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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Ask My Readers: How to Make a Career Decision?
A new correspondent writes:
I have a career decision dilemma, and I'm not sure where to
go for help/advice.
After receiving my BA from a Snooty Liberal Arts College, I went on to
an MFA program. I attended the MFA program simply because I wanted to
spend some time focusing on writing. While there, I taught some
classes as part of my fellowship and found that I loved teaching and
working with college students.
I knew that if I wanted to make teaching in higher-ed my career, I
would need more than the MFA; however, I was drained after my final
semester (along with teaching two classes, I was also taking courses,
finishing my thesis, and working as the managing editor for an
international literary journal). I needed to take some time off before
jumping into a Ph.D. program.
I moved back to the area where I grew up and got a job adjuncting at
the local CC (I also have another job, so adjuncting is not my sole
support). I have been adjuncting for two years now, with
ever-increasing teaching loads--I'm now up to four classes with three
different preps. I think after this upcoming year of adjuncting I will
be ready to go back to school.
However, here is my dilemma: I don't know what direction I want to take
with my career; I have always been interested in many fields and
focused on writing because I could constantly research different topics
to inform my writing. I have looked at three different types of Ph.D.
programs (Rhet and Comp; Literature; Creative Writing), and I could
enter any of the three fields and be happy. To further complicate my
decision, I have, over the past few months, become increasingly
interested in working toward a position like Dean of Students. If I
wanted to go that route, I would have to look at a completely different
type of program.
I don't know what to do. I want to move forward with my career, which
means that I need to apply for programs this winter so I could begin
next fall, but I also don't want to begin a program only to find that I
actually should have been in another field. I need some advice, but I
don't know where to go for that advice. The former mentors I have
spoken with all want me to go into their particular field (I've talked
with people from Rhet and Comp, Literature, and Creative Writing
Do you or your readers have any suggestions for how to make this
I like the way you end the letter – rather than asking for the answer, you're asking how to figure out the answer for yourself. Already, that's a good sign.
(For what it's worth, my impression is that tenure-track jobs are much easier to find in rhet/comp than in literature or creative writing, but that assumes you know what you want. Off the top of my head, the mix of enthusiasms and skills you mention screams "Writing Center Director," since that combines writing, working with students, and managing, but that's just a first impression. If that's accurate, the route is through rhet/comp, to writing faculty, to director. Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Since you have several months before application deadlines hit, I'd advise taking advantage of your contacts at your current cc. Schedule appointments with the Dean and/or Assistant Dean of Students, tell them what you're thinking, and get a sense of what they actually do from day to day. Many of the events in which they're involved can be great fun, but the jobs are twelve months a year, often six or seven days a week, and frequently at the cost of your personal life. (Apparently, these days, Deans of Students can be indicted for "aggressive hazing" if the kids in the frat get out of control. That deserves a post of its own, but for the moment, I'll just say it's a breathtakingly bad idea.) Do you want to be the 'go-to' person for plagiarism charges, allegations of date rape, and angry parents demanding to know why they don't get monthly progress reports on their kids? As with many administrative roles, this is as much about temperament as about talent. But someone in that role can give you much more detail than I could. And since they aren't trying to recruit for their own graduate programs, they can be reasonably objective.
If you're honestly neutral in terms of content when it comes to picking a subfield of English, I'd suggest looking at employability and/or the nature of the job you want. Would a cc be okay with you? Is geographic rootedness a priority, or would you be willing to hop from visiting gig to visiting gig? I'll ask my readers in the English subfields for their impressions on the differences among the subfields. Since my degree isn't in English, I have no dog in that fight.
Career decisions are a funny blend of analysis, gut, and happenstance. So much of what you'll later realize you 'needed' to know is currently unknowable. That's okay; it's the nature of the thing. If you can pick up some clues now, keep straight what's a core conviction and what's negotiable, and can catch a break somewhere, the unknowables should cancel each other out.
Good luck!
Wise and worldly readers – what do you think?
Have a question? Ask the Administrator at ccdean (at) myway (dot) com.
You should also think about working with teaching and learning centers so that you have both the "student services" and "faculty development" ends of the work. With that background, you might be quite marketable.
Check the MLA and 4Cs job listings online (here's the link to the 4Cs job section http://www.ncte.org/cccc/jobs). View job stats and job listings to see where the jobs are, what the jobs are in, and what type of grad degree the employers are looking for. Proceed with your grad decisions accordingly and with confidence, courage and hope. They're needed.
I had no one to tell me to do this and, as a grad of a snooty liberal arts college (like you!) who had no one to even tell her that there were opportunities to get a Ph.D. in Rhet/Comp, I went the English route which worked out peachy. Why? Because by dumb luck I ended up in an English program that had friendly-ish relations with the grad school of education (in which the Rhet/Comp Ph.D. program was housed) and because the administrator of the university's campus writing program took a heroic interest in mentoring bewildered, lost, and confused English grad students who were utterly clueless about the job market in any way shape or form. Due to that mentorship I was able to pursue my dreams of academic research in literature while still getting the skills to market myself as a comp diva. Long story short, if you end up going for a Ph.D. in English find yourself a program where you can take classes in Education and Rhet/Comp if you want to diversify and meet the players in the Rhet/Comp field at your school as they can be a huge help on the job market. However, feel out the climate of the school before mentioning the possibility of graduate diversification to anyone in an English program. Some English programs actively foster a divide between Rhet/Comp and English (this is the subject for a whole 'nother post), others are more pragmatic and recognize that its good for grads to actually have the skills to get a job as many jobs on the MLA list call for at least some comp teaching.
Good luck!
I do, however, want to add that I'm not so sure you need a Ph.D.. The MFA in creative writing will be considered a terminal degree in writing areas for most colleges and universities. Do you really want to earn a Ph.D.? Then go, with blessings. But maybe it would be a good idea to spend some time as a faculty member, tenure track or lecturer, and spend some time figuring out what you really want to do.
You have options.
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Alan November is recognized internationally as a pioneer and leader in education technology. Each July, he leads the Building Learning Communities conference, which attracts leading educators from around the world to Boston to discuss the best innovative and practical learning resources for schools. He is co-founder of the Institute for Education Leadership and Technology at Stanford University.
As practitioner, designer and author, Alan has guided schools, government organizations and industry leaders as they plan to improve quality with technology. Alan is the author of Who Owns the Learning?, the best-selling book, Empowering Students with Technology and Web Literacy for Educators. He began his education career as a science and math teacher and a residential dorm counselor on an island reform school in Boston Harbor. He has been a director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant and university lecturer. He is most proud of being named one of the first McAuliffe Educators, an award program sponsored by the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education. Teachers are nominated by others and chosen through a national search.
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This week in the box office: Grandpa grounds Gravity while nobody should take Counselor's guidance.
Bad Grandpa debuted in first place with $32 million. While not a straight-up Jackass movie, the film fell in second place against the Jackass trilogy with Jackass 3D still in first with $50.3 million. Bad Grandpa has the biggest 2D Jackass opening though. The film has already kicked its $15 million budget's [jack]ass but the film is expected to do a little over $95 million domestic; but if it follows in Jackass 3D's footsteps, the film will only do about $75 million domestic which is still pretty good. The film has a "B" CinemaScore so $75 million is looking more accurate. Bad Grandpa had a $15 million budget and the film currently has $40.1 million worldwide.
Bad Grandpa is a box office success.
