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Driving my moms Lexus I come across A new Porsche Turbo leaving the neighborhood. It figures. I always find fast cars when I'm driving the SUV?
Well off course we catch a red light. He rolls off the line like a turtle and waits for everyone to get about 3 cars in front of him and then he nails it. He take off like a rocket and flys buy me and the others like it nothing. He takes it up to about 80mph and backs off. Then I slowly catch back up to him and off course we catch another red light.
The light turns green and he does the same thing. He goes extremely slow and waits for myself and one other car to get about 3 cars in front of him and he again nails it and flys buy us like we are sitting still. What an axx. He was really rubbing it in.
Then all the sudden a car pulls out in front on him and he has to slow down. He then darts over to the inside lane and ends up caught behind a big truck. I then go cruising past him in the far left lane (doing the speed limit) and give him a smile as I leave him way behind. About an 1/8 mile up the road I take my exit with him still a good distance behind me.
I won!
But kidding aside. I was actually glad to be driving the SUV. That Porsche Turbo would have tore me up in my GTO. That car took off like a rocket when he nailed it. I'm thinking maybe a supercharger for my GTO. For $4900.00 I can get an ATI Procharger which makes around 500 rwhp. I've been quoted $6500.00 for the Supercharger, installation, and dyno tuning. So I'm scratching my head trying make a decision.
If I can't swing the supercharger I'll most likely get a nice Head/cam setup. It won't make as much HP as the supercharger but will cost significantly less.
I would love to be able to beat or at least run with a new Porsche Turbo.


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Trilitech necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 64 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
I'm looking for a logo for the site BankInstant.com. The purpose of this site is to compare rates on cds, savings accounts, mortgages, student loans, auto loans and other banking products.
A professional looking logo for BankInstant.com. I would like the raw vector graphic as a deliverable as well as a high-res raster export.
- A clean professional look
- Anything with a cartoon or casual feel

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Oh, dumb me, I just picked up a cute table runner pattern, and now studying it at home, it calls for a Sweet Sixteen fabric project. Is this just like a fat quarter or jelly roll, only I don't know the measurements?
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Support The Flight 587 Memorial Committee
Now that the second anniversary of the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 into Belle Harbor has passed and an agreement has been reached on removing the ad-hoc memorial wall that has been at the site for two years, Rockaway has to move forward in providing a suitable permanent memorial to those who died in the second-worst airline tragedy in American history. A plaque has been placed nearby the corner of Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 131 Street, the site of the crash. Many of the victim's families are not satisfied with the plaque, seeing it as only part of the memorial they seek. Officials have ruled out the bayfront site north of Beach Channel Drive between Beach 126 and Beach 129 as being unsuitable for a number of reasons, not the least of which are the lack of parking and the danger of crossing busy Beach Channel Drive to get to the memorial. That leaves the Rockaway Tribute Park, sited on Beach Channel Drive and Beach 116 Street. A community committee comprised of approximately 20 members has been working hard for the past two years with the Chamber of Commerce/Rockaway Partnership and with the Community Board to come up with a memorial for those who died on September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center. That committee is now seeking consensus on whether or not to offer a specific area in Tribute Park for memorial bricks and benches. It will make its decision next week. There are some Rockaway people who want to see that park for 9/11 victims only. There are some family members who reject the proposal out of hand, demanding a piece of land at the crash site for a memorial. We should leave the Tribute Park decision, however, to the community committee that has been working so hard for so long. After that decision is made, Rockaway should speak with one voice in support of that decision. Governor Pataki said this week that the decision on a permanent memorial should not be a political one, but an agreement between the families and the Belle Harbor community. We agree. Let the community committee do its work, support that work, and then we shall see where we stand.


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What is the area of the quadrilateral APOQ? Working on the building
blocks will give you some insights that may help you to work it
Six circular discs are packed in different-shaped boxes so that the
discs touch their neighbours and the sides of the box. Can you put
the boxes in order according to the areas of their bases?
Given a square ABCD of sides 10 cm, and using the corners as
centres, construct four quadrants with radius 10 cm each inside the
square. The four arcs intersect at P, Q, R and S. Find the area
enclosed by PQRS.
Have you made a number of different trapezia and found the area of each of the four triangles? (Dynamic geometry software may be useful here)
What did you find?
What are the cases to be considered in the problem? [all four areas different, two matching, three matching, and all four equal] How would the trapezium have to be to make each case occur?


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I am trying to avoid taking things that might cause addiction, anxiety, moodiness or the like.
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I'm so confused. And tired. And so glad that tomorrow is a yoga day.


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Bath fought their way to an 11th successive victory in all competitions, but despite their best run for a decade they decided last week that all that glittered was not Gary Gold by parting company with the director of rugby halfway through his contract for reasons that were cryptically explained.
His departure seems more to do with a reorganisation behind the scenes, where the club's owner, Bruce Craig, has taken a greater involvement after moving back to England from France, than a power struggle, but Bath are better equipped to challenge for the title than they were when the South African Gold joined two summers ago. Despite starting the day in third position, they are not widely perceived as contenders: in previous years promise has preceded a fall, but as they took the game to Harlequins from the outset, belief seems to have percolated through one of the tournament's more fickle sides.
Harlequins were on a run of six consecutive league and European victories, which made a shapeless first half all the more disappointing. Two early George Ford penalties gave Bath a six-point cushion, but despite the attacking intent of both sides, there was little flow and the game suffered a slow strangulation by penalties with the scrum, in particular, vexing the referee.
Ford, who is the most likely beneficiary of Toby Flood's decision to move to France next season and effectively take himself out of England's thoughts, played the territory game well, stretching Mike Brown with some raking kicks and giving the full-back few opportunities to counterattack or take the aerial route.
Quins continued their recent ploy of having two openside flankers in harness, Chris Robshaw and Luke Wallace, playing left and right, but with little width or pace to the game it became another collision contest and Bath were the more abrasive. When Ford extended Bath's lead to nine points after he had been tackled late and crudely by the second-row George Robson, Quins had barely been seen as an attacking force.
Tim Molenaar's failure to pass to Matt Hopper inside Bath's 22 and losing the ball in contact ended their one move of note in the opening period. Bath did not have many more: Kyle Eastmond's chip to the line for Horacio Agulla confounded Brown but the Argentina wing knocked on.
It was the story of the afternoon. When Quins stirred themselves in the final eight minutes, staring not just at defeat but one without a bonus point, Molenaar against lost control of the ball with the line beckoning after a neat inside pass by Nick Evans. When Tom Guest was denied after a driving maul by the television match official and Bath made a mess of the scrum that was awarded instead of a try, Quins were condemned to a pointless afternoon. Their defence had been undone six minutes into the second half after Bath won a lineout on the Quins' 10-metre line, although the throw to Stuart Hooper did not look straight. The ball was quickly moved to the midfield where the defence, a man light with the wing Charlie Walker deposited in the sin bin shortly before the interval for an early and dangerous tackle on Anthony Watson, focused on Eastmond.
