, which is cool, if not a bit archaic in approach. At the end of the day, both series feel very restrictive in their online components, though that's probably suitable considering the primarily young demographic which they are certainly targeting.


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The Jet has landed! And according to this video the Jet has landed in Weston. NBA Veteran Jason Terry has settled in ultra pricey Weston, Ma. as this video produced by Reebok shows. Terry is looking real fresh in a black and white pair of Reebok Answer IV Retros. The Answer IV is the signature shoe that Allen Iverson wore when he stepped over C's coach Tyrone Lue during the 2001 NBA Finals.
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The Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance and Nobody's Cat Foundation will hold a free seminar 7-9 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Stewart Community Center, 415 Franklin St., Carlisle.
The seminar will focus on trap-neuter-return, a strategy that includes assessment of colonies; humane trapping, surgical altering, rabies vaccinating and ear-tipping of cats; return of cats to their to outdoor homes; ongoing maintenance with food, fresh water and cover; and monitoring to assure that newcomers are altered immediately.
Carlisle Borough is working to implement the strategy in conjunction with The Furry Friends Network and CPAA, which received grant funding from PetsMart Charities for its Fixin' to Save Lives program. There is no cost to residents who bring free-roaming cats for spaying or neutering at any upcoming Fixin' to Save Lives clinics. No owned cats will be serviced at the clinics.
The seminar, tailored to beginners, is designed to encourage residents of the borough and nearby areas to actively participate in spaying and neutering as many free-roaming cats as possible. Additional seminars are planned throughout January and into February.
For more information about the seminars and the Nobody's Cat Foundation, go to www.nobodyscats.org or call 855-TNR-4CAT. For more information about CPAA, go to www.cpaa.info or follow on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CentralPAAnimalAlliance.


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Q: My friend has this interesting flower growing in her yard. It grows nearly 3 feet tall and has pink flowers that look a little like snapdragons. It blooms nearly all summer. At the end of the year it dies off, but it reseeds itself the following spring. Im attaching three photos.
A: It looks like what people used to call balsam. Thats actually an old-fashioned type of impatiens. The leaves are pointed as in your photo, and the pink flowers are kind of a cross between modern impatiens and snapdragons. The height is also right, and balsam does readily reseed itself.
Balsam is an old-fashioned annual flower, and its a fun thing to try, especially if youre an experimenter or lean toward heirlooms. But if youre shooting for maximum production and wall-to-wall color, just about every modern impatiens variety will out-perform balsam. If you want to find out more, go to a search engine and type in the botanical name, which is Impatiens balsamina.


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Visible reflectance spectroscopy measurements have been made for nearly 1500 main-belt and near-Earth asteroids as part of the second phase of the Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey (SMASS II), initiated at M.I.T. in the early 1990's. A key advantage of this data set is its internal consistency, having been obtained entirely with the same instrument configuration at the MDM Observatory located on Kitt Peak, Arizona. Thus, this data set can be explored for trends in asteroid spectral properties that extend beyond the process of assigning taxonomic classifications (Bus et al. 1998, BAAS 30). We present results of our exploration of this data set for asteroid spectral trends that may be related to parameters such as size, orbit, observed phase angle, etc.
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A man is suffering from a broken arm and leg Wednesday night, after he was struck by a car in Upper Macungie.
It happened on Ruppsville Rd. north of Grange Rd. at about 7 p.m. and Upper Macungie police are searching for the "hit and run" driver.
The pewter-colored mini van will be missing a passenger side mirror with damage to the front quarter panel, according to police.
The pedestrian was walking northbound on the fog line because there are no sidewalks in that area, police say.
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Jackson County's largest manufacturing employer is investing $1 million in a facility upgrade that will protect the environment.
Michigan Automotive Compressor, Inc., 2400 N. Dearing Road, has purchased a new regenerative thermal oxidizer that burns volatile organic compounds, the company announced today.
The purchase serves new hub lines being installed as part of a $130 million expansion previously announced by the manufacturer. The company announced expansion plans in 2010.
The new processes and the oxidizer represent a 500-percent decrease in emissions over previous production lines, according to a news release.
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DETROIT — Voting has begun in a contest from the Detroit Institute of Arts and the organizer of a public outreach effort called Let's Save Michigan, aimed at offering the economically battered state a little inspiration.
Judges selected 60 finalists from more than 300 poster entries. The idea was to create posters in the fashion of Works Progress Administration artwork of the Great Depression to highlight turnaround efforts and rally Michigan residents.
Michigan has had the nation's highest unemployment rate for much of the past four years.
The public picks the winners in voting that opened this week on the Let's Save Michigan Web site. Voting closes March 15. Winners will be announced March 16. There's a $1,000 top prize and the runner-up gets $250.
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Sometimes tragedy presents an opportunity for positive change. Such is the case with The Holy Cross Project, an eco affordable-housing complex in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, a vibrant and historic neighborhood that had been virtually wiped out by the hurricane.
In 2006, environmental organization Global Green USA held a contest to design this small, sustainable community. The winning scheme (selected by a jury chaired by actor Brad Pitt) was conceived by New York City firm Workshop/apd and built with support from lead funding partner The Home Depot Foundation. Wowed by the project, we came on board to decorate the first home in the development—all with organic, local, recycled or other green elements. Style director Dara Caponigro and contributing editor Ruthie Sommers, joined by a team of domino staffers, solicited donations of furniture and materials and whipped together the warm, sophisticated interiors in less than two months. Here, a tour of the many highlights.
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Mélanie Thierry incarnates prison inmate Ombline in a bravura tour de force performance of staggering intensity (CINEMANIA audiences recognized her talent in LE DERNIER POUR LA ROUTE in 2009, L'AUTRE DUMAS in 2010, and IMPARDONNABLES in 2011.)
Ombline, 20 years old, is found guilty of aggravated assault and sentenced to 3 years incarceration. Unexpectedly, she discovers she's pregnant and gives birth in prison to a son, Lucas. French law allows prison births and the care and raising of infants for 18 months. The norm after that is adoption or a foster home if the mother still has a balance of sentence to serve and there are no relatives to care for the child. Ombline will thus lose the son she loves and lives for if she cannot convince a judge that she has the capability of raising him properly when she is released.
In the sombre atmosphere of prison, we bear witness to the desperate struggle of a young woman whose life has been transformed through motherhood.
