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The word "Sanctify" comes from a root word which means to "set apart," in this case, for the Master's use. While we will never be completely "Holy," another word meaning the same thing, this side of heaven, we are to pursue holiness all along the way. (Rom 6:19, 6:22)
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Biblical Principles of Sex
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Guilt, Depression, Worry, Fear, Anger
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Children of Divorce
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Re: River Tank idea.
Posted By: Dave Guest <email@example.com> In Response To: River Tank idea. (Charles)
Date: Monday, 3 April 2000, at 5:18 p.m.
In Response To: River Tank idea. (Charles)
Sounds good but I'm confused as to how you're going to attach the external Fluval 404's to the manifold system in order to create the river effect. The only way would be to attach the inlet pipes directly to the manifold and position the outlets slightly above substrate level at the same end of the tank... also beware that the output values given for external filters are (I think) the flow rate that the water leaves the cannister at. If they're positioned below the tank level the flow at the outlet is a lot lower than what it says on the box so the river effect probably won't be that great.
I'm not one to preach stocking levels (each to his own I say) but 24 loaches sounds like a lot for a 55. I'd probably go for no more than a dozen keeping in mind that although they're generally peaceful they each like a rock of their own to call home.
Hope it works out and we don't have to wait a year for the results :-)
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Accession Number : ADA496677
Title : DoD Contract Termination Liability: An Analysis of the Special Termination Cost Clause (STCC)
Descriptive Note : Research paper
Corporate Author : NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY
Personal Author(s) : Rendon, Rene G. ; Mutty, John E.
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Report Date : 30 SEP 2006
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Abstract : This research paper explores the Department of Defense (DoD) policies and practices for managing contract termination liability. The specific purpose of the research is to review current policies, practices, and procedures for funding and managing contract termination liability within the DoD. The research proposes alternative approaches for improving the DoD's ability to manage contract termination liability and discusses the resulting effect of each alternative on defense acquisition practices. First, we provide a brief review of regulatory and policy guidance on contract termination liability as reflected in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and the Financial Management Regulations (FMR). We then discuss the current practices and procedures for funding and managing contract termination liability and identify results from interviews and document reviews with various Air Force, Navy, Army, and other DoD agencies. Next, we present program management challenges and preliminary observations and findings based on our research of current contract termination liability policies and real-world practices. A discussion of alternative approaches to funding contract termination liability is then presented, including the use of Special Termination Cost Clauses (STCC). Finally, this research concludes with a summary and recommendations on how the DoD can improve the policies and practices for managing contract termination liability.
Descriptors : *CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION, POLICIES, REGULATIONS, COSTS, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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February 1, 2006
Ridin' and slidin'Marriage an adventure for skeleton racer Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards and rodeo cowboy Billy Richards
By TERRY JONES -- Edmonton Sun
What's most scary?
Spending eight seconds on a bucking bronc? Or sliding down a bobsled track head-first? It's a family debate.
Billy Richards you may remember from appearances in Canadian Finals Rodeos, riding rough stock in saddle bronc - especially the one two years ago where he set the second-highest points total in history (87.5) despite riding on a broken leg.
His wife, Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards, has made it to the Turin Olympics, going the head-first-down-a-bobsled-run in the event known as skeleton.
"My theory is that rodeo is tougher because at least in skeleton, you always know which way the next turn is going to go. On a bucking bronc, you don't," said the Eckville slider on the phone from Igls, Austria, yesterday.
It was enough of a debate in the family that Billy made a wager with his wife, who is one of the best stories in Canadian sports having just won the World Cup championship and finishing on the podium in all seven events this year.
"The bet was that I'd have to ride a bucking bronc if he did a skeleton run. He did it in Calgary this summer. So now, I have to ride a bronc. I don't think I'll pay that bet off until after Vancouver 2010, though."
A bet you wouldn't have made last summer was that Mellisa would be going into the Turin Olympic Winter Games as a gold-medal favourite and one of the best stories on the 198-member Canadian Olympic Team.
Until this year, she'd only made it to the World Cup podium three times in total in 10 years in the sport. This year she's not only the World Cup champion but has shown remarkable consistency in not finishing lower than third.
"I don't think it has been done before," said Teresa Schlachter, GM of Canada's skeleton program.
It's all about love and money, says Mellisa.
Melissa, when she walked down the aisle last summer to marry her bronc rider, says she decided that was the time to stop playing it safe in both her normal life and in her sport. She not only acquired a husband, she acquired a sponsor and the 'Own the Podium' money kicked in.
"I'm a poster girl for what sponsorship and 'Own the Podium' can do. Our whole skeleton team is a great example of what funding can do."
"I met my sponsor, Paul Bray of True Energy Trust, at a Canadian Sports Centre golf tournament. He set up a contract for three years and bought me a new sled. With the money, I didn't have to worry about working.
"The 'Own the Podium' money really helped our whole team with the coaching and support staff we have now. A great example is what it did for me. I was able to have 40 hours in the new wind tunnel built in Ottawa. That's worth about $1,500 an hour. I made a lot of changes because of what I discovered in that wind tunnel. I'm an example of what happens when somebody invests in you."
But being married to the rodeo cowboy has added a stability to her life, too.
"He's my security blanket," she said. "He's that little extra something in support that's there. It works so well between us. I know what he needs to do when he's gone for a month at a time, and he knows what I need to do. There's never any whining on the other end of the phone."
The first World Cup race she won this year she won blindfolded. Her hood came down over her eyes during the final few turns.
"I just had to calm down and tell myself that I've slid on that track a thousand times and just to feel my way through it. I didn't think I had a chance to be No. 1, but I let it all out," she said of the World Cup series opener in Calgary.
Born in Lacombe, which hasn't produced many Olympians (sports columnists don't count), Hollingsworth-Richards grew up in Eckville, pop. 600, about 40 km to the west.