The inside centre was used as a decoy with his midfield partner, Jonathan Joseph, another England Six Nations aspirant, the target. He ran on to the ball at pace and by the time he reached the 22 where Brown was lying in wait, he had generated enough momentum to swerve away from the full-back for a try that was out of keeping with the overall tone of the match.
When Bath tried a variation of the move six minutes later, Agulla dropped the ball as a gap beckoned, an act that was far more in keeping with the character of an afternoon that, despite the endeavour, saw two broadly matched teams blot out each other's attacking threat.
Bath's scrum laid the foundation for a victory that would have been greater had Ford not missed his last four penalty attempts. The fly-half was able to control the game in a way that his opposite number Nick Evans was not, yet it was a match, before Gold, that Bath had the capacity to lose, wasting opportunities and then self-destructing in defence.
For all their attacking ability behind, they have a vein of South African pragmatism now. As ugly victories go, this would get a part as one of the sisters in Cinderella, but a club that has never won the Premiership in the play-off era has stealthily consolidated its place in the top four. The recent order is being challenged.


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Issue No. 05 - September/October (2010 vol. 27)
pp: 2-7
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2010.130
Hakan Erdogmus , Kalemun Research
Considered a gross misnomer by some, earned value for progress tracking in software development projects is still little known in the software industry. But the concept shouldn't be so unfamiliar: tracking progress by earned value is similar to tracking progress through burndown charts ( http://xprogramming.com/articles/bigvisiblecharts)—the ubiquitous, simple and powerful visuals that are so popular in agile software development. The two techniques, although developed independently in very different contexts, are similar in terms of their information content. This isn't a new discovery: Alistair Cockburn talked about the relationship between earned value and burndown charts as early as 2004 in Chapter 3 of his book Crystal Clear (Addison-Wesley, 2004). Section 7.3 of Grigori Melnik's and Gerard Meszaros' volume 1 of Acceptance Test Engineering Guide ( http://testingguidance.codeplex.com) also discusses the same relationship.
Burndown charts track progress using a "count-down to zero" approach. Remaining work scheduled to be in a future release or project is represented as the sum of features that are weighted using an effort estimate, such as story points or ideal programming days. Earned value achieves the same effect by adopting a "count up to 100 percent complete functionality" approach. Cockburn argues that while burndown charts are emotionally more powerful, they treat planned work as fixed rather than expandable. This limitation makes them less than ideal when the scope changes midstream within the tracking period.
Why Consider Earned Value?
Earned value differs from the burndown approach in two ways. First, earned value expresses the amount of work in monetary terms by weighting a feature's percent completeness by the feature's estimated cost. Detractors of earned value see one major problem with this representation: by referring to the effort as "value," the monetary equivalent of a feature is seemingly equated to the feature's business value. They are right. Earned value is essentially an expression of the feature's completeness in cost, or effort, terms.
The second distinction is the emphasis placed by earned value on tracking progress against a plan, an emphasis that is absent in the burndown approach. The presence of a point of reference against which to compare progress introduces a number of additional metrics that burndown charts do not incorporate. Tracking progress through earned value and related metrics give rise to earned value management. Let's elaborate on this larger concept a bit.
What's Earned Value Management?
Earned value management (EVM) is a budget and schedule tracking technique developed by the Project Management Institute ( Practice and Standard for Earned Value Management, 2006). EVM connects tightly with other PMI standards and concepts, such as work breakdown structures. The sidebar ("Earned Value Management and Agile Projects") I contributed to volume 1 of Acceptance Test Engineering Guide summarizes EVM in the following way. Earned value tracks the relative progress of a scheduled work unit as a percentage of the allocated budget that has been spent for that work unit. In software development, the work unit might correspond to a single feature represented by a textual requirement, a use case, or a story card. Or it might correspond to a bug fix, or a milestone such as "architecture defined." If a work unit is 80 percent complete and was allocated a $100 budget, then its current earned value equals $80. The total value earned by the project is the sum of the earned values of all the work units scheduled and budgeted for that project. When the project is complete, its total earned value equals the project's total budget. Therefore, unlike the name suggests, earned value is essentially a relative effort tracking metric.
Cost and Schedule Variance
In EVM, actual costs are also tracked. If at any point in the project, the actual accumulated cost exceeds the earned value of the project at that time, the project is considered over budget, with the shortfall representing a budget overrun. In EVM terms, this shortfall, or slack if actual costs are below earned value, is called cost variance.
If the accumulated earned value at a point in time is below the estimated total expenditures according to the planned budget, then the project is considered over schedule, with the difference representing the monetary expression of the project's schedule shortfall at that point. In EVM terms, the schedule shortfall or slack is called schedule variance. Schedule variance can also be expressed temporally, in calendar time.
Figure 1 illustrates schedule variance (in both monetary and temporal terms) and cost variance for a project with an estimated total budget of $5 million and an estimated schedule of one year. In July 2010, at an earned value of $2.5 million, the project has a total earned value that's only 50 percent of its planned total cost, but it should have accumulated 75 percent of that total cost according to the project plan. Therefore it's over schedule by $1.25 million, still 50 percent, in monetary terms. Since the project should have accumulated that much earned value back in April 2010, it's three months behind in calendar time terms. This is the schedule variance. The project is also 110 percent over budget on July 2010 because it has accumulated an actual cost of $5.25 million at that date compared to the $2.5 million it has earned.
EVM in a Time-Boxed Incremental Context
In "Earned value and Agile Reporting" ( Proceedings of AGILE '06, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2006, pp. 17–22), Mike Griffiths and Anthony Cabri advocated applying EVM incrementally, on an iteration-by-iteration or release-by-release basis. In some projects, a grand plan for the whole project may not exist. However, a local plan in terms of work scheduled for the current scope (features or stories) together with estimated costs (resources allocated to the current scope) could be available and reliable enough to serve as a reference point on a per-iteration or per-release basis. Budget and schedule overruns can then be calculated within each such increment, whether for a single iteration or release, using EVM. Effort or a proxy for effort such as story points can be substituted for cost, just as done in burndown charts.
Even if mini, local plans aren't available and scope changes over the course of the project, EVM can still be applied. Cockburn describes how to handle scope changes using an idea suggested by Phil Goodwin and Russ Rufer ( http://alistair.cockburn.us/Earned-value+and+burn+charts).
