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Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
The Cessna Grand Caravan is what happens when you cross a Winnebago and a single-engine turboprop.
The Model 208B Grand Caravan and its four-foot-shorter sibling, the Model 675 Caravan, have been around for decades. This rugged $2 million "utility infielder" combines simple systems, a cavernous but unpressurized cabin and a robust design that has stood the test of time. Cessna delivered the first Caravan in 1985 and the first Grand Caravan in 1990. Save for a few incremental improvements added over the years, the model remains largely unchanged. Bill Herp, whose Massachusetts-based Linear Air at one time operated six executive Caravans, called it "a rock-solid airplane."
The Caravan is a true go-anywhere Cessna. While it does travel a little faster at lower altitudes, it can be flown at up to 23,700 feet, provided passengers and pilot are breathing supplemental oxygen. A built-in oxygen system is an $11,000 option.
Going into a short gravel strip in the middle of Alaska? No problem. The airplane sits high on fixed, spring metal main landing gear and a strutted nose wheel, giving its propeller ample ground clearance and allowing it to handle primitive, uneven and unpaved landing strips. Even if you roll into a big rut a tad fast and collapse the nose wheel strut and blow out the front tire, the propeller sits up high enough that it will not convert into a garden tiller. With full fuel, a Caravan can still hold more than most medium business jets. With lighter loads, the airplane can take off in less than 1,500 feet and land in less than 1,000- with spirited use of brakes and propeller reverse, you can stop much shorter than that.
Of course, rare are the missions when you need to pack in full fuel, 332 gallons (usable). The airplane burns 50 to 55 gallons an hour at cruise power setting, which means you'd miss both games of the Sunday NFL double-header before you'd run out of gas. (Fortunately, a chemical toilet is an available option.)
Aside from the procedure used for starting the Pratt & Whitney PT6A-114A, 675-horsepower turbine engine, a Caravan isn't much different to fly than your basic, 160-horsepower, piston engine, four-seat Cessna 172 trainer. A low-time pilot would feel comfortable in this airplane. The handling is docile and the speed in all flight regimes is, well, slow. Stall speed with full flaps is just 60 knots. Conversely, cruise speed tops out at 186 knots. That means a typical 600-nautical-mile trip-including taxi, climb-out and landing-will take a leisurely 3.6 hours. But then, you buy this airplane for utility, not speed.
Federal Express Feeder airlines operate 260 stripped-down Grand Caravans (no passenger windows or finished interiors) that have cargo pods slung under their bellies and are badged Super Cargomasters. Numerous other small-package freight expediters fly them as well, as do rural regional and tourist airlines from Canada to Cameroon.
The Garmin G1000 integrated glass-panel avionics system is standard on new models. A variety of partial-glass and full-glass options are available for retrofit from several manufacturers, including Chelton, Sandel and Garmin, at prices ranging from $70,000 to $300,000. Electronic flight bags and other portable, plug-in devices that contain charts and flight performance data also are available for around $2,500.
Likewise, you have plenty of choices when outfitting a Caravan's cabin. Cessna typically will not sell this airplane with a finished interior, largely because so many buyers choose to customize it. The airplane has the same interior volume as a Beech King Air 200 and the cabin is actually a bit wider, at about 5 feet, 4 inches. (Height is 4 feet, 6 inches; length is a bit more than 16 feet aft of the cockpit.) There are four exterior doors-one at each pilot position plus an air-stair passenger door aft right and an oversized, fold-up and fold-out cargo door aft left.
In executive configuration, the airplane seats six to eight passengers, plus one or two pilots. The executive interiors of Caravans are virtually indistinguishable from those found on business jets. The single seats have the same swivel and recline features and similar rich veneers and fabrics. You can install in-flight entertainment systems that almost match those in the priciest business jets, too.
The one big difference is the lavatory. On most executive Caravans, this consists of a flip-up part of the rear bench seat and an underlying-and dreaded-chemical bowl. However, some Caravans have been equipped with electric flushing toilets, full vanities and sinks and even exterior plug-ins for showering (outside of the airplane on the ground) and generator power. Some have also been outfitted with elaborate bars and microwave ovens. Portable Iridium satellite phones can also be plugged in to use an aircraft antenna.
Capital Aviation in Oklahoma City was one of the first companies to market executive interiors for this airplane and has completed 142 of them since 1994. Over the years, Capital Aviation's Larry Price has seen his share of eccentric customer requests for items, including seat styling to match that of a Range Rover, a custom fishing-rod rack, an Indiana Jones-style interior and a lodge look, complete with distressed leather seating and wall treatments that resembled fish scales. The company also has designed a few interior options that have been popular with customers, including double sliding pocket doors that separate the crew from passengers and a side-facing water closet in the aft cabin that affords better privacy.
Capital Aviation is one of two companies that provide the majority of Caravan executive interiors. The other, Yingling Aviation in Wichita, developed a plush "Oasis" interior that has become popular. Angie Jackson, Yingling's director of interior completions, said the company is on track to deliver at least 25 Oasis interiors this year and has done 100 since 2004. Several of those are quick-change jobs with easily detached cabin seats, vinyl flooring under the removable carpet and protective temporary coverings for the high-gloss veneer cabinets-in case you want to take along a couple of dirt bikes without messing up the interior. Jackson said the interior adds 475 to 600 pounds to the airplane's weight and takes about 10 days to install.