Gravity dropped from first to second with $20.1 million. The film is now only a few hundred thousand dollars short of $200 million domestic and is now George Clooney's highest domestic film ever and Sandra Bullock's second behind The Blind Side's $255.9 million which, at this rate, Gravity might top. Gravity had a $100 million budget and currently has $364 million worldwide.
Gravity is a box office success.
Captain Phillips dropped from second to third place making $11.6 million. Phillips' holdover of 29.1% is more impressive than Gravity's 32.9% and the film will easily top $100 million worldwide by next weekend. Captain Phillips had a $55 million budget and currently has $96.6 million worldwide.
Captain Phillips is a box office success.
The Counselor debuted in fourth place with $7.8 million. The film isn't even expected to match its $25 million budget domestically so foreign profits will have to really kick some butt. It's made even worse that the film has a "D" CinemaScore so holdover will probably be terrible. The Counselor had a $25 million budget and currently has the $7.8 million so far.
The Counselor is a current box office failure.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 stayed in fifth place with $6.2 million. That 35.1% drop is fantastic and it appears that Cloudy 2 will easily top the original's $124.8 million domestically but I don't think it will do much better than that. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 had a $78 million budget and currently has $150.3 million worldwide.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 is a current mild box office success.
#6: Carrie - $5.9 million
BUDGET: $30 million - TOTAL: $26.6 million - Failure
#7: Escape Plan - $4.5 million
BUDGET: N/A - TOTAL: $46.1 million - N/A
#8: 12 Years a Slave - $2.1 million
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#9: Enough Said - $1.5 million
BUDGET: N/A - TOTAL: $13.1 million - N/A
#10: Prisoners - $1 million
BUDGET: $46 million - TOTAL: $101.6 million - Success
2 Guns left theaters after opening on August 2. The Washington-Wahlberg action comedy had a $61 million budget and made $122 million worldwide making the film a box office success. 2 Guns hits Blu-ray on November 19.
Battle of the Year left theaters after opening on September 20. The Chris Brown-Josh Peck drama had a $20 million budget and made $10.9 million worldwide making the film a box office failure. There is no Blu-ray release date yet.
#1: Machete Kills - $244 theater average.
#2: The Conjuring - $276 theater average.
#3: Fruitvale Station - $305 theater average.
#4: The Fifth Estate - $323 theater average.
#5: Riddick - $385 theater average.
That's it for this weekend in the box office. Did you see any movies this weekend? Are you happy with how much the departed movies made? Comment below and be sure to come back next week where we'll see how well Free Birds, Ender's Game, and Last Vegas perform.
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There is much talk about how and when the central banks will exit from unconventional monetary accommodation, at least in the US and the UK. So far, it is all talk and not much action.
A few months ago, it all looked very different. The Fed's "taper tantrums" from May 2013 onwards had demonstrated that markets could be very vulnerable to any hint of an end to monetary accommodation, and US monetary conditions had tightened as bond yields rose.
The People's Bank of China had embarked on what seemed likely to be a prolonged squeeze of the shadow banking sector. The ECB was refusing to ease its stance, despite an apparent threat of outright deflation. The Bank of England was thought likely to act against the UK housing bubble by raising rates before the end of 2014. Only the Bank of Japan seemed likely to press ahead with unlimited quantitative easing.
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The new iPad 2 will quadruple resolution, but fall short of being a Retina display
Could the guys at Cupertino transfer this technology over to the upcoming Apple iPad 2 sequel? To make that happen, Apple would have to make sure that the 9.7 inch screen had a 300+ ppi which would have been a daunting task. It would have required a massive increase in resolution from the original model's 1024 x 768 (which had ppi of 132). So Apple put the kibosh on the Retina display on the Apple iPad 2 and decided instead to quadruple both directions. The new screen will have a ppi of 260, short of the magic of Retina display, but still specs that suggest a very clear and vivid display.
And by evenly expanding both directions of the screen, apps can be shipped that will handle both the new display on the follow-up tablet and the existing display on the original tablet by including 2 types of graphics-file.png and email@example.com which is the higher-definition version. To come up with the processing power needed to quadruple the resolution, there is speculation that the iPad sequel will have a new A4 ARM processor under the hood, most likely called the A5.
The possibility of the 4 times increase in the iPad 2 resolution comes after the multiple release of some "@2" graphics in some of Apple's iBooks apps including the "Wood email@example.com" background image that covers 1536x800, rather than the standard 768x400 image used on the original iPad.
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1. ghost_uwi (Posts: 47; Member since: 05 Nov 2010)
i can taste the ipad 2 yum
3. Seylan (unregistered)
Isn't it possible that those ibook apps are actually for the upcoming new gen Macbook pro and new gen Imac?
Such a high Resolution display will for sure make the Ipad 2 VERY expenisve...
I believe it would increase, but by SOOOO much.
4. ikkuh (unregistered)
Apple depends on a lot manufacturers. Will LG deliver the screens Apple ask for? NVidia will probably deliver a tegra 2 in disguise. At least Samsung makes his own products.
5. ipaint87 (Posts: 3; Member since: 16 Jan 2011)
Well put! Not a samsung fan but they at least make their own products!
6. Hen (unregistered)
Why does it really matter overall? On the software side, Samsung needs Android to power it so they don't make all of their products. Sure they are testing the Bada platform but where can you find the devices at? All manufacturers depend on other manufacturers for parts and software. Why is it that Android fanboys go completely out of their way to take a shot at Apple? Who cares that the iPhone and iPad are not made 100% by Apple? Why should Apple waste tons of money on R&D and facilities to engineer certain parts when it is more cost effective to outsource for certain components. All manufacturers do it including Samsung.
7. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
That resolution is insane. What is even the point of having such a high resolution?
12. Kjayhawk (Posts: 294; Member since: 07 Oct 2010)
Gives it reason for a higher price
8. tedkord (Posts: 14206; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
What's the point of 1920x1080 on a monitor? The point is a clearer display.
13. JeffdaBeat (unregistered)
The higher the resolution on the screen, the clearer the image will be. That's why the iPhone's screen looks so amazing. You have a lot of pixels smashed very closely to each other. Makes for a clearer image.
9. k.821 (unregistered)
it's ok if monitors have that kind of resolution, but who the HELL would want to look at 'sharp texts' that close on a tablet?!
10. common sense (unregistered)
Well, How can you dare to put this new?
It´s impossible...period.
You need almost the best current graphics card to move things at that resolution nowadays in desktops and you say Apple is going to make it in a tablet in a few months ?????
Please be more serious and think twice before saying nonsense.
14. lol123 (unregistered)
It's not impossible, it's damn likely this is true.
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15. astrocramp (Posts: 8; Member since: 16 Jan 2011)
Ridiculous, you would need absolutely premium hardware and power. Battery life would suck, would be too expensive,
16. iPod owner (unregistered)
The res will be better than the old one but nit this high apple will wait a few years to put a retina on the iPad so that just like the iPod touch with it's camera scenario everyone will have an iPad by then and once they put the retina on it people will know the iPad love it and spend $1000 on it while sites like this one publish stories about the successor to it the day following it's release What can we do but follow the trend
I'm no better than anyone but it's apple no brainer strategy will that keep us all within it's grasp for many many years to come
- iPod owner
17. DJ Q STORM (unregistered)
Nobody thinks that the ipad 2 is obsolete already and it isn't even out?
18. vzwservesmewell (Posts: 29; Member since: 05 May 2010)
Been Waiting for the iPad2 and this display really gets me excited. My eyes got tired trying to read on the current iPad. That being said, since I'm not an Apple guy I'm going to wait and check out the Moto Xoom before I will buy my next tablet.