OMBLINE also features Corinne Masiero (playing Sophie), the brilliant actress who is a revelation in two other films this year at CINEMANIA - LOUISE WIMMER and DE ROUILLE ET D'OS. First-time feature director Stéphane Cazes creates a remarkably compelling and challenging work, engrossing and unforgettable.


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Model Name Genesis 9000W/B
Model Number CSAZ-9000W
Type ATX Full Tower
Color White/White(inside chassis)
Material 0.8mm SECC
Side Panel Window Yes
With Power Supply No
CPU Cooler Compatibility up to 200mm
Motherboard Compatibility XL-ATX,E-ATX, Full ATX, Micro ATX
Power Supply Locations Rear Bottom or Front Bottom, Supports Dual-Power Supply
External 5.25" Drive Bay 9
Internal 3.5 Drive Bays 5+1(up to 9)
Easy Swap 2.5" SSD Slot 2 (up to 5)
Easy Swap 3.5" HDD Slot 2(up to 5)
Expansion Slots 9
Front Ports
Front Ports 2x USB 3.0, 2xUSB 2.0, e-SATA, HD Audio, Mic
Cooling System
230mm Fan 2x230mm Silent Fan (24DBA) on The Top w/Fan Speed Control
140mm Fan 2x140mm Silent Fan (19DBA) at Bottom w/Fan Speed Control
120mm Fan 1x120mm Fan in Rear, 2x120mm on the Side for HDD
Physical Spec
Dimensions (HxWxD) 25.1"x9.8"x23.2" (640mmx250mmx590mm)
Weight 36 lbs
Optimum Cooling for GPU.CPU Reversible motherboard tray can be rotated 180 degrees to
orient graphics cards at the top, next to the top fan to
enhance the efficiency of heat dissipation.
Ideal Aerodynamic Airflow
An ideal vertical airflow is generated to offer exceptional
system cooling: with the power supply installed at the front
bottom, 2x140mm stock fans located at the bottom blast cool
air upward with the heat exhausted via the 2x230mm top fan.
Exceptional Cooling System
Total 7 fans
2x230mm fans located on the top to exhaust hot air.
2x140mm fans located at the bottom to take in cool air.
2x120mm fan located on side panel for cooling HDD.
1x120mm fan locate in the rear to exhaust the hot air.
Easy Swap Slots for 3.5" HDD and 2.5" SSD
2x Easy Swap HDD tray (up to 5) for easy, tool-less assembly of HDD.
Maximum Capacity Water
Top Mount Radiator: supports up to 480mm radiator.
Bottom Mount Radiator: support up to 240mm radiator.
Supports Lengthiest of Graphics Cards Accommodates graphics cards up to 400mm in length.
USB 3.0 Ready 2xUSB 3.0, 2xUSB 2.0, 1xeSATA
Supports Dual-Power Supply Power supply can be located at either front or rear bottom.
Also supports dual-power supply.
Maximum Compatibility
Accommodates XL-ATX, E-ATX, Full ATX, Micro ATX and
all Nvdia and ATI graphics cards up to 400mm in length.
Supports all water cooling radiator systems up to 480mm.
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I feel compelled to defend this application. While Watanabe may not be the easiest person to get support from, the 2.0 version of Xtorrent is superb. It runs like a speed demon, has a brilliant built in search feature, and looks better than any torrent app I've ever seen. Watanabe's dedication to updating this version of Xtorrent has been fast to say the least. Further, understand that this version DOES NOT use libtransmission.


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Brightfield Microscope
Microscope which allows light rays to pass directly from the light source through various other components of the microscope to the observers eye
characteristic of microscope design that allows changing objective lenses without significant change in position of center of field of view.
test tubes containing solid medium that has been allowed to solidify at an angle and the surface of the agar is used for the maintenance of stock cultures of microorganisms, used fro long term bacteria storage 3mo or longer,
Pour Plates
isolation technique using a series of serial dilutions to separate CFUs, mixed with liquid agar which then solidifies
Negative Stain
repelled from bacteria. Background in stained. Negative stains usually have a negative charge which is repelled by the negatively charged proteins on the surface of bacteria. Note: a negative stain does not mean a gram negative.
Differential Staining
Staining procedure which causes cells to stain differently based on properties of the cell wall
Gram Stain
has four steps. 1. Primary stain: crystalline violet that stains all bacteria purple 2. mordant: Gram's iodine sets the stain 3. decolorizer: ethanol washes out the stain from gram negative bacteria only 4. counterstain: safranin stains gram negative bacteria pink
Slime Layer
A thin protective structure loosely bound to the cell wall that protects the cell against drying, helps trap nutrients, and sometimes binds cells together
A sticky layer that surrounds the cell wall of some prokaryotes, protecting the cell surface and sometimes helping to glue the cell to surfaces.
a thick-walled protective spore that forms inside a bacterial cell and resists harsh conditions
Dormant State
Under harsh environmental conditions, such as loss of a nutritional requirement, bacteria can convert from a vegetative state to THIS or a spore. THIS allows the bacteria to exist in "suspended animation"
Acid Fast
used to stain small group of organisim that do not readily take up stain, the cell walls of these bacteria contains high concentrations of lipids, perventing uptake of dyes
Ways to prevent contamination
flame loop, inverted postition of plate, hand washing, work near bunsen burner, hold slant caps while removing sample, flame rim of slant...
Precautions used with microscope
make sure microscope is off before plug in, always start with lowest objective, carry with two hands, never use coarse adj for 40x or higher, clean lens after use of oil...
Best resolution
condenser should be as high, iris diaphragm should be open, immersion oil used at 100x
What is purpose of streak method?
"thin out" bacterial growth in successive sectors of a plate until individual colonies are obtained
What are the sources of contamination when transferring bacteria?
Not flaming loop, Not working near flame, touching loop to any contaminated surface while cooling
What is the purpose of heat fixing?
1. kills the bacteria 2. makes them adhere to the slide 3. coagulates their protein for better staining.
What is the primary function of the capsule?
Eliminates waste, prevents dehydration, less vulnerable to phagocytosis
What factors determine composition of a capsule?
Environment and the type of nutrients in which the bacterium is growing
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"Live! With Regis and Kelly" has announced its second guest host who will join Ripa on the show following Philbin's departure. Deadline Hollywood reported that Neil Patrick Harris will co-host the program from November 28 - December 2.
Philbin will tape his final show on Friday, November 18. While Philbin's departure will mark the end of an era, the show has been making plans for life post-Philbin. Ripa recently extended her contract through 2017.