And Eckville is where they'll hold their own opening ceremonies to celebrate on Feb. 10.
"My aunt Cheryl Gelinas has set up a website, www.go-mellisa-go.ca.
They're selling bracelets and T-shirts.
It sounds like it's going to be a pretty good deal."
Too bad she can't be there.
"I'm going to be marching in the opening ceremonies and I'd have carried the flag, too, if they'd asked me," she laughed.


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A NEW police centre will be opened in Patchway by the end of September – marking the end of the Avon and Somerset force's programme to centralise the custody service.
A new centre with an enquiry office, which is open to the public, will be housed on the A38 near Airbus and Rolls-Royce and will be open from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.
It will be one of three to open in the force area. Another centre, with an enquiry office, will be opened at Bridgwater and a further centre will be opened at Keynsham, however that one will not have an enquiry office.
The new centres will increase the capacity of the constabulary in custody by 27 per cent, improving the custody process and enabling more police officers to go back on patrol.
Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens said: "The opening of these new modern police centres marks the end of a long journey to transform the police estate and make it fit for a new generation of policing.
"Many police stations are outdated, inefficient and under-utilised. These new buildings are not only greener, more sustainable and more cost efficient, they are also flexible enough to meet the future demands that Avon and Somerset Constabulary will face over the coming years.
"I am delighted that throughout this development we have been able to offer apprenticeships, opportunities for ex-offenders and school visits.
"There have also been many local economic benefits with 77 per cent of subcontractors based within 35 miles of each of the sites, or within the Avon and Somerset area."
Acting Chief Constable John Long said: "The new police centres enable us to respond to the needs of modern policing. Replacing small, inefficient buildings with larger centres where we can centralise custody and locate our teams together, helps us to work in a new and more efficient way.
"These police centres will assist us as we continue to face financial pressures.
"It also increases the potential for integrated working by co-locating with our partners, as we have already started in Weston-super-Mare, Mendip and Keynsham."


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July 25, 2008 - DENISON - The Hopkins County Ponytail All-Star team defeated Whitewright 4-2 on Monday in the championship game of the Dixie State Tournament to win the Texas title.
By winning state, the Ponytails qualified to play in the Dixie World Series in Pineville, La., beginning Saturday, Aug. 2. Their first game will be against Mississippi on Aug. 2.
Many of the girls on the team were also members of the local Angels All-Star team that played in the World Series two years ago at Coleman Park.
The Ponytails will join the Hopkins County Darlings All-Star team that also won state and will play in the World Series, also in Pineville, La., starting next Saturday.
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There had been a little trouble about it with Sir dace; and alas!
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BenQ W1200 Home Theater Projector Review
Light Leakage
The BenQ W1200 leaks minimal light out the side vents. Light leak through the lens is strange. There's a ring of light leaving the lens, that will hit your front wall floor and maybe ceiling. The ring of light isn't bright, and it's miles from the actual screen image. In fact it's about a screen width away. It certainly won't interfere with the projected image, but you might notice a touch of extraneous light wherever that beam might hit some light or reflective object in the front of your room. All considered, not really an issue, and certainly not in a family room or bonus room type environment. The light is easily visible when viewing in my theater – not so easy to spot in my testing room when the room is set to be more like a family room.
Image Noise
I saw only one problem with Image noise, and that was some sort of issue at the bottom of the screen when watching 1080p. It would have to be described as a motion artifact. It appeared almost if looking at the last inch or so at the bottom was looking through a bevel. Seems to be a timing issue when viewing 24 bit. I haven't seen anything quite like this in a couple of years. A minor distraction, but I did notice it repeatedly when watching the latest Narnia last night. The thing is, I didn't notice it at all, as I took the usual 100s of photos for a full photo shoot.
Audible Noise
Another reason I consider the W1200 a family room projector is that in the "family room" isn't necessarily a quiet zone, unlike a theater. The BenQ's fan noise varies – all by itself. And that can be a distraction.
Yes, most of the time it's reasonably quiet, but, when it feels the need to be cooler, the BenQ W1200's fan speeds up and the noise level goes up substantially. When it's in this louder mode, then the BenQ is definitely louder than we would like to encounter in our single chip DLP projectors.
After firing up a cold W1200, with fan running on normal, it took about 25-35 minutes before the fan might accelerate. Now my theater tends to stay around 72 degrees or even a touch more.
I'm not really noise adverse so I only notice it speeding up sometimes… Others it might drive crazy, those most noise adverse. But again, this is a casual home theater projector for movies sports, Disney features, whatever you like.
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I know doing sports trivia that isn't timed on the internet isn't exactly great because you're just a search away. At least try and answer these really easy questions in the comments without looking them up. If you look it up using another window, you will be forced to watch the Spurs for 10 hours on a continuous loop. You have been warned.
Some questions will be multiple choice, others will not. Ready? GO!
1. Walt Bellamy played how many regular season games in the 1968-69 NBA season? (Note that the NBA had 82 games in the regular season as well)
2. The longest regular season winning streak in North American football is held by the?
A.) New England Patriots
B.) Calgary Stampeders
C.) BC Lions
D.) Miami Dolphins
3. Name the first black person to play baseball professionally.
4. A notable coach for the Albany Patroons (CBA team) was…
5. True or False? A non-English speaking nation has won the Rugby World Cup.
6. When the USFL won an anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL, how much money were they awarded?
7. How did heavyweight contender Eddie Machen die?
A.) Head injuries sustained in ring
B.) Suicide
C.) Heart attack
D.) Sleepwalking and then falling from an apartment window
8. Who has scored more goals in international competition?
A.) Pele
B.) Ronaldo
9. If an FA Cup quarterfinal soccer match ends 2-2 in regulation, what happens next?
A.) It has to be replayed.