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I'm selling a 1989 Les Paul Custom for a customer of mine, and was asked by a potential buyer what pickups are in it. I have no clue. What is the best way to get this info?
They seem to be decent pickups...hotter than my Pearly Gates and 59, yet still quite articulate. They sound good.
Thanks for any info...


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Pasadena, TEXAS - A motorcyclist was hospitalized after being thrown from his bike in Pasadena on Tuesday.
Police said the motorcyclist slammed into the back of a car that was trying to make a left turn on Scarborough Lane and Comal Street at around 10:30 p.m.
Police said the motorcyclist suffered serious injuries and was taken by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital.
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Why staying at a B "and" B is best!
Posted by: Duke
I saw the enclosed Ford commercial, and it brings up a couple of points. First, smart people buy Ford products, and they go to B&B's! It gets the subject of B&B out in the public, which is a good thing.
But, this shows you what could happen if you stay at one of those cheap and mostly illegal places, like AirBNB! When you're planning a get away, make sure your place is a true B&B, fully legal, licensed and inspected. You can never go wrong in Wisconsin with a member of the Wisconsin Bed and Breakfast Association. Once you stay at a member Inn of the WBBA, you'll realize that a Bed "AND" Breakfast is a Better Way to Stay.


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can the honeymoon period be prolonged thru following a low carb diet (16 yo newly diagnosed type 1)?
I'm not in favor of a quick yes to this answer for you. To begin you need to understand the honeymoon phase. After initial diagnosis and treatment there is a period of recovery for the beta cells. As a result the remaining beta cells may be able to produce enough insulin to keep blood sugars relatively stable for weeks, months and even years. Eventually beta cell function ceases and the insulin requirements go up. So diet isn't the be all end all in stabilizing the beta cell function.
There is a company called Macrogenics that is running trials for a protocol that looks to hold honeymoon periods and has reversed some cases of diabetes in very young children. The best place for you, your parents and your endocrinologist to decide what might be an option for you go to JDRF and scroll through research to clinical trials. You could be a real candidate!
Besides that exercise, eating well and understanding low carb dieting is very important information so you know how to take proper care of your whole body!
Have you checked out diabeteens? Lots of teens and college age kids talking about life with diabetes. Ask your question to the expert: Dr. Cogan. She's great, I know her very well and she would answer you with lots of information and honesty!
I'm very impressed! You're asking all the right questions right from the start!
Keep us "posted" on how you are doing!
Ann Bartlett
Hi there: I am writing back to you after 2 of our fellow healthcentral bloggers: Ann and Beth, referred your question to me. I am Dr. Cogen, the type 1 diabetes expert for mydiabetescentral.com. Firstly, I am in agreement with Ann in regard to her previous post including consideration of the Protege trial if your child fits the criteria: age and weight are important factors. Secondly, for further information on The Honeymoon period, I would like you to take the opportunity to read one of my recent blogs about the HP. In answer to your question if the honeymoon period can be prolonged by following a low carb diet, I have several comments. The honeymoon period can be prolonged by giving exogenous insulin by injections in order to "destressify" (my made- up word) your child's remaining living islet cells. By providing a low carb diet, in theory, the islet cells would perhaps be required to puff out less "bolus insulin" in a sense. However, adolescents require a balanced diet of carbohydrates (preferably complex), protein, fat etc. To eat ONLY a low carb diet would be difficult in terms of pubertal/growth needs/sports requirements etc. as well as adherence. (It would be really tough for a 16 year to follow such a strict diet, let alone follow all the diabetes self care skills your diabetes team suggests.) We, at Children's National Medical Center, do not routinely recommend our children and teens to follow a low-carb diet while in the honeymoon or thereafter because of the unique needs of growing children and adolescents. I hope this information is helpful.
Best of luck,
I suggest you get Dr. Bernstein's book. He is a type 1 diabetic who keeps his blood glucose at a normal range by eating low carb. ( Check with your library, they probably have it) . I'm a type 2, 54 years old, and keep mine under control by following Atkins. Good luck on your journey!READ MORE
Yes. Sure worth a try. I have tried everything to control BG's over my 35 years of diabetes. Low carb (meaning no quickly digested carbs) is probably healthier than the current high carb diet most people without diabetes eat. Remember, diabetes is defined as a disease that has little to no ability to handle carbohydrates. Injecting or pumping insulin just ain't the same as making it yoursellf so the less you can get away with using the better the control. I have been able to reduce my HGA1 from 8 to 9 to 6.2 by just following a lower carb diet. Everytime I have tried to eat carbs and match it with insulin it just plain does not work (I make no insulin anymore) no matter how good you are at carb counting. Your son has nothing to lose by trying to extend his honeymoon period with the lower carb diet which is rich is in vegetables. Wish I had the chance to go back and try it when I was diagnosed 35 years ago. Perhaps I would still be producing some insulin on my own. Who knows. Good luck.
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I have a 16 yo, diagnosed 1year-5months ago. Since she was diagnosed she has been recieving chiropractic treatments, especially when her numbers seem to be climbing higher. Her endocrinology team says she is still in honeymoon period and are not sure why. They claim the older a person is at diagnosis, the shorter this period lasts. At her age in diagnosis, it is average 3-4 months of honeymoon. She is going on 17 months. I attribute this to the chiropractic adjustments, which allow the nervous system to flow better, and possibly allow the pancreas to continue to produce some insulin still. Of course, this is only my opinion as a mom. So, I didn't answer your question at all-the girl loves carbs! SorryREAD MORE
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Our Endocrinologist told us not to try to use carb control to prolong the honeymoon phase. My 8 year old was diagnosed 2 days after Christmas last year with Type 1. Children are still growing and need carbs to keep their weight up. You definetly don't want your child to lose to much weight due to carb controlling. My childs honeymoon phase ended last month.READ MORE
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Washington: United States intelligence officials say they have determined that Edward Snowden gained access to a huge trove of the country's most highly classified documents using inexpensive and widely available software to "scrape" the National Security Agency's networks, and he kept at it even after he was briefly challenged by agency officials.
Using "web crawler" software designed to search, index and back up a website, Mr Snowden "scraped data out of our systems" while he went about his day job, according to a senior intelligence official. "We do not believe this was an individual sitting at a machine and downloading this much material in sequence," the official said. The process, he said, was "quite automated".
The findings are striking because the NSA's mission includes protecting the nation's most sensitive military and intelligence computer systems from cyber attacks, especially the sophisticated attacks that emanate from Russia and China. Mr Snowden's "insider attack", by contrast, was hardly sophisticated and should have been easily detected, investigators found.
Moreover, Mr Snowden succeeded nearly three years after the WikiLeaks disclosures, in which military and State Department files, of far less sensitivity, were taken using similar techniques.
Mr Snowden had broad access to the NSA's complete files because he was working as a technology contractor for the agency in Hawaii, helping to manage the agency's computer systems in an outpost that focuses on China and North Korea.
A web crawler, also called a spider, automatically moves from website to website, following links embedded in each document, and can be programmed to copy everything in its path.
Mr Snowden appears to have set the parameters for the searches, including which subjects to look for and how deeply to follow links to documents and other data on the NSA's internal networks.
Among the materials prominent in the Snowden files are the agency's shared "wikis", databases to which intelligence analysts, operatives and others contributed their knowledge. Some of that material indicates that Mr Snowden "accessed" the documents. But experts say they may well have been downloaded not by him but by the program acting on his behalf.