"Live!" has not announced any plans for a permanent replacement host. The show will rotate guest hosts following Philbin's last show. Jerry Seinfeld will appear as the show's first guest host from November 21 - 23.
The media world has been preparing for Philbin's planned exit. Philbin has been interviewed a number of times in recent weeks, reminiscing on his wildly successful television career. "Live!" has also announced its plans for an epic final show.
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jDome closes another successful year by bringing in 4.5 million SEK to the company from it's investors. This year we have built up distribution channels, not only in Europe, but also in Korea and Japan. We also have a new business beside consumer, which is the defense industry, where we have already sold jDome-units to NATO-members! Next year we expect to reach break even!
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10. Starburst
"Starburst" just sounds like something you KNOW is going to be tasty. Though if a sexy name isn't quite enough to convince you (and it should be (and I stand by my use of the word "sexy" while describing a fruit candy)) then maybe you should try one and stop calling me out on my erotic attraction to little fruit squares.
9. Sour Patch Kids
Sour Patch Kids' quality is indicated in how easy it is to overcome the mental toll it takes in eating something designed to be associated with both the word "sour" and human children. In the US, they were originally seen as something of a passing craze, like Ring Pops. Not going down without a fight, the public made it clear they wanted Sour Patch Kids to remain on shelves and become a timeless American icon in the following years. Like Ring Pops.
8. Peanut M&Ms
This is just one of those ideas that is objectively among the top 3 things to ever happen to America. I don't know who came up with the idea for peanut M&Ms, all I know is they needn't have put any more effort into their product proposal than I did just now in my imagination: "M&Ms? Great. Peanuts? Outstanding. Let's shove one inside the other and pretend it didn't take us 30 years to think of this."
7. Cookies and Cream
A good way to ensure the candy bar you invent won't be awful garbage is to base it entirely on something that already exists and seems impossible to screw up. "Cookies and Cream", based on the popular Cookies and Cream, set out to mimic the flavor and somehow created something new and, whisper it, better. That's not to say Oreo's aren't awesome, but between the two, you can only scarf down one of these for 3 hours and not be covered in shame and crumbs by the end of it all.
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Some say the sugar shell around the chocolate of an M&M was originally designed to prevent the chocolate from melting, making it a convenient travel snack. Others say the guy who invented them was crazy, and implemented a protective layer around his chocolates so that they wouldn't become infested with the souls of demons, and he wouldn't have to keep an exorcist on hand every time he ate candy from then on. Just kidding! I made up that second one to scare my niece so I could take her M&Ms.


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Now we're well into February '14, and our virtual wallets (though still a little bruised), are slowly recovering from the season of goodwill…When therefore could be a better time than the present, to reflect on Poq's findings from our 'Holiday Season Shopping Report'?
Here's the breakdown of the top facts we've gleamed from our goldmine of stats for mobile commerce in the UK during November-December 2013 (taken from analysing the performance of mobile sites and native shopping apps powered by the Poq platform):
1. iOS's share of mobile revenue
- iOS drove the lion share of mobile sales with 80% originating from iPhone, iPads and iPods.
2. Smartphone share is growing fast
- Smartphone share of online revenue was 13%, up from 8% in August'13.
3. iOS's traffic sped past Android's
- iOS devices continued to be the smartphone of choice in the UK, driving the majority of mobile traffic by 69% over Android. iPhone users not only browse more, they also spend more money, iOS AOV is 27% higher than Android.
(Poq Platform Holiday Shopping Report Nov-Dec 2013)
4. Conversion rates: Desktop > App > Mobile site
- One of the most interesting insights was that app conversion rates are often closer to desktop conversation rates rather than to mobile sites.
(Poq Platform Shopping Report Nov-Dec 2013)
5. Apps vs. mobile sites: Returning visitors
- With over 78% returning users, mobile apps retained more users, increasing our client's loyal customer base.
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6. App share of total mobile revenue is expanding
(Poq Platform Holiday Shopping Report Nov-Dec 2013)
- Average app share of mobile was 35%, up from 15% in August '13.
Christmas 2013 saw impressive results for our clients on the Poq platform. At Poq our work continues. We have just launched our Spring '14 Release, featuring in-store engagement, a stronger brand experience and a powerful app content management system.
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Because he was ejected after an 8-7 loss Sunday at Alabama, Mississippi State baseball coach John Cohen has been suspended for one game for violating the Southeastern Conference sportsmanship rules.
SEC commissioner Mike Slive announced the suspension Wednesday afternoon.
Cohen will serve the suspension Friday when Mississippi State plays at Florida. He also is prohibited from coaching the Bulldogs at practice on Thursday.
Cohen was ejected after Alabama's walk-off victory. By NCAA rule, a postgame ejection results in a one-game suspension. Cohen served that suspension Tuesday night when the Bulldogs played host to Mississippi Valley State.
According to a report in the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi State officials were not told that Cohen has been given the postgame ejection until Monday.Mississippi State took a 7-6 lead in the top of the ninth inning and appeared to win the game when the Tide's Austen Smith tapped the ball back to MSU pitcher Taylor Stark, who then threw to first base.
But the umpires ruled that the ball was foul after it hit Smith when he was still standing in the batter's box. Cohen argued the call.
Smith then hit a two-run, game-winning double, and Cohen yelled at an umpire as he exited the field through a door in the visitors' dugout.
According to the Clarion-Ledger report that cited SEC spokesman Chuck Dunlap, the league also is reviewing a postgame verbal altercation between Mississippi State pitching coach Butch Thompson and a uniformed police officer in the visitors' dugout.
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"He choked me with both hands around my neck," Norma Brennan wrote in the order, which was filed Thursday. "He punched me in the lips on the left side. He pushed and wrestled me to the floor of the porch."
Brennan, 48, D-Lehigh/Northampton, was charged Wednesday with assault and drunken driving. Norma Jean Brennan also filed for a divorce in June, according to court documents.
Lehigh County Judge William Ford on Thursday approved the order, which bars Brennan from contact with his wife and two children and prevents him from visiting his home or his wife's workplace.
Norma Brennan said her husband has not been abusive in the past, according to records, but that their 10-year marriage is "irretrievably broken."
The order will remain in effect for 10 days unless it's modified at an Aug. 23 hearing at the Lehigh County Courthouse, according to court documents.
Norma Brennan did not seek medical treatment for her injuries, according to the six-page order for the application. The couple have two sons, ages 5 and 7.
