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NRS 481A.010 Enactment and text of Agreement.
NRS 481A.020 Representatives designated to serve on cooperating committee.
NRS 481A.010 Enactment and text of Agreement. The Multistate Highway Transportation Agreement is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all jurisdictions legally joining therein, in the form substantially as follows:
ARTICLE I Findings and Purposes
Section 1. Findings. The participating jurisdictions find that:
(a) The expanding regional economy depends on expanding transportation capacity;
(b) Highway transportation is the major mode for movement of persons and goods in the western states;
(c) Uniform application in the west of more adequate vehicle size and weight standards will result in a reduction of pollution, congestion, fuel consumption and related transportation costs, which are necessary to permit increased productivity;
(d) A number of western states have already, to the fullest extent possible, adopted substantially the 1964 Bureau of Public Roads recommended vehicle size and weight standards; and
(e) The participating jurisdictions are most capable of developing vehicle size and weight standards most appropriate for the regional economy and transportation requirements, consistent with and in recognition of principles of highway safety.
Sec. 2. Purposes. The purposes of this agreement are to:
(a) Adhere to the principle that each participating jurisdiction should have the freedom to develop vehicle size and weight standards that it determines to be most appropriate to its economy and highway system.
(b) Establish a system authorizing the operation of vehicles traveling between two or more participating jurisdictions at more adequate size and weight standards.
(c) Promote uniformity among participating jurisdictions in vehicle size and weight standards on the basis of the objectives set forth in this agreement.
(d) Secure uniformity insofar as possible, of administrative procedures in the enforcement of recommended vehicle size and weight standards.
(e) Provide a means for the encouragement and utilization of research which will facilitate the achievement of the foregoing purposes, with due regard for the findings set forth in section 1 of this article.
(f) Facilitate communication among legislators, state transportation administrators and commercial industry representatives in addressing issues relating to highway transportation in participating jurisdictions.
ARTICLE II Definitions
Section 1. As used in this agreement:
(a) "Cooperating committee" means the committee consisting of the designated representatives from all participating jurisdictions.
(b) "Designated representative" means a legislator or other person authorized pursuant to Article XI to represent the jurisdiction.
(c) "Jurisdiction" means a state of the United States or the District of Columbia.
(d) "Vehicle" means any vehicle as defined by statute to be subject to size and weight standards which operates in two or more participating jurisdictions.
ARTICLE III General Provisions
Section 1. Qualifications for Membership. Participation in this agreement is open to jurisdictions which subscribe to the findings, purposes and objectives of this agreement and will seek legislation necessary to accomplish those objectives.
Sec. 2. Cooperation. The participating jurisdictions, working through their designated representatives, shall cooperate and assist each other in achieving the desired goals of this agreement pursuant to appropriate statutory authority.
Sec. 3. Effect of Headings. Article and section headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify or in any manner affect the scope, meaning or intent of the provisions of any article or section of this agreement.
Sec. 4. Vehicle Laws and Regulations. This agreement does not authorize the operation of a vehicle in any participating jurisdiction contrary to the laws or regulations of the participating jurisdiction.
Sec. 5. Interpretation. The final decision regarding interpretation of questions at issue relating to this agreement must be reached by a unanimous joint action of the participating jurisdictions, acting through the designated representatives. Results of all such actions must be placed in writing.
Sec. 6. Amendment. This agreement may be amended by a unanimous joint action of the participating jurisdictions, acting through the officials thereof authorized to enter into this agreement, subject to the requirements of section 4 of article III. Any amendment must be placed in writing and become a part of this agreement.
Sec. 7. Restrictions, Conditions or Limitations. Any jurisdiction entering into this agreement shall provide to each other participating jurisdiction a list of any restriction, condition or limitation on the general terms of this agreement, if any.
Sec. 8. Additional Jurisdictions. Additional jurisdictions may become members of this agreement by signing and accepting the terms of the agreement.
ARTICLE IV Cooperating Committee
Section 1. Each participating jurisdiction is entitled to select not more than two designated representatives. Pursuant to section 2 of article III, the designated representatives of the participating jurisdictions constitute a cooperating committee which may:
(a) Collect, correlate, analyze and evaluate information resulting or derivable from research and testing activities in relation to vehicle size and weight-related matters.
(b) Recommend and encourage the undertaking of research and testing in any aspect of vehicle size and weight or related matter when, in their collective judgment, appropriate or sufficient research or testing has not been undertaken.
(c) Recommend changes in law or policy with emphasis on compatibility of laws and uniformity of administrative rules or regulations which would promote effective governmental action or coordination in the field of vehicle size and weight-related matters.
(d) Recommend improvements in highway operations, vehicular safety and state administration of highway transportation laws.
(e) Perform any functions required to carry out the purposes of this agreement.
Sec. 2. Each designated representative of a participating jurisdiction is entitled to one vote only. No action of the committee may be approved unless a majority of the total number of votes cast by the designated representatives of the participating jurisdictions are in favor of the action.
Sec. 3. The committee shall meet at least once annually and shall elect, from among its members, a chairman, a vice chairman and a secretary.
Sec. 4. The committee shall submit annually to the legislature of each participating jurisdiction a report setting forth the work of the committee during the preceding year and including recommendations developed by the committee. The committee may submit such additional reports as it deems appropriate.
ARTICLE V Objectives of the Participating Jurisdictions
Section 1. Objectives. The participating jurisdictions hereby declare that:
(a) It is the objective of the participating jurisdictions to obtain more efficient and economical transportation by motor vehicles between and among the participating jurisdictions by encouraging the adoption of standards that will, as minimums, allow the operation of a vehicle or combination of vehicles in regular operation on all state highways, except those determined through an engineering evaluation to be inadequate, with a single-axle weight not in excess of 20,000 pounds, a tandem-axle weight not in excess of 34,000 pounds, and a gross vehicle or combination weight not in excess of that resulting from application of the formula:
where W = Maximum weight in pounds carried on any group of two or more axles computed to nearest 500 pounds.
L = distance in feet between the extremes of any group of two or more consecutive axles.
N = number of axles in group under consideration.
(b) It is the further objective of the participating jurisdictions that the operation of a vehicle or combination of vehicles in interstate commerce according to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section be authorized under special permit authority by each participating jurisdiction if the vehicle or combination of vehicles weighs more than 80,000 pounds or exceeds the length prescribed by statute in the participating jurisdiction in which the vehicle or combination of vehicles is operated.
(c) It is the further objective of the participating jurisdictions to facilitate and expedite the operation of any vehicle or combination of vehicles between and among the participating jurisdictions under the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) of this section, and to that end the participating jurisdictions hereby agree, through their designated representatives, to meet and cooperate in the consideration of vehicle size and weight-related matters, including, but not limited to, the development of uniform enforcement procedures, additional vehicle size and weight standards, operational standards, agreements or compacts to facilitate regional application and administration of vehicle size and weight standards, uniform permit procedures, uniform application forms, rules and regulations for the operation of vehicles, including equipment requirements, driver qualifications, and operating practices, and such other matters as may be pertinent.
(d) It is further the objective of the participating jurisdictions that the cooperating committee may recommend that the participating jurisdictions jointly secure Congressional approval of this agreement and, specifically of the vehicle size and weight standards set forth in subsection (a) of this section.
(e) It is the further objective of the participating jurisdictions to:
(1) Establish transportation laws and regulations that satisfy regional and economic requirements and promote an efficient, safe and compatible network of transportation.
(2) Develop standards that facilitate the most efficient and environmentally sound operation of vehicles on highways, consistent with and in recognition of the principles of highway safety.
(3) Establish programs to increase productivity and reduce congestion, consumption of fuel and related costs of transportation and enhance the quality of air through the uniform application of state vehicle laws and regulations.
ARTICLE VI Entry Into Force and Withdrawal
Section 1. This agreement enters into force when enacted into law by any two or more jurisdictions. Thereafter, this agreement becomes effective as to any other jurisdiction upon its enactment thereof, except as otherwise provided in section 8 of article III.
Sec. 2. Any participating jurisdiction may withdraw from this agreement by cancelling this agreement, but such a withdrawal must not take effect until 30 days after the designated representatives of the withdrawing jurisdiction have given notice in writing of the withdrawal to all other participating jurisdictions.
ARTICLE VII Construction and Severability
Section 1. This agreement must be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes thereof.
Sec. 2. The provisions of this agreement are severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this agreement is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating jurisdiction, or the applicability thereto to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this agreement must not be affected thereby. If this agreement is held to be contrary to the constitution of any jurisdiction participating herein, the agreement remains in full force and effect as to the remaining jurisdictions and in full force and effect as to the jurisdictions affected as to all severable matters.
ARTICLE VIII Filing of Documents
Section 1. A copy of this agreement, its amendments, and rules or regulations promulgated thereunder and interpretations thereof must be filed in the highway department in each participating jurisdiction and must be made available for review by interested parties.
ARTICLE IX Cooperation by State Governments With Cooperating Committee
Section 1. Within the limits of legislative appropriations, the departments, agencies and officers of each participating jurisdiction may cooperate with and provide assistance to the cooperating committee concerning any provision of this agreement.
ARTICLE X Funding
Section 1. Funds for the administration of this agreement, including participation in the cooperating committee and the actual authorized expenses of the designated representatives, must be budgeted from any fees collected for the highway fund of each participating jurisdiction.
ARTICLE XI Selection of Designated Representatives
Section 1. Each participating jurisdiction shall establish by law the procedure for selecting its designated representatives to serve on the cooperating committee.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 263; A 2001, 2683)
NRS 481A.020 Representatives designated to serve on cooperating committee. The designated representatives of this State to serve on the cooperating committee established by Article IV of the Multistate Highway Transportation Agreement are:
1. The Chair of the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Growth and Infrastructure or a person designated by the Chair; and
2. The Vice Chair of the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Growth and Infrastructure or a person designated by the Vice Chair.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 267; A 1979, 1801; 2001, 2689; 2021, 2535)