EVM in a Kanban-Style Incremental Context
If a Kanban-based, continuous-workflow approach is adopted instead of timeboxes, applying EVM becomes problematic. Because typically budget plans or estimates are absent altogether in Kanban systems, variance-tracking metrics cease to exist, but tracking actual throughput is still feasible. Tracking project progress reduces to tracking flow. In Chapter 12 of his book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business (Blue Hole Press, 2010), David J. Anderson explains the metrics and reporting mechanism applicable in a Kanban context. Anderson recommends the use of cumulative flow diagrams that plot total number of work items as a function of time. These diagrams can be converted to actual cost curves of the kind depicted in Figure 1 by weighting each work item with the item's actual cost. Earned value can then be defined to coincide with cumulative actual cost rather than cumulative relative cost. Effectively, the plan equals reality: there's no need to reason about schedule or cost variance.
Substituting Business Value for Earned Value
When customer-assessed value, or business value, is more critical to project funders than textbook earned value as defined in EVM, a substitution of concepts may be warranted. An EVM-like model can track the business value provided that each work unit has a tangible financial value or an intangible utility assigned by the product owner or project funder.
Business value can be expressed in absolute, monetary terms (in currency) or in abstract, utility terms (for example, in utils). Before the fact, the business value is an estimate based on the product owner's or project funder's assessment. After the fact, it represents a reassessment in an accepted and delivered product, thus proxying actual value. Unlike actual cost in classical EVM, actual business value is thus often subjective rather than observed or measured. Although actual business value is hard to measure, especially at the feature level, it can still be informed and backed up by meaningful economic analysis.
When business value replaces earned value, adjustments might be required. For example, only fully deployed features may earn their respective business value. Similarly, if a feature is useful in the field only when delivered together with another feature, it shouldn't earn its respective business value until all the features on which it depends are also deployed. Percentage-based adjustments proportional to a feature's status of completeness might not make much sense either for tracking business value. Partial or percentage business value earned is only sensible at the whole project level.
What's the verdict on EVM? EVM might not be adaptable in an out-of-the-box form for our industry, but it does offer a few extras that better-known alternatives don't mention. The EVM approach deserves more attention from the software development community in environments where planning and estimation is part of the culture.
Selected CS articles and columns are also available for free at http://ComputingNow.computer.org.


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How do you remove plaster cove molding?
our single story, detached home was built in 1956. the walls and cove molding are plaster. we would like to remove the cove molding, repair the walls as required and install a smaller MDF crown molding. my BIL used an angle grinder but said that it made a huge mess dust wise and to the walls. is there a better way?
I can't really answer your question, but you should know that some plaster contains asbestos. You might want to have a sample of it checked before you do any more grinding.
regardless of the concerns over asbestos and dust, how do you remove it? i.e. recip saw, angle grinder, sledge hammer, chisel etc
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Green@Home Volunteer HouseCall Training in Palo Alto 9/12/12 & 9/20/12
Acterra's Green@Home Program
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 5:30 PM - Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 9:30 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
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Event Details
Important: Please buy 2 tickets, one for September 12th and the other for September 20th. Full training requires attendance on both days.
Acterra's Green@Home trains Volunteers to become Energy Experts and perform free energy-saving HouseCalls for residents in Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Redwood City and the Winchester neighborhood of San Jose. Trained volunteers provide energy assessments and install free energy-saving devices, such as:
· retractable clotheslines
· compact fluorescent light bulbs
· faucet aerators
· low-flow showerheads and aerators
Green@Home volunteer trainings consist of two, 4-hour classes. Each HouseCall is approximately 2.5 hours long and volunteers work in pairs. We ask those who complete the training to volunteer for approximately two HouseCalls a month with a minimum of 10 HouseCalls over the course of the year. You must be over 18 to participate.
Because some people want to take our training without making a volunteer commitment, we ask for a deposit of $30 from all trainees at the first training session to cover our costs. This $30 materials fee will be refunded when a minimum of two HouseCalls is performed in the first two months following the training. (This time frame can be extended with reason.)
This training session will be:
Palo Alto: Wednesday, September 12 & Thursday, September 20, 5:30 – 9:30PM
Location details will be sent to registered participants a week prior to the training. We'll also let you know what to bring and send you a volunteer application to complete.
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Palo Alto,
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 5:30 PM - Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 9:30 PM (PDT)
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Green@Home helps fight climate change one HouseCall at a time. Our trained volunteers to perform an energy assessment and simple upgrades for residents in select communities.
For more information about Green@Home, see our website at www.Acterra.org/greenathome.


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The first few major user conferences I attended gave me agita. I could cover the news well enough but it felt like there was this huge under swell that you could feel.
It came down to the myriad of products, services, partners, user groups, channels – the list goes on.
I felt it again last year at VMworld, the annual VMware user conference. It just had a sense of overwhelmingness to it.
This year I thought why not use this time before VMworld to look at the VMware ecosystem? SiliconAngle will be there in force, anyways. And I've written more about virtualization in the past year than perhaps any other topic.
So, that's what we are going to do. Here's ten topics we plan to cover:
- VMware's Biggest Threats and Opportunities
- The Hypervisor – how is its role changing?
- Storage Virtualization: Vendors to Watch
- Mobile Virtualization for the Smartphone and the Tablet
- The Emerging Platform Market
- Mongo DB and Other Non-Traditional VMware Partners
- The Top of the Stack: How Socialcast and Mozy Fit With VMware
- New Data, Old Systems and the Evolving Role of Virtualization
- The VMworld Services Ecosystems
- Desktop Virtualization in a Post-PC Era
Services Angle
VMware has an extensive services ecosystem. In all of these posts we will examine the role played by new and traditional services providers.
Have a story you'd like to see covered in the lead up to VMware? Contact me @alexwilliams, here in the comments or by email: email@example.com.


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What part of DIY do you HATE?
The struggle with two nearly-born amps (if I'm lucky:) lead me to this question: What part of diy-ing do you dislike? If you love it all, feel free to build me a few amps, it's your pleasure!
Here's some of the things that annoy me:
- sanding the chassis untill it's showable (I use wooden chassisses)
- forgetting to order an essential component = wait another three weeks
- searching ad infinitum for a little spot in the too tiny chassis to mount a certain component (e.g. resistors to reduce heater voltage; heater trafo's)
- Getting the heater supply at the right voltage (this actually took me two afternoons with some additional problems....)
- The fear that one of the power trafo's will be badly connected and burnt to oblivion (I used to test old trafo's without using a fuse, hence my experience with and paranoia for smoking trafo's....)
- The fear that the amp will sound much worse than it did in the breadboarded version......
- The fear that things will fall apart....
But ofcourse that's all forgotten afterwards.... :o
Thank you dear diy-shrink, I feel better now. Let's sling some solder!
I hate modding stuff and then doubting my own ears. Do I really have to undo my mods again to check that they made a positive difference?
Enjoying building low voltage valve circuits (12 - 24) but being too fearful/inexperienced to try the HT stuff? :rolleyes:
Using silver wire in my projects 'just in case' it actually is the best!
Actually, I feel better now :)
Thank you Dr. DIY
#1 Steel chassis' (is that how you make it plural?)