Agency officials insist that if Mr Snowden had been working from NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, which was equipped with monitors designed to detect when a huge volume of data was being accessed and downloaded, he almost certainly would have been caught. But because he worked at an agency outpost that had not yet been upgraded with modern security measures, his copying of data raised few alarms.
"Some place had to be last" in getting the security upgrade, said one official familiar with Mr Snowden's activities. But he said Mr Snowden's actions had been "challenged a few times".
In at least one instance when he was questioned, Mr Snowden provided what were later described to investigators as legitimate-sounding explanations for his activities: As a systems administrator he was responsible for conducting routine network maintenance. That could include backing up the computer systems and moving information to local servers, investigators were told.
But from his first days working as a contractor inside the NSA's underground Oahu, Hawaii, facility for Dell, a computer maker, and then at a modern office building on the island for Booz Allen Hamilton, a technology consulting firm that sells and operates computer security services used by the government, Mr Snowden learnt something critical about the NSA's culture: While the organisation built enormously high electronic barriers to keep out foreign invaders, it had rudimentary protections against insiders.
Investigators have yet to answer the question of whether Mr Snowden happened into an ill-defended outpost of the NSA or sought a job there because he knew it had yet to install the security upgrades that might have stopped him.
"He was either very lucky or very strategic," one intelligence official said.
Through his lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, Mr Snowden did not specifically address the government's theory of how he obtained the files, saying in a statement: "It's ironic that officials are giving classified information to journalists in an effort to discredit me for giving classified information to journalists. The difference is that I did so to inform the public about the government's actions, and they're doing so to misinform the public about mine."
The NSA declined to comment on its investigation or the security changes it has made since the Snowden disclosures.
Officials, who did not want to be named, declined to say which web crawler Mr Snowden had used, or whether he had written some of the software himself. When inserted with Mr Snowden's passwords, the web crawler became especially powerful. Investigators determined he probably had also made use of the passwords of some colleagues or supervisors.
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Stop the presses! It looks like People Magazine's interview with Michelle Obama, which suggests that the First Family is looking for a rescued Portuguese water dog that is "old enough" and a "match" for the family dynamic, may not be quite accurate, her press secretary Katie McCormick Lelyveld said. Here's what the Chicago Tribune is reporting: Continue reading
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First All African American Female Flight Crew
It appears that one of the ladies of this very important part of groundbreaking Black history has sent pictures around the Internet so we could be aware of this momentous conclusion to Black History month with their advancement in aviation history. These ladies are taking care of business in the friendly skies and they serve as a powerful image for our young women to see. The various office jobs are no longer the only jobs that women hold. They are everywhere in every facet of the progress of America and the world. Check them out and give them a round of applause:
California Mayor Passing White House Watermelon Patch Jokes
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Whitney Houston done jumped on the "poor Rihanna" bus. In a recent statement to www.hollyscoop.com Whitney Houston said in a message to Rihanna, "Don't make the same mistakes I did. Whenever you let your heart rule your head, you are bound to run into trouble."
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Woman Gets Herpes Wins $7 Million Lawsuit
This is one for the books. I'm wondering if anyone else out there has sought damages for their "condition" and received it. But, what's the use trying to beat that dead horse when he or she doesn't have any money in the first place. Well, when you've been "infected" by a big money maker it appears that the course of action is to sue.
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Chris Brown done registered for an anger management course following the alleged brutal beating he gave his ex-girlfriend Rihanna. However there is speculation that his entering anger management is more about his image rather than to get his bad temper under control. According to an anonymous source, Chris is trying to get a few classes in before his March 5 court date where Rihanna is going to testify. Continue reading
Stevie Wonder Officially A National Treasure
President Obama is "the man" on so many different levels, but there is one new reason that puts him over the top. Stevie Wonder was honored by Library of Congress and President Obama with the highest ranking American music honor, the Gershwin award.
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The news cycle can often be an endless bombardment of 'controversial' facts that heap upon one another with little context.
A Good Story Transcends Shock Value
Maria Popova is the founder and editor of Brain Pickings and an M.I.T. Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She is on Twitter.
Updated December 22, 2015, 1:39 PM
The real danger in how such newsiness is framed lies in conflating controversy with shock value – when we do that, controversy becomes the currency of sensationalism, not journalism. But controversy is really about context – about a newly surfaced data point that stands au contraire to a previously established fact or position. It creates a kind of cognitive dissonance between what we previously believed and what we're currently being presented with. A great story doesn't merely trigger this dissonance, it helps us resolve the tension. And that requires context, analysis and reflection.
As the oft-quoted Giles Strachey saying goes, "History is not the accumulation of facts, but the relation of them." The French polymath Henri Poincare put it another way: "Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."
The same is true of journalism – at least good journalism. We've come hazardously close to making the news cycle an endless bombardment of "controversial" facts that heap upon one another with little context or scaffolding of meaning. Yet the role of great journalism is to inform people about what matters and why, to inspire them to care – not merely to taunt them into what to be shocked by, then rinse and repeat.
In a bout of extreme prescience or extreme irony or both, David Carr pointed out less than a day before exactly what transpired in the Romney video: "Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth."
A powerful story transcends the shock value to help the reader reconcile the cognitive dissonance of controversy and emerge closer to the "truth," if only just a little bit.
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An Xbox employee has commented as to how the architecture of the Xbox One dashboard has been created "with advertising in mind". The team also gave us an exclusive insight into what the future of advertising on the Xbox One will and could look like using Kinect, Smartglass and personalised information.
I was invited to Microsoft and Xbox UK London HQ earlier this week to meet with members of the Xbox LIVE advertising team to discuss the current advertising strategies for the Xbox 360, and what gamers can expect from the Xbox One. During our 2 hour session, I fully expected to have my perceptions of what Microsoft thought of their hardware and how they utilised advertising on the platform to be firmly certified. What I found though is that, even on their home turf, my expectations of the answers from these three Xbox employees were frequently challenged.
One of the biggest revelations that took me completely by surprise was when the Senior Digital Art Director/UX Designer very openly confessed how, like many gamers, he found the inclusion of Kinect movement gameplay completely unnecessary in some AAA titles. "Lots of people are using Kinect for voice control on dashboard and some games. I've played Mass Effect and Dragon Age and it's awesome, it's amazing. You can speak to your mates, to your teammates and make them do stuff, you can change your weapons. It's brilliant, it's great."
"But on the other side of that, I tried to play Forza 4 with Kinect and sitting for half an hour doing this (stretches arms out and mimics driving motion) and it's silly. Just stick to the controller and do it properly."
He went on to share his thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages to Kinect, commenting that "one of the disadvantages of Kinect is that's it's not always useful for certain interfaces. We're all excited about the Minority Report of doing this stuff, but try doing that for half an hour. It's not very pleasant and you might break something in your house. So actually you feel like the controller makes perfect sense in this situation, but the Kinect makes more sense when you're doing something more interactive, a bit more engaging in a game or when you're prompted."
When it comes to Kinect and advertising, all adverts created for the current Xbox dashboard must be compatible with the controller and with Kinect, whilst ensuring that they "work exactly the same". Interestingly enough though, the Xbox LIVE advertising team don't have any current data on the engagement split between those who use a controller or Kinect, but they "would like to know". What they do know is that "the users will turn on the Kinect when they are prompted to do it."