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Complaints to GPs and dentists rise in Burnley and Pendle
Figures show that GP and dental practices in the East Lancashire clinical commissioning group (CCG) received 628 written complaints between April 2017 and March 2018, compared with 547 the previous year.
That's an increase of 15% - but medical experts say that there are many factors that could cause complaint numbers to vary year-on-year.
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A further 13% of the resolved complaints were partially upheld. Complaints about multiple issues are recorded as partially upheld if some, but not all, of the issues are upheld.
Complaints that were found to be unsubstantiated, frivolous or vexatious and were not upheld made up 54% of the total.
According to guidance from the British Medical Association, a complaint can be made by a patient, or anyone affected by the action, omission or decision of the practice that led to the complaint.
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In recent years there has been an effort to make patients more aware of ways in which their views can be heard, including information on how the complaints procedure works.
Written complaints can be made about any issue, ranging in seriousness from a broken doorbell to allegations of malpractice.
Across England the number of recorded written complaints rose by 4%, from just over 90,000 in 2016-17 to nearly 95,000 the following year.
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Hide AdHealthwatch, the independent patients' rights group, said that the number of complaints can vary significantly from one area to the next.
Healthwatch policy director Jacob Lant said: "Numbers can also vary quite a bit year-on-year for the same areas, but this isn't necessarily a sign that services are getting better or worse."
He added: "In some cases, a large spike in complaints could be down to local efforts to promote how people can speak up about things they are not happy with."
Mr Lant said that Healthwatch is more interested in what is being learned from complaints, and how services are improving.
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The BMA said that while the rise in the number of complaints made against GPs nationwide was disappointing, it should be looked at in the context of the rapidly rising number of consultations that GPs provide.
BMA GP committee chairman Dr Richard Vautrey said: "The BMA estimates there are half a billion GP consultations in England each year.
"So whilst any complaint is regrettable, these figures represent a very tiny proportion of the patients GPs care for."
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Dr Vautrey said: "Where a valid complaint is made and upheld, we believe it's vital that a GP makes appropriate amends and the practice puts measures in place to make sure the error isn't repeated."
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said that it is through complaints that GP teams can improve the care they deliver to their patients.
She said: "Delivering safe, high-quality care is what all GPs and our teams strive to do. But if patients are not satisfied with the service they received, then it is entirely appropriate they make their concerns known.
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"That is a testament to the hard work and dedication of GPs and our teams, despite the extreme resource and workforce pressures they are working under."
NHS England said that it was working hard to help drive up the standards of complaints handling in primary care.
An NHS England spokesman said: "More than a million patients use the NHS every 36 hours, and while the vast majority are satisfied with the care they receive, we welcome all forms of feedback from patients and their families so we can continue to improve the services we deliver to them."

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The Ottawa School of Art offers four levels of instruction to help students select courses relative to their skill and experience. Each level includes courses covering a variety of media. A minimum number of registrations are required to avoid cancellation of a course. Please register 5 days before the start date.
Most students at this level have a strong interest in art with little practical experience. Fundamental courses help develop fundamental skills and encourage students by giving them a solid start in art.
Students who are at the introductory level have some basic techniques in a specific medium and have identified their directional focus. Courses designated as Introductory/Intermediate allow students to move to the slightly more difficult level when they are ready.
Although not a requirement, many intermediate students have taken several introductory courses. While goals for both levels are similar, intermediate level students have begun to understand and apply themselves to their chosen medium with some skill.
Advanced students work independently and receive one-to-one instructor support and ongoing critiques of their work. Students concentrate on individual style and content while developing strong directional focus and technical skills.
Payment in full must be made at the time of registration. The Ottawa School of Art accepts cash, cheque, VISA or MasterCard credit cards and INTERAC bank debit cards. Registration may be made in person or by telephone (VISA or MasterCard only). For the Orleans campus, registration can be done online on the Shenkman Arts Centre website by clicking here.
NOTE: There is a $25 administration charge on all NSF cheques.
We urge you to register early, at least two weeks prior to commencement of the course. Space will not be reserved without full payment. The Ottawa School of Art reserves the right to cancel any class due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen circumstances.
Please note that as a not-for-profit organization, the Ottawa School of Art charges an annual family membership fee of $30 (plus tax). The membership entitles you to take classes at the school, take part in members' exhibitions, sell art work through the school store, rent studio space and facilities.
If for any reason, you wish to withdraw from a course for which you have registered, you must file your request in writing to the Registrar with a copy of your receipt, with the following in mind:
• Prior to the start of classes (up to the starting date of the class) the student receives a refund of the course fees, less a $25 administrative charge.
• Prior to the start of the second class, the student receives a refund of one half of the course fee, less a $25 administrative charge.
• No refunds or credits will be provided once the second class has been delivered, whether attended or not; if a student has suffered an illness a credit toward future courses may, however, be negotiated at the discretion of the school when provided with a doctor's note, less a $25 administrative charge, as well as a charge for each session from the starting date of the class to the student's withdrawal date.
If for any reason the Ottawa School of Art cancels a course, every attempt will be made to identify an alternative course that will be suitable to the student. If this is not possible, the course fee will be fully refunded, with no administrative charges applied. If, over the duration of a course, a class is cancelled, every attempt will be made to arrange a 'make up' class. If this is not possible, the class portion of the course fee will be fully refunded, with no administration fee applied.
NOTE: Student withdrawal, refund, or transfer requests will not be processed by telephone. In many cases, they are handled by fax, using a special form. Refunds will be issued by cheque only; please allow 7 – 14 days for processing.


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Japan comes up with some weird, awesome things, and this is one of them. Denpa Ningen is an augmented reality 3DS title that has you hunting for adorable little dudes called Denpa Ningen. There will be RPG style battles and heroics. It should also be noted that the group responsible for this title is Genius Sonority. Their staff has done work on the Dragon Quest and Pokémon games, so if this 3DS game makes you think of those, that's why.
Denpa Ningen looks like a fun title, and there is a demo out now, too bad it is only releasing in Japan for now, but hopefully, if it does well, we'll see it on the eShop here. If you can get the Japanese game, it comes out February 8th.
Denpa Ningen coming to 3DS eShop in Japan [GoNintendo]


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What is the usage, and why use plural?
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The automatic support for long - running workfl ows that the WF infrastructure provides is the most evident benefi t. The execution of a long - running workfl ow can be suspended or resumed on multiple points, so the internal state of the execution and activities must be preserved. WF automatically takes cares of saving the workfl ow state through the use of confi gurable providers. Therefore, you do not need to worry about these details.


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Pair this course with Zeezok's one-semester Economics course to fulfill both high school requirements!
Over the years we have been asked many, many times what we recommend for Civics. In this self-directed three-day-per-week program we think we have found the answer. Your student will embark on an exciting one-semester (16 week) study of the foundation, principles, and organization of our government.
Designed around the national civics standards, this high school government course utilizes primary source documents to teach the history and principles of our democratic republic. From our research, there is nothing quite like this on the market. Course materials include a consumable student workbook, a teacher resource CD, and twenty-four video lessons on DVD. The student workbook contains all primary source readings, required and optional student activities, and unit assessments to accompany the DVD lessons.
The Teacher Resource CD contains printable copies of the course outline, the course syllabus, answer keys for all graded student assignments, a grade book to record individual assignment scores, and optional activities for use by the motivated student or home school co-op groups. It also contains the entire transcript of the video lessons, with highlighted key concepts. This format enables the teacher quickly to look up pertinent information without the need to watch the video lessons. Students may also use the transcript to review for assessments. The CD concludes with a course description for use on the student's high school transcript.
Each video session is a self-contained instructional module. More like a conversation than a lecture, the videos cover all the major topics in the National Standards for Civics and Government at the high school level.
Why the title A Noble Experiment? We think the following excerpt from the student workbook says it quite well:
"On September 17.1787, the delegates to the Philadelphia Convention signed the completed Constitution of the United States. Patterned after the ancient Roman Republic, with elements of Greek democracy and Enlightenment political philosophy, the Constitution set in motion a form of government based on the premise that people can successfully rule themselves. What a radical concept in an eighteenth-century world dominated by monarchs and tyrants!Like the "holy experiment" of its Puritan predecessor, this "noble experiment" altered the course of history for oppressed peoples everywhere. Its ideals have been exported to the four corners of the earth. Millions live in freedom under its principles. Yet it remains an experiment because each succeeding generation must prove the hypothesis of successful self-government."
Zeezok Publishing's high school government course explores the creation, implementation, and evolution of this experiment.