B.) 30 minutes extra time, then penalties (if nec.).
C.) A coin is flipped and the winner moves on.
10. Finally, how many games has the US won in the Cricket World Cup?
BONUS Question:
You're kicking a 45 yard field goal into the wind, down 23-21. It's blowing at 40 MPH and the pressure is on you. The snap is good, the kick goes through the uprights!!! But wait! The sudden gust of wind blows the football, which was already past the uprights, back to the goal line. Is the kick…
A.) Good
B.) No Good
C.) Has to be retried
Think really hard about these, if you don't know the answer then guess. I don't expect much from those who don't follow rugby or cricket.


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Rebuild continues to go well for Winnipeg Jets
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The other thing stopping a major move too is Chevy doesn't have to make a major trade to 'save his job' like Lombardi felt compelled to do. Granted the Kings were much closer and had significant pieces in place already, but they were sputtering for most of the year until a few moves were made (Sutter/Carter).
The Jets can be patient and add prospects and take the 2 or 3 more years to see how close they are.
But i like the moves the Kings made, moving young virtually unproven players for key support guys that helped win the cup. Boston did something similar, the year before with Kelly and Peverley - and Horton & Campbell prior to the season.
I look forward to when the Jets are in that type of situation, where a deal or two makes the difference in being a playoff team to a legit cup contender.
Those teams also had pieces to move. Most experts have our prospect pool graded among the worst in the league.
We would be moving Burmi, Scheifele & Postma in a package to get anyone good. That would cripple the team going forward.
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A few "unlikely, ambitious and headstrong wildcatters" made the energy revolution happen, Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman writes in The Frackers, despite naysayers such as Alan Greenspan (who warned that the nation's gas fields were running dry), Warren Buffet (whose investments presumed a dearth of natural gas) and Vladimir Putin (who predicted a Russian gas monopoly).
The Chinese are behind, too, Gary Sernovitz notes in his review in the New Republic. "China, with more shale rock than the United States, chokes itself on coal as it looks enviously at gas wells south of Pittsburgh," Sernovitz writes.
Zuckerman's book doesn't dwell on politics or environmental controversies surrounding fracking. Instead, Zuckerman celebrates the dreamers in an ode to private enterprise and the stubborn American can-do spirit.
Thanks to shale drilling, Zuckerman notes:
- "So much oil is flowing that in a few more years, the United States may not need to import any crude, or might only rely on friends such as Canada and Mexico, ending a 50-year addiction to oil from countries with interests that many years ago diverged from ours."
- America is the world's largest producer of natural gas — with two of the world's largest gas fields.
- More than 2 million jobs could be generated by 2020
An essay on fracking by Zuckerman appeared in the Wall Street Journal this week. You can read it here.


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CA Nimsoft Monitor Selected to Provide Customers Improved Infrastructure Monitoring and Reporting
SYDNEY, January 25, 2013 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced that Virtual.Offis has selected CA Nimsoft Monitor to support the company's drive to access new revenue streams.
As part of the deal, Virtual.Offis will use CA Nimsoft Monitor to provide enhanced monitoring and reporting capabilities both internally and to its customers. Giving customers better insights into their complex hosted infrastructure, including networking, storage and applications, can improve service levels by expediting problem resolution. Virtual.Offis will offer the ability to provide real-time and historical information to their customers via the Nimsoft web portal. The portal will assist in optimising the use of the Virtual.Offis infrastructure and enhance the customer experience.
"Virtual.Offis provides managed infrastructure hosting services to some of Australia's largest organisations – McDonalds, TABcorp, Secure Parking and OzForex, among many others," said Chy Chuawiwat, CEO, Virtual.Offis.
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- Just as the door to the great abyss cannot be located on a map, the duration of the thousand years cannot be located on a calendar. One does not draw nearer to heaven by means of a space shuttle or nearer to the abyss by digging a shaft into the ground, and one does not enter the thousand-year period by turning a calendar page.
Craig R. Koester, Revelation and the End of All Things (81).
The belief in a millennial promise is controversial within Christianity. While some mainstream faiths, Catholicism and Lutheranism for example, are amillennial and have no doctrine of a literal thousand-year period as important in Christianity, many other traditions, large and small, make the millennium a central point of faith. Though only one chapter in the New Testament, Revelation 20, has specific reference to the promise of a millennium, the concept has fascinated theologians and the laity for more than 1900 years.
Some interpret the passage to mean a thousand-year period of peace on earth leading to the Second Coming of Christ and the Final Judgement. This belief is called postmillennialism. Others believe in premillennialism, the faith in the Second Coming but placing the event at the beginning and not the end of the millennium of peace. The primary form of premillennialism in North America has been dispensational premillennialism, an interpretation of scripture prominent in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many other opinions and alternate readings of Revelation have been offered. Some, such as the Thomas Brightman and Cotton Mather, offered much more radical interpretations. In light of the various views, it is interesting to look at some of the ways millennial beliefs have influenced the secular world, especially the years 1000 and 2000.
This topic is quite complex and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of books on the subject. The concern of this paper is not to explain all of the scholarship, merely to address millennial beliefs specifically in the context of the period of 1000 years.
Revelation 20
The Book of Revelation is in the genre known as apocalyptic literature. Norman Cohn establishes that apocalyptic texts supporting revolutionary eschatology are generally written during periods of repression (19). The earliest existing text in Judeo-Christian history is chapter 7 of the Book of Daniel which dates to 165 BCE, a time of upheaval and division for the Jewish world and roughly the time of the Maccabean revolt (20-1). These early texts are still mentioned in Jewish millenarian beliefs and also in Christian theology in connection with Revelation. [1]
Christianity arose in the Second Temple period of Judaism, a time of interest in messianic prophecy. Messianic traditions predict a saviour, a redeemer of the faithful; apocalyptic myths regard the present not in terms of creation but of the anticipated "final" events and revelations to come (Paden 76). Millenarian myths point not only to the past which must be regained, but more importantly to a future life for which one must prepare (77). The origins of Millenarian beliefs lie in the Judaic apocalyptic genre. Hans Schwarz identifies two types of apocalyptic expectation, "a national expectation, which hoped for a messianic kingdom with the Jewish people ruling together with the Messiah over the non-believers, after a final war, and a universal expectation, which hoped for the salvation of the faithful beyond the destruction and re-creation of the world" (182).