#2 Aluminum chassis'
Chassis work. Yecch. If it weren't for my dislike of sheet metal work without the right equipment, I'd get a lot more stuff built.
Cleaning up.
Never being certain a project is the best sounding implementation.
Having to whine, beg, and plead with my wife for some undisturbed time in the workshop.
Try pulling a week without a shower or shave... that can usually free up some time.
Right now, I'm interested in more projects, but I keep getting outbid!
I'd also like to sell a few of my amps to fund other projects, but am worried that they won't bring in enough to pay for the parts.
The latest idea was to sell my Sleeper Amp on Ebay to see if people are interested in low-watt amps that look like radios.
But, I can't possibly part with it, especially now that I've got it sounding so good!
annoying stuff
In the beginning it's making a hole for AC socket (terrible noise!)
In the end it's listening to that squeal when everything's finished (terrible noise!)
I hate . . .
Build a copy of this fabulous monobloc (I know it is fabulous because I've built it myself !) to enjoy for stereo :mad:
NEVER BUILD A MONOBLOC AGAIN :att'n:
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text: I have an 05 Tahoe Z71, and have put on a set of 07 factory 20s off of an Avalanche. My tire shop thought they could get the Tahoe to read the sensors in the 20s, but to no avail. They tried to go in with the scanner, but no luck. I am not getting any "check tire pressure" reading on the dash so I am wondering if they disabled the TPS function when trying to reset it. My next move is to break the wheels down and move the sensors from the original 17s and install them in the 20s, and hope to get the readings back. Will the 05 sensors (hard stem) work in the 07 (soft stem) wheels? Anyone got any thoughts on what is going on here? Thanks!


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Bovespa Rises to One-Month High as Stimulus Bets Boost Gafisa
The Bovespa index rose to a one-month high on speculation policy makers will take further steps to shore up growth even after a report showed inflation unexpectedly accelerated in November.
Homebuilder Gafisa SA (GFSA3) led gains by companies that sell in the local market, and the MSCI Brazil/Consumer Discretionary Index had the biggest weekly advance among 10 industry groups. Vale SA and MMX Mineracao & Metalicos SA followed iron-ore prices higher.
Brazil's benchmark equity gauge added 1.4 percent to 58,487.32 at the close of trading in Sao Paulo, bringing this week's rally to 1.8 percent. Fifty-two stocks rose on the gauge today while 14 fell. Annual inflation as measured by the IPCA index accelerated to 5.53 percent in November from 5.45 percent in the prior month, the statistics agency reported. The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was for a 5.42 percent pace.
"The government has already announced some initiatives this week and will probably follow with more if signs of disappointing growth keep coming," Rogerio Freitas, a partner at Rio de Janeiro-based hedge fund Teorica Investimentos, said by phone. "We see inflation under pressure, but the central bank seems to be comfortable as long as it keeps floating around 5.5 percent."
The real appreciated 0.1 percent to 2.0751 per U.S. dollar.
Lower Taxes
Brazil lowered taxes this week for the real estate sector, exempted exporters from a 6 percent tax on some loans and announced measures to increase private investment in its port system to revive growth after a Nov. 30 report from the national statistics agency showed third-quarter gross domestic product expanded at half the pace forecast by economists in a Bloomberg survey.
"Third-quarter growth was disappointing, but if the government acts soon enough, the economy may post a stronger recovery in 2013," Rodolfo Amstalden, an analyst at consulting firm Empiricus Research, said by phone from Sao Paulo.
Gafisa rose 6.6 percent to 4.88 reais. PDG Realty SA Empreendimentos & Participacoes advanced 4.4 percent to 3.31 reais, extending this week's gain to 10 percent, the most in three months.
Vale rose 0.9 percent to 36.92 reais. MMX gained 4.6 percent to 3.85 reais. Iron ore for immediate delivery jumped 2.2 percent to $121 a dry ton, according to a price index compiled by The Steel Index Ltd.
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The Bovespa (IBOV) index extended gains after a U.S. report showed employers added more jobs in November than forecast and the jobless rate fell to 7.7 percent.
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If you've been following this blog for a few years you may remember that I used to talk about gardening a bit. I was quite proud of my little vegie patch, I managed to grow quite a bit of what we ate (though potatos proved to be my nemisis).
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GM is a major recipient of TARP funds, received $13.4 billion taxpayer dollars, and faces a March 31st deadline to submit a restructuring plan to keep the funds. Hey! Here's a thought: how about using TARP funds to retool and start producing the EV1 again? Maybe the Car Czar should get on it.
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Aw, shucks, as Barney (Deputy Fife, not Frank) would say: "Twern't nothing." :)
Industry trashing a good idea, because Big Oil said to. This tanking economy is going to be as traumatic as WW 2. Can you imagine scrapping (then crushing) the P-51 Mustang pursuit fighter airplane because it was too efficient at killing Nazi's?
Good ol' patriotic corporations- screwing their customers since 19__ (?). Whatta motto.
Finally, someone who is not scared to speak up about what happened to the EV-1. The big three auto companies. want to make all the money they can't, and only, only when the last drop of oil has been sucked-up from the ground will these clowns wake up.
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Fitness, Physique and Bikini Contest time is fast approaching. For my youth athletes, so are spring dances and proms. My clients want to know how to build their best bodies, stay healthy, and still prevent the bloat that can come from a plant-based diet. I am so excited to be publishing my FOURTH EDITION of POWER EATINGâ (In press August 2013, Human Kinetics), where I list the foods and botanicals that I use with my elite clients to naturally balance their fluids and prevent bloat. I am giving you a sneak peak from Chapter 9: Botanicals for Performance.
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By Chris Harris
Vito Mannone will get another chance to shine this weekend.
The Italian goalkeeper is set to resume between the posts when Blackburn visit Emirates Stadium on Sunday because Manuel Almunia is not fully fit.
The Arsenal No 1 is back in training after a chest infection but is not ready to reclaim his first-team spot. And Wenger has no qualms about picking the man who has kept three consecutive clean sheets and performed heroics at Fulham last weekend.
"Almunia is very close now, he is in full training and he is very close. But Mannone is in goal this weekend," confirmed the manager at his pre-match press conference.
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Over at Media Nation, Dan Kennedy asks of Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama: "Is this as big as everyone thinks it is?"
We shall see. But here's my prediction: thanks to the memory of Powell's fatally flawed, pre-Iraq War speech to the U.N, his endorsement won't be quite as valuable as it otherwise would. After all (conservatives can argue), Powell was wrong on Iraq--so what if he's wrong on Obama, too?


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Comedians Gary Owen, Lil Duval and Michael Blackson will appear live on Saturday, April 13, 2013, at 8:00 p.m. at the Morris Performing Arts Center.