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Heart - heart attack
Published on Circulatory system.
Territory, in our current life, is represented by roots: house, car, family, the financial management of the family, the environment where the person feels well (his friends club) and, of course, home, parents, children, place of work, colleagues, employees, money. The person who overruns someone else's territory, unsolicited, is a person who is watching out the other's territory. He is a trespasser.
Territory is essential to life on Earth. Conflicts of a sexual nature and undervaluing in animal life are part of it. Heart attacks, in animals, are linked to the defence of the territory.
The process has always been the same. Initially I marked the territory, then I took someone in there and now, in third place, there is someone who covets my territory.
Heart attacks stem from a territorial conflict.
The example of deer in the animal world is very interesting.
Deer are typically territorial animals. In 90% of the cases, in the society of gazelles, deer, stags and reindeers, the old male die of heart attack and, in 10% of the cases, they die of depression. Gazelles expel all those who are not members of their clan. A gazelle has its females and offspring and does not want anyone else in there. Nothing new about this, many animals do the same.
Once a year its territory is endangered. It happens just before the mating season, in autumn. It lasts three weeks.
Young males have three weeks to win or lose the fight against the old deer. And they fight for dominance of the clan.
They confront each other. Again, nothing new here.
And let us give an example:
The old deer exerts a pressure of one thousand kilos, and the younger deer applies a weight of eight hundred kilos. The old deer wins the combat and remains in control. He keeps its territory. The young male loses but does not suffer any consequence either.
They both remain healthy.
The following year, the old deer exerts his one thousand kilo power and the younger male, by now stronger and older, opposes an identical one thousand kilo pressure. Here, in the face of matching physical powers, the old deer has a lot to lose, while the young one has nothing to lose. At this point, the older deer makes one last effort and exerts increased power, and goes up to one thousand one hundred kilos. The aorta artery and the coronaries swell tremendously (yang side, warrior, masculine side of the heart operating full blast). The old dear wins the fight. It keeps its territory. The young deer only loses the battle and does not win anything. They both remain healthy.
The following year, the old deer is weaker and exerts a pressure of eight hundred kilos and the young deer opposes the same one thousand kilo power. The old deer makes one last effort, making the coronaries and the aorta swell up to nine hundred kilos. But this is not enough, and loses. The young deer expels it from the territory. The young deer remains healthy, becomes the master of the clan and starts mating and procreating to maintain the species.
However, the older deer who lost the combat, who is undergoing an emotion of major frustration, feeling undervalued because it lost its territory, suffers a heart attack when the coronary arteries, which swelled a lot during the fight, begin to get back to normal following the huge cardiac effort. This characteristic is typical of all types of deer.
Ninety per cent of male deer die of heart attack when they lose their territory. When they do not lose it, the coronaries get back to normal with no damage done. The ten per cent that do not die feel undervalued and end up dying of depression. They enter into an hormonal draw again (see Endocrine system about the hormonal draw).
A heart attack always takes place following a territorial conflict. It can be some months afterwards. According to the psychological tension the person experienced, he may develop arrhythmia, angina, a stroke or even a fatal heart attack. This will depend on how the person experienced the psychological conflict of intrusion in his territory, or loss of his territory without verbalizing it effectively.
A heart attack is, above all, a cerebral disease. In this stage of the attack, there are huge oedemas. This is the brain expressing itself at the level of the masculine temporal lobes (masculine temples). The person experiences cerebral oedemas, which cause headache, nausea and photosensitivity. Heart attack pain is cerebral. It is the brain that feels the pain. One does not die of heart failure, but of cerebral oedema. People do not die of coronary failure, but from a massive cerebral oedema.
Heart attack is not a symptom that occurs during stress. It always takes place when the stress period is solved. The attack is a consequence of stress; it only comes after stress, not before. It is a huge hangover.
Heart attacks strike people who are very territorial, very yang, very much warriors, very controlling, very masculine.
To finish up, it is important to remember that territorial issues in animals are associated to reproduction. Animals defend their territory because, for them, the preservation of the species stands above the individual. Therefore, the territory is linked to the species, reproduction and offspring. This ancestral animal feeling means that nowadays we, humans, feel territorial conflicts in the neck of the womb, in the case of women, and in the prostrate, in the case of men.
Heart attacks occur more often at midday.
See Heart – angina, Heart – arrhythmias, Heart – communication between auriculae and Heart


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How widespread is the use of information technology in preschool through high school?
Since 1997, Education Week has published an annual fifty-state report on how U.S. middle and high schools are utilizing technology. The free online report, Technology Counts, provides extensive summary information and state-by-state data about level of access to technology, capacity to use technology, and actual use of technology.
Within these broad categories, the report tracks such information as number of students per computer, location of computers, level of Internet connectivity, amount of technology training that teachers receive, presence of a technology plan or technology standards, percentage of teachers using computers for planning, percentage of students using computers for learning, and various specifics regarding how computers are being used by academic subject.
As would be expected, the report evolves somewhat each year to address trends. For example, the 2002 report was the first to assess the prevalence of distance learning in schools: it found that twenty-five states allow for the creation of so-called cyber charter schools and that thirty-two states were sponsoring e-learning initiatives, include online testing programs, virtual schools, and Internet-based professional development. The 2003 report placed a strong emphasis on computer-based assessment and the overall effects of the No Child Left Behind Act on technology in schools. The 2003 report also was the first to assess the prevalence of handheld computer use for students (3% of schools) and teachers (7% of schools) and of laptop-lending programs (18% of schools).
For links to each of the Technology Counts reports from 1997 to present, see the Technology Counts Archive. If you have not registered with the site on a previous visit, you will be asked to register prior to gaining access to the reports. Registration is free.
As growing numbers of educational entities embrace educational technology, it is critical that the accessibility of these programs be addressed. Technology should enhance the learning experiences of all students and serve as an equalizer rather than a barrier to students with disabilities.


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Mar 2, 2010
Jennifer Hyndman to Receive the 2010 CMS Excellence in Teaching Award
OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to award the 2010 CMS Excellence in Teaching Award to Professor Jennifer Hyndman, Mathematics Program, University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). The Award will be presented at the Society's 2010 Summer Meeting in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
The award recognizes sustained and distinguished contributions in teaching at the undergraduate level at a Canadian post-secondary education institution. Nelson Education, a major Canadian publisher for students and educators, is a proud sponsor of this unique national Award.
In announcing the award, Tony Lau, President of the CMS, noted that "Professor Hyndman is an outstanding educator and this award recognizes her proven excellence as a teacher, her unusual effectiveness in the classroom, and her commitment and dedication to teaching and to students."
For Professor Hyndman, teaching is not a job but a passion. "She deeply cares that students really understand, and she believes that the best way to achieve this understanding is by having the students play the part of teacher themselves. Her role then becomes that of mentor, critic, and teacher of constructive criticism techniques" said Lee Keener, a close colleague at UNBC.
Professor Hyndman is deeply involved with all aspects of teaching. Her first year assignments have students exploring the UNBC campus, and her fourth-year projects combine mathematics and a creative activity outside the student's comfort zone, resulting in paintings, poetry, music, plays and musicals. Furthermore, she has made a significant contribution in the area of curriculum development in addition to staging numerous high school and university level workshops.
"Her impassioned commitment to education and her contribution both inside and outside the classroom make her an ideal recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award" noted Peter Taylor, Chair of the CMS Education Committee that administers the award.
Professor Hyndman's success as a teacher and her educational accomplishments were also recognized in 2003 when she received the UNBC Teaching Excellence Award.
Professor Hyndman hones her craft as a teacher by being a student in dance classes and competing in dance festivals. There she is reminded that a good teacher is passionate about what she does, expects great things from her students, and keeps the learning environment dynamic. She has recently, and for the first time, performed in Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker.
Jennifer Hyndman earned her Bachelors of Mathematics with a Minor in Dance from University of Waterloo in 1986, her M.A. in 1989 and her Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of Colorado at Bolder. She was one of the founding faculty of the University of Northern British Columbia and developed many of the courses still taught in the Mathematics Program. She is a Full Professor and currently Chair of Mathematics at UNBC.
Professor Hyndman's research interests are in natural duality theory, quasi-equations and finite basis theory, lattice theory, and mathematics education.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Peter Taylor, Chair CMS Education Committee Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics Queen's University Kingston, Ontario Tel: (613) 533-2390 E-mail: email@example.com |
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Dr. Anthony To-Ming Lau, President Canadian Mathematical Society Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Tel: (780) 492-3396 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com |
About the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS)
The CMS is the main national organization whose goal is to promote and advance the discovery, learning, and application of mathematics. The Society's activities cover the whole spectrum of mathematics including: scientific meetings, research publications, and the promotion of excellence in mathematics education at all levels. The CMS, in partnerships with others, annually sponsors mathematics education-related events and initiatives for teachers and students across Canada.