Christian traditions have explained the millennial kingdom as an earthly kingdom in which Old Testament promises are fulfilled. Usually this belief is based on the book of Isaiah which prophecies a time when the chosen will live long and peaceful lives [2](Koester 183). There is no specific duration for this temporary Messianic Kingdom. In 4 Ezra it is 400 years and so "the Kingdom of God was thus thought of by the Jews in the time of Jesus as a glorious future state. The main conception was of a Kingdom won by and based on force, by the action of God" (Guy 21). Also, the Book of Enoch mentions the coming 'Sabbath,' 1000 years of peace which follow 6000 years of history, followed by a timeless 'eighth day' (149).
There are seven references in the new Testament to "a thousand years," six of them in Revelation 20: 1-7. [3] The remaining reference is 2 Peter 3:8, "be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day," (KJV) a passage often mentioned in connection to the millennium. [4] Revelation 20 details when "the martyrs will be resurrected at the first resurrection and Satan will be bound on this occasion for a thousand years so that the martyrs can reign with Christ" (Schwarz 182). It is from this mention of a thousand years that so much debate has arisen.
Numbers recur in Revelation: seven seals, seven trumpets, seven angels, twelve tribes, twelve thousand people from each. Some have argued that the number 1000 is only symbolic. Augustine explained that 1000 "is a perfect number, ideal for allegorical expressions of notions like "lots," or "totality," or "all generations," but not for anything exact" (Weber 36). Following Jesus' death and resurrection, the disciples waited anxiously for his second coming, "an event they associated with the final deliverance of the Jewish people, the end of history, and the beginning of the perfect kingdom" (Rifkin 151). Every Christian tradition addresses the issue of the millennium, if only to dismiss it.
Though it is impossible to know precisely how the author of Revelation thought of the Millennium, some have suggested that the author used the common convention of the phrase "a thousand years" to represent an unspecified lengthy duration, while others have thought the phrase represents the idea of completeness (Guy 150). The dominant belief in the Roman Catholic Church is that apocalyptic literature is spiritual in meaning and the texts "evoke the ongoing struggle between righteousness and evil in human history and within each individual human heart" (Boyer 142). The approach is called amillennial or nonmillennial as it completely dismisses a millennium occurring in history and places "Christ's ultimate triumph outside the temporal realm, not in an actual earthly reign of one thousand years" (143).This belief was espoused by Origen and St. Augustine and is the doctrine of the Catholic Church as well as Lutheran and Reformed Churches (143). For Augustine, the Church itself was the embodiment of the millennium and it is the discussion of millennium in his 426 CE book City of God that directly led to the rejection of millennialism at the Council of Ephesus in 431 (Bloom 222).
Amillennialism promises no future golden age on earth but instead says that Christ exercises his power within the spiritual sphere, in the individual soul or in the Church. Amillennialism contains no vision of hope for the future prior to the Last Day. On the Last Day, Christ returns to manifest the perfect and eternal kingdom (Schwarz 187). For the Church, all of time is only the interval between the first and Second Coming; time is only a waiting period (Rifkin 158). By the fourth century, the Christian Church was discouraging any sort of explicit expectation in a specific period of millennium (Barnes 20).
The delayed Second Coming is the domain of the postmillennialists. Postmillennialists believe we are living in the last days of a sinful world and they must actively prepare earth for the Second Coming and may even be able to alter the timing of the millennium (Shupe 196). Though both pre- and postmillennialists believe in a thousand years of peace before the final judgement, premillennialists have "a pessimistic interpretation of human history, believing that events on earth will go from bad to worse until Jesus Christ personally comes to inaugurate the millennium. The postmillennialist view is ... optimistic: the saints' efforts will succeed in establishing the millennium, and Jesus will come only at the end of this human effort" (Introvigne 230). The period prior to the judgement may not be a thousand years. The millennium may be a "latter-day prosperity" prior to Christ's coming (Schwarz 186-7). The return of Christ will introduce not a temporal kingdom but an eternally peaceful state brought on by the good works of the Church (187).
The binding of Satan during this time is not the literal reign of Christ but rather the reign of the church in society (Peters 29). The thousand years, be it a literal thousand or merely 'a long time,' is referred to as the golden age of the church (29). This millennium is a time of conversion when both Jews and Gentiles will come to the church (29). The binding of Satan "represents the power of the gospel to work victory in the heart of the believer, bringing him or her from unfaith to faith" (30). The primary advantage of a thousand-year period of peace from the postmillennialist point of view is the opportunity to save many more souls. In 1758, Joseph Bellamy (1719-90) calculated that the ratio of saved to damned would be more than 17,000 to 1, a feat impossible if the Judgement is an immediate and sudden event (Moorhead 76).
For many, the new world of North America represented a fresh beginning and the place to set the foundation for the postmillennial effort.
Postmillennialism in America
The Puritan movement in the eastern United States was founded on the belief that it was possible to create the New Jerusalem in the wilderness of the new world (Smolinski 36). Postmillennialists would see the United States, through concerted evangelical effort, gradually turned into a wondrous millennial kingdom (Williams 190). The seventeenth century was a period of renewal in apocalyptic thought in which many theologians posed varying theories of the nature of the golden age: spiritual, literal, heavenly or earthly and also the timing of the millennium (Smolinski 37-8).