All in all, a nice executive interior will run $150,000 to $330,000 depending on the components you select.
A few other options are worth considering on this airplane: Single-point refueling-no need to climb a ladder onto the wing tops-for $40,000 and a 111-cubic-foot underbelly cargo pod for $60,000. The pod can hold 1,090 pounds and knocks only seven knots off cruising speed. Depending on where you operate, air conditioning for about $24,000 may also makes sense. The Grand Caravan has large windows and the cabin gets hot baking in the sun.
Does this airplane make sense for you? You can certainly buy faster and more expensive single-engine turboprops. However, the Grand Caravan delivers a unique combination of dependability, economy, style and utility, albeit at the speed of leisure.
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SH board discusses start date for school
JEWELL – The early start date hearing at the South Hamilton school board meeting Monday generated interest from a number of visitors.
At the hearing, the board considered when to start the 2013-2014 school year.
"The Department of Education says the earliest date we can start is Aug. 26," Superintendent Tim Johnson reminded the board. "So 99 percent of the schools in Iowa do a waiver to start before that."
The board agreed to submit the waiver but discussed at length whether to start school on Aug. 15 or Aug. 22. One parent, Jackie Reiter, said her children are involved in several school activities, but August is a time when very little is scheduled at school, so there is opportunity for family time.
"How do you justify continuing to take more of our August?" she asked, adding that since the school buildings are not air conditioned she is not sure of the educational atmosphere there during those potentially very hot days.
Another interested parent at the meeting shared her concerns about starting school before the state fair ends, making it difficult for FFA and 4-H members who exhibit at the fair.
"These kids work hard, do well, and so many are so involved and do a good job," said Stephanie Nicholson, who was concerned about fall sports practices that start in August.
"Asking them to make a choice between the state fair and school activities in August is like asking someone who has qualified for the state tournament in a sport to leave that tournament. We're very proud of what they do, but we're infringing on them a lot."
In the end, Johnson was directed by the board to revise calendar options to start on August 19, 2013. A week-long spring break will be included in the calendar. Plans are for the revised 2013-2014 calendar to be presented for approval at the board's February meeting.
Another calendar issue on the agenda was scheduling two snow makeup days from the blizzard in December. The board set those days on February 25 (scheduled for professional development) and March 29 (Good Friday). Any additional snow days this winter will be made up at the end of the school year.
Jim Kubichek, middle school/high school science instructor, was at the meeting to submit his retirement request for the end of the current school year. Kubichek has been in education for thirty years, 17 of them on the staff at South Hamilton. The board thanked him for his contributions to the district and approved the retirement request.
Athletic director Todd Coy reviewed the current coaching vacancies, which are listed on the school Web site.
Also on Monday, elementary principal Paul Hemphill reported that the Elementary Boosters have donated $5,500 toward new musical instruments and another $2,500 for document cameras. He also told the board that the Department of Human Services came and rated the preschool program.
Middle school/high school principal Scott Dryer updated the board on the Silver Cord Project, a new opportunity for community service for high school students. He commended the music boosters for their outstanding planning and communication of the spring trip to Chicago in April. There will be 107 high school band and chorus members on the trip.
Transportation director Gene Greenfield attended Monday's meeting to give the board a summary of the bus/vehicle fleet mileage and condition. He will also be at the February meeting with specifications and recommendations for the purchase of a new bus.
Food service director Terri Cook was also at the meeting to give the board a report on the newly renovated kitchen. "I could not be more pleased. We are very happy with everything," she said.
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DCHS sees positive month, but Blue Cross woes persist
IRON MOUNTAIN – Although Dickinson County Healthcare System (DCHS) is still showing a bottom line loss for the year, due in part to reimbursement issues with Medicare and Blue Cross, there were some gains in July.
During the hospital board of trustees' monthly meeting on Thursday, trustees learned that the hospital had $7,511,673 in total operating revenue and $7,455,843 in expenses, which resulted in a total operating gain of $55,830.
July's performance brought the year-to-date loss in operations to $2,840,176 for the year.
"July's numbers are very positive, and behind them is a tremendous amount of work expended by an exceptionally dedicated group of employees," said DCHS Administrator/CEO John Schon. "But one good month does not make a positive year, and we have a lot more work to do. We owe it to our patients and to this community to be successful."
Schon pointed out that there is a reason that the hospital is losing money.
"There is something wrong, and the problem lies in inadequate reimbursement for the services we provide," he said.
One concern is Medicare reimbursement. Medicare accounts for 45 percent of DCHS's business. The Medicare program reimburses DCHS $525 less per Medicare admission compared to the average reimbursement received by other hospitals in the region; this equates to $1 million annually.
The other concern is Blue Cross reimbursement.
Information was shared with the board to show the reimbursement discrepancy between how Blue Cross pays DCHS in comparison to other Upper Peninsula hospitals.
The average overall payment of Upper Peninsula hospitals is 37 percent greater than payments made to DCHS. If Blue Cross were to increase its reimbursement to DCHS by 37 percent to bring it to the average payment rate of Upper Peninsula hospitals, it would equate to a $5,790,555 net patient revenue increase.
By their own admission in a recent letter, while Blue Cross accounts for 25 percent of DCHS's business, reimbursements total only 17 percent of net revenue.