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Refugees, Radio Journalism, and Communications for Social Change
Romano, Angela R. (2005) Refugees, Radio Journalism, and Communications for Social Change. In Transformations: Culture and the Environment in Human Development, 6-9 February 2005, Australian National University, Canberra. (Unpublished)
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Federal Government policies aimed at preventing boatpeople from reaching Australian shores have cost taxpayers an estimated $300 million per year since 2001. Staff and students at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have embarked on a new project to ask whether a more deliberative form of public engagement might have yielded a different, more composed response to the increase in numbers of boatpeople arrivals that occurred after 1999. This QUT project explores the potential for journalists to facilitate community deliberation about viable and realistic responses to the challenges created by asylum seeker and refugee arrivals. This paper presents the findings of a pilot radio project aimed at promoting deliberation and redressing some of the imbalances in current media coverage on these issues.
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Interpretation and knowledge maximization
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Timothy Williamson has proposed that we should give a 'knowledge first' twist to David Lewis's account of content, maintaining that for P to be the content of one's belief is for P to be the content that would be attributed by an idealized interpreter working under certain constraints, and that the fundamental constraint on interpretation is a principle of knowledge maximization. According to this principle, an interpretation is correct to the extent that it maximizes the number of knowledgeable judgments the subject comes out as making. Here I will argue against knowledge maximization and two fallback positions suggested by Williamson's discussion. Williamson intends the principle of knowledge maximization to form the basis of an argument against a certain sort of skepticism about judgment. In the final section I argue that the kind of general response to judgment skepticism envisaged by Williamson is neither desirable nor necessary.


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Game blog: Arizona rallies past Brewers, 7-5
The Brewers will try to do something Tuesday night they have not had much success at in the past -- hit Arizona right-hander Josh Colmenter.
In five career outings against the Brewers, Collmenter is 1-0 with a 1.23 ERA. In three starts, his ERA goes down to 0.45.
Collmenter also beat the Brewers in Gme 3 of the 2011 NLDS, allowing only two hits and one run over seven innings.
The Brewers will counter with right-hander Marco Estrada, making his first start against Arizona. In t hree relief appearances against the Diamondbacks, he pitched 4 1/3 scoreless innings.
In addition to the game blog, you can follow the game with a live box score and also with our Twitter feed.
Diamondbacks - A replay challenge by Arizona leads to a two-run inning instead of one run. The Diamondbacks appealed a pickoff of Gerardo Parra at first base by Marco Estrada and it is overturned, and Paul Goldschmidt follows with a two-run homer for a quick 2-0 lead.
Brewers - It should have been a one-run inning for the Brewers but an error by shortstop Chris Owings led to four more runs. You have to take advantage of mistakes and the Brewers did so with an RBI single by Jean Segura and two-run double by Logan Schafer. Brewers lead, 5-2.
Diamondbacks -- Marco Estrada allows a one-out double by A.J. Pollock but that's it. You don't want to be giving runs back after a five-run outburst.
Brewers - Josh Collmenter bounces back with a 1-2-3 inning so it remains a 5-3 Brewers lead. Carlos Gomez worked the count before taking strike three on a 3-2 pitch.
Diamondbacks - Marco Estrada cruises through this inning, striking out Chris Owins and the dangerous Paul Goldschmidt.
Brewers - Lyle Overbay collects his single but that's it for the Brewers, who still lead, 5-2.
Diamondbacks - Marco Estrada appears to be settling in. With another 1-2-3 inning, he has retired eight in a row.
Brewers - Josh Collmenter also settling in with 1-2-3 inning. That error in the first that led to four unearned runs is looming large right now. Brewers lead, 5-2.
Diamondbacks - The Diamondbacks score a run to cut the lead toi 5-3 but a bigger concern is Marco Estrada. He comes up limping after fielding a bunt and is attended to but stays in the game. Let's see how he does.
Brewers - Scooter Gennett leads off with a single but it goes nowhere. Brewers still sitting on that five-run first inning.
Diamondbacks - Now we have a one-run game as Chris Owings leads off with his first big-league home run. Who knows how bad it would have been if not for two hit-saving plays by shortstop Jean Segura, who had one heck of an inning. The Brewers' lead is down to 5-4.
Brewers - The Brewers finally chase Collmenter by putting two runners on with two down (singles by Schafer and PH Weeks) but reliever Evan Marshall makes his big-league debut and retires Gomez on a grounder to short.
DIamondbacks - Tyler Thornburg comes in and continues his stellar work for the Brewers, allowing only a harmless two-out single by Eric Chavez. The Brewers still lead, 5-4.
Brewers - Third baseman Aramis Ramirez just can't shake out of his slump. He is now 0 for 4 tonight and 3-for-48 in a deep, deep skid.
Diamondbacks - Brewers reliever Brandon Kintzler has not been the same since returning from a shoulder injury. He allows three runs, including a two-run homer by Brewer-killer Aaron Hill. Kintzler has allowed three homers in 10 1/3 innings. He allowed only two in 71 appearances last year. Arizona leads, 7-5.
Brewers - Side-armer Brad Ziegler comes in and mows down the Brewers. This is shaping up to be an ugly loss.
Diamondbacks - Wei-Chung Wang makes a rare appearance and works out of a two-on, two-out jam. The Brewers trail, 7-5, and have one last chance to salvage the game.
Brewers - Arizona closer Addison Reed puts down the Brewers in order. This is the first time all season the Brewers have lost a game in which they scored at least four runs. A bad loss to a last-place team.
- Brewers try for sweep of Nationals
- Brewers try to extend home winning streak
- Brewers sign first-round draft pick Corey Ray
- Chris Capuano back to Square 1 after setback
- Brewers open six-game homestand without Ryan Braun
- Brewers, Class AA Biloxi extend deal through 2020
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This series is sent from the Holy Spirit to parts of Christ's body. In Revelation 3: 1-3 it reads, "… I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I come to you."
I believe Christ is looking down on His body and sees parts that are not growing, dry, complacent, and dead. Christ is the head of the body, the church. I believe He sees areas of works that are growing but not producing the fruit Jesus desires. Cancer is born from cells in the body growing without obedience to the Creator's design.
I share this message with you out of an open heart and obedience.The Lord God spoke in Ezekiel 3:18, "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them a warning from me… I will hold you accountable for his blood." Verse 21 of chapter 3 continues, "But if you do warn the righteous man not to sin and he does not sin, he will surely live because he took warning, and you will have saved yourself." God on judgment day will judge on my obedience to share the words of the Holy Spirit. Only the Holy Spirit knows who internally dry or dead inside is.I only ask that He speak to you through these words and restore you to life again.
This message has also come from much time in God's presence and travail in the Spirit. Isaiah 50: 4-5 states, "The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught. The Sovereign Lord has opened my ears, and I have not been rebellious; I have not drawn back." Personally, the Lord has led me, my family and circumstances through these places. It has been during these times and coming out of them that I received this message.