The creation of the United States "promised victory over yet another set of foes: slavery and the sinful, decadent slave-holders" (Williams 190). Postmillennialism was tied to American Protestantism when Methodist Jesse Peck (1811-83) wrote in his book The History of the Great Republic of the "epic postmillennial drama with the United States as the central actor in the history of the world ... a civilization dedicated to the gospel and political liberty was to usher in a new epoch for humanity. Heretofore, the taint of slavery and despotism impeded that mission; but now, with the defeat of the Confederacy, the nation was fully ready to assume its destiny" (Moorhead 86). Julia Howard's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" also tied the apocalyptic struggle to American history including such images as "He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword" (Williams 213). In the progress of the nineteenth century, prior to the civil war, there had been a period of optimism which, to many, hinted that the promised millennium was already upon us (Peters 30). To others, however, the same signs that indicated great promise also warned of great danger. Premillennialists believed the worst times were to come.
The principle feature of premillennial belief is the awaiting of an imminent Second Coming. The sequence of millennial events from the premillennialist point of view is that Christ will return bodily and rule earth from Jerusalem. The righteous dead will rise, the first resurrection, and will participate in this new kingdom. The Jerusalem Temple will be rebuilt and Satan will be bound for a thousand years in which there will be peace on earth (Peters 31). Christ will see humanity through the last stage of history. The millennium is the literal thousand years that Christ will rule over the earth and Satan will be bound and all nations of the earth will be subject to the theocratic rule of Christ (Schwarz 186). According to premillennial belief, the Second Coming will be preceded by war, pestilence, misery, and widespread social disorder and only through Jesus himself can the millennium begin (Shupe 196). Following the Second Coming, Christ and his angels will defeat the forces of the Antichrist and bind Satan for a thousand years and create the millennial kingdom under the reestablished throne of David (Schwarz 188). After the thousand years have passed, some humans will reject the enforced peace and will follow the released Satan in an effort to conquer the Holy City (188). The uprising will be crushed and Satan completely defeated, which is followed immediately by the second resurrection and the Final Judgement (188). Judgement Day "has been conceived as the great award day. This is especially evident in the [millennial] hopes of a 1000-year rule over and at the expense of others" (Schwarz 259).
William Miller (1782-1849), a Baptist biblical scholar and itinerant evangelist from western New York, focused on Daniel 8:14 which reads "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed" (KJV). Using the conversion of one year for one day and the year 458 BCE, the year the reconstruction of the Jerusalem Temple began, as the beginning of the 2300 years, Miller placed the return of Jesus about the year 1843 (Boyer 145-6). Others in the Millerite movement would later come to the exact date of the Second Coming as October 22, 1844 and the movement gained many followers as the date approached (146). The movement collapsed almost overnight when the promised day came and went, an event known as "The Great Disappointment," but one faction that remained faithful would later become known as the Seventh Day Adventist Church, one of the most influential groups in forming premillennialist beliefs into the present day (146, 157).
Dispensational Premillennialism
Premillennialism lost favour after the collapse of the Millerite movement and did not gain a popular following in the United States again until the rise of dispensational premillennialism in the late 1800s. Former Church of Ireland priest John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) believed that history is a series of "dispensations," stages "in each of which God dealt with humanity in different ways, and in which the means of grace differed ... For example, he saw an absolute distinction between God's plan for the Jews and God's plan for the Gentiles" (Boyer 149). The most important contribution of Darby to millennialism was the introduction of the concept of Rapture, the bodily raising of the saintly into heaven which would immediately proceed the Great Tribulation and the reign of the Antichrist (150-1). It is in the doctrine of the Rapture that Darby created the lasting belief that, to avoid the horrors of the Great Tribulation, one should be as sinless as possible (151).
It is dispensational premillennialism which still dominates Protestant understandings of the millennium and directly influenced the writing of the Scofield Reference Bible, an annotated version of the King James Bible originally published in 1909 and still common in Evangelical Christian homes (155-6).The Scofield Bible divides history into seven successive dispensations, characterized by God's dealing with the human race (Peters 32). The dispensations according to Scofield were innocence, conscience, civil government, promise, law, grace, and the kingdom and we are currently between the periods of grace and the kingdom (32). In each dispensation, humankind is tested by some aspect of God's will and each time humankind fails, we are judged by God, and then set back on the path under a new covenant (Schwarz 187).
The Fundamentalist Christian approach to the millennium would become post-Tribulation and premillennial, placing the return of Jesus after a period of turmoil and before the a thousand years of peace (Boyer 165). This belief became prominent following the Second World War as the threats of the Cold War and nuclear proliferation became the accepted sources of the horrors of the Tribulation (165-70); the creation of the nation of Israel was seen as one of the most notable signs of this coming event (171). This would continue to be the theme in millenarian groups through the New Age movement and isolationist groups such as the heretical offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, the Branch Davidians (Moorhead 103).
Many other interpretations of the millennium have been offered. Thomas Brightman (1562-1607), for example, believed that the rule of the Byzantine Empire of 306-1300 CE was the thousand years of the binding of Satan (Smolinski 38). Brightman did not believe the binding and the reign of Christ were concurrent but instead consecutive; 1300 to 2300 would be the period of Christ's millennial reign and Judgement Day would follow (38).
Cotton Mather (1663-1728), a pastor of the Second Church of Boston, used evidence from Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Papias and Polycarp to argue "Christ will appear at the beginning and end of the millennium; the first and second resurrection are both literal and corporeal; the raised saints of the first resurrection would rule visibly in a literal New Jerusalem in the heavens" (Smolinski 49).
Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803), a postmillennialist, focused his interpretation on the connection of Romans 11 to Revelation and believed that only the destruction of Antichrist and his allies prior to the millennium will make the promises of heaven on earth possible (Smolinski 55).