Both of the hospital's labor unions, MNA and AFSCME, expressed their concern over the Blue Cross reimbursement experienced by DCHS, and the negative impact the issue is having on their wages, health insurance, and overall employment.
MNA signed a six-year, zero percent wage increase contract with DCHS and stated that RN compensation has been directly and negatively impacted by Blue Cross.
AFSCME signed a contract for a .5 percent wage increase with no guarantee that it will continue next year.
"The cost of gas goes up along with the cost of groceries," stated Pam Maule, RN and MNA representative. "When wages are frozen, it quickly becomes a quality of life issue. We have a high quality hospital with exceptional staff; we are simply asking to be reimbursed fairly."
Jen Johnson, AFSCME representative, had similar concerns.
"AFSCME represents a large group of employees who cannot afford to have smaller paychecks as they lose hours and need to pay more for health insurance," she said. "Many of our members are single moms who are taking additional jobs to make ends meet."
Dickinson County Commissioner Joe Stevens was also present at the meeting.
"I was going to keep quiet today, but I can't," he said. "The county stands behind our hospital and all of its employees; they do a remarkable job caring for the people of this community. I am disgusted with Blue Cross. Shame on them."
Board of Trustees Chairman Bill Edberg said that DCHS has tried to work with Blue Cross and play by its rules in the past.
"It has become clear to us that Blue Cross is not interested in negotiation," he added. "This is a long-standing problem that has reached a tipping point. We need Blue Cross to level the playing field so we can continue to provide much needed services to our communities. We intend to leverage support from as many stakeholders as possible. And this is not Blue Cross-bashing. We are trying to educate the community on the challenges that face us."
Bruce Orttenburger, president and CEO of the Dickinson Area Partnership, offered his support and assistance to the hospital.
"Local business and the Dickinson Area Partnership stand behind DCHS in its quest for fair reimbursement from Blue Cross," he said. "Their reimbursement shortfalls threaten the viability of Dickinson Memorial Hospital, the economic stability of the region, and ultimately, the availability of locally-accessible, high-quality health care for area citizens. As Dr. Henke stated in his recent Letter to the Editor, this is the 'most important hospital in the world' because it is our hospital. We are all in this together."
Edberg noted that board members have been in contact with State Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, and State Rep. Ed McBroom, R-Vulcan, who are both supportive of the hospital.
However, Edberg suggested that sending letters to state representatives and to Blue Cross "couldn't hurt."
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Kendal Hostel
Kendal Hostel is an attractive Georgian townhouse in the histroric market town of Kendal. The hostel is situated infront of the well known Brewery Arts Centre with the front of the hostel leading onto Highgate that is only 200 yards from Kendal town centre.
Kendal hostel has 11 rooms avaliable that can cater for individuals, groups and also can be hired as a whole hostel. These 11 rooms can accomodate up to 48 guests per night. The 11 bedrooms range from 2-11 guests per room.
As the Hostel is self catering guests are welcome to use the kitchen, living room, dinning room and also wash facilities and drying room. We also have a secure bike shed that guests are welcome to use free of charge.
The hostel is very easily accesible by public transport but also by car as the M6, junction 36 is only 8 miles away.
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For the outstanding balance on arrival we accept cash and debit and credit card payments
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- 24 Hour Security
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- Breakfast Not Included
- Cable TV
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- Credit Cards Accepted
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- No Curfew
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Kendal Hostel is situated only 8 miles from the M6 motorway. Leave junction 36 and follow signs for Kendal South, this will then lead you onto the main one way system into Kendal. The hostel is situated on the left just after the Highgate Hotel.
There is a pay and display car park situated just behind the hostel.
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From Kendal town hall, walk south 200 yards and the hostel entrance is on the right through the archway.
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It replaces the Query Editor of CUBRID Manager in version 2008 R3.1 or earlier. and is integrated into CUBRID Manager as a plug-in in version 2008 R3.2 or later.
The CUBRID Query Browser consists of a database server running on a host where the Broker in installed and a GUI client. The CUBRID Query Browser client utility is written in Java and can be run in any environment that supports Java. It can run as an RCP application or run as a plug-in of Eclipse IDE.


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Here are some campus resources that are available to you as a graduate student! For a long list of campus resources, please visit the main Advising Hub Resources webpage.
Campus Computing & Technology
Find out where to rent a laptop, where the computer labs are, and how to access the campus wireless internet.
Career Center
Visit the Career Center for assistance with resume writing, internships, job fairs and finding a job.
Counseling Services
The Counseling Services staff can help you with personal and academic counseling, and they put on several workshops and small groups each semester.
Food, Health, Wellness & Fun
Learn about where to eat, keep active and healthy, and have fun on campus.
Graduate Admissions and Program Evaluation (GAPE)
GAPE handles procedures related to admissions, and university level program requirements for graduate students. They can help you with the steps to completing a master's degree (including applying for Candidacy and Graduation), and important forms and deadlines.
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LINGUIST List 21.2069
Sun May 02 2010
Calls: Cog Sci, Socioling/Portugal
Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <di
LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3!