I pray as you are hearing or reading these words that your heart has been prepared by the Holy Spirit. I sense a great awakening coming to the Body of Christ as a whole. The Holy Spirit is waiting for the moment to pour out His power. To advance the Kingdom of God and destroy the works of the devil, we need the resurrection power of Christ.
If you are hearing this, the Holy Spirit has drawn you to this word. Please allow God to examine your spirit. Only your Creator can look deep into the areas of your soul and spirit to see where you are dry and dead. Only the Creator can breathe life into you again. As you humble yourself and wake up, the last word is about seeing your harvest and visions live again. Be prepared for an awakening and blessing for your obedience to let God examine you, and your humility of brokenness before Him.
The areas we are going to look at are: spiritual debt (back to basics), empty womb (individual examine), resurrection power (examining the church body), and mountains of Israel coming forth (blessings). I pray these words will take deep root in your spirit to produce fruit. Revelation 3: 4-6 gives a word of compassion and mercy from Christ, "Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. He, who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."
There may be some of you who are not dead or dry in your life, but can help others because you have gone through times when you were dead and dry. You may also receive a fresh breath of God as a new wave of His Spirit comes over us because life is life. We all need to have a personal experience with the Holy Spirit as a part of the Trinity of the God head. Beloved as you overcome, you will be dressed in white. Your name will remain in the book of life for eternity. We will be presented to God blameless and pure. We will be found not doing works of the flesh, but works born out of the breath of God, the Holy Spirit. We will be found to be a loving bride expecting the return of the King, preparing the fields for harvest.
In today's society, most Americans know financial struggle. Along with the struggle came financial debt. Regardless of the reason, most struggles that happen in the natural realm are also happening in the spiritual realm. This is what the Holy Spirit spoke to me. He called it: Spiritual Debt. Just to let you know, some of this word was hard for me to write. I asked the Holy Spirit a couple of times, "Are you sure that's what you want me to say?" It is with obedience that I share this with you in the way the Lord spoke it to me.
What is Spiritual debt? One term for debt is lack. Another term for debt is borrowing form others what we do not have. In Romans 13: 8- "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another." Another version says it like this, "Owe no man anything, except to love him."Going back a few verses to verse 2 it explains that God established authority. When we rebel against authority, we are rebelling against God. The first authority for a born again Christian is the Word of God. I do not mean that God in person is not sovereign. Joshua 1says, "Do not let this book of the law depart from your mouth, but meditate upon it day and night, so you are careful to do everything in it." It is not until we get that, that we get what comes next, "Then you will be prosperous and successful." We need the foundational basics.
1.A negative balance of God's word.
Somewhere through our busyness or struggles in life we set down our life source. We got distracted, but a Christian who is not feeding their spirit with its food, The Bible, becomes week. We are weak in prayer, warfare, and against demonic attacks. We have strength for a while but as God's Word becomes more distant we are growing weaker and farther away from Hs presence.
We begin to borrow old revelations and Scriptures the Holy Spirit has given in the past over previous situations. Yes His Word is strong, but it takes a logos or rhema Word anointed from heaven to get us through a current trial or struggle. Many people memorize Scriptures and can rattle them off, but there is no power from the Throne of the resurrection of Jesus. When you have an anointed revelation of a Scripture, it becomes a sword to cut down the enemy. 2 Corinthians 10: 4- The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary they have divine power to demolish strongholds." (NIV)
2.Borrowing His Presence.
As we grow weak from starving ourselves of the Word of God, it becomes more difficult to spend time with Jesus in personal prayer. We go to church and expect a glimpse of God's presence in worship will sustain us until we gather together again. However, during the days, weeks, even months that we are withdrawing from one service we have gone into a negative balance. God, Jesus, is an intimate God. In Psalms 27: 8 – "My heart says of you, 'Seek his face!' "Your face Lord, I will seek".
Scripture also tells us that He created us, fashioned us from the moment of conception. If anyone deserves our time and intimacy it is our Creator, The Lord. When God's presence becomes a question of where He is, it has been to long since we sat with Him. It gets harder and harder to take time for prayer the more distant we drift away. This is when our soul and flesh creep back into old habits, attitudes, thoughts, sins, etc. The heavens start to feel like brass.
We do still need to gather in the assembly, but that does not replace personal relationship and regular communion with the Lord. It is in times of intimacy that we learn to hear His voice speak to us. His desires become our desires. His heart beat our heart beat. The Lord's thoughts our thoughts. The Bible teaches us that God's ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. How exciting to know that Jesus desires to share His greatness with mere man.
3.Operating on another's faith level.
We have all gone through circumstances when we needed the gift of faith. The gift of faith is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It is when the person praying with us receives faith on our behalf to receive an answer to our prayer or healing because our own faith is weak (find that in 2 Cor. 12: 4-9). This is not the faith level the Holy Spirit is referring to here.
In Mathew 17: 20, Jesus told the disciples that they could not cast out the demon in the boy because they had little faith. He goes on to tell them that they only need faith as small as a mustard seed. A seed that is very tiny yet grows to be a huge tree later.
A seed dies in order to grow. As we grow in the Lord, our doubt should decrease. Our faith should grow because we begin to trust and believe what He says. Like a measuring cup, the more of the Lord we put into our life, the higher our faith in our cup.
We cannot minister and help others if we have no faith. The disciples could not heal the boy because they were trying to take on or operate in someone else's faith. In this situation, it was Jesus. Like clothing, we all were different sizes. Some clothes of our friends are too big and others too small. When we try to operate in someone else's faith level, in the spirit realm we look like we're with dressed too tight(we have out grown that size) or too baggy (because we have not grown into that size yet).
We grow with our clothes. We do not wear sizes that do not fit us. Jesus said in verse 20, "that if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'move from here to there.' And it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." Jesus is telling us the size of our own personal faith coat or measuring cup will move mountains. When we are faced with trials, sickness, or tests our own faith is ok. We do not have to be anybody else. We come to the Father as we are. Also if you have an enemy standing against you, you come to God's throne of grace in confidence to warfare. We do not have to have Benny Hinn's faith to cast out sickness. It took Benny Hinn time to develop his faith. Jesus gave His believers authority when we believe!
With each victory and the Word of God our faith will grow by inches and miles. It will mature as we grow spiritually.
That is why it is important to stay in the Word and God's presence. As we starve our spirit man of its food, our faith will decrease in measure with the circumstances that come into our life. Just as our bodies become anorexic from starvation. A person starving themselves appears to be functioning normally on the outside until it is almost too late to be fixed on the inside. Their body becomes sunken and frail. We cannot let our spirit man get weak and fragile. That is when the enemy will try to break you. It would not take much at this point to do so.1 Corinthians 10: 12- "So if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you do not fall."
The good news is that the verse continues that we are not tempted beyond what we can bear, and God does provide a way out of a tempting situation.
The three areas of Spiritual Debt:
1.A negative balance of God's Word.