Brennan, of the 1200 block of Delaware Avenue, remains free on $7,500 bail. He did not respond to a message at his office and is not accepting calls on his cellphone.
Gwin Krose, the attorney representing Norma Brennan, did not immediately respond to a phone message. Norma Brennan has previously asked not to be contacted at home.
Brennan is facing a re-election challenge in November, and state officials say his name will remain on the ballot because the deadline to remove it has passed.
Fountain Hill police were called to Brennan's home at 3:48 p.m. and spoke with his wife, who had visible injuries to the palm and knuckles of her left hand, her left knee and both feet, police said.
She told police she was assaulted by Brennan, who left the house in a gray Chevrolet Malibu, authorities said. He was pulled over a short time later in the 1400 block of Stanley Avenue.
Brennan was arrested after he failed field sobriety tests, according to police. A breath test showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.20, more than twice the legal Pennsylvania driving limit of 0.08.
This marks the second drunken driving charge against Brennan, who was arrested in Bethlehem in June 2011 after police said he was driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.30.
Brennan was admitted in October to a program for nonviolent first-time offenders. He completed the program in April and the charge was expunged from his criminal record.
Brennan's office has previously deferred comment to the office of state House Minority Leader Frank Dermody. But Dermody's press secretary, Bill Patton, said he could not speak about legal issues arising from the protection order.
Patton said the Democratic caucus has not taken a formal position on whether they are supporting Brennan amid the allegations against him.
"We're still trying to collect information about everything that happened, and need to talk to Mr. Brennan further as well," Patton said.
Brennan is not represented by an attorney in the divorce case, according to court documents.
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Some in Congress seem determined to repeal Obamacare and send the problem of health care in the U.S. back to committee for another 60 years. If successful, it would be a case of throwing out the baby with the bath water.
The very many problems can and must be solved because there are more than 50 million Americans without insurance. It is estimated that one of these die every 20 minutes for lack of insurance to seek medical care.
Our health care system ranks last or near last of 17 countries tested. Except for Belarus and a few Baltic states, we are the only industrialized country without a universal health care system.
While many of us get good care because of Medicare and supplementary insurance, many desperate millions lacking insurance get little or no care.
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Road closure causes traffic chaos after motorist is arrested following high-speed chase near Cannock
Motorway closed following high-speed chase which resulted in car hitting police vehicle near Cannock
John Thomason, of Jarvis Road, also accused of driving while disqualified and without insurance after the smash on Hednesford Road
Crash on Hednesford Road on Sunday left two pedestrians injured, one seriously.
One man anaesthetised at scene after being found lying seriously injured on pavement
Family have been notified of chilling discovery in field near Meerash Lane
Motorist 'fortunate' to avoid serious injury when car is wrecked in collision
Dwain Chambers is aiming for an eighth British title
Darlaston woman Amanda Hawkins hasn't been seen since 9am on Friday, May 30.
This week's Birmingham Children's Hospital Charity Champions is Amanda Bailes from Bloxwich
Footage shows Darlaston woman travelling on bus in Brownhills on day she disappeared
Forty-four-year-old was last seen at supported accommodation in Moxley several days ago
Petition calls for new crossing on Chester Road after death of Shire Oak Academy schoolboy Jack Garrington
Jack Garrington's family today spoke of their loss and described him as: "a lovely boy who was well loved by his family."
Shire Oak Academy describes 'shattering loss' of Jack Garrington, who died in lorry accident
Emergency services were called to Chester Road, near the Anchor Pub just before 3.30pm following reports of a collision involving a child and a lorry
Accident involving young pedestrian happened in Chester Road
Call for witnesses to fatal collision on A5 following pub night-out
Teaching unions strike across the West Midlands in protest at new employment conditions proposed by the Government
Highlights include Tonight's the Night: New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, and Paul Parker & All The Right Friends: Robin2, Bilston
Highlights include Punt & Dennis: Town Hall, Birmingham, and Gavin Degrew: The Institute, Birmingham
A teenager from Brownhills was taken to hospital with back and neck injuries
Our resident fish and chip shop expert gives the lowdown on the West Midlands most sizzling friers
Dementia-sufferer aged 67 had last been seen in Brownhills
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As farmer Fred Johnson reveals gold may be buried under M6 Toll, feuding pair admit Hoard has brought them misery
Unemployed Mark Adams attacked the girl after drinking all day at a pub in Brownhills
Detectives had to move 'largest haul of their careers' on forklift truck after Brownhills raid
Flour power hit Birmingham's NEC with the start of Cake International, a showcase for the very best in baking
Gypsies moved onto grounds of Cheslyn Hay Sport and Community High School last Wednesday, sparking parents' fury
West Midlands Police said the officers were freed from their vehicle by fire crews after the accident in Brownhills, near Walsall
A5 through Brownhills was closed after the biker was in collision with a lorry
Told staff at Brownhills Nursing HomeDivine Buta not to call an ambulance after a patient's health deteriorated
Vicars dedicated followers of fashion at NEC Christian Resources Exhibition
Teaching unions strike across the West Midlands in protest at new employment conditions proposed by the Government.
How Brownhills School ranks, plus more information about the school
A shop window sign here made me think of calling social services re its claim to sell "battered chips".
The 11-year-old girl is too scared to play out after the alleged incident
Joy James lost touch with Jackie Cox after she inadvertently beat her in the Miss Erdington beauty contest
Paul Marston reviews Godspell by Spotlight Youth Productions at Brownhills College Theatre.
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The Greater Syracuse Labor Council, a union organization that represents 40,000 workers, called on the Syracuse Common Council Friday to rescind its vote forgiving a nearly $217,000 electric bill owed to the city by the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce.
"In these tough economic times, when people's taxes are increasing and services are being cut, forgiving a debt to an organization who can afford to pay for it is egregious," said Dr. Dennis Nave, president of the council.
He said the council's 350 delegates, who represent the Labor Council's 40,000 members, unanimously voted Wednesday to demand that the Common Council rescind its vote forgiving the bill run up by the chamber-owned Syracuse Technology Garden, a downtown office building with 30 technology company startups for tenants.
With Mayor Stephanie Miner's support, the Common Council voted 7-2 in March to forgive the debt as long as the chamber or its successor does not sell the building at 235 Harrison St. for a profit within 10 years, something city officials have said they do not expect to happen.