Founder of the Watch Tower Tract Society Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916) believed the millennium would begin in 1914 and he saw the beginning of World War I as proof of the coming cataclysm (Koester 16). Russell died before the war ended and his followers went on to form the millennial Jehovah's Witnesses (16).
America theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) believed it would take roughly two hundred and fifty years to convert the entire world to Christ, and so believed the beginning of the millennium would be around the year 2000 (Koester 14). Edwards was one of the first theologians to point specifically to the year 2000 as a millenarian date.
Years 1000 and 2000
There is extensive debate on the question of apocalyptic beliefs in the year 1000. Many call it anachronistic "to speak of a tenth and eleventh century as if those who lived in them knew about them" (Weber 49). However, there is evidence that at least some in the clergy were considering Millenarian concepts. The coronation robe of Emperor Otto III in 996 was embroidered with apocalyptic scenes (50). Despite signs and portents such as the return of Haley's comet in 992 and widespread famine and disease in 1033 (roughly the millennium of the crucifixion) (50-1), "careful scholarship has long since punctured the notion that the year 1000 was a major focus of expectancy, [though] it is possible that a waxing nervousness at the approach of that date contributed to a general trend toward belief in an approaching consummation" (Barnes 21). Others argue, however, that in 1000 millenarian hopes were extremely high because many believed the interpretations that promised a millennium would elapse between Christ's first bodily appearance and his return (Schwarz 183).
Current eschatology is marked by the millenarian belief in human progress and the faith that history itself can become perfect (Moltmann 194). Millenarian beliefs have found their way into the secular world, most frighteningly when Adolph Hitler proclaimed the founding of the "Thousand Year Reich" (185). According to some, the creation of a new and improved world was the motivation of the left-wing revolutions of the twentieth century (Cohn 285). More recently, the concerns of the Y2K computer error caused millennial fears across western society. Ted Peters predicted in 1978 that "if present trends in population growth, resource use, and population continue unabated, then we will meet a worldwide calamity just beyond the year 2000. This draws our attention ... to the feeling that the power of change itself is beyond human control" (Peters 19).
Harold Bloom notes in Omens of the Millennium that there were, as of 1996, 10 million premillennialists and more than 100 million that believe in a Second Coming (219). Bloom predicted in 1996 that "the year 2000-2001 will not be a comfortable period in the United States of America, not because we will experience either a rupture or rapture, but because there are extremist groups among the premillennialists, and their disappointment could lead to violence" (223-4). Though this did not come to pass, Bloom was correct in writing "the great mass of American premillennialists will not attach their hopes to the specific years 2000 and 2001" (224).
The millennium has become increasingly secularised. With the publication of Francis Fukuyama's article "The End of History," the millenarian consummation of history is complete (Moltmann 195). According to Fukuyama, history itself is on the edge of becoming irrelevant, or to use the millennialist term, 'eternal.'
Speaking of the millennium, Jeremy Rifkin wrote "the great states and civilizations in history, those that have endured the test of time, are precisely those that have possessed a compelling image of the future" (154). It is this faith in a promising future that has driven many of the millennial groups to both noble and tragic extremes.
The search for the future is key to millennial faiths. By finding a vision of the future, believers can be assured that they play an important role in the future of the human race. Millennial beliefs are more than merely a countdown, they constitute the promise of a time when evil is subdued and the righteous can live in peace and harmony. In the shadow of September 11, that is a promise we would all hope to fulfil.
Appendix: Revelation, chapter 20, King James Version
- 1: And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2: And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3: And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgement was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5: But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6: Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
7: And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8: And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9: And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
10: And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11: And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12: And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13: And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14: And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15: And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Works Cited
Barnes, Robin Bruce. Prophecy and Gnosis: Apocalypticism in the Wake of the Lutheran Reformation. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Bloom, Harold. Omens of the Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.
Boyer, Paul. "The Growth of Fundamentalist Apocalyptic in the United States." Stein 140-178.
Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists in the Middle Ages. New York: Oxford UP, 1970.
Guy, H.A. The New Testament Doctrine of the 'Last Things': A Study of Eschatology. London: Oxford University Press, 1948.
Introvigne, Massimo. "Latter Day Revisited." Robbins 229-246.
Moorhead, James H. "Apocalypticism in Mainstream Protestantism." Stein 72-107.
Koester, Craig R. Revelation and the End of All Things. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001.
Moltmann, Jurgen. "Liberating and Anticipating the Future." Liberating Eschatology: Essays in Honor of Letty M. Russell. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1999. 189-208.
Paden, William E. Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.
Peters, Ted. Futures - Human and Divine. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1978.
Rifkin, Jeremy. Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History. New York: Touchstone, 1989.
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Shupe, Anson. "Christian Reconstruction and the Angry Rhetoric of Neo- Postmillennialism." Robbins 195-206.
Smolinski, Reiner. "Apocalypticism in Colonial North America." Stein 36-71.
Stein, Stephen J. The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism. Vol. 3: Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age. New York: Continuum Publishing Co., 1998.
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[1] The terms millenarianism and millennialism are often, erroneously, used interchangeably. Millenarianism refers to the broad spectrum of religious beliefs in a golden age to come, including Jewish, Muslim and other traditions. Millennialism, on the other hand, is specifically related to the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20.
[2] Isa. 65:20-21
[3] The King James version Revelation 20 is attached as an appendix for convenience.
[4] The passage in 2 Peter is a paraphrase of Psalm 90:4, "For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night."