2.Borrowing God's presence.
3.Operating on another's faith level.
Three ways to keep you out of spiritual debt:
1.Stay in God's Word daily. It is your food.
2.Daily communion with Jesus. It is our breath and revelation.
3.Operate in the faith you have. You have the same authority.
Receiving this word started with a vision. "I was lying on the technicians table for an ultra sound. My belly was big. The technician applied the instrument and began to move it across my belly. As we looked at the screen to see the baby, the womb was empty." This vision stayed with me and I took it to prayer.
Scripture refers to God's family as the body of Christ. I believe the Holy Spirit is the technician looking at the body of Christ. Many parts of Christ's body individually (as churches and people) are producing fruit. The Holy Spirit has implanted seed into ministries. And spiritual births have begun. However, as a whole body of believers across denominational boundaries, I feel the night vision is what the Holy Spirit sees when He exams the inmost parts of the body.
The body may feel pregnant, act pregnant, look several months pregnant but under the exposure of the Spirit, there is now no conception, no baby, no fruit. How this must grieve the Father in heaven. In a time of intercession, I cried out to the Lord that I did not want to be a tree with lush green leaves and no fruit! I do not want to look like a flourishing plant and not be producing fruit. I do not want to be cut off from Christ. Jesus cursed the fig tree in Mathew 21: 19 for not producing fruit. It reads,"Seeking a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, '"May you never bear fruit again."' Immediately the tree withered."
In Mark 11: 21 it states, "Peter remembered and said to Jesus, "'Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!"' The previous verse says it was cursed from the roots. Also the previous verse in Mathew 2: 18 said Jesus went to the tree because he was hungry.
Jesus is 100% God and was 100% man. As a man he needed food to sustain him. As a Christ like follower, we need spiritual food to sustain our spirit. People who are hungry for spiritual food may come to us to get fed. Will we be producing fruit they can be nourished with? We've talked about having a spiritual debt of God's word, trying to measure up to someone else's faith, and negative balance of God's presence.
God wants to breathe on us as individuals and as the body of Christ. At the end of this series, the four winds are going to breathe life into existence. Christ, the Anointed One, does not want us to be the walking dead church. We are called to have an abundant life. "Christ came to give us life and life abundantly."(John 10: 10).
Ezekiel 36-37
In verse 2 of chapter 36, "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The enemy said of you, 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession.'" Look back to verse 1, the Lord said the mountain belonged to Israel (mountain of Israel). Here the Spirit is showing Ezekiel that the enemy has taken possession of the mountains that are to be possessed by Israel (symbolizes God's people).
Many of us have places, goals, desires, dreams, etc. We have been promised to us to possess in Scripture and by the Holy Spirit for our life. We have areas we want to conquer: debt, greed, lust, lack, etc. How many of us have seen the enemy take hold of our mountain? How many of us have a vision, a goal, and once you started moving towards it, and someone else took it from you? With a vision from the Lord, how many of you have experienced verse 3- "… because they have ravaged and hounded you from every side…the object of people's malice talk and slander…" When you are believing God to conquer mountains "the rest of the nations" (were God's enemies) battled you, talk about you, discourage you, and they ridicule to take what God says belongs to you. And in doing so in verse 4, it says the ruins became desolate and the towns deserted and plundered. It means that people got your victory, took it all, left nothing for you. So when you're ready to get there, it is all gone. Like a ghost town, there is only a resemblance of life.
Good news is coming: God continues to say that He has "jealous wrath" because of our suffering scorn. He will scorn the nations (enemies) around you (verse 7). It keeps getting better. In verse 8, "These Mountains that belong to us will start to produce branches and fruit for my people." We are going to see God remove the nations /enemies from our mountains. Our desires, goals, visions are going to branch out before our eyes and we are going to see fruit growing waiting for us. It continues to say' "for they will soon come home." God is bringing us quickly to take back our mountain. It will be ready for us when we get there to pick off the fruit we need in our lives to manifest. What fruit have you believed for?
In verse 11, it says that God is going to even increase men and animals upon you. Those will even be fruitful. Even going to settle people on you as in your past and you will prosper more than before! Have you been in a blessed place before and now you are in a needy place? God is going to bring you back to that blessed place.It will be better than before. God says,"We are going to possess these mountains and the mountain will be our inheritance."! The Lord is getting ready to move. He is bringing His people back quickly. No other reason except verse 22:
"It is not for your sake, O house of Israel (put your name in), that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name." The Lord is choosing to show the enemy of darkness His holiness through us! His people (verse 23).
Everything God does is for Jesus' sake. It is to show His glory. He gave us a vision, a dream and we started a journey. On the way, many of us got to a mountain that was empty and lay waste. Some of us continue to trust God and keep going. Others have been stuck and can not move forward. Even some have gone back to the enemies land; yet, God says in verse 24, "For I will take you out of the nations…and bring you back into your own land." God in His grace and loving kindness is going to wash us with clean water (symbolizes The Bible). He can do what needs to be done in you so you can reach and take your mountains back.
Feel like you have dirt all around you? The Word says,"I will cleanse you from all your impurities." Feel like you have put other things before God? He says, "I will cleanse you from all your idols." Feel like you don't have love for Him any more? His Word says,"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you." God can do whatever it takes. He
says He will even remove a heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. He will put His Spirit in you and move you to follow His decrees and laws (verses 26 and 27). God is going to make your deserted mountain become a garden. The walls will be strong and life will be there (verse 36).
God is a God who restores. He is restoring our mountains. We will possess them and take back our inheritance! On our journey, we may have gone into a valley. In the valley that felt like death (Psalms 23). We saw our mountain barren and our vision become dry. You will find this valley in Ezekiel 37. Ezekiel was led to these bones to breath on them. God asked him if he believed they could live. God knows (verse 1-3). The Lord will bring a man or woman of God into your life to speak to the dryness, dead areas of your life because you cannot see it for yourself (verse 4-6). You cannot believe for yourself that the Lord will revive you or your desires. The person of God, in this case Ezekiel, prophesied that God would bring the bones back to life.
First, the bones began to move and get stirred up. They came together and were covered with skin (verse7). All the plans, dreams, visions you have that have dried out and separated are going to line back together and get in order as the Word is spoken in your life. In verse 9, we see Ezekiel still had to speak life- breath to the bones and flesh. The bones were protected now. They were covered but not alive. He called the 4 wind to blow and breathe to come. In verse 10, "… they came to life and stood up on their feet and became a vast army." The bones obeyed the word and lived. God is going to revive what has died on the way to our mountain. He says in verse 12 that He is going to open up our graves and bring us out. He is going to bring us back to the land of Israel. We will not live far from God's Promised Land for our life any longer (verse14).