Terms of the arrangement were incorporated into a no-interest leasehold mortgage on the property. Only councilors-at-large Lance Denno and Jean Kessner voted against it. Councilors-at-large Kathleen Joy and Bill Ryan, and district councilors Matthew Rayo, Patrick Hogan, Ryan McMahon, Thomas Seals and Nader Maroun voted for it.
The bill was run up over five years during the administration of then-Mayor Matt Driscoll because of a mix-up over an electric meter in the city-owned parking garage under the Tech Garden. The city leases the land under the Tech Garden to the chamber for $1 a year.
Nave said the Labor Council's members were particularly angered at the deal in light of the fact that the chamber paid its former president, Darlene Kerr, more than $260,000 a year. Kerr resigned when the chamber merged recently with the Metropolitan Development Association and adopted a new name, CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity.
"If an organization can afford to pay that kind of money, I think they can afford to pay the bill," Nave said.
Kevin Schwab, communications director for CenterState, said financial problems at the chamber made it impossible to pay the bill. He said those problems are being addressed by the new organization, starting with the elimination of $650,000 in salaries.
He declined to say what CenterState President Robert Simpson is being paid, but he said it was "not even close" to the $263,000 salary the chamber paid Kerr, who now holds an unpaid position on the new organization's board of directors.
Joy, the Common Council's majority leader, defended the council's vote. She said the city benefits from having the Tech Garden and the 100 people employed at it downtown.
She also said she did not view the debt as being "totally forgiven" because it will have to be paid if the building is sold for a profit within 10 years.
Ryan said he has no interest in revisiting the arrangement, which he said solved "a mess" that the Miner administration inherited from the Driscoll administration.
Ken Mokrzycki, city director of administration, said Miner also stands by the arrangement. Without it, the merger of the Metropolitan Development Association and the chamber could not have occurred, he said.
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Dora FFA topped the FFA chapters in New Mexico last week, taking home the championship Production Sweepstakes from the state FFA contest.
The contest and awards were Tuesday through Friday in Las Cruces. Dora had 27 competitors out of a total of 1,705.
On their return from winning the state championship, the FFA students had an escort of fire trucks from Elida to Dora, parents who painted the road in their honor and cake when they arrived at their school.
"The kids all performed at their highest level because they were dedicated and committed to being the very best in the state, and their competitive nature and willingness to sacrifice and perform with others on the team level were tremendous," said Dora agriculture teacher Kit Pettigrew.
Dora has won the Sweepstakes five times since 1991, he said.
The Pasture and Range, Entomology and Dairy Foods teams all placed first in their competitions with another four teams placing in the top five.
Seven students placed in the top five individually in at least one competition, and Pettigrew said sophomore Gowan Hays set a state scoring record in Dairy Foods.
The Home Site team and Pasture and Range team are advancing to the National Land and Pasture and Range competition in Oklahoma City in May, while the Dairy Foods team is going on to compete at the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis this October. There is no national competition in Entomology.
The students have been practicing six days a week since January.
"It feels good to be rewarded for all that we worked to do, because we put a lot of time into this," said sophomore Layni Breshears.
Senior Renee Gantert said Dora FFA members arrive in Las Cruces a day before the competition and study.
Gantert said the students worked harder this year, and attributed part of their success to love of the program. Breshears said the members worked together better this year, and parents' support and Pettigrew's "pushing the whole way" helped them win.
Hays said Dora FFA always comes home with an award and is in the running for the state Sweepstakes every year. Breshears said they don't mess around.
"It helps when you have the best ag teacher in the state," she also said.
Pettigrew said the students have help from the community as well.


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from Stephen Nichols Oct 19, 2016 Category: Ministry NewsJohn 6 records two eventful days in the incarnate life of Jesus Christ. The miracle of the feeding of the five thousand occurred on the first day. That day also ended with another miracle, that of Jesus walking on the water. The second day was a bit different. This day... Keep Reading
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from Sinclair Ferguson Aug 10, 2016 Category: ArticlesLet me invite you to take a simple word-association test. The usual procedure for such a test is that the administrator says a word and the subject responds with the first word that comes to mind. Thus, the word horse might immediately prompt the word cart from some people, but race (as in horse race) from others. Keep Reading
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from Kim Riddlebarger Aug 08, 2016 Category: ArticlesOf all the Reformation-era catechisms, perhaps none is as well-loved as the Heidelberg Catechism. In the opening question and answer, the personal and distinctive tone of the catechism becomes evident. "What is your only comfort in life and in death?" This is not a theoretical question—"What would be necessary if God were to comfort sinners?" Rather, this is a very practical question—"How do I have comfort as long as I live and then when I die?" Keep Reading
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Is the Christian Faith Rational?
from R.C. Sproul Aug 06, 2016 Category: ArticlesI've had the question asked of me, "Is it true that you are a Christian rationalist?" I said, "By no means! That's a contradiction in terms. A rationalist is somebody who embraces a philosophy that sets itself over and against Christianity." And so, while a true Christian is not a rationalist, the Christian faith is certainly rational. Keep Reading
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from John Cobb Aug 05, 2016 Category: Ministry NewsTonight millions of people will be watching the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio. In light of this global event, we have been working alongside our long-time international partner in Brazil, Editora Fiel, to distribute R.C. Sproul's new book, The Race of Faith. It is our goal to distribute one million copies during the Olympics. Keep Reading
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from Nathan W. Bingham Aug 05, 2016 Category: EventsJoin us July 30—August 8, 2017 as we commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of the Ninety-Five Theses. Travel along the Elbe River with notable church historians, Drs. W. Robert Godfrey and Stephen Nichols, as they guide us from Prague to Germany. Keep Reading


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The Mother's Day weekend event is named in honor of Clara Barefoot-Sehorn, a quilt instructor who started teaching for THPRD in the late 1980s. Clara is 93 years old, retired, living in Washington and enjoying her grandchildren.
Each year, 150-200 quilts are displayed. A raffle is also held with the winner taking home a beautiful homemade quilt. Admission is free, though a canned food donation to the Washington County Food Bank is appreciated.
The festival has grown over the years with displays and demonstrations, quilt vendors and merchandise. There are other activities as well, including the Artisan Craft Fair featuring everything from jewelry to garden art. There is a plant sale on both days, a tea on Saturday and a Dessert Café on Sunday.
Patti Hyder, a quilt instructor at THPRD's Cedar Hills Recreation Center, and other volunteers organize the festival. This year's theme is "Then & Now." Each local quilter will display a quilt that is at least 20 years old as well as a current quilt.