1. Augusto Soares da Silva,
Pluricentric Languages: Linguistic Variation and Sociocognitive Dimensions
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Full Title: Pluricentric Languages: Linguistic Variation and Sociocognitive
Short Title: Plurilang
Date: 15-Sep-2010 - 17-Sep-2010
Location: Braga, Portugal
Contact Person: Augusto Soares da Silva
Meeting Email: plurilang2010
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Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 31-May-2010
Meeting Description:
International Conference on Pluricentric Languages:
Linguistic Variation and Sociocognitive Dimensions
September 15-17, 2010
Catholic University of Portugal
Braga, Portugal
The conference aims to explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural
dimensions of variation and change within pluricentric languages, with
specific emphasis on the relationship between national varieties. It brings
together the Cognitive Linguistics paradigm, Sociolinguistics tradition and
other usage-based, cognitively and socially oriented approaches to
language variation and change.
1. Early registration fee - until July 31
General: 130 Euros
Graduate students: 50 Euros
Undergraduates: 25 Euros
2. Late registration fee - between August 1 and September 15
General: 160 Euros
Graduate students: 80 Euros
Undergraduates: 25 Euros
Final Call for Papers
Extended Deadline: May 31, 2010
Plenary Speakers:
Peter Auer (University of Freiburg)
Enrique Bernardez (Complutense University of Madrid)
Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho (University of Sao Paulo)
Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven)
Gitte Kristiansen (Complutense University of Madrid)
Georges Ludi (University of Basel)
Edgar W. Schneider (University of Regensburg)
Aim and Scope:
The "one-nation-one-language" assumption is as unrealistic as the well-
known Chomskyan ideal of a homogeneous speech community. Linguistic
pluricentricity is a common and widespread phenomenon. For example,
English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Swahili,
Chinese, etc. are all pluricentric languages in the sense that they have
different national varieties, each with its own cultivated, standard register.
However, language pluricentricity and monocentricity are gradient rather
than separate categories: there are languages that are more pluricentric
than others. Moreover, some forms of pluricentricity are approximately
symmetric while others (the majority) are asymmetrical. Indeed, all
languages are "pluricentric" to some degree, to the extent that they exhibit
internal dialectal variation and differing local norms. Pluricentricity is
therefore a special case of language-internal variation, marked by questions
of national identity and power.
Almost two decades ago, Michael Clyne edited the seminal collective
volume Pluricentric Languages (1992), gathering comparative data
concerning a representative selection of pluricentric languages throughout
the world. Since then, the basis for the discussion of national varieties has
shifted from a "deviation from the center" model to a "several interacting
centers", or pluricentric, one and the relationship between national varieties
has been studied in terms of a dynamic and interactive process. Recently a
new and highly stimulating opportunity has been offered by Cognitive
Sociolinguistics, an emerging extension of Cognitive Linguistics as a usage-
based and recontextualizing approach to language and cognition,
institutionalized in the collective volume Cognitive Sociolinguistics (2008),
edited by Gitte Kristiansen and Rene Dirven.
Cognitive Sociolinguistics examines the social, cultural and conceptual
meaningfulness of language-internal variation, including the internal
structure of (and interaction between) whole varieties and styles, and
explores the relationship between lectal variation and cognition.
Methodologically, it uses advanced corpus-based quantitative methods,
while benefiting theoretically from key concepts from Cognitive Linguistics
(such as prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, framing,
perspectivization, profiling, reference point construction, subjectification,
cultural cognitive models etc.) in dealing with lectal varieties as socio-
cognitive entities.
This conference aims to explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural
dimensions of variation and change within pluricentric languages, with
specific emphasis on the relationship between national varieties. It brings
together the Cognitive Linguistics paradigm, Sociolinguistics tradition and
other usage-based, cognitively and socially oriented approaches to
language variation and change.
Within this socio-cognitive and interdisciplinary context of research into
linguistic pluricentricity and other expressions of language-internal variation,
papers are invited on the following themes and topics.
1. Language-internal and cross-national variation, culture and cognition
- Formation of national varieties: When is a national variety codified and
why? What conditions can promote a more or less symmetrical
- Cooperation, competition and conflict between national varieties: What are
the interconnections between national identity, power relationships and
national varieties? Can pluricentric languages be both unifiers and dividers
of people and to what extent? How symmetrical can pluricentricity be in an
unequally distributed world?
- Collective pluricentric language planning and policy: bi- or multilateral
language planning and policies, spelling reforms, educational programmes,
the influence of television, etc.
- Pluricentricity and globalization: What are the effects of current processes
of globalization on the relationships between national varieties? What is the
impact of the global pressure of English on pluricentricity?
- National variation, culture and cognition: Do national linguistic differences
reflect cultural differences? To what extent do the former correlate with
conceptual differences? How does national variation affect linguistic
meaning and linguistic categorization? How does language-internal and
cross-national variation reveal the situated and social nature of cognition?
2. Structural patterns of national variation and corpus-based approaches
- Indicators of (sub)standardization and pluricentricity: Convergence and
divergence between national varieties and internal stratification of national
- Correlations between variables: To what extent do lexical, grammatical
and phonological variables correlate when it comes to the
convergence/divergence and stratification of national varieties? Do social
identities (national, regional, local) operate as independent variables? To
what extent do socio-stylistic factors correlate with semantic, grammatical
and discursive factors?
- National and local varieties, styles and registers as prototype-based and
radial categories of meaning: How do national/local variation and semantic
variation correlate? How do prototypicality, stereotypicality and semantic
normativity combine and intertwine between and within national varieties?
- National varieties, linguistic system and linguistic change: What are the
linguistic consequences of contact between national varieties? What is the
impact of pluricentricity on language change?