So if you are on a journey to a mountain of Israel and you have seen the enemy take it from you, get ready to take it back! If you are still moving grab on to someone who is stuck. If you are stuck in a valley or have become dry (or your vision has become barren), get prepared to receive the breath of God. If you are in the enemies land and they are surrounding you, God is coming to cleanse you and bring you back to your own land. Amen!
Thank you Lord that it is time in the body to rise up. It is time to live. Beloved it is time to stop just being a resemblance of life. Ezekiel found the valley full of bones. A valley is a place of growth. It is green and lush; yet, not always fun to go through. We mature in the valley. This particular valley in chapter 37 showed its true nature. At the base it is very dry, full of dry bones. These bones were not just dry. Verse 2 states very dry.
Some of God's chosen people have gotten stuck in the valley. They have been in the valley so long, their structural parts became dry. Their flesh and their blood (life source) have been sucked out by the heat of the fires raging in their life. Others who could not enter the heat, have turned and gone back to the enemy's land.They have retreated to an area of comfort. However, Scripture tells us in Isaiah that we will walk through fire and not get burnt (paraphrased).
The souls who lay with dry bones had their flesh deteriorate. Their bodies were starved from food and drink. The body of Christ is loosing souls because during times of valleys in our life we have neglected to stay in God's Word. We have not encountered His presence to refresh us, to water our soul. The Word of God is our life source. It flows to all areas of the body and spirit.
When one area is not getting its essential needs, the whole body begins to suffer. As with anorexia, the body becomes sunken and frail. We cannot afford to let our spirit man become week and fragile. That is the best time the enemy knows we are weak. That is when the enemy will try to come and ambush us.
God set Ezekiel in the middle of the valley. Right in the heart of the entire valley; yet in this valley, was deadness. There was a resemblance of lives. The valley may have looked lush and growing on the exterior, but God is a God who examines the heart. In Hebrews 4: 12 it says, "God judges our thoughts, attitudes. Nothing in all creation is hidden from Him." The heart of this valley was dead. God examines the heart of man, ministries, and churches, all He created. If one part of Christ's body is dead and dry, it will begin to rot the other parts of the body.
When the physical body begins to rot, the bad section needs to be amputated to save the life of the body. If the deteriorated portion does not respond quickly to the treatments, the doctors carefully and quickly cut it off. This is also what Jesus said He would do to the church In Revelation 3: 1-3. Jesus saw their works, but called them the walking dead. He called them to wake up or He would return like a thief in the night and they would be cut off (paraphrased). And in chapter 37: 11 the Lord spoke to Ezekiel that His children felt dry, cut off with no hope.
In verse 3, God asked Ezekiel, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I believe God was looking and asking Ezekiel if he truly believed that God was able to rise up these dry bones. Please notice that God did not send an angel to get a dry bone from the pile to recognize where it came from or if it believed its companions could live again! Ezekiel was an outside source sent to look at the inside. God showed him the heart of the valley. Its dryness was exposed. Its weakness and frailness exposed. Bones that laid bare with no skin for covering. No protection from the enemy. No muscles for moving together. No unity could be formed.
If we in the body are individually becoming dry and dead, soon the whole body is affected. Deadness and dryness, rotting is contagious. Ganged green spreads quickly. If we have back biting, gossip, offense, rebellion, pride, etc. in our heart it will spread if not exposed. God is a God who exposes darkness into His marvelous light. These sins infect the body and spread like cancer.
You begin to lose your unity as a body. You begin to get weak and frail as division creeps in.Without unity you begin to deteriorate and lose protective covering. Pretty soon your precious vital organs are exposed; the life source slowly begins to drain out. You become thirsty and hungry until there is no hope. You have been laid bare in the valley dead- in pieces.
God has been doing a rattling. He has been exposing the heart of His children, the body of Christ. There has been a sound of the bones coming together (verse 7). God is restoring unity and protection. He has started the healing process. He is putting down the scalpel for those responding to His voice, those children and members of the body who are letting Him reveal the hidden things, to those who are repenting and calling out to God to not be cut off.
Now God says in verse 12, "…O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel." It is time to take off the grave clothes. He has begun the process, but in verse 8 & 9 there was no breath from God's Spirit. "I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them." The Lord has led some of us to examine spiritual strongholds, generational and those from our own decisions. He's also cleaning up those who allow Him to work in their life. God is also trying to move in ministries and churches. A resemblance of life is appearing. But there is no power. No spirit inside them to live a victorious life. Now God is speaking, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, 'this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.'" Verse 10 continues, "So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet- a vast army."
I believe God is looking and getting ready to send His Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ in a way that many have not experienced. I feel He is tired of looking at parts of His body rotting and turning dead. We cannot defeat the enemy if we are the walking dead. This fresh move of the Spirit is open to those who want to receive Him. He will come and break down denominational strongholds, racial strongholds, economic strongholds, and gender strongholds.
He is calling us, the body, to stand together in unity.He is calling us to live with joy, peace, love, gentleness, faithfulness, kindness, goodness, patience, and self-control (Galatians 5: 22). The Spirit of God brings the call and gifts of God for our life. The voice of God is in the Spirit.The power of the resurrected Jesus is in the Holy Spirit. The power to march as mighty warriors against an already defeated foe is in the Holy Spirit.
God has a power source for us to tap into, but it is up to you to plug into the source, the Holy Spirit. He is gentle and loving and will never force anyone to come. When we are ready verse 12 says' "I will put my Spirit in you and you will live." We need to examine our hearts and let God reveal to us if we are just existing or really living day to day by the Spirit of God. If the Lord is revealing to you that you need the breath of God in a fresh or new wave of the Holy Spirit, come and receive your breath from God. The four winds are beginning to blow.
In Ephesians 1: 17-20, "I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit [the Holy Spirit] of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him [the Holy Spirit] better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he [the Holy Spirit] has called you, the riches of his [the Holy Spirit] glorious inheritance in the saints, and his [the Holy Spirit] incomparably great power for us who believe (not just a belief in a God who exists, but to believe God). That power is like the working of his [the Holy Spirit] mighty strength, which he [the Holy Spirit] exerted in Christ when he [the Holy Spirit] raised him [Jesus] from the dead and seated him at his [the Holy Spirit} right hand in heavenly realms."
Dear Christ Jesus in heaven,
I pray you lead us to know, to recognize, to spend time with the person of the Holy Spirit. I pray we move past a belief that you only died for us to be saved. You are the Savior. Hallelujah, you did not stay in the grave!! Help us to open our hearts to the one who came into the tomb to breathe the life of God back into your body. We have come to you, Jesus, and died to ourselves. We desire now to experience the life and call and power you intended to give us as you promised in Acts 1:4-5, "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift (we chose to accept or reject it) my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit." Verse 8, "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses… to the ends of the earth." Lord we need to be enlightened to the Holy Spirit coming on us! What a difference life can be as the Holy Spirit falls fresh on us. Breathe Lord into our sleeping spirits and wake up the spirit of power to be mighty for the kingdom of God!
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