The community is also invited to participate. Quilts will be accepted Wednesday, May 6, at the Jenkins Estate Stable from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. No advance notice is required, though participants will need to fill out a registration form. Forms are available online at www.barefootquiltshow.org. Quilts must be picked up on Sunday, May 9, between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m.
Anyone interested in participating can call Gail DuBois at 503/629-6355 or go online to www.barefootquiltfestival.org for more information.
Formed in 1955, THPRD is the largest special park district in Oregon, spanning about 50 square miles and serving more than 200,000 residents in the greater Beaverton area. The district provides year-round recreational and educational opportunities for people of all ages. Offerings include a wide variety of classes and more than 200 park sites, 60 miles of trails, eight swim centers, six recreation centers, and 1,300 acres of natural areas. For more information, visit www.thprd.org or call 503/645-6433.


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EASTHAMPTON – Cuts in state funding are making it harder for low-income women to get their children into state-subsidized child care, according to a new report issued Tuesday by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center.
At the same time, women are also losing their child-care subsidy as they have their hours cut back at work, said Kathleen A. Treglia, vice president of the YMCA of Greater Springfield and executive director of its community services branch.
"You have to cut somewhere," she said. "It's a lot of little things that are adding up, that's why you are not hearing a huge public outcry."
The impact of state budget cuts on child care is included in "An Unstable Ladder," a report on how the state's fiscal woes are hurting women. It was prepared by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, a private, non-profit research organization in Boston.
Noah M. Berger, MassBudget's executive director, announced the results of the study Tuesday at a meeting of the Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts in Easthampton.
The state's original 2009 budget called for $495.4 million for child-care financial assistance. But emergency budget cuts to deal with the state's fiscal crisis brought that number down $8.9 million to $486.5 million, according to the report. The state now plans to spend $456 million. The state does have an additional $20 million in federal stimulus money for child-care subsidies, but will spend that money over two years, Berger said.
As a result, Treglia said the state has become quick to terminate assistance for working parents who no longer qualify and is a stickler for paperwork. In order to qualify, parents have to be work or go to school for at least 30 hours a week.
But Treglia said many of the women who send their children to the YMCA of Greater Springfield have gotten their hours cut back, even though they still need child care for the hours they are working
"I honestly don't know where these children are going," she said.
Treglia planed for 76 students ages 3 to 5 in her program this year. She's currently at 71 students and there used to be a waiting list. Each preschooler represents a subsidy of about $8,700 a year from the state.
The state did get $200 million in federal stimulus money for high education, staving off cuts in that area recently, Berger said.
"Again, the danger is what happens when that money runs out?" Berger said.
Rexene A. Picard, executive director of FuitureWorks, a one-stop career center in Springfield, said single women raising children need those programs.
"We need to turn this picture around," she said.


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Addressing over a thousand Israeli school children, University of Tel Aviv professor George Tamarin told a story of "General Lin." Using religion as a pretext for "ethnic cleansing," the general, who presided over the Chinese kingdom three millennia ago, ordered a massacre of men, women, and children throughout China. When asked for their response, only 7 percent of the children listening to Professor Tamarin agreed that the general's actions were morally acceptable, while 75 percent disapproved of such violence.
The story, however, was in fact taken from the book of Joshua, with only the names and nation changed. But then when asked about Joshua's campaigns, astonishingly, the results were reversed: 66 percent "totally approved" of the Israelite conquest of the Promised Land while 26 percent disapproved. Tamarin was sacked from his chair at Tel Aviv. (1)
This approach points up the tension over the different ways that the Old Testament's "holy war" campaigns are to be understood. The interpretation of the book of Joshua is especially key.
One approach is to say that these "texts of terror" are simply ideologies wrapping themselves in religious myths, the invocation of God for a nation's own aggressive ambitions. This jibes with our modern experience. Crusaders cleaved the skulls of "infidels" with the cry, "Christus est Dominus" (Christ is Lord). After all, the followers of Mohammed were occupying the "holy land" where Jesus once walked. Christendom's kings fancied themselves David, driving out the Canaanites from God's land. Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade with the rousing speech, "If you must have war, bathe in the blood of the infidels." From there you have the pattern for the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the conquistadors of Latin America, British colonialism, the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States and South Africa, the slave trade, and a host of other tragic chapters in Western history.
At the other end of the spectrum are those today who invoke these texts as somehow still in effect, as if any nation could enter into covenant with God and engage in holy war. If not a "Christian nation" like the United States, at least Israel still enjoys this "most favored nation" status with God. The land is holy, and therefore holy war is entirely justified when the sovereignty of its borders is in jeopardy.
Many professing Christians today stumble over these texts. How can we reconcile the God who commands the extermination of men, women, children, and even pets and possessions with the God we know in the face of Jesus Christ?
One answer is to say that these "texts of terror" are somehow useful, but only if allegorized. They are later interpretations by exiled Jews of an imagined past, designed to generate an internal "jihad"—the conquest of the dark forces within each individual soul. Only in that exegesis can these texts be "redeemed" as empowering the moral earnestness to drive out the demons within. For example, Baylor University's Philip Jenkins argues this case in his book, Laying Down the Sword (HarperOne, 2012).
Another response among professing Christians is simply to conclude that the God of the Old Testament who commanded the holy wars of Joshua is different from the God we meet in Jesus Christ. Nazarene scholar C. S. Cowles argues this view in his essay, "The Case for Radical Discontinuity" in Show Them No Mercy: 4 Views on God and Canaanite Genocide (Zondervan, 2003). The extreme interpretations seem to be the most popular, especially as part of the ongoing culture wars in the United States, and they have enormous political as well as religious implications.
My purpose here is briefly to explain why both views—(1) rejecting the "holy war" God of the Old Testament or (2) invoking these texts as timeless truths even for our own day—reflect a serious misunderstanding of biblical interpretation at the most fundamental level. I want to argue my case under two theses. First, the God of "holy war" is the Triune God revealed in Jesus Christ. Second, these texts of holy war are neither to be allegorized nor invoked as normative for new covenant believers, much less modern nation-states.