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With Christmas just around the corner, thoughts are turning to festive food. Turkeys, geese and glistening hams have already been ordered, mincemeat made for perfect pies, salmon smoked, butter brandied and puddings laden with boozy fruit stored. In the last week or so there's been a creeping chill in the air, and suddenly all this hearty winter fare feels just that little bit more tempting.
For most, a Christmas spread wouldn't be complete without stuffing, and when I think of stuffing, chestnuts come to mind. Associated with warmth and winter, chestnuts are in their element when roasted over hot coals, the toasty smells wafting temptingly through the streets as vendors tout their treats to passers by. The Christmas Song, composed in 1946 and sung by Nat King Cole, is alternatively titled 'Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire' and conjures up all the cosily romantic images we so strongly associate with Christmas. There's never been a better time to cook with these strong, sweet, shiny nuts.
However, while chestnuts definitely do make me think of Christmas, they also have a year-round association with a place that shaped my relationship with eating, that brings a thousand memories flooding to my mind, a place where food and life are inextricably entwined, and a place which has a very special hold on my heart. Italy.
Growing up, I used to visit Italy with my family every year. My parents have a house on the border between Tuscany and Umbria, and in the summer holidays it became a second home from home. High in the hills above a luscious green valley, the solid stone farmhouse is surrounded by some of the great bounties of nature; rolling olive groves, fruit laden trees, a lawn where wild boar have been seen to graze and a dense, leafy sweet chestnut wood. With such incredible ingredients on your doorstop, it's impossible not to eat well, and even the humblest of homes serve the most unforgettable food.
Chestnuts are hugely important in Italian cooking. Before maize was introduced to Europe from the New World, Italians used chestnut flour to make polenta, a staple of their daily diet. It is said that an army marches on its stomach, and apparently Roman soldiers were given this porridge-like polenta made from sweet chestnuts before going into battle. Proof – if anyone needed it – of the nutritious properties of this humble nut.
While delicious in savoury dishes – think wholesome breads, rich roasted game, velvety ragu – chestnuts also have an amazing affinity with all things sweet; figs and honey, chocolate and hazelnuts, soft brown sugar and rich folds of cream. The following recipe is one such sweet, inspired by Italy, but more directly by my Dad. After making an egg-yolk rich vin santo ice cream for a party last weekend, I had a huge quantity of leftover egg white. We were visiting my parents for lunch the next day, and – as usual – I'd promised to make a pudding. My (rather larger) fatherly loaf is a huge fan of chestnuts, and had been in raptures over my recent Chocolate Chestnut Truffle Cake post, without ever actually getting to try a slice. I knew he was hoping for something chestnut-based, so decided to come up with something that combined their nutty richness with the copious amounts of egg white in my fridge.
The result is a chewy, creamy chestnut meringue cake with more than a nod to the French Mont Blanc, a pillowy dessert of chestnuts topped with whipped cream and named after the mountain of the same name for its visual similarity. The meringue adds a lovely crispy chewiness, and layers of chocolate shavings and crunchy roasted hazelnuts mean each mouthful provides a wonderful contrast of texture and flavour. Meringue isn't the first thing I'd associate with this time of year – it always makes me think of summery fruit-filled pavlovas – but combined with these strong, wintry flavours makes for the most indulgent dessert.
Do chestnuts make you think of Christmas? Will you be roasting any on an open fire? And what foods do you associate with this time of year?
Chestnut Meringue Cake
Serve 8 – 10
4 egg whites
Pinch salt
200g golden caster sugar plus an additional 30g
250g cooked chestnuts
200ml whole milk
1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped
250ml double cream
25g dark chocolate, grated
50g hazelnuts, toasted in the oven for 10 minutes, skins removed & roughly chopped
Raspberries or other fruit to decorate
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line two baking sheets with baking parchment and, using a cake tin as a guide (20 or 23 cm would be fine), draw a circle on each.
Whisk the egg whites and salt until soft peaks form. Add the sugar and continue to whisk on high speed for about 5 minutes until the meringue is smooth and glossy. Spoon the mixture evenly between the two trays, using the circles you have drawn as a guideline. Bake for approximately one hour, then turn the oven off and leave the meringue to cool inside.
Meanwhile, put the chestnuts, milk, sugar, vanilla pod and seeds in a small pan and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat and leave to infuse for around 10 minutes, then remove the vanilla pod and drain the chestnuts, reserving the liquid. Purée the chestnuts in a blender, adding small amounts of the leftover milk mixture at a time to achieve a consistency similar to whipped cream – a soft, smooth texture that can be dolloped. Whip the double cream to soft peaks.
When ready to assemble, place one meringue layer on a large plate. Spread over half the chestnut purée, half the whipped cream, and scatter with half the grated chocolate and hazelnuts. Place the second meringue on top and repeat the process, dotting a few raspberries over the top to finish.
Serve in thick, creamy, chewy slices with an extra grating of chocolate, if you like. The perfect winter pud.