Of course with the Kinect being bundled with the Xbox One, not only is there bound to be an increase in advertising engagement with the peripheral, but also the opportunity for more targeted advertisements. Xbox already utilise some form of minimal targeting, for example age and brand engagement, allowing them to serve personalised ads. "For example 18+ people; we can target these ads at people who haven't used the LoveFilm app," but Kinect and the Xbox One could allow them to take this to the next level.
"With the new Xbox One, the technology and Kinect has improved a lot," commented the Technical Account Manager for Xbox LIVE Advertising, "so that actually the voice recognition, the way you speak to your Xbox and the transition between gaming and watching TV is a lot smoother, and hopefully we can transpire that into advertising that we do." Gamers have already expressed concerns over the Kinect being able to spy on them and their habits, but it's not quite at that level of CIA-grade espionage.
The attending Xbox LIVE Advertising Developer commented that they don't actually receive a lot of the biometric information collected by Kinect. "This sort of works at two levels. There's the game producers who have a different API, so a different set of code and system that they use, and they've got a lot more control of the whole thing," he stated, "whereas from the advertising point of view we have a slightly more limited set, which is designed to protect the user. The company is very keen on protecting the user from any sort of abuse so we can't do certain things."
What could transpire in the future though is something that we're already seeing with a lot of facial recognition technology and personalised information being used to target advertisements. For example, Kinect could detect how many users are in the room and could serve advertisements aimed at families, groups, or individuals. Additional information from your Xbox LIVE account could also influence these by using metrics such as your gender, age, location, media habits and more, and Microsoft are very aware of the potential around this.
"Xbox is moving more outside of the bedroom. We're seeing much, much more people use it in living rooms where there is family, friends, there is lots going on, so there is a context of perceiving the content," says the Senior Digital Art Director/UX Designer. "It's not like when you're at work when you sit in front of a screen and your experience is very personal. But with Xbox, it's lots of people in front of once big screen. They are playing or watching together and advertising is being consumed in a totally different way."
And like all advertising agencies, the Xbox team are just as interested in their audience. As an Xbox 360 user for around 4 years who never clicks on the ads and is fully aware on where they are placed on the dashboard, it was certainly interesting to hear their facts and opinions on the Xbox audience who do, and could potentially, engage with advertisements on the console.
"On Xbox, the ad is part of the actual experience, it's not something that is outside. The only difference is that the advertisement we have is quite small and not disruptive so people are not aware of clicking on the banners because they know this is a part of the whole experience on the dash," said the Senior Digital Art Director/UX Designer. "So the users know that this is something that when they click on it, they won't be hit by something crazy or something dangerous like on the web. Everything that lands there, we create."
The Xbox team are utilising something called 'native advertising' which is when the adverts are built into the actual content, as opposed to tacked on at the side or above. Statistics have shown that this sort of advertising achieves 52% more clicks than traditional advertising and combats 'ad blindness' – a situation where you automatically ignore advertising space on websites. However I and many other gamers are aware of where these ads are, negating this, so definitely expect a change in the future.
In addition to Kinect, Xbox seem very keen to push Smartglass and Surface, and while you'd expect an advertising firm to jump all over any additional opportunities to serve you ads, the Xbox team don't actually have access and really aren't that interested in having it unless it's opening URLs or displaying visual content.
"We do have quite a lot of questions about how we can put together video with Surface but apart from the fact that it's a controller and we already have two controllers that we have to deal with, this is just an unnecessary obstacle."
"I'm always after very simple user journey so if someone forces me to introduce another step in the way, I will be fighting against it. Because technology is one thing that allows us to do lots of amazing stuff but sometimes people forget about that the technology is only the catalyst. If I have to use this technology I will use it because it adds something to the journey and the user experience, but just for the sake of using it I think it might be confusing for the user."
So what about the future of advertising on the Xbox One? "It's going to be an exciting transition though because the 360 console wasn't built with advertising in mind, it was more of an afterthought, so we've had to adapt to the technology and how we work to fit them in to the console," said Technical Account Manager for Xbox LIVE Advertising, "whereas this new one is going to have advertising in mind. So a lot of the limitations that we have now, hopefully the release of the boundaries will widened so the opportunities will be a lot greater."
The next generation has also showed that publisher are incredibly interested in boosting the hardware's social elements, and advertising on the Xbox One won't be an exception. According the the Senior Digital Art Director/UX Designer, "We will definitely be focusing on sharing when we're using the new engine for the ads on the new Xbox as it's extremely important for us, but at the moment we cannot do it, mostly because of the authorisation system."
It's incredibly interesting to see that of all the people who typically get demonised in the games industry, the advertising team seem to be genuinely interested in providing a full and engaging experience for the users. Advertising is always going to be a part of the Xbox and many users will still disagree with personal information being used to target adverts, but I personally find that having the same information used by web agencies typically serving dull banners used to create something, usually with an incentive, much more rewarding.
Note: For those who may consider me to be some sort of Microsoft/Xbox fanboy, I'd like to direct you to this article.
What do you think about the current advertising on the Xbox? How do you feel about your information being used to serve you personalised advertisements? Let us know in the comments below or hit us up on Twitter and Facebook.


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"If the Greek words eis tous aionas ton aionon mean endless time, as translated in the KJV, 'forever and ever,' we have a contradiction in Scripture."
-Dr. William Barclay
"This view (Restitution of All) is so clearly Scriptural
that the only surprise is that it has not been more definitely and
widely held."
There is no doubt that God has always existed, but the statement at Romans 16:26 speaks of Him as an eonian God. The Scriptures say He made the eons, so He existed before they were made, and He will exist after the eons have been concluded (1 Cor. 10:11; Heb. 9:26). He is endless. To argue that "eonian God" makes the "eonian" unlimited time because God is unlimited is illogical. Isaiah 54:5, KJV, calls Him "the God of the whole earth." This does not preclude Him from also being the God of the entire universe. In the context of Romans 16:26, He is called the "eonian God," but He was God before the eons were made; He is God during all the eons, and in post-eonian times. In other words, just because the Scriptures refer to Him as the "God of the ages" does not preclude Him from being the God of eternity. The Scriptures declare Him the "God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," and "the God of Israel." Does that mean He cannot therefore be the God of the gentiles, of the whole universe? Of course not!
As for the KJV
translation, "forever and ever," there are some students of the
Greek who admit that this is not a faithful translation of the
Greek words found in the text. The Greek uses three distinct
phrases, all of which are translated the same in the
Philippians 1:10 says (ASV margin), "so that ye may distinguish the things that differ." Since the words of God are inspired and are used precisely, to ignore the differences in these passages is to ignore what He is saying.
Hebrews 1:8 is a quotation from Psalm 45:6, LXX, where the Greek text says, eis ton aiona tou aionos, "into the eon of the eon,"-the singular form for eon in both occurrences. The preposition eis is translated "into" or "unto;" idiomatically, "for." Bagster's Analytical Greek Lexicon and Concordance defines it: "eis, into, to as far as, to the extent of."
Dr. E.W. Bullinger's Lexicon and Concordance says (p. 804), "eis, unto, when referring to time, denoting either the interval up to a certain point, during; or the point itself as the object or aim of some purpose, up to, for."
Dr. Nigel Turner, in his book, Grammatical Insights into the N.T., says (p. 91), "eis involves a movement for development toward a goal." If eis means as far as, to the extent of, or a movement or development toward a goal, then it cannot be used with words meaning endless or unlimited time.