How do we reconcile the God we meet in Jesus Christ with the God who commands the destruction of men, women, and children—and all of their possessions? One option is simply to conclude that we can't. Either God never commanded these holy wars in the first place, or we can only conclude that they contradict the revelation of God in Christ. Jenkins, known especially for his book The Next Christendom, argues in Laying Down the Sword that the events reported in Joshua and elsewhere never really happened. Later writers, living in Babylon, imagined these scenarios as a way of calling the exiles to subdue their inner demons. In other words, these "texts of terror" are allegories for personal conquest of spiritual ills. My friend Roger Olson reviewed his colleague's book in 2012. (2) Olson's main critique is that Jenkins is not Christocentric enough:
Better in that regard, in my opinion, is the chapter "The Case for Radical Discontinuity" by Nazarene scholar C. S. Cowles in Show Them No Mercy: 4 Views on God and Canaanite Genocide (Zondervan, 2003). There Cowles asks "Can we image [sic] the God revealed fully and finally in Jesus ordering the killing of children and infants? At any time? In any place? For any reason?" (pg. 31). His implied answer is "no." Of course, he goes on to argue for continuity between the Old Testament and the New and Jesus, but he emphasizes discontinuity without endorsing Marcionism.
I've read Cowles's essay, and I think Olson is being too kind to his fellow Arminian by saying that he presses the ancient view yet "without endorsing Marcionism." The fact that Cowles has to say that he doesn't exactly side with the heretic who identified the God of the Old Testament with the demonic Creator-God of the Jews suggests special pleading. In point of fact, Cowles does verge on—if not explicitly follow—the hermeneutical assumptions of Marcion.
There is indeed discontinuity between old and new covenants, but Marcion and Cowles are dead wrong in their stark opposition between Yahweh and Jesus. I understand Olson's sympathy for Cowles at this point. His critique of Calvinism has always been philosophical—particularly centered on theodicy (the problem of evil). He wants an answer and is distressed at the Calvinist recourse to "mystery." The bottom line is that he cannot believe in a God who would decree things that seem to contradict human concepts of justice. This is clear even in his (more judicious) critique of the God of the Old Testament. Olson suggests that the God revealed in Jesus Christ simply could not have countenanced the slaughter of apparently innocent people in Canaan. Olson writes:
I am not going to declare unequivocally about the historicity of those texts; I will bracket them out and say "I just don't know what to make of them" and "I cannot picture Jesus, who is the God I worship and adore, commanding those things." And "I look forward to finding out from God himself, from Jesus himself, what I am supposed to think about those texts." For now, all I can say is, they do not speak God's voice to me. I do not understand them. They are dark and obscure and frightening. I run to Jesus. That was Luther's approach, too, but he held onto a "hidden God" behind Jesus who commanded the slaughter of the innocents and who uses the devil to carry out his commands ("The devil is God's devil!"). I do not believe in a "hidden God" behind Jesus. With Barth I affirm that Jesus is God for us and all we need when contemplating the character of God.
On one level, Olson's instincts are right: The only true God is the one revealed in Jesus Christ. On another level, he is wrong—and the logic that leads to Rob Bell's Love Wins lurks behind his own argument. In other words, it's a misunderstanding of Jesus Christ that leads to such a false choice.
It was John the Baptist—the one who announced Jesus as "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29)—who added that "the ax is already laid to the root of the tree," with the ethnic descendants of Abraham and Joshua consigned to the flames of God's wrath if they do not "bear fruit"—namely, trust in Christ as the Messiah (Luke 3:7-9; Matt. 3:12-13). The old covenant law is clear: God is not Israel's mascot. The land is not Israel's, but God's. "You are but tenants in my land," Yahweh declares (Lev. 25:23). A number of Jesus' parables can only be understood against this backdrop.
No nation would write this story. If it is unfaithful, it too will be driven from God's land like the nations whom God has driven out from before his people. He is not the ideological cipher for their "ethnic cleansing." A "mixed multitude" left Egypt and it's all about fidelity to the God of the covenant. Anyone who joins himself to Israel by circumcision is part of the theocracy, while unfaithful Israelites are executed (like Achan), and eventually Israel records its own expulsion from the land for violating the terms of the covenant. It has nothing to do with "ethnic cleansing" or genocide, but with the fact that child-sacrificing, violent warriors, and unjust oppressors are squatters on God's land. It is time for the serpent to be driven from God's garden. The tragedy is not the holy wars, but Israel's half-hearted and incomplete fulfillment of this command. Like Adam, they failed to drive out the serpent. Like Adam, they allowed the serpent to seduce the people to serve other gods who are not gods: "Like Adam, they broke my covenant" (Hos. 6:7).
The law of Israel is a sword of holy war drawn first toward the people of Israel themselves (Josh. 5:2-9), then even toward Joshua (vv. 13-15). No one is safe once occupying God's holy land. Everything is devoted to salvation or destruction. It's a foreshadowing of the Last Judgment.
And this is the main point I want to make briefly concerning this first thesis: "The wages of sin is death" (Rom. 6:23). The pagan occupiers of God's land deserved death. In fact, God waited patiently all of these centuries between Abraham's day and the conquest before the thorough housecleaning (Gen. 15:16). We need not rehearse the heinous sins—idolatry, child sacrifice, cruel violence, and injustice. All we need to know is that if we were occupying that land, we too would deserve death. To judge God's command as unrighteous is to reveal an inability to accept the seriousness of God's holiness and our sin.
Jesus talked about hell more than anyone else in the Bible. He announced a universal "holy war," where the sheep and goats will be separated (Matt. 25). The enemies of God will be arrayed against the Lord and against his Messiah on the last day, but when the Son appears in glory they will cry for the rocks to fall on them and crush them rather than face "the wrath of the Lamb" (Rev. 6:14-17). Anyone who has trouble with the very targeted and limited "holy wars" under Joshua will have greater trouble with Jesus Christ. He will come again "to judge the living and the dead"—Gentiles and Jews, men, women and children. There will be no mercy in that day as Jesus comes with his saints in the war to end all wars.
The book of Joshua is a preview of coming attractions. It was a mercifully limited campaign compared with the universal judgment of Jesus Christ, the greater Joshua. And yet, we must not skip over the glaring fact of history: "That in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation" (2 Cor. 5:19). The Great King received his own sword into his side, bore our guilt, and his body is the holy land where the wicked are justified, sanctified, and glorified forever through faith alone.
This does not mean we can invoke the old covenant holy wars as a literal basis for modern nation-states, including Israel. Not even the church can use the temporal sword to defend the gospel. There are no nations in covenant with God: whether Israel, Britain, or the United States. "Christendom" is a serious error of biblical interpretation. No nation will ever again be identified with God's saving purposes in history. The church is not geopolitical. It has no military. It appeals to rulers as persecuted witnesses to Christ, not as victorious rulers of the earthly cities.