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The Lord's coming again into this world assumes therefore a very different character from that of a vague object of hope to a believer as a period of glory. In chapter 5 the apostle speaks of it, but in order to distinguish between the position of Christians and that of the careless and unbelieving inhabitants of the earth. The Christian, alive and taught of the Lord, ever expects the Master. There are times and seasons; it is not needful to speak to him concerning them. But (and he knows it) the day of the Lord will come and like a thief in the night, but not for him: he is of the day; he has part in the glory which will appear in order to execute judgment on the unbelieving world. Believers are the children of light; and this light which is the judgment of unbelievers, is the expression of the glory of God-a glory which cannot endure evil, and which, when it shall appear, will banish it from the earth. The Christian is of the day that will judge and destroy the wicked and wickedness itself from off the face of the earth. Christ is the Sun of righteousness, and the faithful will shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
The world will say, "Peace and safety," and in all security will believe in the continuance of its prosperity and the success of its designs, and the day will come suddenly upon them. (Compare 2 Peter 3:3.) The Lord Himself has often declared it. (Matt. 14:36-44; Mark 13:33-36; Luke 12:40, &c.; 17:26, &c.; 21:35, &c.)
It is a very solemn thing to see that the professing church (Rev. 3:3) which says that it lives and is in the truth, which has not Thyatira's character of corruption, is yet to be treated as the world-at least, unless it repents.
We may perhaps wonder to find the Lord saying of a time like this, that men's hearts will be failing them for fear, and for looking after those things that are coming on the earth. (Luke 21:26) But we see the two principles-both security and fear-already existing. Progress, success, the long continuance of a new development of human nature-this is the language of those who mock at the Lord's coming; and yet beneath it all, what fears for the future are at the same time possessing and weighing down the heart! I use the word "principles," because I do not believe that the moment of which the Lord speaks is yet come. But the shadow of coming events falls upon the heart. Blessed are they that belong to another world!
The apostle applies this difference of position--namely, that we belong to the day, and that it cannot therefore come upon us as a thief-to the character and walk of the Christian. Being a child of the light he is to walk as such. He lives in the clay, though all is night and darkness around him. One does not sleep in the day. They that sleep sleep in the night: they that are drunken are drunken in the night; these are the works of darkness. A Christian, the child of the day, must watch and be sober, clothing himself with all that constitutes the perfection of that mode of being which belongs to his position-namely, with faith and love and hope-principles which impart courage and give him confidence for pressing onwards. He has the breastplate of faith and love; he goes straight forward therefore against the enemy. He has the hope of this glorious salvation, which will bring him entire deliverance, as his helmet; so that he can lift up his head without fear in the midst of danger. We see that the apostle here brings to mind the three great principles of 1 Corinthians 13 to characterise the courage and steadfastness of the Christian, as at the beginning he shewed that they were the mainspring of daily walk.
Faith and love naturally connect us with God, revealed as He is in Jesus as the principle of communion; so that we walk with confidence in Him: His presence gives us strength. By faith He is the glorious object before our eyes. By love He dwells in us, and we realise what He is. Hope fixes our eyes especially on Christ, who is coming to bring us into the enjoyment of glory with Himself.
Consequently the apostle speaks thus: "For God hath not appointed us to wrath " (love is understood by faith, that which God wills-His mind respecting us) "but to obtain salvation." It is this which we hope for; and he speaks of salvation as the final deliverance "by our Lord Jesus Christ:" and he naturally adds, "who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep" (have died before His coming or be then alive), " we should live together with Him." Death does not deprive us of this deliverance and glory; for Jesus died. Death became the means of obtaining them for us; and if we die, we shall equally live with Him. He died for us, in our stead, in order that, happen what may, we should live with Him. Everything that hindered it is put out of our way and has lost its power; and, more than lost its power, has become a guarantee of our unhindered enjoyment of the full life of Christ in glory; so that we may comfort ourselves--and more than that, we may build ourselves up--with these glorious truths, through which God meets all our wants and all our necessities. This (ver. 10) is the end of the special revelation with regard to those who sleep before the coming of the Lord Jesus, beginning with chapter 4:13.
I would here call the reader's attention to the way in which the apostle speaks of the Lord's coming in the different chapters of this epistle. It will be noticed that the Spirit does not present the church here as a body. Life is the subject-that of each Christian therefore individually: a very important point assuredly.
In chapter 1 the expectation of the Lord is presented in a general way as characterising the Christian. They are converted to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven. Here it is the object itself that is presented, the Person of the Lord. God's own Son shall come, and shall satisfy all the heart's desire. This is neither His kingdom, nor the judgment, nor even rest; it is the Son of God; and this Son of God is Jesus, risen from among the dead, and who has delivered us from the wrath to come; for wrath is coming. Each believer therefore expects for himself the Son of God-expects Him from heaven.
In chapter 2 it is association with the saints, joy in the saints at the coming of Christ.
In chapter 3 responsibility is more the subject--responsibility in liberty and in joy; but still a position before God in connection with the Christian's walk and life here below. The Lord's appearing is the measure and test time of holiness. The testimony rendered by God to this life, by giving it its natural place, takes place when Christ is manifested with all His saints. It is not here His coming for us, but His coming with us. This distinction between the two events always exists. For Christians even and for the church, that which refers to responsibility is always found in connection with the appearing of the Lord; our joy, with His coming to take us to Himself.
Thus far then, we have the general expectation of the Lord in Person, His Son from heaven; love satisfied at His coming as regards others; holiness in its full value and full development. In chapter 4 it is not the connection of life with its full development in our being actually with Christ, but victory over death (which is no barrier to this); and, at the same time, the strengthening and establishment of hope in our common departure hence, similarly to that of Jesus, to be for ever with Him.
The exhortations that conclude the epistle are brief; the mighty action of the life of God in these dear disciples made them comparatively little needed. Exhortation is always good. There was nothing among them to blame. Happy condition! They were perhaps not sufficiently instructed for a large development of doctrine (the apostle hoped to see them for that purpose); but there was enough of life, a personal relationship with God sufficiently true and real, to build them up on that ground. To him that hath shall more be given. The apostle could rejoice with them and confirm their hope and add to it some details as a revelation from God. The assembly in all ages is profited by it.
In the Epistle to the Philippians we see life in the Spirit rising above all circumstances, as the fruit of long experience of the goodness and faithfulness of God; and thus shewing its remarkable power when the help of the saints had failed, and the apostle was in distress, his life in danger, after four years' imprisonment, by a merciless tyrant. It is then that he decides his case by the interests of the assembly. It is then that he can proclaim, that we ought always to rejoice in the Lord, and that Christ is all things to him, to live is Christ, death a gain to him. It is then that he can do all things through Him who strengthens him. This he has learnt. In Thessalonians we have the freshness of the fountain near to its source; the energy of the first spring of life in the believer's soul, presenting all the beauty and purity and vigour of its first verdure under the influence of the sun that had risen upon them and made the sap of life rise, the first manifestations of which had not been deteriorated by contact with the world or by an enfeebled view of invisible things.
The apostle desired that the disciples should acknowledge those who laboured among them and guided them in grace and admonished them, and esteem them greatly for their work's sake. The operation of God always attracts a soul that is moved by the Holy Ghost, and commands its attention and its respect: on this foundation the apostle builds his exhortation. It is not office which is in question here (if such existed), but the work which attracted and attached the heart. They ought to be known: spirituality acknowledged this operation of God. Love, devotedness, the answer to the need of souls, patience in dealing with them on the part of God--all this commended itself to the believer's heart: and it blessed God for the care He bestowed upon His children. God acted in the labourer and in the hearts of the faithful. Blessed be God, it is an ever existing principle, and one that never grows weaker !
The same Spirit produced peace among themselves. This grace was of great value. If love appreciated the work of God in the labourer, it would esteem the bother as in the presence of God: self-will would not act.
Now this renunciation of self-will, and this practical sense of the operation and presence of God, gives power to warn the unruly, to comfort the fearful, to help the weak, and to be patient towards all. The apostle exhorts them to it. Communion with God is the power and His word the guide in so doing. In no case were they to render evil for evil, but to follow that which was good among themselves and towards all. All this conduct depends on communion with God, on His presence with us, which makes us superior to evil. He is this in love; and we can be so by walking with Him.
Such were the apostle's exhortations to guide their walk with others. As regards their personal state, joy, prayer, thanksgiving in all things, these should be their characteristics. With respect to the public actings of the Spirit in their midst, the apostle's exhortations to these simple and happy Christians were equally brief. They were not to hinder the action of the Spirit in their midst (for this is the meaning of quenching the Spirit); nor to despise that which He might say to them, even by the mouth of the most simple, if He were pleased to use it. Being spiritual they could judge all things. They were therefore not to receive everything that presented itself, even in the name of the Spirit, but to prove all things. They were to hold fast that which was good; those who by faith have received the truth of the word do not waver. One is not ever learning the truth of that which one has learnt from God. As to evil, they were to abstain from it in all its forms. Such were the apostle's brief exhortations to these Christians who indeed rejoiced his heart. And in truth it is a fine picture of christian walk, which we find here so livingly portrayed in the apostle's communications.
He concludes his epistle by commending them to the God of peace, that they might be preserved blameless until the coming of the Lord Jesus.
After an epistle like this his heart turned readily to the God of peace; for we enjoy peace in the presence of God-not only peace of conscience but peace of heart.
In the previous part we found the activity of love in the heart; that is to say, God present and acting in us, who are viewed as partaking, at the same time, of the divine nature, which is the spring of that holiness which will be manifested in all its perfection before God at the coming of Jesus with all His saints. Here it is the God of peace, to whom the apostle looks for the accomplishment of this work. There it was the activity of a divine principle in us-a principle connected with the presence of God and our communion with Him. Here it is the perfect rest of heart in which holiness develops itself. The absence of peace in the heart arises from the activity of the passions and the will, increased by the sense of powerlessness to satisfy or even to gratify them.
But in God all is peace. He can be active in love; He can glorify Himself by creating what He will; He can act in judgment to cast out the evil that is before His eyes. But He rests ever in Himself, and both in good and in evil He knows the end from the beginning and is undisturbed. When He fills the heart, He imparts this rest to us: we cannot rest in ourselves; we cannot find rest of heart in the actings of our passions, either without an object or upon an object, nor in the rending and destructive energy of our own will. We find our rest in God-not the rest that implies weariness, but rest of heart in the possession of all that we desire, and of that which even forms our desires and fully satisfies them, in the possession of an object in which conscience has nothing to reproach us and has but to be silent, in the certainty that it is the Supreme Good which the heart is enjoying, the supreme and only authority to whose will it responds-and that will is love towards us. God bestows rest, peace. He is never called the God of joy. He gives us joy truly, and we ought to rejoice; but joy implies something surprising, unexpected, exceptional, at least in contrast with, and in consequence of, evil. The peace that we possess, that which satisfies us, has no element of this kind, nothing which is in contrast, nothing which disturbs. It is more deep, more perfect, than joy. It is more the satisfaction of a nature in that which perfectly answers to it, and in which it develops itself, without any contrast being necessary to enhance the satisfaction of a heart that has not all which it desires, or of which it is capable.
God, as we have said, rests thus in Himself-is this rest for Himself. He gives us, and is for us, this entire peace. The conscience being perfect through the work of Christ who has made peace and reconciled us to God, the new nature-and consequently the heart-finds its perfect satisfaction in God, and the will is silent; moreover, it has nothing further to desire. It is not only that God meets the desires that we have: He is the source of new desires to the new man by the revelation of Himself in love. [1] He is both the source of the nature and its infinite object; and that, in love. It is His part to be so. It is more than creation; it is reconciliation, which is more than creation, because there is in it more development of love, that is to say, of God: and it is thus that we know God. It is that which He is essentially in Christ.
In the angels He glorifies Himself in creation: they excel us in strength. In Christians He glorifies Himself in reconciliation, to make them the first fruits of His new creation, when He shall have reconciled all things in heaven and on earth by Christ. Therefore it is written "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children sons of God" They have His nature and His character.
It is in these relationships with God-or rather it is God in these relationships with us in peace, in His communion, who develops sanctification, our inward conformity of affection and intelligence (and consequently of outward conduct) with Him and His will. "The God of peace himself sanctify you wholly." May there be nothing in us that does not yield to this benignant influence of peace which we enjoy in communion with God! May no power or force in us own anything but Himself! In all things may He be our all, so that He only may rule in our hearts! He has brought us perfectly into this place of blessedness in Christ and by His work. There is nothing between us and God but the exercise of His love, the enjoyment of our happiness, and the worship of our hearts. We are the proof before Him, the testimony, the fruit, of the accomplishment of all that He holds most precious, of that which has perfectly glorified Him, of that in which He delights, and of the glory of the One who has accomplished it, namely, of Christ, and of His work. We are the fruit of the redemption that Christ has accomplished, and the objects of the satisfaction which God must feel in the exercise of His love.
God in grace is the God of peace for us; for here divine righteousness finds its satisfaction, and love its perfect exercise.
The apostle now prays that, in this character, God may work in us to make everything respond to Himself thus revealed. Here only is this development of humanity given-"body, soul, and spirit." The object is assuredly not metaphysical, but to express man in all the parts of his being; the vessel by which he expresses that which he is, the natural affections of his soul, the elevated workings of his mind, through which he is above the animals and in intelligent relationship with God. May God be found in each, as the mover, spring, and guide!
In general the words "soul and spirit" are used without making any distinction between them, for the soul of man was formed very differently from that of animals in that God breathed into his nostrils the breath (spirit) of life, and it was thus that man became a living soul. Therefore it suffices to say soul as to man, and the other is supposed. Or, in saying spirit, in this sense the elevated character of his soul is expressed. The animal has also its natural affections, has a living soul, attaches itself, knows the persons who do it good, devotes itself to its master, loves him, will even give its life for him; but it has not that which can be in relationship with God (alas ! which can set itself at enmity against Him), which can occupy itself with things outside its own nature as the master of others.
The Spirit then wills that man, reconciled with God, should be consecrated, in every part of his being to the God who has brought him into relationship with Himself by the revelation of His love, and by the work of His grace, and that nothing in the man should admit an object beneath the divine nature of which he is partaker; so that he should thus be preserved blameless unto the coming of Christ.
Let us observe here, that it is in no wise beneath the new nature in us to perform our duties faithfully in all the various relationships in which God has placed us; but quite the contrary. That which is required is to bring God into them, His authority, and the intelligence which that imparts. Therefore it is said to husbands to live with their wives according to knowledge," or intelligence; that is to say, not only with human and natural affections (which, as things are, do not by themselves even maintain their place), but as before God and conscious of His will. It may be that God may call us, in connection with the extraordinary work of His grace, to consecrate ourselves entirely to it; but otherwise the will of God is accomplished in the relationships in which He has placed us, and divi ne intelligence and obedience to God are developed in them. Finally God has called us to this life of holiness with Himself; He is faithful, and He will accomplish it. May He enable us to cleave to Him, that we may realise it! Observe again here, how the coming of Christ is introduced, and the expectation of this coming, as an integral part of christian life. "Blameless," it says, "at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." The life which had developed itself in obedience and holiness meets the Lord at His coming. Death is not in question. The life which we have found is to be such when He appears. The man, in every part of his being, moved by this life, is found there blameless when Jesus comes. Death was overcome (not yet destroyed): a new life is ours. This life, and the man living of this life, are found, with their Head and Source, in the glory. Then will the weakness disappear which is connected with his present condition. That which is mortal shall be swallowed up of life: that is all. We are Christ's: He is our life. We wait for Him, that we may be with Him, and that He may perfect all things in the glory.
Let us also here examine a little into that which this passage teaches us with regard to sanctification. It is connected indeed with a nature, but it is linked with an object; and it depends for its realisation on the operation of another, namely, of God Himself; and it is founded on a perfect work of reconciliation with God already accomplished. Inasmuch as it is founded on an accomplished reconciliation, into which we enter by the reception of a new nature, the scriptures consider Christians as already perfectly sanctified in Christ. It is practically carried out by the operation of the Holy Ghost, who, in imparting this nature, separates us-as thus born again-entirely from the world. It is important to maintain this truth, and to stand very clearly and distinctly on this ground: otherwise practical sanctification soon becomes detached from a new nature received, and is but the amelioration of the natural man and then it is quite legal, a return-after reconciliation-into doubt and uncertainty, because, though justified, the man is not accounted meet for heaven-this depends on progress so that justification does not give peace with God. Scripture says, "Giving thanks to the Father, who hath made us meet for the inheritance of the saints in light." Progress there is, but it is not in scripture connected with meetness. The thief was meet for Paradise and went there. Such views are an enfeebling, not to say destructive, of the work of redemption, that is, of its appreciation in our hearts by faith.
We are then sanctified (it is thus the scripture most frequently speaks) by God the Father, by the blood and the offering of Christ, and by the Spirit-that is to say, we are set apart for God personally and for ever. In this point of view justification is presented in the word as consequent upon sanctification, a thing into which we enter through it. Taken up as sinners in the world, we are set apart by the Holy Ghost to enjoy all the efficacy of the work of Christ according to the counsels of the Father: set apart by the communication of a new life, no doubt, but placed by this setting apart in the enjoyment of all that Christ has gained for us. I say again, It is very important to hold fast this truth both for the glory of God and for our own peace: but the Spirit of God in this epistle does not speak of it in this point of view, but of the practical realisation of the development of this life of separation from the world and from evil. He speaks of this divine development in the inner man, which makes sanctification a real and intelligent condition of soul, a state of practical communion with God, according to that nature and to the revelation of God with which it is connected.
In this respect we find indeed a principle of life which works in us-that which is called a subjective state: but it is impossible to separate this operation in us from an object (man would be God if it were so), nor consequently from a continual work of God in us that holds us in communion with that object, which is God Himself. Accordingly it is through the truth by the word, whether at first in the communication of life, or in detail all along our path. "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth."
Man, we know, has degraded himself. He has enslaved himself to the lusts of the animal part of his being. But how? By departing from God. God does not sanctify man apart from the knowledge of Himself, leaving man still at a distance from Him; but, while giving him a new nature which is capable of it, by giving to this nature (which cannot even exist without it) an object-Himself, He does not make man independent, as he wished to be: the new man is the dependent man; it is his perfection-Jesus Christ exemplified this in His life. The new man is a man dependent in his affections, who desires to be so, who delights in, and cannot be happy without being so, and whose dependence is on love, while still obedient as a dependent being ought to be.
Thus they who are sanctified possess a nature that is holy in its desires and its tastes. It is the divine nature in them, the life of Christ. But they do not cease to be men. They have God revealed in Christ for their object. Sanctification is developed in communion with God, and in affections which go back to Christ, and which wait for Him. But the new nature cannot reveal an object to itself; and still less, could it have its object by setting God aside at its will. It is dependent on God for the revelation of Himself. His love is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost whom He has given us; and the same Spirit takes of the things of Christ and communicates them to us. Thus we grow in the knowledge of God, being strengthened mightily by His Spirit in the inner man, that we may "comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge," and be filled unto the fullness of God. Thus, " we all with open face beholding the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord." "For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth."
We see by these passages, which might be multiplied, that we are dependent on an object, and that we are dependent on the strength of another. Love acts in order to work in us according to this need.
Our setting apart for God, which is complete (for it is by means of a nature that is purely of Himself, and in absolute responsibility to Him, for we are no longer our own, but are bought with a price, and sanctified by the blood of Christ according to the will of God who will have us for His own), places us in a relationship, the development of which (by an increasing knowledge of God, who is the object of our new nature) is practical sanctification, wrought in us by the power of the Holy Ghost, the witness in us of the love of God. He attaches the heart to God, ever revealing Him more and more, and at the same time unfolding the glory of Christ and all the divine qualities that were displayed in Him in human nature, thus forming ours as born of God.
Therefore it is, as we have seen in this epistle, that love, working in us, is the means of sanctification. (Chap. 3:12,13) It is the activity of the new nature, of the divine nature in us; and that connected with the presence of God; for he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God. And in this chapter 5 the saints are commended to God Himself, that He may work it in them; while we are always set in view of the glorious objects of our faith in order to accomplish it.
We may here more particularly call the reader's attention to these objects. They are, God Himself, and the coming of Christ: on the one hand, communion with God; on the other, waiting for Christ. It is most evident that communion with God is the practical position of the highest sanctification. He who knows that we shall see Jesus as He now is, and be like Him, purifies himself even as He is pure. By our communion with the God of peace we are wholly sanctified. If God is practically our all, we are altogether holy. (We are not speaking of any change in the flesh, which can neither be subjected to God nor please Him.) The thought of Christ and His coming preserves us practically, and in detail, and intelligently, blameless. It is God Himself who thus preserves us, and who works in us to occupy our hearts and cause us continually to grow.
But this point deserves yet a few more words. The freshness of christian life in the Thessalonians made it, as it were, more objective; so that these objects are prominent, and very distinctly recognised by the heart. We have already said that they are God the Father, and the Lord Jesus. With reference to the communion of love with the saints as his crown and glory, he speaks only of the Lord Jesus. This has a special character of reward, although a reward in which love reigns. Jesus Himself had the joy that was set before Him as sustainment in His sufferings, a joy which thus was personal to Himself. The apostle also, as regarded his work and labour, waited with Christ for its fruit. Besides this case of the apostle (chap. 2), we find God Himself and Jesus as the object before us, and the joy of communion with God-and this, in the relationship of Father-and with Christ, whose glory and position we share through grace.
Thus it is only in the two epistles to the Thessalonians that we find the expression "to the church which is in God the Father. [2] The sphere of their communion is thus shewn, founded on the relationship in which they found themselves with God Himself in the character of Father. (1 Thess. 1:3, 9, 10; 3:13; 4:15,16; and here v. 23.) It is important to remark, that the more vigorous and living Christianity is, the more objective it is. It is but saying that God and the Lord Jesus have a greater place in our thoughts; and that we rest more really upon them. This Epistle to the Thessalonians is the part of scripture which instructs on this point; and it is a means of judging many a fallacy in the heart, and of giving a great simplicity to our Christianity.
The apostle closes his epistle by asking for the prayers of the brethren, saluting them with the confidence of affection, and conjuring them to have his epistle read to all the holy brethren. His heart forgot none of them. He would be in relationship with all according to this spiritual affection and personal bond. Apostle towards all of them, he would have them recognize those who laboured among them, but he maintained withal his own relationship. His was a heart which embraced all the revealed counsels of God on the one hand, and did not lose sight of the least of His saints on the other.
It remains to take notice of one interesting circumstance as to the manner in which the apostle instructs them. He takes, in the first chapter, the truths which were precious to their heart, but were still somewhat vaguely seized by their intelligence, and as to which they were indeed fallen into mistakes, and employs them (in the clearness in which he possessed them himself) in his practical instructions, and applies them to known and experienced relationships, that their souls might be well established on positive truth, and clear as to its use, before he touched on their error and the mistakes they had made. They waited for His Son from heaven. This they already possessed clearly in their hearts; but they would be in the presence of God when Jesus comes with all His saints. This was clearing up a very important point without directly touching the error. Their heart got straight as to the truth in its practical application to what the heart possessed. They understood what it was to be before God the Father. It was much more intimate and real than a manifestation of terrestrial and finite glory. Further they would be before God when Jesus came with all His saints: a simple truth which demonstrated itself to the heart by the simple fact that Jesus could not have some only of His assembly. The heart seized this truth without an effort; yet in doing so it was established, as was the understanding also, in what made the whole truth clear, and that in way of the relationship of the Thessalonians to Christ and those that were His. The joy even of the apostle in meeting them all (those who had died consequently, as well as the living) at the coming of Jesus, placed the soul on an entirely different ground from that of being found here, and blessed by the arrival of Jesus when they were here below.
Thus enlightened, confirmed, established, in the real bearing of the truth which they possessed already by a development of it which connected itself with their best affections and with their most intimate spiritual knowledge, founded on their communion with God they were ready with certain fixed basis of truth to enter on and set aside without difficulty an error which was not in accord with what they now knew how to appreciate at its just value, as forming park of their moral possessions. Special revelation made all clear as to details. This manner of proceeding is very Instructive.
[1] Hence there is the opposite to weariness in the heavenly enjoyment of God; because He who is the infinite object of enjoyment is the infinite source and strength of capacity to enjoy, though we enjoy as recipient creatures.
[2] Perhaps too in connection with their recent deliverance from idols to the one true God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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But how will it hang on me?
Next time you are trapped inside a neon-lit changing room trying on a possible clothes purchase, you might think of calling a mathematician, rather than a sales assistant, to help work out why those trousers aren't hanging just right. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Santiago in Chile have begun to solve the equations governing the way in which fabric drapes, and hope that their work will help make shopping a little easier in the future.
We have an innate appreciation for the way fabric moves and falls. We can tell when an artist has accurately depicted the way clothes respond to the shape and motion of the wearer, or when some computer animations fall short with rubbery, unrealistic outfits. But science has had a hard time describing exactly how a piece of fabric will drape over an object - because of the complicated and changing patterns of folds arising from the competing gravitational and bending forces.
Rather than using large-scale computation to solve the problem, L. Mahadevan and his colleagues focused on the elements of draping - the flat sheets, cylinders and cones - that make up the folded surface. "These elements of draping are clearly illustrated by considering three distinct but related examples: the suspension of a heavy elastic sheet from a point, along a straight line, or along a curved line," the researchers wrote in their recent paper, published in the US journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
When a circular sheet was hung from a point in its centre, the researchers were able to describe exactly when and how it would switch from bending in half cylindrically to falling into a cone with one or two folds. At the heart of their mathematical equations was the gravity length , which is the length scale where the balance between the bending and gravitational energies becomes important. The gravity length of a fabric is
Using scaling arguments, they were also able to predict the shape, including the number of folds, for other situations, where the sheet in question was much larger than the material's gravity length, or was instead covering a circular table, or suspended from a curtain rail.
The researchers hope that they will eventually be able to reconstruct more complicated draping surfaces by piecing these simpler structures together. "We have to 'stitch' the resulting cones, cylinders and flat sheets together much as a couturier does," they wrote.
But which ones are the perfect fit?
Although fashion designers might not use these results themselves - "they tend not to be interested in mathematical equations of any shape or form," says Jennifer Bougourd, a researcher from the London College of Fashion - the growing field of virtual shopping might.
You can already use a virtual changing room in Selfridges in London to find your perfect pair of jeans. A 3D scanner creates a model of your body, and then software wraps pattern pieces from designer jeans around the virtual you - if the jeans don't fit, the virtual jeans will either stand away from the model or not wrap all the way around. Bourgard says that the computer representation of the hang of the denim is very good, but that "the main interest is getting the fabric representation and drape working for every type of fabric".
Plus looks forward to the day we can try on any outfit in a store at the touch of a button, without even having to remove our shoes!