- Corpus-based multivariate and quantitative models of language-internal
variation: What methods, tools and techniques (analytical and descriptive)
are needed to arrive at an adequate description of national variation? How
can we measure diachronic convergence and divergence between national
varieties and synchronic internal stratification of national varieties?
3. Cognitive cultural models of national language variation
- Perception and evaluation of national varieties: How do language users
perceive national varieties and how do they evaluate them attitudinally?
What cultural and cognitive models are at work in the categorization and
evaluation of local and national linguistic differences? What is the role of
ideology in cognitive representations of national variations?
- National variation and language attitudes: How are purist or pro-
independence attitudes manifested and what are the consequences for the
development of national varieties? How do language attitudes differ in the
various centers of a pluricentric language, particularly of the dominating and
non-dominating varieties?
- Objective and subjective linguistic distances: Is there a correlation
between objective linguistic distances, perceived distances, and language
To what extent do language attitudes as they can be objectively measured
correlate with actual language behavior as observed in corpora?
- Mutual intelligibility between national varieties: to what extent do objective
linguistic distances and language attitudes influence intelligibility?
- National cultural models and national language variation: How do these
interact? Does language variation follow from cultural models, merely reflect
them or actually determine them?
- Cultural models of national variation and their consequences for language
planning and language policy.
Submission of Abstracts:
Submissions are solicited for presentations which should last for 20 minutes
with 10 minutes for questions (maximum 30 minutes total). All submissions
for presentations should follow the following abstract guidelines:
- Conference languages are English (preferably), Portuguese, Spanish and
- The extended deadline for abstracts is May 31, 2010.
- The abstract, edited in Word or RTF (or PDF, in case it contains special
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JAMMED -- Apparently most people living on the North Side elected to try reaching the downtown area by way of Summit St. and the 3rd St. viaduct. This "bumper to bumper" jam clogged the viaduct about 8 a.m. as the peak traffic period reached its crest.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (203 votes).
In short: Christmas present of a race!!!In full: Always a pleasing and enjoyable event. Like getting an early Christmas present! ... weather looked ominous but stayed away long enough to get the race over and done with. As always a challenging and testing course with the reward of spectacular views from the top!!! ... roll on the 49th running and hopefully something more spectacular for the 50th!!! ... Well done to the organisers and a special thank you to the marshals that braved the elements on our behalfDate of review: December 10, 2007
In short: good race Date of review: December 10, 2007
In short: Good fun, weather ok, not too steep and roads not too busy!In full: Slightly odd-looking start (as runners have to be backed into a field ready to be unleashed onto the roads) but it was all well-organised and straightforward. The start -> finish 'bag carry service' worked great (nice to be able to put clothes on at the finsh before trudging the mile back to the car parks!). the climb is challenging but fair. Date of review: December 10, 2007
In short: Nice friendly race. Please do something about the weather though...Date of review: December 10, 2007
In short: Nicely challengingIn full: Enjoyed my first Hog's Back. However - definitely reiterate other peoples' comments about later finishers having to negotiate other runners / spectators / dogs / pushchairs on way to finish. That last 'mile' was tough enough! Also - would be nice if supporters gave priority to runners in the 'loo queue' prior to race! Overall though - thank you to marshalls who were very cheerful in spite of the weather.Date of review: December 10, 2007
In short: fantastic course, will definitely be back!In full: The course was great, runnable hills even for a slower runner like me, and a lovely long steep down that made it all worth it! Great organisation, with a smile, thanks to everyone who helped. CAKE WHAT CAKE???? I had a lovely but very expensive cup of tea. Perhaps bananas would be a cheap but helpful free food option at the end? Once I realised the mile markers were in fact placed at random distances apart I stopped looking at my watch and didn't believe the 7 mile marker (just as well!), but overall this was a really special race and I'll be back.Date of review: December 10, 2007
In short: Nice run . . .In full: I mostly enjoyed this race altho ate too much breakfast and suffered for this most of the way around! Am looking forward to giving it a better go next year. The 'hogs back' wasn't as bad as I had expected and it was a shame about the weather because the view was not viewable! Nice race, good medal but no goodies at the end unless I missed them??Date of review: December 10, 2007
In short: Despite the slightly dodgy weather a great and challenging runDate of review: December 10, 2007
In short: An excellent race. But what's all this about cake???In full: I've done this for several years and it's a big favourite. Extremely well-organized with plenty of friendly marshalls, and a perfectly-placed water station. The walk back to the start is part of the fun. I always put a flask of coffee and some biscuits in my bag to enjoy on the walk back. I'd have loved a piece of cake. Was it just for the faster runners? I didn't see it, so maybe it had all gone. And, faster runners please note, there are still people finishing as you walk away, please have the courtesy to give them plenty of room, they are probably exhausted after running up that never-ending drive, and the last thing they need is to weave around crowds of people walking three and four abreast. Having said that, there was an improvement on last year, when the drive was heaving with pushchairs, dogs and unruly children.Date of review: December 10, 2007
In short: Wow - my legs sche!In full: Well, we were warned about the long hill at the start so I was prepared for it - hideously under-prepared for the last bit though! First time doing this and really enjoyed it, but then I enjoy hills anyway! Cake? WHAT CAKE? I MISSED CAKE? Hmm, gutted about that!Mile markers were completely out - I've never yet done a 7.14 mile! And that last mile was so long and hard. Still , the marshals were good, lots of water on hand at the water station and finish and plenty of encouragement from supporters too. I WILL DEFINITELY BE BACK NEXT YEAR - AND IN SEARCH OF CAKE!!! :-)Date of review: December 10, 2007
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Most people who claim to know and love the Lord would agree that His Word is central to spiritual growth.