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My post last week sparked a few e-mails questioning whether or not there has ever been a perfect Catholic couple and if perfection is even possible. My responses have generally been two-fold. First, yes, there was a perfect Catholic couple, Joseph and Mary. Second, just because we know or suspect that we will sometimes fall short of the Catholic ideal from time to time in our relationships does not mean that a virtuous relationship is not worth pursuing. In similar fashion, Catholics pursue the ideal of perfection articulated and lived by Jesus Christ while knowing full well that there are times in which they will fall short and need Confession. The Catholic Gentleman does this because pursuing perfection is virtuous in and of itself and because by setting his sights on perfection he might obtain saintliness.
Joseph and Mary were the perfect Catholic couple and still stand as monuments of the model Catholic relationship for married and dating couples. The Catholic Gentleman can apply the previously articulated framework of respect, prayer, and chastity to the relationship of Joseph and Mary and learn from the examples of these two foundational saints.
First, it is clear both in Tradition and in the Bible that Joseph had the utmost respect for Mary from the time of their courtship through the completion of their marriage. Pictures of the Holy Family always depict Mary and Jesus sitting on the donkey, which is being carefully led by Joseph. Even in the Nativity plays put on by Catholic school children Joseph is always the one running from inn to inn inquiring about whether there is any room for his wife and child. The Scriptures paint a similar picture, the most striking of which occurs in Matthew 1:19, where Joseph learns of Mary's pregnancy and resolves not to put her to public shame even before learning of the origin of the child in the dream described in Matthew 1:20. Of Joseph's decision not to reveal Mary's potential shame, St. Jerome writes "This may be considered a testimony to Mary, that Joseph, confident in her purity, and wondering at what had happened, covered in silence that mystery which he could not explain." Both Scripture and Tradition paint a picture of deep respect in the Holy Family, a respect in which the Catholic Gentleman, Joseph, extended every courtesy and chivalrous behavior to his beloved spouse.
Second, Joseph and Mary were close to Christ in a unique way because of his physical presence in their home. As their only child and sole responsibility, their focus on Him must have been the rock upon which their marriage was built. The Catholic Gentleman similarly needs to focus his relationships on Christ, using him as the base of the friendship he develops with his spouse. No matter how difficult their lives were, we can rightfully speculate that the presence of Jesus was a unique and satisfying joy, making their many sacrifices and sufferings for Him wholly worthwhile.
Third, there is little question that Joseph and Mary avoided lust and practiced chastity. Their situation was unique due to the fact that the marriage was continent, but this is not to say that the two did not experience all of the temptations that the normal Catholic couple would experience. Their holiness and proximity to Christ did not immunize them from temptation and lust. They turned from it out of their own free will. Again, this is not to say in any fashion that the Catholic Gentleman should not be attracted to his wife or the woman he is courting. On the contrary, even though Love is a free choice and not a feeling, sexual attraction for the other is something which should be felt if the courtship is to succeed. Lust, however, is something beyond sexual attraction. It is a disordered sexual attraction which the Catholic Gentleman must always reject.
The Catholic Gentleman does not give in to the despair which suggests that perfection is impossible. As fallen beings, we will likely fall short of perfect from time to time but our love for Christ and His Church encourages us to stand up and try harder next time. The pursuit of virtue is almost never a straight rise to heaven, and will have many traps carefully laid by the adversary. The pursuit of virtue, however, should give meaning to our lives, inform our actions, and encourage us to improve.


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Yesterday, the bipartisan group negotiating an immigration reform bill in the House announced that it was continuing to move forward towards introducing a bill, but that Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) was leaving the group. The remaining group of seven -- Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX), Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Rep. John Carter (R-TX), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) and Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) -- will finalize the legislative language and introduce their bill in the coming days or weeks. The following is a statement from Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, Chair of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and a Member of the Judiciary Committee.
"Congressman Labrador was a very important part of the group and contributed a great many good ideas to the process. I am sorry to see him pull out, but I think he will be tremendously helpful in getting immigration reform passed by the House and signed by the President this year when all is said and done.
"We are still in the early stages of a very long process of getting our immigration system overhauled. There is a commitment within the group's remaining members to craft legislation that will attract votes from both sides of the aisle and we resolved every issue, including whether immigrants could receive critical health care during the long period they will wait while working towards legal status and citizenship.
"There are still many things in this bill I don't like and many things my Republican colleagues don't like, but that is what it takes to compromise, move forward, and solve the vexing problems we have with our immigration and deportation system. The children of deportees I met with yesterday, the immigrants I meet around the country, the clergy and employers and law enforcement that are fighting for immigration reform want us to keep moving forward and we are.
"I guess they will stop calling us the gang of eight, now. I am hoping they start calling us the Magnificent Seven."
Source: http://gutierrez.house.gov/press-release/gutierrez-pleased-house-immigration-group-moving-forward-praises-rep-labradors


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I was hesitant to write a post possibly so depressing as this topic… but decided to go ahead because it's something that is so important and not enough awareness is raised about it. It's just something people don't like to talk about… sort of like talking to your pre-teen children about the "birds and the bees"…but worse because it's about loss. Talking about it is not meant to be morbid, but meant to facilitate communication- you want your voice to be heard…and you want your loved ones to make decisions you want, for you when you aren't able to.
What the heck am I talking about, you ask?
Well, yesterday was the first annual National Advance Care Planning Day in Canada. With our current health care system under stress and due to be even under more stress as baby boomers retire and age, it is important to ensure that we know what our loved ones' wishes are. Why is it so important? It's important because I doubt our current health care system can't endure health care costs related to $5000 a night hospital stays for much longer. It is important because death often doesn't happen the way we envision it. Many people, when they think of end of life, think of it as a peaceful event, we think of being able to tell our loved ones how much we care about them, and how much we value their relationship and effort over the years. However, oftentimes death does not happen this way.