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The holy grail of the anti self defense and anti rights special interest groups is gun registration. This is because once your gun is required to be registered, it is in effect, already confiscated. Only a little thought will reveal to you why this is so. The Government will know who has legal possession of each firearm. They will know where the firearm is stored. When physical possession of the gun is desired, they can order you to turn it in. This has happened repeatedly. The historical examples include NAZI Germany, Soviet Russia, Red China, and Cambodia. Recent examples include Kosovo, Great Britian, Australia, New York, and California. Not having possession of the firearm registered to you can be grounds for criminal action. If you have reported the gun stolen, and it is then found in your possession, you can be charged with obstruction of justice.
It is a truism that once all guns are required to be registered, the only people who will legally possess guns will be those who have registered them. If you choose to follow the course of civil disobedience, and not register your firearms, mere possession of an unregistered gun can put you at grave legal risk. Civil disobedience has been the most common course of action in California and Canada, where it has proven impossible to enforce the laws requiring registration. If you choose this course of action, you would now be at the mercy of any informant who discovers that you possess a gun illegally. Children in the public schools are already being trained to tell the police if there is a gun in the house. Doctors are being urged to ask children if there are guns in their home. A warrant was issued in California for a SWAT raid based on the mere picture of people holding unidentified guns which were legal. The picture had been sent to the police by an informant in the film developing company. If you are not on the list of those who have registered, you have become a criminal. If you are forced to use the gun for self defense, you will have committed a serious crime. It will become extremely difficult to train your children in firearms safety or to bring friends or relatives into the gun culture. In a few years, the number of people with personal knowledge of guns will be much smaller. The people who urge gradual or immediate gun registration are attempting cultural genocide of the gun culture.
The common practice, once guns are required to be registered, is to gradually tighten the requirements of registration to reduce the number of gun owners. When the number is low enough to limit effective political action by the members of the gun culture affected, the remaining guns can be confiscated with little effort.
Gun registration has proven to be universally ineffective in reducing crime. In fact, crime is likely to increase because of the transfer of police resources from crime fighting to administer and police the political requirements of the gun registration scheme, and because of the reduced number of people willing or able to use their firearms for self defense. Self defense is never acknowledged by the anti rights special interest groups because it trumps their arguments for disarming the people. The primary purpose of gun registration has always been to reduce the political power of the people rather than reduce the crime rate.
The current attempt at requiring gun registration started in 1968, when congress required gun dealers to obtain a federal license, and purchasers of guns from federally licensed dealers were required to fill out a form 4473 to take possession. Congress forbid the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from constructing any national gun registration list from this data, although a registration scheme of purchasers of more than one handgun within a week has been kept on the grounds that it was started before the congressional action forbidding such, and is therefore "grandfathered". In 1994, Congress passed the Brady bill, which required handgun purchasers to undergo an instant check or a five day wait to purchase a handgun. While parts of this act were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, a little known part of the bill went into effect in 1998, requiring all purchasers of firearms from licensed dealers to undergo an "instant check" before taking possession. Two safeguards had been built into the bill to insure that it would not be used to develop a national registration of firearms. First, the FBI was forbidden to keep any records of instant checks that allow purchase. Second, the instant checks only applied to dealers, not to private sales. Since any gun owner could sell their firearm whenever they wished, without government permission, no registration list could effectively be developed, and effective gun confiscation was prevented.
During the last year, both of these safeguards have been under attack. The FBI has refused to immediately destroy the instant check information, although required to do so by law. Recently a three judge panel in Washington, D. C. has voted two to one to uphold their ability to do so. Both judges voting for gun registration are Clinton appointees. The Clinton administration has been vociferously promoting the elimination of the other safeguard, private sales, which they call the "gun show loophole". Once private parties are forbidden from selling guns without government permission, it is only a matter of time before all guns and gun owners who are not registered are illegal.
I find particularly troubling the emphasis during the last decade on guns that are seldom used in crime, but are quite useful in military service. The same people who stated that they were only interested in limiting handguns, now call for limiting the ownership of military style rifles. Many models of guns which are almost never used in crime, are now illegal for people to own in some locations. The latest outrageous attempt to remove power from the people is to place severe restrictions on the sale of .50 caliber rifles. The authors of this bill don't even claim that these guns are used in crime. They want to ban them because they have a military purpose! The clearest reason for the Second Amendment to the Constitution is to insure that the people retain a large measure of military power, to balance the power of the government. The republic is in grave danger when congressmen openly state that they fear military power in the hands of the people.
The only purpose of gun registration is gun confiscation, whether it is done individually and piecemeal, as the legal requirements to own a gun become more and more difficult, or en mass, when the government feels the necessity to disarm its citizens in order to further its control.
Governments that push for gun registration distrust their people, and have earned the people's distrust.
I wrote this essay in 2000.
Dean Weingarten