Ephesians 3:21: eis pasas tas geneas tou aionos ton aionon, "for all the generations of the eon of the eons." KJV: "throughout all the ages, world without end." ASV margin: "unto all the generations of the age of the ages." Young's Literal Translation: "into the age of the ages." The "eon of the eons" refers to a crowning eon of another which precedes it.
So what is meant by this expression? Many KJV tradition scholars say that these three different Greek phrases are idiomatic expressions for "eternity." Idiotic, perhaps, but not idiomatic! Similar expressions used in the Scriptures are cited in order to illustrate the meaning: Song of Solomon 1:1, "song of songs;" Eccl. 12:8, "vanity of vanities;" Gen 9:25, "servant of servants;" Ex. 26:33, "holy of the holies;" Deut. 10:17, "God of gods and Lord of lords;" Dan. 8:25, "prince of princes;" Phil. 3:5, "Hebrew of Hebrews;" 1 Tim. 6:15, "King of kings and Lord of lords." Most students of the Scriptures understand what is meant by such expressions, so why is Eph. 3:21, "eon of the eons" an enigma? The eon of the eons refers to the final and greatest of all eons. That it cannot refer to "eternity" is shown by the statement that there will be "generations," which implies procreation, which will not happen in eternity since we will then be like the angels. This eon succeeds the millennial eon, and is previous to the final state.
There are others who teach the same. Dr. A.T. Pierson supports this view in his book, The Bible and Spiritual Life: "This view is so clearly scriptural that the only surprise is that it has not been more definitely and widely held. It adds immeasurably, both to the glory of Christ as the coming King, and the Father as the former and framer of the ages. It is the period typified by the eighth day of the Mosaic Code: the perfect glory of Christ, reserved for 'the morrow after.' The millennial 'Sabbath.' And while the millennial period is limited to a thousand years, there are no definite limits to this final age of glory."
Mr. George Saltau, in his book, Past, Present and Future, adopts the same view.
Clarence Larkin, Dispensational Truth, or God's Plan and Purpose in the Ages, shows (p. 3, chart "The Ages") an age succeeding the kingdom age, which he calls the "perfect age." This "perfect age" is also shown in other charts in Mr. Larkin's book.
The expression, "eon of the eons," is not limited to its use at Eph. 3:21. In the LXX at Dan. 7:18 we see, heos aionos ton aionon, "until eon of the eons." In the Song of the Three Children (LXX, Septuagint), at the end of verse 68, there is, kai eis ton aiona ton aionon, "and into the eon of the eons." In the book of Enoch there is a similar expression: "until the judgment of the eon of the eons be accomplished."
Windet, in De Vita Functor Statu, states, "However you understand the phrase, it could not be used unless it signified something less than endlessness; for 'completion' does not accord with true endlessness." Therefore, the expression "eon of the eons" and "eon of the eon" mean the last and crowning eon in which Christ will hand everything to His Father, entirely subjected (1 Cor. 15:22-28). We know that the millennial eon will not be one of such complete subjection, for Christ will rule with a rod of iron, and at its close, after the most wonderful and beneficial rule by His sceptre, at the instigation of Satan, loosed from the pit, large numbers of those who have been blessed under Christ's gracious reign will revolt against Him (Rev. 20:7-9). While there may be many different interpretations about this "thousand year period," clearly we have time, and things not yet subjected. This revolt shows that the subjection spoken of at 1 Cor. 15:22-28; Eph. 1:9-11; Phil. 2:10-11; and Col. 1:10-20 has not been completed. It will take yet another eon, following the millennial one, with Christ reigning to end all insubordination in all His realms, before He will finally surrender to His Father all completed, so that the Father can be "all in all." The final eon is that of new heavens and the new earth wherein reigns righteousness (2 Pet. 3:13). That is the one called the "eon of the eon" (Heb. 1:8). It is also called the "eon of the eons" at Eph 3:21, because it is paramount to all preceding eons, including the millennial eon in which Christ Jesus reigns as Messiah and King. Paul writes (Eph. 2:6,7) of the blessings of the coming eons. He says: "And He rouses us together and seats us together among the celestials in Christ Jesus, that in the oncoming eons, He may be displaying the transcendent riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus" (see also Eph. 3:20-21).
Thus, in the coming eons, the millennial and the succeeding eon, Christ Jesus will be displaying His transcending riches to us. We must be careful when talking about what God will do in future generations and ages. For too often we project our own ideas onto the plan of God. I hope I have not crossed that line. Yet when it comes to the correct rendering of these words, I feel certain what you are reading sheds much light which many Bible translations have hidden from us.
Let us get back to "forever and ever." The Greek phrase eis tous aionas ton aionon, "for the eons of the eons," occurs about twenty times in the Greek New Testament in this combination. The ASV margin and some other versions, lexicons, dictionaries, and commentaries translate the phrase correctly.
Windet, in De Vita Functora Statu, of 1633 says (p. 170), "eis tous aionas ton aionon, of the New Testament meant a finite period."
At 1 Cor. 15:25, where the Greek text shows, dei gar auton basileuein achri hou thj pantas tous echthrous hupo tous podas autou, "For He must be reigning until He should be placing all His enemies under His feet." This clearly states that Christ's reigning is limited. There is no Scripture to contradict the statement when aion and aionios are correctly translated.
Dr. William Barclay concurs in his commentary (p. 166-169) on The Letters to the Corinthians. If the Greek words eis tous aionas ton aionon mean endless time, as translated in the KJV, "forever and ever," we have a contradiction in Scripture, for Rev. 11:15 says, in the same version: "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever." That contradicts 1 Cor. 15:25, which says: "He must be reigning till..." If Rev. 11:15 is translated "eons of the eons," or "ages of the ages," there is no contradiction. The ASV says (1 Cor. 15:24-25), "Then cometh the end, when He shall deliver up the kingdom to God., even the Father; When He shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign till He hath put all His enemies under His feet;" consequently, the reigning of Christ Jesus and the saints (Rev. 22:5) will be "for the eons of the eons" or "for the ages of the ages" (see the ASV margin here).
Eis tous aionas is accusative plural, "for the eons," or "for the ages," and these words are not "forever and ever," which are in the singular. The word ton is the genitive plural article, and in our syntax should be translated "of the." In this Greek clause, there is no word that means "and," as the Greek conjunction kai; "and," is not in this clause. The word aionon is the genitive plural of the noun aion, and the genitive plural in this syntax should be translated "eons," or "ages;" hence ton aionon, "of the eons." Anyone can study these words and see that "forever and ever" is not a good translation of these Greek words. As eis is used in this clause and as eis involves a movement or development toward a goal, this clause cannot mean endlessness.