If we don't let our loved ones know about wishes for a peaceful death, the 'system' takes over. The paramedics that come and perform resuscitation on an 83 year old frail body, they send your loved one to the hospital, and because no one knows what your loved ones wishes are, they put him in the ICU. He will be hooked up to a machine. Because so much time has lapsed between when the paramedics are called and when 'heroic' measures are performed, your loved one's brain is not functioning and he is unable to respond to you. Days elapse and the doctor and health care team asks for the family's opinion– what did he want? Did he want to have heroic measures done on him? After a few days, and many tears, much discussion, the painful decision is made to pull the plug. He isn't there anymore, he wasn't there anymore to begin with, after the ambulance took him away.
How do I know?
Because this happened to my grandfather.
My grandmother didn't know what my grandfather wanted. They never talked about it. My grandfather never talked to my parents or my aunts and uncles about it because it was taboo.
Oftentimes, the talk of death and end of life planning is so taboo that its not discussed. People might not know that their loved one wants to die peacefully and without "heroic measures" performed upon them. Many people don't understand that life prolong measures may result in broken ribs. Many people don't understand what it might entail to be in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), hooked up to a machine that is keeping you barely alive. The line between life and death is blurred in the ICU, and oftentimes, many of the patients admitted don't make it out.
Planning your care at the end of life doesn't have to be a huge ordeal full of paperwork and a visit to the lawyer or notary public. It can be as simple as a conversation. You won't know unless you ask. Hopefully you won't ever have to decide for your loved one and act on his or her best interests, but just in case you do, it would be helpful to know what they might have wanted you to do.
After the difficult death of my grandfather, and after the surprise and baffled questioning from the physician as to why it wasn't discussed between my grandmother and grandfather, I have learned from this experience. I asked my mom and dad what they would want us to do in the event that they are unable to make decisions for themselves.
It's a time we can put aside to reflect on our values and beliefs, and share them with our loved ones. We all deserve to die with dignity, and we should try our best to ensure that our loved ones do just that. So to close, may I ask that you please talk to your loved ones about what your health care preferences are and how you want to be treated at the end of life. The loss of a loved one will still result in painful grief for the life lost, but at least it could be a dignified death, and if the scenario played out differently, the way he likely would have wanted, he would have been in the arms of my grandmother at the end of life, and not suffering- hooked up to a machine, in the last few days of life.
Readers, do you find it difficult to talk about death and dying with your loved ones? Do you have a similar experience with advanced care planning you want to share? What would you have done differently? Again, I'm sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but I think this conversation is important to have with the ones you love.


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TOP STORY >> Beebe will join water group, see price hike
Leader staff writer
After more than an hour of explaining Monday night why it would be a good thing, the commission that runs the Beebe Water Department got the unanimous vote of confidence from the city council it needed before signing a contract to become part of the Lonoke- White Water Project that will bring water from Greers Ferry Lake to central Arkansas.
By its vote, the council assured the commission that the city will soon pass an ordinance increasing water and sewer bills by 6 percent a year for the next three years, an 18 percent increase overall. When all the increases are in place, the average bill for a family will be about $15 more a month than it is now.
The rate increase will raise about $182,000 a year to pay for the citys connection to the system and the citys part of the construction of the water intake structure and water treatment plant at the lake and the 30-inch water main to bring water to the area.
The total cost of the project is estimated at $40 million to $50 million. The money will come from the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission, which funnels federal money to state projects.
The interest rate for the money that will be borrowed for 20 years is 1 percent.
John Hayes, chairman of the water commission, said by connecting to the Lonoke-White Project and buying a minimum of 7.52 percent of the water Beebe uses from the Lonoke-White Public Water Authority, which will oversee the project, the city wont have to drill another water well by 2017 as planned and it wont have to make upgrades to its water-treatment plant.
Hayes said no increase in water rates will be needed to pay for the minimum 75,000 gallons of water a day the city will be obligated to purchase from LWPWA when the project is completed in about three years. The Beebe Water Department can absorb that cost, he said.
Hayes corrected a mistake in the cost of water from the Lonoke- White Project. Instead of $2.50 per thousand gallons, the water would cost less than 80 cents per thousand gallons.
Don Beavers, the engineer who works on all water and sewer projects in Beebe, told the city council that although Beebes wells are stable and that the water level in the part of the Alluvial aquifer where the wells are located has actually risen in recent years, it could drop at any time the way it has in Lonoke, Prairie and Arkansas counties. Cities in those counties have been ordered by the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission to find other water sources.
It should last 30 years, Beavers said of the citys well water supply. But it could last only 10.
The city needs another source, and the Lonoke-White Project looks like the best one, he said.
Beebe was part of the project when it started about 15 years ago but pulled out because of the cost and lack of control over the water. Lawsuits have taken control of the project away from Community Water Systems, which started it, and it is now controlled by project members.
Currently, there are 11 participants: Beebe, Cabot, Jacksonville, Vilonia, Grand Prairie Water, North Pulaski Water, Ward, Lonoke, McRae, Furlow and Austin.
Each participant has an equal vote on the board of directors.


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Gilles Detillieux (email@example.com)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:28:09 -0600 (CST)
According to Marjolein Katsma:
> I'm glad to hear it! You know, Gilles could have been right about the
> permissions and all that - but this just looked soooo familiar. At least my
> workaround will on record now in th earchives for those that also run on a
> virtual server.
Yeah, I thought it looked familiar too, and as Matt's original message
didn't make any mention of virtual servers running on their own document
root directories, I went for what I thought was the more likely cause
of the problem. I guess the lesson in all this is the importance of
knowing the details of the user's environment! Sometimes, a key detail
can make all the difference in determining what the most likely cause
of the problem is. I guess the path that Matt mentioned in his message
was the clue you picked up on that this was a virtual server environment.
That evaded me, as I'm not very familiar with setting up virtual servers.
Good call!
-- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <email@example.com> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to firstname.lastname@example.com containing the single word "unsubscribe" in the SUBJECT of the message.
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