But there are a wide variety of ideas about what that looks like in practice. For many leaders in the spiritual formation movement, Bible study doesn't really involve study at all. Instead, it's an attempt to experience the text.
Many spiritual formation gurus advocate various meditative Bible-reading methods, most of them adapted from a Catholic Church practice called lectio divina. Regardless of the name they apply to it, the pattern is usually the same—slow, methodical, repetitive reading, with an eye toward words and phrases that pop out to the individual reader. It's through those individual words and phrases, we're told, that the Lord speaks directly to us.
Bible study, then, is not a question of digging deep into God's Word but letting your imagination and intuition guide your own personal understanding of the text. The reader is encouraged to project himself into Scripture—to imagine the sights, sounds, and smells of the world of the Bible, supposedly gaining a deeper understanding of God's truth through these flights of fancy.
It's hard to imagine a "study" method that would show more casual contempt for the true meaning and original intent of God's Word. The Bible isn't a collection of fables or bedtime stories to fire our imaginations—it is direct revelation from God, and its meaning is fixed and eternal.
A key aspect of Bible study is pushing aside your own thoughts, prejudices, and ideas and getting to the author's original intent for the original audience. Instead of pursuing that primary meaning, spiritual formation techniques make the whimsical, disconnected thoughts and feelings of the reader the final arbiter and interpreter of Scripture.
God's Word is simply too important in the lives of believers to be left up to their own fickle intuitions and flawed understanding. His truth is not subjective—it's the objective, eternal, changeless foundation of our salvation and sanctification.
When he was recently in studio, we asked John MacArthur about the means of sanctification, and how the Lord works through His truth in our lives. Here's what he had to say.
Because of the vital role of God's Word in our spiritual growth, this week we're going to look at some practical ways to study it, understand its original meaning, and get the most out of it.
For now, we want to hear from you. What kinds of Bible-study methods have been recommended to you in the past? What stimulated your spiritual growth, and what stalled it?
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Without a doubt it has been lectio divina. It's essential to meditate on God's Word. BUT of course there are certain do's and don'ts, like don't take a verse out of context, search for the background of the book, the chapter and how the verse relates to the main idea. I study the passage and I study the verse by reading slowly, reading more often, taking it, trying to find out what it meant then and what it means now. I even use John's Study Bible.
I think you can't reject lectio divina all together, just because a lot of people use it wrong.
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1)What kinds of Bible-study methods have been recommended to you in the past?
2) What stimulated your spiritual growth, and what stalled it?
1) Studying a verse as if it were isolated has been my experience. It's recently only that I realized John 3:16 is under the story of Jesus-Nicodemus conversation, for example. Thinking that our Bible in Filipino language was enough, has been the style. too. I was told later that any Bible is not sufficiently-translated bec. only Greek & Hebrew are 100% or most expressive of God's thoughts, & this realization helped.
2) Personal Bible -reading recommendations helped understand more the Bible + personal sermon-listenings to gty, for example, & pastors who recommend expositorial simplicity. Admission that Greek & Hebrew Bibles are the most accurate humbled me and improved my interest bec. I feel ignorant of God's word, being a non Greek/Hebrew speaker. Study, then is a lifelong task, never ending. Knowledge of English helped as the 2nd best way to get the thoughts of God, w/c for us Asians is not automatic.
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1. What kinds of Bible-study methods have been recommended to you in the past?
I was always taught the Who? What? When? Where? and Why? method of study. Always find out who was writing the passage and to whom, what events surrounded the writing of the passage, when was it written, where was it written, and why was it written.
2. What stimulated your spiritual growth, and what stalled it?
My spiritual growth has been stimulated in the past by the unction of the Holy Spirit. In other words, I have grown more when I was in a place where I was frustrated with the lack of Bible teaching, or the lack of holiness. That would send me on a quest for Bible teaching and for God's standard of holiness. I have grown more when I was "spiritually frustrated" than when everything appeared to be going smoothly.
Sin has always and will always stall spiritual growth. There have been spaces of time in my life when I have harbored unforgiveness in my heart, and I could feel myself moving away from the Lord. I still loved the Lord and I know He always loves me, but I could tell in my prayer life, my study time, and my communication with the Lord that I was not where I should be. Also, I used to battle severe bouts of depression, which would take me out of God's Word and out of prayer time. There were times when I just could not pray. There is no doubt that my spiritual growth was stalled during those times, because there was no way that I could grow in Him, and I had not spent time with Him.
Amplified all the way! Hard for reading aloud in Bible study, but great in personal use. Learning about the culture/history is also a great tool and gives a fuller understanding to the verse. John MacArthur's study Bible has also helped immensely, thanks GTY!