As mentioned previously, there are several analogous expressions in the Scriptures which should show the meaning of the words under discussion. In Ex. 26:33 (LXX), tou hagiou ton hagion, "in the holy of the holies." This is similar to the "eon of the eons" of Eph. 3:21. In II Kings 8:6 (LXX) we see, eis ta hagia ton hagion, "for the holies of the holies"-similar to "eons of the eons." The "holy of the holies" and "holies of the holies" refer to the tabernacle. Psalm 44:7 says, ho thronos sou ho theos, eis ton aiona tou aionos, "Thy throne, O God, is for the eon of eon"-similar to Heb. 1:8. Daniel 7:18: "until eon of the eons" and similar to that of Eph. 3:21, where a singular is followed by a plural, "eon of the eons." In these expressions we see the eons corresponding to the holies in the tabernacle. While there are many different teachings on the types in the Tabernacle of Moses, it should not be too difficult to see that there were at least five divisions: (1) without the camp; (2) in the camp; (3) in the court; (4) in the holy place; and (5) in the holy of holies. These may be likened to the five eons we find in the Scriptures (past eons, present eon, future eons). The last eon is called the "eon of the eons," because it, like the "holy of holies," is the climax of the others. In Hebrews chapter 9, the Greek text of Nestle reads (margin v. 25), eis ta hagia ton hagion, "into the holies of the holies," and (v. 3), hagia hagion, "holies of holies." Just as the two holy places in the tabernacle are called the holies of holies, so the last two eons are often called the eons of the eons. As the tabernacle illustrated man's approach to God, it corresponds closely with the eonian times, which also brings man to God. The "holy of holies" was a single holy place. The "eon of eons," a single eon. It was the pre-eminence of the "holy of holies," in relation to the other holy places, which caused it to be so designated. So the pre-eminence of the "eon of the eons" lies in its being the fruitage and harvest of previous eons. The same is true of the "holies of the holies" of Heb. 9:25. They may be likened to the "eons of the eons" of Rev. 11:15; 22:5. Luke 1:33 says of Christ's "kingdom there shall be no end." While the kingdom itself will not end, but the reign of Christ for the eons of the eons will end when He delivers up the kingdom to the Father (1 Cor. 15:24-26).
Mr. W. Kelly, in his book, Lectures on the Book of Revelation, commenting upon the saints' reign, states (p. 435-436), "Supposing that God's Word speaks of the earthly state of things and uses the expression 'reigning forever and ever,' as in Daniel 7 and Luke 1, it cannot be understood absolutely. The words must be limited by the subject-matter of which God is speaking-so in Daniel 7:27 the kingdom under the whole heaven, which is given to the people of the saints of high places, is said to be an everlasting kingdom. This, I apprehend, is the same period that is called here the thousand years."
The sentence in Rev. 22:5 saying: "They will be reigning for the eons of the eons" shows that the expression has no reference either to the present or to the preceding eons. The Greek verb basileusousin, "they will be reigning" is a third-person plural future active indicative form; so this reigning must be future. In this present eon, as in those preceding ones, the slaves, or servants, of God are not reigning. Similarly, that God and Christ are living for "the eons of the eons" (Rev. 1:18; 4:9; 10:6; 15:7) has reference to the eons of the future, not to the present eon. That is not to say that God and Christ Jesus are not living during the previous eons. God was the living pre-eonian God. He is the living eonian God, and He will be the living post-eonian God. Paul, when writing to Timothy, said (1 Tim. 4:10), "For this we are toiling and being reproached, for we rely on the living God, Who is the Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers."
Two scriptures state
positively that the eons will end: 1 Cor. 10:11, tauta de
tupikos sunebainen ekeinois egraphj de pros nouthesian hjmon eis
hous ta telj ton aionon katjntjken, "Now those things befalls
them typically, yet it was written for our admonition, to whom the
consummations of the eons have attained." Paul had said what those
things are, which befalls them typically, in the preceding verses.
Yet "it was written" is in the singular, for "our" (plural)
admoniton- the "our" referring to the saints, who are the present
believers. "To whom," referring to the saints, "the consummations
of the eons have attained." The Corinthian saints had attained the
consummations of eons in spirit because they were a new creation (2
Cor. 5:17). Some day all will be a new creation (Rev. 21:5). Now,
only the saints who are in Christ are of the new creation, but it
is God's goal for the eons to head up all in the Christ, as stated
While some doubt such an exegesis of 1 Cor. 10:11, others, such as the writer of the New Dictionary of the N. T. Theology, concur (vol. 1, p. 324): "Paul also speaks of a movement from God to man. 1 Corinthians 10:11 speaks of us 'upon whom the end of the ages has come.' Hebrews 9:26 contains a similar expression, 'at the end of the ages' (time, art. aion). Christ appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. The movement directed by God towards its end; with us it has now attained its goal. The thought also contains the certainty that with Christ, Who inaugurates the end of the ages, a new world era and order of things has begun. Admittedly, this is apparent only to the believer."
Consequently, with the saints it is possible in spirit to taste the powers of the ages to come (Heb. 6:5). At Hebrews 9:26 the Greek says, epei edei auton pollakis pathein apo kataboljs kosmou nuni de hapax epi sunteleia ton aionon eis athetjsin tjs hamartias dia tjsthusias autou pephanerotai, "Since then, He must often be suffering from the disruption of the world, yet now, once, at the conclusion of the eons, for the repudiation of sin through His sacrifice, He has been manifested." In the clause, "He has been manifested," the verb is a third-person singular perfect passive indicative. The Greek perfect tense denotes the present state, resultant upon a past action. There is no English tense which corresponds to that of the Greek perfect, so this form is a difficult one to convey into English. It may be translated: "through His sacrifice, He is manifested." But it is clear His sacrifice was not at the "end of the world," as the KJV says, since the world continues. But it is equally clear that His sacrifice was not at the "conclusion of the eons," since Paul wrote of "this present wicked eon" and the "on-coming eons" (Gal. 1:4; Eph. 2:7). Sin still remains, and there is a world of sinners; but when the eons come to a conclusion, sin will be repudiated by virtue of His sacrifice.
In Romans 4:17 Paul says, "According as it is written that, a father of many nations I have appointed you, facing which, he believed it of the God Who is vivifying the dead and calling what is not as if it were." Here Paul is writing of Abraham, that Abraham believes God. The God Abraham believes is the God "who is vivifying the dead and calling what is not as if it were." God did not say, "I will appoint you a father of many nations," but "I have appointed you," using a Greek perfect verb, which indicates a completed action with a resultant state of being. As God stated it, it is already an accomplished fact, yet at the time, Abraham did not even have a son, and he was nearly one hundred years old. So God was there calling what was not as though it were. God speaks so of us, when He says: "Now whom He designates beforehand, these He calls also, and whom He calls, these He justifies also, now whom He justifies, these He glorifies also" (Rom. 8:29-30; see Eph. 1:3-8). Are we glorified now? Certainly not! But God is following the same pattern of dealing with us as with Abraham, in that He is calling what is not as if it were. God says that He "seats us together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6), yet we are still in this world, and a part of an ecclesia on the earth. He can make such a statement because He can, and will, do what He says.
Because we are a new creation in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. 5:17), we have attained to the consummations of the eons (1 Cor. 10:11). At the conclusion of the eons, sin will be repudiated. At present God is "calling what is not as if it were." Only God is able to do that.
The Scriptures teach that during the eons mankind is experiencing evil, sin, sickness, death, judgments, generation, opposition from sovereignties, authorities and powers, all of which will be nullified or abolished, as stated in 1 Cor. 15:22-28.
Luke 1:50 says, kai to eleos autou eis geneas kai geneas tois phoboumenois auton, "and His mercy is for generations and generations, for those who are fearing Him." In the phrase, "for generations and generations," there is an example of two plural nouns being used with the conjunction kai, "and;" but in the expression aionas ton aionon, there is no conjunction. The word ton, "of the," is the genitive plural article, and should not be translated "and," as is done in the KJV's "forever and ever." The LXX, at Psa. 90:1, states, en genea kai genea, "in generation and generation." Another example of the use of the conjunction kai, "and," between the two words for "generation" in the singular. At Heb. 1:8 the noun aion, "eon," is used twice in the singular form, but with no "and" between. At Ex. 15:18, kurios basileuon ton aiona kai ep aiona kai eti, "the Lord is reigning the eon and upon eon and longer." Eon, as used here, cannot refer to time without end, for there could be nothing beyond, or longer than, endless time. Here the Latin Vulgate says, Dominus regnabit in aeturnum et ultra, "The Lord will reign unto [or into] eternity and beyond." The Latin word in, when used with an accusative aeturnum, has the meaning of placing His reign in eternity, but the ultra, "beyond," shows it did not stop when it was placed there, but continued beyond the time of the placing. The English words, "forever and ever," unfortunately, do not convey the same meaning.