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Yep it's been awhile. So I just came home from the Motor City Comic Con and I was pleasantly surprised. This might have been my most successful MCCC I've set up at. So thank you very much everyone! Thanks for stopping by the table and checking out my work. Also thank you for all the fine folks who've stopped by my table in Kansas City for Planet Comicon, Chicago for C2E2 and in Boston for the great show they held there. I'm glad you are all still interested in what I'm up to. Especially when it takes several months to update this blog. So here you go, here's some art. These are all the CPG related sketches I've done thus far.
So those are all the piratey sketches I was asked to do. I will be attending the Cherry Capital Con in Traverse City this upcoming weekend, hope to see some of you there. Still waiting for the Archaia hardcover edition of Cursed Pirate Girl vol. 1 but here's the link to the book on Archaia's site.
You can see a preview of the book AND you can pre order it straight from Archaia right here or from Amazon right here. So if you've liked what you have seen on this blog and you don't get out to any comic conventions and you live too far from a comic book store- there you go. When they let me know when we are to expect the books to show up I will let you know. I know that everyone at the Archaia offices really liked the proof pages they received from the printer. I can't wait to get my advanced copy.
Here's the updated list of cons left on this year's schedule
May 25th-26th Traverse City, MI. Cherry Capital Con
June 22nd-24th Charlotte, NC. Heroes Con
July 11th-15th San Diego, CA. San Diego Comicon
Sept. 8th-9th Baltimore, MD. Baltimore Comic-Con
Oct. 26th-28th Dearborn, MI. Detroit Fanfare
Nov. 17th-18th Durham, NC. NC Comicon