No nation is in covenant with God today, not even the modern nation of Israel. Even Orthodox Jews emphasize that the modern state of Israel is not the revival of the old covenant theocracy. Not until there is a revived cult in Jerusalem, with a rebuilt temple and its sacrificial system, and the total exclusion of non-Jews, will there be a revived theocracy. However, Jesus and the apostles clearly teach that this old covenant is "obsolete" (Heb. 8:6, 13). That is why we are living in the new covenant era. In this time between the times—that is, the intermission between the two advents of Christ, first coming in humility and salvation, and the second time in judgment and final deliverance—the Spirit unites to Christ people from every nation to the true Israel, Jesus Christ. All who are "in Christ" are alive, united into one new person, whether Jew or Gentile; all who are "in Adam" are dead, whether Jew or Gentile.
This means, of course, that there can be no "replay" of Israel's holy wars. These Old Testament events were types and shadowing pictures of yet further events to come:
(a) The spiritual warfare of the gospel conquering the unbelief and spiritual blindness that covers the world for Jews and Gentiles alike, and
(b) The final conquest of Jesus Christ with his saints at his return. Christ has driven out the serpent from the garden and crushed his head. In the new creation there will be "nothing that defiles" in its precincts (Rev. 21:27).
But for now, "God sends the rain on the just and the unjust alike" (Matt. 5:44-45). In this sermon, which intentionally contrasts with Moses' delivery of the law on the plains of Moab, Jesus announces that we are living in an era of common grace. All lands are common and therefore all wars are common. This distinction is the basis for "just war theory," as Augustine especially articulated it. There is no holy war, because there is no holy land. Despite the brochures that centuries of Christendom and dispensationalist evangelicals have made so popular, the land of Israel is not "the Holy Land," but common land. Whatever arguments may be made for the integrity of an Israeli state today, they have nothing do with biblical law or prophecy. However precious God's purposes remain for the Jewish people (which should be affirmed based on Romans 9-11), Israel is a common nation. There is nothing in the establishment of the nation of Israel in 1948 that fulfills biblical prophecy. The new covenant anticipated by the prophets was always a fulfillment of the promise made to Abraham of a worldwide family united to the Father by faith in his Seed—Jesus Christ.
Now we are living in a productive period of the kingdom's expansion, not through God's direct intervention through a particular nation, but by the conquest of the nations through the preaching of the gospel. It is "the day of salvation," not of judgment. But there is a day of judgment, the Day of the Lord, when Christ returns to judge the living and the dead.
Here is the bottom line when trying to find some equivalence between Islam's "holy wars" today and the Bible's concept. First, the former has no sense of history or a distinction in covenants. Particularly, there is no distinction between the way in which the covenant of grace is administered differently in old and new covenants. Therefore, "holy war" is invoked today as in every era, according to Islam.
Jesus very clearly announced "regime change" from the covenant mediated by Moses to the one that he mediates as Abraham's greater seed (see esp. Matt. 5). So when Muslims practice holy war or jihad, they are consistent with their normative texts. When Christians do so, as they have, they are ignoring Jesus. The God of the Old and New Testaments is the same; it is the transition from promise (type) to fulfillment (reality) that changes.
The everlasting promise, secured by Christ's obedience and mediation, remains secure for all transgressors who trust in Christ. This is the point of Paul's contrast in Galatians 3-4 between "two covenants"—the law and the promise, and the earthly Jerusalem and the heavenly Jerusalem. It is also a familiar contrast throughout the Epistle to the Hebrews (e.g., Heb. 11:16; 12:18-24). With Christ as the faithful servant and mediator, the new covenant "is enacted on better promises" (Heb. 8:6).
There are distinctions without antitheses. The distinction is not between the God of the Old Testament who commanded Joshua's holy wars and the God of the New Testament known in Jesus Christ.
The conquest recounted in Joshua has been invoked by Christian empires and nations and, in reaction, criticized as incompatible with the God we meet in Jesus Christ. How do we respond?
First, since according to God's righteous standard all people are sentenced to death (Gen. 2:17 with Rom. 1:18-3:20), the real wonder is that God commanded such a limited holy war. Second, Yahweh holds Israel to the same standard (with the same threats) by which he destroyed the pagan cities (Lev. 18:28; Deut. 13:5; 17:7; Josh. 7:11-12; Mal. 4:6). Third, exclusively under the old covenant was the church also a geopolitical nation. With Yahweh as the direct head of state, his ordinary providence and common grace may be suspended by extraordinary miracles; holy war is Yahweh's to wage, not Israel's or the church's to invoke at will (for example, see Gen. 49:5-8 and 1 Chron. 22:8).
In fulfillment of the Abrahamic promise of a worldwide family in Christ, the new covenant church is distinct from all geopolitical states. God's common grace encompasses believers and unbelievers alike (Matt. 5:43-48), and Jesus affirms Caesar's political authority even over Judea (Mark 12:17; cf. Rom. 13:1-7). In this phase of his kingdom, Christ conquers the earth (not just Canaan) in saving grace by his Word and Spirit (Eph. 6:12-17).
Like the twelve spies Joshua sent into Jericho, the twelve apostles were sent to preach the gospel of Christ's kingdom. Yet Jesus rebuked James and John for wanting to execute holy war on a Samaritan village that rejected the message (Luke 9:51-56). Jesus similarly instructs the seventy-two to fulfill their mission by preaching, not by force (Luke 10-12), giving them "authority to tread on serpents." However, it is Satan and his demonic hosts—the real enemy behind the earthly enemies—whose heads are finally crushed (Luke 10:17-20; cf. Rom. 16:20). Jesus promises, "I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18b, emphasis added).
Yet when Christ returns, it will be to judge the whole earth, together with his saints as his army (1 Cor. 6:2). Anyone who has trouble with Joshua will have even greater qualms about Jesus Christ, since he promises to bring global judgment: the war to end all wars (Matt. 3:11-12; 24:27-25:46; Rev. 17:1-20:15).
Michael Horton is the J. Gresham Machen professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Seminary California (Escondido, California), host of the White Horse Inn, national radio broadcast, and editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. He is author of many books, including The Gospel-Driven Life, Christless Christianity, People and Place, Putting Amazing Back Into Grace, The Christian Faith, and For Calvinism.
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"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." - GK Chesterton
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It is cute, it would be adorable in pink and black!
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not. it looks very fake. I don't like the material. It could be cute if more thought were put into it.
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