The Hebrew text shows, "to the eon and further." Similar expressions appear frequently in the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin texts (see Daniel 12:3, for example).
Wycliffe's version, the first translation into English, did not use the words "forever and ever." Several versions in modern English do not use those words either: The Emphasized Bible, by J.B. Rotherham; The N. T., A Translation, by E.L. Clementson; The Emphatic Diaglott, by Benjamin Wilson; Young's Literal Translation, by Professor Robert Young; and The Concordant Literal New Testament, by A.E. Knoch as well as others.
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Graduation Trip: Carnival Conquest Cruise Review by wdlnds58
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Graduation Trip
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Galveston
Our staterooms were on the lowest level (Riviera) in the very back of the ship. We have usually been on this deck or one above on our other cruises, but being on the back of the ship was pretty noisy and had lots of vibrations at times. It's location in proximity to elevators and dining options via the elevators was very convenient, however.
Food was good as usual and service was More excellent. Activities and entertainment was very good too. There was at times a strong sewer odor in some parts of the ship, otherwise, the ship was clean. This ship can hold a lot of people but we found that we waited very little in lines. Other ships we have been on have seemed much more crowded.
The kids of our group took the snorkel/Margaritaville catamaran excursion in Jamaica and loved it. We have previously been to Jamaica and done the Dunn River Falls trip, which was good. In an effort to save money, some of us went on the $15 trolley, which drops you off in various spots in Georgetown. We would definitely not do this again. It took us to some unscheduled stops and would not take us to some spots that were advertised. We did end up at the Georgetown Margaritaville, which is the best one of all of them, and not to be missed. Other members of our party golfed at White Witch and loved it, and took the rum plantation tour, which they said was good, but was way too long of a drive. We were made aware of an incident that happened to a young couple on the ship who had opted to take a taxi into town to buy liquor and were involved in an unfortunate situation, so heads what the ship tells you about taxis!!
In Grand Cayman, we all opted to do the 7 mile beach tour, be aware that you will shell out an additional $10 for a beach umbrella upon arrival and additional taxi fee (nominal) if you want to leave the beach earlier. I found that you could take a taxi for less to the beach and they let you out in about the same area as the tour. The beach is not to be missed. Absolute perfection. (We have previously done the Stingray swim, which is great). The shopping in the Caymans is awesome and you don't have to worry what you eat and where, and the people are great. I highly recommend attending the shopping for gems presentation that the ship provides. I learned many things that were quite helpful, and if you see what you want in one place, it is true that you should buy it then, you may not see it at the next port.
This was our third trip to Cozumel and we have previously done the Dune Buggy trip and various island/snorkeling trips. This time we opted to do the Dolphin Swim at Chakaknaab (through Shoretrips.com) This was a fun excursion but my only gripe is that you are "herded" around to view your video of interacting with the dolphins and see your photos. Chakaknaab is very clean and nice,with shower and changing facilities. We ate at Senor Frogs, and of course, did alot of shopping.
We did the self help in getting off the ship. I have never been on a ship that didn't call the upper floors first so we did wait around for several hours, but used the porter once we got on the pier and it was faster. We were homeward by 11 am. Less
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Riviera deck, very back of the boat. Cabin size is good, but can be very noisy and vibrations are bad at times.
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Pupils at Malmesbury School teamed up this week to deliver heart-warming treats to those affected by the recent flooding.
Students in Years 10, 12 and 13 at Malmesbury School baked cakes on Monday in their Design and Technology lessons.
They produced around 50 plates with nine cakes on each plate, and decorated them with a handmade label saying 'Sorry to hear you have been flooded, from students at Malmesbury School'.
Headteacher Tim Gilson said: "They were keen volunteers. We have an excellent Home Economics department and thought it would be a nice gesture and it would bring smiles to people's faces.
"We're a big fan of cakes at the school."
Year 7 students walked with teachers into the town and delivered the well-wishing bundles to houses in the affected area with sandbags outside.
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New Delhi: Poor form of some of the senior batsmen coupled with a complete breakdown of trust between players, administrators, and selectors crippled Delhi's controversy-ridden Ranji Trophy campaign.
The long-lasting friction began much before Delhi's first home match, and Gautam Gambhir's team eventually failed to progress beyond the first round; it finished fifth in Group A. One of the main reasons why the players and administrators/selectors pulled different directions was the venue for the four home matches. Gambhir wanted a pacer-friendly pitch as they had some good pacers led by Ashish Nehra, but the DDCA's chief curator reportedly insisted that they would have to play on whatever surface he would prepare. It led to bad blood and their differences continued.
Declined the 'home advantage', Delhi played at Roshanara Club where the conditions, felt Gambhir and the team management, would suit the strength of the team, pace bowlers. Out of three matches played there, Delhi won two and lost to Punjab, a defeat that would rankle for a long time the Nehra-led attack had dismantled them for a mere 74 in the first innings.
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That was not all. Selection of players also raised a prolonged controversy and that too must have fragmented the team. Particularly, Gambhir successfully insisted on picking 'outsider' pacer Navdeep Saini, who apparently belongs to Haryana, to add teeth to Delhi's bowling attack, but the decision only antagonised many people within the DDCA. The selectors eventually had to buckle down reluctantly after Gambhir and some senior players apparently threatened to pull out of the matches.
"Delhi's performance was disappointing. Much was expected of the two international stars – Sehwag and Gambhir – but unfortunately they couldn't get going," Chetan Chauhan, chairman of the selection committee, told MAIL TODAY. "The main reason [ of Delhi's failure to qualify for quarterfinals] was that, barring Mithun Manhas and Rajat Bhatia, the batting didn't come good, except a couple of matches. I'm sure, Sehwag must be very disappointed," rued the former India Test opener.
"But these things happen once in a lifetime. It was just bad luck."
Sehwag managed 234 runs in 13 innings, but Gambhir, despite the adversity, emerged as the batsman with the highest run tally (578), including one century and three half-centuries. Manhas was barely behind Gambhir with a tally of 573.
Chauhan feels Sehwag was confused as to whether to open or bat in the middle order. Being the chief selector he would know better than the most. In terms of talent and potential, Delhi were at par with many other teams of the country, but they were clearly not in the right frame of mind throughout the season because of the circumstances under which the team played.
Nineteen players turned out in seven Delhi matches, with one match, against Jharkhand, being abandoned due to rains in Jamshedpur.
That match, from which each the team got one point, eventually proved decisive for Delhi, along with the encounter against hosts Mumbai, where both teams scored an identical 324 in their first innings. That meant that they got one point each.
Questions are also being raised about Gambhir's captaincy. But his backers point out that Delhi last won the Ranji Trophy five years ago under his stewardship in 2007-08.
Delhi can wipe out some of the Ranji stains by performing well in the inter-state one-day matches beginning next month so as to qualify for the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
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New Delhi: Poor form of some of the senior batsmen coupled with a complete breakdown of trust between players, administrators, and selectors crippled Delhi's controversy-ridden Ranji Trophy campaign.