At one time I was duped into doing Bible study the way all cults encourage their followers. I was instructed to just accept the interpretation of the church leadership by reading their publications and then looking up the scriptures they would give that appeared to support their view. Many times these scriptures would being taken out of their context and had nothing to do with the subject being studied. Needless to say there were many portions of scripture that I misunderstood. Fortunately I had a friend that introduced me to GTY and I soon learned proper hermeneutical principles. I learned that scripture must be read and understood in its context including its historical background and original languages. So many things started to make sense after applying these principles. I have to admit that I am still unlearning many of the false teachings I learned years ago. I am so grateful to God that he lead me to his truth through GTY. I'm also grateful to GTY for its dedication to a proper understanding of God's word. Keep up the good work.
Can you point me to a web site where someone explains why the Greek and Hebrew bibles are more acurate. I don't speak either language. I spend a bit of time in study each week and I'm wondering how inacurate I am using my english bible.
Question: How can lectio divina be applied to a text like 1 Chronicles 1: 1-54?
I wouldn't say it's only a question of accurate vs. inaccurate when it comes to your English Bible. It's a translation, and as such you can have confidence that it is an accurate representation of the original Greek and Hebrew.
The ability to read and study those original languages allows you to see beyond the translation and get the fullest meaning of the words, idioms, and turns of phrase, picking up what little might be lost in the conversion to English. But by no means is it necessary to first know those languages in order to understand God's Word. Thanks to faithful translators and the sovereignty of the Lord, His Word is fully intact and uncorrupted in time-tested, word-for-word translations.
And as translations go, my personal preference is for the NASB or the ESV, as the editors of those versions paid special attention to translating the text word for word.
Hope that helps.
Don't misunderstand. The original Hebrew and Greek are inspired by God. However, the majority of translations are fairly accurate and clear in message. As with anything, there are translations out there better left untouched and some paraphrases. Two very good translations I would recommend are the NASB and NIV. I would also recommend you not get involved in debating with KJV folks; it serves no purpose. I would say whatever translation you decide to use, do plenty of research on it. God will bless you in your study of His holy word.
Good question. I shudder to think how someone might try.
To Ben Enders, in reply to your question, "Can you point me to a web site where someone explains why the Greek and Hebrew bibles are more acurate. I don't speak either language. I spend a bit of time in study each week and I'm wondering how inaccurate I am using my English Bible.", it was in an episode of haven today when they talked about translations/expanded Bible (let me hasten to say i dont believe all they say) that i realized u have to have at least a "commentary" and not a simple Bible, in order to come close to the intention of the original (2 years ago maybe, i dont listen now to haven). Jeremiah Johnson & Dwight Osborne, here, i think conform to my understanding, w/c is, "Hebrew/Greek may be the best, but now, Explained English may come close to the original, & that's also the duty of gty, to explain."
What version of the MacArthur study bible was out first?
I agree, I wouldn't want to debate Dr. MacArthur either.
Honestly, I don't understand "beyond the translation".
Sovereignty of the Lord I understand, Amen!!
I have been reading a Chinese (Union Version) / English (NIV) parallel Bible for a couple of years as the primary text for my daily devotional reading. And I have continuously been amazed by the fact that, most often than not, they present almost identical meanings in the word of God.
Our (local) church has been teaching and encouraging people to use the inductive method for Bible study, which consists of the following steps:
1) Observation: What does this passage say?
2) Interpretation: What it meant for those to whom it was written?
3) Principlization: What eternal, universal principle underlying this passage?
4) Application: How does this principle apply to my life? (Be personal and specific)
My spiritual growth has been mostly stimulated by having the opportunity to lead Bible study groups, teach Sunday school classes, and teach specific topics such as Know Your Bible.
Rather than having only your English translation, Greek and Hebrew resources give you additional insight into the original text in its original languages. They help you get beyond (or further than) just the translation.
It is essential for us to obtain complete and intact datas or informations, notice the consistency of the message of the Bible, and take the true and correct conclusions. Then, we take a step or decision to apply the principles and value systems that is produced into the current cultural context without ignoring the moral standards that expected by God.
To summarize the above, what we need to do when studying the bible is observation, interpretation, conclusion, principalization, application, and socialization.
1)What kinds of Bible-study methods have been recommended to you in the past?
2) What stimulated your spiritual growth, and what stalled it?
1) I have been studying by listening to sermons and by breaking down the verse. What's nice about listening to sermons is you not only get the verse by verse broken down, but also you get the context of what scripture is saying. It's so important to look at the context of a verse, so that it's not translated wrong.
2) It was hard to get started in my spiritual growth. I wanted to do it my way and apparently that's not the way God wanted. So I just started reading and studying daily when I can. I have been faithfully studying the Bible for about two in a half years, and when I miss a day I can "feel" it. It's like I get uneasy and get a guilty feeling when I know I should have read the Bible instead of doing something else.
Looking back to my years of spiritual journey, I found that I had experienced methods that brought me to the wrong path of spiritual growth. In the beginning, I was taught to read the word and pray to the Lord as a dialogue with God and the implication neglect the historical context of the Scripture. Later I was led to the wrong practice of speaking in tongue and that amplified the subjective approach of spiritual exercise and that was disastrous in one way to my spiritual growth. And that was made worse when I studied about higher criticism in an underground seminary in China. Because of that, my view towards the Bible was very much Neo-Orthodox way which thinks "the Bible becomes the Word of God when God spoke to you through the Bible." The Word of God then become subjective in its essence and experiential in its function. And teachers in that seminary also introduce Catholic approach in spiritual formation to the students. One teacher is the first Chinese Protestant Ph.D. graduate from a Catholic University major in Spiritual theology. Another Ph. D. from Fuller Theological Seminary introduced Henry Nowen with high regard but the last comment is that he never mentioned sin in all his books. All these teachings lead me to very confused Christian life.