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21 Nights | Europe
About Haugesund, Norway
You will visit the following 12 places:
Stavanger is a city and municipality in Norway. The urban area of Stavanger stretches across many neighboring municipalities, making it the third largest city in Norway by total urban population with 197 852 inhabitants as of January 1, 2011. Stavanger's core is to a large degree 18th- and 19th-century wooden houses that are protected and considered part of the city's cultural heritage. This has caused the town centre and inner city to retain a small-town character with an unusually high ratio of detached houses, and has contributed significantly to spreading the city's population growth to outlying parts of Greater Stavanger. The city's rapid population growth in the late 20th century was primarily a result of Norway's booming offshore oil industry. Today the oil industry is a key industry in the Stavanger region and the city is widely referred to as the Oil Capital of Norway. Multiple educational institutions for higher education are located in Stavanger. The largest of these is the University of Stavanger.
Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It has a latitude of 64°08' N, making it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state, and is a popular tourist destination. It is the heart of Icelands's cultural, economic and governmental activity. The city itself is spread out, with sprawling suburbs. The city centre, however, is a very small area characterized by eclectic and colourful houses, with good shopping, dining, and drinking.
Oslo is a county and municipality, as well as the capital and largest city in Norway. Oslo was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III "Hardraade" of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The Danish–Norwegian king Christian IV moved the city, rebuilding it closer to Akershus fortress, as Christiania (briefly also spelt Kristiania). In 1925, the city reclaimed its original Norwegian name, Oslo. The diocese of Oslo is one of the five original dioceses in Norway, which originated around the year 1070.
Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of 261,600 as of April 31, 2011. Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of 386,900 as of April 31, 2011. Bergen is located in the county of Hordaland on the south-western coast of Norway. It is an important cultural hub in its region, recognized as the unofficial capital of Western Norway and sometimes also referred to as the Atlantic coast capital of Norway. The city was one of nine European cities honoured with the title of European Capital of Culture in the Millennium year.
The Convent Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is the country's largest city and its financial, cultural, and creative centre. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, and seven of the world's 500 largest companies, including Philips and ING, are based in the city. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city in which to live by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and 12th globally on quality of living for environment and infrastructure by Mercer. Amsterdam derives its name from the city's origin as "Dam" of river "Amstel". In the past, the name was "Amstelredamme" which later changed as "Amsterdam". The city is one of the most popular destinations in Europe, attracting over 7 million international travellers annually. The city is colloquially known as ''Venice of the North'' because of its lovely canals that criss-cross the city, its impressive architecture and more than 1,500 bridges. There is something for every traveller's taste here; whether you prefer culture and history, serious partying, or just the relaxing charm of an old European city!
Haugesund is a town and municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The majority of the population of Haugesund lives in the main urban area surrounding the city centre, with the northwestern part of the municipality being fairly rural. The town also offers a much wider range of goods and services than might be expected from a city of its size (approx. 32,000 inhabitants; 42,000 including all suburbs), due to its position as the definite center of its relatively populous region.


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Attorney General Barry Penner has agreed to widen the mandate of B.C.'s Missing Women inquiry.
The probe into how serial killer Robert Pickton was allowed to prey on vulnerable women will still use formal court-style hearings where those testifying face cross-examination.
But the addition of what's called a study commission will also allow Commissioner Wally Oppal to hear from more witnesses, including First Nations, in a more informal, less-adversarial setting.
That's expected to mean more people are heard from northern B.C., along the so-called Highway of Tears where many women have vanished over the years, without having lawyers or legal standing at the inquiry.
"The study commission will provide more information for the commission, while ensuring the police investigations regarding Robert Pickton are fully examined to determine if proper procedures were followed," Penner said.
The inquiry is expected to report back by Dec. 31 on how to improve any future serial killing or missing women investigations.
The inquiry will tour several yet-to-be-determined northwest B.C. communities in mid-June.
The study commission is to allow a broader discussion of policy issues, although Oppal has indicated he may not stray as far from the central issue of police investigations as some advocates would like.
Ernie Crey, brother of one of the women whose DNA was found on the Pickton farm, wanted the inquiry to look hard at government policies that concentrate vulnerable women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
"I'm getting very impatient," said Crey, who applauded the change but says time is of the essence. "We need to get this rolling."
The inquiry is to focus on what happened in the five years between 1997 – when a woman escaped from the Port Coquitlam farm after nearly dying in a bloody knife fight with Pickton – and 2002 when he was ultimately charged with murder after several more women were killed.
The earlier investigation of the 1997 assault, the 1998 decision to drop charges in that case and the delay in eventually arresting Pickton again are all part of Oppal's terms of reference.


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The award ceremony for the 2017 winning "Maria" will be staged in San Marco Square, where the 12 Marie will arrive by boat, leaving from Campo San Giacomo dell'Orio.
At 4.00 pm, there will be the crowining ceremony of this Carnival's winning Maria.
Doge parade organized by Cers – Consortium of European Re-enactment Societies
Info: www.festadellemarie.it


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We've been able to confirm with multiple sources that all of the AT&T pre-order iPhones have been spoken for. Anyone who placed an order after 1:30pm Pacific can expect to get their iPhone 4 between June 25th and July 5th.
UPDATE: Engadget got a quote from AT&T confirming our Whisper:
"Because of the incredible interest in iPhone 4, today was the busiest online sales day in AT&T history. As of Tuesday afternoon, customers who preorder iPhone 4 moving forward will receive their device on June 25 or later, depending on when the order is placed. We'll email customers with confirmation once their order is placed, and again when it ships. In addition, we will have devices available on a first-come, first-serve basis in our stores beginning on June 24."


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