Thank God that I was able to study in a fundamental Bible College in Singapore which holds the highest view to the Bible according to the self-identification of the Scripture itself. I was introduced to the doctrine of verbal plenary inspiration and the twin doctrine of verbal plenary preservation. That alone guarantees that we have every word of God to live by. The doctrine of verbal plenary inspiration tackled the attack from the higher criticism and the doctrine of verbal plenary preservation tackled the attack from the lower criticism. So there in that Bible College, I regained my faith in the perfection, authority, sufficiency of the Holy Scripture. And also historical-grammatical interpretation was taught and practiced. And the system of theology taught there was very close to gty's Calvinistic Premillennium teaching. That is why I fell in love with the teaching of Dr. John MacArthur when I was back here in China. The resources of gty is such a help for me whose stand is still not very much known here in China.
Jesus Christ will probably simply describe spiritual formation as learning the whole counsel of God and obey it. For the part for spiritual growth in Great Commission is to "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you". And that is the mandate for the Church. So to study the Word of God with the people of God with the guidance of the God given pastor and teacher (Ehe. 4) is God's way to equip the saints and grow the church. That is why faithful teachers are very important in spiritual growth. When you are under the teaching and spiritual care of faithful teacher-pastor, cherish it and pray for them.
Yang Lin (#18)
Amen! I have a similar spiritual background from right here in the states. I thank God for GTY and Love Worth Finding Ministries for setting me on the correct path, but I also have become a become a believer in the doctrine of preservation through the received texts (in this regard I disagree with JM, sorry!).
Ben (#6)
While I want to emphasize that John MacArthur is one of (and probably THE best) teachers you can learn from today, except for maybe Adrian Rogers, who passed away a few years ago but you can still get his sermons through Love Worth Finding ministries, I would encourage you to stick with the received text (KJV in English).
I tried Precepts (Kay Arthur) but found it too distracting to have to worry about color coding and drawing shapes and symbols. Too academic for me.
I read through the Bible in a year using a reading plan or, like this year, using a One-Year Study Bible. This year it's a chronological Bible. These readings are my primary study each day and I often pray some of the text as I go along.
Along with that I usually use a devotional such as Table Talk (Ligonier) or work on a Women's Study/Sunday School lesson.
Kerry (#19).
I used to be a KJV onlyist, so I know where you are coming from. However, you can't limit God's preservation of his word ONLY to the Received Text. The reason being is that what we know about the history of the transmission of the biblical text does not support your claim. In fact, the Received Text, that underlies the KJV translation, was a fourth edition put together by Erasmus based upon about 10 or so manuscripts he had access to at the time. It was even incomplete in the book of Revelation to the point he had to translate from Latin back into Greek for his editions. The Received Text has readings in the book of Revelation that is not found in any of the other complete manuscripts of Revelation. That begs the question as to why God didn't preserve His word in this book if the Received Text is His chosen text to begin with.
So as much as I understand your desire to be faithful to the Bible's infallibility, appealing to the Received Text as the ONLY text Christians can trust is just mishandling the facts of what we know about textual criticism.
Thank you, Fred, for this response. I am reluctant to weigh in on this. But, from your response, I suspect that you know what I'm about to say to be true. When 2 Tim. 3:16 says "all Scripture is inspired by God" it's not talking about the KJV, nor is it speaking of any of the other translations. It is speaking of the Scriptures as written in the original languages in the time that they were written in. It specifically refers to the OT Scriptures, as they were the only Scriptures around in the time of Jesus, and then can be referenced to the NT as they were accepted to be the word of God. I have gotten away from debating KJV onlyism vs. NIV (and other translations) because the Lord showed me recently that, due to the fact that we're living in the end times, that it's much more important to share the Gospel by my words and by the way I live than it is to debate with other Christians the validity of any Bible. I will say there are Bibles out there that aren't worth the paper they're printed on (namely, the Message and the Bible recently published to accomodate the Muslims). However, the debate between KJV and most modern translations is silly. I can show errors in the KJV and to be fair, while I predominantly use the NIV, I can point out errors in that version as well. However, for the most part they are minor and really don't change the meaning of the Scripture. I will point out that while I believe the KJV to be an accurate and good translation of the Bible, there is one error in it that I perceive to be very agregious-Luke 1:35-in which Jesus is described as "that holy thing." I find that term very objectionable. Further, most people assume that the KJV that they are using is the 1611 edition. Most people would be shocked to find out that the original 1611 edition was the Holy Catholic Bible (contained the Apocrypha). Again, thank you for pointing out that God can certainly use a Bible other than the KJV to convict of sin and to instruct in righteousness. I'm not trying to convince anyone to switch to my Bible, I believe each person has to decide for themselves what translation is best for them. Thank God He passed His word along in something other than Greek and Hebrew, neither of which are languages I read or speak, although I do know a few words in Hebrew. Once again, it's far more important that we go about spreading His word and His gospel before that day when the trumpet will sound and the archangel will shout, and we rise to meet Jesus in the air as He descends from the portals of heaven to take us home to live with Him.
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Welcome to the ArchivePress website
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